Derrick Stroup’s Journey from Working Blue Collar to Playing Arenas + Chelsea Handler Calls Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe “Bigots”

Summary

Adam Carolla Show – Detailed Summary
May 26, 2026
Guest: Derrick Stroup
Notable Topics: Blue-collar comedy, working-class roots, Chelsea Handler’s critique of Shane Gillis/Tony Hinchcliffe, “building a base,” current cultural/political commentary

Episode Theme & Overview
The episode centers on comedian Derrick Stroup’s journey from a blue-collar, working class upbringing to playing arenas on tour and his reflections on hard work, family, and the value of earning your own way. The conversation is a rollicking, often nostalgic dive into the benefits of having a “base” in manual labor, construction, or trades. Adam and Derrick find humor and meaning in these experiences, contrasting them with current cultural attitudes and work habits. The show also veers into discussions about modern stand-up comedy, political complaints, and backlash over recent roasts (Chelsea Handler calling out Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe).

Key Discussion Points & Insights
Derrick’s Path to Comedy – From Labor to Netflix

• [03:55] Derrick shares how he joined Nate Bargatze’s tour due to having the same manager and quickly moving into massive arena gigs:

  • “I hopped on with him in D.C. and we got along immediately.” — Derrick Stroup [04:13]

• Reflects on the surreal experience of doing comedy for 15-20,000 people and how Nate’s generosity lets openers build their own audiences.

• [07:17] “He gives back… I’ve met all of his friends from every level… He brings them back out, still shows ‘em love.” — Derrick

• Adam and Derrick debate comics’ loyalty—either giving you “the shirt off their back” or being cutthroat, with few in-between personalities.

Growing Up Blue Collar & “Building a Base”

• Derrick was born in West Virginia, grew up in Alabama (“a breed you’re not going to run into a lot”) [08:40], and describes Huntsville as a surprising hub of “rocket scientists in lifted trucks.”

• Adam tells a quintessential “builder logic” story about touring a missile facility in Huntsville and being vindicated about a piece of over-engineered equipment (11:17).

• “You can know everything and know nothing. I just knew that was too much.” — Adam [12:28]

• Both swap stories of “small victories” against bureaucracy and stupidity—Derrick with TSA over baby formula rights, Adam with the infamous bottle “abandonment” at the airport.

• “The most water I consume is in a TSA line.” — Derrick [16:44]

• Extended discussion about what blue-collar labor teaches: responsibility, appreciation for easier gigs, practical problem-solving.

  • “Having that baseline like you have, and I certainly have it…a good base is so fucking important.” — Adam [20:59]

• Shared gripe: Some younger or privileged people have never “put anything together,” so they live in an “unreal, magical thinking” world [23:22].

  • “You’ve got crazy, magical pie-in-the-sky. ‘Nobody’s illegal, everybody deserves this’… You fucking bitch has never done shit.” — Adam [22:58]
  • “No, you wouldn’t [talk that way]… if you’d worked a summer doing landscaping, been on a construction site…” — Derrick [23:31]

On Manual Labor, Construction, and Humble Work

• Derrick describes brutal summers laying sod for his father’s landscaping business in Alabama as “working in someone’s mouth.”
• Both agree the hardship of youth labor gives perspective and gratitude. Adam advocates for “every kid should do two years in the military” before college [21:44].
• Lessons from blue-collar fathers: Respect for tools, learning through mistakes, importance of accountability, and the unique culture of garage/barn community projects.

Comedy, Loyalty, and “Blue Collar Renaissance”

• Adam praises the authenticity and relatability of blue-collar or Southern comics, asking Derrick about similarities to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

  • “Do you think we’re having, like, a renaissance in comedy, like, kind of blue collar comedy tour?” — Adam [59:50]
  • Derrick: “Maybe. Nate’s not exactly blue collar, but me and Dusty Slay definitely fall into that…some of that coming back…” [60:12]

• Derrick discusses differences between his comedy and the older generation (“not Foxworthy’s world”), being more cosmopolitan but still grounded.

  • “Jeff Foxworthy’s not talking about riding lightning on 90 milligrams [of edibles]… I do, for sure.” — Derrick [61:30]

• Both critique comics (and cultural figures) who stick to a “no-go zone” for image reasons—if you limit topics, you limit authenticity.

Handyman Talk, Problem Solving, and the “Project”

• Humorous, detailed chatter about mechanical fixes: hanging towel bars, patching tires with kids, building half-pipes, father-son bonding over brake jobs.

• “People had projects—hot rods, dune buggies, boats in the backyard—nobody’s got a project anymore…they’re all just living in apartments, watching CNN, complaining about transitioning.” — Adam [56:27]

  • Anecdote: Adam recalls his neighbor who spent 10 years building a sailboat in his yard and eventually sailed it, illustrating the fulfillment of physical accomplishment [57:00].

Social Commentary: Political Rants & Culture Critique
On “An Inconvenient Truth” and Blue City Decline

• Adam skewers Al Gore’s 20-year-old climate predictions, citing how instead of flooding, blue cities have experienced social, not environmental, collapse:

  • “Your party unleashed on these blue cities…ironically, people had to flee to Florida to save themselves…and there’s no water anywhere near what you said it was gonna be.” — Adam [71:14]

• General rant about progressivism/runaway policies in big cities, especially California—claims politicians have never “put in a day’s work,” so their logic is detached from reality.

• Ties the need for “owning” being rich and a job creator, pushing back on “pay your fair share” narratives: “Go fuck yourself. I work every weekend and I pay a shitload in taxes.” — Adam [77:58]

Chelsea Handler, Shane Gillis, Comedy Censorship

• Discussion of Chelsea Handler calling Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe “racist, bigot, sexist” for their Kevin Hart roast jokes:

  • Handler: “It’s just everything we know, that they’re racist, that they’re bigots, that they’re sexist. You know…they think they’re invincible. It was ick. It was gross.” [84:54]
  • Adam: “Hey, bitch. No one cares what you find to be funny. It’s Kevin Hart’s roast. The audience was laughing their ass off.” [87:38]

• Adam and his co-hosts blast Handler for hypocrisy, noting her own past “offensive” jokes and the double-standard: “Don’t do the roast if you know you’ll be offended.”

• Commentary on the increasing pressure for comedians (“especially white men”) to stay away from controversial material.

Michelle Obama & “Condescending Empathy”

• Clip and analysis of Michelle Obama urging liberals not to label all Trump voters as racist, saying many are “drowning in this economy.” Adam and co-hosts push back, calling it “zookeeper” logic—assuming people vote out of fear and ignorance, rather than knowing their interests.

“Building a Base” and “Projects” as Solutions to Modern Malaise

• Adam and Derrick agree that practical accomplishment is the antidote for alienation and mental health issues—encouraging people to “work with your hands,” tinker, fix, and create.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I never thought comedy would be in a venue like that.” — Derrick, on performing arenas [04:25]
• “The most water I consume is in a TSA line.” — Derrick [16:44]
• “Having that baseline…is so fucking important.” — Adam [20:59]
• “People had projects, man…nobody’s got a project anymore.” — Adam [56:04]
• “That’s how you become mentally ill…you need to step out and go work on something.” — Derrick [56:34]
• “Your blue wave took over San Francisco, and everyone moved to Florida…” — Adam on Al Gore’s failed predictions [71:14]
• “No one cares what you find funny…it’s Kevin Hart’s roast.” — Adam to Chelsea Handler [87:38]

Timestamps for Important Segments

• 04:00 – Derrick’s introduction to comedy, joining Nate Bargatze tour
• 08:40 – Derrick’s upbringing in West Virginia & Alabama, Huntsville culture
• 11:17 – Adam’s “vindication” story at the rocket facility
• 16:44 – TSA “victories,” airport security absurdities
• 19:37 – Worst and best blue-collar jobs for teens
• 23:22 – Social commentary: “magical thinking” vs. blue-collar logic
• 34:00 – Pouring concrete, job satisfaction, teamwork
• 49:07 – Garage culture, car maintenance, building family bonds
• 56:04 – The loss of hobbies/projects (“that’s how you become mentally ill”)
• 60:02 – Is there a blue-collar renaissance in comedy?
• 71:14 – Al Gore “Inconvenient Truth” rant and city politics
• 83:40 – Chelsea Handler’s accusations, roast culture debate
• 91:36 – Michelle Obama on not demonizing Trump voters

Episode Tone & Style

• Language is blunt, irreverent, sometimes profane—true to Carolla’s “workshop” comedic style: “unfiltered humor and sharp insights.”
• Frequent blue-collar colloquialisms, self-deprecation, and deadpan sarcasm.
• The entire conversation flows as a series of anecdotes, lessons learned on the job, comedic war stories, and rapid-fire social commentary.

For Listeners
This episode is a must for fans of stand-up comedy, working-class valor, and anyone nostalgic for the days when “projects” and hard-earned victories were central to daily life. If you’re frustrated by modern political or cultural trends—or if you sometimes miss the simple satisfaction of building or repairing something—this conversation speaks directly to you, with plenty of laughs (and rants) along the way.

(Advertisements, intros, outros, and repeated commercial segments have been omitted for clarity and focus.)

Transcript

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From Corolla one studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Derek Strub. Plus the news with Adam Yenzer. And now, Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on Got to get it on. No choice but to get it on. Derek Stroop in studio. Very funny. Stand up comedians. Got a special on Netflix as we speak. It's been up about a month. I'm trying to think. Nostalgic is the name of it. It's very funny. Watched it. Also doing a movie with Nate Bargazzi, everybody.

[Derek Stroop]

Thanks for having me, man.

[Adam Carolla]

How did the connection with Nate come about?

[Derek Stroop]

You know, got lucky. We've got the same manager and he had somebody drop off his tour and so they kind of plugged me in. And that was just two years ago. I think that was February 2024. And I hopped on with him in D.C. and we got along immediately.

[Adam Carolla]

Going out and playing these huge venues, right?

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, yeah. I mean, arenas.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

It's insane.

[Adam Carolla]

It's insane.

[Derek Stroop]

It's, it's, you know, I don't, you know, when I'm doing those, it's, it's just surreal and I'm glad to be part of it. It. I never thought comedy would be in a venue like that.

[Adam Carolla]

It's like the Rolling Stones in the round a lot of the time.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, every time. Nate loves the round and which, you know, at first it's kind of weird. You know, you feel like a rotisserie chicken in front of all these people, but eventually starts to make sense. You can kind of touch everybody and you get kind of a rhythm on how you walk the stage, work the stage. But yeah, it's. It's insane being out there.

[Adam Carolla]

How much time would you normally do

[Derek Stroop]

with nature going to do 8 to 10. So it's not like you're out there growing your act. It's really just like a cool experience. You go out there, do a hot eight and you know, in front of 15, 20,000 people, and then you get out of the way.

[Adam Carolla]

How many, how many folks you take with him?

[Derek Stroop]

Quite a few. You've got, he's got a host for every night, Julian McCullough, who's been around for quite some time. And then after that it's going to be three other comics.

[Adam Carolla]

So the host will go out and do a couple of minutes.

[Derek Stroop]

No, I mean, that's really what kicks off the show. Julian does this unbelievable job. He's been a warm up comic for some, for some daytime television shows. Been around for a minute. So it's 15 or 20 minutes of him really massaging the shoulders, talking to people. It's a lot of.

[Adam Carolla]

So he'll go out and do more time?

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely. I mean, that's a lot of crowd work.

[Adam Carolla]

Adam, I get it. I know. See, I thought the host comes out, does five minutes, then the next guy does 10 minutes, next guy does 15 minutes. But I didn't know about the host doing more time.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah. So it's him 15 to 20, and then us doing the eights after that. And I've had to fill in and host a couple times when Julian can't do it. It's a nightmare.

[Adam Carolla]

How many, how much time is Nate doing?

[Derek Stroop]

Nate's doing 60 to 70 minutes every time. He's never doing below 60. I mean, he just refuses.

