Adam Yenser On Home Depot Fails & Ozempic for Dogs + Leo Zacky Wants To Be Governor of California

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Adam Carolla Show – Episode Summary

Episode: Adam Yenser On Home Depot Fails & Ozempic for Dogs + Leo Zacky Wants To Be Governor of California
Date: August 21, 2025
Guests: Adam Yenser (Comedian), Leo Zacky (Gubernatorial Candidate)
Main Theme:
A mix of stand-up-level takes on modern confusion, social decay, and California’s political dysfunction, featuring rants about communication, American intelligence, Home Depot, Ozempic for dogs, white men and invention, and the prospects of a new candidate for governor.

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1. Opening Banter & Guest Intros (03:29–05:00)

• Adam introduces recurring comic Adam Yenser, newswoman Alicia Krause, and gubernatorial candidate Leo Zacky.
• Jokes about the show’s reach and the competence of his own co-hosts.
• Adam pokes fun at the difficulties of keeping up with guest bios and websites.

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2. Communication Breakdown & People Getting Dumber (05:00–13:00)

Key Points:

• Adam Carolla rails against poor conversational skills, saying most people (especially at Home Depot) can’t track the subject at hand:
  • “I'm starting to realize that we're having difficulty communicating, and I think it's because everyone but me is fucking dumb.” (05:02, Adam)
  • Observes that in conversation, people—especially women, but also men—will “hop a subject” and lose the thread.
• Home Depot experience:
  • Adam recounts a frustrating attempt to get information about modern deck-building supplies at the pro counter, lamenting that employees don’t know the difference between linear feet, square feet, and board feet (12:00–16:00).
  • Quote: “He just keeps explaining to me what plugs do in the wild… not what I’m actually asking!” (16:10, Adam)
• Rant about how technology is making people dumber (“They just ask Grok on X every time.”)

Memorable Moments:

• Running joke about plugging things—hair plugs, radio “plugs”, and wooden deck “plugs.”
• Crowd laughs about the “retard Olympics” and Adam refusing to “turn pro” by accepting the lowest Home Depot knowledge.

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3. Stand-Up Crowd Intelligence & Cruise Ship Audiences (20:17–22:43)

Insights from Adam Yenser:

• Observes that audiences on cruise ships are less quick to follow jokes than club crowds:
  • “The cruise ship is sort of like Chuck E. Cheese. If you think this pizza’s good, you’re nine.” (22:33, Adam)
• They discuss the “dumbing down” of audiences and the challenge of performing for people who “can’t make the leap to the punchline unless you spell it out.”

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4. Ozempic for Dogs – Modern Absurdity (24:42–31:37)

Key Discussion Points:

• Adam incredulously reacts to news about Ozempic (a diabetes/weight loss drug) being marketed for overweight dogs:
  • “Ozempic for dogs? Really? Is there any stop about anything anymore?” (24:55, Adam)
• Critiques America’s ability to make minor problems into pharmaceutical goldmines.
• Hilarious hypothetical about how dogs on Ozempic would just be depressed, hairless, and listless:
  • “Now the dog’s sitting around, losing its hair, depressed, got diarrhea—doesn’t know what the fuck’s going on.” (27:07, Adam)
• Adam Yenser shares: “It’s actually fairly simple for a dog to lose weight. Exercise is not that big a deal... you have to feed them less.” (29:20)

Memorable Running Gag:

• Dogs developing mental health issues and “dog-related suicides” after taking Ozempic.

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5. Value, Pricing, and Rich Guy Protocols (32:33–41:01)

Segments:

• Story about the Quail car show: Adam encounters a bench painted with his Porsche, is quoted $15,000 despite thinking it might be $1,500.
  • “He goes, ‘15.’ And I go, ‘Oh, $1,500?’ And he goes, ‘No, $15,000.’” (36:14, Adam)
• Discussion of pricing etiquette at high-end events, with guests agreeing sellers should just say “thousand” or “hundred.”
• Side story: someone tries to sell quarter windows for $13, which turns out to be $13,000.
• Circle-back on art world absurdity with talk of the Andy Warhol BMW, valued at $60 million.

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6. Words That Cause Confusion – “Push vs. Pull” and Dates/Days (45:33–54:35)

Points:

• Adam’s rant: Some English words are too similar and cause avoidable confusion—“push” vs. “pull,” “day” vs. “date.”
• He humorously details the endless miscommunications with his producer Mike August, who always gives numbers (“the 19th”) instead of day names (“Monday”).
  • “I go, ‘What is the weekday we’re coming back?’ and he said, ‘The 20th.’” (53:43, Adam)
• Suggests solutions like switching “pull” to “yank”, and laments why, after all these years, society can’t settle this.

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7. Social Commentary & News Segments

a) Joy Reid, Race, and “Who Invented What” (61:03–81:49)

• Clip: Joy Reid and guest Wajahat Ali claim white men never invented anything, or stole inventions and music from black Americans.
• Adam and panel respond with biting sarcasm and counterpoints:
  • “They start getting over their skis… Where would we be without women? We invented everything. So how about that?” (61:12)
  • Alicia: “Every list of things women invented is the same ten things… it’s very hard to find others.” (79:01)
• Extended joking about whiteout, windshield wipers and “intersectional points scoring,” mixing social critique and satire.

b) “Taking the Leftovers” & Meal Etiquette (81:53–88:02)

• Listener question about whether it’s rude to take a to-go box (when a parent is paying).
• Adam’s rule: “Order what you like... but if there’s anything left, it’s coming home with me.” (82:47)
• Funny recollections about splitting potatoes with billionaires and homeless people’s expensive McDonalds orders.

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8. Celebrity Meanness – Rosie O’Donnell, Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres (88:24–97:03)

• Rosie O’Donnell calls Jay Leno “mean,” in a dispute over a bit involving “mean tweets.”
• Adam, Alicia, and Adam Y. agree: Rosie and Ellen, despite cultivating sweet personas, were notoriously mean bosses, while Leno and Conan were genuinely good behind the scenes.
• Adam’s Theory: Over-the-top on-air sweetness is usually compensating for actual meanness (except Henry Winkler).

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9. California Politics & Interview with Leo Zacky (100:26–135:10)

Main Topics:

• Leo Zacky’s family business was decimated by California’s regulatory regime, leading him to run for governor.
• Adam laments the “Communist” bent of Mayor Karen Bass and former mayor Villaraigosa (“Mayor Villa Retardo”), and how CA politicians get rich, do nothing, and aren’t employable in the private sector.
• Corruption and the “Bullet Train”: Adam questions why the disastrous, incomplete high-speed rail continues—and if it’s just a sophisticated laundering/corruption scheme.
  • “It’s like the monorail salesman came to town; it’s a Simpsons episode!” (120:09, Leo Zacky)
  • “Leave it as a memorial—a reminder of what corruption looks like.” (132:14, Leo Zacky)
• Extensive critique of modern leftist, “feelings-based” governance, and how identity politics (voting “for people who look like me”) doesn’t deliver real results.
• Homelessness: Adam and Leo agree the issue is almost entirely about drug addiction, not economic hardship.

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10. Notable Quotes (Quick Reference)

• “I'm starting to realize… everyone but me is fucking dumb.” – Adam Carolla (05:02)
• “The cruise ship is sort of like Chuck E. Cheese. If you think this pizza’s good, you’re nine.” – Adam Carolla (22:33)
• “Now the dog’s sitting around, losing its hair, depressed, got diarrhea—doesn’t know what the fuck’s going on.” – Adam Carolla (27:07)
• “He goes, ‘15.’ And I go, ‘$1,500?’ And he goes, ‘No, 15,000.’” – Adam Carolla (36:14)
• “They can’t originally invent anything…” – Joy Reid’s guest, mocking white men, responded to with sarcasm and fact-checks (61:52)
• “If you got to start dipping into whiteout… you’re at the bottom of the invention barrel.” – Adam Carolla (81:30)
• “Leave [the bullet train]…a reminder that this is what corruption in government looks like.” – Leo Zacky (132:14)

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11. Tone & Style

• Signature Carolla: biting, irreverent, high-energy, blends mock outrage with observational humor.
• Frequent, self-aware tangents; ball-busting amongst hosts.
• Social criticism data-driven, but undercut with extended analogies and running jokes; heavy on skepticism and sarcasm.

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12. Episode Structure Timestamps (approximate)

• [03:29] Studios intro and guest rundown
• [05:00] Communication rant and Home Depot story
• [20:17] Stand-up crowds: cruise ships vs. clubs
• [24:42] Ozempic-for-dogs monologue
• [32:33] The Quail: car show, art pricing
• [45:33] Words confusion: push/pull, date/day
• [61:03] News: Joy Reid, “invention” arguments
• [81:53] To-go boxes, meal etiquette
• [88:24] Rosie O’Donnell vs. Jay Leno; celebrity meanness
• [100:26] Leo Zacky interview: California politics, bullet train corruption, homelessness

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For listeners who missed it:
This episode delivers classic Carolla: complaint-driven comedy, social satire, and a revealing look at California governance. Adam Yenser’s stand-up observations dovetail with Adam’s stories and rants, while Leo Zacky’s call for real change injects policy substance into the closing act. Expect sharp banter, inside-baseball entertainment industry talk, and pointed social criticism—rarely dulled, never PC.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Yenzer]

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[Adam Yenzer]

From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Adam Yenzer and California candidate for governor, Leo Zaki. Plus the news with Alicia Crouse now. Now a man who's broken more wind than Hurricane Aaron. Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on, got to get on the church begun you mandate, you get it on now. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for sharing. I run into all you people at the track and everywhere else, and you're so nice and you listen and you turn your friends on. So we love that. Adam Yen's a very funny stand up comedian back in studio. Got live shows and very funny dry bar, stand up special.

[Alicia Krause]

Thank you, man.

[Adam Carolla]

As well, which I studied closely. Good jokes in there.

[Alicia Krause]

Thank you. That's what I always strive for.

[Adam Carolla]

Adam's got dates coming up and maybe what you should do is go to your website to find these dates.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Adamyenser.com Adamyenser.com makes sense. Alicia Croust's back in studio. Hello. Hello. She's got her column. Oh, wait a minute. Do I have to do that?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Just the Instagram and the column, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

I know, but I always ask for a bio for you, and sometimes I get it and then sometimes I don't.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

It's not that long.

[Adam Carolla]

I know, but I just want to send people so they can read your work. All right, so stuff to get into. First off, I'm starting to realize that we're having difficulty communicating, and I think it's because everyone but me is fucking dumb. That's kind of what I'm stumbling across here. Like, I'm having lots of conversations with people. First off, women, you do this.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Oh, women are dumb.

[Adam Carolla]

Are we gonna go there?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

No, we gonna go there.

[Adam Carolla]

No, no, not dumb. But you will. You will do this. You will do this. And you know what? Sorry. Women and Mike August and a few guys I know do this. But women will hop a subject in the middle of a conversation.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Oh, it's a rabbit trail, right?

[Adam Carolla]

So women will go, yes, we are guilty. Here's what women do. They go, I got free tickets. I got us four free tickets to go to the concert in Vegas this weekend. And you go, okay. Four free tickets to the Sphere? Yeah. Okay, good. And then you go, well, how we getting there? We driving or are we flying? And then they go, I don't know. I mean, I've looked into it. I mean, maybe we could fly. Maybe we think about flying. And then I go, okay, did we buy the tickets? And they go, we got four free tickets to the Sphere. And you go, yeah, I'm talking about what we're talking about. That's number one. I tell people all the time, I'll only be talking about what we're talking about, about airline tickets now, because we've moved on. But I never say, did we buy tickets to the aeroplane? I just go, did we buy tickets?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Because we're talking about flying, like, how to get there. So I won't do it in a.

[Adam Carolla]

Women will hop from. They'll go forward and backwards.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

What? I'm guilty in a travel scenario because I'm like, former producer, make a planner. I was like, here's the trip, babe. I got it all planned out. Like, that won't happen. But what will happen is. Oh, so you know the friend that gave us the tickets and then you kind of like rabbit trail in that way.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I don't as long again. People do that with people, though. They'll. They'll bring up. They'll go, oh, Susie's so nice, but Gary. Gary, such a dick. And then you'll go, yeah, I think that guy's a dick, too. And then they'll go, you think Susie's a dick? And I go, no, I'm talking about what we're talking about when we're talking about it, because otherwise we can go back seven years or 20 years. We can keep going back in conversation years. I will talk to what we've moved on to address and then ask questions based on that.

[Alicia Krause]

And I think you're always focused on the topic at hand.

[Adam Carolla]

I think I'm talking about the subject. We're talking.

[Alicia Krause]

They're mentally multitasking, and they can jump back and forth, and I can't do that. You got to focus on this thing and establish that.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I would also say that leftists do that a lot. Like, when you're trying to, like, have a legitimate argument, they're like, all the time.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they're not all, but they're.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Oh, you're a racist.

[Adam Carolla]

They're being disingenuous. I mean, they're not multitasking. They're not.

[Alicia Krause]

They're deflecting.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they're lying. Yeah, that. That a lot. That, that. That's an issue. So. But also, I noticed that, like, when I talk to people, they don't really understand what. There's. There's something called the gestalt. It's like, what. What do we asking here? You know? And so I was at the Home Depot, like, 20 minutes ago. Always a mistake.

[Alicia Krause]

But are there any ice raids today?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I wore the wind.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Call one in.

[Adam Carolla]

I wore the windbreaker so I can get. Because there's sometimes a long line of checkout and I just go, I scoot right to the front of the line. I'm telling you, put that ice windbreaker in the driver's passenger side of your truck and you just walk right into Home Depot, you'll get shit for free.

[Alicia Krause]

Nice.

[Adam Carolla]

You get to go to the guy who's cutting up the pineapple and the papaya on the cart outside of Home Depot. He will buff you out. Gratos, baby. You'll bring some home to the kids.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Throw in an avocado for free, you're.

