
The show opens with Jason “Mayhem” Miller reading the news including stories about Trump signing an executive order proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, Joe Biden pardoning his family and Dr. Fauci in his...
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Adam Carolla
Hey, in this episode, very funny. Comedian Ari Shafir is in for very lengthy and interesting discussion. Mayhem's gonna do some news because, you know, we want to get to inauguration stuff and other stuff, and we'll do all that right after this. From Corolla One studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Ari Shaf Fear. Plus the news and trending topics with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now, disappointed he didn't get a last minute pardon. Adam Carolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. A church at the end of the end. Did you get it on? Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for sharing the pod. That's all we ask you. Yeah, so when I talk to people, I did shows last night, I talked to people. I got my wife on the show, got my son on. Yeah, it's free. Share it with him. How's it going, Mayhem?
Jason Mayhem Miller
Going great, Going great. Inauguration Day, the biggest of days in a while. There's a lot of weird energy in the entire country. I can feel it. It's bubbling up. It's burning up my T shirt.
Adam Carolla
Well, you know, I am very pragmatic. At the end of the day, people were asking me, I was doing a lot of interviews, and people were saying, it's gotta be rough with the fires and the stuff and everything. And I'm like, what's next? Moving on. I mean, when I found out, which I did erroneously, but initially, I woke up on whatever Wednesday morning, and the news was, wake up, your house is gone. And to me, if you would have seen my reaction, it would have been like somebody saying somebody stole the recycling bin from in front of your house. Like, that was the same reaction. It was just like, well, that sucks. I guess we gotta get another one. Like, what's next? Now, I'm not saying that I'm a cool customer. I'm just saying I'm like Spock from Star Trek. It's like, what's. I could scream to the heavens or I could break a chair, or I could yell or point or yell, why me? Or what's going on? But it doesn't make sense to me. It's just. It's a calorie burner.
Jason Mayhem Miller
We're very different guys. I scratched my car and I went to, like, level eight. Yeah, good. Level eight. And like, you, house might have burnt down and someone farted in the elevator.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, that was my reaction. And at that time, it was a neighbor basically reporting in, Someone who had their finger on the pulse of the neighborhood. And the beat I've never been that person. But that person who was a reliable source just basically said, the place is gone.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Damn.
Adam Carolla
And so in my mind, it was gone. And I didn't have a reaction to it because it doesn't make sense to me. Like, it doesn't. If I thought having a meltdown got me 2% closer to getting the condo back, then I would have a meltdown.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
You know, I mean, like, if it was a, you know, half court Hail Mary shot, I would. I would take that shot, but I. But it doesn't do anything. So I never have that. I never have that.
Jason Mayhem Miller
You have no catharsis of shouting it out a little bit?
Adam Carolla
You know what I mean? I think. No.
Jason Mayhem Miller
The majority of people are like me, where you. Like, if something really terrible happens, you need to, like, excise the demons.
Adam Carolla
Well, you know, it's weird. I can have a cathartic meltdown over. I came in here over the weekend and there was a coffee mug that was just sitting in the bottom of the sink with dried coffee in the bottom of it that nobody rinsed out. And I was like, what the fuck? Like, what the fuck? Why can't people get the message of rinsing out the coffee mug? I took a picture. I'll share it later with you. But the point. The point is that will trigger me. Yeah, I see it, and I'll tell you why. Because that's avoidable. You could rinse your mug, but the fire, it just is and it's done. And that's how I react. So I wish I had. I mean, I'm kind of glad I don't have that gene because I don't have to live and die with all the drama of the world, you know what I mean? And everything, every which way, pardon the pun, the wind blows, you just kind of get there. So I don't have that. And it's good for being in a race car. You just don't have those panic reactions over corrections. The car starts sliding and getting slippery or somebody's right up on you or something, and you just don't have that reaction, which is good.
Jason Mayhem Miller
That's apples and oranges to me, because once my adrenaline's up, then I can think clearly and calmly and quietly.
Adam Carolla
Well, you have to in the cage, right?
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah, but I see what you're saying, that it is good to be a Zen master when something terrible happens.
Adam Carolla
But, you know, it's not zeny. It's like wired like my Labrador Phil, who can just lay outside in the middle of a concrete slab While someone is working a wet saw concrete cutter two feet from Phil, just cutting the slab, and he's just laying there. It's a wire.
Jason Mayhem Miller
You gotta thank your parents for that.
Adam Carolla
I think I will. Thanks mom and dad for not having a pulse. All right, so I got stuff to complain about. I was thinking about permits and we'll get to that. But you got bigger news. Yeah, you got bigger news.
Jason Mayhem Miller
You got plenty of news. Talk Yellow.
Adam Carolla
Well, what's going on?
Jason Mayhem Miller
All right, well, first of all, maybe you'll like this. That Trump signed executive order proclaiming that there are only two biological sexes.
Adam Carolla
It is weird that we have to make this proclamation. You can tell a lot about society by what you have to do, you know, I mean, like, you have to say, look, we're not gonna allow you to wear pajama bottoms and a bra on an airplane, ladies. Sorry. You have to put something on. Like the fact that we. You. You would mortify and confuse people from the past by the fact that we had to make. You know, I always say this, like, drive through la, what do you see? Barbed wire around the freeway signs. Why? Well, because people are tagging the freeway signs. So I have to put razor wire around the freeway. Like, just explaining that this is what we. We must have an executive order that says there's only two sexes. We must put barbed wire around the freeway signs. Every firehouse in la, while it may not have water or qualified firemen, we have a box, we have a sign in front of the thing that says you can drop your infant kid off here. You can just leave them. This a good judgment. Free drop zone, safe space for your 9 month old. So just go ahead and dump them here if you like. Like you would confuse people from our society, from the past, that these things existed, that we had to have these things. You know what I'm saying?
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah, I know what you're saying. But like that one, I get a little.
Adam Carolla
Or even like, all right, you go into the store, you go. And you could take people from not, you know, 200 years ago, you could take people from 25 years ago and just go walk them through a Rite Aid or cvs. And they'd go, why is the toothpaste and the razor cartridges in a cage? And you'd go, we have to have one. They'd go, I don't get it. What's going on with razor blades and cartridges and deodorant? Oh, no, we have to lock them up because hordes of people come in with pillowcases and garbage bags and just Fill it with everything and leave. And they'd go, well, I don't get it. Where are the police now? They don't. They're not. Well, wait a minute. Bunches of people can just walk in and just take tons of shit up to 950 bucks. I mean, that's how he's. And they'd go, what the fuck is going on? Like, what kind of hellscape have you guys created here?
Jason Mayhem Miller
Everybody just going by the rules, coming in under 950.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, well, we changed that one now, but. All right. Anyway, you got news?
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah. Yeah. The biological gender thing is now, I guess the Biden administration allowed U.S. citizens to be able to select the general neutral X as a marker on their passports. And I guess he's gonna roll that on back. I don't know. To me, it's strange that they're so concerned about this, that it's such a big deal. But, yeah, I get the point.
Adam Carolla
I think there's a thing which is a kind of strategy, which is somebody says, I think we'll have Drag queen story hour. And then somebody on the other side goes, I'm against that. And then the person on the left goes, why is this such a big deal? It barely happens. It doesn't affect you. What do you care? And the answer is, it is the beginning of the undoing of society is basically what it is. But it's also. I don't care. I never wanted to go through life caring about the trans community or the lgbt. I don't care. I've never cared. I go way back with the gays. Yeah, my family's way back. I mean, my grandmother was a fruit fly in 1942. My grandmother was like, the original fruit fly.
Jason Mayhem Miller
What, she started a gay club or something?
Adam Carolla
There's a guy named Harry Hay who's literally just the, you know, Harriet Tubman of Sucking Cock Underground Railroad. Like. Like the founding father of Homo. Really? In LA is a guy named Harry Hay. Yeah, he wore beads and a dress and whatever. Oh, my grandmother loved Harry Hay. He was at every party, my grandmother talked about him. There was a book about Harry Hay. My grandmother's in the book. I mean, and we're going back to the 40s, so the whole gay experience turns out, just like all these guys, he's a douchebag and he's just angry at his dad. That's how these guys roll. He's an asshole, an antisocial prick, basically. But my grandmother loved him. And she loved him for one reason. He was gay. She just. She used to tell me all the time. Like, she'd go. Harry'd come walking in in a dress and beads and everyone look at him and he'd just go, fuck you. And I'd like, oh, he sounds like an antisocial douchebag to me. And my grandmother loved it. So I go way back with these people. I also go back. I also know my grandmother, my mom. They're fucking angry people who just want. They weren't interested in the gay movement. They were interested in pissing off John Wayne. Whatever. John Wayne wouldn't like. They like, they don't know it. Most of the people that do all this shit don't even know they're on autopilot. They're just fighting against what is it.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Seems like the ebb and flow of society, sort of where the gays, like, troll the conservative. And then back and forth, back and forth. And now we're swinging back over this way.
Adam Carolla
Nobody look, here's the reality is nobody really cares. I just don't. If I got a kid in the second grade, I don't want some he. She dressed up like Divine reading them Hop on Pop. That's all. Other than that, I don't give a fuck. You can do whatever you want. By the way, I went. My buddy, Philip the Juggler. My dear departed Philip the Juggler guy. Loved, cared for very much. Great guy. His bachelor party was out here. And the guy, his best man, who planned his bachelor party, ended up taking us to the Queen Mary. Not the boat, the club on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City. There was a drag club, Dawson. You can look it up. There's a drag club called the Queen Mary. It was in Studio City, California. Like it was there since the 70s. Like, I went. He dragged us there. I said, what the fuck is going on? Yeah, drag. I was like, I'm getting a lap dance from a dude in a skirt. Now, I did the all baller move about a half hour into the Queen Mary and the he shes. I said, okay, this is funny, but the bloom is off the fucking rose. I want some titties. So I got everybody up and I said, we're going to the Star Garden. The Star Garden is in North Hollywood. It's a 20 minute drive. Whatever. I said, pack it up, bitches. We're going to the fucking Star Garden. I know the bouncer. And then we all got in the cars and we drove to North Hollywood. That was my stomping ground. And we went to the Star Garden where I knew the bouncer. And we all strolled in it's like a weeknight. And then at some point all the dudes sort of filed out. I was, you know, looking at tits and drinking beer and she was cool and stuff. And then at the end of the night, everyone was gone. And one hot stripper I had a crush on real bad. She was there and all the dudes were gone. And my car was back at the Queen Mary in Studio City because I drove over there with them.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
So I said to Catlin, the stripper Catlin, I said, hey, man, I lost my ride. I was in here with some dudes and I got nowhere to go. And she's like, well, I'll give you a ride back to your car. And I was like, okay. And we left at like 2 in the morning. And then at some point we're driving back. I was like, yes, an all night diner on Ventura over there. Why don't we get a cup of coffee? She said, okay. Next thing you know, we're banging. Yeah.
Jason Mayhem Miller
I was hoping this story had a good ending.
Adam Carolla
One joke, it ended up going to.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Take a left turn.
Adam Carolla
Now that turned out good for me. But the Queen Mary, Dawson, I mean, literally established 1974 or something, it existed. We can't find any pictures or anything, but we're trying to find out when it shut down.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Well, yeah.
Adam Carolla
Oh, it shut down way later. But when did it open? We're finding out. That's the question. The point is, is this shit's been around for a while. Nobody really cared, like. So I grew up in North Hollywood in Studio City, and there was a. Just a bar called the Queen Mary that was a drag bar and nobody gave a fuck. Nobody turned it down. In California, that is more. I grew more progressive.
Jason Mayhem Miller
No, in the 80s it was not. No. There was no even inkling.
Adam Carolla
But here's what I'm saying. In 2025, nobody gives a shit about race. Nobody gives a shit about gay. Nobody gives a shit about lesbian. Nobody gives a shit about trans. They try to make it like, we care about race. We don't fucking care about race. We don't care about any of this shit, but we don't want you imposing your shit on us. That's all. Go ahead.
Jason Mayhem Miller
All right, well, some more Biden news. He pardons his family in his final minutes in office.
Adam Carolla
What year do you find a flyer from the Queen Mary? Yeah, so it opened in the early 1960s. Can't find an exact early 60s. They're saying, damn, shit, we're going back. I never got it. The guy threw the bachelor party, thought it was funny.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Yeah.
Jason Mayhem Miller
What? Oh, he thought it was funny, but check his search history.
Adam Carolla
I never got into the novelty. I never got into the novelty shit. For my birthday when I was 18, some friend, some girl bought me. Like, I opened the box, I didn't have anything. I didn't have clothes, you know, Like, I didn't have stuff. Like, I needed a fan for my room, for my garage so I could sleep during the summer. I didn't have anything. And I had this rich girl, she was a friend of mine, and she's like, I got your birthday present. And I open it up, and it said, jock full of nuts. And I opened the box, and it was a jockstrap with a zipper on it, filled with peanuts. And I was like, I ate the fucking peanuts. And I was just looking at it. I was like, janie, you spent like, 26 bucks on this. You know? She's like, yeah, you could have got me the Best of Steely Dan CD or a gift certificate to Sizzler or, like. Or $26 worth of peanuts. Or $26 worth of peanuts. Like, ah. And she was like, it's funny, right? I was like, it's funny when you're rich. It's not. I don't have shit. I mean, you could have bought me a Chubb pack of socks or something, a pair of van, tennis shoes, like, anything. But I just remember staring at that jock full of nuts. I couldn't throw it out. I just. I ate all the peanuts out of it. I was going to eat the fucking peanuts. And then I just set the jock on my fucking floor. And what am I going to do? Yeah, she thought she was. She was rich. She thought it was. I mean, listen, God bless her, but Jesus Christ. All right, so, yeah, let me let.
Jason Mayhem Miller
You know about what's going on. The pardons. Joe Biden preemptively pardon several family members, citing concerns that they will be targeted by baseless and politically motivated investigation.
Adam Carolla
All right, well, let's break this down. His family is corrupt, and his family was involved with this skimming of the money from Ukraine and Russia and all this stuff. I mean, let's really break it down. Like, let's just start from the start. It goes from, my son's the smartest guy I know. He's done nothing wrong, and I've never spoken to him about any of his business dealings. All right? That's the beginning. That's where we start. Right now. We could have finished there, but if somebody accused my dad of being in on the grift and being the big guy and getting 10% and me traveling to all these rogue nations and cutting deals with them for their energy company and getting paid in cars and diamonds and cash and stuff like that. If somebody said that to my dad five years ago, my dad would go, I don't know what you're talking about. I've never talked to Adam about this. I don't know what he does and I have no part of it. I have no part of it and I don't even know what you're talking about. That would have been five years ago. And then you could smash cut to 10 minutes before he died and you could go, I would like to revisit this thing where Adam was getting paid from Burisma and energy companies and gifts and stuff like that. And 10 seconds before my dad died five years later, he would go, I don't know what you're talking about. I have no connection to this. All right, that's a good day. You wanna know why? Cause there was no connection. There wasn't anything. I've never had a discussion with my dad. My dad doesn't know anything. He never profited from it. He never gotten anything. There is no deal. But the Biden one goes from this never happened to there's a laptop with a bunch of shit on it that says maybe it did happen to. Well, that laptop is fake. To that laptop is real. To. Oh, here's some pictures of you with the emperor of China and your son. And here's a couple emails to. Okay, I'm going to pardon. I'm going to pardon my son. Yeah, okay. And no one in my family, his brothers. But now we have shell accounts and all these, all these accounts that had to be set up in granddaughter's names and different people's names. So now there's a trove of stuff. So we got from. I've never discussed this. I've done nothing. My son has done nothing to. I need to pardon my son because there's a fucking trove of information. So now my dad would never need to pardon me because there'd never be anything there. There'd never be anything there. So your brother, Joe Biden, he's just a business guy, works in Delaware and has nothing to do with any of this grift that's going on. Why would you need to pardon him any more than you'd need to pardon me or my dad? And then the answer would be, well, I would be targeted. Okay, so let's just say I'm targeted. Adam, what'd you do with Ukraine? What'd you do with Burisma? Let's talk about your bank accounts. And then I would go, go ahead. There's nothing. Go ahead, target all the you want. There's nothing there. You accused me of being PD P. Diddy's right hand man and being in on the action. Go ahead. There's nothing. There's nothing there. You can't prove anything. There's nothing there. Baby oil manager, his fucking son and his brother and other family members were all in on a fucking grift. The guy was corrupt. That's why he's pardoning everyone. And it's a super convenient excuse to go, well, they're gonna be targeted. You mean like what you guys have been doing to Trump for the last three years? Talking about that kind of targeting? Talking about baseless stuff where you just tie him up in the courtroom like that kind of targeting? Yeah. That's what you do. Your brother's in on this. All these other people are in on it, and that's why you have to pardon them.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah. His final batch of pardons included his brother, James Biden, James wife, Sarah Jones Biden, and younger sister Valerie Biden Owens Owens husband, John Owens, and his other brother Francis Biden.
