Dave Rubin Returns To California: “IT’S GOTTEN WORSE” + Xavier Becerra’s EMBARRASSING Interview

Summary

The Adam Carolla Show – May 14, 2026

Guest: Dave Rubin | News with Alicia Krause

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Adam Carolla welcomes commentator and podcaster Dave Rubin back to the studio for a candid and comedic discussion about the decline of California—particularly Los Angeles and Oakland—and the broader cultural and political shifts fueling that decline. They take sharp aim at local leadership, "chick think" in politics, performative race politics, COVID controversies, and the dysfunctions of progressive governance. The show also features a news segment with Alicia Krause, covering topics from the COVID lab-leak whistleblower to embarrassing moments from politicians like Xavier Becerra. The episode is classic Carolla: equal parts biting critique, humor, and irreverent banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. California’s Ongoing Decline: Firsthand Impressions & Analysis

• Dave Rubin’s Return: Sharing his impressions of Los Angeles after a year in Florida, Rubin is shocked at how much things have deteriorated:
  • “It's worse in the 24 hours that I've been here than I haven't been here about a year. 24 hours in West Hollywood. Well, it's bad.” (04:35)
  • “The only people who seem to be working are the people at In N Out. They're working and they're happy.” (07:02)
• Adam’s Observation: Comparing LA’s slow decline to not seeing someone for a long time and suddenly noticing the weight they've gained—“You see them every day, you don’t notice. Go away for a year, come back, you go, dude, you got fat.” (04:52)

2. Leadership Failures: From Karen Bass to Libby Schaaf

• Critique of “Stay the Course” Politics:
  • Adam skewers LA Mayor Karen Bass’s “Stay the Course” campaign:
    “She should be running on. I had a brain aneurysm, but now I'm better. Or I found Jesus Christ two weeks ago. But anything but Stay the Course, which is an insane angle to run on.” (03:42)
• Oakland’s Meltdown & “Chick Think”:
  • Carolla details the bizarre saga under former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, specifically her reaction to black residents putting homemade workout ropes in public parks and calling it a hate crime.
  • Adam: “That is chick think...you can’t govern with that kind of thinking.” (12:03)
  • Rubin: “You have to understand, I live in a functional place now. So a lot of this, it's hard to get through to my brain.” (16:10)
• Privilege & Symbolism:
  • Schaaf's statement: "Intentions don’t matter when it comes to terrorizing the public. These symbols are symbols of racial violence, and it's incumbent on all of us to have that sensitivity..." (17:45)
  • Both hosts mock the logic, drawing out the disconnect between symbolic stances and real-world problems.

3. Performative Politics & the Race Industry

• Politicians’ Use of Race:
  • Adam laments that progressives often claim “the future is female,” regardless of qualifications (10:08), and that the local media rarely challenges nonsensical positions:
    “She should have been hit by a chair by now. And by the way, I’m talking about by her own staff. Like we should shut this bitch up.” (20:46)
• On Code Switching and Theatrical Activism:
  • The discussion moves to politicians who “perform” identity, such as Rep. Justin Pearson. Adam and Dave riff on the dramatic change in style and tone once he found the national spotlight.
    • Adam: “It’s weird when it happens later...somewhere like three years ago, Adam started dressing like a gondolier and speaking with a thick accent.” (57:44)

4. COVID, Government Trust, and Media Failures

• Lab-Leak Cover-up:
  • The show dives into new whistleblower testimony corroborating the COVID lab-leak theory, and implicates Dr. Fauci’s shaping of the narrative.
    • “Remember, Rand Paul had Fauci up there five years ago...saying, this is gain of function. It came from a lab, and this was on your watch.” (44:34)
  • Both hosts mock the early pandemic policies and the double standards employed by leaders like Gavin Newsom and Mayor Garcetti (“He said he was holding his breath”—56:12).
• Performative Safety:
  • Rubin: “If you believed any of this, you'd be running away from them. I remember I went to Costco...this woman came up to me...I said, lady, I literally said to her, ma'am, you just approached me. If you think any of this is real, why are you approaching me?” (56:12)
  • Adam: “He doesn’t believe it. I know when people believe it...they don’t believe it. That’s what they do believe—well, I don't know. Does Libby Schaaf think this was a hate crime? ...What does she believe?” (56:32)

5. The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Trap

• On Political Appointments:
  • Adam and Alicia Krause criticize the Biden administration’s adherence to diversity quotas, pointing to underwhelming appointees like Kamala Harris, Karen Bass, and Xavier Becerra.
  • Adam: “You have to think about if you just said, look, I'm putting together a defense for the Patriots. And you go, all right...no, no, no. Here's what we really need to focus on. We need one of the players to be gay. We need one to be black...” (85:25)

6. Xavier Becerra’s Embarrassing Interview

• Becerra Bristles Under Basic Scrutiny:
  • Playing a profile interview with Javier Becerra, Adam and Alicia marvel at his defensiveness and unwillingness to answer tough questions.
  • “…he was never allowed to talk because KTLA, to their credit, released this interview with him...this is the start...” (80:18)
  • “He's dumb. And when you are dumb, eventually your face kind of gives it away.” (84:48)

7. Homelessness & Social Services: Wrong Answers to Real Problems

• Teeth, Not Treatment:
  • The panel lampoons LA Mayor Karen Bass’s focus on dental care for the homeless, rather than drug and mental health interventions:
  • Adam: “Hey, bitch. Lisa Loeb called. She wants her glasses back.” (91:05)
• Systemic Misdiagnosis:
  • Adam: “Whatever their angle is, it's the wrong angle. And it's kind of interesting because it's not like some of the angles are right...they're wrong about everything...that's what makes things deteriorate so quickly.” (93:38)

8. Institutionalized Failure and Media Gatekeeping

• Avoidance of Accountability:
  • The group highlights how politicians like Katie Porter and Katie Wilson avoid tough interviews or cut them short, with Dave sarcastically observing: “Once the mic's hot, you're in.” (97:49)
• Lack of Real Follow-Up:
  • Adam: “They ask it, the person just denies it. And then they let him go. Now the lady who's talking to Becerra has the New York Times article in front of her. And so she goes, what about the missing kids? And then he goes, that's not true. And then she goes, what's your favorite ice cream?” (100:38)

9. America’s Broken Safety Net and the “Program” Mentality

• Adam’s Take:
  • Adam recaps how, in his era, young adults found jobs without elaborate government programs, and how today’s sprawling bureaucracy inevitably breeds fraud and dependency — especially with foreign students gaming the system (105:38).
  • “Let the family kick in. Feed the fucking people. Find the stupid jobs. Peel it all back. It's too much.” (108:17)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On LA’s Decline
  • Dave Rubin: “It's kind of turning into Mexico City. Like, it's just super rich people...in luxury up here and you guys live in squalor down there.” (06:51)
• On Symbolic Politics
  • Libby Schaaf (clip): “Intentions don't matter when it comes to terrorizing the public. These symbols are symbols of racial violence...” (17:45)
  • Adam Carolla: “This is uninterrupted reel of stupid like I've never seen.” (22:50)
• On COVID Hypocrisy
  • Adam: “No, they didn’t believe it. But what they do believe, well, I don't know. Does Libby Schaaf think this was a hate crime?” (56:32)
  • Dave: “A billionaire gets to be a billionaire by doing some stuff like that, even if he's not paying for it. And Adam Carolla, you are a salt of the earth guy who doesn't want a potato to go to waste at the steakhouse.” (31:13)
• On Political Theater
  • Dave: “They're a bunch of theater kids, and that's kind of what they are. They all love the performative part of this...” (64:47)

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• 03:19 – Dave Rubin lambastes LA’s street-level decay.
• 05:55 – Adam’s analogy: “If you walked in in the middle of the tile setting...and everything was caddy wampus...that’s their argument.”
• 10:10 – The 'future is female' in politics, mocked for lack of substance.
• 12:03–20:00 – Oakland’s workout rope controversy and “chick think.”
• 43:25–48:42 – Deep dive into the COVID origins whistleblower & the fauci cover-up.
• 56:12–58:00 – COVID hypocrisy, masks, and the French Laundry.
• 80:18–86:44 – Xavier Becerra’s interview; DEI hiring criticism.
• 91:00–94:00 – Karen Bass on helping homeless by focusing on dental care.
• 97:10–101:43 – Evasive politicians, media questions, and ducking accountability.
• 105:38–109:34 – Foreign students gaming US job programs; Adam on "peeling it all back."

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Tone & Style

As always, the episode is brash, unsparing, often self-mocking, and peppered with comedic riffs and analogies. While irreverent, both Adam and Dave spar intellectually, applying logic and “common sense” to lampoon progressive urban policy and its failed social outcomes.

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For Listeners New to the Show

This episode is a quintessential snapshot of The Adam Carolla Show: acerbic, comic, politically incorrect, and brimming with observational humor and insider anecdotes. If you want an unflinching critique of current events—with plenty of laughs—it’s must-listen content.

Transcript

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From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California. This is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, Dave Rubin. Plus the news with Alicia Krauss. And now Adam Carolla.

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Yeah. Get it on. Got to get on the church in a minute. You get it on. And thanks for tuning in. Thanks for tuning in. Tuning in. Tell the friend, tune in. Dave Rubin is in studio. Good to see you, my friend.

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Adam, it is good to see you. I'm very happy to be here in a secure studio with you amongst your security guards and armed people. Because I've spent the last 24 hours in your fair city and Lordy, Lordy, you know what I'm gonna say? Something is rotten in stink town here. And it's the urine and the poop and everything else. This place is going to high hell.

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I agree.

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Nice to see ya.

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And the thing that's always fun is I probably want to tighten that up maybe. Yeah, I think you just twist the stand, by the way. Shouldn't bother me. Yeah, there you go. All right. So the thing that's funny is Karen Bass is running on Stay the course, which is the weirdest argument ever. She should be running on. I had a brain aneurysm, but now I'm better. Or I found Jesus Christ two weeks ago. But anything but Stay the Course, which is an insane angle to run on.

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If you live in this city and you are thinking that everything is fine and you're gonna elect or reelect the lady who got. Well, it's not that you can't even blame her for this. Cause it was Garcia or Garcetti before her, and it was just. It's been going on for a long time.

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Antonio Vincent.

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But I gotta tell you, like, in a weird way, I don't even mean this jokingly. You know my feelings about Florida and Cali and fleeing this place and everything else, it was worse. I mean, it's worse in the 24 hours that I've been here than I haven't been here about a year. 24 hours in West Hollywood. Well, it's bad.

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Well, look, and Hollywood, obviously I believe you. Because if you wanna figure out if someone has gained weight, don't see em for a year. If you see em every day, you see em every day. They put on nine ounces a day and you don't notice it at all. Go away for a year, come back, you go, dude, you got fat.

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In this case, they're losing, losing weight and walking slowly with a hunch. So it's slightly different, but same theoretical course.

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Yeah. So it's. Now, Andrew, we already broke down that commercial on this show though, right? So. But yeah, it was a funny stay the course commercial from. Well, you know what? It is, is. They have this. They have sort of two angles. They have the. I'm just getting started, but I got more work to do.

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They always have work to do these days.

