Bans Synthetic Food Dyes + Comedian Adam Yenser + Jordan Harmon

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Adam Carolla Show" Episode - "Bans Synthetic Food Dyes + Comedian Adam Yenser + Jordan Harmon"

Release Date: April 24, 2025
Guests:

• Adam Yenser, Comedian
• Jordan Harmon, Co-founder of Angel Studios

---

Introduction and Guest Welcome [03:28 - 04:03]

Adam Carolla kicks off the episode by warmly welcoming back comedian Adam Yenser and Jordan Harmon, the president of Angel Studios. He highlights Adam Yenser’s Dry Bar comedy special and teases upcoming live performances at the La Jolla Comedy Store alongside the legendary Yakov Smirnoff.

Quote (03:28)
Adam Carolla: "Adam Yenser has a very funny Dry Bar special himself, just riddled with good jokes."

Dry Bar Comedy and Live Performances [04:03 - 05:09]

Adam and Adam Yenser discuss their experiences performing at the Comedy Store. Adam shares anecdotes about working with Yakov Smirnoff and the dynamics of headlining comedy shows. They touch upon the challenges and rewards of live performances, setting the stage for their comedic insights.

Quote (04:23)
Adam Yenser: "I'm featuring on these shows. He's headlining these shows. I do some time before him, and he's just been a blast to work with."

The Value of Discipline and Scouting [05:09 - 08:08]

The conversation shifts to the importance of discipline, drawing parallels between Boy Scouts and personal development. Adam Carolla emphasizes how activities like scouting instill resilience and the ability to accept constructive criticism, contrasting it with modern attitudes towards coaching and mentorship.

Quote (05:09)
Adam Carolla: "It's like a dad telling his son, you know what I mean?"

Quote (07:30)
Adam Carolla: "Liar. See, it wouldn't work that way. I would believe you. You pointing makes me not believe you."

Modern Youth Culture vs. Traditional Activities [08:08 - 12:41]

Adam and Adam delve into the decline of traditional, hands-on activities among youth, attributing it to the absence of programs like Boy Scouts and the rise of digital distractions. They critique the modern approach to coaching and discipline, advocating for structured guidance to foster resilience in young individuals.

Quote (10:00)
Adam Carolla: "It's weird. I was at the Dry Bar, and the people I was in the room with, Mike August, eat anything. But they'll go like, we're getting some nachos. I'm like, nachos need cheese to melt on it, not a pump station."

Quote (12:41)
Adam Carolla: "It's the same Adam Carolla like he is. Yeah."

Personal Anecdotes on Resilience and Persistence [12:41 - 24:28]

Adam shares personal stories of overcoming challenges, such as rebuilding pianos and handling tough work projects. Adam Yenser relates with his experiences in Boy Scouts, emphasizing the significance of completing difficult tasks to build character. They both highlight the importance of perseverance over giving up, criticizing the modern tendency to avoid uncomfortable or challenging situations.

Quote (16:21)
Adam Yenser: "It's fantastic. By the way, I watched great jokes."

Quote (19:04)
Jason Mayhem Miller: "It's unreal confidence. That's helpful in comedy."

Clean Stand-Up Comedy and Audience Reception [24:28 - 49:55]

The discussion transitions to Adam Carolla’s venture into clean stand-up comedy with Dry Bar. He explains how setting boundaries on content can lead to creative liberation rather than confinement. Adam reflects on audience reactions to clean comedy and the challenges of maintaining engagement without relying on explicit language or topics.

Quote (24:28)
Adam Yenser: "You want to know that you can rise to the challenge."

Quote (34:30)
Adam Carolla: "I started working with him about four months ago. He's somebody... a legendary guy."

Angel Studios and Empowering Artists [60:09 - 122:00]

Jordan Harmon elaborates on the mission of Angel Studios, focusing on providing a platform where artists receive fair residuals for their work. Adam Carolla praises this model, emphasizing the importance of supporting creators to ensure sustainable and rewarding careers. They discuss the challenges faced by traditional entertainment systems and how Angel Studios aims to disrupt this landscape by fostering a more equitable environment for artists.

Quote (104:33)
Dawson: "We have employees that are thinking about Angel as if it was their company."

Quote (115:03)
Adam Carolla: "Timeless art deserves timeless residuals."

Cultural Shifts and Critiques [122:00 - 127:36]

The episode wraps up with Adam Carolla offering critiques of contemporary cultural narratives, particularly focusing on public figures like Michelle Obama. He expresses skepticism about the authenticity of certain societal messages and the impact of these narratives on personal interactions. The discussion touches on the importance of genuine experiences over performative actions in fostering community and resilience.

Quote (122:00)
Adam Carolla: "It's like they're obnoxious, they're grandiose, and they're narcissists."

Quote (126:36)
Adam Carolla: "I'm a little bit of a broken record on it, but you need, like, a sort of tactile. You need to live, you have to have one foot in a tactile world."

Conclusion and Promotions [127:36 - End]

As the episode concludes, Adam and Jordan discuss upcoming projects and encourage listeners to support Angel Studios. They emphasize the importance of community support in transforming the entertainment industry and ensuring that creators are fairly compensated for their work.

Quote (127:36)
Jordan Harmon: "We have a lot of ideas of what we're going to do together. So we appreciate all you're doing, Adam, and how you've continued to bring your talents to Dry Bar."

Quote (122:01)
Adam Carolla: "It's being a guild member is a meaningful impact on actually changing the entertainment space."

---

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Adam Carolla [03:28]: "Adam Yenser has a very funny Dry Bar special himself, just riddled with good jokes."

• Adam Carolla [05:09]: "It's like a dad telling his son, you know what I mean?"

• Adam Yenser [16:21]: "It's fantastic. By the way, I watched great jokes."

• Adam Carolla [24:28]: "You just have to call balls and strikes for yourself. It'll be helpful."

• Jordan Harmon [104:33]: "We have employees that are thinking about Angel as if it was their company."

• Adam Carolla [115:03]: "Timeless art deserves timeless residuals."

• Adam Carolla [122:00]: "It's like they're obnoxious, they're grandiose, and they're narcissists."

• Jordan Harmon [127:36]: "We appreciate all you're doing, Adam, and how you've continued to bring your talents to Dry Bar."

---

Key Takeaways

• Discipline and Resilience: Emphasized as crucial traits developed through structured activities like scouting, contrasting with modern tendencies to avoid discomfort.

• Clean Comedy: Explored as a means of creative expression that doesn't rely on explicit content, fostering a unique connection with the audience.

• Angel Studios' Mission: Focused on empowering artists by ensuring fair compensation and disrupting traditional entertainment monopolies.

• Cultural Critiques: Addressed the impact of societal narratives on personal interactions and the importance of genuine experiences.

---

This episode provides a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions on discipline, modern culture, and the evolving entertainment industry. Adam Carolla, along with his guests, offers a thought-provoking look into maintaining resilience and supporting authentic creative endeavors.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

With new McValue at McDonald's, you get more than you expect. So after a long day, buy a double cheeseburger and add a McChicken for a dollar because saving with deals is always on the menu. With new MCvalue, prices and participation may vary. Valid for item of equal or lesser value. Are you feeling stuck in your career or lacking employment at the moment experiencing symptoms of job dissatisfaction? You might be suffering from a common condition known as career stagnation. But don't worry, there's a solution. Monster.com Monster.com offers a comprehensive suite of career boosting tools designed just for you. Our free resume review and AI interview prep tool will help you stand out from the crowd. Need more guidance? Dive into our career advice articles for expert tips and insights. And don't forget to check out our salary tools to ensure you're getting paid what you're worth. Side effects may include a new job, increased confidence and a brighter future. Consult monster.com today and take the first step towards your new career. Ready for your next job opportunity? Visit monster.com now. Well, in this episode, Very Funny comedian comes back. Adam Jenser. Also, Jordan Harmon, who's one of the co founders of Angel Studios, comes in. We'll talk a little dry bar with those dudes. We got news and we'll do all that right after this. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. Betonline is the world's most trusted betting platform and your number one source for for all sports betting action. Baseball season's in full swing. See what I did there? I said swing when I said baseball and we're into the home stretch, the NBA and NFL. I should say NHL playoffs. NFL's coming up sooner than you think as well. Betonline has more ways to stay in on the action with the latest odds, news and scores. Even live in game betting while the games are going and being played with the largest selection of odds on everything from MLB, NHL and UFC professional golf, BetOnline remains the number one online source for all your sports wagering info. In between games, head on over to BetOnline's casino with all the top Vegas style games including poker and live casino bet online. The game starts here.

[Jordan Harmon]

See what's screaming free all month long during Pluto TV's April ghouls get your heart pounding with nightmare fueling classics like Insidious and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Or test your nerves with haunting hits like Urban Legend and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Pluto TV has hundreds of channels and thousands of Terrifying movies. Movies live and on demand. Download Pluto TV on all your favorite devices and start streaming now. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Adam Yenser and the president of Angel Studios, Jordan Harmon. Plus the news with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now, a clean episode from a man who never showers, Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. The church we're gonna mandate you get it on. Adam Jenser back in studio. He has a very funny dry bar special himself. Just riddled with good jokes. He's gonna be at the La Jolla Comedy Store coming up this weekend, and he's gonna be there with Yakov Smirnoff, my friend.

[Adam Yenser]

He's a great guy.

[Adam Carolla]

He's truly. You know what? When they go, he's a lovely guy. That's who they're talking about when they say Yakov Smirnov.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

A mensch.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Just a good, good dude.

[Adam Yenser]

He is.

[Adam Carolla]

Had a chance to catch up with him when I was in Florida last and did a little interview with him and brought him up on stage and that kind of stuff. Good dude. So what do you do at the Comedy Store in La Jolla? Do you go out? Does he feature? Do you feature? Who does.

[Adam Yenser]

I'm featuring on these. So he's headlining these shows. I just started working with him about, I don't know, four months ago. He's somebody. When I grew up watching Johnny Carson, I loved his old Johnny Carson set. And he's like a legend in the comedy world. And he was doing these shows at his theater in Branson, and now he's going back out on the road again. So, yeah, he's headlining. I do some time before him, and he's just been a blast to work with.

[Adam Carolla]

We were talking off the air, and it's a big subject in my world. Just. I asked Adam where he lived, and he said, toluca Lake, but he pointed towards Sun Valley. And then I stopped and said, you're pointing the wrong direction. Which I do with everybody all the time, which I can't tell if it means I'm an ass or I care too much.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Now. You got a lot of iron deposits in your nose.

[Adam Carolla]

Something. Yeah. Like, it just bothers me, but it's also. I don't. Here's my problem. I don't want them to carry on pointing the wrong direction. I'm not always gonna be there. I'm like a dad telling his son, you know what I mean?

[Adam Yenser]

I appreciate it. I took the correction I'm good outside in la. I know the directions. When I get inside, I feel like I get turned around and I'm just like, oh, I'll just point myself.

[Adam Carolla]

You must have played sports as a youth.

[Adam Yenser]

Not a lot. I was in Boy Scouts, but I.

[Adam Carolla]

Was a sport person because there's a new breed of folk who cannot be coached. It's mostly women and young dudes. They just argue. They make excuses like, you can't coach them. And I realized they didn't play sports. They weren't in the military. They didn't have some guy in a position looking down at them telling them they were doing it wrong every 10 minutes. And so that is sort of the new world order. But when people. When I say something to someone and they go, oh, yeah, right, thanks. I was wrong. Then that means they were in the military or they wrestled or they played football or something. Scouting makes sense.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Did you get to a high level of scouting?

[Adam Yenser]

I did. I got to Eagle Scout. Oh.

[Adam Carolla]

Lots of talked about this.

[Adam Yenser]

Still don't know my directions.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, your navigation badge is revoked.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's a thing, and it's a thing with me. And people do it all the time. They go, oh, I'm out in Malibu. And then they point and I go, you're pointing to Pasadena. And, like, you're Belinda or something. We can keep going. We can get to Vegas the way you're pointing. And I guess we'll circle the globe and eventually we'll get to Malibu. Technically, you might be right, but we'd have to circumnavigate the globe to come back around to Malibu. But there's a closer way that's only 18 miles if you want to point that direction. And then everyone, number one answer is, either I'm wrong or they go, yeah, I don't know what direction Malibu is. And then I go, don't point. Because let's just say you said. Let's just. I'll ask. Don't point. But you just tell me you live in Toluca Lake. Where do you live, Adam?

[Adam Yenser]

I live in Toluca Lake.

[Adam Carolla]

Liar. See, it wouldn't work that way. It wouldn't. I would believe you. You pointing makes me not believe you.

[Adam Yenser]

That makes it feel like now I.

[Adam Carolla]

Think you're a liar because you're pointing to Sun Valley. So maybe you don't live until it goes. Just keep your hands in your pocket when you say where you live. Or pick the right direction.

[Adam Yenser]

I will pick the right direction next time.

[Adam Carolla]

Or just keep the hands in the Pocket. Or maybe the way we're gonna do it next time, Adam, I'll go, where do you live? And then I'll go, hold on. Let's go out in the parking lot. We'll go out in the parking lot, and then you can. You can triangulate. Triangulate.

[Adam Yenser]

And then you'll look where the sun is in the sky.

[Adam Carolla]

I thought you were gonna put a.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Stick in the ground.

[Adam Yenser]

I didn't bring my compass.

[Adam Carolla]

Eagle Scout. Eagle Scout used to really mean something. It was like owning a van.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's like, yeah, that guy's going place, he's got a van. You know, like now it's a little bit of a strike or you're square or something. Like, I don't know what it is, but it used to. It was a big deal.

