Comedian Jeff Dunham + Ed Elson from the Prof G Markets Podcast

Summary

Adam Carolla Show – Episode Summary: Featuring Jeff Dunham and Ed Elson from the Prof G Markets Podcast

Release Date: December 5, 2024
Guests: Jeff Dunham (Comedian and Ventriloquist), Ed Elson (Co-Host of Prof G Markets Podcast)
Additional Guest: Scott Galloway (Business Professor and Podcaster)

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1. Introduction

Adam Carolla welcomes listeners to the episode featuring the renowned ventriloquist and comedian Jeff Dunham, alongside Ed Elson from the Prof G Markets Podcast. The episode promises a blend of humor, insightful discussions on comedy, technology, and financial literacy.

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2. Interview with Jeff Dunham

a. The Art of Ventriloquism and Character Creation

Jeff Dunham delves into his creative process, emphasizing the meticulous effort behind building his characters.

• Jeff Dunham [04:13]: “Number 13 right now. But these aren't like, you know, punching them out like kids or something. These are ones that I work on. It's not like I do just current topic stuff, you know, it’s stuff that I really concentrate on and try and make funny and stuff that'll have legs ten years from now.”

He discusses his latest special, Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up, available on Amazon Prime, highlighting his commitment to timeless humor over fleeting trends.

b. Experiences with Technology: Self-Driving Cars and Tesla Cybertruck

A significant portion of the conversation revolves around Jeff’s experiences with Tesla’s Cybertruck and the broader implications of self-driving technology.

• Jeff Dunham [13:17]: “The self-driving thing is. It’s the future. If every car was self-driving, traffic jams would be gone and accidents would be 95% eliminated.”

• Adam Carolla [15:23]: “But half the people in LA can't drive. But half the people from LA aren't from the United States.”

Jeff shares anecdotes about using the Cybertruck’s autonomous features, including near-miss incidents and the challenges of adapting to advanced technology.

c. Custom Cars and the Iconic Batmobile

Jeff and Adam discuss iconic vehicles, including the Batmobile and the Vector supercar, exploring their cultural significance and construction intricacies.

• Jeff Dunham [22:10]: “It’s called the Tumbler.”

• Adam Carolla [17:14]: “Every hand built supercar from the 80s into the early 90s.”

They delve into the craftsmanship behind these cars, the challenges of maintaining replicas, and the nostalgia associated with such vehicles.

d. Personal Anecdotes: Hitchhikers and Garage Stories

Jeff recounts his experiences with picking up hitchhikers, sharing humorous and sometimes awkward encounters.

• Jeff Dunham [50:59]: “He said, 'I just think everybody should just eat a piece of fruit and forget it.'”

• Adam Carolla [57:15]: “He said, 'What's the matter, don't you like pussy?'”

These stories highlight the unpredictable nature of interacting with strangers and the candid humor Jeff incorporates into his acts.

e. Hospital Experience and Healthcare Costs

In a heartfelt segment, Jeff shares his recent hospital experience, emphasizing the high costs and inefficiencies within the healthcare system.

• Jeff Dunham [78:56]: “I almost died. So whatever circumstances led up to me being ill, by the time I figured out that it was bad, I had like 103.2 temperature and a horrible, horrible headache.”

• Adam Carolla [82:06]: “You're not worth it. You're like, I cap you at 75.”

Jeff discusses the extensive treatments he received without a clear diagnosis, reflecting on the systemic issues in healthcare.

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3. Guest Segment with Ed Elson from Prof G Markets Podcast

a. Financial Literacy and Seed Oils

Ed Elson addresses the critical topics of financial literacy and seed oils, underscoring their absence in educational curricula.

• Ed Elson [106:01]: “It's a good question. I really don't know. And it's funny that that's the first question I get because I'm really not a financial example expert.”

He emphasizes the importance of discussing financial matters openly to bridge the knowledge gap.

b. Economic Sentiments and Political Influence

The discussion shifts to how political affiliations influence perceptions of the economy.

• Ed Elson [108:16]: “The whole business of trying to get an understanding for how is the economy doing is a very flawed question because ultimately it really has to do with your political affiliation mostly.”

• Adam Carolla [105:59]: “I made it all the way through the LA Unified School District, all the way through the system. It never came up. Seed oil or financial literacy?”

Ed highlights the polarized views on economic performance and the impact of political narratives on financial decisions.

c. Housing Market Insights and Generational Wealth

Ed and Adam explore the challenges facing younger generations in achieving financial stability and homeownership.

• Ed Elson [116:34]: “The median house price today is $420,000, million. It's at a record high.”

• Adam Carolla [117:29]: “I suspect he [Trump] will cuz of his because he has an ego and also because he's a building in, you know, formerly commercial buildings.”

They discuss the disparity between income growth and asset appreciation, emphasizing the need for younger individuals to focus on asset ownership to build generational wealth.

d. Innovation, Automation, and Job Market

The conversation delves into the role of innovation and automation in reshaping the job market.

• Ed Elson [127:20]: “What we're seeing with AI right now is you'll see a little... layoffs... but ultimately, what is happening is we're seeing an increase in investment in these companies to build out new businesses.”

• Adam Carolla [129:19]: “What’s really happening since Trump was elected is how the housing market has reacted... higher mortgage rates.”

They analyze how technological advancements can displace certain jobs but also create new opportunities, advocating for adaptability and continuous learning.

e. Legal Cases and Social Issues

Ed introduces a discussion on a recent legal case involving O.J. Simpson, highlighting the ongoing complexities in the legal system.

• Ed Elson [86:06]: “O.J. Simpson confessed to killing Nicole Brown Simpson on tape. Ex bodyguard claims, but cops say they have no evidence.”

This segment underscores the challenges in achieving justice and the influence of public opinion and media on legal outcomes.

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4. Conclusion

Adam wraps up the episode by reiterating the insightful discussions with Jeff Dunham and Ed Elson. He emphasizes the importance of financial literacy, innovation, and adapting to technological advancements to navigate the evolving economic landscape.

• Adam Carolla [134:46]: “All right. We'll talk to you soon.”

Listeners are encouraged to check out Jeff Dunham's latest special, Scrooged Up on Amazon Prime, and follow Ed Elson’s Prof G Markets Podcast for more in-depth financial discussions.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Jeff Dunham [04:13]: “These are ones that I work on. It's not like I do just current topic stuff, you know, it’s stuff that I really concentrate on and try and make funny and stuff that'll have legs ten years from now.”

• Jeff Dunham [13:17]: “The self-driving thing is. It’s the future. If every car was self-driving, traffic jams would be gone and accidents would be 95% eliminated.”

• Ed Elson [108:16]: “It's a good question. I really don't know... our podcast works because Scott's sort of the expert, and we kind of learn about the financial markets together.”

• Ed Elson [116:34]: “The median house price today is $420,000, million. It's at a record high.”

• Jeff Dunham [78:56]: “I almost died...by the time I figured out that it was bad, I had like 103.2 temperature and a horrible, horrible headache.”

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Final Thoughts

This episode of the Adam Carolla Show offers a rich blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and deep dives into financial and technological topics. Jeff Dunham’s engaging stories provide entertainment, while Ed Elson’s insights encourage listeners to reflect on their financial knowledge and adaptability in a rapidly changing world. Whether you're a fan of comedy, interested in financial literacy, or curious about the intersection of technology and society, this episode delivers valuable content worth tuning into.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Jeff Dunham]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Ed Elson]

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[Jeff Dunham]

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[Ed Elson]

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[Jeff Dunham]

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[Ed Elson]

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[Jeff Dunham]

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[Ed Elson]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Jeff Dunham]

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[Ed Elson]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Jason Mayhem Miller]

From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California. This is the Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest Today, comedian Jeff Dunham and co host of the Prof. G podcast, Ed Elson. Plus the news and trending topics with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now, parental Loperboli syndrome survivor Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. Their choice because, man, they get it on. Jeff Dunham in studio. Always great to see you. Thanks for having me.

[Jeff Dunham]

Jeff, who was here last because I. Clay Aiken.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Jeff Dunham]

That makes sense because the microphone smells like Clay Aiken.

[Adam Carolla]

It does.

[Jeff Dunham]

You could tell somebody didn't refresh their breath before they came, so.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, my. If I said you, Penn Jillette was here last, you, Jeff Dunham would go, no, no, it smells a little more like Clay Aiken. And I would go, wow, that is amazing. Oh, well, Jeff is one of the good guys because not only is he funny and consistent, I mean, prolifically, you know, the amount. How many specials are you on?

[Jeff Dunham]

Number 13 right now. But these aren't like, you know, punching them out like kids or something. These are ones that I work on. It's not like I do just current topic stuff, you know, it's stuff that I really concentrate on and try and make funny and stuff that'll have legs ten years from now.

[Adam Carolla]

It's called Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up. It's available now on Amazon. I've been seeing clips of it everywhere, so I think somebody's doing their job.

[Jeff Dunham]

It must be just your feed, because I haven't seen them.

[Adam Carolla]

I got the Jeff Dunham feed, so I like. And also, Jeff makes you make all your own characters.

[Jeff Dunham]

I build the dummies.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, the dummies.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, I do. So, yeah, I've been doing that since the sixth grade. And I don't know, I have fun with it, but, you know, it's just like, you know that with, like, with writing, it's like everybody. You probably hate it, right? To sit down and write, you probably hate it. Most writers, whether it be a novelist or a playwright, they say they hate it. But then once you get going, it's like this amazing thing happens. And when it starts, the words start to fill the page or the screen, it's like, wow, this is great. Why don't I do this more often?

[Adam Carolla]

So the thing about comedians now, I guess there's a difference between ventriloquist comedians and comedians versus musicians versus magicians, which is comedians are inherently lazy. They're not good students, Right? They don't like the structure. They don't like homework. They don't like standardized testing. They want to go on stage and Free form it. You know what I mean? Sure, but for what you do. And what I do, but especially what you do, it requires you sitting and studying. Well, essentially it's homework, but it's your own lesson.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, but it's a dialogue on stage. It's a team, you know, really, when you've done what I do for long enough, you start to think in two people. And it's not that hard because. So I. For all these years, when I first moved to Los Angeles in 88 and started going up at the Comedy Magic Club and then dying a thousand deaths at the Melrose Improv, I realized I wasn't going to get anywhere until I started writing stuff that was funny and not just clever. You know what I mean? I couldn't make a drink a glass of water and make the dummy talk and expect to have a career out of that. So there had to be jokes and there had to be conflict and there had to be, you know, tension. And the whole thing that builds good.

[Adam Carolla]

Comedy is that when you travel and you do comedy, you get the difference between the LA crowd, the New York crowd, and then the Wisconsin crowd and the wherever. There's a difference.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. But what I think growing up in Texas, where I did. And doing shows for. Growing up, doing shows for Cub Scout banquets and church shows and talent shows, I think I have a different sensibility than the guy who, at age 18 or 19, says, I'm going to get on stage and be a standup and I'm going to hone my craft in a comedy club. Those are two different schools of two different colleges. So I think when I write stuff, you know, I'm no Dennis Miller. I saw a review of my special where the guy complained that his writing is lazy and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, okay, this is like going to McDonald's and saying they don't have Chardonnay.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I feel that way with movie reviews all the time, where they go, sure, it had a lot of laughs, but it's a comedy. Leave it alone. If it had a lot of laughs and it's a comedy, then we're done. And don't give it a bad review. And then there's other movies that are just sort of as is. You go see Fast and Furious. It's what it is. You know what I mean? It's McDonald's. It's a big Mac, Quarter Pounder, Large fries, like, that's what it is.

[Jeff Dunham]

Leno hates those movies because they're so ridiculous. But that's why some people love those movies because they're so ridiculous.

[Adam Carolla]

I've seen them all 30 times. Because they're ridiculous, right? And when I hear lines like Vin Diesel delivering in earnest that he lives his life a quarter mile at a time, I marvel. I marvel at it because I'm like, he's serious when he's saying that.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And I love that. I literally, I tell. I was doing Hannity the other night and he was like, I still. Sylvester Stallone was coming on after me, right? And I said, look, I don't know what you're doing with my segment, but let's get to the loan. You know, what are you wasting time hearing my words? Stallone is on deck. You'll have more time with Stallone if you, if you cut my thing short. And then I told him that Cobra was the best movie made in the last 75. Sean Hannity has no sense of humor, so he doesn't know what I'm talking about. But I watched this shit out of Cobra because it's so ironically 80s bad, right. That it's not, you know, you can watch the first Cold Rambo, First Blood. It's a good movie, right? Which is fine.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

But you shouldn't watch it 50 times to find all the horrible nuances in it. So I like it, but I have a sense of humor. You probably like it for that reason. Yes. Jeff Dunham's is Jeff Dunham. That's what the thing.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right? And that's what they should expect when they come to the show. It's just goofy, stupid. And look, here's the other thing. When I edit a special, when I do a special again, like you said, 13 of them will take two, two and a half hours. That's how long my live show is. It's two, two and a half hours. And so when you edit it down for TV, that's 42 minutes, right? Well, what are you going to. What are you going to keep. You're going to keep the biggest laughs, right? And that's it. I'm not trying to tell a story. So when it ends up being, guess what gets the biggest laughs? Some of the stupidest jokes.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

No, it sometimes sad. I know. I had this flashback one time. Jimmy and I were doing the man show, right? And we had this bit or idea or whatever. And we got up there and the setup was sort of like, everyone's got a corny dad, and the corny dad has all his corny dad jokes that we're all tired of. Like, oh, excuses are like Assholes. Everyone has one and they stink. And then the audience erupts in laughter. And I'm like, no, no, that was an example of a bad. Okay, yeah. You laughed real hard at the bad corny dad joke. And then you're editing it. Yeah. And you go, well, got a big pop, huge laugh.