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And it's basically. It's basically Dave's doing a world class remodel of his bathroom.

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Wait till you see this now.

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I'll show you some pictures. I'm not leaving once I get in there.

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You were pretty impressed. You saw it mid and we did some stuff.

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But if you'd walked in in the middle. This is my I'm just getting started argument, which is sort of the Karen Bass. It's the Democrat argument in California and Los Angeles. But if you walked in in the middle of the tile setting and the guy was just doing a freakishly bad job setting the tiles and the margins were all fucked up and everything was caddy wampus and he wasn't using spacers. And then you went, hey, man, this doesn't look right. And he went, I'm just getting started. Like you'd go, no, stop. Whatever it is you're doing, stop. Not. I'm just getting started. And that's their argument.

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I don't understand. I mean, I genuinely don't understand. Is it just that there's enough rich people living in the hills here, just behind their gates at this point, that they've just conceded every other piece of the city and they think that the hills will never burn down? Is that what you think the calculation is?

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It's kind of turning into Mexico City. Like, it's just super rich people with guards and gates and walls and they live in luxury up here and you guys live in squalor down there.

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The only people who seem to be working are the people at In N Out. They're working and they're happy.

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Yes.

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We went there yesterday.

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They're the only working, happy people there.

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My guy Joey, who's with me, he'd never been to In N Out before. So we walk into In N Out. He's very excited for his first In N Out. I haven't had it in a year or two. I'm very excited. And I tell the guy behind the counter, big smile on his face, young Latino guy, he's happy. Welcome to In N Out. Animal style. The whole thing. And I said to him, hey, my buddy here has never had In N Out before. You think I could get the whole crew, you guys, to sing a song for him? And he's like, maybe. And he smiles and he starts walking away as if he was gonna ask the whole crew to sing whatever they're doing in. I was like, no, it's not necessary. But I was like, whatever you guys are doing, that's right, that is what you people have left here, in and out.

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And speaking of that, the only in and out franchise to ever move since 1949 moved out of Oakland, California. So whatever they're doing there in Oakland, they're doing wrong. Oh, reminds me of the greatest clip that we've all forgotten about, which was awesome. And I don't think people fully understand the implications or what things mean, which is sort of like. What I'm saying is, women, if you are going on a date with a guy, and I've said this a million times, if a woman says, guy comes over to pick them up on their first date, and the woman says, oh, come in, come in. Just wait here. Just let me finish putting on my lipstick. I'll be with you in a second. And she goes off into the bathroom and her dog comes, like, sniffing around the guy to sort of say hi, and the guy, like, kicks him away. And the woman sees it in the mirror from the bathroom, what the guy did. It's over. Yeah, it's up. And then people go, maybe he's got a great sense of humor. Maybe he's a very generous guy. Maybe he's a loving guy. Maybe he's a beautiful lover. One thing, one thing. You kick the dog, one thing, and we're done. And it's like when I. It's like if you drive around town and you see the guy that's got the dumpster for a car, like, just rappers, fast food, garbage on the dash, newspapers in the back, like, yo, okay, that person's nuts. And then someone will go, well, all you've seen is their car. I go, I don't need to see anything else than that. And I know what the guy's apartment looks like. I know what he's like. I know what his hygiene is. I just need the one thing. And I don't think people do that enough with the politicians. Like the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaff or whatever her name was. This is going back some years, maybe five, six years, she was the mayor of Oakland. This is before the A's left and before the warriors left and before In N Out left. We decided, by the way, we decided our infinite wisdom, we could fix all this. We just had a bunch of women in charge, and it would just fix every city with compassion.

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Well, because the future is female.

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Future is female.

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Does not matter if you're qualified.

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Right? So There was a story. Now you have to think about how this woman's brain works. And then you would apply it to everything. But just like the guy with the trashed car, I would apply that to their life globally. This clip is from Wen Andrew and she's given a presser because. And you may remember this story, Dave 2023. Okay, a guy, a black man who seemed a little crazy, but a black man, set up a workout sort of jungle gym at the park. He hung rope hoops from the tree so he could pull himself and do chin ups. And he made a system of hoops to hang.

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I can tell this is gonna end well.

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Yeah. And he just used it in the park. He didn't seem like he had enough for an Equinox membership. But he got his kind of prison workout at the park in Oakland, which is fine. And then some white chick spotted the rope and of course had to say something to somebody. And then there was a big kerfuffle. Sort of like every race hoax, there is Bubba Watson, this noose in the paddock to the racetrack or whatever. Wallace is it Bubba Wallace Watson. Anyway, the point is, Bubba, we'll do the Bubba math. So the point is they had to report it. Then they had to make a big deal out of it. And then the black dude who hung the rope went, I did that. I used it to work out. That's it, end of story. But they were like, nah, nah, nah, we're not done calling our. Remember our theme is our society's horribly racist. So this is an opportunity.

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Is the implication that he was trying to lynch himself or he set it up, he was setting up his own lynching one day.

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Well, she gives, she gives the presser. And she basically says, look, I'm gonna get the DOJ involved. We're gonna look at this as a hate crime. And then some woman in the audience goes, well, I think we already have contacts. Cuz that guy who came on before you, the black guy said he did it, so what are we doing here? And she's like, doesn't matter what the context is. And then I thought, oh my God, that is chick think. That is insane. Chick think. But it's also, you can't govern with that kind of thinking. That's Nithya Raman blaming Toyota for catalytic convert. Like, baby, your brain is broken. And we can't have you making decisions, anything critical because you've shown your inability to think.

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What have any of these people done that is good? That's the interesting thing to me, if I was Spencer Pratt's doing a hell of a job, obviously. I have no idea. I mean, do you think there's any chance he can win? Just numbers wise? Probably doesn't happen, right? Like, it seems to me he's getting national coverage. That's great. And we all kind of love what's going on here. And those AI videos are amazing. I just don't know enough about the LA electorate anymore and if there's enough sane people here anymore. But if I was him, I would just turn to her. He's doing a great job. But if I had one little piece of advice, it would turn to her and say, what are you good at?

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Yeah. Oh, well, she just organizes communities. I'm a people person. I'm a caring person. I'm a mother. I get communities, marginalized communities, and I bring them together and I give them a seat at the table so that we can all have justice and we can all have pride.

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And that's nice to hear. You know, that's nice. But that would be the point. Like, is anyone's life better? Is anything safer? Is anything cleaner? Are the schools better? Are the streets safer? Like, you could go through the laundry list. Are businesses coming here? Which way are people going? And we all know they're going out, right? You know, last night, you know me, I like to. When I come to town, I like to have dinner with all my old friends and do things, and I always ask people where they are and what's going on. I was literally, last night, it's about 4 o', clock. I'm like, what am I doing for dinner tonight? None of my friends are here anymore.

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Yeah, they've all cleared out.

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Everyone's gone. Everyone's gone. You drew Larry Elder.

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Larry Elder.

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David Zucker. That's it.

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David Zucker. All right, so here it is. Now, the audio's a little weird, but

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first off, I like this guy already.

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The black guy who put the rings up, just gets done saying, I put the rings up. And now Libby, the mayor of Oakland, which is now destroyed, this is three years ago, has to give her rationale with that.

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If you have any questions.

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Several of us I know have been

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out to the park and interviewed a

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gentleman, an African American gentleman, who said this was ab.

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You know, I said intentions don't matter,

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but he said the intentions were strictly to create this rope system.

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He showed us another one that's still in the tree.

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He showed us videos and using it in that manner. I mean, don't the intentions matter? If it was just strictly meant to be A sign that they've been up there for months. Listen, the intentions will matter with regard to whether or not this is prosecuted as a hate crime. But intentions don't matter when it comes to.

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Hold on a second. Hold on intentions. So if you made a loop on a piece of rope to pull a garage door down so that you could grip the rope better and pull the door down versus an old timey lynching, it's still the same thing, right?

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Adam, you know, I'm a simple man. Maybe I'm missing part of this. Who are they accusing of a crime here? If he said he set it up, and what was the crime other than maybe he set up ropes without a permit?

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He put the ropes up, but his intentions don't matter because those ropes still could have been taken as offensive and a hate crime to others. And that's why I'm here to save those people who may have seen twine in a tree.

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You have to understand, I live in a functional place now. So a lot of this, it's hard to get through to my brain because it's.

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Yeah, right, right.

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That's what's going on here. Right. I'm diving right back into the mire and the muck. So you're telling me that that lady was accusing the man who set up the rope so he could work out of a hate crime against himself?

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Yes. So it's here's honor of other people. Let me see if I can tell you this. By the way, here's how my brain works. I said, I think this thing's about six years old. And then he wrote 2023. And I was like, huh, that's so new. June 2026 years old. Okay, anyway, so let me explain. I'll give you context in terms of the intentions don't matter. Let's just say your maid came in and your maid was changing the pillowcase, the white pillowcase on your pillow. And just as she did, you opened the sliding glass door and a wind blew in and it landed on her head, giving her the appearance of a clan's person.

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This did happen once. Continue. Yeah,

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that would be a racial attack, is what I'm saying, because intentions don't matter. Yes, she was just trying to change depiction pillowcase, but she donned the hood.

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But in this case, that woman wanted him to go to jail for this.

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I don't know. Let's. He was just trying to work out her out. Remember, she's a hero and she's going to save black people.

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Okay.

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Is in the public these symbols Are symbols of racial violence.

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Scoot back 10 seconds. Thanks. Here we go.

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Listen, the intentions will matter with regard to whether or not this is prosecuted as a hate crime. But intentions don't matter when it comes to terrorizing the public. These symbols are symbols of racial violence, and it's incumbent on all of us to have that sensitivity, to have that knowledge. And that is why I've directed our staff to remove any such symbol of hatred, regardless of the intention of what put it there. What a privilege for those of us that don't feel complete fear and terror when we see a rope in the tree. That is a privilege that so many of us.

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All right, hold on. First off, this was weird.

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A mental institution.

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Weird chick. First off, all roads lead to narcissism, right? She's so much better. She's better because we don't understand the horror, you know, you see when you see a rope in a tree. So I guess if you're like, your great great great grandmother was a witch and you walked past a well, I guess that would strike terror.

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You know, having walked. Having walked through Hollywood today where it's just a zombie apocalypse of drug addicts and homeless people. If I had seen a couple homeless people with some ropes climbing on trees or whatever, I would have thought it was refreshing, actually. You know what I mean? Like, they're all hunched over because of the meth or whatever. So it's like, oh, yeah, you're hanging on a rope. That's the best way to straighten out, by the way. So she's really against health here more than anything.

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Well, the point is, the poor black guy who hung up his workout rings, they sawed him down and threw him away, by the way, whatever that cost the taxpayers. So she's against this. I just gotta hear it.

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Did he go to jail? What happened to this guy?

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She's not going after the guy. She's going after racism in general, which is. She's gonna have.

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Oh, did she jail racism?

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Let's see.

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I don't know crime, but intentions don't matter. They don't when it comes to terrorizing the public. These symbols are symbols of racial violence. And it's incumbent on all of us to have that sensitivity, to have that knowledge. And that is why I've directed our staff to remove any such symbol of hatred, regardless of the intention of what put it there. What a privilege for those of us that don't feel complete fear and terror when we see a rope retreat.

