Bill O’Reilly Discusses the Most Evil Men Of All Time + Living Dangerously with David Nihill

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The Adam Carolla Show (PodcastOne / Carolla Digital)

Episode: Bill O’Reilly Discusses the Most Evil Men Of All Time + Living Dangerously with David Nihill
Date: September 10, 2025

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Episode Overview

Adam Carolla hosts newsman Bill O’Reilly and comedian David Nihill for a wide-ranging episode. The first half features a provocative conversation with O’Reilly about his new book Confronting Evil, focusing on history’s most destructive leaders and the nature of societal evil. The second segment spotlights Irish comic David Nihill, whose tales of reckless adventure and reflecting on risk offer both laughs and food for thought. The show wraps up with news and topical banter, touching on viral clips, personal stories, and cultural observations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bill O’Reilly: “Confronting Evil”

(02:08–44:25)

Bill O’Reilly’s Book & Its Premise

• O’Reilly presents his latest book, Confronting Evil, profiling 15 of the most evil men in history—ranging from ancient leaders (Caligula, Henry VIII, Genghis Khan) to modern figures (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Putin, and the Ayatollah).
• The unifying thread: their actions shaped—and still shape—our world negatively today.
• “All the people, 15 of them, there are four on the cover, 11 more in the book. They influence the way we live today in a negative way.” (03:02, Bill O’Reilly)

Choosing the List: Why Men? Degrees of Evil

• O’Reilly notes the book's exclusive focus on male evil, stating no woman rose to such destructive heights:

  “I couldn’t find a woman to put in the book. There were no women who have ever lived that rose to this kind of evil. And we looked, we searched, and we couldn't find them.” (04:21, Bill O’Reilly)

• Adam jokes about a few political figures; O’Reilly distinguishes "misguided" from "true evil," defining evil as taking pleasure in causing pain.

Evil as a Social Phenomenon: Passive Enablers

• The conversation pivots from notorious leaders to society’s complicity—how ordinary voters and citizens enable evil through apathy or misguided choices.
• O’Reilly draws parallels between 1930s Germany’s Hitler referendum and modern elections:

  “If you vote for somebody, if you help somebody hurt another person, you’re part of the evil cycle.” (09:20, Bill O’Reilly)

• Carolla and O’Reilly challenge the tendency to attribute all blame to leaders rather than reflecting on the role of the populace.

Facts vs. Theoretical Accusations

• O’Reilly contrasts fact-based assessments of evil with what he calls “theoretical evil” in politics, i.e., demonizing adversaries without evidence.

  “Confronting evil is a fact-based book, no opinion. Here’s what the guys did...With Trump...it’s theoretical.” (10:20, Bill O’Reilly)

Contemporary Parallels: Crime, Governance, and Responsibility

• Analysis of urban crime, school choice debates, and political rhetoric, especially the failure of leadership in places like Chicago.
• O’Reilly underscores the “indefensible” nature of some political positions when measured by real-life consequences (contrasting body counts and actual suffering caused by passive policies).

Notable Quote:

"There comes a point where the public school system, not only in California but all across the nation, has fallen apart... No discipline, no structure, no standards." (24:44, Bill O'Reilly)

The Scale and Psychology of Evil

• O’Reilly: “15% of the world population falls into that psychopathic profile.” (20:18)
• Discussion of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the gradations of evil, culminating in a call for “mobilizing against it.”
• The duty of “non-evil” Americans to resist passive complicity.

Fathers, Family Breakdown & Social Collapse

• Both agree: parental abdication, especially absent fathers, is “part of the problem,” even “evil” by O’Reilly’s moral framework.

  “If you ignore your children…that’s evil. That’s an evil act. You are abusing that child.” (26:52, Bill O’Reilly)

Reckoning with Leadership Hypocrisy

• Biden, Newsom, Mandani: The “purely political” shape-shifting of leaders who abandon earlier radical stances when seeking higher office.

  “They live in the moment…Who am I talking to now? …Then when he gets into a wider range...‘Oh, I rethought it’…” (35:52, Bill O’Reilly)

The Problem of “Free Stuff” Politics

• O’Reilly ridicules the political arms race to “give away” benefits, explaining the real underlying aim of wealth redistribution.

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2. Living Dangerously: David Nihill’s Adventures and Reflections

(47:11–86:30)

Cliff-Jumping, Broken Bones, Fear & Masculinity

• Nihill recounts wild stories of cliff-jumping in Greece, dangerous stunts, and the bizarre injuries that resulted for him and his friends using unapologetically Irish humor:

  “Jumping off a Greek island cliff…over 100, I’d say. Every time I look at it, I’m like, yeah, I can see why I broke my leg…” (48:41, David Nyhill)

• Explores the allure of thrill-seeking for boys, the connection (or not) to comedy, and why some people “need to do it” for self-challenge, not for an audience.

Comedy as a Leap of Faith

• Nihill links standup to high-stakes risk-taking:

  “It’s the same thing without a safety net. You’re just standing there, you’re like, well, this could go badly. But I still enjoy it.” (59:23, David Nyhill)

• Describes the Irish cultural resistance to public speaking despite the country’s reputation for wit.

Bikes, Motorcycles, & the Progression of Risk

• Both share stories about moving from BMX bikes to motorcycles as the “thrill threshold” increases with age. Nihill recounts riding motorbikes at 14 in Ireland, run-ins with police, and the transition from “motocross bikes” to more responsible adulthood only as age (and injuries) ramp up.

New Adventures: Wing Foiling and Technology

• Nihill discusses his latest challenge: wing foiling, including a harrowing session under the Golden Gate Bridge, blending adventure with a tinge of middle-aged caution.
• They riff on new tech in water sports, including e-foils and drone-assisted wakeboarding.

Notable Quotes:

“I just like the adventure of leaving land, going under Golden Gate Bridge…some whale pops up next to you and you’re like, that was just a…” (72:49, David Nyhill)

“There’s just something about that moment where you go... Many fibers in your being said no, but you overrode those fibers, and you did it.” (55:04, Adam Carolla)

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3. News, Topical Banter, and Cultural Commentary

(86:30–end)

Ashes, Death, and Memorials

• Nihill recounts the saga of transporting his late mother’s ashes, the oddities of multi-site scatterings, and compares American traditions of shooting cremains out of cannons or rifles.
• Carolla reflects on the burdens these requests place on the living and delivers morbidly funny perspectives on death, dignity, and end-of-life choices.

The Charlie Sheen Story & Prostitute “Truth-Telling”

• Discussion of recent gossip about Charlie Sheen’s escapades, with Carolla observing:

  “The prostitute is the mouth of babes…because your publicist's not gonna say anything...the prostitute is gonna tell you the truth.” (124:27, Adam Carolla)

News Clips & Viral Moments

• The viral Mark Cuban vs. Tucker Carlson exchange on Ukraine; Carolla opines on the reality of charity, performative politics, and the futility of massive donations.

  “Forcing other people to help is not charity.” (106:12, Bill O’Reilly)

• Controversy about Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid flotilla getting “droned”—debated as to whether it was Israeli action, a misfired flare, or activism theater.
• Reflections on homelessness in Ireland vs. America, public resource allocation, and the defeatism about solving chronic social problems.

Notable Moments & Quotes

• O’Reilly on politicians who refuse to debate outside “friendly territory:”

  “They don’t have any truth. So if you have truth, you want to spread the word…If [Kamala Harris] had a simple truth, she would go on a Carolla Show, O’Reilly Show, Rogan show…” (19:44, Bill O’Reilly)

• Carolla reflecting on why Americans love complex coffee orders or sandwiches:

  “We are a country that likes telling people on the other side of the counter what to do.” (94:44, Adam Carolla)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On choosing evil:

  • O’Reilly: “Evil is when you enjoy hurting other human beings.” (04:54)

• On societal responsibility:

  • O’Reilly: “If you vote for somebody, if you help somebody hurt another person, you’re part of the evil cycle.” (09:20)

• On thrill-seeking:

  • Nyhill: “For me, it translated from BMX bikes into motorcycles... I did it because I thought I was a coward and I needed to do it.” (58:51)

• On the comic’s journey:

  • Carolla: “Comedy is about potential... maybe connected to jumping off loading docks.” (59:32)

• On government promises:

  • O’Reilly: “All he has woven is, I will give you stuff... Unfortunately, most Americans don’t pay attention to reality.” (40:03)

• On immigration, drugs, and policy:

  • O’Reilly: “Biden was so compromised...what he did was evil. There’s no doubt that it was. But Putin enjoys inflicting pain. I don’t see that on Biden. Biden is just a dumb man.” (24:35)

• On end-of-life choices:

  • Carolla: “I came up with this horrible joke: all that stuff should be coin operated…see how many family members love you enough to feed quarters into that thing…” (102:15)

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Highlighted Segments & Timestamps

• 02:08 – Introduction to Bill O’Reilly and discussion of his new book
• 03:02–09:20 – How O’Reilly chose his list of evil men, societal complicity, and historical parallels
• 24:44–27:28 – Analysis of the decline in public education and parental responsibility
• 47:11 – Introduction to David Nihill (cliff-jumping story, thrill-seeking as personal growth)
• 59:23–65:49 – The psychology of risk and the connection to standup comedy
• 86:30 – News segment: cultural differences, stories of scattering ashes, viral moments (Mark Cuban/Tucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg’s flotilla)
• 124:27 – On Charlie Sheen and the blunt truth of prostitutes
• 102:15 – On death, dignity, and the ethics of life support

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Episode Tone & Style

The episode blends O'Reilly’s hard-nosed, journalistically factual tone with Carolla’s irreverent, conversational, and comedic approach. Nihill adds Irish wit and an outsider’s self-deprecating perspective. The exchanges are candid, argument-driven, and peppered with banter, making serious philosophical points accessible and often hilarious.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is a fast-paced, insightful, and often very funny mix of historical reflection, social criticism, and stories of personal daring. Bill O’Reilly’s critique of evil—past and present—forces listeners to consider their own responsibility in the face of societal wrongs. David Nihill’s stories and Adam’s musings offer comic relief while exploring what it means to live courageously, both on stage and in life. The news riffing and personal anecdotes make for a rich, engaging listen that’s part debate, part storytelling, and part barroom philosophy.

Recommended segments:

• Bill O’Reilly on the nature of evil and civic responsibility (03:02–14:00, 24:44–27:28)
• Nihill on thrill-seeking, risk, and comedy (47:11–65:49)
• Mark Cuban vs. Tucker Carlson (105:33)
• Cultural observations on death, sandwiches, and activism (91:32–99:20, 113:11)

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Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

Bill O'Reilly back on the show again. The Energizer Bunny Bunny never stops confronting evil, assessing the worst of the worst. It is out as we speak. It's not part of the Killing series. It's a different independent book. It's available now and you can go to his website, billorilly.com as well. Good to see you, Bill.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You know you almost made the cut, Carolla. I had to think long and hard about putting you on a cover with Mao and Adolph, the Ayatollah and Putin. But I figured that'd be unfair. Carolla does have some good points.

[Adam Carolla]

I do have some decent qualities. I recycle. I rinse my coffee mugs out before I throw them in the sink. So Bill, how did you narrow this group down, this rogues gallery?

[Bill O'Reilly]

And a good question, interesting question. So I wanted to tie in people in the past like Caligula, Genghis Khan, Henry viii, these people to the present. Hitler, Stalin, Mao. We got Putin in the Ayatollah Ayatollah is dead, but there are little ayatollahs that took up for him. They're contemporized. But all the people, 15 of them, there are four in the COVID 11 more in the book. They influence the way we live today in a negative way. Okay, Right. And that's what I wanted to do. So you had a guy like Pol Pot in Cambodia, slaughtered millions of his own people, piled the skulls up, killing fields. But he didn't have much influence outside of Cambodia.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You got Henry viii. Okay. Big fat Henry. He basically started religious wars that still. There are still religious conflicts to this day. Ireland is the best example, between the Anglicans and the Catholics. That was all Henry VIII. Ayatollah, the head of the snake on 9 11. This is 911 week. Head of the snake. Okay? So that's how I chose them. And then the numbers of people, human beings that these men killed. And here's something, one more thing. To answer your question, I couldn't find a woman to put in a book. There were no women who have ever lived that rose to this kind of evil. And we looked, we searched, and we couldn't find them.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't want to put Maxine Waters on there. I mean, I could give you a short list of evil women.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, I'd say they were misguided more than evil. Evil is when you enjoy hurting other human beings. Now, I don't know, Ms. Waters, maybe she does. But the guys that I have in the book, there's no question Putin is on the COVID Enjoys sending rockets and drones into Ukraine to slaughter women and children. He likes it.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's how psychologically damaged and evil he is.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, what lessons are there to learn? And what lessons have we not learned? Because I feel like we as a society have a difficult time understanding evil, and we get burned by it. And. And an example is 9 11. If you think to yourself, part of the reason those towers are gone is because we couldn't imagine somebody flying a plane into a tower where you would say, but the first person that hit the tower would be them. So who would do that? You know, I understand hijacking a plane and taking it to Cuba and getting paid a million dollars and that kind of stuff, but just unadulterated pure evil we have difficulty with in this society.