[Adam Carolla]

So now we're getting a two hour experience.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely. Show's gonna. I mean, show's gonna start really kick off like 7:30, 7:35. It's gonna be billed for seven, but when you have 20,000 people just, you know, barely walking in, you know, it takes a while to get. So it's two hours, but it's really. It still ends up being about 90 minutes of showtime. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So that's kind of exciting playing in front of that crowd.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, it's bonkers, man. I mean, it's. I mean, and it also. We're trailing these shows in these markets with our club, Club X. So I'm just out looking at the audience. I'm like, if I can get everybody that's in the bathroom to buy tickets right now, I'm gonna sell out for show because there's just so, so many people. And he's nice enough to where at the end of our act, we get to plug in, hey, I'm coming back to, you know, hole in the wall comedy club in three months. So he's really putting money right in our pockets, which is the coolest thing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, Nate's a nice guy.

[Derek Stroop]

He is. He. He is a nice dude. He is.

[Adam Carolla]

Everyone should be normal like Nate.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, he gives back. I mean, to like, especially like his boys. He came up with. I mean, I've met all of his friends from every level of his comedy career because he's got them all out with him. Just guys that he met along the way and made friendships with. He repays it, brings them back out, still shows him love. And I agree. I think if more comics did that, the ecosystem would be a little better for us.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, comics seem to be kind of feast or famine in that department. They're either like super loyal and they do a lot. They'll give you the shirt off their back or they're real territorial and mean spirited, steal jokes. And it's kind of weird, I guess it's kind of Baked into doing that for a living. There's not a lot of just sort of middle of the road kind of. I don't know. Cause it's not a job for those personalities.

[Derek Stroop]

No, you're right.

[Adam Carolla]

I guess.

[Derek Stroop]

No, I think it's. It's one extreme or. Or the other, which is funny. I mean, just talking about Nate, like, on stage, it. It looks like he's taken Benadryl, but off stage, he's a little. He's got a little bit more edge. He's a little feistier than he lets off. So he's got that. He's got a little bite to him. He just does. It's just not in his act, which. Which is fun.

[Adam Carolla]

So you in the south growing up.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Where you grow up?

[Derek Stroop]

Born in West Virginia, raised in Alabama, which is a breed that you're not going to run into a lot. Born in Charleston, raised in Huntsville, which, you know, really, you wouldn't know. But moving to Alabama from. God bless West Virginia. I love it. But moving to Huntsville was a big upgrade.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a great city. It's just. It's a good. It's really smart. A lot of rocket scientists, all the

[Adam Carolla]

rocket stuff going on there, Right?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. A lot of NASA, a lot of rock. It's like, it's. It's a unique area. You see a lot of people. Like the only place I've ever been to besides Houston, where there's people in lifted trucks that are rocket scientists.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

You know, they have a dip in, but they're also dip in.

[Adam Carolla]

They got the truck nuts hanging off. The differential, the driving, the dually that says Sierra Club, take a hike to hell on the rear bumper.

[Derek Stroop]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

And they're heading off to do calculations about orbiting the moon.

[Derek Stroop]

It's insane. And there's a good bit of those people. I mean, there's a bunch of engineers. You got the missile defense, Redstone arsenals there. It's where the Patriot missiles were created.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's crazy.

[Derek Stroop]

It is crazy.

[Adam Carolla]

I've done shows there. I had. Now that I think back on it, I haven't told this story in 10 years, but I had one of my most satisfying moments in life in Huntsville, touring one of the space agencies over there. And this may not sound like anything to anybody, but for me, the greatest. For me, this kind of stuff's the greatest for me. So. And this is. And it's. And this story is 100% who I am and what my life is. So we're walking through and we're touring the place and we're looking at one place where they're making missiles or rovers or rocket engines or whatever. And there is a probe or engine or something and it's sitting on top of a pedestal that they made because everything you can't buy on Amazon, everything's bespoke. And this thing that they're sitting, that this thing is sitting on looks like it would hold 10,000 SUVs if they could fit on top of it. Like structurally. I'm a builder and I look at this thing and I go, God damn, that thing is beefy, man. I mean that thing, it's only as big as a trash can, but it could hold the space shuttle on top. And that's what I'm looking at. So I go, I look at it and I'm talking to our guide who's like a tech there, whatever there's. And I go, man, look at the engineering on just the pedestal just to hold up that rocket. And he goes well we build everything extra beefy around here. And I go yeah, it looks like too much for that rocket. And he goes no, that's how we do it.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And I go yeah, but why would you spend so much energy and time and materials building something that hold up 200,000 pounds? When the rocket weighs 2,000 pounds, that's over engineered. And he goes, hey, that's the way we do it around here. We build tough, we build, we over build and we over engineer. And that's the way it goes. And I go really? And he goes, yeah. I go, so that's this pedestal, that's for that rocket? And he goes yes it is. And I go, okay, but here's where I kick in. Yeah, I'm not done. So at some point some engineer from that area like comes walking by and say, hey Corolla, hey man, show how you doing. I go hey, excuse me, is that pedestal for that rocket? And he goes nah, we had a much bigger rocket on there, we're just using a temp for that. And I go yes, yes, yes, yes. But I was told no five times by the guy who worked there. Not gonna do. Not enough.

[Derek Stroop]

That's a huge win.

[Adam Carolla]

Huge.

[Derek Stroop]

You were all over it.

[Adam Carolla]

Huge victory.

[Derek Stroop]

You were all over it. Was he standing there, the guy that's so great.

[Adam Carolla]

When that guy went, no, we had the big, we had the big Hercules rocket on that thing, but we moved it when we put we're using a temp. I was like that. Well that's how you know that by the way, you can Know everything.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And know nothing. I just knew that was too much.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

For that. And that another guy did what everyone always does, which is. No, no, no.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. They're just go to whatever length to say that you're wrong, not even really

[Adam Carolla]

listening to you, and they dig in. You know, you go. There's no point where they go. It does look a little over engineered for that. And sometimes we swap stools or something. No, they just go, no, no.

[Derek Stroop]

Just going to dug in like every

[Adam Carolla]

woman I've ever argued.

[Derek Stroop]

We don't get victories like that very often. That's a, That's a huge. That's a huge win.

[Adam Carolla]

You ever have any of those in your life? Those kinds of victories don't have to be engineering. Just.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean. Yeah. I mean, recently, I mean, I was going through tsa, they pulled out all of our baby formula. And I knew that there was like something that came out where they couldn't like harass you for baby formula. And like the guys sitting there were like chirping back and forth. And I'm not like, I understand their job sucks. I'm not trying to ruin his day, but I'm like, hey, man, they just passed this act that's like you're supposed to just kind of scan it and send us on our way because it's baby formula. And he's like, no, this is how we always. Dennis boss came up and I go the bait. And she goes. And it actually went. She goes. He's. He's right. They just passed an act where.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. We just got more than 3.4 ounces.

[Derek Stroop]

It's really hard to just in the airport not be like, boom, I told, you know, and I just was like polite. But it felt. I mean, you couldn't tell me after that? I mean, you really. I was walking different.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, you had a different air about you. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And my wife was standing there and I go, you, you know, you're with. You know, I mean, you knew I was right. And so that was like a small victory. I mean, so. Yeah, I mean, that's a big.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a victory.

[Derek Stroop]

It does. It feels good.

[Adam Carolla]

So what they do is they take your, your baby formula and they radiate it now and then they give it back.

[Derek Stroop]

That's exactly right. Well, I mean, this guy was checking it like it was bombs, like each one. And I'm. And it's sealed and it's Similac. And it's like, we gotta get a grip here.

[Adam Carolla]

I know, listen. If a plane never falls from the sky. They still won because you're taking your belt off and you're taking your shoes off, and you got some guy. I've had guys tell me that they had a bottle of, like, expensive cologne.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And the cologne said 5 ounces on it. They're like 3.4. And the guy's like, it's $100. Well, just go stand by the trash can.

[Derek Stroop]

Isn't that crazy?

[Adam Carolla]

You just keep spraying it into the trash can until it smells, until it goes down. And then once it comes down, I'll, like, eyeball it and then let you go.

[Derek Stroop]

Like it's insane.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

And.

[Derek Stroop]

And you want to go, but the liquid. This liquid has been passed. You know this isn't dangerous. Correct. It's just an ounce too much of what you're. That's insane. You know, it's cologne.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, maybe it isn't cologne. And maybe it's liquid nitrogen. No, let's say nitroglycerin. Let's just say nitroglycerin. So you're saying I can have 3.4 ounces of nitroglycerin on it?

[Derek Stroop]

3.4 ounces of it makes you a serial killer.

[Adam Carolla]

And then the other one I always think about, too, is they go, hey, you got that bottle? You can't carry that bottle of water through there. First of all, I love big talk. They go, you want to abandon the bottle? I'm like, it's not a Vietnam body.

[Derek Stroop]

Do you want to abandon the bottle?

[Adam Carolla]

And springs are four Do. Yes, I will abandon it. A body I'm leaving behind.

[Derek Stroop]

That's so funny. That you want to abandon that bottle is a great example.

[Adam Carolla]

You make me feel super guilty.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So they asked me if I want to abandon the bottle. But here's the other thing. When I abandon the bottle, they take the bottle, which could be filled with flammables or explosives, and they throw it in the trash can. That's right in between all of them, and they get back to business. Well, if that is an explosive bottle,

[Derek Stroop]

then what are we doing?

[Adam Carolla]

Isn't it right in the middle of the fucking most congested part of the airport?

[Derek Stroop]

None of it. None of it. I mean, the line that you said in the beginning that they already won is so true, because we're jumping through hoops doing the dumbest shit ever to get onto this airplane.

[Adam Carolla]

I I. Because first off, everything at the airport is twice as expensive.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So you buy coffee, it's 11 bucks.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

You buy a bottle of water, it's nine bucks. There's no goddamn Way I'm throwing that thing away. No, I am chugging.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

This thing, standing by in line, just, just butt funneling whatever it is I bought because I'm not throwing away $6 worth of water.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, and also I think that, and I've had this thought, the most water I consume is in a TSA line.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

You want your boy to get hydrated? Let me run into the, the conveyor belt. When I forgot about my bottle of water.

[Adam Carolla]

I, I have a theory that there's going to be two syndromes we're going to run into later in life, which is one is called floating liver syndrome, which too much tsa, just chugging two liters of water. You weren't supposed to chug. You're not supposed to chug 2 liters of water when you're not, by the way. It's not like you worked out. You just fucking drank and ate too much the night before. You waterboard yourself. The other one's going to be a syndrome called white lung from too much sunscreen sprayed in kids faces. And they just inhaled all of this and coated their fucking lungs with sunscreen.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, they just spray them right in the face with the stuff. I mean, you're right. It's just, it's a spray can of chemicals that you're trying to protect yourself from the sun. It's insane.

[Adam Carolla]

What happened to all the sunscreen talk? Cause it used to be like, you know, you shouldn't go to your mailbox.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's like, I can go to my mail. Well, you really should put sunscreen.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, the top of your hands are vulnerable even if you're wearing a long sleeve shirt. Walk to the car. Now no one says it. Yeah, because it turns out it's going to be bad for you like everything else.

[Derek Stroop]

Exactly. I was going to say follow the money. There's something that, that affected this. The sunscreen talk ended immediately.

[Adam Carolla]

Something happened.

[Derek Stroop]

Something happened.

[Adam Carolla]

It was literally when my kids were young. They're 19 turning 20. But when they're kid, it's like a big argument. It's like, where are you going? I'm going outside. D. Yeah. The mom's like chasing them with a barrel of sunscreen. I'm going to let him go fucking play in the yard.

[Derek Stroop]

No, they'll get burned and they'll learn.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, just, just like we did. I mean, my old man's own the landscaping company his entire life. I mean, yeah, he's leather, but I mean he doesn't wear. He almost Never wears landscaping.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I'm trying to think now. What is the worst? All right, let's try to figure this out.