[Adam Carolla]

Throwing an avocado and maybe a couple of street tacos, maybe a couple dogs wrapped with bacon you can load up. You'll never pay for lunch again. In LA with that windbreaker, you'll never pay for lunch again. So I walked in there. Now you don't go in there and talk to guys about stuff because nobody who works there knows anything about stuff. But they pass the savings along. You know what I mean? You want knowledge, you can go to the Anawalt Lumber down the street. You will pay more to talk to someone who knows what they're talking about, but you gotta pay for it. But I went for the first time ever to the pro counter, they have a counter for the professionals now where you order stuff and you do stuff.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And it's a faster checkout.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah, oh yeah. And I just want to talk about decking. Decking materials like Trex makes it, it's all this. When I started in the business, one of the first jobs I did, we did a deck. And with the deck you would just get two by six redwood and you would just nail it down with galvanized nails. And then they started making this engineered lumber. Engineered decking is what sort of what steak is to Spam. It's like, well, they're meat. They're both meat. But this is different. But in this analogy, if it was in this analogy, the Spam would be better because engineered stuff lasts longer. It doesn't rot, you don't have to. It doesn't cup, it doesn't split. You don't have to stain it every year and all that shit. So it works. And also they figured out a system where you don't have to screw holes in the top of it or nail. The top of has a clip system where it clips in on the side. So if you see These new, nice decks, and they're just all smooth. And you don't see nail holes or what we used to call shiners. Like when a guy was nailing it and he hit it too hard at the end and it made a little indentation with the hammer, or even just a bunch of screw tops or plugs or whatever, because then at some point.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

They'Re just gonna stub their toe.

[Adam Carolla]

At some point, they started putting screws in it, and they started, like, countersinking them and putting plugs. So looked kind of like wood without seeing holes or screws or nail heads or whatever. But anyway, so they have a new system now. And the system is, now you put a little clip in, and you clip the boards in as you go. And you do not. You no longer have to put screws or nails through the top of the board. In between, the board is about an eighth of an inch. That's the space in between. When you're laying a deck out, it's not a quarter inch, but it's not a 16th.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

It's nice and tight.

[Adam Carolla]

It's an eighth, it's an eighth. There's a nice shadow line, they would call it. Now, like, if you stood on a nicely done deck and you look down, you couldn't see anything but a shadow line. You know, you can't see the wood underneath it or the ground or anything, because it's an eighth of an inch. And so this guy. I go to the pro desk. So first off, you have to figure, I'm at the pro desk, so some. I know something. And then I start talking about decking, and I go, can I get a price? And he goes, yeah, I'll get you a price. And I go, do they go by the linear foot, the square foot, or the board foot? Because those are three different measurements for how much. Now, linear foot is just how long you pay per foot.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Good. I was gonna ask for an explanation, but I did it a lot.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you could buy licorice by the linear foot. It'd just be three. You know, it's a buck a foot. Three foot is three bucks. That's a linear foot of this. Then they have square foot. Like, you're buying carpet. How big is a room? 20 by 20. Or I got 400 square feet here. Carpet, you know, and then there's something called board foot. And that's where people get confused. Board foot is like one foot square. It's really. It's really. It's like. It's like a square foot, but it's one foot wide. And every foot is a board foot. So, like, if I had, let's say a one, one by six, one foot of that would be half a board foot, and two of them would be a board foot. It's. It's a little stupid, but that's how they do it. So I say to the guy, I don't. Look, Andrew, look, a board foot. So I go, you know, square foot, board foot, linear foot. And he's like, I don't know. He goes. And he looks it up and he tells me how much it is, but he goes, that's all in. That's got the fascia, that includes the screws, that's the fasteners, and that includes the plugs. And I go, the plugs? And he goes, yeah. And I go, well, there. This is clipped on so that. What do we do? What do we do with the plugs? And he goes, this is the part I love. He goes, the plugs are so you don't see the screws. You put them on top. I go, it's like, yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You don't even know what you're saying.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I go, yeah, yeah, I know. I know what the plug is, but there is no holes. It's a clip system. So. And you can't see the clip. So what are we doing with the plugs? Why the plugs? In this? In this? And he goes, you know, like, you got a screw hole or nail hole? I'm not asking what a plug. You know Jeremy Piven? Yeah. Remember he used to have less hair, right? He got hair plug. Yeah. Okay. Got it. You know when at a radio show you give out your live dates? Yeah, Plugs. Yeah. Okay. Not asking what a plug is. And so I go, okay. But I'm not a. I'm old school, so I don't know the new decking system. So now I don't know if the computer just adds plugs. When you add clips and you add fascia, like, it doesn't know which boards you're. Are you getting the clip ones? Are you getting the ones you have to drill through? I think the computer's just thrown the plugs in or the plug is for the fascia. I don't know. But I keep saying yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

Did he ever answer?

[Adam Carolla]

No. So I go. I go, listen, it's a clip system. We're not putting screws or nails through the top of the board. So what are the plugs for? And he goes, you don't want to see the screws of the nail. So it covers the hole. And I'm like, okay, all right, what the fuck fuck is wrong? What? He works there. He wasn't pulled out of an institution.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And at this point you didn't threaten to deport him?

[Adam Carolla]

No. He was a white guy who was deportation. He was not 22. He was like a 37 year old white dude with a beard who looked very normal who's manning the pro desk. And he could not look. I will accept this. Here's what I will accept. I will go, oh, you can go, yeah, there's no penetrating through the board. The plug is for the clip. You put a screw through the clip to hold the clip down and they give you a plug there. Now I know you can't see it, it's just so water doesn't gather there and rot it out or something. I will accept some version of this, but he offers no version. He just keeps explaining to me what plugs do in the wild. You know what I mean? Like broadly what I.

[Alicia Krause]

A general question, what a plug or.

[Adam Carolla]

Anyone a plug nickelsworth or something like that. So then what I do is what I do with almost everyone in life. I quickly assess they're semi retarded and I go, you know, yeah, let me just take a pamphlet. And I just always exit stage left because. But also realize like there's something going on. I don't know if it's video games, I don't know if it's online porn. I don't know what it is. People cannot concentrate, but mainly they don't know what you're asking. First off, it's established that I understand what we're doing here and it's established that I know what plugs are. But this is not. There are, there are systems. They will sell you a cheaper board where you put screws right through the top and then they'll sell you plugs to snap onto those screw tops so you don't see the screw head. And in that case you would buy the plugs. He has no idea what I'm talking about.

[Alicia Krause]

Did he ever answer whether it was the board foot or the linear?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, by the way, no, he didn't know. Andrew, do not go on the Home Depot website. There's nothing. You'll find nothing. Ask Grok or whoever who's making people.

[Alicia Krause]

Dumber too, is they just ask Grok. Every time. It's the main response. Anytime anybody post anything on X, the top question is like, grok, explain this to me. Grok, what does this mean? Grok, what do you. They don't even attempt to figure out.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And I Feel like there is something that is good. Like you're less stupid to me when you are willing to admit that you don't know something.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there is a point. Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

There is a point in every conversation where people can stop and go, this is the third time you've asked me what plugs do, so maybe there's something I'm missing here. Are you asking, does it go into the nail head or the screw head or. You're talking about. Cause I'm basically just going, what is the application for plugs in this application? Because there's nothing showing. It's a clip with an eighth of an inch on each side of it. You couldn't possibly see anything. Now, I was sitting there as a smart person thinking, you do need to put a screw to hold the clip down. And that would be a place where, if it rained, water might gather in that indentation. And even though you would use a stainless steel screw or galvanized screw or bonderized screw, water eventually would sort of seep in there. And maybe it's a little cap just to get the water not to puddle in that little indentation where the clip is. Which he could have offered, but he did not.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Do you have anything?

[Alicia Krause]

They should have a. They should have an amateur desk next to the pro desk. Demoted. Just send him over there.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm keeping my status for the retard Olympics. I don't want to turn pro.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Do you feel like there's an, like, so Home Depot? Is. Is Adams, I'm the smartest man in here for you. Where is that?

[Alicia Krause]

Well, when you started and you said people are getting dumber.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

I've been doing stand up on cruise ships for the first time this year.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, and they're getting people and they're getting.

[Alicia Krause]

There's this thing when you're doing stand up. You know, like the jokes you were talking about the dry bar. Some of the jokes. If it's a longer joke and it's a smart joke, there's a part where you're kind of laying track and you're setting it up. And there's a point where. When I'm at the fun.

[Adam Carolla]

Hold on. Are those caps for the screws that hold your track? Your joke track down the track is.

[Alicia Krause]

Like the rails where the train.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, we could use a plug. Oh, that track. All right, Stay on track. Keep going.

[Alicia Krause]

But there's points in the joke where I'm used to at a club or at my driver's, where some of the audience starts to get it and there starts to be a laughter that builds.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah, Like a chuckle kind of.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. And the cruise ship audiences, you'll get to that point where there's usually a building chuckle and there's nothing. And they have to wait until they hear the whole joke and the final punchline and then it hits them, but there's no build. And sometimes it doesn't even hit as strong then because they're not putting pieces together, they can't make that leap to the punchline. It's like unless you spell it out for them, they don't get it in that environment.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Is it the environment or is it the audience? Or you think it's a little bit of both?

[Alicia Krause]

Well, it's both. I mean, on these ships, some of them have a regular comedy club style club on them. Those aren't too bad because you'll get people there that are there to see comedy. But when they put you in the main theater.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Oh, in like the General Auditorium, like.

[Alicia Krause]

A thousand people and it's late, or.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

They do the Newlywed game show stuff.

[Alicia Krause]

They have jet lag and they've been eating and drinking all day, and they do the newlywed show, and then they have dancers come out and the cruise director says, hey, we're gonna get off in Bermuda tomorrow. And you go horseback ride. And then you go, and now here's a comedian.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah, right.

[Alicia Krause]

People just, they don't know what to think or what they're there for.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Do you ever test your material there and you're like, if it works on the cruise ship, then it's totally gonna work at the Comedy Store?

[Alicia Krause]

Well, yes and no. Because some of these people at the cruise ships, what kills is what would be considered hacky in a comedy club. They want very kind of low hanging. And some of them, I don't get super dirty. There's often an adult show and a clean show. And at the adult shows I can go a little edgier, but I'm not like a filthy comedian. And some of those people are there to see that. They want the dirtiest jokes possible.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's interesting if it's working. I mean, the cruise ship is sort of like Chuck E. Cheese. Like, if you think this pizza's good, you're nine.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, if you really think this pizza's good. But they really do when you're nine. But it's not a slice from a New York place. Yeah, yeah. By the way, board foot's a unit of volume measurement. So here's the thing. I'm right.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, it's volume wise.

[Adam Carolla]

Board foot is one foot wide. One foot. And however foot long it is after, it's one foot wide, but it's an inch thick. It's one by, it's one by. So it's like for buying hardwood. Yeah, yeah. By the way, the thing that always drives me nuts is you know how three quarters is called one inch in the wood world? They go one by, they go one by six, but it's three quarter. So then you'd have to think to yourself, well what would a true inch, what would they call a true inch? Cause they're calling three quarter one by. In hardwood places they call a true one inch thick board. Five quarter.

[Alicia Krause]

Really? Five quarter.

[Adam Carolla]

Which I yell at them all the time.

[Alicia Krause]

I've never heard that.

[Adam Carolla]

That's like the coach telling you I need 110%. Like it doesn't. Five quarters don't exist. I, I, I argue with the guys behind the counter, that's what they call. I go, I, I understand, but you understand why we have systems.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

All it does is take one person to change it and then you gotta.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I know they go, well if 1 inch is 3 quarter and 1 inches 4 quarter, but it's really 3 quarter, then we have to call it 5 quarter. I'm like, I, I don't like it. I'm a conscientious objector. That being said, I'll take 12 linear, no, 12 board feet of wide oak, five corner. All right, so that's what that is. So anyway, this was a long conversation and look, I don't know, Andrew, you can look it up. Do you need, what do you need? Caps, plugs? What do you need plugs for on a deck system that's on a clip that we don't have to put holes in it that we can figure it out.

[Alicia Krause]

He's going to tell you what a plug is.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, here's a thought I had. I don't know why, but I saw on the news, yeah, it was all making the rounds yesterday. They're talking about Ozempic for dogs. Really? Stop. Oh yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh my God.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Well first off, the doggies are going.

[Adam Carolla]

To get Ozempic phase. Is there any stop about anything anymore? You know what I mean? Like she wants to pay for illegal aliens in prison to get sex change operations. And you go, oh stop. Oh contraire on the stop. We're way past the stop in society.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you know what I mean? There is no more, there's nothing anyone says where we can anyone in the straight face and go, oh, give me A break.

[Alicia Krause]

Medicare is now going to cover the.

[Adam Carolla]

Right, right. That. That's where we're going. Kamala Harris. It wants incarcerated dogs who are transgendered who have weight issues to be paid for by the state for Ozempic. So Ozempic for pets, for dogs. That's what they're doing. Well, okay, Dogs are fat now, so why not. I mean, you want them to live longer and blah, blah, blah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Put them on a diet.

[Alicia Krause]

They're fat because they. They don't. Yeah, they don't get them enough exercise. They get these big dogs and they put them in these small apartments.

[Adam Carolla]

Go.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

How many of the dogs that are fat also have, like, inactive and overweight owners?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, well, the owners used to be fat, but they're on Ozempic, too.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

But I'm saying, like, if you just take your dog for a walk. I know, but you also go on the walk. Maybe the dog.

[Adam Carolla]

It's like, right, well, we're working, like.

[Alicia Krause]

Then they'll both have the saggy skin. They'll both, like, the dog will have it naturally, and they'll get the Ozempic. Like, just the extra skin.

[Adam Carolla]

You're thinking like a person. These are fat people. So now it's like, I guess it's sort of like table scraps. Like, the fat person's eating and throws the dog some Ozempic. You know what I mean? But so I was thinking about this, and I was like, you know, my first is, oh, dear Lord, where are we as a civilization at this point? You know what I mean? And by the way, I would say, well, I'll go ahead and declare us officially out of problems. This is something we're spending any other civilizations are trying to find clean water still. And we're talking about dogs. Obesity for dogs. Right. And again, something you can wholly control because the dog can't have the GrubHub app and can't get out and start up the barbecue, giving it the food you can. The person who's buying the Ozempic can thin the dog out very quickly. Right. But I was thinking about it, and I thought, it's different for the dog now. The dog's gonna lose weight. And we can find this story, Andrew, Somewhere. It made the rounds. But the dog's gonna lose weight. But here's the difference. The dog doesn't know he's on Ozempic. Oh. So the dog and I looked up the side effects. It's diarrhea, it's hair loss, it's depression. Right. Amongst other things. So now the dog's Sitting around losing its hair, depressed, it's got diarrhea, doesn't know what the fuck's going on. And then it's just laying there on the dining room floor and all of a sudden a meatball falls off the table and lands on the floor. And the dog just looks at it, you know, goes, okay. And then the cat comes up and goes, hey, man, there's a meatball on the ground. The old you would have dove on that meatball. Yeah, I'm just not that into it, you know.