Adam Carolla
There is, I've said this nine times, but there's an email where Hunter is in charge of paying the big guy 10%. Who else could we be talking about? Who is the big guy? Why is Hunter in charge of the big guy? Like think about it. Hunter is the bag man and the face, he's not the business guy.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
The other guys on the list are business guys. 10% to this guy, 10% to that guy. So why wouldn't the business guy be in charge of the big guys 10%. Why is the crack addicted bag man, why is he in charge of the big guy? Because the big guy's Joe Biden, everybody. I know we don't do news anymore, but who else is the big guy? Ever figured out who the big guy is? It's Joe Biden, his fucking corrupt family. I'm not, you know, you go, well, you're just saying this cuz you don't like Joe Biden. That is true, I don't like Joe Biden. But it's still blatantly obvious what he's done and what he's doing. Sorry, there's, you know when people sit back and they go, there's nothing that connects. There's nothing but 300 fucking emails and a trove of information and accounts and all kinds of it's an endless amount of evidence that connects him to this, and that's why he has to pardon all the criminals in his own family.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah, it does seem like when you're in power, you get to kind of manipulate things however you want.
Adam Carolla
Yes, he's got it. He's got a pardon, Fauci, because I've always told you, it only goes one direction with Fauci. It starts off as this guy, Saint Fauci, and he's saving the nation. Oh, maybe. Maybe the virus started in the lab and maybe Fauci was trying to squash that. And maybe Fauci had something to do with that lab and the virus. Yes, that's why you have to pardon these people. They're fucking criminals.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah, that was another whole story. Yeah. That Fauci, Milley and January 6th committee has also been pied in.
Adam Carolla
Well, the January 6th committee was just put together to try to do to Trump what Biden is accusing Trump preemptively of trying to do to his family. They put a big committee together, they kicked off anyone who opposed any of their narratives, and then they cooked a bunch of stuff and then miraculously lost all the information or the hard drives were scrubbed or whatever it is. Yes, that's lawfare. That's our. That's our government coming together, lying, getting rid of evidence. You know, they brought the January 6th committee, brought in the chick who heard secondhand, remember this story, or third hand, that when Trump was in his limo on January 6, he lurched forward to grab the steering wheel and try to steer the car. They interviewed her who wasn't in the car. They didn't interview the security that was in the car who said this never happened. So if you wanted to know what happened inside that car, let's just say you're committee. You just want to get to the bottom. All you want is the truth. You just want to get to the bottom of what went on. That's all. Okay, wouldn't you want to talk to some of the personnel who are physically the Secret Service guys in the car versus the 27 year old chick who overheard somebody saying this is what he did? Wouldn't that be a more reliable source? A person that was physically there, they curated the testimony. They did not want to talk to those people. Why? Because they would say it didn't happen and, and that would fuck up their theme. So are you guys trying to get to the bottom of this or is this a theme you're trying to play out? And then also no discussion with Nancy Pelosi or Anybody else? That Trump said, We need 10,000 National Guardsmen there, like, days before, like, no. Wouldn't you wanna get to the bottom of why there wasn't more security there? Didn't wanna delve into that. So, yes, they were corrupt as well. And that's. They need to be pardoned because they're corrupt. You can attack all you want. Like, by the way, what use is it? Like, let's just say Senator, whoever, squeaky clean, never did anything. Benny Johnson. There was no corruption. There was no erasing of files. There was no underhanded anything. Then what's Trump gonna do? What are you gonna do to these guys? There's no paper trail. There's no anything. All right. Go after Jim Carolla. Okay. Nothing there. He wasn't there. They did stuff, and that's why they're getting pardoned. And all these people that are getting pardoned are getting pardoned because they did shit. Yeah. So there you go. Joe's a great guy. He's great. We're bringing. Remember, the adults were coming back and dignity was coming back, and it's all there.
Jason Mayhem Miller
No. Well, speaking of all that, Trump is to suspend the security clearances of the former national security officials behind the Hunter laptop letter.
Adam Carolla
Yes. 51 guys with. 51 guys with security clearances who know the business said, well, we've studied this, and it has all the earmarks of Russian collusion. So we'll write this letter about this laptop that definitely exists because they were in possession of it a year before they had the laptop. They're in possession of it. They know it's real. They can authenticate it, but it's got a bunch of shit. And the shit on there is connecting Joe and his son to all these business dealings. And we want to get our guy elected, Joe Biden. And he has a debate coming up in two days. So we will craft a letter, get all the officials to sign it, and then we will arm Joe with that. And then during the debate, when Trump starts talking about China and Russia and whatever, Joe will look into the camera and go, 51 highly decorated security experts have signed a document that said, this is all Russian collusion, and cleared me. And then the bitch who's moderating will sit and yell, can we get back to race? Can we get back to race? That's what she said. We're talking about race. Can we. Okay. That's why they did it. They did it to put their thumb on the scale for the election. It's pretty obvious stuff. And people. Feels to me like election Interference. Yeah. That feels like interfering with an election. You are officials with security clearances who are ex FBI and CIA guys. You all signed a document that said this thing that was real was fake. What are you doing?
Jason Mayhem Miller
It seems like both sides playing a very good propaganda game, like, very deep levels of. Because that using the government to affect propaganda is, like, really big thing for America. We do it Communist China.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. But they should be stripped of their clearance because they're using their clearance and using their reputation to affect an election.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Nah. Trump should fucking. Yes. Yeah. Now, if the news did their job, this would be pretty easy stuff. But they don't want to do it, so they didn't want to do it. And that's the age we just lived in. We just went through Covid and we just went through Biden, and it was the same thing. News all in one direction and a dereliction of duty. And that's why no one fucking listens to these people anymore.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Well, it seems that there's, like, been a big Internet wave where people are thinking differently outside of the mainstream media, outside of legacy media. Now there's new ways to get information. So people are thinking very differently.
Adam Carolla
Well, the problem is there's sort of transparent about it. Like when Leslie Stahl from 60 Minutes is interviewing Trump and he's like, well, what about the laptop? And she's like, sir, there's no way to authenticate. We can't authenticate. And he's like, what do you mean you can't authenticate it? Like, sir, we can't. You're 60 minutes. You can't authenticate a laptop. I feel like you could do that if you wanted. And you're yelling. So now I don't trust you, Leslie Stahl, because I think you're lying and I think you're protecting somebody else.
Jason Mayhem Miller
You know, I always say, like, there's no such thing as a fair fight. You know, I just. I'm an expert at mixed martial arts. And, you know, because there's a referee in the cage, this guy, Same as boxing, this guy has a lot of play. And I feel like the referees in our society should be the media and voices like yours and people on the news. You know, you think you could trust everybody, but everybody has an inherent bias.
Adam Carolla
It's true, it's true. But there's also accurate versus inaccurate. You can go back and I broadcast every single day, all through Covid. Go listen to what I said. Tell me what I got wrong. I interviewed Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden's partner. He sat Right where you're sat. I talked to him for an hour and a half. Tell me what I got wrong. Tell me what he got wrong. See, here's the deal. If at this point in our society, it was like, well, listen, Adam, sit down. Turns out the COVID came from a pangolin in a wet market. Turns out ivermectin was deadly. Turned out to be horse paste. Turned out hydroxychloroquine was bad. It turned out that there was no natural immunity. And it turned out that the vaccinations was one and done, and you never got Covid ever again. Oh, and the Hunter Biden laptop was a fake. Then I would have to sit here and go, okay, then don't listen to me on the next one, because obviously I got some shit wrong. Except for I didn't get any of it wrong. Now CNN got all of it wrong. Joe Rogan didn't get it wrong. So now people go, well, why should we listen to the ladies from the View when we have other people who didn't get wrong, by the way? The people got it right. Look for the people who got deplatformed and fired and all. Look for all those people. Those are the people got it right. All right.
Jason Mayhem Miller
It seemed like a cudgel for other motivations. Like, you know what I mean? If, like, you say something I disagree with about X, but really I'm trying to get y. Get you to stop talking about it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, they wanted. I mean, it was all political. They wanted Joe Biden to be president. So all this stuff kind of competed with that. And so they had a theme, so they did it. Now, I don't know why people played so fast and loose with their reputation. You know what I'm saying?
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah. They committed to certain things.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Like, I don't like Joe Biden. I would prefer Trump. Or I would prefer Trump over Kamala Harris. But if someone said, show up to your podcast and just start lying because you wanna get Trump elected, I'd go, I don't wanna do it, because then I'll look like an asshole later on when it turns out I was lying about Trump. So I'll just say what I want to say.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Integrity, I think it's called.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I don't know what the fuck Wolf Blitzer is doing. I mean, Sanjay Gupta. I think it was Sanjay. Yeah. Sanjay Gupta calls Ivermectin horse paste. Then he goes on to Rogan and gets roasted, and then he comes back to CNN the next day, and Don Lemon's like, well, it is used on horses. Right. And he's like, well, it can be. Well, then I guess you're right. I mean, he just fucking ate a dick. I'm not gonna listen to anything Sanjay Gupta ever has to fucking say about anything because he's a fucking lying hack. But I don't know why you would want to get yourself into that position.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Do you think these guys know they're lying? Or, like, you know, because maybe they're just misinformed and, like, I think a lot of people get.
Adam Carolla
Sanjay Gupta is a physician. He can figure out what Ivermectin is if he wants. Yeah, I'm not a. I got put on academic probation at a junior college. I figured out what Ivermectin was. It's real easy.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Well, what I mean is if you're just invested in the team and you're in your echo chamber, like we all are, on our Internet device, then we start getting this marching order sort of without even being aware of it or something.
Adam Carolla
No, no. He's got a. He's got a direction and he's going that direction, but he still knows what Ivermectin is. Yeah, yeah. And so he's cashed in his integrity, and we never have to listen to him again.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yeah, I can't suspend that. Yeah, I get it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Jason Mayhem Miller
The inauguration was today, so it was a pretty wild one because John Fetterman showed up in a hoodie, you know, as relaxed and casual as possible.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Did you watch. It was pretty awesome.
Adam Carolla
I am. I'm staying with Dr. Drew. Dr. Drew has a TV remote from 1996 that has 171 buttons on it, and I cannot control. And he's out of town, and I cannot control his TV set. I cannot wake up in the morning and turn on the news and watch anything because I can't turn on anything. There's nothing.
Jason Mayhem Miller
I'm sorry, but it's brutal. I know that you live daily.
Adam Carolla
I shacked up with the one guy that has no operable TV set from this century. There's nothing. There's nothing you can do. You point 15 buttons, I push, I end up with the greatest American Hero episodes. You know what that is? No. It's a sitcom from 1983. Believe it or not, I'm walking around.
Jason Mayhem Miller
I never know that one.
Adam Carolla
At some point, out of sheer desperation, I'm like, I can't find sports wrap up. I can't find my beloved tmz. I can't see the inaugural. I can't see anything. But here is an offering it is Greatest American hero from 1983. And you know what I do?
Jason Mayhem Miller
You watch it.
Adam Carolla
I go, fuck it. And I click on it and it says, would you like to purchase it for $1.99? And I go, you're fucking kidding me. Now I can't buy bad sitcoms on Drew's. And now I'm out. So I got nothing. I have nothing. I cannot watch My greatest love.
Jason Mayhem Miller
There's 19 TVs out there. I'll get you an apple.
Adam Carolla
I fucking ran in here and turned one on just to have it on, just to be able to control something. Yeah, I feel you. Football games, nothing. There's nothing. It's not. You can't. I would take a fucking picture of this thing.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Okay, you're withdrawing.
Adam Carolla
I'm having it. You know, the shakes, right? Getting the shakes? Yeah, Yeah. I gotta fucking need something to take the edge off. All right, what else you got?
Jason Mayhem Miller
Oh, man, that's about it.
Adam Carolla
I don't like Fetterman with this shit.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Fetterman with his shorts on. Look, his shorts and his. We rushed through the news today.
Adam Carolla
Listen, I. It was wild. Look, I. I get Fetterman. I mean, I get it, but I also like. The tape went around. I spoke in front of Congress several years ago. They said, bring a suit, bring a tie, cuz that's what you're doing. Yeah, I didn't bring my fucking hoodie and my hoop shorts. I brought a suit and I brought a tie, because that's what that is. You know what I mean? And this, while people think it's kind of cool or interesting or whatever, this is what I'm talking about. This is the pajama bottoms and the bra on the commercial flight. Like it's the undoing of the fabric of America. And that guy, I would just tell him, look, dress over the fuck you want on Saturday and Sunday, but when you're in this, in the halls of Congress, or you're in this building or you're attending this, you put a fucking suit on. Or don't you fucking keep your fat ass parked at home?
Jason Mayhem Miller
Look. Look alive.
Adam Carolla
Yes. Yeah.
Jason Mayhem Miller
What did you think about the tone of Trump's acceptance?
Adam Carolla
We got a couple. Dawson cooked up a couple of clips. Again, I have no access to things because I cannot watch my beloved tv. I'm forced to read.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Sorry, bud.
Adam Carolla
Read like a fucking poor person. Like a pioneer. Ooh, yeah. Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens. The golden age of America begins right now. You know, it's interesting to pause it as I think back on it. I told you my stupid communist hippie bullshit dumb fuck parents and grandmother and everything. If you wanted to piss off my grandmother and or my mom, all you'd have to do is say some rah rah American thing.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
Adam Carolla
All you had to go is, you know, we're the greatest nation, we saved Europe in World War II or something. They'd go, you know, we knew about those concentration camps a long time before we liberated they. And they would, if you, if you wanted to piss them off in five seconds, just do some kind of rah rah America talk. And they would fucking turn and they would get angry. So this shit pisses a lot of people off and they always go, no, no, I love this country, but we could do better, or this guy's dangerous or whatever it is. But really what it is, is any rah rah America talk pisses off a certain group of folks.
Jason Mayhem Miller
I grew up at exact opposite army base and rah rah America was the way.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, my grandmother would have hated your dad, all right, but she loved Harry Hay, the gay guy, gay pioneer. All right, go ahead, sir. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first. My grandmother spinning in her grave like a rotisserie chicken. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end. Yeah, they hate this. Everyone in my family. Thank God they're not alive. Thank God they would go fucking nuts. They hate this kind of talk, but it's really because they hate the country. But they can't say they hate the country, but it's really because they hate their dad. And then when they're done hating their dad, well, they never stop hating their dad. They all hated their dad and then the country becomes their dad and then Trump becomes sort of de facto dad and they all hate Trump.
Jason Mayhem Miller
That's some Freudian.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah, no, you can trace it all back to fucking angry chicks who fucking hate their dads. Every time you get fucked up at an airport by security chick. That's her, that's her, that's her. That's 23 year old, fucking abandoned at 7, never met the man. And here comes dad Corolla walking in with the Samsonite the patriarchy and body.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Yep.
Adam Carolla
Just want to get on the fucking flight, bitch. That's all. But now, you got to know, I.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Go with the poor people, like, on flights, and I never get hassle at all. They're just happy to see me through that. I'm not starting to fight with one of them.
Adam Carolla
I go. I fly with exclusively poor people as well. I fly more Southwest than I tell people. I fly Southwest all the time. And I go, no, you don't. Yeah, absolutely. I do. All the fucking time. That's all I do. All right, we got another clip here. Donaldson. We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders, but refuses to defend American borders, or more importantly, its own people. Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina, been treated so badly. And other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago, or more recently, Los Angeles, where we are watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token of defense. They're raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don't have a home any longer. That's interesting, but we can't let this happen. Yeah. Yeah, I'm one of them. I'm wealthy and powerful, and I got no home. I may be forced to have to slum it at Costner's beach house. Sorry. You got bumped for the fight. Costner came through. No.
Jason Mayhem Miller
No stress. You guys have fun. We'll talk about it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Now, listen, if you run into Jay Moore, don't tell him that I told you if Costner doesn't go to the UFC fight, you were gone. Because I told Jay, if Costner had been bumped, then Jay was going. Understand? So don't say anything.
Jason Mayhem Miller
I ain't saying nothing about nothing.
Adam Carolla
Let's just keep this between us. Yeah.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Pardon me for that.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I'll fill you guys more in on that. But that was a. Quite a. Quite an evening. Good times.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Hell, yeah.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah. All right, let's do one more clip, shall we, Dawson, if you have one. Sorry. Yeah, this is a good one. All right, let's do one more. That is why each day under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, creative. For American citizens, January 20, 2025, is Liberation Day. Yeah, but as I've said, who's gonna agitate black people without Joe Biden up there fucking screaming about how they never got a fair shake? Every fucking time someone put a microphone in front, like, who's gonna. With Kamala gone and Joe Biden gone, who's gonna do all the race hustling necessary for this country? I guess it's gonna be up to CNN and MSNBC now who's gonna hustle the race?
Jason Mayhem Miller
I'm waiting for a payment and I'll do it.
Adam Carolla
You do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can do it. Okay. I could see racing.
