Comedian Jim Florentine + Author Anson Frericks

Summary

Adam Carolla Show Episode Summary Title: Comedian Jim Florentine + Author Anson Frericks
Release Date: January 30, 2025
Guests: Jim Florentine, Anson Frericks
Host: Adam Carolla

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1. Introduction

The episode kicks off with Adam Carolla welcoming listeners back to the show, introducing his guests: comedian Jim Florentine and author Anson Frericks. Carolla teases an engaging conversation about current cultural phenomena and corporate dynamics.

2. Stand-Up Comedy and the Path to Success

Jim Florentine shares his early experiences in stand-up comedy, highlighting the necessity of abandoning day jobs to pursue his passion fully.

"[00:03:38] Jim Florentine: 'I just knew I didn't want to work a day job, and I was landscaping before construction...'"

Carolla emphasizes the role of desperation in fueling creativity and success in comedy.

"[00:05:49] Adam Carolla: 'There’s a lot to be said for desperation... I was desperate...'"

3. Parenting and Instilling Work Ethic

The conversation shifts to parenting strategies for instilling discipline and work ethic in children. Both Carolla and Florentine discuss unconventional methods they've employed to motivate their kids.

"[00:04:58] Jim Florentine: 'I could pay my bills and...'"
"[00:05:18] Adam Carolla: 'You need to show up, get in your fucking uniform, punch in, do your job...'"

Florentine recounts encouraging his nephew to embrace tough jobs to avoid falling into poverty, underscoring the importance of hard work.

4. Critique of Lori Walensky and Vaccine Policies

A significant portion of the episode features a heated critique of Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC. Carolla and Florentine express strong skepticism about her stance on vaccines and her qualifications for overseeing major health agencies.

"[00:38:14] Unknown Speaker: '...Bobby is unqualified to fill...'"
"[00:40:35] Adam Carolla: '...you're too dangerous to be left out on the street...'"

Carolla references a prerecorded statement by Walensky, challenging her credibility and accusations of dishonesty regarding vaccine policies.

"[00:52:35] Adam Carolla: 'She literally said it was safe to open schools...'"

5. Corporate Woke Culture and Its Consequences

Author Anson Frericks introduces his book "Last Call for Bud Light", discussing the broader implications of corporate America embracing progressive agendas. The guests debate the effectiveness and authenticity of DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) initiatives.

"[00:87:38] Anson Freericks: 'The bigger story... corporate America over the last 10 years...'"

Florentine and Carolla critique how companies like Bud Light have shifted away from their traditional branding to adopt "woke" policies, leading to significant losses in sales and customer trust.

"[00:117:27] Adam Carolla: 'Corporate America just started proselytizing...'"
"[00:119:08] Jim Florentine: '...Bud Light is like, it's not that great of a beer...'"

6. Authenticity vs. Performative Activism

The discussion delves into the contrast between authentic corporate values and performative activism. The guests argue that brands lose credibility when they adopt social justice agendas that seem insincere or opportunistic.

"[00:116:33] Adam Carolla: 'It's a legal sanctioned grift...'"
"[00:117:10] Adam Carolla: '...they don't care about this criminal that got killed...'"

7. NFL and Social Justice Initiatives

The conversation touches on the National Football League's (NFL) involvement in social justice, particularly the challenges of integrating DEI policies within sports organizations. Florentine points out the paradox of high player salaries but low representation in coaching positions.

"[00:138:15] Jim Florentine: 'If you had 90% white guys on a team...'"
"[00:139:43] Adam Carolla: 'They just keep going...'"

8. Wildfires and Utility Company Negligence

Briefly, the show addresses recent wildfires in Los Angeles, attributing them to neglected utility infrastructure. The guests express frustration over corporate negligence and the resultant legal battles.

"[00:84:59] Adam Carolla: 'We're just gonna burn to the ground...'"
"[00:85:51] Jim Florentine: 'It's always, we need more money...'"

9. Personal Anecdotes and High School Pranks

In a lighter segment, the hosts share personal stories about high school pranks, such as placing scrotum images on cakes, illustrating the rebellious and humorous side of their lives.

"[00:80:17] Adam Carolla: 'We just got it...'"
"[00:82:35] Jim Florentine: 'I would love to be getting questioned...'"

10. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

As the episode wraps up, Carolla encourages listeners to engage with Jim Florentine's latest book and upcoming live shows. The discussion reinforces the guests' skepticism towards corporate progressivism and emphasizes the importance of authenticity in branding.

"[00:105:18] Adam Carolla: 'George Floyd's birthday...'"
"[00:111:30] Adam Carolla: 'If you thought Subaru or Budweiser cared...'"

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

1. Jim Florentine on Abandoning Day Jobs:

   "[00:03:38] Jim Florentine: 'I just knew I didn't want to work a day job, and I was landscaping before construction...'"

2. Adam Carolla on Desperation Fueling Creativity:

   "[00:05:49] Adam Carolla: 'There’s a lot to be said for desperation... I was desperate...'"

3. Jim Florentine on Parenting and Work Ethic:

   "[00:04:58] Jim Florentine: 'I could pay my bills and...'"

4. Critique of CDC Leadership:

   "[00:38:14] Unknown Speaker: '...Bobby is unqualified to fill...'"

5. Discussion on Corporate Woke Culture:

   "[00:87:38] Anson Freericks: 'The bigger story... corporate America over the last 10 years...'"

6. Adam Carolla on Corporate Insincerity:

   "[00:116:33] Adam Carolla: 'It's a legal sanctioned grift...'"

7. Jim Florentine on NFL Hiring Practices:

   "[00:138:15] Jim Florentine: 'If you had 90% white guys on a team...'"

8. Adam Carolla on Corporate America’s Shift:

   "[00:117:27] Adam Carolla: 'Corporate America just started proselytizing...'"

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This episode presents a candid and unfiltered discussion on the intersections of comedy, corporate culture, and societal issues. Through personal anecdotes and sharp critiques, Adam Carolla and his guests explore the challenges of maintaining authenticity in a rapidly evolving cultural landscape.

Transcript

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[Adam Carolla]

Hey, in this episode, Very funny. Comedian Jim Florentine is back in Studio Mayhem's doing the news. Anson Freirex is going to join us. He's go woke, go broke. It's kind of his phrase. Got a book out called Last Call for Bud Light. Very interesting conversation. We'll do all that right after this.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Jim Floyd Florentine and author of Last Call for Bud Light, Anson Freirex. Plus the news and trending topics with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now telling the Coastal Commission to make like the Beaches they love and pound Sam.

[Jim Florentine]

Adam Corolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Get it on. Got to get on the chest. We're gonna make. Get it on. We got Jim Florentine back in the studio. Good to see you, Jim.

[Jim Florentine]

Good. See you too, Adam.

[Adam Carolla]

Jim's got a special out. It's very funny. You can't please them all. And that's available on Amazon Prime. Also, live dates all over the place. And you can go to jimflorentin.com find out where he's coming to a town near you. Spreading the mirth. Journeyman comedian, you know, that's what we do. Yeah, I agree. I don't know you. You seem like a guy who probably had. Well, there's two kinds of comedians. There's the. I had a normal job. My dad worked at a. You know, we had this construction firm, and I had to work, you know, for his outfit. And then there's. I started doing standup when I was 13. Guys. You know who I hate? Yeah. Cause I'm jealous. I'm like, how the hell did you know what you were doing in the seventh grade? It's like, my mom would drive me into town. I've got. Now I'm really mad. And she'd wait outside, and I'd do a set in the club. It's like, you didn't have pubes. How did this work?

[Jim Florentine]

I just knew I didn't want to work a day job, and I was landscaping before construction, so I was like, I had nothing to fall back on. So once I got in, I go, I got nothing. I can't go back to a career where I can make some money, so I'm fully in.

[Anson Freirex]

You could always fall back on poverty.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, well, I mean, you know, look, when I was making, like, 350 bucks a week, I was like, I made it to me. I was like, this is unbelievable.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just.

[Jim Florentine]

I could pay my bills and.

[Anson Freirex]

And no calories on the hands.

[Adam Carolla]

Working landscaping is one of those, you know, scared straight kind of jobs that really make you go, listen, everybody. Everyone goes, you have to inspire kids, and you have to show them, and you have to, you know, you have to expose them to the arts, and you have to bring them to museums, and you have to bring them to the symphony, and you have to inspire them and expose them to art. It's like, no, you have to scare the shit out of them. You want to work at fucking Burger king when you're 55? No, you don't. So get your shit together. Like, it's a Scared Straight situation. I always had this fantasy that I would take my son to Home Depot and find anyone who worked there that was over the age of 70 and just go like, hey, old timer, can you give me a hand? He'd be like, what do you need, some couplings? No, I need you to tell my son what went wrong.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, you're right.

[Adam Carolla]

You tell him what you did to end up at the Burbank Home Depot at 74 years old, making $14 an hour. And you listen, boy.

[Jim Florentine]

No, I always took, like, the shittiest jobs, knowing I gotta get out of this. I'd bring my notebook on the site and write jokes. When I first started doing comedy, I still had the day job. I'm like, I got. This is motivating me. I tell my nephew, take the shittiest job. Cause he wants to be in a band. And believe me, you will write and you will get out of this eventually. Don't get some cushy job.

[Adam Carolla]

People chalk up a lot of this to some sort of inspiration and creativity. There's a lot to be said for desperation. I was desperate. People said, like, why'd you get into comedy? I wanted air conditioning. I was desperate. I drove a truck with no air. I lived in an apartment with no air. There was no air conditioning. The job site had no air. I want to get into air conditioning. That was a prime motivator for me to get into show business.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, it's. No, I mean, that's. That's what you got to do. And then once you start doing it like this. I'm getting paid to tell jokes. This is crazy.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, and free beer.

[Jim Florentine]

Free beer. But no, no health insurance. Instead of health insurance, like, you got nothing. You just hope, like, if you get hurt, you're in your car because the car insurance will help you. Well, we'll pay you your health insure. Like, if you break a leg while you're driving, that's the only way you're covered. But you got hot chicks, so that was your health. I said, this is going to be a health insurance till you start making money.

[Adam Carolla]

I was thinking about the super fat chick who just is suing Lyft. She's in the news. I wear the wrapper right. It's great. It's such a. I will include that in the time capsule so that future generations could study us and figure out what the fuck happened. You know what I mean? We should include that. There's a Joe. I can't remember if we're playing it or not, but yeah, we played The Wisconsin city council, like, arguing over whether they can fly the gay flag year round or the community or whatever. And I just thought, that's going in the time capsule. Just so people generations from now can go back and go, what the fuck were they talking about? Like, what were they thinking? And then they'd be perplexed. They'd be like, they landed on the moon in 68. 69. Yeah. And then 47 years later, they were arguing about this fat bitch and whether she could get in the back of a car. Yeah, yeah. That's what they devolved into. But I was thinking about it. There's a lot of argument over, did the tires have enough tread on them to handle her fat ass? Could she have fit in there if she'd got a running start?

[Jim Florentine]

I said, the only way she can win is if a tractor trailer picked her up. And they said, no, right? Then maybe she has a case with lube.

[Anson Freirex]

You could shove anybody anywhere.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I guess he could have taken her down to the truck scales and gotten an accurate reading on her. You know what I mean? And say these axles only rated to £500, but okay. But I was more thinking about how she dressed because she was wearing yoga pants and a sports bra.

[Jim Florentine]

Hot.

[Anson Freirex]

Oh, sorry, sorry.

[Adam Carolla]

Let me just say something. If you get to £500 and you still don't have big titties, that's a deal breaker for me. You're packing an extra 25. But you got the big titties. I can look the other way at the wide ass.

[Anson Freirex]

I don't know. I'm living life on easy street. I developed a grimace fetish.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, she's yours, though.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, she's mine.

[Adam Carolla]

But she somehow managed to get to £600 and still have a B cup, which is, like, that's undoable for a woman. Like, I mean, there is a part where you go, yeah, the old lady's packed on 40 pounds, but her titties are decomposing now, right? She got the big titties now, right?

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

She managed to get to 600 pounds and still not have large breasts, which is. I. If I got to £600, my titties would be much bigger than hers.

[Jim Florentine]

Absolutely none of that weight that went there.

[Adam Carolla]

Which is weird, right?

[Jim Florentine]

It is. Because usually when a woman puts on weight, though, they go to the titties.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah. All right.

[Jim Florentine]

She did get in the ass.

[Anson Freirex]

She got some titties on her thighs.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I guess.

[Anson Freirex]

Looks like her pockets are fully fun.

[Adam Carolla]

She's got thigh Titties, I'll give you that. All right, so let's just. But here's what I'm saying. She's walking around in a sports bra and yoga pants and. Okay, first things first. Like, I don't even know who manufactures sports bra that would work as a bra on an rv, you know what I mean? Like, why, you know, when you're sitting around, you're a company, you know, you go, well, we'll. We'll do petite and we'll do medium, and then we'll do. We'll do large and then we'll do XL and. But XL stops at a 200 pound woman, right? Is there. Who is she making? Is she going on Amazon and looking.

[Anson Freirex]

Up sports bras in gargantuan?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it'd be. It'd be like, if I go, I'm going to, honey, go to Amazon. Give me a pair of Nikes. I need some running shoes. What size shoe are you? 27. They just go, well, then we're not gonna be able to. They're not gonna have that. They're gonna stop at 15 or something, you know what I mean? So where's she getting the sports bra, Jim?

[Jim Florentine]

That's gotta. It looks like, you know, maybe it's cut from a tarp.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, okay. Yeah, so they used like a cover, like an RV cover.

[Anson Freirex]

Parachute material.

[Adam Carolla]

They made it.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah. And even the yoga pants.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, here's what I'm saying. And this is a new world order. Fat women. Back in the day, we had fat women. There were sort of few and far between. They're kind of a novelty.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Remember the joy, like this simple joy as a youth of just spotting a fatso at like a Sears, you know what I mean? Like when you're 11 and you just see some fat guy come around the corner in the tool aisle or something, and it was like you'd go grab your buddy who was over looking at camping and go, kurt, come here. You know, the fat guy was 265, you know what I mean? But it was like, had the belt, you know, the shirt tucked in and stuff, and you go get your friend. Like, this is a fat ass. Come here. Like it was a fucking novelty. Like it was. It was Haley's Comet. Like, it was like, you gotta check this out. Like, look at this guy. It was a, like a novelty form of entertainment. Now everyone's fat. You go to Disneyland, everyone's in a scooter, right? But women who were fat in my day, in the past, wore a muumu. You Had a fat outfit. And the mumu was there to cover up as much of you as humanly possible. Because this was your shame to have let yourself get to this shape. And by the way, the moomoo move. Moo moos. You know, at about 195 you slid into a moomoo. You didn't start at 300 and you were ashamed. And you just walk out wearing a tarp on your head.

[Jim Florentine]

And it was always black to cover up that you weren't that big because that would cover up a lot of the fat.

[Adam Carolla]

You wanted the vertical stripe mumu, right?

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, yep.