[Alicia Krause]

It's also a strange.

[Adam Carolla]

And the cat's like, what's wrong, man? I don't know. Your hair's falling out. When's the last time you humped a pillow? I can't even remember the last time. I. I just not feeling it, man. Well, you look good. I mean, you're thin. Yeah. And then that dog, the next day just runs out under a truck and just ends its life. Because the dog, all the dog knows is it's depressed. Yeah. It's all it. All it loved to do was hump legs and eat stuff that fel the table. Now scrap falls off the table. It doesn't even look up, man. Gone, no will, diarrhea, patchy hair, ending it all. So there's gonna be a lot of dog related suicides.

[Alicia Krause]

We'll have to keep track of the statistics on that.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I'm gonna crunch those numbers.

[Alicia Krause]

And there's a weird calculus. As a pet owner. Yeah, I would rather have. If I had to choose, I would rather have a fat dog than a dog with chronic diarrhea.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

No carpets allowed.

[Adam Carolla]

No, it's just.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, he's thin, but the house is a mess. But at least he good.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Go back to just take your dog for a walk.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Dawson. Sorry.

[Adam Yenzer]

It's actually fairly simple for a dog to lose weight. Exercise is not that big a deal. That's not how you have to feed them less. Okay, so I've had two dogs. The vet told me two times, like, your dog's overweight. You got to feed them last, feed them less. Gets thin. That's the only way to do it.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah, if only that worked for me.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, now there's Ozempic. I mean, that's for dogs. That's what you can do.

[Adam Yenzer]

It's the new, the new big pharma money grab.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You know what's going to happen is some idiot that's on Ozempic is going to think that their dog needs Ozempic and then try to like share their Ozempic.

[Adam Carolla]

They're going to blame Trump. CNN's going to be like, Joe Rogan said to take kitty Ozempic. That's horse paste. What? No, we're confused. I love that whole horse base. CNN was so confused. They didn't have. No one has a phone they can look at. Yeah. Oh, no, they're just confused retards. So. And then there's gonna be stigma. Like the dog that lost weight with the other dog at the park and looking good. Oh, Sampagua. They didn't earn that.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, I did this naturally.

[Adam Carolla]

Chasing them all and eating less. That's right. Hey, when's the last time you got. You know what? Yeah. They probably say stuff like, you should lose your taste for pork chops and refine your taste for tennis balls, bro. Ooh, a biscuit that tastes like a tennis ball.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Oh, like, are you gonna create this?

[Adam Carolla]

I'm gonna write that down. I bet that might be something there. Cause they love. And it's a biscuit you can throw. You know, I mean, like, let's work those calories off. Doggy daddy biscuit with bounce. A biscuit with bounce. Write that down. All right, so that was my Ozempic thought. And it's gonna happen because, again, when a human gets on Ozempic and they go, if you feel tired or I have diarrhea or I lost my libido or like, whatever it is, then they can start adjusting. Shit. But they know. They know what's going on. It's kind of cruel to put, I agree. A dog on something that doesn't. The dog's going to experience this thing where, like, I'm not hungry and I got diarrhea and I'm depressed.

[Alicia Krause]

Depression is a weird thing. Dogs are happy all the time. Why do you want to make your dog depressed?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And that's them cat.

[Alicia Krause]

Like, it's always weird when for humans or a pet, that the side effect of the medication is depression. Because I feel like anything you're taking is always like, I want to lose weight to feel better about myself. I want to get over this issue to feel better about myself. And then it's like, oh, I'm going to take this medication and it's going to give me depression.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I had a girlfriend for years that had major social anxiety. And the doctor was like, I think you need to go on drugs for this. And she was like, but the side effect is Most people gain 30 to 50 pounds. And she was like, so I'm going to go on a drug that's going to help me have less social Anxiety. But it's going to make me feel more insecure in public situations. No, thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

Listen, there's nothing that hikes in nature and classical music will not cure. Everybody in a good diet. I've been saying that my entire fucking life, and nobody listens.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Well, now they listen. They just put on the weighted vest.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I had this. I don't know what you guys think of this protocol, but I would argue against this protocol. I have a picture. I was away at car week, and I walked into a place called the Quail, which is a big event they do on a Saturday at a golf course or whatever. Sorry, Friday at a golf course. And the tickets are $3,000.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Whoa.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah. It's one of those events. Food and booze and music and cars, Bugattis and everything. Everything. Now, I got free tickets because I was hosting some fireside chat with some ex racers and designers and blah, blah, blah, and someone could probably find some Quail pictures, maybe in some of me. I'm probably up on stage somewhere. But anyway, unnecessary. You find the picture of the bench, which is when you walk into the Quail. You walk down a long path, and they hand you a glass of champagne and everything else. And the first place I happened by, there's vendors, and they'll sell helicopters and jet airplanes and yachts and stuff. They got rich people showing up, you know, and by the way, like, it's the kind of thing where there's these guys I know called the Ring Brothers, and they build custom cars or whatever, and they got like, five orders for a $1.5 million builds, you know, each. You know what I mean? Like, that's the kind of business that's going on. And I came walking in, and I see this guy, he's an artisan, and he's got his table set up, he's got his booth set up. And I look at the picture of a bench. He built a bench out of wood. And then he paints it. And I looked at it and I said, hey, that's my car. That's a 935 Porsche Apple car. I own that car. And it's the only car that was ever sponsored by Apple computers. And it's from 1980, and I have it, and I looked at it and I said, hey, that's my car. And he goes, yeah, you own that car? And I said, yeah, I do. And he goes, yeah, check out this bench I made. And I said, oh. And he said, I just take super iconic, beautiful cars and I turn them into art. And I said, oh, wow, that's cool. And then I thought to myself, as a carpenter, I was like, how many board feet are in there? No, I thought to myself, that's the weight load. As a guy goes. He goes, I built this bench. I kind of look at everything. And I go, yeah, that looked. What is that? Clear two by four, Doug fir. What is that? Mdf? How'd you put a couple coats of lacquer on that? Like, I'm thinking to myself, what's it gonna take to build this bench? Cause I could build this bench. I can't paint an apple car, but.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Grok could for me.

[Adam Carolla]

Grok could paint it for me. So I said to the guy, you can go to amcarolla.com and then we'll put this thing up. I looked at the. Looked at it, and I went, well, I guess I'm the only one who owns the car who's walking past this bench today? Cause there's only one person. There's going to be 3,000 people gonna walk past your bench, but only one person owns the actual car. You don't need to own the car to have the bench. You could have the bench, not own the car and enjoy the bench. But I said to the guy, it's a smallish bench. It's probably four feet wide.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Could fit a couple people.

[Adam Carolla]

Two people on ozempic, shorter and shorter.

[Alicia Krause]

As they sit towards the front.

[Adam Carolla]

And so I just said to the guy, well, I own the car, so I should ask. I guess. I go, they don't have price tags anywhere. I go, how much for the bench?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Ooh. What do you think?

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, I don't even know to venture a guess for that.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's a weird thing. I don't know. I mean, I could build you the bench for $140, but I don't know what his bench. It's got a car painted on it that he painted. But here's what I'm saying. Here's the protocol part. I don't know where you guys come down on this, but he goes, 15? And I go, oh, $1,500.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And he goes, no, 15,000. Oh, my God. And I go, okay, but you should just say, that's, like five grand. Just say it. Just say 15,000. Because 15 quarters could be 1500. Yeah. Is that 15 quarter? Like, I.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

$15,000 for that?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we're at the quail, but. And he's an artist. But I'm saying if you told me 1500, I would still think about it. Like, I would go, yes, you Know, as far as benches go, that's pretty expensive. But he did paint my car on it, and now, you know, it looked cool in the garage.

[Alicia Krause]

Is it like hand painted or is that just like a decal? That's what I couldn't tell. It takes some skill if that's hand painted. But is it just like a decal or a printing process that he just gets that image on there?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. Because once he said 15k, I was like, you know, I got to do a fireside check. But maybe on the way out. On the way out, by the way, on the way out, I like, picked up a trash can, held it up and ran past. Like, I was like, I'm so fucking worried that guy was going to flag me on the way out.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

What if you could offer him, like, let him drive the car and then you get the bench, like a. Right. Like, if it's a one of a kind thing that he clearly enjoys or appreciates as an artist, that's possible.

[Adam Carolla]

I did that with one of Hunter Biden's paintings. So I let him drive the Porsche and he just gave it to me. So there's precedent there, you know what I mean? All I'm saying is we're now in some sort of weird world where people throw stuff out. And it's more than once where I've had to say, I had someone buy quarter windows. The rear back window, not the side window where your cigarette hangs out of the little quarter one in the back. And a coupe, an old Italian coupe, the quarter windows. And I said to that guy, like, I go. He goes, I found them, I sourced them. They're out of Italy. We can get them. And we ship them back and whatever. Just two pieces of glass, you know, one and a half square feet. One square foot, really. And I go, what? How much are they? And he goes, Thirteen. And I go, all right, let me sit down.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Thirteen dollars. What a great deal.

[Adam Carolla]

Thirteen hundred. No, 13,000.

[Alicia Krause]

I was like, oh, my gosh.

[Adam Carolla]

But that's the whole point. And by the way, when they go, just start off with 13,000 and go 15,000. Because if there's a point where you get whiplash, like, you go, 15, like, kind of fingers crossed. Like, we're talking 1300. No, 13,000. It's like.

[Alicia Krause]

And just say the thousand out of the gate, not 13.

[Adam Carolla]

Like.

[Alicia Krause]

Like somebody's going to assume that it's a thousand.

[Adam Carolla]

Why?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Maybe it's because they. Maybe it's the pressure of being in such, like, a bougie place that they Feel like that's how rich they know.

[Adam Carolla]

I think they think that's how rich people talk.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, that will pay that.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You're just like, yeah, hold my herme.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

While I venmo you.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I don't know if he did a decal of the car or. No, I don't think he decals, I think he paints.

[Alicia Krause]

It's a hand painted.

[Adam Carolla]

I think he paints it and he's an artist and he paints cool stuff and God bless him. And look, like I said, if Hunter Biden can get 500 grand, I mean there were money laundering actually. But if they can just get 500 grand for bubbles, then the thing about Hunter Biden in his modern art, I was like, look, this is not an indictment of Joe Biden or the Biden administration or Hunter Biden. It is an indictment of modern art in general, which is this fucking flunky junkie over here can paint evidently every bit as good as every modern painter. Because I do not see the difference between what he's doing and what modern impressionist artists are doing. I see no difference. Zero.

[Alicia Krause]

If you buy the Bench, that guy's probably gonna spend his money on something better than what Hunter Biden would blow it on. So.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, literally, I could ironic that he painted with a straw. He probably had it up his nose and was thinking just one day, just had the straw up his nose doing rails off a hooker's ass. And he was like, hey, what if I put it in my mouth and then blew it onto a canvas? Oh, by the way, Andrew, sorry. You can go find my phone in the other room, I'll send it to you. It just made me think the Andy Warhol BMW was at the lawn. It was on the lawn. It was on the lawn at. Sorry, at Pebble Beach.

[Alicia Krause]

Really?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And would that one cost 15?

[Adam Carolla]

It's owned by the BMW motorsport, whatever. It's not privately owned. It's Andy Warhol painted a race car for BMW. BMW had art cars in the 70s and the 80s where people painted their. They had famous painters paint their car. I tried to buy a Frank Stella one a million years ago. Long story. It'll get me angry.

[Alicia Krause]

Settle for the Hunter Biden.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I don't know. What is a race car that is worth? That's my phone. What is a race car that is worth $1 million in primer. What's that car painted by Andy Warhol worth? And what's an Andy Warhol, you know, Marilyn Monroe or Campbell soup can worth? I mean, all in one. It's now it's the shittiest paint job you've ever seen because he didn't give a fuck. And he was probably hacking hine probably had one of his assistants painted. But what is that car worth is the question. And does anyone know? And is it knowable is what I'm saying. Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

If it's never been sold or nothing like it has ever been sold, then how do you put a price on it?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, something like it was sold for 850 grand that I tried to buy, but you said you weren't gonna put it on 12 years ago. Sorry. Okay, don't make me angry. Don't make me angry. But that. Just don't make me angry. But. But that thing's worth millions and whatever. But let me see if I can find there.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Did you know an interesting thing about Andy Warhol is most of the art, like the celebrities that he did art of, like, ended up purchasing or wanting a piece of them. Except Dolly Parton.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And he was offended until the day that he died that apparently she never, like, talked about it. She apparently never liked it and didn't want it. So what if you're BMW and you commissioned him and then he sends you that and you have to, like, pretend to like it, you send it back.

[Alicia Krause]

All right, you can keep this one.

[Adam Carolla]

It looks like shit. I mean.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, there he is. Yeah, hardware.

[Adam Carolla]

There's no. I tried to. No, I'm trying to send it to you, Andrew. Let's see if that works. It looks shitty, but it's an Andy Warhol piece of art and it's one of one. I mean, it's not a reprint or anything. And the canvas it's on is worth a million bucks because it's a pro card and it could be worth more than that. Anyway, so then the question. I don't know, you have to start at like 15 million or something like that. I guess BMW owns it, so they're not selling it. So, you know, what have you. But yeah, it made it out. I saw it on the lawn. Oh, I tried to send you the picture and it said it failed. But why? Why does it have to fail?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

It's Trump's fault.

[Adam Carolla]

I blame Trump. Oh, let's see. Let me try this one. See if it fails.

[Leo Zaki]

Let's see.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, next subject. Oh, andy Warhol. Estimated 60 million.

[Alicia Krause]

60 million.

[Adam Carolla]

Holy cow. 60? Well, it's a Warhol and it's one of one. And it's an art car, and BMW only did like five or six art cars and and there it is. I think I sent. I think I sent it to you, Andrew.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

$60 million.

[Adam Carolla]

God damn diamond encrusted.

[Alicia Krause]

Now, what if he had painted like a Toyota Corolla, The Andy Warhol Pinto?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I would have been for that.

[Alicia Krause]

Time, but, you know, it's just.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I don't know what the fit does.