Jason Mayhem Miller
You know what I mean?
Adam Carolla
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Ari Shafir
There's a rumor that Jews have sex through a hole in a sheet. And it's not true, but it's not not true. So it comes from. It comes from some racist, made it up a long time ago. It comes. I'll tell you where it comes from. Jews have this like sort of prayer poncho thing called tzitzit. It goes on, it's like a T shirt, but it's like made like a poncho. It's like on no sides, it's got these white tassels. Somebody you'll see that white tassels coming out of it at the bottom called tzitzit. But anyway, I guess some lady was like washing the family's TC and she was hanging them up to dry and some racist walk by and say what you want about racists. They're not the best people in the world, but they are very creative. Some of them walked by and they saw one hanging up and they were like, I bet they fucked through that.
Adam Carolla
Ari Shafir is on the Adam Carolla show. Ari Shafir is in studio. I just saw a special. It's very funny. America's Sweetheart hour and 11 minutes and 21 seconds or something. Who's counting? Very funny. Lots of, lots of thoughts. Well, you know, one of my main thoughts as I was watching it is it's nice to see you coming into, if not the mainstream. I just feel like the worm has turned in terms of where we were a few years ago. Who got to be popular. Who were the outsiders? Who were the insiders? Who were the cool kids, you know, who could get the deals at Netflix? That kind of stuff.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. It has turned. It's. Imagine if in college, if you're a Hacky Sack kid, and then suddenly Hacky Sack comes in.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
And you're like, oh, well, I've been doing this.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Yeah. That's what's happened in Stand up, which is really nice. I mean. I mean, like playing a big theater doing, you know, where the material is not mainstream, but the delivery and the acceptance of it feels traditional.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, it's pretty wild. We just kind of all did. I was talking to Hinchcliffe about it. We all just did our own thing, and then eventually people were like, all right, people seem to like you.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I think it's like.
Ari Shafir
So it's like our version of that. We're not playing a game. We don't have to be fake to anybody at a party to try to get a deal.
Adam Carolla
It's a good lesson for the kids. Except for if you do it for sort of an interminable amount of time, if you just do it for. And nobody ever likes you, then maybe whatever it is you're serving up, people don't want.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. And then also, maybe they'll never want it. Yeah, so have that, too.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So anyway, I was tickled pink. It's a very funny special. It's also cool that it's on Netflix, just in the sense that feel like back in the day, there was a lot of folks that were. We'll call them renegades. And they would go, I'm just going to drop it on YouTube because I'm not in the mainstream. You know what I mean? But the zeitgeist has shifted. Maybe it's a Covid thing. Maybe it's kind of a Rogan thing. Like, I don't know what happened.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, I mean, I dropped my last1 on YouTube. Really? Well, I think at some point we're like. It's like Swingers. When you're like, she's gonna call when you stop caring.
Adam Carolla
Right, right.
Ari Shafir
Call. You're like, all right, well, when, When. When do you have openings? I'm not gonna work.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's like the movie Swingers. Like, you. You physically have. Somehow it only works that when you stop yearning for her, that's when she's.
Ari Shafir
Gonna call you back.
Adam Carolla
And you feel that's kind of where you were at with comedy.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. It's like, I just don't give a fuck anymore. It's Just, I just want to put out like make stuff and put it out. So it's like hey, YouTube's a good option. It's a really solid option. So then it's like oh, if you wanted it we can do that too. But like I already have plans this Saturday so if you have a party it's okay. If you don't, I have, I have another one to go to.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's hard to. I think people try to fake not giving a fuck.
Ari Shafir
It's sort of like that's like sending swingers.
Adam Carolla
You can't do it, right. You can't pretend you end up looking like one of those douchebags with the pre worn in trucker's hat. But you're driving a Range Rover.
Ari Shafir
It's all over this town.
Adam Carolla
You smell like patchouli oil. You didn't wear that hat out.
Ari Shafir
It's co opted dirt.
Adam Carolla
The Chinese nine year old wore it for six years before it got onto your head.
Ari Shafir
Remember that when they had worn in jeans and they were selling them new with like tears.
Adam Carolla
I don't. There's. There was. First there was stonewashed which first off could that even been. There was no stone near those jeans.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And then there's the pre ripped jeans and I just don't. I think if you just took a look at our society.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And you went like who are they? We'd go, well blue jeans were invented in 1852 and they remain unchanged for 150 years.
Ari Shafir
Perfect.
Adam Carolla
And then we decided we needed bell bottoms, peg legs, all white. Hip hugger mom jeans, stonewashed, pre torn. Like someone would go what the fuck happened with you guys in jeans?
Ari Shafir
I love denim but they just don't want to seem like a prospector.
Adam Carolla
We just kept denim for 150 years, nothing ever changed. And then we went fucking nuts.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, what else like that that hasn't changed at all. You know there's a new Pac man game.
Adam Carolla
Oh really?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, it's a one versus one versus one, verse one. It's the greatest new development in arcades but also nothing's changed for forever. And then like let's play against each other.
Adam Carolla
Pac man, same thing with the jeans, the greatest decision. And the other thing, I'm always trying to figure this one out. But the one thing I know about the future, no denim, it'll be gone. Every show that's in the future, no one's wearing a jean jacket. It's all gone. And sometimes it'll be like the year's 2029 and it's like, all the denim gone in four years, all gone.
Ari Shafir
Wanted something rugged.
Adam Carolla
It's all gone. But the Pac man thing, we had a. This is an interesting concept. Who was the first guy in your group to get the apartment? Because the first guy to get the apartment, that becomes the smoke pot plays the bang. The girlfriend plays the get drunk plays the crash out place. If you are the first. Now, everyone's got their own place. So no one needs to crash at anyone's place or plow their girlfriend during the school lunch break or whatever that thing is. But if you are dumb enough to be the first guy to get your own place, then your place becomes the de facto beer bong fuck zone.
Ari Shafir
You're popular, right? Because you are older? Or if you have your license first, you're 21. First you're getting beers for everybody. You're licensed first.
Adam Carolla
We got the first apartment, like, in our crew May, but we just moved in. Yeah, I put the security deposit down.
Ari Shafir
I didn't install a bar on the side.
Adam Carolla
Thank you. Me and my roommate got the one bedroom in North Hollywood. And none of our loser friends went off to college. They all just hung around North Hollywood. So then our place became the de facto hangout. Fuck your girlfriend, knock the bong over home. And we had a Pac man machine. And I was like, my roommate. It was my roommates. And he was like, I'll just flip a switch in the back and everyone can play for free. And I said, fuck that. These people are coming over here 24 7, eating my cereal, fucking their girlfriends. We're gonna charge them. And we did. And at the end of every month, we'd have, like 63 bucks in quarters.
Ari Shafir
Damn. Nice.
Adam Carolla
I know.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, nice. The offsets electricity alone was.
Adam Carolla
Well, we didn't pay any bills with it. We just had, like, six. We probably had, like, $41 of free money in quarters.
Ari Shafir
That's great. From your dork friends?
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And we'd go to the mall, we'd buy pot. Then we'd go to the mall, we'd watch a movie and eat, like, hot dogs on a stick.
Ari Shafir
Where'd you get pot back then? Dealers.
Adam Carolla
There's always, like, one guy named Dan who knew somebody's older brother. You know Kurt? Yeah, Dan. Kurt, Carl's older brother. Yeah, Dan. He knows a guy, something to do with a park, something that a guy named Dan. There's also some scraping of the resins.
Ari Shafir
Back then, making it all count. We really were closer to the Indians back then.
Adam Carolla
We really were like, literally, at some point, no one would have any pot. And then you'd have to scrape the resins of the bong.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, it would hit harder too. It was a real cherry on top.
Adam Carolla
I guess the resins were sort of like hash.
Ari Shafir
It was just kind of like glorified shoe polish. But it would get you there.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. But also, you don't realize just hyperventilating is enough to get some form of high.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Put that in a bag and just huff it.
Adam Carolla
So I was watching your special and then, like I said, I was enjoying it. And they brought up. You brought up bringing the word retard back. Or at least we should have never let it go.
Ari Shafir
I think it's a little much.
Adam Carolla
I agree too. I agree. I agree with that. And I was hearkening back to being on stage doing a live podcast with comedian Todd glass in like 2010 or something, and I was saying retard, and he was explaining that I couldn't use the word retard. I don't know why I find it particularly sad when comedians join in. You know what I mean?
Ari Shafir
It's the worst. You should be fighting for me to say everything objectively.
Adam Carolla
I get like the 23 year old chick with the no st. Who works at the Starbucks in Encino. But when other contemporary middle aged comedians. He was just saying, you can't use that word. And I said, yes, I can. And he's like, no, but you can't. I just did. Yeah. Ironically end up using it more.
Ari Shafir
That's a funny.
Adam Carolla
But it is. I find it sad when comedians do that. And I also found it sad when comedians dove in during COVID and started doing a lot of policing. Like, it makes me sad when comedians start policing.
Ari Shafir
It's all 1984. It's like, eventually the children will tell for you. We'll be our own police.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Ari Shafir
And we'll get the, you know, the people who will like, beat you up. Figuratively.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Just do. It's crazy how, like, prescient it was. That's the wrong word. But like.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, no, that's right.
Ari Shafir
Long term memory still intact. Short term gone. What's your name?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I was just listening to Animal Farm. Speaking of Orwell.
Ari Shafir
Oh, wow.
Adam Carolla
Oh, by the way. Yeah.
Ari Shafir
You say listening, you fully own up to it. You don't say, I was reading it.
Adam Carolla
Nope. Anyone who listens to me knows I'm lying if I ever say things like, I was reading, reading, or I'm really concerned about my kids and their scholastic future, you know, or, you know, I was hugging one of my best friends today. Or something. They'll always know. They'll always know I'm lying.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, My thing is you can. The crowd will let you know if you can't say something. Yeah, if you just. If you just. I mean, when I started, comedy was just the tail end of being gay was enough of a joke, right? Like, look at that guy, he's gay. Everyone laugh, oh my God. He just said he's gay. And then seven or eight years later, people were like, well, that's not really. That's not a bad thing to be gay. So it just stopped working.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
You know, and now it works again.
Adam Carolla
It's always funny when you try to explain why someone is gay. You go, I don't mean gay like homosexual. Like there's anything wrong with that. Like, I got gay friends. I mean gay like lame, fucked up. And then you go, oh, but aren't you making it worse by saying gay meaning bad? You know what I'm saying? Like, you go, I'm not calling that guy gay. I'm saying that's gay. Like he's a fucking idiot.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, but they're like, no, but that comes from us. We're idiots for butt fucking gay. And you're like, fair. I see your point, but this conversation's gay.
Adam Carolla
I agree. And so I think retarded is fine.
Ari Shafir
No one's calling retarded people retarded. Not to their face. Not in an objectionable way.
Adam Carolla
No. I don't even call people that are like on the spectrum retarded. I call people that have no business fucking up the way they just fucked up retarded. Because I have that much confidence in them, you know?
Ari Shafir
But also we are comparing them to people with down syndrome.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
You're saying someone's lame. We're like, not even thinking about the homosexuality part. That part, that connection's gone.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
But when you fall over nothing.
Adam Carolla
Right?
Ari Shafir
And I'm like, that was retarded, Adam.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
I'm comparing you to down syndrome.
Adam Carolla
No, I'm glad. I'm glad they don't care. I'm glad we're bringing it back. I'm glad. Having a renaissance.
Ari Shafir
You missed that in front of congress. Where is this fucking bullshit with this colleges? You need to tell them about retard.
Adam Carolla
I agree. And the audience will let you know.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Plus, as I've always said, it's really more factual than people think. Cuz anyone who ever worked on a car, you would either advance the timing or retard the timing.
Ari Shafir
Oh yeah?
Adam Carolla
Well, what's fire retardant?
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
It's the world's worst fire extinguisher. Or is it fire retardant like it retards? You know what I mean? It's a fire extinguisher with the mentality of a seven year old. It's retarded. It's forward, it's advance in retard. So that's fine. And so you're just retarded in that you're 37 years old, but you act, you have the mentality of a seven year old. So you are retarded.
Ari Shafir
I know some people, some 25 year olds are listening right now. Go. You guys are such geezers. But guys, meet us here.
Adam Carolla
That's right.
Ari Shafir
It's a funner place to be where we're at.
Adam Carolla
Yes, I agree. And also not only funner, but the worm has fully turned. The folks that were being pelted for thoughts about COVID or thoughts about the trans movement or thoughts about whomever Trump, whatever, whatever the movement was going on, who were literally having to run serpentine through society to not get pelted with a tomato now have sort of taken over.
Ari Shafir
It's pretty crazy. I was talking about, you know those old Amazing Races videos I did?
Adam Carolla
Mm.
Ari Shafir
So there was like, it was. I could do them in a certain time and then for the next 15 years, like, oh, I couldn't do that now. I think I could do them now again.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Ari Shafir
I think now people be like, no, no, we get it. You're just joking.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
So it's pretty fun that it's come back.
Adam Carolla
And it's nice that all the comedians that are really having their moment are the guys that were considered fringy or the guys who had a target on their back or the guys who Hollywood turned their back on. Or that. And it's.
Ari Shafir
Tim Dillon was like, I won't stop saying that. Hollywood is full of pedophiles. And they're like, they want to work with you, but they're pedophiles. I don't want to work with them.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I think the moral of the story, but you tell me you're talking about authenticity. And I think people smell it on people like an animal smells fear. You know what I mean? Like, they can kind of tell authenticity now. It takes a while.
Ari Shafir
Based. That's a new term for it. Based.
Adam Carolla
Sometimes. Yeah. But the thing about. I think the difference. I think what we just saw in the election is Kamala Harris is not authentic. You can think whatever about her policies and you can think whatever about her aesthetic, and you can think about Whatever the Biden administration. But she doesn't come across as authentic.
Ari Shafir
No. She comes across as, like, I'll say what I think you want me to say.
Adam Carolla
Right? And then Trump, who many people despise, comes across as insanely authentic, even though he's got six different bottles of Grecian formula on his head and he's got a como over the back.
Ari Shafir
Won't be a nice winner. Trump is New York, and Kamala was la, where everyone's pleasant here, but they're fake, and in New York, with their dicks. But at least you know what you're getting.
Adam Carolla
I think at this particular point in our society, we want somebody who's authentic, even over someone whose policy we agree with if we think they're full of shit.
Ari Shafir
That's what Patrice used to say. I'll take a racist if you're out about it.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
I want to know what I'm dealing with.
Adam Carolla
That's why we got along so well. He knew where I stood. He knew why he couldn't ride in the front seat when I drove him to the gig.
Ari Shafir
Patrice is a better water fountain. View around the corner, by the way.
Adam Carolla
I think about that all the time. I kind of would like my own water fountain.
Ari Shafir
It would be nice, but equal to something for Italians. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Irish, stay away.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Mexicans. Don't get me started.
Ari Shafir
It's got the wrong. The wrong, like, breakdowns, but separate. Plus, it'd be.
Adam Carolla
If it was just for Italian guys. And at some point, there was gum shoved in it, like I used to do at my high school. I could go, come on, paisan. We're better than this. You know, I know who to blame. I know who to. Giuseppe, get over here.
Ari Shafir
I think we should be separate but equal. I think we lost the equal part. That wasn't enough. But we all got to stick to Jews by themselves, Italians by themselves. Blacks, Irish, everyone stick to your own. This mixing is not working.
Adam Carolla
No. Well, we talk about it, and then we separate.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
So we kind of do a thing. It's a very progressive thing. Gavin Newsom, literally.
Ari Shafir
Was that the governor? Is he still the governor?
Adam Carolla
He's the governor.
Ari Shafir
Okay. You guys don't like him.
Adam Carolla
We don't like him, but he literally has. There is an alert, an Amber Alert for missing kids, and they're at his house. No, no, I'm saying there's just an alert. Some may. There's an Amber Alert for missing kids, but he started an Ebony Alert for missing black kids.
Ari Shafir
Oh, so you know what to look for?
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And a feather Alert for missing American Indian. Yeah, they're lighting their loafers. Damn.
Ari Shafir
I guess wrong.
Adam Carolla
The point is this. It's weird because they go, everybody's welcome. Everyone gets a seat at the table. We're all inclusive. All right. Is everyone in the tent? Now we're gonna start breaking you off by your ethnicity and your sexual proclivities. Like, well, why are we all getting together for all this?
Ari Shafir
Being poor. No. You get an AMBER alert, but you're like, oh, no, it's a black one. Don't worry.
Adam Carolla
Oh, black. Yeah. Oh, ebony alert. Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Or I should take this more seriously. It's minority child.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Redhead. Kids miss. I gotta move. Yeah. Like you and I are eating lunch and at some point the meal just gets set down and my phone goes, oh, shit, white kid's missing. So I just leave 20 bucks and walk out of the restaurant a black. And then I turn around and come back. It was an ebony alert. All right. Anyway, where were we?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, this is a high end restaurant.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
There's no feathers here.
