All Female Blue Origin Crew Completes Space Trip + Tarek El Moussa

Summary

Adam Carolla Show Episode Summary: "All Female Blue Origin Crew Completes Space Trip + Tarek El Moussa"

Release Date: April 16, 2025

In this episode of The Adam Carolla Show, host Adam Carolla engages in a lively and candid conversation with real estate expert Tarek El Moussa. The duo delves into a variety of topics ranging from handling public criticism, government reliance, humorous takes on political advertisements, advancements in space travel, to insights into the real estate flipping industry. The episode is punctuated with Adam's signature humor and sharp wit, making it both entertaining and thought-provoking for listeners.

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1. Handling Mean Tweets and Public Criticism [03:14 - 07:52]

Adam opens the discussion by addressing the recurring theme of "mean tweets" he receives. He shares his perspective on dealing with harsh criticism, emphasizing the importance of subtlety over overt negativity to avoid being dismissed.

• Adam Carolla: "You should say, I don't think Adam Carolla's the worst dad ever born, then I go, all right, fuck off." ([04:24])

Tarek concurs, suggesting that a more nuanced approach can mitigate aggressive backlash.

• Tarek El Moussa: "You should do it a little bit subtle." ([04:26])

2. Government Self-Reliance vs. Government Assistance [05:18 - 09:18]

The conversation shifts to Adam's views on government reliance, where he advocates for individuals taking responsibility for their own and their families' well-being rather than relying heavily on government support.

• Adam Carolla: "Take care of your own shit." ([06:12])

Tarek probes the limits of this philosophy, especially concerning vulnerable populations like seniors and those with disabilities.

• Tarek El Moussa: "What if someone in your family underwent a severe injury?" ([08:26])

Adam reiterates his stance, highlighting the effectiveness of family support over government intervention.

3. Parodying Political Advertisements [09:30 - 27:31]

Adam introduces a humorous segment mocking political commercials, specifically targeting the absurdity of certain campaign themes. He critiques a fictional ad where a Republican congressman engages in inappropriate behavior, blending satire with sharp social commentary.

• Adam Carolla: "What the fuck does that mean? Why is cock sucking still number one in the insult department?" ([20:15])

Tarek joins in, further dissecting the parody and its implications on political discourse.

4. Blue Origin Mission and Space Travel Insights [62:07 - 66:18]

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing Blue Origin’s recent mission featuring an all-female crew, including pop star Katy Perry. Adam contrasts Blue Origin's approach with that of other space ventures like SpaceX, questioning the safety and purpose behind such missions.

• Adam Carolla: "If somebody said to me, Adam, would you like to go on the Blue Origin rocket ship... I'd go, yeah, I would." ([62:20])

Tarek highlights the differences in payload and mission objectives, pondering the future of commercial space travel.

5. Technical Error: N-Word Tweet Incident [53:26 - 58:37]

The hosts address a recent controversy where a Los Angeles news station accidentally tweeted the N-word, attributing it to a "technical error." They debate the plausibility of such incidents and the broader implications for media accountability.

• Tarek El Moussa: "I'm not buying the mistake thing. I think there's somebody on the inside who did it on purpose." ([54:46])

Adam remains skeptical about the explanation, advocating for plausible deniability.

• Adam Carolla: "We have to get that right. If you use it by mistake, then it's something. If you use it trying to hurt somebody, then it's something else." ([55:20])

6. Minneapolis Islamic Prayer Calls Over Loudspeakers [58:37 - 60:43]

The duo discusses Minneapolis becoming the first large U.S. city to allow Islamic call-to-prayer broadcasts over public loudspeakers. Adam expresses his frustration with the overlapping sounds, likening it to conflicting alarm systems.

• Adam Carolla: "I don't like where this guy's head's at little. It's a narcissistic." ([60:31])

Tarek provides context on the cultural significance and the city's demographic changes influencing this decision.

7. Real Estate Flipping with Tarek El Moussa [73:02 - 88:16]

A dedicated segment features Tarek sharing his expertise on real estate flipping. He outlines practical strategies for homeowners looking to renovate and sell properties, emphasizing cost-effective improvements like landscaping, painting, and carpeting over more intensive projects like retile showers.

• Tarek El Moussa: "You need to verify the people touching your property. You have to make sure they work quality." ([78:51])

Adam echoes the sentiment, cautioning against rushing into the real estate market without adequate knowledge and preparation.

• Adam Carolla: "You just got to get started." ([88:15])

8. Miscellaneous Topics and Humor [09:30 - 92:24]

Throughout the episode, Adam intersperses various humorous anecdotes and off-topic discussions, including:

• Japanese Car Manufacturing: Comparing the efficiency and design philosophies between Japanese and American cars.

• Storage Unit Auctions: Highlighting the unpredictability and potential treasures found in storage auctions.

• Cultural Misconceptions: Debunking myths like lions being the "king of the jungle" and their actual habitats.

• Personal Travel Stories: Tarek recounts his time living in Japan, navigating cultural differences and societal norms.

9. Conclusion and Upcoming Content [93:00 - 94:38]

As the episode wraps up, Adam encourages listeners to engage with Tarek's real estate show, "Flipping 101," airing on HGTV. He emphasizes the importance of taking proactive steps in real estate investment and the benefits of leveraging professional expertise.

• Adam Carolla: "It's always a good time to get in the game." ([88:15])

Tarek shares his vision for revolutionizing the real estate industry, advocating for alternatives to the traditional commission-based model to better serve clients.

• Tarek El Moussa: "Magnet AI and teaching people every single aspect..." ([83:04])

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This episode seamlessly blends humor with insightful discussions on societal issues, personal responsibility, and the intricacies of the real estate market. Adam and Tarek's dynamic interaction provides listeners with both entertainment and valuable takeaways, reinforcing the show's reputation for candid and engaging conversations.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Jason Mayhem Miller]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, real estate TV personality Tarek El Moussa. Plus the news and trending topics with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now on this tax day, he paid his fair share and yours and his parents and his employees and his friends from high school, Adam Corolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on. Got to get on. No choice but again you mandate you get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling friend. We love that about you, man. Miller hanging out like and subscribe.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Subscribe and like, now, subscribe. Don't forget, we need the algorithmic pressure.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, what I got is something that I think is funny, which is mean tweets. A lot of people tweeted me mean things. Yeah, yeah. Now, you guys have to know that as much as you try to hurt me, I'm mostly amused at the horrible and cruel things you say. You'd be better off working a more subtle angle than an over the top angle. Because you have to understand, when you go over the top, then the person you're going over the top with can be dismissive. You see?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So you should say, I don't think Adam's an ideal dad. He's away a lot. He sort of watches too much TV and he doesn't listen as well as he probably should. But if you say Adam Kroll's the worst dad ever born, then I go, all right, fuck off. First off, I had a dad, and there's a lot fucking worse than I was. And then you had a dad and he was worse than I was. So there's a long line.

[Tarek El Moussa]

You think the strategy is low purbole.

[Adam Carolla]

Low purbole. Yeah, I do. Because I'll have to think about it, you know, because people go, like, Adam is the least funny person ever born. And then I'll go, what about my stepdad John? I mean, I got him beat. You know what I mean? Like, I'm not the least. You gotta do. You gotta dial it in a little bit. Yeah, little bit subtle.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Kreischner scale of funniness. Let's see. I see what you're saying.

[Adam Carolla]

What is that scale?

[Tarek El Moussa]

I don't know. Some people think Bert's hilarious, some people think Bert's a piece of shit.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Tarek El Moussa]

It falls somewhere in the middle.

[Adam Carolla]

I like Bert, but I get it. You could say Adam used to be funny. Now he's less funny than Bert Kreischer. And then I would have to think about that. All right, you see what I mean? Like, I'd have to go, what is that? But if you just go, least funny.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Person ever born, you can dismiss that.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll dismiss that. So I. As I've said in the past, I sent out a very innocuous tweet several weeks ago when I was in Arizona, and I've been hearing everyone arguing over Doge and about Social Security and the government and Medicaid and what about the people who have disabilities? And what about the homeless situation? And what about everything? So I. Who've been completely consistent for 30 years into a Microphone basically said, let me break it down. I want you to take care of your own family and yourself. Not because I have disdain for the government or you. I have not seen examples of the government doing a good job taking care of you.

[Tarek El Moussa]

So you're saying a bug out bag in a fallout shelter.

[Adam Carolla]

Take care of your own shit.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I hear you.

[Adam Carolla]

And if the government did a exquisite job of taking care of people, then I might tend to lean more toward government. But in my opinion, it always turns to shit. So I don't think it would be a good idea for the government to take care of you. But I think you can take care of yourself. There's a way to do it. And so it says this tweet that I sent out on March 16th. So we're right on the anniversary here. I have a thought period. How about everyone take care of themselves and their families and not rely on the government? Okay, to me, this is the sky is blue and the grass is green. Water's wet and this water's wet, and this is what this country is about. I have then pulled several replies to that. Does your thought apply to seniors, people with severe disabilities? How about children in foster care? Are there any limits to your self bootstrap theory? Okay. And by the way, people send me stuff all the time. Like, what about the military? I'm like, yeah, okay, I never said dismantle the military. Whoa. What about the roads? I like roads and I like schools. I like library. I'm saying do not rely on the government for everything. Military, roads, hospitals, fine, but we'll take care of the other stuff. All right, the next one.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Wait, but, like, what other stuff is there in the government?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's all the shit everyone wants which is to be taken care of for the rest of their life. Hopefully you never become disabled or a caregiver. I'm not sure how the caregiver part works. Don't worry. I don't think I've ever become a caregiver disabled. The day is young. You never know what the drive home's gonna be like. But also, if you're disabled, it's good if your family rallies around you to take care of you or a caregiver.

[Tarek El Moussa]

What if someone in your family underwent, like, a severe injury? I don't think you'd be here every day. I think you'd be, like, looking after him, wouldn't you?

