Eddie Bravo Talks Global Governments and How Producers Ruined the Man Show

Summary

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The Adam Carolla Show

Episode: Eddie Bravo Talks Global Governments and How Producers Ruined the Man Show
Date: January 13, 2026
Guests: Eddie Bravo, Alicia Krause

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Episode Overview

This episode features Adam Carolla in conversation with Eddie Bravo, martial artist, podcaster, and well-known conspiracy commentator. The pair dig into their Southern California upbringings, their experiences in comedy and television production (specifically, The Man Show), and move into a wide-ranging critique of media, government, and global power structures. Eddie Bravo shares personal stories of career pivots, the dark underbelly of TV writing, and his worldview on societal manipulation, while Adam challenges, riffs, and contributes with his trademark candor and humor. After Bravo’s segment, Alicia Krause joins with news updates, expanding the discussion into politics, policing, media bias, and social commentary.

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Main Topics & Key Discussion Points

1. Southern California Roots and Early Careers

• Opening Banter and Radio Nostalgia (01:45–06:30)
  • Both Adam and Eddie reminisce about growing up in Southern California, listening to KROQ, and Loveline.
  • Discussion about the unique quirks and dysfunction within the radio industry.
  • Adam shares the behind-the-scenes politics at KROQ, including the infamous "Poor Man" and Dr. Drew saga.
• Eddie’s Path from Music to Martial Arts (07:00–09:12)
  • Eddie's original dream was to be a rock star; martial arts began as a way to avoid getting "fat."
  • Worked as a strip club DJ while trying to break into music before shifting to Jiu Jitsu.
  • Quote: “I always thought, man, I could give love advice too. But that would have been horrible. I would have been, I would have been destroying marriages.” — Eddie (01:54)

2. Comedy and Television Production: The Man Show

• Writing for TV and Adversity in Hollywood (09:13–20:20)
  • Joe Rogan brought Eddie into the writing room on The Man Show after Adam and Jimmy Kimmel's departure.
  • The new producers treated Bravo with hostility, ignoring his and Rogan’s sketches.
  • Quote: “They made it clear within the first half hour they don’t give a fuck about me. They’re just gonna hire me and they’re gonna pay me, but they don’t give a fuck.” — Eddie (14:09)
• Creative Control and the Difference between Originals and Successors (15:20–19:56)
  • Adam: The original Man Show cast (him, Kimmel, Daniel Kellison) did everything autonomously; the named producers were hands-off.
  • Once the originals left, the new producers finally got involved—but the magic was gone.
  • Adam reflects: “That’s the reason it was a good show. Then we left, and then they came in and they started producing, and that’s what happened.” (16:14)
• Pivot to Jiu Jitsu after TV Disillusionment (26:00–27:30)
  • Eddie recounts his win over Hoyler Gracie at ADCC, leading him to open his own Jiu Jitsu school and eventually build an empire.

3. The Nature of Passion and Work

• On Following Passions and Building a Life (28:05–29:41)
  • Adam and Eddie bond over doing things for intrinsic joy versus chasing fame or money.
  • “People should do what they feel they should do and want to do and feels good to them, whether people are watching or listening or not.” — Adam (27:31)
  • Adam reveals he built his own podcast studio: “But it’s what I like doing. You know what I mean?” (29:33)

4. Athleticism, Balance, and Life Lessons

• The Importance of Balance and Physical Skills (30:18–43:56)
  • Adam discusses his natural sense of balance and how it has benefited him in sports and life.
  • Eddie shares how balance is foundational in wrestling and Jiu Jitsu—and how natural aptitude in balance can't always be trained.
  • The conversation turns to broader insights on developing skills, working with what you’re naturally good at, and the mental benefits of physical balance.
  • Quote: “The thing about balance is it makes you better at everything and it also makes you catch on to things faster.” — Adam (40:13)

