Earthquake’s Wild Military Stories, How Steve Harvey Made Him + His New Bill Burr Sitcom

Summary

Podcast Summary: Adam Carolla Show

Episode: Earthquake’s Wild Military Stories, How Steve Harvey Made Him + His New Bill Burr Sitcom
Date: February 25, 2026
Host: Adam Carolla
Guests: Earthquake (comedian), Alicia Krause (news)

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Overview

Adam Carolla welcomes legendary comedian Earthquake for a lively, wide-ranging conversation. Earthquake shares uproarious and revealing stories from his military service, his unconventional start in stand-up comedy, and the crucial support he received from Steve Harvey. The episode also covers Earthquake’s new sitcom development with Bill Burr for Fox. Later, the show dives into the news with Alicia Krause, touching on cartel violence in Mexico, political banter, and LA’s homelessness crisis, all filtered through Adam’s trademark candid and comedic lens.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Earthquake’s Military Years: Wild Stories & Lessons Learned

[02:26–16:53]

• Nine Years in the Air Force: Earthquake reveals he served nine years, specializing in loading munitions, including nuclear weapons, onto aircraft.

  "I loaded aim 9s, aim 7s on F15, nuclear weapons on B52s." – Earthquake [03:16]

• The Oddities of Military Logistics: Adam marvels at the long life of B52 bombers and the mechanical ingenuity behind ordinance-loading rigs.
• Okinawa Posting and Social Life: Earthquake humorously describes the “500 men to every 1 woman” ratio on base, the fierce competition for female attention, and the “welcome committee” tactics.

  "Nobody held it against you." – Earthquake on dating in Okinawa [06:07]

• Travel & Perspective: Deployments to the Philippines offered a “buffet” of female attention, contrasting starkly with Okinawa’s scarcity.

  "You get 15 women for a bag of oranges...$4." – Earthquake [10:21]

• Accidental Nuke Drop: Earthquake recounts dropping a nuclear bomb (unarmed) while distracted thinking about seeing 2 Live Crew—a tense but ultimately harmless episode.

  "It just popped and hit the ground, and everybody started running. I said, you cannot outrun a nuke." – Earthquake [13:09]

2. Transition from Military to Stand-Up

[16:53–22:09]

• Leaving After Gulf War: The reality of warfare (“I didn't even have a car, why fight for oil?”) pushed Earthquake to seek a new path in comedy.
• From Open Mics to Opening a Club: Shut out by Atlanta’s comedy scene, Earthquake took his mother’s advice and, with help from partners, founded Uptown Comedy Corner, building it from scratch.

  "You can’t just open your own comedy club, mama... Well, why not?" – Earthquake recounting his mom’s advice [18:51]

• Facing Industry Hurdles: Some in Atlanta’s comedy scene, wary of his white business partner, tried to sabotage bookings.
• Steve Harvey’s Influence: Steve Harvey, managed by Earthquake’s business partner at the time, was the big name who broke the stalemate, performing at Uptown and drawing crowds that discovered Earthquake.

  "Once he came and performed in my club and drew all the people, they came to see him and they discovered me, and the rest of it was history." – Earthquake [22:09]

3. Comedy Industry Wisdom and Wild Rides

[22:09–32:25]

• Comedy Business Economics: Adam and Earthquake delve into the precarious finances of running a club, the challenge of guaranteeing performer fees, and the impact of external events (sports, rival shows).
• Comic Riders and Eccentricities: Stories of needy acts (“Eddie Griffin needed a new pair of Air Force Ones for each show” [26:04]) and the politics of booking.

4. New Sitcom with Bill Burr

[33:25–38:09]

• Project at Fox: Earthquake explains the new sitcom he and Bill Burr are developing—about returning from LA to his home in D.C. after a fictitious house fire.
• The ‘No Pilot’ Deal: Fox’s new model skips the pilot, ordering straight to series—a shift reflecting industry changes.

  "Fox goes straight to series when they do with. They don't do pilots anymore." – Earthquake [34:06]

• Sitcom Landscape & Representation: Adam reminisces about classic sitcoms, reflecting on how great writing trumps demographic targeting.

  "My mantra is, I don't have a black show. I got a hit show." – Earthquake [40:05]

5. SiriusXM ‘Quake House’ and Kevin Hart

[40:42–43:20]

• Seven Seasons with SiriusXM: Earthquake discusses the end of ‘Quake House’ on Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Radio and hints at seeking a new home for the show.
• Work Ethic Talk: Adam and Earthquake reflect on what motivates stars like Kevin Hart—money, relevance, or the love of the game.

  "He's a mogul...it motivates him. And God bless him. Me, I just myself just enough..." – Earthquake [43:21]

6. Family, Mortality, and Black vs. White Funerals

[43:42–53:30]

• No Inheritance, Just Memories: A comedic but poignant exchange on inheritance, family support, and the reality of being self-made.

  "I make enough money for me. For me it's you I don't make enough money for." – Earthquake [44:05]

• Cultural Divide in Mourning: Adam reveals his parents’ deaths involved no funerals, memorials, or closure—a marked contrast to Earthquake, who buried both parents and paid for all arrangements.

  "When white people are atheists, they can just die and that'll be that." – Adam Carolla [48:56] "Ain't nothing like picking up a woman at a wake." – Earthquake on wake relationships [49:56]

• Long Marriages & Sibling Dynamics: Earthquake shares that his parents were married 60 years, arguing through 59, and he has three brothers and one sister.

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News with Alicia Krause

[57:36–101:43]

1. Breaking News: Cartel Violence in Mexico

[58:17–71:48]

• US State Dept Warnings: Americans in several regions of Mexico told to shelter in place due to cartel rampages after a cartel leader’s killing.
• Adam’s Take: Riffs on cultural differences, failed states, and offers a satirical “solution” by proposing a reverse aliyah—Jewish migration to Baja to uplift Mexico's prospects

  "Mexico needs Jews like no other state...lousy with Mexicans. And that's the problem." – Adam Carolla [64:28]

• Comparison to Israel: Both Adam and Alicia draw parallels between Mexico’s cartels and terrorist entrenchment in Gaza, discussing why both are so hard to uproot.

2. Gavin Newsom, Dyslexia & “Grievance Olympics”

[73:28–87:32]

• Newsom’s Identity Politics: The hosts critique Governor Newsom's repeated references to his dyslexia and low SAT as attempts to gain “grievance points” in Democrat politics.

  "If you're not marginalized, you can't rise to the top. You need to be the first woman of color... first tranny, whatever..." – Adam Carolla [76:38]

• Debate over ‘Illiteracy’: Adam: "If you have a disease that makes you unable to read or write, then you are illiterate." [83:45]
• Systemic Education Failures: Adam shares his own struggles with reading, being labeled dyslexic, and points out how white and black kids are blamed (or pitied) differently for illiteracy.

3. Los Angeles’ Homeless RV Crisis

[93:28–100:10]

• City Battles “RV Slumlords”: LA proposes to finally clear streets of derelict RVs housing the homeless, but a judge blocks enforcement.
• Carolla’s Rant: Adam rails against the hypocrisy—luxury homes need strict permits, but homeless RVs can park and dump waste wherever.

  "If you want to park your junker RV in a no parking zone just on the side of PCH and stare at the ocean and cook meth all day, you can do that for free." – Adam Carolla [97:01]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On dropping a nuke:

  "I said, you cannot outrun a nuke. You might as well run toward it, make it easier." – Earthquake [13:09]

• On ‘welcome committee’ for unattractive women on base:

  "We used to catch the unattractive women when they first landed on the island, before they found out they was attractive." – Earthquake [06:21]

• On opening his own club:

  “Just get your own...People don't let you ride their bikes, you gotta get your own bike.” – Earthquake’s mom, retold [18:51]

• On sitcom philosophy:

  "I don't have a black show. I got a hit show." – Earthquake [40:05]

• On funerals and closure:

  "Them dying is the closure. That's the closure. They died and they closed and now it's done." – Adam Carolla [54:18]

• On city hypocrisy:

  "The only good thing that came out of the Palisades and Malibu fire is the RVs got destroyed." – Adam Carolla [94:13]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Earthquake’s Military Stories: 02:26–16:53
• Transition to Comedy / Opening Uptown: 16:53–22:09
• Comedy Industry Insights: 22:09–32:25
• Bill Burr Fox Sitcom: 33:25–38:09
• On SiriusXM & Kevin Hart: 40:42–43:20
• Family, Death, & Inheritance: 43:42–53:30
• Cartel Violence in Mexico: 58:17–71:48
• Newsom & Dyslexia Discussion: 73:28–87:32
• LA Homeless RV Encampment Crisis: 93:28–100:10

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Flow & Tone

The episode is energetic, irreverent, and unflinchingly honest, laced with signature Carolla humor and sharp asides. Earthquake matches the host’s wit, candidly sharing both hardship and hilarity. The transition to news keeps the tempo brisk, with Alicia bringing in headline topics that Adam skewers and contextualizes with both skepticism and glee.

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For Fans of:
Unvarnished showbiz stories, military anecdotes, comedy business, culture and politics—all delivered with punch and personality.

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Check Out:

• Earthquake’s Netflix Standup Special: "Joe Kellan Business"
• Upcoming Bill Burr/Earthquake Sitcom on Fox
• Adam Carolla on Tour: Dates at adamcarolla.com

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

Today, ABC tonight in comedian Nate Brigetz's new game show.

[Adam Carolla]

To win, you don't need to know the right answer, just what most Americans think is right.

[Dawson]

It's not about being the smartest. You just have to be the most average.

[Adam Carolla]

We asked 100 average Americans, did they keep an empty gas can in their car?

[Dawson]

No.

[Adam Carolla]

Have they ever broken a bone? No.

[Alicia Krause]

I said a lot of no.

[Adam Carolla]

That's all right. My wife says a lot of no as well.

[Dawson]

The greatest Average American premieres tonight, 9, 8 Central on ABC and stream next day on Hulu. From Corolla One studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Earthquake. Plus the news with Alicia Crouch. And now Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but to get on a mandate. You get it on. Legendary comedian Earthquake is in studio. Good. Good to see you, my friend.

[Earthquake]

Good to see you, my brother. My brother. My brother.

[Adam Carolla]

I was interested when I was reading up on you coming in today that you were in the Air Force for years.

[Earthquake]

Nine years.

[Adam Carolla]

Nine years. Yes, nine. Is that an odd number to be in the service?

[Earthquake]

Well, I mean I wanted to do 20, but the war broke out.

[Adam Carolla]

So it's mostly you hear four years and then I re up for another four years. But nine's an odd number.

[Earthquake]

Well, I reed up for another four and then I wanted to get out. Then they had the war broke out and I was since I loaded missiles. They had us on stop loss. That's the very important people certain if A war break out that long contract you got, it's a stop loss that you cannot you essential that you couldn't get out. So they mandatory extended you because your

[Adam Carolla]

job is loading up munitions.

