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Adam Carolla
Well, in this episode, Victoria Jackson, right from snl all those years, she comes in, tells a few crazy stories. Also, news with Adam Yenzer. And we'll do all that right after this.
Adam Yenzer
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Adam Yenzer
From Corolla 1 Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, legendary Saturday Night Live performer Victoria Jackson. Plus the news with Adam Yenzer. And now Adam Corolla.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, get it on. Got to get on a choice we're going to mandate you get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. Victoria Jackson in Studio SNL alum during the during the prime years 86 to 92. So that means seven. Does that mean seven seasons?
Victoria Jackson
Six seasons?
Adam Carolla
Well, six is the math. But like if you played in The NFL from 80 to 86, you count 80 and then you've played for seven years in the NFL. But. All right, yeah, six years. SNL start off as doing stand up, but doing kind of headstands and poetry and stuff like that. Right? Like, different stuff.
Victoria Jackson
I started in stand up, actually. I started. I don't know. I don't know what started. My dad was in vaudeville.
Adam Carolla
Your dad was in vaudeville?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Oh, interesting. Where'd you grow up?
Victoria Jackson
Miami. Really? We had a gym in our backyard.
Adam Carolla
Oh. So was it a lot of gymnastics and that kind of stuff? And your dad did theatrical stuff?
Victoria Jackson
No, he was a coach. And we competed, you know, very serious. 9.4 on the balance beam. We had a team. And I discovered in comedy, your mistakes could be an attribute on the balance beam. Oh, your knee is bent, your toe isn't pointed. Three points up, three points off, you know? Anyway, my first play was at Furman in college. My first time I made people laugh was in high school. I was doing Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann. My name is Edith Ann and I'm five and a half years old. I never asked to be bored. If I did, Mama wouldn't have said no, not that one.
Adam Carolla
Edith Ann was a very famous character. She probably did on Laugh In.
Victoria Jackson
Mm. And we didn't have a tv, so I would see Laugh in at my grandmother's house when we were being babysat. And 30 years later, 30 years after I left SNL, I realized that my whole stand up routine was stolen from Laugh In. That's the power of television. Ditziness from Goldie Hawn, ukulele from Tiny Tim, a poem by Henry Gibson.
Adam Carolla
And these are all Laugh in cast members.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. And that's the only TV I saw when, you know, once in a while. And that became my standup act. To try to get on Carson, to try to get to be an airhead on a sitcom, that was my goal.
Adam Carolla
And you made it onto Carson.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, 20 times.
Adam Carolla
20 times on Carson. Not Leno, right?
Victoria Jackson
Well, I think I was 18 with Carson, one with Leno, one with Shandling when they.
Adam Carolla
Oh, Garry Shandling was guest hosting. Yeah. That's kind of the thing. In a weird way, Letterman is kind of my Carson. Like, I did Letterman a couple of times when Letterman hosted. And now the young comedians, they do the show, but it's Jimmy Fallon or it's Whomever hosting. I don't even know who hosts everything now. But the point is they kind of missed Letterman, but they loved Letterman. And for me, older guys like me, I missed Carson. I did the Tonight Show a bunch of times with Leno, but never With Carson. So doing Carson 18 times?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
How old were you the first time he did Carson?
Victoria Jackson
23.
Adam Carolla
Wow.
Victoria Jackson
And he got me Letterman. Never got me. Letterman was kind of mean to me. I was on him twice and he was just very rude.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, he's a rude guy.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. But Johnny got me. The first act I did, six minutes was handstand, poetry, ukulele, blah, blah, blah.
Adam Carolla
Well, how does. How did SNL come about?
Victoria Jackson
I think. I think Lauren saw me on Carson.
Adam Carolla
Oh, okay.
Victoria Jackson
No one ever told me how I got the audition for Lauren, but one day out of the blue, I got a call on my Kermit the Frog phone in Laurel Canyon and I was the breadwinner and I had a baby and I was desperate for any work I could get. And I had just done a Mitsubishi car commercial and no, I'd just been in the movie the Pickup Artist with Robert Downey Jr. Kissing him in a car for a long time.
Adam Carolla
Nice.
Victoria Jackson
And Lauren had just fired Robert Downey Jr. Oh, right.
Adam Carolla
He was on the cast, maybe mine.
Victoria Jackson
I don't know how, but my phone rang and they said, would you like to audition for SNL? There's a plane waiting for you at LAX at 8:30 tomorrow morning.
Adam Carolla
Really?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, like mission impossible should you choose to accept. And afterwards the smoke will come out and the table disappear. And so I went to lax. They said, bring your characters and your impressions. And I didn't have any.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Victoria Jackson
So I brought my ukulele in my handstand and I flew to New York and I auditioned with 12 other girls flown in from the country, around the country, in Canada. And then Lauren wanted to talk to me, so they asked me to stay one more night. And then he said, you had a very funny audition. I'm not sure you're strong in characters and impressions. And he was kind of ushering me out of the office. And I thought, I'm so close. And I went, well, I could talk like this. This could be a character. And he goes. I go, oh, I could talk like this big character. And he's like. And then he goes, well, what if I wanted you to be a Midwestern housewife? And I said, well, I am a housewife and my parents are from the Midwest. And then he goes, what if I wanted you to be Diane Keaton? I said, well, I would wear men's clothes and look at the ground a lot. And so then I was flying back home to la. Laurel Canyon, had to pay thousand dollar mortgage. My husband was an out of work fire eater, piano player, and he ate Fire. That was his.
Adam Carolla
So it's like a circusy thing.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, Well, I was kind of circusy too, right? See my circus theme?
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Victoria Jackson
Well, that was. I was born into that because of my dad. My dad was like lifting girls over his head in a hand to hand, hand balancing thing in my backyard my whole childhood.
Adam Carolla
Wow.
Victoria Jackson
Like holding a girl on his head, standing on one foot. And we would do shows at the hotels on Miami beach for the tourists from the snowbirds.
Adam Carolla
Wow.
Victoria Jackson
The people who talked like that.
Adam Carolla
So people should know you were diagnosed with cancer.
Victoria Jackson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
And they should also know the name of your book, by the way. Not Dead yet. A lifetime of handstands, art and poetry. It's available now on Amazon and hardcover. It's a big, beautiful book.
Victoria Jackson
It looks like a textbook. So I thought they could teach it in college and call it Victoriology.
Adam Carolla
So can we get an update to cancer diagnosis?
Victoria Jackson
Yes, it is very serious. But since I was raised in the Baptist church, since I was. Can you turn up my headphones?
Adam Carolla
I can't hear them. You can turn them on. I had a feeling.
Victoria Jackson
I can't hear myself.
Adam Carolla
Does that sound any better? You want it there?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Okay.
Victoria Jackson
So since I grew up in the church, we heard about death all the time, you know, John 3:16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So everlasting life was like in my brain, my whole since I was born. And death and the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So when I got diagnosed, I was just like, oh, well, it's about time something bad happens to me, you know? Oh, my testimony is going to get much juicier now because, you know, a lot of people say I was a heroin addict and a prostitute. And then I got saved and my life changed. And I was like six when I went forward to accept Jesus. So all my sins came after I was saved. And so I never could really. I was kind of jealous.
Adam Carolla
Are you doing chemo? Are you doing any?
Victoria Jackson
Oh, I'll tell you all about the cancer.
Adam Carolla
Tell me.
Victoria Jackson
So in 2015 had a dent right
Adam Carolla
here in your breast?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, not a lump, a dent. And I was like, that's weird. And so the big machine said it looked like a spider. I saw a little spider. And they're like, oh, this is not good.
Adam Carolla
Who. What? What are you talking about?
Victoria Jackson
The ultrasound.
Adam Carolla
The ultrasound said spider.
Victoria Jackson
Well, it looked like a black Spider. Spider with tentacles.
Adam Carolla
Oh, okay. All right.
Victoria Jackson
And so I got a double mastectomy, which means I gave permission to a stranger, a woman with an accent from Chile and a good bedside manner, to cut them off.
Adam Carolla
20, 15, 16.
Victoria Jackson
20, 2015. And it's like you're telling a complete stranger, and you're like, you know, yeah, kind of off. And then. And so then radiation, chemotherapy, and then 10 years went by, and I didn't think about it. And I kind of like to think that I'm a trendsetter, because after I got my boobs cut off, all the young girls.
Adam Carolla
All the young girls wanted to be dudes.
Victoria Jackson
They wanted to cut theirs off, too. They were. They wanted to look like me. So that's a joke. I'm. I'm trying to write a new act. Your producer Nick said that. Is he your producer Nick?
Adam Carolla
No, but go ahead.
Victoria Jackson
He. He said he would give me some. Some minutes at the. At his comedy club this week. Or I could video My new six minutes I'm working on about cancer. Anyway, so 10 years goes by. I don't really think about it that much. You know, no pain, cancer. I don't know. There's no pain, really. And then I was doing stand up two years ago in Las Vegas at a very small venue. I don't do big venues like Dana Carvey, but I do small venues. And they never threw tomatoes or anything. And I kept coughing, and the audience thought I had Covid.
Adam Carolla
And they were like, right.
Victoria Jackson
So I went to the doctor. I'm like, this is ridiculous. This cough won't go away. There was breast cancer cells pushing on my windpipe, and I couldn't breathe. I was coughing all the time. Is this boring yet? And so they radiate. I said, well, cut it out. And he goes, we can't. I'm like, what? So then I went on my Instagram and I would. If people are going to talk about me behind my back, I'd rather, like, talk about me. So I went on my Instagram and I said, I got diagnosed.
Adam Carolla
So they can't cure it?
Victoria Jackson
No, because it's metastasized. There's breast cancer cells all over my body now. It moved through it, so we can't cut them all out. So basically, they radiated that. And now I can breathe, and I know what it's like to not be able to breathe. And I have so much empathy for people who are suffering like that, who can't breathe or have any kind.