Adam Carolla
Of. Also, how many American Indians go missing?
Ari Shafir
I think most.
Adam Carolla
Most.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
What I've heard. I thought those people had a wild.
Ari Shafir
Very protected.
Adam Carolla
But I thought they had a wild sense of direction. Like, I thought they could put their ear the ground and know which way the iron horse was coming.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. But if you're in the back of a trunk, you can't get that ear to the ground.
Adam Carolla
You know what?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, that's. That's.
Adam Carolla
I'm glad you shared that.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. When that ear to the ground six feet under.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your ears just a bonderized.
Ari Shafir
I know where I am, but how do I get out of here?
Adam Carolla
How do I get out?
Ari Shafir
They'd have to learn that. Kill Bill Punch.
Adam Carolla
No, no. You want to know what you know in every car.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
I would say that's manufactured in the last 20 years. There's a cord inside the trunk that you can pull.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Like an emergency.
Ari Shafir
I fucked in one.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's a. It's a. It's a glow in the dark T handle that you pull on.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And it's in every manufactured car.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, every manufactured car. I thought it was just the Volkswagens when I was doing it, and she. My chick was like, don't worry. And it's like she got out and I was like, oh, okay.
Adam Carolla
Wait, what happened?
Ari Shafir
We were like fucking in Santa Monica at one of those parking lots.
Adam Carolla
In the trunk?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, it's a big, roomy trunk. And obviously the fear is we're gonna die in there. But we tested it.
Adam Carolla
Well, wait, hold on.
Ari Shafir
Sure, let's hold on.
Adam Carolla
I want to discuss.
Ari Shafir
Okay.
Adam Carolla
The trunk has the T handle. It's glow in the dark. And it'll release the trunk so that you could escape from the trunk. If somebody locked you in the trunk.
Ari Shafir
Correct.
Adam Carolla
Now, you were gonna have sex or did have sex.
Ari Shafir
A little horned up. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And the backseat of the car wasn't sufficient.
Ari Shafir
It was a parking structure. So it's like, you know, I don't want to be showy.
Adam Carolla
I get it. You're six two six three. Six three.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
That's a lot.
Ari Shafir
I'm saying it's a testament to how big the trunk in the jet is.
Adam Carolla
It's a lot of spunk in that trunk. So. And I hope your girlfriend was a pixie because if she was a large, if she was plus size, you know, she was Lizzo size.
Ari Shafir
Normal size.
Adam Carolla
Normal size.
Ari Shafir
Because you can't do that with Lizzo in a truck.
Adam Carolla
No.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Unless you throw wings in there.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Yeah. You gotta lure her. Yeah.
Ari Shafir
But still the sex would be difficult.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
So it was back. It was like her back.
Adam Carolla
She's normal size. You're above average, but you're slender.
Ari Shafir
Right.
Adam Carolla
And she's in the trunk. Wait, you're both in the trunk?
Ari Shafir
Both in the trunk of a Volkswagen. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Jetta.
Ari Shafir
I believe it was a Jetta.
Adam Carolla
That is a decent sized trunk.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. You know cars.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Mm. So you're in the Jetta. Is it her car?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, it's her car and might be.
Adam Carolla
A Daddy Lack, but you shut the, shut the lid.
Ari Shafir
There's the fear. So the boner goes right up.
Adam Carolla
Right, right, right.
Ari Shafir
Sure. And then it's like slide down and just kind of like. It's like those. Those two in Pompeii that are like holding each other. Yeah. So kind of do that and just like.
Adam Carolla
So kind of kind of fetal fuck.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Fetal fuck, yeah. It's like, you ever have your dog lay with you in the morning and then you like get an inadvertent boner?
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
So you try to kind of keep it away. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
I mean, the boner, I think. I think women need to be a little less judgmental about the boner because they don't understand there's the inadvertent boner. There's just boner.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
You know what I mean?
Ari Shafir
Unrelated to anything.
Adam Carolla
It's just a boner. Right. But their whole thing is they're watching a six part doc on the rape of Nanking or something and now you have a boner and they think it's connected?
Ari Shafir
No, I was just thinking about a Chinese chick I hooked up with a while.
Adam Carolla
Right. That's all.
Ari Shafir
It just reminded me.
Adam Carolla
So you shut the lid?
Ari Shafir
Yeah. And then the latch worked great.
Adam Carolla
But someone must have gone for the dry run first by going in and shutting it and unlatching it themselves.
Ari Shafir
She was like, you can test it. I'll unlock it if you can't get out. And I was like, you can test it and I'll unlock it if you can't get out.
Adam Carolla
Sweet.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. I'm the one with money in this relationship.
Adam Carolla
So she went in the trunk and you. Okay, hold on. Let me figure this out. All right, so first off, what you guys need to know is I had a Ferrari 360 Stradale, which means street, but it's essentially a Ferrari race car that's legal on the street.
Ari Shafir
Oh, wow.
Adam Carolla
It's a. You can show me a picture for Ferrari 360 Stradale. It's a mid engine V8 car. It's an exotic sports car. It's very fast, and they're pretty expensive. I don't know. They're 300 grand. Now. They weren't that much when I had it, but one of the things I took note of is when I popped the trunk, because it had a trunk. It's a Ferrari. So the trunk is big enough for like two shoe boxes or something. It had the release mechanism in there. And I was like, no, no person. If you could find a picture of this car with the front, the bonnet, or the boot, the boots, the back, the bonnet, the front. But that's the car.
Ari Shafir
Who are we gonna trap that gizmo for? Keystones.
Adam Carolla
That's the whole. That's the whole thing.
Ari Shafir
Or they're mandated to. They have to. Right.
Adam Carolla
So every car manufactured must have a trunk release mechanism. Glow in the dark, T handle in it, even if a human being could not fit inside of it. It's like you take a tee and you hang it upside down. Like when they want you to pull on something, they do a T. It's a fire alarm.
Ari Shafir
There's a T handle.
Adam Carolla
No, that's a little more N or H or something. But the T handle is like if there was a cord. Like, I'll put to you this way. If there's a rip cord on a parachute, you wouldn't just want a string hanging down. You'd want something where your hand would grab the tee. I don't know if you examined that thing any closer. But you know what's funny? About it. One side of it, I think is blank. We'll find a picture of the T handle at some point. The other side of it is an illustration of somebody fleeing.
Ari Shafir
Like you do that and run out. If you're.
Adam Carolla
You would run out. Yeah, yeah. There's instructions on what to do on the handle to flee.
Ari Shafir
To flee if someone has kidnapped you.
Adam Carolla
Right. But if you just pounded your girlfriend in the trunk of the Jetta, then it should be a thing of you smoking and talking. We need to know what the activity was that got you under the trunk.
Ari Shafir
Not want to flee. You might want to enjoy that.
Adam Carolla
If you find a picture, Joe, of one of those T handles, you will see somebody fleeing in it. All right, that's. That is my. That is the front of a 360. And there's the T handle. And it's not big enough to bang a girlfriend or barely to get an infant in because only like 6 inches deep.
Ari Shafir
And it's just Tyler Lee Davis in there. Maybe.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. You can find. It doesn't have to be this car's T handle, but any car T's handle. So you really say to your girlfriend.
Ari Shafir
It was all her. She was wild.
Adam Carolla
You go in first.
Ari Shafir
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Test it.
Adam Carolla
That's a bold move.
Ari Shafir
I've got more to lose.
Adam Carolla
I know.
Ari Shafir
Got this great girlfriend. She's got a loser for a boyfriend if she does.
Adam Carolla
Well, no, whatever. Whatever goes on.
Ari Shafir
Why would you run out of that?
Adam Carolla
Well, most people who get locked in the trunk of a Jetta aren't fucking their girlfriend in a parking structure. It's more Al Qaeda related.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. You know what I mean? I'm doing repairs or something. Yeah. You say it's all for kidnapping. If you're gonna kidnap someone, you're not gonna remove this.
Adam Carolla
That's a good point.
Ari Shafir
Listen, listen. We can't lock the door. We gotta make it fair.
Adam Carolla
Think about everyone you went to high school with.
Ari Shafir
Got it?
Adam Carolla
Is there a one of them? If you put together a plot to kidnap somebody, who would have thought to fucking undo this thing? Cause that would have been before the cops rolled up on it. At some point I'd just see the trunk pop open and the half naked chick go running out. And I would yell, ray, what the fuck? And he'd go, I told Chris to take off the pool.
Ari Shafir
That would be like, sit on the trunk. I said, sit on it.
Adam Carolla
It's weird that they say flee though, right?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, they're like, don't stick around and try to talk to him. At this point, they'll close it again.
Adam Carolla
Don't you think? If in fact you were abducted.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
By some, you know, cartel. Some cartel. And you're on your way to a safe house in Tijuana and you did manage to pop the trunk. Do you think you would need instructions to flee? Or do you think you would just do it instinctively? Cause I feel like once that trunk popped, I would flee. I wouldn't stop and wait for instructions.
Ari Shafir
Would you. Why am I doing this?
Adam Carolla
What's next?
Ari Shafir
And it's a curved line. So I gotta get up over. I gotta get up over the edge. I can't. Don't trip. It's saying it's crazy that they.
Adam Carolla
I would have argued. If I worked for the Department of Transportation, I would go. The T handles enough. We do not know that every case is gonna involve fleeing. There could be situations where, like, infants fall in there. And the thing. Shots are people.
Ari Shafir
It's all that. Damn.
Adam Carolla
We don't need the flea.
Ari Shafir
We don't need to flee.
Adam Carolla
You've got over your skis. There are. There will be comedians fucking their girlfriends. And we don't need it all.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Unless you're fucking someone else's girlfriend.
Adam Carolla
Then you got to flee. You got to flee. So you got her to go for the dry run.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
That's impressive.
Ari Shafir
But it opened and I was like, all right, all right, let's go. It was sweaty in there too.
Adam Carolla
I just. I don't feel like I could sell that to any woman I've been with. You know, you go first.
Ari Shafir
You could. You could you go with words.
Adam Carolla
Wouldn't it be funny if you go. You go first. And then you just left her in there and banged her friend and another.
Ari Shafir
Jetta on the hood. I want you to hear boobs slapping against the truck.
Adam Carolla
Those ain't windshield wipers. Those are boobs, baby.
Ari Shafir
Those are boobs.
Adam Carolla
Dig it. All in. Yeah. And then would it have been weird if some other motorist who was parking in the parking structure would have overseen something like that? Would have seemed weird. Self inflicted.
Ari Shafir
It's my biggest fear with the Mile High Club.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Is not getting into the bathroom because no one's around, but then, like, coming out of it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Someone's gonna be looking at you. It's so embarrassing. Someone's gonna be waiting in line.
Adam Carolla
So how does it work? If you were doing Mile High.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
You'd have to go in first and wait a little while and then have your lady come in and have people think you'd left. Is that how it would work? You couldn't both walk in.
Ari Shafir
You waited a while. Someone would be like, are you going in there?
Adam Carolla
Right?
Ari Shafir
It's either open or it's.
Adam Carolla
I don't know how you do it anymore.
Ari Shafir
I heard one that. So you and a chick. The chick is just there with you. You act fully down syndrome retarded as you're boarding as the entire time. At some point you start acting up. You're retarded.
Adam Carolla
You're like.
Ari Shafir
And start. It's like, oh, this. Come on. Yeah, I think he soiled himself. Or like. But you get to long con.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
There's a reason I might be going into the bathroom with this guy.
Adam Carolla
That's the Kaiser. So say yeah. And a long con. It just feels like a long time because like you could be in the sea boarding group or something, number 49. And you have to be in line all spastic and everything. But it would work.
Ari Shafir
It would work.
Adam Carolla
So I've never. Do you think in the annals of time anyone has ever locked themselves in the trunk of a Jetta and had.
Ari Shafir
Sex and kept it stayed in there. Oh, before me?
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Had to. Well, we get to that many people.
Adam Carolla
We don't have to go like back to the Bronze Age or anything. We could really just go back to 1982 when the Jetta was invented. You know what I mean? We don't have to go through the dawn of history. We only need to go back as far as the early 80s.
Ari Shafir
So that was a period too where a lot of people were like, we gotta sex in like parks or like.
Adam Carolla
Ball games and stuff like that.
Ari Shafir
Ball games?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, they're like sex up in the booth, you know, in the ball game and in the, in the stands.
Ari Shafir
Oh, way, way away.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, up in the booth. Well, like a skybox.
Ari Shafir
That would be hot.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Remember Toronto? They had those people fucking.
Adam Carolla
That's what I'm saying. I remember that. So was it the part where you did it outside, like with the pressure or the possibility or the danger of being caught?
Ari Shafir
No, she just wanted it all the time. She was just a massive turn off.
Adam Carolla
And she couldn't wait till you got back to the apartment?
Ari Shafir
She didn't want to. She wanted to do it there in the parking lot.
Adam Carolla
Right. It meant something.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. She always wanted to do it in weird spots. The Comedy Store a bunch like in the phone room.
Adam Carolla
Really?
Ari Shafir
I used to work in this office. Like, let's go.
Adam Carolla
Really?
Ari Shafir
She was wild. Great fucking bouncers too. Nice milkers.
Adam Carolla
So big tits.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Trunk fucker.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, we got married at the Comedy Store. You did yeah. We dated for like two weeks. She was like, we're getting married. It was there like a week. I was like, all right. She was.
Adam Carolla
You backed the jet up, the band started, you popped the trunk and she came out in a full wedding dress. Dun dun. Popped.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. She was nuts. We did it in the parking lot of the. Of Hollywood Hustler.
Adam Carolla
Uh huh.
Ari Shafir
We was like, I'm trying to remember all the places we did it. Isn't it wild when a chick wants to do it in a dangerous place?
Adam Carolla
Yeah. There's a part of me that makes me wonder if I should trust them long term. Like, if there's an issue, because the stuff that sounds good, like choke me just a little bit or slap me just a little bit. Sounds good.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
But sort of big picture.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Is this who you want with your children? No, but they're not gonna be around for your children.
Adam Carolla
It's usually attached to other issues I've. I've found. You know what I'm saying?
Ari Shafir
I got called the F word once because I didn't slap someone hard enough.
Adam Carolla
Really?
Ari Shafir
Yeah. I'm like, wow. Well, I want to leave.
Adam Carolla
Oh, you mean F word fag.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
I say, I'm so old school. I think it's F. Fuck.
Ari Shafir
Fuck.
Adam Carolla
Well, no, what we need. Here's what we need.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Some rules.
Adam Carolla
Well, we need rules. I'll give you an example. There's a guy. Look. Lawrence Taylor.
Ari Shafir
Okay? LT. LT.
Adam Carolla
Right? And then 17 years later, Ladanian Tomlinson came around and they called him LT. And I'm like, no, excuse me.
Ari Shafir
We have one.
Adam Carolla
We have an lt. You can't. There's a guy in the fucking hall of fame who goes by lt. Now, just because you can't drink a beer in the booth and pronounce ladanian, that's on you. That's not my fucking problem, that's on you.
Ari Shafir
Grow, grow, grow.
Adam Carolla
We're not going lt. We already have.
Ari Shafir
An lt. Rogan had the wherewithal to not call himself JR he knew about Ewing.
Adam Carolla
That's right.
Ari Shafir
Not an asshole.
Adam Carolla
That's right.
Ari Shafir
Ewing took it.
Adam Carolla
Ewing took it. The guy from Dallas took it.
Ari Shafir
No. That guy fucking sucks. It's J.R. ewing. J.R. writer.
Adam Carolla
No, J.R. from the TV show.
Ari Shafir
That's J.R. ewing.
Adam Carolla
Oh. Oh, I thought we're talking about. You know what? It's so funny because you went to basketball and then I went to Dallas and then I went to basketball. All right. That's J.R. ewing. Yes. So integrity is what. It's what it's called. Integrity. Integrity.
Ari Shafir
Wait, what were we talking about lt. Oh, the F word.
Adam Carolla
The F word. Okay, so we got. We got fuck and we got fag.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
We need delineation. We can't go the F word and mean both of them. We could go the and then a or some other thing in front of F word. Because people say on fx, that guy got bleed for dropping the F bomb. And it's like, what happened? You can't have two. Yeah. Do you hear LT drop the F bomb.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, but he called a gay guy that. He called him a fuck.
Adam Carolla
That's my whole point.
Ari Shafir
I mean, we're living a world.
Adam Carolla
If you hear lt drop the F bomb, we don't know what the fuck is going on.
Ari Shafir
We have no idea what the world is.
Adam Carolla
No idea. My world's spinning. I gotta sit down. I gotta breathe into a bag. I have no idea what's happening.
Ari Shafir
Let's make sense of it.
Adam Carolla
I know a guy who was good at football either said fuck or fact. That's all I got. Maybe that's closer than one of those.