[Earthquake]

Yes, I loaded aim 9s, aim 7s on F15, nuclear weapons on B52s.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we got to get into that because that's interesting to me.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, I mean I dropped one time

[Adam Carolla]

though on the ground. Yeah, I want to hear about that. Well, B52, by the way, B52s have been in use for like 65 years out incredibly old plane that just never. So you were in charge of loading ordinance on those planes?

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Always nuclear or not always conventional.

[Earthquake]

It all depends on the aircraft.

[Adam Carolla]

Uh huh.

[Earthquake]

You know, F15s usually. No, didn't have nuclear. B52s did.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh sure, yeah. Bombers. Bombers versus fighters. Yeah. You know what's interesting? I think I was working on a production once and we'll circle back to this, but I was looking at one of those rigs that they keep the cameras on with the wheels. And if you picture those in Hollywood, you jack them up with your foot. They come up, you let them out, they come back down again, they maneuver. They're totally precision. Right, right. So I'm a mechanical guy. So I was just sitting on set and I was looking at the camera guy and I said, wow, that's a really intricate rig. That's really interesting. And he goes, guess where they're made. And I just went, germany, hello. Like it's Germany. It's not Mexico, not Jamaica, it's Germany. That's who makes that shit. And he goes. And then he goes, yeah, it's made in Germany. I go, of course it's made in Germany. Then he said, you know what they're originally for?

[Earthquake]

What?

[Adam Carolla]

Loading up bombs. If you picture one of those camera dollies with the jig and the thing that scissors up and lifts the thing from the ground all the way back, you go, oh yeah, that's what Germans used to put bombs in airplanes in World War II.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, we had, there was jammers for us, you know the rack that goes into the belly of the B52.

[Adam Carolla]

That is incredible. By the way, they're going to operate the B52 through 2050. And they were started in the 50s.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, it's effective aircraft.

[Adam Carolla]

And where were you based?

[Earthquake]

Boxtel Air Force Base. That's in Shreveport, Louisiana. Bossier City. Eglin Air Force Base Base, when I worked on F15s in Okinawa, Japan.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you went to Okinawa?

[Earthquake]

Yeah, I was there for Two and a half years.

[Adam Carolla]

How was Okinawa?

[Earthquake]

It was hard because it wasn't that many women. So you had to compete.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah.

[Earthquake]

Like 500 men to every one woman. Competition was fierce.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. That's where the. That's where the sense of humor comes in.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. You get turned up, you can have an unattractive woman and you. Nobody held it against you.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Because of the sheer numbers.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

It'd be like being in a male prison and getting your hands on a woman. No one would hold that against you.

[Earthquake]

But we used to do, like, Fantasy Island. We used to catch the unattractive women when they first landed on the island, before they found out they was attractive.

[Adam Carolla]

Where they was at, you're saying when they came in from the States.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And they were in the service.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. We used to be the. Me and my friends used to be the welcome committee.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Earthquake]

And we get them before, you know,

[Adam Carolla]

because back in the States, they were a three or a four.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But on Okinawa, there were eight and nines. 15. Well, I don't know if it goes higher than 10, but they go high.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And at some point, it would dawn on them that that's where what was going on. And you had to get them before they found out.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, before they got briefed by the other women to let me know what it was. And there's nothing like being turned down by unattractive woman. Constantly.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Earthquake]

That's where you learn to drink at.

[Adam Carolla]

I did have a time, I remember once at a bar or club looking at a woman that I sized up as about a five. And I thought, you know, I just need something, a confidence builder. So I just go over there and grace her with my appearance. And I just showed up and I just said, mind if I sit down? And she looked up and she went, why? And I went, oh, man, this is bad. I thought, this is going to be easy. So now that's on the base at Okinawa, right? What about off the base at Okinawa?

[Earthquake]

Well, it was back in the day, and Japanese women didn't mess with many black men unless she was Michael Jackson, you know, And a lot of brothers dressed up like Mike.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Earthquake]

Do they? First of all, you had to overcome the language barrier.

[Adam Carolla]

Huh?

[Earthquake]

And then, you know, the color barrier part of it. But the only black person that they knew from the States was Michael. And so some brothers come there, get off base, get the jury curl, bring a little curl down the middle, put the shoes on with the white on the top pack level, and go down there and dance like Michael, in Okinawa, I mean Najo, I forgot the name.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it beautiful there?

[Earthquake]

Yes, it is. Yes, it was very beautiful. Great.

[Adam Carolla]

Allen does. So you're, you're kind of limited to whatever women were on the base. And the numbers were 10 to 1, 500, 500 to 1.

[Earthquake]

It was fierce.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And you're a young Vero man.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And two and a half years is a long time to be somewhere without a lady friend.

[Earthquake]

Well, I did.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you did, yeah.

[Earthquake]

I mean for the, the numbers.

[Adam Carolla]

Because you're in the greeting department.

[Earthquake]

Well, I catch why their self esteem was down, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

So how would it work?

[Earthquake]

You know, it's like the new recruits come in like Tuesday and Fridays and you know what time the plane's coming in because. And you just sit there and she'll come in there, you're like, hey, how you doing? Welcome to Okanaw. I'm gonna show you around. I'm sergeant Stroman. And, and she's not used to a good looking dude like me talking to her like that. And I know I had about 72 hours before I close the deal. If I don't close the 72 hours, she'll get a scouting report and find out she can hold out for a better deal.

[Adam Carolla]

And how the, how'd the military feel about that if they found out about it was, would you get into trouble?

[Earthquake]

No, you were getting in no trouble. I mean, you weren't making them, you wasn't making women do anything they wanted to do. It's just, honey, it was no different. Instead, and catching them at the club, the NCO club, you caught them when they first got here. But such police, we had advantage because we went TDY and we was a temporary assignment. We'll go to the Philippines where it was reversed. So many women there, you know what I mean? So we'll go there every three months and you go over there, man, and you get 15 women for a bag of oranges.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Earthquake]

Yeah, about $4.

[Adam Carolla]

Oranges?

[Earthquake]

Yeah, man. You had to learn the word in Filipino Hindi that mean no, no, no, no, no.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, because they would, they would solicit you.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. As soon as you get off the base and they come in, they'd be like, man, G.I. you want? You're like, oh, no, it was, it

[Adam Carolla]

was just wide open for sex that way.

[Earthquake]

Oh, it was beautiful. I had this one chick was over there, she was half black, half Filipino. One of the most beautiful women other than my wife that I have ever seen. And it was like her, you know, of course her father was a soldier that, you know, impregnated her mother. And then he got orders and left.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Earthquake]

And I ran into her. She was beautiful, but I had to leave her right there and then. Couldn't take her back to the States.

[Adam Carolla]

Why not?

[Earthquake]

No, that ain't me.

[Adam Carolla]

I had a. I had a. Like, a cousin that was in the military and brought home, like, the Filipino wife, and she started a prostitution ring, like, behind his back.

[Earthquake]

Oh, that's what they do.

[Adam Carolla]

Is that what they do?

[Earthquake]

No, what happens is they get over here, and it was the funniest thing in the world. You know, my wife, friends be like. I said, wait, you just met him, Tom. She does everything my mother does, plus give me some pussy. I was like, okay, well, that's a good way. He only known her for a while, so he'll make her a citizen, he'll marry her, and then he'll bring her back to the States, which we call the world, because United States is called the world world in the military. And soon as she get her citizenship and bring her family over there, she in the NCO club getting the man she really want to be with.

[Adam Carolla]

Uhhuh. They bring their moms over, right?

[Earthquake]

Yeah, they bring their family and everything.

[Adam Carolla]

That's what. That's what this one did.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And before you know it.

[Earthquake]

And then they put them out. Yeah. You have a base housing, and in the military, if you have any problem with your wife, any domestic part of it, what they do is they remove you from the home and allow y' all to go through counseling. And she has the home right then

[Adam Carolla]

and there, so they know what they're doing.

[Earthquake]

Yes, it was a racket.

[Adam Carolla]

So how do you go from this and tell me about the time you dropped the nuke.

[Earthquake]

Oh, I was. That was in Boxdale, Louisiana. I was trying to go see 2 Live Crew, and they had me doing the rotation of ordnance, and I told him I wasn't working today because Luke was coming in. That's when Luke just came out. Live Crew with all them bad women. And my mind wasn't focused, and I was trying to see Luke, and I thought I put the missiles up the right way, and it didn't. And it pulled a rack away, like you said previously, broken down. And it just popped and hit the ground, and everybody started running. I said, you cannot run a new.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, you might as well run toward it, make it easier.

[Earthquake]

I mean, might as well sit down and just. And pray to God.

[Adam Carolla]

How big was the nuke?

[Earthquake]

Oh, it was a big time. That was a D.62 by the 2 ton bomb.

[Adam Carolla]

About 2 tons.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But they need to arm them. Right.

[Earthquake]

Nukes are one of the most safest ordinance because they have to drop at a certain height all the mechanisms to go off and everything. Yeah, you just. It just can't fall. Convention bombs.

[Adam Carolla]

But it like fell and hit the ground.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And bounced around.

[Earthquake]

Bounced one time, 2000.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it 6 foot long and 2ft of wide or something?

[Earthquake]

No, it's long. It's. My measurement is not that good, but it's huge. It takes the whole bomb bay. Excuse me. Of the B52. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's incredible how much those planes can lift weight wise, is it not?

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, the craziest visual is, is when they take one of those M1 Abrams tanks, or four of them, and they start loading them up into the back of those C130s. And I'm like, you're going to take off with a tank, Multiple tanks in the belly of your airplane, and they just take off?

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's kind of nuts.

[Earthquake]

It's very nuts. And it's nuts. That needed ride, what we call a hop. And you sitting right beside it. What are you.

[Adam Carolla]

Have you sat behind on the side

[Earthquake]

when you wanted to go like leave Okinawa and go to the Philippines? You jump on one of the planes that's going over there, taking the tanks and you sign up for it and you hitch a ride.

[Adam Carolla]

I know it's all physics and I know it works, but sometimes I'm on a southwest flight and there's a fat guy sitting next to me and I'm like, oh, we're in trouble. We're not going to make this. And that guy's 280 pounds. I couldn't imagine standing. Look. Hey, Andrew, look up an M1 Abrams tank. It has to weigh. It's gotta be 15 tons. It's gotta be 20 tons. What do you think?

[Earthquake]

I don't know. To be honest. I'm still in my mind. That fat dude sitting beside you and you being sleeping.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's visually, I understand logically, but psychologically see, but 55, approximately 55 to 70 kilograms. I don't know what that is. Between 60. Yeah. 16, 70 tons. It's between. Okay. A full size SUV weighs about 6, 6,000 pounds.

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

And this is tons. So it is like flying with 25 SUV's plus in your whatever. And it just lifts right off the ground.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And you sat next to it.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. Striped down and everything.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

But you just thinking about them women you about to see in the Philippines. You know, you stuck on the place there and you ain't got no women and you're on your way to the Philippines, you'll fly on the back of a bird.

[Adam Carolla]

So you are going. You're in a place with very slim pickings.

[Earthquake]

Slim.

[Adam Carolla]

And you're going to a place that's like a golden corral of pussy.

[Earthquake]

I mean, everywhere, buffet.