[Adam Carolla]

I think the family is the first defense. Now I know everyone goes, what about people whose family died in a catastrophic dirigible accident and then they became disabled? And yeah, yeah, all the humanity. We need things in place for those people. I'm not saying take everything out. I'm saying in general, the family's gonna do a much better job of taking care of said person than the government.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Well, you're mad that everyone came with exceptions to your rule.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, they get insulting at some point.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I was like, all right, this part. You said they were mean. All I see is a well reasoned argument.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we didn't start with the hot takes first.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Okay, here we go. It's getting more brutal.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, hopefully you never become disabled or caregiver. We can go back. Oh, okay, we can go.

[Producer/Announcer]

Here we go.

[Adam Carolla]

Don't say it. Go back.

[Tarek El Moussa]

10:00 somewhere at 10:00am this is how Brenda was talking.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so you go back to the one that I was looking at. All right. Hopefully you never become disabled. All right, one more and go back to the one I was talking about. Hopefully you never become disabled or caregiver. But anyone can become disabled at any time. Yes. Yes, you can. All of a sudden your whole world will change when it's harder to find work. Yes. But you still need a family, an intact family to help that person who becomes disabled. I don't know what we're arguing against. The government just does everything all the time for everyone, and I don't think they do a good job. As a matter of fact, you're the guys who keep telling us the government does a shit job on everything. All right, so the next one is. Sounds easy for a hack comedian who did enough blow in the mid-90s. I like that they were specific to kill two John Candies. Well, John Candy was funny. So in a weird way, you're kind of comparing me to John Candy, but just with the cocaine use and whose magnum opus is cashing off of fart and titty jokes.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I'll have you know we do dick jokes here as well.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And a lot of racial humor.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, yeah. Racism.

[Adam Carolla]

So I don't know. Okay, couple things. Is there some sort of issue with me and cocaine that I'm aware of? Because I just don't feel like.

[Tarek El Moussa]

No, you were real hype in the 90s. That's what people were.

[Adam Carolla]

I couldn't afford. In 1995, I was making $37,000 a year. Like I couldn't afford blow. Blow was a hundred bucks a gram.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Back in the day, though, every iron.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Worker I ever met did bunch of speed.

[Adam Carolla]

I tried it a couple times. It's like too nervous. Not. Not about me. I. I like Going to bed. My favorite thing is, is going to bed. Yeah, it's not. All right, remember, here's a response to. I have a thought. How about everyone take care of themselves and their families and not rely on the government? And then his response is, how about.

[Tarek El Moussa]

You suck my dick, pal? Jake Flores.

[Adam Carolla]

Jake Flores wants me to suck his dick.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Look, but notice the timestamp, 5:38pm See, the previous very polite tweet was at 11:30. This guy was on beer 30.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, we got another one. Jake in here. This one just says, how about you go back to the 80s? Which I realize is kind of a catch all insult, but I don't really know what it means. As opposed to this. The 80s wasn't that bad a time. What if I did go back in the 80s? What's that have to do with your family?

[Tarek El Moussa]

I would wear a sweatband for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

Ah, now here's the one I like from Joel Keith, who says to respond to my text, says a wealthy white guy with no special needs. I do have one special need. Joel, I need you to shut the fuck up. There's that need. Yes, I am white, but I wasn't born wealthy. I made myself wealthy through not relying on the government. But we got another one. Or we've got to the end here. Let's see. Just another white clown. Again, I would argue maybe weaving race into everything is not a great strategy in 2025. There's rich white people, there's poor white people, they're all over the road. You know what I'm saying? There's no. I know. You guys think there's such a thing as white privilege. There isn't. There's rich people and there's poor people. Just another white clown with enough money to kiss up to Nazis. Tone deaf loser. Why is it tone deaf? To tell your family to take care of your family?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, I don't know. I think this is a little classism. They're racist against the fact that you have been a successful entertainer for 30 years or so. So I get where this hates come from just cause I can see all sides of the argument.

[Adam Carolla]

This is from Philly Girl Forever. My dad was a South Philly guy, so. Man. All right, let's see. This one says. How about people not having devastating illness tragedies, being poor, or having Trump unexpectedly fire you saying you're worthless, by the way, you don't have to be poor. There's ways to get around that. And family helps in that department. Didn't realize how much of a jerk you Are. I feel like this is a lot of unnecessary vitriol for a guy who's just talking about taking care of your family. Also, I'll do a math. If everyone took care of their own shit, we'd be living in a pretty good. A pretty good place. Not everyone is capable of it, but if everyone who was capable of it did it, then we'd be living in a pretty good place, which I learned from doing Loveline many years ago. This one from Professor Zenkas says, I was hoping you'd get smarter as you got older. I don't know that this one, I feel like what I said was the family equivalent of diet and exercise. Just kind of take care of business.

[Tarek El Moussa]

What you said in a vacuum, I think is like a perfectly reasonable thing to say and that I think that anybody in the right mind can get behind. But through the lens of politics and painting you as this certain color or that certain thing label, now you're immediately attacked for saying something reasonable.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, and there's the ones. These are my favorite ones. Who's gonna build the roads?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Provide fire service research and you know, generally makes society a better place rather than a dog eat dog world. I think society be generally better if people stayed intact, raised their family, made good citizens, paid their taxes, got folks educated and all that. I don't know. Give me examples of the government being wonderful at that. That's my whole thing, like the government makes society a better place. Okay, I don't see examples of that. The places I see that have more government seem to be a worse place. But. All right, do we have any more? Last one it is. How about you not rely on hack tropes and come up with an original idea occasionally that we haven't heard 15 billion times ad nauseam. Yes, I say family and education. That's true, but I would say diet and exercise too. And you go, well, that's a trope. And it's like. It is a trope, but it's true. I don't know that tropes aren't. Aren't necessarily true. All right, if there's one more mean one in there, I'll read it. But you got to find a good mean one.

[Dawson]

I had a similar kind of run in with someone regarding the voter ID thing. I emailed these to Byron. He could put them up. I had said that somebody was all up in arms about having to get another id and I'm like, we've known about this for years. I don't see why it's difficult to get an iv.

[Adam Carolla]

So I just said id.

[Dawson]

I made the real ID thing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, you said iv. That's why I know you just came from a cruise where you're fucking boozing for seven days. It's on your mind.

[Dawson]

I said, I made an appointment at the worst DMV in Los Angeles and got the whole process done in about 30 minutes. It's not that difficult. That's all.

[Adam Carolla]

I said, yes.

[Dawson]

And if we can put up.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, that's because you're white. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And what did people respond to with that?

[Dawson]

This one guy really didn't like it at all. He said, it is an unnecessary expansion of government power. New unnecessary rules passed by George W. Bush 20 years ago. But you hypocritically and illogically support this because you said getting an ID is easy because of voter id, bro. Your brain broke.

[Adam Carolla]

And I just.

[Dawson]

I'm like, whoa, dude, I never said I supported it. I said it was easy. Chill the out. He comes back. I didn't clip what he had. And I just said, dude, if you're.

[Tarek El Moussa]

If you're.

[Dawson]

Look, I said. I said, if you're looking to start a fight, start with your stepdad. And he said, we both know my stepdad already left my mom because he couldn't stand being away from you. How is that an insult to me?

[Adam Carolla]

I think it's a gay thing.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, yeah. You guys were, like, banging on.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, let's get into this. I'm glad you brought that up, because there was a video that was put out that was shown to me before the show. I don't see it on my list here, but maybe it is somewhere on my list. And it was a Republican congressman who was performing oral on his rich, fat cat constituency. Guys who paid him, and the blue collar working class guys were being left out in the cold. But here's what I'm saying. And I've said it, I've been saying a few times. Now it's 2025. Everyone's down with the LGBT community. That community is hard left. Why is their greatest insult telling me to suck a cock? That's your greatest insult, is telling me to suck a cock? Like, what if I threatened you? I went, I hope one day you turn black. That would be weird. Like, you'd go like, what the fuck does that mean? Why is cock sucking still number one in the insult department?

[Tarek El Moussa]

They don't mean lovingly with affection in your eyes and eye contact with the. You know, they just mean, like, jam it in your throat.

[Adam Carolla]

And I know, but in this Day and age of, you know, the post Pete Buttigieg era. We're in. It should not from the left. The left should not use suck a dick as an insult. The right should still use it cuz we still make fun of gay people. But the left, you should be evolved past suck a dick. You need something else is what I'm saying.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Get pegged maybe.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I would say? We cannot equate gay activity with lame activity. You know what I'm saying? Or fucking up. It's your master, weird and twisted.

[Tarek El Moussa]

You're coaching the other side how to insult better. That's cool.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the problem is, is they can't use retard. Yeah, it's always on the table for me.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Big missing.

[Adam Carolla]

So they got to go gay. But in this commercial, it's a couple of blue collar guys walking through a hallway wearing their reflective vests on and carrying a toolbox. And they come talking about their taxes. We'll play it for you, sir. My taxes, so expensive. I know, tell me about it.

[Dawson]

Oh my God.

[Producer/Announcer]

What are you doing?

[Adam Carolla]

I'm your Republican congressman.

[Producer/Announcer]

I'm fundraising for re election and servicing.

[Adam Carolla]

My sugar daddy and lowering his taxes.

[Producer/Announcer]

You said you're lower our taxes, man.

[Adam Carolla]

Sorry, you didn't give me any money. Now if you'll excuse me.

[Producer/Announcer]

Daddy paid for full service and I'm.

[Adam Carolla]

Always a good boy for him.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Why is he sucking off Bruce Buffer? It's time.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to know what else this guy has been in. Because this guy auditioned to be the politician who sucked off the fat cat and it's got a breakdown. You know, this guy had to go.

[Tarek El Moussa]

In Law and Order. He was a pedophile. You know, he's all the bad stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

He had to sit down with a casting director and they'd go, okay, well don't spit in your hand physically, but do you know just kind of what we call a dry run? He was gonna catch it on tape.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Red shirt in Star Trek Generation.

