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Adam Carolla
So in this episode, heavyweight champ and the guy who has the highest knockout ratio of all time with all boxers including heavyweights, Deontay Wilder will join me, nutritionist Kim Bright as well. And we'll do the news with Alicia Krause and we'll do all that right after this. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. The NFL playoffs are here and Bet Online get gives you more ways to play with betonline. You get the latest odds, breaking news and live scores. With Betonline's in game betting, you'll never miss a moment of the college football playoffs and the road to the super bowl as well. When it's time to switch gears, dive into Betonline's casino, packed with hundreds of the hottest slots, classic table games, live dealers and massive jackpots just waiting for you. And if you love the NBA or the ufc, NHL, it's all there. You can place a little bet on the action, get in on the action. Please don't forget the Bet online VIP program with exclusive level up bonuses, weekly cash boosts and rewards designed for serious players. Head to betonline today because at betonline, the game starts here.
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From Corolla One studios in Glendale, California. This is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, boxer and actor Deontay Wilder, health and fitness expert Kip Bright and the news with Alicia Crouse. And now, Adam Carolla.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on the. Trust me, get on mandate. Get it on. And Deontay Wilder's back on the show. Got a movie coming out in theaters January 30th, Moses the Black. He's in it, has a nice role in it. It's doing a little bit acting. Good to see you again, Deontay.
Deontay Wilder
Likewise. How you doing?
Adam Carolla
I'm doing well. I'm a huge boxing fan, so I'm a huge fan of yours. And I used to teach boxing, believe it or not, back in the day. So I've always been a, always been a fan and I've always been a fan of yours because, well, first off, heavyweight, you know, fighting at 6 foot 7 and you know, 220 or so is kind of, it's kind of nuts. And I started thinking it's kind Of. It's like Thomas Hearns. Thomas Hitman Hearns is, you know, 6 foot 1, 6 foot 2, fought at, like, 148, super lean, but great leverage, huge leverage in his punches. Right?
Deontay Wilder
That's true. And, you know, he was. He was. If he. If he touch you, if he hit you, you. It could be lights out for you, you know? I mean, Hitman was the man for sure. He had that small body. Friend. They used to. When I would be in the gym, you know, sparring, training or whatever, they. They always used to look at me and like, man, you like a big Tommy Hearns and stuff, with the long, lanky arms and the power and stuff like that. So. Yeah, you're definitely correct.
Adam Carolla
Well, see, there's an interesting thing, which is leverage. Like, the guys that are long, like, if you guys. If anyone listen to me, ever watches Darryl Strawberry swing a bat. Daryl Strawberry was probably 6 3, maybe 6 4. It was probably 175 pounds, but he cranked home runs because it was bat speed.
Kim Bright
He.
Adam Carolla
He was long and he was lean, but he whipped the bat. It was like Tommy Hearns would whip his right hand. That's how it. Jon Bones Jones was that way, you know, super long and spidery, but using the leverage. And that's how Deontay Wilder knocks everybody out. I mean, your. Your knockout percentage is the best of all time in heavyweight.
Deontay Wilder
In the world. In the world, the history of boxing. In the history of boxing. You know, it's amazing. You know what I mean? It's amazing to me, even just to hear it. You know what I mean? Because just to hear it now in the field and to know that I still got more to give is, like. It's crazy. But being in the history of boxing with all the greats that came before, God have truly blessed me with power for sure. And sometimes. Sometimes I get scared of myself when I'm in there and, like, just to know that I have all that power and to hit a guy and to know what I feel inside of my fist from his face is like. Is a crazy feeling, you know what I mean? And to see it, because it's one thing to say it, but to actually see it happen over and over, I mean, 43, for God's sakes, you know, over and over and over again, you know, it's definitely ability and something God has truly blessed me with. I've always had that, you know, being strong but not having the physique of looking like what my power equals to. And I think that would knock a lot of Guys off, you know, I mean, they would, you know, it would kind of psych them out a little bit, you know, they couldn't. I would be always underestimated, you know, until the action happens. And then when the absence happens, it's like a oh moment, you know, I mean what I got myself into and. But you know, God is so good, man. He's so good and he's so beautiful and he has a sense of humor. He loves me and I love him, you know, and I just, I'm just happy and blessed with what I've been able to do throughout my career, you know, I'm more than 1%.
Adam Carolla
Well, the thing about reality versus the movies, in the movies, the guys are muscle bound and scary and bulky and you know, big, thick, they look like the rock, you know what I mean? But the reality with boxing is you never know what you're getting because you take a look at Deontay Wilder, long and lean, and then you take a look at Tyson Fury, kind of dad bod, you know, and then you take a look at someone like Anthony Joshua. That guy looks like he's from the movie, you know what I mean? But it doesn't mean any of it is better than the next at all. It's a sort of God given thing, you know, I mean, Roberto Duran was smooth, you know, he didn't have big veins and striations and six pack abs. He had a little bit of a dad bod and knocked everybody out. So. All different shapes, all different sizes. But speaking of Anthony Joshua, I mean he just fought, right, made a lot of money, right? You must be sort of keeping your eye on that now. Jake Paul, I hope has learned his lesson, is not going to fight super heavyweights anymore. That was an insane proclamation. I said it the second I heard it. So Jake Paul doesn't want anything to do with Deontay Wilder, but Anthony Joshua feels like he's got a new coat of paint on him now and is out there looking for fights. I know you guys were trying to put something together a while back.
Deontay Wilder
Yeah, yeah. But the latest, have you heard the latest news? No, you know, the latest news, you know he had the accident, right, the car accident that was in Africa, right. And, and they said that he's retired.
Adam Carolla
Oh, really?
Deontay Wilder
You know, it just, it was a lot. Yeah. Because of the, the guys that died. Was a part of the team, was a part of his team and you know, they was, they had been with them all the way up through and you know, and it was a tragic accident that happened. I think one of them lost his head. It was so crazy.
Adam Carolla
Wow.
Deontay Wilder
You know, and. Yeah, and I think he's. They. They saying that it's going to be a. Be a lot on them mentally. And I can. I could, you know, I could test to that. So if, you know, I don't know how true it is, but that is. This is the. The rumors that I'm hearing at this moment in time, you know, and if it's so, then I can totally understand, you know, to see that. That's just like me and my coach that came up together and we get in an accident. I survived, but I see his head outside of the window. His body is right here with me. His arms is somewhere else. And, you know, you know, it's a lot. That's a lot to take in, especially if you love him.
Adam Carolla
No, I get it. But, you know, a lot of people, boxers, stuntmen, rock stars, have been known to retire and then at some point, come out of retirement. I was literally watching the Evel Knievel documentary last night, and he had a bad crash, and he just got up there and he said, you've seen Evel Knievel jump for the last time. I'll never jump again. And then two days later, he's like, don't listen to me.
Deontay Wilder
I'm back.
Adam Carolla
I'm back. Yeah. So, I mean, it had. Look, the guy was traumatized. You want to respect whatever he says, but I'm just saying, you know, a year from now, there could be a different thought. You guys were. You guys were supposed to fight, right? I'm amazed that you two never fought.
Deontay Wilder
I'm not gonna even get into it, but, yeah, it was we supposed to, you know, and it's a damn shame that it didn't happen. And. But, you know, like you just said, you said it very well, you know, that it could if. If he is retired or if the rumors is true, then, you know, a year, six months, a year later, too, it may be a different story. May have some type of, you know, some type of motivation. I want to go in and do it for those guys. Who knows, you know, I mean, so that is true. I'm with you on that. And, you know, as long as. I mean, like I've always said before, as long as I'm still in boxing, as long as he's still in boxing, there's. There is a. A chance that it can still happen. You know, I do. I am one, too, that believes in doing it when it. When the time is right. But. And. And you Know, but what is. What that means? What is the. What is the right timing? And what I mean by the time is right is where we're both at our best, you know, and we're out, both at the. At our great health that we should be and get it on. And at one point in time in life, I felt there was the moment of a lifetime, you know, of us to do it. But no matter how much I've tried to make it happen and it didn't happen, you know, it is what it is, you know, and every time I talk about that situation, it's just so draining to me because I know that. I know that I know the truth. You know, I mean, we know the truth. He know the truth, his team. I know the truth in my team. You know what I mean? And it's so frustrating and it's disturbing sometimes to know a fight that. One of the best fights in the world that's supposed to happen, that could or may not never happen, you know, so you just never know.
Adam Carolla
I read that he demanded 50 million bucks guaranteed, but it sounded.
Deontay Wilder
We gave it to him.
Adam Carolla
Oh, really? You gave it to him? It sounded to me like he did not want to fight you. And I could understand why, because his advantage is his height and his sort of reach and his length, but you have more of that than he does, and he's probably. Probably used to fighting guys that are a little shorter and don't quite have the wingspan. And so I don't think that he matches up very well against you. Now, nobody matches up well against you, but a guy like Tyson Fury is actually one of the only guys on the. In the business who's taller than you, right?
Deontay Wilder
Yeah, he's 6 9, but. Yeah, yeah, he's 6 9, but I think the tallest fighter that's been in that month, like, was, I think, 7ft the Russian guy, right? But yeah, they getting taller and taller as time goes on, though, you know what I mean?
Adam Carolla
Should there be a super heavyweight division?
Deontay Wilder
No, no, not at all. It's just like it shouldn't be. No more belts created. It shouldn't be no more weight division. It should be no more belts created it. Just take the fun out of boxing, you know? I mean, when you looking at boxing a gladiator business, because it's definitely not a sport, it's a business. And to call it a. A sport is the mascot agent, you know what I mean? And a lot of people may not want to hear me say certain things, but I keep it real because I'm a Fighter and I risk my life for real. So I tell people all the time I'm not going to allow people to dis disabled me from speaking how I want to speak when I risk my life for others entertainment. So you're going to listen when I speak, you know what I mean? But this is a business, you know what I mean? And the business go as according, you know, man is I'm sorry.
Adam Carolla
Well what do you do? What do you do? If you had a modern day Evander Holyfield, you know, how is he going to compete with you giants, you know, where do you put a guy like that? Like that's my only argument for heavyweight and super heavyweight is where do you. Yeah, what do you, where do you put in Evander Holyfield?
Deontay Wilder
In modern times it become confusing when you start adding so many weights and things like that even with the belts. Like this is like I said before, this is a gladiator business. So when we look at it, it should be one champion, one face, one name and that's it. You know what I mean? It makes it more, it makes it more interesting and it makes it more. You feel more empowered. Like I got the title. The one title is one champion, one face, one name. And everybody trying to come and get my spot and we defending it over and over again for challenges, challengers that's coming up. Now I understand that we all think of ideas to make money and having so many belts make money, you know what I mean? But it comes to a point in time where you got to have enough belts and say this is it enough weight classes. I don't think it should go nothing past the heavyweight division. You know, the heavyweight division is a special, special, special division. And that's why everybody can't rumble in that jungle. It's only certain people can roam in that jungle. The heavyweight division and I don't think it should be a. Within the jungle you got to go into a cave and that's the super heavyweight division. I don't. Because now you're trying to get. It's already. The heavyweight division is already consist of small and big guys. And me, as you can see is coming up. Nobody has ever seen such a small guy as I fighting guys 20, 30, 40, 50, even sometimes 60 pounds heavier than I and still able to knock them off their feet. I'm, I'm, you know, I'm one of those diamond in the rough. God has truly blessed me. But when you get to a super heavyweight, these guys is already big. Just think about a super heavyweight. That's unhealthy for one, you know, to, to have all your body like that and you really ain't really training. I don't think a super heavyweight would be interesting because would have big floppy guys, or should I say big sloppy guys, you know, And I don't think it'll be that much work. You won't want to see that, you know, you wouldn't have this. The styles of what you just. The three styles that you have seen, you know, I think it'll be too much, you know, you already got guys in the heavyweight division, 300 pounds, you know, I know a guy, he bought 300 pounds, three something. I think the highest was a 400 pound guy, you know. I mean just imagine a super heavyweight. Like what was that weight class be? Look, what was that look like?
Adam Carolla
Well, what you'd do is you'd cut it off. You'd cut it off at like 250 or something, something like that. And anything above that was like super heavyweight. I don't know, I'm just spending.