Ari Shafir
Dana Thompson hit his kid. And then they're like, you can't do that. You can't hit your kid. And then we're gonna ban you. And they ask every other athlete and they're like, yeah, it's crazy. And they ask every black athlete, they're like, wait, what? And they're like, I guess no comment.
Adam Carolla
Well, you know, it's funny. White guys, like, you just take white comedians and black comedians, right? White comedians will sit around and go, my mom used to hit me with a wooden spoon. And I'm still in therapy because it was so traumatic. And then black guys will go, my mom used to hit me with a car bumper. And I. And I deserved it. Woo. And they start laughing. Then they have a 1 upsmanship of parental abuse, like a car bumper. That's nothing. My mom take an oak tree, drop it on my head.
Ari Shafir
My mom would learn how to drive.
Adam Carolla
A bus just to run over me, right? Like, they have a one. I feel like you get like Anthony Anderson and these guys in a room together and wait, is that the right guy?
Ari Shafir
I think so.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I think so. There's a black guy.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Black guys have a 1 upsmanship on who beat the shit beat out of them bragging.
Ari Shafir
It's weird because digital victim culture, but they're overcoming it.
Adam Carolla
It goes like, my mom hit me with a flip flop. My mom hit me with a dress shoe. My mom hit me with a croc. You know, like, they just keep upping the ante.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And Whitey, if we ever say that we talk about therapy and never wanting to touch our kids, it's another thing too, because they go, I got the beat out of me. Don't tell me I can't beat the out of my kids. Where's.
Ari Shafir
I've been waiting for this. That was the whole deal. My dad said one day you can.
Adam Carolla
Don't worry.
Ari Shafir
Okay. Looking forward to it. He took away my 401k while he was beating me.
Adam Carolla
He told me, one day I'll get to beat on my own sired son.
Ari Shafir
One day my hands will be tired out and I'm going to need you.
Adam Carolla
Why? He goes, I got beat on. So I took an oath to never beat on my kid.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Yeah. There's two ways to handle it. For sure.
Adam Carolla
So, trunk.
Ari Shafir
Thank you.
Adam Carolla
Exciting.
Ari Shafir
My next album.
Adam Carolla
You guys got married?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, we did get married and then divorced. It was pretty easy.
Adam Carolla
But was she the one who wanted the tough talk?
Ari Shafir
What do you mean?
Adam Carolla
The F word for choking or slapping or whatever.
Ari Shafir
No, no, that was another chick. It was a chick in San Diego.
Adam Carolla
Do you feel as a comedian.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And someone who lives up in your head sometimes. Because I had that happen where the chick was like, how about some dirty talk? And I was like. I would start laughing.
Ari Shafir
It's not like I feel like enough talk. I was like, I don't have a. You hear it out of your mouth.
Adam Carolla
But also, don't you feel like I'm gonna take you into the fucking deep waters and drown you with my spunk?
Jason Mayhem Miller
You know?
Adam Carolla
And then you would start laughing in the middle, like, I feel like Vin Diesel could do it.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. You have to be kind of dumb.
Adam Carolla
You have to be kind of dumb.
Ari Shafir
To sell yourself that this is this real actual dirty talking. You're not just faking.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't pull it off. It was a request from my stripper.
Ari Shafir
You brought too far.
Adam Carolla
Oh, I've killed a few bitches. I forgot to get them out of the trunk. Yeah, I did. I mean, it's a joke I would do sometimes in my routine, but it's an actual thing that happened. I had a hot stripper chick named Lindsay. She was from England. She worked at a sort of nice strip bar, sort of, you know, dirty Double Deuce kind of, you know, kind of bar, but not fully, you know, trying to think of. What the hell was that movie where the chick was the welder? Flash dance. It was like a flash dance. He's kind of nice. Stripper. Anyway, she wanted the dirty talk and I Went too far because she wanted like traditional dirty talk and I couldn't really.
Ari Shafir
You're a little slut.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
I was like up in my head like a little.
Ari Shafir
But you gotta wanna up and you can't do the same thing you did last year. Whatever.
Adam Carolla
She kept going like, I want you to destroy me. Like I want you to really go after me. And I kept like trying to conjure something, but I didn't have anything. And then at some point she's like, I can take it, you know, give it to me. And I just said, I don't care for your parents. She got pissed off, but I was looking at it like, you really want to be fucked up?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, I'm not gonna go to the sexual stuff if you want me to hurt you.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, because there's a contact for you little bitch or your little skank or your little. We know what that is.
Ari Shafir
And then did she stop right there?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, she was pissed. She was like, what the fuck? And I was like, I thought this is what we're doing.
Ari Shafir
And you're like, well, let's get me to come first and we'll talk about it. Yeah, let's get me clear headed. That's so funny. I called a girl at pig once and she was like, what? And I was like, oh, I don't know, like a dirty pig. She's like, don't say that. And she's like, all right, I guess we'll stop. She goes, no, finish. And I'm like, no, now I'm having trouble. She was just scolded.
Adam Carolla
It is weird that I think we don't really have a mode in the bedroom where we can throw the red flag and call for a replay and stop the action. Once we get going, we're going. And at some point even guys will be like, you'll hear like. And you're like, oh, damn, your roommate's at the Just keep. You know, the guys are like, just keep going. Or that's the fire marshal and they're telling us to evacuate. It's like, come on, we gotta keep. Women can stop hard right there. They just stop and go, what the fuck was that?
Ari Shafir
And you're like, oh, no, no.
Adam Carolla
Right, right. Yeah, yeah.
Ari Shafir
Also, do guys ever like dirty talk? No. We see a chick in front of us naked. That's so filthy.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, no, I. Plenty. That's seem. My whole thing is like when people are like, well, what about, you know, it feels good. Chick eats a Mentos and then gives you a blow job. And I'm like, the Blow job is never broken.
Ari Shafir
Blowjob is great.
Adam Carolla
The blowjob is great. I need that shit. When I go to the Monday morning on the construction site. Let's try to figure out ways to make my life better while I'm getting a blowjob. We're at the pinnacle. It's not. We don't need to look for ways to improve this thing.
Ari Shafir
It's great.
Adam Carolla
There are many other things that are broken in my life.
Ari Shafir
Condom. Make that a little nicer.
Adam Carolla
Work on every face. Work on my relationship with my dad. You know what I mean? But not in the context of a blowjob. But what I'm saying is there are many other things to improve.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
In my life.
Ari Shafir
Over. Let's try it with. And then you gotta get an Altoid.
Adam Carolla
Or Mentos or whatever. Whatever it is. I'm just saying. I don't know. I kind of feel I'm with you in that. I don't. So here's the thing. You go to a good deli and you get a good pastrami sandwich, and we're done.
Ari Shafir
Okay.
Adam Carolla
We don't need to do their version of it. Or. Here's my version. Or Fusion or this one. We use golden raisins on the. It's like, fuck it. You're not gonna do better than.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
You're not gonna do better than fucking in a blowjob. I don't need to be pegged. I don't need the plugs. I don't need the oimo. This. This lube heats up. You know, we're here. Yeah, this is good.
Ari Shafir
There's lube heats up.
Adam Carolla
You know what I mean?
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
This candy cane vibrates. And this lube heats up. And it's. I'm even. I'll go that far with lingerie.
Ari Shafir
Why change anything? Why have it.
Adam Carolla
What are we doing?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, what are we doing?
Adam Carolla
You get naked.
Ari Shafir
It's better to have no underwear on.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
If I lift up a skirt or take down jeans, there's no underwear. Like, that's so much better than lingerie.
Adam Carolla
I'm with you. It's like the ultimate crotchless underwear are no underwear.
Ari Shafir
It's great.
Adam Carolla
That's the ultimate crotchless underwear.
Ari Shafir
Like, wow, that's hot.
Adam Carolla
I'm with you.
Ari Shafir
It's a vagina. That's what I'm looking for.
Adam Carolla
But let me ask you this.
Ari Shafir
Not a fucking. I'm not looking to marry the vagina.
Adam Carolla
That's right.
Ari Shafir
Veil over it.
Adam Carolla
Well, you did marry the vagina at some point. But here's a question. Are the guys who like the high boots, the lingerie, the riding crop, the lube that heats up the butt plug, Are they more into it than us, or are we more into it because we're pure? We don't need anything more pure. You know what mean? Like, you know, Tyson didn't wear socks. And as we found out that Jake Paul fight didn't wear underwear either.
Ari Shafir
Oh, yeah.
Adam Carolla
Tyson entered the ring with boxing shoes, but he would never wear socks.
Ari Shafir
Why? He's like, I'm not gonna be here long enough to make these sweaty.
Adam Carolla
He didn't have a robe. He had a fucking towel with a hole cut and he'd put over his head, he doesn't wear underwear. He's like, I'm a fucking warrior. I'm a Viking warrior. I come to do battle and slay this guy. Nobody. No. None of the Spartans wore socks.
Ari Shafir
So you're saying I need a butt plug not because I'm super sexual, but because I'm not sexual enough?
Adam Carolla
That butt plug is Tyson's socks. He doesn't need those socks.
Ari Shafir
For the record, I should not put me in that. In that example.
Adam Carolla
Right, but what I'm saying is you don't need all the accoutrements. You just need that Langer's Deli thick pastrami sandwich.
Ari Shafir
You know how like Native Americans sometimes would be like, I gotta load this up with spice because I can't taste anything because we have an extra spicy link to, you know, so it's like this is all bland to them.
Adam Carolla
Right?
Ari Shafir
But you and I, right, I can enjoy some. Some bland food.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah.
Ari Shafir
Just a nice, I don't know, white fish salad after. After shul. I can get off on that. Native Americans, like, this tastes like air. We're more into it.
Adam Carolla
So. All right, we've agreed that a lot here. The guys who do not want any of these sexual accoutrements are more into.
Ari Shafir
And it's not the butt plug guys and the strap on guys and all that. All the vibrating things. It's not that they're gay. It's that they're asexual. It's that they're. That. That's what it is. They're just not in tune. Yeah, you need extra to get hard.
Adam Carolla
Where do you come down on edibles and, you know, the guys that are huffing shit, you know, before they. What?
Ari Shafir
Oh, to make it feel better once.
Adam Carolla
Again, you'd have to.
Ari Shafir
I'd have to.
Adam Carolla
Why do we need to improve this facet of life once we lost Michael.
Ari Shafir
Hutchins is this really worth the risk.
Adam Carolla
I agree. One of the greats.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Still charts in Australia.
Adam Carolla
It's always weird when good looking people die or die. Beating off. We always go, why would he have to.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, he's good looking.
Adam Carolla
What's he beating off for?
Ari Shafir
Can you just get a model come over and leave?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, get one of the guitar girls from that guy's video to come over.
Ari Shafir
And suck your dick. How long till you get here? 12 minutes now. I'll just do it myself.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, where's my noose?
Ari Shafir
It is fast. You ever lie next to a woman and knowing you could have sex? A hot woman, like, I'll just masturbate. I just don't want to get into this right now. I just want to go just like one minute and be done with it.
Adam Carolla
I had a friend once say, I don't remember when I was like 19. He went, sex is good, but it's not the real thing.
Ari Shafir
It's not what?
Adam Carolla
The real. So funny.
Ari Shafir
That's so funny.
Adam Carolla
Well, can we agree on this?
Ari Shafir
Yeah, well, maybe.
Adam Carolla
Let's just say sex and masturbation. I don't think women fully understand that in our mind, they're two separate things. And as much as. And as good as. The one thing is, you'd have the same thing that if you ate at two steakhouses two nights in a row and then one of your buddies went, let's go out to dinner. I want to go to a steakhouse. You'd go, let's get Thai food.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, right, right.
Adam Carolla
And then they go, you don't like steak? It's like, no, no, steak's great. Love steak. But just.
Ari Shafir
I had it.
Adam Carolla
I want something else. Yeah, it's different.
Ari Shafir
It's both food.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's not bad. It's good. It may be your favorite, but it's still different than this thing. And I'm in the mood for different.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. So after a couple American steaks, you want a tie?
Adam Carolla
You want a nice tie, boy? Yeah, a little. A nice tie, Tucker.
Ari Shafir
A little tie, if you know what I mean.
Adam Carolla
Just a little tuck on that tie. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back with more. Who knows what we're going to talk about with Ari Shafara right after this. What do you mean?
Ari Shafir
To go down this road?
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Ari Shafir
Whether you're in the mood to solve.
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Ari Shafir
Hey Adam Cody from Las Vegas.
Adam Carolla
I had a thought as I was.
Ari Shafir
Listening to all your talk about the fires in California. California is big into all the electric car stuff. They want everyone to go electric for the environment. But what happens next time there's a fire and the electricity goes off and in their beautiful world every got an.
Adam Carolla
Electric car and then there's no place.
Ari Shafir
To charge them because all the electricity's gone down.
Adam Carolla
Just curious on your thoughts.
Ari Shafir
Thanks for the show. Have a great day. Bye.
Adam Carolla
You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744. Ari Shafir is back. The new special. Well, I'll get you a little more water if you want.
Ari Shafir
Thanks.
Adam Carolla
America, sweethearts. Very funny. Taped in D.C. i don't know where.
Ari Shafir
In D.C. the Capitol turnaround. I wanted to take that message to Washington to get off the news, stay anti political.
Adam Carolla
It's great. I mean the little experiment that no one wants to do is you go somewhere, you are somewhere for me, I go to Laguna Seca up north in Monterey and I do a car race every year and I'm there for like six days and when I come back I'm like, I have no idea what happened. I was at the track the whole time or at whatever party. Yeah. There's no sitting around, watch tv. Just don't know what's going on.
Ari Shafir
It's great though.
Adam Carolla
Plus, you're thinking about something.
Ari Shafir
You're thinking about racing.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah, you do. And it's liberating in the sense that you know what I think it really is. I don't know. Let's see if we can explore this from a psychological standpoint. All right.
Ari Shafir
Because I same way I feel free when I'm like away with the Internet.
Adam Carolla
Why do you feel free? Is the question. And I think psychologically, and it depends how you're wired, people say to me, like, where's you ever bring your phone in the studio? I go, no, I've never bring my phone in the studio. And they go, but what if there's an emergency? I go, I don't really want to know. You know what I mean? They go, what if your dad died? I'd go, well, he's dead.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
You know, I'll find out in 45 minutes when I walk out of the studio.
Ari Shafir
The only real emergency is someone needs your blood as a transfusion right now.
Adam Carolla
Right? Right.
Ari Shafir
Or this place is on fire, get out.
Adam Carolla
Right?
Ari Shafir
And then they'll tell you they're not texting you. They're not gonna text you about that.
Adam Carolla
Trapped in the trunk of a Jetta and she can't get out. Air's running.
Ari Shafir
Some Jew's with her get her. Get her before it's too late.
Adam Carolla
So I realized that while the news itself is depressing, it's not just the hearing of the news. It's a little bit of a call to action. Like, you feel like you need to be doing something, correcting it somewhere, and then you're not doing something.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. You know that feeling after someone dies that you know, and there's a little thing like, oh, we gotta do a fundraiser or something. Cause it's all based on, like, how can I change it?
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
Make him not right.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
And your body can't comprehend. You can't. It takes about a week or whatever to realize, oh, he's just gone.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. So that with the news or with whatever those call to actions you do.
Adam Carolla
You're right.
Ari Shafir
You feel like I should be doing something.
Adam Carolla
It's not just Syria. Right. It's not just hearing it, though. It's like, why aren't you? And inevitably, there's somebody doing something who's better than you. You know what I mean? They go in a thing. And we're interviewing the lead surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, who's put together a team. He was a highly decorated surgeon in Cedar Sinai. He left his cushy confines of Bel Air to get on a cargo plane and tend to the teeth. And you're like, I was gonna beat off, and then I was gonna have some tasty cakes. I'm thinking, Thai food tonight.
Ari Shafir
It's gonna recycle after I drank this bottle.
Adam Carolla
Right? Yeah. That's something. Right? Yeah. There's inevitably some. Somebody has mobilized and you haven't.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, It's a lot of that. But, you know, I just realized as you were saying, that you feel, like, free when you're away from it.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Ari Shafir
So, like, right now, you and I, not with the phone, but just in general walking around today, we don't feel free.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
But if you had just gotten out of prison doing the same stuff, you'd feel freedom.
Jason Mayhem Miller
Right.
Ari Shafir
You'd feel it more.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
And that phone is like a prison.
Adam Carolla
That's interesting. Yeah. No, you're right. In that kind of perspective, I mean, it's back to when you're healthy. You don't appreciate it until you get sick, and then you wish you'd give anything to feel that way. And it's hard to appreciate any status quo. So if you just feel this way yesterday, the day before, and the day after, why should you wake up and.
Ari Shafir
Click your heels in Hawaii eventually? Oh, yeah.
Adam Carolla
Whether.
Ari Shafir
I guess.