[Adam Carolla]

He had to do an audition and be like, okay, so I'm standing in a closet or on my knees, Bert, check the sides. Oh, oh, he's standing. Okay, well then the rich fat cat, what's he doing? He'd be like up on an air conditioning unit or something like that. And then this guy's probably offering up stuff as an actor, you know what I mean? Don't you think it'd be more realistic if I was on my knees and maybe he was like on my desk at my office? No, no, he's in a utility closet in A commercial building? Yeah, but there's no lock on the door. Doesn't it seem like a weird place for a fat cat to get sucked off? Like, why would the fat cat go to a utility closet in a hallway in a commercial building with no fucking lock on the door?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Greg, just get on your knees. Send in the lineman.

[Adam Carolla]

Hey, can I say this real quick? I'm not here to rewrite the script as the actor is sucking off the politician, but wouldn't I have, like, an executive bathroom? And what if we went in the stall of the executive bathroom and then they'd go like, well, where'd the blue collar guys get the key for the executive bathroom? And then I go, okay, hold on. Just listen. Maybe it's the janitor at the exec. Okay, you're trying to rewrite the script. You're in a hallway. You want the job or not?

[Tarek El Moussa]

The second AD is shuffling over the director. I don't think this thing with Greg's going to work out.

[Adam Carolla]

Your agent said on your bio that you could do stage combat, you could do an English in a cockney accent, you could ride Western and English style, and you could suck off politicians. So are we doing this or not? But that actor had to come home and share the news with somebody, right?

[Tarek El Moussa]

There's a pillow situation. There's a pillow or yoga mat. Like, what are we doing down there? You know, he's down there all day.

[Adam Carolla]

We got to see it again. And by the way, are you sucking them off or are you yanking him off? Because what's with the hand spit? Yeah, I mean, did you think he.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Improvised a combo of both? We know that.

[Adam Carolla]

Can you imagine going back to, like.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I don't know, Victorian England?

[Adam Carolla]

No, no, no, no. This country, okay? Go back to this country to, like, 1944 and find the guy, resurrect him. Reanimate the guy who wrote a chicken in every pot, in a car, in every garage. That's what I'm running on. Roosevelt, one of those guys did a chicken. He said, my commercial is, you vote for me, there's going to be a chicken in your pot, there's going to be a car in your garage. And then we go, here's the future political ass. And he'd be like, what the. What are those two fellas doing?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Wait, wait. First he'd be like, wow, the color's amazing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, color's amazing.

[Tarek El Moussa]

What are these? And where are they? Spacemen?

[Adam Carolla]

Hoover.

[Tarek El Moussa]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

What year did Hoover do the chicken in every pot and a car in every garage? But we went from that to maintenance guys catching guys sucking dudes off in a closet. All right, we'll run it one more time. Let's.

[Tarek El Moussa]

My taxes.

[Adam Carolla]

So expensive. I know. Tell me about it.

[Dawson]

Oh, my God.

[Producer/Announcer]

What are you doing?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Why?

[Adam Carolla]

It's gonna hand. You sucked off.

[Producer/Announcer]

I'm fundraising for re election and servicing.

[Adam Carolla]

My sugar daddy and lowering his taxes.

[Producer/Announcer]

You said you're gonna lower our taxes, man.

[Adam Carolla]

Sorry, you didn't give me any money. Now, if you'll excuse me, Daddy paid.

[Producer/Announcer]

For full service and I'm always a.

[Adam Carolla]

Good boy for it.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Him. Dude, that's a good ad. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. That's so damn funny.

[Dawson]

The guys in the yellow vest had to be directed. Look, you're disgusted, but you're not that disgusted.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah, cuz. Cuz, yeah. Gay guys are cool.

[Dawson]

In a normal circumstance, you just run.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, gay guys are cool, but guys who aren't gay sucking off other dudes aren't cool. I think that's it. I mean, yeah, that's 1928. Was the chicken in every pot and the car in every garage.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm. And, well, we went from that to this, everybody. From Herbert Hoover to this. So here we are.

[Tarek El Moussa]

That's not on tv. You can't play that on ktla.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I think it's on the Internet.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Okay, I got it.

[Adam Carolla]

We went from a chicken in every pot to a cock in every mouth and a car in every garage to load in everyone's hair. Jesus Christ. Are we coming undone? We are coming undone, everybody. So, I don't know, it would be curious who that actor is because that's a weird gig to take for an actor.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Thinking of hiring him, I look do little bits on the vlog over there.

[Adam Carolla]

I believe I believed him. I think he ad libbed the hand loogie.

[Tarek El Moussa]

No, no, that was a definite Hakatua.

[Adam Carolla]

In the shout out to the Hakatuh girl.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Exactly. He did the Haktua, so you knew what was going on. He looked like Vladimir Putin.

[Adam Carolla]

But do you need the hawk tua for the blow job to continue? That would.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I prefer it.

[Adam Carolla]

You do?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. I mean, look, if she's gonna hawk to a spin on a thing, not gonna wipe it off.

[Adam Carolla]

See, to me, the hock to us suggests the hand job.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Nah, it's part of the entire package. Man, I gotta teach you about sloppy Toppy. Good Lord, Carolla, you taught me all that sex on Loveline many years ago. Now I'm over here teaching you.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, let's Take a brief survey. I'm looking at you, Booth. Hock to a girl. My definition or my takeaway from hawk to a girl after seeing several porn renditions of it was her spitting on the guy's hog, not in her hand. I thought hock to it was on the phallus, not in the hand. This guy did the hawk to it into the hand, which now suggests hand job. When he was all knelt over for blowjob.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Well, they established how he wiped his mouth, so they already got it in there.

[Adam Carolla]

It says hock to A on that thing. So he's not talking about a palm. I don't know. All right, this is the modern day we're living in. These are the politicians. All right, Andrew, you can try to find that actor. Let me see him. Get his agent on the phone. I'd like to interview him, which is funny because there's got to be a breakdown. Yeah, we need pathetic actor on his knees.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Did he get SAG scale? I mean, I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. Also, there's. There's also rich contributor who's being sucked off.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, the Bruce Buffer look alike.

[Adam Carolla]

Yep. All right, there's this, too. I saw this on the way here. I don't know what your thoughts are on it, but I'm willing to get them.

[Tarek El Moussa]

All right.

[Adam Carolla]

I literally had someone tweet me the day before saying I flushed the toilet with my foot. Sorry. Like, at the airport, you know? And I also see the guys who open the door with the push panel with their foot. Right? And I'm like, well, now you're taking PP floor and putting it on the door where I put my hand.

[Tarek El Moussa]

All right. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And you're also taking pee pee off the floor and putting it on the handle of the toilet where I would put my hand. So I'm not a fan of that, and I don't like it. But I saw something interesting today, which was guy rode his bike, pulled up the intersection, and did the foot press of the crosswalk button.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Sick.

[Adam Carolla]

Which is. Now we got sidewalk foot going up to this now. I don't care about germs, and I just push them all with my hand, and I never wash my hands, and I'm fine. I just don't like it from a societal standpoint. This is a little more of my family education thing. I don't like where this guy's head's at little. It's a narcissistic.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I think sidewalk foot is minor compared.

[Adam Carolla]

To, like, bathroom foot.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. And. And to your point, Opening the bathroom door with your foot. I mean, airport foot. It's definitely in between bathroom foot and sidewalk foot.

[Adam Carolla]

So rank the order.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I'm ranking sidewalk foot low. I mean, sidewalk. Maybe get some spit, Maybe get some.

[Adam Carolla]

DNA somewhere on there.

[Tarek El Moussa]

But mostly it's just road dust, and there's no water growing anything, you know, so it's just cooking. There's no bacteria really able to survive this mass wasteland of the asphalt.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they do talk about how bad the asbestos and the brake dust and stuff is.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Nothing can survive. Now, bathroom is a wet area where bacteria proliferates as a petri dish of kinds.

[Adam Carolla]

So bathroom footsteps by walking through the airport.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Nah.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's airport bathroom foot.

[Tarek El Moussa]

You're not even allowed to bring any water through. So the floor is relatively clean.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm just thinking, oh, I think airport bathroom.

[Tarek El Moussa]

If I have to pick to lick something.

[Adam Carolla]

Sidewalk, sidewalk.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Rather lick the sidewalk airport.

[Adam Carolla]

I have airport bathroom as the worst.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Because guys are in there doing what with impunity? They don't care. See, there's a. There's. It's like driving a rental car. They're in there. This guy's home. This guy lives outside of Cincinnati. He's in Burbank now. He doesn't know a soul. You know what I mean? It is. There's a judgment free defecation zone. That guy can blow up that entire bathroom and walk out going. It's not like I'm running to one of my neighbors or something, you know? I mean, you can't do that on your home turf.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I know. You're right. Put your foot up, squirt every which way. I don't clean it up. No need toilet brush. What the hell? No toilet brush. You're leaving that for the next guy to pee off? Like a video game. Mario Brothers.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you pee off the poop?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. I mean, it's the original video game for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You know, I feel more to my service. There's some things I feel curious about. I feel very curious about the rogue pube on top of the urinal. Me too, because you're standing there, and It's a good 14 inches above your dick. How did the pube get on top?

[Tarek El Moussa]

I can just imagine, like a nice breeze come through and it float down like a Forrest Gump feather.

[Adam Carolla]

I picture an NBA baller, maybe.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Oh, it's swinging low.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, but he's starting up high.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Up high, obviously, but, like, just drive, drip.

[Adam Carolla]

Or you just pull out your junk with such zeal that it just flies.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. You know what? I mean, you ever caught. Caught eye of the air and realized.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, what race the guy was with the pube?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. You know, you could match that pube to somebody sitting in the airport lounge.

[Adam Carolla]

You're right. Except for I have a black man's pube, so we couldn't do this. All right, another subject. The. I was listening to the song in the car the other day. We can't find that guy.

[Tarek El Moussa]

That's a shame. He hid that role in Shame. He used a. What do you call it?