[Adam Carolla]

And I started to think about it and I was like, yeah, we had an outfit for fat women called a moo moo. Also in a weird way, weirdly named, like the sound that a cow makes.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Probably not a great name for something. It would entice women. Like, why don't you call it a oink oink? It's a weird name. Moo moo. Like that's gonna shame women before they even try it on. But I started and then I started thinking. So back in the day, but this is what I'm saying, we had a good old fashioned shamed based culture. People didn't spit their gum on the ground, they didn't fight with cops, they didn't fight on southwest flights, they didn't cuss people out behind counters for being out of catch up and shit. Like we had a shame that would be. If you were fat, you were shamed. You wanted to cover every square inch of your body you possibly could.

[Jim Florentine]

And at the beach, you weren't wearing a bikini.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, not even clothes. You wouldn't even go to the beach.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, you wouldn't even go. You would keep your clothes on. If you did go to the beach.

[Adam Carolla]

You might have a beach moo moo.

[Anson Freirex]

That's what I was thinking.

[Adam Carolla]

Just sit in your reinforced folding chair and just put on your big hat. And then I started realizing, I said the muumu thing isn't even that old. I went back, I was like thinking about like, I think in hee Haw, one of the wives, one of the mean wives, wore the moomoo. But then I started thinking, the Drew Carey show had that character who was the crazy chick who wore too much eyeliner. She basically wore a muumu.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

That'S a modern day mumu. We're going back to the late 90s here, people. This is modern moo. And then I started thinking part. So here's what I'm saying. There's a Psychological dynamic here. The rapper chick who's suing Lyft and showing up at her press conferences in her yoga pants and her sports bra and her gut just like slopping out all over the place. It's just grabbing that microphone and putting her triple chin into it and yelling about it. And she's not ashamed. She's showing it off. She's. She's proud.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, we've been in the move away from moo Moo moment.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Moo Moo Moo Moo lady, the guy would have went, you're too fat for the Prius. And she went, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I'm so. And then went home and like dove into a bucket of Haagen Dazs. It's like a big eat shame, you know what I mean? And crying, crying with every. Maybe a wooden spoon, a big wooden spoon. Haagen Dazs between the big fat thighs and tears just coming down, melting that freezer burn, you know, just that. That was the Moomoo chick. Now I'm gonna take my. My fat ass gut and lawyer up and fuck you. That's where we're at now. Yeah, I want to get back to the shame.

[Jim Florentine]

You would think that you'd wear a mumu maybe just to cover up. You. Maybe you feel bad for like, oh man, she's been. But when you dress like that, like you're almost a stripper coming out like a stripper. And also I noticed in stand up used to be always able to do fat jokes on stage. I used to have like five minutes.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, right.

[Jim Florentine]

Every new set I had and they would always work and then all of a sudden, no more. Unless you're a fat guy.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, you do fat guy stuff.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, fat guys could do fat jokes, but if you're a skinny guy, they just stare at you like it's a race joke, right? You can't make fun of fat people. And that's changed over the last like 10, 12 years on stage.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, so shame is kind of the mortar that holds the bricks of society together. Shame, like people go, oh, you ever go to Tokyo? There's no gum on the ground, there's no litter, there's no anything. I go, yeah, they're shame based, right? They would fuck someone up who spit gum out. We got gum spitting all over the place because we don't. We don't give a fuck. Yoga pants, sports bras and gum everywhere. Shame based. Shame is what makes you get dressed to go on a commercial flight and not in cutoff sweats and flip flops. Right? It keeps shame is sort of like driving their car. Like, I was driving through Manhattan. I was there a month ago, and it was 34 degrees outside. And there's a dude driving his wagon with all the windows down and the stereo just cranked all the way up like rap. But basically it was a polar vortex inside of his suv. But he still needed all the windows down so that you could hear his shitty music and everyone could hear his shitty music. Shame based societies don't put up with that shit. They don't put up with any of this shit. And we decided a few years ago, and I've always said they started saying it like 25 years ago. They go, you can't judge. You can't judge. You can't profile. You can't judge. I go, no, yes, you can. You have to. You must judge. You can't judge. Yes, you can. I judge all the time. It's all I do is profile and judge, judge and profile. But you can't just. You want your. If your neighbor takes an old fucking beaten up sofa and just parks it on his dirt lawn and leaves it there, start fucking judging. He's fucking up your neighborhood.

[Jim Florentine]

Yep. No, you're right. That whole shame word came in. You can't shame. You're shaming. You know, don't you know people have.

[Adam Carolla]

No fucking shame now? That's the. That's the problem. They used to say, have you no shame?

[Jim Florentine]

And then, remember? And then punching down. Oh, you're punching down on your jokes. Punch up.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Jim Florentine]

So that was a big thing too. If you punch down, you were frowned upon.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Listen, I have the experience and the. I got a front row seat to poor people because I grew up with them. Funny. Drew would always go, doctor. Drew's dad was a doctor. And he'd always go, my dad, like, had money, but he was a child of the depression. And he would always worry about it, you know, and he would say, you're going to take us to the poorhouse you keep spending. You know, Drew would buy a peachy folder or something. His dad would go, we're going to end up at the poor house with you. And he said to me once, he goes, your dad ever do that one on you? And I go, no, he didn't try that. And he's like, why not? I go, we lived in the poor house. That's our house. Where are we going? We're already there.

[Jim Florentine]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

So these people were not noble, they were not hardworking, they were not inherently honest. There was nothing about them that was good at all. They were fucking lazy and. And blamed everyone else and couldn't fuck. They didn't have the work ethic to get their shit together to have a fucking decent life. And they know they weren't inherently anything. They weren't noble at all. They were basically lazy and they didn't really pay very much in taxes, and that was about it. They did a lot of finger pointing about this guy with his Cadillac and his big house, but they were just jealous. And they're fucking lazy and they had a shitty work ethic. That's who they were. And not particularly motivated. Certainly didn't do any philanthropic shit. They didn't take care of anybody else. There was no volunteering. There was no taking care of. They didn't take care of their kids. They didn't take care of the fucking elderly lady down the street. They took care of themselves. That was their number one job. And they're fucking poor and lazy. And then later on I got rich and I started hanging around with rich guys. And they're vastly more philanthropic. They're smarter. They spend much more time mentoring and giving their time to other people as well as, like, paying taxes and not committing crimes. So fuck you poor people and stop. Stop making it like you're not all noble. A lot of you are just lazy. Yeah. And you fucking drink too much and you do too much externalizing.

[Anson Freirex]

So you're saying you're a communist?

[Adam Carolla]

Hmm? No, I'm the opposite. I know I am. All the rich people I met, it wasn't even like, forget the fact that no one in my family paid jack shit in taxes. Forget about that and forget about whatever. However much Jimmy Kimmel pays the state and pays the nation in taxes every year. Forget about just the millions of dollars that these guys generate. He's actually a nicer, more decent person who would do more for other people. Like, it's, it's not just, oh, he's paying, you know, he's. He's paying more or these people are paying more. I found them to be much more generous with their time, much more involved with their family and their own kids and other people's kids and stuff. They're just better.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So knock it off with the fucking nobility and all this shit. Every time I hear somebody like, these are hardworking people, mostly drinkers who forgot to pull out, now they got a couple of fucking kids.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Thank you.

[Jim Florentine]

Nine to five, get home. They don't want to do anything. They don't have a side hustle Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, you got to fucking work. You got to have a side. No one in my family had any kind of side hustle or week. I'll put it to you. Let's just put it to you this way. Last weekend, where was I? I was working this weekend, where am I? I'm working. My dad's never worked, my mom's never worked, my grandma. The people at work, they never worked a fucking weekend in their life ever. Then there was no Saturdays. There was no side hustle. There's no anything. They're fucking poor because they were lazy. That was it.

[Jim Florentine]

It was nine to five. That was it. You're home.

[Adam Carolla]

It's not. It's not. They're not poor because Elon Musk took all the money and won't give any back to your lazy ass. You're fucking lazy. You're not working. What do you want me to tell you? If you're fat, you're fat. Lose some fucking weight. Put a moo moo on and shame yourself into some weight. And you're fucking poor. Get a second job, work some weekends. It's for you, by the way. It's not. Not for me. Elon's fine. Me and Elon, you know, not in the same bracket. But I'm saying, what the fuck? I don't know where you come from, Jim.

[Jim Florentine]

I come from middle class, family of seven. Dad worked his ass off, you know, work nine to five job. And yeah, I mean, you know, we worked for everything. He never gave us anything. You know, just go out there and bust your ass. He busted his ass. You know, so we all bust our ass. Our whole family were just still working two, three jobs, always. I've been working full time since I was 14. I was working full time and going to college at the same time. The only time I ever had off, ever, is during the pandemic. I never filed for unemployment ever in my life except for during a pandemic. Everyone else is. I might as well. And it was driving me nuts that I couldn't work. So I've always had that work ethic.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I was talking. Listen to this, man. I was interviewing Kelsey Grammer. It'll air in a couple days. But he was saying, he goes, I grew up in Florida. I go, yeah, he was talking about working. You know what I mean? Like, he goes, you gotta learn to work. That was always my argument. I would say, I worked at McDonald's, let my son work at McDonald's. And then every woman would go, he doesn't have to work at McDonald's. I go, he doesn't have to work at McDonald's. He shouldn't work. Your son should not be. I go, it's good to learn to work. It's not about the money, it's not about McDonald's. It's just working. Show up, get in your fucking uniform, punch in, do your job. You know what I mean? Work a little, break a sweat, learn how to work. And learn what you don't want to do too. I didn't want to work at McDonald's. I mean, I knew that after day one I didn't want to be there. So I started trying to work on other things to get me out of McDonald's. But Kelsey Grammer said to me that at age 14, he had a full time job in Florida at a Denny's. And he did dishes, he bussed dishes and clean dishes at Denny's, which was open 24 hours. And the job started at 7pm no, started at 11 at 11 and ended at 7am the following morning at 14. And he would take a motorboat, he had his own little motorboat and would take it along the Florida coastline there. And he would motor to it, dock the boat, go into The Denny's at 8:30 at night, punch in, do dishes until 7am this is your 14 year old. Gone all fucking night. He did during the summer, but gone all night. Getting his motorboat, motor home at 8 in the morning. And he's like, I learned how to work.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And that's why Kelsey Grammer never fucking stops working. But not at a Denny's. To something in show business.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah. No, my kid is 14 and there's elective classes for ninth grade. I said, there's a video editing. And he goes, I don't know if I want to take that. Go take it. I go, do you want to work at a McDonald's or do you want to do video editing? I could definitely get you a job, maybe you do my shit or whatever, but you're gonna have to start working soon. It depends if you want to wash dishes or do video editing. He goes, all right, I'm going to do the video editing because you're going to be working by next year at 15.

[Anson Freirex]

Good. Gotta get after it.

[Adam Carolla]

Good for you.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah. I said, so just start. I already got a. Mowing the lawn.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

I mean, I'm like, you got to get out there.

[Anson Freirex]

It's interesting because he brought up his son in the McDonald's incident. That stung in your heart somehow. Do you think that if you're very Successful, your kids are going to depreciate and work. Like work ethic or are they going to 100%, 1,000%. That was great. No, but I mean, it sounds like. Did you win the McDonald's argument?

[Adam Carolla]

No, I never. I never won any argument.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, I never won an argument with a woman.

[Adam Carolla]

I didn't.

[Anson Freirex]

So now this guy's chilling.

[Adam Carolla]

Listen. Well, he's going to junior college.

[Jim Florentine]

I don't get out.

[Adam Carolla]

I tried. I would try to implement some discipline in a gravity free environment when I was married with my kids, because I realized that it was a weird dynamic because I was the celebrity, but I was still the only one who worked, you know what I mean? So I lived right in the middle of reality all the time. Because I was constantly working, trying to keep this lifestyle up, you know, it was a big lifestyle, it cost a lot of money, and I was so I didn't need the work ethic conversation. Cause I was working all day, every day and weekends and everything else. Everyone else in my family was sort of floating around. And so I would try to like get hold of my kids and kind of nail them down and go, this is what you need to do. But it was always a fucking battle. And I used to do stuff like I'd say to my son when he was like 13 or 14, I was like, you gotta get some discipline. And he'd go, all right. And then I'd go, look, I had the habit of taking the cold plunge in my swimming pool during the winter foothills. It'd be freezing water, right? So I go, look, I do the cold plunge every morning in the pool. The pool's probably 45 degrees or something like that. So I said, you got to start getting used to doing you don't want to do. Now the problem is, is you don't have to do anything because of the amount I work. So we have to simulate gravity in your world.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Like I would always go. When they go up in the space shuttle and they hang out the space station for six months, the astronauts lose bone density because they're floating. They have to simulate a bench press. That work out in a way with rubber bands and stuff. Because if you float, you float for a year. You come back to Cape Canaveral emaciated, you know what I mean?

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[Adam Carolla]

So. Oh, imagine that fat dog. Could you imagine her coming by like the Macy's beret? Yes, that would be awesome. Get her sponsored by MetLife. You know, just have her floating.

[Anson Freirex]

New people.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, my God.

[Jim Florentine]

Like, look at that drone.

[Adam Carolla]

So I said to my son, I go, listen, I go out probably two times a week on average to drive from Deep Lada to, like, the Comedy Store, the Improv to do stand up. I do it for free. I'm not getting paid. I'm not going out on the road. I'm going to better myself. And it's a long haul, but I'll do it a couple nights a week and I'll do it for free. So on the days I do that, you need to get in the pool.

[Jim Florentine]

I like that.

[Adam Carolla]

Right now, anytime a woman hears that story, they go, why do you have to torture your son? And I'm like, I'm not torturing him. I'm trying to build a little character.

[Anson Freirex]

Mongolian river walk.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right. It worked once or twice and then it got shouted down.

[Anson Freirex]

Meanwhile, my growing up, my dad put me in full kit. Army gear. Push ups, pull ups, like, run 12 miles. Like, screaming in my face all the time. It made an easy transition to the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Your dad, your dad. Oh, God, it was like polar opposite.

[Anson Freirex]

Like, right, Totally active. Jim Corolla, like, didn't care. My dad cared too much.

[Adam Carolla]

Why is there find me a clip of Officer and a Gentleman when Richard Gere's doing push ups and Lou Gossett Junior's, like, screaming at him to quit. That's what I'm sort of like this. What kind of range is there in dads? I don't get it my dad. I didn't get off the sofa. I was like, I'm gonna go out and you know, get a job. All right? But if I said I'm gonna go out and rape a school aged girl, he'd go, yeah, all right. I never did anything like, how's your dad? How your dad and my dad, both dads? Yeah. Oh, wait, here it is, sir. 98. That 99.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

Get your face all the way down in there.

[Adam Carolla]

That's. That's like mayhem.

[Anson Freirex]

Your dad, my pops, is just standing there at parade. Rats. Now, Mayo, I swear give me flashbacks.

[Adam Carolla]

Look over there, Mayo. Look over there. Look at her. She decided to stay instead of taking liberty on this weekend. She may not make it through the program, but she got more heart and more character than you'll ever have. And stop eyeballing me.

[Anson Freirex]

Boy.

[Adam Carolla]

Guy sure has dubbed you some.

[Unknown Speaker]

Shitty cars, hasn't it?

[Adam Carolla]

Neo do all right, sir. By the way, he's up to 117 push ups. I know. Still. Still no problem, Richard. Checking. I look through your files. I know about your mama. You don't. I born these. Well, your father's an alcoholic and a hole chaser. I wonder, I wonder if black people masturbate to this. Don't you think like a 47 year old black guy could rub one out to this?