[Adam Yenser]

It was a tough thing to do back in the day. And it was. I think they've lowered the standards in scouting a little bit. And they did the thing where they kind of merged the girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts into one thing called scouting. So it's. I don't.

[Adam Carolla]

Don't like it.

[Adam Yenser]

I don't either.

[Adam Carolla]

Here's the thing, and I've been yelling about this into a microphone for a million years, which is not everything is progress. Like, all progress isn't always good. Sometimes you go and you make mistakes. We have this thing, especially in California, it's like, what's next? What's next? I don't know. Find a rear view mirror. Take a look behind you. Maybe folks who are older than us, maybe other generations had some things right. I was sitting at a Starbucks in La Canada. I was waiting for you, pointing the right direction a little more that way. But I was sitting at Starbucks in La Canada a few weeks ago, and I saw a. And I do want to tell people this. People do this thing all the time. They go, we're looking for a house. Wanna know how the school system is? Wanna know the walking score? There's a score for walking, which is weird, but there's like. It's got a high walking score, and it's in a good. I don't know, it means places are safe or close or something.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Like, you could stroll to Starbucks.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, right. I'll tell you, all you need to do. All you need to do is go to the closest Starbucks to your home. And then you go in and you do what I did at the La Canada one, which is. I went in, saw the guy behind the counter, and I said, what's the code for the bathroom door? And he goes, no code. I went, that's why this is, that's a good neighborhood. That's why this is La Canada. You're right, right. Because if you ever go to a place where they just go, no code for the bathroom, it's a Starbucks. That's a good neighborhood. And you don't need to know the schooling or the walking. You need anything else, that's all you need. The Corolla, Starbucks, sc, It's all you need. It means safe, good, no junkies, Fentanyl, whatever. It's just, that's what it means. It means no homeless.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So I'm sitting in that Starbucks after destroying the bathroom, man. I tore that place apart. Tore the hinges off that door, man. No, after vandalizing the bathroom.

[Adam Yenser]

They put a coat in after you used it. They were like, all right, we can't let him back in here.

[Adam Carolla]

I like the doesn't care code. I was like, another place used the bathroom in North Hollywood. They had the code, but it's the don't care code. It's like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 pound. You know, like, oh, okay, we have a code, but not really. So I saw a girl, I don't know, 12 year old girl come walking up and she's wearing a boy Scouts like uniform. And I was like, what? And then that got me launched off on it. Could we just have the boy Scouts? Could we just have it? Is everything. Gotta be something. Can we. Is it okay? Can we just go? We'll have the boy Scouts and they.

[Adam Yenser]

Have the girl scouts for girls and that worked for them. And you need separate, by the way.

[Adam Carolla]

You guys, there's a gym for girls, you know what I mean? And then someone goes, why? And then someone goes, who cares? There's a gym for girls, that's okay, I don't need to infiltrate it. There's other gyms. We don't need to go. There could be a gym for men, I wouldn't care. It's just, why can't we have a boy scout? That's all I'm saying. And does everything have to go? And is their plan to give young girls a chance at scouting or is it just I hate my dad and I have to destroy everything because it's. I hate my dad and I have to destroy everything. And we don't get it. We sit around and they go, oh, well, then what if we had another scout? It's like, what we don't get is these people are angry and just want to destroy everything. And we keep trying to bargain with Them because we think there's something they want, but they don't want anything. They want the opposite of what you want, which is everything.

[Adam Yenser]

And I think they also hate that they see the Boy Scouts and those any traditional institution, they see it as having other traditional values underlying it that I think they want to detract. They see the Boy Scouts as, oh, it was often affiliated with churches like you'd meet in a church basement. They kind of fostered some traditional gender roles and they hate all of that stuff now.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, yes. So what they do now is what I basically learned in Covid, but it's like, you're like, I don't want to wear a paper mask alone on a hiking trail. And they're like, oh, you're Trump voter. And I go, not necessarily. I don't want to do unuseful things that don't make sense. Yeah, MAGA guy. And now we're arguing and I'm like, look, if you told me every time I went for a walk I had to just circle the light post 3 times before I could go on, I would not want to do that either. But doesn't make me maga. It just makes me against doing stuff that's useless, you know, and so everything is a signal for something. And it's a two way street. I see someone wearing a mask alone in their car, I know how they vote. I know what their politics are. Right. So everything becomes something. So nothing can exist in a vacuum. And you're Boy Scout guy, but that means you're a MAGA guy now because of the traditional. Whatever. And so now we're gonna attack that, but we're not really attacking walking alone without a mask on a trail. We're attacking your politics. And that's basically what it's all come down to now. Right? So you drive a pickup truck and you put an American flag on it. We know it's like, oh, that's true. All right, we know. And so then the people are like, why are they against the American flag? They're not against the American flag. They're against the way the guy drives the truck.

[Adam Yenser]

Votes. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And now they know it.

[Adam Yenser]

It's become even like that driving around. I try not to do it myself, but if I see a house that has patriotic stuff on it. Oh, yeah, I assume it's like, oh, there must be conservative people living there.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I figured out a long time ago, like, there are ways to. Okay, in terms of conservative house, if you put a sign up that says no person is illegal, we believe we Believe whatever. You're ripe for a robin, like a pistol whip and a robin. But if you put an NRA or these colors don't run or whatever, then you got. Then they'll probably go to the next house where they put that sign up. I mean, someone should statistically work it out. But you want to put a confederate flag sticker on your front window, you might get it broken. But you're not going to get robbed. There's someone in there cleaning a gun right now. I saw the one that. The number one house to rob I saw was. Sorry, my nose is running. I saw a. Saw a house that had a sticker for how many cats they had in the house so the fire department could save them. I'm like, oh, you're gonna get robbed.

[Adam Yenser]

But what is in a house full of cats that you want to rob, though?

[Adam Carolla]

Everything's covered with hair and tears.

[Adam Yenser]

If you take everything out, it all smells like the cats.

[Adam Carolla]

It's so funny. All right, so my special, which, sorry, you're gonna put all that info on the. On the screen, what we talked about before Adam comes clean, that's available right now.

[Adam Yenser]

It's fantastic. By the way. I watched great jokes.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm so flattered because I watched yours and I thought, oh, Adam's got a bunch of great jokes in his.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, yours is awesome.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I'm so glad you watched it.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Fancy.

[Adam Carolla]

You saw it on Dry Bar. I'm sorry, On Dry Bar?

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, on the app. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, okay. So now the first special I shot is available in front of the paywall or whatever. So it's free. You don't have to sign up is what I'm saying, to do it. The second one I shot is available to subscribers, and that's behind. You have to have a subscription. Right. But the first one is free to anyone listening. It's just at their website, I guess you go to on the angel app, and it's free. All right, so there you go. So thanks for watching. I appreciate that. People are. I find sometimes when it comes to stand. I don't know if you have this thought or not, but, like, I'll go out and do like I did Bobby Kennedy Jr. S stand up fundraiser, whatever, the night of comedy with whatever. And, you know, I can be realistic about my performances. Every time I say that, I go. I crush my. I tell you, the theater was that direction. No, there was like, there was like seven or eight comedians. And. And you know, when you get in that situation, you do sort of sit back there and everyone's doing 15 minutes. And I did it with a Kid Rock benefit and stuff. But you sit in the green room, you're kind of sizing people are sizing people up a little bit. Because at some point somebody's gonna pick a ranking, you know, they'll go, how was the Kid Rock? You know, night of a thousand comedians? They go, so and so is really good. And then so and so was. And then you want to be up toward the top.

[Adam Yenser]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I mean? So I went out there and I crushed it. And I was proudly the funniest of the night. But I saw everyone, everyone was good, but I did extra good. And then a lot of comedians will come on the show and I'll go, oh, man, I saw this guy, he did the Robert Kennedy whatever, and he was really great that night. And they go, thanks. And then they leave out. They never go, oh, you're good too. Like, it's weird. Like comedians don't like to hand it out. And so it's very. It's rare or pretty rare when comedians go, hey, I saw your special was great, you know, or something like. Or I was with you that night. Good job. Or whatever. It's just a. Did you notice that?

[Adam Yenser]

Oh, I noticed that. But I'm glad you have a self awareness about it. Cause I know when I've done well. But I also know comics, especially newer comics, when you watch them go up and they'll get off and they'll tell. You'll hear them tell people the next show. Oh, I crushed. And you're like, no, I was at that show. You didn't, you didn't crush. I see the opposite thing where they have this, you know, unfounded self confidence where they're like, oh, I killed it again tonight.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It's.

[Adam Yenser]

You are. All right.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

That's helpful in comedy.

[Adam Yenser]

I don't think so. No, no, Right.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Unreal confidence.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Adam Yenser]

And what I find from the audience where you also never want to be is sometimes at a club especially, it'll be like waiting by the exit to say goodbye to people, thank them for coming. And the audience will come up and they'll go to a comic and go, oh, you were really good. And they'll turn and look at another one and go, oh, you were. Yeah, you can tell they weren't really a fan of that one.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I think it's good to do reality on reality's terms. You know, it'll help you improve. But if you had a good night, then you can own that as well. You Just have to. You just have to call balls and strikes for yourself. It'll be helpful. So you were an Eagle Scout when it was tough to be an Eagle Scout? Yes. What is the minimum amount of time it would take to be an Eagle Scout back in the day? Like, to get to black belt?

[Adam Yenser]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

You couldn't do it in three months.

[Adam Yenser]

That's interesting, because you had to finish it by your 18th birthday. Those were the rules. When you become an adult, you're no longer in Scouts. I was where I pushed it till the week before my birthday. I remember my dad being like, you gotta finish this. You gotta get this merit badge done to finish it in time. There were kids that would finish it around, I don't know, like, I don't know what the earliest is, but 13, 14, 15. There were kids that got in there and they would just have this. They'd have to get two sashes full of, like, getting every merit badge, but so earliest, I would say maybe 14, 15, if you were a real overachiever. But 18 was, like, the cutoff.

[Adam Carolla]

And how long did it take you then? I mean, you start when you're seven.

[Adam Yenser]

So you joined Cub Scouts around six or seven. And that's like the junior scouting. And then around 11 or 12, I think you become a Boy Scout. And then you have those six years between, like, 12 to 18 in Boy Scouts to complete all the merit badges and do an Eagle project and complete all the requirements.

[Adam Carolla]

Did there. Were there what was like, the most difficult task or merit badge?

[Adam Yenser]

Ooh. I remember the swimming merit badge was tough because the only place you could really. You could either go on your own time in the summer, but at Boy Scout camp over the summer, they would have swimming merit badge, and you'd have to get up at the crack of dawn. And even in the summer, it was in the Poconos. It was this cold lake. So you'd have to go in there and there was like a mile swim. And you'd have to dive down and pick up things off the bottom that were in the murky brown water when it's 6am and, like, 58 degrees outside, really. So that was the thing where you'd. You'd kind of put that one off. And then one year you'd be like, I have to get swimming mirror badge this year. That one was tough. It was physically exerting and it was freezing cold.

[Adam Carolla]

You gotta get the dirty water.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Practice.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's tough. I don't think it's a phobia, but to be in water where you can't see your feet. But I don't like it, and I don't think anyone likes it.

[Adam Yenser]

And it's one of those where you're swinging down through the water and you don't even know how close you are to the bottom until it just appears out of the murky depths, and then you're just holding your breath and desperate to get back up.

[Adam Carolla]

So the swim one was a tough one.

[Adam Yenser]

That one was tough for me. Yeah. And then you always have to complete an Eagle project. I put in flag poles at a Boy Scout camp, so we had to dig the pits for the three flag poles, put in the cement, put up the poles, and put a garden around it. Different people picked different levels of difficulty for their Eagle project.

[Adam Carolla]

And I listen. I feel like. And, you know, anyone who's done anything at a sort of higher level, discipline, and it doesn't really matter whether it's MMA or Eagle scouting or football or whatever, it's just about sort of conquering yourself, sort of getting past your pain.

[Adam Yenser]

I'm glad you put those on the same level, like a UFC fighter. I'm flattered.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm just saying it doesn't have to be anything where you're awarded a championship belt or an Eagle Scout ranking. It's just sort of conquering yourself, you know, and, man, it is trouble these days. People aren't doing it. They're not engaging in it. I feel like I fall back on it a lot. It has a. You know, it's not necessarily physical all the time. Like, you know, I was talking to someone about doing a clean 45 minutes, and it was like, put it. Put it on the calendar. Put that date on it. I'm gonna start working on it. It's not all gonna be that comfortable, but put on the counter, let's do it. And. And it. But I am drawing on playing football weirdly, you know, million years ago, or just doing a whole bunch of stuff I didn't want to do.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And then I realized sometimes I talk to a lot of people who don't. Haven't done a lot of stuff they don't want to do, and they're not good at doing stuff they don't want to do and the product is bad and. Or they don't do it at all, and they end up getting left behind in life.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah. I think that's. That's really interesting because I feel like. I like that. It's like challenging yourself.

[Adam Carolla]

It's.