[Adam Carolla]

How long? It's a full flight, by the way.

[Earthquake]

I forgot. But it wasn't that long.

[Adam Carolla]

Not that long?

[Earthquake]

No, it wasn't that long.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Time flies when you got.

[Earthquake]

Oh, when you're thinking about it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And it was affordable because the plane's going anyway.

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

And you're just deadheading it on there.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. You just sign up and spank. I forgot the priority based on your rank or whatever. And you, once you like standby, they call your name and you get on there.

[Adam Carolla]

So how do you get from doing that to doing comedy?

[Earthquake]

The war broke out, so I, you know, I said, I ain't want to stay in.

[Adam Carolla]

Sorry. Which war?

[Earthquake]

The Gulf war? The first one. First golf war?

[Adam Carolla]

That one.

[Earthquake]

And I said, I can't stand here. I don't mind practicing for war. But they about to fight for real. And what they was fighting for, I wasn't. I didn't think it was worth it. I wasn't fighting over no oil. I didn't even have a car. So I just said it was time for me to get out. And I just got out and went to Atlanta and opened up my own comedy club.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you opened up your own comedy club?

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Most people just start doing open mics and work their way up into featuring or emceeing or something. They don't just open a comedy club.

[Earthquake]

Well, you do that when the comedy club that was based in there wouldn't give you opportunity.

[Adam Carolla]

So what happened? What was the story?

[Earthquake]

Well, I kept auditioning and was told that this time I actually was going to be going up and opening up for the late Paul Mooney. And so you bet you.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't have any experience before still in open mics and that kind of stuff?

[Earthquake]

No, I was. I was still doing comedy around Eglin Air Force Base.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, so you were doing some.

[Earthquake]

Him spotting Tim Wilson and them type of dudes, just doing those type of thing and doing a little hosting on Tops and Blues in the military. And when it time to get out, I said, let me try this out and see what's up. And kept trying to do the comedy clubs there. And the only black club was there was the Comedy act theater. And I was doing coconuts and that type of stuff and telling, you know, women, I'm a comedian. They said, well, you. When you gonna perform at the comedy act? Because if you work at the comedy act in that city, you wasn't.

[Adam Carolla]

Comedy act.

[Earthquake]

Comedy act Theater had Robin Harris and everything was legendary. He was the top black comedy club. And the owner told me, okay, you be able to work this weekend and open for Paul Mooning. So I told all the women I was trying to sleep with, you can come see me this weekend. And when I came up there dressed ready to get on the stage, and I said, what time I go on? He said, you're not on this show. You told me it was. No, you're not. I don't let people open for Paul. And. And one of my good friends named Sherman golden said, yeah, you did tell him that. So I called my mother and I was like, this motherfucker ain't even let me open up at the club. And she said, just get your own. Get your own club. Like I told you. People don't let you ride their bikes. You gotta get your own bike. I said, you can't just open your own comedy club, mama. And she said the good question. Why not? I said, well, why not? So I went and found some investors and opened up my club and closed this club down.

[Adam Carolla]

It closed this club down?

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. And, like, what was your club before you got it? Was it a restaurant club? You built it out?

[Earthquake]

We built it out from scratch.

[Adam Carolla]

Just an open space.

[Earthquake]

Open space, yes. Called it Uptown Comedy Corner.

[Adam Carolla]

And how many Cedar?

[Earthquake]

270.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a decent sized club.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. Chris Capeta helped me.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a good size club.

[Earthquake]

We opened it because he had the punchline in Silver Springs, and he helped us do it with Gary Abdul.

[Adam Carolla]

So you build the place out?

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

You obviously now you can perform there?

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

It's kind of funny because I was trying to get into the Groundlings, and they threw me out of the Groundlings after being there for, like five years. And I went and started my own improv troupe and then actually built the theater, the Acme Theater. And I did the same thing. I'm like, I gotta be able to perform at my theater, so they can't throw me out of this. It's basically, it's my ball, so I get to play. Right, right. So you built this place out. I did the same thing with Acme. It's just a square building with a roof and four walls, and we just built it out inside. You just built out the inside, right?

[Earthquake]

We built it all out.

[Adam Carolla]

And you were able to get a liquor license and everything?

[Earthquake]

Yes. Milk, liquor, food, the whole dime.

[Adam Carolla]

And then started playing there yourself?

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And getting acts to come in.

[Earthquake]

Well, it was hard getting black Axe, because my partner was white. So they, you know, being in Atlanta during that time, and Atlanta is a real black city, culturally, very. In the black comedy club put out. That ain't his comedy club. He's fronting for the white dude. And and then did the old thing that, you know, as a comedian, if you perform at his club, you ain't going to be able to perform at my club. And they had three. They had two clubs. They had the one in here in la and they had. And all the great comics were coming through there. So I had to perform myself with other open micrs until Steve Harvey came and said, I'll perform in your club. And once he came and performed in my club and drew all the people, they came to see him and they discovered me, and the rest of it was history.

[Adam Carolla]

So Steve was the name that got them to come to the club, but then they discovered you at the club. And why did Steve Harvey do that?

[Earthquake]

First of all, Chris depetta was his manager at that time.

[Adam Carolla]

Was that your partner?

[Earthquake]

Chris depetta was.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Yes.

[Earthquake]

And he was managing Steve at the time. And I had new Steve. When I thought about going into comedy before I got out the military, I. I was like, I went and saw him in Mobile and knocked on his door and asked him about this profession.

[Adam Carolla]

You saw him perform at Mobile in Alabama?

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And you knocked on his dressing room door?

[Earthquake]

No, his hotel room.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, so you figured out where Steve Harvey was staying?

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So you went and saw Steve Harvey. Harvey perform.

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

At a club. Well, why don't you tell us the story?

[Earthquake]

Well, I went to see him perform, and then the next day I found out where he was standing and knocked on his door. He. And he was standing up place, you know, where you open up the door, you already outside in the parking lot. Right. And I knocked on the door. He came to the door with a knife in his hand.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Earthquake]

Yeah. Nobody trying to rob you. I just want to ask you a couple questions. And he let me in and we started talking. He told me all the nuances about being a comedian, and I said, okay, I'm gonna try it.

[Adam Carolla]

Where was Steve in his career at this point?

[Earthquake]

I think he was just about. Just starting doing Showtime at the Apollo. He was a headliner. Him and Jay Anthony Brown he was doing white clubs, the punchlines and stuff like that. Yeah, he was.

[Adam Carolla]

So he was generous with his time.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Sat down.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And remembered you later on. Yes, interesting.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, he remembered me.

[Adam Carolla]

And so now you got people coming in and they come for Steve, but they see you.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And that word gets around. Yes. And then now you're getting an audience.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And then what?

[Earthquake]

We get audience started bringing in bigger acts. Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, everything on there. And it just exploded. And then the competition closed their doors and then from that on we was the. We was the thing in the city. Then I opened up another one on the other side of town and then opened up another one in Dallas. Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And are they still going today?

[Earthquake]

No, uptown just closed. My, my partner at the time, he's still in the business. I think he got ATL forgot the name of his club, but he got two in Atlanta now. My ex partner.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it just a ton of work doing something like that?

[Earthquake]

Yes, it is. I mean because unless you establish comedy at a certain level and you'll people know that no matter who you put on that stage is going to be entertaining. It's hard because they only going to come unless you have a name person.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Earthquake]

And certain comedians have unrealistic expectations what their worth is.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, who I remember, I'll try to get this right. I remember and I think I got the names right. But I may as many years ago. I remember playing the improv in like Sacramento like this was 15 years ago. And we were just talking with the owner backstage and I said, who's the biggest pain in the ass comedian that's ever come through here? Who are the pain in the asses? Cause what's the rider? My rider was like bottle of red wine and a jar of mixed nuts. And that was about it. But he said, well, I think it was Eddie Griffin who needed a new pair of tennis shoes for each show.

[Earthquake]

Air Force ones.

[Adam Carolla]

Tennis shoes, right? Yeah, Air Force ones. So Eddie Griffin, by the way, I would never think of a new pair of tennis shoes for every show. And I don't know if it was. Maybe it was Roseanne. It was a female comedian. It was a big pain in the ass too. And Eddie needed a brand new pair of Air Force ones for each show and a carton of cigarettes.

[Earthquake]

I think I just knew about the Air Force ones.

[Adam Carolla]

You just knew about the Air Force ones. But who had the biggest pain in the ass rider for you? And you know about Eddie Griffin by then?

[Earthquake]

Oh yeah. Because he's my friend and people Says that all the time. But I think he got down to he'll need him every new show.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, he must have gotten hundreds of pairs of. Yes. Tennis shoes.

[Earthquake]

I think he donated them after.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, okay.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, I think he donated. I really didn't have my partner dealt with that aspect of it.

[Adam Carolla]

I was.

[Earthquake]

He was the business part of that administrative part of the partnership. I deal with the. Come with the comedy. So we really didn't have too much problem with it because the respect the comedians had for me. Honest with you. Okay, that's what I think.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

You know, being they're your peers, they're like, we ain't gonna do that to Quake.

[Adam Carolla]

So you saw them and you saw all these guys on the way up.

[Earthquake]

Yes, every one of them.

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was there anyone you were wrong about or anyone you were right about? Like, were you looking at young Chappelle or Chris Rock or guys like that?

[Earthquake]

I knew Chappelle when I. I personally picked Chappelle up from the airport, which, that usually wasn't my forte of picking up comedians, taking them to press. But when I found out how much money we Was paying them. I was like, I got to see who this mother is. And picked him up and we hung out. And he's from D.C. as well as I. And I'm from D.C. so we clicked on that. And then when he performed, I could me to say, okay, I see why this the. The intelligence of his jokes.

[Adam Carolla]

So you can go door deals or you can go flat rates with people. You can go, here's the guarantee and then here's the door deal. And a real good deal would be 85, 90% of the door.

[Earthquake]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a very good deal. And so he'd have one of those kind of deals.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, he would have those. Or a high guarantee. And if you pick the wrong person with the high guarantee, it could close your club.

[Adam Carolla]

Has anybody ever negotiated with you like I did go to one time in my entire career? I didn't make the guarantee just one time. And it was a club in Houston that was in a giant parking lot that looked like the rainforest. The club did. And it was next to the biggest bar in the world. And it was dicey and people were scared to go down there. I think is what it was.

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

And there's tons of drunk people in the parking lot because it's next to the biggest bar in the world. Anyway, they didn't make the guarantee. And I don't know, the guarantee was 20k and we made 10k, whatever. And the club owner. And I knew it. Cause nobody showed up. And the club owner came out after the shows and he just went, I know we had a deal for 20, but all I made was 10 and I said, let's call it 15. And then that was that. But does that ever happen with your club? Yeah. I mean, what would the policy be?

[Earthquake]

Policy? You got to get your money.

[Adam Carolla]

Most people just got to get the money. Give me the guarantee.