[Bill O'Reilly]

No question. And the reason is because many Americans, perhaps most turn away. They turn away, particularly in the urban neighborhoods. So it used to be that if you sold heroin, you were pariah. Nobody wanted to associate with you. They'd call the cops on you. All right? You were the lowest form of humanity. Not anymore. Not anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And in the urban centers, L.A. san Francisco, New York, you know, the deals are, they're right out there in the corner. We're waving you down. Hey, hey, I got some. We just turn away. It's okay. It's not okay. It's evil. You sell drugs, you're evil, period, because you don't know how that drug is going to affect the person who's taking it. Yeah, the person who's buying it's an idiot, all right. And responsible. But you are evil. So Americans have a tendency to turn away. And not only that, but I made headlines this morning, and I'm happy to do your program a few hours after that by saying that if New Yorkers cast a ballot for Zohan Mandani in November as mayor, they're committing an evil act. There's a difference between committing an evil act. Okay. And being evil. So I don't know Mr. Mandani, but I do know this. He doesn't want to enforce the law, wants to take $1 billion out of the police budget, doesn't believe in incarceration, mass incarceration, but he doesn't believe in punishing criminals. Okay. Has called the own. The police force in New York City racist. So what do you think is going to happen if he's mayor? Well, people are going to get killed.

[Adam Carolla]

People are going to get killed. Right. And they don't.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So you, you, the Mandani voter, are enabling that evil people are going to die. More people than are dying now. And I backed it up on News Nation with this unbelievable stat. In 1934, Hindenburg died in Germany. He was the president. Adolf Hitler was a chancellor, second in command. They had a referendum. Should we give we, the German people, Hitler dictatorial powers, do whatever he wants? 90% of the German people said yes. Blood on their hands. Every single one of them that said yes. Now, they may not be evil people themselves, but they allowed it. They allowed the Holocaust. They allowed World War II. And we Americans have to start to realize that if you vote for somebody, if you help somebody, hurt another person, you're part of the evil cycle.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I agree. But I would push back and say this. Almost every Democrat would say, if you vote for Donald Trump, you're evil because he's evil and he's racist and he's authoritarian and he's rounding up folks that look different than him and putting them in gulags and disappearing them. Now, the difference between what they're accusing Trump of doing. And what you're talking about, Mandami, is doing is you have an actual. There are going to be bodies. What they do is a hypothetical evil that never comes to fruition. Right, but they would say the same thing. Not would say, they are saying it. Plenty of Hollywood celebrities are now being vocal about if you voted for Trump, you're evil, you are part of the problem. So what would you say to almost the entire left and Democratic party who would say the exact same thing to you if you voted for Trump?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, I would say produce the facts. Look, confronting evil is a fact based book, no opinion. Here's what the guys did. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom with Trump. As you just pointed out, it's theoretical. Right. And it's fine. I'm not one of these people that get wildly crazy when a liberal or a progressive accuses Trump of being a fascist. I say, all right, put it on up. What did he do? Prove it. And it can't. Which is why they won't come up against me in a debate. So Pritzker, for example, the governor of Illinois, 20 years, there have been mass murders going on on the south side of Chicago. 20 years, 80% of the people murdered are African Americans. Give me one thing, Napritzker, the governor has done to stop that. Nothing no one can.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, you know, it's funny.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Wait, so I'm talking to Mark Rafalo, I'm talking to Emma Stone now.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, Rafalo, but Yes, or something, whatever.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It is, Buffalo Rafalo, brilliant actor, by the way. Yes, but total progressive loon.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I'm talking to you. This is who I'm talking to. So you have a fact. 20 years a slaughter. African Americans gunned down in the street. The governor does nothing. He's offered a blanket of protection by President Trump to lessen the murders and the death. He rejects it and he has nothing to put in its place. And he calls Trump a fascist. He calls Trump names, evil, whatever it may be. And Trump is offering to stop some and most of the murders in Chicago. Does that make any sense to anybody? Mark? Emma? Hello.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, in a way, it's no different than school choice. You know, you have folks on the right pushing for school choice and that benefits the inner city black child the most. They're also the most motivated to get their kids involved and out of failing public schools. And then the Democratic politicians fight tooth and nail against school choice, vouchers, and any alternative to the public education system, which is failing these kids. And they're Suffering the most. So it's really the same question. One's in crime, one's in education. Do you care about these people? And if so, why are you fighting Trump who wants to put boots on the ground? And. Or why are you marching with the teachers unions and fighting Linda McMahon or anyone else who's pushing for an alternative to your failing system?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah. I mean, the difference is life and death and maybe the wreckage of a. Of a life because you're ill educated. So there's. There's a level of evil.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree. But it's the same theme, which is you claim to care so much about these people. You do nothing for these people.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Carol, let me give you one word. Indefensible. You can't defend. You can't. Now, you've read Dante's Divine Comedy, right? Because a literate man like you, an educated man, even, you have the dopey hat. You can't fool me.

[Adam Carolla]

I forgot I'm wearing a camel hat.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I know that you're an educated man. In Dante's Divine Comedy, he has the nine circles of hell. Okay? So the worst are in circle number one, the evil people, not quite at the level of Mao Zedong. They go down. And that is the truth about the world. So that there are different levels of evil. But my thesis in confronting evil, my book is that we Americans who aren't evil, okay, have to start mobilizing against it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Or we're going to wind up. You know, look, Putin is there to kill innocent people in Ukraine because the Russian people allow him to do it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Bill O'Reilly]

In China.

[Adam Carolla]

Can I just jump in and agree for one second? I say this all the time, people. Whenever they go, it's not the people of Palestine, it's Hamas. I'll say it all the time. They'll go, it's not the people, it's the leaders. It's the leaders. It's not the people. I go, okay, the people stand by and let the leaders do what they do, and they vote them in and they facilitate it. The United States could not be run by the Klan. Not because there's no Klan. It's because we as a people wouldn't tolerate it. We wouldn't vote them in, and we wouldn't let it happen. And so I hear this excuse all the time, like, the leaders are evil, but the people. You take many countries in the Middle east, the aforementioned Palestine, yeah. The leaders are evil, and the people basically agree with them, or at least they don't disagree to the point where they can do something or will do something about it. So I agree with you. It's on them to a lesser degree than the leaders, but it's still on them. Sorry, China.

[Bill O'Reilly]

A better analogy would be Iran, the Persian people, because the Palestinian people, they are so shell shocked, they can't organize. They're not organized. They're fearful of their lives. There's nobody to protect them. There's no structure at all. I feel very sorry for anybody living in Gaza, the West Bank.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree with you, but I'm saying it's origin stories. You know, I'm not talking about the.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Last year and a half, but it comes from the head of the snake, Ayatollah Khomeini on the COVID of my book. Without Iran, you wouldn't have had 9, 11, you wouldn't have had Gaza, wouldn't have had any of this. Because an entire country, an educated country, largely the Persians, are educated people, allowed a fanatical theocrat to take over and just say, if you're an infidel, you die. That's what Allah wants. And the Persian people go, okay, not okay, not okay. They could have done something and could to this day, even though the secret police is always in place. We understand that. But if the masked people like Gandhi went on strike, refused to do anything, government collapses. Okay, so there are different situations. And I picked 15 of the worst situations for confronting evil. And in some of them, like Nazi Germany, Japan and World War II, the people are at fault who allowed what happened. The Russian people today are at fault for Putin killing innocent women and children. They're at fault.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree. I've always sort of. That is the macro on the micro. When they do that thing where it's like the 13 year old boy was running the streets and he was firing a pistol and he was in the seventh grade and it was two in the morning, I'm like, I get that that kid is a juvenile delinquent, but I also wanna know what the parents are doing.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, there you go.

[Adam Carolla]

Who is in charge of that kid and why are they letting him do this? You brought up something which was debating you and I wanted to bring this up cuz it just popped into my head the other day. Cuz I always hear every progressive politician talking about speaking truth to power. You know, it's all Kamala Harris talked about. Karen Bass. It's always, they're always speaking truth to power, but they would never dream of debating, you know, or coming on my podcast or sitting down with Joe Rogan. Kamala Harris wanted to speak truth to power, but wouldn't do Joe Rogan's podcast. They only go to super friendly places and handle softball questions, which is the opposite of speaking truth to power. And then they complain about voices like yours or Tucker Carlson's or the list goes on and on. They don't like that they're popular. They don't like the voice. Then they talk about truth to power. And, and they never show up in debate. They won't even go on Bill Maher show and have a sit down with Bill because he might ask them a couple of tricky questions. So what is the whole truth to power nonsense they're speaking of?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, number one, they don't have any truth. So if you have truth, you want to spread the word, right, Carolla? Yes, I have truth. It's wrong to consciously hurt another human being. That's my truth. That's what evil is. You know, you're going to hurt somebody and you do it anyway. Not self defense, because you like it. 15% of the world population falls into that psychopathic profile. 15?

[Adam Carolla]

That, that, that many?

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's a lot, folks. Yeah, that's a lot of people. Okay, so that's who's in prison. But in America, they're not all in prison because they won't put them in prison anymore. So that's my truth. It's a simple truth. It's a definition of evil. So now, if Kamala Harris had a simple truth, she would go on a Carollo Show, O'Reilly Show, Rogan show, because she could spread it and defend what her truth is. I can defend my truth against anyone, any human being on this earth. I can defend it. And I'd be happy to talk to any responsible person. In fact, we just put in a request for your buddy Jimmy Kimmel, who I have a very, I had a good relationship with, who now won't book anybody who isn't in sync with his political point of view. But he's coming to Brooklyn. It's right around the corner from me. I said, hey, Jim, you'll get big ratings you put me on. He knows he will. Okay, we'll have a very lively discussion like I'm having with your buddy Carolla right now. So what's the downside? Okay, you know why they won't do it? Because they're afraid. Well, now maybe Kimmel will rise to the occasion. I hope he does be a great, great show. No, I mean, most of them were terrified.

[Adam Carolla]

Gutfeld went on Fallon and was a ratings bonanza a couple of weeks ago. So now there's some precedent for It. So I'm with you in that. For instance, a bunch of data just came out today or the day before about failing schools and how abysmal the test scores were for math and everything else. And I kept screaming when they closed down the schools for two years. At least out here in California, there's gonna be ramifications. You're hurting kids. You're shutting down the schools in the name of safety. Meanwhile, you're gonna destroy a bunch of young people's lives. You're gonna do damage to them. Or an open border where fentanyl pours across and human trafficking and cartels and so on and so forth. There is a body count at a certain point to your irresponsible behavior and governance. And is that kind of what you're saying?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, unintended consequences. So Tucker Carlson, my old teammate at fnc, was on a program and said that Biden is more evil than Putin. Did you hear that?

[Adam Carolla]

No, but. But Tucker's been saying a lot of wild things lately.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, he's got the First Amendment. He can say whatever he wants. And I'm not in the business to, you know, scrutinize what other people say unless I feel it's hurting you, Adam Carolla, or anybody else. So, anyway, I took that and I analyzed it, and you're absolutely right that Biden's failure to uphold his oath of office by telling federal authorities not to enforce immigration law, which is exactly what his administration did, led to tens of thousands of deaths, probably hundreds of thousands if you count all the drug ODs, because the drug. Just pour and cross. Okay, but Biden was so compromised, is so compromised and doesn't believe in anything, that what he did was evil. There's no doubt that it was. But Putin enjoys, as I said, inflicting pain. I don't see that on Biden. Biden is just a dumb man.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I get it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

A man. Right.

[Adam Carolla]

I get it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It's Dante. It's a different degree now on a school thing. Yes, California was the extreme, but California is the extreme in everything. True, because the progressives have taken it over. There's no two party system. There's no debate. It's Gavin Newsom combing his hair, going out, saying whatever he wants to say. State could burn down and be Trump's fault.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, state's on fire. It's Trump's fault. All right, with Californians, all 59 million of them. If Newsom's up for reelection, they vote him in again.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Bill O'Reilly]

As I said, it's like, mandani, oh, yeah, we'll take Gavin. Okay. There comes a point where the public school system, not only in California but all across the nation, has fallen apart. And the reason it has fallen apart, there are two reasons. And this is evil, because the kids have to be taught how to function in life. I'm a former high school teacher, as you know. I knew what my job was. I taught in a ghetto OPA lock of Florida. And I knew I had to save these kids or try anyway. They don't even try anymore. So public schools are largely, particularly in the poor neighborhoods, undisciplined. All I want to do is get these kids out. They don't care whether they can read, they can write, they can do math. Just get them out. Just promote them, promote them, promote them, Promote them and try to keep them from hurting somebody else. All right? No discipline, no structure, no standards. Out. Not every school. In the wealthy areas, the schools are pretty good, but not in the poor areas. And the second are the parents, if they have parents.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay. So you do the criminality, you tie it into the fatherless homes. Direct correlation.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So if you're a father, you birth a child with a woman, which I believe is still the way they do it. Corolla. But maybe in California we do it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

I got a laminate in my wallet. I got a check on it. So there's a lot of different terms, birthing people and lactating folks and things like that.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right. So your dad and you give birth with a woman to a baby and you split. What adjective would you apply to that person? Carolla?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I think. Well, evil. And part of the problem. I mean, it's sort of all of the problem. All of the problem. No, you're right. You're right. It's all. It's all of the problem. I was right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

If you are responsible parents, even if you're divorced, if the dad is around, and I understand, look, marriage is difficult, people go apart. I'm not casting any aspersions on those folks. But if you ignore your children, if you don't know what they're doing day to day, if you don't check their homework and their report cards, that's evil. That's an evil act. You are abusing that child. You're not training the child. And that is the main reason that these kids can't or won't learn, because there's no pressure on them to perform.

[Adam Carolla]

No. Agree.

[Bill O'Reilly]

None.