[Adam Yenser]

You want to know that you can rise to the challenge. Even just doing, you know, the. The clean 45 minutes, or when I was in Boy Scouts. I remember the only merit badge I ever gave up on at Scout camp, the one year that was mountain biking. And I was a pretty good mountain biker. But when I signed up for the group that I was in were all these kids that had been doing it for years and could, you know, their bikes over logs. And I felt like I was getting left in the dust. And that summer I quit that merit badge, and it bothered me. It was like, that was the first time when I do something, it's hard. It's like you kind of want to commit and see it through, even if it's going to take you a while. But that sat with me when I was like, oh, I gave up on that thing, and I don't like doing that. And that was a feeling. I was like, oh, I don't want that feeling again about something.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Giving up on stuff. Yeah. And also, you didn't want to say out loud, like, I'm scared to do that, or. The one that's weird that people do a lot is they just go, I don't do that. I'm not doing that again. I go, okay, stop saying, why do you have such a long list of things you don't do or food you won't try or stuff you won't engage in? It's weird. Like, just go, let's do it, or give it a try, or whatever. I prefer this over that. But people out loud go like, I'm scared to do this, or I'm not comfortable with that, or whatever. A lot of it's nonsense, but I just mean there's gotta be. We've sanitized the world enough so that kids don't have to engage in that stuff if they don't choose to. And the moms have become. And the dads. I mean, the moms started it, and the dads just sort of fell in, became like, weird Nazi sympathizers or something. Like, I'm not gonna round up any Jews, but I'm not gonna say anything. If anyone else does, like, I'll just hang out and watch. You know what I mean? The guy sucked into that. And kids are soft now, and they don't test themselves.

[Adam Yenser]

It's that participation trophy culture and the sort of lowering the standards where everybody, you know, you just kind of. That's how I feel like Boy Scouts might be now. I don't know what the standards are, but I feel like they've not seen.

[Adam Carolla]

I Don't get what is satisfying about the participation trophy, because I got a lot of them, and it's been going on for a long time, and we always couch it as the participation trophy, but participation trophy's what you got if you participated. But I didn't care. I wanted most valuable or best defensive, whatever. You know, that's. I didn't. I was so weirded out in my head that when I was in the 11th grade and I went to play varsity football, and I went from not starting on the B team to ended up being a starter on the varsity because I was just really throwing myself into it. And at the end of the year, I got Most Improved, and I was, like, disgusted. I was like, what? Get out of here with that crap.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And everyone still got that, too. You did it wrestling?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And people later on in life, like, people are like, oh, no, that's a good one. I'm going, no, it's not. I don't want that. And I don't know. It's an interesting mindset, like. And without judgment, who would be proud of Most Improved? And there's an argument for it. And then I was disgusted by it. I didn't want to talk about it. I was like, fine. I never even. I didn't brought it up to anyone.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But I don't know where. Let's throw mine in the lake. Did you? Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I didn't care at all.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't. I don't know that I ever accepted mine. I don't know where it is. I don't know that I ever had anyone hand it to me.

[Adam Yenser]

That's something you display if you get first place or if you finish something that you want that displayed. You want people like, you're proud of it. But. Yeah, I remember if we got participation stuff, it was always these little red ribbons, and you just either throw them away instantly or you put it in a drawer somewhere, and two years later, you'd throw it away.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It's not just that, too. We live in a time of cheap dopamine. You can just instantly be kind of happy, and it, like, kind of holds people back from being truly happy. A lot of the fighters that coach, you know, the guys who fall off don't have the discipline to, like, just get in there and grind it out. A lot of doing something really great is boring and lonely.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. It's super.

[Adam Yenser]

That's very true.

[Adam Carolla]

Super repetitive. And I think that's. That's where people fall out. That just the super repetitive stuff. Like, the hardest thing I could Ever. When I taught boxing, I couldn't get people to skip rope because they just didn't, they weren't good at it and they didn't like it and all they did was sit in one place for 20 minutes and skip rope. And they just hate it. They just wouldn't do it. They'd go right on, wallop on the heavy bag or something.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

But you go get a 17 year old to jab and stick it back to his face. Nowadays everybody thinks that they're Floyd Mayweather and is boxing a Philly shell doing this. And everybody throws their jab and puts it back. Nipple. And I punch him in the face and I was like, aha. You see that? Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I hit, I hit a student of mine in the.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I hit all my students in the face.

[Adam Carolla]

I, I did it and I remember it was a woman and she was like, why'd you do that? And I said, I told you nine times to pull your jab back to your head. I just told you to do it, Just do it. You know what I mean? And they're like, nobody could throw across without dropping their jab down to their head. And I was like, the other, don't do it. Just put it on your face and physically touch your face. Then if you can't figure it out, you can't be trusted. They throw that cross hand right back down to the hip.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

See, I got so crazy yesterday, I just put them guys to go jab, cross, hook, cross and block, block, block, block, and then throw it right back. So sometimes you get punched in the face, but if you're shielding up, you know what's coming. Four punches in a row, put your hands back to your face. It's a nightmare trying to discipline these guys. Like herding kittens that are raising claws.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I'll tell you something that's probably good for these guys. I don't know if you do it, but I used to do it, I think when I was to be at the Jet Center. Benny Arquitas.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah, I know this. Yeah, I'd go, just do the first round, just your front hand.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, that's what we did.

[Adam Carolla]

Just jabbing and hooking and whatever you uppercut, whatever you can muster with your bad arm, but just your bad arm, which is good because it teaches you really not ignore your bad arm. So it's like the first round, just the front hand. The second round you can throw the cross, but only downstairs, which is good because people ignore the jab and ignore body punches and they should be doing more Bodywork and more weak arm. But they just load up on the cross and they go head hunting. Right. So do the first round, just a front arm and do the second round, you can use your back arm, but only to the body.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

We have the same methodology.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you do?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yep. That's exactly what I ran through yesterday. Oh, really funny. Old school stuff still works.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, okay. Yeah. That was way back at the jet center in Van Nuys with Benny or Ketis and his brother in law Blinky and his wife Lily, or his wife Blinky's wife. These guys were scary guys like Benny or Keys would do like death matches in the Philippines and stuff. Kind of crazy. Crazy stuff.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

They are pretty legendary. I know about them, you know?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they were famous guys. They're in Van Nuys and then the earthquake hit their building, like fell down. Because it's all made out of bricks. And bricks in an earthquake are just. It just comes all down. So like, when I was living in an old house in the valley when the first earthquake hit in the 70s, we had this big tall chimney and it just fell out. And we never fixed it, which was normal to me. But now I look at it as weird, you know, now that I look at it, sort of like. And it was weird, the earthquake. You can look it up, Dawson. It was 72 or 74, that the chimney. And it was a high chimney because the house had a very high pitched roof. 71. Oh, that early. So the house had a high pitched roof. And the rule is the chimney needs to go higher than the top of the roof for fire safety, whatever. Whatever code they had, 1891 or whatever it was. But you had to go past the ridge rafter, the top of the thing.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

So no embers, I get it.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But the chimney was down at the bottom line, like at the wall line. So that meant that chimney was like 13ft high. And it was all just brick and it was a million years old. And the earthquake hit and it all fell over and it all slid into our neighbor's yard, which I thought was sort of novel. Just went to the truax's yard because there was only like 3ft between our house and their yard. And it just tumbled. Went in the yard and then. But the thing that was funny about it is, is I was like, oh, all right, well, now we don't have a chimney. And everyone was like, yeah, no more chimney for us. And then at some point I was like 35 and I was visiting my mom. It's like, yeah, no chimney. What are you gonna Do.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Which is a weird mentality. But no chimney for the rest of that house's life. And then it got torn down. But it also just reminded me of a funny story, which is I. We had. My grandparents had an upright piano. Like, a cheap, bad upright piano, but they had a piano, and they were roofing. Putting some tar on a roof above it, a flat roof, and it dripped down and got onto the handle on the arm of this upright piano. And then at some point, my grandparents died, and my sister sort of collected things that were at the house. Now, they didn't. Nobody in my family's left any money or anything. God forbid. God, I just. I want to break a pencil every time I think about that, you know.

[Adam Yenser]

I was thinking about that, too.

[Adam Carolla]

I was talking to him. I was like, out. I was at breakfast with somebody the other day, and it was like, a couple. I was like, your parents. Are they done? Are they okay? And they were like, they're very comfortable. And I was like, oh, oh. And then I said to the guys, like, what about your parents? Well, my mom has, like, millions of dollars. And I go, where'd she get the. Well, my dad had the million, then he died. Now she's got the millions. And I'm like, what's that?

[Adam Yenser]

Like.

[Adam Carolla]

Like somebody dies and leaves you something. You know, just. I don't know, a vacation house in Palm Springs or a condo in Maui or something.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I would like to just talk to the lawyer. You know what I mean?

[Adam Carolla]

Just something, something. Maybe it's just eight grand, but it's just eight grand, but it's something, right?

[Adam Yenser]

I remember that in high school when I would hear kids, if their grandmother or their grandfather died, and they'd be like, oh, they left me 15,000 or $20,000. And I was like, I've had several relatives die. All I got was to go to a funeral. There was no. Like, There was no inheritance from it. It was just, somebody's gone.

[Adam Carolla]

I had to pay for the funeral of my father. It was a $15,000 casket. I found the exact one online at Costco for, like, $1,100, like, two days later. Exactly the same.

[Adam Yenser]

Anyway, now, do they have bulk caskets at Costco? If you're planning to have a few people pass in the next few.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, I'm sure there was a reason why this one was 15, but it's probably just, like, bought at the mortuary or something versus saving my money, the person I wasn't related to. Okay, but so my. There was never. There was no money. There's never any money. And my parents have passed on, and the grandparents passed. Everyone passed on. But there's. There's no. There's never any money. But there were, like. My sister was able to go in and get like a crock pot or stuff, you know, just some plates or some. You know, just some stuff, you know, and she got the piano. I didn't even care about. I mean, I think here's the biggest. There could be no greater indictment of a family's lack of wealth than somebody dies and then somebody says, do you want to go through the belongings? I go, I'm good. I mean, that's basically saying there's nothing. They're there.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Hey, wait a minute. Have you got a Tony Bennett cd?

[Adam Carolla]

I was bequeathed a Tony Bennett CD and the Practical Bible by Dennis pr. And I'm going a step further. I'm gonna argue that the bag it was delivered in has some value. I'm not saying, you know, you're gonna get rich and retire off of selling the Trader Joe's bag, but it's not worthless. It has some value.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

After lunch, I almost walked off of his inheritance. I thought it was freebies.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, that was my dad, my mom. I got a note and that was made out to me and my sister, but I'm not sure where that note is. But I don't feel like it has a lot of value to it. I don't know what I could sell it for.

[Adam Yenser]

But maybe you haven't tried to ebay it yet.

[Adam Carolla]

Not. Not gonna test the waters. I'm gonna get an appraiser over. I wanna get a loan out against it.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. I got this note from my mom. It's half my sister stuff, so I don't fully own it. And then I got this Tony Bennett cd and I got the Practical Bible. So, like, what could we.

[Adam Yenser]

Does it come in the good bag or are you keeping the bag?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, I could keep the bag for sentimental reasons. So my sister had this piano at her house that had roofing tar on the arm of it, and it had dripped off the ceiling. But this is from, like, 1973. And I was at her house for Thanksgiving, like, 15 or 20 years ago, and she had this thing in her house, the piano. And she said, yeah, I got Grandpa's piano. I said, okay. And then I looked at it and I said, the tar is still there. And my mom was there and my sister and my stepdad, and they go, yeah, the tar still there after all those years. And I go, yeah, it's still there. And my mom's, like, laughing. Yeah, it dripped down from the ceiling, and then it was there. And I was like, yeah, we can.

[Adam Yenser]

Get rid of it.

[Adam Carolla]

Everyone looked at me like, what? I had a couple of drinks, okay? So I go, give me your hair dryer. Give me a hair dryer. I need a hairdryer and, like, a butter knife. And everyone's looking. Everyone's at the table, you know, they're looking at me like, what's this guy doing? I go, give it in. I get the hair dryer, I get the butter knife, I heat it up with the hair dryer, and I just get the butter knife, and it just comes off. And then I go, it's done. It's done. It took four minutes. Four minutes, you losers. For 50 years you've been living with all this.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Four minutes and five decades, pal.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, four minutes and five decades, right? That's how long it took to get the tar. But who are we dealing with here? We're dealing with people that see tar dripped on an instrument and go, nothing we can do. There's no. The chimney's gone, the tar's taking its place. And there's nothing we can do because we're losers and we're trapped in our environment. We didn't do mma, we weren't Eagle Scouts, and we didn't play football. We're just here, and whatever happens is what happens. And I don't get it, but it's a mentality and it's bad.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, well, one thing I admire about you, you seem to know these things, and I worry about that as a comedian, I feel like as I've gotten older, when I was a kid, something that. Or you mentioned roofing. Like, my uncles and my grandfathers were all roofers, so I'd help them roof.

[Adam Carolla]

That's why you didn't get left anything.

[Adam Yenser]

I felt like, yeah, exactly. I felt like I was doing something manual and accomplishing something when I was doing that stuff. And in Boy Scouts, you learn how to do physical things. As I've gotten older and I'm doing comedy, it's fun, but I feel like I'm like, if comedy doesn't work out or if it goes away, I have no skills that I've picked up over the last 20 years. There's just no more practical. Yeah, I know that kind of work.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't. I mean, I would say to people, and I'm a little bit of a broken record on it, but you need, like, a sort of tactile. You need to live, you have to have one foot in a tactile world.