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Is it dope?

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That is a privilege that so many of our African American residents do not enjoy. And this is a moment that we must be cognizant of that reality. We have got to stop terrorizing our black and brown citizens. And as white people, we have to become knowledgeable and educated about the impacts of our actions, whether they are well intentioned or.

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Hold on a second. I always wonder about the. Who are the people in the press? You know, first off, she should have been hit by a chair by now. And by the way, I'm talking about by her own staff. Like we should shut this bitch up. But also, can anyone raise your hand and go what the fuck are you talking about, lady? Nobody knows what you're talking about. This is a workout rope, by the way. Gyms used to hang ropes and kids would climb up em. Was that a hate climb in junior high? Was that a hate climb?

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We used to have that in elementary school. Climb up and if you could get high enough you could put a little post it note up there.

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Oh really?

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Yeah, you'd usually put a racial comment.

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It was called a hate climb back then.

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That's good.

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That's good.

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That was good. I mean this is, you know, my friend, I'm sure you know him, Gad Saad. Gad, right. You know, his book came out yesterday, Suicidal Empathy, which I'm sure is going to be the number one book of the year.

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I hope so.

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This is maybe the best example of

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that that I've ever seen.

[C]

I'm going to send this to man.

[A]

And it's also an inability to think and also it's an inability to hear yourself because you don't know what you sound like. But wait, I want to hear a little more of her and then tell me what she went on to. By the way, these people always go on to nothing. And at some point Harvard gives them a job. Just gotta be awesome.

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And as white people, we have to become knowledgeable and educated about the impacts.

[A]

She ruined. This is six years ago. She ruined Oakland.

[C]

Yeah, in and out is gone. Yeah. Who's this guy?

[E]

Can we also add it is also against regulations to put anything in public trees, regardless of your intention, Regardless of.

[A]

Hold on. By the way, camp a Winnebago on the lawn of the public library and deal meth. They don't have any problem with that. Hang some rope for a workout at a park issue.

[C]

However, that was the only sane thing she said there.

[A]

Right?

[C]

You do need maybe a permit to put the rope in the tree. I'll go with her on that. But you're right, these are the same people that if you cook meth next to the school will tell you, oh, you should be a little closer to the school.

[A]

Did she have any more of this? Because this is a uninterrupted reel of stupid like I've never seen.

[C]

Man, I really wish you were doing like a Maury Povich right now. And she was about to walk through the door.

[A]

Oh, that would be awesome.

[C]

That would be great. She's not here, is she?

[A]

That would be.

[C]

Who's she throwing to?

[A]

I like that she's disgusted, Rachel.

[E]

I think we're gonna talk about that separately.

[A]

Self righteous.

[E]

She feels good about it.

[A]

It's not a news, it's not a noose, it's a hoop in a tree. But sorry, keep going.

[E]

Questions, which I can answer later.

[D]

I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name. I think you mentioned that, yes, there were five trees, five nooses that were located, and some appeared to be equipment, but then others, you kind of said that they were for sure intentional, there was a malicious intent.

[C]

All right, let's see.

[A]

I didn't say that there was malicious intent behind it. I said that the symbolism of the rope hanging in the tree is malicious. But hold on, this is 2020. So we got a guy wearing a mask, except for it's to hide his double chin because his mouth and nose are fully exposed. So she's got no mask, Libby's got no mask. Then this doofus has a mask, but he pulls it down to talk. And how we're having a press conference about a rope in a tree that a black guy put there so he could do chin ups. And this is why your fucking city is broke, by the way. Right? All right, let's see if there's any more here of the intent. Exactly what the mayor said. It's evil and it symbolizes hatred. And that's not what Oakland is, and

[F]

that's not what Oakland Parks is.

[C]

It's evil.

[A]

Investigation from opd.

[D]

Will that evidence be turned over to the FBI? And what happens after that?

[E]

Yes, the Oakland Police Department has turned over the evidence to the FBI. We have to start with the assumption that these are hate crimes. We cannot.

[A]

Oh, hold on. Why? Why do you have to start with the assumption the guy hung the rope, just told he was there to do chin ups. They've turned it over to the FBI, everybody. By the way, this is colossal. Chick think. This is chick thinky when I say chick think. If you wanna look it up in the dictionary, look up a picture of this dumb bitch and that'll be chick think. And it's also how you ruin a city. You focus on shit that doesn't exist and you completely ignore real problems.

[C]

I mean this is truly like a boy who cried wolf kind of situation. They find racism everywhere it is, except where it actually is. You know what I mean? They find it everywh, right? And then when something actually racist happens, people are just kind of over it. Cuz you're like you were screwing with the black guy who was trying to do pull ups.

[A]

She.

[C]

What happened to her?

[A]

She ran for treasurer of California. Could you imagine this bitch in charge of the purse strings. Then she got. She spent her campaign Bayer accounts and named her. All right, so she was named. You gotta scroll up, Andrew. She was named. The Bay Area Council named her CEO. I cannot read the bottom of the screen, so you gotta scroll up. CEO of Regional Business Association. So she's now the CEO of Business Association. Oh, there's more, but we'll play a little more of her. Cause I. Wait, go back down Says I can't get enough of insanity. And by the way, the meth folding chairs you walked by and the guys who think they're Napoleon and the flat Earthers, I'm sort of fine with them. That's kind of garden variety insane. It's the ones who are put together, elected and sober who are saying patently insane things that I have a greater interest in. Also, the folding chair that's hooked up on meth is not making policy.

[C]

He's not making policy and he's making history.

[A]

All right, well here I'm going to hear her.

[C]

That's my kind of drug.

[A]

Let's hear her a little more.

[E]

So Mayor, you said if now the

[A]

investigation from opd, will that evidence be

[D]

turned over to the FBI and what happens after that?

[E]

Yes, the Oakland Police Department has turned over the evidence to the FBI. We have to start with the assumption that these are hate crimes.

[C]

That's insane.

[E]

We cannot take these actions lightly. We have to take it seriously. And again, if they are proven not to be, that will then exonerate that person. But that does not exonerate the fact that we cannot have symbols in our public spaces. Our public spaces where people are supposed to feel safe. Where everyone is supposed to feel like they can access and enjoy these spaces with a sense of safety. Safety with a sense of welcome. Anything that looks like a noose does not send that message, regardless of the intention of the person who put it there. Period. Even if that's a person of color? Even if that is a person of color. Yes,

[A]

I Like that. She scoffs at this stupid question. I think that that's one thing that

[C]

we have to remember, that hate is hate. Oh, my.

[A]

In my. This is a black guy who hung the hoop.

[C]

So hate is an energy that can

[A]

be held not only by white people, but by black people as well.

[C]

So for me, it really doesn't matter

[A]

if it's a white person or a black person.

[C]

I'm assuming that it's a white person,

[A]

but we don't know that for sure. But I feel that just our city and where we are now in our history, we have to make sure that

[C]

we send definitive messages out to everybody.

[A]

He's got a mask around his chin, too.

[C]

This is not the type of future that we want to promote.

[A]

All right, you can look at it and see if there's any more insanity. If she speaks again, I got to hear her.

[C]

Adam, do you have Venmo?

[A]

You owe me.

[C]

I'm going to Venmo you $1,500 right now. I want you to get on a plane, first class, come to Florida. It's enough of this.

[A]

This is her and Kamala, by the way. Oh, well, I will be in Florida with you and DeSantis.

[C]

That's right.

[A]

Ben Shapiro and Jillian Michaels. And we'll be at the Fillmore in Miami beach, and that'll be June 11th. We're doing, basically live podcasts there, right?

[C]

I'm not even gonna tell you what we're doing. You're just gonna show up, they're gonna make some announcements on the PA and we're gonna throw you out there and see what happens. Yeah, we're gonna do some standup. We're gonna do. I'm gonna write a live show that day. So we'll do a podcast thing. We'll do some giveaways. We got tequila for the. A little sit down with Desantis. Really, the whole idea of this was, you know, DeSantis is wrapping up the second term now. He's, you know, he's got, you know, just basically a couple of months left, and he's done such an incredible job. I mean, literally, you know, my life completely changed because this guy made that state the archetype of freedom in the country. I wanted to celebrate that. The Fillmore. Have you done the Fillmore before? It's a. It's a freak.

[A]

I don't think so.

[C]

Oh, it's. Bill Maher. Did his last HBO special there. It's awesome. Awesome theater. And I just want it to be a celebration of Florida and freedom and, you know, It's a little bit before our big 250th birthday on July 4th and all that good stuff. And just get some of my friends and have just. It's just going to be fun.

[A]

We going to dinner?

[C]

Yeah. And I'm gonna take you out to dinner with the gov. And guess what, Adam?

[A]

I'm gonna split a potato.

[C]

With the rich guy.

[A]

Splitting a potato?

[C]

No, that's.

[A]

Who is the rich. Who has the highest net worth at that table?

[C]

We'll probably get some primo people in there.

[A]

All right, we're splitting a spud.

[C]

It's at a very fancy steak place, and you are having your own potato. You know what? I'm seat you at a separate table just to show Jess you are going to just you take this guy out to dinner.

[A]

Who'd I split? Ted Potato.

[C]

David Sacks. The man is a billionaire.

[A]

I spit potatoes.

[C]

He's now our czar of cryptocurrency or whatever. But he was a major VC guy. It was before he took the job in the administration. I sit you guys down and Prager's there and Sage and was Larry Elder there and a whole. A few other people. Everyone get whatever you want. Enjoy. It's on me. You turn to a billionaire. Will you split a potato with me? I just can't. I can't stop with this one.

[A]

It's a good one.

[C]

But, you know, Drew brought it up yesterday on his show that that happened because he was there too. And he said, you know, it perfectly explains Adam, and it perfectly explains the mind of a billionaire. A billionaire gets to be a billionaire by doing some stuff like that, even if he's not paying for it. And Adam Carolla, you are a salt of the earth guy who doesn't want

[A]

a potato to go to waste at the steakhouse. The potatoes come in at like £3 and a half will do it. And I'm not throwing that other half

[C]

away, but I just love that you either didn't know who he was or didn't or just had never met before or whatever, and you just. The fact that it was the billionaire next to you.

[A]

I knew who he was, but my feeling is half a potato is half a potato.

[C]

At the end of the day.

[A]

At the end of the day. All right, we have some more crazy chick. Think from Libby Schaff.

[E]

You see an overwhelming amount of anguish of rage, of fatigue, of grief, and yes, the fact that we had an extremist charged with the murder of Patrick Underwood. An extremist group, the Boogaloos, that is trying to ferment a race war,

[D]

we

[E]

have to see this moment for what it is. A reckoning.

[A]

A reckoning and an opening.

[E]

We cannot further terrorize or traumatize our black residents. And yes, the incidents of the last few weeks.

[A]

But frankly, do you think the average black resident of Oakland is being traumatized by white people? Or is it other black people who are shooting them that are traumatizing them?

[C]

Put aside the shooting. They lost in and out. That's the trauma.

[A]

And then what?

[C]

Your cousin got shot. Okay, whatever.