Adam Carolla
So is it a terminal diagnosis?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. So now I can breathe, but Then they found cancer on five vertebrae and my pelvic bone, but it's not bothering anything. And they gave me a magic pill. I take one a day, and it keeps my type of cancer from growing, so it's working. So I'm stable. So I'm terminal, but I'm stable?
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So what's that mean?
Victoria Jackson
I think that they don't tell you much, but I think it means that if the cancer went to my liver or my pancreas, I think I would die quickly. But since it's just hanging out and not going to the important organs, then it's just hanging out. I don't know. Like, people have prostate cancer for a long time.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Well, here's an insane question, probably in poor taste, but what would you be happy with? Like, if I said, you got 10 more years, would you go, that's good, or would you go, that's. That's disappointing? You know what I mean? Like, you have cancer and it's terminal, but it's stopped. But there's gotta be some. You know, do the doctors talk about, you know, X amount of years or you should be good because it stopped? Or what do they say? But you can ask them.
Victoria Jackson
Well, I told my doctor, don't tell me too much, because if you tell me your magic pill gives these side effects, I will think I have those side effects.
Adam Carolla
Oh, that's a good point.
Victoria Jackson
So, like, since he didn't tell me the side effects, I kind of googled it one day out of curiosity. But the only ones I notice are fatigue and hair loss. But I never had a lot of
Adam Carolla
hair anyway, so it's terminal, but it stopped moving.
Victoria Jackson
Let me answer your question. If they said you have 10 years of laying in bed in pain, I want to die. Because I started having hip pain this year, and it was so bad that I actually looked at the beautiful red cardinal out my window. And I usually say, oh, God, you're saying hi to me. Oh, I love birds. I love the red. And this one day, I was like, f the cardinal because my hips were hurting so bad. And I thought, what if this gets worse? And I'm just laying in bed writhing and pain, but they have morphine and everything.
Adam Carolla
No, you make a real Good point. Not 10 years hooked up to a hospital bed. You're right.
Victoria Jackson
Okay, so If I had 10 years of being like this, fantastic. I am. My life is better in a lot of ways.
Adam Carolla
Did you open for Norm? I think a few times. Going out doing standup. It's funny. Don't even have to say Norm MacDonald. You can just say Norm. That's kind of cool.
Victoria Jackson
And he had cancer and didn't tell anyone. Yeah, see, I'm different.
Adam Carolla
Well, I mean, you're both pretty stoic in your approach to this. I must say. Neither one of you is looking for sympathy.
Victoria Jackson
I'll tell you what's scarier than cancer. Stand up comedy. And actually a bad marriage. I was thinking there's worse things than cancer and death marriage.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I'll be. I'm with you on that.
Victoria Jackson
I've had hard marriages.
Adam Carolla
You mean the guy who ate fire didn't turn out to be the greatest gentleman all time?
Victoria Jackson
No, he was nice.
Adam Carolla
He was good.
Victoria Jackson
He was very nice. He didn't talk to me the last three years of our marriage.
Adam Carolla
Well, his mouth was on. He burnt his lips. How could he speak?
Victoria Jackson
He was nice too.
Adam Carolla
He was nice.
Victoria Jackson
He played the piano really good.
Adam Carolla
Oh, okay. I would say the guy. I'd bill him as a piano, as a pianist versus a fire eater.
Victoria Jackson
Well, I like to say fire eater because that sets him apart from all the other pants.
Adam Carolla
That's a good point. So that guy was okay.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. But the problem was I was the breadwinner and had a child and I couldn't. I was exhausted. And he. I think it was hard on him for me to keep getting recognition.
Adam Carolla
I don't. By the way, the guys out there that don't seem to make money and let their women make money for them. I don't know how they live with themselves. I really don't. I know they're out there. I know it's kind of a California thing, maybe a Hollywood thing. I'm disgusted at the current state of men. I am not religious and I'm not traditional, but I am old fashioned. And I think dudes are supposed to be able to protect people. They're supposed to be able to fix stuff and they're supposed to be able to make money. And that's kind of your job. And that's all out the window. And for some reason, women in the last 25 years, we decided that they should do all the roles that men did. And then by virtue of that, men stopped doing the roles men do. And now it's a fucking shit show because we have a bunch of miserable women who don't have kids who have to work all the time and a bunch of lazy, useless sack of shit dudes just sitting around the house ordering grubhub and getting fat sad.
Victoria Jackson
I totally agree with you.
Adam Carolla
Thank you.
Victoria Jackson
And I think it bothered him because he had, like, a musician's personality, and he wasn't. I mean, I wish he would have gotten a job, but.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I wish he would have gotten a job. He should have gotten a job.
Victoria Jackson
But I agree with you. And I was raised traditionally, and I do think that feminism emasculated all the men. And I think there's a swing back now to masculinity.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, there is.
Victoria Jackson
My second husband was a SWAT guy. Police officer.
Adam Carolla
Oh, there you go.
Victoria Jackson
Helicopter pilot.
Adam Carolla
Helicopter pilot?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. That's a dude in Miami.
Adam Carolla
Oh, my God.
Victoria Jackson
So he's very, very, very manly and has nothing to do with show business, which is kind of good and kind of.
Adam Carolla
You know what's weird? I just thought of this, and, Andrew, you're gonna have to look it up and make sure I'm correct here. But you're talking about the pickup artist, and you're talking about Robert Downey Jr. But the female lead in that movie was Molly Ringwald.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And I just found out. And you can look this up, Andrew. I shall be getting my star in the Walk of Fame shortly. Maybe a week and a half or something like that. And so I thought, who else is getting their star on the Walk of Fame this year? I would be curious to know. And when I was looking it up, they have categories online. They had actor and performer, TV actor, movie actor, different categories. I looked online. It didn't have my category online, which is radio. But as I was looking up and I was seeing these names, Timothee Chalamet and stuff like that, Molly Ringwald came up. And then I realized people listening to the show know Molly Ringwald grew up. Up the street from me on Hartsook street in North Hollywood. And at some point in 1980. Let's see. Is it Molly Ringwald in there? Yeah, Molly Ringwald's in there. Stanley Tucci, Tony Scott, posthumous. Rami Malek, Keith David. There's Keith David, and then there's David Keith. One's a white guy, one's a black guy. Here's the whole point. Emily Blunt. Okay, they're all getting it this year, I guess I couldn't find the radio category. I couldn't find my category. But the whole point is, at some point, I was sitting in the Ringwald home because I was friends with the family. And Adele Ringwald, the mom, was Bacon Pie. She liked to bake. Miniature house. I'm talking about a ranch house in the Valley that was probably about 800 or 900 square foot. Like, here's. Here's the thing. I grew up in Shitboxes in the Valley. If I walked into your house and noticed it was a small house, that's a bad sign, because I grew up in a small house.
Victoria Jackson
Me, too.
Adam Carolla
And at some point, me and Molly Ringwald were just sitting in this miniature ranch house off of Hartsook in Laurel Canyon, and it's 1980, and now on the same year, we're both going into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Victoria Jackson
Cool.
Adam Carolla
I defy any other small street to beat that. By the way, we lived on the same street. We're two blocks apart. Hmm. Life is weird, right?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And I see it's not that weird in that I would assume she had a star in the Walk of fame in 1989. Not now. Not this year. Not the year I'm going in.
Victoria Jackson
That's a weird year.
Adam Carolla
Maybe she said, I'm not going in until my neighbor Adam Carolla goes in. Oh, and by the way, her dad,
Victoria Jackson
Bob, blind and piano player.
Adam Carolla
There you go. It's all come full circle.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Most recent radio category, division addition to Hollywood Walk of Fame. Me, Richard Blade, and Angie Angel. It must be Angel Martinez. I don't think it's Angie Martinez. I think Angel Martinez is the name. I know. Anyway, Richard Blade's getting in. I wonder if he's gonna take his shirt off. He do that a lot.
Victoria Jackson
I don't know who that is.
Adam Carolla
Is it Angel Martinez or is it Angie Martinez? Angie. Hmm. Well, there you go. When's the Blade getting in? Do they have a date for Richard Blade? Yeah, I knew him from KROC all those years ago. Oh, he went in in 2024. He's already in. Well, you know the reason I was asking, because it's weird. He is going to be part of the ceremony and is part of the official Hollywood whatever. Like, he does the announcements or something. So I saw his name and wonder maybe he was getting in this year. All right, anyway, Walk of Fame, Molly Ringwald. Kind of weird, right?
Victoria Jackson
That's cool.
Adam Carolla
And Bob, who was blind. Bob, who was blind, would make his way from that little house in North Hollywood to the courthouse in Van Nuys, where they later ran a little business, a little food business. And he would get himself there. He would walk down Laurel Canyon, he would sit and take the bus. Would take the bus down like Chandler, get off with his stick. He would basically walk from his house in North Hollywood to the Van Nuys courtroom house, which was six and a half miles away, and just go there every day on his own, just walking with his cane, hopping the bus. Kind of crazy. Right.
Victoria Jackson
The human spirit.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I don't. By the way, I don't know. Could you do that today in la? Would it be safe? Would you trip over a homeless guy and get hepatitis? Would you step on a needle?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, yeah.
Adam Carolla
So, snl, what was that experience like?
Victoria Jackson
Well, it was super stressful.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Victoria Jackson
No sleep for six years. Very competitive for airtime. Because if you're an airhead on a sitcom, someone writes your lines, gives them to you, and you get to be funny and get your paycheck. But on snl, you have to write your own stuff and then compete against the church lady to try to get airtime. And. And it was so exciting and it changed my life and it was wonderful and it was brilliant.