[Jeff Dunham]

We got to keep it. Sure. And then you look back at Monty Python, and that was some of the stupidest stuff ever. But it was, man, what a following. And I don't. You know, we were like, what, junior high, high school? When they were at their peak.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And so was it just us or was there an adult crowd that loved them as much as we did?

[Adam Carolla]

I got. I never said this or thought about it, but I think I have Monty Python as sort of the Pink Floyd of comedy for me. Which, like, I realize they're good.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

But they're sort of so far out like that, I don't know what person, but. But I like some Pink Floyd. Like A Life of Brian. I like Holy Grail.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

I like. And then sometimes it gets so, you know, that parrot's alive, you know, and it gets so weird and disjointed.

[Jeff Dunham]

Sure.

[Adam Carolla]

That I'm going back and just watching SCTV or Get Smart or something that has some sort of basis. Sure. In reality.

[Jeff Dunham]

No, I get it. I was not a huge Monty Python fan. But that, like, just like you mentioned, there's a handful of pieces of their work that were, to me, were just great.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I love it.

[Jeff Dunham]

And you're right. Sometimes the TV show was like abstract comedy.

[Scott Galloway]

Abstract.

[Jeff Dunham]

Maybe it's a British thing. I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. So making. I like. So you have a workshop, you have your cars, you drove the cybertruck here.

[Jeff Dunham]

I don't want to talk about the cyber truck in two glowing terms because it is a little embarrassing. But I gotta tell you, you know, I was not gonna get a Cybertruck. Not gonna get it. Not gonna get it. Because it's not a real pickup truck. It is, but it's not. If you're a truck guy, that is not your vehicle. You know what I mean? It's. It's nerdy, guys going, I'm gonna get a pickup truck. I'm gonna get a pickup truck.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I mean, so it's not.

[Jeff Dunham]

You know, I got an F250. That's a truck.

[Adam Carolla]

I got a 350 dually.

[Jeff Dunham]

Those are trucks. But I will. You know, as a family, I have two little boys of twin boys. So growing up, they had the ax. We had the accident was great with the doors and the whole thing, but like the self driving thing, it tried to. Finally when I said, okay, let's see if I can do it, it tried to kill me four times in one day.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh really?

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh my God. It was horrible, Horrible. So we sold it, got rid of it, and then they came out with the cyber truck. And I'm like, no, this is just stupid. It's cool, but it's ugly. It's all those things. And no, I'm not going to. No, I'm not going to. And then one of my buddies had it wrapped. My business manager, and he had it wrapped in that army green and now it looked like a giant toy. And I'm like, oh, you have a sense of humor that I didn't know you had. All it was missing was some molded Mattel or something on the back.

[Adam Carolla]

He wrapped his cyber truck.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, yeah. And I'm like this. Now it's kind of cool to me because obviously you're not taking yourselves or this truck very seriously to make it look like a giant toy. So then I started to consider it and then I went and I said okay and got one. And I gotta tell you, of all the Tesla technology, they dumped it in that truck and it is. Have you driven one?

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Jeff Dunham]

It is fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. Forget that it's a freaking pickup truck. And the self driving. I drove all the way here without touching the steering wheel. Really without one of my sons. And I went to the hockey game and the Kings and I was dead tired. I had like four hours sleep the night before. So we drove out of the parking garage and I said, I'm going to see what this thing can do. And I hit go home. And that's a long way from, you know, downtown to Calabasas. And again, the only time I touched the steering wheel was when it almost rammed through the gate in our community because it didn't see the little 2x4 going across the thing. But it was unbelievable. I just. So the self driving thing is. It's the future. If every car was self driving, traffic jams would be gone and accidents would be 95% eliminated.

[Adam Carolla]

I completely agree. People do a sort of, well, hold on, what about this dystopian future, whatever. And I'm like, well, what are you comparing it to? Cuz I drive here every day and there's idiots texting and falling asleep at the wheel and every manner of horrible driving plus creating traffic because they don't signal or they don't know it's legal to turn right on a red or whatever it is. So what are we really comparing this to?

[Jeff Dunham]

Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Half the people in LA can't drive.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

But half the people from LA aren't from the United States. And I tell people all the time and everyone thinks they don't listen to me. But here's the thing people say all the time, why can't we win at soccer? We're so, our athletes are the best. Why can't we win at soccer? And then somebody goes, we didn't grow up with generations playing soccer. This is a relatively new thing for us. These other countries grew up playing soccer, that's why they're good at soccer. All right. I feel that way about driving. We're good at driving because we grew up driving. Your grandfather was on a donkey 10 minutes ago and now you're in front of me on the 101 and you're not used to it. It's a cultural thing and LA is lousy with people who shouldn't be driving. You ever see those women whose head barely makes it to the headrest? And they're of some bizarre culture where there's some cultures that don't. So the women look confused all the.

[Jeff Dunham]

Time and they have a mask on.

[Adam Carolla]

They're wearing a mask inside alone, giant sunglasses and they're holding the steering wheel as if for some reason. It looks like it's eight feet wide the way they hold it and they look like they're struggling to go in a straight line. Yep, that's what LA is. And if we had self driving cars it would fix that.

[Jeff Dunham]

But I gotta say on the other side of things, I, you know, I, my kids, my boys are gonna learn stick.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh good.

[Jeff Dunham]

It's like, you know, forget it. They're not going to get electric self driving cars. They're going to have to do what you said and learn to frickin drive.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you have the Batmobiles as we speak?

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, of course, yeah. Well, you know, one car I wanted to talk to you about and I'm very curious as to reaction is the vector.

[Adam Carolla]

Mmm, the vector.

[Jeff Dunham]

The vector, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Every hand built supercar from the 80s into the early 90s.

[Jeff Dunham]

Wow, look at you.

[Adam Carolla]

Early 90s, pretty great.

[Jeff Dunham]

There were only 17 of them made.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, real by the way, kind of the original cybertruck because they're very slabby.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, it's a wedge. It was that wedge era.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they had an American V8 in there, didn't they?

[Jeff Dunham]

It was the first American supercar.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it sort of hand built yeah. Interesting car.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. And the guy tried to, you know, tried to make a go of it and it was just, you know, didn't go anywhere. Yeah, there it is right there.

[Adam Carolla]

There it is.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, very, very 80s and mid later 80s, maybe into the early 90s. Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And the dash is an F117 straight out of an F117.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And it's pretty much you're sitting in the cockpit of an airplane at this point.

[Adam Carolla]

I want one. It's a cool. Man, they're cool pieces and they come up now and again.

[Jeff Dunham]

Hardly ever.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, hardly ever. But now and again and they vary. I think there's one with a Lamborghini engine.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, that was the later ones when they took over in a hostile takeover and tried to make it happen and it didn't go. They killed it. It made it really ugly.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's very limited in production and I don't think you're ever going to lose on that car. I don't know that it's ever going to be, you know, $2 million car. But I, I would say for a guy like you, that's a cool investment. And it also fits with your theme, which is weird.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, well, I have, I have some legit stuff and I have some really oddball stuff too.

[Adam Carolla]

You have a Ford GT that's purple.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. That was nice of you. That's it. You or no, it was you that made the comment. Yeah, it was pretty funny. We were at the Peterson for some. Graham Rahal had one and he had a purple one.

[Adam Carolla]

He had a purple one.

[Jeff Dunham]

His a different purple.

[Adam Carolla]

It was a different purple.

[Jeff Dunham]

Mine's a more manly purple. He had a more fuchsia purple.

[Adam Carolla]

Jeff said, I have the only purple for gt. And I said, graham Rahal has a purple one. He goes, that's a different purple.

[Scott Galloway]

That's fuchsia, minus plum.

[Adam Carolla]

But the Batmobiles are what? Wait a minute. You gotta look this up. Joe. And Joe, I need my rundown here. I think there was a Batmobile that either just sold or is going to sell. Not my rundown, my master sheet. There's a Batmobile that either just sold or is selling that. They're trying to get a bunch of two point something million bucks.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, no.

[Adam Carolla]

They're selling.

[Jeff Dunham]

Sorry, I'm trying to get my jacket off. They're trying to sell 10 of them and they got licensed.

[Adam Carolla]

Hand up 10 of them.

[Jeff Dunham]

They're trying to get. They've Got a license from Warner Brothers. This guy's doing it. And they're gonna sell 10 of them. And they are exactly one to one from the, from the movie. Pretty close anyway. And yeah, they want 3 million bucks for it. So it's not street legal.

[Adam Carolla]

Uh huh.

[Jeff Dunham]

So my question is, that's great, but what are you gonna do with it? You know, you take it to a car show and it's too wide. It's too wide to fit on a trailer to be legal. So you have to take the back tires off and it's still too wide. So you have to have a wide load and an escort. I mean, I think they're all going to go somewhere where there's a lot of sand.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I don't like wide load and escort combined. I like to take those two words and separate them a little bit.

[Jeff Dunham]

I used to date those women.

[Adam Carolla]

You should go to a service escort service that's specialized in the wide load. You want to know how lazy I am when I see the wide load going down the highway? It's the flatbed semi truck with the double wide modular home on the back or piece of earth moving equipment. And then there's a guy behind him in a Ford F150 with a flag on his truck. He just drives 100ft behind him and it just says wide load. I always look at that and I go, that's my dream job. That's my dream job. All that guy does is just go straight ahead in a car that's not his and listen to the radio. That's all. He doesn't have to unload the shit when he gets there. Doesn't have to do anything. It's the lazy part of me, it's the Corolla in me that looks at that guy and goes, that guy's got life by the tail. Look at that sweet gig.

[Jeff Dunham]

What does he do the rest of the time though?

[Adam Carolla]

He sits and listens to the radio in the F150.

[Jeff Dunham]

So I gotta say though, the Tumbler is awesome because.

[Adam Carolla]

Is that what that one's called?

[Jeff Dunham]

It's called the Tumbler. Yeah. So they have.

[Adam Carolla]

Wait, do you have one of those?

[Jeff Dunham]

No, no. But I tried really hard to get. To get one built. But we were. I was this close with Warner Brothers on getting the molds from England at Pinewood Studios and having somebody do it, but it just kind of fell apart. That was 10 years ago.

[Scott Galloway]

Was that an actual vehicle or did they build that specifically for the movie?

[Jeff Dunham]

No, it was all. Yeah, from scratch.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. But the one I saw Joe was the. The old version of the Batmobile, not the old second gen. I don't know. There's the one from the TV show, which is, you know, a Ford Futura or something with Axon or something.

[Jeff Dunham]

The Keaton one is next. The Keaton one was kind of next.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I thought the Keaton one was for sale somewhere, but you would know.

[Jeff Dunham]

Well, the only thing that I. I think I know is they have the two hero cars at still at Warner Brothers. And I have what was a screen used for, like, still shots and for static when the car was static, and some pickup shots. And that's the one that I have.

[Adam Carolla]

And are you limited to one Batmobile, or do you have multiple Batmobiles?

[Jeff Dunham]

Well, I got a really nice replica of the 66 of the Adam west one. And that's the one that still people go nuts over. That's the one that most people love. It's his goofy cartoon character.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And it's just, you know, George Barris took the Futura and just did a few minor things to it and it became the Batmobile. But they were. They were. They were important things. They did. Added some scallops, took out the middle canopy, so it's just the front and the back. Added the flames in the back and a few things here and there. And it was done very quickly for the television show, and it became that iconic thing that still people love. And then I have one of the last things George Bears built, and it's the Bat Smart. He took a Smart car and turned it into a tiny Batmobile.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really? Yeah. Barris built the Monkeys mobile. No. Did he?

[Jeff Dunham]

There's. There's, you know how cars are. There's. Oh, yeah. There's controversies and arguments and.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, was that Dean?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, yeah. Dean Jeffries.

[Adam Carolla]

Dean Jeffries built the Monkeys mobile?

[Jeff Dunham]

I think so. I think that's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, okay, the Monkees had a mobile. And then what about the Munsters?

[Jeff Dunham]

That's another giant argument.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really? There's controversy.

[Jeff Dunham]

I don't want to get in the middle of that one either. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. So I did not know. So George Barris had a shop. Still has a shop. He's gone.

[Jeff Dunham]

That shop's gone now.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, the shop's gone on Riverside?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[Adam Carolla]

Like North Hollywood. And then about four miles away, up the hill on Cahuenga, Dean Jeffries was there. And Jeffries built cars. You know, he had the truck, the super truck from Damnation Alley parked in his parking lot for a million years. Jan Michael Vincent, you know, great Cinema. I watched it not too long ago. It's insane. What used to be a feature film?

[Jeff Dunham]

Well, I was a friend of George, and I met him, you know, probably what, six years before he passed away. And he was just a gentleman of a gentleman of a guy. You hear all kinds of terrible stories when he was younger, but everybody's testosterone. Testosterone is different when you're 30. So just a sweetheart of a guy and couldn't have been any nicer. And, you know, we went to Comic Con. Warner Brothers sent all the Batmobiles down to Comic Con one time, and they used mine because mine happened to be in better shape than theirs were at the time. And it was great. And yeah, Adam. Adam west was not there. He came later, anyway. But yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So controversy with the monkeys mobile.

[Scott Galloway]

Wow.

[Jeff Dunham]

And I don't know, look it up.