[Adam Yenser]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And when you get into comedy or you just sit in a cubicle all day and do data entry or you write political opinions online or something, you leave the tactile world. And it's an interesting thing. I was talking to Dr. Drew about it the other day on our show, which is. So I was saying to Drew, I was here all last weekend, and I was organizing and sort of cleaning and organizing. I moved out of one warehouse. It all got dumped here. And there's just junk with junk, and everything is sort of cattywampus. And the sockets, the mechanic sockets are with the drywall screws and stuff. And I just need to separate and clean. And so I was saying to Dr. Drew, I said, you know, it's weird, but I went out and went to church on Easter and then went to brunch. And I found myself sitting there going, we went to church, and then it was time to go to brunch. And I was saying to my girlfriend, maybe I'll just hit the shop. And you guys go to brunch. And they're like, what? You want to come to brunch and hear how rich everyone's family are? So you can get disappointed? Right? And I go, well, you're right. I don't want to miss that conversation where people are comfortable and I'm uncomfortable. But okay. But I kept sort of going, why don't you just. And the girls go to brunch, and then I'll just slink on over to the shop, because I was jonesing to get over here to do a task that was repetitive, kind of boring and unenviable like most people. Like, I couldn't get my kids to do it. They'd complain too much, you know? But I was like. Wanted to do it. And I said to Drew, I said, you know, years ago, and I can't remember the syndrome, but there's a syndrome that humans have where you're physically compelled to eat dirt. And he shouted it out immediately, but it escapes me now, but it's because you need iron. And so you're like, why are you eating dirt? That doesn't seem good. And the person would be like, I don't know why I want to eat dirt, but I want to eat dirt. And then it's your body telling you, you got to eat dirt. It's like your reptilian brain going, you need iron, or whatever's in dirt that you need this to. To eat. Oh, pica. Yeah, it's called Picasso. So I'd always stuck in my head, like, your body will just push you into doing something that doesn't make sense or doesn't sound attractive to anybody because it knows what it needs. It. You know what I mean?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Of course.

[Adam Carolla]

And so I was like, why am I trying to get out of brunch to go sort drywall screws in a warehouse? And I realized, oh, I need it. I need it. And I spent the whole weekend here just sorting stuff out. And, like, Sunday, I was just here alone, like, all day, just kind of sorting stuff and looking at stuff. And I was like, doesn't feel like a good use of my time, per se. You know, if you. If you break it down, I would get thousands of dollars an hour to do what I do for a living. This is nothing. This is kind of grunt scrub stuff. Pay somebody, Pay some kid to do it. Why are you doing it? And then I was like, I need it, and I'm compelled to do it. And I think people are ignoring that thing, that they gotta get back to it, and they're going nuts, and they're not getting out. And, you know, for a lot of people, it can be nature, but for me, it's like, I like organizing and fixing and building.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

So you hacked your brain into getting dopamine from tasking and accomplishing tasks. I noticed yesterday I got a bunch of, like, weird odds and ends, like, busy work. You know, I love holding the pads. I love working the guys out. I love training. But I just did some adulting, and I suddenly was like, wow, I feel great afterwards. It's something that's kind of lost in the Internet age.

[Adam Yenser]

That's how I always feel. Yeah, you feel like you accomplished something. You worked with your hands, or even if it was something minor, you feel like you check the box. Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

People. It's being swept under the rug. It's not being talked about. It's not like a political subject. You know, it says nothing. No one ever brings it up. No one. You know, we've removed all the shop classes from the junior highs and the high schools. We've gotten away with it. And we decide that everyone's greatest life would be to learn coding. You know what I mean? That isn't it. Those people kill themselves. They get fat and they go nuts, and they get addicted to the Internet and everything else. Like, sitting and coding is not what we're meant to do. We're meant to be on our feet, doing things with purpose. And a little is what Drew calls a little Ordinary misery. Just a little bit of that. You gotta sprinkle that in all the time. And also there's like a thing where you need a sense. I was looking around back here on a Sunday and I pulled this big banner out. Five, six foot tall by like 14ft. And it's a big vinyl banner from I don't know what, when we did some car show somewhere to put up at the booth or whatever. And I like looked at it and I was like, like, I'm gonna hang this thing up here. And I was just alone. It was. It's kind of a two manner because it was big, you know, And I was like, all right, I'm doing this. And. And I just kind of worked it out. Like, I was like, all right, what do I do? I'm gonna use zip ties. I'm use wire, but how am I gonna hold this thing up? Like wire? It's kind of a two manner, but I think. I think I can figure this one out. And then the ladder was a little sketchy. A little sketchy. And a lot of guys had gone down, you know, and so I got the ladder, but it wasn't quite right. So I bought the door chalk from the front and put it under the thing so it wouldn't slide on me. And so blah, blah, blah. And then it took a while, but I did it. And then at some point, my girlfriend came to pick me up. And she like walked around and she's like, she's just this huge banner hanging there. She goes, you did that? You put that up? And I go, yeah. She goes, you did? Alone? I go, yeah, I did. Alone. She goes, wow. And I go, wow, that felt good. Just that little laugh. And then she wrote up. She goes, you're gonna kill yourself. All right, but that little moment where someone goes, you did the thing with the. And I lived for that. Like when I worked, there'd be. Like when I worked construct, there'd be a huge pile of drywall in the driveway. And the foreman guy go like, I'm going to Cherry Lumber. Start moving the drywall up and upstairs and putting the master bedroom. And I'd go, okay. And then he'd leave and I'd go, I'm gonna get it all up there. Yes, I'm gonna get it all up there. And then he'd come back and he'd go, you got all up there? And I go, yes, I did. You know, you did that yourself. You got it all. And then I've only been gone for an hour. And I go, yep. Got it all. Versus now, which is weird, when I see everyone, I go, go, do this thing or clean this thing. And they go, okay. And then at some point, I come back and I go, hey, this looks like crap. You didn't do it. And I go, yeah, okay. But I'm like, why? I don't know why. Why don't you want that feeling? What is that? You guys know what I'm talking about.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Show the guy the move. Show the guy the move. Show the guy the move. Over and over again, over and over again. Then he busts it in sparring. And then there's just a quick glance over at me. Yeah, that's it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Like, don't say anything, bud. Get back to work.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Yes. What? That feeling, which feels good versus almost everyone I deal with, where I just circle back around. I go, you didn't do what I told you to do, and you didn't do it right. And it's still a mess. And they go, okay, yeah, that's weird, right?

[Adam Yenser]

And that's that feeling I used to get helping my uncle's roof. Like, what it remind me of. They'd have these big packs of shingles that weighed like 60 pounds.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well acquainted.

[Adam Yenser]

You'd have to bring them up the ladder. And I remember it was like, you can only take one of those at a time. And it was that thing where I'm like, I can probably get two. You know, I'll find a way.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

£40.

[Adam Carolla]

£40.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And then I walk up this.

[Adam Yenser]

You go up the ladder. You sh Me up there?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Adam Yenser]

But you're like, I did it and I got them.

[Adam Carolla]

It's so weird because there's so many tools now. Like, where was that? Where was that? I go by job sites. I see the conveyor belt now they just put the roof that just all go right top. I see guys walk around, they got the drywall dolly, you know, just like, why was I. I had to drywall in my head. Like I was some first off. Like it was 500 years ago and I was getting water, you know, in Africa, with a cord on my head. Like, why was I. We. We had to sheathe, you know, from roofing. Sheathing, Also roofing. By the way, they charge roofing. They go by the square, which is 10 foot by 10 foot to 100 square feet. So people know, if you talk to roofers, they go, how much is square? How much is weigh a square? What's the cost? What's that roofing? What's the 3 tab presidential cost versus the 10 year tar one or whatever. They go this much a square, they'll talk in square. So I was doing earthquake rehab downtown and we had to sheath an entire huge apartment building's roof. We had to sheath it with plywood. Tear up the old plywood and skin it it. When figure out how to get the. How to get like 500 sheets of plywood onto a roof of a four story building. No genie lift, no crane, no nothing. It took the whole crew. Two guys. Sorry. One guy on each fire escape platform.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Two guys at the bottom with the huge pallets of plywood. They'd send it up to the first. And all you did was stand there for probably about four hours. And just. Next sheet up. Next sheet up. You just grab the. You're leaning over the fire escape. The sheet comes up, you grab it, slide it up as high as you can get it. And the next dude reaches down and grabs. And there's some dude at the top fire escape who then throws it to the dude on the roof. That's how. Yeah, that's how we did it.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Like ants.

[Adam Carolla]

Like ants, yes.

[Adam Yenser]

Yes, exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

Same way that if they'd invented plywood a thousand years ago, that's the same way they would have got it through the roof.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Too tough. Common would be making you put that plywood to the pyramid.

[Adam Carolla]

And now there's all this. Ergonomically correct. Everything didn't have any of it.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Even the tools. Like you hold a cordless drill now it's meant for your hands. Got a little rubber thing on it. Shaped it right. Stuff was just cold and hard and square. And here.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

There you go.

[Adam Carolla]

It wasn't any of it.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

We didn't even have gloves for stuff. They got like 30 different style of gloves now. They're like, are you doing rough? Are you doing finish? Are you doing surgery? Like, we'll give you the glove you need. We didn't have gloves. Like you change transmission fluids. It's all over the place. Right?

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You kids. And now they won't even do it. You can't even get people that do construction anymore.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah. And if you. If your girlfriend said you're gonna kill yourself doing it, but at least you die doing something you love doing something that you should have had two people there helping.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. Well, I. The only time. The times I've always sort of almost died was the definitely a two manner. And I was doing it. I was going solo on a two man. That. That was definitely. Can't wait for somebody to show up. And so it was like I'M staring at this huge banner, and I'm looking up where I want to put it, and I'm like, okay, but I can't get. I need to do this now is what I was thinking. And I can't get anyone to do it. And then everyone else should go do it. Monday, when someone's here and I go.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Hit me up, bud.

[Adam Carolla]

I should hit you up.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Make sure you don't die to just hold the ladder at least.

[Adam Carolla]

Good Lord. Pica is a compulsive eating disorder which people eat non food items.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Huh.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Like ashes. I've seen. Yeah. It's strange stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So. But basically, I'm using as a metaphor, which is your. Your body will tell you what you need to do. And I live in a world of ideas and arguments and jokes and nothingness and thoughts. And I'm like, I need to do silent, quiet, boring, repetitive task oriented with a goal. Like, I have to then step back and go, oh, it's up. You know what I mean?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Anything like that. Embroidery.

[Adam Yenser]

Not embroidery, but even small town, I rent. Like, I live in an apartment in Toluca Lake.

[Adam Carolla]

Toluca Lake, Yes. I've learned that's where it is.

[Adam Yenser]

Like the other day, if something breaks in the apartment, like, you know, the dishwasher or like a towel rack broke off the wall, the brackets broke. I know I can call the maintenance person to do that, but there's that thing where it's just like, nah, I have time today. I'm gonna. I want to do it myself. Yeah. So there's just those little things where it's like, I just want to feel like I fixed it myself.

[Adam Carolla]

This is it.

[Adam Yenser]

Rather than calling somebody and then I'm just, you know, hanging out or.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Sometimes a hole in the wall just.

[Adam Yenser]

So you can dry all it again.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. He gets his girlfriend to dump him just so he can do some drywall.

[Adam Yenser]

I hate to feel some rage.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Got a troll.

[Adam Carolla]

You know? You know, it's. You know, it's interesting. I'm writing down something I was trying to think of when I was talking to Drew. But this is a good point that you stumbled onto. You should get a merit badge for stumbling onto this.

[Adam Yenser]

I'll just see if I have that.

[Adam Carolla]

One, which is okay. If you rent and if you have a modern car, then you're never gonna know what it's like to go put a coat of paint on the fence in the back or the fascia, or fix up the thing or put some tile down in that spare bathroom, whatever. Because you're a renter, and you're driving a car that is either electric or runs off computer chips. I mean, you pop the hood, you just see a big plastic cover. You don't even see any moving parts. Now, we drove cars that you fixed yourself, you know, and there was a lot of, like. And if you. We lived in old houses, we used to have chimneys. And so we'd be like, you'd have to go fix stuff. Like, so we didn't have any money. And so there's, like, a lot of guys that grew up with. I mean, you know, a common thing would be. I'd be like, what are you doing this weekend? And they'd be like, well, I'm gonna put a set of spark plugs in my truck. You know, I gotta get them, I gotta gap them, I gotta put them in. And I'm gonna rebuild the. I'm gonna rebuild the carburetor, you know, and then that dude would just be rebuilding his carburetor all weekend, and there's no carburetor to rebuild anymore. And if you're renting. So if you're, like, a young person and you're living in Los Angeles, for sure you're renting. Cause it's way too expensive to afford a house, and you're Ubering around, or you got some Mini Cooper that's two years old that you never. You don't even know where the engine is on that thing. And now you've removed two major tactile sanity things that you think you've avoided. You think you avoided having to do them spark plugs and jet the carburetor or whatever, but you didn't. You're getting sedentary, and your brain's starting to eat itself. And I was talking to Drew about it, I think. And I was talking to. Maybe I was talking to Jay Moore about it, but I realized just the concept of having a bike that you had to constantly work on. Like, when I was a kid, I was constantly fixing on, wrenching on my bike. But also the concept of forts.

[Adam Yenser]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Forts were a big part of my childhood. It was like digging in the dirt and putting up, finding stuff, you know, to act as a barrier, you know, I'm with you.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And we built forts. Rock wars. Yeah. We got into every war, and we tried to do more dirt clods. We weren't as vicious as you guys were, but we had dirt clod fights big time. And we had to build a fort in order to protect yourself. And it was a thing it was like a thing you put yourself into. And not only did you get the experience of building the fort, but you were in the dirt. Your immune system was working because you were shoveling through the dirt. And so the other thing, kids don't do, that we had to do was we had to do. We did forts and we did models. Oh, yeah, kids don't do models anymore. Model is like, take it, take it apart, segregate it and label it and figure it out, read the instructions, kind of go in order.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You kind of got Minecraft now, that's similar. That's like what it is today.