[Derek Stroop]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Worst jobs and best jobs for dads to have when you're 14. Oh, my. Now. Because if. Now the go. Like, my dad had a Greek restaurant and every summer we had to work in the kitchen. I had to fucking empty the garbage and do the stuff. But. Yeah, but you got the falafel at the end of the day or whatever. You had some upside. Someone owned a liquor store, you had to work there. But you could snatch some beer when you're in high school. Like, there's that. There's like car mechanic, which is like, that's tough helping dad out. But you got your first car and he fixed a tranny on it, whatever. And then there's like sort of non starter jobs. Like, my dad's a doctor. It's like, all right, well, I'm not going to help him perform surgery and I'm getting a job at the hospital. But landscapers down there, because you got to work for your dad in the summer.

[Derek Stroop]

It's brutal.

[Adam Carolla]

And you don't know nothing. And you become labor.

[Derek Stroop]

No. 100%. I mean, I, I like doing some, some yard work, but I'm pretty scarred overall. And also, I mean, all of my dad's workers, I mean, are. I think he loves them way more than he ever loved me. I mean, they'd be sitting under the shade, he'd be eating sandwiches, laughing. I mean, I'd be sitting by myself because I wasn't. I mean, compared to those guys, I wasn't.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

13 years old out there. I mean, and you always get, you don't. You don't work every day. When your dad has a landscaping company, he brings you on during sod day. When you have to do sod, there's three or four yards that need sod, or you have to like pull out bushes. And it's how you. It's a good way to get into comedy, I can tell you that.

[Adam Carolla]

There is no mechanized anything. It's all just grunt labor.

[Derek Stroop]

Shoveling in Alabama, Adam, it's a nightmare. I mean, it was like working in somebody's mouth. I mean, every day you just have swamp ass to the. We would change our jeans at lunch. We would all change clothes because we were all so drenched from the humidity. It's a night, but it also, you know, truly, and, And I think about this often. It gives you, like. I'm a lot more thankful and I have good perspective on what I do. For a living. Because I think about all the time. I know what my dad gets paid for jobs. And I'll go do a comedy show. And I'm like, that was, you know, my dad would have to lay seven, you know, sod jobs to. And it's just. I live in a different world.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. Oh, 100%. So thankful. Listen, having that baseline like you have, and I certainly have it because I work construction for so many years, years and years and years. A good base is so fucking important. And I realize a lot of people don't have that base line anymore. And like a lot of women don't have that. So they don't have like a base. And so like, they'll go, oh, they wanted to add a third show on Saturday night in Florida. And I'll go, fine. I go, oh, you want to. Oh, you really, you want to work that hard? I go, and I haven't worked at. It's free food, man.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Free beer. And it's easy. And they go, yeah, but you, you really, you need a base. Everyone needs a base.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

And I, I feel that way about everything. Like, I want everyone to go from high school to the military for two years.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And then you can go to college.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And then you can appreciate the shit out of college. Stop your whiny ass complaining about this country. Go fucking put some work in.

[Derek Stroop]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Do some road work. Go have some guy beating on a trash can with a wooden spoon to wake you up at six every day.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

Hitting the trail and going through all, going through the obstacle course. You do all that, you'll be begging to go to college.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely. Learn some important lessons. I mean, I can remember one time I was helping. We were, we were making a flower bed outside of a home and we were using four by fours, two by fours to kind of, you know, mark it off and get it to where. And we were drilling it, actually drilling them together. And I took my dad's dewalt drill and I just tossed it onto the ground and we had a 20 minute conversation about throwing his, his equipment and how much that cost and he'd take it out of my paycheck, yada, yada. And to some people, they wouldn't understand that, but it was such an important lesson for me to understand that wasn't mine. I need to pay attention, be respect, those type of things. Is the base that you're talking about, and I'm 16, 17 years old having those conversations.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Which is important.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I agree. And also when I Hear people saying insane things. I realize you guys never put anything together. You've never done any work. You got dumb ideas. Yeah. You got crazy, magical pie in the sky. You know, nobody's illegal and everybody deserves this. It's like, you fucking bitch has never done shit. No, no, you wouldn't talk that way.

[Derek Stroop]

No, you wouldn't.

[Adam Carolla]

If you knew how to done anything. If you'd worked a summer doing landscaping, been on a construction site, you would know that that's not the way life works.

[Derek Stroop]

No. That's not reality. You're right.

[Adam Carolla]

And I have a problem because I talk to a lot of people and they're like, what the fuck's going on? What's going on with kids? How come everyone's nuts? Everyone's, like, fat and lazy and out of it and doesn't fucking care and whatever. And their logic is weird. Like, I'm hearing a lot of weird logic out of politicians and stuff. And I'm like, they've never worked. They've never been on a farm. They've never been on a job site. They don't know how to put things together. They're not linear and logical.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Common sense, right?

[Adam Carolla]

And common sense, which I was realizing. I'm working on a house right now, and I go there every day, and every day there's some sort of common sense conversation. Like, I was there this morning and I was like, we gotta hang these towel bars. And I was like talking to my guy. And I go, now, the towel bar's 18 inches wide, right? Studs are 16 on center, right? So you can hit one stud, but you're not gonna get the other stud.

[Derek Stroop]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so you're gonna have to use screw shields for that. Yeah, yeah. I go. But they get kind of fucking wanky. Screw shields get shitty. They get yoked out. I go, well, let's use the screw shield. But, you know, take a bunch of painter's caulk and put around the screw shield and then put it in the fucking screw shield. I want it on the. I went on the threads of the screw. That goes in too. And I put a little on the back of the towel bar mount. So the thing grabs and he's like going, all right, so we'll do the. And him and I are both picturing talking. We didn't have a magical discussion about all towel bars. This is bringing up the bathroom or anything. This is all super mechanical shit, solution oriented. And it wasn't like I didn't go, hey, the towel bar's 18 inches wide and the studs are 16 on center. So we're only going to hit one stud. He. He didn't say. Well, I dream of a world where the studs are 18 on center and all. Talbot, I asked. I know, but it's not fucking happening. So let's move on.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, no, you're exactly right. And also people should know that this is the type of contractor you want on your home because that's going the extra mile right there. Having the caulk around the screw, making sure it grabs so it's not yoked out and all Yankees. That's some real construction talk right there.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, let me tell you, the fool's Aaron. The fool's Aaron is. People frame up the bathroom.

[Derek Stroop]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

While it's framed up, go ahead and put a chunk of 2 by 4 diagonal horizontally. Cause that's where your toilet paper's gonna go.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Your roll's going. Because later on, you drywall, you prime your paint and you go, I'm gonna put the toilet paper here. There's nothing but drywall.

[Derek Stroop]

That's it.

[Adam Carolla]

And you put the stew little plastic screw shields in. And then your fat uncle tries to get off the pot and grabs the thing and he just twists it down and. And it's fucked up and it's loose. But you don't fix it because it's all yolked out. But you can't really fix it, so you just sort of prop it back and put the toilet paper on it and. A decade of you having a hobbled toilet paper holder because you didn't think to put a block.

[Derek Stroop]

That's it.

[Adam Carolla]

Behind there.

[Derek Stroop]

That's it. That's all you had to do. And you'd never ran in and your fat ass uncle would have gotten up just fine.

[Adam Carolla]

Lud still be with us today because he took a spill and with the lawsuit and everything. And it's not something you can talk about. Advised by a lawyer.

[Derek Stroop]

That's great.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. They're just stuff. But the point is, is you just sit and think, sit and think. And then you get real logical and then you go, well, I wish there was a stud to go into. And you go, yep, well, that's off the table. So what's plan B? And then you live with it and you move forward and there's way too much magical thinking going on there.

[Derek Stroop]

It's not. People are getting way out of bounds. It's usually the answer's right in front of. It's going to take a little hard work, a little common sense.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

But you're right, I like the you. You can wish and you'll have some guy knocking down a Winston that'll tell you you can wish in one hand and shit in the other, and you'll see which one fills up first.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I also miss that kind of homespun shit. I love that construction sites and blue collar dudes who work, you know, for a living. And it also makes you learn real fast, you don't want to do this for a living.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, you're 100% right. I mean, that's one of the things. I mean, I quit with my dad on a job site. We're like in the middle of doing it, and he's like, man, this isn't what you want to do. He's like, this isn't. You don't have to live this life, man. You can go and use your voice and, and go. And this is him talking to me about comedy. Well, this was. I'd already come back, I'd gotten two DUIs, come back home. So I was like 26. And so, I mean, I was already in trouble. And we were working. He had his whole. I mean, I came back and tried to help him and, and came back from where I was in a college town, graduated, hung around, ran a bar, got two DUIs in six months. And I say six because it sounds better than four, Adam, honestly. Yeah, but. And then I moved back home and tried to hop right in with my dad at work. And it was just not the, you know, the dream situation that we had thought of. We're like, maybe I work with him one day, now I come home, I'm broke, made all these, you know, poor decisions, but I can remember we're out in the yard and we're working. He's like, this isn't what you, what you need to be doing. This isn't, you know, he's basically telling me I'm not built for this and I don't have to do it. He's like, if I could talk like you, I would do something. We're talking would make me money. But he's like, I'm a worker and this is the only way that I can put food on the table is by busting my ass. But he was like, you don't have to pull bushes to do this. And, you know, and he probably also didn't want me around. So it was, you know, a double edged sword. And we were, you know, you come back at 26, I'm trying to get him to change. I wanted him to do more irrigation and other stuff. My dad just likes to put his head down and really do just like bushes and grass. And. And so we, we bumped heads pretty good, me and Bill. But yeah, it was a big moment. And I moved to Denver, you know, like two weeks later and started chasing comedy.

[Adam Carolla]

I could see your dad drinking a beer with his older buddies going, my gay son's talking about drip lines.

[Derek Stroop]

That's right. No, no, I'm telling you. I mean, and I would get my feelings hurt because him and Miguel and Josh, they would all go out, knock down some Coronas together after work. But, you know, I was the city slicker, weak guy that, you know, they were like, doing comedy. He shouldn't be out here.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, God bless your dad for having that insight because blue collar dudes, in my experience, at least the ones I came up with and worked with, didn't have the. No one pulled me aside and said, you got it. I was more like, you gotta move that drywall. And that was about it. And they didn't have any insights to any of that stuff. They weren't savvy. They understood there was such a thing as Richard Pryor.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Saturday Night Live. But that's about as far as they went. And they didn't have thoughts about that. I never had a conversation my dad about any of that shit.

[Derek Stroop]

No, I mean, it's pretty insightful for Bill, I mean, he's a old school blue collar guy. I mean, I talk about him on stage a good bit. I'm like, I say, if you know one Bill, you know every Bill you've ever met, right? They're all somewhere right now with their shirts tucked in, looking out a window saying, nobody wants to work anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Derek Stroop]

They're all. He's very much that man. But he did have some insight there. And he also knew that, that just, you know, I have a brother and assist. My younger brother Will works with him. They own the business together. Will fits that mold better. My dad knew that, that, that, that wasn't. And I was good. I mean, I wasn't out there. I mean, I was raised by the man that owns the company. I was pretty good at the job, but he knew that there was, you know, more for me out there. So you're right. That is pretty insightful.

[Adam Carolla]

So we like Kraken wise and oh yeah. Stories and big time.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, I, I poured concrete for a year and a half after I got my second dui because you pretty much only have that option. And that was a lot of what I did. On that job is like, you only have that option. You can't drive, Drive, have a job. You know, when you live out in the country and you get DUIs, it's a different world. It's way more debilitating than a city person.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh. Because. Right.

[Derek Stroop]

I got, I gotta rely on cousins and friends and to get around. I'm stranded. And, and the jobs go way down. Concrete.

[Adam Carolla]

What were you pouring?