[Scott Galloway]

Okay, wait, two people are taking credit for it or.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, if you would go to George Barris shop, you'd see pictures of the monkey mobile up. But I didn't know there was this brewing controversy.

[Jeff Dunham]

I'd have to find somebody that knows more than me.

[Adam Carolla]

But the Internet may know. Give us the answer to this.

[Scott Galloway]

Give us the gossip. But aren't both these men dead?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah.

[Scott Galloway]

So dead men tell no tales, but there's family. Jeff Dunham does.

[Jeff Dunham]

But then you look like a moron if you tell the wrong side of the story.

[Scott Galloway]

So I come on every day. I do the news here.

[Jeff Dunham]

Well, I think George every once in a while would take credit for stuff that maybe he did do or maybe he didn't do. I don't know. I don't want a bad mouth.

[Adam Carolla]

So. So couple things. One is, the monsters had two mobiles.

[Jeff Dunham]

They had the Grandpa's Dragster. Yeah. The Dragula.

[Adam Carolla]

Dragula. Grandpa had a coffin dragster. I don't know. Weird conceit. Like, Modern Family didn't need a car, a custom car. You know, they needed a Taurus. You know what I mean? It had to be, you know, it'd be weird to have a guy who made sitcoms from the 60s talk to people who made sitcoms in 2007. And they. He'd be going, well, where's the car?

[Jeff Dunham]

Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Where's the custom. Where's the Modern Family mobile?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And they'd go, it's just a car. It's just a regular car. But back then, you had to have your car.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. And it became part of the show.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah. Was that a marketing thing? Like, I don't see. Did they sell toys back then? I don't even get It. I feel like that was, like, organic. They just were like, it would be really funny if Grandpa had a funny car.

[Adam Carolla]

The crazy thing is, there's a little of it, all right? It doesn't really exist. I think it exists in the rap community now. You get rich, you buy a car, you take it somewhere and they do a bunch of shit to it. That doesn't make it any better.

[Scott Galloway]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But it's now yours.

[Jeff Dunham]

And resale will be.

[Adam Carolla]

No resale.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, only to the fans. And usually the fans will never pay anywhere close to what you pay for.

[Adam Carolla]

The way it would work. And I think this car came up for sale. So the way it would work is Lee Majors would marry Farrah Fawcett. This is back when white people used to do this shit. And they'd go, well, we're super successful and we're married. We need a car that is different than all other cars that came before us. So you buy a 308 Ferrari, I'll buy a Corvette. We'll take it down to George Barris. They'll paint it flake gold and put a plywood fin on it and put our initials in the headrest. And then we'll have a Ferrari. Ferrari. And a Corvette that never was. That is bespoke, right? And then that's what they would do. And then, I don't know. That's what you did when you got successful.

[Jeff Dunham]

Is that right? All right.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, well, you've been to a shop, right?

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, yeah. And it is fat.

[Adam Carolla]

You see pictures of, like, rerun from what's Happening. Everyone brought their car there.

[Jeff Dunham]

He had little 8 1/2 by 11 boxes all over the walls from ceiling to floor of every car that he ever built for every celebrity. And it would have the celebrity's name on it. He'd go and he'd pull that box out and then show you photographs and clippings of that car. And it was. It was amazing and fascinating. I don't know where all that stuff went. I think his daughter must have it now. But pretty great.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, TMZ looked into this. I'm sure this is probably one of their hottest stories of the year. And George Bear says he built the Monkees mobile. But Dean Jeffries built the Monkees mobile. Back in 66, Jeffries was given two Pontiac GTO convertibles and used for the project. Now, the thing about Dean Jeffries is Dean Jeffries had a real Ford, a GT40, sitting for a long time.

[Jeff Dunham]

Is that right?

[Adam Carolla]

No, he had a car that's, you know, 15 million bucks now sitting in his shop, like in pieces for a long time. And it was like a street GT40. It wasn't race GT4.

[Jeff Dunham]

And what happened to it?

[Adam Carolla]

It got put back together and bought by the guy who runs, I think, Mechem. And he still has it and tries to sell it every once in a while. But there's like, too many questions about it and people not sure if that's the real deal because it was hard to document everything back then. But that's all I know about Dean Jeffries.

[Jeff Dunham]

And, well, that's like I said about the monkey mobile. I don't. The monkeys mobile. I don't know why anybody would claim to build something that they didn't build. So I don't know. I never heard George's side of the story. I don't know.

[Scott Galloway]

Stolen valor.

[Jeff Dunham]

Valor.

[Scott Galloway]

Stolen motor.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know what the hell you call stolen motor. So what else you got in your collection?

[Jeff Dunham]

Let's see. Okay, so getting back to the. To the Vector, there's a kind of a funny story where one of the engineers was walking through a parking lot and they were designing this car and building this car, and he looked down and he said, there's a door handle right there that looks like it came off an aircraft. We don't need to bother R and D ing a brand new door handle. Let's just find out who made those for that and put it on the vector. So here you have this, you know, multimillion dollar Vector. First American supercar with one Japanese part on it, and it was the handle off a Subaru XT.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. And the Subaru was like an eight. That was 85, I think, was their peak year of that. I think they had it, I don't know, two or three years. I don't know how many years they made that car. But it's another wedge vehicle from that time period, and it's another thing that looks like an aircraft on the inside. And so I found the very best Subaru xt and they're not around because, you know, there weren't very many of them made and nobody would want to keep one. So we got it. And you sit right next to the Vector just so you go, what are these two cars having come.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you got the Vector.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, good. Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And it's the number 001 Vin 001.

[Adam Carolla]

It was the first Vector.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, the first one sold to the public, and it was sold to. Out of 17. And it was sold to a Saudi Arabian prince. That's where it went the first. It was the first.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, it's kind of. Kind of great.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Jeff Dunham]

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[Adam Carolla]

So, got the Vector, got the Batmobile, got the GT40.

[Jeff Dunham]

And the Subaru.

[Adam Carolla]

Got the Cybertruck. Got the Subaru. Let's not forget the Subaru. It's made with love. I don't know if they made them with love back then.

[Jeff Dunham]

Is that. Was that their name? Is that what their. Is that their slogan?

[Adam Carolla]

Their thing is the Subarus are made with love.

[Jeff Dunham]

Wow. That's the current slogan.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Find me a Subaru commercial. They're made.

[Scott Galloway]

They're made with love reference.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. It's important that your vehicle's made with love.

[Jeff Dunham]

So many jokes.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, because I have to. I went and looked up what else Subaru makes, and they make attack helicopters for the Japanese army. So not with love. I guess they don't make everything with love.

[Jeff Dunham]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

But they do make their cars with.

[Jeff Dunham]

Love to make up for all the killing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. They're selling them to dumb people who don't know anything about cars. So they're not going to give them a bunch of. Of stuff about bondarized steel or, you know, drivetrain warranties. And there is no city mileage and highway mileage. There's no warranty talk. There's no anything anymore. It's just good vibes. Good vibes. Volvo does a lot of good vibes. Jaguar just did we show that Jaguar commercial?

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, my Lord.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, we did.

[Jeff Dunham]

What has happened? What happened? Is it one guy?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, yeah. You're just not woke enough. You don't understand.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, my gosh. And then the concept car they just came out with was yesterday, day before they released a picture of it. What happened?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I didn't see that concept car.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, pull it up. It's like, it's everything.

[Adam Carolla]

You'd think the Jaguar concept car. Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And it's the reason they didn't show it in the commercial, I think, is what.

[Scott Galloway]

How it looks in seat dildos. That's.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, my God.

[Adam Carolla]

It's a giant tampon.

[Jeff Dunham]

No. Can you guys pull it up?

[Adam Carolla]

You see, we tested this maxi pad in the wind tunnel. Turns out aerodynamically.

[Jeff Dunham]

There it is. Oh, my gosh.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. I have not seen this.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, well, you know, it literally looks like if you said concept car, that's what somebody would draw.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

Because it has no defining angles. It's like a long snoot. And I don't get it. I just.

[Scott Galloway]

But it's retailing. It's like selling now. Wow, that's wild.

[Jeff Dunham]

No, Is it?

[Adam Carolla]

No, that's not for sale.

[Scott Galloway]

That is the concept.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, okay. No, what Jeff is saying is when you do a almost generic concept car, this is what it is.

[Scott Galloway]

No, no, I have that. I have it already. It's by Manscape, I believe. Shave my balls with that car.

[Adam Carolla]

It is a. It just looks completely ordinary for a concept car, but this is how they do it.

[Jeff Dunham]

What's that self driving car? The company we.

[Adam Carolla]

Waymo.

[Scott Galloway]

Waymo.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it Waymo?

[Scott Galloway]

It has nobody in there.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. So my daughter lives over there.

[Adam Carolla]

Are you guys seeing those cars all over the road, by the way?

[Scott Galloway]

I am in my area.

[Adam Carolla]

I.

[Scott Galloway]

The Peterson Museum, everywhere. Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

So that's where my daughter lives over there. And she said, dad, I'm gonna take a ride in the so and so because I might be drinking tonight. I'm like, okay, that's a good idea. Yes, Responsible. But in that you can do Uber. She goes, now this seems better. I don't have to deal with the driver. I'm like. So I went over there and did it with her and it was just like the. Okay, so from what I understand, it uses lidar.

[Adam Carolla]

So it is the cars that we see with this.

[Scott Galloway]

All the stuff, all the stuff rotations.

[Adam Carolla]

All the stuff spinning and all the radar and everything.

[Jeff Dunham]

So this thing.

[Adam Carolla]

Those are all driverless.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay.

[Jeff Dunham]

But my point is it's a freaking Jaguar. So now I don't want to get in it anymore. But my experience, you gotta try it sometime.

[Adam Carolla]

So tell us the experience.

[Jeff Dunham]

Okay. So we're at her apartment, and she keeps looking at her phone, and she says, okay, it's almost here. I go, all right. So we go downstairs, and here comes this thing driving down the road with her initials on the top. LEDs or whatever it is on the top. And you walk up to it, and it says, enter the code in your phone. You enter the code in your phone, the doors open up, and the voice goes, welcome.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. And there's nobody in the front seat.

[Jeff Dunham]

But there's a steering wheel, there's a shifter. It's not like Elon's new taxi that has no controls at all. So you sit down in this thing. You can pick your air conditioning, you can pick your music. You can do all this stuff. And so we're driving along, and it takes us over to. I can't remember where it went, but it's only like five or six miles away. But we pull up to valet, and I'm like, okay, how is this going to work? She goes, just watch. So it pulls us into this little narrow thing in the valet, and there's people standing everywhere. And we get out of the car, and now the valet guys are standing in the way, and it's like, uncle, what's it going to do now? She goes, just watch. And so it backs up a little bit, Turns a little bit, backs up a little bit. Horn beeps. The guys get out of the way, and it leaves. And I'm like, what the fuck?

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Jeff Dunham]

And then she said, nope. She said, what happens is when it gets stuck, like, in a parking garage in a situation like that, it goes to master control, where there's a guy driving.

[Unknown Speaker]

I was gonna say, I think there.

[Scott Galloway]

Was some dude at tech support in India driving the whole time.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. No, not the whole time.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay.

[Jeff Dunham]

But he sits there and gets it.

[Adam Carolla]

Out of its property, but he's got an accident.

[Jeff Dunham]

And then another time, she was with it, and there was an accident, and a woman came, a live voice said, hi, Ashlyn. That's my daughter's name. She says. She says, just hang on there for a second. We're trying to figure you a way out of this. And the car is working on it as well. So just don't get out of the vehicle. We know you're stuck, but it'll get you out of it.

[Adam Carolla]

There was an accident involving the car Ashlyn was in. No, no, just in front of you.

[Jeff Dunham]

No, in front of her. And she was trapped in traffic and couldn't get anywhere. And the woman says, don't worry. We're figuring it out. The car will figure it out. You'll have a new one. An alternate route, momentarily.

[Adam Carolla]

Just don't get how long before these conversations start to veer off a little bit, like, you know, ashlyn, you should probably floss more.

[Jeff Dunham]

That's not where I thought you were going, but okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Tonally, the way you addressed your father was a little bit on the disrespectful side. He's provided a lot. And by the way, don't call them dummies or puppets.

[Jeff Dunham]

Dummies is fine.

[Adam Carolla]

They are characters.

[Jeff Dunham]

So did someone you know?

[Adam Carolla]

Your father started with nothing. He was adopted. Very humble beginnings. And now he's taking care of you.

[Jeff Dunham]

Did you review right before we walked out here? That's amazing.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm just saying we are going to get to the place where they're dispensing bits of knowledge and. Have you changed a filter in your central air system in the last year? Just bits of information. Food for thought.

[Jeff Dunham]

Where did you. Where did you get that?

[Adam Carolla]

I was talking about it on this show, and I was thinking, because I'm obsessed with freeway signs and all the information, that's. That's a waste of time.

[Jeff Dunham]

Wait a second. Before I came here, I changed the filter in our air conditioner.

[Adam Carolla]

You did? Big Brother is watching. You don't need the sign.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, Big Waymo is watching.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, is that what it said?

[Adam Carolla]

No, no. Here's what I'm saying. What's happening yesterday? Here's what I'm saying. Okay, there's a free. This city's lousy with freeway signs. They're every quarter mile.

[Jeff Dunham]

I see where you're going.

[Adam Carolla]

I would argue, let's say this. Has there ever been a woman you have been with? And I've been with a few women, and I've lived with women, and I've lived in domiciles that had central air where the woman said, you know what I'm gonna do today? I'm gonna change a filter for the central air because it's been too long. I don't think they know it exists. Do you? I normally know at some point.