[Anson Freirex]

Subtly erotic. This took a weird turn.

[Adam Carolla]

I just think black men over a certain age could definitely squeeze one off to this. No, sir. No, sir.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, but this guy's a Marine. Second airborne. Yeah, there's no, it's no comparison.

[Jim Florentine]

It's way worse. I did the same thing. I just had this conversation with my kid the other day, going into New York on a Monday or Tuesday night to work on new jokes. And I go, I have to do this. I'm like, I'm not getting paid any money. I have to work on my craft because he's playing basketball and he thinks. I go, you're sitting on the couch. Are you getting any better by sitting on the couch? You think you're that good where you know, because you play good in a couple games, that you don't need to practice, you need to be out there shooting 100 free throws. I go, why am I doing this? I'm doing this over 30 years. I'm still working for free, working on jokes. I need to get better. Every time I'm on stage, I get better.

[Anson Freirex]

Is that because you just feel something from that audience and you can tell like micro expressions of different ways you tell it or like bigger laps on this and that.

[Jim Florentine]

No, I just need to. I just know I gotta work on these jokes. And he's got to work on is basketball. I can't just rest on my laurels and go, no, I'll figure it out on stage when I do a big theater.

[Anson Freirex]

Is it harder now that you like, kind of got a fan base built up and like guys that follow you? You know, people that follow you at different clubs?

[Jim Florentine]

No, I like going into New York because they're young and they have no idea who I am and that's good. So I know if the jokes are going to work. So I don't want to perform in front of my audience. These are 23 games you don't want a lot of. Yeah, those are, those are great too. But I want to work on that stuff in New York and then bring it out on the road. I'll know if it works in front of a crowd that doesn't know me.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. It's like you're a band and you're playing at a carnival and nobody know, no one bought a ticket to see you, but you're going to go up and play.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So you got to be good. If you're banned and you're playing in front of your crowd, they're all going to enjoy it. It's really the same with stand up. The hardest standup is, you know, you're seventh in a line of 11 people that are going up there and nobody's bought a ticket for you. They just bought a ticket to go out and see comedy.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Speaking of family, I was listening to RFK's cousin go off on RFK Junior who I like. He's been here, he's the best. Interviewed him a couple of times. I've been to his place for his birthday. I've done his comedy benefit and stuff. Find him to be very earnest, very sincere. And also I find him to be someone who cares. He's like, kids are sick, kids are obese. We had a real high death incident with COVID much higher than other countries. Cuz the average person here who died of COVID had three and a half comorbidities going in three, three and a half. I mean, some had 11, you know what I mean? But the point is, is we have all these comorbidities. Everyone's fucking allergic to anything, everything. Everyone is fat, can't even fit in a Lyft or an Uber. And he actually wants to do something about it. And I've talked to him and he's a very earnest, sincere Guy who wants to help. And of course, we'll have to tear him apart now with all vaccine whatever skepticism or. But his family is such dyed in the wool leftist that he hooked up with Trump and now they're 10. Now, RFK Jr would have happily hooked up with Kamala Harris if she'd let him do his agenda. I don't think he really cared. I think he has an agenda, which is basically French fries in Europe at the aforementioned McDonald's have three ingredients. The potato and the beef tallow and the salt. And here there's like 14 ingredients. And he'd rather get back to that. And I'm like, okay.

[Jim Florentine]

And she never even called him back. She wouldn't even take his call.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, come on.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

She's not. I don't know why they're not interested in this, but they're not interested in this. But they're interested in attacking him. But it's only because Trump appointed him. But this is his cousin who's laying it out. She's doing a video. She's got to get involved now.

[H]

But now that Bobby has been nominated by President Trump to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, a position that would put him in charge of the health of the American people, I feel an obligation to speak out. Overseeing the fda, the nih, the cdc, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, hold on a second. Nih, cdc? Didn't you guys just get done lying about everything? Covid. Michelle Walensky, you ran the cdc. Didn't you just fucking lie your coos off about everything? Covid. Didn't you just lie the entire time or did you just get everything wrong? I don't know. I like to play stupid or liar. But then the CDC just end up 10 minutes ago. They just lied about everything, Covid. So we're worried that the CDC is going to fall into the hands of who? Somebody doesn't lie. Fuck off. All right, play this thing.

[H]

Sorry to speak out. Overseeing the fda, the nih, the cdc, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, agencies that are charged with protecting the most vulnerable among us, is an enormous responsibility and one that Bobby is unqualified to fill. He lacks any relevant government financial management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. These facts alone should be disqualifying. But he has personal qualities related to this job, which for me pose even greater concern. I've known Bobby my whole life. We grew up together. It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets. Because Bobby himself is a predator.

[Anson Freirex]

What?

[H]

He's always been charismatic, able to attract others through the strength of his personality, his willingness to take risks and break the rules.

[Anson Freirex]

Is she saying this guy banged his cousin?

[H]

Watch his younger brother cousins follow him down the path. And drug addiction. His basement, his garage, his dorm room were always the center of the action where drugs were available. And he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.

[Adam Carolla]

Despair.

[Anson Freirex]

Despair.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Anson Freirex]

It's like the saw dungeon down there.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, man.

[Jim Florentine]

So he did some stuff when he was in his 20s. Yeah, I got up now. He.

[Adam Carolla]

But can you imagine what your punch list would look like of stuff? Like, I just read out loud about what Jim did when he was 19. Holy God damn shit.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

How fucked up are the Kennedys that all of them were running to his room for all this stuff?

[Adam Carolla]

I know it's hawk feeding time, by the way. I love that. Feeding the hawks, a time of despair and misery for the other 19 year olds. Like, that would be the greatest afternoon of my life, seeing a hawk fed. But all right. She said he puts baby chickens and mice in a blender.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, if you keep birds like that, you got to feed them.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But they don't have to be alive when they go into the blender. They can be dead when they. I'm imagine, okay, you have a dog, right? The dog eats food. The food used to be alive, but now it's dead, and then your dog eats it. Like, I ate a cow last night for dinner, but. But it wasn't a live cow. But somebody. Somebody threw a cow into a skillet so Corolla could enjoy himself. It's like, yeah, it was cow, but it wasn't a live cow in a skillet. It was a steak that was from a cow that ended up in a skillet. It goes on and on. I think when you eat chicken, for instance, like, I've eaten chicken. You eaten chicken. Not live chicken. Just somebody killed the chicken and then I ate it. So I'm imagining you're putting the mouse and the bird in the blender after they've gone. You know what I mean? Like, they're deceased. Because otherwise it seems like a handful trying to get a bird and a mouse in a blender. She didn't make the distinction, but I think that I'm gonna go ahead and say the bird and the mouse were dead.

[Anson Freirex]

No, but I'm telling you, the trick is to underhand and scoop the mouse underhanded. Scoop. And overhand is scooped the bird.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the way into the blender.

[Anson Freirex]

The blender.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. But even if they were alive, let's just say. I'm gonna say there's a weird. We have this weird relationship with meat and protein and nature and whatever. Like, weird like this guy ate roadkill. Well, you ate cattle kill from a place that does factory farming in a fucking chub pack of ground beef. Like, which is it? Like, I've had these conversations mostly with chicks, where they're like, I'm just not going, you're wearing a leather belt and leather boots. Why is that? Okay, well, that's different, you know? Well, why is it different? I don't know. I just don't like hunting. You know what I mean? Like, they don't like hunting, but they eat. It's 86% of women who don't like hunting eat meat.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So I don't even know what the fuck they're even talking about.

[Anson Freirex]

Cuteness.

[Adam Carolla]

So. But should we starve the hawk? Like, what do we do with the hawk? Yeah, I mean, okay, the hawk set the hawk free, then the hawk eats the bunny rabbit. Is that okay?

[Jim Florentine]

Or is that something.

[Adam Carolla]

He's got to find something to eat, right?

[Jim Florentine]

Yep.

[Anson Freirex]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

The only birds that don't actually eat other shit are seagulls. They only eat french fries at the pier. They're the laziest of all the, you know, lounging.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah. They know it's coming. Don't worry. We're just gonna go hang out here. Someone's gonna feed us.

[Adam Carolla]

The elderly seagulls, like. Like the elder seagulls, right? They must sit back and just see them hanging out at the dumpster, going, we used to. We used to hunt. We used to get mice. We were birds of prey. Look at this wingspan and this beak. Not too shabby. Now he's begging for fucking fries down at the pier. So pathetic. What happened to these kids?

[Jim Florentine]

Seagulls.

[Anson Freirex]

These days.

[Adam Carolla]

Seagull's the laziest of all the birds, right?

[Anson Freirex]

Scavenger.

[Adam Carolla]

They're so lazy. They don't even like flying half the time. Sometimes you'll be coming up on them in the car in the beach parking lot, like, yeah, slow it down, old man. I'm walking. I gotta walk to the dumpster, eat some fries and then walk back. No fear.

[Jim Florentine]

No. And let me go cruise the beach, throw some food for us and we'll just.

[Anson Freirex]

They specked into the side.

[Adam Carolla]

Or maybe not even throw some food for us. Maybe just Set the churro down and look the other way and we'll just come sliding in and snatch it up. Right? Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

That must be nice to go eat at the beach, you know, always. Yeah, we can go hang out at the beach. That's your life picnic.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And also, if you had to have one bird's diet, it would definitely be the seagull, because all other birds eat, like, grubs and snails and live mice and rat, dead rabbit and dead snake and like that. They eat French fries and burger buns and probably top off with a milkshake. Like, they're not bad. They ate like you ate when you were nine? Yeah, basically. All right, so she doesn't want him elected because he had a hawk and he fed it stuff that was in.

[Jim Florentine]

A blender and he did drugs when he was in his twenties.

[Adam Carolla]

Drugs when? In college.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Do you think she really believes all of this? It seems like one of those hostage video type things where maybe they got something on her.

[Anson Freirex]

No, I think the brainwaves coming from the cat in her lap.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Maybe she's also reading it. She's reading this statement that's written like. It's like she's thinking, I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but it's also funny. He's. She's like, you know why he likes birds of prey? Because he's a predator. And you know why I like that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Predator? Because he's a predator. You know why he likes those Alien movies? He's an alien. You know why he likes Godzilla? Why do you think he likes Godzilla? This is a giant lizard who comes from the sea and terrorizes Tokyo. Like, I. I feel like people could like funny cars without driving a funny car.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they could. Like, you know, don't get me going.

[Jim Florentine]

With porn, you know, reading about serial killers but not be a serial killer.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

And all that stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You know why he liked watching the Wizards of Waverly Place? He's a wizard. I would argue that most of my viewing is just shit. I didn't. Carolla, why'd you watch that Bob Dylan movie? You think you're Bob Dylan? No. Watching a movie. That's how it works. Aha. And then what's that other movie you saw? Flight Risk. Oh, perhaps you're a flight risk yourself. Is that true? Are you Mark Wahlberg with a shaved head and a Cessna? That's why I like just Birds of Prey. There's actually. There was a movie called Birds of Prey, right?

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Julie Quinn.

[Adam Carolla]

Did you watch that? Because you in fact wanted to join their group of praying birds. No. All right, so she makes some valid points.

[Jim Florentine]

She's worried about the vaccines too. You know Bobby, I did a radio show, Bobby, years ago, right before my kid was born. I talked to him about the vaccines off the air and he's like, listen man, just do your research. I'm not telling you not to, but just be careful. Don't take the hepatitis B when your son is six hours old. They'll give it to you in the hospital for intravenous drug users and stuff like that. And it's a sex thing, he doesn't need it. So just say no to that. And then like six weeks in, I said no to that, six weeks. I go, let me just get this rotavirus vaccine for my kid. He wound up in the hospital for five days. And they wouldn't say that it was from the vaccine.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, let's just at least do this. Weren't you ass wipes trying to foist an experimental vaccine on everyone in America 10 minutes ago that half of the citizens didn't need, except for you were threatening to take away their livelihood or throw them out of the military or throw them out of the police department or the fire department, or to just basically put a scarlet letter on him and have removed from society not able to eat in restaurants. Weren't you assholes just pushing for the experimental vaccine that my son definitely fucking didn't need and neither did any other healthy individual in this society. And then weren't you lying about it the entire time and about the effects and the side effects and aren't there now going to be long term side effects of this? So maybe you're not the people who should be giving the sanctimonious lectures on vaccines. Perhaps not. Maybe we should give it three years of you not foisting an experimental vaccine that could be harmful to a lot of people on them when it was unnecessary. Maybe you should just shut the fuck up for a 36 month period before getting sanctimonious about the subject of vaccines. That's all.

[Jim Florentine]

And remember when Trump was introducing it in 2019, they're like, oh no, that's the Trump vaccine. Don't take it, I don't trust it. And then when he lost the election, then if he would have won that election, what would have happened with the vaccines? Cuz Trump was pushing them, right? So then don't take them, don't trust them. It would have went that way because anything he did would have been the opposite. It didn't do shit anyway, you know, so the Trump people would have taken the vaccine and the other people said, don't take it. You don't trust that guy. But since Biden won, then it was okay. Vaccine.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I'm saying, in lieu of what we just went through is vaccine denier. To me, the vaccine denier seemed like the prescient ones who actually thought about it versus whatever the fuck you guys are talking about. But it's such a weird title to hang on somebody when you're tending to agree with what he did. Like, my son got vaccinated. I wish he didn't get vaccinated. Does that mean I'm a vaccine denier? Cuz he got all his other vaccines. I just wish he didn't get the unnecessary one. But also if you said to him, well, we should give him the whooping cough vaccine, the one you'd get when you travel to Africa, I'd go, he's not going to Africa. And they go, yeah, but give him the vaccine. I go, no reason to do. Well, what if he goes to Africa? What if he slips in the shower and ends up in Africa? Do you really want this? I just go, no, it's unnecessary, he doesn't need it. That doesn't mean I'm a vaccine denier. It's unnecessary for him. And they fucking foisted it on every young male out there. And no, we don't know the long term effects of it. Maybe nothing, probably nothing, we'll never really know. But there was a way we could have known they didn't have to fucking take it in the first place. And you lying, sanctimonious pricks didn't have to force it on them. Jesus. And now you're up on your fucking high horse.

[Jim Florentine]

And even that rotavirus vaccine is for a stomach flu, like a bad stomach flu. And that's for like people in Africa that don't, you know, can't, can't get hydrated or whatever like that. It's not in America. Like, it's unnecessary. And you get three doses of that as a kid.

[Adam Carolla]

And we're not willing to entertain the idea that big pharma may be a little nefarious in certain instances, or that government officials and guys like Fauci may be doing the bidding for these people. We're not gonna entertain that notion. Rochelle Walensky headed up the cdc. She just fucking said whatever they told her to say. She went and said it's safe to open schools. And then what's her coos Got hold of her and said, walk that back. And she walked it back. So that's some sort of independent government sanctioning body. She. She literally said it was.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Rachel Kuzk is pronounced Weingarten.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yes, Randy Weingarten. Okay, so everyone dig this. The head of the CDC stood in front of a CDC banner and said, I think kids should go back to school. And then the head of the teachers unions got hold of her and said, walk it back, bitch. The head of the teachers union does know shit about infectious disease, but she wants her students and she wants her teachers to stay home and rot and get paid in full. So then she goes to the head of the CDC and says, take it back. And then the head of the CDC comes back out and goes, I was just speaking as a mom, but not really the head of the cdc, even though I was standing in front of a step and repeat that, said CDC on it. So don't listen to me. Okay, so that's. You're worried about that system being corrupted by RFK Jr is that your concern? I'm not concerned. I would like him to get involved with that system. You're not saying the former system we had. Is that just fine? You want the CDC taking marching orders from the teachers union? You want the governor of California taking marching orders from the teachers union? Or would you like them to govern and open schools? If he thinks it's a good idea. Cause that's the system we just walked away from.