Deontay Wilder
That's what they were saying. I would think 250 is a good solid heavyweight, you know what I mean? 250, that's a good solid heavyweight to me.
Adam Carolla
Well, no, you could make heavyweight, you could make two, everyone could make 250. But over that you're in the super heavywe super heavyweight. All right, so you gotta fight. You're 40 now, which used to be old and it's not really old anymore. It's not old for athletes and it's not old for women anymore. Because I see a lot of 40 year olds that look pretty good, I'm telling you. How much longer do you want to fight and what do you think your next fight is? What are you working on?
Deontay Wilder
How much longer? For me, everything has always been off of feeling of how my intuition or what I feel like. I've never been into a place or made a decision that I didn't feel, you know, that was right to do. And if I did go against the grain, then I suffer a major consequences behind it because I chose emotionally and instead of with my heart, you know what I mean? Because a lot of times we choose emotionally, we say things out of emotion and we act out of emotion. And most of the time when you do that, when you do those things out of emotion, nine times out of 10 you're going to regret what you say and what you do. But if you choose your heart, if I. What I said, if I said it from my heart and what I did, I did it from my heart. I don't regret what I said or what I did. You know what I mean? So I always. It's a feeling for me, it's just like with anything, like getting married or making a choice of buying your 16 old daughter a car, you know what I'm saying? Or any major decision that you want to make. It's a feeling even with my kids. I like why you. I say, you love Daddy, you say, yes, I love that I said, why you love Daddy? I want to see. I'm looking for a specific answer. And they'll say, because I can feel it in my heart, that smile so big. Oh, that's a beautiful answer. That's the right. Correct. That's the only answer I want to hear. Because I feel it. It's a feeling that I feel. This is nothing that I'm saying because it's obligated because you're my father, or I'm entitled to say, because you're my father. That's entitlement, love. Because many people say, of course I love him, he's my husb. Or of course I love him. That's my father. I don't want to, of course, because of this obligation that you have to fulfill or this entitlement that you think you claim and own. I want you to feel it. I love you because I feel it in my heart. And when my kids say certain things like that and I hit the right answer, it allows me to know that I'm leading them in the right direction in the place and stuff. So when I make decisions and stuff, it's a feeling that I feel. It's in my heart. And, you know, so with this being said, I really. I don't really have an answer to when I'm gonna be finished. I have a five. Oh. In my head, I can. What I can see. But that's just. That's just. Just us talking right now in conversation. But it could be. It could be one year to 10 years. You know, who knows?
Adam Carolla
Is there any. Is there ever any UFC related talk with you?
Deontay Wilder
It has been, you know, I mean, I would love. Actually, I would love to enter the ufc. You know, I would love to see what I can do in that. In that field of things. I love combat, period. You know what I mean? And I would love to. I'm fascinated by the training aspect of it, to learn jiu jitsu and many other forms of combat. You know what I mean? I'm a warrior, and I would love to learn the art and the styles and being able to get in Range in the mindset of certain position and style that I, that I can perform as far as comeback wise. So I'm very interested in it, you know, but I do believe in all things, time and places and stuff like that, you know, and I feel so wonderful. I'm 40 years old. But, you know, when it comes to comeback and stuff, you know, you gotta understand. And a lot of people don't know. I started boxing at 21, you know, and many people told me when I got it, oh, that's late. You're not gonna do it. You're not gonna be able to do like everybody, everybody. But, you know, it's always the same. You always. The noise that, you know, people don't believe in you until they see certain things. And that's the, that's, that's easy to believe when you see. But what happens when you can't see something? Do you really believe that when faith really plays. Plays hand. Faith is something that I can't believe, but I believe that is going to happen because I have the faith. Well, a lot of people don't have faith.
Adam Carolla
Sounds like you should be doing a little preaching.
Deontay Wilder
They call me Pastor Wilder, too.
Adam Carolla
I mean, once you hang the gloves up. But I mean, you know, we're living in a world now where there's no real rules. Like, there used to just be boxing, and then the UFC came about, and there's boxing in the ufc, and they have all these grappling competitions and jiu jitsu competitions. Now they're doing a thing on freestyle wrestling and guys from the UFC or whatever. So there's no more rules anymore. So somebody could say, look, Deontay Wilder could fight Jon Jones in a fight where there was striking and feet, but no wrestling or no jujitsu or something like that. And put that together, you know, and especially with Jake Paul, there's really no rules anymore. There's just sort of, would people pay to see it? You know what I mean? And would people pay to see Deontay fight a UFC fighter in some sort of hybrid of boxing and whatever? And I'm just wondering that stuff ever come up? Do people pitch that again? There's no more rules.
Deontay Wilder
You know what? Yeah, right, right. You're right about it. And that interesting that you say that, because I've didn't think of it in the concept of that, but I have thought about, you know, when me and Francis Igana was talking and fighting, and I think that is. That'll still happen as well. I still want it. He wants it, too. It's just a certain amount of time for that to happen. But like I offered to him, I like, hey, we do one part boxing and then I come in your backyard, we can do mma, you know, you know, style. But I also like what you said too. Like, shit, that was, man, you made me think of a lot of other stuff when you said that it gonna be one round, it can be grip, grip grappling, you know, second round boxing. The third round could be, you know, jiu jitsu, you know, and you know, the third, you know, different arcs and skills of comeback in different rounds. That'd be interesting actually. That'll be so interesting.
Adam Carolla
Well, just make sure if you fight Jon Jones, the first round is boxing, so you don't have to get to the Jiu jitsu on the second round. That's all. All right, you guys gotta argue about what order this is gonna go down.
Deontay Wilder
Right, right, right too, because yeah, that'll be another thing.
Kim Bright
Order.
Deontay Wilder
It would go, oh man, you're already coming up with the problems and that'll come with it. But that'll be so interesting though, as you go on. Like, I'm a type of person that, you know, sometimes I feel like I understand people a lot better than most would because like, in my head when people describe things, it's like I, I, I, I. It's like a movie in my head and I'm pressing play to what you're saying. So as you describe things, it's like I'm creating a movie in my head and I'm watching it as you say it. And sometimes I may smile, you know, early, before anything be said or whatever, because I'm already sitting in my, I'm like, oh shit. Wow. Yeah, I can see that. And as you was describing things, I'm adding my own things in my head as well. I tell people all the time my mind is so big, a spaceship can fit in it. Meaning that I see so many things. They say a picture, when you look at it, says a thousand words. But I say, why you can't get a million out of that.
Adam Carolla
Well, why did you start? What was your sport before boxing? Because you're so athletic, you must have had a sport before boxing.
Deontay Wilder
I play everything. I played football, basketball, baseball, ran track. If I had time for soccer, I would have done that as well. I was a hell of a quarterback and pitcher as well. You know, they used to call me Wild Thing back in the day.
Adam Carolla
So you played in high school, your quarterback and high school?
Deontay Wilder
I was wide receiver.
Adam Carolla
Uh huh. And pitched where in high school.
Deontay Wilder
That was middle school. Middle school, I was the pitcher. My main sports was football and basketball and.
Adam Carolla
What got you into boxing?
Deontay Wilder
What got me into boxing? Because of my daughter. When I was in college, I. After high school I would say, you know, college, high school, going in that era, I had a daughter that was on the way. And I remember being in. Well, we just started college then because I only did. I only could do the first half of college because I had to, had to, had to drop out because I had a daughter on the way. And then she was born with spina bifida. And you know, it was one of the most scariest feelings of my life because for one I'm young, I'm having a child and for two, this child is born with spina bifida. I don't know nothing about spinal bifida. What is it, how you get help, what you do, you know. So it was a scary feeling. So I was just melon remember remembering telling one of my guys that I'm not going to be able to attend for the second half or whatever, that I should start boxing. I already thought about plans and stuff like that, but not, I think I was thinking about boxing because I knew that I was doomed for all the other sports. My main thing was football, basketball. I wanted to go from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Football was a major thing down there. You saw the school spirit, how people would rally up when times would come, when the games come, especially when you're having rivals. That'd be crazy. You got so many crazy stories from people shooting people, from them, vandalizing people, properties and different things about it. Just because of this being in the school spirit and, and the football program. So I knew I had to go to college for all that. But I knew boxing, that was only the school of hard knocks right there, you know, And I had, I graduated from that school, you know, I live it and I just knew that I didn't have to go to school for that. So I thought, I told him that I should start boxing. He thought it was a great idea because, you know, I always stayed in a good fight. I never looked for trouble, but trouble always found me, you know, and people always thought they could pick with me and you know, because I, I was, you know, when you poor, when you're, when you're raised poor and you look poor, you look like you look. You're vulnerable. You're very vulnerable to people eyes, especially bullies. Until the, until the bully get bullied and they don't understand. It's just like with my. It's just like in the heavyweight division now. I'm small frame, but I have more power than any of them, you know what I mean? I'm the hardest punching boxer in history and you wouldn't tell, and that's how it is. So, you know, I started boxing because I needed money for my daughter. You know, I knew nothing about boxing, only I knew about the Olympics, Muhammad Ali and stuff like that. We never seen a boxing gym in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We ain't never hear about a boxing gym, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, until I found one. And I went in there and I was like, I kid you not, when I walked into that building, it said hallelujah. Like I heard those heavenly bells ringing in my ears, you hear? And it was so real I could hear it and it was like ringing. My ears was ringing. And I only can get the indication of I'm at the right place at the right time.
Adam Carolla
Well, I mean, look, I always say this. There's two types of people. One person you punch, it hurts them and they think, I don't want to get punched again. And the other kind of person, you punch them and they get angry and think, I'm gonna knock you out. But that's rare. 99% of and go, I don't want to get hit again. But 1% goes, I'm going to kill the guy who hit me. And that's kind of what it takes to be a boxer. Regardless of your reach and your ability and your hand speed. It's that thing where you get hit and it doesn't bother you, it makes you motivated to hit the other guy. And so that you don't really find out until you get into the gym, really.
Deontay Wilder
That's right.
Adam Carolla
And so you found out when you got in the gym and started sparring that you were that 1%. How long did it take you to get in the ring once you got into the gym?
Deontay Wilder
Once I got in the gym, I got in the ring within three months. And that's very, very early. And I could tell you was a trainer and stuff, but how to how your intellect on what you're saying and how you putting it together and stuff like that, it allows me to even more know, like, I already believed the truth when you said it. You know, I had no reason not to. But they even hear you, you speak. And more and more I'm like, okay, yeah, you're right in there. But. But I was, I got, I got in the ring, I started sparring within three months. Up in there. So I went through a lot of stuff like quick and I wanted to be a journeysman. That was my main goal of, of joining the gym, is to be a journeysman. A journeysman, of course, you know, but the audience may not know is, is a guy that have zero to just a little bit of experience, really no experience at all. And you just, you just, you just out there, you're fighting for money, basically. You just putting yourself out there. You don't have a promotion, you really sometimes don't even have a team, you know, you're just putting yourself out there. That was going to be a journeysman to make money for my daughter, to, to pay for medical bills and stuff like that. But when I came in this gym, you know, I felt like I found a good thing. Like I said, I heard the bells and stuff and I went up to my trainer. Even my trainer didn't believe in me at the first, at all. When you first met me, I'm tall, I'm long, I'm probably a buck 85 walking into a gym, probably wet. Buck 85 and he looking at this, maybe 95. I'll give myself 95 because I had to make two or one. Yeah, I probably buck 95 and I'm walking into this man gym, this tall guy, he said he instantly, his mindset was like, the basketball court is down the street. You're in the wrong place.
Adam Carolla
Right?
Deontay Wilder
You know what I mean?
Adam Carolla
Are you six, seven at this point?
Deontay Wilder
Yeah, six, seven. I'm six, seven, six, seven.
Adam Carolla
Buck 95. Under two impounds light again. It's kind of Thomas Hearns dimensions, but people didn't really. Thomas Hearns was a freak. There wasn't anyone else like him. So if you were looking for fighters, you wouldn't be looking for guys who were built like Thomas Hearns, because there was only one of him. Did they ever try to turn you around and turn you into a southpaw?