[Adam Carolla]

Like, well, writing Pseudonym.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. Pseudonym.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Don't we have. There's gotta be. What? There's some app that the kids have on their phone called, like, Shazam. And you just hold it up and it'll tell the music. There needs to be an app where you just see a picture guy of someone's face and you go, that's who that guy is.

[Tarek El Moussa]

You reverse image search things all the time.

[Adam Carolla]

But yeah, let me ask you this. I was listening to the song in the car the other day in the jungle. The jungle. All right. Yeah. Now, couple things. I was listening to the. Or the 80s. They did a reboot of that. Like in the 80s. It became a hit. Yeah, except for it's the exact same song. You don't need to remake songs exactly the same. You need to put your own stink on them. I've told you guys this a million times. Do not remake a song from the 60s in the 80s or the 90s that sounds exactly like the one in the 60s, because we already have the one in the 60s. We don't need you. All right, but then. So in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps. And then I started thinking about lion, king of the jungle. And then I was like, they don't live in the jungle.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, I know.

[Adam Carolla]

They live in the Serengeti. They live in the tall grass. They live in the desert, basically. And then I thought, who started this and why the fuck did they do this? And my head was scrambled as a kid because I didn't do my research. I was just like, lions live in the jungle because they're the king of the jungle. Because they sleep there at night. And I'm like, they're not in the jungle. But we don't say, you know, we don't say tree snakes in the Serengeti. Or we don't see salamanders in the Serengeti. Like, we don't say alligators where they're not supposed to be. Why do we put the lion somewhere it's not supposed to be? And Then why do we go along with this travesty?

[Tarek El Moussa]

I don't know, but it's an institution.

[Adam Carolla]

I. Once again, how did we get to a top 10 song dedicated about where an animal sleep?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Came out?

[Adam Carolla]

And they sleep.

[Tarek El Moussa]

They didn't even have encyclopedias back then.

[Adam Carolla]

They sleep in the wrong place. And it's also. They're not the king of the jungle.

[Tarek El Moussa]

But Serengini has like four syllables.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I know. It just. I don't like it. I don't. I. I don't like that there's two big references to lions being the king of the jungle and sleeping in the jungle, and it's not where they live. And I bet they don't like it.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, I mean, I don't think anybody likes it. I think the king of the jungle is the elephant.

[Adam Carolla]

Lions eat gazelles and they eat zebras. I'm trying to think, all right, their number one diet, right? Zebras, gazelles, and antelope, none of which live in the jungle. So how could they fucking subsist off an animal that. That didn't live in the jungle if in fact they were the king of the jungle? It makes me angry.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I don't know why that makes it, but, I mean, it is a good point. Fair point.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, moving on. Somebody tweeted me a Japanese execution chamber and. You've been to Japan? How many times you been to Japan?

[Tarek El Moussa]

I don't know. I lived there for a while. Maybe 20.

[Adam Carolla]

20 times?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. But I lived there for months at a time also.

[Adam Carolla]

How was it?

[Tarek El Moussa]

It was very interesting and strange. Completely different culture. You get homesick after a while.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

How were you treated?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Pretty well.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I was like a big deal, so they had to hide me from the ladies trying to chase me into the hotel. It was like a beetle.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. It was bizarre.

[Adam Carolla]

Japanese ladies acting that way. Yeah. Wow.

[Tarek El Moussa]

The couple may have snuck through. I don't know. I won't tell.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. So they have Japanese groupies.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, any sport, you know, we're at the top of the game and people. There's a media circus. That happens. Yeah, it's pretty. It was pretty amazing.

[Adam Carolla]

You like the food?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Loved it. Yeah. And, you know, it's weird, like, bento box is a regular thing. It's like a little box that, you know, you can eat lunch real quick. It's like a to go box. Perfect food. Yeah. I don't know. I had a great. The weird thing is, though, you know, I was pretty good. Proficient at Japanese, but not fluent, so it was many, many A dinner with me just cocking my head left and right, going, what? And missing being able to have a nice conversation in English.

[Adam Carolla]

But you could speak some Japanese some back then.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. I was like, adept to be able to get around and get a girlfriend.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm. Society was a clean and orderly.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Very. I asked one time, my brother Rio Chonen, a great fighter from out there, I asked him, hey, why are these people homeless? And I said. He said, they don't have money. And I said, no, no, no. But like, why? Are they drunks or whatever? No, they had. No. Have a money. And I was like, yeah, but like, are they mentally ill? No. Have a money.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm. And that was.

[Tarek El Moussa]

It really clicked my brain. I was like, oh, okay, I get it.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Tarek El Moussa]

No, they do. They have like tent Cities there too. It happens. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So I was. Somebody tweeted me something I thought was interesting, which is a Japanese execution chamber.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, I'm not familiar with this. Can't imagine it's very nice.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I would.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I'd put you down like a dog, I would.

[Adam Carolla]

First off, it's kind of weird because when you hear people, and I don't know what their policy is over there, and maybe we can look it up, but they have an execution chamber, so they must do executions over there.

[Tarek El Moussa]

They go quick, too. The funny thing about Japanese I do know this, that when you're sentenced to death, you don't have a date. They just come and get you and then kill you. Like, you're so sad. That's part of the torture. Is that, guess what? You did something that bad every day, you're gonna wonder, is this my last day? It's very Zen. I like it.

[Adam Carolla]

If I was arguing against that policy, I'd be like, all right, I get it, it's torture and we're looking to inflict some pain, but you want these guys beating off like it's their last day, every fucking night. Because who's gonna clean up that mess? Because if you tell me, Carolla, you're going at sunrise tomorrow, guess who's hopping in a mop closet with a friendly politician? Like, is there any possible way, you know, the preachers coming to the. If you, if you think you're going the next morning, is there any possible way you don't rub one out that night? Is it possible?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Every day you're cranking the hog.

[Adam Carolla]

You have to. Because every day could be your last day. And could you imagine forgetting to beat off the night before, thinking you're good because you've been there for like three years. And all of a sudden you hear the boots coming down the hall and the preacher and you're like, give me a minute.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I hate to tell you, Carolla, I live every day like it's my last.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, abundanza. That's what we say in Italian. So 1933, Japanese performed no executions, making the United states the only G7 country to execute capital punishment. The last execution in Japan was end of July 2022. So now there's 106 on death row as we speak. So they suspended it, but they did it. All right, so the Japanese death chamber, and I know we're looking at a picture of it, but I need more of the description of it, which I find kind of interesting.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, what are death sentence worthy crimes in Japan? They don't have much gun crimes. It has to be like stabbing people to death or this type of.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I mean, I guess we're looking at a pretty sterile looking. What looks like a commercial office.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, it does.

[Adam Carolla]

Room.

[Tarek El Moussa]

But everything in Japan kind of looks like this.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Okay, but I need to discuss this. I need the description. The description of it as follows. Maybe Dawson has it.

[Dawson]

No, I don't. And it's just a nice, ominous music bed underneath.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, well, somebody tweeted me something that had a description on it because I guess looking at it over and over again is not gonna work for us.

[Tarek El Moussa]

On the floor, on the tatami.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. It says, taken video inside a Japanese execution chamber. In Japan, death row inmates, inmates aren't told their execution date. They find out on the day of, a trap door opens below the inmate and three prisoners press. So they put a noose around their neck, I guess. Unless they fall into a pit of alligators. But it's funny, they kind of skip the part about putting the noose around their neck, but.

[Tarek El Moussa]

But we get it. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

They stand on this square, they put the noose around their neck, and the trap door opens. Now, couple things. They have three buttons that all the guards push simultaneously, so nobody knows who's responsible. Yeah, so I got a couple of different takes. Yeah, it's sort of like the firing squad with the 10 guys and one guy's a blank, or five guys and one guy's a blank. So they said not telling the date is a way to torture the person, which I get. I think I would like to know the date. But also knowing the date's kind of a form of torture too, if you see it coming down the road, you know. Now if you said, look, you got 10 years, I'd go like that. Who cares? But if you said you got 60 days, that would be a fairly tortured and masturbation filled 59 days going on a romp. So this thing opens the gallows. I bet if I worked in this building, my office would be directly below the hatch, and I'd just be sitting there at my fucking desk working on shit, bouncing around. Right.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Like Jurassic Park.

[Adam Carolla]

So I don't know what we're looking at a picture of right here.

[Tarek El Moussa]

This is the lounge, I believe.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you got to wait in a lounge. This is the room where the inmates can meet a religious advisor before execution. Oh, okay.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Talk to Jesus.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And then they hook it all up. It's pretty sterile. Looks pretty good. Here's all right, you want to know why I'm talking about this.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, yeah. It's interesting.

[Adam Carolla]

I have said, and I would run on this, if I was a politician, I'd go bring back the gallows. Yes. No, no. Here's what I would do. Here's what I would do. First of the Japanese do stuff, a lot of stuff better than us. There's stuff we do better than them. But it's like these guys do scaffolding around a building that's made of all bamboo and it can hold £500. Like, I mean, they do. They're light and they're fast. You know, I got a Datsun 5'ten back there. That Datsun 510 has little 13 inch rims. It's a tub. It doesn't have a frame because they do a monocoque. They do a structural body. Their body is their frame.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Oh, okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Americans put a big piece of steel and another big piece of steel and they make it rigid with a big heavy frame. But the Japanese and others figured out we'll make the unit itself. The frame will make it stiff. That thing has a little four cylinder engine and, you know, 1.8 liter. It'll go to Laguna Seca and whoop up on a lot of the big Mustangs and Trans Ams and muscle cars from the 60s.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, yeah. His contemporaries.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. And what people don't really realize is. You can stop scrolling pictures, please. What people don't really realize is it's 60 per hundred cubic inches. Sorry, it's a liter for every 60 cubic inches. So meaning a 1.8 is like, for the sake of argument, let's just say it's 100 cubic inches. Those cars have 327s and 350s. I mean, their engines are three times the size. They're not twice the size. They're three times plus the size and.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Don'T have the output.