[Scott Galloway]

I've changed it.

[Adam Carolla]

When the system. It's got cat hair and dander all over it, and it's black, right? And then the women see it and they go, oh, my God. And then you go, yeah, that's running all night during the summer. And the duct is right above your head. They don't know it is what I'm saying. And the system is not running efficiently because the flow is bad and it's burning kilowatts and it's a scourge. It's a scourge on our society. We want to save electricity. Save electricity. Use your washing machine during non peak hours. We could save a ton of kilowatts if that sign said, you got to change that filter, bitch, once a year. Eight bucks Home Depot. Go get it.

[Jeff Dunham]

I was a little freaked out. So it was just ironic?

[Adam Carolla]

No, we were mind melding. Yeah, a little bit.

[Jeff Dunham]

Well, you did know from my bio that I'm adopted. You knew that because you said I was adopted.

[Adam Carolla]

I did.

[Jeff Dunham]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, that's on.

[Jeff Dunham]

But it doesn't happen. Hold on.

[Adam Carolla]

It doesn't have anything about you changing your filter.

[Jeff Dunham]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

God damn it. God damn it. Well, how many times do I said, if a guy's going to change his central air filter, I need it.

[Jeff Dunham]

Okay. Have you ever had a moment in life where this was not. Not close to that, but it was going that direction where something happened? Just a thing happened, and you literally felt the world shift? Like, I think I'm going crazy. So here's my example. My wife and I were on the couch. We had a Jack Russell terrier and his name was Buddy and he was an dog. But we're sitting there and he's at our feet. We're on the. Laying on the couch, the long couch, and he's at our feet and it was a hot day. And the dog sits up and goes just like this. He goes, phew. And my brain went, oh, my God. He's about to tell me it's hot. He's about to actually speak because the noise that he made was completely human. Just. Phew.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And so that moment in time just shifted. And I literally felt like, not dizzy, but I felt like my equilibrium. Cuckoo. And like I was. I was actually a crazy person.

[Adam Carolla]

So with Gus and mean, the air conditioning or just Gus the dog, sir. I mean, not Gus, Buddy.

[Jeff Dunham]

Buddy. Just the dog.

[Adam Carolla]

Just the dog.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

So I'm saying you were almost there because you said three things in a row.

[Adam Carolla]

I know.

[Jeff Dunham]

And the final one was like, how the fuck did he know about my air conditioner?

[Adam Carolla]

Just did the filter. You know what I mean? I will say this about your daughter and her relationship with transportation.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Find an example, Joe. Now, Dawson, remember we were talking about, well, not always, but SOCO music. Remember that music? See, your daughter is going to have a, you know, sort of hands free Carefree transportation existence. But what she'll never have is the crazy cab driver and the tapestry of crazy conversations and music and smells and. No, that's why she.

[Jeff Dunham]

That's why she switched. She was tired of all that.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, she's had some of it.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Future generations are not. You know, I had a.

[Jeff Dunham]

No, no, she'll call me. She'll call me and say, dad, look at my location. I'm in the car with a really creepy guy and I don't. I'm not getting a good feeling right now, so just watch where we're going.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really? Oh, yeah, Future. Yeah. Those are Uber guys. Yeah, but what I'm saying is, like, if you're born today, you're never going to experience the cab driver. The crazy person who's sitting up there is telling you God knows what. And I've heard it all.

[Scott Galloway]

Religious iconography all over the dashboard.

[Adam Carolla]

And when I was doing a show years ago in St. Paul, I thought I was doing the show in Minneapolis and it was St. Paul. Oh, no, I was staying in Minneapolis, but the show was in St. Paul and it was at Garrison Keillor's theater. Okay, you must have played there at.

[Jeff Dunham]

Some point in your career at Garrison Keillor's theater. I used to listen to him a lot, but I don't know, he had a theater, a nice theater.

[Adam Carolla]

I think he got metoo'd, but he got sort of. No one knew what it was about. Like he was one of those guys, he got kind of al. Frankened. Like, I don't know what Garrison Keeler did. He doesn't really know what he did either.

[Jeff Dunham]

That's too bad.

[Adam Carolla]

He. They tried to like, find out if Garrison Keillor's still alive.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

He's alive and touring.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, he's touring. Oh, he's gonna be at the Jeff Dunham Theater this weekend.

[Jeff Dunham]

That's a very small theater in Kentucky.

[Adam Carolla]

He's got a. It's a thousand. I don't know, it's a thousand seater. 1200, whatever. It's a beautiful theater. But. But I was walking through Minneapolis and I think I thought the show. No, I was told the show started at 8 and then I got the frantic call at about 6:30 as I was 3 miles from the hotel walking. Show starts at 7, so I had to like run back to the hotel and the thing was jump in the cab and get over here as fast as you can. But there was all this road work going on and we're sitting in track traffic. But the guy who picked Me up was named Habib. And the music he was pumping in his cab. Do you have soccer? I didn't know what this was. That's the point is it's like you thought reggaeton was the most annoying music ever conceived.

[Jeff Dunham]

There.

[Adam Carolla]

You can do more annoying.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, Lord.

[Scott Galloway]

Oh, I love it.

[Adam Carolla]

He got this cranked up, right? And like, I'm on the phone with Mike August, and he's like, where are you? The show starts in nine minutes. And I'm like, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And at some point, I do this one too. I go, habib, can you turn it down a little bit? I'm on the phone. And he turns it down one notch. I'll get you there, by the way. Can you turn it down a little bit? Means shut it the off. I'm on the phone, but I'm trying to be nice, you know? And so he's got this plane. Go ahead, Dawson. He's got this plane the whole time. And so at some point I go, what is this? What is this called? And he's like, soccer, soccer music. And I go, what is soccer music? They played it like stadiums. No, no, no. The soccer, soccer. And I'm like, where would you play? Why are you playing it? And you're. You're a 57 year old dude driving alone in Minneapolis in a cab. Why is this cranking? What is this music? And he goes, it's for a man and a woman. They make love. You know, they make love. They meet on the dance floor. And I go, yeah, I'm okay, that's good. But we're not. That's not us, Habib. That's not us. It's a man and a woman. A man meets you, makes we love to the woman. And I'm like. I was like, oh, okay. But if you're born today, you'll never talk to Habib. You'll never know. I didn't know. It's soca. How do you spell it? Dawson is S O, C, A.

[Scott Galloway]

Can you say that to know what it was?

[Adam Carolla]

And what do you do? You just Google most annoying music ever. And that's just what comes up.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I actually look for soco.

[Jeff Dunham]

And where's it from?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Did you mean soco?

[Adam Carolla]

Where is it from? It's from place that doesn't make cars, that has no rocket program, no space program. I don't know where it's from. I just know you cannot build anything of precision with that math or do any Math equations. It's not from Germany. They got rockets in an autobahn and a Porsche and an Audi. But you can make love. It has to be a place where you eat a lot of fruit for breakfast and you make sweet love in the afternoon. It's hammock based. It's a hammock based culture. There is no air force where there's comes from, that's my guess. I don't know exactly where it's from. It's. It's inventor is soul. Collect soul. Calypso influences African and East Indian rhythms. But where does it really hail from? Do we know?

[Scott Galloway]

He's got nothing.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm like yelling into the phone. Mike's yelling, where are you? I'm stuck in traffic and I'm like yelling at Habib, turn it down. Make love. This is for making love.

[Jeff Dunham]

No, thanks.

[Adam Carolla]

So you know.

[Jeff Dunham]

You know, another thing that most people will never experience growing up now is hitchhikers. Did you ever pick up hitchhikers?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, I did too.

[Adam Carolla]

I used to pick up hitchhikers. Just like. I don't remember. I remember getting picked up as a hitchhiker.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, you actually hitchhiked?

[Adam Carolla]

I got my motorcycle towed and I needed. Needed to get back to my apartment.

[Scott Galloway]

Dude, I pick up hitchhikers all the time.

[Jeff Dunham]

You still do?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, I just pat them down for pistols and we're good.

[Adam Carolla]

Even the ladies?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, yeah, especially the ladies.

[Adam Carolla]

Here's all. I only remember this from picking up a hitchhiker. I said to a guy once I picked him up my pickup truck. You know, lumber rack, bed, box tools, you know.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

He said, oh, you're a carpenter? I said, yeah, I'm a carpenter. He said, oh, I'm a carpenter too. I said, oh, what do you do? And he's like, you know, commercial tenant improvement, framing foundation, drywall finish, cabinetry. You know, I do it all. And I go, yeah. And he goes, yeah, I haven't worked for six months. And I remember I didn't say anything, but I was like, oh, because you're. You suck. Like, if you're a good carpenter, you're never out of work. Right. My phone never stopped ringing when I was a carpenter. I didn't advertise and do anything. It's just, you're a good carpenter. You will find people find work for you. So I remember that. I also kind of remember the super ambitious signs. Like, I'm driving down Laurel Canyon, the Ventura Freeway, heading north on Ventura, and someone be standing out there going, san Francisco. Wow, that's pretty. That's 430 miles. That's pretty fucking ambitious for me. I'm going to drive you to the Bay Area in Studio City, man.

[Scott Galloway]

Hov Lane the whole way.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I.

[Adam Carolla]

There's not, there's a good chance most people aren't going to make it to Encino from here.

[Jeff Dunham]

Not right.

[Adam Carolla]

San Francisco people have Oregon and stuff. Like they were get super ambitious.

[Scott Galloway]

What's the craziest hitchhiker you ever picked up?

[Jeff Dunham]

Well, my two favorites. There's one guy and I was in Texas, I was going to Baylor and one guy I picked up and he was a Vietnam vet and just was not all there and he just, he just started rambling on about war and fighting and he just said, he said one thing that I've never forgotten. And he goes, he says, I just think everybody should just eat a piece of fruit and forget it. No, I've lived by that.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm curious. Who are the people who pick up people hitchhiking with nothing in it for them, you know, Like, I wasn't me, I didn't pick up a hot chick trying to get laid or something. I was just like, I did it.

[Jeff Dunham]

For the amusement of it all.

[Adam Carolla]

You did it for the amusement? Yeah. I'm with you.

[Jeff Dunham]

Just to be nice, just to have a conversation.

[Scott Galloway]

Weird shit happens like every time.

[Jeff Dunham]

Well, I picked up this one woman once and I don't know what was wrong with me. I was really straight laced. I was a nice guy. I had a nice car. I, you know, I was going to Baylor. So there was nothing creepy. And I guess I picked her up, up. And she was. Maybe she was strung out on something. I don't know. But she got very angry with me.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And wanted out immediately.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

And I'm like, I didn't know. I didn't know.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a weird one. Yeah. I don't know what I. I don't.

[Jeff Dunham]

Know whether she was looking for something that I wasn't offering. I don't know what it was, but that was that. The ride lasted about, about three miles.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll tell you what'll do in place of hitchhikers in terms of the rich pageantry of life. Like if you're just trying to meet weirdos, right. You get an apartment off an alley. You get an alley. An alley will work. An alley is like a conveyor belt for weird people who will be hitchhiking later on. But I had. My garage was off the alley and I spent a considerable amount of time in my garage wrenching on cars and doing God knows what.

[Jeff Dunham]

But.

[Adam Carolla]

And the alley is the preferred mode of transportation for weirdos because Laurel Canyon is right here. If you're an upright citizen, you just walk down Laurel Canyon. It's well lit and there's a sidewalk.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

But if you're dealing with this sort of dicey like, I don't.

[Scott Galloway]

There's.

[Adam Carolla]

I owe people money. I don't want some dude driving by I owe money to or the cops or anything. You're an alley walker.

[Jeff Dunham]

So what was your best slash worst guy that came in?

[Adam Carolla]

There was one guy, you know, we're talking like 1983 or four, whatever. There's one guy who used to use the alleys. And he was a quick draw pistol six shooter expert, according to him. According to him, he competed in rodeos, in quick draw competitions.

[Jeff Dunham]

Was this a single conversation you had or did he come by a lot?

[Adam Carolla]

I would talk to him semi frequently. I would talk to a guy named Russ, who was a concrete finisher, whose brother in law lived down the alley a little further in an apartment and was a typewriter repairman. If you can imagine what he enjoyed.

[Jeff Dunham]

These conversations or would you get irritated because they were interrupting you?

[Adam Carolla]

I didn't, I didn't enjoy them per se because I was trying to muss around in my garage and wrench on my cars. And they would always pop their head in and sort of stand there and sort of. What's up? You know?

[Scott Galloway]

Hey, what you working on?

[Adam Carolla]

What you working on?

[Scott Galloway]

It's me, Aaron Oakley.

[Adam Carolla]

But some of the guys, like the guy who's a quick draw expert, Aaron Oakley. Aaron Oakley, and his little brother Aaron. And one day shows up with two casts on each forearm, on each hand.

[Jeff Dunham]

On each hand, each hand, each hand.

[Adam Carolla]

And I was like, what's up? And he got thrown off a horse. And I was like, of course he did. So you're not gonna be able to do the quick draw for a little while, I guess. And he's like, nope.

[Jeff Dunham]

Or a lot of other stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, a lot of stuff.

[Jeff Dunham]

There's a lot of quick draw.

[Adam Carolla]

A lot of stuff's gonna be back burnered until those casts come. I just remember thinking the irony of a dude who made his living, I guess, in quick draw competitions, having two. He had two plaster casts on both forearms. I was like, it's a bad day. Like. I was like, if you can hold a beer, I got one for real.