[Jim Florentine]

The cdc, the one that had the. The food you're supposed to eat is, like, five pieces of bread a day or whatever. Remember that whole.

[Adam Carolla]

You eat a sack of flour before you brush your teeth in the morning. And then you take a bagel. You take nine bagels, and you put them on a long churro that's duct taped to a breadstick, and then you just funnel them down your face. But you can have a cube of beef every four months. That's fine, right? Whatever Kennedy put in the blender, stay away from that protein. You need carbs, carbs, and more carbs. Not fat.

[Jim Florentine]

And then pizza was considered a vegetable, right? So that was. Okay, so that's coming from the CDC that we're supposed to listen to.

[Adam Carolla]

Find Rochelle Walensky, because I just miss her. It's gotta be a weird position where you head up something, and then everyone's like, just go fucking lie, Jim. Just go. You have to lie for us. And you're like, it's really weird and uncomfortable to stand. Am I supposed to be an expert? You know, like, I'm an expert carpenter, right? If someone was like, say, roofs don't need a pitch, flat roofs drain as well as a roof with a steep pitch, I'd go, I'm a carpenter. It's gonna feel weird. Just do it.

[Jim Florentine]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I mean? I'll just go up there and lie. She's up there giving that speech about her son, her autistic son. I'm assuming he's autistic, going to summer camp. You remember that one, Dawson? It's the best. It's the best. Listen, listen, she's the head of the cdc, but she's a mom first. Just listen to her lie about her son. And also, I don't know what the fuck she's talking about. Thank God she's gone. I'm sure she just works for a big pharmaceutical company now, so she's fine. Here we go.

[Unknown Speaker]

With regard to camp, I have a 16 year old. Every day, every year he comes home.

[Adam Carolla]

From camp and he writes the number.

[Unknown Speaker]

Of days until he returns to camp the next year.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, pause it. That's severe autism. 16 comes home from camp, gets a calendar out like he's in solitary confinement, starts marking days off.

[Jim Florentine]

Maybe he just wants to be away from his mom. He knows every day he's at camp he doesn't have to be around her.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a good point, but it's still very autistic. You just got home. Okay, here's when you're going back to camp. About 350 days from now, you will go back from. No need to mark Monday. You're not going back. You don't need to mark it off. But anyway, she has a 16 year old son. Okay, she's lying. She doesn't have a 16 year old son who goes to camp and then comes back and marks it off every single day. But all right, so she's already lying. But here we go. Bitch comes home from camp and he.

[Unknown Speaker]

Writes the number of days until he returns to camp the next year.

[I]

This year it got to zero.

[Unknown Speaker]

And I told him he wasn't going.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, hold on. Worst mom in the world.

[Jim Florentine]

You probably could have told him, give him three.

[Adam Carolla]

Give him like a tour. Even, even 72 hour notice. He's drawing a big zero on his wall with his piece of chalk.

[Jim Florentine]

He's packing a shit.

[Adam Carolla]

He's got his canoe over his head. He's got his paddle underneath his arm, he's got his Chan Sport backpack, you know, and he's walking out the door and she like taps him on the shoulder, like, yeah, where we going? Oh, I forgot my snowshoes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Headed on back. Headed on back. Bring it in. He got to zero this time. It got to zero. And when he was just done completing the circle, he just got done with the zero. She barged into his room and told him to unpack his duffel.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, he could have said, mom, when you saw me packing two weeks ago, why don't you say anything? And also, they didn't. That conversation didn't come up. From 350 to zero. That went to camp. I can't wait.

[Adam Carolla]

Is there.

[Jim Florentine]

My friends are going. Didn't come up.

[Anson Freirex]

And this year, he's 17, started smoking. You know, he's hanging out.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I mean?

[Anson Freirex]

He's drinking beers already.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Anson Freirex]

Playing video games. I want to go to.

[Adam Carolla]

So this year, it got to zero. Okay, well, okay, first things first. She's just lying to Congress. Like, she's making. She's made up a fucking story. But all right, here we go. It got to zero, and I told.

[Unknown Speaker]

Him he wasn't going.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, man.

[Unknown Speaker]

I want our kids back in camp.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you do?

[Unknown Speaker]

We now have 38,000 new.

[Adam Carolla]

Hold on. You see her stupid brain fart? When she's in the middle of her lie, she's like, I want our kids back in camp. Something happened to my face. What happened? Oh, oh, oh. What happens is when I lie for too long, my face freezes up at some point. You know, it's like when your phone gets too hot, you know, just goes to sleep mode for a minute. She's like, I want our kids back in camp. Watch your. Watch your fucking face line.

[Jim Florentine]

Could be a side effect to the fourth booster.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, maybe it's a fourth booster.

[Anson Freirex]

You're right.

[Adam Carolla]

You're right. Let's see what happens to her face.

[I]

I want our kids back in camp.

[Unknown Speaker]

We now have 38,000 new infections on average per day. Last May 11, it was 24,000, and we sent a lot of kids home, and camps were closed. The camp guidance is intended to get our kids to camp and allow them to stay there.

[Adam Carolla]

But your kid's not going to camp. But there's camp guidance to get your kids to camp and allow them to stay there. But she won't send her autistic son to camp. And then isn't her son vaccinated? Why not get your son vaccinated and then send your son to camp? You never said whether your son was vaccinated. What you should be saying is camp's open. My son's vaccinated, and he's going, not. Nothing about vaccinations. But I waited till the goose egg on the wall, and then I told him he wasn't going to camp. She's lying. She's compromised. She lied just like Fauci lied, and he was compromised. They're all fucking comp people, and people are like, we can't have something else. Anything else will be fine. Maybe they'll lie and they'll be compromised as well. But these guys just got done.

[Jim Florentine]

That was the pitch. If you got vaccinated, you can go out and go live your life. Once you're up to date on your vaccine, you could take your mask off and go live. So if the kids obviously vaccinate, whatever. He needed two, three shots. @ this point, he had them, so he was safe. According to you guys.

[Adam Carolla]

She didn't. I suspect she didn't get her son vaccinated.

[Jim Florentine]

Really?

[Adam Carolla]

I suspect she knew stuff about vaccines.

[Jim Florentine]

Being the head of cdc.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Okay, so the people in the government did not.

[Adam Carolla]

And I suspect she was also like, this guy's 16 and he's fit, and he has no reason to be vaccinated.

[Anson Freirex]

I don't think the vaccine was kosher. Mm, no.

[Adam Carolla]

Do we? Is there the one where she walked back the school opening one? As long as we're making fun of Rochelle Walensky, you can look around. I'll have you do that. She basically just went. I said, open schools, but I wasn't really saying it as the head of the cdc. I was saying it as a diesel mechanic. I don't know what the fuck. What were you saying it at?

[Anson Freirex]

What was like, from the teachers union into the cdc?

[Adam Carolla]

Teachers are super flex, or teachers are super fucking lazy and they don't want to go to work. I just talk to my students. Son. My son knocked off junior college, and let's not call it community college. I like the stigma of.

[Jim Florentine]

Oh, I like that. Junior college.

[Adam Carolla]

I like the stigma of junior. Junior community. Sounds noble. Yeah, junior. That sounds bad. And that's what I like it. I want it to sting a little bit.

[Jim Florentine]

You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I went to junior college.

[Adam Carolla]

Me too. And it stung. There used to be a comedian would tell a funny joke, and it doesn't work anymore. The joke doesn't work work anymore. But he would say, junior college is high school with ashtrays. And I'm like, yeah, that's right. What it is. The fucking losers from high school. Now they can smoke in the quad. No one's going to hassle them. All right? Okay. Everybody in life would like to not work and get paid. That's all.

[Anson Freirex]

The dream.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the dream of all Americans is to not have to show up and get paid. The problem with society as we know it is if you don't show up after a while, you don't get paid. Teachers do not want to show up and want to get paid like everybody else. But the problem with the rest of life, if you're a transmission mechanic, your constituency is everyone with a broken transmission and you fucking need to fix it. And if you stop showing up, then you'll stop getting paid because they went. But what if your clientele didn't want you to fix their transmission? Meaning my kids don't want to show up at school any more than their fucking flunky teacher doesn't want to show up at school. So here's what they both want. The teacher wants to show up and get paid. The student wants to not show up, but not be suspended or disciplined or put under academic, whatever. It's a perfect mixture. It's like two heavyweights going. You don't want to get hit, do you? No, I don't want to get hit. Well, let's not. Let's not hit each other. But we want to get paid, right? Don't cancel the fight. We'll just get in the ring and it'll be a tacit agreement. You know what I mean? No kid has ever went, what the fuck? It's been 11 days. I haven't been back. I talked to my son, junior college. He got off a week or ten days before. Before. He was off a week before Christmas. I talked to him a few days ago. I'm like, you're not back at school yet? He's like, no. How long do you. I text him, I go, how much time do you have? Five weeks. You have over a month off. Now who's deciding this? Well, the teachers, the teachers unions, the students start putting up a fucking fight and they just. You take this five weeks. Oh, we got two weeks coming. Pretty soon, Christmas just going to bleed into Easter, right? Kids are going to come back for one day and then they're going to have fun on your Easter break, and it's all going to get. And then they have three months off during the summer. Yeah, my kids teachers work way less than they actually have off. If you take the number of days in a year, split them in half, they have many more off days than they have work days. They don't want to fucking Work. So Rochelle Walensky. All right? Five fucking weeks. Five weeks for five weeks.

[Jim Florentine]

By the way, my kid has off today from school in New Jersey for Chinese New Year.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, right. My kid.

[Jim Florentine]

They took away Columbus Day, by the way.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. My son got the day off after. After the election.

[Jim Florentine]

He did?

[Adam Carolla]

Why?

[Jim Florentine]

Casey was upset.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, everybody was upset, right. He's in Oregon.

[Jim Florentine]

Right?

[Adam Carolla]

So those pussies were all upset. These kids are fucking. You know what they used to do at this age? Storm German pillboxes on Normandy Beach. That's what they did. Not take the day off because an election didn't go the way they wanted it. Jesus fucking. And by the way, this is what teachers do. The teachers don't want to go in the next day. So. All right, listen. If Trump wins, stay off. Right? Everyone goes, show of hands. Show hands. Okay, I sabot. Okay, let's go. That's how it works. No kid stands up and yells, fuck you. I want to learn. Show up, bitch. They don't. They all just go home.

[Jim Florentine]

They also love not being in school, teaching, being on Zoom. Because I know a bunch of teachers around me in New Jersey who got Airbnbs in Florida, and we're teaching on the beach. Airbnb in Florida, hanging out, all heroes.

[Adam Carolla]

All heroes, all hear us.

[Jim Florentine]

It doesn't matter where you are.

[Adam Carolla]

Lazy folks can hear us. Lazy. Kiss my fucking balls, hero. Like, fuck all you guys. You guys proved yourself to be lazy, lazy brainwashers, essentially. And you want me to respect this? This guy's a teacher. He's fucking dropped out of society. Doesn't wanna work. All right, break and then we'll find Rochelle Walensky. Hey, it's Adam Kroll from the Adam Kroll the Show. Betonline is the world's most trusted betting platform and your number one source for online betting. From the earliest odds to in game live betting, Betonline provides you with all the action and the ability to watch and bet on games as they happen. With the largest selection of odds on everything from football, NBA, college basketball as well. BetOnline has NHL, MMA, and championship boxing. All your betting needs in one place. Head to Betonline today to get in on the action with America's most trusted site for online wagering. So have some fun. Make these games and these events and these combat sports a little more interesting with Betonline. Betonline, the game starts here. Ever walk into a store and not know what kind of wine to get? Well, I've stopped wasting time at the grocery store staring at a giant wall of wine and not knowing what to pick. That's why I love our next sponsor, Naked Wines. Naked Wines. Mmm. Chardonnay. Smooth, classic. Naked Wines is a service that directly connects you to the world's finest independent winemakers so you can get award winning wine delivered straight to your door. Take the guesswork out of it. Who the hell knows what's going on at this supermarket? Why make all these decisions? Go with Naked Wine. Let the geniuses, let the wine experts figure it out. Use our code Adam for the code and [e-mail] and get their incredible deal of six bottles for just $39.99. Yes, six bottles for just $39. 99. Use the code AdamAkedWines.com and have a little conversation starter. Next time you pop one of these bad boys, it's Naked Wines. Am I right, Joe? Now is the time to join the Naked Wines community. Head to nakedwines.com Adam Click Enter Voucher and put in my code Adam for both the code and password for six bottles of wine for just $39.99 with shipping included. That's $100 off your first six [e-mail] Adam and use the code and password Adam for six bottles of wine for 39.99. Well, you want to start a business, your own business, a small business, and grow it this year? Let's do this. And now's the best time to start. Shopify is going to help you. I started a business and I use Shopify and I'm glad I did. Shopify makes it simple to create your brand, open for business and get your first sale, get your store up and running. It's easy. And they've got thousands of customizable templates that can help you with all the details like shipping, taxes, payments from one single dashboard, allowing you to focus on the important stuff like growing your business because you want to be freed up to grow your business, not burdened with the nickel and dime stuff. Let Shopify help you with that. With Shopify, your first sale is closer than you think. It's Shopify, right?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

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[Jim Florentine]

O'Clock on a Tuesday night, my ex wife text me and the new girlfriend's over There. She like, why is your white ex wife texting you at 11 o'clock on a Tuesday night? I go, yeah, cuz my kid wants to play in this new basketball league. She just wanted to make sure I could sign him up. She like, yeah, right. I go, yeah, look at the text. I show it to her. She goes, well, why is there a heart at the end of the text? I go, because she wants me to pay for it, that's why.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You know, Jim Florentine is on the Adam Carolla show.

[Adam Carolla]

Jim has dates. Jim has a special, you can't Please Them all. It's available on Amazon prime as we speak. Podcast. Everybody's awful except you. And dates all over the place for Mr. Florentineflorentine.com.

[Jim Florentine]

Yep, got that. Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, we got some news. But did you find that clip, Dawson? And. And if you did, put it on the screen or update the screen. But if you didn't, you don't have to put it on so you can just chime in when you find it. There's also some pretty good Liz Warren. I like when Liz, she spools up. She like throttles up and she starts cutting on a hinge and she starts yelling at the warp casket too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's Indian. That's the Iroquois in her coming out, you know, she's Shoshone. Oh, Shoshone, sorry. She's on the war path.

[Jim Florentine]

1%, right?

[Adam Carolla]

We found that less than whatever we got. Yeah, yeah, that's good. By the way, that's not disqualifying. You're just fucking lying about your heritage and then lecturing everybody on cultural issues the whole time. But anyway, she got spun up. We'll look for that other clip. But Joe, play the Liz Warren one.

[I]

Just because it's funny, you financially down.

[Unknown Speaker]

The line, I'll comply with all the ethical guidelines.

[I]

That's not the question you and I you have said.