[Adam Carolla]

It'd be worth a lot, but not as much.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so. So next thing I wanted to talk about, I don't know, back to the communication situation we have. I have thoughts about certain words being too close together in sound or spelling, which is like miles in minutes. Sometimes I'll hit Waze or some nav thing and I'll look down while I'm driving or something and I see, oh, it's only 11 minutes. And then I go, oh, it's a 11 miles. Yeah. And it's 41 minutes. Like it? Especially in LA.

[Alicia Krause]

In LA, you go, you never know.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it's only eight minutes away. No, it's eight miles away. And that's 37 minutes. That's how this town works. So I don't like that. They both start with the. There's no reason why they should be a half inch apart on the same miniature screen while you're driving, trying to figure it out. It shouldn't. It shouldn't do it. Well, I know people go, it's what I say about push and pull. Diner doors say push and pull. It's pu. It's four letters. You're walking, you're not paying attention, and you slam the door because it said pull and you just pushed it.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Then you look like the retailer.

[Alicia Krause]

And sometimes it's small. Yeah, you feel stupid. Then you push and then you're like.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, but I mean, you would never. Nobody would design an aircraft where the landing gear, the word for retracting the landing gear and putting down the landing gear would be almost the same word. They would never do it because planes would crash all the fucking time because they just wouldn't do it. And words shouldn't be that close together. They shouldn't. So push and pull. It should be push and yank. If it was push and yank, you'd never smack the door at the diner.

[Alicia Krause]

They should also only put a handle on if it's pull. You see the handle. And when you pull.

[Adam Carolla]

But if we just made yank, if we just put yank, we would solve this problem, right? And then I realized this happens a lot. And then I also realized that day and date are too close and people just sort of swap them back and Forth. Cause I'll say to people all the time, they'll go, we go in, we do the gig, and we come back the following day. And I go, what day is that? I go, that's 25th. And I go, okay, that's the date. I'm asking what day. What day are we coming back? You know what I mean?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

It's like a Wednesday.

[Adam Carolla]

Or people, don't you talk to Mike August? And you can just go, what day are we coming back? And he'll go, the 19th. And then you have to ask again, what day? And then he'll always say, the 19th. And then I go, okay, thank you. And then I literally, as I said to him yesterday, what is the name of the day that we return from Arizona? And I'm sorry we have to do this, but evidently we do. You know what I mean? And I realized I didn't ask the date, I asked the day, but we just do day and date and da. And if it was yank, if it was a totally different word, then you wouldn't get the bad response or the dumb response now. And I realized we've got to start setting some ground rules here. The other thing that I can't get over, because everyone, I think we split the nation in this. If I say to Mike on a Thursday, if I said to him on a Thursday of this week, I think I'd go. I go, when are we leaving? He'll go, next Monday. And I'll go, next Monday. And he'll go, next Monday. And I'll go, this Monday. And I'll go, no, next Monday. It's next week. And I'll go, I know, but we're past the closest Monday. And they'll go next Monday. And I'll go, yeah, but next Monday could be a week from this Monday. But if you just say this Monday, then we'll never have to do this. And he'll go, it's next week. It's next Monday. And I'll go, yeah, but today's Thursday, and we don't own a time machine. So how confused could I get if you just said, this month? Yes, when I go, you mean the.

[Alicia Krause]

One Monday is the next Monday, but it's not the next week or cannot establish it.

[Adam Carolla]

Cannot establish these ground rules. Cannot establish them with people. Where are we with this as a nation? And why don't we. Why can't we get somewhere with this? And why isn't it taught in school? So when I go, what day? He'll go, next Monday. And I'll go, this Monday. And he'll go this next Monday. And then I'll go, when do we come back? And he'll go the 14th. And I'll go, what day do we come back? And he'll go the 14th. And I'll go like, oh, not date. So we need date versus day and we need this versus next. And if we could lay down some fucking ground rules, we could save a lot of heartache. I would argue that it's always this. Once you pass that day in the previous week, oh, it's always, I agree.

[Alicia Krause]

If you're past that day, I'll go.

[Adam Carolla]

One deeper, I'll go one deeper. I'll do you one better. Even if it's Monday, like, let's just say, all right, let's just say today's Monday. And I say to Mike August, when are we going to Arizona? He still should say this Monday because there's no way I'm asking about today.

[Alicia Krause]

It's in progress.

[Adam Carolla]

It's five in the afternoon. We've established we're not going. But once you pass that day, it's gotta be this, not next. And being in the next week does not mean it's still not this. Now, my technique eliminates all confusion. Mike's technique leaves the window open to some confusion, which is where he likes it, I think. So I literally said to Mike, also, there's gotta be a part, whether you're talking about plugs at Home Depot where they kind of know what the gestalt of what you're talking about. So Mike goes, we leave on the 19th and we come back the next day. Now here's the gestalt part. He goes, problem is, so we leave on the 19th, we come back the next day. But the problem is they got a flight to lax, which gets us out of there at a pretty good time. But that's lax. We want to go to Burbank, but if we do Burbank, Burbank, we're not coming in till five. But la, what with the traffic and everything. And then I ask a question, which I want to know, is it a weekend? Is it a weekday? Because we're going to LAX and it's going to be traffic. So then at that point I think to myself, I think I could ask him what day, but he's going to give me the day now, even though he said we're leaving on the 19th and we're coming back the next day, which would make me clinically insane if I asked him what the actual date was. Cuz we can all do the Math on leaving on the 19th and coming back the next day. Not a lot of wiggle room into what's the date, But I realize Mike's going to do this. I know I'm driving a car, I'm multitasking, but I know in a millisecond I know what he's gonna do, and he's not gonna provide the answer that I want. So I said in my head, in a millisecond, I tried to spin it. I said, what is a way that could prevent this? So he said, we're going out on the 19th, come back the next day. I go, what is the weekday we're coming back? And I thought if I said weekday, it would somehow nail him down to an actual day name, right? I tried. I tried. And then he said, the 20th. That's his fault. And then I said, do you think.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

He'S doing this on purpose at this point?

[Adam Carolla]

What is the day we're coming back? And he said, the 20th. And then I said, what is the name of the day we are coming back? And he said, Saturday the 20th. Now I realize I said weekday. I didn't open it up to the weekend. And my haste to not do this because I was like, I know what we're about to. We're about to do this. I thought to myself, here we go. We're going to go down, fucking read a flume of retardation into a cesspool of retarded ism. And I don't want to fucking do it, but I'm going to try as hard as I can. So I'm going to say day, and I'm going to even say weekday. I'm going to say weekday to try to avoid this. It's not going to work.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

But it was a Saturday.

[Adam Carolla]

It was a Saturday. I still argue he could have said Saturday.

[Adam Yenzer]

It would have been funny if he said the next day.

[Alicia Krause]

Does he have the thing, though? I feel like some people have this savant kind of thing where if you say the 22nd, they know what day of the week that is. I don't have that. I was having a conversation with somebody recently where I was telling her my show. I was like, if you want to come to my show. I said something like, it's the 21st. I think it's a Saturday. And this was like three weeks out. And she goes, no, that's a Friday. And I'm like, how do you.

[Adam Carolla]

Mary Hanner. How do you do that? That's Mary Lou. Mary Lou Hanner. That's who that is.

[Alicia Krause]

I can't even do that, like a week out. You know, if it's the next three days, maybe I have the dates and the days lined up. I can't do it further than.

[Adam Carolla]

This is the guy at the Home Depot. He doesn't know what you're asking. Like, I'm not. First off, I'm driving a car. The actual date, I'm not looking at a calendar or anything. The number's not gonna make a difference. Yeah, I' to figure out what day we're coming back. And by the way, it is spawned by the lax 5 o' clock discussion.

[Alicia Krause]

Because there's a context.

[Adam Carolla]

If you just got done saying, we don't want to fly into LAX at 5, but if you said, you want to fly into LAX at 5 on a Saturday or Sunday versus a Thursday, I might think about it. But it's going to be a total shit show if it was the middle of the week. So I'm sort of taking your idea and I'm expanding on it a little bit. Yeah, yeah. But then the real question is the second time, when I go, what is the day? And he goes, on purpose.

[Alicia Krause]

That's gotta be on purpose.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that's my digging in. Mike likes to dig in. So, like, as if we're in a courtroom setting, and he goes, you, Honor, I said the 20th. It's accurate. We are coming back on. I know they would win. You would win in the court, but not in the court of humanity where I'm trying to figure out what fucking day we're coming back.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

What if he had said, next Saturday.

[Alicia Krause]

You gotta push it. But now you gotta push it back and say, you mean this the 20th or the next?

[Adam Carolla]

The 20th. Yeah. All right. And again, I don't know. The funny. The reason I had such a weird reaction to it is I was driving my car, I know exactly where I was. I was going to do some Byron Allen show, and I thought to myself, I want to know the day, the name of the day we're coming back. But I know he's going to give me a number, so I have to think of a way to word it where he can't do that. But he beat me. He beat me.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You should just start sending him the Happy Day theme song. Or the kindergarten. The days of the week. Days of the week.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, or the Bay City Rollers, man. Saturday night. All right, let's see. You got news, right? Alicia Krause.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Sure do.

[Adam Carolla]

I think we'll take a. Yeah, take a break.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Cool.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Alicia Krause]

In addition to being a writer, I also have two karate trophies and three weightlifting trophies. Because I don't know if you guys know this, but you can just go to the store and buy trophies.

[Adam Yenzer]

Adam Yenzer is on the Adam Carolla show.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Funny, stand up, good jokes. And what's the dry bar special called, sir?

[Alicia Krause]

Mine's called Not Big Enough to Cancel.

[Adam Carolla]

It is very funny and it's digestible. 37 minutes or so.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. Their specials are very. You can watch them easily in one sitting.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. All right, we got some news. Alicia Krause.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

We sure do. We have video with this first one. Joy Reid is claiming that white men are too mediocre to create things.

[Adam Carolla]

I just gotta say something for people. Like saying, white men. White guys do this is fine. Or white girls do that. Or, I don't know, Asians are crappy drivers but good at math or something. I'm all fine with that. But there is a part where people start getting a little over their skis, like women's marches. When they start going, like, where would we be without women? We don't even need men. And they don't do anything but destruction. It's like, bitch, we invent everything. So how about that?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Well, not according to Joy Reid. We stole everything.

[Adam Carolla]

We stole everything.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, all right.

[Wajahat Ali]

They can't fix the history. They did. Their ancestors made this country into a slave. A slave hell. But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the slavery stuff. They got Prageru. They can lie about the history to the children. They can't originally invent anything. More than they ever were able to invent good music. We black folk gave y' all country music, hip hop, R and B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn't even invent that. But they have to call a white man the king because they couldn't make rock and roll. So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, hold on a second.

[Alicia Krause]

First of all, I like that she emphasized overweight.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I know. I was like, what does her weight have to do with anything?

[Adam Carolla]

It's easier to steal shit from fat people. Cause they can't run you down. Give me that song. Just hightail.

[Alicia Krause]

And she's sitting there eating a ham.

[Adam Carolla]

She's sucking off her inhaler like, oh, Man, I wish they invented Ozempic. Oh, man, me and my fat dog will never catch up to the king. Him and the colonel ripped this. I was holding the song in a bucket of chicken.

[Alicia Krause]

Wait, come back with my song.

[Adam Carolla]

Come back here. Shaking her fist.

[Alicia Krause]

A drumstick.

[Adam Carolla]

Drumstick. A chicken. A turkey leg. Yeah, fat. Okay, she got a little. So here's an interesting thing. And I don't know how it works, but I think it's what goes on. They do this thing. Couples do it too. Where they start. Broad like the guy goes, I do everything around here. Well, meanwhile, she's got a full time job and she cooks dinner and she takes a kid to school. And then they go, I do everything I gotta do every. And then they start to hear themselves and they're picturing them cooking dinner and leaving for work and doing stuff. And they go, I was in the garage organizing three months ago. Nobody else organizes the garage. Who's gonna put the wood screws with the wood screws and the machine screws? And all of a sudden it's like, well, you do do the garage, but that's not everything. But did you find yourself getting over your skis? Cause are you picturing the rocket program and jet airplanes and skyscrapers and bridges and automobiles and Normandy stuff like Skylab and the Hubble telescope when you're talking about black people? And did you start bringing it, narrowing it into hound dog? You ain't nothing but a hound dog. The other thing I saw this epic shot.

[Alicia Krause]

That song was also. They gave it to the female black singer first, but it was written by two white guys. The song was written by a white songwriting duo.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I just like, I love how she threw our friends Prageru in there. I'm like, excuse me, if anyone has been rewriting history. It's like leftist teachers unions for a bajillion years. This home school chick right here learned all of this American history. And it's like, it's actually public schools that hasn't been doing a good job of teaching American history or civics.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, also, I don't know, I like to play a game called stupid or liar. But it's like Prageru points out that while we were engaged in slavery, every civilization historically was engaged in slavery. So there are many, many black slaves and many black slave owners as well. And we fought a war to stop. To end slavery. That's their point. So you saying like, denying history. Obviously you're the one who's denying history. History is a war was fought to end slavery. I know you don't like the theme of it because. Because she is a racist. And by the way, imagine waking up every day with just a head full of black people, white people. Who invented this? Who invented that? Like, who stole this? I mean, it's gotta be. She's a full time. It's a full time job, but she's definitely a racist. You wouldn't think that way if you weren't a racist. Hound Dog was written by Jerry Leiber, Lieber, and Yeah. Mike Stoler. Yeah. They originally wrote the song for Big Mama Thor. Important. Sorry.

[Adam Yenzer]

They're the ones listed as the songwriters in bmi. Ascap for royalties. I kind of find it hard that I'm not gonna totally believe that Big Mama Thornton went into the studio and sang a song written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller. No. I bet it was her song.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah.

[Adam Yenzer]

She just didn't get the publishing credit.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You could be right. I mean, that happened a lot.

[Adam Yenzer]

Happened all the time.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

It happened a lot in the industry and then like studio artists, too, but.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know why not why?

[Adam Yenzer]

I don't know either. But the music business was incredibly corrupt, especially towards black people in the beginning. Yeah, the.

[Adam Carolla]

The.

[Adam Yenzer]

Their songs, publishing credit, writing credit was really taken from them a lot.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, we can look it up. I don't know if there's more information on. Maybe there's that version. I'm looking at our version. I just. I just don't.