[Jeff Dunham]

I was gonna say, it's a good thing he didn't ask you for help.

[Adam Carolla]

No, that's a good point.

[Scott Galloway]

That's the next alley.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. There was Russ, who had. He'd have fights with his brother in law and want to come by and hang out. That guy crashed on my sofa.

[Jeff Dunham]

You know what? This would be a great place to set up a camera and have some sort of. Some sort of show.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Where people just want that guy Russ. That guy Russ was. He was the best. He felt. He fell asleep on my sofa. I let him sleep on my sofa apartment. And in the middle, he was just sawing logs in the middle of the. It wasn't the middle of the night. It was probably 11 o'clock. He's just on his back and he's just like, you know, he's just snoring away. And I was just like standing like looking at him going, Jesus Christ. He was covered in. This guy was the best. This guy was the best.

[Jeff Dunham]

Covered in what?

[Adam Carolla]

Concrete, dust and stuff. You know, he's just plowed out on the sofa.

[Jeff Dunham]

I was gonna say ticks or something.

[Adam Carolla]

In the middle of his sleep. In the middle of him sleep. And he pops up still asleep, hawks a loogie across the room and flops right back down again. He has no memory of it. He has no thoughts, but he just hawked one in my living room, which was awesome. Then the other memory of Russ is he would. We had. I. My roommate had a Mickey Mouse phone. The kind that had Mickey. Remember the Mickey Mouse.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

It was like an old stick phone, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Shaped like Mickey Mouse. It was like 18 inches tall or whatever.

[Jeff Dunham]

And he was holding the.

[Scott Galloway]

He was holding the receiver.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And so Russ goes, I gotta call my old lady. Can I use the phone? I go, yeah, go ahead. It's right over there. And he goes, where is. I got it right there. Just use the Mickey phone. He goes, what the. I go, what the kind of shit is this? I go, it's a. It's a phone. Where's the phone? I go, that's the phone. It's the phone. That's not a phone. I was like. He didn't. He was angry and perturbed that I. He didn't know what the Mickey Mouse was. Then he drove a. He drove a Ranchero. Oh, not an El Camino.

[Jeff Dunham]

Sure, the Ranchero.

[Adam Carolla]

The Ford version. And the door was caved in on the driver's side. So he used to have to crawl out of the window and. Or leave out of the passenger side because it wasn't operable. The driver's side. And we were working on a slab, a concrete slab. Because at some point I said, well, Russ, your concrete finisher, you can finish this slab from this kitchen I was building in North Hollywood and it took all night. We didn't finish until like eight at night. And Ross was covered with concrete dust, concrete, you know, dried concrete. He was up to his ankle, up to his knees, all up his thighs. He was covered. He was a mess. The guy was a mess. He had like a missing front tooth and he was exactly how you're picturing him. Right, right. And so we pull up in front of the Golden Chopsticks in North Hollywood to eat Chinese food at 8:00.

[Jeff Dunham]

So you took him to dinner too? All right.

[Adam Carolla]

He may have paid his way after a long day of concrete. And we pulled up in his rancher with the caved in door and inexplicably there's some hot 25 year old chick just standing in front of the restaurant like waiting for her boyfriend or her friend. She's just standing there. And Russ goes, Jesus Christ, take a look at that piece of ass. And I go yeah, she's good looking. And he goes Jesus Christ, we should get on that, you know. And I go, yeah, Russ, I, you know, I don't think that's going to work for us. Crawling out of the window and covered with concrete and everything. He goes, well that's a fine piece of ass. Yeah, I know Russ, but I'm looking at this guy, he's covered with shit, he's got a beat up car. And then I go, Russ, let's just go in and eat. And he looks at me and he goes, what's the matter, don't you like pussy? He acted like I was turning it down. I was just going, he was great, Russ was great.

[Scott Galloway]

This guy's confidence. Yeah, a dose of that. It's covered in concrete dust, no front tooth. What's up baby?

[Adam Carolla]

Later on he'd show up, we're pouring my a slab for my grandmother's kitchen edition in North Hollywood. And he couldn't remember my grandparents name so he'd just go, hey old man, anymore we got any more crackers in there? He'd call old woman an old man.

[Jeff Dunham]

Perfect.

[Adam Carolla]

And then we stayed for dinner one night we ate outside and my and my grandmother got out a bottle of white wine and like poured Russ a glass and Russ just shot it down. And then he grunted at her and like stuck it back at her. And then his brother the typewriter repairman was also there getting drunk off of grandma's wine and at some point had to take a piss and got up with my grandparents sitting outside at a table Walked half a little bit away in the yard, just turned his back and just started pissing on the wall.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

And Russ starts yelling at his brother, jesus Christ, man, go inside. We got the old people here, they gotta watch you take a piss. And his brother goes, I moved over here, didn't I? Like, he's basically saying, I didn't piss on top of the old people. I fucking got up and I walked 20ft away. And now I'm pissing against the wall.

[Jeff Dunham]

Adam, I'm struck with a couple of things here. First of all, I'm. I'm still stuck on the Mickey Mouse phone.

[Adam Carolla]

Not mine, my roommate.

[Scott Galloway]

Into his mouth.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

Okay. So that was the. The daily phone. And then also I. Your choice in friends is I, you know, it's pretty great. I admire.

[Adam Carolla]

Russ wasn't a friend. Yes.

[Jeff Dunham]

You're taking him to your grandparents house.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, that's true.

[Jeff Dunham]

He.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, what it was, is, is I built my grandparents a kitchen, Right. And I'd only been in the trades for like two or three years.

[Jeff Dunham]

Which trades?

[Adam Carolla]

Construction.

[Jeff Dunham]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

And I didn't have concrete finishing as part of my repertoire. I didn't know how to finish a slab. I didn't have like a bull float. And Russ did.

[Jeff Dunham]

The homeless cement guy that wandered down your alley was the correct job.

[Adam Carolla]

He wasn't totally homeless.

[Jeff Dunham]

I know. He stayed on your couch.

[Adam Carolla]

Stayed. His brothers had their place down the alley. They argued you all the time. Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

And then he said. And then another time he slept. He wanted. He had to crash again. Right, right. And he shows up, he's got a shiner, black eye. Right. And he goes. I go, russ, what happened? He goes, some dude at a bar just punched me. I go, oh, wow, what happened? He goes, I just. Fucking guy just hold off and hit me. I go, well, I don't. I don't get it. Did you know the guy? He goes, no. And that fucking guy just punched me right in the face. I go, they just punch you for no reason? He goes, yeah, just. Just swung on me. I go, did you have any words with him or anything? He goes, I said his wife's pussy stunk. Oh, well, that then sheds some light.

[Jeff Dunham]

Did. Did your grandparents not question you, your choice of friends?

[Adam Carolla]

They wanted their slab finished. That's all they wanted.

[Jeff Dunham]

That's all they cared about.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And it didn't come out well because Russ ordered. He didn't order enough concrete, and we came up short, and it was a fucking shit show.

[Jeff Dunham]

So he wasn't exactly the expert.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, well, not really that's pretty good.

[Jeff Dunham]

Speaking of phones. So I don't know if this is amusing or not, but for the warehouse I got a phone booth. An actual timing from like the 30s. They used these phone booths from like the 30s to the, I don't know, the 60s or whatever.

[Adam Carolla]

Rotary.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, but well, that's the phone. That's the whole different thing. So the phone booth is a wooden phone booth with the door that you push in and when you go in and close it, the fan comes on, the light comes on, and there's a little table for the phone book and a little seat to sit on full.

[Adam Carolla]

Get smart.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, yeah, sure. And if you watch Miracle on 34th street in the courtroom scene when they look out in the hallway, that's not the exact one, but that exact model phone booth. So that's how cool. So then the phone that I got was, yes, a rotary dial from I don't know, the 50s or whatever, 40s or 50s. And so you don't know how many people have come through my warehouse and not known what that thing is. It's terrifying.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it all by age? Yes. Anyone under 40 has no idea.

[Jeff Dunham]

Not a clue. Not a freaking clue. So I just, it's just amazing to me. And that leads me to the cybertruck when I was driving here today. So I haven't had it long and I'm on the phone with somebody and another call comes in. Right. And so I noticed that the icons was an old, like a typical handheld receiver for a phone.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Jeff Dunham]

So isn't there a whole generation or two right now that has no idea what that is?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they'll learn it like, you know, a chimp can learn sign language or something. Like they won't learn. They don't know what it means, but they know the sign for banana because they want a banana, you know?

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

So. Cause it could be a. Whatever it is, they'll just memorize the sign and the insignia on it. But yeah, you're right, we don't know.

[Jeff Dunham]

They don't know what dial means. They don't know what roll up the window means.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, the crank, of course.

[Jeff Dunham]

And the dial was a frickin dial. Which here's a little bit of trivia. So this was the phone guy that brought the phone over for me, the expert in phones. So you know when you put the money and it goes ding, ding, ding, ding. Did you know there's a different ding for every coin?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

So the quarter was a bong, the dime was a ding ding, and the nickel was a Ding. Do you know why? Because the operator, when you know you're on a long distance phone call and they would come on and say you owe another $2 for another five minutes or whatever, she would listen for the dings. It was before electronics. She would listen to the dings and know how much money you put in that frickin box.

[Adam Carolla]

It is amazing that we were so analog, but yet we figured things out, right. You know what I mean? Like a submarine in World War II. You know what I mean?

[Jeff Dunham]

Apollo 13, when they're trying to do the slingshot and it's like. And they have 12 guys that have to use slide rules and every one of them goes, I concur, I concur, I concur. Because they had to figure it out on a slide rule to know the velocity or the thrust or whatever much they're going to use to make the slingshot maneuver, which was nuts.

[Adam Carolla]

It is right before calculators and obviously more computing in your cybertruck than all of NASA combined.

[Jeff Dunham]

In your phone.

[Adam Carolla]

In your phone.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Jeff Dunham]

What's your favorite Christmas carol? My favorite Christmas carol.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Jeff Dunham]

Meaning one that makes me feel joy and hope and a beautiful peace inside. That's right, grandma. Got run over by a reindeer.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Jeff Dunham is on the Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Show for me and Grandpa.

[Jeff Dunham]

We believe the music is not part of my special. So that was a nice addition there.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So, yeah, the special, by the way, Scrooge up, it's available on Amazon prime.

[Jeff Dunham]

And yeah, it's our first one on Amazon. It's kind of interesting and fun, but I was pushing for the tape. You know, they did that for a while when they'd have specials or TV releases or whatever. They put it on the tape on all the Amazon packages.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, they would?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. And then they quit that. Barely missed it. But, man, how cool would that be? Tape all over the world with your face times.

[Adam Carolla]

God, so many units. You know what I mean?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. Do you go to the store anymore? I hardly ever go. I'll go to Home Depot and that's about it.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll go to the Home Depot too. But I kind of like the tactile version, like the low resolution, antiquated version of shopping. Because the thing about Home Depot. Okay, I walked into a Harbor Freight the other day, right?

[Scott Galloway]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And I didn't have anything to buy. I just wanted to wander around.

[Jeff Dunham]

Sure.

[Adam Carolla]

And also, it's nuts. I ended up buying stuff anyway because there's two kinds of shopping. There's, here's what I need shopping. And then there's.

[Jeff Dunham]

And that's in and out, right?

[Adam Carolla]

But then there's like. Oh, yeah, that's right. Stainless steel tech screws. I don't have any of those. I need stainless steel tech screws, self tappers, you know? So I walk into this Harbor Freight. But the thing, it pisses me off because things used to be expensive when I was poor.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh.

[Adam Carolla]

So I bought a 42 inch T. And I bought two 42 inch TV sets for Jimmy Kimmel once for his birthday, right? And they were 3,400 bucks each, right? And what? 3,400 bucks each flat screen.

[Jeff Dunham]

When was this?

[Adam Carolla]

This would have been.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, okay, you were saying? A long, long time ago.

[Adam Carolla]

No, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I thought I set it up, but I didn't really set up. Things used to be expensive.

[Jeff Dunham]

I got it. Okay, Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

A flat screen that was 42 inches.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Was like 3400 bucks, right? And now I got a 75 inch TV sitting in the back of this place, right? And I say to my AV guy, I don' we should just sell it or what can we get for it? He's like, it's not worth anything. Well, it's got to be worth 500 bucks or something. No, not worth anything. And then you go into the big box store and It's. They got 75 inchers for 475. And you go to the harbor freight, you see cordless impact guns for $14 stuff. And I'm like, when I started off, tools were expensive.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. What? So explain that. Is it supply and demand?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I mean, it's simple. It's everything. But I mean, a cordless 9.6 volt cordless Makita with a keyed chuck, Not a keyless chuck.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

It was like 120 bucks, right. Now you can get cordless impact, whatever, 20 volt all day long, 40 bucks, whatever. It's all the. Everything is there, right? You couldn't get an aluminum floor jack. You had to be. You had to run a NASCAR team to get an aluminum floor jack. You know, it was 800 bucks. Now it's 69 bucks.

[Jeff Dunham]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

Everything, everything. It's China.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's all just. It's practically free. And it's the thing that's crazy about it. And the reason I'm angry is because when I was super poor and I was making eight or nine bucks an hour, all this stuff was really expensive. Trimmer routers, plunge routers, everything. Now I'm rich and it's free and I'm angry. I feel the same way about cocaine. All right, ma'am, you got some news?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, I got some news. Getting dark right here at the top. A chilling video shows gunman executing Brian Thompson at close range as United Healthcare CEO stumbles away in NYC streets midday.