Adam Carolla
Who was your favorite? Who was your least favorite over there?
Victoria Jackson
Well, I love John Lovitz and he gave me a blurb on the back of my book. He's very mysterious. I don't really know about his private life, but he was nice to me. Dana was nice to me. Kevin was nice to me kneeling. Yeah. Those three tried to help me get in the show. They would write me stuff. Kevin wrote me in his Roseanne Barr on his Baba Wawa thing. And Lovitz wrote Victoria's Secrets for me. I have three secrets I'd like to share with you, which don't tell anyone. It'll just be our little secret. He wrote me that. And Dana, what did Rayner wrote? He wrote me into his first church lady as Ginny the church girl. And it was really fun.
Adam Carolla
Was Dennis Miller doing the news?
Victoria Jackson
Yes. I did my first hand stand on the update desk with a flag on my butt because I didn't have any training in improv. I never heard of improv. So I thought, well, I know how to write what I say. So I thought, I'll do a handstand. Talk about how you couldn't have this freedom if you lived in Communist Russia and pretend it's a report on Russia or whatever. Yeah. Oh, I did a bunch of. Oh, then I did I Love a Cop Hands. And then I did I'm Not a Bimbo and making fun of Jessica Hahn, who I later met and had a nice friendship with.
Adam Carolla
Is Miller could be tough to work with. Was he tough to work with?
Victoria Jackson
We had great chemistry on camera. But in real life, he's not warm and fuzzy.
Adam Carolla
No. No. But I don't know. I'm kind of okay with that.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
So, God, you had. Was Phil Hartman there when you were there?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. And I was in his house, like, a year before the Murder, suicide.
Adam Carolla
What is crazier? I'm going to put it to the. I'm going to put it to the panel here. Is Rob Reiner's murder crazier than Phil Hartman?
Victoria Jackson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
I kind of agree, but, man, I could make some Phil Hartman arguments too. Well, I'll say this. Phil Hartman was 25 years younger than Rob Reiner when he was murdered. Which makes it more tragic because however way you want to describe things, having 25 years knocked off, you know, your life's a pretty big deal.
Victoria Jackson
And it seems worse to have your own child do it than your spouse. Because I agree, domestic violence is common.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. No spouse, I'd be like, I figured this was coming. You know what I mean? But your own kid? Yeah, that's worse. And with a knife versus a bullet. Yeah, I agree. Worse. But, I mean, Phil Hartman was in his 40s.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
How old do you think Phil was?
Victoria Jackson
I don't know.
Adam Yenzer
See, it is a tough question, because Phil Hart, like, you can't. You can't disassociate yourself from your son as much as Phil Hartman could have somehow gotten away.
Adam Carolla
Hold on. Dawson's got it.
Adam Yenzer
Phil.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Adam Yenzer
I still think. If you're asking, I still think that the Rob Reiner and his wife murders, much more horrific.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah. Wife too. I forgot. Yeah. Well, it's got the two bodies, but Phil's.
Adam Yenzer
But you can't get away from your son. You can get away from your wife.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Adam Yenzer
And so I think in that way, Hartman's might have been avoidable and piss you off more.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Hartman was 49, but Rob was. I don't know. What was Rob, 76, 77 or something. So the age thing is tough, but the two. And it's all bad, but I agree. I'll go. Rob's crazy. So you were there?
Victoria Jackson
I was at their house a little less than a year before.
Adam Carolla
How does wife seem?
Victoria Jackson
She invited me to na Narc Anonymous and aa. She said, if you ever wanna go with me. She was real hyper. She's like, if you ever wanna go with me to narc. You know?
Adam Carolla
Narcotics Anonymous.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And why would she ask you if you wanna go to that?
Victoria Jackson
I don't know. I didn't know her that good. And she started telling me private things like she thought he was cheating on her and stuff. And I thought, why is she telling me? I don't really know her. The reason I was there was because Dana and Phil surprised me. I wrote a children's album and I was performing it for children at a bookstore in the Valley and they showed up with their kids to surprise me. And then afterwards we all went to Phil's to have lunch together and that was really sweet of them because I don't really hobnob with famous people very much.
Adam Carolla
Phil seemed really nice.
Victoria Jackson
He was very professional and very nice, but I don't know who he was. Like I couldn't get to know him.
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You know, I have been around the sketch and improv game for a while and I was and the guys who did the most characters were the guys that were hardest to get to know because they used it as a way and they all had this kind of weird thing like you think about Jim Carrey like the Real version or the just relaxed version of Jim Carrey or the guys who do all the characters, like, I don't know, Sacha Baron Cohen or something like that. I don't know. When you talk about other comedic personalities, Bert Kreisler, you know, like, okay, I know who that guy is. Or Jimmy Fallon, those guys, like, you know who they are, the guys. I mean, Jimmy does a lot of impersonations. I should say it, but like, there are comedians where like, Jan Hooks, you go, I know who that person is. And then the ones who do all the characters, and I think they use it as a defense in a weird way.
Victoria Jackson
Well, Jan Hooks, I was on the Half Hour Comedy Hour with her before SNL and on six years with her, and I never knew who she was, but she could do anybody. Yeah, she's brilliant at doing. I keep saying brilliant because I just saw that play on Broadway. Every brilliant thing. So I keep saying the word brilliant. It's stuck in my head. But anyway, Jan was like that. I don't know who she.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you that there are just people where you just don't know who they are. And they would defend themselves. Like, they would go, what do you mean? We've talked a bunch of times. Remember that time we went out to lunch, I told you about my father passing or something, and I'd go, I know. I just don't feel like I know you. It's not really about how many times we've talked. It's not about the time you shared. You know, you told me you were getting divorced before anyone knew or whatever. It's not really that. There's just a component about you that kind of makes you non human. I'll tell you who's that way. Gavin Newsom. I have no idea who Gavin Newsom is. I've sat here, I've talked to him. I don't know who he is. I've seen him talk a thousand times, been on a thousand podcasts. I have no idea who he is. And that is weird. It's kind of weird and attractive to some people. To me, it's a turn off.
Victoria Jackson
Maybe they're aliens.
Adam Carolla
Maybe he's a lizard man.
Victoria Jackson
The Grays are the other thing. So maybe they're pretending to be people and they're really not people.
Adam Carolla
How did it end at snl?
Victoria Jackson
Lauren said I could stay as long as I want. And I was going through a divorce from the fire eater, and I had my child at home and I. I thought it was time to go. My contract was Five years, and I stayed six. And I was taking the train an hour and a half one way from Connecticut to 30 Rock to have like two lines in the show and then an hour and a half back every day missing her childhood. And. And I. So, yeah, and then I was falling in love with my high school sweetheart, the cop. And so I thought.
Adam Carolla
The pilot cop.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, so I thought that'd be better.
Adam Carolla
So like, you're getting divorced.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, I thought my daughter would have a father who had a job. And I. Yeah, I was always playing all these roles of women in love and I thought, I want to really be in love and kiss someone every night and make dinner. I don't want to just play roles of it all the time.
Adam Carolla
How was the fire eater taking it?
Victoria Jackson
He got very rich.
Adam Carolla
He got very rich.
Victoria Jackson
I'm not allowed to talk about it, but let's just say I lost all my money.
Adam Carolla
It's always funny when a woman loses the money to me.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. And I had the child, you got the kid.
Adam Carolla
Who are these guys? Who are these guys? Little, little problems with character and dignity. I would never take money from somebody if I didn't earn it. But it is sad. And it's also, you realize people can justify or rationalize anything, especially when you hear them talk.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And by the way, that's what we're living in. Everybody's just taking everyone else's money. Rationalizing it.
Victoria Jackson
Yes, I agree. You know what the fire eater taught me though? He taught me because I was in la, I didn't have any family or friends, I didn't know how to do it. And he taught me that if you say your something, you are like. He'd say, I'm a songwriter and I'm like, you are. And he would play like the same 12 songs every day. And they were really good, but like, were they original? Yeah, him and his brothers wrote him. They were banned, which broke up before I met him. He was 10 years older than me, helped me get my credit card and everything. But the thing is like he taught me that. So I was like, oh. So in la, if you go, I'm a director. You're a director?
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Victoria Jackson
What is anyone gonna say? Show me your work. Oh, I'm working on a project right now.
Adam Carolla
Right, right. Yeah.
Victoria Jackson
And he taught me that because I didn't know you can do that. So I was like, oh, well, I'm a stand up and I'm an actress and I'm a writer, I'm an author.
Adam Carolla
But once you get on snl, that's a real title.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
That's a really elite fraternity.
Victoria Jackson
I got validated.
Adam Carolla
Yes, you got validated.
Victoria Jackson
My little whim. I thought I could do it and did it. It's a great feeling in that. No one could take that away from me.
Adam Carolla
No. Much like my induction into the Walk of Fame, it'll always be there. No one will care. But it's there.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
So after snl.
Victoria Jackson
Hey, did you know Billy Graham has a star on the Hollywood Billboard?
Adam Carolla
I imagine everybody does now.
Victoria Jackson
I don't.
Adam Carolla
You don't. I'll get you on there.
Victoria Jackson
But I thought Billy Graham was funny. I saw it one day by accident, so I took a handstand picture in front of it, and it's in there. That's my handstand collection of everywhere I've ever been.
Adam Carolla
The book.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. And all the poems I've written since I was 10.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah.
Victoria Jackson
Which became songs because Jim McCauley at the Tonight show said, if you put a poem to music, you can make a lot more money, even if you only know three chords, like the Rolling Stones. I Can't get no satisfaction I can't get no satisfaction Would have gone nowhere as a poem.