[Adam Yenzer]

I understand that the Internet is gonna tell you it's a song written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stewart.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I think the problem is they got the credit. Well, then everything is on the table, is what I'm saying. For every song throughout history, we can go, the Internet says. But come on now. You know what I'm saying? Like, doesn't it put every artist from history from a long enough back, who's black? You can't say, like, you go, couple of Jewish guys wrote White Christmas. I don't think so. And then they go. But the Internet says. And you go, yeah, that's what the Internet says.

[Adam Yenzer]

I will say this. Every single Beatles song is credited as Lennon McCartney.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Adam Yenzer]

And then there was this overweight black songs that only John wrote or only Paul wrote. Yeah, but there's still credit to Lennon McCartney.

[Adam Carolla]

So whoever is really making your point, though, because they're both. Their names are still in it and they were banned.

[Adam Yenzer]

No, I understand that. But there are Paul McCartney songs that John Lennon didn't have a goddamn thing to do with it. Why is Lennon's name on the song if he didn't fucking write it.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I did a show called the man show. And me and Jimmy just get credit for all the bits that are on the Man Show. And some of them he wrote, and some of them I wrote. And some of them a writer we hired wrote. But we're all get equal credit. We get credit for creating the show because we're the creators and we were the collaborators. You know what I mean? I don't know what jokes Matt and. Or Trey from South park write. They just both get the credit. But there's individual stuff they both did.

[Adam Yenzer]

I understand that. I don't see. All I'm saying is that just because the Internet says that. That Big Mama Thornton didn't write that, I would. I don't have any evidence.

[Adam Carolla]

I know you don't disagree, but what I'm saying is I'm not just disagreeing. Well, it could have happened. That. That.

[Adam Yenzer]

I don't think. Do you think Jerry.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. Let's look up the words to Hound.

[Adam Yenzer]

Dog and tell me if you really think a guy named Jerry Lieber wrote it.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I don't think that's a great argument. I saying you think a guy named Dawson. But I'm saying under your conditions, we would have to question almost every song from 1960 back that included a black person performing it.

[Adam Yenzer]

I would certainly question the record company operators in the Motown era. And I would certainly say that a lot of the songwriting credits who went to them, they did not write the songs.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, there was a whole arc on the Sopranos. I've seen those guys, interviewed those, like, writing duos in Motown and stuff, and they'll tell you the songs they wrote. Now, I'm sure the artists put their own fucking flavor on everything, But I'm just saying you can't know anything for certain. But at a certain point, I'm not being certain.

[Adam Yenzer]

I'm just saying it's sketchy.

[Adam Carolla]

At a certain point, you have to just go, look, that's what's written. Because other than that, it leaves everything wide open. With any song then that's old, that was sung by a black performer. That's what I'm saying. So I get that's what went on. I don't know, take a deep dive in it. Because there's probably somebody, you know, if there's evidence to suggest otherwise, then maybe. Maybe she did write the song. But I'm gonna say those two dudes wrote the song for now. All right, now what we're Talking about Joy Reid.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Joy Reid starting real broad getting in over her skis.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, also in the clip, she's wearing the f. What is it? Fdt, the fuck Donald Trump hat. That's that derangement thing. Like, how much do you have to hate somebody to wear a hat of what you hate? Like, why?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

All the time.

[Alicia Krause]

Bizarre.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

It must be really exhausting to just.

[Alicia Krause]

Have to communicate that constantly. Oh, I'm wearing a fuck Donald Trump hat.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Like, I have to make it known every single day that I don't like white men and especially Donald Trump.

[Adam Carolla]

There's a kind of a weird narcissism that's baked in the whole thing. Like, you should really stifle yourself if you think you're gonna start saying, like, all black women so and so are men. Also, it's a weird thing I've said a million times. Like, my heritage is Italian, but I don't dress like a gondolier. And explain that. You know Frank Sinatra, let me tell you, don't even get started with Elvis Presley. Frank Sinatra, that's the King, all right. And that, that dual Ghia bodied Ferrari over there, that's the finest automobile in the world. Who wants some more pasta? You know, like, just build my hole with the fucking flag hanging behind me and the song playing the whole time. Who want. You want more wine with rope around, around the bottle? Take some more. Take some more. Like, it's a weird. It's weird. It's like, yeah, okay, you're black. Okay, fine, nice. And like, okay, maybe you have a team, maybe like the Dodgers or the Mets. So you put a ball cap on once in a while, but since your entire fucking world, like just non stop, it's like, it's like a disease. I almost feel bad for them.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, and the over the skis thing, it's so hyperbolic, like you said to say, oh, just because maybe you can pick out one thing where you're like, oh, white men didn't invent this. Or this was misunderstood, miscredited to them. But when you go that means white men never created or invented anything, you're immediately gonna run up against proof that that's not true.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I don't know what, let's watch it again. She went broad and then she caught herself, maybe, and started to focus. Like my garage analogy.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Let me read this first paragraph though, because this one isn't on video. It says, quote, they don't have the intellectual rigor to actually argue, to debate us, right? And what they do is tattle and tell. They Run and tell teacher that quote, the black lady or the brown man was mean to me. And that's what they always do. And then she continues here.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, by the way, the person, like, when they talk about modern society and, like, who I'm sort of in love with, I am not. It's not the person that's spouting out whatever nonsense is spouting out, or Kamala Harris is talking about something, or Joe Biden is talking about baggage fees or something. Like, it's not that person. It's the person that's interviewing them going, like. No one goes, hold on. What the fuck are you talking about, bitch? Like, they just go, yeah, this guy.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I think they think it makes him look smarter. So here's also that she titled the episode quote, how mediocre white men and their fragility are destroying America.

[Adam Carolla]

Ah, mediocre.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And her guest.

[Adam Carolla]

Hey, Tom Brady, I got bad news for you. You're mediocre. Do you understand? Albert Einstein and Tom, Perennial Tommy Lasorda. You're all mediocre. That's right. All right, we'll watch it again. Let's just see if she starts to catch herself. And again, I do love the guys who nod who just go, oh, yeah, yeah.

[Wajahat Ali]

They can't fix the history they did. Their ancestors made this country into a slave. A slave hell. But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the slavery stuff. They got Prageru. They can lie about the history to the children. They can't originally invent anything. More than they ever were able to invent good music. We black folk gave y' all country music, hip hop, R and B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn't even invent that. But they have to call a white man the King because they couldn't make rock and roll. So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm.

[Adam Yenzer]

By the way, Big Mama Thornton did not write Hound Dog. It was written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller specifically for her. So you are 100% correct.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And the part of that quote where Joy said they can't originally invent anything.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

They meaning white men. Mediocre us, Mediocre white men.

[Adam Carolla]

The guy doing all the head nodding, Mr. Ali. Yeah. What's his name?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

His name is Wahat. Sorry, guys. Wajahat Ali Wajaha.

[Adam Carolla]

If I was Wajaha, I'd be like, yeah, no, you're right. I agree with you 100%. Hey, could we Go ahead and make sure that device you use all day, every day is turned to airplane mode, by the way, was not invented by black dude. Oh, and spe. Airplane mode. Airplanes. Let's talk about it. Jesus fucking Christ. But this is the beautiful. I will tell you the ultimate white privilege. I get to go. That's funny. Anyway, what are we eating for lunch? Because I don't care. Because we understand who we are, what we've done historically, good and bad.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And I think that historically, when you actually teach American history, you can have the tough conversation and the honest conversation about white men did create a lot of those things because of the disparity in what we did, you know, kept black people from doing in this country or Native American people from doing this country, et cetera. Had they had the same rights at the time, maybe a lot of black men would have created those things too. But she doesn't go there. She just goes to. Like you said, the racist prognosis of white men are evil. They cannot create everything. Yeah, I'm really glad I'm, like, secondarily evil.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

You know, like, you really are a woman. Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I'm, like, second to you guys.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. But Adam's gay, so it's a tie.

[Alicia Krause]

What?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Sorry, bro. It's an intersectional tie. You're blind. We're bringing you a podcast to tell you you're gay, don't you think?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

But you told him to marry a woman earlier, so are you trying to give him, like.

[Adam Carolla]

I thought it'd be better for business, but now we're changing direction of marrying a woman. I think in the intersectional points, I think a man, obviously a woman has more points by virtue of being a woman intersectionally, because she's blaming men for everything. But you're blonde.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And that brings you up a little bit, you know? And if you're gay, that knocks you down.

[Alicia Krause]

Gonna hide under the wall.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Wait, what if. But if he identifies as a woman, then he's more important than I am, and then I get knocked down again.

[Alicia Krause]

I just found out I'm gay today. I'm not going trans.

[Adam Carolla]

They're still in a few days young.

[Alicia Krause]

I need some time to adjust.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, okay, so you're a woman. So you're not an evil man. But on the other hand, you're blonde, and that puts you ahead of Pete Buttigieg in the intersectional point. You would get more ire than he would because we don't think his gay ancestors invented anything, including slavery. So unclear whether your ancestors have to be Gay. But that's how I like to think of it. Yeah. All right, what else we got? Anyway, she's a horrible, foul and dumb person.

[Alicia Krause]

This conversation about the invention and the women, this is only tangentially related, but when I was writing at the Ellen show, every season this idea would come up, whether it was from one of the writers or the producers, to do a monologue about how everybody thinks men invented everything. Let's do a monologue about the things women had invented. And we did this monologue once and it was things like windshield wipers. I remember wifi was white out. There's like, there's like a handful of things. And then every few months it would come up, let's do another one of those about things women had invented. And we'd look and it was like the same list. Every list of things women had invented is the same, like 10 things. And it's like once you talk about those things, it's very hard to find other things.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Cause it turns out that men and women are inherently different and positive, like positive and negative that can work well together in society. But we're gonna have different strengths and weaknesses and that's okay. Yeah, it's like, statistically people prefer a female boss, but men also are the ones that like trudge forward and build a company out of nothing that can then hire the female boss that everybody likes better.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's just the way things are. It's a weird. So here's the problem you have. You know, think of women in terms of inventions is like a snake bitten NFL franchise. You know what I mean? And you're a Patriots guy and I'm a Cleveland guy and I gotta cobble something together like, well, you know, Bernie Kozar was underrated. Underrated. And it's like. Yeah, it's still. You got zero super bowl rings. I got fucking six. You can keep talking. You can talk all fucking night about Clay Matthews or Bernie Kar or Jim Brown was originally. Yeah, you brought that up 28 times. That's all you got. You have no Super Bowls. So you can keep talking as much as you want to talk. It's not going to work.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You know what women do have?

[Alicia Krause]

What's that?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

We birthed all of the men.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

You always have. Yes. You always have.

[Adam Carolla]

And I agree. So focus on that joy.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

We grew and we sustained and we raised.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree. I agree. But when you gotta start dipping into whiteout. Here's what I'm saying. Or windshield wiper blades. Let's just do a little thought experiment. I'M gonna put a list of notable inventions that white guys came up with. Okay, so maybe we'll start with the jet engine, or we'll start with an automobile, or start with rocketry, or, I don't know, fire the wheel. I don't know where we would start, but we would start. How long before we got to windshield wiper blades? Like, how far down? Like, we'd be at lawn darts and Parcheesi before we got the fucking blades on a windshield. And by the way, I would argue that if you did list of great white men inventions, you would never list white out or windshield white. It wouldn't make the cut. The cut would be the top 2 billion. Why would this.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Pretty good. So funny.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

WiFi, I think, was an assist. I think it was a man and woman team.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

A team? Well, because there's also a lot of, like, pharmaceuticals that were, like, men and women teams.

[Adam Carolla]

All right.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Margaret Thatcher helped create soft serve, so.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You could then argue without Margaret Thatcher? Ozempic wouldn't be as popular.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Joy. The aptly named Joy. All right, what else we got?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

All right, I think this one is gonna really excite you. Apparently, a guy over on Reddit, he's 28 years old, and he got into a dispute with his father after asking for a to go box at a restaurant. But that's not it. In the post, he wrote that the fight began after his family went out to eat at a diner on his dad's dime. He said, quote, I ordered the main course, but also felt like I was in the mood for a side dish, so I ordered it as well. My eyes were bigger than my stomach because I was unable to finish my food. So I asked for a to go box, but his dad was peeved by the move. And apparently the father told him that it was rude that when someone else is paying for your meal, you shouldn't order extra stuff if you won't be able to finish it.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm. You know, that's my policy. It's always been my policy.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Your team, dad?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I've gone out to dinner with guys that bought dessert for their wife to bring home.

[Alicia Krause]

On your dime?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Oh, on your dime. No, that's not thoughtful.

[Alicia Krause]

That's just gifting it to someone else.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

At first I was like, that's romantic. And then I was like, oh, no.

[Adam Carolla]

No, no, I don't like it. That's that number one. Listen, I've jokingly always said I would do it. I don't know. I'd do it. Just embarrass. Whatever woman was sitting next to me. I'd go, take this couple out to dinner, whatever, and then I would give the announcement. I'm like, look, we're gonna treat you guys to dinner. I'm gonna treat you, and that's fine, and order whatever you want and drink whatever you want. It's all on me. But if there's anything left over, it's coming home with me. That's my policy. And by the way, eat as much as you like. But you understand I have to set that policy. Are people gonna be ordering sandwiches to bring home and desserts? I can't have that if you know.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Somebody else is buying, though. Do you go for the most expensive thing on the menu?

[Alicia Krause]

Not usually. And I'm often self conscious about it. Even if I pick something not looking at the price. If I look at the price and then it happens to be one of the top two or three most expensive things, I'm like, oh, maybe I shouldn't. But then you read the table. If other people are going for that.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Or the person who's buying the dinner.

[Alicia Krause]

They'Ve set the standard that you can do that. If I'm buying dinner for friends, I usually don't say it until the end. I wait until the meal's done. I go, ah, I'll cover this one. I'll buy this meal. That way they've already made their choices.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

That's smart.

[Alicia Krause]

Then you can say you can do the nice thing. But they've already made. They can't at that point be like, oh, then I'm gonna get some more to go.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

That makes sense. I like, have had very generous bosses where in the past, they're like, we're buying dinner. You know, they're buying dinner. Like, especially when you're on the road for work and stuff. But then one of them specifically, it was always like, he would order everybody the thing that he liked to e. Oh, yeah. Which I lucked out. Cause I also like cabernet and rib eye. But for the vegan, the table, they're just like, is there sour cream in the potatoes? Like, you know, they're kind of stuck.