[Adam Carolla]

And they got 550 horsepower and that thing's got 200 horsepower and it'll still whoop up on it on the track because it's nimble and it's light and it's efficient. And that's what Japan is. They make their shit light and efficient. Now, as far as ideas and technology goes, all you ever hear about these days with tariffs is China. They're ripping off our technology. They take our ideas and then they make them cheaper and lighter and faster and sell them back and everyone buys them, right?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. So China realizes, look, we're good at stuff, we're good at manufacturing, but we're not great at the idea part. Why bother coming up with ideas. Take their fucking ideas, rip them off, and then make their golf clubs and their chips and whatever it is they're working on. Just make it faster.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

The. The Japanese. I have a car. It's a Paul Newman car. It's a big twin turbo car, has a V8 engine in it out of a Japanese car model. And I said to some of the engine guys, I didn't really know about Japanese making V8s back in the 70s. They said, well, they have a big Imperial, like, limousine that had a V8 in it. And I said, what was their V8 like? And they said, well, they basically took the Ford bottom end and put the Chevy top end on it. And I was like, yeah, they just ripped us off. They went, why are we making a V8 when those guys have been making V8s for a million years? So we'll just take their V8 and make a little scramble out of it. We'll take the part we like about the Ford, and we'll take the part we like about the Chevy. Then we'll make our own V8. Yeah, okay. Why don't we just rip off everyone's good ideas? That's my whole thing. You've been in Europe? First time I went to Europe, stand out front of a pub. Saw the urinal thing with drops in place in front of the pub. Three guys using it. Once back, turned to society, open, taking a piss. Not pissing all over the dumpster or the alley, whatever, smelling like piss everywhere. Every stairwell and every parking structure smells like piss. Okay. I go, why? Don't see. What I'm saying is, as a politician, I'd go, I'm gonna fucking travel the globe and I'll rip off everyone's good ideas.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Great idea.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm just gonna bring it back here. So we're arguing over lethal injection, and we're arguing over everything. And I'm like, you guys, like. You like sushi, right? Yeah, I love sushi. Where'd that come from? Japan. Okay. But you like it, right? Yeah. Okay. Are you eating pot roast every night and stew. And the answer is no. We like their sushi. We like the sushi idea. Good. They do. We'll just rip off their idea. If you do something efficiently, you do something quickly, you do something well, then we'll go. We'll take the death chamber from Japan, and we'll take the bathroom from London, the urinal, and we'll just. We'll bring it all over, rip it off. Whatever your ideas are, we'll do it.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I'M down with this idea. Down? Yeah. Hell yeah. I mean, I wish I could come to work on a damn train. Just.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, whatever the bullet train, whatever it is you got, we're taking it.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I did that bullet train in Japan. I sat in a 220 miles an hour train. Is bizarre. I got all the way to Merced.

[Adam Carolla]

Really? No, I took my. That was a brain fart. You're right. That's a good joke. And I fucked it up.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Now you're great.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You know why you did a. You did a Merced. You hit a syllable different and I thought it was a place. Yeah, I thought you hit a place that I didn't know about. All right, you got some news in front of you.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I do have some news. Look, first up, Los Angeles news station accidentally post the N word on X. Called a technical error.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. Apparently they said that they were trying to use the language filter to the social media accounts and the offensive word was accidentally shared. We are appalled and apologize that this occurred.

[Adam Carolla]

I like that.

[Tarek El Moussa]

They're appalling. Oh, my God.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, look, here's the.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Put it up, guys.

[Adam Carolla]

Here's the.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Here's the thing flagged.

[Adam Carolla]

If you don't do stuff on purpose, it's no harm, no foul. We got to get that. We got to get that right. You use it trying to hurt somebody or denigrate somebody, then it's something. If you use it by mistake, then it's a non deal. It's just embarrassing. But it's not. You know, it's basically like we caught a ring, door, camera, you pissing on your own lawn. It's like. Yeah, I know, but I had to take a piss. It was my lawn. They don't mean anything bad, but it's fun.

[Dawson]

In what world though is that a mistake? How, how. What explanation could you possibly give that. That word got tweeted? I'm not buying the mistake thing. I think there's somebody on the inside who did it on purpose. Oh, and it's being thrown, you know, it's being buried.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Somebody's teenager.

[Adam Carolla]

LA news grabbed their phone. The reason I said somebody did it. Yeah, but here's Dawson. Every week since I've had this job, I've literally looked up at my plug screen and seen the wrong dates up there for. For every time.

[Dawson]

How many times have you seen the N word?

[Adam Carolla]

Only three. Only three. No, I have. I've seen so many mistakes in my life, it's insane how many mistakes. I see. So now I do get. If there's something in it for you now.

[Dawson]

Well, who's to say that the person who did this wasn't trying to hurt ktla?

[Tarek El Moussa]

That's a possibility right now, baby.

[Adam Carolla]

They experience a technical error while adding language filters. See, this is the part too where if you're going, here's the word and I'm going to add it. Well, you have the word. If the word comes out of thin air, I'm more with you, Dawson. If you're adding language filters and you have to put like if you put cocksucker on there, and I'd go, why would you write that? And go, well, it was in our language filter.

[Dawson]

Still not buying it. Why on earth. How many times do you have to remind yourself a day not to say the answer? N word. Zero. Okay, good. Why do you need to put it into a language filter to make sure that you don't say it?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I. Look, I don't think it's that what I.

[Tarek El Moussa]

The way it works for you. I think it's the way it works, Dawson, is that. That when other people tweet at that account, that word, then they. They have a script that will auto block those people so that it filters it out. It's not saying that KTLA is going to do that.

[Dawson]

Still not believable.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Oh, okay.

[Adam Carolla]

It's not.

[Dawson]

No, it's not believable at all.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Jet fueled. Why?

[Dawson]

Because it came from their Twitter.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Steel beams.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But if you're right, if you're making a list of words that you're gonna filter out and that's on the list.

[Dawson]

Why would it singularly be in the tweet? This thing doesn't make sense.

[Adam Carolla]

No, but it seems like a mistake is what I'm saying. I don't know that it. I don't know that it's. That it's on purpose.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I'll try to explain. There's probably a dialog box right, right next to their open Twitter and somebody put that word in the wrong box and then press Zen. Bingo, bango, mystery solved. But you know what? I like your explanation. That they're on purpose going viral.

[Dawson]

Well, cool. And also, in the interest of parody, I just want to say that I wasn't exclusively getting drunk on a boat for a week. I worked 13 hour days, five days straight, and I got done. I got drunk after.

[Adam Carolla]

I get it after. No judgment here. I'm saying people make mistakes, at least around me, all day, every day with insane mistakes constantly. So I'm always open to the fact that somebody screwed up. That's what I'M I guess I'm a.

[Dawson]

Little more on the pessimistic side. I think it was purposefully done.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I guess it would have to be by someone who's disgruntled, who worked for ktla. Correct. And maybe they'll find out who that person is. But I still. The problem is, is plausible deniability. If someone says, we have to make a list of words you can't say that we filter out and this is one of them and it ended up in the wrong box, then I will go, that's plausible deniability.

[Dawson]

Plausible deniability followed by a lack of follow up. What if Fox News tweeted the N word? Would we ever hear the end of it? Well, language filters. No way. You're all racist.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I agree. If Nancy. No, not Nancy Grace. If, you know, Sean Hannity did that, yes, we would be hearing about it. All right, what else?

[Tarek El Moussa]

All right, next up, Minneapolis becomes the first large US city to allow Islamic prayer calls over the speakers. Yeah. The new ordinance allows the Islamic call, or adan, to be broadcast on loudspeakers from the city's nearly two dozen mosques five times a day, including at dawn and in late evening. You thought the church bells was tough.

[Adam Carolla]

I got hit by dueling backup beepers yesterday. Dueling dueling backup beepers. I was just like, oh, God, God, no. God, no. Are these sirens going off at dawn? Yeah. Look, first off, set your fucking alarm if you want to pray or do anything. I don't know what the range of the Islamic call to prayer alarm is, but it cannot be 12ft. It's got to be into the acres, you know?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, yeah, you're right.

[Adam Carolla]

So listen, I'm just saying I'm upstairs and I'm 65ft away from these trucks and I can hear it like I'm standing behind them, just neat, neat, neat, and it's all right. Do we have them?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. This is a shofar. And we are not in the Middle East.

[Adam Carolla]

We're in the U.S. it's Minnesota. Minneapolis.

[Dawson]

Some guy's trying to rock the Doobie Brothers in the background.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right. Slow ride, Phillips me down the most.

[Producer/Announcer]

Dangerous neighborhood in Minneapolis.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Minneapolis come off the rails, it's going to turn to a shithole. And I don't like any of this shit. But go ahead, get your woke bona fides and ruin your fucking state.

[Tarek El Moussa]

It's because there's a lot of Somali refugees or people that live there. They all moved in.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah, I know. But here's the Whole thing, you fled a place because that place was a piece of shit. And then you came here because this place wasn't a piece of shit. So let's not turn this into the piece of shit that you fled. Everyone hates that kind of tough, tough talk, but I'm doing it for you Somali refugees. We got a better way life over here. Come join us. No problema. But that's not the new world order. It doesn't work. You go into. It's been a while, but you go into, like, deep North Hollywood, Sun Valley, Sunland, fucking Tijuana. It's just Tijuana. And here's the whole thing. You guys left Tijuana because Tijuana was a piece of shit. So don't recreate Tijuana here.

[Dawson]

You don't even have to go that far. Van eyes at Roscoe. Van eyes at Sherman.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, Sherman Way. Which is a weird thing, but I left it off.

[Dawson]

Sorry.

[Adam Carolla]

Not the pch. My whole life, it's weird. From here, I'm the enforcer of street name. When you say the pch, I go. It's just pch.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And. But if you say Sherman, I go Sherman Way. So I will either add or subtract a word from your street name, because I'm from the 818, bro.