[Earthquake]

But see you. The only time that that'll happen is if you schedule around a sporting events like this. When the Braves.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

You know what I mean?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

You know what I mean?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

If you. If they. They around and make it to the playoff in game seven.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

Finds on with the usually or a big act coming in. See, that's a good thing about one of your owners, such as me is a comedian. So we have a big like kings of comedy comes then I headline that weekend.

[Adam Carolla]

If they come to another venue, they

[Earthquake]

come into another venue within the city, the Omni. And it holds 14,000. And it's your constituents that's going right. There's no reason for you bring up another Headliner that you giving a $20,000 guarantee to.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So there's certain things like you make these. You get these dates on the book six months in advance or more. Right. And then at some point, what you don't realize is you're booked in Denver and the Broncos are playing a playoff game that Sunday. Right. You know, and you're like, you couldn't have seen it six months ago.

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

But now everyone in Denver's going to the game.

[Earthquake]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

Or watching it on tv. What they're not doing is going to the club at all. Right. And then there are other times when somebody could be the kings of comedy, could be Tim Allen. It just depends on who your crowd is. Blows into town.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

He's playing the arena, and all your fans are going there.

[Earthquake]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So you have to chart that stuff.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. You have to chart. And it could cost you your club. If you don't schedule properly because you're

[Adam Carolla]

on that thin a margin.

[Earthquake]

That thin a margin. And you don't want to get a reputation, a reputation that you don't pay, then you won't get other acts to come. Right.

[Adam Carolla]

I was reading that you were doing a sitcom coming up with Bill Burr.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And your Netflix special's out, by the way. People want to check that out. But the Bill Burr project for Netflix.

[Earthquake]

Oh, wait, Fox.

[Adam Carolla]

Fox. Sorry, I looked at the wrong spot. What is that? Tell us about that.

[Earthquake]

It's a sitcom we developing. We getting script and everything together for Fox and hopefully Pradly. We'll make the schedule this next season coming up. So we. We.

[Adam Carolla]

Did you shoot the pilot yet?

[Earthquake]

No, Fox goes straight to series when they do with.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, they don't do pilots anymore.

[Earthquake]

No, they go straight to series.

[Adam Carolla]

So they basically go, let's look at the script. Let's look at some episode ideas.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

We don't need full scripts, but we need the one where your car gets stolen or whatever that is. And let's look at something like a little sizzle thing or anything.

[Earthquake]

I don't know the process. I just know the process is that they don't do pilots. They go straight from script to ordering off of it.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, a pilot costs several million bucks, so it kind of makes sense that they don't.

[Earthquake]

I try to keep mine lower than, you know, the budget.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I mean, if you go, look, we got Earthquake, we got Bill Burr. We like the script.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

We all have an imagination. We can see. Everyone can perform.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

So why do we need to spend a few million bucks creating some version of this?

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

That we may or may not use or that gets thrown away. Might as well just give them the money and get started.

[Earthquake]

And plus they making the transition back to when they doing their conception. They're going back to the old Fox.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, Foxes.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. Married With Children, Martin and Living Color. So.

[Adam Carolla]

So they're going comedy and urban or

[Earthquake]

just comedy, comedy, comedy.

[Adam Carolla]

So Fox is getting back into that sitcom game.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

That's good.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. In a Fox, I mean, you know, with a mandate. It's Fox. We're not cbs, we're not NBC.

[Adam Carolla]

So there's a little more latitude for a little more age material.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Fox, what is the, the general concept with you?

[Earthquake]

Leave LA? Going back to my home in Washington D.C. got tired of being out here, never thought they gonna call me to actually give me an opportunity in LA. So when my house burned down in, in, in LA fictitiously and go back home to D.C. and you know, be back around to my neighbors and people that I grew up with.

[Adam Carolla]

So it's like a little slice of life. I mean subject, you know.

[Earthquake]

Yes. You know, I mean went to Hollywood, it didn't work out and just went back home.

[Adam Carolla]

And how does it work? Is it Bill Burr comes to you or you go to Bill or how's that work out?

[Earthquake]

Well, me and Bill, I've been a fan of Bill's and great to know that he's a fan of mine. We both had pending deals at Fox and he had a first look deal and I had a development deal. So we just got together and put it and put both our projects together.

[Adam Carolla]

Development deals are great. Or they used to be.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, they used to be Ain't no money now.

[Adam Carolla]

They used to. It was literally the dream of every poor blue collar person who grew up, which is you get paid to stay home. And it was so awesome.

[Earthquake]

Used to be them fat checks and

[Adam Carolla]

they would pay a lot of money.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And they basically just go, look, we're just going to pay you a bunch of money. Don't go anywhere else. And if you think of anything funny, come to us.

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

And that was as easy as work got. And those were the old days. Because now it ain't what it was. Nah, they first come deals, things are much leaner, much meaner. But it makes sense. It's all the competition, all the YouTube, all the stuff catching up to everybody. So I get it. And there was some real. And you know, I think there might be. There's definitely a chance for the renaissance of the sitcom. It sort of was the hottest thing around then. It kind of went dormant for a while, but I could see the Fox come back, I think.

[Earthquake]

So I think we're gonna be the flagship for it to give those, you know, all in the Family. Jefferson's that type, married with children type of comedy and a multi camera.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, all the Family was great. Jeffersons were great. Good times were great. I just, I used to live off those things.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I never really. You know, it's funny, as I think back on it, I would watch all in the Family and it was weirdly more foreign to me than Sanford and Son because now, see, we do too much about color. But Sanford and Son took place in la and it was like a junkyard. And I kind of knew that world a little bit and that kind of made sense. Like just being poor and living in LA and buying shit secondhand. I've been to garage sales, thrift stores. Everything for us was secondhand junk. And I identified with Lamont and Redd Fox and all that. And then Archie Bunker was in Queens and I didn't know where that was. And even though it was a white family, I didn't identify. He was like. He lived in Queens, he worked at the docks or something. I didn't know what that was. We didn't have. I was from North Hollywood, so we didn't have docs or anything. And so I tended to just identify more with the black sitcom than I did with the white sitcom. But it was. Whoever was funny kind of won. I mean, everyone I knew would watch. They'd watch Cheers all white. And then they'd watch Good Times all black. They'd watch them both, they liked them, they're funny. I think there's too much talk about demographics. I feel like if it's good, it's good. And everyone. People will watch. You don't have to look like them.

[Earthquake]

Like my mantra is, I don't have a black show. I got a hit show.

[Adam Carolla]

So that's.

[Earthquake]

That's our mentality, you know?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. My thing is I don't have a white show. I have a failure. It's a little different, but it's the same sentiment.

[Earthquake]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

At least that's how it's expressed to me.

[Earthquake]

That's fun. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, write it down. And also doing Sirius XM as well, Quake House with. And that's on. Let's see, whose network is that?

[Earthquake]

That's so serious. We just wrapped up our seven seasons, so.

[Adam Carolla]

Seven seasons?

[Earthquake]

Yeah, we looked.

[Adam Carolla]

Kevin. Is that on Kevin Hart's network?

[Earthquake]

Yes, but we, we just ended it and we about to Move into a new neighborhood, same house. So we're gonna find another place.

[Adam Carolla]

What does that mean?

[Earthquake]

Well, I mean, we just. Our contract working with Serious and Kevin Hart has ended after seven years. And I'm about to find another place for the. For my show to go.

[Adam Carolla]

Kevin Harv seems like the hardest working man at show business.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Is that correct?

[Earthquake]

To me, Is.

[Adam Carolla]

Is it just go all the time?

[Earthquake]

I don't know. But he act like he could take it with him.

[Adam Carolla]

He does, right? Yeah. Well, at a certain point. Point, it's not about money. It's just sort of about potential and living up to it or something. I don't know. Most of the guys I know who are real successful, they have enough money. They never feel like they do, but they do. They got enough. It's more about. Being relevant, being in the game, being part of lots of stuff, being in the mix all the time.

[Earthquake]

I would not. That's one thing I don't. I don't evaluate other people's motives or reasoning, but me personally, only reason. You see, I'm working. I don't have no money yet.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, okay, you take a guy like Siri xm. You take a guy like Howard Stern, yes, he has enough money. Now, it's not up to me to tell people who has enough money, Right? And there's plenty of people who work at Home Depot who think I have enough money. But you would know I don't if you lived in my shoes. So far be it from me to say someone's got enough, but he has enough money. But I think he likes to be involved. He wants to be part of the conversation.

[Earthquake]

Oh, you talk about how you're. Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

He wants to be in the mix, which I don't blame him for, but you know what I mean? He wants to make news. He wants to be in the game. You know what I'm saying? And when you get out, you're out. You know what I mean? And so I think it feels like a lot of successful people I know, they want to be in the game. They don't. It's. They got enough money or their two jobs will give them enough money. But why they need seven, you know what I mean?

[Earthquake]

I think Kevin has the aspiration to be a mogul, and that's what he is. And God bless him.

[Adam Carolla]

No, that's what I'm saying.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, the mobile. I mean, he's a mogul. He energizes him. It motivates him. And God bless Him and me, I just myself just enough for me to be able to financially take care of the people that I love. And then I'm out.

[Adam Carolla]

Any earners in the family? In your family?

[Earthquake]

What you mean by earners? They self sufficient. But.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but I mean, would it be nice to have a vacation house or something, somewhere? Something. Somebody dies and leaves you something.

[Earthquake]

No. Well, no, we don't have that. I tell all the time. I tell my wife, I say I make enough money for me, for me it's you I don't make enough money for.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

Not that she asks is what I want her to have so that she's the reason why I work. But I make enough money for me.

[Adam Carolla]

I get it, but wouldn't it be nice to just have somebody in the family who made enough money for them and you and a. In a cottage, in a condo in Hawaii?

[Earthquake]

I wouldn't even know how to act.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it'd be confusing, right?

[Earthquake]

It'd be very confusing. That'd be foreign territory for me and my family. We don't. We independent contractors. On its own, you live, you eat what you kill.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. I don't have anything either. None of my family does. But I'm. I do hear about stories where somebody died and they had the vacation home in Palm Springs and that him and his sister got it.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Or something. Yeah, just something.

[Earthquake]

No.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you know what I mean?

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

An old vintage expensive car that your dad had for 50 years and now it's yours.

[Earthquake]

Nah, you ain't getting something.

[Adam Carolla]

A warehouse somewhere. Something you could rent out.

[Earthquake]

Might get some tennis shoes. Some shoes or some pictures, but you ain't getting nothing that you can take to the thrift store. Some memento, you know, that's about it.

[Adam Carolla]

Does your wife's family have anything?

[Earthquake]

If they do, she never told me. So.

[Adam Carolla]

So are you are. Did your parents pass away?

[Earthquake]

Yes, my parents are gone. Oh, God.

[Adam Carolla]

Why'd they leave you?

[Earthquake]

Memories.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the greatest line from Papa Was a Rolling Stone.

[Earthquake]

Memories.

[Adam Carolla]

When he died, all he left us was alone.

[Earthquake]

By ourselves, but alone.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the greatest.

[Earthquake]

I used to always put the song say, he left us alone, like alone.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Earthquake]

But then as I got older. It was a loan, right? Yeah. Was alone. Well, he left you something.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

You know what I mean?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. He thought it was like a mortgage or something. Yeah.