[Adam Carolla]

I gotta say, I may be the most decent orderer. I may be good because as Dave Rubin brought up on this program a couple of weeks ago when he took us all out to dinner, including Dennis Prager and others. And I was sitting next to a billionaire whose name escapes me right now, but he brought it up.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

David Sacks.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I think it was David Sacks.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

They're buddies, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

David sacks, billionaire, yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

PayPal mafia.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, billionaire. And we were ordering. I said, well, I'll get a steak, and you got a steak. I said, I'd like a baked potato, but I don't need the whole baked potato. I said to David Sacks, you want to split a baked potato? He said, yeah, I'll split a baked potato. And I said, dave, just get us one and we'll split it. And I saved him four doll.

[Alicia Krause]

That's great.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the point. And he's out of his mind. He's like, I can't believe you split a baked potato with a billionaire. With a billionaire. Because it's also the cheapest thing on the item on the menu. And I go, I wasn't going to eat a whole baked potato. And neither was the billionaire to my left. So we split.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

By the way, you should be thanking me. It was very fun.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

It's very sustainable, actually, for two conservative rich people.

[Adam Carolla]

It's frugal. Thanks you.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You don't want anything to go to.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So me and Sax split potatoes. Baked potatoes.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Have you guys ever bought anybody anything, though? And you're like, whoa, whoa, hold on there.

[Alicia Krause]

I started to tell you this story beforehand. I had. I live over in Toluca Lake. I gotta point the right direction. Cause I know that's.

[Adam Carolla]

You point towards Glendale Brow.

[Alicia Krause]

But during the height of the Newsom, like, homeless camps that were popping up everywhere under the bridge in Toluca Lake, there was a homeless tent camp, and there's a McDonald's right. Right next door. It's by the Comedy Chateau.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I may or may not know that McDonald's.

[Alicia Krause]

I was leaving the Comedy Chateau one night, needed late food. I get in line at the drive thru. There's a homeless guy by the menu board begging, like, hey, can you guys buy me something? Hey, can you get me food? I was feeling generous and I said, sure, go ahead. What do you want? He starts going, four double cheeseburgers, three large fries. And he ordered a caramel macchiato.

[Adam Carolla]

I was like.

[Alicia Krause]

I was like, I didn't know homeless people. You don't get a caramel macchiato. You get life, sustenance, food. Out of my generation. He ordered more food than I did. I was like, I think he's buying for the whole. Everyone under the bridge, the whole tent camp. But I felt totally taken advantage of because I was like, I'm doing this to be nice. And then he just ran up, oh, I'm going right down the menu, ordering 10 different things.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And he's like, and make it extra Large?

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, it was just, like, extra large fry Caramel macchiato. That was the one that was more insulting to me. Like multiple burgers or multiple fries.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah. You're like, maybe he's saving it up for the next.

[Alicia Krause]

Caramel macchiato is like. That's, like, a luxury item. I feel like that's like a. That's an extra. That's not. I don't even get a caramel macchiato when I go to McDonald's.

[Adam Carolla]

That is so funny. Yeah. I had a homeless guy. I was going out to eat once at a homeless guy, like, in Beverly Hills, and he's like. Came up to the window. He's like, hey, man, you got any cash or something? And I reached my ashtray, and I think there was, like, a $5 bill. And I gave him a $5 bill, which is more money than my dad ever gave me, and I gave him a $5 bill, and he looked at it and he goes, oh, man, can't you do me better than that, bro? And I said, I go, I could give you a million dollars, but I'm not like, you should be pretty fucking happy with that. You said that to him? Yes. No, he. He looked at me, saw me, saw the car, went, you can do better than, like. You can do, like, we're at a, you know, a charity auction or something, you know, buying Shaq shoe or something. He's like, they're like, you can do better than this. I'm like, of course I could do better than that, but I'm not. But it's insane that you brought that up.

[Alicia Krause]

You say, how much are you expecting? He goes, 15.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. All right, let's do one more. If you have one more, one more.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Rosie o' Donnell is slamming Jay Leno. Have you guys watched this Biggest Loser series on Netflix?

[Adam Carolla]

I've heard about it.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

It's, like, in the top 10. I haven't watched it.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, who do you think? I think this is a question for Adam, who worked for Ellen. So I know someone who was like, an executive producer during Rosie's first run, where she was way over the top. Saccharine, Sweet cutie patootie. Chubb club. Had such a crush on Tom Cruise and everything else and said she was the meanest bitch he's ever dealt with and dreaded his job because he had to fire people every single day, literally. She would tell him, go fire that guy, and go fire that guy. Now, this Rosie is the real Rosie. Yeah. The super bitter, angry, never smiling, no sense of humor. That's the real Rosie. We had the fake Rosie in the Chubb Club. Cutie patootie over compensation Rosie, just like we now have the real Ellen. And there's a real Bill Cosby. He used to like to dance. Not so much, you know. Okay. Who do you think at their prime was meaner?

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, between Rosie and Ellen.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. At the prime of their bullshit, pretending to be nice prime.

[Alicia Krause]

I think Rosie was probably more overtly mean.

[Adam Carolla]

Rosie was overt? Yeah. Cause he used to tell me he to literally tell him he had to fire people every day and then eventually he got fired.

[Alicia Krause]

That worked on both shows.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you do?

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. So, yeah, I would say, I think Rosie was more overtly mean. And Ellen, she was like tough and difficult. I think a lot of it with Rosie, it sounded more like it radiated from her.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah. Like just a bitter person. I heard some View stories too.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Like, she was not so nice when she was over at the View either.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, Rosie.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, Rosie's super angry, sad, rageful person. So she's not gonna. You could go, would you hear about Rosie on the View or at the zoo or in a train or on a plane. And it's all gonna be the same story because it's a horrible vitriolic in la, in Ireland. And by the way, you know, victim, survivor, lashing out all the time. Yeah, that's what we were dealing with.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Well, now she's lashing out at Jay Leno. After watching the Fit for tv, the reality of Biggest Loser over on Netflix. She publicly called out Jay Leno for how he treated a former contestant who's featured in the documentary Tracy UK on the show, apparently she said, quote, jay Leno is a mean a hole. Hashtag Biggest Loser documentary and captioned her Instagram post that included photos of Tracy during the confessional and on the Tonight show with Jay Leno in the new docu series. So apparently UK was recalling a time that she went on Jay Leno's late night show and he read her death threats that she had received, I guess as part of a bit. But o' Donnell said that that wasn't funny. And you can't say that you're not sorry. Like, seriously, so hurtful and so cruel. Come on.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, first off, Jay is super nice and Rosie's super mean. So the idea that she's calling Jay mean is ironic because she's super mean and he's super nice. So there's a lot of that. He's doing a bit. Right. I mean, I don't, I haven't seen the bit, I don't know.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Yeah, when I was the clip that I saw of it, it was kind of a bit which I feel you guys have experience with this. I do not. It's like when you know, they pre interview you and they pre plan you when you're going on a late night show.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we'd have to look for that, see if that bit exists. Yeah, there you, you get a segment producer and they produce your segment.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

So she knew what she was walking into.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah, well 100% they would never bust out a bit like Scott on the news. Yeah, no, it's all pre cooked and worked out days in advance.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

And then which late night show is the one that has made it a thing now? And they have celebrities read the death threats.

[Alicia Krause]

That's Jimmy's show does the mean tweets and it's hilarious and it's like a shtick now.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, it's a good bit.

[Alicia Krause]

And what's weird about this is like, I mean I worked at Conan so I'm no fan of Jay Leno personally, but I've heard he's a great guy to work for.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, the greats.

[Alicia Krause]

And that's the same thing with like what Conan and Leno, both of them, their staffs love them, they're good people to work for. They're friendly and it's weird because someone like a Rosie or like an Ellen, like Rosie made her whole thing like cute and nice and funny. Whereas on a show like Leonel they might do jokes about celebrities and stuff that are mean spirited or like. But personally they're good people. It's like the opposite. It's like you have this, this sense of humor where you can.

[Adam Carolla]

Well one is overcompensation, one is like.

[Alicia Krause]

Who you are as a person.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, what they're doing, okay, what Rosie and Ellen are doing is overcompensation because they don't want people to discover how mean they actually are and what horrible people they are. It's facade. Right, but so if you said, let's just put to you this way. Let's just say it was the 1950s and you had a dad and he was a football coach and he'd sit around and go, you know, I think that Jenkins kid may be gay. Jesus Christ, my kid was gay. I'd sleep on the lawn, he'd be out of this family. And you were gay. Right. And you were like his teenage son. You would come home and be like, dad nailed another prom queen. Now where's the Schlitz? And when are we gonna go chop some wood? Because you'd be like, if there's this guy finds out who I really am. And you would never come in and go, like, I'm gonna take a me day and do a little decorating around the house. Cause you'd go, shit, that's what's lurking. Like, you would overcompensate. So he didn't.

[Alicia Krause]

That's what I'm gonna do after this podcast with the gay pod. I gotta prove to everyone, no, it was a joke, Rosie.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Everything gonna call it that girl that knew the day of the week.

[Adam Carolla]

Conan and Leno don't have to pretend to be. By the way, this is micro and macro. I know plenty of people that are bullshit nice all the time. And I'm not that nice. I'm not nice at all. I'm not mean. I'm just fair, you know? And people overcompensate all the time. Do you think Kamala Harris laughs that much in real life? Ask her staff how jovial she is. Ask Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton does those things. You think she's that with her staff backstage? I don't think she's that. It's total overcompensation for, I guess, knowing or thinking you're this person. So Jay gets to live in his own skin because he's not that person. Rosie has to create some sort of TV friendly version of herself that would be palatable to America because no one wants to see a super angry lesbian get up there and pout and scream at people. And the same with Alex. Now they're retired and they've been put out to pasture. They get to drop the facade and go, here's who I am. And no one ever really does the math. Do the math today. Who's super nice? Who's super. And all the fucking mayors and all these idiots are like, everyone needs to be treated with dignity. Everyone needs a seat at the table. I care about what. You don't care about anything, bitch. You're mean. It's over compensation. We can't find the Leno and they do it. You saw the clip.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Well, because I watched it on Netflix. I don't know if you want to get sued.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, yeah, all right, all right. Well, anyway, when you see someone being overly nice, assume. Unless it's Henry Winkler, who is actually that nice, assume it's some sort of. Of compensatory something. And when you see me not being nice, assume that's because I'm a cool dude and super chill and nice.

[Alicia Krause]

Another big part of it is not just acting nice, but telling people that you're nice. I feel like these people, they're ones that have said, well, they're nice.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, not only that, but they're making these. Let me tell you, I got raised by these people. They basically talk. You know, there's people who go to bed hungry every night, and there's children who don't know. And these people come here and they want a better life and they should be treated with things. These people don't do anything for those people ever, ever.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Oh, don't get it.

[Adam Carolla]

They don't do shit for those people. They barely pay taxes, so it's all over compensation. So spot it out there, would you, please?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

People got kicked out of a mom group chat during the early ice raids because people were pissed at me asking, so what did you do today to help an immigrant?

[Adam Carolla]

I got my lawn mowed when you.

[Alicia Krause]

I bought one at Caramel Macchiato.

[Adam Carolla]

If you ever get kicked out of a mom group, can I take your place?

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Oh, my God. I'll just. But I don't. Well, you could, actually.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to infiltrate a mom group.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

You want to infiltrate a mom group? Yes, the group chat.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

I had to delete WhatsApp, man. I had to delete, like, WhatsApp and Signal and telegram. I'm like, if you really like me and know me, you have my number and you can text me the old fashioned.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm going to infograph. If you get kicked out, I'm going to take your play and I'll be like, hey, man, how's it going with white out 2? And the next windshield wiper blade bitches.

[Alicia Krause]

Whiteout 2. Even whiter.

[Adam Carolla]

Even whiter. I'm asking because I'm white. All right, we need to take a break. Adam, we'll give you plugs at the end of the show. Always great to talk to you, my friend. And Alicia Krause, always a great job.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

Leo Zaki is going to run for governor and fix this town. We'll do him right after this. Oh, oh, oh. O'Reilly Auto Parts. Yeah, O'Reilly Auto Parts coming at you with the smooth, smooth sound. Efficiently fixing your automobile. O'Reilly Auto Parts offers friends helpful service and the parts knowledge you need to maintain and repair your vehicle. I'm always at O'Reilly. I've been there because like I said, get the car ready to take to the track. Getting ready to put a race together. Got to swing by O'Reilly, get prepped. Bought the water wetter from them. That's basically radiator fluid antifreeze, but it's for the track in case something gives. It doesn't create a slick. It's a long story, but they got it. So whether you're a car aficionado or an auto novice, you'll find the employees at O'Reilly Auto Parts are knowledgeable, helpful, and best of all, friendly. Stop by O'Reilly Auto Parts today or you can visit us at O'ReillyAuto.com Adam that's O'ReillyAuto.com Adam this summer, Pluto TV.

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[Adam Yenzer]

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[Adam Carolla]

Mihola just saw a guy on the Hank Aaron State trail in Wisconsin on an e unicycle.

[Adam Yenzer]

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[Adam Carolla]

Ooh, eunicycle. We'll talk to Leo Zaki right now he's running for governor of California. And you can get his info at Instagram or TikTok at leoszaki with a Z. Right. And find out what his I don't even need to know where you stand on anything. You can just be the opposite of all things. Gavin Newsom. And I would vote for you. You just have to do the opposite of everything he does.

[Leo Zaki]

That's pretty easy.

[Adam Carolla]

It's easy, right?

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah, but it's better when you have solutions to the problems.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, what would you do? Let's say I don't know. Okay, fuel prices, they're six bucks. I literally just drove up through a race up north. Diesel was like 550 a gallon.

[Leo Zaki]

That's why my friend who's a truck driver won't come to California. It's too damn expensive. Plus all the carb stuff. But when it comes to lowering the price of gas, we have so much oil here in California and we're just not tapping into it because there's environmental regulations blocking us from that. We could easily create hundreds of thousands, over 100,000 jobs, tens of billions in revenue annually. We'd have the cheapest gas because we could refine it all here.

[Adam Carolla]

And I always ask this to everybody. I bring it up with Dr. Drew and I, who sort of are in wonderment of the Newsoms and the Karen Basses of the world And I'm proud to say that I ran into Rick Caruso at Pebble beach at a car auction. And he came up to me and he said, you know, so I was slated to meet with the mayor, Karen Bass, and we had it, like, on the calendar. And then Karen Bass office sent him a screenshot of the vlog I did with Rick Caruso, where I'm sure we talk shit about Karen Bass, and sent her a screenshot and said, no more meeting, by the way. That's the way they roll. Which is like, anyone who gives them a hard time or even asks them, like, hey, your city burned down. Can we ask any questions? Like, no meeting with you? Yeah.