[Adam Carolla]

So a couple of thoughts. In Florida a couple of weeks ago, there was that driver Indian driving a semi truck does a U turn, three people are dead, Right? So that guy's not trying to kill anybody. And he's not necessarily evil, but he's trying to driving a semi truck and he's doing an illegal U turn. And now we have three people dead. So whoever let him stay in the country, whoever issued him a semi truck driver's license and things like that, while not evil by the kind of definition that we were speaking about, still responsible for three people dead.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Partially.

[Adam Carolla]

Partially, yes. Responsible for this in a sort of chain of events sort of way. And that's the sort of Joe Biden thing, which is Joe Biden doesn't know what he's doing. He's cognitively out of it, and he let the border wide open. And because of that, people died. But Putin is launching rockets into Ukraine and enjoying it. And that's sort of either way. We have a body count. One guy is cognizant and enjoys it, the other guy doesn't know what he's done.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And that has to be taken into account, which is why I don't put Biden nor Pritzker or these people in the book. I give Active evil. Okay, look, Mao Zedong starved his own people. I mean, it is. When you read that chapter, you go, how could any human being do this? I open Confronting evil with the October 7th attack where Hamas came across as little Israeli settlement and just obliterated it. Killed everybody for no reason. There was no reason to do it. They enjoyed it. The Hamas thugs enjoyed it. And I did that to get everybody's attention. This, this is the first part of the book, the introduction to Confronting Evil. I'll put you right there because I want people to know that A, evil exists and B, you can't turn away from it any longer because it is growing in this world. It's growing. And you can call Trump every name in a book. And again, I'm not in business to prop up Donald Trump, but he's not the problem. The MAGA people are not the problem.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I.

[Bill O'Reilly]

The problem is that people know it's wrong for drug gangs in Chicago to slaughter poor blacks, yet they won't vote the people out of office who are allowing it.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree. And it's funny in the evil sort of Joe Biden argument, every third speech talking about white supremacy being the biggest problem this country faces and the most dangerous people is because of this semi non existent boogeyman of white supremacy. I'm sure someone loaded up the teleprompter and just told him to say it, but he really didn't help by constantly talking about white supremacy, evil, and ignoring all the other evil that is going on inside and outside of this country. But I don't know, did he think that was a problem or did someone just load up the teleprompter and tell him to read the teleprompter?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, my previous book was Confronting the Presidents. And in that book I labeled Joe Biden the second worst president in our history. James Buchanan, the coward was the first because he enabled the Civil War, right? He allowed the south to arm itself. And that was the worst thing that's ever happened to this country. When Biden came into office, people who voted for Biden, if you had done due diligence, you would know that he did not believe in anything. He had no core belief system at all. And let me give you a very vivid example of back it up, because that's what I do. I back up everything I say. Joe Biden is a practicing Roman Catholic and he wants everybody to know that he said it thousands of times. He goes to mass, he's this, he's that. Okay, who promoted late term abortion? Who? Joe Biden. Not only did he accept it, he promoted it as a noble thing, that all abortion is noble and that anybody trying to put any restriction on an eighth, ninth month abortion was evil. This is what Joe Biden put out. Now, that directly corresponds to the Roman Catholic mortal sin zone. Now, if you do an evil act, that's a mortal sin. If you're Catholic, if it's not so evil, it's a venial sin.

[Adam Carolla]

I like the no sin zone. That's a new segment for you, the no sin zone, right after the no spin zone.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So it is virtually impossible for a Roman Catholic who believes in the theology that all life is sacred, okay, to promote a procedure that ends life. Do you think Joe Biden thought about that at all? Do you think he had any blanket clue? He didn't because he has no belief system at all. None. He's a cipher.

[Adam Carolla]

I completely agree. I don't think he has any belief system. And he seems. Well, the clip where he's lying probably in the late 80s about his academic past, about being a. He has a scholarship, he's at the top of his class or the top half of his class. He was a double major and all sorts of stuff, and it all just turned out to be a lie. That's sociopathic stuff. And people look at it as sort of. Well, it's politics. No, it's sociopathic. Stuff to take your academic records. One thing to be a B minus student and to convert it into a A minus or B student, but to completely out of whole cloth, make up titles and degrees and put yourself at the top half of the class and so, and all that kind of stuff. Before there was any kind of deterioration mentally with him, just to lie, look right down the camera lens and lie that way. That means he's rudderless. He's a sociopath. He has no thoughts. You know, Gavin Newsom is a sociopath. He has no thoughts about anything other than being elected. And it is interesting, and I wanted to get your take on this. Gavin Newsom is in the process of doing it. Mandami is in the process of doing it, and Kamala Harris already did it, which is distanced themselves from all their stances, or many of their stances from a few short years ago because they're running for office now. So you made all these proclamations about stopping fracking and about getting sex changes for illegal prisoners and the state paying for it and stuff like that. And then all of a sudden, you're running for a higher office and you have to back away from all of these previous stances you took as an adult. I find it interesting that they all realize that they have to get away from their previous platform in order to be palatable enough to get enough votes to take the presidency or to be the mayor of New York City or what have you. But it is interesting that they all have to get away from their previous platform stances. And Mandami's doing it now, I think.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, of course. Because they live in a moment and they say, okay, who am I talking to now? So I've got to build up my progressive credentials. This is Mandani. All right, so I'm going to tell them that I don't want anybody going to prison. I want to cut a billion out of the NYPD budget. I don't believe in any kind of social order at all. So if you're drug addicted, you can go sit on Adam Carolla's doorstep and shoot up heroin all day long, and his kids walking in and out of it have to see that I'm not going to stop that. And then when he gets into a wider range where this kind of rhetoric is unacceptable, he goes, ah, I really didn't mean it. Oh, I rethought it, that kind of thing. But here's a real vivid challenge. Mandani, if he wins, and he very well might, could not get elected in Nassau county, where I Saw you a few months ago perform. Could not get elected in Suffolk County. These are on Long Island. Couldn't get elected in northern New Jersey and most upstate New York counties and southern Connecticut. He couldn't get elected in any of those places. Couldn't even get nominated. Okay. But in New York City, a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah, he can. And that tells you about how the evil is permeated into that city. And that people there, it's like Escape from New York. Remember that movie Plissken? Sure. Okay. The people there, they don't calibrate that. If I vote for this man, there are going to be more dead bodies on the street. It's I want a free bus ride. I want lower rent. I want free food. I want, I want, I want. And that kind of selfishness does rise into the evil category.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, it's funny, I was hearing about it and it comes up all the time and I never really thought about it, but free bus ride. Lots of debating about free bus ride. First off, I don't know how much a token is on a modern day bus, but I don't imagine it's that much. I mean.

[Bill O'Reilly]

275.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I don't feel like it's a barrier to entry, to being gainfully employed in this country. Feel like that's impactful at all. You taking $2.75 from somebody who has to take a bus into the city. Who works, many, let's say maids who work in Los Angeles, they take a bus to the home. Sometimes a homeowner will pick them up at the bus stop or something like that. But the bus is for poor people. But I don't feel like it makes or breaks anything. What's much more impactful, speaking of transportation, especially in Los Angeles, six bucks a gallon for gas. That's impactful to poor people because a lot of them are construction workers and gardeners and they're driving big trucks and they have equipment. You see those gardening trucks in Los Angeles. First off, they don't live in Encino or Bel Air or Beverly Hills or Malibu. Well, nobody lives in Malibu or the Palisades anymore. They live far away from those places. They drive in from the Valley, Sun Valley, Simi Valley, places like that. And they're driving pickup trucks that are filled with equipment, getting eight miles a gallon, and that is impacting them greatly. I was in Alabama three days ago. I was driving around looking at gas station signs. The number started with a two, which is insane. Our Uber driver mentioned us that the gas at this place was $2.80 a gallon, which is much too high, cuz by her house, it's $2.45 a gallon. We had to explain it's $6 a gallon where we're from. But if you really want to help poor people bring down the cost of fuel, which they never do.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Look, Mandami is 33 years old, all right? He isn't qualified to run a Burger King. He's not. And he could be the leader of the largest city in the country. Because what he has woven is, I will give you stuff. I'll lower your rent. I'll give you free bus rides. I'll give you grocery stores where you don't have to pay much. I'll give you, give you, give you. And unfortunately, most Americans don't pay attention to reality. They don't know what's possible. All that stuff's impossible. None of it's going to happen, okay? Just to pay the pensions for the MTA, bus drivers and people who work on the buses, you can't give away free rides. But ultimately, what Mandami wants is to seize private property of the wealthy. That's what he wants. I don't live in New York City. I would never live there because I know what's coming. And it's coming in LA and California. They want to seize private property and give all of that money that the government sees to the people who will vote for them on the less affluent scale. That's the goal. Wealth tax. The voters, they don't know. They have no idea.

[Adam Carolla]

Last question for you, Bill, because I know you got a hard out. I know you're doing a thing in D.C. with Chris Cuomo and Stephen A. And I was invited by Chris to come out as well. I'm not sure if I can make it or not because of my schedule. Of course, I always love to be in the same room with you, but I was thinking about it on the ride here, and Stephen A. Is a Democrat, but he's sort of turned a corner. Chris Cuomo was formerly Chris Cuomo, and he's now invites people like yourself and myself and other people like that on his program. What do you make of that? Sort of new world order, guys like that versus guys that are getting more entrenched and sort of deeper and more ensconced.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, they can read the ratings. So cable news is over. It's not coming back. Network news was over about a year ago. When Trump leaves the stage, I don't know what the future of Fox News is going to be because that's their audience. 95% of the FNC audience are MAGA people. When I was there more than 20 years, 60% conservative, 20% liberal, and 20% independent. And we did studies, I mean, to find out who was watching. Now it's 95%. Trump leaves the MAGA people. I don't know, but it's not bullish. So I came up with this concept. The three Americans, Smith, Cuomo and me, we shot a pilot at Westbury in Long Island. Very good. And I think that's the media future. I think that there are enough Americans who respect opposing points of view. I do. Okay. As long as they're not evil and leading to death and destruction. Okay. If you just think Trump's no good, if you don't like the Republican Party, I have a problem with that. As long as it's based on a sincere belief and you're not hurting anybody. So I think that that's coming. All right. But it's still about a year to two years away because the Trump culture war is still raging. So we hate them on TV or we love them on tv. And that still drives. And News Nation really is trying to carve out a new profile. I hope they're successful, but in the age of the phone, people being glued on that phone every waking moment, it's very difficult to break through.

[Adam Carolla]

It'll be interesting to see what the future holds. Confronting Evil. Name of the book. His books are all excellent, and it is out as we speak. And get it at the website as well. Billoriley.com all right. Always good to chat with you, my friend. I hope to see you in person real soon.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, I hope you can make the DC event. It's going to be wild and crazy. And you tell your buddy Kimmel to book me, and he'll get the highest ratings he's had in five years, I guarantee it.

[Adam Carolla]

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[David Nyhill]

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David Niall is on the Adam Carolla show.

[Adam Carolla]

David, good to see you again. I had a flashback as I was in the bathroom.

[David Nyhill]

Oh boy. Don't look where this is going already.

[Adam Carolla]

When you were on this show last year, did you talk about injuring yourself badly by jumping off a cliff into a body of water?

[David Nyhill]

I did. And you might recall that it was two ladies with me and one kind of split her private parts and the other one burst her own lip with her cleavage. And it was kind of like the perfect trifecta of injuries on a Greek island with only a vet for medical assistance.

[Adam Carolla]

Now when did you tell me that?

[David Nyhill]

Maybe like two years back and someone was talking about doing stupid stuff for injuries or cliff jumping. And I think I elaborated on once urinating on an electric. Somehow that became getting injured on a Greek island. And then you zoomed in on the lady potentially splitting her vagina while cliff jumping. And I think we just.

[Adam Carolla]

So one lady jumped off a Greek island cliff approximately what? Tilt that mic down a little bit. Sorry.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Just to.

[Adam Carolla]

There you go. That's always better. One jump. How many feet approximately?

[David Nyhill]

Over 100, I'd say. 100 to 100 something. I have a picture of it somewhere and every time I look at it, I'm like, yeah, I can see why I broke my leg off that one.

[Adam Carolla]

100. Because if people don't realize, you know, 30ft, three stories, and three stories is a big drop when you're standing on a bridge or something over body wire. I love jumping off a shit into water. I have my entire life. When I was a kid, I jumped off of roofs into neighboring swimming pools. You know, pools that weren't on the property of the roof I was on. I try to make it, you know, written for injuries.

[David Nyhill]

Oh. I got to the point where I had friends who ran a bungee jumping crane when I was living in Cyprus. And we would just heighten it up to about 100ft and we'd pretend that the rope was tied on me. I was pretending to be with the guys who worked there. And there's a queue of people waiting to go and I would just jump off and the guy who runs it would be like, oh, who forgot to tie them? I'd be like, what? Nobody tied them? No. And I knew it was happening. But the people queuing up to get tied up next is awesome. So, yeah, we drop it about 100 and something feet and just go with.

[Adam Carolla]

No rope into the water.

[David Nyhill]

Into the water.

[Adam Carolla]

So wait, what water off a crane were you going into?

[David Nyhill]

There's a crane hanging off the side of a cliff in a place called Ayia Napa in Cyprus.

[Bill O'Reilly]

There is.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, I'm just saying there is no freedom. Like jumping off of something high into a body of water. I think it's good for your head. I understand you can get injured and you can get killed, but there's just something about that moment where you go.