[Dawson]

I purposely don't use the does when I'm talking about freeways.

[Adam Carolla]

Good.

[Dawson]

405 to 101.

[Adam Carolla]

More efficient. All right, we got one more.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, we do. Let's go with the Blue Origin mission with all female crew, including Katy Perry, completes the space trip. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Here's what I'm kind of interested in.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I know that the Blue Origin one is almost just become like some sort of magic mountain ride at this time.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But if somebody said to me, adam, would you like to go on the Blue Origin rocket ship and go up top and just orbit for. Not even orbit, just go up beyond the Earth's atmosphere for a while, float for four minutes, and then come back down. I'd go, yeah, I would. But I've seen a lot of footage of SpaceX rockets, like, blowing up. So. And I know this isn't that, but what's so different about what we're doing and what you're doing now?

[Tarek El Moussa]

You got Katy Perry on there going, we're a firework.

[F]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, you got a payload, and you're doing an orb. You're putting a satellite in orbit, and you got a lot more tonnage to move and stuff like that. But, you know, when Elon started with this Doge business. Some crafty Democrat put together a montage of his shit blowing up, which unfortunately, I saw on my feed. And now you want me to get in your rocket ship. And he's the rocket guy and you're the Amazon guy, but I don't think.

[Tarek El Moussa]

The Amazon guy blew up many.

[Adam Carolla]

That's what I'm saying.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Pushing the envelope. He's like, got a very safe.

[Adam Carolla]

A phallic rocket. Right. So, okay, can we say this? We're saying. All right, Elon is saying, I'm doing the quarter mile. I'm at the drag strip. It's 1,000ft now, but let's just call it a quarter mile. I'm at the drag strip. I got a top fuel rail thing, makes 10,000 horsepower, runs on nitro. And I'll go, and I'm going to do this thousand feet. I'm going to do it in 2.7 seconds at 330 miles an hour. And I'll go, yeah, but I've seen a lot of those blow up, too. I've seen some real bad accidents. Yeah, well, you're going 330 miles an hour when you cross a thousand feet. Shit's going to happen sometimes. Yeah, but then I look at this car, I look at. I look at Bezos, and he goes, I'm doing the quarter mile, too, but it's in a stock Camaro, and we're probably only going to be doing about 125, 130 when we cross the traps at the end. It's pretty. Pretty safe. Shit, something could happen. But it's pretty. That's this.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So is that kind of what this is? Because he's using a rocket ship, but it's so much safer than the other rocket ship.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's because he's trying to do less.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, exactly. Right. Less payload. Yeah. And, you know, set it up for one minute, float in space, so it's not quite as high. I don't even know if it counts as. Like, it doesn't break the barrier of the atmosphere, I believe, like, it breaks just to the tip of the atmosphere, outside the stratosphere, and then back down. It's very safe.

[Adam Carolla]

They get into a zero gravity situation over there for a minute.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, they did it. That's what I read that it was one minute of it. And then Katy Perry did sing. Not the fireworks song. It was, you know, more of a publicity stunt, it seems like, because he sent his lady up there. He sent his fiance, who's a journalist and a helicopter pilot.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Tarek El Moussa]

But, you know, she's not an astronaut. And Gayle King, Oprah's bestie, went so about as safe as get for space travel.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Producer/Announcer]

All right.

[Adam Carolla]

So I think the whole ride was 11 minutes long. And I know people get into like, oh, what are you doing? You claim to be into the atmosphere and you're burning all this carbon and all this kind of, I don't know, let the fucking guy do what he wants, let the chicks in. And some are saying that's a farce, but who cares, right?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's also, you know, I will say this about NASA astronauts. It's the same thing I said to Mark Gergos, attorney when Kim Kardashian was trying to pass the bar. I said, you better fucking hope she doesn't pass that bar. And he goes, why not? Because when you say I'm an attorney, someone will go, oh, like Kim Kardashian. And then they'll start laughing and walk away. So like Gus Grissom or Buzz Aldrin would be like, I'm an astronaut. Oh, like Katy Perry, that's funny. And then they'd walk away. All right, Tarek El Moussa is out there. He's a real estate investor, TV personality and has a TV show, Flippin 101. We'll talk to him about all things homes and flipping and all that. We'll do that right after this. Rough greens. Sometimes in life, if you want to get to the truth, you have to look at the numbers. Naturopathic Dr. Dennis Black, the creator of Rough Greens, by the way, very passionate about his work and his contribution to your pets. He loves them. He doesn't need to do it. Talk to him for quite a while about it. But he tells us that unfortunately, about 50% of all dogs 10 years or older are going to die of cancer. And it's widely attributed to your dog's diet. Let's fix that. There is good news out there. With thousands of testimonials and five star reviews every month, ruffgreens is now the number one all natural dog supplement in America. I use this stuff with my dog, Phil. I've told you about this. You just sprinkle it on their food. You don't need to change a dog's food to change a dog's diet. Use rough greens. It's alive. It has all the nutrients your dog needs for its health. You'll notice the difference almost immediately. Just add a scoop of Rough greens to their food. Am I right? Dawson, fetch a free Jumpstart trial bag.

[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

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[Tarek El Moussa]

Hey, Adam. I'm pretty sure I know how to make all sports better.

[Adam Carolla]

Let them all fight like the NHL.

[Tarek El Moussa]

But the NFL, the mlb, soccer, whatever. Let them have fist fights in the.

[Adam Carolla]

Middle of the ring, and whoever goes down wins. Get it on.

[Dawson]

You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744.

[Adam Carolla]

Tark El Moussa in studio. Flipping 1011 is on Thursday nights, 9pm on HGTV. Good to see you.

[Producer/Announcer]

Good to see you, too.

[Adam Carolla]

It's flipping. I think people like the notion of it, but maybe they're a little scared of it.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah. Well, I know you know a little bit about construction. It's been a nightmare last couple years. It's been the most difficult it's ever been. So I've seen a lot of people get their butts kicked late.

[Adam Carolla]

What is like, people do ask me sometimes. They go, I got a house. I'm gonna flip it. I got, you know, limited budget. Where should that money go?

[Producer/Announcer]

You know, it just depends on how big of a project there is. So, like, I'll say you want to do the easy things. You want to green grass, you want to clean up the landscaping, you want to paint the exterior, paint the interior inside, you want to clean up carpets. If you want to spend a little bit of money without breaking the bank, instead of retiling showers, you can retile bathroom floors. But really, the goal is, if you're just trying to get your own house ready to sell, just clean it up as nice as you can without spending too much money. Now, if you're looking to flip a house, it's a totally different ballgame.

[Adam Carolla]

I found that you can paint tile.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah, you can.

[Adam Carolla]

And I've been doing it for a long time, and now it's kind of a thing. But the biggest pain in the ass or expense is people come into a bathroom, the house is from the 70s or the 80s, and they go, it's fine, but I hate the tile. And tile is not like a roof a roof. You can put a roof on top of a roof up to like three roofs and probably go more if the inspector's not looking, but you just put it on top. Tile is busted out. Bust out the tile, probably the float. It's a mess, and it's a lot to float it. Hardie, backer, whatever, cement board, retile grout, you know, thinset everything. Or you can just paint it all, like, white, and it kind of goes away.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Really?

[Adam Carolla]

And there's tile paint and there's even a way to like charge it with a negative electricity or something. And it can be done and it doesn't really cost that much.

[Tarek El Moussa]

So it looks flat all. Or does it look like there's tiles under there?

[Producer/Announcer]

It looks okay. It's the exact same tile but it looks like a brand new white tile. So it's actually called re glazing. So there's two ways to do it. You can go to like the Home Depot or Lowe's and you can buy like a self reglazing kit which never really works. Or you can hire a professional. It's like four or five hundred dollars. They'll come in glaze an entire shower white. So whatever pattern was there before, it's still there. It's just brand new looking and bright white.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. And the thing that gave it the shitty 80s look is the weird rose colored bar that went through the thing on the off brown tile. And it's like. And so women go, oh, it looks like shit. Paint it all white. Make it go away. It'll just go away.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah, but most people don't know. You can actually take out just one row of tile, leave the rest, replace that row, then paint it white and remove the weird patterns. So there's a lot of tricks and hacks you can do.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, well, what some other like little hacks you could.

[Producer/Announcer]

You know, here's the truth. I'm not really, I'm not good at hacks when it comes to like the construction side of things. What I'm good at is finding like real estate deals, off market deals, how to find motivated sellers, how to, how to find like mold houses. The worst houses you can find. Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Are they, is there going to be a lot of stuff going on? And like Altadena for instance, like so just so people are listening, the average house that off the top of my head, but the average house that burnt down in Malibu was 6.7 million bucks. There's ones up the hill, but there's ones on the Ocean. Maybe it's 7.7 million bucks. And then the average one in the Palisades was 4.1. But in Altadena the average house was like 1:1 or 1:3 or whatever. That thing is lower. Sounds expensive to everyone. But here, lower end stuff, smaller lots, not near the ocean, blah, blah, blah. Are people gonna be rebuilding? Are they gonna be buying those lots up? Is there some sort of Blackwater thing going on where the man is gonna get the big defense contractors are gonna buy that shit up and hustle everybody.

[Producer/Announcer]

You know, that's a great question. I literally have no idea what's gonna happen. Don't know the environmental causes of the fires. If I were to guess, I would say the community is going to rebuild. I think some people will stay, some people will leave. And if it does get rebuilt, I think it's going to be really spectacular real estate in the future. And I think it's really, really needed. I mean, it's been devastating what has happened.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm looking at my screen and says the average price of a burnt down house in Altadena is 500 to 600 grand. But that cannot be correct.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Really? I thought it was like, well, first.