[Adam Carolla]

I saw this leading.

[Scott Galloway]

I saw this on the way in. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, he was a assassinated, right?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, essentially, that's what happened. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, the guy had a. The guy had a silencer and everything. I mean, it's. It was a hit.

[Scott Galloway]

It was a focused killing. Yeah, definitely was a hit.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. All right. I don't want to say anymore. It hurts my teeth. So they. I mean, somebody was paid to shoot this guy.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, it certainly appears that way. The shooter fled on foot down an alleyway before mounting on E city bike on 6000 Avenue. So it was a very planned, pretty, I don't know, good hit, like a well planned out hit. And he got away. We don't know who it is. We don't know the backstory yet. Something, I guess. United Healthcare has taken over the health care space now here in America. So that could have been a motivation for the killing.

[Adam Carolla]

There's a lot of.

[Scott Galloway]

We don't know yet.

[Adam Carolla]

Unhappy campers I think with these.

[Scott Galloway]

I gotta tell you, I was fired up when they the insurance denied me for a pre existing condition a while back.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh really good.

[Scott Galloway]

Long time in my fighting career. They told me oh yeah, well yeah, that's a pre existing condition. I'm like yeah, but you let me do the fight with this Pre exist. The fight was okay to do but now that I re injured the thing, now it's a pre existing condition. I was pretty mad at the insurance company.

[Adam Carolla]

Well look, it's a kind of a flawed relationship because you give them your money for long periods of time and then you say I'd like some of that money back for this operation. And they look for reasons not to give you the money back in the form of the operation or whatever it is. It's kind of inherently flawed.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, because you put a middleman between the healthcare and what can I tell.

[Jeff Dunham]

You my latest, my only hospital experience. Yes, it was about two months ago now when I almost died.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh yeah. So it's changed my perspective. Everything. Almost dying should. So whatever circumstances led up to me being ill, by the time I figured out that it was bad, I had like 103.2 temperature and a horrible, horrible headache. And I said to my wife this was on a Saturday night. By Wednesday was when I was feeling bad and by Saturday it was got in this bag. I said I've never felt like this, I'm going to the hospital. She goes, that's a good idea. So I got in a truck, drove to the hospital.

[Adam Carolla]

Did you yell to the Batmobile or.

[Jeff Dunham]

Did you just go to see this? No, Alfred drove me. What's wrong with you? So I get to the hospital on a Saturday night in LA in the emergency room and I sat in the emergency room for 20 hours.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh yeah. 28 hours in the emergency room.

[Adam Carolla]

What?

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh yeah. And they were administering things to me because they first of all they didn't know what was wrong with me. And so they just started pumping me full of stuff. And finally 28 hours later, on the 29th hour, I got a hospital room and they started pumping me full of stuff in my six day stay. Wow, I had a full here, I got it on my. Hold on a second. This is like too stupid to.

[Adam Carolla]

It's on your phone.

[Jeff Dunham]

It's on my phone because I talk about it in my standup. I had. Oh, I can't find it. Oh, here's not it.

[Adam Carolla]

Which dummy talks about it?

[Jeff Dunham]

It's my standup. So I had A full panel of. A full panel of steroids, a full panel of antifungal drugs, a full panel of antiviral drugs, A full panel of 16. 16 different antibiotics. I had one CT brain scan. I had three full MRIs. And one of them with the sparkly stuff to show where the blood's going, three different ones, and I had a spinal tap. All this in six days.

[Scott Galloway]

So you had to sell the vector to pay for all this?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. Oh, the bill came and it was so, literally, interns were telling me as they would wheel me down the hospital corridors to go, stop telling him you have anything wrong with you. Don't even tell him you're toasting. Hurts. They will find. Oh, and I had two kidney scans and another scan full of all the organs. They said, stop saying things are wrong with you because they're going to make up for the people that come in with bad insurance plans.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? Or no insurance plans.

[Jeff Dunham]

So, yeah, I got everything. And literally the last day. So on the fifth day, the doctor says, well, you can go home tomorrow. I go, I can. He goes, yeah, your tests are all coming back negative and the inflammation is gone. And we don't know where the inflammation was, what was wrong with me. He goes, well, we pumped you full of everything immediately because you were almost sepsis, meaning I almost died. And he said, so we wanted to make sure you didn't die, but we pumped you full of so much stuff, we don't know how and when we healed you, but you're well. And they didn't know what was wrong, but it was inflammation and the whole deal.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you ever see the bill?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, I saw the bill. It was over $100,000.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. You're not worth it. You're like, I cap you at 75.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it was. I mean, the insurance certainly came through, but man, oh, man, I compliment the hospital for. Thank them for saving me, but at the same time, it was an interesting experience to hear that from the interns. And how much of that did I need or did I not need? I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's just gonna be tons of it. Reminds me in the movie Raising Arizona. You're going to have disgruntled. The relationship is flawed. Like I said, they got your money. They don't want to pay you the money. You're pissed off. Then there's the part where they go, they're going to raise your rates, like in a car accident, if you report. So then you don't want to report. But in the movie Raising Arizona. Nathan. Arizona, I think was the guy who ran the unfinished furniture place. And it always reminded me, this line that the FBI guy came in and he goes, because his kids got kidnapped. And he goes, you have any disgruntled employees? And he goes, hell yeah, they're all disgruntled. I'm not running a daisy farm. And I thought, I always love that line. But yeah, everyone's gonna be disgruntled who has to deal with the insurance company anyway. They'll find that guy, that murderer, they'll give him manslaughter, and then they'll give the blonde guy who choked out the guy on the subway, murder one. If I know New York, by the.

[Jeff Dunham]

Way, the jury's out on that guy. Right on. Daniel. Yeah, jury's still out. Is jury out? Do they get it?

[Scott Galloway]

No, I don't know. I would have reported it if they did come in. I'm pretty sure.

[Jeff Dunham]

No, but I mean the jury has it now.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, yes.

[Jeff Dunham]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

To the jury. Yes.

[Scott Galloway]

So the longer time it takes, the more likely you're getting off.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it at least because they're arguing?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, exactly. Or it'll be a mistrial. So the longer they're out, usually the better off for the defendant.

[Jeff Dunham]

I, I. How can you convict that guy?

[Adam Carolla]

I know, it's an optics thing and it's driven by this whole sort of race hustle thing. And it's sad and it's scary. That guy, you got a guy running around threatening to kill everybody and threatening everyone on the thing and super comes.

[Jeff Dunham]

In and disables them and now he's going to what?

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, I totally agree. It's all part of the hustle. It's all part of the Russian. That's all this, if you get caught up on the wrong side of it, you're fucked. Sad.

[Jeff Dunham]

So now whatever, anything happens to anybody, everybody's going to do what they most people do anyway. Just walk away.

[Adam Carolla]

Look, yeah, there's no more Good Samaritans.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah, yeah.

[Scott Galloway]

I jump in there. I still jump in.

[Adam Carolla]

You would?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah. Like martial arts skills. I just like. Well, I've done this all my whole life. Let me just make sure not to kill this guy.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, Was the choke cold? Well, actually he was alive after the show called.

[Scott Galloway]

But what he did he break his hyoid bone? I didn't look too deep into it. He like broke his hyoid. If you, if you either you apply a rear naked choke correctly, you cut off both their carotid arteries and the guy just sleeps. But if you do get panicky and do it really hard. You break the bone right here. And then they suffocate on their own throat.

[Adam Carolla]

That's what happened to Epstein.

[Scott Galloway]

It's true.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. It. This is the sound of your ride.

[Unknown Speaker]

Home with dad after he caught you vaping.

[Jeff Dunham]

Awkward, isn't it? Most vapes contain seriously addictive levels of nicotine and disappointment.

[Adam Carolla]

Know the real cost of vapes brought.

[Jeff Dunham]

To you by the FDA?

[Scott Galloway]

Next up, O.J. simpson confessed to killing Nicole Brown Simpson on tape. Ex bodyguard claims, but cops say they have no evidence.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Oh, sex. Sex. Bodyguards are getting a lot of mic time these days. Well, I did these guys. A lot of guys talking.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, I looked into this. What happened really? It seems like. And I'm not certain, but the cops started investigating this guy, a Valley former bodyguard, and they busted him on something else. But during the investigation, he claimed that he had this tape. Well, actually a thumb drive of Simpson admitting to killing Nicole and also implicating an unknown third party in the 1994 double murder.

[Adam Carolla]

Turns out bodyguards and nannies do a lot of talking after the fact.

[Jeff Dunham]

You know, it was a little scary.

[Adam Carolla]

And between the nanny and the bodyguard, that's 247 coverage on you, right?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Because the bodyguard stand out front of the front door, and the nanny's inside the house. Bodyguard standing outside the house. The nanny sees everything you do that goes on inside of that house, and then you walk out of the house, and the bodyguard sees everything you do outside. Everywhere you go, everyone you're with, every phone call you're making from the backseat of the cars, between the nanny and the bodyguard, you're fully covered.

[Jeff Dunham]

Did I ever tell you I did a show for the sequestered O.J. jury?

[Adam Carolla]

What? No. No.

[Jeff Dunham]

So they were providing entertainment for the sequester jury because they were, you know, locked up for however many months it was. And a buddy of mine, I was working again, working the comedy magic club, and a friend of mine who was a magician said, I just did a show for the O.J.

[Adam Carolla]

Jury.

[Jeff Dunham]

I'm like, what? He goes, yeah, call up the Judge Ito's office, and I'm sure they'll book you 94, whatever that year that was. Yeah, so. So. So sure enough, I called him myself, and I said, hi, my name is Jeff Dunham, blah, blah, blah, I love du show. And they came back, and they said, oh, yeah, Jojito said that it'd be great, and, you know, fine.

[Scott Galloway]

Please tell me you brought the beheaded jalapeno.

[Jeff Dunham]

So hold on. So hold on. So they said they're sequestered. So we'll call you the day of the show and tell you where they're going to be, because we can't tell you now, but we'll tell you in time for you to drive there. And I said, okay. And so now I had two weeks, and so I started getting ready, and I thought, I know what I'm going to do. So I built a little judgment dummy.

[Adam Carolla]

Whoa.

[Jeff Dunham]

Little Judge Ito dummy. And my dummy had a dummy. My dummy was a ventriloquist, and his dummy was the judge. So I went to clubs all around the country working on the bit for two weeks. And they said. They said, okay. So they called me a couple hours before or a few hours before, and they said, we need you to come in and run through your act for the six Sheriffs just to make sure everything's going to be okay because you don't want to say anything. It's inappropriate. I'm like, okay. So I went in, I was supposed to do like, 30, 40 minutes, and I went through the act, and then I got to the jojito dummy.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, look, there's a piece.

[Scott Galloway]

I remember this. I remember this. You've done it. You did it on tv. I remember.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. So I pulled out, went through the act, then got to this, and all the sheriffs went, no.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah.

[Scott Galloway]

That was for the stage.

[Jeff Dunham]

No, Judge Ito dummy. Yep, that's right.

[Scott Galloway]

So you're telling me that the reason O.J. got off was because of Peanut?

[Jeff Dunham]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you remember I asked this on an occasion? The trivia of Judge Ito. What did he have on his desk? Now, you made a Judge Ito dummy. And I've asked a lot of people this question.

[Jeff Dunham]

Was it sitting there at all the shows, the Clackers?

[Adam Carolla]

Hold on. Was Jay Moore the only one who knew the answer to this? Yeah, I've asked everybody. Oh, sorry. Mark Garagas, attorney. But that's because he's inside baseball. He knows Ito.

[Jeff Dunham]

Not a clue. Can you see it in the television shows?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. When they. When they did the Made for tv, whatever. The set dresser had to put this stuff on the bench.

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, what was it?

[Scott Galloway]

Give me a hint. I feel like it's in there.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't have. Okay. I don't have time to give you a hint.

[Scott Galloway]

Oh, it's. Oh, it's. He had a variety of hourglass.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jeff Dunham]

Is that right?

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah, I remembered it. Yeah. It was somewhere rolling around in there.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. So J. Moore and you are the only two that I don't know why I remember that. Yeah, he had a whole collection of hourglasses. Even the guy who built the prototype for the puppet, which, by the way, ended up sweeping the nation like Cabbage Patch Dolls. It did shortly there built the prototype. Jeff Dunham. Even he. I thought you would have to get a miniature hourglass and put it on the.

[Jeff Dunham]

I was proud of making the miniature glasses. I actually made the miniature glasses for that dummy.

[Adam Carolla]

You did?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

What do you do? Do you have to make molds and pour resins and stuff?

[Jeff Dunham]

As technology has morphed, so has my figure making ability. So when I was a kid, it was carving it out of wood. As I grew older, then it was sculpt it in clay, make a plaster of Paris mold, and then use plastic wood dough to make the head.

[Scott Galloway]

Now, is it backwards or forwards? Is it like you have the idea for the character and then you.

[Jeff Dunham]

It's always different. But now what I do is I think up something that, you know, I think this would catch on. I think people would identify with this guy. I think it'd be great. And then I make it. And rarely have I ever just picked up a dummy and said, well, this old work.

[Adam Carolla]

But you using a lot of Dremel action?

[Jeff Dunham]

Heck, yeah. But see, now I went from. So the plastic wood dough, then I started doing it in fiberglass. And then when I started, when I got high a couple times too many, then 3D printers came out. So now I just. I build the. The shell of the.

[Adam Carolla]

That's. That's you.