Deontay Wilder
Nah, not at all. My training believed in learning one position at a time and stuff like that. Actually, believe it or not, I can fight southpaw. You know what I mean? Sometime I'll spar that way. I've done it many times to switch up. Especially now since I've broken my right arm and, and my wrist and all other stuff. It allowed me to be able to, you know, have a better relationship with my left. Actually, I'm more left hand dominant now than my right. It's kind of crazy. I do everything with my left. You know, I even wipe my ass with my left man, it's crazy, you know, but your left hand was in.
Adam Carolla
Your mouth when you were saying, you wiped it off.
Deontay Wilder
I'm a very clean person, you know? I mean, I gotta shave. You know what I mean? I gotta shave all the hairs off me, you know? I love smelling good. I love being good. You know, Even my woman, she like, you know, she love, you know, grabbing my pillow when I ain't there because my sin is always there.
Adam Carolla
I would listen, I would tell everybody if I was training them, I would say, I'm not even gonna bother with your right hand. All I want is jabs, hooks, uppercut. All I want is left hand stuff. I just want you to work that bad hand over and over and over. The good hand, that's your dominant hand. That's your strong hand. You've been using it your whole life. But a real boxer and the thing that makes. The way you can tell a boxer versus just the tough guy on the street is the boxer can use his bad hand well. And if you ever run into somebody on the street and they get in that stance and the first punch they throw is with their lead hand, leave. Because that means that person trains because that person uses their bad hand. Dudes who don't box just will try to load up their strong hand. You won't even. They don't even bother with their front hand. But if you can get. If you can get that lead hand, and I'm not saying left or right, because you could be in a southpaw stance, but if you can get that jab working and that bad arm good, then you become super dangerous.
Deontay Wilder
Most definitely your shit, man.
Adam Carolla
I used to be a trainer. That was my job. So you. How do you grow up? You said you grew up sort of poor and hard scrabble, but how'd you grow up?
Deontay Wilder
Yeah, man, you know, we grew up poor, but we grew up with a lot of love, you know what I mean? I'm a pk, which. I'm a preacher's kid, so my father was a pastor. My grandma was a pastor as well before she died. So we was raised in the church always. And. But, you know, we. As children, you. You don't see certain things, you know what I mean? You just. You living. You growing up in life, and you just think, this is how life's supposed to be, you know, you don't know no different. You know, as a. Especially back in those times when kids couldn't get in parents, business and. And certain things, that's times where you stayed outside, you know, come Back and forth in the house, you know what I mean? You either gonna stay outside or you gonna come in. You know, they all about the air and stuff, depending on what type of grandmama you got. All those good things, man, we had those, which is talk about the. During those times where we just played and, you know, amongst each other and we stayed outside. But we couldn't let that streetlight catch us coming in though. Don't let the streetlight catch you. It ain't gonna be good, you know. But other than that, I didn't start finding out to certain things until I got a little bit older, you know what I mean? Because I didn't. This is how life was, you know, we didn't know we couldn't do certain things, we didn't have certain things, but we was content, you know. And sometimes you're better off, you're more happier when you don't have certain things because you don't know what it feels like to have it. And if you have something and you lose it or don't have it no more, you can't, you, you can feel a certain type of way because you know what it is to have it, you know. But if you grow up without having certain things, you don't know what it is. So you, you, you, you're more happy, you're content with certain ways of things. And when my, When I start really make getting up and, and start talking to my daddy, especially when I became a temper and stuff, he explained to me like how hard it was because at one point in time my mother left and he left and my father had to raise all these, you know, four of us by himself, you know what I mean? And that's why I respect him so highly, you know what I mean, as a father. And so he really showed me and my brother certain things. Although I learned other things along the way.
Adam Carolla
How old were you when your mom left?
Deontay Wilder
It was young. I mean, we had to be. We was young. It was maybe 7, 8. It would be, man, 9, maybe 9, 10, 11. Somewhere up in there.
Adam Carolla
Did she re. Enter your life ever?
Deontay Wilder
Yeah, oh yeah, most definitely. They came back together. They came back together and stuff like that, you know. But it was a little phase of time that she did leave, you know, and he, he had to take up a responsibility of all of us. So my, my, you know, my daddy, he, ah, man, you know, it makes me want to cry now just, just to think about certain things, like when he's. When it's time to step up and what he did you know, wait, when it. When you. When you talk about now, when I look at it, you know, and we always talk about women and men and what women can do, men could do, you know, what shouldn't be. Should be done. It shouldn't be done. The roles that we play as men and women. Now, I do believe in a woman can't raise a boy into a man, but a man can raise a girl into a woman. You understand me? I've seen it over and over.
Adam Carolla
Well, listen, we've lost.
Deontay Wilder
Even as myself, even as myself as a father, you know, because I can wash the hair, I can strain it out, I can comb it. See, my first daughter, I used to do her hair, you know, dress her, make sure she. Right. Show her how to, you know, present herself and do so as they get older. And now I got teenagers, I'm still involved in their life strongly. This is how you do it as a lady. Boom, boom, you know, so forth and so on, as you will want to see them grow up to be a young lady and mature and wise and make great decision. Because I am a man and I know how men are. You know what I mean? So.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Well, you know, I think I like traditional parenting roles. I look at, you know, I used to work construction, and I do a lot of projects. And on a construction site, you have a plumber and you have an electrician and you have a framer, and you have people that have jobs, right? But what you don't want is three plumbers, because you need an electrician. You need a guy to do the framing and the foundation and the finish work. You need a bunch of people with different skill sets. And so I like a mom and I like a dad because it's like the plumber and the electrician both working on the house. Not two electricians or two plumbers, which is what we're arguing for now. I think they bring different skill sets to parenting. And it's a good thing, most definitely. And for some reason, we're calling it a bad thing and we're trying to get rid of it. But it worked. It worked historically. It worked through the dawn of time. And these sort of traditional roles are good roles, and they have the best outcome as well.
Deontay Wilder
100 agree with you. Now, if you can have both mom and dad, that's a beautiful, beautiful thing. You know, I mean, it's a. You know.
Adam Carolla
And when did your mom come back?
Deontay Wilder
She came back. It was maybe. She was probably gone for maybe a year, I would say, if I could mirror. It was so Long ago. She probably left about a year and came back within the. I'll say no more than a year maybe.
Adam Carolla
Did both your parents see your success? Are they around today?
Deontay Wilder
Oh, yeah, yeah, they still around today. They still around. They end up divorcing around by 16, when I was 16, and they finally just really just, you know, permanently separated at 16. But they still around today. They still.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, we able to take care of them, get them a house and do those kinds of things.
Deontay Wilder
I've been, I took care of them. I've been taking. I've been taking care of my. Since I was 12 with my brothers, them and all that. Even giving my mom money at 12 years old. You know what I mean? I was a big saver. So when I got money, I would save it all the time and I would help out. But, you know, I've helped my entire family out over and over.
Adam Carolla
I mean, because they know, you know, you get this multi million dollar payday, you know, like, here's the thing, no one I know made any money either. But people don't really know exactly how much money I make. They just know I make more money than them. So they think I can help them. But they didn't hear that I got a $50,000, sorry, $50 million payday or whatever that number is, which would let them know, come on, you could kick a few bucks down my way. You know, you must have that with your family. And then I don't know how you deal with it, because people deal with it in different ways. Sometimes they cut people off, sometimes they get into arguments. Sometimes they like doing it for them. Like, it's all different variations. It never usually works out that well. But I'm curious.
Deontay Wilder
Oh, man. You know, you're never not going live without hearing somebody successful. And, you know, success come in all forms, shapes and sizes. You know, you just don't have to be an athlete or actress or artists or something like that. You can be success coming small businesses, big business, you know, doing all types of different things. And no matter what, when you the. When you the. The breadwinner of the family, you gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna get all the. The that come your way. Everybody coming in because of one simple fact of what I said before. But I don't want entitlement and obligated love. They feel entitled to what you have. They feel obligated if you buy yourself a big house. They feel they need the same thing. I'm like, well, have you. How is that possible when I work for this and you didn't. Oh, because. You know what I mean? Especially if you have kids by somebody, they feel. Well, the kids, you know, when they come home to me, they want. They should be in the same environment as you. So you should buy. If you get a pool, you should buy me a pool over here, too. You get a mansion, you should buy me a man. You get a Ferrari. I should at least get a Lamborghini. I mean, a Rolls Royce. You know, it's just crazy. And then with family, there's, you know, brothers, mom, sister, so forth and so on. It's like, you can never give them enough money. It can never. It just go on and on and on and on and on and on. And you gotta know how to say no, though. That's the thing. You got to know how to say no. Because certain people feel, you know, they feel successful and they feel. They feel bad if they don't help because I'm so successful. But people don't understand that, you know, because, like you would say, just say $50 million. They hear that. But, you know, you ain't getting. You ain't taking all that home, man. You ain't taking $50 million home. And then on top of that, how much bills you got? You may have enough. You may have bills that equal up close to that. So when you pay everything out, I really ain't got nothing. But people assuming and thinking, because they hear a certain number and now they feel entirely obligated to have this. And then if I don't give it to them, they're getting mad.
Adam Carolla
Well, let me tell me if this is true in your life. You don't have to bring up any names or throw anybody under the bus, but I think about this all the time. Definitely the people I've done the most for on this planet hate me the most. That is the truest statement I can ever think of. I know plenty of people I have great relationships with, and they do stuff for me and I do stuff for them, and we're all copacetic. I grew up poor. I didn't grow up Alabama poor, but I grew up North Hollywood poor. But I did the food stamps and the welfare, and I grew up the same. I grew up super poor, and then I wasn't poor. And the people, sometimes friends, sometimes women, sometimes family members, definitely the people I've done the most for hate me the most. And the people I've done the least for cherish me the most. I know. And I'm just starting to think it's never gonna work out. Because there is no straight line from you doing a bunch of stuff for people, buying them a house, fixing their house, doing whatever, paying for the funeral, paying for the car, paying for the, they never appreciate it. It's never enough. And if you think about the people I have the greatest relationship with, it's just people where we hang out. They've never asked anything from me, I've never asked anything from them. And they cherish me and I cherish them, but there's never any money going back or forth.
Deontay Wilder
Man, man, you said a whole mouthful of them. It got hot in here. At one point in time I was like, wow. Like, it's so true. And I always tell people the world is backwards from what we say and what we do. I don't know understand why the world's so backwards, you know, and you would think, especially with family, you would think they would be the closest and the tightest. They will always want to put you in, in positions to win and be happy for you, even if they, if you're doing better than them, you know, but it's the opposite. Everything is just, that's how, it's crazy how that is, you know, it shouldn't be that way. I don't understand how it even got to that, that point in the first place. Now. Not saying all families are like that because you are, you do have some family that's very close and they, they wouldn't, they wouldn't, they wouldn't steal, not one cent or one, do not want harm to that person, you know, but it's, it's, you know, it's not, it's not a lot of families that's like that. And most families get jealous of each other, you know, I mean, especially with one doing better than the other one and they feel obligated to certain things. And you know, if you, you good, you the best in the world when you're giving. But when you don't give, you know, you, you, you the worst person in the world. You could have, you, you know, if you did give, you could have, you could have gave a little bit more. But I, I, I'll take this. Hold up. You will take, you won't take nothing. Like my daddy said, you won't take nothing but you real receive. You understand me? But you know, it's just, I don't know why it's like that. I don't know why the world is like that.
Adam Carolla
And it's the world, there's an element. So what I've learned is like the people who take the most from the government, hate the government the most. You know, my mom was on welfare, got food stamps and welfare from the government and hated the government more than someone who just paid taxes and never got anything from the government, you know what I mean? So some of it is shame based cuz they understand that they're not able to produce and to take care of themselves and they feel ashamed. And when you feel shame, you can either go find a mirror, look into it and cry, or you can lash out essentially against the person. You know, you can. If you see a guy go buying a Rolls Royce, you could say to your son, you work real hard, one day you can buy a Rolls Royce or you can say, hey son, pick up a rock, let's throw it at the Rolls Royce. And we used to live in a society where the dad would say to the son, you work real hard and one day you get a Rolls Royce. And now our society's turned into let's go find a rock. And that's not a good place to be as a society, but that's where we're at, man.
Deontay Wilder
Don't look over there and keep your neck still. Don't look at them, don't look. You know, that is so funny though. That's so true. Everything you said is true. And the society and the world that we lived in, we live in that just let you know that the world is doomed.