[Unknown Speaker]

You're asking me, Senator, you're asking me.

[Adam Carolla]

Not to sue vaccine pharmaceutical companies.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, you are. That's exactly what you're doing.

[I]

Look, no one should be fooled here. As Secretary of hhs, Robert Kennedy will have the power to undercut vaccines and vaccine manufacturing across our country. And for all of his talk about follow the science and his promise that he won't interfere with those of us who want to vaccinate his kids. The bottom line is the same. Kennedy can kill off access to vaccines and make millions of dollars while he does it. Kids might die, but Robert Kennedy can keep cashing in.

[Unknown Speaker]

Senator, I support vaccines I will. I support the childhood schedule.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what? He should go full Dan Aykroyd and disco Elizabeth, you ignorant slut. Just start every, every sentence with that. There's another good one, by the way. I was looking up, I was like, who was the last guy was Javier Becerra. Joe Biden called him Javier Bacqueria. That was the Javier Bacaria. The president didn't even know who the last guy was who he appointed Javier Baccaria over here even though his fucking name. So I don't know how important this job is, but. All right. There's another clip where she's talking about him enriching herself. But I was thinking, here's what I was thinking about and here's what Robert Kennedy should have said, but go ahead.

[Jim Florentine]

He's a Kennedy. He has enough money.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, I agree.

[Anson Freirex]

How are you gonna make money off not selling vaccines?

[Adam Carolla]

Here she goes.

[I]

Every one of those lawsuits. Well, let me start the list. You could publish your anti vaccine conspiracies, but this time on US government letterheads. Something a jury might be impressed by. You could appoint people these C vaccines vaccine panel who share your anti vax views and let them do your dirty work. You could tell the CDC vaccine panel to remove a particular vaccine from the vaccine schedule. You could remove vaccines from special compensation programs which would open up manufacturers to mass torts. You could make more injuries eligible for compensation even if there is no causal evidence. You could change vaccination vaccine court processes to make it easier to bring junk lawsuits. You could turn over FDA data to your friends at the law firm and they could use it however it benefited them. You could change vaccine labeling. You could change vaccine information rules. You could change which claims are compensated in the vaccine compensation program. There's a lot of ways that you can influence those future lawsuits and pending lawsuits while you are secretary of HHS and I'm asking you to commit right now that you will not take a financial stake in every one of those lawsuits so that what you do as secretary will also benefit you financially down the line.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, I'll come back. You can pause it. You just had a president who's pardoned his entire fucking family bitch because his son and his brother and everyone was going abroad and hammering checks from rogue nations. By the way, whose son was a junkie who goes to Ukraine to start shell companies and front Burisma energy companies and get paid and then kick the money back to you, big guy. 10%. So, Liz, are you really. How worried are you about this graft and this corruption you speak of. I know you're worried a lot about Kennedy over here making some extra bucks as a lawyer, but we just had to pardon this guy's entire fucking family because he just grifted rogue nations into paying his junky son and his brother and the rest of his family money. Is that something you might want to give some thought to?

[Jim Florentine]

And also, the Fauci pardon goes back to 2014, right? So it goes back 10 years.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe there is some grift and some corruption, and maybe there's something to think about. I don't know.

[Anson Freirex]

Maybe she's about that are telling on themselves now through this kind of thing.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. All right, well, when you find Rochelle, you'll tell. You'll. You'll tell me. I'll put it on the screen. All right, what do we got? We got some news.

[Anson Freirex]

Got some news here. You know, a lot of teachers don't want to work. This guy kind of did. Florida educator arrested after Boozy Teen party at Principal Home Goes off the Rails. This a drunken teenage house party in Florida, which shenanigans worthy of a high school movie has led to child abuse charges against the elementary school principal and a teacher. Man, apparently they were partying hard in Florida.

[Jim Florentine]

How old were the kids?

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, they were teenagers. Okay, so it's like a weird.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Jim Florentine]

Listen, you let the kids drink at 15, 16 at the house, and just make sure they got an Uber on the way home. What's the big deal?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't fucking.

[Anson Freirex]

This story is very, like, buttoned down about there's marijuana premises.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's a weird thing, like, when you hear any of those stories about high school hazing rituals, you know, you have the prim and proper reporter, and she's sitting down with the Christian youth guy, and she's going. And they did what? They held him down, and he. He put his scrotum sack on the chin, and they go, oh, my God. And I'm like, that sounds like Tuesday for me. I mean, that just sounds. That's all we.

[Jim Florentine]

That just happened on Sunday. And my friend, there was a teabaggin. He brought a cake over and he forgot it. Cause he wanted to bring it back to his wife. And he called me, we're watching football. He goes, hey, put that cake on your front porch because my wife wants it. I said, okay, no problem. And three of us put our balls on the cake and filmed it. I took pictures of it, and we put. I put it out. He picked it up yesterday.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Jim Florentine]

And we haven't told him yet.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, good.

[Jim Florentine]

This just happened on Sunday.

[Adam Carolla]

No, he did the balls on the cake.

[Jim Florentine]

All three of us. We took turns.

[Adam Carolla]

Huh?

[Anson Freirex]

Happy birthday.

[Jim Florentine]

This wasn't in my 20s. This was three days.

[Adam Carolla]

He's like, I'd send my wife on a lift over myself, but she can't fit. She's at home in yoga pants now. Wait a minute. You did the balls on the. On the cake move?

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So everyone would do. Okay, we did a. My buddy Ray would always do something called the turtle, which is at every party. He got naked, took the sack, pulled it up over everything. Oh, my God. All the way up. And then walked through the party with the satchel. The satchel. We called it the turtle. He called it the turtle. You know what I mean?

[Anson Freirex]

His coin purse.

[Adam Carolla]

But I mean, all this stuff. If you had RFK JR's cousin reading this stuff about Jim Florentine and what he did or what we did or anything we did. It sounds horrible. When you read the minutes from our high school days. And for you, apparently, just a couple days ago.

[Anson Freirex]

And he placed his scrotum upon the cake.

[Adam Carolla]

Was there frosting on the sack?

[Jim Florentine]

No, no frosting.

[Adam Carolla]

We just got.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, it wasn't a frosted cake.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, so that's decent.

[Jim Florentine]

But his wife really liked the cake, so he actually came back the next day, left it on my porch. I put it out there Monday morning. He texts me on Monday, hey, where's the cake? I go, it's on the porch. You can come pick it up.

[Anson Freirex]

That's what you get. Forget porch cake.

[Jim Florentine]

And I told him, I said, we're not gonna tell him yet. Let's let him have the cake for a few days, then we'll.

[Adam Carolla]

Does he share it. This information with his wife once he finds out?

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

Probably because he would do the same thing.

[Adam Carolla]

He would. Yeah. Okay.

[Jim Florentine]

He said he was a big Washington fan. He said if they won, he was gonna eat his own shit. And he's 60.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, wow.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah. And I said you could do it in my basement. I have a steam cleaner. I'm good to go.

[Adam Carolla]

Would you draw the line at a frosted cake in terms of back sack activity?

[Jim Florentine]

No, I would still, absolutely still do it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

Even if there was candles burning, I'd still do it. On it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Okay.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Anson Freirex]

Would it be okay to give them the cake with the impression of your scrotum on the cake?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think anyone sees a cake and goes, I think three dudes rub their nuts on this. Yeah.

[Anson Freirex]

Nobody thinks that.

[Adam Carolla]

They say, like, I think it. I think the lid caved in and scraped some of the frosting off. But no one ever goes, those are nut tracks. Like, there's no Indian who can put his ear down and like look up, like, what's going on? Scrotum. Three men, prodigious scrotum. Much hair. Yeah, I don't think, I really don't think there's any tells. Also, when things get really outrageous, people can't even go there. Like, people don't go, either this guy was putting the cake in the box and the thumb rubbed it, or three guys dragged their nutsack across it. They won't even go there.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, yeah. It would be hyper vigilant. One video of TikTok of you and your buds putting nuts on the cake. Every cake will be thoroughly inspected afterwards.

[Jim Florentine]

And you know, my son had a front. Couple friends did it. I didn't actually see it because we did it behind the bar. But you would think if that happened, three 14 year olds would have done it, right? Oh yeah, you would think, okay, if someone put their balls on a cake, it's gotta be the 14 year old.

[Anson Freirex]

The spirit of the 14 got him.

[Jim Florentine]

No, not them.

[Adam Carolla]

No. Yeah, not them.

[Anson Freirex]

Not that kind of party.

[Adam Carolla]

Young kids don't fuck with their friends anymore. Like from my entire childhood was one big headlock. Just prank fucking, wrestle. Headlocks fucked with everyone all the time. If anyone passed out or fell asleep, they got pissed on or the sack on the head or whatever. It was all 24, 7. I see my son and he's like. I was like coming in the living room, you know, 14. It's just him and two of his friends are just watching TV and I'm like, no headlocks, no nothing. No fucking wet willies, no titty twisters, no Indian burns. Like, no nothing. It's like, no.

[Jim Florentine]

My friend had a famous move called crack finger. He'd stick a finger in his ass nose, thousands called a crack finger. So we called him. He's like, don't give me crack finger. He's like, pass out or you're getting crack finger.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, it was, it was, it was endless.

[Anson Freirex]

I'll wake up, murder a man.

[Adam Carolla]

The stuff we did is not even. It defies description. We didn't have. I mean, my friends were nuts and they do everything and this. Grosser the better. That's all they did. And you try to. Normal people or women ever hear this, they can't digest it.

[Jim Florentine]

I would love to be getting questioned like Bobby there and they go, do you have a friend, they used to give out crack finger at party. They go, yeah, yeah. And he was my best man at my wedding and I'm still great friends with him.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Anson Freirex]

Passed out at the bachelor party. The Hitler mustache of pooh.

[Adam Carolla]

Every party we went to my friends, it didn't matter whose house it was, they just go into the bathroom, walk in the bathroom, take the shampoo out of the shower, piss, fill it up with piss, put the thing back and just set it back. It was like compulsory. Like, I'd go like, I'm gonna get some chips. Yeah, I gotta swing by the bathroom and piss in the shampoo and then I'll meet you at the chip bowl. You want some chips? Yeah, I'm dying. But let me go piss in the. Let me get it out of the way. That's all they did.

[Jim Florentine]

We'd also take upper deckers in the toilet, take the lid off the top and go up there and just leave it. And then, you know, until they flush it, they have no idea.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, damn. I was gonna always.

[Jim Florentine]

Upper deck. We go to house parties all the time.

[Anson Freirex]

I was gonna invite you guys to watch the ufc, but. Yeah, no, thanks.

[Adam Carolla]

I got a pen.

[Anson Freirex]

Bring some cake.

[Adam Carolla]

There's a. There's a penthouse to the upper decker. No, that's the school bathroom stall divider. Go up to the penthouse. Oh, what? See how your bomb site's looking.

[Jim Florentine]

Oh, I never even thought about that.

[Adam Carolla]

Go to the penthouse. There is a penthouse to the upper deck. Next level, that is. I'm not trying to be one upper part of the pun, but you can go upper deck. There's upper deck, then there's penthouse. We go to the penthouse.

[Anson Freirex]

In other news, imagine that the Los Angeles wild wildfires. A lawsuit alleges video shows what started the Eaton fire.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really? That's the one in Altadena.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah. Apparently a new lawsuit is alleging that a local utility company is at fault for sparking the deadly Eaton fire.

[Adam Carolla]

Shocker.

[Anson Freirex]

Los Angeles after surveillance video shows what lawyers say may have started the fire.

[Adam Carolla]

We have.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, we have the video.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, it's. What's it. What are we looking at?

[Anson Freirex]

It's zooming in on it.

[Adam Carolla]

Looks like wires over. Oh, the wind. Yeah, exactly. Knocks the power wires. Are we ever gonna fucking bury these power wires or we're just gonna have. We're just gonna burn to the ground.

[Anson Freirex]

To me, what's so confusing about the whole thing was that Malibu, a community of well off people, could not get, you know, the cats herded in the right direction to Bury. They have enough money to do it. They would have to be without AC for like two nights.

[Adam Carolla]

We can't do things in la.

[Anson Freirex]

You can't corral everybody to be on the same page.

[Adam Carolla]

We're weirdly so we have 24 billion to waste on homeless, but we don't have enough money to bury wires along a four mile stretch of PCH. And we have $100 billion for a bullet train that's not a bullet train that doesn't go anywhere. But we don't have a few million bucks to bury power lines in a place where the tax you pay absorbant taxes and homeowners tax and everything like that. So I never can figure out like they'll go, we don't have enough money to feed these kids lunch. And it's like, but you just gave 24 billion to homeless and we don't have anything to do we have money or don't we have money? It'd be like if your wife went, you know you want, could we renew my membership to the YMCA? It's only 19 bucks a month and I use it every day to work out. And she'd go, we don't have that kind of cash, honey. And you'd go, you just bought diamond encrusted swizzle sticks for making martinis. And she'd go, yeah, but what about the why? Yeah, we don't have that kind of money and allocate money for that. We got the diamond crusted swizzle sticks and you're like, well, wait a minute, hold on. You know what you'd say to your wife? Do we have money or don't we have money? I'm confused.

[Anson Freirex]

Metaphor. What are the swizzle sticks? Because I don't see any major projects that they're doing.

[Adam Carolla]

The swizzle sticks are the train to nowhere. That's $80 billion. The aforementioned or the 24 billion on homeless that yields more homelessness. That's the golden plated swizzle sticks. And then burying the wires is like the membership to the Y. That's not going to cost that much. And I would use it, but they won't do it. I don't know.

[Jim Florentine]

Meanwhile, when there's new cable, Verizon or 5G, they're always putting that on the, you know, digging up and putting that in your, in your town.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, let's just do it. Everything just burnt to the ground. Fires are caused all the time by these power poles that are 80 years old falling over in a wind and starting fire. They're an Eyesore. They're a nuisance. And by the way, lots of drunk drivers get killed hitting power poles. You know what I'm saying? Let's look out for the drunkards out there. A lot of cars wrapping their. Lot of drunks wrapping their car cars around a power pole. Can't wrap your car around. Nobody ever went. I don't know. You know how drunk you'd have to be to hit buried conduit. Phil was so fucked up that he actually ran into conduit that was buried four feet in the ground. God damn, he must have been fucked up. Yes.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah. The lawsuit states, the Eaton fire is yet another tragic example of Edison's pattern of neglect and mismanagement. A legacy of repeated failures to address known risks. Risks associated with this aging and hazardous electric. Goal enforced.

[Adam Carolla]

Everyone's just going to start suing everyone now. That's everyone's suing. I saw a commercial last night for a class action lawsuit. Like, did your house burn? Why wasn't there water in the reservoir? What started the fire? Who started the fire? How come the hydrants weren't manned? It's going to be lawsuits.

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

One more fucking lawsuit that I'm not going to get in on. I used to sit around and watch all those commercials for Camp Lejeune, right? And I was like, oh, man, I wish I could get some of that Camp Lejeune money. Never happened. Then it's like, did you work in the shipbuilding industry? I'm like, nah, I wish I did.

[Anson Freirex]

Were you at the Adam Carolla studio? Do you have mesothelioma?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

I'm sure you dealt with asbestos at.

[Adam Carolla]

Some point as a construction worker. Yeah, but I don't know who to sue. Yeah, I wish I just worked in the shipbuilding industry.