Adam Carolla
Funny. First page I turned to is Beeman Park. Studio City Park. The park I used to go to. You're doing a handstand on the parallel bars. The first page I turned to, that's where my football. The East Valley Trojans Pop Warner for. That's a park I grew up practicing football in. And I just recognize it from says Studio City. But that's Beeman park, and that's my brother.
Victoria Jackson
And he committed suicide during COVID Oh, really? Yeah. It affected him.
Adam Carolla
How did it affect.
Victoria Jackson
Because he's an architect and lived in la, in the hills. And there was Covid cutbacks at his company and he lost his job. And then his fiance left him because he didn't have a job. Then he got depressed and he started spiraling down and. Yep. That was 2021. I write about it in there.
Adam Carolla
Your brother killed. Was he? Did you say? Sorry. Older brother.
Adam Yenzer
Younger.
Victoria Jackson
He was one year younger.
Adam Carolla
One year younger, yeah. Oh, that is so sad. He was an architect.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And Covid just shut. Shut his world down.
Victoria Jackson
Well, he lost his job. No health insurance. Lost his fiance. Had to stay home all the time.
Adam Carolla
Yes. We should never stop being angry at those who locked everyone down on Covid and locked the kids out and shut the schools and shut the beaches and shut the parks and shut the churches. We should never stop being angry at these people. It drives me Insane. Of course they want to turn the page. Why wouldn't you? You guys created this horrible. By the way, it can't even be measured because people like your brother don't really even count. By the way, they wouldn't count your brother unless he was a Capitol Hill policeman and committed suicide. And then they would count him as someone who died during January 6th. But all the collateral damage that they have done to kids with self harm and drug abuse and depression and all the stuff that can't even be measured because these corrupt assholes shut this place down with the Dr. Hotez and the Sanjay Guptas and the Fauci's. It's insane what these people did. And they should be always. They should at least be mocked and humiliated as much as humanly possible. And I never stopped doing it.
Victoria Jackson
Good. Thank you.
Adam Carolla
And I'm proud to say that if you looked at my text, sorry, all my exes and all my tweets, everything I tweeted out during COVID you will see that I called people pussies and cowards over and over and over again. And Dr. Drew was like, why do you have to be so insulting? And I'm like, I'm intentionally trying to insult these people. And that's why I keep calling them cowards and pussies. That's all I did was sit home and tweet out, calling everyone a coward and a pussy. And anytime someone tweeted me and was like, hey, man, my grandfather, I just write back, get under the bed, pussy.
Victoria Jackson
I hate communism because I grew up in Miami when Cuba moved to Miami because of Castro. And I know all the stories about it. And this was a big government control thing, the COVID thing. The government got too powerful.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Victoria Jackson
We had to fight back. On where I live an hour outside of Nashville, in the suburbs of lots of conservative red, white and blue people, Bible belt conservatives. No one wore a mask. And nobody stayed in their house. And we. It was like there was no Covid. We did anything we wanted. We went. And I heard about LA on TV in New York.
Adam Carolla
And yes, all the blue cities punished all their servants because they're all cowards.
Victoria Jackson
And all the blue people are moving to the red states now. And in Nashville, we have tons of Californians now.
Adam Carolla
I hope they leave their votes.
Victoria Jackson
Me too.
Adam Carolla
In the hellhole they fled.
Victoria Jackson
And my mom died in Covid because we went to my brother's house. It was like 15 minutes from here, 10 minutes from here. And we went there to get his stuff and get the body. And my mom was Old. And she fell in his driveway and had to go to the hospital, and she got Covid in the Glendale hospital and brought it home to all of us. Then she died of COVID pneumonia. So it affected us.
Adam Carolla
You had to go to your brother's house and collect the belongings. And the body. Is that the morgue?
Victoria Jackson
The police, when they called me, they said, get the body. I'm like, what does that mean? I had to write about it because I had to get the body. I pictured putting a 250 pound brother on my shoulder, getting on the plane and taking it to Tennessee. I didn't know what they were talking about.
Adam Carolla
But then once you identify the body.
Victoria Jackson
No, they wanted us to go to the morgue and get his wallet and his keys and sign something. And they wouldn't let me look at him. I said, I want to see him one more time. They said, no, you don't want to. Like, he shot himself in the mouth. Yeah. Our family was pretty boring. I thought, wow, we're a boring family. It's like a TV show or something.
Adam Carolla
So you really think if Covid hadn't come along and he wasn't locked down,
Victoria Jackson
oh, he wouldn't have gotten it?
Adam Carolla
Fired from his job? He didn't have any of that sort of. He wasn't a depressed fella and that kind of stuff.
Victoria Jackson
He was kind of a loner, but he was very happy because he was engaged. He'd never been married, and his high school sweetheart had just looked him up.
Adam Carolla
Really? And then you.
Victoria Jackson
I looked up my high school.
Adam Carolla
Looked up your high school? My sister is married to her high school sweetheart, except for she ran away and didn't go to high school. But either way, that was the age they were when they met.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
That's crazy.
Victoria Jackson
It's like you're fished from the same pond. See the world the same.
Adam Carolla
So you after the fire eater, the pilot copy, was it high school sweetheart?
Victoria Jackson
I had an engagement ring from him when I was 17, 18.
Adam Carolla
And now. How old were you now, when you looked him up?
Victoria Jackson
When we got reunited? Because I gave him the ring back a couple of years after that when I looked him up. We hadn't seen each other in 12 years, I think.
Adam Carolla
Mm. And he knew you were on snl?
Victoria Jackson
Yes. I got famous while I was away from him. And he remembers the first time he saw me on a commercial ride. No lines. And the funny part is the SWAT team was watching Johnny Carson the first time I was on it, and I was 23 and doing a handstand. They're like, they went to work the next day, and the SWAT guys go, hey, see that blonde on TV last night, upside down? And Paul goes, I think I was engaged to her.
Adam Carolla
Wow. So what happened with that guy? You tracked him down?
Victoria Jackson
I did.
Adam Carolla
That was an interesting turn about. Because mostly the person that goes off and becomes a celebrity doesn't do the tracking down.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. And he didn't have money or anything? No money. He didn't have a house even. Yeah. I don't know.
Adam Carolla
You tracked him down. And what'd he say?
Victoria Jackson
We talked on the phone for four hours. I said, why did your marriage end? He said, why did your marriage end?
Adam Carolla
And then.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, and then one of us had to give up our house, our career, and our town, and I gave up mine.
Adam Carolla
You gave up your town and your career?
Victoria Jackson
I had a house in LA and a house in Connecticut, and I had my career. I had a sitcom deal called Victoria, and George Clooney was playing my boyfriend.
Adam Carolla
Oh, wow.
Victoria Jackson
But it never made it. It was a pilot and it never got filmed. We just read it in front of the three networks and they passed on it, but I got a holding fee.
Adam Carolla
But you read with Clooney.
Victoria Jackson
I read with Clooney, and I got $60,000 to just date the cop.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Victoria Jackson
And so I was like, I was at the top of my career and I had to choose. That was a really hard choice. Giving up my Laurel Canyon house was very hard.
Adam Carolla
So you moved back to Miami, my
Victoria Jackson
hometown, where his job was.
Adam Carolla
How long did you guys stay married?
Victoria Jackson
We're still married. 33 years.
Adam Carolla
Oh, you're still married?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Oh. For some reason, I thought at the
Victoria Jackson
beginning, because I said my marriage is so hard.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I figured this one ended.
Victoria Jackson
This one's hard, too.
Adam Carolla
This one's harder. No, I get it. But I figured 0 for 2. But divorce, not divorced. Still with this guy. And he's retired now?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah, we're both retired. And he did ask for a divorce two years ago. And then my diagnosis said I was going to die soon, and then he changed his mind. So maybe he's just sticking around because he won't have to split the money in half.
Adam Carolla
Oh, you mean if you die, he doesn't have to split the money?
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. Why get divorced if she's going to die soon? Right?
Adam Carolla
That's a happy thought.
Victoria Jackson
It's flashed across my mind a couple times.
Adam Carolla
Well, I mean, listen, I'll tell you one thing I've learned. Getting divorced and also seeing the way people operate these days, I don't put anything past anyone when it comes to money ever. And I'm not even talking about bad people or criminals. I'm talking about ex wives, ex cops, taxpayers, law abiding friends. Couple of bucks come into the fic, come into play, and they just turn into something else. It's a completely different thing. It is so sad. You thought there'd be more character and more goodwill and more anything. And it's insane how corruptible and sort of amoral people can be immediately for almost no money. And it's a kind of a thing where I guess when you hear on the real, like the street level of this, like when you look at the guy, look up the story. Andrew of Ray Carruth. Ray Carruth was an NFL wideout, played for the Panthers, and he was a starter and he was a star in the league. And he got his girlfriend pregnant and I guess he didn't want a kid, so he hatched a plan to go out one night and they would take. He would go watch a movie with her and then on the way home he hired a guy to shoot her, to kill her in the car when they like stopped us.
Victoria Jackson
It's a true story.
Adam Carolla
It's a true story. And the guy he hired was just a dude and he was like, how much? It was like 4,500 bucks. And he was going to snuff out this, I don't know, 23 year old model who's pregnant. So the point is the guy's like, yeah, I'll kill the person that's under 25 who's pregnant for under $5,000. Yeah, sure. Well, that's on the street level. But you go up the food chain and you get to divorce, you get to attorneys and you get to whatever. People just lie their ass off, fucking say anything and do anything for a few bucks. I know, it's so disappointing. It's kind of a sad state of affairs. And it's why we gotta get rid of all these programs. When I go, these people are bilking the system. Everybody will bilk the system if you give them the opportunity to get in on it.
Victoria Jackson
The Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things.
Adam Carolla
Yes. Sherica Adams, she died 28 days later. She was in the hospital, by the way. Are you ready for this, Victoria?
Victoria Jackson
What?