[Earthquake]

He left you alone? He loaned you some money. I didn't know it was. Was alone. He left. Oh, damn. Now this song is very sad.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I got a Tony Bennett CD from my dad. That used to be mine that I gave him. So I just got it back because it was autographed to me. And I couldn't figure out why it was autographed to me, but it's because I gave it to him. And I got a book.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

From a Dennis Prager friend of mine who wrote the book. So I probably could have got the book.

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

I got a newspaper clipping.

[Earthquake]

No.

[Adam Carolla]

Of yourself now was a. Some. Something that he wrote for the LA Times, like 35 years ago. And he gave me a clipping of that.

[Earthquake]

And it's gonna make me cry.

[Adam Carolla]

I got a. I got a bag. I got a Trader Joe's bag. It came in.

[Earthquake]

You need a hug?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, my God. Now my mom did less.

[Earthquake]

So what'd your mom leave?

[Adam Carolla]

My mom did not leave her kids anything. But she did leave us a note explaining she was a good mom. But the thing that was crazy about it is it was made out to me and my sister. So it was just one note.

[Earthquake]

So you ain't getting no individual note?

[Adam Carolla]

No, it was a form. Form letter.

[Earthquake]

She gave you a group text.

[Adam Carolla]

It was like. It was like a letter you get from a politician. You know, you get an email from Kamala Harris, and you're like, oh, come on. And then at the bottom, she wants money. That's basically what I got. We got left, at least.

[Earthquake]

Was the signature authentic? Was it bad?

[Adam Carolla]

It was stamped auto pen. Auto pen. I was thinking about the other day. I was walking on pch. I was like, she left. She made a letter. But it was for me and my sister, which is weird, cause we're totally different. And also, I got boy, girl, kids. I couldn't imagine writing them just one form letter about being a good dad. But by the way, the thing about the form letter about I was a good parent, Even though you don't know. Doesn't work on the people you parented. It will work on the neighbors or the neighbor's kids. It don't work for the people who are there.

[Earthquake]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

They're on to you because they were there. But, yeah, I got the note.

[Earthquake]

Did you speak at the funeral?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, my God. I think this is where we're going to part cultural ways. Mom and my dad both died. No funeral. What? See? Tell that to a brother. Nothing. I mean, nothing. No. No. Anything.

[Earthquake]

No, hold up. They die and that's it.

[Adam Carolla]

They die and that's it, man. There's no urn, there's no ashes, there's no headstone. There's no ceremony. There's no Wake. There's no church, no preacher, nothing. When white people are atheists, they can just die and that'll be that.

[Earthquake]

You are atheist.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that's. My family's. That way I'm a little less. But. But the point is, is real atheists, white people, they just die and they take it to the grave and don't nobody say bye. No having the ghetto, no food.

[Earthquake]

No food.

[Adam Carolla]

Here's what I'm saying. Nothing. I'm talking. When I say zero, I don't mean 3%, I mean no anything. There's no nothing. Which is incredible because I think black folk do it up a little better. Yeah. That's why atheists, we do nothing.

[Earthquake]

Ain't nothing like picking up a woman at a weight.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you can do that? Yeah, because they're vulnerable.

[Earthquake]

They're very vulnerable. Especially ones didn't have no life insurance. Oh, that's when you catch them. Right there.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Earthquake]

Oh, that's good hunting.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

Because see, you could tell she's. She's contemplating how's she gonna maintain that stand of living now. The provider is in the ground.

[Adam Carolla]

Gotcha. That's no Okanawa military base. That's fertile soil.

[Earthquake]

That's fertile soil. You can get it 10 cent on the dollar right there.

[Adam Carolla]

Smart.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. Cuz she know right then and there. Yeah. Go to a weight, you pick them up and you sit there coming in with a dish like some potato salad, Set it on the. On the, on the table.

[Adam Carolla]

Like bait.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. Look her in the face and she'd be like. You could tell she been crying, eyes puffy and everything. Just look in the face, said, what's wrong? And she just look you back and say, I'm in a bind, Nate. I'm in a bind.

[Adam Carolla]

I got you, Smart.

[Earthquake]

See the key is uncle gonna be over here from now on.

[Adam Carolla]

My parents never had. Your parents must have done something when they died, right? You had a whole funeral everywhere.

[Earthquake]

Well, we had a funeral. I took care of it. You took care of it for both of them? My mother and my father.

[Adam Carolla]

You paid for both of them?

[Earthquake]

Yes, I did. I buried both of them on it and headstone.

[Adam Carolla]

Everything.

[Earthquake]

Everything.

[Adam Carolla]

Thousands of dollars.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah.

[Earthquake]

Thousands of dollars. They. They're laying beside each other.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

They stayed married all these years.

[Earthquake]

Yeah. Because when my. When, when my. When my. My mother passed first and when I went and bought the lot, I said, well, give me. I want to. They said too. Yeah. Because I looked at my father, I said, he next.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

You know what I'm saying? So Might as well.

[Adam Carolla]

So your parents stayed married for how long?

[Earthquake]

60 years.

[Adam Carolla]

60 years.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

That's unique.

[Pluto TV Announcer]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

Yeah, it was. And they argued? 59 of them.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Earthquake]

Oh, my. They used to go at it.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So they never got divorced?

[Earthquake]

No, no, no.

[Adam Carolla]

How many brothers and sisters you have?

[Earthquake]

I got three brothers and one sister.

[Adam Carolla]

And I'm guessing since nobody could pay for the funeral, they weren't wildly successful people.

[Earthquake]

No, they could have paid, but it's like in show business, whoever got the most money, pick up the tab.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Earthquake]

And I'm the one.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. But both. And I feel like you do one and then they all chip in with the other.

[Earthquake]

I got it.

[Adam Carolla]

I bought my father in law's casket was $11,000.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And I paid for it.

[Earthquake]

Did you?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah. That was uncomfortable.

[Earthquake]

Did. Did he try to upgrade?

[Adam Carolla]

He was gone. But

[Earthquake]

now, I mean, the funeral director, did he try to upgrade?

[Adam Carolla]

I did. I did not talk to the funeral director. That's. If I had talked to the funeral director, I wouldn't have paid $11,000 for a casket.

[Earthquake]

I talked to him.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you did?

[Earthquake]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

He tried to upsell you?

[Earthquake]

Yeah, he did.

[Adam Carolla]

What'd he do?

[Earthquake]

He would try to give me the golden or the platinum package.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the whole thing. Yeah.

[Earthquake]

I said, nah, we good. My mother and father didn't believe in fancy stuff. Yeah, well, is that what I told him?

[Adam Carolla]

That's what you told him.

[Earthquake]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, look, I saved a lot of money with my mom and my dad because that was free.

[Earthquake]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

My. My mom donated her body to UCLA Medical.

[Earthquake]

Oh, that's beautiful.

[Adam Carolla]

And my dad. Unclear where he is. I don't know where he is, but he's somewhere. But, you know, it's the beauty of being an atheist. You just move right along. Nothing. I don't know many people who have no idea where their parents went after they died, but it's nuts.

[Earthquake]

I just don't know. The transit, the transition man, they're gone and then they just. Gone. They just. You just get the notice that they pass and that's it. Ain't no so fuck closure. That's the closure. Notification is the closer.

[Adam Carolla]

Them dying is the closure. That's the closure. They died and they closed and now it's done. Earthquake. Let me give you some plugs before we bid you adieu. Special Joe Kellan business out on Netflix. Very funny. It's been there for a couple months. You can check that out. Live dates or anywhere you want to find them. Go to thereealearthquake.com.

[Earthquake]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Twitter, Instagram as well. We'll look forward to that Fox sitcom coming up. Thank you and take a quick break. Come back with Alicia Krauss in the news right after this. American Giant. A lot of people want to have a new wardrobe for the new year, but a lot of stuff, well, that looks good, doesn't feel good or last. The American Giant classic full zip hoodie is made to last a lifetime. So you can count on it and it'll bring you comfort and warmth year after year. Now, I'm wearing my American Giant shirt right now. It's substantial, it's thick. You can't see how thick it is, but it's warm and it's beautiful. And I do a lot throughout the day. An American Giant. Well, it looks good, it feels good, and it can handle any activity. It's just great, high quality stuff. I don't know. What do you want to do? Just be an ugly American and fill all the land fills up with your old junk or get the good stuff. American Giant. We should support that. Grab something built with the kind of quality you'll feel for years, not months. It's American Giant, right, Dawson?

[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

Shopify. Well, I was on Rogan recently and I mentioned that the reason I did Dancing with the Stars is because it scared me. That's my whole career. Feel the fear and then go after it. So unless it involves a bear or a crocodile, then maybe stay, stay away. A lot of you probably scared to start your own business, but if you have an idea gnawing at you, well, it's time to take the leap. That's where Shopify comes in. They're here to help. They're the platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e commerce in the US they'll help you design a studio, accelerate your efficiency and get the word out. It's Shopify. Right, Dawson?

[Dawson]

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[Alicia Krause]

Hi, Adam, this is Stacy from St. George, Utah. If those pronoun People want to be known as they them, then charge them for group rate. Problem solved. Get it all.

[Dawson]

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

[Adam Carolla]

Alicia Krause, birthday girl, is in studio for some news.

[Alicia Krause]

I have some news. Hey, I appreciate the lady on the voicemail.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I do too.

[Alicia Krause]

I have more chicks on the voicemail.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree.

[Alicia Krause]

Come on, ladies.

[Adam Carolla]

Come on, ladies. Step up on the voicemail.

[Alicia Krause]

I know you're out there. I see you in the comments.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm.

[Alicia Krause]

Hopefully none of your lady fans are down in Mexico right now. There is some insane news out of there. The United States Department of State issued a shelter in place warning for the US Citizens in popular tourist destinations in Mexico and including Puerto Vallarta. I'm going to butcher this. Chapala and Guadalajara. The alert also listed multiple states like Nuevo Leon as places where Americans needed to shelter in place. The warnings came after an outbreak of cartel and military violence in the region. The U.S. state Department said that they would want Americans specifically and even like some Canadians, it sounds as if the cartel is going after just like white people because they're pissed off that due to ongoing security operations, one of their leaders was killed. And now this is their retaliation is to just go through the streets burning cars and killing people.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's something that's pretty foreign to us, but not to them, which is they essentially have armies, militias, cartels, well armed, trained guys with assault rifles and grenade launchers and stuff who just sort of whack up the country into regions and run a narco terrorist thing. Which, by the way, I want to just explain to everyone everything for just a second because the chickens are coming home to roost. Here in the United States to some extent and in Europe certainly, there are groups and nations and lands and everyone wants to celebrate diversity. Well, they're different. They do different things, they eat different things, they celebrate different ways. They watch soccer instead of football.

[Alicia Krause]

They don't have sandwich moms.

[Adam Carolla]

They don't have sandwich moms. They don't even have sandwiches. Some of these nations and they do things differently. And some of the stuff we like, some of the stuff is sort of like when you go down, I'll give you an example. Everyone who goes to Japan tells you how clean it is.