[A]

Because the white residents were stabbing people in the parking lot.

[C]

I see what you're doing.

[A]

Aha. All right, keep playing it. Let's hear.

[E]

Traumatize our black residents. And yes, the incidents of the last few weeks. But frankly, of the last few centuries on which we have to make these decisions today. Enough is enough. And again, intentions do not matter because the harm is real. They will matter with regard to whether or not this is, in fact, charged as a hate crime. But they do not matter about whether or not we should tolerate symbols of hate.

[A]

She got. She got the FBI involved with this, by the way. I'd be the worst FBI guy to pick up the phone in the world. Like, what's going on over there in Oakland? Some black guy hung a rope and he's doing chin ups. Yeah, could you guys spend it? Fly a team out here? I'd be like, no, we got problems and shit. There's guys.

[C]

You haven't been in a movie in a while. I like this movie for you.

[A]

There's terrorists running around. There's threats against the president. We got problems in China. We got problems in Iran, and No.

[C]

And a black man was trying to work out.

[A]

Trying to work out. Yeah.

[C]

Someone should have handed her a note in the middle of that press conference, and she should have had to read it. And it would have said, you know, I've just been institutionalized. That's the only way that thing could have ended in.

[A]

She also said the same thing nine times. Like, somebody should have been in the back of the room, given the wrap it up. You know, Dave knows this. Someone should have litter. Yeah, I got a comedy club. Get that flashlight. Just stand up there. Lighter.

[C]

I used to know a comic who. He was a horrible comic. He was always bombing. But he had one good joke, which was as he was bombing 15 minutes in. Every time, he would end it the same way. Normally, they just lift the candle to tell the comedian he has one minute left tonight. They lit the table on fire.

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[A]

All right, so other things to get into.

[C]

Can we tell them where to buy tickets? Oh, I'm sorry, can I just interject?

[A]

Yeah, I'm sorry.

[C]

Do a horrifically shameless promo.

[A]

Go ahead.

[C]

Because you're gonna be there. I'm not just hijacking the adam Carolla show davrubin.com events. And it really is gonna be a spectacular well. And I expect you to bring it, by the way.

[A]

I'm bringing it.

[C]

I'm giving you a whole potato and the whole thing. I don't want any of this half assed Corolla.

[A]

I might go au gratin on your ass. Or maybe twice baked.

[C]

Is that a gay joke? What are you doing?

[A]

Come on. Loaded. By the way, tonight I'm gonna be in Covina at the laugh Factory with RFK Jr up on stage doing a live. And Dr. Drew's gonna. As long as we're talking about live shows. Now here's the other thing that's been going on which I'm interested in, which is a guy, a whistleblower, just got in front of Congress. Well, not Congress, cuz the Democrats don't show up, but half of them and start talking about the COVID cover up, which is remember a few years ago when, remember Libby Schaff was complaining about racism and, and the notion of the origin of COVID would come up and some people would say it was from a wet market and then someone would say it's from a lab. And then you'd be called a racist and shouted down and have every expert on CNN tell you why you were wrong. Guess what? Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, everybody. Surprise, surprise about COVID As it turns out, the thing you got yelled at that if you just want. In terms of the things CNN yelled at you the loudest about or progressives yelled at you loudest about or whatever Biden said or whatever anybody said. Lab origin would be up there. Masks, of course, vaccines, whatever it is that CNN said was wrong. Challenge me. Find me something that we're correct about.

[C]

Writing laptop. Very fine. People do it all day long.

[A]

Right. But I'm just talking about in the Realm of COVID Everything they got was wrong. So remember, it didn't come from a lab in China. Except for I knew it came from a lab in China and I'm in North Hollywood. How the fuck did I know that? Because it made sense that it came from a lab in China. And eventually, by the way, if you read the tea leaves, if you realize everything they yelled about they were wrong about, then this is just one more thing that we're gonna be wrong about. But we have the whistleblower, which is James Erdman iii, I guess, and he was a FBI guy, I think, and he's just. It's three and a half minutes. So this breaking news. Go ahead.

[F]

Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident. Motives are difficult to define given the scope of the Diggs review. Intentional or not, the IC's actions resulted in cover up, wasted resources, and a failure to properly inform policymakers. Public health policy would have been very different had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve as the foundation for. For an emergency use authorization MRNA products being mandated by the former administration.

[A]

You can pause there for a sec.

[C]

Well, first off, the guy with the beard and mustache there, I know that guy. That's Matt Kibb from Blaze.

[A]

Oh, in the back.

[C]

Yeah. I don't know if he's still on Blaze, but that's Matt.

[A]

That's interesting.

[C]

He's big libertarian podcaster type. Also, the face on the other guy

[A]

kind of look like that guy just broke away in. All right. No Democrats showed up for this hearing, by the way. Why not? I thought you guys were about science. Weren't we about science? We embraced science. Right?

[C]

They mean their science.

[A]

I just love the fact that you get to be wrong about something for five years and then at some point you just boycott when someone is right. By the way, I sent a tweet out with this and I just said, look, you guys wrong about everything. And I don't expect an apology. But next time, don't act so sure of yourself about stuff you don't know about.

[C]

But don't you think they would just do it all over again? I don't even mean like, we have much better people in government right now, so Bobby, obviously, and Jay Bhattachary, and we have much better people at the NIH level and all that stuff. So I don't think they would do anything the way that the previous people did. But don't you think? I think literally 98% of people would behave exactly the same way.

[A]

They didn't learn a thing.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

All right, we'll play. Keep playing this.

[F]

Dr. Fauci's role in the COVID up was intentional. Dr. Fauci influenced the analytical process and findings by leveraging his position to ensure the IC consulted with a conflicted list of curated subject matter experts, public health officials, and scientists. This included some of the authors of the paper, the proximal origin of SARS CoV 2 and other public health experts who have been in his orbit for the last 20 plus years. Some of the scientists were part of the Biological Sciences Experts Group, or the bceg, an office of Director, national intelligence advisory body whose members often receive considerable funding from NIAID and public health agencies. The BSEG scientists influence national laboratory WMD research, policy decisions, finished analysis, and other intelligence matters, creating misaligned incentives and conflicts of interest, as well as counterintelligence.

[A]

So remember, Rand Paul had Fauci up there five years ago, and he was basically saying, this is gain of function. It came from a lab, and this was on your watch, and you guys were experimenting with this stuff. And Fauci, he was kind of doing a word play with gain of function and trying to get out of it. Fauci lied.

[C]

He basically said no. Then he said next in the next sentence, and he used a double negative. So it was all very confusing, right?

[A]

Yes. Your hero. Remember, the guy was on the candle Fauci, The Saint Fauci candle.

[C]

Man, why did I buy all those candles? I can't move them now. They're just sitting in my garage.

[A]

Yeah, I remember when they loved Michael Avenatti.

[C]

Have you seen that compilation clip of all of these?

[A]

I love it. I love watching the ladies from the View.

[C]

Fawn, what is it? Anna Navarro, she's like, and oh my God, he's gonna be president. I love it so much.

[A]

Do you ever get tired of being wrong, I guess is what I'm saying saying? Foushee is corrupt. He was corrupted. I told all you guys this a long, long time ago. All right, so here we go a little more.

[F]

Their intelligence matters, creating misaligned incentives and conflicts of interest, as well as counterintelligence issues. Since 2006, the BSEG consulted part time on biodefense issues for the IC while conducting government funded research and holding academia positions, as well as maintaining roles in public health institutions and serving as members in the National Academy of Science. They received funding from NIAID and other agencies for vaccine research. USAID's PREDICT project, the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, and even worked with Chinese scientists on coronavirus and other pathogen studies pursuing vaccines. There was no oversight monitoring how this web of relationships influenced research, policy and public health in any holistic way for over 20 years. In fact, several of the BCEG scientists helped Dr. Fauci rewrite definitions of gain of function in 2015 to lift a funding pause on dangerous research. Still others participated in Planning Event 201 in 2019. This was a coronavirus pandemic tabletop exercise curiously similar to the events that played out during the COVID 19 pandemic. And it was attended by Dr. Fauci and individuals with IC ties like former DNI Avril Haynes. The CIA and DNI, analytic managers responsible for examining the origin of code, made decisions inconsistent with the conclusions of subject matter experts and analytical tradecraft.

[A]

Yeah, all right. They lied. And by the way, you can tell when someone's lying when they know something that's not knowable. That's how you're lying. It's like they all knew Ivermectin didn't work. How do you know Ivermectin doesn't work? Anderson Cooper, you never heard of Ivermectin before and you're not a doctor. So when people are agnostic about things, they're telling the truth. And sort of micro and macro. Like when, you know, when. When someone goes, you know, I don't know, you know, have you seen Steve? And you go, no. Who's Steve? That usually means whatever. But if they go, he's a liar. Screw Steve. Don't believe what he says. You know what I mean?

[C]

Like.

[A]

Like if someone just went, look, maybe it came from a pangolin, maybe it came from a lab. How would we know? China's not gonna tell us. And we don't have a way to figure that out. It's gonna take a while. But you knew it came from a wet market that was next to a lab. So how do you know that? Well, you don't know it. And that's how I know you're lying.

[C]

I remember the first day that I had to put on a mask to go to the supermarket. Went to Whole Foods and Sherman Oaks. And I remember thinking when I put the mask on for the first time, how stupid it all was, because it didn't. Because I was breathing obviously out of the top and out of the bottom. The stuff that we all know now. But going in there and that, you know, they were letting, I don't know, six people in at a time.

[A]

I forgot about that and that literally,

[C]

we came home and people were. We didn't do it, but people were spraying their. The. The paper bag.

[A]

The paper bag that they put the food in.

[C]

They were spraying it down with aerosol and everything else. Like the level of stupidity across the board in the. You know, at a restaurant, when you're walking to the table.

[A]

Howard Stern, quarantine.

[C]

He's killing a mask somewhere.

[A]

I know he quarantined his equipment in a box for, like, two weeks.

[C]

You know, I did a show with my hero. I wish he was still alive, Larry King. And his health was failing at the end before COVID and he did a show. And I don't think this is up anywhere, but, you know, because it was before we connected live. But his guys were in a hazmat suit behind him, literally, like the nuclear bomb had fallen. They had the yellow thing with the giant, you know, like, right out of Outbreak.

[A]

Oh, sure, yeah.

[C]

And they were putting makeup on him with a. What did we do?

[A]

Fear. We became very fear based. Fear is a huge problem. People don't know how destructive it is. And leaders use safety to control everybody. So if somebody says, we need to do this, and you think about Libby Schaff over here and other nut job cows that are running. At least California. California is like the safest state. So what they do to control is they go, hey, we're doing this for safety, for your safety. And then they start making a bunch of decrees that affect you in a super negative way that involve taking away your freedoms. So in the name of safety, we will destroy businesses and shut down schools and churches and lock you in your home and get you arrested for not wearing a mask. If you go to a pee wee football game and sit up in the stands on a sunny day or you hike on the beach for safety for you, right? And that's how they take control. Nobody says, I'm doing this because I'm drunk with power and I fucking love control. They don't. It's always safety that they hide behind so that they can take control.