Adam Carolla
The baby survived, had severe disorders and Ray Carruth got paroled. He got let out of jail and he wants to be with his kid. No, his kid who was in the belly of the kid's mom, who he hired someone to execute.
Victoria Jackson
No.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yes.
Victoria Jackson
That's the story, letting criminals out. Well, me and my husband rant about liberal stuff all day long.
Adam Carolla
Oh, I could bet. Helicopter pilot and cop and Miami. Are you kidding? Yeah. The kid has cerebral palsy. Is Ray Carruth with this kid now? Because then people are like, ray Carruth, you cannot be with this kid. And he's like, hey, he's my kid and I'm free. Get out of the way.
Victoria Jackson
OJ Went back to his kids, didn't he?
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Victoria Jackson
Hi, dad. Sorry. Why did you murder Mommy?
Adam Carolla
The guy who murdered her did it for under five grand. Haruth was convicted of orchestrating the 1999 Murphy hire plot. Claimless life, pregnant girlfriend, Sherica Adams has lived separately from his son, Chancellor, and survived the shooting. Lives in permanent brain damage, cerebral palsy, raised in Charlotte, blah, blah, blah.
Victoria Jackson
That's why I love the Bible.
Adam Carolla
He was released in 2018, by the way. When Ray Carruth was released, he was probably 40. Like, he wasn't even. Wasn't even old. Maybe he's 43 or something.
Victoria Jackson
So I think Spencer Pratt should be the governor instead of Newsom.
Adam Carolla
He was released at 44. Listen, I would take a plastic owl that they put up on signs at seafood places to stop seagulls from shitting on the sign over Gavin Newsom. Yeah, that's how I describe him. My mom.
Victoria Jackson
Your mom?
Adam Carolla
Yep, yep. I know. She stayed alive long enough to vote for him. Yep. She told me that my mom's very progressive. So the guy. The craziest thing in the world. They, like, interviewed the guy from prison who shot Ray Cruz girlfriend, and he's like.
Victoria Jackson
The word progressive means communist.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I am with you 1000%. I don't know who these people are. You know what? Now we should play that clip of Mandami that we played earlier with Drew Andrew. Cuz these people are driving me. They're driving me nuts with their love of government. I'm like, all the time, you want more government? I don't get why. Why would you want more of this? I think less of this would be good. Mandami. I want to barf every time this guy speaks into a microphone because he laid out more bullshit the other day, and it was driving me nuts, which is. First things first. How do you stage these things? You go, listen, I can only have miserable women behind me, and they have to be from all different ethnicities. Is that how you give every single speech? To show how inclusive you are with everything all the time? But he's doing a rally because he's gonna have grocery stores in Brooklyn. And he's got a. Here's his speech. Let's just listen to his cute little turn of phrase here. I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. It's a good quote, but I disagree. I think nine more terrifying words are actually, I worked all day and can't feed my family. All right, listen, dopey fat hyena cows behind them that just yell all the time, who do you know who works all day and can't feed their family?
Victoria Jackson
Nobody.
Adam Carolla
There's nobody. There's nobody who works all day and can't feed their family. There's a bunch of fat, lazy, dumb chicks who spend all their money on hair extensions, tattoos and press on nails who may, but they're still fat. So somebody's feeding those bitches who can't feed their fucking family who works all day. You're so full of shit. He's such a lying piece of shit, it's insane. He grew up privileged. He doesn't know what it's like to be poor. I know what it's like to be poor. I grew up with poor people. I worked construction with poor people. Nobody had problems feeding themselves or their family. They worked. Anyone who works can feed their family. Guys are this guy's nuts. He grew up in a pampered, bullshit, elite world and pretends he knows what it's like to be poor. But he's so condescending because he treats poor people like a zookeeper treats animals. You know, like, you need me to save you. I will protect you. It's elitist bullshit. There are people who don't choose to work, and even they are fat. But nobody who works full time has difficulty feeding themselves or their family. Everyone close your eyes. Is there anyone you know who works all day and then can't feed their family?
Victoria Jackson
No.
Adam Carolla
Half the fucking places you work have food.
Victoria Jackson
Did you see the picture of Epstein with Mondami as a child and his mother? They were friends.
Adam Carolla
Really.
Victoria Jackson
There's a picture of Epstein, Mondame and his mommy. And he was a child and they were hung out together.
Adam Carolla
I feel like I'm the only person on the planet that doesn't have a picture of with Epstein. Cause every time they go, only bad people. Only bad people.
Victoria Jackson
Except Trump is good Trump.
Adam Carolla
Now, is that AI or is that actual pictures?
Victoria Jackson
Well, look it up.
Adam Carolla
But I now see my screen says that photo's AI, really? Well, that's Andrew. He's very suspicious, okay? I once showed him my yearbook and I showed him my senior picture and he just looked and went, that's AI bro. And he walked away. I was like, but I took that in. 81. No. But isn't it true he talked me out of it.
Victoria Jackson
But isn't it true that his mother was an experimental filmmaker?
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Victoria Jackson
He comes from erotic sexual films.
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Dawson
Right?
Adam Carolla
He comes from rich artists, bullshit people. That's who creates these assholes. And then they start talking. It's really not his fault. It's all the bitches behind him that cheer, yes, I'm from the government, I'd like to help is scary. We need more of that. Not more of your freebie shit with the dumb cackling fat ass crowd behind you cheering on your insanity. And by the way, it's never gonna work. But who, I asked you once again, in our society, who works? Who works consistently, who works diligently, who is dedicated and good at their job and is out sleeping on the streets? Like Gavin Newsom talks about the homeless population, These are mothers of three that have full time jobs getting minimum wage. No, they don't. Let me tell you something, what the Democrats do, they have created some sort of fantasy Hollywood archetype illusion of the people they're talking about who don't exist. Nobody who works all day, can't afford to feed their kids. That person doesn't exist. The homeless person that lives in your retarded head about mother of two, hard working, just divorced, pushed out on the street, forced to live out that human being doesn't exist. These people you create don't exist.
Victoria Jackson
Why don't you run for governor against Newsom?
Adam Carolla
You know what? Maybe I should. Well, we got Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton is good. Although Phil Merrick Maker Marry Me's mom was mentioned in 09 email within the Department of Justice newly released Jeffrey Epstein files. The email refers to an after party from a film she made.
Victoria Jackson
What was the film about?
Adam Carolla
I don't know. She's not accused of anything. I guess it's something evil. I'll tell you who didn't know Jeffrey Epstein. My mom and my dad. I'll put it to you that way. Because they were poor and he hung out with rich people who could do stuff for them. All right, wow, Tori, this has been a.
Victoria Jackson
My husband's gonna love that last 15 minutes of the show.
Adam Carolla
Well, I'll tell you what, we'll get him the last 15 of the show, but we'll cut out right before that part where you said he's hoping you die.
Victoria Jackson
Yeah. You could maybe cut that out.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, we'll cut that out and then we'll let him enjoy.
Victoria Jackson
Or not. I keep saying to him, I keep saying, how come you didn't divorce me now that you know I'm dying?
Adam Carolla
Well, but hold on.
Victoria Jackson
Maybe it's because he realized what a diamond he had.
Adam Carolla
Has.
Victoria Jackson
Has.
Adam Carolla
And that could be a very noble thing that he's doing.
Victoria Jackson
He's being very sweet.
Adam Carolla
He's being noble. Let's not ascribe any ill intention to him, okay? Let's look at the best. I'll put it to you this way. My husband wanted a divorce, and then he found out that I had terminal cancer and his instincts kicked in and he immediately threw away the divorce papers and took care of me until my dying days.
Victoria Jackson
And took me to Paris and kissed me on top of the Eiffel Tower.
Adam Carolla
Yes. All the things you deserve.
Victoria Jackson
He did do that.
Adam Carolla
Oh, he did?
Victoria Jackson
Well, I twisted his arm, but he did it.
Adam Carolla
All right, look, he did it. Listen, women. Women do this. You know, they go. You took. You know, you go, what about that time I took you to Maui? Then they'll go, you didn't want to go to Maui. Good, I should get more credit because I didn't want to go. And we did it. You know what I mean? You hold that against us. I'm saying that's for us. I didn't want to go to Maui. I still took your ass to Maui.
Victoria Jackson
Okay, okay.
Adam Carolla
All right. The book not dead Yet. A Lifetime Handstands, art and poetry. Victoria, you come back soon and give us a health update.
Victoria Jackson
I'm a fan. You're awesome.
Adam Carolla
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Adam Carolla
Well, Mike August takes the camera, takes the Pic And Charles was running down the line selling books and T shirts and. Yeah, man, line efficiency. Line efficiency.
Adam Yenzer
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Adam Carolla
The comics that don't do the meet and greet, I'll never understand. I'm not blowing smoke up my own ass. There's nowhere to go except for back to the hotel. And you can make money. You can press the flesh, you can take pictures and you can have people tell you how great they thought you were.
Dawson
And I like that wind down time after the show rather than just going back to the hotel. It's nice to talk to people.
Adam Carolla
Although to be fair to us, we Cannonball ran it from Modesto back here at by the way, we stopped, like, you can travel and you can use the bathroom, but once you get inside of like LA county line, there's no more bathroom. And we about two and a half hours out, probably about 1:30 in the morning, rolled into a gas station to gas up and we needed to use the bathroom. And I came walking in there and the guy wearing a turban had he just mopped up the bathroom floor actually, and the door was propped open and I just came walking in and I literally walked into the bathroom. And he's like, no, no, no, no, not for you, no, no. And I'm like, I'm standing in the bathroom, my dick is almost out. And he's like, back, no. And I'm like, first off, all we're gonna do is piss outside. There's no other Mike and I just stood in a dirt field and just whizzed out in this guy's dirt field. But the bathroom there has to be. Ah. You know, we have an immigration rule which is basically, if you can get one foot on soil out here in Miami and you're from Cuba, you can stay, you're here. I don't know who invented that rule. It sounds a little fast and loose in terms of immigration, like olliollioxin free or something. But I would argue if I got two feet in the bathroom, I'm in, you can no longer throw me out of this bathroom. I made it in.