[Adam Carolla]

Off, there's no such thing as a place under $1 million that's a mile away from Pasadena that it's not five to six twice. Yeah, well, okay. My dad lived in a two bathroom, two bedroom, 1300 square foot, no swimming pool, small lot, shit box. Corolla's lived there, you know, I don't have to go any further than that in Altadena and like sold it for like 17 before he passed. So this 500 to 600 is like fat to the Internet. I say to that because you can't find a house for 500. You can go to the deepest, darkest part of North Hollywood, the shittiest barrio next to the freeway in the Marlboro sign. You don't get that right?

[Producer/Announcer]

No way, no way, no way, no way.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know why the Internet says 5, 6. The lot may be something like that.

[Producer/Announcer]

I mean, maybe the land value, but I mean that's the thing. Prices are just so damn high right now because there's no inventory, because so many people have low interest rates and so much equity. And even if they are in pain or they're facing financial struggle, they're going to fight to keep their houses. Where during the Great Recession, what are you fighting for? People owed 120% of what the house was worth, so they had nothing to fight for, they would just walk.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Is that the job, flipping? Is it like hunting sorrow and sadness? Like, isn't there a bit of like, this guy's on hard times now I'm going to. That's this thing.

[Producer/Announcer]

That is a great question. So in this industry you're going to come across two types of people. One group, they're going to prey on people. Another group, they're going to help people. So what's most important to me and my company is called Torque Buys Houses, is we are really dealing with people in shitty situations. And most people don't know this. When you're flipping houses, it's not always about having a shitty house. It's mostly a shitty situation. And a lot of times a shitty situation has a shitty house. But you're dealing with people going through real problems who are really struggling, who are upset, who are crying, who are really going through some in their life. So it's almost like we're counselors, to be honest with you, because, you know, we try to be good people, of course, but there are a lot of sharks out there that take advantage and manipulate and lie. So. So. So you're right.

[Tarek El Moussa]

More like you're trying to save the day for somebody.

[Producer/Announcer]

Oh, yeah, because, like, you'll come. I've had people running me. I'm losing my house in three days. I need $450,000 cash in 48 hours. Can you do it? I'm like, well, yeah, next time call me sooner.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I think the general. I mean, what I've said to everybody. And I bought and got into the game the second I could get into the game, not to flip, but to own, but de facto became a flipper because I'd buy another house and I'd work on it, and at some point I would sell it. But I wasn't flipping houses. I was just buying houses and working on them. But I would tell people all the time, just do it as soon as you can do it. Like, a lot of people didn't want to squeeze the trigger because they went, I don't know if it's a good time. And it's like, listen, I don't know that it's the best time, but it's always a good time to get in the game. Like, you literally have to get in the game of owning something. I wish they would teach you about being able to leverage stuff and take loans against stuff and essentially get in the game. Like when they talk about the haves and the have nots or the forgotten or the financially literate. Yeah. Somebody should be saying, get in the game. You just got to get started.

[Producer/Announcer]

I love this. I'm actually in the process of building a platform right now that's going to teach everyone about real estate at almost no cost at all. And it's going to be utilizing every single thing I know about real estate, leveraging AI and teaching people every single aspect of buying, selling, investing, renting, leveraging, getting a mortgage, what to look for, what not to look for. Because the truth about this industry, this is a commission based industry. So a lot of the professionals, their decisions are made around chasing these huge 50, 60, $100,000 checks. And what happens is when you're looking at a check that is $100,000, sometimes it gets in the way of you making the right decisions for your client. Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And also if you're talking about a percentage as a realtor, and it's sort of like, let's just say you're taking 5% and you're whacking it in half with the other realtor for the sake of argument. So then you're looking at 2.5. Right. And you got this house and the house is 2.2 million bucks. And now you're saying, well, there's a crack in the swimming pool and it's going to cost 25 grand. And I think they should have to pay for that. And at some point your realtor go, just take it, move on. Because two and a half percent of 25 grand is no nevermind to them. Why argue with the other guy? Why fuck up the deal potentially for two and a half percent of 25 grand?

[Producer/Announcer]

You nailed it on the head. And that's one of the biggest problems with the industry today. It is a commission based industry that's dealing with people's biggest asset. If you go across America, what is the number one asset that people have? It's their home.

[Adam Carolla]

Why?

[Producer/Announcer]

Well, they bought it for their family and then it went up because of inflation over time. They should have bought more, by the way. And what's happening is a lot of people are getting taken advantage of because of the huge commissions. Like I remember I was buying houses or flipping houses in 2010 and the commissions were $4,000. The same house is 35, 40,000, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And also kind of makes you. I mean, it's sort of like I make this argument with hot waitresses at expensive restaurants. They'll go, okay, well it came to $827. Don't do 20%, you gotta do 25. That bitch came by at the table two times and dropped off a baked potato. Yeah. And I'm like, the bottle of wine was 126 bucks, but she could have just dropped off two buck Chuck, what's the difference? And then I go, the chick who works at the Waffle House is busting her ass doing the same thing. Why she have to get rich? Why she need to average $800 an hour? That's all, that's all I'm saying. Let her average 100 bucks an hour.

[Producer/Announcer]

And that's kind of what it is with the real estate industry because you got to remember you got about 10% of the agents selling 90% of the houses. And the reason that real estate is so expensive because the average agent sells two to three homes a year, which means they don't make enough money to survive unless each check is big enough, Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Producer/Announcer]

And then the ones at the top who know what they're doing, they're good marketers and good closers. Well, they make millions. Why? Because they know how to convert leads. So it's a very interesting industry. And everything that's been happening with the commissions and Encompass and Zillow, it's just, it's kind of like the wild west right now. But like, I'm most excited about working on some reform in the real estate industry.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, well, what did you propose? Because that sounds kind of vague. You're expert at it. What would you say to change the industry?

[Producer/Announcer]

You know, I'm working on a few things right now. It's not gonna be out for a while, but I believe there's, there's a better model than commission base. I really, really do.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I think that's what I'm trying to wrap my head around.

[Producer/Announcer]

I mean, quite honestly, I've sold, I've flipped about a thousand houses in Southern California. All the houses I've sold were in house, no commissions on salaried agents.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Producer/Announcer]

So I think there's a better, better model out there and that, that will really serve people in a better way and especially utilizing, you know, artificial intelligence.

[Tarek El Moussa]

So you're trying to get Zillow to fuck chat GPT to have a baby.

[Producer/Announcer]

Sure, that would be funny.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Where do you think are you based out in la?

[Producer/Announcer]

I'm in Orange County, Newport beach, but by all over Southern California, as well as commercial real estate. We just finished a self storage facility in Surprise, Arizona with my company, TEM Capital, we're building a high rise condo hotel in Fort Lauderdale and we just bought 405 units in Texas.

[Adam Carolla]

Self storage, man. I always look at it and I go, I don't know how this works. But then I see them in nice neighborhoods and I see a lot of them popping up and I'm like, I think this is a real business. I also, I think I just liked a tweet where they were going through the storage unit where they have to auction them off, but no one knows what's in them.

[Tarek El Moussa]

A sore spot for me.

[Adam Carolla]

Corolla. Yeah.

[Tarek El Moussa]

You know, I went to prison and forgot to pay my storage. Somebody's got my Championship belts. You son of a bitch. Give me back my Sakuraba trophy.

[Adam Carolla]

Storage wars, asshole. They got your belts and your trophies and everything.

[Tarek El Moussa]

God bless their hearts. Probably in a land I never got.

[Adam Carolla]

This is a luggage one. I did a storage one and a luggage one. But I want to see the luggage.

[F]

Woman arriving at my door. If anyone recognizes this, you can go to the start. By the way, I bought unclaimed lost luggage from London Heathrow Airport. That's how it went. I'll pop the listing up on screen now of what? Where I got it from. But this is what ended up arriving at my door. If anyone recognizes this suitcase, then do let me know because I'd love to reunite you with your belongings. Okay, so all the luggage they sell is. Apparently the airport do absolutely everything to track down the owner for months. But.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, he's gonna pause it. I think they bid on the luggage like they bid on the storage. And you don't know if that storage is filled with Mayhem's belts.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Or Kim Kardashian's bootleg porn.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I mean, there was a kilo of cocaine in there, but I claim that.

[Adam Carolla]

Or there's just old DVDs of action movies from the 90s.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I had all the DVDs on the man show.

[Adam Carolla]

What the fuck? So I also am not sure how the law works. I would say, look, I've been to a million car auctions. I've been to real high end car auctions and I've done them in Pebble Beach. I've been in Florida. I've done all the high end ones. They present the car. You then you look over the car, you poke around, pop the hood and do everything. And they go, that's lot 227. It's been coming up around 3:00 today. But they don't go, lot 227. We're not telling you what kind of car it was.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So let's start the bidding at 100 grand. I go, fuck that. I want to see what the car is. There's a. I could get a Pinto. I could get a Lamborghini. I want to know what that car is.

[Producer/Announcer]

Welcome.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? No other. No other job really works.

[Producer/Announcer]

Oh, my God. When I first started buying at the auction, you have no idea what you're buying. You don't know what the inside looks like. You don't know if the house is falling over. You don't know people living there. It's a gamble.

[Adam Carolla]

They don't have photos.

[Producer/Announcer]

No, no, no. The court, the auction is done.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Outside of the numbers.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah, numbers. But the actual auction is done outside of the Santa Ana courthouse by, like, the entry doors. And a guy stands outside in the wind with an iPad. And there's a group of people and they're just saying, you know, this property going for sale. This property going for sale.

[Adam Carolla]

And what is that?

[Producer/Announcer]

It's wild. And I remember when I first started going to the auction, I'm like, this isn't professional at all. Like, it's not professional at all. And then sometimes it's risky because if you bid on a property that has a common name and it's tied to someone else, that you can end up in trouble later.

[Adam Carolla]

So it's weird because like. Like the car, you get a full inspection and a preview, and if it's a high end thing, they'll go, we're having a cocktail party at Gooding two weeks before they even come by and look at the cars or whatever. Livestock. You get to see the cow.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, right. Thinking the buddies of the storage people get to, like, peer over. You know what I mean? Look. What's storage?