[C]

The crazy part is they don't even believe it. I mean, to me, the best example, and it was really one of those moments where I was like, I've got to get the F out of this town, is when that crazy lady, Sheila. Cool. You remember that name. She was one of the city council members. There were five of them. And remember when we had temporarily opened and there was outdoor seating again and whatever. And then she went to a meeting. She went to a meeting. She was the Deciding vote to then close the restaurants again. But it wasn't gonna kick in till midnight that night. And then she went in Santa Monica to her favorite Italian restaurant.

[A]

I remember that.

[C]

And I was so enraged at that point that the very next day, there was a protest at her house. I've never gone to a protest in my life. Yes, I went to the protest at her house. And I'm very proud to say that at that protest is where I signed the original thing to get Gavin Newsom recalled. And even that they did in the craziest way that, you know, if you signed the recall paper, you couldn't do it digitally. It was all hand, which is kind of hilarious. At the height of COVID they were making you approach and use a pen and everything. If any part of your pen touched the line above or below, it would be disqualified. But you're out at a freaking protest rally with nothing. I was literally signing it on someone's back.

[A]

Right.

[C]

But the gall. I mean, imagine someone like that. If you believed it for a split second, would you be like, and I would like chicken parm now?

[A]

Well, I like that you did that like Johnny Carson.

[C]

I did not know that.

[A]

You are 100% right. I've been saying this for a million years. People are like, oh, such hypocrites. You know, Gavin Newsom going to the French Laundry. I'm like, he's not really. Hypocrite. He doesn't believe it. He doesn't believe it. And I know when people believe it. People ride a motorcycle, they wear a helmet. People get in a car, they put a seatbelt on, they believe it. People tell you to put a mask up. And half the people told me that had their strap twisted in a figure 8 so it bulged out. And I could see their teeth while they were telling me through the sides of their mask, they don't believe it. O o o. O'Reilly Auto Parts. Yeah. Riley Auto Parts. They keep your business and your car, and their business is keeping your car on the road. That's what they do. I love these guys. Always used them way before I was even on the radio. I'd go to O'Reilly. Used to be one in North Hollywood on Laurel Cannon. Anyway, I go the one in Glendale. Now, if you got a car issue, they'll figure it out for you. They've got thousands of parts in stock either in store or online. And you never have to worry if you're in a jam. They'll also test your battery and they'll do it for free. And if it needs to be replaced. They'll find the one that fits. So whether you're a car aficionado or an auto novice, you'll see that the employees at O'Reilly Auto Parts are helpful and friendly. O'Reilly is your one stop shop for all things auto. Do it yourself. Am I right, Dawson?

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Pay never. Gavin Newsom, you know, goes to the Rams game and takes a picture with Magic Johnson and his there's no mask to be found. No, they don't believe it. She doesn't believe it.

[C]

She also has hiv.

[A]

That's right. You would think if there was anybody with mask up, it would be magic.

[C]

You remember all those videos of people in stores where someone wouldn't be wearing a mask and then the mask people would be chasing them, yelling at them?

[A]

Right. Remember that?

[C]

It happened all over the place. And it's like if you believed any of this, you'd be running away from them. I remember I went to Costco. I'm standing in front of the meat, and at every place I did the same thing. I would not have a mask as I walked in. I'd get yelled at at the door, and then I'd put the mask on to get in. Then I'd immediately take it down. I'd get yelled at again. But I'm at Costco looking at all the, I was getting a brisket, looking at all the meat there. And this woman came up to me and she goes, she's in a mask. Older ladies, 70s probably, mask like this. I have the mask down and she goes, you know, the mask doesn't work if it's not over your mouth. And I was like, lady, I literally said to her, ma', am, you just approached me if you think any of this is real, why are you approaching me? Have a nice day.

[A]

Oh, I forgot Mayor Garcetti was with magic. Said he was holding his breath but there's plenty of footage of Newsom at Sofi, too, without his mask on. No, they didn't believe it. No, they didn't believe it. But what they do believe, well, I don't know. Does Libby Shaft think this was a hate crime? Like, what does she believe?

[C]

It's impossible to know what these people believe at this point. But you guys could check the numbers on this. I think that if I remember correctly, Newsom at that French Laundry dinner, they spent 15 to $20,000 on wine. I take Adam Carolla out, he splits a potato. Newsom, at the height of all this, he's out with lobbyists spending $15,000 on wine.

[A]

It's awesome. Well, well. With Libby speaking of her race hustling. That was six years ago. Now we got, well, the race hustling, it's funny, they've ratcheted it up, which I was like, assume this is gone and dead. But you guys can't stop doing the hustle. So this guy, Justin Pearson, that guy's the greatest because he's turned into Malcolm Triple X. Which I like it when guys turn like, that was my thing with Kaepernick. If you saw Kaepernick out of college, he looked like a Syrian cab driver. And then all of a sudden, super fro and leather jacket and D.L. hughley's that way. Like, I like when these guys. It's weird when it happens later.

[C]

Well, they also. It's not just the hair. They change their affect. They change the way, the speech pattern.

[A]

I'm Italian, so it'd be like somewhere like three years ago, Adam started dressing like a gondolier and speaking with a thick accent.

[C]

Mama Mario.

[A]

Hey, Luigi, look at that. Hey. Hey. You said the chicken parmesan. Mama.

[C]

Try to jump and Koopa jup.

[A]

What if I just started? You go, adam's a fucking dick and he's insane.

[C]

I'd like that, actually, because that was fun. Well, I could do that for the next hour.

[A]

So this is. Look at this guy. We just whacked Justin Pearson together first. And we've all seen Jasmine Crockett and everyone else do this. I don't know why they're not humiliated. It's as if there's no videotape exists, right?

[C]

Look at him. Young, sharp, good looking guy, well dressed,

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short haircut, clean, articulate. Come on. All right, here's the first version of him.

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President of psg. There are a few reasons that we're running this campaign this year. One has to do with representation. How can we represent all voices in A conversation.

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I wanted to do this by partnering with organizations from the Bowdoin Democrats to the Bowdoin Republicans. That's his. All right. That was him. And now this is him now. You chose the wrong tape, Andrew. I got news for you.

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Look at.

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You chose the wrong table.

[C]

No, no, that's him.

[A]

No, it's him. And it's just him dancing. He's not saying anything. This is the better one. Go back, go back. Sorry. Go ahead. Go back a little.

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He

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too. Just go back 10 seconds. I want to hear. Go back 10 seconds. Our togetherness has been reshaped and reformed by this global pandemic to the well. I believe. I believe it is a vision of people who've been ostracized coming to the well. I see white folk and black folk. I see queer folk and straight folk and poor folk. That's going to change this country. It's this movement in this moment in time that's going to change the country. And I'm so glad. Oh, I'm so glad. All right, now let's go back to the first one. Now you can go back for. Oh, man. The second one he had was just dancing. That does.

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Somebody's playing the floor. Tom with him, too, by the way.

[A]

I need black people behind me because every time I go, here's what I want to do. Three white people go, I don't think that's going to work.

[C]

You can't gin up white people. No, you just can't. But you know what he's doing? Remember coming to America? He's doing Arsenio hall as the preacher.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Can you guys play some of that? Or is that copyright or something? Can you get five seconds of that?

[A]

I want to play five seconds of this. Remember this? This is him. This is the old version of him. To the Boone Republicans.

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I want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices, voices that may be more

[A]

liberal or more conservative, in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle where conversation and dialogue happens. I'll tell you what we can play if Dawson can find it. Remember, we don't label things properly, but in. I'm going to say the Best of. We played the year end. Best of the Carolla show had to be eight or 10 years ago, but Arsenio hall came in here and I did a commercial for like a website and Arsenio backed me up as a black preacher. Now, Dawes, remember the Been to the Mountain thing with Arsenio? Arsenio did do that on this show and it was you know what it was, Dawson? It was like, best live read. Like, best live commercial or something.

[B]

Most of all those folders are all at my home studio, but let me see what I can find.

[A]

All right.

[C]

You let your people take things out of here.

[A]

I thought this place was like a vault. Well, I'm like Mitt Romney. I keep my ladies in binders, but I keep my comedy in folders.

[C]

In folders in someone else's house.

[A]

By the way, that's interesting. The whole binders thing was the. That's the craziest part of, like, CNN or whatever. Like, no, he said he put women in binders. I'm like, do you guys even know what you're talking about? I have no idea what you're talking about. Wait, we have it. God bless. That was awesome.

[C]

They did it.

[A]

Now, I've been to the mountain. They got HD faces up there that go to meeting, not go to conference, not go to group setting, not go to a hall with a bunch of strangers or the mountain. It's called a meeting. Go to the meeting. Go to the meeting. I've been to the meeting. Yes. Try to go to meeting free. Preach, Adam. 30 days. Preach, Adam. Not 29. How long, Adam? Not 31. How long, Adam? 30 days on the mountain? You know how many hours that is? Lord God, I don't fucking know. I just had a goddamn calculator. Sorry for using the Lord's name in vain. Now, only if you use promo code, Adam. That ain't Alan. Ah. That ain't Anton. Ah.

[C]

Oh, Lord.

[A]

Ah. That's Adam. Oh, Happy day. Visit GoToMeeting.com all right, so you got some Arsenio.

[C]

That's it. I mean, that's the character. But, like, what are these people doing? Who's falling for again? It's all connected. All this stuff is always connected.

[A]

Well, it's all the same people who buy the same crazy shit. And that's how I know they're lying, because. And if they were being intellectually honest, then you'd go, what do you think about Joe Biden? You go, okay, I voted for Joe Biden. And then you'd go, what about Hunter Biden's laptop? And they go, oh, well, that's real. And then you go, what about COVID And they go, well, I believe Covid's real. What about masks? You don't need to wear a mask. What's a paper mask gonna do? Like, you'd find some back and some forth, like Republicans do. They argue about Israel and they fight about tariffs, and you Go. Who's right? Who's wrong? Well, at least they're being intellectually honest, because they're having an argument. You guys. The guys on the left were all lockstep on everything Covid, and nobody ever raised their hand and went, well, probably came from a lab, right? No, no. They're all lockstep on Biden's cognitive abilities. They're all lockstep on Hunter Biden, all the stuff they're all locked in on. And that means they're lying because they would be saying, no, I don't think that's true. But I agree with you on this other stuff.

[C]

Well, this is what people on the Internet, they're always saying. They're a bunch of theater kids, and that's kind of what they are. They all love the performative part of this. You know, when I was on tour with Jordan Peterson, Jordan was a clinical psychologist for decades. He was a professor for decades at Harvard and University of Toronto and other places. He was not a performer in any way. But what I was always most amazed by, beyond, obviously, like, the crazy intellect and the stuff that he was saying was he would stalk the stage, like, you know, like some comics do, the

[A]

stalk back and forth.

[C]

You can picture, like, Richard Lewis kind of bouncing. And he became a performer, but it was only because it was an extension of him doing something that was true. These guys do the reverse of that. They perform while they're extending something. That's nonsensical. He doesn't believe any of that. And all the. And you're right. Like, all the people behind him and everyone's. They're all having a feeling, fever dream together, right? And it's like, this is all nonsense. But they walk away like, boy, well, we were yelling an awful lot.