Dawson
You've got an anchor foot in there now.
Adam Carolla
I've got an anchor foot. I'm thinking about having a kid in that bathroom so he gets free healthcare and schooling. I have an anchor foot in there, and by law I should. And also, mathematically, the meter's running on the take a piss.
Dawson
It's gonna happen somewhere.
Adam Carolla
It's either gonna happen here or it's gonna happen 18 seconds later against the side of the building outside. But it's not happening. There's no version where I go, well, Mike, let's get back in the car and see if we can find another.
Dawson
You don't have another half hour of driving.
Adam Carolla
There was none. We started the process like in the movie Alien. Once they do the self destruct process, I don't know, no one who ever designed a spaceship went, should we have some sort of emergency off button? Nope. Once they've started the countdown for self destruction, that's it.
Dawson
I feel like that was a plot in Star Trek a lot, though, because they could abort it. So they would do the self destruct thing in every episode to build tension, and then they'd always abort it at the last second.
Adam Carolla
So, yes, we just pissed outside.
Dawson
You could have offered him a meet and greet in the bathroom.
Adam Carolla
I should have done it. Yes, we are heroes because we right after the meet and greet, we're having to drive home to Los Angeles.
Dawson
Nice.
Adam Carolla
Thanks.
Dawson
Got some news here. A lot of fires again in California. Satellite images have revealed the scale of two wildfires spreading in Southern California. The Sandy Fire ignited on Monday morning in the city of Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles. Satellite images taken just after noon show a large plume of smoke rising into the air just outside the city.
Adam Carolla
Fire. You know, like, as an advanced culture and civilization, controlling your environment is like kind of number one. You know, like harnessing the river to turn the turbines to create electricity. You know, you build a dam and then you run it. Threw a turbine and then you get kilowatts and stuff. Fire should be pretty controllable, like storms, tsunamis, I don't know.
Dawson
That's more unpredictable.
Adam Carolla
I don't know who has dominion over a tsunami, and I don't know who has dominion over a tidal wave or hail the size of golf balls. But fire, there's a bunch of stuff you could do. I feel like we should do that. And it's a weird thing, but it's
Adam Yenzer
like
Adam Carolla
I'm a kind of an opposite argument person. And here's what I'm saying. Karen Bass goes, hey, climate change, man. Come on now. What are you gonna do? And it's like, that's my argument now. Climate change doesn't exist in terms of how it impacts this, but let's just say it does. That means you have to do more. Okay, climate change, good. Now more you should. So you go, I kind of did nothing. But there's nothing we could do because of climate change. I'm arguing you must do More because of climate change. That's your argument?
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Also, it's that same. I know you got Keith Ellison and Tim Walls coming up. Yeah. When they make the argument of, you know, somali's ripped off, off to the tune of $10 billion, they go, I didn't know nothing. That's my argument. What's your job? What do you mean you didn't know nothing?
Dawson
You're supposed to be on top of that.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. You're like, oh, the pilot? Yeah. You crashed a plane. Well, I don't know how to fly a plane, but that's your job. You saying I don't know about this stuff?
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Also in that department, Just because it's on my mind. That bullshit cop, the Capitol policeman, who's like, I thought I was gonna lose my life out there. I got concussed. I got everything else. Then his body cam came out and most of it didn't happen, but he's going, I thought they were gonna take my gun and kill me. I thought they were gonna take my gun and kill me. Yeah, they didn't. Whose argument are you making? They didn't. Well, so they're good fellows like you. Thought doesn't mean shit. They didn't do it.
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
So I know you thought they're gonna take their gun and kill you. AOC thought she was gonna get raped before they killed her. You both thought a bunch of shit that didn't happen. And that's your indictment. Yeah. Of this group. So you thought they were gonna rape you and you thought they were gonna kill you, but they never ended up doing it. Why is that a mark against them? That's actually plus for them. That would be their argument. We never did it.
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
You arguing that you thought they were gonna do it, rape you or shoot you just makes you a pussy bitch.
Dawson
And it justifies whatever they want to do. Extreme actions after that. Then they can say, oh, I acted out of this.
Adam Carolla
Right. So I got picked up by this Uber driver. I thought he wanted to rape me, so I beat him. It's like, yeah, but he didn't do it.
Dawson
But I thought he was, but he
Adam Carolla
should be in jail for the rest of his life because you fucking took your 10 cent lying head and thought this. All right, sorry, keep reading. Well, and this is how.
Dawson
Well, Mary Kiribat. This is how she's taking responsibility. She said, officials don't expect the blaze to spread to the city, but warnings have been issued out of abundance of caution.
Adam Carolla
Oh, Mayor.
Dawson
They're issuing warnings.
Adam Carolla
There's an abundance of caution.
Dawson
They have an abundance of caution. And fire officials said on Tuesday morning that 750 firefighters were. Were being supported by night flying water, dropping helicopters to target the hot.
Adam Carolla
You know what we should do? You know how they unleash goats and sheep and they just eat all the.
Adam Yenzer
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Dawson
To graze the brush.
Adam Carolla
We should be doing that with prisoners. I mean, they don't have to eat it, but I mean, just get them out there. The weed whacker, man. We got tons and tons of people incarcerated right now. They're costing us 50 grand a year. They're sitting around eating our food. We gave them tablets. They're looking at porn now. Just put them out in the field with a weed whacker and get all this scrub taken down.
Dawson
I think you got it solved. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Thank you,
Dawson
Eric. We'll go to the Keith Ellison story, since you brought that one up here.
Adam Carolla
Good, dude.
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Doing the Lord's work, man.
Dawson
Where is this?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, he again. So here's about the best in progressive cities. The best argument in progressive cities. The best argument the politicians make is we don't know what the fuck we're doing.
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
That's basically their argument. We don't know anything.
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
That's not a great argument for you running a city or being an attorney general. Yeah.
Dawson
And that's their argument here. There's this case out of Minnesota. In a filing on Monday, prosecutors in Minnesota asked the court to sentence feeding our future ringleader Amy Bach to 50 years in prison. A jury found Bach guilty last year of multiple criminal accounts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit federal programs. Bribery. Bak orchestrated the largest pandemic fraud case in the country, bilking the government out of tens of millions of dollars meant to feed hungry children.
Adam Carolla
Again, if I hear a euphemistic title, I'm out. The Feeding our future. One step forward. First steps, first organic steps. Happy pixie dust. That.
Dawson
And then if you oppose it, they can say, oh, you don't want to feed the children.
Adam Carolla
You don't want to do this. You're not for care. Care's about feeding.
Victoria Jackson
Don't you have empathy?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah, that's great. So I don't want any of that. And I no longer trust anybody who talks about standing up for little people and fighting against in the future. And any happy talk, any happy titles, I'm immediately suspicious and against.
Dawson
Yeah. And here is Amy Bach on an interview on Fox News saying that Keith Ellison and some of the other people in Minnesota government probably had to know about this fraud alert.
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Also In Minnesota, the convicted ringleader of one of the state's biggest fraud schemes is speaking to Fox News from behind bars. Now, she believes that the scam was no surprise to local Democratic leaders, and she's naming names. She spoke to Alexis McAdams. Hi, Alexis. Hey, Dana. Yeah, so everywhere you look in the state of Minnesota, right, there seems to be another fraud scam. So this one involves Amy Bach. She's a Minnesota woman convicted of fraud for taking taxpayer money that was meant to feed hungry kids. But listen to this. Bock tells me the real issue here is the state of Minnesota, which she says kept giving scammers your taxpayer money even after they were flagged as fraudsters.
Adam Carolla
I have to believe that the governor's office and Keith Ellison's office were aware of this. They've said they were involved in helping the FBI.
Victoria Jackson
They've said they were made aware, but apparently I'm scary. So they couldn't do anything.
Commercial Voice
So Bach ran this nonprofit called Feeding Our Future. You might have heard of it. It was one of dozens of convicted in this $250 million scam. You can see her mug shot there. Prosecutors say this group set up sham restaurants. They pretended they were making these meals. They got paid by the state for those meals, but they just pocketed the cash. Bach, who's looking at 30 years behind bars, tells me the state signed off on those businesses, not her.
Victoria Jackson
It all went through a process.
Adam Carolla
They were all approved. They were all paid by the state.
Victoria Jackson
Yet all the fingers are being pointed at me.
Commercial Voice
And it's not just Bach. Whistleblowers told a congressional committee. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls and Attorney General Keith Ellison there ignored warnings for years as millions of dollars and millions were stolen on their watch. Congress is investigating a long list of massive fraud schemes in the state. It's hard to keep up. Prosecutors say it's led to at least $9 billion in fraud. Dana, and counting. Congress also asking why the attorney general there would meet with a group of Somali fraudsters which were under FBI investigation in 2021. The group can be heard in an audio clip given to us by box lawyer, offering to donate to his campaign if he can help them get their funding flowing again. Ellison denies any wrongdoing here. He slammed Bach in a statement to Fox calling her a liar and manipulator, adding, now she's on a media tour to deflect her guilt onto others instead of finally taking responsibility for this fraud scheme that she ran. So we reached out to Governor Wallace, too, Dana. He didn't get back to us. House Republicans say it's just getting started. They want to subpoena Walls and Ellison because they say they're responsible for ripping off American taxpayers.