[Leo Zaki]

Right. Well, it's about accountability, right? And they don't want to be held accountable because they know that they're total failures. I mean, it's so obvious.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, Karen Bass has the ultimate excuse. She goes. She should just go, don't blame the fire on me. I was in Ghana.

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah, well, but we knew that the high wind warnings were in place a couple days before. We could have taken preventative measures.

[Adam Carolla]

This discussion is up. Over. Yeah. So Karen Bass is incompetent, and Gavin Newsom's like, a sociopath. But what do they want? I mean, do they want power? Okay, but would they. Wouldn't Karen Bass and Gavin. If California was doing well and not the laughingstock of every other state in this union, wouldn't it help Gavin Newsom become president?

[Leo Zaki]

Well, that's his idea. This whole war right now that he's doing with California against Trump is to be like, I'm the guy standing up to Trump. Democrats get behind me. I mean, they really don't have. Who are they gonna run? Who are the Democrats gonna run, realistically?

[Adam Carolla]

But does anyone ever say to Newsom, if California was run better, it would help your chances of being the president, Right?

[Leo Zaki]

That would be the ideal. I have no idea why they choose to go down this route, aside from it's got to be corruption. His aunt is Nancy Pelosi by marriage, and she wins her congressional seat year in, year out, effortlessly. But she also raises tens of millions of dollars, and then she turns around and uses that capital to help other congressional candidates around the country get elected. And then it's basically, all right, you're in power now. Now because of my ability to get you the funding that you needed to get you across the line. You're beholden to me. It's a big power thing. Obviously, you'd want people to do the right thing. My goal is to just fix this place and do the right thing, because we're all suffering under it. But they don't care. You already said he's a sociopath, so why would he have any emotions or feelings towards anybody else?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I think in terms of. In a world where we throw around titles like. Like, you're a narcissist, you're a narcissist, you're a sociopath. He may be a true sociopath. I've never interviewed anyone like him. I've never. When he speaks, he sounds like one. Literally. That's how he comes across. Because there's not a lot of other explanations for that for the guy. Now, Karen Bass, she could be part dumb and part communist.

[Leo Zaki]

Well, she's definitely communist, for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Leo Zaki]

But what would these people do if they weren't elected to these positions?

[Adam Carolla]

Right? Well, listen, we figured it out. We have Mayor Villa Retardo. Who? I always called him Mayor Villa Retardo, which I always enjoyed. What's his real name?

[Leo Zaki]

Antonio.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, no, Tony Velar's his real name. Oh. Oh, oh, oh. So Antonio Villaragoza was our mayor for what felt like 12 years. I don't know how long he was in there for a long time.

[Leo Zaki]

And it was an awful time.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's awful, and he's awful, and he's dumb, and he failed the bar four times, and now he just does something with herbal life. Like, here's what I'm. Here's kind of what I'm saying. Is that what the pyramids are, I'm assuming. But here's my whole point. You run what is like, the seventh biggest economy in the world for 12 years, and then you retire and you're young and you do nothing because you're not employable. Karen Bass isn't. You have to go get on the Board of Regents at Stanford or something. But you yourself, you can't do what Elon Musk does because you're dumb shit. And also you're lazy and you're communist or whatever. But we have a mayor who's basically a communist, right?

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

She'd been to Cuba many times. Loved Fidel.

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah. She was part of some socialist organization back in the 80s.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when Fidel Castro died, she called him the Commandante or something and heaped praise on him. Him. And then had to do the walk it back thing. Like, I didn't really know what that meant. Like, I don't know. I was around when Fidel Castro died. I didn't send any tweets out on his Behalf. He's just another bad guy who's dead.

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah, just one more dead communist.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. I wish there were more dead communists. Yeah, the best kind of communist. So we have an imbecile sociopath as a governor and then like basically a communist as a mayor. So it's gonna be Los Angeles goes be going through some tough times.

[Leo Zaki]

Well, yeah, but I mean you're an Angeleno. I'm an Angelino. My whole life and my family's been here 120 years. This city and this state doesn't have to be this awful. I mean everywhere I go people meet me and they're like, oh, where are you from? California. Oh yeah. I mean it's just we're a laughingstock of the country because of the way the leadership has just absolutely left the people behind. And it's all self serving interests and it's all, you know, look at me, look what I'm doing. I'm standing up to Trump or I'm doing some righteous virtuous thing. And what's happening? Businesses are being destroyed. Look, In N Out Burger just packed up and moved to Nashville. 99 cent stores are out of business. My family, Zaki Farms, we got crushed by the regulatory process here in California. We're out of business.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I didn't even know you were that Zacky. Yeah, I didn't know you were Zacky Farms, Zacky.

[Leo Zaki]

Oh yeah, I'm.

[Adam Carolla]

That guy was Zachary Turkey. First off, they were doing the all natural stuff.

[Leo Zaki]

A long time ago we pioneered antibiotic free. We helped designate what actual fresh versus frozen poultry was and we were the largest organic turkey producer in the nation.

[Adam Carolla]

I remember as a youth ish seeing plenty of commercials for Zaki Farms and all natural and not processed and all that stuff. That's your grandma?

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Jesus Christ.

[Leo Zaki]

She's 90.

[Adam Carolla]

Still around.

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Find me a Zacky Farms commercial from. Would you guys play those nationally or just in California?

[Leo Zaki]

That's a good question. I think it was mostly just in California, but it was a lot of radio stuff. And people often would see the Foster's imposters TV commercials and think it was ours. And so the Fosters family was always upset about that.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. How big was Zaki Farms? At their biggest?

[Leo Zaki]

We were over a half a billion dollars in valuation. 2000 with 4000 employees, which made us the largest privately owned employer in the state of California and largest poultry producer on the west coast. We were processing 1.2 million birds a week.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. Still never understand the process. You guys do 1.2 million birds a.

[Leo Zaki]

Week we had a fleet of 70 trucks. Yeah, I mean, all these things, but we just slowly got the life choked out of us by the regulations and the taxes here in California and.

[Adam Carolla]

So where'd you guys end up?

[Leo Zaki]

Out of business.

[Adam Carolla]

Sorry for laughing.

[Leo Zaki]

No, I mean, it's just what it is.

[Adam Carolla]

It's such a weird thing that you can't say to these people. You do understand that. And this isn't working. Like, whatever you're. I know you.

[Leo Zaki]

I tried. I used to lobby with the California Poultry Federation. I was a board member for 10 years. I'd go to the, to D.C. and Sacramento and sit in their offices. USDA, FDA, EPA, senators, congressmen, you name it. And you try to explain to them how this is going to have an impact on businesses and families. And they're like, well, you know, we already made a deal with the other side, so we're going to vote with them on this one because when we need them, they're gonna vote with us on these other things. And that's just how it works. And it's like, but what about the people that help get you elected and that you represent?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, what about people leaving and businesses leaving? I mean, California, I'll screw this up a little bit, but California basically had 13 auto manufacturing companies here, the plant.

[Leo Zaki]

16 movie theaters in Van Nuys.

[Adam Carolla]

Right, right, right. Van Nuys had a huge GM plant. And I'm old enough to remember going to Nissan, going to Toyota, they're like Orange county ish. Whatever. It's all gone. It's all gone. And then famously, Tesla's sort of the last. But does anyone ever just stop and go, whatever this is, whatever this direction is? I guess, unless the goal is to get everyone to leave, maybe we should think about changing direction.

[Leo Zaki]

Well, you think that, but they operate under feelings, not facts.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? That's all feelings. I have a theory that's wildly unpopular, but it's too many women in these positions and they're feelings based. And they're a little less with the facts and a little more with the feelings. And that's gonna cause more of this. Now, there are women who think like men and they're fine, and then there are dudes that think like chicks. That's Gavin Newsom. But every time I hear, like in LA especially, but people think I'm a chauvinist pig, but when I hear, like City Councilwoman Maria Conchita Consuelo Alonso once, and I'm always like, fuck, 15 Hispanic surnames on this bitch, we don't agree on anything. Anything. Everything that they do is some sort of feeling based and it satiates. And Nithya Raman is a retarded person and she's making decisions about taking down U turn signs in gay neighborhoods and stuff, which would not satisfy. It wouldn't satisfy me at all.

[Leo Zaki]

It's clutching at straws. It's all trying to just, look, I'm doing something important somehow. It's because they're not even capable of doing the job that they've applied for and they were elected to. I mean, people just vote. A lot of people vote on identity politics and we've seen that here in this country. And that's a problem because people are lazy. Unfortunately, they don't do their research.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, also, can we dispel the myth that if you're struggling and you're black, that this would be fixed by a black vice president or a black fill in the blank. Cuz historically they don't do shit for you and they're not going to. You can live in Chicago and go, wow, if only we had a black mayor. Because I'm black and I'm struggling. It never works.

[Leo Zaki]

Well, yeah, look, as an American, you have the opportunities. We've figured out that we're all equal, we're all the same. Obviously you can have different starting points, but those starting points are dependent on, on the hard work that went in to your family prior to you showing up on the scene.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, yeah, but also, I'm white. I'm over 6 foot, I'm about the same age as Gavin Newsom. We both have the matinee idol, good looks. And I don't think that fucking sociopathic retard is going to do shit for me. I think he's going to do the opposite of everything I want. But the pressure's off me. I don't go, who? White guy. Oh, good. Oh man, my lot's gonna change in life. And don't think that way if you're black or Hispanic or woman are gay.

[Leo Zaki]

That's a victim mentality.

[Adam Carolla]

I know, but at a certain point it's their fault. Well, hey, wake up. They're not gonna do anything for you.

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah, it's like, it's like somebody who's an addict. Like it's your fault that you're an addict. I mean, obviously circumstances and Tony, look.

[Adam Carolla]

Tony Valar changed his name to Antonio Villaragoza so he could fool dumb Mexicans into voting for him. And then he didn't do shit for you people. So would you fucking wake up and get over it? Cuz it's you who are the racist who think I need to get a black guy or Hispanic guy or somebody who looks like me in some sort of position of power so they can do something for me specifically. That is a racist thought. So you who vote that way are racist.

[Leo Zaki]

No. Morgan Freeman was the one who said, if you want to end racism, just stop talking about it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And then the guys from 60 Minutes are like, oh, come on. Yeah, yeah, find me. Sorry, you got to find Nithya Raman with their Toyota. I have to visit this at least once a year with their catalytic converter. Have you ever seen Nithya Raman discuss City Councilwoman Nithya Raman telling us what the problem is with catalytic converter thefts are.

[Leo Zaki]

Oh no.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah, it's so good. It's like a little window, a little peek behind the retard curtain, like where you could go, oh, there's a retarded midget trapped in her head. Oh, this is the way she thinks. Oh, and by the way, she's not in charge of catalytic converters. She thinks this way of on everything. This is a woman who went to Harvard who cannot string a sentence together and doesn't really have a thought. If you think about it, this is her explanation solution for people getting killed stealing catalytic converters. Here we go.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

We have a company, you know, the Pre Whatever or Toyota, who makes the Prius that essentially has a device on their cars which is super easy to remove. It's basically the value of a MacBook, right? That is put in a place that is incredibly easy to access in your car. And then the thefts related to this issue have essentially.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll tell you what I like to do. I'd like to take her, her dog and I'd put it on a rope and I'd put it over an alligator pit and I would go, this rope is thick enough that if I light it on fire, it's gonna take three hours to burn through before your dog lands in that alligator pit. Now I also have a Toyota Prius and I have a snap on truck filled with tools. Hey bitch. If you can get this catalytic converter that's super easy to remove, super easy to remove off of this thing and present it to me. I will take a fire extinguisher and put that three hour burn rope out. But I don't think you can do it, but knock yourself out.

[Leo Zaki]

I don't think she knows what it looks like.

[Adam Carolla]

She's super easy to take. She wouldn't even know she Wouldn't know where to look. Right. All right.

[Leo Zaki]

No, she doesn't know anything.

[Adam Carolla]

She's a retarded person. But keep going with her. Which is great.

[Co-host/Producer (possibly Mike August)]

Are given to us to bear instead of them having to manufacture a car that actually is not so easy to be stolen.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Then them to manufacture a car that's not so easy to be stolen. Which does even first off, I don't know what the fuck she's talking about. They're not stealing the car. They're stealing the catalytic converter because it's.

[Leo Zaki]

Got palladium and platinum in it.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. And secondly, anything that involves a cutting torch or sawzalls that not incredibly easy to steal. No.

[Leo Zaki]

You just show up equipped.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, you gotta show up equipped and it's gonna take you a minute, but you gotta get under the car. You have to jack the car up to do it.

[Leo Zaki]

Oh yeah. No, it's usually like two or three guys that do that. No. Cause my buddy, he was living in Lakewood and that happened to him.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. It's gotta be the worst because you know it immediately. Because when you start the car, it doesn't sound right. No, it does not.

[Leo Zaki]

There's a little bit of the exhaust missing.

[Adam Carolla]

Anytime you take a two foot section out of the middle of the exhaust, it's gonna ch. Changed the note marginally, but enough for you to hear it from inside the car. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, it's Toyota's fault, so problem solved.

[Leo Zaki]

But these are the people that are in charge, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that's the scary part.

[Leo Zaki]

Well, that's the thing. I mean, look. But who's putting those people in asides from the whole, you know, you gotta be, you know, look like they look like me or they sound like my name, I'll vote for them. Who's putting them in front of the people that actually get to see them to vote? And it's the media. The media isn't doing a good job of actually fairly representing who's out there as a candidate. And even I'm facing that. And they're supposed to give equal opportunity to all the candidates out there, unless they're an expert in a specific field. But if that's not the case. But they only want to push those candidates that. Because there's a whole thing of gatekeepers out there and like, oh buddy, buddy, who's who? Who knows who? And they're gonna support these people and it's not fair to the actual candidates that want to do right by the people. And they're just playing this game of oh, who's got the money that can line the pockets to get them on the show or whatever?

[Adam Carolla]

What's gonna happen in California with something like the bullet train, which obviously isn't a bullet train from Fresno to Mercedes? Nobody. Okay. Obviously it sounded insane to every sane person from the.