[A]

And also, to what end? Like, what's the plan? What's the policy? How are you helping the black community? What is working? What would help the black community is dads stay, have intact families, raise the kid. It's all just kind of diet and exercise, lower taxes. Yeah, it's just real basic stuff. And statistically, go to high school, graduate high school, wait to have a family until after your marriage. You know, real normal, basic stuff. But that would. By the way, that's not for the black community, for the black community. That's for every community. Yeah, that's how all that works.

[C]

You should get Arsenio back in here to do the preacher version of everything you just laid.

[A]

And get a family.

[C]

Get it, guys. And don't put ropes in trees.

[A]

I wonder, to Work out. You're right. There's also a part where they have no sort of self reflection, where they'd go like, that seems a little embarrassing. Like to do this kind of seems ridiculous.

[C]

Well, because you got to turn it off at some point.

[A]

Right, Right.

[C]

So he gets off stage and then, you know, is he like, hello, everybody, how are you?

[A]

Well, that is interesting. That's always the. I think if you're a performer, not an actor, but a person who shares opinions, I think basically the best thing someone could say about you is what like Drew would say about me. What's Adam like off the microphone? Because he's the exact same person. And I go, I'll take it. You know what I mean? That's what. That's what you want. What is this guy? It's sort of like, what's he like behind closed doors when he can let loose? And if the answer is he's the same, then that's good.

[C]

You know, I'm sure you know this, but you know, Trump stole your nice thing, your nice fit.

[A]

Yeah, I did know that.

[C]

And Tom Homan credited Trump for creating it. And Trump was like, yeah, I created it. But we played that clip on my show of you couple days last week, I guess. And yes, you are. When you're doing standup, it's like 5%, right? Like you turn 5% cuz you're holding a mic. You're in front of people, you have to entertain. Yeah.

[A]

I mean, the answer is I talk more when the mic's on than I would behind the scenes.

[C]

I've never talked to you without a mic in front of us. It's weird.

[A]

What about when we broke potatoes?

[C]

No, you said nothing. You took the potatoes, you slit it.

[A]

Quietly nodded.

[C]

No, but it's not to say you can't. There are comics who are characters. Right. But for most of us, for most people that talk for a living. Yeah. If you're the. Basically the same way off camera, if Drew was sitting here or all this went off right now, you and I basically would be talking pretty much the same way. We'd probably angled a little differently and all that kind of stuff, but that thing. And then I could never do it. I could do it.

[A]

I could never do it. I could never do it. And then the worst is like, when.

[C]

How do you go out to dinner with those people?

[A]

Joe Biden's gonna put you back in chains and all that kind of stuff. That's where it gets really gooey. It gets gooey to me when the white politician breaks into the voice or Hillary Clinton goes, we got hot sauce. Well, when she's talking about. I don't feels like we come so's fars like that stuff. And then especially when Kamala Harris does it for some reason. Cause she never sounds that way. And then they put on the voice.

[C]

You know, they call it. They have a phrase for it. You know, they call it code switching. Yeah, that's what they call it that when you go to these different. So if you were to speak at say a temple, you might start talking like Jackie Mason, because that's how they'd understand you. Like that's. That was a little more. Was that a little more rock?

[A]

That was Jackie.

[C]

That was Jackie. I thought I veered into Rodney, but also Jew, by the way. People didn't know that. But even that they've created a phrase for it. When you're pandering to a certain people, we call it this. It's so ridiculous.

[A]

At the end of the day, it's up to black people though, because they're only doing it because they think it yields results. And at some point the black community is going to have to get insulted that they change their voice to talk to them. They butcher grammar so they can communicate with them. They start pandering like, you know, black business people just good as white business people. They just don't have access to lawyers or accountants.

[C]

You know, they don't know where Kinko's is. That was the big thing. They can't get to a printing.

[A]

When they start talking that way.

[C]

You.

[A]

At some point, this is your fault, black community. You should be rejecting this. You should be insulted that they're doing this.

[C]

That's that great video that you did with when you dismantled Newsom, I think in this very room. Or maybe it was a different.

[A]

Maybe it was your old studio. It was this room.

[C]

And yeah, and you just. You would not let him out of his nonsensical racial drivel. Try to explain to me why black people can't do all these things. And at the end he had to nothing. And that's why they don't do these shows. Right? Like they simply can't because they've been so inoculated by the defense system.

[A]

They have the media. Look, if you track, you make sense. You have logic and you have statistics and numbers and you can back up your argument, then you can go anywhere you want. But if you have a nonsensical, insane guy hung rope on tree racist society argument, then you can't come here because there's gonna be A problem. You can't. Come on, Dave Rubin show, there's gonna be a problem. And the thing about Newsom that was insane with that whole thing is he brought up the problem and then he's in a position of power to ostensibly take care of this problem, but he never offered a solution to the problem.

[C]

What year was that? Do you remember?

[A]

10 years ago? That was like 10, that was like 13 years ago. And, and I kept saying to him, why? And he literally went, it just happens to be that way.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

By the way, if it just. So let me quickly say this. It's like Karen Bass blaming climate change for the fires. Well, if it's climate change, then it just happens to be that way. Then we're gonna burn down every three years.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Cuz there's nothing. By the way, what do we need you for?

[C]

You still could put water in the reservoir. You could still do it.

[A]

Well, look, these are the same people that were blaming the Army Corps of Engineers for Katrina. New Orleans is below sea level, so we build seawalls and then they don't flood. So that's climate. But we stop it through technology, in preparation.

[C]

Unless it doesn't work.

[A]

Well, then they let them decay, fall apart, and that's what happened. But the point is, the same people were demanding that they do something and they fixed it and now it works. So all right, there's climate change. Go clear the brush in the forest and go fill the reservoirs.

[C]

Well, that's the point that even if your argument was this was purely climate change, which is a nonsensical argument, there's still a million things, as you just pointed out, with clearing the brush, and you'd still want water in the reservoirs and everything else. You still did not do that. She also blamed the winds for why they couldn't get the helicopters out there. And then we checked it on my show. She said There were over 100 mile winds that day. It was 38 miles an hour, was the top wind that day. I'm not an expert in her aerodynamic helicopter stuff, but she lied.

[A]

The thing that's insane about these people is climate change is an argument against you. That means you should be over preparing to defeat climate change. Instead you go to Ghana and blame climate change.

[C]

You gotta be kidding me.

[A]

All right, Dave, let me give you. But I'm giving us a plug.

[C]

Yeah, you're plugging yourself.

[A]

Plugging myself, that's right. That's why there's a suction cup on the other side. The Fillmore, Miami man, June 11th. It's gonna be a cavalcade of who is who. DeSantis and Shapiro and Shilling Michaels. I'll be there.

[C]

I might make you eat a potato.

[A]

I'm eating a whole potato. What? Where do we go for it?

[C]

DavRubin.com event and will you if people buy the meet and greet tickets will you. You'll, you'll shake a few hands.

[A]

By the way, I'm, I'm spelling meat M E a T because you're buying me a tomahawk before we're going to

[C]

a pretty swank restaurant with the gov before it is a steak joint. But I'll, I'll cook you. I know you. You like the smoked meats.

[A]

Yep, I'll be there. All right, we'll take a break. Alicia Krause with news right after this. Shopify. I was stressed out before I started my podcast but that was one of the best business ideas I ever had. A lot of you have great ideas and now's the time to launch. But if you're going to do it, you want the right tools and that's where Shopify will help. Shopify. Shopify is the commerce platform behind 10% of all e commerce in the U.S. they help you build a beautiful online store that matches your brand's style and will easily create email and social media campaigns wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling. Also, if you get stuck, Shopify is always around to share advice with their award winning 24. 7 customer support. Don't wait on your ideas. Get started today with Shopify. Right Dawson.

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[D]

Okay, don't laugh.

[A]

I'm gonna laugh.

[D]

I bought a domain at 2am last night.

[A]

I love that for you.

[D]

It was just there calling to me.

[C]

Where on wix.

[D]

I even built a whole website last night with its AI website builder Wix Harmony. But I was still in bed by 2:30 so you should be proud of me.

[A]

That was very responsible of you.

[D]

You should try it too. Maybe I will just go to wix.com domains.

[B]

It's time to check Adam's voicemail.

[A]

Ace Man, Mike here I thought all you California weenies were all fixated on environmental impact. Do you know that cement Production accounts for 7% of greenhouse gases? So putting all those damn caissons and seawall and all that cement into that house that you're vlogging on, it's probably like a thousand times environmental impact in that than just pounding some damn creosote coated telephone poles in the ground.

[C]

Get it on.

[B]

You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744.

[A]

It's been brought up just how much energy making cement takes up and what a bad impact it has. And yeah, if you use that house that I've been chronicling is going to have 3,000 yards of concrete in it. Which is just so you know, each cement truck that you see, concrete truck people correct me once in a while we just call them cement trucks. But I get it, it's concrete that's in a concrete. It's different than cement. But people interchange. But all right, when you see one of those big behemoth trucks rolling down the freeway, one truck has 10 yards capacity max. 10. This says 3,000 yards. So that is 300 of those trucks. Which means you probably could have built 50 houses with the amount that one house was used in. But they mandated that.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

And just, but, but listen, I built a house in the hills and it had nothing to do with the Coastal Commission and I did this 15 years ago and it was just a garage edition and it was still caissons and bedrock and grade beams and it was way way too much concrete and way way too over engineered. So it's that way city wise. And then when you get to the coast, but really it's A septic tank issue. When you get there, then it gets ratcheted up tenfold. So. Yes.

[D]

Have you ever been on Celebrity Apprentice?

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

I feel like on Celebrity Apprentice they should have a construction category.

[A]

It'd be nice.

[D]

And you would just dominate.

[A]

It'd be nice if they had a construction category for anything anywhere. Instead, it's always Bake Offs. And then there's me. Dancing with the Stars or Singing with the Stars. But no, I want a construction. Yeah, with the stars.

[D]

Yeah, there you go.

[A]

That's right.

[D]

That'd be hilarious.

[A]

All right, sorry. News, news.

[D]

So this has been making the rounds. Javier Becerra. Bacara. Bacara. That's how you say.

[A]

Well, there's Javier Baccaria. According to Biden, that's the greatest.

[D]

So now we know why when he was at hhs, he was never allowed to talk because ktla, to their credit, released this interview with him over the last day or so. Yeah, and this isn't the only bad part of the interview. Let's just take a look. This is the start of our interview with Javier Becerra in Highland Park.

[A]

By the way, this is a profile piece. This is not a gotcha piece.

[D]

Right, well, look, I think we're. These questions are fair. It's in order to learn about you as a candidate.

[A]

So why is about the profile? I don't know how you define profile,

[D]

but I'd like to begin the interview.

[C]

The way I describe profile is you

[A]

talk about all the things that I've done, things I want to do, and along with some tough questions. But not only tough questions. All right, listen, I've said this once, I say it a million times. Joe Biden wouldn't have pressers, wouldn't talk to anybody, hid in the basement. You assholes only go to friendly shows, whereas the right will go on any show. Why is that? Like, you guys have cowards. Well, but also they have policies that they know are bad and don't work or ineffective. It's not that they're cowards. They're calculated. They understand that there's tons of issues with all their things, and that's why they can't do it. I mean, Gavin Newsom was on here 13 years ago. He's never coming back. But Kamala Harris has to go to the friendly shows, whereas Steve Hilton or Trump, they'll go anywhere and take any question at any time. Now, doesn't that tell you something about that party?