Adam Carolla
Well, here's the deal. There's always going to be people trying to run scams and fraud. That's why we have an attorney general. And they go, yeah, don't trust her. She's a liar and she steals stuff. Yeah, yeah. And then you're supposed to be the firewall in between people doing this and getting away with it to the tune of millions and at some point, billions of dollars. So basically, it's my stupider liar thing that it all comes back to stupider liar. So it'd be like me going, I'm a structural engineer, and I'm an inspector for the city and I inspect commercial structures. And they go, well, five bridges collapsed under your watch. And I'd go, hey, I looked at those bridges. It's like, well, wait, did you get paid off to sign off on those bridges? That's what this. Absolutely not. That foreman's a liar. I looked at those bridges.
Dawson
It's like, did that foreman give you money for your campaign?
Adam Carolla
A little bit, but I still did my job. It's like either you took money and looked the other way, or you just. It's a dereliction of duty. It's a fiduciary duty. You didn't do your job. Either way, you gotta go. And by the way, if you're a bus driver and turns out you were texting while you're driving and three kids are dead, guess who's in trouble? Yeah. You go, hey, man, that guy cut in front of me. Or, I wasn't drunk. It's like, this is your job. You didn't do it, and you're now liable.
Dawson
And it seems like it would take such a minimum amount of oversight and investigate. It's like they set up fake restaurants and with the daycare. So it's like they've set up fake day. You check on them once and you could catch this fraud.
Adam Carolla
You could take the guy who dropped off your grubhub. You could tell the swing by the Feeding the Future place and see if there's anybody there. And just. I'll give you a tip if you call me and tell me no one's in, or take a picture and send it. You know how you took a picture of my food when you dropped it off? Take a picture of the Feeding the Future center and see if there's anybody in there. Yeah. Yes. It's very, very doable. But again, Whether it's Karen Bass making the argument about climate change or Keith Ellison going, I never knew about nothing. Well, you're the attorney general for the state. Why don't you know about things?
Dawson
Yeah, well, and it's always interesting how the media tries to twist these things. This was the article about the Feeding Our future scam from cbs. And I love this paragraph. They have, they have the Feeding our future scam.
Adam Carolla
And by the way, it's a Somali group and you hung out and you want their, you don't want to offend your constituency. And they understand that people are going to get called racist if they look into them. And that's how they do it. And that's what they're doing.
Dawson
Yeah. They said. It ignited a firestorm of fraud around Minnesota, prompting multiple audits and investigations, eventually leading Governor Tim Walz dropping his bid for a third term amid repeated attacks from Republicans. President Trump have used the controversy as justification for racist attacks on the Somali community and the surge of federal agents in Minnesota, which resulted in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Preddy. Oh, perfect.
Adam Carolla
Serious.
Dawson
So they're investigating this food thing. That's why Renee Goode.
Adam Carolla
Right. Trump. It's always Republicans pounce.
Dawson
Exactly.
Adam Carolla
So it's Democrats fuck something up and steal a bunch of money. But the headline on CNN is Republicans pounce. They're just pointing out the illegal shit the Democrats did.
Dawson
Yes, they blame them for the reaction.
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Mark Cuban, former Trump critic, has been forced to play nice with President Trump after agreeing to be business partners. Billionaire Mark Cuban stood on the White House stage Monday alongside the man he spent the last year trying to keep out of the Oval Office. The former Shark Tank star and outspoken Kamala Harris surrogate appeared beside President Trump during the rollout of TrumpRx.gov, which is a new initiative aimed at lowering the cost of 600 generic prescription drugs.
Adam Carolla
I will say this. I get why you may not like Trump. I don't get why you like Kamala Harris. Oh, 100% now, unless your only argument is I hate Trump so much, I want the ops of the Chupacabra was running against Trump, I would vote for the Chupacabra, in which case I will accept that. But what I won't accept by anyone has two brain cells to rub together is Kamala Harris is gonna be good for this country. Cuz she's the dumbest.
Dawson
There was something. She couldn't form a complete sentence.
Adam Carolla
She waffled on everything, why people couldn't see that and have two things be true at once. You know, like I hate Trump and she's an unmitigated shit show who can't form a sentence. Yeah, that could have been. I would accept those. Not I'm all in with Kamala.
Dawson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
That's insane to me. Yeah. All right. And it means probably intellectually you're dishonest.
Adam Yenzer
Well.
Dawson
And do you think some people going to like the virtue signaling and the empathy talk and the environment stuff? I feel like a lot of people have just latched onto this narrative that Republicans are evil and Democrats are good and I'm gonna vote for the good guys.
Adam Carolla
Well, I'm a good person. Vote for good people. All right, Cuban president, It's pretty remarkable
Dawson
seeing you and Mark Cuban up there
Adam Yenzer
and the fact that obviously Mark endorsed Kamala Harris back in 2020.
Adam Carolla
Well, he made a mistake. It was a big mistake.
Dawson
What does this say about what you
Victoria Jackson
two are building here?
Adam Yenzer
Well, it says we love people, we love our country.
Adam Carolla
He wants to. He's got a good company and he's going to do a lot of business with this and I'm going to get drugs out through Amazon, through President. Yeah, I just. I love that Trump's always trying to cut a deal and his plan. It's always weird, too, when people go like, you know, they go, what's Trump doing? He's doing nothing. He's just bought another golden toilet seat for one of his rich buddies. He does nothing. And I'm like, I don't know. It seems like he's trying to do shit all the time. I don't know what Biden was trying to do is my question.
Dawson
Biden would disappear for months at a
Adam Carolla
time, and then when he came back, the black, brown and disabled people in the communities of color and the disabled community.
Dawson
And I like ice cream.
Adam Carolla
And I like ice cream. Then he's like, leave again. What do you mean? What's he up to? Yeah, Biden's up to nothing. I don't even know what Biden. I don't know if Biden knew what he was up to. Yeah. All right. This is Cuban, by the way. Sorry. Yeah. Yep.
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Adam Carolla
Cuban's a nice guy. I know him a little bit. It's weird. And there's a few of these people I should think of. Who else? He is one of the few people that can have incredibly smart thoughts and incredibly dumb thoughts simultaneously, which. I don't know. A lot of those people, they're out there. Most people are sort of blanket dumb or blanket smart. He can have really smart thoughts and really dumb thoughts, which is. Oh, we have Mark Cuban. We have this.
Dawson
Oh, this is where he predicted.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah. He predicted before Trump's first election that the stock market was going to crash if he got elected. I think that's what it is, mayhem.
Adam Yenzer
But I said that would definitely fall. Yes, and for two reasons. I mean, you saw when the comey emails came out. We saw what the market did. And so there's Trump's temperament, which I think is a significant issue for the market. Market. Whenever you have a. I would handicap. If Trump wins, I would handicap the likelihood that the probability that he would say something stupid and offensive during a four year term, multiple times at 100%. And if he's going to say things that are stupid and offensive that could lead to some sort of military action, not originating from the United States, but from, you know, another country, that is the worst thing possible for the stock market and that uncertainty, because you have a candidate that doesn't know when not to talk.
Adam Carolla
There isn't anything when not to talk, Mark. Just keep going. Being wrong about everything. All right, he's fucking wrong. None of that happened. But anyway, that's dumb. This is smart. He's got both in his head. I will tell you this. If you just blindly hate another candidate, it will make you say dumb things. Yeah. The people with the Trump derangement syndrome sound dumb. The ladies from the View sound dumb every single day because of their blind hatred. Yeah. If you don't have blind hatred, then you won't sound dumb because the blind hatred forces you to say dumb things.
Dawson
Well, and what I think is admirable about this thing with Mark Cuban is, you see, even though he's more on the left and Trump's more on the right, they're businessmen and they want to make a deal and they want to work on something together and move forward.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Dawson
Which that's what's weird about the Trump derangement. Especially with some of the politicians like Tim Walls or Newsom here in California, it's like whether you hate the guy or not, he's the president now and that's who you have to work with and make deals with. And they just want to keep antagonizing and condemning him and picking fights rather than just doing something constructive together and working with what's there.
Adam Carolla
The notion that many politicians in California at all different levels, not just governor, but the mayor and senators and everyone, city council and stuff, they're campaigning on I'm gonna fight Trump and abolish ice. Like, they're literally in the business where they used to tell you what they were gonna do, now they're telling you what's not gonna happen.
Dawson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
And I'm not interested in what not going to happen. I didn't ask who you're pissed off at. I wouldn't. I want to know more about bridges and roads and airports and schools and trains and stuff like that. Not who you're angry at. Yeah. By the way. Yes, you can like me saying like you like me. I'll do battle with my ex wife. Okay. Yeah, that's sweet. I'm sure she's a bitch. But how's that really affect my kids school system? Yeah, they think California voters are so dopey that they think they can get elected screaming that they're gonna fight Ice.
Dawson
I know, it's insane.
Adam Carolla
It is kind of insane. Yes. Oh, speaking of that, there's Weiner, right?
Dawson
Oh, yes, we got Weiner. He's a real insane one here. He at a campaign event here, Scott Wiener featured drag queens, including one mocking women while dressed as a pig, singing. Weiner is a girl's best friend in front of kids. He has little girls behind him.
Adam Carolla
What is Wieners title? See a California.
Dawson
He's running for Congress, by the way.
Adam Carolla
Does everything he does need to be gay? I've said it many times. I'm Italian. Yeah. If I just like, was a politician, I just dressed like a gondolier. And then people come in like, oh, you caught me eating spaghetti and meatballs. You know, Liberace, he's Italian and Ferrari is Italian. And like at some point someone goes, there's people sleeping all over the street. Hold on. Would you like a slice of pizza? You know, that originally comes from a small town in Italy. Like, it's like, yes, we get it, we get it. Now we would elect you to do things that weren't gay. Yeah, the other stuff. Oh, I'm gonna film myself. I'm gonna go into a Pete's Coffee over here. Cause I had the Italian flag and the Ferrari banner hanging out front and these guys took it down. So I put an Alfa Romeo banner up. And now I'm gonna film myself yelling at employees. And it's like, like, how about you fucking deal with the homeless problem? Yeah. Yes, you're gay. Yes. Yes. Wiener, you suck a country mile of cock. That's your prerogative. We don't care. But everything doesn't have to be trans and gay. But here we are.