[Derek Stroop]

Actually, like landscaping driveways. I mean, we did tons of driveways. And it was with my buddy. Him and his dad owned a little concrete company. And they brought me on and I mean, I did the lowest of the, of everything.

[Adam Carolla]

Working that bull float.

[Derek Stroop]

Working the hell out of the bull float. And, And I mean, they had to bring me along. I wasn't built for this either. It was a different, different world for me. But a lot of it was my morale. I, I would be funny, tell stories, and they wanted, they would let me know. Keep that up because that makes your value go up because you're clearly, you know, not kicking ass with the rest of them. So. Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Number three, rebar. Two foot on center, man.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, that's. I mean, you get it. And I liked it because it's fast, like pouring concrete. I get out there at 5 in the morning, we're out of there by noon. And you're, and I mean, were you pumping it? I'm working. No, no, no. The truck would just come right up. He would lay it, he would lay it right in. We would, we would have a guy. You know, I forget all the lingo. It's been 15, 20 years now, but as it's being poured out, we have a guy that's kind of spreading it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

With the long metal rake.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And then you got another guy that's making sure that it's flat on top and then you got the edges. You know, I mean, it's this big

[Adam Carolla]

team thing and you're, and you're on the clock.

[Derek Stroop]

You're on the clock. That's what I liked.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. No, I, I listen, I, I felt that way. Like, I did a lot of radio. Radio started for me at 10, ended at midnight, and that was that. If there was a power outage in the middle, that didn't matter. It still ended at midnight. It just ended. A TV was like a lot of wait around and this thing's not done yet. We're waiting on, we're doing it again and all that. And so I like that. And stand ups. That way you walk on stage, you know, that's where you're at for an hour. That's how it works. And the thing about concrete is, you know, when that truck backs up, it's on, it's on. And there's nothing, there's nothing you can do. And everyone has to work together. And again, though, it's no more. I have feelings about tuck trials or bull floats. It's like this is what we're doing and everyone's doing their own and everyone's gotta do their own thing.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

And there's no discussion groups and we don't take surveys and no one talks about their feelings. It's just get it done work or fuck it up. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And the morale is there. You don't even have talk about it. There's no we. We're not even complimenting each other, saying. But it's still, there's a. There's a feeling of accomplishment. You know, he's kicking ass. I'm kicking ass. We're going to be done with this. We'll have lunch. We'll start drinking some beer. It's. It was actually something that I kind of enjoyed.

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[Adam Carolla]

And there's a thing too where it's like, I can't tell you the number of big beams. Steel. Sometimes paralam or glulam or something like big beans that I've like walked up a ladder with another guy, like simultaneously. And third gu guy's on top, make sure it's dropping into the saddle. It's like, if that guy up, you're gonna get killed by that beam. You gotta kind of trust that guy to do his job.

[Derek Stroop]

Y.

[Adam Carolla]

And you gotta trust that he's not. He's there because he's supposed to be there, not because he's the right color, the right religion or the right sex or whatever.

[Derek Stroop]

It's not a DEI hire.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's not. Oh, he's gay. So he's gonna. He's gonna put the beams in. No, he's gonna get you killed. If that's the way it works.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

There's a gravity and a reality to that world that then will carry off of that world. And those guys are pragmatic and they're not pie in the sky.

[Derek Stroop]

No, no, no.

[Adam Carolla]

And the problem with current society is too many people went straight from high school to college, sat in air conditioning, got jobs in cubicles, looking at computers. And they all have ideas, but no one's ever gotten a callous or put in a day's work. And now they think they know.

[Derek Stroop]

No. And you're. And you know what we haven't mentioned that's so true is when you do these type of jobs, concrete, construction, landscaping, you can't be on the Internet all day, which is the most toxic shit in the entire world.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

You can't just scroll and be on Instagram and be emotionally invested in things that have nothing to do with you and create a narrative in your head. You're just at work.

[Adam Carolla]

You're right.

[Derek Stroop]

You're just at work. And so you're in your own world, doing your own thing with real people, having real conversations. And so it's. You're so detached from all the things that make people delusional and lose their mind. And I think that that's important because let me tell you, you grab your phone on a work site, I mean, you're not going to be on that site for much longer. There's nothing. There's nothing worse than scrolling when somebody needs to be handed something.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, well, the thing about the white collar world versus the blue collar world. The white collar world, when you're looking at your phone. There's a ton of plausible deniability.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So I come in, everyone's looking at their phone, but they're really looking at, you know, pornhub or grubhub or something, the word hub in it. Or they're looking at some sort of. You bet. Or some bullshit like that. But it looks they can go, I'm looking up the bio of the guest who's coming on. There's plausible deniability.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

You're already sitting down.

[Derek Stroop]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

You got a computer in front of you. When you're on a job site, you can't hide because you have to stop. You take your phone out and everyone knows you're not looking up the nailing pattern on shear wall. You're fucking looking at your phone.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

And someone will yell at you. Yeah, get the fuck to work.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely. And I mean, and I've had to do it before. You're going to have to announce, hey, my wife. I've got. I'm sorry fellas, I don't know what the hell. And then you put your phone down immediately. But yeah, I mean, I think that that's a much more sane world to live in.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I'll tell you the other part we're forgetting about.

[Derek Stroop]

What's that?

[Adam Carolla]

But you in the blue collar world, you don't show up, you don't get paid. Oh, and guess who eliminates all the half days for my half birthday and all the, you know, shit where you talk to people, where you go, it's a three day weekend. I know it's a three day weekend. That's Monday. But we're taking Friday off too. Cause we're gonna get to Vegas early.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's like, it eliminates all of the not feeling well. No, it eliminates a little hungover. It eliminates all of my. Had to take my cat to the fucking vet. All of it's all gone. Because when you have a job where you don't fucking get paid unless you show up, you're surprised. Oh, nobody misses anything. No, by the way, no more of this. Like, I scheduled my dentist for noon on Monday. It's like, no, you don't. Yeah, no you don't. You do it for Friday after work when you get paid.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

It's not the people. The people tell me, they go, my mom's coming in, her plane lands at noon.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

On Wednesday. So I kind of got. It's like, no, you don't, no, you don't tell her to get in a Fucking cab.

[Derek Stroop]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

Meet at your house after work.

[Derek Stroop]

That is. So when you get paid, it is

[Adam Carolla]

insane how many days you had. When I work construction. Fucking no pay. Yeah, no pay.

[Derek Stroop]

If you don't show up, you don't get. And also in landscaping, you want to

[Adam Carolla]

work half a day, you work half a day, but you get paid for four hours.

[Derek Stroop]

That's exactly right.

[Adam Carolla]

And it eliminates all the. All of it.

[Derek Stroop]

All of it. I mean, with my dad during the summer, he'd always sell to me and my brother. We've only got these four months. We've got to push. So sometimes we would work 13 days and we would work until it rained again. And if it didn't rain for 13 days, you worked for 13 days. I have prayed for rain just to, please, God, let it rain. I'll just. So I can sit around for a little bit. People don't understand that. They have no clue. And that's such a. The accountability that comes with only being paid when you show up changes every. And let me do. Let me. I was late, actually, this podcast. And I can't tell you the amount of conviction that I felt being raised the way I was, because 10 minutes late to Bill's job site, he'll. He'll go, I thought you were. I didn't think you were coming. I thought you retired. I thought you didn't want to work here. 10 minutes, right? You're catching through the door. 10 minutes must be nice, man, to get here when you can. And then. And you think you go, well, traffic. It's like the hell traffic.

[Adam Carolla]

Did your dad. Did you play sports growing up?

[Derek Stroop]

I did, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

What was your sports?

[Derek Stroop]

Football and basketball.

[Adam Carolla]

What position did you play?

[Derek Stroop]

I played tight end in football and I was a small forward in basketball.

[Adam Carolla]

Lot of tough outdoor Alabama football practices. Yeah, I would imagine.

[Derek Stroop]

Brutal, man.

[Adam Carolla]

Brutal.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, August is. Is a nightmare. I mean, I loved playing football, but playing it in the deep south is really. It's not fun. I mean, August is really tough. I mean, I've taken my pads and my helmet off like there was bees in it just out of panic from being so hot, just stripping down it. So, yeah, man, it's. But that, you know, being a son of a landscaper, I was. I was probably a little more prepared for it than the rest of them.

[Adam Carolla]

I used to hate football so much, and it was so hot, and I was. And when I played, they didn't give you water. I thought it was bad for you. So I used to. Like I said, I used to think A lot. Like, I'd go hear about stories about someone playing football in Oregon or something. I'd go, oh. And they're like, oh, it's raining all the time and it's cold. And I was like, oh, that'd be great. Could you imagine? And then I started thinking, like, how the hell does Florida State, like, recruit, you know, in Alabama, recruit? Like, I would. If I'm sitting around in. Growing up in Oregon, I'd be like, I'm not fucking going there and sweat my ass off for two a days.

[Derek Stroop]

I go to Alabama during the summer. The mosquitoes have bandanas on Adam. I mean, it's. Yeah, I, that, that was, that was the toughest part about, I mean, and then basketball wasn't, you know, wasn't nearly the monster, but. Yeah, but, but when you grow up with the, when your dad owns a company like that, you want to play sports. Like, I wanted practice. We'd be at practice and I, I, the kids would be like, complaining about it. I'd go, this was so much better than what my dad.

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We were.

[Derek Stroop]

Because, you know, this is Thursday. It's stump removal day. I hope this practice lasts until dark.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

Because I do not want to go grind stumps with Bill.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

So, yeah, it makes you happy to just get out and run around, even if it's hot.

[Adam Carolla]

Stump grinders, about the craziest machine ever.

[Derek Stroop]

It is. I mean, I actually now, if somebody. What's funny is you grow up with it. You hate it. If somebody was grinding a stump out here.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I'd watch them do it until it was gone.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, because it's fascinating.

[Adam Carolla]

It just pulverizes.

[Derek Stroop]

That's. It turns it into dust. The biggest, gnarliest stump in the ground. And people in cities, they don't understand that's a service that you need.

[Adam Carolla]

It's pretty much BattleBots before BattleBots. Like, that is the ultimate weapon.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's how you, if you wanted to. If the mob really, they just probably couldn't get a hold of one. But that's what they were looking for.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, turn somebody into fertilizer.

[Adam Carolla]

It's crazy when you see, like, real heavy duty, like, ditch witches.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, ditch witch man.

[Adam Carolla]

Stuff like that. Where you just go. Huge wheels with big carbide tips and stuff on it. You go, my God, I feel like I got tetanus just looking at that thing.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, Ditch Witch is so great. Some of y' all might know. I mean, it's a giant chainsaw that basically cuts A tunnel a pretty shallow. Or it could be a deep one for, you know, pipes, wires, irrigation. But it's fascinating. It's. Wow. And every one of those machines were created by a guy that was like, I'm not doing this shit the hard way anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

You know, he was holding the shovel and he goes, there's got to be something that we can, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah, it is. It is interesting. That how I. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I'm. Where I'm living, but because they're rebuilding after the fires and stuff. But I feel like I've seen those bobcats everywhere. I feel like everybody owns their own bobcat.

[Derek Stroop]

No, they do. It's on TikTok. It's crazy. The skid steers are going nuts.

[Adam Carolla]

They're going nuts thinking there'd never be a better time to invest in a company that either makes bobcats Plywood. Because we didn't know there'd be all the fucking breaking windows and rioting and taking over towns and all that kind of shit. Police tape, orange cones. I just feel like if you're in the orange cone business, your fucking charts going through the room, you have no

[Derek Stroop]

idea that you'd be needed this much.

[Adam Carolla]

And no one had any idea. Glass companies that every third store in every blue city was just gonna get busted out.

[Derek Stroop]

Can you imagine? I mean, these guys are millionaires.

[Adam Carolla]

Like they're probably. The glass was originally installed in 1951, made it to 2020 and now there's. Now they're on their eighth replacement.