[Adam Carolla]

And you'd paint the little stuff and you'd get the little tester's glue and huff it a little bit. But it was a thing. It was like a task, you know, it was a big thing of model. So between, like models and forts and working on your BMX bike and stuff, you were pretty tactile. Like, you were good. And then there was all the sports and all the outdoor stuff. And now they're like, ah, don't go outside. The sun's bad for you. And you keep. There's no models anymore and there's just screens everywhere. And I think kids are starting to eat their own brains and they need the Eagle Scout.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Where is the Eagles? Is it easier to become Eagle Scout now you're saying so?

[Adam Yenser]

I honestly don't know. I don't know if they've lowered the requirements for it. I just know that something about the attitude of the scouting seems to have changed. So I don't know what the actual requirements are these days.

[Adam Carolla]

And I think it does. I mean, scouting, it's basically going to do. It's essentially what the Oscars did. They're like, we want to be super inclusive. We want to represent all. And then at some point, kids go, yes.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, it takes them.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't want to do it.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, it doesn't feel as special.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I don't need to be a Scout. I don't need to watch the Oscars because who cares? Yeah, I understand why you ruined it.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Trying to homogenize the culture. You know, a lot of advanced cult like Japan, like, women are proud to be women.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And do womenly duties and that's like a real thing. And men are happy to be manly and it functions okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. We had a system. It worked pretty good. And we tested it for like, I don't know, 10,000 years and it worked pretty good. And then the last 15 minutes, somebody had some thoughts about changing the system and now everyone's fat and cuts on themselves. So I don't know. Maybe they knew something. Maybe the old white folks knew something.

[Adam Yenser]

That's all.

[Adam Carolla]

Speaking old and white, I was watching Michelle Obama on her podcast, who has this weird. Everything with her is through some sort of racial lens all the time, which is just a weird. Like, she'll say it. She'll go, well, you don't know what it's like to be black and be invisible. And then someone will go, like, well, like, what are you talking about? You're the first lady or something. She goes, well, the other day, I was buying frozen yogurt, and somebody went in front of me in line, and I'm like, oh, yeah, that never happened to white people. Like, it's like, yeah, that's just stuff that happens all the time to everybody all the time. You know what I mean? Like, who doesn't have a story about being. I remember during COVID when they were doing the stupid. I don't know, they were gonna cure Covid by telling people to stand in different places or something. Like, it was so weird. It's like at the Malibu Whole Foods or whatever. And their way to cure Covid was to not have everyone stand in the checkout line, but to form a second line that was 10ft over where they just. Just stood in line. I don't know why that helped, but. And so, like, I would come strolling up and go, oh, there's nobody at the register, you know, because I'm coming from the other direction. And I just go up thing. And then there's like, you know, excuse me, Excuse me. Excuse you. And I'm like, what? There's no waiting? And then I go, no, there's a line. And I. Oh, I think what it is. I think the Malibu Ho Foods was smart because they put their line in the hot deli entree section, and you couldn't stand there smelling Kung Pao chicken for more than five minutes going, let me get in a little bit. You know what I'm gonna add to this? Yeah. You sit in that hot deli with all the hot dishes, and you're just sitting there. You can't. You cannot. You gotta load up. You have to load up. Salad doesn't smell like anything. So you can walk past that all day. But the savory stuff, you're like, let me get into this here. Smart. Okay? So she is. She's just. Everything is like, race.

[Adam Yenser]

Well, and what confuses me about that is I get maybe making the argument that she thinks some black People have to deal with that. But who sees Michelle Obama at the store and is like, I'm gonna go butt in front of first lady Michelle Obama. She was cut off.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. But this is. I just came upon this one today, but. So it's like they're obnoxious, they're grandiose, and they're narcissists, supreme narcissists, and I hate them. But there is a part of me that feels sorry for them. That if this is the way you go through life and your Ivy League degree and you're married to an ex president and your seven houses and your five houses and your Martha's Vineyard and your Hawaiian compound, if that doesn't cure it, I just feel bad for you. I really do. You still have to walk around with this racial limp. You're just constantly. It's as if you were, like, molested when you were seven and you just never. It just never leaves your mind and you can't do anything about it. It just is. You know what I mean? Here's her clip. Sorry. We don't articulate as black women our pain because it's almost like nobody ever gave us permission to do that. And does anyone care? Yeah, there's no. She should go on the Internet. Because I see black women articulating their pain at airports. All. I see black women, like, at airports that are very vividly articulating themselves because they missed a flight or somebody disrespected them. So I would argue that there are isolated incidents of black women expressing themselves. I would say you could probably use their phones. It might take a while, but I could probably pull up some examples of it for Michelle to speak up. But then also, it's not. I'm now at the point where I don't blame the person. I blame the person who sits next to them and goes, mm, mm, mm. Because I would hit them with a folding chair and go, oh, shut. You know what you're talking about. You have a security detail. Like, when you leave the studio, which one of the seven houses are you going to? How about that? Can you. Let's say when you're in Maui at one of your compounds, can you articulate your pain there? Or is that a Martha's Vineyard type situation? All right, so I run it again. Just because it's always the person that goes, I love the newscast. I love it when they go, yeah, these trend nicua guys are being transported back to Nicaragua. But they can come for them. They can come for any of us. Shut up. They're not coming for you. You'll never go. I'll tell you what. Right now, I will put up $100,000 to your $40. That's what I'm gonna pay on if you are swept up and disappeared in the next five years. How about that? We'll do that. You wanna do that? You wanna take that bet?

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Which they wouldn't. All right, sorry. We'll play it again. We don't articulate as black women our pain because it's almost like nobody ever gave us permission to do that. And does anyone care? Yeah, there's Will they care if that part knew.

[Adam Yenser]

I think we would care if we knew.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a brother. If we knew or, you know. Yeah. And we have to ask ourselves, the men in our lives is, you know, why wait to be asked? You know, it seems like what we go through is pretty obvious. I mean, maybe we're not complaining, but we're actually living life out loud. You know, you. You know, we're in some sort of nether region of verbiage where I don't even know what women are talking about half the time.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I know.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Piped up, by the way. He's the brother and he knows she's been living in the White House. I mean, you know, flying private, you know what I mean? Like, he's sitting there, he was working at the target.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

She's got to play the hits, though. You know what I mean? It's like asking the Rolling Stones not to play Brown Sugar.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, good, good, good connection there. But you know, the brother. You know that brother has watched her in the last 20 years, right? You cry me a river. Yeah, yeah, cry me a river about your pain.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You got a 92 Buick.

[Adam Carolla]

He's going back in his 92 Buick that he got from Oprah. He's going back to his apartment, his rent controlled one bedroom outside of D.C. while she gets her security detail and climbs in the back of a limo and flies an airport air. Air Force three somewhere. You know, like, she's like, you know, he wants to jump in, but he. He can't say anything because he wouldn't have a podcast otherwise. Oh, it's so good. She's articulate. She. I always love this thing where, like, people are like, we don't feel like we have the right to speak. It's like all you do is talk.

[Adam Yenser]

She has a podcast.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. Now, to be fair, I am tuned out and I am not listening and I do not feel your pain. That is correct. But you do talk A lot. Yeah, there's a lot of talking going on. All right, we'll take a break. We got some news and we'll do that right after this. Bear. Oh, I love my Bear mattress. I sleep so much better with Bear. Bear mattresses are designed with a focus on recovery, cooling and pressure relief to upgrade your sleep and improve your overall quality of life. That's right. Good mattress. I've said it a million times. You need a good TV and a good mattress and a good car and you're pretty much set. Eh, good woman. That'll help too. Bear Sleep quiz matches you with your perfect mattress based on your body type and sleep preferences. Their award winning mattresses are made in the US of A. With certified clean materials and they include a limited lifetime warranty. Plus, Bear's sleep recovery technology helps you fall asleep faster, enjoy deeper rest and wake up rejuvenated. Still not convinced? Sleep on it for up to 120 nights and make sure you love it. If you're not getting the best sleep of your life, they'll pick it up and refund your money. No hassles. It's Bear Mattress. Right, dawson?

[Jordan Harmon]

Go to bearmattress.com and use promo code ADAM at checkout to get 40% off site wide. This offer is not available anywhere else. You have to use Adam's code on the very last page of checkout to get this discount. That's bearmattress.com and use promo code Adam to get 40% off site wide. Bear MA promo code Adam.

[Adam Carolla]

Delete Me makes it easy, quick and safe to remove your personal data online at any time. When surveillance and data breaches are common enough to make everyone vulnerable, data brokers make a profit off of your data. Your data is a commodity. Anybody on the web can buy your private details and this can lead to identity theft, phishing attempts and harassment. But now you can protect your privacy with Delete Me. Look, there's a lot of convenience that comes with our new technology. But there's a couple of pitfalls as well. And responsibility. No one needed car insurance when they rode a horse. But you like your car and now you get insurance and that's what you do with Delete me. It's a insurance for the Internet. Am I right, Dawson?

[Jordan Harmon]

Take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for Delete Me now at a special discount for our listeners today. Get 20% off your delete me plan by texting Adam to 64000. The only way to get 20% off is to text Adam at 64000. That's Adam to 64000 message and data rates may apply.

[Adam Carolla]

Homes.com Some might say homes.com is the best home shopping site. It may be because homes.com's super comprehensive and transparent agent directory. Or Maybe it's that homes.com is the only site that always directly connects you with your listing agent and the one who knows the home the best. That's right, the listing agent that knows it's the best. Or Perhaps it's because homes.com has the most in depth neighborhood content of any home shopping site that's extensively researched. To highlight the personality of each neighborhood. Homes.com goes above and beyond to bring the home shoppers the in depth info they need to find the right home. Homes.com we've done your homework.

[Adam Yenser]

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

[Jordan Harmon]

Adam Yenzer is on the Adam Carolla show.

[Adam Carolla]

Adam's got a very funny dry bar special. Not big enough to cancel. And that's out. And then mine is out. When I would tell people where to go, but that's not on my little screen anymore. But I would argue you can just leave information on there for me.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, the angel app, I believe it is.

[Adam Carolla]

The angel app is where you can go. One is right there. It's free. You can watch my dry bar special there. And the other's you have to get the app, you have to subscribe. But one's there and you can just go watch and the other is behind it. And you know what, you can buy trophies.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, you just set them on the shelf.

[Adam Carolla]

I recreated a few of my trophies. I think I had a girlfriend that did it later on in life. She got tired of hearing my story about I got trophies and unicycles. Cause I had such a hard luck. I got such a hard luck story about unicycles and I had a hard luck story about trophies. And at some point people got tired of my hard luck stories and started just giving me trophies that were recreations of the ones I threw away or lost or whatever from back in the day. So that's. You can, you can have them there.

[Adam Yenser]

I would get them from. There was some comedy festival or competition I did years ago and they had trophies for first, second and third place. But they were just, they bought like, it was like a girl softball trophy, a girl on top. And it just Says, you know, first place, Chicago World Series or comedy or something. So I have that on my shelf. Just a girl's softball, but it's a comedy.

[Adam Carolla]

I guess at the trophy show shop, they don't really have the comedy statue.

[Adam Yenser]

A guy with a mic, a guy pumping the stool or something, Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I mean, it appears to me that they have, like a comedy tragedy mask thing for some sort of drama competition. Theater.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But that's about all.

[Adam Yenser]

I would be more embarrassed of that than a girl's softball.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Girls. How do you know it was a girl?

[Adam Yenser]

Because it's got the ponytail. It's got the little figure. It's got the little figure on top.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. All right. Mayhem News.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

We got some news animals in the news. A Sunshine State resident took to Reddit to share their frightening experience with two creepy reptiles that came up to the home's front door.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

All captured on their family's ring camera.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, they alligators?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah. Yep. Alligators there in Florida.

[Adam Carolla]

We're gonna watch. Oh, they're coming. Are they in the house?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

No, no, this is in the.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's the porch. Yeah, they're hanging out. They must be looking for dog food or something. What are they doing?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, it's undetermined, but they were out.

[Adam Carolla]

There for, you know what I. You know, here's my thing. I was thinking about this the other day. We talk a lot about, you know, Jurassic park and dinosaurs and stuff like that. Check that out. It's trying to climb the wall, trying to get in the house.

[Adam Yenser]

It's like Jurassic Park. It's trying to learn to use the handle and open the doors smarter.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Clever girls.

[Adam Carolla]

Do we need dinosaurs? We have alligators. Like, we have them. They get up to like 18 foot.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

They've outlasted dinosaurs. They were before this style of animal was popular. Before dinosaurs and remained.

[Adam Carolla]

That's my argument. Like, we have dinosaurs. They're called alligators. They're covered with scales. They're huge. They're scary. They're billion years old. They'll eat your pet or you. It doesn't matter. Like, what do we really need a dinosaur for? I mean, like I said, it's cool. Like, I take it. But an alligator is just a dinosaur.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And it predates it. Yeah, I guess.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Where you come down on woolly mammoths, if they can hook that up, I.

[Adam Carolla]

Would like a pterodactyl. All right.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Me too. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Although your dog, they bring back pterodactyls. We're all gone. Birds hate us already. And they're you know, birds are the size of a lunch pail and will take you down.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Now if they get the size of a tractor trailer or something, we're gone.

[Adam Yenser]

You're eating french fries at the beach and a pterodactyl comes in at you.