Dawson
But every clip of him is. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Yes. Everyone. Describe this piece of work that is singing right now.
Dawson
Oh man. It's clearly a man with clown makeup
Adam Carolla
and a pig nose negligee.
Dawson
A negligee with weird pink panties and then cartoonish pink hair.
Adam Carolla
If I was a kid, I'd be completely freaked out by this nut job.
Dawson
I'd be scared of clowns, pigs, men and women.
Adam Carolla
After watching, I could no longer watch anything on tv. And there's a poor Little girl standing there, and by the way, she's sack height, you know what I mean? That guy's got a nut sack hanging halfway out of that thing.
Dawson
And she has a hot dog. The little girl, are they going, leaning into the whole wiener theme and there's that creep clapping for the whole thing.
Adam Carolla
How so weird. Like, doesn't anybody have any optics in their head? Like where you just like, don't you have a campaign manager that goes, look, you get torn apart with all the LGBT and all the trans stuff, and the trans stuff is not polling that well. People don't want boys competing in girls sports, so why don't you just fucking lay low a little? Let's get you a suit. Nice botany 500 thing, look kind of 70s, you know, and let's go ahead and just pretend like you're not completely obsessed with all things trans and all things gay, because I did some polling and it turns out way less than 10% of the people that vote are trans or gay. So why don't you just. Why don't you just pretend for a second like you care about the school system? And you'd go, what's that got to do with chuggin cock? And be like, that's what I'm saying, it doesn't. But you have to pretend. Well, you know, I'm gonna have Mr. Piggy come up here and sing my weird wiener song while his nutsack hangs out of his tutu. And the managers kind of go, let's not, let's just not do that. Let's pretend. Here's your job. If you are running for anything in San Francisco or LA or California, we know your full blown whack a doodle nut job with horrible ideas. But you gotta pretend to be normal for a small period of time and then you get voted in. And then you can start with all your nut job wackadoodle shit that ruins the state you're governing over. Okay? Is that a fair thing? Remember Kamala Harris? She wanted to get prisoners, illegal prisoners, transed while they were inside prison. They want us to pay for the operation. Remember that? And then she said, nope, not for that anymore. Know why she said that? Because she wanted to get elected by normal people. Once she gets elected, she can go back to cutting off the wieners of illegals in prison on the taxpayers dime. Yeah, and she said she was gonna end fracking, but then she changed her mind. But did she change her mind or did she pretend to be normal so she could get voted in and then she could go back to this. Yeah. So, Scott, can you pretend to be normal for 10 seconds?
Dawson
And the optics are so strange. Like you said, the whole LGBTQ thing. There's people that literally think they're just perverts and that it's demonic, and then they do something like that, and that just looks like it's a demonic pervert. It looks like a pagan sex festival in front of children.
Adam Carolla
We gotta heal our tarnished image. So let's get Divine to tuck his junk between his legs and then read books to those children over there. Like, no.
Dawson
Release that as our campaign.
Adam Carolla
Which always leads me to this conclusion, which is they don't want equality. They don't want fairness. They don't want equal rights. They want to agitate. All they. Everything they do is to agitate and provoke, and then they get to become a victim.
Dawson
And they want you to have to celebrate it. And.
Adam Carolla
Right. But when you don't celebrate it, then they claim their victims, and it's all about circling back to victimhood.
Dawson
I'm guessing you're genociding them and denying their right to exist. If you don't go to the Pig Drag Queen show.
Adam Carolla
I think a lot of them were molested, and that's part of the problem with the repeated victimhood. Here's. Here's Weiner of Shirley. Well, this is great, Nick. Shirley wants to ask him a couple questions on AB 2624. I think you're a psycho scam artist, so please disclose how you think that he's a scam. By the way, how do you become a scam artist if you're exposing other people's scams? And a psycho too, because you don't have enough trannies around you.
Dawson
And to Scott, Wieners voice is even creepy. He sounds like the psycho in that. Everything about him is a stereotype of a San Francisco gay person.
Adam Carolla
He's the poster child for what's wrong with California. Yeah, that's it.
Dawson
All right, we got one more fire story. In the Channel Islands, the largest fire ever recorded is burning on Santa Rosa island, endangering a gem of the California coast. A wildfire was sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner. It's burned nearly a fifth of Santa Rosa Island.
Adam Carolla
Hold on. Is it 1874? What? A shipwrecked.
Dawson
A shipwrecked mariner Fired up sea with the salty air in his beard.
Adam Carolla
Just a shipwrecked mariner.
Dawson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
All right, I need to know more. I'm not buying this.
Adam Yenzer
A new illegal alien code.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, we're talking they're hiding the demographic. Messed up homeless guy.
Dawson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
All right, he's somebody who had worked
Dawson
all day and can't afford to support.
Adam Carolla
Can't afford to buy flares.
Dawson
I can't afford to buy a non flammable boat.
Adam Carolla
Okay, here's what I'd say. He was on the island and he was doing something on the island, working on the island, and something happened. He was left behind or something like that. And he fired the flare gun. He wasn't a shipwrecked. He couldn't have been.
Dawson
It's a shipwrecked mariner.
Adam Carolla
It's him.
Dawson
It's the old man in the sea.
Adam Carolla
I think it's impossible that he was shipwrecked. He was standing on the island when he fired the gun. Agree or disagree? Do you think he. Yeah, and I don't think he swam in there. What happened now? Maybe he fell off a Disney cruise.
Dawson
It says it was sparked by. Inadvertently sparked by a man who crashed his sailboat into rocks on the island's south side and then fired emergency flares to signal help. So he did fire the flares.
Adam Carolla
All right, so he crashed his sailboat into the isle.
Dawson
It doesn't say whether the flares or the crash are what sparked the fire itself, but it's more likely the flares. Then a wind powered sailboat just strikes.
Adam Carolla
No, no, that flare went up in the air and landed on all that kindling and set the place. It's gotta be a weird. He's gotta feel dumb.
Dawson
He's like, how can I get rescued? I'll set the whole island on fire and they'll find me.
Adam Carolla
Also, it's gotta be one of those great stories where his wife has a few glasses of wine. You gotta hear what Harry did. What'd he do, crash his sailboat again? Oh, no, it's so much better. It's so much better. He set an entire island on fire. As a matter of fact, I don't know. He may have started that whole Maui thing too. We don't know where he was that day.
Dawson
It was the island full of endangered species. Species and plants. He may have wiped some animals to extinction in his little mistake.
Adam Carolla
Yep. He took out all the polar bears. Wow. That's crazy. I mean, I guess an island fire can only go so far, but I don't know. I just feel like there's too many fires in this modern era and we should try to control that, you know, like basically we invented air conditioning and now there's Las Vegas. Man is pretty miraculous when he sets his mind to it. We should figure out a way. Like we go, you know, you're living in fire country. I know. And if you lived in Vegas, you were living in can't go outdoors nine months a year country. But now we can. Now it's big and bustling and beautiful. Yeah.
Dawson
And like you were saying earlier about kind of mastering the environment and being prepared for this stuff. I don't know all the practicalities of it, but it seems ironic to an island is surrounded by water. There's no shortage of ways to put the fire out fairly quickly there. It seems like they'd be.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. 80 miles away. It's the Channel Islands and it's off of, I don't know, Ventura.
Dawson
Yeah. You leave out of Ventura harbor to go out there.
Adam Carolla
People go diving out there.
Dawson
Yeah. And kayaking. And that's why they're worried about is it. Is it is an island where there are a lot of endemic species that don't live anywhere else. There's a pine tree and a fox that only exists there. So they're worried about that stuff.
Adam Carolla
That pine tree is going to be missed.
Dawson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
All right. This Sunday, Costa Mesa, Westwood coast. Doing a couple of shows there Sunday. Then Oklahoma city on the 12th and then Tulsa on the 13th and then Santa Ana, Jordan family class cars. We're going to screen the KROC dock there. Come on out. You got crawler.com. you'll see all the live shows all over the place. What do you got, Adam?
Dawson
I got May 29th and 30th in Kenosha, Wisconsin at the Kenosha Comedy Club. And then June 20th, I'll be at Queen City Tavern in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Adam Carolla
On the road, man, Victoria Jackson not dead yet. Name of the book, get it as we speak. Amazon and beyond. Until next time, the sound for Victoria and the other Adam. Sam, mahalo.
Adam Yenzer
You can leave us a voicemail. The numbers 888-634-1744. And you can get tickets to see Ace man co Mesa this weekend@adamcola.com.
Adam Carolla
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Dawson
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Dawson
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Guest: Victoria Jackson
Main Topics: SNL in the 80s, Terminal Cancer, Hollywood Memories, Gender Roles, California Politics, Fires & Fraud
Adam welcomes comedian and actress Victoria Jackson, best known for her six-year run on Saturday Night Live (SNL) during the late '80s and early '90s. The episode explores Victoria's unconventional showbiz beginnings, reflections on SNL, her recent cancer diagnosis, personal life philosophy, contemporary political rants, and a tour through recent headlines about California, government fraud, gender dynamics, and societal decline. The tone is a blend of frankness, sardonic humor, and moments of deep personal honesty.
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For those who haven’t listened, this episode is a raw, unexpectedly moving, and often laugh-out-loud look at showbiz, mortality, faith, and the state of modern America—by turns irreverent, poignant, and unapologetically unfiltered.