[Leo Zaki]

It's like the monorail salesman came to town.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? It's a Simpsons episode.

[Leo Zaki]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

So now we're billions of dollars in and we're billions of dollars over, and Trump is looking at this going, this is the biggest boondoggle, waste of time, waste of money I've ever seen.

[Leo Zaki]

It's money laundering. I mean, they couldn't account for $300 million for that project a few years ago. Well, we don't know where it went.

[Adam Carolla]

And then. Is California that corrupt? Because the thing. Yes. Okay, so the thing about it. So here's. Tell me what you think of this. And maybe it's on my theme of Rosie and Ellen and dancing and coming across a certain way the whole time. I grew up and I grew up in California, and I grew up with, like, progressive Democrat parents. Losers. Okay? And my whole family. All right, all right. So when they would talk about corruption, it was the white guy with the pinky ring. And he has a white guy. He had a diamond pinky ring.

[Leo Zaki]

The fat guy in the suit, the mob boss. Look, Cigar.

[Adam Carolla]

Right, Cigar. The whole thing. He was slapping a secretary on the ass and he was in Louisiana, and he was going, you know how the game is played, don't you? And then he'd set the suitcase down. Right. So we had an archetype, like a. Literally a cartoon character of who that person was. Right. And then you'd go, california. And you go, well, not California. A. It's like mostly women running things. And that's not a fat guy with a pinky ring. That's a woman. They don't do that stuff.

[Leo Zaki]

Like the Lassa, the woman who's the head of Lassa that was giving her husband millions of dollars. Who. He was the head of a charity.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But that's my whole thing. Like, my whole thing is how do billionaires dress in California? It's like, oh, flip flops and cargo shorts. Because they don't want to look like billionaires. You know what I mean? They want to blend in.

[Leo Zaki]

I don't think it's that they don't care.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But what I'm saying is you never think. I never thought of California.

[Leo Zaki]

The sloppiest guy dressed in LA usually has the most money.

[Adam Carolla]

I never thought that California Was corrupt. Because Nithya Raman, look at her, she's a woman and she's of whatever Middle Eastern extract. That's not what corruption looks like. It's a guy in a cowboy hat drinking a gin fizz and laughing. You know what I mean? But I realize we dress so we look and we talk about peace and love and good vibes and the environment, whatever. Like Al Gore, he loves the environment. Man, that guy, he's a kajillionaire. Yeah. So what's going on with all the money? Where did the homeless money go? Where'd the fire aid money go? Where did the train money go? Like, what's going on?

[Leo Zaki]

Oh, it's all circulating through different accounts and ways that they're hiding money. It's all ways that they can. Cookbooks.

[Adam Carolla]

So we got a train. How much did the train?

[Leo Zaki]

Oh, it's like over 20 billion.

[Adam Carolla]

And where's the money? Right, and then how are we gonna finish the trade?

[Leo Zaki]

Well, I mean, here's an interesting fact. Eleni Koulonakis, she's lieutenant Governor. She's also running for governor. Her father is one of the largest construction companies in California. He also gets a lot of the contracts, and they happen to be the largest donator to the Democrat party in California.

[Adam Carolla]

Hmm.

[Leo Zaki]

What a coincidence.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but she's a lady. She can't do that. That's a dude from Louisiana. Wears a cowboy hat. Yeah. So is this train ever gonna get finished?

[Leo Zaki]

No, no. And I'm gonna make sure it's done and dead from day one. I'm not allowing this waste anymore. We don't need a train. It's a luxury item. Sounds nice, but if it's not gonna be as fast or faster than the ones they got in China and built in the way that they build them in China, which is now quick. There's no point. We don't have the money to do that. There's so many other issues that we need to take care of first that we have to make California self sufficient. We have everything but leadership. It's simply that we have the resources and we're not taking advantage of them. They're bitching about this drought. It's a drought again. Last I checked, you could have gone to Mammoth and snowboarded this July, and last year you could have done it into August. So it's not a drought. It's managing the resources. They're not building the infrastructure. Population's doubled in the last 50 years, but they haven't built any water storage in the last 50 years. And then you dump the water.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it.

[Leo Zaki]

But you can turn it into a net positive.

[Adam Carolla]

No, listen, we can do a lot. Yes. First off, nobody needs that train from those two places.

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah. That market isn't. It's not there.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. So why would it even start? I guess money laundering. Okay, so it's just graft.

[Leo Zaki]

And Craig, you know it.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm assuming it is. I just can't. It's weird. Again, it's more California stuff where I just think, come on, man, this is California. That's not what we do.

[Leo Zaki]

Hey, just. Look, just smuggle the joint.

[Alicia Krause]

Forget about it.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. That's what it is. But here's a bigger sort of psychological question. I can. They keep talking about, like, process people. They just wanna talk about stuff, but they never do anything. There's no boots on the ground. And so Trump is a builder and a commercial builder, and people that have that background are in a hurry, and they wanna get stuff done all the time. And then process people wanna talk about the process, and they wanna speak in these sort of vagitudes about having a seat at the table. And no child, everyone has to be.

[Leo Zaki]

Treated with no child left behind.

[Adam Carolla]

No child ever gets left behind. And the home homeless community needs to be treated with dignity. Nothing ever changes, everything gets worse, and nothing ever happens. And I realize, because I come from these people that if you want to be garlic or cross to their Dracula, you start talking about doing stuff. Like, you go, hey, Monday, let's go, what are we building? What are we doing? And they go, whoa, whoa, slow down. We gotta have a discussion group about that.

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah. Look at your background. You were so fed up with that from an early age that maybe subconsciously, that's why you like to get into construction and be the builder that you grew up being.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I know.

[Leo Zaki]

Because, you know, process, like, you want to build a building, you got to lay plumbing. First you got to level the area, then you got to lay the plumbing, then you got to do the foundation for anything else. And then all the other steps that go into it. And you know, the process, but you also execute.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. I don't think that Karen Bass wants anything to do with that. And I don't think Newsom wants anything to do with that. And I don't.

[Leo Zaki]

A lot of people don't want to work. A lot of people, they just want to get paid.

[Adam Carolla]

I have a new theory, which is something I've been thinking about a lot, which is the people who get paid for doing nothing essentially protest and fight harder for their jobs. Than people who get paid to do something.

[Leo Zaki]

Well, that's the Like a child throwing a temper tantrum.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. But what I'm kind of saying is I've worked with a million dudes who are blue collar dudes. And with blue collar dudes, when the work ends, we built the house, I go, all right, I'll go find another job framing. And they just leave. They physically just leave. When you get a job as a whatever with the school board and you're somewhere in the teacher's union and you're somewhere in the bowels of the bureaucracy of the whatever, and you essentially almost do nothing all day, those are the people most vocal march, fight and complain the hardest for their non bullshit, zero impact jobs. The people that like, fix cars, frame houses, roof houses, Their job ends, they just go get another job and they go roof somewhere else or frame somewhere else or fix someone else's car. Never hear them, like bitching about it or fighting about it or moaning about it. I started realizing, like, when Doge came in, they're like, hey, lots of super lazy, do nothing government folks that are basically on the dole. You're gonna have to find a new gig. And they went nuts. Yeah, blue collar guys don't go nuts. They just go to the next job.

[Leo Zaki]

They're the same people that are like, oh, these jobs are beneath white people. They're beneath Americans, which is bullshit. Like, I worked alongside tons of people because I had to learn the business from the ground up. It wasn't just like, oh, yeah, here's the keys to the kingdom. My grandparents made me start at the bottom. And there's nothing wrong with it. Like, I worked in a slaughterhouse, worked on ranches, a hatch rated sanitation. It wasn't, you know, 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there. It was full on months in these jobs.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Leo Zaki]

And I1 enjoyed it. And when you get done at the end of the day, yeah, are you tired? But you got shit accomplished and it feels good and there's nothing wrong with it. And you go on to the next task, you just keep moving forward. But I also believed in what I was doing too. Yeah, well, they're just selling bullshit all day to keep their job. They just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. And I don't know how they keep it all together. I mean, they do a bad job because we keep catching them on stuff all the time.

[Adam Carolla]

It's just got to be a weird thing to create nothing and to have zero skills and to just kind of go through life pedal platitudes and Bullshit.

[Leo Zaki]

It's the used car salesman. Look at Gavin Newsom. He's like the epitome of that meme. You've seen that meme, right, where it's like the used car sale. He's got the car there and he slaps his hand on the roof of the car. He's like this baby right here. You can fit so many, like, whatever's into it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Leo Zaki]

You know what I mean? He's that guy.

[Adam Carolla]

I know he's been in here and there's something wrong with him, but there's definitely something wrong with us because. Because we vote for these guys. We may be at the end of that.

[Leo Zaki]

I don't know. Well, I think we've got 23,000 acres of people that are ready to not vote that way anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Of those acres that burn to the ground.

[Leo Zaki]

Yeah. It's just people need to take the time. And the problem is everybody just wants instant gratification. And they can easily just use their phone and find out about who's out there and what they stand for, but they have to actually put down whatever they're consuming, whether it's some new TV show that everybody's just got to talk about or not. Just learn about the candidates. I'm one of them. And the media has to also step up and do the equal time, the fair equal time, and showing who's out there.

[Adam Carolla]

But listen, the days of the LA Times endorsement, meaning jack squatting.

[Leo Zaki]

Well, no, it's not about it. I'm not talking.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I know you're not, but I'm just saying, saying the media's kind of dead now, so it's a new world order, which is good.

[Leo Zaki]

Yes, but the boomers are still the majority predominant voters. The Gen Zs, the millennials, my generation, millennials. Well, obviously we don't trust mainstream media. That's why there's alternative media sources that are growing like crazy. But they also don't feel that they have a shot at change. And they've been so disenfranchised and browbeaten that they're like, I'm just one vote. It doesn't matter. And I can't stress enough that, no, your one vote does matter. Your voice does matter. And then people fire back. Well, we have all these hyper inflated voter rolls and the electronic voting machines and it's rigged and it doesn't matter. I can't stand that. Because you have to actually stand up and voice your opinion, even if it feels like it's futile. You just got to still do it.

[Adam Carolla]

Let me ask You a real practical question from a building standpoint. When you are voted in or Trump has his way or whatever it is, he stopped funding the train. The train has bridges built and concrete laid and not that much infrastructure is. It just, we're just done, we just pull a plug and go. Look, whatever that bridge is, it's there.

[Leo Zaki]

Leave it. Let it be a memorial, a reminder that this is what corruption in government looks like. And don't make this mistake again. Turn it, just make it that. I mean, it's gonna cost money to tear it down.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah. So don't tear it down.

[Leo Zaki]

Just leave it. Leave it and let it be a reminder to everybody when they drive by. What is that? That was the biggest money laundering scheme that ever happened to the state. That is what corruption in government looks like.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And by the way, we can't, we can't fix a reservoir, but we can build a train to nowhere.

[Leo Zaki]

Well, according to the state. Yeah, no, we can fix plenty of reservoirs. We can build new reservoirs. We've got a whole untapped labor force out here. We have a quarter million homeless here in California that need help. They need drug rehabilitation, they need mental health help and they also need a job skill and they need purpose and direction. And you can give them all those things through the homeless to home program that I have to build.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, Gavin Newsom said the real picture of homelessness was a mother of two who had a full time job, who got paid minimum wage, who just got divorced and was out of the house. That's. He told me, I told him it was drug addicts and crazy people, but he said now I don't think he.

[Leo Zaki]

Drives his own car.

[Adam Carolla]

Was a woman with a full time job.

[Leo Zaki]

I mean, look, that does happen, but very rarely.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't want to. You know, there are more white cornerbacks in the NFL than there's instances of that.

[Leo Zaki]

I'm sure.

[Adam Carolla]

So that's what I'm saying. Just, I don't know, I don't even like to do the that does happen part because I didn't want to. I understand what you're doing. I don't want to dignify it. It's like you're fucking idiot. I'm not even going to go there. It's crazy people and drug, it's all drugs.

[Leo Zaki]

I gotta, I gotta walk this tightrope, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but it's drug addicts.

[Leo Zaki]

No, no, of course it's drug addicts. Who you talking about?

[Adam Carolla]

It's all drug addicts.

[Leo Zaki]

I mean, when was the last time you saw a normal person, like, just spazzing out? Yeah. As they're yelling at themselves and things.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm trying to think of any homeless person, anybody I've ever known who's been homeless, who's not been involved with drugs. It doesn't exist because. Because listen, if somebody said to me who worked here or something, anybody, a friend or family or whatever, just went, man, things have really bottomed out at work and income and whatever. I just go, go sleep on that sofa in the back, then just go crash on the sofa. You won't be homeless now. You steal everything in here. When I come back tomorrow morning, then you will be homeless. And that's what you do if you're a drug addict. So that's.

[Leo Zaki]

No, no, they'll have a home and just have bars on the windows and doors.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I don't know that we do that in California either, but that's a good point. Either way, whatever their plan is. I don't know what the plan is, but it doesn't seem to be working.

[Leo Zaki]

No, their plan is to flee some money. Look, the state pats themselves on the back and says, oh, look, we put a roof over their head. We've done our job.

[Adam Carolla]

Look.

[Leo Zaki]

And then they're the ones that produce the stats and they're the ones that put out the stats. And they say, look, our stats that we curtailed and we created are showing that we're doing a good job. Vote us in again, keep making it better. And then we're all out here driving and stuck in traffic and we're going through downtown LA or wherever, and you just see homeless encampments under the bridges, under the overpasses, and you're like, oh, yeah, this looks way worse.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. All right, Leo, let me give you a plug. Insta and TikTok at Leos. Zacky Z A A C K Y is where you go. Leozaki.com and also go there as well. Leo, come back from time to time, please. I'll support anybody who's not.

[Leo Zaki]

No, no, no, no. You got to support me and I'll show you why.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, you show me why.

[Leo Zaki]

I will.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, with Solutions, you can go to AdamCroll.com I'm going to be in Provo, Utah. I'm going to be in Torrance. I'm going to be be in Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm going to be in El Paso. So you can go to AdamCroll.com for all that. And you can check out Adam Yenzer as well. He's doing shows everywhere. Check his Instagram out at Adam Yenzer as well. Until next time Sam for Adam and Leo and Alicia saying mahalo.

[Adam Yenzer]

Pick up your phone and leave a a voicemail at 888-634-1744. Be sure and get tickets to see the ace [e-mail].

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