Adam Carolla
What state do you live in?
Deontay Wilder
Well, I'm originally based out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but I have a home in California, which I'm here right now, and I have a home in Atlanta as well, and Costa Rica is on my list. Next.
Adam Carolla
Oh yeah, that sounds amazing.
Deontay Wilder
But I love homes and stuff like that because I'm a homebody. I'm a natural, true homebody. I love being at home, I love providing my energy and my space and my time at home, especially with my children, you know, although I have a lot to offer them and I, I'm always different places, but I do believe in putting time in. You're not gonna get that back. Them kids don't care about your money, who you are, what you're doing and all that. You may be famous to somebody else and you may be a God, there's a lot of other people, but you just mommy and daddy to them and that's just all they see you as. And you can give them money all you want and buy them things, but that time you spend with them, it's the most valuable things. And I love being able to, being able to Separate my business and my personal time with my children. And being around them and watching them grow is so special to me. And to see all of them grow all together and love each other and have that fulfillment as a father, man, I tell fathers all the time we are blessed to be able to have the ability to be someone's father. And it ain't gotta be your mutual. Your bi. I mean, you ain't gotta be your biological, you know, child. You can be somebody. Because I'm a father to other children as well. That's not of mine. You know what I mean? And I treat them just like mine, you know? And it's just a beautiful thing, you know, I can go on and on about children. I have seven. I want seven more. And if it was up to me, I'd have 50.
Adam Carolla
Moses the Black is the name of the movie. It's in theaters. 50 Cent produces it. It'll be January 30th. Can you hint at all about your next fight before we let you go, Deontay?
Deontay Wilder
Oh, most definitely. Most definitely. Most. Can that most definitely be for shit. But you know what?
Adam Carolla
Give us a timeline at least.
Deontay Wilder
I will put it like this. It's going to be announcement this week.
Adam Carolla
This week.
Deontay Wilder
Announcement this week. We trying to get everything together. We got the pictures together. I don't know if I could speak on it right now. I don't. That's why I haven't said. Because I'm one of those guys that like to keep things shut closed tight. I don't like to kiss and tell. I don't like to put things out there that's not going to really happen or I'm not a one. That's one of buzz people. Just to get a reaction or click or like. Or whatever. When I put things I wanted to be for sure I wanted it. It'll happen. So when people do, you know, start looking for travel tickets and stuff, this is for sure, you know.
Adam Carolla
So who might you fight?
Deontay Wilder
So we. We are. It will be announced this week. And we got the press conference next week.
Adam Carolla
Oh, okay. All right. So I'll.
Deontay Wilder
So it'll be announced this week. It'll be announced this week.
Adam Carolla
All right, Deontay. When the fight happens or when it gets right up to the fight and you're out there doing press and stuff, come by and let's talk about it.
Deontay Wilder
Let's make it happen. I would love to.
Adam Carolla
That was fun.
Deontay Wilder
Yeah, man.
Adam Carolla
Thanks. Deontay Wilder.
Deontay Wilder
Oh, man. Appreciate you so much. Thank you for the love and support. I hope you have a beautiful rest.
Adam Carolla
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Adam Carolla
An article very recently, sadly in la. It declared that LA is one of the most polluted cities in the world. And we can put that graphic up there in that article. You can see it for yourself. Talks about California fires and how much they contributed to the pollution. But a lot of focus the fires has been about health, it's been around workers, it's been around cleanup. Because I'm in that fire zone. I've been to those job sites, I've seen those guys out there exposed. And it's a toxic bouillabaisse of stuff that's in the air, it's in the water, it's in the ground. And every day I drive in and I pass all these road guys and crews and construction guys and they're all just out there exposed to everything, including myself. Because I'm out walking around 2 and I just thought I should talk to an expert about this and see how it all works. So we got Kim Bright. She's a health and wellness expert, pioneer in the biz, and she's going to coach us all up on what's going on. Good to see you, Kim.
Kim Bright
Well, thanks for having me. I've been doing this for five decades, so this stuff is very scary. What's going on with you guys out there.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's always scary what's going on in la. You can get killed fast by a homeless guy with a machete or you can take the slow road with the pollution. Either way, exactly, LA's gonna get you. So let's set the table with you first, your background, your history, your experience.
Kim Bright
Well, I lived out in LA for a little while when I was modeling acting. I was at CBS Studios, film industry workshops. Worked with Ed Asner a little bit. Susan Day and I were buddies. We were going through that at the same time. And then I left. I had a near death experience and God put my feet on a different path, which was nutrition. And I helped myself first and then started studying all different kinds of esoteric people that, you know, were called crazy and insane. And yet now what they taught me and what it's mainstream. So, you know, been been at this for 50 years helping people. Taught at the Cush Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts, helped set up programs for different health centers, had my own health center, had a restaurant in Westport, Connecticut that was all organic and natural back in the 80s, long before its time. Farm to table and that's just a few things. And then started I founded Bright core nutrition almost 29 years ago now. Been helping people. Canceled over 15,000 people directly. And that's my background.
Adam Carolla
One of the things I was interested in. And I found this out. I didn't know about it, but I'll tell you how I found out about it. And we got another article to throw up there, but it's about air pollution and incidence of breast cancer. And I went and visited the fire station in Malibu, ironically, before the fire probably two years ago, and started talking to the guys at the fire station about females and female firefighters and the lack thereof. And he mentioned, I think one of the firefighters said that women were affected more greatly from the pollutants in the fire, the smoke and the toxins and everything, and a much higher incidence of breast cancer. And I thought, oh, I never really thought about that, but it all makes sense now for women in terms of breast cancer and pollutants, right?
Kim Bright
Well, yeah, I mean, we naturally have more fat in our body, which could play a role in it. But there was a study done at the University of Oregon that just recently came out, and it involved 400,000 women, and 28,000 of them had already been experiencing breast cancer. And they directly linked it to the air pollution and the pervasiveness of the breast cancer. And a lot of people think of air pollution as carbon monoxide and other types of air toxins that result from industrial processes or car exhaust. But most of us don't even think about what's been coming to light as the biggest culprit, which is microplastics. And I know when you had those fires out there now, almost a year ago, an extraordinary amount of microplastics were released into the atmosphere. That didn't just affect you all in California, but these particles went on the Gulf Stream. They went everywhere. They're affecting worldwide now. And, you know, the firefighters using that foam and the sprays that all contain microplastics, too. So now all that stuff's up in Antarctica, and I mean, in Antarctica and the Arctic. And, you know, these wildfires were a huge event, but it's really a blip on the radar when it comes to the amount of microplastics that we are being exposed to on a daily basis from a multitude of so many other sources, Adam. I mean, every time we burn fuel, their synthetic polymers go up into the air. Every time a missile's launched, microplastics are released into the atmosphere, and again, they're spread globally. And we're unknowingly exposed to and ingesting these microplastics on a daily basis.
Adam Carolla
Well, you know, I've been talking about this and thinking about it, and I was talking to Dr. Drew about microplastics. It's been a few years ago now, but like sperm counts down, testosterone down, like all the sort of, I guess, reproduction. I guess if you think about nature, and I'm not just talking about human beings, I'm talking about any animal population. When reproduction is being fiddled with, something is going on because that's probably the first thing that's affected in nature, whether it's humans or mule deers, like reproduction and environment. And so we were kind of talking about testosterone and sperm counts and all this stuff. It's all just down, down, down. And so you have to think, well, what's going on chemically? Like what's going on with the human condition? That the average 22 year old has a much lower sperm count now?
Kim Bright
Well, here's the thing. The average American is inhaling 68,000 microplastics, those particles every single day. We're ingesting six times more microplastics than we did in 1990, and they easily are traveling through our food chain. The fruits and vegetables that we're all eating are tainted because the crop irrigation washes these microplastics into the soil and then thus into our foods and the plants absorb them. And 88% of our meat and seafood and other protein sources, including plant based proteins, as well as are affected by these microplastics. And 94% of all US water, the clothing we're wearing are, you know, recycled plastic or new plastic polyester fibers. This is affecting us because when we wear the clothing and we drink the water that's in those plastic bottles, it is going into our bodies and it's affecting us. You're wearing yoga pants directly against your genital area. You're wearing those. Guys need to wear tighty whities, Adam, because those, those polyester underwear that are so slick and feeling good and wicking away water. Well, guess what? They're also throwing microplastics down there in that area. And it's, it's having a devastating impact on our health. And another frightening thing about it too is, you know, plastics in our brains. I mean, we've got an equivalent of a spoon's worth of microplastic in our brains. Now that's 7 grams of plastic. So our brain is now 99.5% human and 5% plastic. And then also people.
Adam Carolla
Let me jump in for one second.
Kim Bright
Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Adam Carolla
Not a spoon's worth like a tablespoon's worth. But a plastic spoon, the equivalent of a plastic spoon in your brain. I just want to make that clear.
Kim Bright
That's right. It's like if you took a plastic spoon and put it up there, that's the amount and people are having, you know, they're discovering that they have microplastic plaque in their arteries and veins and they are now four to five times more likely going to die from a heart attack or stroke. And then to get back to what you were saying about low T, that's affecting the reproductive ability of both men and women and especially men with the sperm count. The average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count lower than a 65 year old man and 50% less testosterone. And low T started back in the 60s. I don't know if people realize that and they, I don't know if they realize that it actually shortens your life. If you have low T, you develop smaller muscles, you lack motivation, your libido is low, you have heart problems, diabetes, depression and other mental health issues. And microplastics are endocrine disruptors and they mimic estrogen. And there's a very high level of hormones in meat and milk, which a lot of guys eat. One of these types of hormones is a type of estrogen and it's called estrodiol. Then of course, if you're under stress and you have nutritional deficiencies and develop cell toxicity, those create low T as well. And avoiding the plastic bottles, that's not gonna be enough. We've gotta do something proactive to rid our bodies of these microplastic toxins.
Adam Carolla
So now you're the expert. So that's the question, what's the plan? Because we're not going to be able to avoid it.
Kim Bright
No, we're not.
Adam Carolla
If it's in the air, it's in the fish, it's in the water and it's in your underpants, then it's ubiquitous and we're there and we're living in it. And you don't have to live in a burned out zone like Malibu or the Palisades or Altadena. You're gonna be exposed to it. So I guess when you're talking about avoiding something or I should say remedying something, it's probably twofold. A try to limit the amount of it that gets into you. And I guess you could not drink out of a plastic bottle that's been rolling around on the dashboard of your car for three days exposed to the sun and heating up there are things like that. But that's limited because of what we just discussed, because it's ubiquitous. So then you start getting into, well, how can I mitigate whatever's in me, how can I flush it? Or how can I mitigate the effects of the plastic that's already in? Right?
Kim Bright
Because these plastics, they last a long time. These chemicals last in the soil a long time. And when they get heat applied to them, their bonds become even stronger. So I was so excited, Adam, to find this study where I found something that actually degrades bpa, which is the most toxic chemical that's in the plastic. It's degraded by bacillus pumilus. Now this they found in this study. And that's a unique strain of bacteria that's found in a centuries old fermented food called kimchi. And BPA actually blocks testosterone because each of our cells have receptor sites on them. And what happens is instead of being filled with testosterone and zinc and other things that are supposed to be there on each and every one receptor site, it gets filled with BPA and heavy metals. These plastics are just devastating our whole body. This study found that BPA actually degrades the by using the bacillus pumulus in the kimchi. And it's unique to kimchi. Then I found another study where it showed two other Lactobacillus strains that are also found in kimchi actually will absorb and excrete the microplastics in vivo, meaning in something that's alive. Bacillus parkasi and Bacillus plantarum. So this was very exciting because there was nothing up until this point that I could find that was going to be able to do something about all these plastics that are in our body. And another thing too, I wanted to let people know is they alter these microplastics are altering our DNA, they're causing DNA damage, they're changing our gene expression, they're interfering with DNA repair mechanisms. And this is concerning because this is a known risk factor for cancer.
Adam Carolla
So I've heard, I mean, recently, a lot of discussion about fermented foods and sauerkraut and stuff like that. And then Kim Chi is sort of the king of the hill in the fermented food department. So what else, by the way, falls under the heading of that? Is it sauerkraut? Where do pickles land with that?