[Derek Stroop]

You're right. I mean, going back to the plywood, that's actually even crazier because nobody is in the plywood business. Ever thought that anybody would give any care about what. I mean, plywood is needed now. I mean, to board up a building.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it's pre boarding time. Like when? Like the. Because the jury's gonna render their verdict at Friday at noon. That's exactly that. White cop might run free.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So let's just pre board.

[Derek Stroop]

That's so funny.

[Adam Carolla]

Literally, like pre boarding on an airline. But we're going to do with our liquor store.

[Derek Stroop]

Growing up in the south, I never thought we use plywood on our windows. But that means that hails come. I mean, it's a hurricane, right? You know, not a jury. Not a jury verdict. Which is so funny to think about.

[Adam Carolla]

I came up with a safety invention which was a jumpsuit that had the grain of plywood on it. So if you're just walking through town when the. When the jury Deliberated and the shit went down.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You just lay against the plywood.

[Derek Stroop]

That is hysterical.

[Adam Carolla]

And the whole mob would run past you.

[Derek Stroop]

They just stop and look at you and they're like, that's weird. And they just keep going. So weird.

[Adam Carolla]

Looks like some kind of racist outline on that plywood. But anyway, come on. They'd be off to other things.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, easily.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I'll wear my plywood. My plywood onesie around town. You know, if I'm going to the

[Derek Stroop]

wrong part of town, I'll have my cone onesie on.

[Adam Carolla]

Things are pretty volatile. Yeah. Trump said something about ice and now shit's getting out of hand.

[Derek Stroop]

Plywood jumpsuit day.

[Adam Carolla]

Plywood jumpsuit day.

[Derek Stroop]

That's so funny.

[Adam Carolla]

Blending right in. Yeah. Just. Just the idea. I mean, the only side use you'd use out here were if you had a really cool dad and he's gonna make you a half pipe for your skateboards. You know, that's a good point. But that's out here. And that's nobody's dad I knew.

[Derek Stroop]

No. And that's only.

[Adam Carolla]

That is the coolest dad ever. Half pipe. Half pipe dad. Because you can say, well, my dad would take all of us to Maui every year and we'd stay at a really nice resort. That's just dad with money.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

That's not the same. That's fine. But that's not half pipe dad.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Half pipe dad doesn't have money.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Still building your ass half pipe and doing it. Taking up the whole backyard.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. And you're involved.

[Adam Carolla]

And you're involved.

[Derek Stroop]

You're getting in. We got. I got the blueprint right here. This is going to be a badass half pipe if we build it right.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

We're going to build it together.

[Adam Carolla]

And also half pipe dad guy, he's throwing caution to win. Because every kid in the neighborhood is going to get a compound fracture in his backyard. And he doesn't give a.

[Derek Stroop]

No.

[Adam Carolla]

He doesn't care about legal, illegal ease.

[Derek Stroop]

No, we're going. We're going to have some. We're going to have some ZZ Top plans. We're gonna have half pipe built. And I think that that's especially the part of building things together. You know, I used to work on the cars with my dad growing up.

[Adam Carolla]

What'd you work on?

[Derek Stroop]

Not, I was about to say nothing like crazy. Just brake pads. We'd tune up some engines. He had an old 86 GMC truck that we would tinker with all the time.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

But it taught me to pay Attention taught me how to change brake pads, change oil, all those things. And it was one of the times where actually I could get my dad to conversate, you know, with me because we were talking about something he was interested in. We had a common goal here with the truck. But I think that that stuff you

[Adam Carolla]

do, the brake pads, you got to bleed those brakes.

[Derek Stroop]

That's exactly right.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a father son.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a uniter right there. Because he's sitting under there.

[Derek Stroop]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

He's got the little bleeder valve on the caliper. You're up in there. He's yelling, yeah, three pumps. Yeah, three pumps. And hold it down, hold it down, hold it down. How many. God damn. Damn it. I can't be two places at once. There you pump, pump. That's a father son. That is a bread breaking. That's a Budweiser commercial right there in the detached.

[Derek Stroop]

My dad still. They still have the same detached garage. My mom calls it the Dennis in. And that's where the cars are. That's where the cold beer is. The old radio pictures that, you know, we'll go through and look. And that's where a lot of the bonding with my dad happened over stuff like what you're talking about the snap

[Adam Carolla]

on calendar up out there.

[Derek Stroop]

You already know an old Jagermeister sign, Einstein, holding the shot glass. Just all these things that. But yeah, those are some of the best. The best moments where we were, you know, getting to know each other, conversating.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And you know when you're under the hood and you're messing around and you try it now, it's more that. Gotta. Can't have your fingers around the fan belt when the guy cranks it open. You can't. No, you gotta watch out. You know, when you're working with the starter, getting a shock from the battery or whatever. It. Same stuff with everything with the brakes and stuff. Like, you gotta take care, otherwise you'll get hurt. And it puts you in a real practical mindset.

[Derek Stroop]

It does. And here's something that, honestly, I don't know what it is with, like blue collar men like Bill. And it sounds like you live in this world too. The only time he would have serious conversations with me was while he was doing these things. He. Because he could never face to face. We could never just have a beer and talk about how insane my grandfather was.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

He'd have to just be working on something. And he'd be like, yeah, your grandfather, man, sometimes. God, hold on to that bull. He is a Son of a. To deal with, man. And we just got to learn how to. And it's like. It was a way where he would. We would have these type of conversations we would never have. And Bill was comfortable doing it over a fan belt.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

While we were handing a wrench and just being like, you know, he'd be like, listen, man, I know your mother's a lot. Hell, I can barely handle it. But, you know, he's like, you can't talk to her like that all the time, man. You're gonna. It's gonna mess it up for both of us, you know? And just somehow he layered it in and it didn't feel as pointed and it didn't feel like he was busting my ass. It just felt like he was dropping off some knowledge while we were working on this thing together, you know?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You'd be like, dad, I need the feeler gauge to adjust the lash caps on the valves. And I'm gay. And I was like, okay, Sean, well, I'm gay too.

[Derek Stroop]

You're not gonna believe this, man. That's why I'm out in this garage every day.

[Adam Carolla]

Hand me that. Open ended.

[Derek Stroop]

Your mom's tits scare the hell out of me. But yeah, no, that. I mean, really, that. That's like something that happens. A lot of those men have a hard time just saying that.

[Adam Carolla]

So I. I agree. And there's something about being. Doing something physical while talking and sort of sharing and kind of. And it's sad that it's gone. And like, I would do stuff with my son where he'd go, you know, he didn't wrench like me, but like, his mountain bike would get a flat and he'd go, I can order a new tube on the. I go, let's get a kit. Let's fix it. Yeah, let's do it. And then pull the whole thing apart and get the thing. And I go, now let's put Aaron, since he's coming out here. Okay, we gotta scuff it up, we gotta clean it, patch it in, and we're gonna put it back in the thing. And it was like, you're really together at that point and you're not really thinking about anything or talking about anything else. And you're just kind of going through it. And then at the end, like, when it's done, it just. It feels good.

[Derek Stroop]

It does. It really does. It's quality time. That's not like forced or weird.

[Adam Carolla]

But I think about people who never experience that satisfaction.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, I go, how crazy must you feel in your head because you've never, like, physically accomplished anything. Like, you've done stuff and you've traveled and you have friends and you've been out to dinner and you read people's books and stuff, but you never really put something together and had it work. Like when you were done. Like really, that feeling of step back, finished. Good.

[Derek Stroop]

It's fulfilling.

[Adam Carolla]

It was broken, now it's not broken. Cause I fixed it and now we're good. Yeah. And I. People deny themselves that experience, man.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

It's.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's like the sanest you'll ever feel.

[Derek Stroop]

I agree.

[Adam Carolla]

And conversely, if you don't have any of that, I think you're gonna walk around feeling kind of half cocked all the time.

[Derek Stroop]

I agree. A little empty. I mean, that's fulfilling. And a lot of people walking around, they don't feel useful. They feel like, what am I here for? What's my purpose? What's my per. Your purpose is to maybe today is to fix that, you know, bird feeder with your hands and get it back to where it sits. Right. And you're gonna feel good about those small things where you're doing something for yourself. You're doing something that didn't take anybody else's self help book or yada yada. You just looked at it like you were talking about earlier, came up with a solution, came up with your own ideas. Is it's fulfilling. It is.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I think there's too many people. They're essentially trying to avoid it. It's like, I don't want to do that. I want to have to get my hands dirty. I don't want to break a sweat. I don't want to ruin my shirt. They just go. And then a lot of people trying to talk them out. You don't need to do that. You can get someone else to do that. Why should you do that? I go, it's. So then what it is is they're standing in like waist deep water in the ocean, the wave is coming and they don't want to be toppled by it. So they're trying to get away from it. I'm like, you need to dive through it, not try to get away from it. You're trying to avoid all this stuff. You should be leaning into this stuff.

[Derek Stroop]

What seems harder is actually better. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Yes. And that's why this country, people had tons of hobbies.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And projects. People had projects, man. And dudes don't have projects anymore. Every dude had an old hot rod, dune buggy, jet ski, something, boat, something. Shoved in their garage. And that was the project.

[Derek Stroop]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I mean? And nobody's got a project.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Anymore. They're all just living in apartments, watching cnn, complaining about transitioning.

[Derek Stroop]

That's how you become mentally ill.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Derek Stroop]

Yes, it really is. You need to step out and go work on something. Have time to yourself. It's really like a timeout for yourself. I mean, my dad, I mean, he would be about at. You could tell he's at his damn wits end. He was about to lose his mind. You know what he'd do? He'd go work on a project for a couple hours. He come back a new man.

[Adam Carolla]

I knew a guy in North Hollywood in the middle of the valley. Lived down the street. Name was Bill.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Nice.

[Adam Carolla]

I haven't thought about this guy in a long time. He built a full size boat in his backyard. He had a small North Hollywood little 50s ranch house with this cramped backyard. Not big. Had to turn the thing like diagonally. Built like a. Built like a 35 foot sailboat.

[Derek Stroop]

Good night.

[Adam Carolla]

Steel everything. Just physically built a boat in his backyard.

[Derek Stroop]

I think that's cool.

[Adam Carolla]

Took him 10 years to build it, of course. Took a crane, took it out of his backyard with a crane, put it on a boat, put it in the ocean and sailed it around the ocean.

[Derek Stroop]

Can you imagine how that felt?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh my God.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, really? I love that. I mean that, that dude. I don't even know that guy. That's the type of guy I'd want to have a beer with.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, that's insane. Could you imagine floating in the ocean on something you built? I really. I mean, that is, that's. There's no better feeling. I'm sure.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. And that was like. I wouldn't say. It certainly wasn't common, but it wasn't that extraordinary. It's like, yeah, Bill's building a boat. I got a custom van I'm working on. Everyone else had their own. Own projects and now gone.