Adam Carolla
Right. But the guy who just got let out of the joint feels that. And the key to happiness is to have some of that on a consistent basis. Right.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. It is weird, though. Connected is like you can't do anything about this stuff. You feel like you're supposed to, so you just feel this anxiety all the time about, like. I mean, forget, like, Syria or something like that. But even, like, here, even, like, voting is like, your vote doesn't really mathematically matter much.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I think a lot of people feel like they have to tweet something or say something.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. It's a way in.
Adam Carolla
It's a weird. It's a burden. Like, sometimes you'll just be in a Trader Joe's, there'll be some chick in front of you, and she'll want to talk to you about Trump or something like that. And you realize she just feels like she needs to evoke and push this thing. This thing out in front of her. And it's like, it's an obligation. And I don't like it. And it's weird. It's sort of like.
Ari Shafir
Because, like, if you liked a TV show, you wouldn't feel obligated to tell everybody. You tell some friends, maybe. Oh, you're into sci fi. I just watch a show you might like.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
But that's about it. You wouldn't burden anybody with it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I feel like, what is this? The number one show that people try to get me to watch is the Wire.
Ari Shafir
You won't watch it.
Adam Carolla
I guess I should. But if people come, I have a thing where if, like, you refuse, everyone's.
Ari Shafir
Trying to get you to watch it.
Adam Carolla
If three people tell me to watch something, I'll watch it. Once it gets to 10 people, then I become a conscientious.
Ari Shafir
Here's the crazy thing about the first year is it's slow.
Adam Carolla
Oh, really?
Ari Shafir
Yeah. So it's. People watch, like, what is this? It's like you had to just be along for the ride. But I heard it referred to as. There's two types of people. People who have watched people who love the Wire, and people who have not yet watched the Wire.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. That good.
Ari Shafir
But it was pretty solid. But now it's overhyped. You'll never like it. What is these two Ls? Is that a lean tower of.
Adam Carolla
We're looking at my logo.
Ari Shafir
Is that twin towers right as they're being hit?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, that's what I was trying to capture.
Ari Shafir
Keep looking at them.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. You know, the weirdest thing is, I don't know why with the Wire, but it makes me laugh. People Mike August, who books all my live shows. Good guy. Travel the world with the guy and all he does is talk to me about the Wire, you know, I mean, like, forget the Sopranos, this is the wire. You know, any. Anytime a black guy passes us, he goes, that guy looks like the actor played Jody on the wire, you know, and it's a wire, wire, wire, right? It's all eight years of traveling the country, him telling me about the wire, and then at some point we end up at a P. F Chang's out on the road like in Denver or something.
Ari Shafir
You guys are killing it.
Adam Carolla
We're killing it. And we're in a casino somewhere, I think, and the 26 year old waitress chick comes by and we're just talking to her and some point she goes, I don't have tv, I don't have cable, so I don't watch any of the shows or something. And I don't know, Mike's going like, do you recognize this guy from TV or something? She goes, I don't have any, any TV shows. I don't watch it. I don't have cable, I can't afford it. I don't have anything. The only thing I ever watch is the Wire. And Mike's like, okay, when's our Kung Pao chicken coming? And I'm like, mike, hello. Skimmed right over this bitch saying the only show she's ever seen in the wild is your favorite show and you have no reaction to it.
Ari Shafir
Could have fucked her in a Jetta in the parking lot right then, oh my God.
Adam Carolla
Gone off the cliff in the back of the Jeddah. I feel. Do you feel that way? I feel that way about, yeah.
Ari Shafir
Like, hey, someone's right now, someone's to connect with in real life.
Adam Carolla
Right? I. It's so, it's. I feel that way about women who have a name that's off, that's also a popular song and they've never heard the song and they don't know what you're talking about. And you're like, you're like you're 33. Yeah.
Ari Shafir
No one's mentioned to you and all.
Adam Carolla
Your dad didn't sing it to you when you were seven? Like, Nah, never heard of it. My producer on my morning show. Yeah, right, right.
Ari Shafir
No one said that.
Adam Carolla
No Tommy 2 tone references at all. Dawson, remember Angie, the producer and Kroc? Yes, Kayla said my morning show. I mean, we're going back 15, more than 15 years. She's a contemporary. She's not 14. She didn't know the Stones. Angie.
Ari Shafir
Wow.
Adam Carolla
Correct. I was like, this is a Rolling Stones hit. And the song came out about the time you were born. I mean, for all I know, you're, you know. Because Angie. What, Dawson, like, 70 or something, and producer Angie was, you know, I was five, seven years old or whatever, started.
Ari Shafir
To attack on her because how would she go to look it up? It's like, how would society not have told her?
Adam Carolla
No one from school. 73. 73. And that's. Right. Ballpark. That's her. She was probably born in 75 or 76, but. Right, right. All right.
Ari Shafir
So Rolling Stones and not a B side.
Adam Carolla
No, but it is on her.
Ari Shafir
Should she. How does she know what to look up? She doesn't know what to look up.
Adam Carolla
What, her attorney. No, I'll tell you why.
Ari Shafir
Why?
Adam Carolla
It's come up before and she's ignored it. She just kind of pushed past it.
Ari Shafir
So when she said, I've never heard of that, like, that's bullshit. You definitely have.
Adam Carolla
It's like, you know, when people go, you know, you'll say to them, like, this is every conversation I've ever had with. With my mom. And probably most women where you go, you know that thing they always advertise, Remember there's that Zima or whatever it is. Like, you say something that they're making a hard push on, and they go, I've never. I don't know what you're talking about. And I go, you've seen the billboards, you know, and they go, nah, I've never. I've never seen.
Ari Shafir
I've driven with you.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And then at some point, you summon it up. Like, you pull it up and they go, oh, yeah, yeah, I've seen that. They always do that.
Ari Shafir
And they go, well, where was that? When you were positive you've never seen it, Right?
Adam Carolla
They were positive they've never heard of it, or whatever. So somebody inevitably brought it up.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, you're right.
Adam Carolla
She just skirted past it.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
That's all. All right.
Ari Shafir
I had a friend who was. We all knew was gay, never came out. We had other friends that came in, was like, oh, it's cool you guys are friends with a gay guy. Like, it's not even a question kind of thing.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
And. But he never came out, never did anything. And. And. And. And also was a virgin until he was 30. And we're like, maybe he's just never thought. Maybe considered it. But then, same thing. Like someone's come up to him and said, oh, what's the gay scene like here?
Adam Carolla
Right?
Ari Shafir
And that must have happened 50 times.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
@ some point you go, do people think I'm gay?
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
So he must have. He just had to push it off. Here's another problem. Why is there a period at the end of this? It's not a full sentence.
Adam Carolla
The Adam Carolla Show.
Ari Shafir
There's no verb.
Adam Carolla
I have. I am functionally illiterate.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
So I have. No.
Ari Shafir
The only verb is the following of the twin Towers that you're referencing.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Again, I didn't design it.
Ari Shafir
Okay.
Adam Carolla
Joe, didn't we have some stuff, some vids or something I wanted to get into.
Ari Shafir
I love the Adam Carolla show. That's a. I don't.
Adam Carolla
I don't see him on that there. I know we got the wet floor fight, which is kind of interesting, but what were my other favorite tweets I talked to you about tweets of the weeks. I like to just. Favorite stuff. Let's see. What did I favorite with you? There's a good fight in an airport.
Ari Shafir
Love that.
Adam Carolla
A lot of airport fighting going on.
Ari Shafir
This just to be that angry about someone to lean the seat back or somebody pushing instead of, like, let them go.
Adam Carolla
Well, there's the fights in the plane. Yeah, whatever. I. You have to look at my tweets there. But what I have.
Ari Shafir
I love that.
Adam Carolla
I'm taking a stand today at the bike lane one. I don't think that's. Is that on here? Oh, something anyway we can. Yeah, but is that on? Sorry. Yeah. All that stuff should be on the top of your list. Is not on there. Scott Galloway. No, no, this is. This is an old. This an old. The wrong list.
Ari Shafir
Who's that? That's Gavin Newsom.
Adam Carolla
That's why I'm. All right, well, Gavin Newsom, I think we need the new list.
Ari Shafir
Is that Gavin Newsom? We'll get into it.
Adam Carolla
All right, let's watch this airport fight here for a sec. I don't think you should show pictures of Gavin Newsom and just get into this airport fight. And I would need the list that reflected whatever it is we talked about. There we go. So I don't know where this is.
Ari Shafir
But these guys, they're picking up the wet floor signs.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, the wet floor. And they're using them as a weapon, but it's really.
Ari Shafir
They're kind of light.
Adam Carolla
I'm saying it's.
Ari Shafir
It's like a wrestling.
Adam Carolla
You've seen enough pro wrestling. Like, a folding chair barely does anything right. Yeah, but it looks good.
Ari Shafir
Where are the cops?
Adam Carolla
I don't know. These are Jews fighting Asians. Oh, wait a minute. No. These are people of color who are fighting with the. Now, I don't know if you get charged with a weapon, if you used a wet floor sign, and then also.
Ari Shafir
You'Re putting other people in danger because they might slip on the wet floor. You've moved it.
Adam Carolla
I would bet you. Technically, the person that was injured the most severely in this melee was probably the person who slipped walking out after taking a piss. Yeah.
Ari Shafir
You know what I mean? What happened? Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And especially if you're. I will walk and zip my fly up to try to save time.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And you're. No, you don't have. You don't have that mountain goat footing. When you're looking down, trying to get.
Ari Shafir
Your fly up and you go to.
Adam Carolla
A flight, your feet are always a little too close together. You're not in a prone position. You're not like a center fielder when you're trying to get that.
Ari Shafir
When you know, it's wet, you walk this slow, slowly, and push over. I like the standoff they had at the end.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Okay. Should we just stop?
Adam Carolla
Let's just stop. We had that. I had another vid that I wanted to get into.
Ari Shafir
That's a pretty solid one.
Adam Carolla
And I don't know where you're at with cyclists, but I am one and.
Ari Shafir
I hate them also.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. My feeling is, ride your bike. Drop the attitude. Like, I know you think you're better than I am because you're doing this.
Ari Shafir
When you're dressed up as it's.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Off. Right.
Ari Shafir
Just wear your jeans. Go to wherever you're going. That's fine.
Adam Carolla
Right. So there's this vid that. That I saw online where the guy is driving. He's riding his bicycle.
Ari Shafir
Okay.
Adam Carolla
And he. There is an open lane on the left for cyclists. It's like three or four feet wide marked off for cyclists. Right. But he's choosing not to use that lane. He is instead riding in the middle of the road.
Ari Shafir
Now, this guy.
Adam Carolla
We'll play it. And there's a car that wants to go around him because he's going slow. Now I want to know who's in.
Ari Shafir
The bike lane right now.
Adam Carolla
He's in the.
Ari Shafir
Oh, this guy.
Adam Carolla
He's in the middle.
Ari Shafir
Oh. The video is from a biker.
Adam Carolla
The POV is from the bike. The cyclist.
Ari Shafir
Oh, yeah. You gotta get in the bike lane. There is a dedicated bike lane.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
You do this when there's no dedicated bike lane.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
But when there's so much traffic.
Adam Carolla
Get in there.
Ari Shafir
There's options to get in there's.
Adam Carolla
Nobody on it, Right?
Ari Shafir
Get in there.
Adam Carolla
But he's that jackass who goes, I have as much right to this road as you do. I'm just going 30 miles an hour slower than you. And so he's.
Ari Shafir
He's like, go around.
Adam Carolla
He's like, go around to over. But there's oncoming traffic, so why would you risk a head on collision? Why not just move over to. By the way, the lane is marked for cyclists.
Ari Shafir
It's marked. Listen, I get it if there's no lane, right? There's a lane. They do this in New York with their bike lane. Someone coming down the wrong way and you're like, go. And like, you go out. I'm like, I can't see behind me.
Adam Carolla
Right. Go the right way. I completely agree. You have to.
Ari Shafir
Where is this somewhere?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's somewhere in Europe. And at some point, the cyclist catches up to the woman who's in the.
Ari Shafir
Who honked.
Adam Carolla
Now here. She's gonna settle. He's gonna settle her hash by banging on the car window. What was that about? What was that about? You kn. You're too close. I don't have to be in it.
Ari Shafir
You don't peep your horn, do you?
Adam Carolla
Happy Christmas.
Ari Shafir
Don't run over cyclists. That's terrible driving. That's terrible. Some old lady.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Happy Christmas.
Adam Carolla
Sorry. Jeez. All right. Why make yourself into a victim? You have a lane. You can ride in that lane. Listen, cyclists, I rode a bike for a long time when I was a kid. When I was adult. Well, you move the fuck over. That's the whole thing. You just move over.
Ari Shafir
Also, even if you're in that lane, there's no bike lane. You slide as far over as you can in the regular lane.
Adam Carolla
Forget about rules of the road, Forget about courtesy. There is £5,000 worth of steel behind you. And somebody who's probably medicated, who's probably texting and just got into a fucking big blowout argument with their girlfriend who's texting.
Ari Shafir
And you're gonna risk it and you.
Adam Carolla
Got £80 worth of you and Huffy and you're fucked. So just for your own preservation.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
You know what I mean?
Ari Shafir
God damn.
Adam Carolla
What is.
Ari Shafir
And it's like. And then if you're in the car, you're like, I kind of. You're making me want to hit you.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Ari Shafir
You're making me think about it. You start looking around for cameras and you're like, this is. Yeah, I don't think you know my mindset. I'm looking for cameras, bro. You need to get off the road.
Adam Carolla
You're riding in the middle of the lane, and you're telling the person to go around. But that's into oncoming traffic versus driving in a dedicated bike lane.
Ari Shafir
Wish there was a way for us all to not have to go into incoming traffic. It's. Oh, there's this lane that has a picture of a bicycle on it.
Adam Carolla
That's right. Stenciled. Go ahead and occupy it, bitch. What's up with cyclists? When did they become better than us?
Ari Shafir
I like the city bike people, the rented. They're just functional. Like, I've got to get somewhere, dock it and go.
Adam Carolla
No, I went.
Ari Shafir
They don't act better. They're like, I'm scared and also aggressive, but not like. Yeah, they're not like the roads, I guess.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
I do love when people have lost it. When there's like some tourists taking a picture and they go, bike lane.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah, bike lane.
Ari Shafir
You're like, calm yourself down. They're not gonna change. They're not gonna change.
Adam Carolla
Also, guy was on this show a couple of weeks ago. Scott Galloway.
Ari Shafir
Sounds like a loser.
Adam Carolla
Well, he did. He did gamble and lose. Because somebody sent me this video. Cause he was just on the show. Now he's a rich guy.
Ari Shafir
He bet 358. Why 358,000, I'll tell you. Oh, the odds. He wanted an even mill.
Adam Carolla
He's gonna explain, right? You know, you must know gambling.
Ari Shafir
You got 358.
Adam Carolla
He'll explain. And by the way, this is why you shouldn't gamble. Because his explanation makes perfect sense. But he lost. So here we go. I'll tell you what I'm doing. This afternoon. I'm gonna bet $358,000 on Harris, because.
Ari Shafir
On Polymarket, it's 62.
Adam Carolla
38. Because my observation is that the people who go to these betting sites tend to be younger, tend to be more male, and they're much more Trump.
Ari Shafir
The statistics in the polls, every A.
Adam Carolla
Plus quality poll shows it is a toss up within the margin of error with a slight advantage to Trump. So if I said to you, stephen, I'm going to flip a coin, you have to pick heads or tails. If you bet a dollar, though, you're going to get $2.90 back. You would take that bet because, say.
Ari Shafir
It'S a 50% or close to 50%.
Adam Carolla
Likelihood, but the payoff is 2.8 to 1 on a risk adjusted basis. You're getting free risk adjusted return. If I win, I get a million bucks back. So even if the edges to him on a risk adjusted basis. It's a great bet.
Ari Shafir
Oh, wow. He's not getting.
Adam Carolla
It's a great bet.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
That his wife is super pissed about.
Ari Shafir
She's pissed twice now.
Adam Carolla
No, just the ones.
Ari Shafir
Just the one loss. I actually don't care the tax breaks.
Adam Carolla
I like Scott, but. And that. That is. He is right. Right.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. If you're getting good odds. If someone's 50, 50 is the wrong. If there's a 60 40, like you win this 60% of time over me. I win 40% of time, but I'm getting 10 to 1. I'll bet on the guy who's an underdog.
Adam Carolla
Sure.
Ari Shafir
Because it's just.
Adam Carolla
But you're not going to get 10 to 1 on 60, 40 very often unless you really know.
Ari Shafir
Unless you move shit around. Like bet DSI or something. Like change the odds or there's some fuck up.
Adam Carolla
But.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, right, exactly. But like also his reasoning is like, I don't think that's right. Like the people who bet tend to be this. They're just gamblers. They don't have a team.
Adam Carolla
I mean, it makes sense that young men gamble the higher rate than young women. Like, I don't. I don't know any women who gamble. Unless you count fucking in a Jedi with a close. I mean, maybe the ultimate gamble, getting with Ari Shaffer in the trunk of.