[Alicia Krause]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

Cause they're a tidy culture. Now. You can go good, bad, I don't know. They clean shit. They like clean stuff and that's kind of good and very minimal. I like it that way too. I like clean stuff, so that's good. And then there are other cultures that perform female circumcisions. And I don't like that. Now you go, is that a bad culture? Is it a good. It's a different culture. Some stuff you like, some stuff you don't like. Now we have a country and we have a border with two nations and one is Mexico and the other is Canada. And Canada operates one way and Mexico operates in a very different way. Now if you let a whole bunch of people from Canada over into the United States, there's gonna be some marginal changes like putting mayonnaise on fries or something. And watching a little more hockey boot. Yeah, and a little more hockey and a little less baseball or something. But it's gonna be pretty marginal stuff. But if you take large groups of people think it'd be a good idea to live in a narco state with a bunch of warring factions who are heavily armed and cut. Who have a saying, take this to the politicians, take the silver, take the lead, either take the money or get killed. If there's a lot of those people and they come here, we'll expect results that are consistent with what they're doing in their state and their country, which is consistent with every country everywhere. So my argument is it's not necessarily that people coming into your country is a bad thing, it's what country did they leave? And the ones they're forced to leave are usually the worst ones because of things like this. But whatever it is they engage in over there, a percentage will engage in it over here because that's part of their culture, just like the music or the food and Mexico's piece of shit. And it's a failed state. And I don't know why that's a hate crime, but it has so much.

[Alicia Krause]

Like if the president, I don't know. I was seeing some footage recently of their president who hates Trump and told Trump to tell her how to govern and all this stuff. And prior to the chaos that occurred over the last couple of days, she was saying something about, well, I can't really go after the cartels because that would be a violation of their civil rights.

[Adam Carolla]

They can't go after the cartels because the cartels are more powerful than they are. Yeah, okay. I have spoken about this solution

[Earthquake]

for

[Adam Carolla]

more than 30 years until microphone. The solution for Mexico. What will fix Mexico permanently? Mexico is not fixable cuz it's 100% Mexico and that's not good. It needs an influx of something else. Also, Israel will never be fixed because it's surrounded by terrorists who are anti Semitic and want all the Jews to die. Now, it's not because they want Gaza back or they want two separate homelands or. No, they hate Jews and they want them dead. Now, if there was something in Israel where it's like, oh, the Palestinians are reasonable people, they just want a little land on the coast back or something, that's fine. That's a negotiation. But if they want all Jews dead, well, then it's really a tough negotiation. What I'm saying. And I always said to Israel, you live in a giant ashtray filled with homicidal people that want you dead because you're successful and because they have horrible religion. Mexico needs Jews like no other state. There's no country that needs Jews like Mexico. Mexico is so short on Jews and lousy with Mexicans. And that's the problem.

[Alicia Krause]

Interesting.

[Adam Carolla]

The Baja peninsula, which I have driven.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Is some of the most breathtaking. It's where the ocean meets the desert.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And it is breathtaking. And it not so different than Israel. I've looked it up. Average temperature, climate, everything. It's all about the same.

[Alicia Krause]

So we need some Jews to, like, reverse aliyah.

[Adam Carolla]

We need all the Jews. Listen, give Israel. Just give it to all your homicidal neighbors. They'll turn into a shithole in 10 seconds. And you guys move to Baja and take over Baja. Baja will now have the greatest resorts. And in general, whether it's governance or whatever it is, you guys need Jews in Mexico. And I've always said. I said for a place that lives off of beans, they don't have a lot of bean counters, they don't have a lot of money people. They don't have a lot of.

[Alicia Krause]

I feel like we need to get you on the phone with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff about this.

[Adam Carolla]

If you did a pilgrimage of Jews to Baja California and let them take over and start setting up businesses and start getting into infrastructure and government and all that, then Mexico would be a utopia in about 20 years.

[Alicia Krause]

So I did not have that idea. But we are kind of simpatico on the comparison to Israel, because I thought that much, like, it was so hard for the IDF to tamp out the regime, Hamas regime, like in Gaza. Because what do they do? They put themselves in tunnels and in schools and in hospitals and amongst the innocent population.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

That's what the cartel has done in Mexico.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

That you can't just go bomb a village where they might be. Because that village has innocent women and children in it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

That are just trying to live their daily life.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

And probably dreaming about coming to America one day. And it's very difficult to just like, wipe them out.

[Adam Carolla]

No, that's why we need to just classify them as terrorist organizations.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, the Trump administration has labeled them narco terrorist organizations, which was one of the things that AOC and Ilhan Omar were really upset about when he.

[Adam Carolla]

By the way, if they're upset, you're on the right track. Those dumb bitches. If they're upset about something, it means you got something, right, Dawson? Average temp in Jerusalem.

[Alicia Krause]

It gets chilly there.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. It can get cold on Baja.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. Just at night and then the average

[Adam Carolla]

temp and I don't know, let's say Rosarita, California. Rosarita, Baja, Mexico. Let's say that's a nice little surfing fishing village somewhere a little further down than Ensenada.

[Alicia Krause]

I don't know. Have you seen these videos, though?

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Alicia Krause]

Let's watch some of them because I don't know, if you. If they see these videos, they might be like, hmm, never mind.

[Adam Carolla]

We're not gonna show the Jews the video. You're not gonna do it. You hear me?

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm trying to entice them.

[Alicia Krause]

Just be like, there's no Hamas, but you might have to tamp out these cartels.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, when you're living with homicidal maniacs that are inventing they're putting explosive vests on nine year olds, these narco terrorists are walking the park. I mean, you gotta deal with Hamas, right? But like I said, these guys are garden variety narco terrorists, not suicidal jihadists.

[Alicia Krause]

That's true. These guys just don't like authority and they're pissed that their cartel leader died and that maybe some of the cops aren't taking their money.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but there's no. They don't blow themselves up in pizza parlors.

[Alicia Krause]

But I mean, this is kind of insane that we're seeing this from the cartel. The. They were going like, they're just blowing up cars in Puerto Vallarta. They were going into the airport, like, shooting at people. That is terrorism style attacks that we haven't seen by them before. And we know, like, especially here in Southern California. California. There's like enough of the gang activity here that a part of me yesterday went, huh, I wonder if they're going to, like, call up their buddies in the States and want to do something here too.

[Adam Carolla]

This just in. First off, Tijuana and Tel Aviv, I mean, it almost sounds the same.

[Alicia Krause]

Travel from Tel Aviv to Tijuana on one direct flight.

[Adam Carolla]

That's like three beers from being the same place, Tijuana, Tel Aviv, you know, both on the Same latitude line. 32 degrees north. So they're on the same latitude, they're the same temperature, they're the same climate. The rain falls about the same. Average temps about the same. I guarantee everything's the same.

[Alicia Krause]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

And you have a beautiful Pacific Ocean just coming up against this red clay desert. Spectacular.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

And totally undeveloped.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. Honestly, I'm kind of surprised Trump hasn't said that. He wants to take it over and build a big resort.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm telling you, man. Gather up those Jews. Turn that place around.

[Alicia Krause]

No, no, no.

[Adam Carolla]

Let's gather the juice. Oh, okay. I guess a little history. Entice the Jews.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. Just put together a nice brochure.

[Adam Carolla]

Nice brochure. And then we gather and we take them. Take them to Baja.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

And it'd be a settlement type thing. We'd have incentives. You know what I mean? We could have. Land would be cheap.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I mean?

[Alicia Krause]

Tax free, maybe. Yeah, you would say. They have lots of builders.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it'd be like six acres and a pinata. We'd put a kind of a thing together and they could all go there. They don't have any building codes or anything over there. You do what you want. Freedom, baby.

[Alicia Krause]

Interesting.

[Adam Carolla]

And I don't know if you've been down Baja, but it is beautiful.

[Alicia Krause]

I've only been to once. A long time ago. We did a morning answer cruise.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you did a cruise?

[Alicia Krause]

Did you ever do that, like a listener cruise?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I went on a cruise to Ensenada with Jimmy a million years ago.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. So it was me, Ben and Brian, and we did, like, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo.

[Adam Carolla]

Beautiful. Yeah. That's further down. We just did the Ensenada one, and

[Alicia Krause]

I'm supposed to be in La Paz next couple of months. In a couple of months, But I don't know. Maybe not anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the cartel leader was killed by Mexican special forces, but apparently.

[Alicia Krause]

Was it. There was some rumblings about it. It being a joint operation with the US State Department, but who knows?

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. All right. Well, I don't know if there's film of it, but I'm telling my. My. I stand by my Tijuana plan.

[Alicia Krause]

The film of it is insane. Like, is this. This is the airport.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, they're setting stuff up.

[Alicia Krause]

I think that's

[Adam Carolla]

people running through the airport.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. Just like.

[Adam Carolla]

I haven't even seen all this. Fires everywhere, burning cars, airport people hiding behind stuff.

[Alicia Krause]

It's horrifying.

[Adam Carolla]

Burning buses. Wow. It is chaos, man.

[Alicia Krause]

It's scary. And all obviously, like, all US Airlines are like, peace. We're not flying in there anymore. Specifically to these regions. And I guess we'll see what happens.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I found really weird?

[Alicia Krause]

That's Puerto Vallarta, by the way.

[Adam Carolla]

That's Puerto Vallarta.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

I've been to Puerto Vallarta a few times. Party. Vallarta. Wow.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what's weird? I was flying into, like, Puerto Vallarta or somewhere, Mexico, and we were taking off from lax, and as the plane was like an aeromexico plane, and as it was taken off the cabin, the door to the cockpit flew open, was just flapping back and forth. And I remember going, that's an unreinforced door. And it's just flapping back and forth. How come it's not reinforced and locked? And the stewardess was like, it's registered in Mexico or whatever. And I'm like, yeah, but it's flying over Encino. Like, if a terrorist takes over this plane, he's going to hit Sherman Oaks. He's not going to hit Mexico. We're here. They're like, no. And I'm like, really? So you're so lawless that your cabin doors are literally just slapping in the wind upon takeoff? Great culture over there. Wonderful. And the people. It's not. Let's see, it's not the. No, wait. It's not the people. The people are the best. It's the government who are Mexican. But.

[Alicia Krause]

And honestly, there's probably, like a hundred thousand Mexicans born in Mexico that I would rather have in the United States than Gavin Newsom types. Oh, you know, like the born here people that are just. America is the worst. It's like, let's ship them down there.

[Adam Carolla]

He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Hard Scrabble.

[Alicia Krause]

His dyslexia is now his new talking point. Have you seen this?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, yeah. He's got dyslexia. We'll play it, and then I'll.

[Alicia Krause]

He got all pissy about Ted Cruz talking about his dyslexia. And now Gavin Newsom is getting some, I think, rightful pushback for telling a black mayor, quote, I'm like you before quoting his low SAT score.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, here we go. I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960sat guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone. You know, trying to act all there. If you got 940, literally a 960 SAT guy, I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in. Yeah, Got dyslexia.