[Derek Stroop]

It doesn't exist anymore. Because people are scrolling.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Derek Stroop]

And now they're watching people do their projects.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Where are the projects, man? Everyone was always, by the way, every weekend everyone had. I'm gonna tune up my motorcycle this weekend. I'm going to. It's something. Something.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

I am going to pick apart in Sun Valley and I got to pull a starter off a junked car because I got to replace a starter in my truck. Was like a lot of. That's all it was.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely. I mean, growing up, my dad was not A guy that, like, left the house to go visit people, but everybody was welcome to come hang with us. So he'd be out in the detached garage. Ricky would show up. He's an electrician. Love Ricky. Known him my whole childhood. One of my dad's best friends had a mullet down to the middle of his back. Ricky always had a cooler beer in his truck. And he would pull up and they would drink, and then Rob would come later on that afternoon. He's an engineer for NASA. And they'd all end up in that garage helping him with the project. Because you knew. This is what I'm getting at. You knew if you wanted to hang out with Bill, you had to get in on the project.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

Because he wasn't going to leave and meet you at an O. Charlie's for bread.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

You want to hang out? He'd go, come over. He'd go, I think Stacy's going. She'll whip us up something in there. We'll have some bagel bites or some. But if I don't get this engine off this block this afternoon, I'm gonna be behind. So they would all come over all day event. They'd all be out there in the garage hanging out, helping each other out. And then sometimes Bill would be like, this weekend, I got to go over to Ricky's. He's trying to build a deck on his pool. And they made it almost like a little miniature party. Get together, have the radio, the beer, you know, is there.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you think we're having, like, a renaissance and comedy, like, kind of blue collar comedy tour? Kind of. I. It feels like Nate's that way. You guys are that way.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, a little bit. Nate. Nate's not exactly. I wouldn't call, like, Nate like blue collar comedy. He does have a southern voice. Me and Dusty Slay.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Definitely fall into that. And they're probably. There probably is. I mean, I grew up on. On blue collar comedy. I was a Ron White guy for sure, growing up. So. Yeah, I mean, there might be some of that. Some of that coming back. You know, it's been a long time.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. No, it's. I'm. I kind of like it because I like. You know, I like basic. Sort of makes sense.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Comedy I don't like. If I feel like you're pretending to be this guy, I don't like that. But if you are that guy, then I do kind of like it.

[Derek Stroop]

And I agree with Southern comics. There is a lot of just. It's relatable, and I'm not on any, like, crazy soapbox. I'm not trying to get you to believe what I believe on stage. I'm not here to sell you my thoughts. I'm just here to see, hopefully, that what I'm telling you resonates and it's something that makes sense to you usually is because you're right. And I could see you're trying to, like. I could feel you, like, trying to tiptoe around that. You're, like, low, like, relatable, because it is. It's not like dumb comedy, but it's easily digested. You know, it doesn't take a whole lot of thinking.

[Adam Carolla]

Your stuff is a little more cosmopolitan and interesting, and you're talking about edibles and stuff. Not, you know, Fox, were they?

[Derek Stroop]

No, no, no, you're right. I do try to, because I live in that world. I mean, I'm a. I'm a country dude that lives in the big city, and I kind of. I like to play off of both sides of it. So that's a good read. You're right. It's not. Jeff Foxworthy's not talking about riding lightning on 90 milligrams. All right, then I do, for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, that's the whole thing. I feel like, Jeff, I like all those guys.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, they're great.

[Adam Carolla]

Feel like they have something to sort of protect a little bit.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And you know, people will be disappointed if they found out or if I talk about or something. Something like that. And then to me, then that becomes a little bit limiting.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Because anytime you create a no go zone, you kind of create some limits.

[Derek Stroop]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

And you go, well, I like to drink, but I don't, like. I can't talk about it. You know, I like to take. I have to eat some edibles, but I'm not going to talk about that or whatever. I got divorced. But that would disappoint my audience.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Then you. Then you're sort of narrowing your lane a little bit.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And the highway should just be whatever you think's funny. Right.

[Derek Stroop]

I agree with that 100%. And I've had to battle that because coming in the Nate's world, it's a clean world. But I don't. I'm not. I don't want to sell my soul for it. I want to stay true to myself. And so that. That's why I still talk about the things I'll talk about on stage. I mean, I'm not gonna. I'm, you know, not gonna drop, like, any gds or F bombs in my act, that's just a personal choice. But like the rest of it, I am, I don't want to feel like what you said because people can feel that. Feel like you're protecting something, hiding something. I want it all to be out there. This is exactly. And what's, what's really validating and feels good is I'm a little nervous about sharing. You know, I'm this country dude that lives in the city, so I am a little cosmopolitan. Have, have some different directions I'll go in. But it's way more relatable than I ever thought it would. It would be. And I think, and hopefully it's because people know I'm being a little vulnerable. I'm not trying to protect anything.

[Adam Carolla]

The movie is out on the 29th.

[Derek Stroop]

Is it? Yeah, Breadwinner.

[Adam Carolla]

And that'll be just in theaters everywhere.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Derek, this been fun.

[Derek Stroop]

I really enjoyed it, man.

[Adam Carolla]

Nostalgic is the name of the special. It's very funny. It's available on Netflix. Easy to find.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, easy to find. Nostalgic. Derek stroup. Go to Derekstrup.com that's the website. But thank you very much, man. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Good talk.

[Derek Stroop]

Yes, it was.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Announcer]

It's time to check Adam's voicemail.

[Adam Carolla]

Ace man. Ron, Ohio. I got a rich man, poor man. Gladys, give me the thoughts.

[Announcer]

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[Adam Carolla]

You say lattice fence?

[Derek Stroop]

Fence.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah, I get it. Okay. So poor does a sort of cheap lattice, even plastic lattice. It's like leans it up and zip ties and stuff. And it also can be found around really pricey places. Not bad.

[Announcer]

It's country club wall material, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's. It's kind of bad. I like it. But I can tell you, the audience, it's not as bad.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

They have to think.

[Adam Carolla]

They hate thinking. Yeah. My audience, they're not into thinking.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

When it's rich, it's white and painted and upright. When it's four, it's kind of brown.

[Adam Carolla]

And leaning over and leaning down and leaning down. You got trouble. Yeah. I like to think of myself as the non thinking man comic.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Do you want to not think? Come out and catch a show.

[Adam Carolla]

Come on down. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. There are ones that I like that no one ever likes. And I've just realized, like, I like you have lunch with Bono.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

But no one. Everyone's like, ah, we don't know. I like that one. I like it too. But you're thinking, man.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

And I also, there's something that I like about Bono being the punchline of a joke.

[Adam Carolla]

I like that. I like that too. But it's really perfect because you're either Jeff Bezos is trying to get you to donate to this whatever, or you're just some indigenous person. Yes. There's not. He's not hanging around with knockaround guys like, oh, yeah, yeah. Bono, he was at TGI Fridays in Burbank. He got the whole pizza bargain tonight. Well, he knows when to go and what time to go too. Cause they got the mozzarella sticks half price. Yeah, that's not. That's not him. All right, so couple things to think about before we get into the news. We are essentially at the 20 year anniversary of An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore's bullshit doc. Right. And I just want you guys to kind of Think about Al gore, inconvenient truth, 20 years old, a very celebrated film, and I'm sure it won Academy Award or whatever, because they love that bullshit. But I'm going to sort of paint you a picture as I tell you about Al Gore. And I think there is a true Inconvenient Truth. Now, you go back 20 years. I lived in LA 20 years ago. It was a different place. It was kind of normal. As I sort of think about it, like, Tom Bradley was mayor from like 72 to 92 or something. And a black man. A black man. He was a mayor in the early 70s. So, all right, he seemed like a normal guy. Nobody cared. And you couldn't really even tell the difference between a Republican and a Democrat. Just everyone wanted the streets clean. No one wanted crime. Everyone wanted to fill the potholes, like, yeah, that's what you want. That's what you want. That's what you want. That's what I want. And then they start getting progressive, they start going hard left. We let a bunch of lunatics run the asylum, and it all turned into a shit show, which it has to. But Al Gore 20 years ago was lying to everyone about what was gonna happen with Florida in terms of the rising sea. And I'll show you the graphic of this big dope who flies private lecturing us about what's gonna go on in Florida. We'll play it and melted.

[Derek Stroop]

Or if half of Greenland and half of West Antarctica broke up and melted, this is what would happen to the sea level in Florida.

[Adam Carolla]

Shows Florida being engulfed with seawater.

[Derek Stroop]

This is what would happen.

[Adam Carolla]

It's literally 60% of Florida got involved. And then the next one was what would happen in San Francisco.

[Derek Stroop]

Now it's ironic what would happen to San Francisco Bay?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, my gosh, it's the base. Tsunamis coming over the whole movie. Yeah, it's like that rock movie, San Andreas.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Now, not only did we not lose Florida, we might get Greenland.

[Adam Carolla]

It's ironic that the water's blue.

[Derek Stroop]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Let me tell you, Al Gore, what did happen? Your fucking horrible, retarded party did take over San Francisco. That's the blue wave. It wasn't the water, it was politics. Your blue wave took over San Francisco and everyone moved to Florida, where it was high and dry. So what actually happened in 20 years is nothing you said would happen. No predictions, you said come true. One thing did come true. Your power fucked up blue cities and drove people to Florida to escape your shit policies. So. So that's sort of the lie about the inconvenient Truth. None of the actual shit happened. But what actually happened is your horrible policies that your party unleashed on these blue cities. And ironically, people had to flee to Florida to save themselves and know there's no water anywhere near what you said it was gonna be at all. Maybe it raised an eighth of an inch, I don't know. But it is ironic that your shit policies ruined the place that you said were gonna flood. Now it's just flooded with hobos, fecal matter and syringes.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Actual shit. None of his actual shit happened.

[Adam Carolla]

None of his actual happened.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

None of his actual shit. But it should have shown the brown wave just taking.

[Adam Carolla]

I wish he fell asleep. I wish he'd fallen asleep for the last 20 years, and I could wake him up out of his coma and go, hey, turns out you're right. San Francisco's unlivable. And he'd go, right, because it's underwater. No, no, because of your shit policies and all your fucking Democratic friends that ruin the place. I go, the Golden Gate Bridge, is that underwater? No, no, there's just people jumping off. That's all. We had to put a cage around it. Yeah. Jesus fucking Christ, you lying sack of shit. 20 years later, is he ever embarrassed? Can anyone ever embarrass these retards?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

They keep continuing with their update their

[Adam Carolla]

parents, whatever the next lie is. Where are you, Hunter? Bryan's laptop, Covid? What are we talking about here?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

He didn't predict his divorce in the Inconvenient Truth. He should have said I was gonna get divorced in the next 20 years.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, blowhard, thanks for that. The other thing I wanted to point out to people, which we're finally doing. We're finally doing this. All the Mendamis and the Karen Bass, Nithi Raman, all these fucking communists people in Seattle. Here's what's happened. The mayor of Seattle, you know, it is our fault that we let them do this to us. And what I've been saying for a million years now, here's what I'm saying, If you go back and listen to Loveline from 30 years ago, maybe 28 years ago, you will hear me frequently say I had a saying. And anyone who listens to Loveline will know it. I go, drew, I'm a millionaire. Literally, a millionaire. And I would say it all the time. And the reason I said it back then is because it was the very beginning of having to pretend like you were poor all the time was the beginning. And KROQ was like a progressive, cool station, and they didn't want the man. You know what I mean? Yeah. And, like, I remember flying first class once and talking about it on the air. And my program director's like, hey, man, don't talk about flying first class. You know, our listeners are, like, 16 and, like, skaters from Orange county, they don't fly. They don't resent that. And I was like, they can all. If they think they can do this job better than me, let them try. But I'm not pretending I'm one of them. And the more people started going, shh. Talking about money. People resent people that have money. They think they. Whatever. And the more. KROC was funny. You'd see guys in their 50s and they're showing up to work in board shorts and flip flops, and it's like, what the fuck, dude? You have teenage kids. You had to dress like a surfer, and you're poor. There's a character called the poor man on kroq. His family was wealthy, but he's the poor man. Right? So everyone did that. And I was like, fuck that. I make money. I'm rich. I'm not gonna pretend like I'm poor. Yeah. I fly first class because you go do Letterman, they fly first class. That's how it works. I'm not gonna pretend like I'm in coach. Fuck off. Go get a job, you get rich. So I was always saying that. And I realized, too, that there used to be shows, the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Like, we're in Morgan Fairchild's home, you know, and she's got a beautiful cascading stairway.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