[D]

It does. And also the other thing that it tells me about this party. So you have David Axelrod, I think even Rahm Emanuel, all of these Democratic consultants and campaign managers across the country that are now saying, yeah, we all knew this about him. We all knew this. Like, he's dumb. He's dumb, he's mean. There's stories Ambassador Susan Rice has been hate tweeting him.

[A]

Get rid of the friend. Whatever's on the screen, get rid of it, please. Unless there's more to play.

[D]

There will be in a second.

[A]

Hold on. The screen is a elderly Asian woman, I think, being jabbed with a needle in the arm and wincing, and it's hurting my teeth. So. Well, let's just watch the rest and then we'll get rid of this. I don't know why she's in the middle of my screen, but. Okay, let's just play it out, then we'll get back to you.

[D]

During your time as HHS secretary, a New York Times investigation found the Health Department couldn't find some 85,000 children it had released.

[C]

That's not accurate.

[A]

What you just read is not accurate. First, that's what I'll say, because it was never the case that we could not find kids. You're essentially, I don't know if you got those talking points from Donald Trump.

[D]

It's from a New York Times article.

[A]

That's not what the New York Times article said. The New York Times said that individuals, the children and their sponsors did not respond to calls. They didn't say, we couldn't find kids

[D]

working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machineries and factories. Children as young as 14 years old.

[A]

That part occurred after these children had left the care of Department of Health and Human Services.

[D]

Do you let these children go into those individual sponsors in their responsibilities?

[A]

Some of these kids, probably because they needed to earn some money, started working in places that were very exploitive during your time. All right, he. Well, so he's dumb. People should be able to. I don't know why people can't do this, but, like, you know, you can look at a dog and you can tell if the dog's friendly. But just you look at the dog, you don't have to interact. You go, I can see that dog's friendly. Friendly. Or I can see that dog is not friendly. I can look at people and go, oh, that guy's dumb. There's something that happens to your face behind the eyes. It's like, racist. Guys look racist eventually. And there's a thing. If you're gay, you can eventually look gay, but if you're smart, you can kind of look smart, too. You can look like a lot of stuff. He's dumb. And when you are dumb, eventually your face kind of gives it away, is what I'm saying.

[D]

Not just in interviews, just generally.

[A]

He's generally dumb.

[D]

But I think that also generally. Once again, this guy was given an administrative spot by the Biden administration for what and for why? And now you have all these people that worked with him in the administration that are like, yeah, this guy keeps failing up. We're so surprised he's polling so well in the gubernatorial race. And it's like, all right, Dems. When it came to Swalwell, we know you knew. When it comes to Bracera, as that lady says, we know you knew. So do you care so much about continuing the failure of our great state of California that you just keep your mouth shut when you know all these guys are dumb ass hats?

[A]

Yes, the answer is we need a team victory because we can't let the other side win. So it doesn't really matter if we have a serial rapist or serial retard in charge. And also, I think he was part of Biden's DEI sort of hiring stuff. He needed somebody with a Hispanic surname. He needed someone who was gay. He needed a woman of color. He needed all the whole roster. He needed the whole roster. So you have to think about if you just said, look, I'm putting together a defense for the Patriots. And you go, all right, there's a lot of guys coming out of college that run 4, 4 40s and are good free safeties. He went, no, no, no. Here's what we really need to focus on. We need one of the players to be gay. We need one to be black. We need one to be Hispanic. We need one to be a woman. Then a woman of color would be nice. Well, how good would the defense be? And that's what Biden did. Biden did a whole dei, starting with Kamala Harris. And people go like, how dare you call her. I don't call her that. He called her that. That's what he said. He said, I'm getting a black woman.

[D]

He said the same thing about a SCOTUS decision too, right?

[A]

Yes. And now you have a retarded Supreme Court justice, but over that, she's sort of globally dumb. Yes. You fuck things up when you do this and you go, oh, you mean. You mean a black woman? No, Clarence Thomas is great. You can do anything. But if you declare in advance, this is it. By the way, Vice president. Everyone sit down. He announced Joe Biden announced that he was only going to consider a woman of color as vice president. It then came down to Kamala Harris and guess who. Karen Bass. We had two vice presidents, by the way. An elderly president.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Who could have hit his head at any one moment when he's fallen off a mountain bike. And the two people that would have backed him up, their two choices. Kamala Harris. And the only one dumber than Kamala. Karen Bass. That's what DEI does. Everybody. Is that what you want?

[D]

No, Please call.

[A]

And then. And all the way down the cast, all the way with the trans this and the cross dressers that. And everybody, including the one cross dresser

[D]

who really liked to steal luggage.

[A]

Right. With women's lingerie in it. So all of that is why we had total and utter incompetence. And then you go, well, what's Trump doing? Okay, well, I just hung out with Harmeet Dhillon, who is a woman, and she's a woman of color who's very sharp. She's a genius. She's tenacious.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

And she listens to this podcast on her walks.

[D]

Oh, hi, Irene.

[A]

Hi, Marie. Hi.

[D]

She also has some great style. I mean, I've already told her that on Instagram, but she has some great style, too.

[A]

She's needing me a hat. Okay, but the point is, is you have Harmeet Dillon. Okay? Woman of color, except for she kicks ass. And she's not there because of her skin color. She's there because she kicks ass. And then there's Scott Bessant, who's gay, but he's only there because he kicks ass, not because he pounds ass. Write that down. It's a sniff.

[C]

Okay?

[A]

That's why he's there. So you can be gay and good. And you can be of Indian descent or woman of color, whatever. And do good. Yep. But. But if you're only there because of that, then we got an issue. And that's all Biden did.

[D]

And I. Actually, I think I've told you this before. Some of my girlfriends of color have said it's ironic how sometimes in the left's attempt to equalize or make everything equitable, they end up doing things that are, like, just more racist.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Or saying things that are more racist.

[A]

Of course.

[D]

Like the segregation of things. Or like telling a woman, well, you know, you got this job because it was very important for us to have a woman of color.

[A]

Right.

[D]

Like, how does that make my friend feel? So there are better, more qualified people that I just kicked out because I'm black.

[A]

Could you imagine in all of this country with all of the business people and all of the trendsetters and motivators and folks from all walks of life that are insanely impressive. Joe Biden has to come up with a number two. And it's between Kamala Harris and Karen Bass. That is insane. Insane.

[D]

Like, even if a Republican were to do the same, like, okay, say it's Marco Rubio or J.D. vance in 2028. And say that there's pressure from the party to, like, choose a black woman. Winsome, Sears, Condi Rice. I know that there's, like, congresswomen that are incredible. State legislators that are incredible. It's like, really leftists. You didn't have a better roster of, like, women of color that could be qualified to serve as vice President of the United States.

[A]

Yeah, that's a problem. No, because you can't rise to the top of the Democratic party unless you have insane thoughts. And that's Karen Bass. And that's Kamala Harris. All right, what else we got?

[D]

Speaking of Karen Bass. Karen Bass, she really cares about the teeth of the meth. Heads down on skid row. Have you seen this clip?

[A]

I've heard about this.

[D]

This is just.

[A]

Just.

[D]

I mean, I don't know why I continue to be surprised at her, but this definitely still surprised me.

[A]

All right. About helping the homeless. How many people who are unhoused that you meet have no teeth at all? They don't have teeth. Why? Because meth rocks your teeth. You can't succeed without teeth. So there needs to be comprehensive health care provided. Hey, bitch. Lisa Loeb called. She wants her glasses back. Huel, did you know that in the US only 1 in 10 people gets the recommended amount of fiber? And fiber helps with gut, health, energy and blood sugar. A lot of people are too busy to get the nutrients they need. I can't tell you how many times I used to run out the door without breakfast. Now I just grab a ready to drink huel and get 35 grams of protein and 27 essential vitamins and minerals. It's under five bucks, way faster than meal prep and it actually fills me up for hours. And with their black edition powder, you can customize your shake with fruits and other add ons. But you get the same nutrients if you're trying to stay consistent. This combo makes it stupidly easy. It's Huel, right? Dawson limited time offer.

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Never. I never thought. I never know. She has Alicia Loeb's glasses.

[D]

So. So not getting them off the street, not getting them clean and off meth, not helping them mentally and physically in a lot of other ways while making the city safer and the streets cleaner. Are we going to help them? We're going to provide them comprehensive health care.

[A]

Well, whatever it is, whatever their angle is, it's the wrong angle. And it's kind of interesting because it's not like some of the angles are right and some of the angles are wrong, which is sort of what you'd have, like, in life. Let's just say you have kind of a bad employee. You go, well, he really kind of screwed the pooch onto this and on the that. But then you go, eh, he did do a pretty good job. And at the thing and the other thing. And then he screwed that up. But then he did a good. They're wrong about everything. And everything is screwed up because their thinking is wrong. Like, their logic is wrong. So when they talk about the homeless, they screw it up. And when they talk about minimum wage or living wage or whatever, they screw that up. Like, it's kind of weird. It's the reason they destroy the city. Like, the reason you have whoever, what's her name? Mayor of Seattle. They don't have sort of incorrect ideas. Like, everything's like a coin toss. Like, what should we do? They have the wrong ideas on everything.

[D]

They double down on them.

[A]

So they double down even after they fail. They go, too many black guys in jail. Well, well, stop arresting black guys. Let's get rid of the cops. Okay? That's the wrong idea. We don't have enough money to pay for all the things we wanna pay for. Well, let's go harder after millionaires and billionaires. Like, how about the border? No one's illegal. You know what I mean? They have the wrong idea about everything. And that's what makes things deteriorate so quickly. So they go, well, there's too many legal drugs on the street make drugs legal, and then we won't have too many illegal drugs on the street.

[D]

And give them clean needles.

[A]

And give them clean needles. So it's not a coincidence that every idea is. Every idea that they try to approach, they approach the wrong way.

[D]

What is fascinating, though, in the mayoral race, I was kind of also surprised Nithya Raman reversed her decision or her opinion on defunding the police.

[A]

Well, the funny thing is their ideas are wrong, but at some point somebody tells them, hey, people don't like this idea. And then they go, oh, should I pretend to be normal for five minutes so I can get voted? And then I can go back to being a crazy wrong witch? And they go, yeah, yeah, just pretend. Right. Once again, like, well, hold on. Kamala Harris was against frack, and then somebody told her people like fracking, and then she changed her mind. Now no one ever really presses them, like, why? And by the way, whenever they say why, they go, I believe in safety. It's like, I know, but why, when you were 44 years old, were you against safety?

[D]

Yep.

[A]

That's your argument?

[D]

And why, if cops make people safer, were you okay with defunding them? So you wanted people to be unsafe?