Kim Bright
Well, first let me say that there was another study because I love to reference science because I like facts. I don't like going off of, oh, I'm just pulling this out of my rear end. There's another study that shows how multifaceted kimchi really is. And that was a cancer preventative study. This study had the conclusion and let me quote directly from it. The antibiotic tolerant probiotic presented in Kimchi suppresses expression of carcinogen activating enzymes and possesses many other health benefits such as suppression of growth, development of pathogenic bacteria, intestinal regulation and immune boosts. Especially the WC Baria and L. Plantarum found in Kimchi have many effects like anti inflammatory, immune modulating and blood cholesterol reducing activity, which may account for their cancer preventative and anti cancer potential. Unquote. So to answer your question about sauerkraut, pickles and all of that, Kimchi is the king of fermented foods. Why? It has over 900 unique probiotic strains. So many of them are not found in other fermented foods like sauerkraut and pickles. Sauerkraut's a great fermented food. Please continue to eat it. Pickles are great as long as you're not buying them off in the middle of the supermarket and they're dead, they've been pasteurized. But kimchi is the king because it has these unique 900, nothing else touches it. Sauerkraut's great, but it doesn't touch kimchi with all kimchi's probiotics. So, you know, ever since we were born, we have a war going in our gut for the good and the bad bacteria. And we want to eat foods that are going to supply the good bacteria to the greatest degree that we can. And kimchi does that. And kimchi also helps with the gut lung axis. I mean, out in LA with all that fire and all that pollution you guys live in, the COPD out there must be unbelievable. And then the gut liver axis also acts from, you know, is affected by eating food like kimchi. Because the liver is such an important organ for to take down inflammation and fatty liver disease. If you have that, your liver doesn't function right, it can't filter, it can't help with the hormone distribution or the fats or the sugars and turn the sugar into glycogen when we've eaten too much, then we have gut brain access that is directly affected too by eating kimchi. And people that have poor moods or anxiety or depression or stress or cognitive decline, early onset dementia, when they're not eating this food kimchi and supplying these good guys to their gut, they're not getting these benefits. And then last gut skin axis, it shows up. If we have a dirty gut. If we have an overpopulation of the bad pathogens in our gut, the yeast, the molds, the parasites, those are going to show up on our skin because of that direct connection, that direct access. And again, our gut microbiome is what determines our overall health. That's where our health starts, or that's where our disease starts. And 70% to 80% of our immune system is in our gut. And so we must replenish that good bacteria and crowd out those harmful microbes. And when we eat things like kimchi, it's going to help produce compounds that modulate our immune responses.
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Oh, we have so many stories about that. I mean, unbelievable. There's studies out there that actually show that people that eat kimchi every single day actually reduce their body fat by 31.8%. And another great thing that came out in studies is how it affects our heart health and its heart benefits and balancing our blood sugar and reducing our triglycerides and LDL cholesterol and C stabilizing blood pressure. So this is all incredible news that kimchi can actually help with and people, you know, it's. The thing is too, as people age, we become more susceptible to these bad pathogens and we're more susceptible to the viruses. You're going to get sick more often if you're not replenishing the good guys. You're going to have Things like candida fungus that you just can't get rid of no matter what you do. And again, parasites love when you are low on the good guys because it creates this environment for them to just thrive in, like a swamp. And kimchi has been shown time and time again. There's volumes of studies on how kimchi can actually power and overcome all of the bad guys and all these microbials, these bad microbials naturally and effectively.
Adam Carolla
Is it Korean originally?
Kim Bright
Yes, it is Korean. And it is centuries old, literally. And, you know, fermented foods came about all over the world because people were trying to preserve things for the winter and when they had too big of a harvest. And then they realized that their health actually got better when they started eating these fermented foods that created different compounds once they were fermented. And kimchi is, like I said, centuries old. And it's got a whole vast array of information behind it. I mean, kimchi is so powerful. They actually have a museum for it, Adam, in Korea, and they opened one in Hawaii. And yeah, they opened a museum. People come to the museum in Korea to learn how to make kimchi. And they had. They find out all about it. I mean, it's beloved over there and beloved over there and the same thing in Hawaii. I think they opened the one in Hawaii in, I don't know, 2020, somewhere around there. And then the other one was in the 1980s over in South Korea.
Adam Carolla
Is there something different about. It's cabbage based, Right? But is there something different about theirs?
Kim Bright
It's napa cabbage based, basically. It has spices in it. It has different. You can make kimchi different ways, but the main ingredients in there are different spices and garlic and the cabbage. And it's all the way that it comes together and the compounds that all these different things help form during the fermenting process. And it's just incredible, this food. I studied all kinds of people when I got into nutrition all over the world, the people that live the longest. And I wanted to know what was their diet, how did they live? And so I did a lot of research with kimchi, and what I found too is that people live longer. There's actually an anti aging study out there that showed they did it in a test tube, they tried it in a test tube when they used kimchi extract. And it actually slows the aging of cells. So scientifically, we now have that proof that it can slow the aging of the cells. And when you do that on a cellular level, slow the aging, you're going to slow the aging of your tissues, which is a combination of your cells, and then ultimately that slows the aging of the entire body. I mean, isn't that amazing?
Adam Carolla
When was this study?
Kim Bright
I think that study was done, I want to say. Oh, my gosh. When was it done? It was in the Springer Nature wrote it up. I remember that, but I don't remember this. Oh, it was, let me think, June of 2011.
Adam Carolla
Oh, so it's fairly recent.
Kim Bright
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And they actually showed that in the test tube with human cells.
Kim Bright
That's right. Showed that it actually slowed down the aging. So people have been talking about this for years, just naturally using it. And if you look at over in Asia, they actually live longer. And, oh, by the way, that study was 2021. I was mistaken. One of my people just told me more recent.
Adam Carolla
Better.
Kim Bright
More recent. Yeah. And if you look at over in South Korea, they actually live a lot longer than we do, too. So I think kimchi plays a role in that.
Adam Carolla
Well, I know RFK Jr. Who's a bit of a fitness nut, you guys can tell. Although maybe we shouldn't say nut. Maybe we're nuts for not doing it as much as him. And I like that guy. I played his benefit, his comedy benefit. And he's been in here a couple of times with Cheryl, his wife, I think, together. Yeah. Anyway, a very good dude, but obviously knows what he's talking about in terms of health. And nobody see the thing about RFK Jr. And I know he's a huge Kim Chi fan, and I think we have a clip to play of him talking about it. Mainly meat and then fermented vegetables. Anything fermented. So a lot of kimchi and all kinds of fermented vegetables. And it's really. I would say it's dramatically changed my, you know, everything.
Kim Bright
I mean, can you believe he's 71 years old? I mean, I'm 71.
Adam Carolla
Well, that guy. Well, you, you know, you guys should date. I think his. Here's the thing about him. He started off as an environmental lawyer, and he was talking about toxins and cleaning up rivers and cleaning up lakes and all these big companies dumping their sewage in. So he's pretty tuned into environmental dangers, I would say. And I'm sure he probably knows more about the subject than maybe any person alive since he's been doing the science and researching the science on it for all these years in order to bring these cases and lawsuits against all these big manufacturers and chemical manufacturers and things like that.
Kim Bright
I agree 100%. I mean, and why people fight Him. This man is a walking encyclopedia, and he has direct experience with these things. He knows what these chemicals do to people's bodies. And, I mean, you know, it's amazing how much data he has. And I just wish people would wake up and understand that, you know, what he's saying is the truth and stop fighting him so much.
Adam Carolla
Well, they do. They go, well, you're not a doctor. Well, by the way, the doctors were the ones who got everything wrong about COVID and the food pyramid 10 minutes ago. So this is.
Kim Bright
Yeah, and doctors aren't trained to find cause of things. He's trained to find the cause. So am I. Doctors are trained to identify a symptom and write you a script and say, come back and see me in two weeks so I can write a new script when your symptoms change again. They're all about the symptoms, not the cause.
Adam Carolla
And also, he's been on a quest for decades collecting and consuming and digesting this information. And I hate it when people try to give him short shrift and say, you're not an expert. You're not a doctor. And as he said in, I think, a recent interview, he goes, and this is so true. He said, look, I'm not a doctor. When I do one of these cases for one of these big companies, they're polloing the river. I have my doctors who give my expert opinion from Stanford and UCLA and Harvard. And the other side has all their doctors saying the exact opposite thing who are, quote, unquote, experts. So you say we should listen to the doctors. What about all the doctors that are working for Union Carbide or Monsanto or Philip Morris that are saying the exact opposite thing that his doctors are saying? You know, cigarettes aren't addicting. They had tons of doctors telling you that. So pardon me, but I'm a little dubious with the doctors. I'd rather listen to the guy who's got the boots on the ground and is out there collecting data. And if that guy swears by Kim Chi, then I'm gonna tend to listen to him versus the one that's prescribing the drugs for my gut, the pharmaceuticals for my gut, versus the easy and relatively inexpensive way to fix my gut.
Kim Bright
And the natural way, too, Adam. I mean, this is not chemically petroleum based to tear your gut up further and to change your gut. So now you need a different, you know, prescript prescription medicine. So I think we should all aspire to this age to be healthy. I mean, you can start any time if you're younger, start eating Kimchi now. I mean, there's just something different about people that eat the kimchi. And it's never too late. If you're older than 71, start now. If you're younger, start now. But make yourself healthier. You want to lead a healthy life. You don't want to grow old and have years on you, but you're not healthy or tied to machines or, you know, 20 different prescriptions because, you know, we're living in a world that's trying to kill us. I mean, there's poison in our air, our food, the medications we're being told to take. And, you know, there's no avoiding it. If you have to do, I mean, you have to do something proactive or you'll suffer the consequences of listening to these people that don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Adam Carolla
Well, now here. Here's the kimchi rub. I was coincidentally out of town a couple days ago and bought some kimchi. I was staying at a hotel, but I had a kitchenette and I was going to be there for a few days. So I bought some cheese and some kimchi and some hard boiled eggs and like, stuff to snack on and then.
Kim Bright
Sounds good.
Adam Carolla
It sounds like a good idea. But then when I was trying to bring the food home, I packed it in my luggage and the kimchi bag burst open. And I got kimchi juice, by the way, I could smell it at the airport when I pulled it off the baggage carousel five feet away from the bag, I said, oh, the kimchi busted open. And it's tough. It can be tough to consume. I got a pretty good stomach and I don't mind the taste of it, but it can be a little messy, can be a little cumbersome. The smell can turn people off and there's a little barrier to entry to just eating kimchi in its raw form.
Kim Bright
I agree with you. I mean, I've been trying to teach people how to make kimchi for 50 years. I mean, I studied martial arts. That's who taught me how to make kimchi and eat kimchi was my Korean teacher. And so the first time I smelled it and tried to eat it, I about fell off the chair. And then I loved it. But there's so many people out there that are Americans that this is not what fits their taste buds and they're smellers. So we came up with an idea at Brightcort. Let's put all these benefits of kimchi in something convenient that people will take every day. Because this is the kicker. You need to Take it every day. And most people aren't going to eat kimchi every day if they're not taking, you know, from Korea or Asia. So we thought, what will they take every day? They'll take capsules. So we managed to put the kimchi in and keep all of its benefits in convenient capsules so you can have it every day without the taste, the odor. And also, people that are on low sodium diets can't eat kimchi too easily. The store bought or if they make it themselves because it's high in sodium. So we've reduced most of the sodium down 100%. Made in the USA, non GMO and all natural. And so many people, Adam, have been helped with their regularity. Their digestion has changed tremendously. They don't get bloated anymore, they're not constipated. And so many people that used to get sick all the time, their immunity has just gone up after taking kimchi one every single day. They're not sick anymore. And their energy levels, people have been amazed. You know, when you have low T too, you have very low energy as well. But their energy levels, no more. Chronic fatigue, and they're living life to their fullest now. And also brain clarity, brain functions improved. They can focus, they can complete tasks, and their skin and hair improves. People tell them, my gosh, your skin looks so great. What are you doing? Your hair, it's thicker. It's, it's really looking good. And I know everybody wants to look good. Everybody wants to look good. And when you're doing well on the inside, eating that kimchi, it's gonna reflect on the outside.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, well, I've been taking it. I know you gave me some product and I feel good now. I almost always feel good. So I'm a bad person to do. My gut is always good. I never have any problems. But I've been taking your product for a while now and it's good. The product is good. And the byproduct, meaning gut and skin and energy, good energy. Because I've been burning the candle at both ends, running around, doing a lot of early mornings and a lot of long flights and a lot of airports and a lot of two shows and then back to the hotel kind of thing. And I haven't gotten sick and I've felt good and I felt clear too. Like it's a little tough when you're sleep deprived and you catch a real early morning flight and you got to get to Florida and there's a time difference and you got to do a show and you got to memorize an hour worth of material. Sometimes you get out there and you're a little bit hazy. But I've kept clear. And I just want to give you a plug. I want to tell my viewers and listeners where to find the product. I know you have a special.