[Jeff Dunham]

So then I build the shell of the head out of a. With a 3D printer. But then you have to put in all the mechanics, which is what I'm doing right there with soldering iron and.

[Adam Carolla]

All that stuff, you know, I know chicks don't care, but I'm impressed. Yeah, Yeah, I think totally impressed.

[Scott Galloway]

Craftsman.

[Jeff Dunham]

That's one of the jokes in my act where Walter, the old guy says, hey, ladies, you want to hear one sentence that no woman in the history of humans has ever said? What's that? Ventriloquist. That's hot.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Speaking of Dremels, you know how expensive those goddamn Dremels used to be?

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. No, they're not.

[Adam Carolla]

Now they're free at Harbor Freight. Use a little tungsten blade on there.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Absolutely.

[Jeff Dunham]

Yeah. I had the whole set. I have, I have.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you got everything. You got the sanding wheels?

[Jeff Dunham]

Oh, yeah, I have.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, now you're building.

[Jeff Dunham]

I've almost cut off fingers. I have holes in my hands from holding things while drilling.

[Adam Carolla]

Jeff, he's got the Workshop. I love it. I think it's important and I think it probably connects you better to, to the, to the puppet, I mean, to the character, to the process. Like, don't you feel, well, don't you.

[Jeff Dunham]

Don'T you like a meal better when you've made it?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, no, I, I agree. I think it's something that people are sort of missing, you know, that sort of build your own tree house, get the guy to come in and do the kit, you know. And I'm like, no, do your own, you know. Yeah, but it's not going to be as good as the guy with the kit and the thing. And it's like, yeah, but it's yours. You did it. Sorry.

[Scott Galloway]

I hear you. No, no stress. Yeah. So the OJ Story is almost a non story. This guy just tried to get out of something for. By saying OJ confessed. He did not.

[Adam Carolla]

Look, he 100% killed her. Not because of any evidence based stuff, but because if there was a person who did kill her, that person at some point would be writing a book, doing it. We would know about it. That person would come forward. Forward, yeah, that's all.

[Scott Galloway]

There's a lawsuit against New York Education Department to move forward after parents say children were discriminated against. This is a win. This is a win for Asian parents because the judge ruled a federal discrimination suit against New York State Education Department can move forward after parents claim that their children, children were unfairly disadvantaged and participating in summer academic program. The basic ins and outs of this is they were allowing black and indigenous children to go into this program for free without checking on anything. And then white and Asian students had to prove that they were low income to apply.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, let me yell for a second. The problem with all the advance this group and advance that group idea is at first blush, it always seems like a good idea where they go, look, we have less women of color doing computer programming. Then we, so we're going to open it up and we're going to encourage them. And you go, okay, that sounds good. Like it, you know, just at first blush. And they go, you know, we don't have enough airline pilots that are women of color. I would argue the whole notion is a little bit flawed. Like guys who drive NASCAR are white and guys who play in the NFL are black. And I'm okay with it. And I think we're all sort of okay with it. It's just this attracts this group and this background and this set of skills and that attracts. And you turn on the NFL on any given Sunday and maybe 11 out of 11 guys on the defensive side of the ball are black. And I'm perfectly okay with that. And so is everybody I know. So it's a little flawed that there's not enough people who look like me who work in this department or I don't care what my nurse is at the hospital. I just want a good nurse. It doesn't bother. But all right, we want to somehow even it out. We want more people of this over here and more, less people of that. Fine. It's a noble notion until we have to start discriminating against people who are qualified to do that job and may come from disadvantaged backgrounds, but their skin's the wrong color. And now we're discriminating against that, which is where this always leads, because it has to lead there immediately. And now I don't like it. Now, why we don't see this coming, I don't know. But it's not just a one way street where it's like, what's wrong with being more inclusive? Nothing. Until you start holding back people who work real hard, who look different, who should be there.

[Jeff Dunham]

Sure.

[Adam Carolla]

That's when the problem.

[Scott Galloway]

Yeah. And that's what this lawsuit's all about. And I don't know, we'll see how that turns out. But yeah, the law lawsuit saw both declaration. Oh, actually it went through. And the judge ruled that the New York Commissioner of Education must answer the organization's complaint by December 6th. So we'll, we'll have an answer here pretty soon.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. Ed Elson, who's a partner in a podcast with our old friend Scott Galloway, is going to join us. He's a writer, he's a podcast. We'll talk to him in a moment. I want to give a plug to Jeff Dunham, the holiday special Jeff Dunham Scrooged up, available on Amazon Prime. And remember, ladies, he makes those puppets himself.

[Jeff Dunham]

I'm good with my hands.

[Adam Carolla]

He's good with his hands, and he's good with a dremel. Jeff. Always great to see, my friend. Live dates coming up. Planet Hollywood in Vegas and then Cure Insurance arena, that's in Trenton. And you can go to jeffdunham.com for events, right, and live dates and stuff like that.

[Jeff Dunham]

And buy tickets only there, because otherwise you'll go somewhere else like StubHub and get scalped and it's not a good thing. I'm worth 50, 60, 70 bucks, not 800.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, agreed. Like I said, with the hospital, $100,000 for Jeff Dunham.

[Jeff Dunham]

But I can still Talk. And I'm here. I'm very happy about it. They're lovely. Hospital.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Jeff Dunham]

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[Jeff Dunham]

So this is August, the stoned pelican. Hit the buffet before him or he'll leave you with none. Oh yes, it's Mike August, the world's cheapest man. Still toilet paper from the hotel can. His name is Michael Ness. He's the world's cheapest one. Keep selling his own grandma for a couple of us. His name is Mike. Youngest stole his brother in law's shoes. Such a pen adventure. People think he's a Jew. Merry Christmas My God. Guest but to this song is about he be pissed if he help.

[Adam Carolla]

But.

[Jeff Dunham]

He'S too tuned out.

[Adam Carolla]

Ed Elson is joining us from New York City. Prof. G Markets is the podcast. It's available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and wherever you find finer podcast. Good to see Ed.

[Unknown Speaker]

Good to see you, Adam. Thank you for having me.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. Financial literacy and the like. It's kind of a weird subject, but you tell me, you know, two of the biggest subjects we should probably know about as Americans is health. You know, seed oil and all the stuff we're talking about now, processed foods and everything.

[Unknown Speaker]

And like, seed oil's number one right now, right?

[Adam Carolla]

That's right. And finance and financial literacy. And it's the two things that are not taught, not discussed, kind of almost avoided. You know, I made it all the way through the LA Unified School District, all the way through the system. It never came up. Seed oil or financial literacy?

[Unknown Speaker]

No, no seed oils in schools right now.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right. Is it, is it intentional or what is it?

[Unknown Speaker]

It's a good question. I really don't know. And it's funny that that's the first question I get because I'm really not a financial example expert. You know, my job is being a podcast host, and the real financial expert is my co host, Scott Galloway, who I know has been on this podcast. So, you know, it's been kind of a learning experience for me too, because I think the reason that our podcast works from a financial literacy perspective is I don't really know what I'm doing either. I think I'm kind of like the rest of us. I haven't really been taught about it, but, you know, the way that our podcast works is Scott's sort of the expert, and we kind of learn about the financial markets together. And it's a learning experience for me, and I hope it's a learning experience for everyone, too.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we're always worried about the chasm between the haves and the have nots. And I'll tell you, I do know a few people that are in the haves department. And those people know how to make money and they know how to leverage money. Money. There's always, you know, you go, well, how do we pay this guy? And they did they just go the deal. They have deals, they have ideas. And then there's my family of origin who knew nothing ever. And I was like, well, if you'd like to bridge the gap between the have and the have nots, you should teach the have nots a little something. Because the haves already know what's going on and they're pulling away 100%.

[Unknown Speaker]

I mean, I think the reality with money is it's a very taboo subject. We're not supposed to talk about money. It's sort of, you know, you're not supposed to bring it up. It's kind of, you're not supposed to ask questions. You're not supposed to really know how much is my colleague making? How much are my friends making? So I think that's why it's a little bit difficult for us to wrap our heads around that, around this stuff, because we're not supposed to talk about it. So I think the first step, if, if you want to figure that out, is at least you got to start by talking about it. So that's what I've at least been trying to do with our podcast. We're just trying to get people to talk about it more. I think the more you talk about something, the more you become interested in it and then hopefully become a little bit better at it.

[Adam Carolla]

It seems like with Trump, the world, I shouldn't say the world. Well, maybe the world, but financially at least the United States people are more optimistic or more willing to. I'll make that purchase of that vintage car or that second home or something because I feel more stable now, I guess. And I'd also. The government has a strange relationship with money because they never stop talking about it. And then they also tell you it's not important, it's not the key to happiness. And then they try to villainize people who do have money. And then they explain, we're going to get money from those people and we're going to give it to you because you don't have money. And it all seems very ass backwards to me.

[Unknown Speaker]

I will say money definitely is the key to happiness. It just plateaus at a certain point. But if you're making a good amount of money, that certainly has a good effect on your happiness. You mentioned the way people are feeling right now. I think it's really interesting. I mean, the way we measure how people are feeling is we have all of these consumer sentiment surveys that the University of Michigan puts out, and that's sort of the step standard metric for how are people feeling about the economy. What's very interesting is if you look at it by political affiliation, basically as soon as Biden was elected before then, Democrats were feeling pretty bad about the economy, Republicans were feeling pretty good about the economy, Biden was elected, and suddenly it flipped. Suddenly people felt very differently. And the Same thing has happened again with Trump. So, I mean, the whole business of trying to get an understanding for how is the economy doing is a very flawed question because ultimately it really has to do with your political affiliation mostly. Right now, Democrats are actually feeling pretty bad about the economy because they kind of irrationally are thinking, well, now that Trump's about to come in, now it's going to screw the economy up, and now I can't spend like I wanted to before. And the opposite is true of Republicans. So the whole psychology of money is very interesting, but it's very much tied into what's happening in politics, and it's not rational.

[Adam Carolla]

I never understood why economics, which you can get a degree in, was so open to debate and not looked at, is more of a. Almost a hard science. You know, there is something. There is something that's attractive about engineering and construction and that kind of stuff, which is my old world, where you just go, well, you have to span a door opening. What size header do you need? And you go, four by four. And then they go, well, what if there's a second story and you're on the first floor? Okay, four by six. All right. What if the door opening is six foot? It's a sliding door. Okay, make it a four. All right, well, what if it's 20ft? Well, you got to put a piece of steel in there or glue, lamb beam or Paralam if you want to pick up that load. Like, look at the calcs. We'll just calc it out. We'll tell you what size header to put up there. And you just go, all right, it is what it is. You can argue all you want about not wanting to buy it. And I never understood why the economy's that way. Or is it because you literally have people go, we'll just print money, and then we'll never have to worry about the deficit or whatever. And you go, that doesn't sound right to me. But half the country goes, oh, yeah, no problem.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's fine.

[Adam Carolla]

And another side just goes, well, you just lower interest rates. And then you, why don't we have more hard, fast facts and truths? We've been doing it for 200, almost 50 years. Why doesn't somebody go, janet Yellen, that's not gonna work. We've calc'd it out. We put it to the engineers. It's not gonna happen. We gotta do something else. Like, why all the arguing? I don't like?

[Unknown Speaker]

I'm completely with you. I wish it were more. I wish it were that simple. I Think the trouble with the economy is that it's all. It's so driven by emotion.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's sort of the truest reflection of humanity that there is. You know, I was just doing a podcast with Scott, and we're talking about spending money and what it sort of says about ourselves. And the thing that I was thinking and that I've been thinking about a lot recently, I think the best way to understand who you are as opposed person is just to look at your bank statement, because that's sort of the reflection of who you are that sort of tells you, these are the people I care about. These are the things that I'm interested in. And this is all to say the economy is just a reflection of ourselves, and humans are very, very complicated. And, you know, all of this stuff that we're talking about in the government, it's all driven by narratives. The stock market is a numbers machine, but it's also a narrative machine. I mean, prices go up when people start getting excited about a certain company. If a company starts talking about AI every two seconds on their earnings calls, which we've been seeing a lot of recently, suddenly people think, oh, the thing's worth more. But we never saw that reflected in their numbers. There are a lot of companies that aren't making money directly off of AI right now, but they're talking about AI a lot. And that gets people excited. That makes the stock price go up. The whole thing is just the truest reflection of people. And people are very irrational and they're.

[Adam Carolla]

Very strange for me, and I know nothing. But I will say, I think the first thing everyone should do is try to own something, buy something, have some land, some property, have something that you own, something you can turn over, create a little generational wealth, leave to somebody like something, you know, and that should be. Everyone's early goal, should be do not rent an apartment, own a condo and live there and see it go up in value, which it inevitably will. There'll be some peaks and some valleys, but big picture, it all goes. It goes up. It's. When you. When you go into a steakhouse that was founded in, you know, 1929, every once in a while they have the old menu. You know, they go, porterhouse steak, $0.89. You know, and you go, oh, God. I always question the wisdom of them doing that because it makes me angry because I just got charged $42 for a shrimp cocktail, and I could have bought this restaurant for $42 when this menu came out. But that's right, it'll go up as Shores. Porterhouse steak was a buck 29 at that restaurant, and it's now $67. That's what will happen to it. There may be some years in there where it dipped down a little bit or whatever. But big picture, that's where your condo or house is going, right?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, I think big picture, the stock market, especially the US Stock market, goes up. That's, that's definitely an important thing for people to understand. But you brought up the idea that, you know, we should be owning stuff. And it sounds kind of trite and simple, but what you say is very, very true. And I'm sure Scott might have talked about this with you on the podcast, but that is the really, the rift that's going on with my generation. I'm 25 years old, I'm in Gen Z. And the older generations, which is the older generations own stuff. And that's how primarily how they make their income. They own stocks, and maybe they get dividends off of those stocks or they own houses and maybe they can borrow against those assets. Those generations own all of that stuff. The trouble with my generation is the way that we make our money is through earned income. And increasingly in America, earned income can't really buy you anything. So, you know, you mention the cost of housing going up. The average cost of a home for my grandparents and their generation was about three times their annual income. And for my generation, it is seven times our annual income.