[Alicia Krause]

So, like, why is this a thing now?

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, the guy dyslexia, or now

[Alicia Krause]

him talking about his dyslexia so much now your whole career.

[Adam Carolla]

I will explain it to you. Okay, it's got the Ted Cruz answer or whatever. That's the one. It's a text. A tweet. Ted Cruz.

[Alicia Krause]

There's some updates in the tweet department too.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, Ted tweet back. Okay, first off, when we were bitching about the Burbank City Council shutting down Tinhorn Flats, my friend's family business for over 50 years and how tyrannical they were one of the lead guys in the Burbank City Council's explanation is he has a mental disability or something. Anyways, like half tarred and I'm like, so your argument is I'm retarded, so let me run your. Your city like I can't read. Let me lead the nation. Like I'm a dumb shit, so vote for me. Which is a weird pitch, cuz it used to be who's the wisest man in the land? You know what I mean? Who's the most scholarly? But now I'm a dumb shit. You're a dumb shit. Dumb shits love dumb shits.

[Alicia Krause]

Maybe part of the reason why our California budget is so screwed, right? And the fire departments didn't get enough funding is he got the numbers messed up. Quite literally.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So what it is. All right, couple things with his dyslexia. He is a male, heterosexual, attractive, full head of hair, tall. Tall and white. And white. So he has and he runs. He wants to be the head of the grievance party. Who does? As a black woman, as a gay man, as a whatever marginalized individual and his group. If you're not marginalized, you can't rise to the top. You need to be the first woman of color and the first openly gay whatever. The first trans whatever. You need to be the first tranny, whatever, to run the Department of Labor.

[Alicia Krause]

He's gonna be the dyslexic dude.

[Adam Carolla]

As a dude, you can't hang a lot of stuff. Especially look, you're talking to a tall, gray looking white dude who's heterosexual all day long. Okay, so I can.

[Alicia Krause]

Also in California.

[Adam Carolla]

Also in California.

[Alicia Krause]

Also kind of Rich.

[Adam Carolla]

Also kind of rich. So what do we do? Well, you can go dyslexic or you can go Crohn's disease, but nobody wants to picture you gassing out on a commode. So we go dyslexic, right? So now you can gather. Now you're never gonna be the first black lesbian, whatever, but you can get some points in a party that gives out points for disabilities. You can be that and you have to go grew up poor. You have to do the grew up poor because that's your party.

[Alicia Krause]

Or single mom too. Like heaven forbid you have two married parents.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh no, no problems with modern society. There's two parents. So you have to go single mom, hardscrabble, wrong side of the tracks and dyslexic. And then what you can do there is you can counter some of the tall, good looking, rich white mantle.

[Alicia Krause]

He thinks, well, it's with a deep leg cross.

[Adam Carolla]

It's an attempt, but that's why he's hitting it hard. Now. The dyslexia Taco's. Every time I watch an old John Wayne movie, I know I need a new pair of boots. Something badass and American about them. And that's why I got me some to Kovas. So whether you're a generational rancher or first time boot buyer, they've got something for you. They care about their products. That's why each pair is handcrafted in over 200 steps. And when I put them on, well, there was no stiff break in period. Just immediate out of the box comfort. They've got apparel too, so you can get that fully authentic look of the American west. Trust me, you're going to feel like a badass when you put these on. It's to Covas, right Dawson?

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[Alicia Krause]

So you wanted to talk about this Ted Cruz thing. This was from a while ago. But now there's an even greater battle that I'm excited to talk about. After you. After you look at these tweets from Ted Cruz that you like.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you can read. Well, there's one came before this. I think we're.

[Alicia Krause]

So Ted Cruz talked about how Gavin News is historically illiterate, and then Gavin Newsom was like, he's calling a dyslexic person. And to my knowledge, like, two weeks ago, this was the first time Gavin Newsom was, like, assuming that Ted Cruz should know that he's dyslexic and therefore can't go after him.

[Adam Carolla]

It's. By the way, it's like Joe Biden had a stutter. Like, you made up some shit we've never heard. By the way, Dawson, I don't know why I'm looking at you. There's countless footage of Biden at age 47, just in front of Congress, waxing on for 20 minutes at a time about illegal aliens and not raising taxes and all the stuff you agree with. I don't hear him hiccup or stutter. I don't hear anything.

[Alicia Krause]

Nope.

[Adam Carolla]

So what do you mean he has a stutter? Where is this mystery stutter that I can't find tape of?

[Alicia Krause]

There's also. There has to be footage of all the times Gavin Newsom has read a teleprompter.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

Like, how does he. Anyway, so this is the greatest reader's note ever, because X now adds context. And it's like, Senator Ted Cruz did not refer to Governor Newsom's ability to read, but rather his knowledge of his history. Historically, illiterate refers to the knowledge of history. Newsom left the word historically out of the original tweet, which says historically illiterate. He wasn't calling him illiterate. So now after this video of him trying to say, I'm just like a black man, which is such an insult. It's like I'm. He's assuming that the black man got a low SAT score.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Alicia Krause]

Sean Hannity ripped him a new one. My former boss and your buddy Sean. And it is so good.

[Adam Carolla]

We will love it.

[Alicia Krause]

This whole thread here is, like, amazing.

[Adam Carolla]

By the way, before Alicia goes in on that, look up the definition exactly of illiterate. Because he's going, you're saying I'm illiterate, And I'm saying, I can't read because I have a disease. But if you can't read, then you may be illiterate, even if it's a disease causing your inability to read. You know what I'm saying.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, go ahead.

[Alicia Krause]

And there's lots of ways we can learn about history. So this whole thread, if you could just click on that for me, Andrew, that'd be amazing. So Sean Hannity says about this clip, he thinks that a 960sat makes him like a black American. Let that sink in for you. Gavin Newsom then responds, you didn't give a shit about the President of the United States of America posting an ape video, President Obama, or calling African nations shitholes, but you're going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia? Spare me fake effing outrage, Sean. Which is kind of crazy because, like, he and Sean, like, they've done some buddy, buddy interviews before. So then Sean responded again, like, literally right before he went to, to do the show today. Gavin Newsom, you didn't give a shit being Joe Biden's public spokesperson, knowing that Joe Biden partnered with the former Klansman Robert Byrd and they tried to prevent the integration of public schools. So spare me your effing fan phony feigned outrage. And how about you get homeowners building permits in the Pacific Palisades? The only thing that Sean could have done better. In this tweet, Sean says, get homeowners those permits in the Pacific Palisades instead of making an ass out of yourself daily. Just a thought. 100%. With the addendum, he could have also added an Altadena, a historically black neighborhood that you seem to not care about or talk about anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

See, I was right on this. He's saying, you're saying I'm illiterate, but I'm dyslexic. And the answer is yes.

[Alicia Krause]

Then you are.

[Adam Carolla]

You are illiterate. Here's it. Here's from the Oxford Dictionary. Unable to read or write. So if you have a disability that makes you unable to read or write, then you are illiterate. You just have an excuse, but you're still illiterate, retard.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, Tis true.

[Adam Carolla]

And you're too fucking dumb to even know the definition.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So yes, you're illiterate because you have a disease that you, by the way, it's made up. But you have a made up disease. For you.

[Alicia Krause]

I don't think dyslexia is made up.

[Adam Carolla]

No, made up for you. That's why I paused and said, for you, that says you cannot read. So if you have a disease. Look, look, you can go. If you're in a wheelchair, you can't dunk a basketball or you can't dunk a basketball and you have use of your legs, but you're saying you're in a wheelchair. How dare you accuse me of not being able to dunk. And I'm saying you're saying you can't read or write because you're dyslexic, so you're now illiterate.

[Alicia Krause]

Was also just adding he's historically illiterate, which is fact check. True as well.

[Adam Carolla]

That's true as well. All right, so it's got disease now. Let me explain something. He's just talking down to black people because that's what they do. That's their constituency. They're the black folk. And they talk down to them because they think they're dumb and they want to get the votes of dumb people and black people. And that's why they speak. When they speak to them, they speak in their vernacular. And that's why they have hot sauce in their purse. And that's why they go to the black churches and go, I ain't tired no more. That's like Hillary Clinton.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh my gosh. The.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

I ain't been no ways tired was actually what she said.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah, that's.

[Alicia Krause]

Hannity used to play that clip all the time. Seared in my brain.

[Adam Carolla]

It's awesome.

[Alicia Krause]

For a thousand years.

[Adam Carolla]

But I'll tell you the interesting and the real racist part of being illiterate and being dyslexic, because I know it, I have lived it myself. I is a striking 6 foot 2, debonair man of non color, heterosexual, kind of rich. Well, but this is pre rich.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Wasn't always.

[Alicia Krause]

But you were kind of funny. The ladies like that.

[Adam Carolla]

The ladies like the sense of humor. I could not read or write myself my whole life because I never learned to read or write. And it was literally not learning to read or write.

[Alicia Krause]

And a public school just being like,

[Adam Carolla]

send them to the next warehousing. That's right. We got the school to prison pipeline for the black kids. We got the warehouse for the white kids. So I got into the warehouse. That's my privilege. So I got pushed along and I never learned to read or write. And then when I was older, people understood that I didn't read very well at all. I didn't write very well. And people think, oh, you just automatically know how to read? No, you don't. Think about all the early settlers that came into the western towns or something like, well, have the one guy read the newspaper because the rest of the guys on the farm didn't read because no one went to school and they never learned how to read. Okay? So I was told that I was probably dyslexic.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay?

[Adam Carolla]

People come up to me and go, come on, you're dyslexic. I go, I don't think I'm dyslexic. I don't know how to read. I haven't learned how to read. And by the way, there's nothing inherently. There's nothing inherently that makes sense about the three different ways to spell there. You either learn it or you don't. You know what I mean? Or. Or, you know, antique or unique, you know, you wouldn't know how to spell any of that. I would just spell everything phonetically. That's what it sounded like.

[Alicia Krause]

Which is a teaching style now, by the way.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, boy.

[Alicia Krause]

You should have been homeschooled.

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[Adam Carolla]

I don't know what parents would do that. What kind of irresponsible, half drunk parents would force that upon their daughter? One day, if I ever meet your parents, I am gonna set them straight. Your dad's gonna extend his hand. I'm gonna kick him right in the nuts.

[Alicia Krause]

Just be like, why would you do that?

[Adam Carolla]

If I ever had the guts to show up at this place, I would give him a piece of my mind. Now, that's never gonna happen, but if it does. Yep. Be prepared.

[Alicia Krause]

I'll warn him.

[Adam Carolla]

You tell your dad and your mom that I'm disgusted. Disgusted in what they did to you,

[Alicia Krause]

that they chose to.

[Adam Carolla]

Robbing you of a childhood in a warehouse. In a warehouse. Now they're here.

[Alicia Krause]

They are here.

[Adam Carolla]

That's what I said.

[Alicia Krause]

They wanted to meet Adam on my birthday,

[Adam Carolla]

all right? So everyone said, well, Adam, you're smart and you're funny, and so you must be dyslexic. And I said, I don't think I'm dyslexic. And they said, well, you should get tested. And I went and got tested. Yeah, I know, exactly. It was on Ventura Boulevard and, like, ence. And then an office building.