[Adam Carolla]

You'll be the French guy. Yeah. Yeah. You are done. As best I can tell, birds hate people and they hate other birds and they hate everything. They're just, they're angry at every living creature. They don't like cats, they don't like dogs, they don't like people and they do not like other birds. I mean, I see birds, you know, the hawks flying and the crows chasing it, knocking at it, you know, circling around and picking on it. So birds hate everything. They're the meanest creatures and the only thing that stops them from eating us is they can't physically do it. But if they could, I think, I think they would kill us for sport. I think even like vegan pterodactyls would. Would take us and just throw us in a volcano.

[Adam Yenser]

They just.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Adam Yenser]

Are taking people's heads off.

[Adam Carolla]

They just take people's heads off. They hate people. They would hate people. Yeah. All right, cool. I watched footage, I don't think I even liked it, but I saw a footage of a 74 year old guy go into a pond and pull his puppy out of an alligator's mouth earlier today.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, well, I saw one earlier this week. I don't know if it was that one in Florida. There was some guy, he was barefoot and he just went out and got a big Rubbermaid trash can and came and got the alligator himself. Reminded me of what we were talking about earlier where it's like, oh, I could call animal control, but I'll take care of it. I gotta do something. I'll get the alligator.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Not getting your ankle.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, Death rolled off. This guy looked like he was at a golf course maybe. And his alligator, small alligators. Got his puppy.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

In his mouth.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yup. And he just pries his jaws, pries.

[Adam Carolla]

His jaws open and look how tough it is.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And that's a tiny alligator.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, if he ate my puppy, I'd rush to the pet store just to get a new puppy. Like, I'm not going into a swamp. That's just Darwin.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

The swamp you can't see the bottom of. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, he's still got a cigar in his mouth. Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Like a boss.

[Adam Carolla]

I love this dude.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, this dude is pretty awesome.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I like about this guy, though? See, he's always Got a good story. You know what I mean? And also, he's gonna get into it. Like, I use. I'll tell you what I use. You were Talking about, like, TaskRabbit or something, you know, I put a Lamborghini, a vintage Miura Lamborghini. I put it in my office. I just built a building, designed it, built the lift, put it in the office, you know? And so every once in a while, people will say to me, like, someone will go, like, are you gonna hang that bookshelf up there? Or whatever? And I go, I'll hang it up there. And then someone will go, shouldn't we have the TaskRabbit guy? Like a guy who knows? And I go, I put a Lamborghini in my office. And then they shut up. Everyone just shuts up and walks away, right? Cause I put a Lamborghini in my office. So this guy's gonna be sitting around and his wife's gonna be screwing with him. You know, like, earl, why don't we let somebody else resawed? He'll go, I took that puppy out of the mouth of an alligator. So you don't think I'm up to sodding the lawn, you know? Well, you're gonna. You don't think I'm up there. Like, he's got it all the time. Like, when? Or it's like the neighbors are playing the music too loud. He's going, I'm gonna go over there. And then his wife's gonna go, don't bother. You're gonna get your ass kicked. Okay, I took that dog out of the mouth. I went into a swamp, fished an alligator out. Didn't put my cigar down. Yeah, didn't put my cigar down. And then took the puppy out of the mouth of the alligator.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Okay? So I think I'm not feeling Florida man. That's a Florida man.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a Florida man.

[Adam Yenser]

He's probably got that image on his home screen on his phone here.

[Adam Carolla]

Remember this? I would.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, I need to rest upon florals. He's on to the next puppy out of the next mouth.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. And he's probably like the grandkids around, and he's like, I'll make him waffles. And his wife's like, you don't try them. You're gonna. Okay, remember, you're talking to the guy took the puppy out of the mouth of the alligator. Remember that? Check the screensaver on your computer. Okay, that's this guy without. Put the scar up. I waited in the water and the cigar didn't Go out. And the pup, I guess, just ran away. I guess. I mean. I mean, was okay, is what I'm saying. Survived. Yes. All right, what else?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

All right, next up, Kennedy plans to remove artificial dyes from food and drinks by the end of next year.

[Adam Carolla]

He's Hitler.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah. The FDA has 36 food dyes, nine of which are artificial, made from petroleum. So they are completely doing away with that. For companies that are currently using petroleum based red dyes, they say try watermelon juice or beet juice. For companies currently combining petroleum based yellow chemical and red dyes, try carrot juice. So there's alternatives that are natural.

[Adam Carolla]

There's nothing more powerful than beet juice. Because I know you eat Cheetos, they're orange. But the next day in the toilet, that ain't orange, but beets, they'll go right through. They make it all the way through. They make it down to the sewage treatment plant, and they're still red. So you can't go better than beet.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You're calling your proctologist.

[Adam Carolla]

Just checking. Oh, well, that's why I invented the beet bracelet. Did I tell you about the beet bracelet?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Sorry, no, I missed that one.

[Adam Carolla]

It's an old joke, but I love beets. And by the way, I'll eat three beet salads. I'll buy a beet the size of a softball. Takes like four hours to boil it, man. But I'll get, like, size. I'll chop that up, I'll salt it up. I'll put a little vinegar, a little oil and whatever. I love it. I'll eat it. But the next day, on the pot, I forgot I ate the beef. And that's where you look down and go, oh, call the kids. Get the kids in the room. Bring them toilet side. I want to talk to them. I gotta say my last word. Get my practical Bible, my Tony Bennett, and that note. Let's go. So. So I invented the beet bracelet, which is when you order the beet salad at the restaurant that night. It comes with the beat bracelet.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And you're talking like boondoggle style, like those beads are.

[Adam Carolla]

I call it Beats by Ace. And it's a Lance Armstrong style. It's purple, red, purple. It's just a rubber band. And you just put it on and then you're good, right? And then you remember. Now it's funny. And you would run into other people had a beat bracelet, like on the elevator, something to go.

[Adam Yenser]

Hey.

[Adam Carolla]

That'S funny.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, it's like a hospital bracelet. Also, if somebody else uses the bathroom after you. And they wonder what happened. Yeah, he has a condition for the bath beat bracelet.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Let him. Give him a few minutes. You really want to let it air out. It's got the bead bracelets. Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

They're doing away with the artificial dyes by the end of next year.

[Adam Carolla]

Good. And who cares? And also. What? I don't have any. There's nothing from my mom, who was like, original health food hippie when they had, like, health food stores and stuff. And it was like, weird. And everything was sort of of off market. Like, it wasn't a trend. But the only thing that ever stuck with me in terms of her, but it was also just who I was, is I didn't like fake stuff. Like, I never. I'd see kids, young kids, and they'd be eating Kraft singles of cheese, you know, and they'd drinking Sunny D, you know, And I'd go, you got any real orange juice? They'd go, sunny D, it's better. And I'd go, no, it's not. It's weird. It's weird. And I go, you got. Got any cheddar cheese? And I go, we got cheese. Kraft cheese. And I go, yeah, no, it's weird. It's weird. And what they've done to nachos. I mean, I see people. It's weird. I was at the dry bar, and the people I was in the room with, Mike August, eat anything. But they'll go like, we're get some nachos. I'm like, nachos needs cheese to melt on it, not a pump station.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It's this color.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, yes. It's or day glow, whatever. And it never melts, and it doesn't need to be heated, and it comes in a bag and you pump it. I was like, no. And they're like, you don't like nachos? I like nachos, but the chips are round. That's not chip. That's not a normal shape for a chip. And the cheese is liquid and it's sitting in the back. And no. And they're like, we like nachos, but those aren't nachos. They're not nachos. And also. So we don't give the right name, because when you're at the ballpark or whatever and someone goes, you like nachos? Get some nachos. I'm like, yeah, I love nachos, but not this. These aren't nachos. These are fake chemical weird nachos that dumb people have decided taste good over Generations. And fake orange juice tastes weird. Fake cheese taste fake. Everything orange, everything blue and stuff. Like, why are you eating stuff that's weird?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Red number three, which gives the food and drinks a cherry color. It's that bright. It's all marketing.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't like Jimmy's. I don't even like Jimmy's. I can't send someone out to buy donuts and have them come back with normal donuts, all red, white and blue with the sparklers on top and the gay flag and stuff. And I'm like, it tastes weird. Why are you doing this? Why are you putting a bunch of non nature colors in your food and then ingesting the donut was cream food?

[Adam Yenser]

And I guess maybe, I don't know, maybe it's. I don't know what the reason is, if it's a price thing or whatever, but it's always weird when they say they're replacing it. It's like, or you can use carrots. There's always some. Why did you go to petroleum when it was where you could use something that's not petroleum?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's just cheaper and whatever. There's. Dawson, there's a bag of chips back there. There's a bag of chip in the chip basket back there. That, that was donated after the fire. I got some sort of emergency bucket or something that had junk in it. I don't know. It had like a snake bite kit and a mask and chips or something from the local. Whatever that is. Yeah. Can you hold that up? Let me see if that is. Yeah, throw it in here. Have something right in here. Because I stared at this chip bag. It's the wrong colors. Stuff has a color. Do you know what I mean? It's weird. It's like, look, if you're a Corvette, you're a Corvette. You can do whatever color you want. But there's chips and this, this chip bag. I just kept staring at it going, these are the wrong.

[Adam Yenser]

Oh, wow.

[Adam Carolla]

These are the wrong colors. It looks. The chips look blue and it's called blue heat. But they're chips.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, you mean.

[Adam Carolla]

But I don't want blue. I was scared to open it. Like, I was like, this looks like cleaning pods come in here, but not stuff you put in your mouth.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's called blue heat. And I guess they're. They're blue. I now I want to know. So I'm going to open it. Potatoes, Vegetable oil, Canola oil. Every oil, everything, all the time. Oh, yeah, yeah, they're blue. Yeah. I don't want Them. It's weird. But why? Why? And here's the other thing, too. What's appetizing about blue? Like, and people do this stuff all the time. They go, it's fun. You know, it's fun. You put this up. I don't know. Okay, so a porterhouse steak may not be fun, but it's good.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Put a little red three on it. It's way more fun.

[Adam Carolla]

People disappoint.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I also found out that they use citrus red number two to make oranges. Like, more orange. It's all marketing.

[Adam Carolla]

I get it.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

To get people to draw their eye to the groceries.

[Adam Carolla]

Grab him. I get it. It's bad. He's right. I don't know what's going on. Everyone's fat, everyone's depressed. Everyone's on pharmaceuticals. Everyone has. On the spectrum of something, and something's going on. So let him do it, everybody. And leave him alone. I mean, for Christ's sake, just leave the guy alone. He's trying to do something. By the way, I just had four years of watching he, she's. Tell us about pronouns who did nothing. You guys did not nothing. So I don't know. I know you're all upset that Elon's trying to do something rfk. I know. I know you hate seeing people do stuff, but you guys were like, my mom in the chimney. Here we are. Nothing we can do. Just homeless and traffic, and here we go. So, okay, someone's trying to do something. And I realize it's upsetting to the process people when you actually show up and go, what's going on? What are we doing? They go, what are we doing? We're having a meeting about a meeting with a meeting, you know? And you go, I know, I know. But what's going on? Let's get the chimney going. My mom would literally get agitated if you, like, showed up and went, what's going on? What are we doing here? Let's get going here. You know, like, when I stood up and I was like, give me the hair dryer. Hold my beer. Everyone's like, where's he going with the hairdryer? No, he's fixing the pianos. But I was. I guess I was shaming all of them, and they didn't like it. Yeah, but that's where we're at now. We're going to do stuff. Blue flames are the hottest, followed by white. After that, yellow, orange, and red. There's chip everything. That's.

[Adam Yenser]

Oh, that's why the chips are named.

[Adam Carolla]

After the hottest of the hot. Okay, not everything Needs to be categorized or marked up or whatever. The Blue Flame.

[Adam Yenser]

I agree with you on all this. I'm self conscious now about doing the Michelle Obama nod towards what? When you're like, what's happened to nachos?

[Jordan Harmon]

You know what else is a Blue Flame, right? Fart.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Blue Flame special. Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

A loneliness epidemic is.

[Adam Carolla]

Blue Flame was the name of the vehicle that had the world salt flat speed record from this six, late six 60s, early 70s. I think that rocket car was called the Blue Flame.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I remember that. I think you're right.

[Adam Carolla]

I think you can look it up. But I think it was called the Blue Flame. But I gotta think about that. Maybe Craig Breedlove or something. God, that's a curse, isn't it?

[Adam Yenser]

What's that?

[Adam Carolla]

Your husband is obsessed with the land speed record and he's in the garage every waking moment welding. Yeah, right.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Tinkering on all day.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. Is it called the Blue Flame? Yeah, it was called the Blue Flame. Yeah, it's called the Blue Flame. These poor wives. I think the guy, Craig Breedlove, I don't know, was that Craig Breedlove who did it. He built the Blue Flame. I think it was a Blue Flame. I can't remember, but he built it in his garage in like Arleta, who's just out there on. And it was so big that in order to take it out they had to take out a shrub and a wall or something. I'm like saying his wife, what kind of mood was she in? You know what I mean? There's no money in it, there's no anything. It's just you get obsessed with this thing that will probably kill you one day. This is driven by Gary Galbalich and achieved the world land speed record in Bonneville Salt flats, Utah in October 1970. So right about the time my chimney was coming down, he was taking down the record. And I was a little kid going, that Blue Flame.

[Jordan Harmon]

Look at that.

[Adam Carolla]

Man, that is cool. It was on tv, probably on Wide World of Sports. I mean he. I mean, this is 1970 and I think this guy got up to 500 and something miles an hour with this thing. I don't know if he broke. I don't think he broke the sound barrier, but he was.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

His cheeks were flapping.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the speed. I would include the speed in this little dissertation, Andrew, just because that's what you're doing. 630 miles an hour. Whoa. 1970. All analog, man. No computers, just a jet.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

That's great.