Kim Bright
I appreciate that. I really do. And, you know, I'd like to give your viewers and listeners a special today so they too, will try it. Try the kimchi one. Is that okay if I go ahead and do that?
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Adam Carolla
It's a great product. I take it. You can, by the way, you can taste it a little bit. I'm not going to lie to you. You can taste a little, by the way. I like that because it kind of reminds me that it's there and it's working. But yeah, just slug it down with a glass of orange juice or whatever. It's fine. Yeah, let's tell them where to get it.
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Adam Carolla
Kim Bright, thank you so much for teaching everyone listening as much as they could possibly know about the wonders of kimchi. Thanks, Kim.
Kim Bright
Thank you, Adam.
Adam Carolla
Appreciate it.
Kim Bright
Thank you. All right.
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Adam Carolla
Mm.
Alicia Krause
I know how you feel about birds.
Adam Carolla
Uh huh.
Alicia Krause
Specifically black birds. All right. This dude has now trained crows to attack MAGA hats after saying that there's no longer a moral option. So if you're no longer what a moral option. Like he's saying it.
Adam Carolla
I do like when people. I do like when people who like, run up and kick people in the shins and then run back to their car going, there was nothing else I could do. So, like, there is a version of life where you just stay home and enjoy your fucking life and leave everyone alone.
Alicia Krause
Yep. So this guy named Dave, he said that he has now gone viral. He's very proud of his project. He says, quote, this project has been going on for a while. And he admitted, I tried to be a centrist for a long time, but I no longer believe that that is a moral option. And as a result, he's now gripped the Internet with his Trump hating crows through a series of threads posts, which is like the X for I'm mixed.
Adam Carolla
On this guy because the attack rose is something I've been preaching about for 30 years. So I kind of like the cut of his jib.
Alicia Krause
Apparently he says that they're designed and trained to go after people wearing MAGA hats. He said the use. He used food to train them and he recommended what to feed Them. He talked about how it's more of a possibility than a probability that he can train them to do this and that anybody could potentially do it. 1. The crow lover's accomplishment has divided the Internet, of course, on Reddit, a person.
Adam Carolla
But let me say this. Do we really need crows when we have a bunch of 42 year old white yenta bitches who are already punching these guys for wearing a MAGA hat? You know what I mean? Like, do we need the crows?
Alicia Krause
So I don't have any animals. I just have four children. I'm gonna start sicking my kids after, like the liberal lesbians now.
Adam Carolla
You can.
Alicia Krause
That's what I'm gonna do. I'm like, I trained my offspring. They train to go after people I don't like politically.
Adam Carolla
They train crows to pick up cigarette butts and throw them away. I've said that many times. Yeah, they'll do whatever you. They'll do whatever for a couple kernels of corn. So you can for sure get him to do a MAGA hat. Now the question is, is there other guys wearing red hats that are Boston Red Sox fans who may not.
Alicia Krause
Can't wait to be.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Who may be more in line with you politically, but are still getting attacked by your crows. So you can't just have them do red hats because probably every fifth ball cap is a red hat and I guess. Or blue hat. There must. There's blue MAGA and red maga. Like, are they all white?
Alicia Krause
I think there was a pink Barbie vibe one for a little bit. There's the white one with the gold logo. Yeah, that was like the 43, 45.
Adam Carolla
You're gonna have to teach them to read MAGA and numbers.
Alicia Krause
Damn. If crows can learn how to read, then they're gonna be like one upping pigs. Cause aren't pigs the ones that are supposed to be like the most?
Adam Carolla
I love bacon so much. I don't like to think that way.
Alicia Krause
Same.
Adam Carolla
So prosciutto, you know, you're not gonna teach them how to read, but you will teach them how to recognize a symbol. And so MAGA is just gonna be a symbol, you know, and they can read the symbol, but they're not reading. I guess if you went to Japan and you couldn't read Japanese, but you knew the symbol for the boys room and the girls room and you'd just be reading that, you would learn that symbol. I think you could probably get them to do that. But he hasn't unleashed his crows yet.
Alicia Krause
I don't think so. He says that they are trained and ready to do.
Adam Carolla
Seems like a weird thing.
Alicia Krause
He's documented all of the step by step by stages of how he has trained them. And a dash of political mischief turned local crows into the red hat, removing legends.
Adam Carolla
So how did he do it? And what was the thread? Sorry, I think I stepped on you.
Alicia Krause
Oh, no, no, no. He just has talked about it, like on threads, which is like the X of Instagram. I never signed up for it. Did you?
Adam Carolla
No. I don't know what any of this stuff is. I really don't.
Alicia Krause
You literally are just like a X guy, but you still call it Twitter.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I call Twitter. People tweet stuff and I just comment on it.
Alicia Krause
Yeah. And then of course, everybody over on Reddit, which I kind of love Reddit. I know that there's gross and deep bowels of Reddit that we don't want to talk about, but I trust it for a lot of real life feedback. From time to time you do restaurants, hotels, traveling to a different city, like, what should I see versus what I shouldn't? Because it's not paid and promoted to my knowledge, like Yelp and other services and like Google reviews and stuff, you.
Adam Carolla
Know, All I know is that everyone talks about how horrible the Internet is and all the haters and all the whatever, and I don't read anything bad about myself ever. But if you go to Reddit, then there's tons of bad stuff. I mean, that's what I assume. So I never go to Reddit. I just hang out on Twitter and people are generally nice.
Alicia Krause
Because you're a man.
Adam Carolla
Yes. Did he explain how he teaches the crows?
Alicia Krause
Oh, yeah. He talks step by step about how first you gotta give him a little popcorn kernel and then you gotta do this and then you gotta walk through the whole process. It sounds like he's single.
Adam Carolla
There was a movie called Day of the Dolphin. I agree. There's a movie called Day of the Dolphin and the military was working with dolphins to like put explosives on them and hit holes of ships and stuff like that.
Alicia Krause
Not just that, but they actively still use dolphins. Like, some of it is public and some of it is still classified. But I was listening to a whole podcast about how from Russia to NATO to the United States, we use sea creatures. We put things on them so we can pick up boats and missiles and things that are happening in the oceans that are beyond our purpose. Like that are international waters.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, right, sure. So we use animals. We get it. And the crows would work. The crows would work on hats. It would work on School shooters, too. It would work on Minnesota rioters as well. There's a lot of use for crows. We're leaving crow money on the table, and this guy's captured my idea and he's using it for evil. But the point is, it would work. I don't know. This feels a little stunty to me. I want to see.
Alicia Krause
You don't know if it's real.
Adam Carolla
I just want to listen. Jurassic park was a great movie because it worked in theory. It worked in theory. You go, there's a little DNA, it's trapped in the amber. We take it and we build. And you go, that could happen. And that's the same with the attack grows. That could happen. But it's still not a real dinosaur. I want to see.
Alicia Krause
You want to see it for real?
Adam Carolla
I want you to. To have a guy put on a MAGA hat, a Boston Red Sox hat, and a chiefs hat. And then five other people with no hats and from five other people with black hats and have them all walk through a parking lot outside of a Costco. And then you unleash your crow. And I'm gonna see him go for the right hat and bring it back.
Alicia Krause
You wanna see it in action?
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Alicia Krause
See if he's full of it or not.
Adam Carolla
All right.
Alicia Krause
All right, next story this week was MLK Day and activist educators are apparently hijacking the holiday. This comes from the New York Post that Martin Luther King Jr. S legacy is all about Palestine.
Adam Carolla
There is nothing these crackpots can't hijack. There's everything they will hijack. And everything is. By the way, since when did people love Palestine? Why do progressive people love. What is there to love about Palestine if you're progressive? Oh, sorry. Unless the only thing that motivates you is you hate your dad. And you're gonna do the opposite of everything anybody wants. Because I think all of this is the opposite of anything anyone wants.
Alicia Krause
So I've been fighting SJP idiots on campuses for 14 years now.
Adam Carolla
What's SJP?
Alicia Krause
Students for justice in Palestine. They're a terror adjacent group, in my opinion, allegedly, that are on campuses all across the country. They come and like, walk out of my speeches and blow horns and yell and all that stuff. And this reminds me of this. And I think that there's different levels to the stupidity of pro Palestinian groups. You actually have people that are anti any western, civilized, democratic, constitutional thought and values. And then you have people that are just ill informed.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Yes.
Alicia Krause
And they like to be a part of a group.
Adam Carolla
They're Always ill informed.
Alicia Krause
And so I wondered, I think that these teachers are probably a little mix of that group and they're gonna be teaching this crap to six year olds.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. But the genesis of it is I know it because I grew up with it. I had these people in my family, my mom and my grandma are this way.
Alicia Krause
They were pro Palestine. Well then that's the problem.
Adam Carolla
They were pro. Whatever. You weren't pro. That's the whole point. If you said to my mom, my grandma, look, here's what John Wayne wants, they'd go fuck that, we're doing the exact opposite of everything he wants. And then it's certain things, it could be stuff that you want too, like why don't you want a border that's secure? And it's like cuz John Wayne wants it, so fuck that.
Alicia Krause
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
So they end up just doing the opposite of what John Wayne would want.
Alicia Krause
Of the person that they despise or distaste.
Adam Carolla
But also that person sort of stands for America, you know what I mean?
Alicia Krause
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Adam Carolla
And so it's like Ilhan Omar, all she does is hate everything that John Wayne would like or any pro American and you go, but she's for these people or she comes from this or this country saved her. Why is she so angry at this? Cuz they fucking hate their dad and they're angry at this country and this country's their dad. That's how it works. So you keep trying to sort it out. Like I don't get why they like this, but they don't like that. And I, but there's no good reason.
Alicia Krause
To like Palestine is all of politics either. Because you also get the people that everything that they do is trying to please daddy.
Adam Carolla
Yes, I like them.
Alicia Krause
So you could have either all of politics as a side of like going the opposite of their dad or trying to suck up to their dad.
Adam Carolla
I'm trying to, I'm trying to.
Alicia Krause
But it can work for both sides of the aisle. Like that's not just a, oh, conservatives are trying to please authority and liberals are going like, are anti authority. I think it sometimes can work both ways.
Kim Bright
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Generally when you hate your dad, you're anti authority and then you're sort of anti America and you're certainly anti Trump and then you're anti, basically you just say to anybody who like sort of pays their taxes and thinks clearly and has definitions of what a man is and a woman is, and then they go, I side with Israel and I do not side with Palestine. And then they go, okay, got it, we're all for Palestine. And then you go, but what about, do you even know what Palestine does? And it's like, it doesn't really matter what they do. We're against what that guy likes. And most of that is it's like reactionary. It's a little feminine. And it's where we're at today. And they've never really sorted out, like, what goes on in Palestine. And look, you know, Israel has its skeletons and its faults when it comes to a society, you know, they go, well, America had the Trail of Tears. Yeah, I get it. But do you want to live in Iran or do you like to live in America?
Kim Bright
Here?
Adam Carolla
Yes. So the point is, turns out it's.
Alicia Krause
A much better place for a woman like myself whose head is not covered.
Adam Carolla
Everybody has their skeletons. All society, they all had slavery. They all did things to indigenous people. But all things being equal, would you like that whole region to be more like Israel or more like Palestine? I'm going to Israel every fucking day of the week and 10 times on Sunday, so shut the fuck up and I'm done. And I've never been there and I don't care.