[David Nyhill]

Well, that's what happened. This girl, she reverted back to the kid in her and did a full star shaped formation with her hands, but never closed the star shaped formation. So the feel that you're talking about kind of took over and it was just wee and then pain.

[Adam Carolla]

Most women won't jump off of 100ft is really high.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, they were cool. The tune of them did It. No problem. But on the flip side of it, I was. I was kite surfing with a friend of mine. When you're talking about jumping off stuff is a great feeling. Maybe not in all circumstances, because we were kite surfing under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and it was my friend's first ever time there. I've kite surfed there quite a few times. It's kind of dangerous. It's got giant Costco container ships, great white sharks, strong currents, crazy stuff. But I forgot that something could potentially get you from above. And of course, my friend was kite surfing and all of a sudden this guy appears in the water in all black. So my friend assumes like, oh, he's in a wetsuit. He's lost all his kite surfing gear. Let me try and help him. It turns out this dude had jumped off the bridge to try and kill himself. Didn't. Was still alive and was now trying to steal my friend's board as a flotation device as he changed his mind about killing himself.

[Adam Carolla]

It's the craziest.

[David Nyhill]

I don't know, I think 330ft or something. I think that one.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's good enough to kill yourself. Did you. So we'll look it up. What is most of the time? Yeah. What is the height of the Golden Gate Bridge? Now you. I don't know if you ever saw that dock, but there's a dock about it and they always. And a couple people survived.

[David Nyhill]

But that's the thing. It just kind of depends on the angle, how lucky you are and how you enter the water and just. Yeah, you can. What? Bones. You break on impact because you're breaking something. And I wish it was the only time I've been out there, but I've seen it a number of times where I've been kite surfing. And next thing, this guy flies off the bridge.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. And of course, the current there is.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So.

[Adam Carolla]

Wait, hold on a second. 220ft now?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, 220. You could see how it could go either way. I think the survival rate is pretty high. But they don't publicize anything about what happens with that bridge, so who knows?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, according to the doc, only a couple guys survived. But according to your testimony, you've gone kite surfing underneath the Golden Gate Bridge more than once. And more than once somebody's jumped off the bridge while you were under it.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, I've been under there hundreds of times.

[Adam Carolla]

Hundreds?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. Twice I've seen. Well, once I saw the guy in the water, but not jump. But then all of a sudden, the Coast Guard will appear. I think they're very good at smoke marking the part of the water where the body entered, because they're assuming that they didn't make it. The current, they're super strong and it moves one way or the other. So all of a sudden you'll be kite surfing. I'd be like, geez, this is great. Nice sunny day. Is that a dolphin I saw? And then the next thing, Coast Guard helicopter smoke bomb on the water. Like lifeguard boats racing towards you. So, yeah, you definitely know when it's going on. But yeah, I've only seen one jumping once and then seen the after effects of one.

[Adam Carolla]

Once you saw a guy go past you in the air?

[David Nyhill]

Once I saw a guy go past me.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. Did that guy make it?

[David Nyhill]

I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

Don't know.

[David Nyhill]

I only know the second one because he was stealing my friend's board. So I was telling my friend, like, hey, this is a real safe place to go kitesurfing. Don't worry, you'll be fine. And he's like a nearly dead guy. Stole my board out there. And then, of course, he has no board. The guy actually took his board until the Coast Guard came to pick him up. So he had to drag himself without a board from the Golden Gate Bridge back to land, which is about a mile and a half, I'd say. And you look exactly like bait. And you know, there's a good amount of great white sharks around there. So he's skimming across the top of the water with no board, dressed all.

[Adam Carolla]

In blank, like being dragged by the kite.

[David Nyhill]

Being dragged by the kite, yeah. So you look like bait. You look like a seal.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, when you do a lure, they, you know, they do a lure, they skim it across the top of the exact.

[David Nyhill]

He was kind of like fly fishing with himself a great white shark.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so the one girl split her labia or something.

[David Nyhill]

She split the internal workings of something and had to be stitched up by a vet and her.

[Adam Carolla]

A vet. That's right. I remember that story. And then the other girl, say, was hit with her own cleavage.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, the other girl was a bit ahead of the curve by Irish standards at the time because this was like late, late 90s, early 2000s. But yeah, yeah, she should be watching a lot of reality television, I think. Got some fake cleavage.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, fake cleavage.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, they get. They whacked her in the lips and burst her own lips. So then when I finally jumped in, I jumped in to try and see were they okay. And then my shorts Exploded on entering the water. So I'm just kind of swimming to them, like Paul's dragging in the wind behind me, trying to rescue the submarine.

[Adam Carolla]

You broke your leg?

[David Nyhill]

I broke my leg. The next day I actually went home, got all the guys I was living with. There was seven of us sharing a house in Greece. And I was like, you wouldn't believe the day I had today. Cliffjump. We gotta go back and do it tomorrow. Like, it's mental out there. And then, yeah, it broke me tibia and my fibia.

[Adam Carolla]

There's still something about jumping off things. Well, it's not the sensation, it's that you made yourself do it. And many fibers in your being said no, but you overrode those fibers, and you did it.

[David Nyhill]

Well, I'm actually that much of an idiot. And to speak to your point is just something fundamentally enjoyable about jumping off things. I went back four years later, even though I broke my tibia, my fibia, and I did that exact same jump again.

[Adam Carolla]

Why did you. You landed wrong.

[David Nyhill]

I don't know. I kind of. I landed wrong. I did a bit of a higher one. So it was definitely higher than 100ft. I'd say maybe like 130 or 40. The one I did, that is. But I hit a rock on the way back. It was kind of like it loosened it. And then I kind of stepped off, one rock to another when I got out of the water and my whole leg just crumbled like something that already happened in the water.

[Adam Carolla]

They. Again, 130 is exquisitely high. 50ft is high. That's enough.

[David Nyhill]

50Ft. The bungee ones were probably the highest, where we would climb over the end of it. So it's called the Mr. Bean Bungee Jump. So, you know, there's a shot of him in one of his shows where he doesn't like diving. So he's trying to dive off the dive board, but he can't. He crawls out backwards on his hands and knees, and he hangs off until the last possible second. There's a bungee jump. They call that the Mr. Beam bungee jump. They roll up the rope up top so everyone on the ground can't see. They just see a guy hanging from the crane. They don't see the rope whatsoever. So they're basically gathering around to watch your impending death. They only realize the rope's there at the last second. But that was probably one of the nerve wracking ones. I have a good photo of me doing that stupidly, somewhere along the way.

[Adam Carolla]

Are there other Endeavors, you know, sex without a condom, things like that.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You know, living on the edge where.

[Adam Carolla]

You roll those dice. Because I was a thrill seeker as a kid, I realize, and I don't know where that thrill seeking gene comes in, but it's a weird thing that most people don't have, and you should probably hope your kids don't have it. But I had it. I would force myself to do things that were dangerous and scary and weird, and I would do them alone. I didn't need an audience at all. I would sit. I could remember across the street from my grade school, you graduate in the sixth grade. Out here was a church. And the church was sort of on a hill, and it had this thin, long kind of outdoor corridor with this stucco wall on both sides and then cement stairs that went eight or ten stairs and then into this narrow stucco corridor. And it always bothered me that I didn't have the balls to jump it on my bike. I should have been courageous enough to jump it, and it bothered me. And then I graduated the sixth grade and I thought, well, now you're a man. You graduated the sixth grade. And while everyone else was like eating cake, I was sitting in that church. There was nobody there, just staring down this long corridor, knowing there was 10 steps. And I just did it. I didn't invite anyone to come out and cheer me on or take a picture. I didn't do anything. I just went for it. And I ate shit and hit the stucco wall when I landed and got all kinds of road rash and stuff, but I was done.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I did it.

[David Nyhill]

As long as you have no broken bones, you're likely to repeat. I think that's what slows you down.

[Adam Carolla]

I had a loading dock, like for a semi truck in the back of the Gelson supermarket. It's about 3 foot tall. I wanted to ride off it on a unicycle. And it drove me nuts until I did it.

[David Nyhill]

That's where the Californian is coming out more to me. I don't think we had access to too many unicycles in Ireland growing up. We were more jumping out of trees. I used to climb any tree I could find, just jump out from as high as possible.

[Adam Carolla]

I literally bought mine for $10, used off this kid who was having it rust out in his backyard. So I was in the same predicament, it sounds like. Yeah. But it bothered me that I wouldn't go off a loading dock on a unicycle. It was all concrete, everything, and it bugged me. And then I realized, oh, I Got a thing because my son would never think about that in a thousand years and wouldn't do it for a million dollars. And for me, I did it because I thought I was a coward and I needed to do it.

[David Nyhill]

I wonder if you could make a link to that, to doing standup comedy. Cause it's the same thing without safety net. You're just standing there, you're like, well, this could go badly. But I still enjoy it, I think.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. For you. For me, standup is sort of about potential. Like, you could do this, and if you don't, then you're wasting your potential, which may be connected to jumping off loading docks. I don't know.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, for me, no, I think it's. There's a connection to the fear factor involved. And I'm less likely to break something, I hope, most of the time. But, yeah, like you as a kid, I just look at stuff and I'm like, I'm gonna do something nuts with that. I'm jumping off that. I'm going, I couldn't be trusted. My parents got me a little toy chicken on wheels when I was a kid, and if they turned their back, I found the steepest hill possible and just headed off down the road on this chicken. They're like, that guy needs to be locked in a room somewhere.

[Adam Carolla]

I think is as bad or as dangerous or as many trips to the emergency room or the veterinarian. From your previous story as it may have caused. I think overall it's a good thing. I think not being fear based is important.

[David Nyhill]

Well, yeah, there's a whole pile of books on this, especially in the States, around raising kids that are not fear based. So just let them out what we used to do. Let some of the lunacy unfold. I'm sure if they get injured, they'll figure it out. I mean, I guess that's how we grew up. And I certainly took those lessons with me. I'll never forget, there was a girl who developed slightly earlier than the rest of them. Our main passion in life was climbing trees and jumping out. So I got pretty good at squirreling up them. And someone pulled up this girl's shirt when we were like 12 or 13. It wasn't me, but she thought it was. So rather than debate it with her, I was like, I'm just climbing the nearest tree. And I climbed up one and a branch broke. I fell out and I landed on this huge spike of a broken branch, just straight into my back and slid down. And I still have a fairly sizable Scar from me back for it. My mom was a nurse, but she was in America at the time. It was before Google. So my dad just came up with the cure for this was not going to the hospital. It was a rub salt and vinegar into the wound to help fix it. And that was when my mom was like, I am never leaving the kids with that lunatic again. But, yeah, I definitely have the scars of jumping off things, but I wouldn't do it any other way. I think when I was about 14, I had a super Nintendo computer and I was like, I got so good at playing Street Fighter, remember that game? That I could just finish the whole game without anyone else touching me. And I was like, well, I have way too much time on me hands. Like, none of the characters are even able to hit me. So I just sold the Super Nintendo and bought a motocross bike without asking me parents at all, in a place where we didn't have legal space to operate a motocross bike.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's. I was. I literally. I wrote down the word motorcycle.

[David Nyhill]

Oh, there you go.

[Adam Carolla]

On a piece of paper. Because I was like, for me, it translated from BMX bikes into motorcycles. And then that was a way to sort of accelerate the thrills, because now.

[David Nyhill]

You can do it.

[Adam Carolla]

You were going 30 miles an hour, and there was stuff to do. And I don't know how that manifests itself for you. What'd you buy?

[David Nyhill]

Same one. I bought a Suzuki TS125 to start with. And it was terrible. It was red and white, and someone hadn't got the money to afford stickers for it, so they made, like, a biscuit tin and painted, like, the number one redder optimistically on the front of it. And I just drove it around. And I remember the police pulling me over, driving through the. In Dublin, in one of the neighborhoods. They're like, where's your license and registration? I'm like, I'm 14. Where's your tax and insurance? What they'd say in Ireland? I was like, 14? He's like, you have one week to produce it. I'm like, I'm pretty sure I won't be turning up in a week's time to produce that. And they're like, go on, get out of here now.

[Adam Carolla]

What does driver's license age in Ireland?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. Do you know, I nearly forgot. Just as I was saying that, in my mind, I was like, what age? I think for a motorbike, it was 16. And I would have got it. The day you could get it, I got it. I'm like, I am getting a motorbike. But I remember I was working in this equivalent of a grocery store in Ireland, had me motorbike and I was late night and I was going out and this guy grabbed me by the helmet and started trying to steal the bike and whatever I was carrying. And I just remember he had so much control over me. I'd snot all over my face. It's freezing now. It's cold. I'm like, why am I driving a motorbike in Ireland? You know you're dreaming that a California highway is on a Ducati somewhere. And this fella was just pulling me around by the helmet and I couldn't get rid of him because I was kind of locked into it. So I was like, this is not a scenario I want to be in again. And I think in that mind, I was like, all right, I'm taking a break from the motorbike. So it was not a crash or not the danger of it. It was just like, how's this guy dragging me around by the head? I can't get his bloody helmet off me. I'm about to get robbed solely because I cannot remove this thing off my head.

[Adam Carolla]

I rode Honda 404 street bike out here for a while. And I decided one night when I was at the top of Coldwater Canyon, which is this snake of a canyon, goes all the way down into the valley and into the city. But I was going into the valley, Ventura Boulevard. I decided to challenge myself to ride the bike down the three and a half, four mile run, but switch backs, single lane, like super twisty. I said, I think I can do this without touching the handlebars.