[Jim Florentine]

It'd be so easy.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe I could go in there and.

[Jim Florentine]

Lie, especially when we got paid off the books.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could just go in there and go like, yeah, I worked in the shipbuilding industry. Oh, you did? Yeah. Remember Gilligan's Island? Remember that boat? Yeah. That was my Photoshop next to a scooter. Yeah, yeah, that was me. I did that one. I would do a catamaran once in a while, but I was kind of deep V guy, you know what I mean? Outboard, Inboard, whatever. You know, I'd get my story straight, you know what I mean?

[Anson Freirex]

Wear one of those hats that turned up and.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, Yamaha makes a hell of an outboard, I'll tell you that. Yamaha, that's the Mercury, makes a good one, too, you know, inboard we do Caterpillar.

[Jim Florentine]

And I was responsible for the hole in the boat. I wouldn't build it.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Jim Florentine]

I was hungover that day.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You know, Bezos's boat? I. I'm not. I didn't build it all, but I was in on it. Oh, yeah. I worked on that. So if I get a little cash.

[Jim Florentine]

So you think that all these people are going to win these.

[Adam Carolla]

I got the messioma, the mesothelioma thing. I'm sorry.

[Jim Florentine]

You think people are going to win all these losses?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know how anyone's gonna pay for any of them, but. Oh, man. You know what I'd like to do? I'd be like. Yeah. I worked in the shipbuilding industry for a while when I was stationed over at Camp Lejeune. I combine them. You know what I mean? I was building boats. Yeah. And of course, after the place burned down in the Palisades, I had nowhere to go, so I had to stay in the barracks full time, you know, building ships over there, Camp Lejeune. So, anyway, if I could just get in on some of this cash, that would be awesome. All right. So we don't have. There's no Rochelle Walensky tape anywhere. All right.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

We're going through nothing.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I wonder if they scrub that stuff.

[Jim Florentine]

Probably.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Possibly.

[Adam Carolla]

What are you looking for?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Looking for a press conference she gave on schools not being able to reopen after she.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you can probably. We can probably compromise. Just find the one where she said it should open. That one. That one.

[Jim Florentine]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Look for that one.

[Anson Freirex]

Well, here's something to fire you up. Minneapolis. Oh, sorry, Bud.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I imagine we're going to run into the same, not being able to find them.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, try it.

[Anson Freirex]

They scrub it from the Internet. Minneapolis Mayor announces the city will not cooperate with Trump's deportation policy.

[Adam Carolla]

Of where?

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah, Minneapolis.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, God. What happened to Minneapolis?

[Anson Freirex]

That's a strange place.

[Adam Carolla]

Paul Bunyan was from Minneapolis. And so was Bud Grant.

[Jim Florentine]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

And now we got a bunch of fucking pussies. Kirby Puckett in Minneapolis. It's weird. Yeah. Kirby Puckett. Bud Grant. Like, the greatest Americans were from Minneapolis area. Kirby Puckett. Yeah, you're right. All right, here it is.

[Unknown Speaker]

I want to speak directly to people who are undocumented.

[Adam Carolla]

We love you.

[Unknown Speaker]

We care about you.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Unknown Speaker]

In the city of Minneapolis, we will.

[Adam Carolla]

Stand up for you, and we will do anything in our power to help, because you're not an alien in our city. You're a neighbor. Now, in Minneapolis, we have what is called a Separation ordinance, and that separation ordinance states clothes.

[Unknown Speaker]

Clearly that our city officials, our police.

[Adam Carolla]

Officers and beyond will not be gathering information showing who is and who is not documented. Yeah. Why would you want to ask the question?

[Unknown Speaker]

With regard to immigration status and because.

[Adam Carolla]

We haven't asked the question, we don't have any data to show documentation status in our city. Our police officers will not be cooperating with federal law enforcement around federal immigration law.

[Unknown Speaker]

We enforce state and local laws here.

[Adam Carolla]

In Minneapolis and we will do so to the best of our ability.

[Unknown Speaker]

But as for cooperation with ice, the answer is no.

[Adam Carolla]

And so again, guy's a hero.

[Jim Florentine]

Is that Omar in the yellow bill hand?

[Adam Carolla]

Omar? Yeah, yeah. The bitch behind me definitely didn't marry her brother to keep them in the. Keep them in the United States. Yeah. Fucking idiots.

[Anson Freirex]

What that happened? I totally missed that.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a good one. Yeah. All right. Well, they're fucked good. I mean, it's fine till someone gets fucking stabbed by an illegal and then they're pissed, but whatever. I don't know. Just fucking run your city into the ground. Oak tard. Have fun. All right, one more. Madonna.

[Anson Freirex]

All right. Yeah. Madonna does stand up comedy set in New York City. She made a return to stand up comedy in New York over the weekend. I think she edged Florentine off the stage that night. Queen of Pop stopped by the Comedy Cellar on Saturday night thanks to an invitation from her buddy Amy Schumer. Performing a full 30 minute set at the iconic club. According to the tabloid, it was a bit of a rough night for Madonna.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So no one filmed it?

[Jim Florentine]

No, they won't. They put the bags, the phones in the bags.

[Adam Carolla]

Phones in the bags.

[Jim Florentine]

Comedy ceremony.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

I missed it by one night. I would love to see that set. Watch.

[Adam Carolla]

I went there to watch a show once with a really unattractive date and they were trying to have her put a bag on her head. And I was like, come on now. Now you're crossing the line. They're like, really? For safety of a comedian. Wow. I mean, I understand. The phone. The phone I understand, but I feel like you've crossed the line with the bag on the head. She's got a great personality. If you care to ask, we're gonna need. I'd be the greatest bouncer. We're gonna need the phone in the bag. And also Broomhilda over here. Yeah. You three and a half. Yeah, we're gonna bag the head.

[Jim Florentine]

That was the old joke. Was she a two bagger? Yeah, just a one bagger.

[Adam Carolla]

One bagger? Yeah, just a Two Bagger Madonna did half an hour, which she didn't need. Jim will tell you that stand up is a lot like. Well, mma. We'll know a lot in about two minutes. Yeah. It does not take you a half hour to figure out whether a guy's got skills or not. We'll know in the first 90 seconds.

[Anson Freirex]

30 seconds.

[Adam Carolla]

30 seconds in. You can literally tell by the way the guy moves towards the stance. Right. So with stand up, it's a little longer than mma, but in the first maybe say two or three minutes. Yeah, we got a pretty good idea where you're at.

[Anson Freirex]

If you got a couple lap lines out in that two minutes, then it's worth it.

[Adam Carolla]

We don't need to get to the half hour mark.

[Jim Florentine]

She's like a new comic that everything you write, you think is gonna be great. So there's nothing she can cut out. I see she's got her notebook on the. On the stool there too. So she thinks everything that she wrote in that 30 minutes is gonna be great. I can't cut anything. I can't, you know, get to the punchline quicker. And yeah, when you're going on stage for the first time, you don't do 30 minutes. You're lucky if you can get away with five to seven minutes.

[Anson Freirex]

Well, they say this is in her first go at stand up comedy or even her first time in a comedy cellar. 2016, she opened up for Schumer at Madison Square Garden, offering blowjobs to get out the vote for Hillary Clinton. The following year, singer made her stand up debut at the Comedy Cellar at the behest of Schumer. So Schumer's propping her up.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe Schumer, you know, hot chicks have ugly friends sometimes because they just like being the belle of the ball. Of course, maybe Schumer wants to be the funniest chick in the club. So she's like Madonna, go up there and make everyone miserable for half hour, and then I'll come in, save the day, and I'll be the funny one.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Didn't Schumer say she was gonna leave the country?

[Anson Freirex]

Allegedly.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. Nobody left.

[Anson Freirex]

Nobody left, Nobody left.

[Adam Carolla]

They never leave. They make the proclamation, but they never go anywhere. Maybe they like the tax breaks. I don't know.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, Michael Cohen was gonna go. Trump's old lawyer said he was leaving. And then they'll say, I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving.

[Adam Carolla]

He's a hys douche. I know Michael. I've interviewed him before. He's like, he's A hysterical douche. It's kind of weird. It's like, I don't know how you make it in your 50s as a hysterical douche, but he's a hysterical douche.

[Anson Freirex]

He couldn't leave because of the terms of his probation.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, is that why?

[Anson Freirex]

Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

Is that what it was?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Anson Freirex]

They revoked your passport.

[Adam Carolla]

He said, listen. He said, I'm leaving. Then he said, I'm not leaving. Now. The person. No. Should have left. P. Did. He should have went. This guy gets elected, I'm out of here. And then, you know, he's. The guy should have fucking left. Harvey Weinstein and P. Diddy. Harvey should have split first term. P. Diddy should have fled this turn. Either way, they both needed to flee because I don't think the fucking future's bright for either one of them. And I've said it a million times. I fucking said to Mark Gerrigo as he was sitting right there, I said eight years ago, I was like, harvey needs to fucking gas up the jet, hammer a couple bonds, get a satchel sack of fucking cash going to hit the bricks. And he's like, yeah, he can't do that. I'm like, he can't or he's gonna rot in jail. He would fucking definitely do it.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Roman Polanski figured it out.

[Anson Freirex]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

He's been fucking drinking fine wine and eating baguettes and fucking hot French chicks for the last 52 years. He. He figured it out. P. Diddy should have definitely fled, and Michael Cohen should have fled. But was Harvey Weinstein in the first. Was it the end of the first Trump administration in the middle? And then obviously, P. Diddy was before. But I'm saying, yeah, they both should.

[Jim Florentine]

Have fled in the beginning. It was right in the middle of the MeToo stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

2017. Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

That was to Louis CK should have left.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

All right, well, I'm just waiting for. Kathy Griffin said that if Trump gets in office, she's going to be in an internment camp. So I have a countdown going on my podcast every week. I have people just checking calendar if she's going to go, because she said, if he gets elected, I will be in an internment camp. And come see me before. That's a good way to promote the tour.

[Adam Carolla]

It is.

[Jim Florentine]

Because I will be an intern.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Before I'm. Yeah. Before I'm rounded up.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And putting a gulag. Come hear my comedy stylings.

[Jim Florentine]

So I'm waiting.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, God.

[Jim Florentine]

And we're also waiting for the View to get canceled and Bill Maher to Get canceled.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's right.

[Jim Florentine]

They're going to take them off the air.

[Anson Freirex]

They're drinking up Jon Stewart next.

[Adam Carolla]

They're all just insane narcissists who thinks. They think the world fucking revolves around them. Let me tell you something. Narcissism. It's mild narcissism to go, I'm super fucking funny and I'm good looking and chicks love me. That's narcissism. But super narcissism is I got a target on my back. Everyone's gunning for me. And the President of the United States is gonna make a camp and put me in it. Cause I'm too dangerous to be left out on the street. That's ultra narcissism. Negative narcissism is bigger than positive narcissism. All right, we'll take a break. No Rochelle Walensky anywhere sad.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

There's a lot of stuff on her, but most of it is after she's left and some TV interviews. But press conferences I'm not finding.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I don't know that it's necessarily a press conference, but may we've just.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Been of her standing in front of the banner too of a CDC step and repeat. And you know, I wonder if they.

[Adam Carolla]

I wonder if they removed that shit.

[Jim Florentine]

I don't know.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I actually have a feeling that one of our wonderful listeners will find it and will be hit with it on Twitter today.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Anson Freirex is gonna join me. I'm gonna bid adieu to my two guests. Well, no, actually, Mayhem, you're getting out of here. I think Jim can hang out. Cause he wrote a book Last call for Bud Light. Coined the term go woke, go broke. So I feel like this is something we can all jump in on and we'll do that right after this Select Quote. There's so many things in life we just never get around to taking up that hobby, cleaning out the garage, you know, you know, you need to do that. You know, little things that don't really make huge differences in our lives yet. There is one thing that most of us have probably been neglecting that can have a huge impact on our family's future. It's life insurance. And with Select Quote, getting covered with the right policy for you is easier and more affordable than you may think. If you have high blood pressure, no problem. If you have diabetes, that's fine too. Even if you have heart disease. Selectquote partners with carriers that can cover those conditions and others. Head to selectquote.com and a licensed insurance agent will call you right away with the right policy for your life and your budget. It is select quote, right, Dawson?

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[Cologuard Representative]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

I'm all done with my shower. I'm gonna go to my room and relax. I think that might have something to do with beating off my son. Takes two showers a day. Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Subscribe to Beat it out on [e-mail] subscribe substack. Now back to the Adam Corolla show.

[Adam Carolla]

Florentine is hanging out Anson Freirex. Am I saying that right?

[Unknown Speaker]

You're saying that right.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's good.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's, it's, it's a tough one. Most people say Fredericks, but I think the D guy dropped at Ellis island back in the day.

[Adam Carolla]

You got a book Last call for Bud Light. You worked for Anheuser Busch for a while, right?

[Unknown Speaker]

I did for 11 years.

[Adam Carolla]

And is it true? So go woke and go broke is your saying. Did you coin it?

[Unknown Speaker]

I don't think I coined that saying. I co founded a separate business with Veik Ramaswamy who's a buddy of mine from high school. I think he wrote the original book called Woke Inc. So I'll give him credit for the Go Woke. Go broke.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, Vake's been quite man. There's a lot of voices coming out now. Effective voices. Like conservative effective voices. It's an interesting time we're living in.

[Unknown Speaker]

It is an interesting time. It's gonna be interesting to see how long I think Trump can keep this administration together and everyone focused and doing the same thing. And it's only a matter of time before different views and ideas come out.

[Adam Carolla]

But there's just too many alpha males, 100% too many personalities. I mean, everyone is the star in every universe they're in. And now they're told to play rhythm guitar, you know, and they're like, I'm Eddie Vetter. I'm Eddie Vedder. I'm Eddie Van Halen.

[Unknown Speaker]

You have all these.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I mean? Like, I need to play. I need to do a solo. And they're like, yeah, play rhythm in the back. And they're not gonna be able to do that forever. Right. They could do it for a few gigs, but not go on tour.

[Unknown Speaker]

Not forever. Exactly. Cause everybody wants to be the star of the show. And the. And a lot of these guys have never been co anything or they've been subordinate to anybody.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Unknown Speaker]

Whether it's Trump or whether it's being a co with Elon. I think Elon's never been, again, co anything with anybody. So I think it's only a matter of time before.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Move on and do something else.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And so the book, by the way, I'm reading it now. Oh, not available. But available for pre order now. But it's going to be February 4th.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's it. February 4th.