Alicia Krause
I think that we also have to recognize that obviously teachers unions have been hardcore left for a very long time. So are we surprised that the teachers are doing this specifically on the east coast, but that those teachers probably also came from higher education institutions that spew this same stuff and have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars from Qatar?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, teachers. Teachers are all the worst now, by the way. They're all. Every time there's one of those crazy chicks simulating getting shot in the neck or something, it's always a teacher. It's like, they're the worst.
Alicia Krause
They're an elementary school one too.
Adam Carolla
They're the worst. They're the worst.
Alicia Krause
I just can't believe that they're gonna be teaching this to six year olds. That's, I think, the most disturbing thing for me. Like, listen, if you wanna have like a, a club that talks about this kind of stuff and you are maybe high school or college campus, that's like a different level of maturity and world sense.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Alicia Krause
But if you're talking to a first grader about it, like you're just indoctrinating them at that point.
Adam Carolla
Agreed. All right, what's next?
Alicia Krause
All right, so Seattle's mayor says that she will not be investigating Somali daycare fraud.
Adam Carolla
Look. Yep, this is. File it under, I'm gonna do the opposite. What would Trump do? Trump would investigate Somali daycare fraud. What would I do.
Alicia Krause
This video is going viral. She talks about how she's going to not pursue any investigations into fraud. I'm of the mindset, and I'm sure you are too, that like there's probably this level of fraud, maybe not to the Minnesota extent of the hundreds of millions of dollars, but there has to be this level of fraud in every state, Right?
Adam Carolla
I totally agree. Also what people, people need to understand. Let me lay it out for all you people. Look no further than the job site. Now construction. Different groups fall into different trades. It pretty much works that way across the board. Now Southern California is a little different, but it's pretty much when I work construction, the guys who did the Finnish carpentry, they were all white guys. And the guys who did the stucco and the masonry, they're all Mexican guys. And the guys who did all the stonework, the slabs and the tile, those were Middle Eastern guys. And then the black guys would come in at night and steal the tools. But everybody had their place is what I'm saying. And how does it work? Well then why are all the stone guys Middle Eastern guys? Or how come the Finnish guys are all white guys? Or what about the Mexican guys? Well, this guy's 11 year old, doing stucco with him it becomes like a sort of a trade. They sort of fall into stuff. And it makes sense that if there's a community, a close knit community, it's not gonna work for white guys. Cuz we're just floating around, gives a fuck. Like no one says hey Adam, there's a white guy, he does stucco work. I'd be like, okay, well don't you want it? You're white. Like that wouldn't work. But the Somali community is very tight.
Alicia Krause
Yep.
Adam Carolla
It would make perfect and utter sense that if one of them got into this and got into this grift and started became this business.
Alicia Krause
Hey guys, did you know it would.
Adam Carolla
Expand out through the community?
Alicia Krause
It's just to use that example for another community, you know, kids of military members tend to join the military or law enforcement, fire department. There was that or the COVID fraud here was all Armenians. It was like a group of Armenian mobster dudes in their tracksuits and cigarettes.
Adam Carolla
Yes, and lowered BMWs with Catback exhaust systems on them so you could hear them at all hours of the night. It's a wonderful culture. But the point is. Yes, I'm sure there's a lion's share. I shouldn't say lion's share. I'm sure there's a greater percentage of Somalis engaged in this activity because that's how groups and communities work. And it also works that way with baking and candlestick making. That's how it works.
Alicia Krause
And my point too is I fully agree with that, but just the government is so easily defrauded, especially in blue states. I don't know if it's the Somali community in Washington or Texas or here in California. It could be to your point, But I'm just like, shouldn't we maybe look into these things to see how much it's costed taxpayers?
Adam Carolla
If you have a party, as in Democrats, and sorry, there's a lot of chick think going on here who is gonna fight Trump at all costs and protect you, then they're gonna fight Trump and protect the person that's ripping off taxpayers with. With fraudulent daycare centers. And that's where we're at now with progressive cities. And women especially will buy into this even more than men, although Jacob Fry. All right, so let's watch this. She's being interviewed. She's the mayor of Seattle. She's Democrat, socialist or whatever, and she's got a plan for the Somalis.
Kim Bright
I mean, I don't think it needs.
Alicia Krause
To be explained why it's problematic to.
Kim Bright
Have random people showing up to daycares.
Adam Carolla
And yeah, I mean, I think the.
Kim Bright
Fear in the Somali community is real. The fear in immigrant communities are real.
Adam Carolla
So we're taking that very seriously.
Kim Bright
Along those lines, have you asked anyone.
Deontay Wilder
To follow up on the fraud claims either to the Department of Immigrant Refugee affairs or spd?
Kim Bright
No.
Deontay Wilder
So there's.
Kim Bright
As far as you're concerned right now, there's no reason to suggest there's any sort of fraud.
Adam Carolla
I don't.
Alicia Krause
This whole issue is not really about fraud. Right. It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target.
Kim Bright
Right. There's no reason to assume, based on the identity of a daycare operator, that.
Alicia Krause
Their small business is doing anything wrong.
Adam Carolla
I mean, there is a thing. There's a. First off, everyone feels threatened. Every community is being attacked. Stop and frisk. If I'm walking down the street and a cop passed me and goes, hey, can I see some id and let's go here. And then I wouldn't feel threatened and I wouldn't feel attacked. If you're running a business and your business is above board and all the counting and all the numbers in order and everyone's filled and you have all the paperwork, then nothing's gonna happen to you because nothing can happen to you.
Alicia Krause
Maybe I 1000% agree. And I'm the one that got a ticket for jaywalking in Honolulu. Cause I didn't have my ID on me and was also jaywalking. So they targeted me and my blonde cousin. But I don't know if it's because I'm a mom, but I feel as if I clearly wouldn't have voted for that Democratic mayor anyway. But even if she had an R after her name, I would hit pause and be calling and picketing at her office. Because anything related to children, church, school, daycare, whatever, you're not willing to call the Seattle Police Department, you're not willing to call immigration services, you're not willing to look at like what the, the taxpayers of your city and your state have been giving to these daycare centers. And whether or not they're legitimate. And if there's illegitimate things happening with money, there unfortunately usually is a trickle down where there's other horrible or illegitimate things happening to minors on the same property.
Adam Carolla
Agreed.
Alicia Krause
Why wouldn't you go after that? Like that, to me isn't about attacking a community. It's a winning issue of keeping families and children safe.
Adam Carolla
She's fighting Trump, not running Seattle.
Alicia Krause
Of course.
Adam Carolla
And that's what we're dealing with. And that's what we're dealing with in Minneapolis, and that's what we're gonna be dealing with everywhere. We'll deal with that in California. They weren't rounding up illegal criminals, they were fighting Trump. And we've weaponized, and sorry, it's more of a feminine trait, but we've weaponized Karen Bass and all these yentas to do battle with Trump. And now they're fighting with, they're literally fighting the good guys to protect the bad guys. It's as simple as that.
Alicia Krause
But to defend my sex, Good luck. That's been going on in politics for decades.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, there's always been this, I gotta go Whoopi Goldberg on you. No, that's true. So in the past, what it is, is you had to have the illusion of bipartisanship and the illusion of a fiduciary duty, and the illusion of the city comes first. So you would go. So she'd go, the question, are you gonna look at the Somalis? And in the past, Cuz she loves the Somalis and hates Trump. But in the past they'd go, of course, fraud is a very big deal. And they'd go, have you looked into it? My office is aware of this and we will get you the information because we are going to look into this. And then they Wouldn't. But they wouldn't just go. She just goes, no. Which is a new. That's a new thing where they just go, fuck that. Like, I'm not doing that. Fuck you. And she just goes, now. And the old politician would have thought, no, but then calculated the optics of that.
Alicia Krause
The PR spew, right?
Adam Carolla
And so we've entered this new world, and it's interesting to me. And by the way. No, I'm just saying women are more capable of it. Like when you get into. Like when you try to get. You try to get Ilhan Omar and you go, 1 billion Jews were just incinerated by Palestinians. Do you think that's wrong? And she'd go, I don't. I'm not talking to you. Like, it just go, yes, it was wrong. But they can never. They don't. One syllable, one inch, one anything. You know, when I learned this was when it was game on. And Dawson, you can look for this. There was a clip from tmz and it was the city. Now, the guy had a weird title, but it was the LA Police Commissioner. And he was like the union commissioner or something. He wasn't the police Chief of la, he was the LA Union Police chief leader or something. Police leader or something like that. He was on TMZ. And this is like almost 10 years ago. And that's back when people were taking a pickaxe to Trump's star. And they were like, I think he's a black guy. I think he's bald. And it was outside of a restaurant at night, and he was, like, walking back to his car, and TMZ caught up to him and he said, hey, people out with a pickaxe, I mean, they're walking down Hollywood Boulevard with a weapon and they're destroying property, and then they're walking back and he goes, they say to the police commissioner, you got a problem with that? He goes, hey, not my problem. Do what you got.
Alicia Krause
He played that on the morning show, actually.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah.
Alicia Krause
Way back in the day.
Adam Carolla
Do what you gotta do and do.
Alicia Krause
What you gotta do.
Kim Bright
Stuck out. Yeah.
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Listen, douche, you hate Trump. I get it. But you're supposed to have the. Create the illusion of doing your job.
Alicia Krause
Broken windows theory is a legitimate form of law enforcement that worked for New York and other places. So why would you let somebody. If Broken windows, no bueno. Why would you let somebody take a pickaxe to a sidewalk, right?
Adam Carolla
So these people are so emboldened that they go, are you looking at Somali fraud? And they go, nope.
Kim Bright
Yep.
Adam Carolla
And it's like. It's like almost like they don't realize they're being filmed.
Alicia Krause
No, I actually disagree. I think that part of the reason why people feel emboldened to do this is because they know that they can double down for their own crew, I guess, and their own inner circle and their own bubble, and that's all they need to please. And so they don't give a shit about everybody else and they don't give a shit about their cities.
Adam Carolla
Well, it's what happened to all the women who are college presidents who got dragged up in front of Congress. They couldn't do it. They were fucking women and they were fighting with Elise Stefanik and there were women first and college president second. And they all said stupid shit because they're like, fuck you, bitch, don't come at me. And then they all got shit gan. Which is awesome. Here's. This was like 2018 or something.
Alicia Krause
I bet you it was like right after. I think it was right after he announced. Because I wasn't on the radio in 18, I feel like I.
Adam Carolla
He'd won. I thought he won. Well, they were taking up. They didn't take a pickaxe to it because he announced. I don't. He had to have won. Well, we'll figure it out. Anyway. Asked about Donald Trump and the pickaxe to a star, it's hard on cry.
Deontay Wilder
What do you think about the ongoing defacing of Donald Trump's star of fame? I'm in favor of it.
Adam Carolla
You're in favor of it?
Alicia Krause
Hey, stop that.
Deontay Wilder
Wait.
Adam Carolla
What do you think?
Kim Bright
Maybe they should just remove the star?
Adam Carolla
Is it becoming above?
Deontay Wilder
I'm definitely in favor of getting rid of the star.
Adam Carolla
Un. This guy's an LA cop. I mean, police guy. And the guy's walk. What's his title? He's the commissioner, LAPD commissioner. And people are walking down the street with a pickaxe, destroying property, and he's all for it.
Alicia Krause
Wow.
Adam Carolla
So I was like, oh, it's 2017.
Kim Bright
Okay.
Alicia Krause
Yes.
Adam Carolla
I was like, all right. So we just jumped the fucking shark. This guy's a police officer, but he doesn't like Trump. So people can just swing a pickaxe on Hollywood Boulevard.
Alicia Krause
But we saw that again. Fast forward three years. You and I weren't allowed to gather more than five people outside of our household to celebrate the fourth of July. But BLM protests and riots, totally. Okay.
Adam Carolla
Wow.
Alicia Krause
Right? Cuz it's just. It was just an. Okay.
Adam Carolla
If you wanna watch Fauci jump the shark, you can hear him questioned By, I think, Jim Jordan about BLM versus ballparks and churches. And all of a sudden, he has no thoughts. And that's when I was like, that dude has been compromised, and we shall never listen to anything he ever says. I yelled about it a thousand times all the way to the airport. We went to Burbank, and I just kept yelling at Mike, that guy's compromised. We don't need to listen to him. And everyone always looks at me and goes, why not? He's Dr. Fauci. I go, because he's compromised.