[David Nyhill]

That's a powerful bike too.

[Adam Carolla]

I think I can just put my hands on the tank and never touch the handlebars. And I can lean and I can work the foot brake and I can do this without touching the bars. And I decided that that was my mission.

[David Nyhill]

I was not that nuts. That's circa Soleil level of stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

I never felt out of control. I never felt in danger. I felt like I could control the speed of the bike with the foot brake, which I did. And that the bike, once it got going in a sort of gyroscopic kind of way, was pretty good. And then I realized most of the turning on the bike would just be leaning anyway. It's not like you're turning. It's like ailerons on a plane versus the rudder, you know what I mean? Just turn and lean. And I just, with the exception of a couple Tight corners that were like had a long and a switchback. It was not a problem.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, well, you were more nuts than me.

[Adam Carolla]

I wasn't nuts. But here's what I decided. I decided that it must be done even though there was nobody around. Like today you'd have your buddies filming you and then you put it up on TikTok or something like that. I'd have another camera showing I didn't move my hands from the tank around. I didn't have anybody near me.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, and you would miss it. I look at that the whole time about just doing things just sheerly for the trill of it. I don't care if anyone's there. I don't want to document it. I just did it. I definitely miss living like that because I'm like why am I doing this? Just for the trill of it.

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[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, so then later on I think it's important. I think it's more important for boys. I think they need a little that.

[David Nyhill]

You know, get it out of the system.

[Adam Carolla]

A little out of the system with a sense of not being. It's funny, I was watching that viral tape of the Karen at the ballpark at Philly going and stealing the ball from the guy. It was making the rounds everywhere. He got the ball for her son and Then she demanded it, and he took it back. It wasn't that he gave her the ball back. I was fine with that. It's that when she came up and confronted him, he took his hands and literally did a woe is me.

[David Nyhill]

Kind of like, oh, no.

[Adam Carolla]

And I thought, that guy didn't jump off any cliffs in Greece or ride a motorcycle without touching the bars.

[David Nyhill]

It's funny, the different thoughts. I didn't see that on social media, but I think that was in. I was in the gym or something yesterday, and I was playing on the tv, and my only thought was, fucking America. Like, the whole world's going nuts. These wars we're trying to solve, and they're like, bob stole my baseball. How is that the dominant story?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's called a first world problem, David. That's what we have here. We have first world problems.

[David Nyhill]

Oh, well, I had. Yeah, I suppose Ireland. The interesting thing about growing up is Ireland. We transitioned through that so, like, we would have been the poorest country in Europe when I was a kid. And then we got slightly wealthier, so there was no affording nothing like the motorbikes. I was like, super Nintendo, buy a bike for the equivalent of 100 bucks. I had a Honda Vision, which was like a little moped that I bought off some guy. He stole it, and he was willing to sell it for the equivalent of $20. So I was like, yeah, I'll buy that. And I just turned up home. My parents are like, where'd you get that bike? I'm like, don't worry, it was cheap. It's stolen. What the hell are you doing? I kept it in the kitchen. So my mom was obviously pretty forgiven in life. Like, that's. David stole a motorcycle. My mom's a nurse, My dad's a teacher. They're not the kind of people that should be turning out to that, but I think they just figured, he's so nuts. Just let him at it, he'll be fine. Like, I don't know if I ever got out of the system. I'm obviously still doing some questionable stuff, but.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, what's the most recent and the most questionable?

[David Nyhill]

You know, I started wing foiling, which I didn't think was that wily dangerous until I met a guy two days ago, had part of his face taken off by the foil. So it's that elevated system that kind of bring up out the water on a board, and you'll see them surf and do it.

[Adam Carolla]

I literally saw that. But two days ago in Malibu, there's quite a Few guys in Malibu do it. I said, quite a few. I mean, you'll see them if you're driving down pch. And I just went, man, I gotta do that. Like I said it out loud.

[David Nyhill]

It's wildly fun. And while you're doing it, it doesn't have that much impact on the body. So a lot of older fellows who would have been windsurfing for years transitioned to doing it.

[Adam Carolla]

So one of those things is about 10,000 bucks, right? Or how much?

[David Nyhill]

Certainly not mine.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you could find one.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, mine's all maybe like 1200 bucks for everything I got.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe you could find one used for, like, 1200 bucks.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, that's the Irish stolen moped version of doing it.

[Adam Carolla]

And how do you get going? Do you get going on your knees or on your belly?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, it's kind of wild. You get going on your knees. I tried to learn down in the Dominican, and I spent a few weeks doing it. And I was. Four days ago, I was under the Golden Gate Bridge the first time I ever. Because I've kite surfed under there loads, but I'd never gone out on this wing foil.

[Adam Carolla]

So now you're up about 18, 20 inches, 22 inches above the. I mean, it varies, but you're up.

[David Nyhill]

Well, depending on the length of the thing. You can control that a little bit, how high up you are, because they vary the length of the mass. But, yeah, you're kind of above the water. So all of a sudden, if it's a bit sharky, you're kind of seeing the sharks, or if they stuck around you, you're gonna see it. You have an elevated position.

[Adam Carolla]

Right, right. You're up on your feet until you.

[David Nyhill]

Run out of wind. So that was. You were like, what's the thing?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I'm sorry. That's until you run out of wind. I'm talking about the foil.

[David Nyhill]

No, I'm talking about the foil, too. And you're using, like, a little wing, so you kind of look like a little ant with a triangle in your hands when you're out there doing it. But I was under the Golden Gate Bridge was the first day I built up the goods to kind of go out by myself.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're doing the foil with the kite.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, it's basically.

[Adam Carolla]

I thought you meant. I'm talking about the motorized foil.

[David Nyhill]

That thing is. Yeah, that's a good 10 grand.

[Adam Carolla]

That's why I said, no, I can't afford that.

[David Nyhill]

Not for me.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So they have a battery operated Board. There's a super long extension cord that I'm unaware of, but it's battery operated, propeller driven. Wing foil.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. And then there's called an E foil board.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[David Nyhill]

I tried learning that. It turns out I am horrendous at E foil. I did it. And I was in Albania about a month and a half ago and some guy was doing it on the cheap. Normally it's pretty expensive, but yeah, once Mark Zuckerberg is doing it, I don't want to be doing it. So he came out. I love wing foil. And I'm like, well, that's it. I'm not doing wing foil or jujitsu.

[Adam Carolla]

Wing foil with the kite. Yeah.

[David Nyhill]

I'm using solely the power of the wind to move that foiling board. But occasionally the wind kind of drops off. So like 4 days ago I stood under the Golden Gate Bridge and the wind just disappeared. And I'm just standing there on my little board trying to balance. And the only way to get it moving is kind of violently nearly bounce it off the water, which is pretty much the best way ever to attract a shark. So you're just bouncing up and down, no wind, and you're like, oh, God.

[Adam Carolla]

I would be scared underneath that Golden Gate Bridge, man.

[David Nyhill]

It's a trail. That's why I like doing it, you know, Like, I'm not that good at kite surfing. A lot of guys do all these fancy tricks. I don't. I just like the adventure of leaving land, going under Gungi Bridge and like some whale pops up next to you and you're like, that was just a.

[Adam Carolla]

Humpback whale is just jumping around container ships going up and down.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, I've nearly been nailed by Woods. The one that I nearly crashed into, ironically enough, had just had Wang written down the side of it. I was like, wow, I nearly got killed by a huge Wang. That is not the way to go.

[Adam Carolla]

There is a foil board that has a leash and a propeller on a thing in front of it that pulls you like a sled dog.

[David Nyhill]

Oh yeah. They do that with drones as well all of a sudden. So it's like wakeboarding anywhere you want. So the drone will pull them along.

[Adam Carolla]

Wait, wakeboarding with a drone?

[David Nyhill]

Wakeboarding with a drone? I'm pretty sure if you go on any Red Bull's channel, it's you'll find out pretty quickly.

[Adam Carolla]

So you don't need wind.

[David Nyhill]

You don't need wind. You do need a drone. You need money. I think for all of these things.

[Adam Carolla]

You need a drone that can lift an adult Male Yeah, well, it's the.

[David Nyhill]

Same with the e foil stuff. I mean, that only lasts for like an hour and a half, two hours. So you're limited battery power with the. With the wind. As long as you get the conditions right. Obviously a lot cheaper. Not charging anything and just it gives you the trill. The other one doesn't give me the trill. Like I just bought some expensive thing and now I'm sliding around. Whereas.

[Adam Carolla]

But they have a drone that can lift 100 pounds or they can drag it behind you.

[David Nyhill]

I guess it wouldn't be the same weight if you're sliding across the top of the water. Once you get momentum.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, once you get going. But initially it's gonna.

[David Nyhill]

Initially, yeah. It's gotta have some serious force. Cause even when a boat pulls you up, wakeboarding, like, there's a moment where you and the boat are having a little fight. There when I was learning, we were having a little fight for hours as it dragged me underwater like a human submarine.

[Adam Carolla]

There is one that has like a leash of about 12ft and a motor sort of torpedo thing that pulls. And it's like you're water skiing behind nothing.

[David Nyhill]

I've started seeing that. Yeah, that's the funny thing with California. There's just so much money here. You guys are at the forefront of every. Once they invent something wacky. You guys are doing Within a week and a half. You know, it kind of trickles down to us in Ireland.

[Adam Carolla]

It's a weird look. Cause you see a guy skating across the bay in Malibu and he's hanging onto a rope and the rope just goes down into the water 10ft in front of him.

[David Nyhill]

He's got his own little submarine dragging him around.

[Adam Carolla]

And I always look at it and I go, if I'm with someone in the car, I go, man, that guy's really trained the shit out of his dog. I mean, look at that guy.

[David Nyhill]

Scuba dog.

[Adam Carolla]

It looks like you're walking a scuba dog. Oh, this is the drone.

[David Nyhill]

The drone. I knew it existed. I was like, did I just take too many edibles and dream up that sport? But it turns out, no.

[Adam Carolla]

That is crazy. So, guys. Oh, God. This is why the terrorists hate us. They're looking for clean water. We're just drone.

[David Nyhill]

You're just stealing baseballs from each other and drowning, Wakeboarding.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, wow. Wow. And I wouldn't think you could do it in a tree lined area like that. That doesn't seem like drone country to me. But here we are. Wow.

[David Nyhill]

When they're good at flying them wow. Pretty epic, isn't it?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Somewhere, some way, though, this guy's got a girlfriend who's super pissed because he one day would come home and he doesn't have a job. And she's like, you can't get a job. She's like, I don't know. I just don't have the energy. And he's like, I've seen your energy, love. I've seen what you can do when you want to do something when you're motivated.

[David Nyhill]

Or it could just be a dude who's there. Like, you are not allowed by a boat. You can wakeboard, but you're not allowed to get a boat. So let's see what you come up with. Sure enough, this is it.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, God.

[David Nyhill]

I also. I think I spent a week of my life in California once over a wakeboarding injury as well. Add that to the list of stupid things I did.

[Adam Carolla]

Wakeboarding is when you're being pulled or when you're riding the wake.

[David Nyhill]

Wakeboarding is what you were just watching, but whip behind a boat and usually trying to jump off the wake. But I was out in Discovery Bay, which is kind of up Livermore, Stockton, part of California, inland from San Francisco, and I jumped off the back of the boat. Boat. And incidentally, it's the only place I've ever been asked, what is Ireland like as a question as opposed to where is it? I was like, all right, this place is interesting. And I jumped off the back of the boat, and I just didn't look when I went into the water and my knee hit something underwater and just chopped the top of the knee straight off. And it's all this agricultural runoff water. So the doctor's like, oh, you're getting an infection. It's not a matter of time. And one of my legs just start growing to twice the size of the other one and nearly lost me knee. So there's a cost to all this mad stuff sometimes.

[Adam Carolla]

No, look, I rode motorcycles for years in this town, recklessly on the street to work. I was the guy working construction with my tool bags, which I would fasten and then prop, hang over my head because there's no other way to get the bags, my tool bags. And. And I did it for a long time. And at some point, I realized, you know what? You dodged a lot of bullets, and you're older now and you can afford to drive a car. And I just went.

[David Nyhill]

I just said, I think age is the primary driver of calming you down a bit. You'll still take some form of risk. I mean, Every time you get in a car, arguably you're taking one of the biggest calculator risks of your life.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I agree. You know, I race cars, so people want to know what's going on with that. But I tell them you're in a cage mainly. Most of my cars have a cage. And then you have a six way harness and you have a fire system and you're wearing helmets and gloves and fire resistant this and that with the net in the window and all that kind of stuff. And while it has some weird illusion of fear or of danger because of the speed, really the guys on the scooter, you know, hauling ass down Venice Boulevard at 30 miles an hour in shorts and flip flops are probably risking their. They're in danger much more than I am inside of a cage inside of a car.

[David Nyhill]

True, if you have the proper safety stuff. It's funny when you, as soon as you mentioned construction, my mind went back to. And I worked as an apprentice electrician for a while before I decided hanging out with a bunch of dudes all day was not as appealing as going to university. So. But I worked for, on IBM when they were setting up all their facilities in Ireland and we had no safety in Ireland. But because it was an American company, there was a guy called Herb and all he did is just walk around. He's like, hey, Patty, get your ass down off that ladder. Get down. Take it off there. You have not got a helmet on. He was just Mr. Safety. And I don't think in my life. I'd worked at construction sites for years. I'd never seen somebody who was just dedicated for safety. And it was just so ironic. It was an American guy just going around showing everything but taking unnecessary risks. But he worked. His name was Herb. I never forgot him. To this day, every time I'm on a ladder, I'm like, oh, Herb would kill me now.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I didn't work any union stuff or big company stuff, was always kind of small stuff. So they didn't have any of that safety stuff. No hard hats, no gloves, no goggles.