[Adam Carolla]

Three wheels. That's crazed, right?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And Also, the thing that's funny, she's probably wearing a 1970s open face helmet. Hey, don't forget your helmet. Yeah, okay.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, if the tire blows or coyote runs out at 630, even if it's a shade under 630, let's just say we're in the high fives. I'm not sure. This wisp of fiberglass with the foam rubber in it, I don't really think I'd rather look cool step in out of this thing. Yeah. Yeah. So that was. Oh, hold on. Kilometers. Whatever speed. Faa. So the vehicle set FIA world record for the flying quarter mile. You got to do it twice, too. You got to go one way and you got to come back, too. So, you know, it's not a lark or something, but anyway, I can't tell what this is, but. Oh, it's the. Yeah, the flying kilometer, anyway. 630 miles an hour. Not too bad.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Not bad at all.

[Adam Carolla]

Now they're up around 1,000.

[Adam Yenser]

Really? Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

They're trying to break 1,000 miles an hour. British.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

What does that machine look like? You know, I imagine the design has to be similar. It has to be low.

[Adam Carolla]

That one, the new one has four wheels, and the last one was, like, in the mid or later 90s. And I don't know, they got up to, like, eight or 900 miles an hour, and they're gonna try to break a thousand, but I don't know that they have a space to do it in because the salt flats have, like, eroded or flooded or whatever that thing is, which is. Yeah, 763 miles an hour in 97. So that's about as far like, the only. There it is. Like, the only stand I would ever take for climate change would be who's gonna set world speed records with no salt flats? You know, I don't care about any of the crap you guys are talking about, but I do need. I do need space to set a record.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, that's just an engine. Oh, my goodness.

[Adam Yenser]

Yeah, they look like Looney Tunes Wacky racers.

[Dawson]

You're right.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. This guy was a British pilot. The British have it. So we don't have the speed record. Be nice to get it back. Nice to get it back. Yeah. All right, Adam and Mayhem, we got Jordan Harmon, who runs Angel Studios, who's waiting for us in the wings, so. Well, you guys can hang out. We'll just take a quick break, and we'll talk to Jordan right after this. Morgan and Morgan. Morgan, here's a dirty little secret that the insurance industry may not want you to know, I think they're going to try to keep this one under wraps. But they haven't. We've blown the lid off it. Insurance companies profit by holding on to your money as long as possible. So after an accident, they might do whatever they can do to delay or deny your claim. This way they can keep their profits growing. Morgan and Morgan fights hard against these corporations to fight to make sure you get every dollar you deserve. Look, if you're injured or something's been done wrong and you deserve compensation, Lord knows, with these Malibu fires, I'm all up in that. Right now, you need Morgan and Morgan. When Morgan and Morgan takes on a case, they're almost always going after the big insurance companies, not the individuals at fault. There's a reason why Morgan and Morgan is America's largest injury firm. And you'll find out when you do business with these gentlemen and ladies. It's Morgan and Morgan. Am I right, Dawson?

[Jordan Harmon]

Hiring the wrong firm can be disastrous. Hiring the right firm could substantially increase your settlement with Morgan and Morgan. It's easy to get started and their fee is free unless they win. Just visit forthepeople.com Adam or dial pound law pound 529. That's forthepeople.com Adam, or dial pound law pound 529. This is a paid advertisement.

[Adam Carolla]

Rough greens. Oh, man. Philly Cheesesteak loves himself some rough greens. Sometimes in life, we want to get to the truth. You got to crunch those numbers. Naturopathic doctor Dennis Black, creator of Rough Greens, tells us that unfortunately, 50% of all dogs over 10 years of age will die of cancer. Sad but true. But Dennis, he didn't sit back on his hind legs and do nothing about it. He invented Rough greens. And it's about the diet. Your dog doesn't have a good diet. And good news. There's Rough greens. So there's thousands of testimonials and five star reviews every month. Rough Greens is number one on the all natural dog supplement charts. They're number one in America. So you don't have to change your dog's food to improve your dog's diet. You just sprinkle rough greens over the existing food. It's not a big hassle for you. It's easy and it's fresh. Just add a scoop of rough greens. It's that easy, right? Dawson, fetch a free Jumpstart trial bag.

[Jordan Harmon]

For your dog today. Go to roughgreens.com. just use promo code Adam. That's R U F F greens.com and use promo code Adam and just cover shipping. You don't have to change your dog's food to improve your dog's health. Just add a scoop of rough greens.

[Adam Carolla]

Select quote there's so many things in life we just never get around to taking up that hobby, cleaning out the garage, you know, the little things that really make the difference in our lives. Yet there's one thing that most of us probably been neglecting for a long time. It makes a huge impact on your family's future. It's life insurance. And with Select Quote getting covered with the right policies for you is easier and more affordable than you may think. If you've got high blood pressure, no problem. If you have diabetes, that's fine too. Even if you have heart disease. Selectquote partners with carriers that can cover those conditions and others. Head to selectquote.com selectquote.com and a licensed insurance agent will call you right away and see what the right policy is for your life and your budget. It's select quote right, Dawson?

[Jordan Harmon]

Select quote they shop, you save. Get the right life insurance quote for you for [e-mail] Corolla go to SelectQuote.com Corolla today to get started that SelectQuote.com Corolla Adam Corolla comes clean now available from Angel Studios.

[Adam Carolla]

I was pulling off the freeway. I was at a stoplight, and I looked over and there was a homeless guy, and he's just sitting there, and he had a sign that said homeless and deaf. And I thought, I've never seen that before. I kind of looked at him and I started to think like, okay, normally it's like, I'm not gonna give you money so you can go buy drugs. But this guy's deaf, you know, and maybe he has a real situation. Situation. And I kind of looked at the guy and he looked at me, okay. And he came over and I rolled the window down and I started fishing around my ashtray. Get a few bucks out for the guy. And I thought, let me just check something real quick. And I just leaned on the horn and this guy jumped back five, five feet. And I was like, you ain't deaf and I ain't dumb.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Watch.

[Jordan Harmon]

Adam Carolla comes clean free on [e-mail] Adam free and join the Angel Guild and save 50% on your first three months at angel.com AdamCola Adam Carolla comes clean now available through Angel Studios. Let's get back to the Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Show, co founder of Angel Studios. Jordan Harmon has joined us.

[Dawson]

Hey, Adam.

[Adam Carolla]

From your studio, right? Your facility?

[Dawson]

Yeah, here in Provo. Provo, Utah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's really beautiful. It's a real beautiful place. It's a great place that you guys set up over there. And it's nice. You bought a few buildings, right? You built it out. You do a lot of all the dry bars are shot there. Is that correct?

[Dawson]

Yeah, everything's shot there from dry bars. That stage has been seen billions of times.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's. It's nice because they don't strike it. The every. Everything in Hollywood. You kind of build it and then you strike it. Then you put it back and then you strike it down again. But this, all the lighting, all of the technology and the sound and everything, it's all just there in this. In this building that. I don't know if it was an old theater. I don't know what that building was.

[Dawson]

Well, it was originally like a bar with a stage for kind of performances and whatnot. And then it kind of rotated through a couple ownerships, and then we kind of got a hold of it, cleaned it up, gutted it out, and launched our first show, which was dry bar comedy. And, man, it's been a Wild ride since 2016 doing that.

[Adam Carolla]

I really like how you guys have sort of upset the system. As somebody who hated the system and sort of was punished by the system and sort of worked outside of the system, I'm just so happy to hear stories. And there's a lot of them now of people, personalities and companies and stuff that sort of went around the system because the system relies on basically having a monopoly. And then so they force and scare and cajole people into their system who don't agree with it, but they're scared. And that's the thing I hated about the system. People coming up to me on sets and like, whispering that they agreed with me about stuff and looking over their shoulder like they're maranos back in the day. Like, I'm Jewish, but I'm scared. I don't want people to know. I don't want to be gathered up and brought somewhere. And it's sad. And that's so. It's so un American what they force these people into. And it's the people never stop complaining about McCarthyism that scared everyone for their jobs. And so God bless people like you, man.

[Dawson]

It gets. And the byproduct of that is you end up with the weird, you know, kind of Harvey Weinstein type situations that were allowed to continue for so long.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Long.

[Dawson]

Because he was just scared to talk about anything yeah, but I mean, the way the system can excel and the reason we're, you know, one of the things I want to tell you today is your next special is live right now. So people, yeah, people can watch it right now. And the reason this is possible that because the first one did well and we want to continue to have Angel Guild members not only sign up and support this incredible stand up comedy, but the more people that we have do this, then you get Adam's special number three and four. And like, I would love for this to be a constant opportunity for not just Adam, but other standup comedians who want to break into an industry and want to have meaningful impact in terms of like getting their comedy out there. And so, yeah, you can actually go to Adam.com or Angel.com I believe it's. What's the URL? It's Adam curl. You get 50 off your first three months of the Angel Guild membership when you do this. You are supporting Adam's show, his special, which is. Comes cleaner. But the, But I just want, I just want your audience to understand that, like the only way this is possible is if they continue to, to support this type of alternative mechanism. Otherwise these alternative mechanisms drive up and we've got to make sure that we support stand up, like what Adam's doing. You guys supported his first one. Let's buckle down and support a second one in a huge way and just get it to be bigger and bigger and bigger.

[Adam Carolla]

Amen, brother. And that's coming from an atheist. So I do, I like, I liked everything about Provo. I love. It's clean, it's, it's beautiful. The mountains are beautiful. Like, it was just. I found it to be literally like a breath of fresh air. Like, it just smells better. It's a little tough getting that drink after the show. You know, I like to have a cocktail after the show.

[Dawson]

Yeah, you're not getting out of dry.

[Adam Carolla]

Bar after the show. But other than that, other than that. And the nachos. We gotta work on the nachos.

[Dawson]

Nate, Nate, you're behind the screen over there. Nachos. Improve the nachos.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it shouldn't come out of a squeezed bottle. It's gotta be melted cheese. Let's work on that. But other than that, a great experience. And I've also found, and I found this to be very true from dealing with the Daily Wire. I'm not used to young people being respectful and nice and courteous and helpful and friendly. I'm used to them being sort of standoffish and weird. And suspicious and sort of we've gotten rid of the hierarchy of liar. There's nobody in charge anymore. No one's your boss. You know, there's no elderly, there's no generals. Everyone's just a private or everyone's a general. I think that's the way it works.

[Dawson]

Everyone's a general.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. And so kids attitudes are horrible and they suck. And there's nothing worse than Hollywood kids like just the attitude of young people in this town. But you go to the Daily Wire or you go to Angel Studios and oh, oh, it's daily different. It's a different attitude with younger people there. They have a respect and it's palpable. Like you kind of notice it when you walk in. And I don't know if it's just baked into kind of a conservatism or where or if it's coached up, but it is different.

[Dawson]

Yeah, that's a good question. I wish I could say that that was just like inherently part of, of the Utah culture because I've seen my fair share of like disrespect inside of every culture. But there, but there is something unique inside of the angel culture in the company and that one of the things that we've really tried really hard on is to find people who, we call it a founder's mentality, people who are, who are thinking about angel as if it was their company. And so we've actually built an incentive structure where as we grow to you know, know a multi billion even to a 10 billion plus dollar company, hopefully in the years to come that we're doing massive bonuses similar to kind of like the, the Elon Musk bonus plan that he did for himself where it was, he grew the company to 10 billion and he got like a billion dollar bonus and then he grew it to 60 billion and then to 600 billion. And so he was able to structure those things. And so we've done something similar but instead of it just going to, you know, us as founders, we're actually trying to distribute that among all the employees to have everybody kind of recalibrate their mind and say, hey, how do we have a founder's mentality? How do we we. And I think that's attracting a different type of person because they're, they're coming in, these are people, we've got employees that are, you know, mid to low level employees that really could be founders of their own company. But they believe in what we're doing, they believe in the mission. They want to change the entertainment space and and we're giving them an upside opportunity that I think it's causing a different level of maturity. And at least that's my hypothesis.

[Adam Carolla]

Us, it works. And what was, I know the story is interesting behind angel and then maybe into Dry Bar as well. So just sort of walk us through the early iterations.