Ari Shafir
A Jetta, a parking truck maybe don't tell your dad about this.
Adam Carolla
The ultimate roll the dice. A roll in the hay with AR Shabir.
Ari Shafir
So that's a bad bet. The negative there is death. The positive is just possibly an orgasm.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah.
Ari Shafir
He can't before the odds. You're betting on the opposite side, getting bad money.
Adam Carolla
Also in your. It struck me there's a man show. A man show pit that goes way back. And when I was watching your standup special, you were talking about fashioning yourself a man pon. And I thought struck me when I was watching it, it was a funny bit. But I was like, I think we did a manpon bit in the man show.
Ari Shafir
Toilet paper coming out.
Adam Carolla
You'll see that. You'll see the bit.
Ari Shafir
Nice big.
Adam Carolla
Hey, buddy. You are sweating your ass off. I know, it's hot. No, I mean you're really sweating from the ass. I'm so ashamed. Don't worry, pal. You just need a little help back there. This is my secret.
Ari Shafir
Oh, wow.
Adam Carolla
Sure. Try it. It's like a cool spring breeze blowing through your ass cheeks. At this point, I'll try anything. Posterior perspiration. Is an embarrassing problem. It can leave you feeling less than fresh. Man ponds discreetly between your cheeks like a hot dog in a bun. Super absorbent man pounds. Whip away moisture to get your crack back on track. That's what I need where the action is.
Ari Shafir
That's exactly what I need when I'm bleeding after a shit. Nice hook, Jim.
Adam Carolla
Nice job. Hey, Jimmy, you look great.
Ari Shafir
Did you get a haircut or something?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I got a haircut. Thanks, buddy. Don't thank me. Thank man Pines.
Ari Shafir
Man. Nice.
Adam Carolla
I had a flashback to an old man.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. I got a man get a haircut. Yeah. That must be a just incredibly hot woman too. Not even. Just like someone he could get with no context. 9.8. Just add a community rec gym.
Adam Carolla
Are you in New York?
Ari Shafir
Are you out here? No, I'm in New York. I live there. I love it.
Adam Carolla
Where are you at?
Ari Shafir
East Village.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's nice.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, it's a little. Kind of little, like bro y and Woo girly.
Adam Carolla
What's Woo girly? Oh, really? That's Woo girl.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
It's a little lame. The NYU parents found out that area was. Was now safe and then like, oh, oh, okay. Find my kid an apartment there.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
So weekdays is still pretty cool, but weekends is. Is. It's not as. It's not as cool. I want a little bit of. I want a little bit of coke and heroin back. Danger.
Adam Carolla
Like I. You want a little patina?
Ari Shafir
Yeah. And every time I see a coke deal, a street coke dealer, the coke coke, I'm like, no, but stick around the neighborhood.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be back.
Ari Shafir
The patois.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, you don't want the Eminem store.
Ari Shafir
Next door, the East Village picketed Starbucks and 711 from opening. And it wasn't like they're evil or anything. They were just like, this isn't the vibe of this area.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, no, I get it. I've never. Nothing good has ever happened outside of or in a 7 11. Like, every time I pass a 7 11, I'm always glad I'm not in it. Yeah, it's always. It looks. The aesthetic is weird. It's way, way too, way too bright.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. It's rest stops and that's it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Yeah. I don't, like, color palette is weird. It always. Whatever corner it's on just got a little uglier.
Ari Shafir
Huh. And they have their own, like, gummies, like the 7 11. Oh, they do have everything, you know. Yeah. Condoms. You get 7:11.
Adam Carolla
It's like, oh, there is. I haven't even been in one. In a long time. But I'm not.
Ari Shafir
Don't.
Adam Carolla
Normally. I'm not normally for the, you know, picketing of the Whatever business. But I get the 711 and the Starbucks.
Ari Shafir
They're like, don't come here. So Starbucks met him halfway. Like, how about we change the awning to. Instead of the green awning, we'll make it look, like distressed.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
Like, kind of like a hip whatever.
Adam Carolla
Right, right.
Ari Shafir
And they're like, hey, we did the market research. We're coming.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
We don't give a fuck about your values here.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So you like it, but you feel like it's getting a little too gentrified.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, a little bit too. I like just the right level of gentrification. I don't like no gentrification.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, no, you.
Ari Shafir
That's why I'm. And I'm there.
Adam Carolla
Right, right, right. You don't want to go full, like, getting shivved walking out.
Ari Shafir
No. So first you go bad neighborhood. Then you have the artists who's like, I can't afford anything, and I can see the beauty in this. Then they bring the gays.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
Because the artist makes some coolness. And gays like, ooh, that's interesting. Then once a few gays come and their artist, gays too, then that's my time.
Adam Carolla
Yes. That's when you roll in.
Ari Shafir
Like, okay. Little dangerous fun. Actually. We don't go down that block, but we're still cool.
Adam Carolla
Gays will clean up any neighborhood. God, they're really. They're like some bacteria that just pull the shunt out of it, if you.
Ari Shafir
Know what I mean.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. They'll just show up and clean the place up. Like, you want the property values to go up, get the gays to move in.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, that's what it is. Kurt Metzky's dude spoke about you needed gays, Jews in a Chinatown to be a real city.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
If you have two of the three, it doesn't quite work.
Adam Carolla
No. I would kind of argue that it'd be nice if LA had a Little Italy, but it doesn't.
Ari Shafir
No, it does not. You have fake. Fake Italians.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
We're mad and go, I'll come back there.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. We don't have a Little Italy. We don't. And what's nice about New York is Little Italy's right up against Chinatown.
Ari Shafir
Oh, it encroaches all the time. You see, like, this is it Little Italy. And it's like, why are all those Oriental signs here? Yeah, they've moved in.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, Chinatown's hardcore in New York, like.
Ari Shafir
You'Re in another country.
Adam Carolla
There's, like, shit hanging in the window. Like geese hanging in the window and stuff.
Ari Shafir
You know, animals you don't even know.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's a pangolin. It's a pangolin.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
I think that's where Covid.
Ari Shafir
It probably happened, right? The wet market in New York. They blamed it on Wuhan. That was a PR job.
Adam Carolla
I feel like wet and market are just two words that really don't need to go together.
Ari Shafir
It really does. Unless you're selling pickles, you really don't need it. You really don't need it. Even. That's like running your hand into this fucking jar of dill.
Adam Carolla
So you. It is weird. I always find it interesting the things we have sort of sanitary rules for and then things we don't have sanitary rules for.
Ari Shafir
Like what?
Adam Carolla
Well, you take something like a tub of popcorn.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Most of the guys, you know, like, they open the bathroom door with their sleeve or they push it with their foot, but you would hand the tub, and the hand goes to the mouth. Goes straight to the mouth and then right back in. And then you pass it over that way and pass it over that way. No qualms. The pickle tub. I got a pickle tub in my refrigerator right now. I'm not bragging. I'm just saying I'm burning. You know, you get to a certain place in life and you get a pickle tub.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. If you want a piece of ice and like, whoa, whoa. Tong.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
Why? It's for my drink.
Adam Carolla
Right. So everyone has taken their hand putting it inside the tub of briny water and pulling a pickle out. Times 20 employees.
Ari Shafir
Do they say the briny water kills the germs?
Adam Carolla
I don't know. But if you took a chip and you bit the chip and then went back for a double dip in the guac, someone would say something.
Ari Shafir
So I'm like, what are you doing?
Jason Mayhem Miller
That.
Ari Shafir
That chip touched the outside of your mouth. Just an inch of it.
Adam Carolla
But popcorn, that's allowed. Pickles, no problem.
Ari Shafir
Here's one. You ever have someone. Picklebacks are fun. I like a pickleback. And sometimes somebody's like, let's make a pickle back. And like, oh, I have pickles in my. In my. In my fridge. We'll do that. Get some whiskey. And then they pour it. And you're like, right. No, no, no. This is your fridge.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
Your hand. Your hand deep in that thing.
Adam Carolla
Deep.
Ari Shafir
I'm not drinking that.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Ari Shafir
No way.
Adam Carolla
Pickleback sounds like a nickelback cover band. Every time the word girl is in their song, they just say dill. I would watch Pickleback.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, I'd watch Pickleback. That'd be a great one. Yeah, that'd be a great cover band.
Adam Carolla
Man. My favorite Howie Mandel story is I did the popcorn thing with Howie Mandel.
Ari Shafir
Did what popcorn thing?
Adam Carolla
I was backstage.
Ari Shafir
Wait, Dick?
Adam Carolla
No, not Dick. Through the bottom of the tub of popcorn. He came walking into a place, a club. I was playing just. He was eating next door.
Ari Shafir
Germaphobe, if people don't know.
Adam Carolla
Yes. In, like, Calabasas. And he came walking in, and he just ate barbecue. He went to a barbecue joint, and at the barbecue joint, they hand you, like, a box of popcorn. You can. From a barrel, you know? And he. And so he comes walking backstage, and he just comes walking in, like, hey. And I'm like, oh, hey, Howie. And he goes, hey, popcorn. I go, huh? He's offering it to everyone in my crew. Popcorn. Popcorn. See? And after about 30 seconds, I'm like, what is this? Everyone with their hand and in the mouth and the hand. He won't shake hands. What's with the popcorn? And I said to him, and this has been very instructive, and I would ask that you remember this story, because it puts everything into perspective. I go, howie, I don't get it. Such a germaphobe, but yet you're sharing this lid of popcorn with everybody. And he just looked at me and he goes, adam, you don't get it. I'm crazy. I went, oh, yes, you're crazy. That's right. That's. That's. Now, no more discussions, no arguments.
Ari Shafir
Make sense. That's just the way. That's so fun.
Adam Carolla
Apply that to all facets of life.
Ari Shafir
Apply it to everything.
Adam Carolla
Apply it to everything, and you shall flourish. Because you're trying to take your sane brain and wrap it around.
Ari Shafir
I'm dumb. Oh, right. Oh, okay.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, that's. He's crazy.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. If that biker, that bicyclist was like, why don't you get over? He's like, I was listening to music. I wasn't even thinking about it. What a dumb move on my part.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Or I'm crazy. Yeah.
Ari Shafir
I'm a little.
Adam Carolla
It'll work. Yeah. And also crazy. If Howie Mandel was wildly consistent in his behavior, then he wouldn't be crazy. He would be consistent.
Ari Shafir
That's right. He'd be an outside the box thinker.
Adam Carolla
Outside the popcorn box.
Ari Shafir
He's a crazy guy. When you see him like, hey, Howie. And from 10ft away, you have to pretend to bump elbows.
Adam Carolla
Can I say, I think the fist bump, it may have. We may be at a. Not as a saturation point, but we may be 51% versus 49. Handshake.
Ari Shafir
Handshake to fist bump. You see a lot of people doing it now. Okay.
Adam Carolla
It's a de facto thing. And also I realized you can't let people hang when they do the fist bump. There's no hanging. You could have the fucking worst divorce ever, spend all your money and walk out of the courtroom. And your ex wife's attorney, when the thing was done, could hold up the fist bump. And you'd like, begrudge. You get.
Ari Shafir
You really fucking with my house.
Adam Carolla
You do the handshake, the guy puts his. That same guy just fleeced. You put your hand out. You get the fuck out of here, bro. Fist bump. You're like, fuck. Okay, you have to fist bump now. Is it because it's above the waist?
Ari Shafir
Oh, interesting.
Adam Carolla
Is it a height thing? Is it a commitment thing?
Ari Shafir
I think it's the amount of connection you have here. Know. I don't know. That's still something back of your hand versus front.
Adam Carolla
I'm just saying, it could be the most contentious political race ever. And the person called you a pedophile. But at the end of the race, you can't let the fist hang.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, you gotta. You gotta.
Adam Carolla
You gotta hit him.
Ari Shafir
If I see a hanging, like someone didn't see, like, you turn your back at someone just as someone puts their fist pound up. I have to go in there.
Adam Carolla
Like, I gotcha, yo. You'll jump in as a surrogate.
Ari Shafir
Otherwise, he's just left there.
Adam Carolla
Surrogate Pfister, you gotta, you know.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Surrogate fister.
Adam Carolla
Tell everyone in your neighborhood I'm a surrogate fist.
Ari Shafir
Anybody needs me. If you're hanging, don't put it down. Come by my place. I'll help you.
Adam Carolla
I was watching because they're making a big deal out of this January 6th thing because the FBI. I should say the Capitol Police.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Arrested a guy just now. No, back then. There's footage. Sorry, there's surveillance footage. And you can tell me what you think of this, but the Capitol Police.
Ari Shafir
Nice flooring.
Adam Carolla
Erase. Sorry. They arrest a rioter, right? Someone who's in the Capitol. Right? And they handcuff him and they walk him to a room off the Capitol, like a side room.
Ari Shafir
Okay. Like TSA when you don't want to.
Adam Carolla
Been there. And then they immediately just uncuff him and let him go. Which Says to the conspiracy theorists or people just think normally, oh, that guy works for the FBI, right? He's an asset. And there were assets in there. Otherwise, why would they.
Ari Shafir
Why would they let him go?
Adam Carolla
Why'd they cuff a guy, walk him to a corner, and then just uncuff him, tell him hit the road? But people are making a big deal about it because at some point, the guy got cuffed. Does the fist bump with the FBI guy.
Ari Shafir
But I say, yeah, word is bond. You have to.
Adam Carolla
You have to.
Ari Shafir
You're not even thinking about it. If you start going, why would you do this? Like, that's. You're overthinking it.
Adam Carolla
If a guy was halfway into stabbing you and did the fist bump, you'd have. If you had enough strength to lift your arm, you'd have to give him a tap back.
Ari Shafir
That guy in Schindler's List, you know, when the guy's on top, the Germans. They're fighting the Germans on top of him. He goes, no, no, no, no, no. He should have just put the fist out.
Adam Carolla
Right? And then the German fist bump. Yeah. All right.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, he should have used it.
Adam Carolla
It was a Saving Private Ryan moment too, wasn't it?
Ari Shafir
That's what I was saying. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Oh, he said Schindler's List.
Ari Shafir
I did. Did say that.
Adam Carolla
Sorry.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. That's a different part of the war. Sorry.
Adam Carolla
We're talking about 44.
Ari Shafir
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, right, right. Cowards there, just not doing anything.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. It was weird when you said it. I was like, well, far be it for me to question Ari about anything to do with the Holocaust, but I think that was.
Ari Shafir
That's a holo wrong.
Adam Carolla
All right, now watch what happens and tell me. I just don't think that the fist bump is that indictment. He bends over the Capitol policeman, takes his cuffs off. The guy immediately stands up, gets the front one off. Oh, does the cross fist bump with the other Capitol Police guy, and he's on his way.
Ari Shafir
You're letting me go? You could have arrested me. That doesn't necessarily mean he's FBI.
Adam Carolla
Doesn't necessarily mean.
Ari Shafir
It means, like, hey, let me off if a cop lets you off with a warning.
Adam Carolla
Fist bump.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Mm.
Ari Shafir
I mean, that's what they're doing. It's the ultimate warning.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So you don't think FBI asset there?
Ari Shafir
No, but what is the deal with that? I've heard rumors of that. Is that, like, a real thing? There's a bunch of FBI people leading them into how much that is real. How much of that is no way. You're crazy.
Adam Carolla
All right, so let me explain how it works. It all starts with good intentions, okay? And so the way it works is the FBI, and after 9, 11, they go, why don't we get a couple of undercover assets to go join that mosque over there? And then the plan is that guy's gonna hang out at the mosque, Right? And then at some point, here's how it's presented to us, the taxpayers, the citizens. The plan is we'll get our guy inside that mosque or that biker gang or something like that.
Ari Shafir
Like that.
Adam Carolla
And then at some point, when they come up to the guy in the biker gang and they go, we're gonna pick up some meth from Mexico, Elaine. You know, then that guy go, yeah, and then he'll go rat the guys out. Right? And at the mosque, they'll go, we're gonna blow up the Eminem store in Times Square. You in? And the guy.
Ari Shafir
Such a good idea. Hold on, I got some.
Adam Carolla
One they call Mr. Fister. He doesn't leave anyone hanging over there. He's the king of fisting.
Ari Shafir
So the same thing with any like.
Adam Carolla
Right, but. Sorry, that's where it starts. Right, right. But what it evolves into is the FBI guy going to the mosque and saying to a couple guys, why don't we kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan? So they go to the biker bar and they. And now the FBI guy is suggesting it.
Ari Shafir
But in the FBI's defense, they'd be like, hey, let's just get it. Go. If we're going to. If I suggest it, I can get him to do it. But then it goes even further, and it's like, let's just convince people to do it.
Adam Carolla
Gretchen Whitmer, who's the governor of Michigan.
Ari Shafir
Sounds like a loser.
Adam Carolla
There was a kidnapping plot against her, and it was like nine FBI guys and two yokels. So they ended up creating this thing. So the other entrapment. Right. So the argument is, it's one thing to put a couple of guys in the group to find out what's going on. It's another thing if those guys are yelling at everyone. Storm the Capitol. Right?