[David Nyhill]

We had nothing. I drove a dump truck. I think they used to call me the German because I crashed it into so much stuff. They're like, he drives like Schumacher. And every morning they had a Schwarz to get drawn on me dump truck. And I just crashed it into stuff and nobody seen to care.

[Adam Carolla]

We would take oftentimes like take the framing nailer, the pneumatic one, and you could fire it at somebody, but you'd have to take your hand and put it along the front and pull the safety back. Because it had a spring loaded, you had to be pushing it down in order to fire it. So you couldn't pick it up and fire it but you had to push it against a piece of wood, then you could fire it. That's why by the way, when you see guys that are like roofing and they're using a pneumatic nailer, they hold the trigger down and then they slap the gun, they go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Because it's a lot faster than holding it, squeezing it, holding it, squeezing it. They just pre hold it but it won't fire. But soon as you depress the spring loaded end, pop, pop, pop. But we would hold the thing back with one hand, aim it with the other hand and just fire a 16 penny nail at somebody. And now it's not like the thing was not. Oh God, I'm trying to think of the word but the nails would come flying out sideways and what is the word I'm thinking of for the barrel of a gun? Sorry, I'm screwing this up. Muskets don't have it, but bullets do. Somebody's.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, I'll leave it to tree Americans to figure out the knowledge of guns we're lacking.

[Adam Carolla]

No, this one, this one's Dawson, you shouldn't even think this much. It's a modern day guns are rifled. All right, Sorry, Rifled? Yeah. Versus a musket caliber. What are you retarded? Andrew, I look every once in a while I have a brain fart, but my brain farts are easy. A musket is just a musket ball and modern name guns are rife.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Rifle.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[David Nyhill]

Americans don't know the answer to the gun question. There's no hope. You can skip it.

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I, I have no idea.

[Adam Carolla]

You never heard of rifle?

[Show Announcer]

No, I may have heard the word but no, I don't.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh really?

[Show Announcer]

No idea.

[David Nyhill]

I know the tool and the mechanism you're talking about. We used to use something similar. Shingling houses. It's a summer job once in Nantucket just shingling. Old rich people said when we were in shangling houses, which I didn't know how to do, they used to pay us to cut their grass and they didn't have grass. They were so rich they hadn't been there in so long that they didn't realize sand had taken over their garden. But my boss wanted to be seen to at least trying to mow the sand. So he just dropped us off. We drove around the outskirts of the sand Built them and then headed home.

[Adam Carolla]

I am dumbfounded. Dawson never heard of rifling. And Andrew, nothing with rifling, huh? So rif. No. Wow. Well, I kind of apologize. But now this may be worse for you guys. Which is. Rifling is the modern day gun. Rifle. It's the reason we went from muskets, which was just a ball sort of sailing through the air to Mark Wahlberg two miles away with pinpoint accuracy is.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's like saying, what would professional football be without a spiral? What if you just threw the ball sideways? You go, well, Joe Montana couldn't get the ball more than 15 yards down the field of it. But rifling is what ushered in the modern rifle and thus bullets instead of muskets and stuff like that. Probably, probably 18, early 18. I mean, there's always a prototype, an invention or something, but it, you know, by the time you got to, you get to the Civil War, which is, I don't know, 18, 60, 50 something, 60, the guys in the field, they got muskets, but if you notice the generals and lieutenants and stuff, they have pistols and those are rifled.

[David Nyhill]

Was it Smith and Weston that was responsible for that rifling and then that?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know if they did the first revolver or they did rifling, but the rifling, its grooves, it spins it. It's basically, again, if you took an NFL quarterback and you gave him a football and he told me how to throw it sideways at somebody, how accurate and how far could he get versus a bomb?

[David Nyhill]

If you gave him a football. If you gave him a football and a rifle, that would be even more a representative.

[Adam Carolla]

I would watch somebody do it like an NFL skeet shooting thing where he threw it. You'd have your own. Like you'd have to hire Patrick Mahomes or somebody to throw it, and then you had to skeet shooting. Maybe you should get a musket with no rifling. Yeah.

[David Nyhill]

Pigeon.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So you've been everywhere.

[David Nyhill]

I know bugger all about guns, but I have been everywhere around the world. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And done every job.

[David Nyhill]

I've been fired from a lot of jobs.

[Adam Carolla]

I wouldn't say I've done them right, but the. Yeah, but see, we're getting what I always say don't do. But we got it anyway, anyway. 1498 in Germany. Of course it was Germany. Right. But nobody owned a gun in 1498 that was rifled. Somebody thought of it or did a prototype. But we fought 250 years later and the guys had muskets that weren't rifled. That's what I'm saying. But then you'd see a couple of guys with Winchesters, and that was rifle.

[David Nyhill]

You know, Changes everything.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so stand up. Stand up's like nothing compared to real jobs. Right, for you that you've had in the past.

[David Nyhill]

Oh, no. That scared me way more than everything.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it did?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. I think that's why I probably keep doing it, other than, like, I have things I like to get out into the world that are in my head sometimes. But, yeah, I think the whole country of Ireland hates public space thinking. You Americans are wonderful for just volunteering. You know, you'd be in a meeting or something, and they're like, I'll kick us off. And we're like, I'm not kicking this off. Don't leave me alone. But we don't get trained for it. Not really encouraged to do it, even though we have that kind of fantastic literary. Like, a lot of people just known for strong, impactful words. But public speaking is a whole different realm. We just don't like doing it. We don't do it in school. We hide from it. So, yeah, it scared the life out of me. I didn't like the sound of any of that. But once you do it, you're like, oh, this is fun. There is a trill to it.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, also, most comedians don't do the kind of stuff you do or did or stuff that I did or do because they speak, but they're not really. They don't do stuff. All the guys that work construction, a lot of fighters are quiet. There's a lot of guys I knew who are blue collar guys, but they're quiet guys. They're not talkers. And then there's the talkers, but they don't do anything. Are like our politicians, you know?

[David Nyhill]

And then you have Ireland where we talk and we do. I think that's the whole country. They all have plenty to say.

[Adam Carolla]

But you said they don't like talking publicly.

[David Nyhill]

Love talking. Just don't like doing it publicly. Like the forum of stand up and be like, hey, look at me. That's a rarity. Like, I think. Yeah, I think we didn't have that until Conor McGregor started doing it. And we're like, oh, I wish he.

[Adam Carolla]

Is he gonna be president?

[David Nyhill]

No, he's not. That's. He cannot even legally be president. That is a news story solely for Americans for Clickbait.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that's why we brought you.

[David Nyhill]

We had a turkey run for president for fun. And I think even the turkey probably do better. Called dust in the turkey and it spoiled the loads of the balance. But Dustin, the turkey, I think came fourth in our presidential elections back then. Not as an official candidate completely. He was a turkey. Also represented us in the Eurovision Song Contest. We've kind of put a turkey forward before.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, we got some news to do. See, if the average soldier in the Civil War had a rifled gun, I'm gonna say no. But then right after that, they came up with the Winchester and that changed the whole thing.

[Show Announcer]

It seems like it went into heavy production around 1891.

[Adam Carolla]

So that's after the Civil War, the Winchester.

[David Nyhill]

All right.

[Adam Carolla]

And then Chuck Connors got hold of it and Rifleman. All right. We'll take a quick break. We'll bring in mayhem. David's gonna hang out with, do the news.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[David Nyhill]

Just wanted to report that both my.

[Adam Carolla]

Mom and dad made me a variety of sandwiches. Corned beef, roast beef, Italian style, PB&J's, PB and fluffs. All different kinds of lunch meats, you name it. I love the out of them. But I also didn't permanently move out of the their thousand square foot house till I was about 29 years old.

[David Nyhill]

So there's a give and take there, bud.

[Adam Carolla]

Take it easy.

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[Adam Carolla]

So a little twist with rifling. I was connecting rifling with bullets, but they rifled their muskets in the Civil War, which gave their musket balls more accuracy. It's still not as accurate as a bullet would be, which came a few years later.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

He made about 300 yards of his rifle.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Your dad knows?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I think so.

[Adam Carolla]

David, did your mom. I know your mom is a nurse and a sweet lady and looked the other way and kept stolen mopeds in the kitchen, but did she make you sandwiches? And in Ireland, do they eat sandwiches?

[David Nyhill]

Well, yeah, you'd be shocked. We will eat any food. If you're from a country that had starvation, you're gonna eat anything except potentially peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Who a very small population or a number of the population stole from America. But for the most part, I think we do not believe peanut butter to be a protein whatsoever.

[Adam Carolla]

What is a good Irish sandwich?

[David Nyhill]

Ham and cheese or cheese and ham. Or you can have ham and Cheese. And the only decision is it on white bread or brown bread?

[Adam Carolla]

And did your mom make you sandwiches?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, she would have. I still remember turning up in a. I was like, I think I was one of Ireland's forced exchange students ever to this university in Montreal. And also the last. But I'll never forget walking into Subway and the guy just offered me all these different bread types. And I was like, the hell are all these questions? Like rye bread, dry bread, double ranch crunch. And I'm like, dude, you just decide. And he's like, it is not my job, sir, to pick the cheese or the bread. I was like, I've never had all these options before. I literally just got a bread roll at one stage when I was working in a factory somewhere. When I was in college, I'd just buy a bread roll, nothing on it at all. Just a bread roll and a thing of milk. So, yeah, your sandwiches are slightly fancier. I've never seen a country put so many unnecessary objects in a sandwich.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you know what I really realize? We are a country that likes telling people on the other side of the counter what to do. Yeah. And I now had this thought, Starbucks is for ladies. Cause every lady I've ever done my Starbucks orders, give me a large coffee and then they go, what kind of. Just medium or whatever you got? Whatever's new, you know, put it. Then I'll just put a little cream in it. Right. Every woman I've ever known is. They want the caramel macchiato, light foam, but not too hot. And lots of questions. Do you have almond milk? Do you have almond. No, I don't want coconut. Do you do a soy milk? Do you want almond soy, coconut? And what they're doing is, they're having. It's basically the train to the dress. I'm getting married. I need some squires to carry this thing behind me, do my bit. And the person behind the counter is having to take this super complicated order. Every woman has that. Every guy pretty much just wants a cup of coffee. But the sandwich place, that's where the guy sits.

[David Nyhill]

That's where the guy gets in, where.

[Adam Carolla]

He'S like, light mayo, extra mustard, a double up on the tomato, no onion. Is it sweet relish or is it. Right now we're at Starbucks.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You want pepperoncinis or whatever?

[Adam Carolla]

What?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, exactly. A whole bunch of things I've never heard of in my whole life were the options that presented itself to me. Especially when you come from a country that's known to be a dairy loving country. But you only have one option, like milk or no milk. There's no skim milk. Semi scaled, half scaled. I was like, how is your whole country? Lactose intolerance.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Wait, you're telling me cuisine has not returned to Ireland since the great potato famine?

[David Nyhill]

Easy now. It certainly has. We've imported a lot of the feuds from around the world. We're getting fancy dudes days. But growing up yet?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well, you know what Ace was really getting at was, did your mom put love in these sandwiches?

[Adam Carolla]

Did she care?

[David Nyhill]

She put love in the sandwich.

[Adam Carolla]

She cared.

[David Nyhill]

She loved it. I loved the microwave chips. Yeah. I can't speak badly about her because she passed away recently. And then her last wish. This is what I've been doing for the last few weeks because I was in Brazil and she wanted to be cremated, but she wanted the ashes spread in America. And I'm like, weren't you a legal immigrant in America? That'd be pretty ironic if we just legally spread your ashes. Ashes over there. But I've had to carry them with me. So I've been traveling around with these Beckett ashes for the last few weeks. And it was getting pretty morbid, like.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Bro, let's go to Forest Lawn and just do this right now.

[David Nyhill]

That's what I was doing.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It's in the trunk of your car.

[David Nyhill]

I put them in the post to my uncle and then USPS lost him in the post.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, no.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Your mom took a trip.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, she went on a five day trip and then they finally found them. So anyway, you're bringing back all the love and memories. Did she make sandwiches with love? She definitely did. Did I deserve to put her in USPS and lose her remains around the States? No, she wasn't.

[Adam Carolla]

Look, first off, this is interesting, this concept of the multi scatter zone, because I met a woman last weekend and I was at a car thing in Talladega at the racetrack in Talladega in Alabama. And she called me over and she said, adam, let me show you my car. It's a slant nose Porsche. It doesn't have the lights up front nose, and it's a turbo and blah, blah, blah. And it had a roll cage in it and a harness and stuff. And she. My husband, God bless him, he just departed, but he would race this car and he'd take me and it was all. We'd go to that. And then I said, oh, that's so nice. You have his car and you have his memory and they take the kids and you bring it. And she said, and we did his ashes. We did it at the corkscrew at Laguna Seca. Then we went to road America and we scattered a few. And they're scattering his ashes on all his favorite tracks.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

He's gonna show up in so many. Murder investigation police.

[David Nyhill]

Hooters. They're like, we just found this guy's remains.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And hooters got his barks all over it.