5. Societal Control, “Conspiracy,” and COVID-19

• Power Structures, Government, and COVID Skepticism (54:52–71:57)
  • Eddie and Adam discuss the role of money and control in politics, media, and “the elite.”
  • Eddie posits that global decision-making is mafia-like, run by ruthless power-seekers with blackmail and corruption.
  • Deep dive into skepticism about the COVID-19 pandemic:
    • Eddie argues the pandemic hysteria was staged and akin to “just the flu.”
    • He claims none of his 200+ Jiu Jitsu schools lost a member to COVID, citing it as evidence of a hoax.
    • Adam relays his early suspicion based on “missing ages” data in media and lack of messaging about Africa.
    • Both criticize the media, big business, and political opportunism around health crises and climate change.
    • Quote: “If this was real, Jiu Jitsu would have been wiped out… We didn’t have one person die. And we’re doing the opposite of what they told us to do.” — Eddie (62:28)
    • Adam: “It’s kind of on us as citizens because…everyone just attacked me. I’m like, you fucking pussies. You fucking cowards.” (68:14)
• One World Government and Climate Change (66:56–67:31)
  • Eddie: The ultimate historical goal has always been one world government, with international banking and media at the helm.
  • Adam notes the parallels in profiteering between COVID and climate change policies.

6. News Segment with Alicia Krause

• Government Overreach and Regulation (79:31–84:46)
  • Stories about the absurdity of local government regulations—burying pets, property permits, and business licenses.
  • Adam rails against increasing government intrusion: “How much bigger do you want government to be? You want the government dictating to this small business owner who he can make his cakes for? That’s what you want.” (83:14)
• Media Manipulation and Political Hypocrisy (86:30–92:31)
  • Discusses selective outrage and narrative control in high-profile police shootings.
  • Critique of media and entertainment figures (e.g., Wanda Sykes, Mark Ruffalo) for virtue signaling and ignorance of realities outside their narrative bubble.
  • Adam on “race in America” as a cudgel: “It’s a non issue that you guys wanna keep talking about so you can use as a cudgel a weapon.” (107:14)

7. Cultural Clashes and the State of the World

• Middle East Turmoil and Social Change (109:02–115:48)
  • Coverage of recent protests in LA regarding the Iranian regime, using it as a segue into the (un)changing nature of Middle Eastern conflict.
  • Adam reflects: “Every news broadcast I’ve seen in the last 75 years starts with Trouble in the Middle East. And then I would go, could you people get your fucking shit together?” (111:46)
  • Parallels drawn between foreign governments and domestic social unrest.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Passion versus Success:
  “If you’re a person whose passion is music or your passion is comedy, you’ll always win if you’re doing it because you love doing it and because that’s what you do.” — Adam (28:05)

• On COVID Skepticism:
  “We were the opposite of social distancing. And we never stopped…we didn’t have one person die. And we’re doing the opposite of what they told us to do.” — Eddie (62:28)
  “You cowards made this happen…It’s mostly women.” — Adam (72:04)

• On Creative Freedom and TV:
  “The Man Show was never produced. It’ll say, produced by Stone Stanley…It’s all bullshit. We produced it, we created it, we wrote it, we cast it, we did everything.” — Adam (17:16)

• On Media and Narrative:
  “The news is basically just propaganda.” — Eddie (59:23)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:45 - Adam and Eddie discuss Southern California upbringings, Loveline, radio stories
• 09:13 - Eddie’s introduction to The Man Show, TV writing experiences
• 14:09 - The hostile writers’ room after producers took over
• 28:05 - Conversation on pursuing passions, Adam’s philosophy
• 30:18–43:56 - The science and art of physical balance
• 54:52–71:57 - Global governments, COVID-19 skepticism/conspiracy, media control
• 79:31 - News with Alicia Krause starts; government regulation stories
• 86:30–92:31 - Media bias in coverage of policing; hypocrisy in celebrity activism
• 109:02–115:48 - Protests regarding Iran and endless conflict in the Middle East

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Episode Highlights: Humor & Tone