This is where Jeffrey Epstein lives, Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Note all the surveillance cameras. He really protects himself. So. And then they stop. They all stop because they. I've talked to celebrities, and they're like. Like, listen, man, I don't want people to see what I got here because they're gonna hate me. You know what I mean? And so everyone peeled it back, right? And then they started telling all these bullshit stories. You know, we grew up real lower middle. Lower middle class. Lower. Yeah. My dad ran IBM, but we didn't have a lot, you know what I mean? And all that kind of shit. Turn it down. You saw it with Posh Spice in Beckham. You know, it's like we drove. What kind of car did your dad have? We just were middle class. He drove a Rolls Royce. Yeah. Okay, so everyone. Everyone wound it down. They went down. No, no, no, don't hate me. I don't have that much. I'm like you. I'm not successful. I'M just lucky. Then they start talking about luck all the time. Oh, it's luck. It's so lucky. I'm just lucky. I'm just blessed. I'm blessed. I'm lucky. No, you fucking outworked everyone. And you're smart in there. You're talented. You're gifted it. And when we started doing this, we then let all the assholes on left get a whole bunch of power. Like, hey, rich guy, get outta here. Like, sorry, ma', am. Sorry for being successful. I have never changed my story. I've told everyone to fuck off. Everyone argues with me about anything. You know, they go, like, you don't think I go, you don't pay what I pay in taxes in fucking 10 years of what I pay in one quarter. So shut the fuck up. And people like, online, like, he got a PPE loan he never paid back. I was like, hey, bitch, what are you paying taxes? What are you paying taxes? I didn't think so. So shut the fuck up. So I've always done it 1000%, because fuck you. I work my ass off and I work every weekend and I pay a shitload in taxes. So go fucking go yell at a substitute school teacher for not paying their fair share. I pay way more. I pay for, like, 800 people's worth of taxes. So suck my dick. And everyone hated me. But we let these people off the hook. And then we got in this thing like, oh, pay your fair share, pay your fair share. All these dumb fucking people repeating these assholes. People needed to step up and go, hey, fuck you, by the way. You're gonna talk shit about me. I'm moving my headquarters from New York to Miami.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Probably underwater. Gonna swim to Miami. And you're gonna fuck with Starbucks? Fuck you. Where I'm moving my shit. I'm like, bitch, if you want to make me the heavy, if you want to make me the heel, if you want to make me the boogeyman, and all I do is create jobs and pay taxes, then fuck off. I'm moving. Good luck with your hobos. And by the way, this is Katie Wilson basically telling rich people to piss off claims that millionaires. I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And. And if you know the ones that leave like, bye. So, yeah, you go, girl. Tell those people to pay off. Yeah, cheer it. Cheer it on, you fucking idiots.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

They even talk lower, like, the. Like, you know, it's like, you know, right?

[Adam Carolla]

And then she had to walk back. Now Starbucks guy's like, oh, fuck you, then I'm moving. And so is the Ken Griffin from the Mandami billionaire guy from Doxed him in front of his place. Everyone's like, fuck you, I'm moving then. And now they're like, we need your money because you're just gonna leave us with a bunch of illegals and no tax base. Wait, this is her. What's she doing in this one? That was two weeks later. I mean, it's really great that Amazon's

[Chelsea Handler]

invested $3.5 million in this project.

[Adam Carolla]

What do you think it means in terms of relationship with your office and big business knowing we all saw the video from a couple of weeks ago on stage. It's

[Chelsea Handler]

so.

[Adam Carolla]

Again, I'm really excited about this partnership.

[Chelsea Handler]

And I mean, just to give another

[Adam Carolla]

example, right, today we. We announced a second large new shelter site, Tiny House Village. That is. Wait a minute, that's a super group with John Hyatt Challenge Seattle.

[Chelsea Handler]

So that.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. No, there's a tweet. She sent out a tweet, basically going, hey, as far as the coffee, Starbucks go, maybe I got a little over my skis, so why don't you come on. Yeah, sorry.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

We still need you.

[Derek Stroop]

We still need your money.

[Adam Carolla]

We need your money. I know we hate you and we'll insult you. So what I'm saying is everyone has been on. All the job creators, all the wealth guys, all the movers and the shakers, the people that do everything versus the fucking non people who do nothing. Like these useless politicians. They've been on the defense the whole time going, sorry, sorry, yeah, no, I wanna pay my fair share. They need to go on the offense, go, fuck you, we're moving. Kiss my ass. And Bezos, finally, finally fucking. But this will end when rich people start just speaking up and essentially doing the super unpopular shit that I've been doing for 30 years.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Now you remind me you're a millionaire. Every time I walk in here, it's like, hi, I'm Kroll, a millionaire.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, what I'll do sometimes is I'll just stand in front of anim and I'll just drop my billfold right in front of him and I'll go pick it up. Oh, look at that. And he just goes and get it. And I'm like, while you're down there, polish my spats, because I wear spats. Here's Bezos. And also the other thing is, Mandami, New York, you guys need money. You guys. Is anyone asked what you're doing with the money? Like, my whole thing was, forget about you needing money and people paying their fair share. What the fuck are you doing with this money? Yeah, it seems like the height of insanity that you spend $27 billion on homelessness. Nothing gets solved, and then you're like, hey, man, you got to start paying up. Like, hey, man, maybe we should have a discussion about what you're doing with the money. All right, here's Bezos finally laying it out. The New York City school system, right? They spent $44,000 per student. 44,000. That's 30% more per student than other big cities like Chicago, L.A. and Boston. And it's three times more than Miami and Houston. And by the way, New York City doesn't get better outcomes. So this. Listen, let me. Let me just say, if. If. If we ran Amazon, the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive. We'd have to charge you $100 delivery fee, and then when the package did

[Commercial Voice]

finally arrive, it'd have the wrong item in it anyway.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, can we flip the script and start asking what these idiots are doing with our money versus being yelled at to give more money to them so we can get zero results, whether it's homelessness or the grades at the school system. Where's the results? And. And shut the fuck up. And then there's the Somalis just ripping everyone off. But what I'm saying is, just start speaking up. You're successful. Own it.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

And I feel like the Democratic Party, they started making billionaires the evil class because they're all millionaires, so they had to go to the. It's the people richer than us.

[Adam Carolla]

Bernie's.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

They're the evil.

[Adam Carolla]

Bernie's accountant called him after his third house closed and said, bernie, you gotta start saying billionaire.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

You gotta go after the people with five houses, not three houses, right?

[Adam Carolla]

And when you get to five, then

[Co-host/News Anchor]

you're an evil person.

[Adam Carolla]

No, no, we'll go up to seven. You gotta keep bumping it up either way. All Bernie Sanders does is fucking spend taxpayer money. He's never had a job. He's never created anything. He's never done anything. But he tours the country yelling about Elon Musk. Yeah, this is the richest thing in the world that Bernie Sanders, the fucking communist who's never had a job, does nothing but live off the largess of the taxpayer, gets to travel in a private jet yelling about Elon Musk, who does nothing but create jobs, create jobs,

[Co-host/News Anchor]

and create brilliant technologies.

[Adam Carolla]

So everyone should start telling Bernie and these People to shut the fuck up. Yeah, all right. Sorry. News.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Cool. In the news. I don't know if you saw the Kevin Hart roast. Chelsea Handler slams Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe's racist jokes at the Kevin Hart roast, saying there was so much disgustingness. During a Wednesday appearance on the Funny Knowing youg podcast with Dion Cole, a comedian said that she'd received messages on social media about Gillis and Hinchcliffe from their alleged former partners. When asked what they told her handler said, it's just everything we know that they're racist, they're biggest, and they're sexist. I think we have a clip of her here.

[Chelsea Handler]

And I knew they would be lazy because they do that for a living. And I knew enough about, like, Tony Hinchcliffe and Shane and their backgrounds.

[Adam Carolla]

Girls, they're lazy for a living. Is that what she's saying?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

I think she's calling their jokes lazy because she perceives them as racist. But they were well written jokes. They clearly put time into it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they were good.

[Chelsea Handler]

I knew enough about Tony Hinchcliffe and Shane and their backgrounds. I had girls ex girlfriends blowing up my DMs that had dated Shane and were telling me stuff about him. So based on that, I was like, oh, these guys are pretty bad.

[Adam Carolla]

So you had something on him that you was gonna. You could have.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Tell us now what.

[Adam Carolla]

What should say?

[Chelsea Handler]

It's just everything we know, that they're racist, that they're bigots, that they're sexist. You know, that they think they're like, invincible. It was ick. It was gross. There's no. I don't find those jokes to be funny jokes about lynching black people or like, lynching is not. If Joe is not. That's worse than rape. Like, you're not joking about rape, are you? Are you saying.

[Adam Carolla]

Pause. Let me write this down. So, okay, I would rather be raped than lynched.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

There's a hierarchy.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, nothing's really worse than lynching because that means you're dead. Rape means you may survive. Yes. They call them rape survivors. They don't have lynch survivors.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

No, they don't.

[Adam Carolla]

There's a whole group that says, I'm a rape survivor. Yeah. There's no encounter group. You go to that meeting for lynch survivors. Nobody's there. Yeah, yeah. Almost empty.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

I have a lot of trauma from that lynch meeting.

[Adam Carolla]

You get all the donuts?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So she's saying lynch is worse. Right. But they made fun of Pete's dad the whole time.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

And they made a Charlie Kirk joke.

[Adam Carolla]

Somewhere in there too. Yeah, she didn't really care about the Charlie Kirk one. I bet if you're a Charlie Kirk fan, you wish he'd gotten raped instead of assassinated.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

That's how you had to choose one.

[Adam Carolla]

If you had to choose one. All right, so she's prattling on about what again? Also, listen, when you go, like, I knew they were gonna do this. You don't have to do the roast.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

It's a roast. Everybody knows. It's gonna be dark, insulting.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. But if you know in advance that Shane's a bigot and this guy's misogynist, and you know what they're gonna do because you know they're gonna be lazy. How about not doing the gig?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

And she says it was their exes, Shane and Tony's exes, that were texting her this. That's the best way to get a real version of what someone is like is texting their jilted lovers.

[Adam Carolla]

I love hearing versions of myself from exes. That is, like, the best. That is the best ever. I took my ex wife and my kids to Kevin Costner's ranch and hung out with him for two days, and I got the version of it from my ex. It was the greatest. That was the greatest. I mean, not since the never ending story. I heard such a tale woven about that, and then I realized, oh, they can fucking say anything about any that, by the way, that's the best day. I don't know what they say about the worst day, but, yeah, don't go to the X. Well, not for accuracy. Yeah, I'll put it to you that way, but let's hear Chelsea. She'll finish off.

[Chelsea Handler]

It was gross. I don't find those jokes to be funny. Jokes about lynching black people.

[Adam Carolla]

Hold on.

[Chelsea Handler]

Or pause.

[Adam Carolla]

Hey, bitch. No one cares what you find to be funny. It's a Kevin Hart roast. The audience was laughing their ass off. So they find it to be funny. We're not there so her highness can be pleased by jokes. It's not. Your roast is Kevin Hart's roast. And that's pretty much between Kevin Hart and the audience and then the person doing the roasting. And if they're laughing at Tony the whole time, then that's a good roast. All right, continue, black people.

[Chelsea Handler]

Or like, lynching is not a joke. That's worse than rape. Like, you're not joking about rape, are you? Are you saying I'm gonna go rape you? You know you can't do that. I find that to be. I don't know. You Know, people are like, it's a roast. You go for it. I'm like, you can go for it without being gross. Like, I find that to be gross. I found them making fun of Cheryl Underwood's, like, dead husband who committed suicide. Like, skin color, you know, she's fine with that. If she says she's fine with that, she's fine with that. I wasn't fine with that.

[Adam Carolla]

She's so. Oh, by the way. Oh, she's talking to a black guy. Oh, she's doing the black guy suck up move. Right? Cause she didn't say anything about Charlie Kirk jokes.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

And Cheryl Underwood apparently had a sense of humor about it and was on Shane and Tony's podcast afterwards. Chelsea says, I'm not okay with it, but Cheryl Underwood was apparently fine with it.

[Adam Carolla]

Cheryl's a real fine, real cool person. I know her. Yeah, culturally. We cracked jokes when he died.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

We did.