Ari Shafir
So that's what was happening. That's what they're saying.
Adam Carolla
That's probably what's happening. Cause eventually all they want to do is arrest people. And the best way to do it is you create the plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer and then get some idiot to go along with it.
Ari Shafir
So this is like you and I are driving somewhere that we can't find parking. We're like, is that parking? You know, there's like 10 signs. Not between Tuesday and Thursday. Depends if you're over 6, 4, under 6, 4. I work with the parking enforcement, and I go, oh, buddy, park here, right? Trust me, it should be fine. Yeah, like, you read that sign. Can you see it from your side? Like, I can see it.
Adam Carolla
You see?
Ari Shafir
We get out of the car, write you a ticket, put it in your.
Adam Carolla
Car, meet immediately, and I'm like, you trunk fucker.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, shouldn't have done that, you know, part there. I'm like, I wouldn't have done it.
Adam Carolla
Yes, it is. It is. It is that so. Also interesting. So they get the head of the FBI up in front of Congress, and the Republicans are like, how many assets you have out there? And like, I can't say. I don't know. I can't say. So now they're gonna. They're always gonna find out they were there and they were inciting and they're whatever. So could be.
Ari Shafir
But the other side was like, no way. There's no FBI people there. It was all just those Trump telling people, you gotta go do that.
Adam Carolla
It always starts with that. And then eventually it'll bleed into whatever Joe Rogan thought before then.
Ari Shafir
Just like, you had a bunch of conspiracies, and then people are like, no, no, it's just what it was on the surface. It's like, there's too many conspiracies going on here.
Adam Carolla
All the stuff they've said wasn't happening ended up happening. So I just assume now when they say it's not happening, it's. It's happening.
Ari Shafir
The one I know was when they said that, that they. They killed that cop. And then it was later was like, no, he had a heart attack the next day.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, they bludgeoned him to death with a fire extinguisher.
Ari Shafir
Unrelated heart attack the next day.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. In his office.
Ari Shafir
But they kept saying, like, they blood. Like, Biden was like, no, no, they beat him to death.
Adam Carolla
I know.
Ari Shafir
And it was like.
Adam Carolla
But that's.
Ari Shafir
So let's say a bad intel. Maybe I'm trying to try to be compassionate, but it's like at some point go, hey, guys. Just so you know, by the way, we were way wrong about that.
Adam Carolla
No, they went. They went from Sicknick, I think his name was. They went from bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher. Bludgeoned, right. With a fire extinguisher. To killed with bear spray. He had, like, a reaction to being hit with Bear spray to had a stroke in his office. But they count suicides by Capitol policemen six months later as related to January 6th. Anytime someone's trying to pad their numbers, they suicide.
Ari Shafir
And, like, why these people kill themselves? Like, I don't know. Was there a note?
Adam Carolla
Well, look, I say this all the time. They always go, cops suicide rate is much higher than I said.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, they see terrible things.
Adam Carolla
If I had it, I got a.
Ari Shafir
Piss so bad, it's like, on the tip of my dick.
Adam Carolla
We'll wrap this up in two minutes. Okay, now I feel bad. Run and piss. Sorry. Run and piss. I'm sorry. But then I have thoughts.
Ari Shafir
I want to hear about that. Okay.
Adam Carolla
All right. Do we have the Benny Hill song? Wackety Sax? I'm gonna tell Ari about my cop suicide theory and see if he. If he. If he joins in. Dawson, Remember, man Ponds, I. You know, I. Yes, I do. I figured I've seen that bit. Yeah. Before, and it was hilarious. It's not. It's just. It's not the funniest bit we've done. It's just. It's just sort of spot on or something. Yeah, it completely satirically mirrors the tampon commercial. Your guys is acting. You're acting like chicks. Perfectly terrible. No, no, no, no. All right, look, I get it.
Ari Shafir
I get Even close the door, if that helps.
Adam Carolla
That's good.
Ari Shafir
Respect.
Adam Carolla
That's good. Okay. All right, let me give my cop high suicidal rate theory. A gun is essentially a suicide machine, and it's strapped to their side 24 7. Even when they're in plain clothes and off duty, they're supposed to bring their gun with them. Now let me ask you. I would have never made it through my twenties if I had a thing that was capable. I could have made a decision to kill myself in less than five seconds because I have a suicide machine strapped to my right hip. Right. Just my fucking girlfriend Stephanie dumped me and I'm distraught.
Ari Shafir
Does this elevator go all the way to the top or the second? Top floor.
Adam Carolla
Right?
Ari Shafir
Just. It's right there.
Adam Carolla
Right. It's right here, though. It's sitting on the fucking coffee. Breakup. Any bad breakup?
Ari Shafir
Lost a big bet on Kamala.
Adam Carolla
What? I'm just saying. Would you have even made it through your 20s with a suicide machine? It's not Kevorkian in a minivan. It's a suicide machine. That's a Glock that is just sitting on your dresser. Yeah, I would have killed myself, like 28 times.
Ari Shafir
It's calling at you.
Adam Carolla
Hey, you fucking loser.
Ari Shafir
I just heard From Evan. You get it.
Adam Carolla
Anyway, your girlfriend Stephanie's fucking a new guy. Excuse. Got a huge. She's in the trunk of a Jetta.
Ari Shafir
Right now, and you're just like, I'll just it and see how it feels.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, let's go see if it feels right. This is going to be an impulse buy. If it jams, that's force majeure. Right. So what would you. I'm just saying. Of course you would kill yourself.
Ari Shafir
Right. So the instances would go up for sure.
Adam Carolla
Just a gun within reachable stuff. You see horrible things.
Ari Shafir
God, within reach all the time.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Ari Shafir
And life.
Adam Carolla
And life. Yeah. You fucking could come home, your wife's banging your best friend.
Ari Shafir
You just ran a biker off a bicycle.
Adam Carolla
That's right.
Ari Shafir
I'm getting in trouble for this. Or I could avoid the trouble.
Adam Carolla
Right. It's an impulse buy. I don't even know what percentage of suicides are impulsive, but I can tell you 100% if you got that gun sitting on your nightstand, nobody stopped me. Yeah. I don't. I don't think I. I do think I would have killed myself in my 20s.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. That's a good theory on cop suicides.
Adam Carolla
And cops are young, and I. I would say that most of them who.
Ari Shafir
Kill themselves are in suicides are way up, too. They probably have access to guns.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Most of the guys who kill themselves aren't in their 50s.
Ari Shafir
They're not about to get a pension.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. They never said to their partner, I'm too old for this shit. Right before the shit went down. They're probably guys in their 20s, five years on the force, that are totally impulsive.
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So that's why.
Ari Shafir
That's a solid theory, Adam.
Adam Carolla
And that's why I think we should give firemen guns.
Ari Shafir
Oh, so they can kill themselves just.
Adam Carolla
To kind of even it out. So people go, well, yeah, but what other than firemen?
Ari Shafir
Oh, yeah. So then we can see the real.
Adam Carolla
Status, we don't know the real stats because school is equal. Yeah. They go, we kill themselves much more than school teachers or bus drivers. Yeah. They're not packing a suicide machine. And you can call it what you want, but it's a compact suicide machine. You just put it to your temple and that's that.
Ari Shafir
It's gonna do the job.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah. No, it doesn't have to. Eric Kramer, professional quarterback in the NFL for like 12 years. Eric Kramer played for the Bears, and I think he played for San Diego, and maybe he played for the Vikings, but he also played with one Adam Carolla and the East Valley Trojans Pop Warner football team. He hit rock bottom. He bought a gun. He checked into a hotel. He Googled best place to put the gun.
Ari Shafir
Oh, and what?
Adam Carolla
And then under the. Under the chin gets all the way through.
Ari Shafir
Yeah, not here. You miss the chin if you go through the mouth.
Adam Carolla
Not through the mouth, through the chin.
Ari Shafir
Up. Okay. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Went through hole in his tongue right at the top of his head. He's completely fine.
Ari Shafir
What are you talking about? No way. It went through the bottom jaw, through the tongue, through the roof of the mouth, up through the head, went out.
Adam Carolla
Hit nothing that killed a cop who was napping the room above him.
Ari Shafir
Shut up.
Adam Carolla
No, it did. No, I'm serious. It's a totally true story.
Ari Shafir
What?
Adam Carolla
It's a totally.
Ari Shafir
He killed.
Adam Carolla
He's a friend of mine. No no no.
Ari Shafir
But he didn't kill. And then he didn't want to kill himself afterwards. No, he didn't just do it again.
Adam Carolla
No, there's a lot of that. Yeah.
Ari Shafir
Who try to kill stuff and don't. Don't try it again. Yeah, why not?
Adam Carolla
I think they end up in therapy and in hospital in a setting and whatever time you have. More time. Yeah. Yeah, but that is.
Ari Shafir
What a fucking loser.
Adam Carolla
He played for the Saints, the Falcons, Detroit Lions. Oh, the Lions. I was trying. Chicago Bears. Yeah. I was in the league for 12, 13 years.
Ari Shafir
Started killed himself and didn't kill himself.
Adam Carolla
I'd say that's about as close as you get in terms of killing yourself. Yes.
Ari Shafir
My buddy had his brother, threw himself in front of a train.
Adam Carolla
Oh, really?
Ari Shafir
Broke every bone in his body. They're like, you're gonna be in the hospital for a year without getting out. Said, okay, I found myself. I don't want to kill myself anymore. I realized, you know, oh, I was in this terrible place while he was in the hospital. They found inoperable cancer.
Adam Carolla
Whoa. Yeah. Wow.
Ari Shafir
Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, ah. But he goes to heaven now that.
Adam Carolla
How old was he?
Ari Shafir
I don't know.
Adam Carolla
And is he gone now?
Ari Shafir
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Jesus Christ.
Ari Shafir
Life sucks. Why would you not kill yourself? Why would you not ever not kill yourself?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, you know what? I'm gonna talk to my kids. You know how old and miserable I am. Son, you can avoid this.
Ari Shafir
Don't be like this.
Adam Carolla
Hey, why don't you sign up? The force is always looking for a few Good men. Academy says it's only five weeks.
Ari Shafir
Five weeks. And here's a gun. It should be two years.
Adam Carolla
All right, Ari. Let me give you A plug. Ari Shafir, America's sweetheart. There's a very funny standout special. I watched the entire stand up special. Lots of themes, lots of jokes. And psychologically interesting too. Like you kind of go, oh yeah, no, that's right. You know, it's a little, I'm hoping.
Ari Shafir
To get through to people that are like, maybe you should chill.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. It's not just joke, joke, joke. There's message woven nicely in with the jokes.
Ari Shafir
Try in a funny way to get people to fucking tune out a little bit.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. All right. Go to AdamCroll.com because I got live shows coming up all over the place as well. Should we send people to arishafir.com yeah.
Ari Shafir
For my tour dates for sure. You know, Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Atlanta, Portland, San Antonio, Lots of stuff. San Jose.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, definitely go there. Find the dates. It's great. Live. And until next time, Adam Crawford, Ari Shafir saying, and if you guys have.
Ari Shafir
A new design here that honors the Twin Towers in an even better way and grammar at the same time.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I don't.
Ari Shafir
Because this Al Qaeda was low on grammar. I think that's what we're saying here. Then please send that into the AdamCarollaShow please.
Adam Carolla
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Podcast Summary: The Adam Carolla Show – "Ari Shaffir Does Car Sex Different" Release Date: January 21, 2025
Introduction
In this engaging episode of The Adam Carolla Show, host Adam Carolla welcomes comedian Ari Shaffir for a candid and humorous discussion. Joined by co-host Jason "Mayhem" Miller, the trio delves into a mix of current events, personal anecdotes, and unfiltered social commentary. Filmed at the Corolla One studios in Glendale, California, the episode offers listeners a blend of sharp wit and unabashed honesty characteristic of Adam Carolla and his guests.
Current Events and Political Commentary
Executive Orders and Social Policies
Adam and Ari kick off the conversation by dissecting recent executive orders, particularly focusing on former President Trump's proclamation that recognizes only two biological sexes. Adam humorously critiques the necessity of such proclamations in modern society.
Adam Carolla [06:30]: "It is weird that we have to make this proclamation. You can tell a lot about society by what you have to do..."
The discussion shifts to the Biden administration's actions, including preemptive pardons of family members, which Adam argues are attempts to shield corrupt activities within the Biden family. He fervently believes these pardons are indicative of broader governmental corruption.
Adam Carolla [18:37]: "His family is corrupt, and his family was involved with this skimming of the money from Ukraine and Russia..."
Jason "Mayhem" Miller adds to the debate by highlighting the suspension of security clearances for officials involved in the Hunter Biden laptop controversy, suggesting it as election interference.
Jason Mayhem Miller [28:33]: "Trump is to suspend the security clearances of the former national security officials behind the Hunter laptop letter."
Media Bias and Information Control
Adam criticizes mainstream media outlets like CNN and 60 Minutes for perceived biases and failures in authenticating information, leading to public distrust.
Adam Carolla [32:07]: "I feel like you could do that if you wanted. And you're yelling. So now I don't trust you, Leslie Stahl..."
He contrasts this with his own approach on the podcast, emphasizing that his discussions are based on thorough interviews and factual accuracy, which he believes sets his show apart from traditional media.
Personal Anecdotes and Social Observations
Growing Up and Family Influences
Ari shares amusing stories from his past, including his grandmother's unconventional support for the LGBTQ+ community, which shapes his unique comedic perspective.
Ari Shaffir [10:38]: "There's a guy named Harry Hay who's literally just the, you know, Harriet Tubman of Sucking Cock Underground Railroad..."
Experiences with Relationships and Sexuality
The conversation takes a more personal turn as Adam and Ari recount humorous and sometimes awkward experiences related to relationships and sexuality. They discuss the complexities of intimacy, societal expectations, and personal boundaries.
Adam Carolla [73:15]: "So you just retarded in that you're 37 years old, but you act, you have the mentality of a seven year old. So you are retarded."
Ari Shaffir [85:02]: "Yeah, I'm not trying to marry the vagina."
Humor and Sensitivity in Language
Both hosts navigate the fine line between humor and sensitivity, particularly when discussing derogatory terms and their evolution in societal context. They debate the appropriateness and impacts of reclaiming certain words within comedy.
Ari Shaffir [63:43]: "But we are comparing them to people with down syndrome."
Adam Carolla [64:15]: "But when you fall over nothing."
Cultural Critiques and Observations
Fashion and Societal Changes
Adam and Ari critique evolving fashion trends, such as the perpetual changes in denim styles, reflecting on how society’s obsession with altering traditions leads to widespread confusion and sometimes ridicule.
Adam Carolla [56:02]: "We decided we needed bell bottoms, peg legs, all white. Hip hugger mom jeans, stonewashed, pre torn..."
Urban Development and Gentrification
The hosts discuss the effects of gentrification in urban areas, using New York’s Little Italy and Chinatown as examples of how cultural enclaves evolve and sometimes lose their original charm.
Ari Shaffir [130:22]: "If you have two of the three, it doesn't quite work."
Adam Carolla [131:50]: "There's fake Italians. We're mad and go, I'll come back there."
Transportation and Infrastructure
Ari raises concerns about California’s push towards electric vehicles, questioning the preparedness for power outages during emergencies like wildfires.
Ari Shaffir [103:52]: "What happens next time there's a fire and the electricity goes off and in their beautiful world every got an electric car..."
Comedy and Social Commentary
Ari Shaffir’s Stand-Up and Netflix Special
Adam praises Ari’s Netflix special, "America’s Sweetheart," highlighting its blend of humor and insightful social critique. They discuss the shift in the comedy landscape, where formerly fringe comedians gain mainstream acceptance without compromising their authentic voices.
Adam Carolla [53:05]: "It's a good lesson for the kids. Except for if you do it for sort of an interminable amount of time..."
Ari Shaffir [53:43]: "It's sort of like sending swingers."
Language Policing and Comedy
The duo explore the boundaries of language in comedy, debating the resurgence of terms like "retard" and their impact on societal perceptions and sensitivities.
Ari Shaffir [60:31]: "No one's calling retarded people retarded. Not to their face. Not in an objectionable way."
Adam Carolla [63:38]: "I think retarded is fine."
Closing Remarks
As the episode wraps up, Adam and Ari reflect on the importance of authenticity in both personal interactions and the broader media landscape. They encourage listeners to seek out unfiltered discussions and remain critical of mainstream narratives.
Ari Shaffir [155:32]: "Because this Al Qaeda was low on grammar."
Adam Carolla [157:08]: "And psychologically interesting too. Like you kind of go, oh yeah, no, that's right."
Conclusion
This episode of The Adam Carolla Show serves as a vibrant tapestry of humor, personal stories, and sharp social and political commentary. Through their dynamic interaction, Adam Carolla and Ari Shaffir offer listeners both laughs and thoughtful insights into the complexities of modern life.
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