[Adam Carolla]

So I would respectfully say you gotta commit to a track that you want your ass like, look, I raced in a lot of different places. I'll take Laguna Seca. Fine. But I don't need to be spread to road Atlanta. It's a lot of trouble for the.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

When you die, you want us to burn you up and then put you in the tires and burn you out around the track. That's what you're saying.

[Adam Carolla]

She evidently was, like, sprinkling it out the window. She was going around the track, I assume. But how many places does your mom want to go?

[David Nyhill]

Well, that's the. I did or involuntarily go, as the case said. There was a guy that opened for me in a comedy club recently in Minnesota, and he's like, I'm Irish myself. It didn't sound it, but he was nice. And then he started talking about shooting his granddad's remains. They made bullet and bullets out of its granddad, and then we're shooting him out of a musket somewhere. And I'm like, that is some second generation Irish stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

Rifle was a musket. Rifle. Did his grandfather find the mark?

[David Nyhill]

Some old school. Good. They were just shooting them out of this thing. Loading them up and shooting them out.

[Adam Carolla]

He put his ashes.

[David Nyhill]

I never heard them for it. Made bullets out of it.

[Adam Carolla]

I've never heard that.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I'm gonna do Mike Miller with the 21 gun salute.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. I thought it was very American. I'm like, that's way more American than Irish. Don't be blaming that on your Irish heritage. We are not shooting our dead people out of guns.

[Adam Carolla]

How many places does your mom want to be scattered?

[David Nyhill]

Only one, But I think hopefully none of our spilled out. Gone around the USPS depot. Okay, so, yeah, only one. Only one.

[Bill O'Reilly]

No.

[David Nyhill]

She'd been a nurse for a long time in. In a place outside New York City. So that was definitely.

[Adam Carolla]

That's where she wants to go.

[David Nyhill]

Only one. No racetracks, but, I mean, I could do a detour.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

God bless her.

[David Nyhill]

That's what I was thinking. She made good sandwiches.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it a burden on the living to pick a place that's far away and then task the Living with, spreading the ashes around.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You know what my dad wants? He wants me to take him to Nepal and give him a sky burial.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You know what that is?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, my God.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

They hack you up and then I feed you to the vultures. Get picked off the top of a mountain.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, see, that's imposing. Hunter S. Thompson's remains were shot out of a cannon.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[David Nyhill]

Hell yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I knew I heard that somewhere.

[David Nyhill]

You guys are shooting delay and the.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Dead end of this, probably a 50 cal.

[David Nyhill]

You know, I put on mine under the Golden Gate Bridge to be scared. I did.

[Adam Carolla]

You want to be. That's on your.

[David Nyhill]

I have it on me will.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, that's good.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, but now that you said it, I'm like, yeah, that's a bit imposing. Somebody has to risk their, their limbs.

[Adam Carolla]

No, no, I would listen, I'll handle you.

[David Nyhill]

Thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll just dump it off the edge. I'm not going in the water.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I'm thinking just feed my corpse to the great white so they get a taste for human flesh.

[David Nyhill]

Cheers. You've thought about this. You look way too happy when you said that.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. All right, so we do. Yeah, we like. Even gender reveals turns into a shot for us. You know, we like to fire stuff.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

That's what we do.

[Adam Carolla]

Bombs, explosions.

[David Nyhill]

You do, you do. You do.

[Adam Carolla]

I gotta say, when I was in Alabama, I passed a few fireworks stands and I was like, I want to go in.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, nothing. You didn't even. I would have stopped by for ma.

[Adam Carolla]

Any building that has no windows, I'm in that strip club. Fireworks or good bar escape room.

[David Nyhill]

Sadly.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You know how good those two by fours are put together. You know what I'm saying?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

That thing wouldn't explode into a bit of shrapnel.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, what do you got in the news department?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well, in the news, first up, man, Bruce Willis wife, Emma is defending her actions because she's taken Bruce home and he'll, you know, live out his days with the man.

[Adam Carolla]

Taking him home from the home. That's right. Yeah. Oh, why she's not putting him away.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

She's just out there, you know, defending her action. People are saying, oh, he needs to a 24 hour care somewhere else. But she's taking.

[Adam Carolla]

I know, I'm with you. We have a weird relationship with death. Speaking of what we were just speaking of. But I just mean at a certain point you've lost all quality of life. You don't know where you are. You take five people full time to take care of you. That's not. You're supposed to die at a certain point we're able to stave that off with modern technology. But if you really talk about they go, well, we don't want these doctors playing God. Well, isn't that playing God like keeping someone alive for years after they should be God?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

But the thing is, it's like, what let him starve himself out? Like what set him out into the woods? You know, it's a very difficult decision to make.

[David Nyhill]

I wouldn't trust my loved ones. But you, you'd be dragging over mountain and Nepal trying to find vultures.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I would put them in like a hamster ball situation where they just have to turn this wheel to create electricity for all time.

[Adam Carolla]

I came up with this horrible joke once, but it was in one of my books, which is they're talking about who's going to pay to keep these people on life support for all this time, like Terri Schiavo and stuff like that. I said all that stuff should be coin operated and we'll see how many family members love you enough to feed quarters into that thing for the rest of the. And it's a great token. It solves itself because you wouldn't want to return to a world where nobody loved you enough to get a roll of quarters and put it in that machine.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Only way I'm doing it is if, you know, the horsey goes like this back and forth, back and forth.

[Adam Carolla]

I think my mom, my dad recently died. They basically, they just stop eating at a certain point.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. They have the choice to keep feeding. And I think that was a call I got where I was like, are you guys okay? We would stop feeding her at this point. And we're like, no, she doesn't want to be around anymore. Like once do stuff, you want to be out there. Now maybe you get desperate last minute and you change your mind. You're like, actually, I haven't made my peace with a few things. I want to keep going. But it was a weird one. She was lucky and unlucky because they gave her a cancer diagnosis. She was gone within two weeks. Two weeks on the full diagnosis of it. Yeah. But she would have if I had asked her in advance, like, how do you want this to play out? That's how she would have wanted it to play out. She wouldn't have wanted to be in a home with someone looking after her all day.

[Adam Carolla]

A lot of. You know, I remember finding my grandmother, my grandmother had pills. His in an armoire that had like a crown molding at the top. And it was about a Foot from the ceiling. It was like a, you know, a dresser. And I was. As a carpenter, I was putting crown molding up in her bedroom. And I got up on a ladder and I was putting. And I looked down into this piece of furniture, and there was pills and a couple things of pills. And I said to her, she was younger at the time. I don't know, she's 69, 70 or something. I said, what's these pills hidden up in these things? And she said, those are my suicide pills. And I said, what's the plan with that? She said, well, when I get older, I don't want to hang out and be a burden. And I don't want to live this life where I'm married to a wheelchair and in bed and someone's wiping my ass. I'm taking those pills, I'm getting out with dignity. And I remember at the time, I was like, 20, 21. I was like, all right, well, good for you then.

[David Nyhill]

Good.

[Adam Carolla]

That bitch made it like 94. Had full time, had full time help, went through all her fucking savings, had to get a second mortgage on the house. She hung on to every last second of her of her life being picked up and set on the toilet. The whole all. All that stuff with all this suicide pill stuff. Not, not. She did not reach for those pills.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Meanwhile, I'm hanging out with one inside a capsule in my tooth.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right. Like a German officer. Nuremberg. All right, what else do we got?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

All right, next we got a little viral moment. Billionaire Mark Cuban got faced with some tough questions from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I saw this.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

This is a pretty funny clip.

[Adam Carolla]

I like Mark Cuban, but Mark has a little pie in the sky version of life. But all right, here it is. Sorry. Mark, let me ask you a question. What's your take on whether we should be sending money to Ukraine or not? Were you in favor of. Of that?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Man, they need it. I mean, honestly, don't. I don't have a good answer. You know, I can make an argument both ways.

[David Nyhill]

And half my family is Ukrainian on my.

[Adam Carolla]

From my grandparents.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And so, you know, personally, I think we should help, but I don't have a studied answer for you. Have you said, how much money have you sent to Ukraine?

[David Nyhill]

None.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, so what do you mean by we? You're the one whose family's from Ukraine. Like, why don't you send them a billion dollars? Because I'm trying to fix health care. Why don't you fix their health care if you're, like, so deep? If you think we need to help? Why don't you start? How about you first? I noticed that's never like, even an option for anybody.

[Adam Carolla]

It's like, we need to help.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's not what charity is. Forcing other people to help is not charity.

[David Nyhill]

Here's the good vanity. The good news is all the weapons were on loan lease. We're getting it back. And our dear President Trump has negotiated that we own half the minerals. So we.

[Bill O'Reilly]

He turned this horrible war into a.

[David Nyhill]

Profit center, which is one of his unique gifts, I think we can all agree.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I like Tucker. I like both those guys. And Mark's a weird guy because he makes very strong, sort of take strong positions, makes strong accusations and stuff, but he's not. He doesn't really bring. He doesn't really defend them with a lot of fire. He just kind of goes, well, all right, you're right. They're both nice guys at their core who say a lot of sort of outrageous things right and left, and Tucker sort of everywhere in between. At his core, he's like a super gregarious guy, likes humor, likes to laugh, sort of is a writer more than he is a speaker, does tons of writing, has an interesting life, like, lives in the guest house with his wife and their dogs, gets up in the morning and dunks himself in the cold swimming pool and then writes. And this is eclectic. Kind of rides his bike around the island in Florida he lives on and stuff. He's a hard guy to categorize. He says a lot of nutty things. I would imagine that him and Cuban are probably a lot alike, even though they. They don't seem a lot alike. There's a lot of guys that are a lot alike that seem diametrically opposed. There's a lot of guys. I was just talking to Bill O'Reilly, and he's always busting Kimmel's balls. And I'm sure Jimmy Kimmel hates Bill O'Reilly. They're a lot alike. They're just different in terms of their subject. But as. As humans, there's a lot of similarities.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

The hardware is, like, similar, but the software is different.

[Adam Carolla]

They're both funny. O'Reilly doesn't get credit for it, but he likes comedy and he's funny. They're both big, sort of bigger than life. They're both super opinionated and feel strongly about their own opinion. They're both have a lot of their headstrong, like, here's what I'm doing, here's what's right, here's what I'm do going to like, there's a lot of crossover with them, I think. I mean, I'm not making this up. It exists in many facets of life. But I just mean I don't think Mark Cuban and also I think Mark Cuban and Tucker could definitely have a beer and a laugh together.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

The shadow realm thems back and forth.

[David Nyhill]

It was a good question. He certainly, the writer in him came out for that moment. Cause that's a show stopping.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, he's in him with the nerdy question.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I agree with him to some degree, but if you are a billionaire and there's something you feel passionate about, then you should. I think most rich people know that at the end of the day, their money is getting squandered wherever they give it, no matter what. Like whenever you do this, Mandami is now going, if we just get an extra 1% from the 1%, then we'd have $10 billion extra. It's like, you're not gonna fix it. You never fix anything. Nothing ever comes out the other end. So, like, Mark Cuban could liquefy all his wealth right now, get it down to $2.7 billion, put it all in an attache case and take it to Ukraine and hand it to Mondame or hand it to Zelensky, and there'd be zero. Nothing would ever come out the other end. The other end. You could tell. Or he could take it all and give it to the LA Unified School Board, and 10 years from now, test scores would be exactly the same and nothing whatever. And I think those guys all kind of know that.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, it's a drop in the ocean sometimes.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well, I'm saying if I'd like set up with Lockheed Martin, right? And I just go, hey, pump these out right here. You know, you have like a strange new world of billionaires funding wars or something or funding aid or I don't know what. What that really brings up if you're gonna give money directly.

[Adam Carolla]

Gotcha. To be fair to Cuban, I don't like when people do the. You know. And they go. When the politician goes, we gotta bring these grocery prices down. And they go, how much does a quart of milk cost? And they go, oh, you don't even know how much a quart of milk costs. And it's like, yeah, I know, he doesn't. It still means we gotta bring this cost down.

[David Nyhill]

That's a good question. But it's funny, as you were talking, I was just thinking that it's funny when so, you know, is financially well off. Hits you up to give to a cause, and they're like, hey, we're doing this half marathon. We're only $400 away from our target. And you're like, dude, you're worth like 6 million just paid to $400. What are you emailing all your friends for? Just make it happen. But I do. I often think that if you're sitting on that many resources, well, go change something.

[Adam Carolla]

I believe that they know better than anybody that you could give Ukraine $10 billion and nothing would change. That's the problem.

[David Nyhill]

It depends where you're sitting. Because the Ukrainians that are calling Ireland home these days would bite your hand off to get that input to do something with it. So there's no bad that's gonna come out of that.

[Adam Carolla]

No bad. But I think if you said to a lot of rich people, look, whether it's Ukraine or the homeless situation, you go, look, I. I have something that if we can raise $20 billion, we can end homelessness tomorrow. They do it. But they don't think. I mean, we just spent 24 billion and we don't have anything. We just have more homeless. So I think they don't think it's gonna fix anything.