[Adam Carolla]

No houses. Sort of like, you see a picture of the outside.

[Producer/Announcer]

But here's the problem. Why most people never actually make it because they're so worried about losing money or making the wrong decision, they never get started where. If I look at flipping 10 houses, and if I bought 10 houses at the auction, if I won eight out of 10, I'm a happy camper. If I lost on two, but I went on eight and I'm still ahead, I call that a win. So there is some risk, but it's all calculated strategy.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yep, same thing. I get it.

[Producer/Announcer]

It's like blackjack, you know, I know.

[Tarek El Moussa]

This guy's gonna win. This guy, I'm not so sure.

[Adam Carolla]

I just get in the game. I just tell people, get started.

[Producer/Announcer]

Agree.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't have to be a mogul. You don't have to clean up. You just. You just got to get started.

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah, I agree.

[Adam Carolla]

That's all.

[Producer/Announcer]

I think right now is a really good time to.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I'm on the edge of my seat. What happened to this fucking suitcase?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh. Oh.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Nothing in there.

[Adam Carolla]

No, she found. She found Uggs. I don't know what she expects to be in there. Like gold ingots.

[Producer/Announcer]

How much is that suitcase, though?

[Adam Carolla]

Suitcase worth?

[Producer/Announcer]

Something.

[Adam Carolla]

Something.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Go ahead.

[F]

Absolutely everything. To track down the owner for months. But unfortunately, sometimes their only option is to either burn it, which isn't great for the environment, or remove any personal info and sell it. This is actually my third Time ordering one of these and let me tell you, it's definitely a risk, but honestly, so much fun. Once I'd taken off the black wrapping. This is the suitcase that was underneath. It was this pink one which I.

[Adam Carolla]

Don'T want to spoil it, but a small Asian boy springs out.

[F]

Let me tell you.

[Adam Carolla]

It was.

[F]

Was definitely heavy. Now it's time for the moment of truth and to whack open the case to see what's inside. And here's what I could see when I opened up the case. It was absolutely jam packed full and I instantly spotted a pair of ugg boots, which is absolutely crazy. Make sure you come back for part two where we go through each thing in this case.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, she got a tablet, she got bug boots. I mean probably doing considering she put down like 52 bucks or something for the case.

[Producer/Announcer]

Does it say what she paid for that? Because I'm dying to know.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I know, right?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. I didn't take a deep dive in a part two about what she paid for the case.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Million views on that. Yeah.

[Producer/Announcer]

She made more money on the video than the case.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So again, a car you can fully inspect, a house you can see a picture of and a storage space you can't look at at all.

[Tarek El Moussa]

$129.99 UK.

[Adam Carolla]

So it's like $150.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. I don't know. I mean, I'm trying to think. She would be devastated opening my luggage. It's like, oh, who travels with dirty underwear? This guy was on his way out. She wasn't even coming home. They would just find socks and underwear and T shirts people gave me. Right. I think that would be about it.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah. Same here.

[Adam Carolla]

But I guess you could find women can find shoes, I guess that are expensive. Maybe handbags.

[Producer/Announcer]

They'll find anything.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. But I'm trying to think of what is in a suitcase. Like the storage container. That's a wealth of opportunity and possibility.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

The suitcase is limited a little bit. I think I would take chick suitcase over dude suitcase 100.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Hell yeah. I got purse.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe a good purse.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, exactly Right.

[Dawson]

I. I hear, I hear there's a like a new curling iron that's like five.

[Tarek El Moussa]

500 bucks.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh really? Oh yeah. With my own eyes.

[Tarek El Moussa]

It's a thing to behold.

[Adam Carolla]

500 still doesn't have a light on it. So the knows it's on. 500 bucks? Yeah.

[Producer/Announcer]

When it's on sale.

[Adam Carolla]

No one has ever been invented that has a light. Every time I go into a bathroom, I Just unplug it.

[Tarek El Moussa]

I'm like.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm not even. I'm not touching it. I don't know. I'm not taking any chances. Yeah. So. All right, so go with the chick one. And then you kind of wonder, but also, is she the chick version of the dude on the sand with the metal detector? Like, we call that guy a loser 100. Why isn't she a loser?

[Producer/Announcer]

She got four and a half million views, that's why.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Exactly. The TikTok shop is live.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, there is a storage one somewhere. And the guy just keeps pulling out DVDs from, like, the 90s, and it's. It's. It's tough. Also, I think it's one of those things. When you open that storage locker, you just need the contents of the first box to kind of know where you're at.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

You see, like, Windbreakers from Santa Anita and DVDs of shitty movies, and you're like, oh, fuck.

[Tarek El Moussa]

How big is this thing?

[Adam Carolla]

How deep do we need to go into this thing? Yeah. Not gonna find any vintage pistols from World War II or anything like that.

[Producer/Announcer]

I have inside houses, though, actually, believe it or not.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Sick.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Producer/Announcer]

Oh, we found gold and. Oh, man. Gold jewelry. Pistols.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Talking doubloons or ingots, I have no.

[Producer/Announcer]

Idea, because the contractor stole them. But I heard through the grapevine they found them through my property.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Shit.

[Adam Carolla]

Like hidden, buried stuff.

[Producer/Announcer]

We found $5,000 cash.

[Adam Carolla]

Really? Yeah.

[Producer/Announcer]

We ended up giving it back to the owners because we felt bad, but we found it. And they had taped it underneath their cabinet.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I found, like, there's weird stuff. You tear apart enough houses, you'll find weird little time capsules. Like, you find, like, a whiskey bottle with the newspaper from that date, you know, there, like, presented, like, hey, hundred years from now, when my Irish ass is dead. And you dig through this place, you're gonna find this newspaper with the year on it. Or maybe the guy just got drunk reading the newspaper. Yeah, but, like, you will find little people carve shit into stuff and write little keepsakes and stuff.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Like that Mountain Dew can, unopened. Original Mountain Dew. Yeah, man, it was disgusting.

[Adam Carolla]

You drank it?

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. So you would find that when you're tearing everything apart, right?

[Producer/Announcer]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I found the weirdest stuff. I mean, I found that one time I opened a closet. Like, 15 fake legs came flying out, hit me in the face.

[Dawson]

Really?

[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah, it was pretty funny.

[Adam Carolla]

Are you gonna have to now? You got crews, right? They gotta come in and everyone's gotta be fast and Efficient and tear all the drywall out and everything. There's mildew or whatever and we gotta tear all that stuff out. But now everyone's gonna be rebuilding like never before. In Altadena, Malibu, Palisades. Guys should do drywall, guys should do framing. I mean, it's already tough enough. Like, are there gonna be people just relocating here?

[Producer/Announcer]

There's gonna be a ton of people relocating here. And then there's gonna be a ton of owners hiring a ton of people that end up getting screwed because the people are going to be inexperienced and they're coming here for the opportunity without the knowledge.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you think that's going to happen?

[Producer/Announcer]

100. I mean, I've been. I live construction. And it is. It is such an industry where you need to know what's going on, you.

[Adam Carolla]

Know, and you mean you need to technically know what's going on?

[Producer/Announcer]

Not technically. You need to verify the people touching your property. Meaning you need to make sure there works quality. You have to know someone that's worked with them. They have to have been around for a while. You want to see a portfolio. Because if things go sideways on a real estate project, it can get very, very, very costly fast. And a lot of people end up losing 100, 200,000 trying to save 5 or 10.

[Adam Carolla]

People don't really understand that there's not a lot of guys who got into the business for the pride and majesty of carpentry or drywall or concrete forming. It's like a default fallback kind of. They weren't good in school, their parents didn't have any money, nobody saved for college. They vocational training, and now they end up hanging sheetrock.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Should have done groundlings.

[Adam Carolla]

Should have done the groundlings with me. But they end up in this job. It's like a catch all. It's one step before homelessness. We're talking catches everywhere.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Carpenter or what?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I'll put it to you this way. I mean, I'll put it to you this way. When you leave the Home Depot and you see all the illegals standing in the parking lot, that is the default job. If you're here and you're not documented and you don't really have any skills, you end up doing labor, you know, and at some point you work your way up. But it is a very flaky group. Like, it's the only group you get. Okay, there's two types of groups.

[Tarek El Moussa]

You can pay them in beer.

[Adam Carolla]

You get a call that night. There's the call the night before. I'm not coming in tomorrow. Yeah, that's not them. Then there's the call after the time they were supposed to come in. That's not them. Then there's the part where they call it all.

[Tarek El Moussa]

Yeah, that's not them.

[Adam Carolla]

They're in the you call them crowd, which is, see, there's any decent employee will call you the night before and go, I'm feeling a little under the weather. And then the ones that will call you, you're supposed to meet them at 10, and they'll call you at 9 and they'll go, hey, man, I can't make it in today. And then the ones who call you at 2 and go, sorry, man, I had the worst food poisoning and I've just been out the whole day. You call them. That's who these guys are.

[Producer/Announcer]

It's just like the real estate mortgage industry, right? It's the top 10% are talented, they're great to work with, they're trustworthy, they'll take good care of you. It's the rest that you have to be careful for. So, like being in this business so long, I see the everyday homeowner, buyer and seller going against licensed contractors and professional licensed agents or loan officers. And they're getting their butts kicked because they don't know how to negotiate. They don't have the experience.

[Adam Carolla]

And the top 10% are busy as hell all the time. So when you find somebody who can be there, start tomorrow. You know what I mean? Look out for start tomorrow. All right, let me give you a plug. Flipping 101 with Tarek, am I saying that right?

[Producer/Announcer]

Yes, sir.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. El Moussa. And you can see that Thursday night at 9 o'clock. It's Eastern and Pacific at 9. Right? Is that true? That's what I got on HGTV. On HGTV, you can go to amcroll.com for all my live shows heading out to Florida coming up May 2nd, 3rd. And I'll be all around Florida early May, so just go to mcroll.com for all that. And until next time, this is Adam for Mayhem and Tara Mark saying, Mahala.

[Dawson]

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