Alicia Krause
Yes. He's honest and he has an opinion.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Alicia Krause
And he's spewing his opinion and his emotion versus actual scientific facts.
Adam Carolla
Yes. Now, why don't you people understand when someone is compromised? Okay, one more, one more.
Alicia Krause
This last story. So this is actually a video from a while back, but it's gaining attention again because it has been found out that the woman who attacked this reporter, a woman named Paulina Reyes, is apparently an internal for why. Why is that? Or can I say y news? But it's W hyy news. All right, so let's watch this video of this violent interaction in Philly that.
Adam Carolla
I'm telling you, women are going crazy.
Kim Bright
You talk about black people, you talk about Mexicans, and you post, right?
Adam Carolla
She's amazing. Oh, she doesn't want to be on camera now. Why not? Getting a rough and tumble play either. Because they don't know their limits. So angry. It can't take purpose away from women. They go nuts just trying to punch him. Now, look, she looks like she's five foot, nothing, and maybe £89. This is going to pepper spray him again.
Alicia Krause
It's insane. So he's an investigative journalist, and clearly she didn't like his. His news coverage.
Adam Carolla
They don't like the truth. And so now Don Lemon's version of Minneapolis.
Alicia Krause
Well, I mean, Don Lemon would probably hire her in a heartbeat because she agrees with him on everything. And she is an intern now. So people are kind of saying, hey, this is not okay. The revelation has fueled a lot of anger towards the news network and people saying, we understand that she might not, quote, unquote, be delivering the news, but she's a part of making the news, and she's an intern at your organization.
Adam Carolla
Listen, I want these bitches arrested. Like, my thing is with assault, you can't put your hands on people, and you can't pepper spray people. And even if you're sort of worthless and 100 pounds, you're still not allowed to smack people and hit Their cameras and pepper spray them, especially on public transportation. So just arrest her for assault like.
Alicia Krause
He did absolutely nothing to her. It was his friend recording there. Do you want to take a wild guess? Should we take a over under? On what?
Adam Carolla
Her?
Alicia Krause
I already know what her majors are. Her interests in her majors at a local community college in Philadelphia.
Adam Carolla
Chicano studies and indigenous people's rights.
Alicia Krause
Real close, Real close. Environmental justice.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah.
Alicia Krause
And marginalized communities.
Adam Carolla
Oh, she's a hero. Who punches people she doesn't know and pepper sprays them. But she's a hero.
Alicia Krause
Wow.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Young girls on the left. You're going insane. And it's a joke.
Alicia Krause
Did you see the latest poll? To double down on that is. You would think that a lot of this stuff has been like, young men are fueling hatred online. No, it's actually white liberal women that are okay with political assassination. Now, according to the latest data. Listen, College has ruined women.
Adam Carolla
Listen, I've said a million times that women are inherently crueler and more physical than men. And I used to say this all the time. And I go back 25 years, if I'm in the kitchen and I'm at the stove and I'm making something and I step back and I step on a girlfriend's foot, her hand goes sailing out. Her hand, it's like it's attached to her foot.
Alicia Krause
It's a defense mechanism.
Adam Carolla
No, it's. No, it's. They're unable to manage themselves momentarily. Just hand fly. Just hand fly out. They hit you. When you step on a dude's foot, the dude goes, oh. But he knows he can't throw his hand out. He's gonna knock your tooth out. You know what I mean? Women, pow, hands, step on the foot, hand fly. Not a thought. Not a thought. Just a hand fly. They didn't learn to regulate. They didn't do the rough and tumble play, so they didn't learn to regulate those feelings.
Alicia Krause
Part of that.
Adam Carolla
So this woman, when she's charging at this guy who's 50 pounds and 9 inches taller, she doesn't know she's not.
Alicia Krause
Regulated well, because she's being. I mean, I was almost like, is she high? Like, is she on something? The way that she just keeps going after him is insane.
Adam Carolla
I believe women are meaner than men. Now, men can start wars and men can behead people and men can do stuff, but there's a kind of a cruelness. Like, all the. Like, the most Charlie Kirk cruelness was more from women than men. Like, men were like, good, he's a racist. But they weren't going and mimicking his good shot like that. Like cruel, like mean, cruel shit. I think they have a little mean and a cruelty gene in them. It's why they can on top of.
Alicia Krause
Like our self defense mechanism that men don't need to have the same level of right. And there is a difference in conservative.
Adam Carolla
That's why they can sort of pick on the girls at the school. There's like, there's a kind of a, there's a, there's a meanness and a cruelness that they have more of. Men can be more violent, but they're not as mean. Like it needs a little motivation.
Alicia Krause
Well, psychologically men can be like, oh that guy makes me laugh. Or we can goof around or there's a status based on the physicality of a man and the bruteness of men. And like who can win a fight or who would you want to take with you to win a fight? For girls it is much more social and communicative and popular based.
Kim Bright
I agree.
Alicia Krause
And so like just like evolutionarily.
Adam Carolla
No, I agree.
Alicia Krause
That's why it scared them.
Adam Carolla
I agree. But what's happening, that's fine. But we've pushed you to the front lines and now an ICE officer is telling you to back up and you spit in his face. And I would never spit in his face cuz I know I'm gonna be tackled. And you should have known that. But you were in the living room your whole life and now you're on the front lines and you're spitting in the guy's face and then the guy's tackling you and then you're yelling what's going on?
Alicia Krause
We've had this conversation before though. That is such a big difference. One between male and fema. And to it though, I think that when you look at conservative, more middle of the road, libertarian, independent minded women versus traditional stereotypical leftist liberal women, there's gonna be a standing.
Adam Carolla
Oh, there's a big difference. Well, there's. Well, the more traditional woman is just that traditionally women didn't go out in the snow and fight with cops. They stayed at home and raised kids and so they don't have ran Etsy businesses. Yes, and Etsy businesses. All right, I'm gonna be at Rodney's in New York City next week doing a couple of shows there. 29th doing a stand up show and also live show. Scaramucci's gonna join me and then D.C. at the Kennedy center doing a couple of shows there as well. You can go to amcroll.com for that. You have your columns now.
Alicia Krause
Washington examiner this week, Usha Vance is pregnant with baby number four. Catching up with the Krause house.
Adam Carolla
And until next time, Sam Crawford, Alicia Krause and Deontay Wilder and Kim Bright saying mahalo.
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Episode: Deontay Wilder On Fighting With No Rules & Possibly Joining UFC
Date: January 21, 2026
In this energetic episode, Adam Carolla welcomes heavyweight boxing champion Deontay Wilder, nutritionist Kim Bright, and co-host Alicia Krause for a lively and wide-ranging discussion. The show moves from boxing insights and Wilder's legacy to trends in combat sports and personal stories, then shifts to cutting-edge health advice on microplastics and gut health, and finally dives into news and hot takes on societal issues. Throughout, Adam’s trademark wit and unfiltered take keeps things entertaining and candid.
Physical Attributes & Legacy
“God have truly blessed me with power for sure. And sometimes… I get scared of myself when I’m in there…to hit a guy and to know what I feel inside of my fist from his face is like—a crazy feeling.” (Deontay Wilder, 04:18)
Appearance vs. Reality in Boxing
Anthony Joshua & the "Missed Fight"
“Every time I talk about that situation, it’s just so draining to me… a fight that...could or may not never happen.” (Wilder, 10:27)
Heavyweight Division: Should There Be a Super Heavyweight?
“There should be one champion, one face, one name, and that’s it… It makes it more interesting… The heavyweight division is a special division. That’s why everybody can’t rumble in that jungle.” (Wilder, 13:42)
Retirement & Future Plans
Adam asks if Wilder has considered UFC; Wilder expresses fascination with learning new forms of combat like jiu-jitsu and judo (19:14–20:40).
“Actually, I would love to enter the UFC… I'm fascinated by the training aspect of it...I'm a warrior, and I would love to learn the art and the styles.” (Wilder, 19:20)
Both discuss the blurring lines in combat sports, with “no more rules,” unique hybrid matchups (boxing+MMA+grappling) and crossover potential (21:58–23:09).
“Now there’s no real rules. Somebody could say, look, Deontay Wilder could fight Jon Jones in a fight where there was striking and feet, but no wrestling…there’s really no rules anymore. There’s just sort of, would people pay to see it?” (Adam, 20:44)
Early Sports and Switch to Boxing
“I started boxing because I needed money for my daughter…I knew nothing about boxing, only I knew about the Olympics, Muhammad Ali, and stuff like that…But when I walked into that building [gym], I heard those heavenly bells ringing in my ears.” (Wilder, 24:48–27:57)
Nature of Fighters & Mindset
Early Gym Days & Belief
Family, Faith, and Values
On Family, Success, and Entitlement
“The people I’ve done the most for on this planet hate me the most… And the people I’ve done the least for cherish me the most…It’s never enough.” (Adam, 42:35)
Importance of Fatherhood
“I love being at home, providing my energy and my space and my time…kids don’t care about your money…that time with them is the most valuable thing.” (Wilder, 47:20)
Danger of Microplastics
“Plastics in our brains. I mean, we’ve got an equivalent of a spoon’s worth of microplastic in our brains.” (Kim Bright, 61:53)
Root Causes of Health Trends
Kimchi as a Remedy
Other Benefits of Kimchi
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Many Americans struggle with kimchi’s taste, smell, and sodium content, so Kim has developed kimchi in capsule form, maintaining the superfood’s health benefits (84:10–86:25).
“There’s so many people out there that this is not what fits their taste buds and their smellers. So we came up with an idea…Let’s put all these benefits of kimchi in something convenient that people will take every day… We managed to put the kimchi in and keep all of its benefits in convenient capsules.” (Kim Bright, 84:10)
Attack Crows Trained to Target MAGA Hats (91:54–99:48)
Hijacking MLK Day to Promote Palestinian Causes (99:11–104:17)
Seattle Mayor Refusing to Investigate Somali Daycare Fraud (105:05–113:27)
“She’s fighting Trump, not running Seattle. And that’s what we’re dealing with…” (Adam, 111:33)
Societal Gender Roles and Political Participation (113:27–124:48)
“God have truly blessed me with the power for sure. Sometimes I get scared of myself when I’m in there…what I feel inside my fist from his face…a crazy feeling…”
— Deontay Wilder (04:18)
“Should there be a super heavyweight division?”
— Adam Carolla (12:21)
“There should be one champion, one face, one name, and that’s it… The heavyweight division is already consist of small and big guys… The heavyweight division is a special, special, special division. And that’s why everybody can’t rumble in that jungle.”
— Deontay Wilder (13:42)
"If you punch most people, they just won't want to be punched again. But a boxer gets punched and thinks, I'm going to knock you out."
— Adam Carolla (27:57)
“I've been taking care of my [family] since I was 12 with my brothers, even giving my mom money at 12 years old…But you know, I've helped my entire family out over and over.”
— Deontay Wilder (39:20)
“The people I’ve done the most for on this planet hate me the most… And the people I’ve done the least for cherish me the most…It’s never enough.”
— Adam Carolla (42:35)
“I love being at home, providing my energy and my space and my time…kids don’t care about your money…that time with them is the most valuable thing.”
— Deontay Wilder (47:20)
“Plastics in our brains. I mean, we’ve got an equivalent of a spoon’s worth of microplastic in our brains.”
— Kim Bright (61:53)
“Kimchi is the king because it has these unique 900 [probiotic strains], nothing else touches it.”
— Kim Bright (67:27)
Adam’s unfiltered humor and directness, Wilder’s grounded self-awareness and spiritual gratitude, Kim Bright’s enthusiastic authority on health—plus Alicia’s sharp, news-driven commentary—all contribute to a show that’s irreverent, candid, and information-packed, often pivoting from serious to hilarious within moments.
This episode melds the spectacle of heavyweight boxing with genuine personal journeys and hard-hitting commentary on culture, health, and society. Deontay Wilder gives an inside look at the fight game, his faith, and the burdens of success. Kim Bright offers practical advice on defending against the onslaught of modern toxins. Adam and Alicia provide relentless, sometimes controversial but always thought-provoking, analysis on current social trends. It’s a rollercoaster of wisdom, laughs, and the signature “Carolla” take on life.