[A]

No one gets to ask follow up questions. But, oh, by the way, there is. Do we ever play that Dawson with Katie Wilson of Seattle when she was trying to be interviewed and she cut the interview off because we're in a Javier Bakaria thing. But that was a good one too. She was like, first off, these people, I thought it was all gonna be about transparency. Back to government. And the adults were back in the room.

[D]

They really care about transparency when it comes to Trump's medical records, tax records, and the Epstein files, but not when it comes to the safety and security or homeless issues or how many kids can read in their field. Public schools.

[A]

Right. So Katie Wilson, who they made the mayor of Seattle, was being asked questions. And the thing they've never figured out, whether it's Katie Porter, Buckary, or Katie Wilson's, like the whole thing about dropping out of an interview or talking once the camera's rolling. Shut up.

[D]

Yeah, like, remember when Katie Porter did that too?

[A]

Yeah, that's why I said Katie Porter.

[D]

You lost Katie Wilson.

[A]

I'm sorry. Yeah, Katie Porter, you've lost. Once the mic's hot, you're in.

[D]

It's like, I feel like once you're in the fricking green room, you're in.

[A]

Yeah, but I just mean it's like you're in a roller coaster and Once that lap bar goes down, you can't go. Hold on a second now. I changed my mind. Nope, it's down. The time to get out is before.

[D]

Once the mic is on, you expect that everything that you say will be broadcast.

[A]

This is her. This is a great. It's a great video. I wouldn't be an excellent reporter if I didn't ask you. It's been an eventful week, and I think people are concerned about you. How do you feel after Tuesday, after what happened, what transpired?

[D]

I'm doing great, you know, got a

[A]

great team supporting me. And I'll just say, you know, we

[D]

don't have any indication that that shooting

[E]

was targeted or anything like that.

[D]

So I think.

[E]

I think it's a reminder of how

[D]

much work we have to do as

[A]

a city on gun violence, but. All right, hold on. Okay. She wants all the cameras taken down in dicey parts of town so we don't have to see black people shooting other black people. And then someone got shot. And this is basically the guy asking. I talked to people in that neighborhood who said that. Hold on. It's just one last question. People in that community who are concerned that there's been rising gun violence and that there should be more surveillance cameras and that kind of thing. That's obviously been an issue that you weighed in on. Does that change it? Does that. Does that change your perspective at all? Let's keep it on. Yeah, let's keep it on the top of this event. Thanks. But does that change your perspective at all on the issue of surveillance cameras based on what you went through on Tuesday?

[D]

So we. Yes. Oh, she had a staffer pull her out that.

[A]

Okay. She's about to answer the question, though. Okay. I mean, it looks worse when you jump in like that. But I also have to ask the questions that people want to have answered. Maybe we can set up a different time. Oh, they're going to set up a different time. Busy person. All right, I do. But by the way, what's with all the agreements about what topic we're staying on? This guy's. And reporter would do the show. Oh, 1,000%. But she's the mayor. She wants to be wide open to any question all the time. Oh, Biden. I mean, all of them. Yeah. You know what's always great? What I always loved about Biden. And, yes, they had to vet everything, of course, but at some point, reporters felt like, sort of compelled to ask a question. So there's a thing where it's going like, look, you're gonna Sit down with Biden. If you're not asking about Hunter's laptop at least once, it's a dereliction of duty. Everyone knows you're in the bag for the other side.

[D]

You gotta ask a tough question.

[A]

So they would. No, they would go like, maybe there were three controversial things to bring up. So they'd go, and what about. And first they'd couch it in a weird way.

[D]

Oh, he couched that. He was like, after what happened to

[A]

you, how are you doing? Many on the Republican side are attacking you for your son's laptop. Is that true? And then go, there's no truth to that. That laptop never existed. And then go, okay, someone's got a birthday coming up. And it's like, no, now you have to ask the follow up question with the FBI having the laptop and so on and so forth. But they ask it, the person just denies it. And then they let him go. Now the lady who's talking to Baccharia has the New York Times article in front of her. And so she goes, what about the missing kids? And then he goes, that's not true. And then she goes, what's your favorite ice cream? Then she asked the question, but we never got an answer.

[D]

But I.

[A]

She followed up.

[D]

She followed up. And to his credit, maybe these local news reporters need to be hired by like national news, national news outlets because they're doing a better job than Leslie Stahl and Anderson Cooper and, you know, Rachel Maddow for Hecksher and all these other people because they're like Stephanopoulos.

[A]

And I think that they don't do any of it well, because they're in the swamp, in the game.

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

And they'll never talk to any. They'll never talk to. By the way, you'll never talk to Kamala Harris ever again if you asked or if you push. But good riddance, good riddance.

[D]

I mean, I think it's been talked about publicly now and it's been a bajillion years, so I can say it. But I remember like during the 2008 campaign when I worked on the Hann radio show and it was like the Stop Obama Express was like just what Sean was pushing all the time and his radical agenda that he was trying to pretend to be moderate. The Obama campaign threatened all Fox stations and Fox News. You will never, ever have a sit down interview with him if your guy keeps talking like this.

[A]

Right?

[D]

And to their credit, they were like, our guy can talk how he wants.

[A]

Right?

[D]

And I think what. Exactly what happens so many times Michelle Obama, she would have people that would call up, like fashion outlets and small outlets and be like, if you ask about her children or if you say this about her, she will never be on your cover again. She will never like. And that happens all of the time now. I think it's just becoming more obvious to people because of social media and the Internet and how broad media is now.

[A]

We have a great 20 second clip. So says Andrew about Biden being asked a question. Let's see what it is. Mr. President, what do you say to Americans to convince them that they should trust the independence and fairness of the Justice Department when your predecessor, Donald Trump, repeatedly attacks? Because you notice I have never once, not one single time suggested the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bringing a charge and operating in charge. I'm honest.

[D]

Other. Other than the, the times that he told them not to look into, what was it? The times that he told them to look into Christian nonprofits that he told

[A]

him to raid Mar A Lago. They told him all this stuff.

[D]

Told them to raid Mar A Lago.

[A]

Right.

[D]

Told them. What was the other story recently that

[A]

was such a scripted question that they

[D]

were like, oh, the Biden administration didn't look into it because it would have made them look bad.

[A]

They didn't look into. Yes, very.

[D]

Oh, some type of fraud, right?

[A]

It was Tim Walls.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah, it was the Tim Walls, Minnesota stuff, I think it was.

[D]

That was one of them. I feel like there was even one out here in California. And I was like, that's interesting. And they didn't look into it, you know.

[A]

All right, one more, one more.

[D]

ICE says now that over 10,000 foreign students are suspected of defrauding job programs here in the United States. Yeah. So not only are illegal aliens, this comes from our friends over at not the Bee and a sister website of the Babylon be unleashing horrific violent crimes across the country as they steal billions of Medicare money for extra kicks and giggles. But they're also defrauding student job programs. So for the Democrats out there that are like, oh, but that's just from the b. No, no, no. This comes from Politico. Quote, immigration and Customs Enforcement has identified more than 10,000 cases of potential fraud associated with the program that allows foreign students to extend their stay in the United States after graduating from college. ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons told reporters on Tuesday at a press conference with officials that some of the findings of the agency investigation into the fraud associated on the Optical Practical Training Program. And they say that these people in some cases for 12 or in some cases, 24 months that they were not trying to transition to an H1B visa. They just, like, wrote it out.

[A]

You know, we have to get rid. Like Trump was always talking about, for every ordinance pass, he wants to get rid of five or something. Every basically new rule, get rid of the old rule. We have to do this with programs. There's too many programs, and they're unnecessary, and they're gonna get gamed. And it's human nature, and there's nothing we can do about it. And it's not that we need to police the program. We need to get rid of a lot of this stuff. And I think back on myself When I was 18 or 19, I graduated high school, there was no programs of any kind. The economy was bad then. Jobs were hard to find. I looked for lots of jobs. I would just go to supermarkets and try to get a bag boy job or whatever. They weren't hiring kind of thing. I went onto a construction site and tried to get a job, and they're like, not hiring. Like, it's labor. So there really wasn't. There wasn't anything, and there wasn't a program. And it was that way for all of my friends, too, who didn't. I had a set of friends that I knew more loosely who went to college. And then there was the rest of us, and nobody. And everyone just found a job. They just got a job. My buddy got a job at a paper mill. Working like a graveyard shift. I got a job. Well, one friend got a job in construction. Then he got me a job in construction. And then I got my other two friends a job in construction. There were no programs. There was no anything. We just wandered around, found a job, kept the job, moved out, bought a pickup truck, and the rest was history. They don't need all of this with all this, what they're talking about, and they certainly don't need all the ones surrounding food. Everyone will eat. We all ate. It was like, you know, slim pickings sometimes, and we didn't eat what we wanted to eat. And things were tight. But we kind of figured it out. Like, we just figured it out. And we are feeding everybody. We're giving them free diapers. We're giving everyone. We have a job program. We have a thing if you're autistic and you're on the spectrum. We have a thing with the hospice care. It's like, let the family take care of it. Just leave them be. Just peel it back. And it's not a thing where it's like, oh, you want kids to go hungry? No, they don't. Everybody I grew up with could have gone hungry, but nobody did.

[D]

We've also talked about many times before, like, you liked the church spaghetti night. Yeah, because the food was better and it was reliable.

[A]

No, it wasn't. It was just free.

[D]

Nine times out of 10, private charities and churches do a much better job of being engaged in the community and having accountability and serving people.

[A]

Spaghetti night. Spaghetti night at the church was better than spaghetti at Walter Reed Elementary Junior High. That went to, by the way. Anyway, spaghetti. It's the saddest thing ever, but they would serve spaghetti with an ice cream scooper. Oh, my God. That meant the pieces were all like 3, 8 of an inch long. There was no long spaghetti. Do you remember that, Dawson? Remember the ice cream scooper? Everything was like an ice cream scooper. And the spaghetti would be a mound of spaghetti, which was just red paste with bits of. Of empty carbs in it. That was no Parmesan. Oh, my God, the word. All right, the whole point is peel it all back. Let them go. Let the family kick in. Figure it out. Stop with the. We're doing housing. We're gonna do this. Let the family kick in. Feed the fucking people. Find the stupid jobs. Peel it all back. It's too much. And yes, it will be exploited, but

[D]

I'm saying that clearly, by immigrants.

[A]

It'll be exploited by everybody and immigrants. The way to do it is get rid of it. We gotta go hard in the paint with Doge and not clean it up. Eliminate it. Okay, so I think we're good here tonight. Covina Me, Laugh factory, that'll be RFK Jr is gonna be out there and Dr. Drew's coming out too. So I got questions, and that'll be fun. Tomorrow, Visalia at the Fox Theater and then Modesto State Theater. That'll be Saturday. And then Also Sunday the 24th. Costa Mesa, Westwood Coast. Come on out. Go to mcroll.com for all the live stuff. Dave, man, he's the best. You can see us at the Fillmore Miami, coming up on the 11th of June. What do you got? Alicia Cross.

[D]

I think you're gonna like my piece. Piece for the Daily Wire Upstream this week. It's talking about how adults should publicly discipline and shame children again.

[A]

Yeah. Until next time, don't spare any rods. Till next time. Adam Kroll, Alicia Krause, Dave Rubin saying mahalo.

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