[Adam Carolla]

And what's the book entail? Sorry, I mean, we all know the Bud Light story.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah. I think that it's. The bigger story behind it is this wasn't just the one marketing episode that kind of went awry. This was a broader story of kind of what went wrong in broader corporate America over the last 10 years, where it wasn't like Bud Light getting involved with Dylan Mulvaney, but you had Disney getting involved in parental rights issues down in Florida. You had Target getting involved in situations. And so it kind of tells the broader story about what went wrong in corporate America over the last 10 years, but really shows sort of through the lens of Bud Light, which used to be, I mean, the quintessential American lager, great American entrepreneurial success story with Anheuser Busch and the Bush family, what happened after the company got taken over by a European firm called InBev, all the problems that kind of ensued after. After that takeover happened. And then more importantly, why Bud Light kind of became the poster child of really what went wrong when corporations got involved. And.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you think this factors in. And I'll say it. Well, here's what I'm saying. Republicans and conservatives, for the most part, kind of leave people alone when it doesn't have to do with their specific agenda, which is to say there are people in Hollywood that are conservative, but they just go to work and they shut their fucking mouth because they're making a film or commercial or series or what. It's got nothing to do with your shit. The progressives can't do it. They can't do it. They show up and they have to start proselytizing. They have to start correcting people, and they have to start fucking with people and. Or firing or punishing people. They can't. Like during COVID everybody I knew that was conservative was just happy to be left alone. Like, you want to wear a mask? I don't choose to wear a mask, but that's fine. But they won't let it go. They won't fucking let it go. So these people show up at these companies and it's like, I always say, it's like. It's like if the especially women, women cannot show up at the workplace and just fucking work. They have to start implementing things, you know, and if the chicks are vegan at the top, you're not going to be eating your ham sandwich too long in the lunchroom. She's going to start implementing something. And so they start implementing shit. But it's shit they want and they're out of touch and they don't understand who America is. And we don't give a fuck about Dylan Mulvaney. We don't like him or her or it or they or whatever the fuck she is today. No, he is.

[Unknown Speaker]

You got exactly right, Adam. And so really, this goes back to what should a corporation. Should corporations get involved in all this political stuff or not? This is more of a broader. Do we believe in sort of American free market shareholder capitalism? As Milton Friedman said, companies is focused on the business. Or there's this European Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum view that says companies should get involved. And whether it's Dylan Mulvaney issues, whether it's election integrity issues, overturning, defunding police initiatives, and over the last, really 10 years, because this is what went wrong in corporate America, where this European stakeholder capitalism model, kind of led by a lot of progressives, a lot of pension funds, the universities that have a ton of money, took all their capital, put it into a lot of the large major corporations of the US and said, now, because it's never enough, to your point, it's never enough just to hire the best and the brightest. Well, now we got to have more equity, and meritocracy is not good enough. So now we need to have quota systems in now. We need to have the dei, Diversity, equity, inclusion, esg. And it just kept pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing. And so when we got to post kind of COVID World, post George Floyd world, where every company in sort of North America all of a sudden is trying to be a social justice warrior.

[Adam Carolla]

Listen, the fact that I have to turn on the NFL on weekends and see end racism in the end zone is sickening.

[Unknown Speaker]

And by the way, that's probably the most diverse organization in the entire country.

[Jim Florentine]

Choose love on the back of the helmets.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, I. No. After leading with the crown, putting the guy out on a stretcher.

[Unknown Speaker]

But the NFL can afford to do that because there's no other alternative to the NFL. What else are you going to watch on Sundays? I don't know what else is on Sunday afternoon. Whereas what's interesting about Bud Light is that there were a lot of other brands just like Bud Light. You have Coors Light, you have Miller Lite. And that's why this was so effective. As regular Americans have said, man enough, I'm just tired of having corporate America tell me how to live my life.

[Jim Florentine]

And especially the second day when that woman came out that approved it and said, listen, it's got a frat boy image. We gotta get rid of that frat boy image. Some woke New York City female said that, you know, this frat boy stuff, we gotta get away from that.

[Adam Carolla]

Now, wait. To be fair, but not to be complimentary to her, a lot of this shit just surfaces. It's not like she's addressing it. It's like she gave this interview six months earlier, and now this happened. So I think that was that. Although it may or may not be. But what I'm saying is you're still laying out your plan.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's it. So, I mean, the person who did the marketing campaign, Alyssa, I think she did that podcast maybe a week or so beforehand.

[Jim Florentine]

Okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

And she said that we were gonna. The brand was fratty, it was out of touch, and that they're gonna go in a different direction, but that was the wrong direction they went in. Because Bud Light was never a brand that got involved in political issues, social issues, became the biggest beer brand in the country because it was for, you know, everyday folks like sports and football and music and everything else.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

And then all of a sudden, there was no more controversial issue. Probably this happened in March of 2023. Then this whole transgender issue. Should biological males come to me against biological women's sports? Should we have gender affirmation care that Same week, you might remember, there was the transgender student that shot up the Christian school in Tennessee. And then all of a sudden, Bud Light does his partnership on April Fool's day. It was April 1, 2023 when this happened. People thought it was a joke.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, with Dylan Mulvaney?

[Unknown Speaker]

With Dylan was the one. They thought it was a joke. And then all of a sudden people were asking, is it really a joke? And the company said, well, no, we wanted to commemorate 365 days of girlhood or womanhood.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, sorry to jump in, but I'll give you my sort of humble take. If I thought Subaru or Budweiser gave a shit about any of this stuff, I would sort of go, well, I disagree with them, but hey, they got convictions. You know, if. When Joe Biden meets with Dylan Mulvaney, if I thought for 10 seconds that old fuck even knew who this person was and summoned the he, she to the Oval Office, I would go, all right, well, we think differently. But he's got convictions. He doesn't know who he or she is. Somebody planned that out for photo op. And if you asked Joe Biden today who Dylan Mulvaney is, he'd have no fucking idea. He didn't care about the trans community or the lgbt. Budweiser. Subaru makes cars with love. And attack helicopters for the Japanese government, by the way. I don't know if you guys know that.

[Unknown Speaker]

I didn't know that.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I've looked into it. They make shit for the military, which is not with love. Or maybe it is with love, I don't know. They make cars with love. You know what I'm saying? Now, now, like the NBA, Steve Kerr's gotta wax on about human rights all the time. But when you ask him what's going on in China, he zips it. Cuz he's a fucking coward and a hypocrite.

[Jim Florentine]

He said, I haven't done enough information.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I haven't done enough information. Okay, well why don't you go on the Internet for 15 seconds and figure out the human atrocities over there? But he's a coward and he wants to get paid. So if I thought the NFL cared about racism or Budweiser cared about the trans community, I would at least go, all right, well, they're honest. You know what I mean? Jane Fond is a fucking idiot, but I believe her. She's an idiot, but she means it. Yeah, but these corporations don't care.

[Unknown Speaker]

There's no authenticity to it. That's the whole deal. And that's why people lost Trust in this. Cause it's what is Bud Light all about. Someone like Trump, love him or hate him, but man, you know exactly what you're getting. There's no teleprompter, there's no filter. You're getting exactly what you want. And then this whole message has been just filtered throughout corporate America over the last four or five years.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, and they're all eating shit now and they're all backing off. The DEI and Disney got involved. But basically what it is is they what happened with corporations is the same thing that happened with Europe. They're like, we need to let all these Islamic folks in so that they can integrate and embrace our society. So open it up up and let them in. And what people like me would say, cuz I'm racist would be, no, no, they're just gonna set up their own little Sharia land within your gay Paris over there. They go, no, they're gonna integrate, they're gonna work out. So what we did in corporate America is like we need lots of college educated women and lots of gay men and we need to be represented in the trans community. And they all, all need to come into our corporation. Well, they don't come in and just learn the lay of the land and start doing what your corporation's doing. They fucking take over. Now it's Sharia law. That's what you got.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah. And you know, companies, man hire people, have them come in. But this is where corporate America went wrong is because they just didn't set down what we're trying to achieve. And what mission are we on? I mean Bud Lights, we're selling beer and we're selling beer to everybody.

[Jim Florentine]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

But they got some 33 year old chick who is, who has a different.

[Unknown Speaker]

Viewpoint, who is from New York City.

[Adam Carolla]

And who went to an Ivy League.

[Unknown Speaker]

School, probably drank the Bud Light in her life and hangs around at parties.

[Adam Carolla]

Of people that would never drink any beer.

[Unknown Speaker]

And the whole thing is just, it's all performative so then they can tell whoever they're. I would say it's the blackrock State streets vanguards, all these large asset managers pushing the ESG agenda. Hey, look at how diverse our company is and look at how these people we hired. It's not authentic. And unfortunately it tanked. The company took a company that used to be the most popular beer company in the US Bud Light used to have now lost 30, 40% of its sales. Company used to $6 billion of profits in the US now it does 4 billion. Stock price cratered from 75 bucks to 50 bucks when broader markets have been up 40, 50% over the last two years. So it's real lesson kind of what goes wrong when companies, they lose that trust, their customers, they lose that authenticity.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, when watching football last weekend, I saw a commercial for Bud Light that had Post Malone and Shane Gillis in it.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And.

[Unknown Speaker]

But it's.

[Adam Carolla]

So they've. They've turned it around a little bit.

[Unknown Speaker]

And that's what Bud Light always should have been. And that was the whole problem.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, this almost feels like an overcorrection.

[Unknown Speaker]

Well, I don't. I don't know, because Bud Light, it was always. It always kind of shame. You look at Shane Gillis, he's a Bud Light. No, he's like a nose guard.

[Adam Carolla]

He's there because he drinks a ton of Bud Light. No, what I mean is. Yeah, you're right. Who is your constituency? Who are you talking to? It is Shane Gillis and like minded gents. But what I'm saying is, is to go from the Dylan Mulvaney thing to Post Malone and Shane Gillis feels intentional. Like, it feels like they're going, listen, whatever we did before, let's correct and go the other direction. Hard.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah. And they've been doing that. They tried to do the. Well, they did the partnership with UFC and Dana White, and they donated a bunch of money to Trump's reelect campaign. And Trump had a tweet about him. They're doing the Post Malone thing. Problem is that sales haven't recovered. And the sales haven't recovered because other customers want a real authentic apology, I think, from the company.

[Adam Carolla]

Or do they just. I mean, aren't you guys. There might be a restaurant that you frequent a lot, and then you go there and you get a bad taste. They're not great. And then some point somebody says to you, when's the last time you went to Giuseppe's? Every day you go, she's been eight years. Like, you just. You can get off of something. You could be a faithful listener to this podcast for 10 years and then take two weeks off listening to something else and you're not coming back. Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

And also Bud Light is like, it's not that great of a beer. So it's almost like Pepsi and Coke. So Bud Light now a Coors Light. All right, I'll take a Coors Light. So it's that easy. Easy that people could switch.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, it's switch. That's why it was so effective. Because everywhere there is Bud Light, there's Coors Light, Miller Light at The same.

[Jim Florentine]

Spot, at the same spot. And they'll just do that. And then it's also even that to this day, of holding a Bud Light can in your hand, you're afraid that your friends are going to make fun of you. That's like, I'm not even going to do. It's still going on.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, it's still going on. And so there, at some point, I know my whole thing is that it's owned by a European company. At some point, I think they almost need to sell the US Business unit and find somebody to come in. I don't know. Maybe it's Shane Gillis to be the CEO and just say, this is now a Bud lighting. It's American values.

[Adam Carolla]

And you're dead nuts. On with the NFL. Because I sit and I see end racism in the end zone, and I get pissed. I'm like, why are you hustlers doing this to us? And you know, you don't believe it and this is bullshit, but it's not like I'm ever gonna boycott.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's it.

[Adam Carolla]

I can't. There's only one game in town. It's the NFL. We're gonna miss the playoffs because you disagree. If there was a Bud Light, sorry, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Michelob Lite, like, equivalent to the NFL, then I could take my moral stand, but I'm too weak to take a moral stand because that's it. That's all there is.

[Unknown Speaker]

No, that's it. There's nothing else. It's interesting how this conversation continues to evolve. There's certain companies right now, Costco right now, still in this whole DEI discussion, discussion, and they're saying, we're standing by it when a lot of other companies have dropped it. But another thing is Costco. There aren't a lot of alternatives to Costco.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Unknown Speaker]

So they can be in a certain position. Other brands are much more vulnerable now. I think sort of longer term is where we go in with companies being more performed. It's good to see people dropped because look how bad it got that you had Meta, that was censoring information out there from conservatives. You had Coca Cola. You don't remember this. They got involved. This whole Georgia voting rights issue, Major League Baseball, canceling an all star game.

[Jim Florentine]

In 2021 and put it all in white. Colorado took all jobs away from black people. That worked.

[Adam Carolla]

Joe Biden is like, this is not Jim Crow, it's Jim Eagle. All right? Retarded old man. Who told you to say that?

[Unknown Speaker]

It was crazy how bad things got.

[Jim Florentine]

And you know that the Redskin name got taken away because Nike said, we're going to stop selling the your apparel in our storks. Only Nike could sell it. And also FedEx said, I'm taking our name off the stadium if you guys don't change your name. And the owner at the time says, like, all right. He was backed in a wall. He had no choice at that point.

[Unknown Speaker]

Dan Snyder.

[Jim Florentine]

Dan Snyder. Or they were gonna lose both.

[Adam Carolla]

But they polled American Indians and they said they don't care.

[Jim Florentine]

They don't care.

[Adam Carolla]

This is Karen. This is white people who care.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think if Florida State does an amazing job, they say, we're the Seminoles because look at the Seminole Tribe. They want us to have this name. They're proud. They want us to be the Florida State. I don't know. Pine trees.

[Adam Carolla]

The whole thing is sort of insane, which is like blackface, you know what I mean? Where I go, like when I was 19, I went as Mr. T, right? And then people go, oh, blackface. I go, no, no, I like Mr. T. So I dressed as Mr. T. Cause I like Mr. T. You know what I mean? So we would name our team after something we aspired to be. Like, it's not a slap in the face to Mr. T. That 18 and a half year old Adam Carolla dress like Mr. T. It's a tip of the cap to Mr. T. Because I was dressing like Mr. T. So, like, the Seminoles have it right, and I think they get paid too. But they're like, yes, it is an advertisement for our tribe and it's a tip of the cap to what great warriors and fighters we are. So why is this. This is white people trying to figure out what offends other people.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's it. It tends to be more affluent. White people are the ones that are upset about the Seminole name. The Seminoles aren't upset about it. It. They actually want to have the name and they're proud. And Florida State's generally pretty good football team. But then all of a sudden you have somebody that's more, I don't know, in New York City, doesn't like the name of the team. And this gets back we were talking about earlier is that they just want more and more and more and more, right? And so you just keep pushing it to the end and having their only view is that they will target with the target, you know, the, the Scarlet R being racist or bigoted because you're supporting the Seminoles or you name whatever it is.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, as I tell people all the Time. It's called the progressive movement. It's got the word progress and movement. Right? What part of those two words sound like they're ever stopping? No, there is no. Well, we have enough genders, and we have enough trans rights, and we have enough. Whatever. There is no. If you've been around long enough, you just see them.

[Unknown Speaker]

It just keeps.

[Adam Carolla]

They just keep. They just keep going. And they start off with. With, you know, hey, why shouldn't gays be able to get married? And you go, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, sounds fine. You know. Okay. And you go, that's what you want, right? They go, yeah, that's what we want. They go, all right. And then you. And then. But it goes into, well, here are my pronouns. And you're like, what? And then they're like, you're not going to do my pronouns. Wait, I thought you wanted to get married 10 minutes ago. Now we're beyond. That's yesterday's gay news. Now we're moving on to the trans community.