• The episode is marked by Adam’s signature blend of dry sarcasm, sharp social critique, and nostalgia, matched by Eddie’s freewheeling conspiratorial worldview and personal anecdotes.
• Despite the heavy criticism of institutions, the tone is largely conversational and laced with black comedy and self-deprecating asides.
• The news segment continues the irreverent tone, spotlighting bureaucratic inanities, selective outrage, and the shifting winds of political correctness.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a densely packed, open-ended digression through show-business war stories, the hollowing out of creative industries, the mechanics of global control, and the fracturing of modern discourse. Adam and Eddie’s chemistry produces both laughs and provocative, if controversial, social commentary, anchored by a recurring message: Value independent thought, question authority, and don’t relinquish your critical faculties to the mob.

For listeners seeking no-holds-barred conversation, inside showbiz dirt, and a window into the contemporary “dissident right,” this episode is a must.

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Transcript

[A]

Well, in this episode, Eddie Bravo joins us. Also news with Alicia Krause. And we'll do all that right after this. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. The NFL playoffs are here and Betonline gives you more ways to play. With Betonline, you get the latest odds, breaking news and live scores. With Betonline's in game betting, you'll never miss a moment of the college football playoffs and, and the road to the super bowl as well. When it's time to switch gears, dive into Betonline's casino, packed with hundreds of the hottest slots, classic table games, live dealers and massive jackpots just waiting for you. And if you love the NBA or the ufc, NHL, it's all there. You can place a little bet on the action, get in on the action. Please don't Forget the BETOnline VIP program with exclusive level up bonuses, weekly cash boosts and rewards designed for serious players. Head to Betonline today because at Betonline, the game starts here. From Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Eddie Bravo. And the news with Alicia Crouse. And now, Adam Carolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice. We're gonna mend it. Get it on. Eddie Bravo, martial artist, podcaster, raconteur, is with us in studio. Good to see you, Eddie.

[B]

Good to see you, man. Big fan.

[A]

I'm a big fan. Wow. You grew up out here?

[B]

I born and raised in Southern California. Born in Santa Ana. That's where they put all the Mexicans. And then I wanted to be a rock star. So I moved to Hollywood at 21 and that was like 91. And that was when, you know, K Rock and KNAC were like, you know, everybody listened to the radio. There was no Internet. And I loved Loveline. I loved it. And I always thought, I always thought, man, I could give love advice too. But that would have been horrible. I would have been, I would have been destroying marriages.

[A]

Well, it's kind of an interesting thing because I was in the same position. I would listen to kroq. I was driving a truck, I was swinging a hammer. And I would think to myself, oh, I could do that. And so what happens with radio, it's kind of interesting if you're listening to a talk show. Everybody's natural tendency is when they go, here's my, I'm 15 and I've been dating my boyfriend for a year and blah, blah, blah, you go, you do your answer in your head.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then you have to compare it to the other person's answer, who's on the air. And then you have to figure out whether your answer would be better than their answer, you know? And I did the same thing. I just grew up out here and I listen to kroc. I listen to Loveline.

[B]

Yep, yep. Who was the main host? What was his name again?

[A]

So first, I mean, going way back. Way back. Jed the Fish, probably like Jed the Fish or the Swedish Eagle or somebody. And then also Scott Mason, I think, anyway, these old names. And then at some point, Dr. Drew came in. And then at some point, the Poor Man.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Came in. That's right.

[B]

The poor man and Dr. Drew.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And the Poor man was a big deal, and Loveline was a big deal. And then Ricky Rackman replaced the poor man because the poor man. The poor man. Poor man got into it with Kevin of Kevin and Bean, or Bean of Kevin and Bean. And he gave out his home address and he told people to go to his house, like, in the middle of the night. And a bunch of people showed up at this guy's house at, like, you know, 1:00am did he hate him or.

[B]

Was he just trying to be funny?