[Adam Carolla]

So if you made, if your grandparents made 25 grand a year, then they would buy a $75,000 house, and that was about what it was. And now it's 7.

[Unknown Speaker]

The median house price today is $420,000,000. It's at a record high. And the median age of a home buyer, someone buying a house today, is also at a record high. It's 56 years old. So the reality is that assets, as you say, continue to go up. We're seeing massive stock market returns. But income, if you just look at the amount of money that we're making on salary, it's barely moving. And the trouble for our generation is we don't own a lot of stuff. We don't really own houses, and we don't own as many stocks as the other generations. So in a lot of ways, we are getting screwed by that dynamic that you have just described there, which is that it is so much better in America to be an owner versus an earner.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. And things you don't know when you come from poverty is if you bought something and it's gone up in value and you want to buy something else and you can use the equity against the new loan. And as you brought up, but it's owning something and having equity and having it go up. It's really kind of a Swiss army knife. It's not just about selling it and turning a profit. You can use it many other ways. And I agree. I would have. I live in LA. Junker houses are one $1.9 million crazy. It's crazy. And, you know, school teacher makes $51,000 a year. How's that going to work?

[Unknown Speaker]

It's not going to happen.

[Adam Carolla]

It's not going to happen. And it's for a pretty crappy ranch house somewhere in Burbank. And I'm like, what are the kids doing? And when I say kids, I mean you. How are they going to own a home, by the way? What are the, do they aspire to it or do they just throw in the towel and go, Look, I'm going GrubHub. I'm going to go Uber. I'm going to eat gummy edibles, I'm going to watch you porn and I'm going to play video games. And that's right. I feel like a lot of young people just went, screw it, I'm going the opposite direction. Direction. I'm just going to get high, watch my big screen TV at home, call grubhub and call the life. I don't want to own anything. I don't want to deal with a car, I don't want to deal with a house. I don't want anything.

[Unknown Speaker]

You nailed it. All of that stuff is a lot easier. But does our generation dream of owning a home? Yes. But I think a lot of us also dream about becoming movie stars and pop stars. It's just, it's, it's increasingly becoming a pipe dream. So that's one of my big, big issues right now. I think what's really interesting that has happened since Trump was elected is how the, how the housing market has reacted. Specifically the real estate stocks like Redfin and Zillow and Compass. As soon as he got elected, all of those stocks decided declined. And so I'm reading what is the market telling us? I'm trying to remove any biases I may have. What the market is telling us right now with this new administration is that the expectation is that with tariffs that he's talked about, he's going to increase tariffs on stuff that we import into the US we're going to see higher inflation, which is going to lead to Higher rates and ultimately higher mortgage rates. So there's one thing going on here what makes housing costs expensive. It's one mortgage rates. And it's also the price and mortgage rates are going to go up. And the other problem is that the tariffs are also going to increase the cost of goods that come into the US in order to build houses. So we have this one, two punch that the markets are telling us right now. The market believes mortgage rates will go up and housing prices will go up. And so the already astronomical cost of housing. Housing is just going to increase. That's at least what. What is expected on Wall street right now. So I'm, I'm very worried about it. I hope that he does something in the opposite direction. He's talked a lot about how he wants to increase housing supply. I really do hope that happens because the issue is. Yeah. That there are just. There are not enough houses out there right now. We can't afford them.

[Adam Carolla]

I suspect he will cuz of of his because he has an ego and also because he's a building in, you know, formerly commercial buildings. I hope so. It would be nice to get more stock, to get more domiciles, more physical buildings. I mean, yes, we can talk interest rates and we can talk materials, and that's all a big part of it. But at some point. It's inventory, man.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's inventory, but the materials. I mean, if you're going to build the houses, you need to ship stuff in and build them. You also need workers. So if you've got immigration crackdowns and deportations, it's going to constrict the construction worker market as well, which is going to be a problem. So look, I completely agree with you. Supply is the problem. We need to build more houses. So what I'm thinking about is how are we going to do that? How are we going to make it cheaper to build houses? How do we incentivize construction companies to just build more?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you know, Scott and I always talk about the trades and you know, as you know, that's a passion of his and it's a passion of mine as well. So we're going to need like trade jobs and. Trades. Trades, sorry. Yeah, still electricians, plumbers, carpenters and all that kind of stuff. You know, I don't think it's one solution. Like I'm in California. We need to deregulate a little bit. It can't take two years and $1 million to build one unit for a homeless shelter. At some point we're going to have to reel in the regulation. We're going to have to expedite this, and we're just going to have to treat it like they do in wartime when they just go. Or in Covid times or something. We're going to expedite this. We're going to fast forward this thing that usually takes years and is covered with too much red tape. We have an emergency, we have a lack of housing. We're gonna. We're gonna treat it like the space program in the mid-60s. We're just going for it.

[Unknown Speaker]

Absolutely. You know, and we're gonna piss some people off. We're gonna have to make some compromises. There are gonna be some people in those areas who don't want that housing construction bill.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Unknown Speaker]

I just think about what's happening in New York right now. There's this little garden called the Elizabeth Street Garden, and it's where all these young sort of hip people get together and they. They drink coffee and they read the newspaper and they hang out and they take Instagrams. And the plan right now in New York is to build housing on that garden. And it's so funny, I see all the people my age who are protesting, they're saying, no, don't get rid of the Elizabeth Street Garden. That's where I like to drink my lattes. And it's like, well, at a certain point, we're going to have to compromise somewhere. Maybe you can get rid of the God and that you like to hang out with, hang out in sometimes and take nice Instagrams. We have to make some compromises.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they're going to be some, you know, first world problems, we call it. You know, we're going to have to.

[Unknown Speaker]

Find a way to say it.

[Adam Carolla]

Piss off. Somebody here on the Coastal Commission is not going to be happy about something we're doing, but tough shit. We have people living in the streets and young families who, you know, the guy works at the Ikea, the woman's a schoolteacher, and they're going to be renters for the rest of their natural lives if we don't.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's exactly right.

[Adam Carolla]

Get some inventory going. And then some of it is innovation, too. The workforce can be innovated to a degree. It's not going to take as many people to build an apartment. Apartment complex as it did through mechanization and innovation and things of that nature as well.

[Unknown Speaker]

I hope so. I hope so.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I mean, you really look. You already see it in some regard, because when I used to do it, they dropped the drywall off on the front yard. And then the guy would say, all right, take the drywall and put it upstairs in the master bedroom, you know. And it was two guys just carrying drywall all day. And now they got the, now they got the rig with the scooper and the lifter and they just bring it up, slide it off. You know, it's, it's exactly, it's, it's, it is mechanized. Every time you see a bobcat digging a swimming pool, instead of a guy with a shovel, you know, it's one guy working a bobcat and 10 guys with a shovel are getting replaced.

[Unknown Speaker]

Have you seen those videos of in China where you see the Chinese construction setup where they have these machines that build a highway in like a week and it's like the same amount of time that in America takes months? I mean, yeah, if we can figure out a way to automate this stuff, I'm all for it. The point for me is figure something out. Because the price of housing is just totally, totally crazy. And for people like me who want to own a home and who are young and who need to figure out a way to get our hands on assets and actually own stuff versus just be on a payroll, that's the number one issue that we need to figure out.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I agree. And like you said, we're gonna have to shut down a park where people like to sip lattes. And whenever somebody talks about innovation, they go, well, what about the guys who dig pools by hand? Where are they gonna work? It's like, I don't know. Sorry, sorry, we got about.

[Unknown Speaker]

I'm completely with you.

[Adam Carolla]

And by the way, if I know history, they'll land on their feet somewhere doing something else.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the way innovation works.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's the way it works. It creates more value, which ultimately creates more jobs. I mean, the more we can automate over the long term, it's going to create a lot more value. It's going to make us all a lot more prosperous. Prosperous. And ultimately it will create more jobs to do. It'll give us new opportunities to do other jobs.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right, yeah. It's funny, very recently when we talked about innovation, we talked about kiosks at fast food places and robots to flip hamburgers. And we're like self driving trucks. A lot of these guys are going to be out of work now. It looks like AI people out of work more than it is truck drivers. Does that feel about right to you?

[Unknown Speaker]

I think what we're seeing with AI right now is you'll See a little. You'll see a round of layoffs and you'll see at some, I don't know, Enterprise SaaS company, maybe 200 people were laid off. And that sucks for them, but I'm sure they will find. They'll find work elsewhere. But ultimately what is happening, happening is we're seeing an increase in investment in these companies to build out new businesses and businesses that could only be enabled by having AI in the first place. And so I think what we're going to see is once you have AI agents on your side in a business, it allows you to explore other opportunities in the business world. And I think that's where we're going to see more jobs. But honestly, we're like in phase one of AI, so there's a lot of, you know, doomsday predictions and predictions going in the other way about what AI is going to do. And we haven't really seen real effects so far. Right now I think people are more excited about actually investing in AI and sort of riding the AI wave than they are actually making money off of the AI businesses themselves.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, interesting. And again, it's innovation. Innovation initially puts certain people out of jobs, but big picture creates more.

[Unknown Speaker]

It always creates jobs. That's what we found. Every time there's a new technology, we all think it's the end of the world. But I mean, just look through all of human history. I mean, the fact that we have cultural allows us to do so much more.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, it's really. But it's also sort of tough shit. Like, my feeling is like, look, we're moving forward. We're human beings. That's what we do. I don't really care about the ramifications. And you know, we do. No, I don't. I just mean tough. We're moving forward. That's who we are as a species. And you know, you hear about it like, Los Angeles, Los Angeles. I think I was quoting this the other day. Their harbor, their port is like the. We don't. The United States doesn't have. In terms of port efficiency. We don't have any ports in the top 40 or the top 50 in the United States in terms of long, short efficiency. Efficiency. It's because all the other ports in Innovate and we don't. Because we have unions. And our unions stipulate that we don't automate. You know what I mean? And I'm like, so we're artificially retarding our ability to unload goods at the port of Los Angeles because there's some guy who makes 180 grand a year with a high school education who's had his job for 26 years and likes it. And then they're going to unionize, and then we're going to get our asses kicked by Singapore and every other harbor because we won't invest in innovation because we're retarding this process, and it slows things down and it makes things more expensive. And my feeling is, sorry, longshoreman guy, tough shit.

[Unknown Speaker]

Look, I agree with you, but there's an important distinction here. The longshoremen got what they want, wanted. And the reason they got what they wanted is because they actually still have the leverage. They said, you know, if you don't give us what we want, we're just going to stop and it'll completely freeze the US Economy. So they had some serious bargaining power. And, you know, that union negotiation actually kind of went their way. The where it's really embarrassing, to your point, was with the writers strike, in my view, because the writers said, you're not allowed to use AI. And the Netflixes and the Warner Brothers and all of the entertainment companies said, we're going to use AI. And the writers said, well, then we're going to strike. And they said, okay, you can strike. Because the reality with that negotiation is that the writers actually didn't have the real leverage there. Netflix has a huge amount of content that they can just churn out. And honestly, it was kind of nice for them. They didn't have to be paying writers for about six months. So I think that's a very real conversation. It's like every worker should come to terms with the fact, yeah, you're going to have to digitize and embrace technology. But there are certain negotiations where some people have more power. And the longshoremen actually did have a lot of power in that negotiation.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they did get to what they wanted to the tune of, I don't know, they got like, a 40% bump.

[Unknown Speaker]

In five, and they're already being paid very, very well. I mean, look, their demands were, in a lot of ways, I think, to people like us, we would say that it's probably unreasonable. But unlike the writers, they had serious leverage there, and they had to capitulate.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I. You know, I always would say to people, it's not what you think you're worth, it's what does the boss think you're worth.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the person you got to think about, because no one feels like if.

[Unknown Speaker]

You want to get into a fight, you better. Really, really strongly believe I'm worth this much. You got to have a lot of conviction in that belief.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you don't believe it, make sure the guy on the other side of the table believes it. All right, Ed, let me give you a plug. Prof. G Markets is the name of the pod. Of course, you and SC Scott, our friend Scott Galloway as well. Where should people Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Wherever you find finer podcasts. Is there anywhere else you want me to send people, Ed?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, go check out Profg Markets. We're also on YouTube and you can follow me on social media. Ed Elson. It's Ed. Underscore. Elson Underscore. And that's about it.

[Adam Carolla]

Thanks, Ed. It was nice talking to you.

[Unknown Speaker]

Very nice to talk to you, Adam, from me. Appreciate it.

[Adam Carolla]

We'll talk soon. All right. I am going to be Saturday in Phoenix at the Hilton Phoenix Tapatio Cliffs Resort. I'll be there with Craig Shoemaker doing stand up there. Then Pasadena, then New York, then Solana beach and Covina and Naples. Also Jeff Dunham. Jeff Dunham. Scrooged up is the name of the special. I highly recommend it. That is on Amazon prime as well. Until next time, Z Fred Elson and Jeff Dunham and Mayhem Miller saying mahalo.

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