[Alicia Krause]

Centers. Was it a leering center?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, leering center. I had a nice Somali lady. So I got tested for dyslexia. And when I was done, they just said, you're not dyslexic. You just don't know how to read. And I said, that's what I suspected, but I had to shut up. All the people who are well meaning, they're like, come on, Adam. You're a smart guy. Come on, don't tell me you must have a disease, but here's the part that I found interesting. If you're white and you can't read, you're dyslexic. If you're black and you can't read, the system let you down and you fell through the cracks. And you had teachers that didn't care.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, but that's what I said.

[Adam Carolla]

We never go, you must be dyslexic. We go, oh, inner city guys, school. Never so busy running from gang bangers to school. Why can't black people be equally as dyslexic as white people?

[Alicia Krause]

Why would white people also be let down by a shitty public school system?

[Adam Carolla]

I was a white guy who fell through the cracks. And it's not like sickle cell. I mean, I would assume. Well, I don't know now. We gotta look it up. Dawson, it's dyslexia. It's only white people who are dyslexic. Tom Cruise is dyslexic. All the big stars, they always claim they're dyslexic. I never heard a black guy say, I'm dyslexic.

[Alicia Krause]

That's true. You hear, and I think it is a real thing. I actually think my husband is dyslexic and probably my own father. But you hear Tom Cruise, Dax Shepard talk about being dyslexic. You don't hear Kevin Hart and Denzel Washington ever talk about it.

[Adam Carolla]

Famous black people with dyslexia include actors Will Smith, Octavius Spencer, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, now musician Harry Belafonte.

[Alicia Krause]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

And activist Malcolm X. Those are some great. But does it affect white people more? Well, first things first off, anyone who can't read as an adult should say they're dyslexic. Cause otherwise it doesn't matter what color, it looks bad on you.

[Dawson]

It says that black people are much more likely to go undiagnosed.

[Adam Carolla]

Aha.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. Also, do you know that women and girls tend to be undiagnosed or diagnosed later for a lot of things than guys are?

[Adam Carolla]

Dyslexia always just seems to be the realm of the white dude. I don't hear women talking about it. I don't hear Hispanics talking about.

[Alicia Krause]

Maybe these women are smarter.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think they allowed Japanese to be dyslexic. I think they will take you out and drown you. They will not have ever heard of Japanese guy's dyslexic. I don't think they can say it. I think that's part of the problem.

[Alicia Krause]

It's just something. It's an Unspoken rule.

[Adam Carolla]

No, it's not pronounceable for them. Oh, I'm saying they physically can't say. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Famous black people actress Will Smith.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay, so, yeah, it could be that the system does fail them, but the system is failing white kids too. And also I feel like sometimes middle class white parents are like hyper aware of these things or as people become more successful in adulthood, they can self diagnose or figure out issues well and all that stuff. And like, like I think that sometimes real Americans, no matter what color they are, like, they just gotta go to work and stay married and maybe have a vacation once a year down to Puerto Vallarta. The terrorists aren't blowing it up.

[Adam Carolla]

They open everything up to the spectrum. And then once it's the spectrum, then everyone has a little dusting of Asperger's and dyslexia and everyone's got everything now. That's the thing. So Gavin Newsom, he thinks black people are dumb and he's gonna go talk down to them, but he needs them to vote for him. But I never really get the thing. And by the way, black people, this is on you. You vote for Democrats, they talk down to you and think you're dumb, and you just keep voting for them. You should be insulted by the way they talk to you.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, this is what concerns me a little bit with agree with what ICE is doing. But the public perception of what ICE is doing isn't going great right now. And the general public says, polling wise, yes, we want closed borders, yes, we want safer streets. They just don't like to see the masked guys, you know, and all the media coverage of it. Right, Because Hispanics and I think you've seen an increase for President Trump and the GOP under him specifically back in 2024, Hispanics are coming to the right and slower, black Americans are coming to the right. And so therefore it's like, like, let's just continue to spread the message that we're all equal and let's not blow things up, politically speaking, and then go the opposite way. Like, Democrats do need to be careful of just constantly relying on these constituents that they tend to just treat like dummies. Quite.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, they'll import some new ones. The old ones won't vote for them. All right, you got another story?

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, we do. Have you seen those kind of like RV encampments all over Los Angeles?

[Adam Carolla]

Have I seen them?

[Alicia Krause]

You know that they have, like, they're like literal slumlords. Like, guys will have these broken down RVs and they cart them around the city and they make these poor homeless people pay them. Sometimes with horrific acts, sometimes with cash, sometimes with drugs. Well now LA wanted to dismantle these homeless RVs and a judge shut that down.

[Adam Carolla]

I first off, these judges, I have no idea what's going on. These RVs, I used to. Well, thankfully the only good thing that came out of the Palisades and Malibu fire is the RVs got destroyed. The RVs drugged up.

[Alicia Krause]

Homeless people were living.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the RVs were lined up all down PCH and okay, first things first. And Dawson on the computer somewhere. I used to film it it all the time and give it to you guys and we'd show it on this show. So it lives in the computer somewhere. God knows if it's labeled correctly. I'm guessing not. But I took many videos. So PCH would have lined all the way up, up and down PCH and it would go from the most beautiful view in the world, which is the Pacific Ocean, to rusted out busted up piles of junk RVs. There's nothing more depressing.

[Alicia Krause]

It's not even like a cute old Airstream that somebody's fixing up. They were like gross. Tan, rustic.

[Adam Carolla]

You know the thing that's kind of funny stuff in life, like the sad stuff in life, like destruction and famine and blight and garbage and stuff is bad. But there's something that gets sadder. Like when you see an old concentration camp, you go, oh, that's sad. But it was always sad. It was never Disneyland. And then they turned it into a concentration camp. RVs and kids toys are the saddest when they go south. Oh yeah, because RV used to mean family recreation. See the nation. Like when that, that thing sold new in 1981, there was some nice family going, we're going to the Sequoias. This is gonna be awesome.

[Alicia Krause]

Yellowstone, here we go.

[Adam Carolla]

Yellowstone, here we come. It's a Chevy Chase movie. And now it's the saddest thing ever. And that's the same way with kids toys. Like sometimes I'll be driving down the five and you see the weird homeless encampment and you see the weird kids plastic castle on the side and you're like, ugh, Barbie's dream castles on the side of the 5 Freeway.

[Alicia Krause]

Or like the little trike that was meant for a toddler and the streamer. But no, it gets sadder.

[Adam Carolla]

Creepy, right? So the RV that once was the best day ever for that family is now guys cooking meth. And he's Living for Free by pch. And I used to film these things up and down PCH because there were, I will say at some point I counted like maybe 28 of them just going all the way down. Now the lots of after the fire down PCH are selling for $6 million apiece or for free you can park an RV and get same view. And I was like, what is going on? You guys are handing out speeding tickets left and right. But these things who by the way, empty their septic tank into the ocean.

[Alicia Krause]

So gross.

[Adam Carolla]

It's not like they hire some professional honey dipper to come out there and take care of it. I think that's what we called those guys on the job site. The whole point is, of course it's illegal. Everything's illegal. And as I was yelling at Steve Hilton, here's the society, here's what Malibu is. If you want to park your junker RV in a no parking zone just on the side of PCH and stare at the ocean and cook meth all day, you can do that for free. If you try rebuilding your house in the Palisades with no permit, you're gonna get arrested. Yep, that's the law. And that's how we enforce the law. Yep. And then at a certain point you have to ask yourself, well, what do we want more of and what do we want less of? Like, would you rather have more people just paying for their own rebuild and doing it professionally in the Palisades? Cuz they have to live in the house. They're not gonna make it dangerous or a bunch of junkies flopping out and busted up RVs. So somebody made this law?

[Alicia Krause]

Yep. AB 630 apparently says that you can't just have these RVs sitting on the side of the road. And Gavin Newsom signed it into law and it increased the financial threshold for LA and Alameda counties, allowing them to dismantle vehicles worth up to $4,000 and clear the streets of these RVs.

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[Adam Carolla]

That are parked everywhere.

[Alicia Krause]

That are parked everywhere. Well, so now there's a new state law pushing a new bill or a legislator pushing a new bill to let every city in LA county dispose of all of the RVs. But a judge in a Superior Court ruling, it was only two pages, so it's just a pretty easy read when it comes to judge writings. Judge Curtis A. Kinn said that Los Angeles officials lack the legal authority to carry out the state law that permits the dismantling of this. And he says, quote, AB630 provides no such authority. To the city of Los Angeles to continue forward.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, we're looking at Forest Lawn, which has a ton. Had a ton of them as well, but there's none on P. There's no footage of PCH that we can find. So, Dawson, how you figure it out? Just give it to the old guys. And they don't label it, I guess, is how we do it. We don't label anything.

[Alicia Krause]

Is that like that stretch where the studios are and then, like, the Toluca Tennis Club and stuff like that?

[Dawson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You want to buy a house there, it's 5 million bucks. But you wanna park an RV there and do whatever you want. You can do whatever you want.

[Alicia Krause]

They did, finally. So there was, like, the RV ban lift briefly during COVID which was bullshit. And then they started to enforce it a little bit. I was passing schools.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, unless you.

[Alicia Krause]

And I'm like, how the hell are we letting these guys just, like, camp out in front of schools?

[Adam Carolla]

Could you imagine? I know guys who, like, bought a house in Venice beach, built a $3 million house there. They're small lots. The front yards are not deep. Maybe 8 to 12, 18ft or whatever. And an RV just parks in front of them. And some crazed man just either has sex with prostitutes or sells crack. Literally just in front of your house all day.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And the city can't do anything about it.

[Alicia Krause]

It's not good.

[Adam Carolla]

Which is insane because the city can tow anything and do anything. I have a big dually ford f350. I was hauling a race car up to Laguna Seca, Northern California, a couple of years ago. Tabs were expired. Cop pulled us over. It's like, all right, just fix it. Ticket? No, we're towing it. They towed it to the law. They towed it. It was a tabs. Expired, dually registered. But the registration expired. They impounded it.

[Alicia Krause]

Cause you're the guy.

[Adam Carolla]

Cause I have money.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, you're the guy.

[Adam Carolla]

They can do whatever. He didn't know I had Crohn's or dyslexia.

[Alicia Krause]

You're a dyslexic dude.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, let's see. You can go to AdamKroll.com cause Friday, Saturday, gonna be in Dallas, Texas, at Hyenas. Doing stand up there. Earthquake. You can find his special on Netflix. Joe telling business. Leisha Krause, birthday girl, op ed for the Washington Examiners. Where you can find her.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

With all the good ideas. With the folks listening in the back. Sharp cookie, nature, nurture. They did something right.

[Alicia Krause]

Alicia Crawford made me sandwiches and homeschooled

[Adam Carolla]

me oh, that's good. All I got was a knuckle sandwich. So till next time, Sam Crowford, Alicia Craig, an earthquake saying mahalo.

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