[Adam Carolla]

We cracked jokes.

[Derek Stroop]

I had to call my father and

[Adam Carolla]

go, can you come here and identify the body? My father was like, why? I was like, cause you my daddy.

[Derek Stroop]

Go on in there and look. Go in there. You know, But.

[Adam Carolla]

But in stress. All right, you got it. I'm just saying, Chelsea Handler's such a piece of shit. It's such a weird thing. I don't know, tell jokes, move on, spend money. She did this whole thing. She's like the Spencer Pratt thing.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

She's like, he's white, he's male, he's heterosexual. Like all the bad things. Who's the racists here? Fuck it. We can't have a white. Well, I don't know if you being

[Co-host/News Anchor]

white and heterosexual is worse than rape.

[Adam Carolla]

It's worse than rape, but is it worse than lynching?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

It's in between rape and lynching.

[Adam Carolla]

Somewhere between being hung and rape and bitch. First off, stop saying white, white, white. You're a blonde, you're the whitest of them all, and you're skating by on your blonde hair. So what the fuck are you even talking about? Just shut up, tell the jokes, or don't retire or don't do the roast.

[Chelsea Handler]

Well.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

And she's done politically incorrect jokes herself before. This is a response from Steve Byrne, another comic who's. He's half Irish and half Asian. He said, this is rich coming from her. Here's a personal story of the irony here. 2007, Chelsea Handler does the Tonight show with Jay Leno. She makes fun of Angelina Jolie and her newly adopted son, 3 year old Pax, who is Asian. Chelsea Handler says he probably doesn't even realize he's Asian yet he certainly doesn't know he's going to be a horrible driver or that he's going to be amazing at doing nails. Then Steve goes on to say how he was booked on the Tonight Show a couple weeks later and had his set all ready to go, but because she got backlash for these Asian jokes, he was no longer allowed to do his Asian jokes as an Asian person.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really? Yeah, look, of course she's a hypocrite, but also, I don't know, do you have to have a beef with everyone all the time? Just go, it was fun. I've done three roasts. It's fun. You get fragged. I heard a million jokes about me sucking off Jimmy Kimmel. That's all I care.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

As long as it was consensual.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, as long as he goes first and then I fake an injury, I pull a quad. You know, squatting down. Can't reciprocate out my sciatica. Works my heating pad. All right, what other stories do we have?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

We got Michelle Obama. She is warning liberals against pigeonholing Donald Trump voters, saying that's just how they feel. Former first lady Michelle Obama warned liberals against labeling all Donald Trump supporters racist, urging them instead to understand the economic pain and desperation driving many working class Americans here. She's on the Talk Easy with Sam Fragosa podcast

[Derek Stroop]

for the working folks, because

[Co-host/News Anchor]

those are the folks who are drowning in this economy.

[Derek Stroop]

It's not me anymore, but I know those folks, and they're good people.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

And they don't have a way out.

[Derek Stroop]

And that makes for bad choices.

[Adam Carolla]

There's always this thing. It's funny. Democrats treat Republicans like zookeepers treat animals. Like, they're scared, they're desperate, like, and someone will go, their dog will bite you or something, or snap at you. She's just scared. She's just scared. You know, like, these people are desperate. They just want a break. They don't know what they're doing.

[Derek Stroop]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

So they grab their gun and they grab their Bible, and then some guy comes in, the Music man, like Trump, and they vote for him because they don't know better. Because they're so scared. And they're cornered and it's like, no, it's not. You guys have a guy who leaves the border wide open and wants my fucking daughter to get beat by a dude playing volleyball in high school. And then when they're done, they can go use the locker room together. And then they're done, they can go use the bathroom together. And we don't want any of that bullshit. And I don't want to remember her fucking pronouns. And I'm not down with the transgender and not down with the illegals and the sanctuary cities. I'm not down with fuck. Guys. It's not, I'm scared and I need money or you're know what you're voting for. Like, you go like, adam, what's wrong? I hate black people. I don't know. I don't know. Like, no, they know what they're doing. I know you think they're dumb because they think differently than you, but guess what? You think we're dumb. I think you're crazy. Yeah, I'd rather be dumb than crazy.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

It's exactly that fake sympathy, condescending attitude. I think elsewhere in this interview, she says something along the lines of, they don't know they're voting against their own interests. You know, it's always like, oh, they're just hapless.

[Adam Carolla]

They like their guns. They don't want to vote for people. They're gonna take their guns away, and they like a stout border, and they're gonna vote for that. They want ice. They want these people rounded up and removed. They don't want the trans whoever teaching at the school to nursery school. No, they know exactly what the fuck they want. That's what they're doing.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Well, it's interesting, Brie.

[Adam Carolla]

That's because it's an elitist thing. Yeah, it's kind of Chelsea Handler like, they're lazy. They don't know what they're doing.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

They don't understand the same tone.

[Adam Carolla]

They understand the words hurt.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yeah. But she says it's folks who are drowning in this economy. Years ago, they always used to say that, quote, it's the economy.

[Adam Carolla]

You mean like your chef,

[Co-host/News Anchor]

he was drowning. He was really drowning.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Oh, God. I'd be the worst interviewer ever.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

But I think it is those cultural issues now that people don't want this sort of insanity. The things like opening the border and the transgender stuff, that doesn't even pull close to being controversial. People are against that stuff widely, yes.

[Adam Carolla]

That's what. But that's why they voted for the other guy.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. We don't want to give fake tits to illegal dudes. That's kind of it in a platform with all. But I'm just saying. I know you think I'm doing this out of fear. Fear of others. And I like when they go scared. Scared of those who look different than them. Like, oh, yes. That's how it works. You're scared.

[Derek Stroop]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Just watching nine hours of NBA playoffs. Oh, God, they're giant. They're giant. They're gonna take over.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

A map of them taking over Florida. Just the giant black, tall.

[Adam Carolla]

They're gonna step on me.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Got a sad story out of New York City. A grandmother died after stepping out of her vehicle into an open manhole cover.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that is a nightmare.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

It's terrible. Donika Goscha is her name. She stepped out of her Mercedes Benz SUV at 11:20pm outside the Cartier store at 52nd street and Fifth Avenue.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. That's right in there.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

It's in the middle of downtown.

[Adam Carolla]

And that is. That's some posh addresses over there. Yeah. And there used to be a lot of manhole humor. Huh. You know, like, it was weird. There was, like, manhole humor. Yeah, there was, you know, a lot of banana peel humor.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Okay. I didn't know if you were going for innuendo humor.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I'm going for. Yeah, there was like, a whole. Whole. We had tropes.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Uhhuh.

[Adam Carolla]

You had the. I'm making a sule. And then dad would come home and slam the door. You're gonna. You're gonna. The souffle needs to rise, and you're gonna drop it. And they go check the oven. I'll get sh. And then the son would come down the stairs playing a bass drum. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, like, it's like, there was souffle humor. There was manhole humor. Like, just down the. There was banana peel humor. Obviously, we had things on the negative side. You could get stuck in quicksand. There was a lot of that going on.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Lava was gonna be a big problem.

[Adam Carolla]

Lava was gonna be an issue, especially in that manhole. But somehow it all went away. And now.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Now it happens.

[Adam Carolla]

It literally fell.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

She fell 10ft, and there was hot steam down in the sewer. And it's terrible. She's. People could hear her scream. I'm dying. And one of the construction workers, a witness, even said it looked like in a cartoon. She went down the. Down the hall.

[Adam Carolla]

She's. He had to be over 40.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And do manhole humor.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's sad and right. Yeah. 5th and 55th. Man, that's. That's a nice part. Who left the manhole?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

The energy provider, Con Edison, said it is deeply saddened and is active, actively investigating how this occurred.

[Adam Carolla]

Somebody's gonna have to get out a checkbook.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Cause somebody's.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Cause if she parked there and stepped out, it must not have been blocked off or Anything that you just next to an open manhole cover, I will

[Adam Carolla]

say in this world, even if it was blocked off or flagged or whatever, someone's still getting sued and someone's gotta pay now. Hey, look this up, Dawson. I used to do a bit, and it's a thing that still drives me nuts, which is there are manhole covers that are right in the middle of the street, and they have the stripe of the street going right over the top. And I see guys pitched at 90 degrees where the stripe turns.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

It's at an angle.

[Adam Carolla]

It's at an angle. And I'm like, how disgruntled do you have to be to replace this thing in a direction and not line it up? Sorry. Big yellow stripe that's a foot wide, by the way. One end's. The other one's 32 inches away. Nope. So I used to yell at these guys all the time. And then somebody wrote me an angry email who worked for the city and said, that's a marker that's marking to the other crew that this one got worked on or needs to be worked on or whatever. And I was kind of like, okay, but there are ones that have been that way for 11 years.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

So that checks out.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. But this dude was pissed. The other one that pissed me off in terms of the city and waste was the bridge. There's one when you drive here, you see it's got the clearance number on it. It says 15o. And I'm like, just leave it at 15. I don't want to pay for the dash and the O. If you can't figure out what 15 is as a trucker. Yeah. I don't need you, by the way. It's like. It's like you're going to hit the

[Co-host/News Anchor]

bridge one way or the other.

[Adam Carolla]

How tall are you, Adam? Six foot and six foot. And then, like, you can just be six foot.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

The bridge is 15. Yeah. What the hell?

[Co-host/News Anchor]

You don't say. I'm six foot zero, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Dash zero. Why are we spending extra money for that zero. Yeah. Are there any answers online? This person was revved up. They're angry on Reddit.

[Announcer]

Here's what I found. It's. It's doing its job in covering the manhole, but the breaking up, the pattern makes it easier to see for maintenance personnel.

[Adam Carolla]

So if there's something.

[Announcer]

If there's. We got to get something fixed in this manhole. Which one?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh. Or just the one. Or just spot to see it, literally without driving past it.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know how much of this stuff you're doing in the middle of the night? I don't know. Listen, I want to live in a world where that stripe carries through. Yeah, it bothers me sometimes I drive, you know, it is.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

It's like a little OCD thing when

[Adam Carolla]

you just see it bothers the shit out of me. And here's the other thing, too. You know how Vin Diesel lived his life a quarter mile at a time. We all know I live my life 23 inches at a time. And I look forward, and I will. I'll swerve off the road. I'll just be following that line. I never look further than 30 inches in front of my bumper, and I look at the line as my guide. It's like a shepherd. And I'll see it turn, and I'll veer into oncoming traffic or off the cliff.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Like the old TV clips. Just going off the cliff.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I used to love once in a while? Like I was watching an episode of Vegas, and they'd always have a car go off the cliff and then it'd land. It would blow up. Once in a blue moon, they'd drive the car off the cliff, it would be airborne, and the guy hit the switch two seconds early and would blow up in the air. And it's like, okay, first off, I don't build that many cars, but they don't really blow up just from aero, just from wind dynamics. You gotta hit something. But they already rigged a car and they drove it off a cliff and they blew it up. There's no fucking way they're getting another car. So it's like. Like things sailing off a cliff and it just blows up mid flight. Yeah. Which suggests to me it would have blown up in the next hundred yards anyway, just on the highway. So, yeah, that guy's dead, the way you look at it. All right, you, Adam, dates coming up.

[Co-host/News Anchor]

Yeah, I got May 29th and 30th at the Kenosha Comedy Club in Wisconsin, and then June 20th at Queen City Tavern in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, me, Oklahoma City, Bricktown Comedy Club, two shows. That'll be Friday, June 12th, and then Saturday. Next day, Tulsa, Bricktown. Coming there, two shows, and then Sunday. Oh, that'll be Santa Ana Jordan Family Classics Car. We're gonna do some of the KROC doc there. The whole thing's like three and a half hours, but I'll show you selected portions. We'll do a Q and A. And until, well, next time, this is Adam Carolla for Derek Strope and Adam Jens are saying mahalo. Leave us a voicemail at 8 at

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