[Unknown Speaker]

You got it. There's this whole organization called the Human Rights Campaign, and they score every company in North America right, on the. On basically their LGBTQ adherence to the HRC standards. And it used to be 20 years ago. Okay, fine. Can you. Do you. Do you have. Do you hire gay people and. And you not discriminate? Fine, great. Civil Rights act in 1964 said, you can't do that. But now it got to the point where to get a perfect score, you need to have. Do certain number of advertisements for the transgender community. You have gender affirmation care in your healthcare policy.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, it's a grift, too. I mean, there's a bunch of people getting rich off it, and then they create these things, and it's funny. And then politicians are like, the Southern Poverty Law center gave you a D minus on racism. It's like, oh, you mean that fucking fake company that made up a title so it could give out grades to me and other companies? And now you can cite them as evidence to meeting the Southern Poverty Lawsuit like, you just made shake shit up. Oh, we got a problem with the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law says all these fucking centers.

[Unknown Speaker]

Totally.

[Adam Carolla]

They always give themselves these euphemistic names, like, you know, oh, the center for Divine Rights and Human Progress says Carol is a racist. And then the politicians go trot it out like it's evidence 100%.

[Unknown Speaker]

And you're right, they all have these names, whether it's the aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, and, okay, Civil Liberties that's sounds good. And this is the organizations that are shutting down free speech. They're the ones that are telling what misinformation is.

[Adam Carolla]

Well listen, they got corrupted and they should have never let themselves be corrupted. And it's on them. And it's on Budweiser or Anheuser Bush and it's on all these companies that let themselves get corrupted by these fucking people who came in and they screwed up up the mission statement. The ACLU is there and was founded for a reason. And then just like every other, just like Disney, you hired a bunch of woke college educated assholes and they showed up and next thing you know your mission statement is so perverse that you're arguing against free speech now.

[Unknown Speaker]

No, that's it. And that's what.

[Adam Carolla]

And by the way, no one listens to you anymore. Cuz it's like, yeah, okay, Southern poverty laws. Al Sharpton's action committee says what? You know what I mean? Like, like shut up.

[Jim Florentine]

It's going on in the NFL now with the coaches. They're saying there's not enough black coaches, but. And they're saying the owners are racist because they're not going to hire a Black coach. But 70% of the players that they give $100 million bonuses, you know to and pay all those guys, they're fine with that. They just don't want a black guy running the team. They're okay with all black players on the field. So they're saying how somehow. And meanwhile it's only 13% of black people in the country and there's like seven actually black coach out of 32. So that's over the quota. There's too many. If you look at it. There's too many black coaches. If there's 30% of the population, no way.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's, it's the NFL. You take a look at the college ranks as well. I mean Marcus Freeman, who for Notre Dame, he's in the, he's the national title game. You had the guy who was at James Franklin at Penn State. There's tons of black coaches that are now in the NFL and in ncaa.

[Adam Carolla]

Well look, the point is, is it's over, it's done. But there's a bunch of people that are still getting paid hustling and they ain't done.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, it's good that we're going back to meritocracy and we just want the best and the brightest. I don't care if it's sports, I don't care if it's business. I think that's where it's heading in the right direction. But it's gonna take time to unravel all the rules, whether it's the ESG committees, the DEI committees. I know all these consultants. McKinsey has this, this diversity wins study that they go and sell into corporate America about how you have to have certain board members that look this way or sleep with that person. So that's, I think, what we're hopefully getting away from. It just takes time to unravel some of that. We're kind of going through that process now. Some companies I think are ahead of the game and this is happening. Before Trump got elected, companies were saying, you know what, none of these policies, they didn't drive any value, they didn't get me more customers. What that is, is more divisive within my corporation.

[Adam Carolla]

It's a sort of newer take on the Mafia, essentially, which is, do you have a DEI officer? It's like, no, that's 500k a year. I don't want to pay that. Oh, well, if you don't pay that person, then you're not going to get logged or access to or federal funding for whatever. It's kind of a digitized, above board mafia. It's just a fucking grift. It is, but it's sanctioned. It's like a legal sanctioned grift. But when the mafia, you know, the mafia would be like, yeah, you got a dry cleaner, should hate to see it burn down, you know what I mean? Well, what do we need for it to not burn down? Well, give me 1,000 bucks a month, I'll guard it for you, make sure it doesn't burn down. What is so different about that? And this grift, this is a governmental sanctioned, modern day mafia grift.

[Unknown Speaker]

It is. It's happened in a bunch of different industries. I mean, take a look at what's happened. There's three large estimates. BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, they all signed up for this net zero climate asset management deal and they told essentially every single oil and gas company in the US over the last couple years, don't produce oil and gas because you're going to put too much carbon into the air. And if you had, essentially the oil executives got into a dark room and were smoking cigars and saying, hey, let's curtail oil production to drive up prices, everyone going off to jail, Right? Yet when people do it openly and tell you, hey, do it, all of a sudden that's known as, I don't know, acting in the name of Paris climate accords. And supernatural organizations and solving climate change and all this other silliness. And that was going on not only in the environmental issues, but in the DEI issues as well. It was McKinsey and it's Blackrock and it's the Biden administration telling companies that they have to have new DEI initiatives and mandates. We do it in the open. Which is kind of crazy.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I feel the same way about all this bullshit as I do about sort of freebies, you know, school lunches and welfare and food stamps and all that kind of stuff. If there was ever, if there was any evidence it worked, I would kind of tend to be for it, you know, if I thought giving free shit to poor people worked, or taking the homeless and treating them with dignity or whatever. Your, what are your for cocked ideas this week? You know the clean injection zones where they can get access to clean needles without judgment. You know, if I thought. Or defunding the police, like, I will defund the police. We'll have community policing. People know their community. If any of it worked, I'd go, yeah, good. Or, you know, well, no one's illegal. We'll have a sanctuary state. Like, if any of this shit worked, 10% of the time, I might tend to go, you know what, you're right. Go ahead. Except for it's all a shit show. None of it works.

[Unknown Speaker]

None of it works.

[Adam Carolla]

And I don't know, you know, Joe Biden just spent four years talking about what he's gonna do for black people. And I don't know, did he do anything for black people? Did all.

[Unknown Speaker]

Cause they all voted for Trump.

[Adam Carolla]

What did all the initiatives do for poor blackie? Did anything. I don't know, did anything ever come out the other end? Or your Baltimore school system where you have you provide this at LA.

[Unknown Speaker]

I.

[Adam Carolla]

Think it was like 10 years ago, maybe eight years ago. We're like, all these kids need tablets. The reason they're falling behind is because they need a tablet. They don't have the technology to keep up with the other students. The poor kids need tablets. So what'd we do? We spent over retail for 5 million tablets. Like, we didn't even get a bulk rate on the fucking tablets, you know what I mean? Usually if you buy more than a baker's dozen of something, they'll give you a break. Jimmy Kimmel, his dad bought him in Isuzu Imark new because his dad went into buying a Zuzu Imark car. I don't know why. And the guy's like, if you buy two of them I'll cut you a deal. And so Jimmy's dad came home with a Suzu High mark for Jimmy. The point is, you buy 5 million units of a fucking tablet and you pay more than retail for each one. That's number one, the system. Number two, you hand them out to all the poor kids, they start hacking into it and watching porn. Nobody gets any smarter. And at some point, someone gets bashed over the head with a tablet, and then, by the way, no more discussion, but a lot of discussion about getting those kids tablets. Now, I'm the person who goes, yeah, I think the inner city poor kid should have access to technology. I'm on board with you in theory, except for it never works.

[Unknown Speaker]

It never works.

[Adam Carolla]

It never works. Not when you guys do it.

[Unknown Speaker]

And the problem is, it's always, we need more money. So now your taxes. We need more tablets because the kids broke them because they were doing whatever with them. And, yeah, there's just been a massive, I think, just preference falsification over the last four or five years because of things on Border is a good example. If you have tons of people pour over the border, well, of course you're gonna put strains on healthcare and housing and everything else. But if you said that you wanted to build a wall or you wanted to stop the border, you were again, once seen as bigoted or xenophobic or you didn't want this country, and that's what the left would tell you. And so people were afraid to speak up, and they didn't. And people didn't say in public what they believed in private.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, on a happy note, I think it's about coming to an end because you sort of need some results at some point. I mean, it's basically a Ponzi scheme where you keep saying to the guy gave you 10,000 bucks, it's been a year. I know, give me three more days. I'll get that money to you. And you're like, I could ask every week for six months. And like, at a certain point, you go, I don't think this is working. I don't think it's working out. Like, at some point, L.A. burns to the ground and we go, maybe a different direction.

[Unknown Speaker]

Maybe a different direction.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe a different direction.

[Unknown Speaker]

Maybe the fire chief that was spending more time on DEI and telling people, if they were in the fire, it's their fault. Maybe you just need to have more.

[Adam Carolla]

That's my favorite.

[Unknown Speaker]

More trained and more qualified.

[Jim Florentine]

Look what Bud Light has done to these other companies. They're afraid to get Bud Lighted like, to go out on a limb and do something crazy like, man, I don't want that to happen to our country. So it's actually really helped. Just. And it's still down. It didn't come back, like you said. It's still, what, 2 billion down in sales?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

So it's good where there's a lot of country. I have a sister that won't go in this strip mall because there's a TJ Maxx, a Marshalls, and a Target there. And she has issues with all of them. I guess they took Ivanka's perfume line out of one.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Jim Florentine]

Then Target had the transgender bathroom. She won't go any. And it's right around the corner.

[Adam Carolla]

I go, wow, hardcore.

[Jim Florentine]

I gotta give. No, I still won't give it up. I'll drive eight more miles to the Walmart. I'm not. I'm like, wow, wow.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a hardcore system.

[Unknown Speaker]

And who knows? I think we're only one issue away from Trump or the next George Floyd issue. Or what if. I think a lot of companies will start coming back and getting to be more progressive again. And that's the thing that companies just need to realize is that. Just stick to your mission. And if there's something that's related socially or politically to what your mission is, sure, maybe you can have a point of view on it. I don't know. But if not, then I was freaking.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what? Really? Like, I. You know, like I said, I'm ashamed to admit it, but I can't quit the NFL. You know, I'm Brokeback Mountain. You know what? The progressive version of me being too weak to quit the NFL is for the progressives. Chick fil A, every 10 minutes they go, not gonna do. We're not going to support those Christians, God damn it. They're against the. And then at some point they go, yeah, but they're zesty. Chicken supremacy. That's a good burger. That's a good chicken sandwich, man. They're too fucking weak to ever get a. They try to get a boycott going, like, every six months. They can't do it. They're too weak.

[Unknown Speaker]

But this is what's crazy. Let Chick Fil A be Chick Fil A. It's like their whole deals are closed on Sundays, for Christ's sake.

[Adam Carolla]

That's my whole thing. I'm an atheist. I don't care if Chick and in and out the same way.

[Jim Florentine]

Hobby lobby to. Is it not a lobby?

[Unknown Speaker]

But that's the thing. But they're at least authentic. We've always been closed on Sundays. We were started by Chris. We're not hiding it. Whereas with Bud Light, they started to hide it and they lost that authenticity of who they were.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, to your point, I'm not religious at all. But harkening back to an earlier point of mine, I at least respect Chick Fil A for being consistent in believing it. Yeah, I don't believe Disney or Budweiser or Joe Biden believes any of it. Like, when I see all the Congress people in the Rotunda take a knee because it's George Floyd's birthday with the koofy hat on, I'm like, you fucking elderly, rich white people don't give two shits about this criminal that got killed. You don't care at all. Like, you're just making all this up. If I thought they cared, like I said, I'm not religious. Chick Fil A is. Pardon the pun. God bless. And if I really thought Disney, really thought about this and really cared, or Subaru, then I'd be fine. But I don't believe it.

[Unknown Speaker]

I don't love Ben and Jerry's as a company. I don't really eat Ben and Jerry's, but at least they're open and honest that they have on their website. We use ice cream to advance a socially progressive mission. And so therefore, they're going to call to give back land and Native Americans and that. They're going to call for the end of racism, and they're going to call for social climate justice, all this stuff. But at least they're open about it so I can at least trust them. Hey, it's a free country, and that's how capitalism works. And great, if there's a market for that, so be it. But that's why Chick Fil A should never change who they are, because just be Chick Fil A. Be great at that.

[Adam Carolla]

I completely agree.

[Jim Florentine]

It's the same thing with the Neal in the NFL, because at some point it was affecting the ratings. The NFL told the networks, don't show the national anthem because it's killing us. People are seeing that they're tuning out of football, and now they don't show the national anthem. So none of the guys do it anymore because they don't get any exposure. Yeah, if they were still showing an anthem and they can get exposure, they would kneel. But they're like, all right, no one's gonna see that. So I'm not going to kneel.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping that the NFL, that they. That they. I don't know, come back and just be about football and we end the performative and social justice.

[Jim Florentine]

They don't. I mean, you know, there's. If you, if you're a defensive coordinator, black defensive coordinator, and you get an upgrade to a head coach, the team that he leaves gets two draft picks, gets a third and a fourth round pick for elevating a black man.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah. To a better position.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Jim Florentine]

If he gets to a higher position. So you get you as a team, you of course have a defense coordinator that's black because if he gets another job, you're getting two draft picks, a third and a fourth round during the next draft.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Jim Florentine]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's a little.

[Unknown Speaker]

And it'll be interesting. I mean, it'll be interesting with these no DI mandates. Does that go away or not? Because essentially you're giving preference.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Unknown Speaker]

The preferential hiring and the 1964 Civil Rights act says you cannot discriminate based off of race, sex, gender, national origin. And that to me seems their incentives to discriminate against.

[Jim Florentine]

And they also have to do the Rooney Rule where they have to interview a black coach before they hire anybody.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, right.

[Jim Florentine]

So a black coach has to get an interview for a head coaching job even though you don't want them. Just throw them in there. Okay, yeah, thanks. I appreciate it. And then they'll hire who they really want to hire.

[Unknown Speaker]

It'll be interesting because in the same way that the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, because even 25 years ago there was a case where one of the judges said, hey, at some point this is going to go away because you just can't have this into perpetuity, the Rooney Rule. To your point, there's seven head coaches that are black in the NFL and so that's. You have what, a quarter of the teams or whatever it is versus the black club, which is going to be 10%.

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you need it or not? Because I think we're to the point that there's tons of qualified coaches and great coaches and hire based off merit and period, the NFL should lead the way since the most popular sport in the US on that.

[Jim Florentine]

That white old billionaire owner is not going to not hire a black guy if he's qualified for the job when he's paying the black players on the field all this money.

[Unknown Speaker]

100% agree.

[Jim Florentine]

If you had 90% white guys on a team and 10% black, go, this guy's probably racist. If you had two white cornerbacks and two white safety starting I'm like this guy's probably racist.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jim Florentine]

Going 1 in 16 every year.

[Adam Carolla]

Whoever coached Chuck Cecil was a racist. Owner of the Atlanta Falcons. Where did Chuck Cecil play?

[Jim Florentine]

Yeah, he was.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. All right, Anson, let me give the book a plug. Last call for Bud Light. Preorder it. Now available February 4th, Jim shows special. You can't please them all. It's available on Amazon Prime. And then live shows just go to Jim florentine.com right?

[Jim Florentine]

Yep. Atlanta and Orlando coming up.

[Adam Carolla]

Good conversation. Anson and Jim, until next time, is Adam Carolla say, oh, wait, Boca Raton tonight. That show's gonna be sold out. But Naples off the hook. Show's coming up over there. Gonna be in Florida. Bunch of shows in Naples that off the hook. That's coming up Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Go down crow.com for all live shows. Until next time. And Franson and Jim saying mahalo.

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