[David Nyhill]

It's such a wild number here, the homeless thing in Dublin when I was from. In Ireland, you wouldn't see it growing up, but now you do, and it was a quantifiable number. So you're like, all right, we're all one person removed from these dudes. Surely we can fix it, fix this. And then it starts creeping up and creeping up and you're getting the stage like, oh, crap, how do we actually do something about this? But in Ireland, I'd say it was very quantifiable and very solvable and still is. That's why you have such a frustration. But in America, when I go around, it's on such a scale that you're like, jesus, how do we stop that? Like, you go to San Francisco or Seattle or Portland, you're just like, whoa, that is nuts, Louisiana.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[David Nyhill]

I think they just lose hope. They're like, oh, we can't. I can't do it. And then you're like, you probably can. If you get your finger out, you can probably do something. I don't know, Maybe that's the optimus in me going like, you can definitely do something. But did he sting him with a pretty good question? That's a good show stopping question.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[David Nyhill]

Especially if he's Ukrainian. It's Kind of like DJ Khaled posting the holiday photos these days. And you're like, what are you saying about your country? Like, when it's that close to home?

[Adam Carolla]

Where's DJ Khaled supposed to be from?

[David Nyhill]

Palestine.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, he's Palestinian.

[David Nyhill]

I don't know. I assumed. I know nothing about anything. Celebrity orientated factoid.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

His first name was DJ Arab Attack.

[David Nyhill]

Was he?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

But he changed it after 9, 11.

[David Nyhill]

All right, wise movie.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Next in the news.

[Adam Carolla]

Drone strike.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Greta Thunberg led Gaza flotilla, Tunisian port.

[Adam Carolla]

You gotta find Larry King interviewing DJ Khaled. It's the greatest clip ever. Because. Because Larry King, it's weird. You go, well, he was a great interviewer. Was he a great interviewer? He was a great interviewer. Like every 9 year old's a great interviewer because every 9 year old would just go, why are you so fat? And why are you bald? And what happened exactly?

[David Nyhill]

I loved him because I got to meet him and I was like, talking to this guy was just like, talking to. It was just wild. He was amazing. He got me thinking about things I never thought.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, animatronic robot.

[Adam Carolla]

We talking about Larry?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, he was full.

[Adam Carolla]

I loved Larry. He's been on this show a few times.

[David Nyhill]

I was asking him. It was just me and four or five Jewish guys out to breakfast. And we were batting around like all the things of Irish and Jewish. And I was like, well, they're not naming dogs after you people, but they're doing with Irish people in America. Like, you wouldn't send that, would you? Like, And I was like, Molly Murphy and riley treated. Top 10 dog names in America.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I also have Irish setters.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, you have Irish. Well, at least we have some responsibility in those. You didn't just take the name and.

[Adam Carolla]

Genericize my Irish setting. This is him telling Larry that it keeps clean. All right, that's awesome. Let's just watch. You know, I want the house on the water. I want the nice car, I want the nice watch. I want to stay fresh. I want to stay clean. You know what I'm saying? There's nothing wrong with that. You should strive for greatness.

[Bill O'Reilly]

How did you gain all the weight?

[David Nyhill]

That's a great. That's a show stopping question.

[Adam Carolla]

That's great. And he's also like, he's like a detective, you know, looking for traces of blood types, you know, and it's. How'd you gain all the weight?

[David Nyhill]

I loved him. He sat. I went for breakfast. They used to do this breakfast meetup that I was lucky to be part of twice somebody got invited, and it'd be Larry and a couple of his.

[Adam Carolla]

Friends every morning in Beverly Hills.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. Yeah. It was very unusual. I was like, what am I doing at the thing?

[Adam Carolla]

But I was, what are you doing at that thing?

[David Nyhill]

Yeah. I have no idea. And it was a beautiful girl from Argentina there. And she was like some news TV presenter. I'm like, she's definitely here as part of this thing as well. I didn't say hello. Cause I'm like, whatever. But Larry kind of. He was pretending he couldn't hear her. So, like, I was sitting between them. So he's like, oh, bit hard to hear. And you're gonna. Hey, can you just move Irish fella out of the way to get her over? And when he'd go into this restaurant, they'd take his jacket, like, religiously and go guard it somewhere. It's like this black leather jacket, you know. And he got up. I think he used to leave whenever his blueberries ran out. He'd bring his own blueberries or something with him to breakfast. It was something kind of quirky that I thought was pretty unusual. He's like, oh, 11 blue it. I'm out of here. Off to work. And he gets up when the blueberries ran out, and he kind of puts out his arms as if he's expecting the jacket to come. But he was so busy talking to this Argentinian girl that I had taken the jacket and I was waiting to give it to him, but he didn't notice. And he was. What's the famous adage, like, by Yogi Berra that, like, the difference between men and women is like, if a man's in a forest or something, he'd be like, we're not lost. We're making good time. Something like that. But Larry had been telling that story, and I'd been listening. But anyway, he goes. He's like, where's my jacket? And I was like, well, you were lost in Argentina, but you were making good. Here you go. And it does. The biggest smile ever. I was like, you old stallion. On the jacket and out the door.

[Adam Carolla]

It's gonna be the best. All right, Greta, I just wanted you.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

To know that Greta Thunberg got drone striked. Yeah, yeah. We got some video.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. She was on a boat heading to Palestine.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yes.

[David Nyhill]

Or whatever. Well, you know the thing. The rest of the world is fixated on a problem to solve it. You'll find the Irish on that boat and a few Brazilians and a lot of our tractors and stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[David Nyhill]

They drone struck it last night the drone struck the last flotilla as well.

[Adam Carolla]

And it didn't sink the boat, did it?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

No, no. It just caught fire to the front deck. And then they put it out and.

[Adam Carolla]

What, Israel did this? I guess.

[David Nyhill]

I don't know, 100% Israel did that.

[Show Announcer]

I saw another video that said they just dropped a flare. They misfired a flare.

[David Nyhill]

That's the American news version.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, there's like six versions of the story.

[David Nyhill]

I dropped a bouquet of flowers to say thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

Let's do this math. If Israel wanted to sink the boat, they could sink the boat.

[David Nyhill]

I think they did destroy their last boat. It's a whole flotilla.

[Adam Carolla]

Are you kidding me?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Like, they have the best, right?

[Adam Carolla]

So they don't want to sink the boat? No, no. What are they trying to do?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Controlling them? I think somebody is, I don't know. It's unclear at this time what's going on.

[Adam Carolla]

But also, do we believe anything Greta Thunberg says?

[David Nyhill]

I do because there's a bunch of Irish people on those boats and they are alive putting out very reliable sources.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Putting cigarettes out on oil rags. You know, like they're just dancing on the.

[Adam Carolla]

Why are there a bunch of Irish people on it?

[David Nyhill]

Well, we're very sensitive to any global issue where we think a large scale minority group is being completely screwed over. So you will, wherever we view somebody as being hard done by in the world, we kind of, I don't know, we've nearly self far appointed ourselves to talk about it because we're like, hey, we got majorly screwed. Screwed over. These guys are being majorly screwed over. We need to be speaking up for this.

[Adam Carolla]

Are these actors and other local people activists.

[David Nyhill]

But the scale of this one I think was pretty huge. But it's wild because it's not on mainstream media over here ever. But in Ireland dominates our media.

[Adam Carolla]

We do a lot of, I mean, everyone knows Greta Thunberg is heading on the flotilla, but this works.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

So they're trying to draw attention to this call and they have.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, but you wouldn't. You don't want to kill anyone, obviously, because you're killing all the world's activists and you're bringing negative news story about yourself. But they do want to stop it happening. They don't want anybody to be able to enter those waters and bring aid to anyone, I imagine. I don't know. I'm not the most well versed news story person.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So Israel doesn't want to sink the boat.

[David Nyhill]

They want to stop them bringing aid to a bunch of people who need aid that you can't get through.

[Adam Carolla]

Isn't it bad PR for, for them to drop up flair on the boat?

[David Nyhill]

They have bigger problems. They're blown up. Buildings are blown up. People PR is not there.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You're thinking content farm, huh?

[Adam Carolla]

You're thinking inside job. Well, here's the.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I think it's very possible.

[Adam Carolla]

Here's the problem. Here's the problem with the times we're living in. Some of this stuff is like the Nord Stream pipeline, it blew up and then we don't know if the Russians blew it up or we blew it up or somebody else blew it up. And then someone got goes. Why would the Russians blow it up? It's their pipeline. And then someone else would go, they blew it up because it's their pipeline. And no one would think it was them blowing it up to get attention or whatever. So now your head's kind of swimming.

[David Nyhill]

A little bit because you're like is alternate. But this one is more like you find a guy called Brian who set fire to your car and he's still sitting next to your car when it's on fire. And you're like here, Brian, did you do that? And he's like, well, me.

[Adam Carolla]

So they. So Israel, you know, work for Shaggy. Ben Shapiro is going to be in here in a couple days. I'm going to ask if Ben Shapiro. So Israel took a drone and fired something at it.

[Show Announcer]

If that was the case, that'd be non stop wall to wall news.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Maybe Hamas with a radio controlled helicopter.

[David Nyhill]

Well, you'll find it on the Irish state news. If you go on there. That will be a. That would be a big man, major story. But here it isn't. That's why like, that's why when I was sitting in the watching the TV and it's like the kid having the baseball stone. I'm like, where are Corbin Barkers?

[Show Announcer]

What I'm saying is the media hates Israel.

[Bill O'Reilly]

This is.

[Show Announcer]

This would be fodder for them. This would be mana from heaven. They would be all over the place with this.

[David Nyhill]

I don't know if it hates anyone. I like something but if you love. If she have a certain side on things.

[Adam Carolla]

So I.

[David Nyhill]

It's your sister.

[Adam Carolla]

I heard about it. Greta in the looks department went a different direction than I was hoping.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Lord Farquaad haircut.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, the crazy page boy, stuff like that. I'm gonna be petty, but I had heard this story. So it was somewhere, but I don't know where I saw it or where I heard it. And I still couldn't figure out. Well, I don't know. Let's watch it one more time. The boat was docked, docked near a capitol. Oh, so the boat was docked. So it wasn't.

[David Nyhill]

No, this was open ocean at some point.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, no. I don't know. Now I'm reading. The boat.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Indonesia.

[Adam Carolla]

What was the story? Was the boat docked? Was it open water?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

The main deck.

[Adam Carolla]

What's your take on whether we should.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

All right, now we're running up the road.

[David Nyhill]

He just drifted back to Ukraine there momentarily.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, I'll ask Ben Shapiro what he thinks happened.

[David Nyhill]

Ask someone else. Don't ask the Irish, because we'll get pretty riled up.

[Adam Carolla]

Story says that the boat was docked near the Tunisian capital, Tunis, and then it was droned in the middle of the night.

[David Nyhill]

Tunisia denies drone droning them.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, and it wasn't.

[Show Announcer]

And there is video on Twitter of them misfiring a flare gun and lighting their own boat on fire.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

See, that's what I'm saying. The story is developing.

[David Nyhill]

Yeah, exactly. As in none of us actually know.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, I'm ready to end on that.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Coach, you got important Charlie Sheen news. You got liposuction after a prostitute called him fat. And then Charlie Sheen reveals how partying with Nicolas Cage sent him to rehab.

[Adam Carolla]

Charlie Sheen, for a guy who's got a lot of money, gets really critical. Prostitutes who they barricade themselves in his room, they wreck things. They call him fat. Which is, again, that's not good protocol.

[David Nyhill]

He's the result of that motorcycle lifestyle that you were talking about earlier. When it just doesn't stop. You just keep going. You're like, I'm going to keep going, old man.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, you're not supposed. First off, if you're a prostitute, seven eighths, your clientele is overweight. Cause it's just rich business. Guys who can't get laid, they're all overweight statistically. Right? So I'm saying let's not critique the guy in his underpants who's paying the bills around here. Like a little decorum would be nice. Didn't you see Pretty Woman? You know, that's what I would do. I would sit down with any woman I was about to turn out, and I would sit down. I go, we're gonna take 95 minutes. Minutes. And I'm going to show you what a proper prostitute. How they dressed.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Okay, I'm still on the clock.

[Bill O'Reilly]

She.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, I'll pay you. But let's just notice she did not try to stab him. She did not lock herself in the suite. She did not make fun of his appearance. That's right. My mama raised me right. I didn't say she had to be black and pretty woman. She's not. But you get it. A little decorum. So. So the prostitute. But in a weird way, the prostitute is the mouth of babes. Because your publicist's not gonna say anything. Your agent's not gonna say anything. The wardrobe chick at Two and a Half Men's not gonna say anything because they're all getting paid. You know what I mean? The prostitute is gonna tell you the truth.

[David Nyhill]

True. Not gonna sugarcoat it. I know so little about Charlie Sheen that I'm like, I just assumed he was always doing strange prostitution things.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And I was like, it's a numbers game, ace. You get enough prostitution.

[David Nyhill]

You get some compliments somewhere.

[Adam Carolla]

You're right.

[David Nyhill]

But he is a man in the deep in the numbers game.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, let me tell everyone where everyone's gonna be for everything. Bill O'Reilly, confronting evil. It's the name of his book. David's Special Shelf Help, as in Elf on a shelf is out September 11th. That's tomorrow. As you hear this, where do we go? Where do we find your special buddy?

[David Nyhill]

That one. I put it on YouTube.

[Adam Carolla]

On YouTube. Find it out on YouTube. I'll be in Albuquerque September 26th at the Chemo Theater and then Flagstaff September 27th at the Orpheum Theater. And then I'm over at Kimmel's Club over there in Vegas. And just go to AdamCroll.com for all the live shows. Until next time, Sam Kroll from Mayhem and David nyhill and Bill O'Reilly. So saying, Mahala, leave us a voicemail.

[Show Announcer]

At 888-634-1744 and then get tickets to see Adam Corolla at AdamCola.com.

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[David Nyhill]

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