[Dawson]

Yeah, because when we started this a little over 11 years ago, four brothers and a cousin in my brother's basement. And we've got a lot of kids. We're now at. My parents have nine children among all of us and among the nine children there's already 60 grandkids. So it's, it's a, it's a house full. And so it was one of those things where we were seeing the entertainment space and how quickly we felt like it was distancing itself from the audience, from what the audience would actually want. This is back in, you know, 2012, 13. And so we decided, hey, what if we can create a group of like minded individuals who want entertainment that represents what they feel is important for their family. And so we created what was called VidAngel at the time, which was a filtering service that allowed, you know, parents to basically take control and say, hey, I want to skip any, you know, graphic violence for my kids, or I want to skip, you know, the F word or whatever it may be. And and then we blew up. I mean it blew up to. And by 2015, 2016, we were, we were growing at a faster rate than what Netflix was at a time and space. And the goal was to build up a large audience around this service and then launch original content. And we weren't planning to launch original content yet. But Disney, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilms sent us a lovely note in 2016, basically saying, hey, we're suing you guys. I think they could see the writing on the wall of what we were actually going for and that we were coming to be a competitor in their space. And so we ended up in this long, arduous four and a half year legal battle with them trying to just survive. But one of the things we did right at the beginning is we said, hey, we're going to launch the studio business. The first show was going to be dry bar comedy. That was the first show. And, and but in order for us to survive this, we have to raise some capital. And no one wanted to touch us for obvious reasons, like, no, no VCs, like, yeah, you're in lawsuit with Disney. Let me just throw some money at that. That makes make sense. And so we went to our audience and just said, hey, let's, you know, you're asking us to fight this. They're literally donating to us at this time. We had like $300,000 of donations in five months, which sounds like a lot, but that's like two weeks of legal fees. And and so we launched this regulation crowdfunding round where we allowed for people to come invest be equity holders in Angel. This was a law that had just been passed that year to one of the great laws that Obama passed. And we raised $10 million in five days and it just blew our socks off. And so we took 5 million to fight the legal battle and we took 5 million of which the first money was to start Dry bar comedy. And now that's launched into all of our original content around obviously the first three seasons of the Chosen Tunnel Twins, the Wing Feather Saga. Sound of Freedom, which came out in theaters in 2023 and it was a huge box office hit. Homestead, which came out in December, was another big box office hit. And King of Kings, which is, it's right there, which is in the box office right now and has been, been, been a been a big hit. Just past 50 million in the box office. And so this studio business, you know, we got here in a weird way. We ended up settling with Disney in 2020 and which was a for us was a miracle. You know, survival was a win for us. And so we're just honored to be creating a model model that is allowing for timeless art to have timeless residuals. This, our screening model is really baking into an ecosystem where if you go watch Adam Carolla on Angel, he's getting paid. With Netflix you get one time fees or you get one time licenses and then they'll take all the upside of how big or small it gets. And so the bigger we get as a membership, the more royalties there are going out to these filmmakers, these stand up comedians and every, everybody.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's great. And you know, artists I think sometimes have to pretend like it's all about the art, you know. And they like guys like comedians will never talk about corporate gigs. They'll do corporate gigs, but they don't talk about corporate gigs. And my thing is like hey, I did this podcast for free for the first year. I spent my own money cause bandwidth was expensive back then and it cost me thousands of months month I did it for free. But I also wanted to get paid at some point when I was a carpenter, I wanted to get paid. I would not come build you a house if you didn't Pay me. And now I'm a comedian and I want to get paid. And it doesn't mean I don't think it makes you less of an artist. I would do it. And I do tons of stuff for free. Tons of stand up for free. All comedians do. But. But ultimately you got to keep the lights on, you know, and so that. That's fine. I feel like sometimes it's some sort of naughty little artist secret, like I'm really not doing this for money. Like. Yes, yes, you are. And that's good. And it doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't affect the material or the process or the outcome. You know what I mean?

[Dawson]

Yeah. Timeless art deserves timeless residuals.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Dawson]

Like, it's like if you can create a piece of art, art that just has massive reach and impact on the world and is generating massive amounts of revenue, the artists who created that, that use their blood, sweat and tears to get that into the. Into the world deserve timeless residuals. And that's what we're trying to create.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. I don't know if we'll count my stand up specials as timeless art, but.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

There'S a couple of good bins in there.

[Adam Carolla]

There are a couple of sixes in there.

[Dawson]

There could be. 50 years from now, Adam, some kid's gonna be watching something on the Angel Guild and be like, man, this is so good.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, come your mouth to God's ears. Yeah. Well, you guys asked me if I wanted to do it. And you know, I tell everybody all the time, cause they go, why'd you do Dancing with the Stars? And I go, cause somebody asked me and it scared me. And as soon as I got scared, I went, oh, now I have to. The rule is I'm gonna tackle it. If it sounds scary, then I'll do it. And also there was like, you know, I did a professional Trans Am car race in a crazy fire breathing 800 horsepower Corvette once. And it's just. Cause somebody asked me like, they went, you wanna do professional Trans Am race? And I was like, that sounds scary. Okay, I'll do it.

[Dawson]

But there's something to that. I mean, there's something to that. One of the big characteristics of successful people, people that they've studied, is resilience. The ability to go and say, hey, you know, I'm gonna go try something super challenging. I was with my son. That's what I tell my kids all the time. We were at a hot springs in Utah and it's still pretty cold up in the mountains in Utah and. And across the road there's this. There's this river that's just literally run off from the, the snow melt in the winter. So it's freezing. And we get over there, the water level's high. My son's nine years old, cold. I jump in, freezing cold, jump out. He touches his toe, he's like, no, I can't do it. I'm like, brig, you can do hard things. You can do that. And he jumped in, he's about ready to cry and he comes swimming out. But at the end of the day, he proved himself he could do something that was hard. And we're missing that of parents telling their kids like, hey, that's hard. You can do a hard thing.

[Adam Carolla]

You can do that 1,000%. We're missing it. It's a big problem. It's kind of a feminization of our culture where it's like the woman would be the one going, don't, it's freezing, get away from the thing. You know what I mean? So I literally had, I made that deal with my son when he was young with cold water. It's weird. Not in Utah, La Canada, but I had a freezing swimming pool in the back. And I got in the freezing swimming pool every single day and swam underwater. And my son was like missing some grit, you know, because he's. Yeah, he's raised in bubble wrap that had Purell injected into it. We wrapped him with bubble wrap and then we took a hose and we pumped Purell into it.

[Dawson]

And that's all the tea and all the teachers, they're like, we can't speak down to kids now. We got it. We got to be at their level. So I'll lay on the ground and they're like, hey, are you okay? Do you consent this conversation?

[Adam Carolla]

I am so square and so old. I walk in my daughter's class, I'll tell you about the pool. But I walked in my daughter's class once when she was like, I don't know, two parent day or something. And the teacher is like 26 year old chick with the nose stud. Had her, she had her Starbucks big dome cup because, you know, she had to have whipped cream on everything and her name was written and facing out to the class. And I was like, hey, hey, you want to turn that cup in? You know, because when I was a kid, you found out the teacher's first name. It was over. It was done. It was done. It was weird too. Like, you're like, sure, sure. It's so weird. It was weird just finding out that Mr. Backus had a first name, which was novel, so I don't know why that was so weird, But I was like, you better turn that cup in. And she goes, oh, they all call me by my first name.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And I was like, that's what happened. That's what happened.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

The decline of western civilization.

[Adam Carolla]

I told my son, I said, you gotta get in that freezing swimming pool only on days your dad does comedy for free. If I'm getting on a plane and going out of town and getting paid, that's fine. But if I'm driving over the hill to go to the go to comedy store on a Wednesday night for no money, then you need to be in the pool the next day.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

We all suffer.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. We're all gonna learn what it's like. That's great. Grow a little. Yeah. Lasted 10 minutes.

[Dawson]

Grind together.

[Adam Carolla]

Last minute, 10 minutes. And then the wife got involved. You tried to kill him. Okay, great. Get the bubble wrap. But, yeah, I was like, oh, man. Stand. I don't think I can do 45 minutes of stand up clean. Like, clean stand up. Not sort of late night clean, but clean stand up. I was like, I don't think I have this. And then soon as I.

[Dawson]

To your point, there's clean and then there's provoclean.

[Adam Carolla]

Right, right, right. And provo clean. I thought, nah, man. I think I could do, like, Encino, North Hollywood clean. Maybe parts of Sherman Oak. I don't have provo clean. You know, and then I. And then as soon as I thought that, I thought, oh, now I have to do it, because it just sounds scary to me, by the way. It's all just scary. Dancing with the stars when you can't dance is scary. Driving a professional Trans Am race when you're not a professional driver. Driver is scary. And provo clean. It's all scary. It's all. I don't know how much different. You can't get more different than dancing versus stand up versus driving a Trans Am car. But it's all the same. It's just scary. And so it's all a challenge. Yeah.

[Dawson]

And everybody, I gotta go to your second show. I didn't get to go to your first one, but I went to your second show. And I can tell you, I mean, the standing ovation. You did such an exceptional job. Like anybody who's listening to this, you have to go experience points. Adam's second stand dry bar special, because it is that there. The. The. The belly laughter was real. Like, you know, there's. There's the. There's the laughter the courteous laughter. And then there's the, the deep laughter where you're just like, you're kind of disturbed by some of the people laughing because you're like, whoa, is that a real laugh? That's, that's strange. And you had, you had multiple moments of that. So make sure you guys get over there. Every time you join the guild and support and watch the this, you're supporting Adam to be able to do more stand up, more, more dry bar. And so it's Angel.com Adam Corolla, get over there, get 50% off your first three months and enjoy a special because it's amazing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I do. I now I find myself sort of thinking of jokes going, oh, okay, that could be a dry bar.

[Dawson]

Like that would work.

[Adam Carolla]

That's provo.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Out of your comfort zone.

[Adam Carolla]

Provo.

[Dawson]

Well, and to be clear, it wasn't like, you know, clean doesn't always mean that you weren't being edgy. Like there was moments where you actually went into the more political side of the discussion. Right. There's some great political jokes. And so your audience who's like, man, Adam's clean. That's gonna be boring. Guys. I'm telling you, it's the same Adam Carolla like he is.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Dawson]

It didn't feel different. No, it's the same guy. It's just he's, he's got a few F words in there.

[Adam Carolla]

I found it in a weirdly sort of liberating, even though it should have felt confining, but there's kind of a way where this thing, it's sort of like back to the analogy. When you climb into the Trans Am car, it's just a cage that you climb into and then you have a six way harness and you're all belt. And you could get sort of paranoid about being strapped, but it actually feels better. It feels safer to be in this thing strapped down with all the equipment on you and everything. So it feels liberating to be strapped into this cage with this car. And I've sort of felt that way about doing clean standup. Like, I felt sort of liberated by it. It felt like, well, we're going to get rid of the crutches and we're going to get rid of the stuff and the easy stuff. And now this is just going to be the stuff that works and there's no more falling back on this or that crutch, you know, so. And I would, I would argue that it would probably make you a better standup, even if just to challenge yourself to do it. Cause all the crutches sort of go away. You know what I'm talking about?

[Dawson]

Yeah, 100%.

[Adam Yenser]

Absolutely. And I like the point that you can still be edgy in that sort of format. You know, it's clean, but you can still challenge the audience a little bit and go for genuinely smart and interesting jokes.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. The only time I lost the audience is I said, anybody, we got any drinkers out here? And I was like, no.

[Dawson]

Yeah, Just. Just silence.

[Adam Carolla]

It was just silence.

[Dawson]

You could pin drop.

[Adam Carolla]

You could. Then I said, but, you know, people that drink. Right. And everyone started laughing. And I was like, all right, we're back, Jordan. King of Kings in theaters. King of Kings as we speak. Doing well. Nice getting back. I just. I like it. I like getting back to the old. The things, the way it's just something a little more wholesome. Not everybody, you know, like, little less race riding and a little more just folks taking care of folks and wholesome entertainment and kids allowing to be kids. Allowed to be kids. You know, like, you don't. This thing that's like, we have to tell kids about the trans community on their sixth birthday. It's like, I just leave a lot. They got the Easter Bunny. They got. They got Santa Claus. They'll figure out the trans thing later on. They will. You can't avoid it. Lord knows I've tried. I cannot avoid the trans information. They'll get it. But while they're six, let's just let them be six at this point. Watch. Watch a little dry bar comedy. Crack a Yoo Hoo and, you know, enjoy your childhood for as long as we can. Nurse that. Jordan, I hope to see you soon. I think we'll do some. We'll do a series. We'll do a few, right?

[Dawson]

Yep. We're. We, we. We have a lot of ideas of what we're going to do together. So we appreciate all you're doing, Adam, and how. How you've continued to bring your talents to Dry Bar. So thank you so much.

[Adam Carolla]

It's been a real. It's been a treat. And again, it's like, I'm old, so you don't know what's around the next corner. You really don't. Could be the Grim Ray person. I don't know. Could be another.

[Dawson]

But Adam's never going to say it, so I'll say it for him. Guys, you got to watch this special. Adam Angel.com AdamCarolla Get 50% off your first three months when you do this. You are supporting Adam and his standup and his career and what he's doing. And it's, it is. It is, Adam. This is his, his personality. Everything's in there. And so go enjoy it. Go watch the first one for free. It's now free. Anybody can go watch it and, and you can get a taste of what this is going to be like. But, yeah, this is, this is a meaningful. Being a guild member is a meaningful impact on actually changing the entertainment space and, and causing the entertainment to really adapt to what the audience wants.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I mean, as successful as you guys are, obviously impossible to do without the guilt and the people that support it. Jordan, much love to you. We'll see you soon over there in Provo. Adam, you got shows coming up with Yakov.

[Adam Yenser]

Yep. Yeah, we'll be in La Jolla, Comedy Store July. Well, or April this weekend, Friday to Sunday.

[Adam Carolla]

And the special is not big enough to cancel as well. Very funny special.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And I got a fighter fighting in Pittsburgh this weekend, Brady Hong. Let's get it on.

[Adam Carolla]

Brady Hong.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Where would we find it?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Battle of the Berg. Google it up in Pittsburgh. We'll see you out there.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm gonna be in Port Charles, Florida, doing stand up May 2nd, May 3rd, coming up. I'll be everywhere. Go to mcroll.com Melbourne, Florida, on the next day on the 4th, gothamcorl.com for all that. Until next time, I'm prophet Jordan Harmon and Adam Yenser and Mayhem saying, Mahala.

[Jordan Harmon]

You can leave us a voicemail at 888-634-1744 and you can get tickets to see Adam [e-mail] See what screaming free all month long during Pluto TV's April Ghoul Rules. Get your heart pounding with nightmare fueling classics like Insidious and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Or test your nerves with haunting hits like Urban Legend and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Pluto TV has hundreds of channels and thousands of terrifying movies, live and on demand. Download Pluto TV on all your favorite devices and start streaming now.