[A]

You know, radio is weird. Radio is filled with just weird kind of broken souls, you know, like fucked up. They're not really comedians, they're not really actors. They're not really in show business, but they're sort of in show business. But people know them. They're just a weird group. And I don't know what it is, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back. And then Poor man got relieved. And then Ricky Rackman from MTV and Headbangers Ball and everything took over for Poor man. And then he did it for, like, three years. And then they put me and Ricky in the same room for a while, and that didn't work out, that he felt like I was trying to take his job.

[B]

So you can't. When you first came in, it was Ricky Rackman that was doing. So you came in after Poor Man.

[A]

I came in after poor man.

[B]

But Dr. Drew was still on when you came.

[A]

Dr. Drew was always there. Dr. Drew did it for free. It was on Sunday nights only. And he did it for free for a decade. And then they went to five nights a week and then they syndicated it. And I showed up right before they syndicated it.

[B]

Oh, okay. All right.

[A]

And it was the weird, weird power of radio back in the day.

[B]

And how long did you do it for?

[A]

I did it for a decade. Damn.

[B]

That's a long time.

[A]

I loved it. I love talking. I love this. You know, I loved expressing myself. Like, to me it was the greatest gig in the world. I didn't really even like tv. TV was like makeup and get dressed and hit your mark and face the camera and don't screw your lineup and all that. This was like lock ourselves in a dark room and just talk all night. Yeah, it was what I wanted to do.

[B]

And then you went into the man show right after that. Right from that.

[A]

No, I was doing the man show simultaneously with that. I never quit my late night radio job. I had Crank Yankers and Man show and Loveline, the TV show on mtv. I had tons of jobs. I just kept doing my job at night. I would, I would have to leave man show shoots and go to Loveline. Like, I'd go, I gotta once in a while we'd shoot something that went late or something. And like at 9 o' clock at night, I'd go, I gotta go, I gotta go. I gotta go to Culver City and do it.

[B]

When you left man show, you and Jimmy Kimmel, as you know, Comedy Central kept it going. And then they brought in Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope. Well, I got brought in too, by force. Joe forced them to hire me as a writer.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

Oh, it was really bad. It was really.

[A]

Why? So you're working, you're a jiu jitsu guy at that point, like world class. Where'd the writing come in?

[B]

Well, I was a student at that point. I was a strip club DJ for like 10 years.

[A]

Oh, really? Really?

[B]

Yeah, while I was doing Jiu jitsu. Cause teaching Jiu jitsu, what I do now, what pays the rent now, that was never the plan. The plan was to take over the music business. I thought I was gonna be this music mogul. I thought I was gonna be this rock star music producer guy. And so that's what I was always aspiring to. I was working just odd jobs just until I got that record deal. So working the strip club was this, oh, what a great job until I get the record deal. And then I started doing martial arts early, like, like in early in the early 90s, just to stay in shape, just so I wouldn't be a fat rock star. So, you know, I don't want to be a fat rock star. There was this guitar player, famous guitar player named Ingve Malmsteen. He was a rock star. And there was a period where he got really fat. He's not fat anymore. And he's. He's still playing, but there was a period where he got really fat and everything.

[A]

What band was he with?

[B]

Ingve Malmsteen. Is this like a. Like a virtuoso guitarist? He was in a band called Steeler, but that was like in the beginning, indie band. Then he was in a band called I Forget. But he's mainly known as a solo artist. And he got fat. And I go, yeah, if I'm gonna be, you know, playing arenas and stadiums, I don't wanna be fat. So I started doing martial arts. So I only started doing martial arts in my 20s just to stay in shape. And I always loved stand up comedy. It was like one of my favorite things to watch. I loved Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, you know, and then Martin Lawrence. Like in the 90s, I was massive In Living Color fan. And I always thought, like, man, I feel like I could write some of this stuff. I felt like I could, but I didn't. You know, I was like, I want to be a rock star. You know, but it was just like a thing that, like a side passion type of thing. And then Joe Rogan, he trained at the same jujitsu school I did. And, and this was while. When he first started, it was just after news radio because he did news radio for a few years. And in between News Radio and Fear Factor, he really didn't have anything going on. So he got really into training jiu jitsu. And I remember coming in to class and people saying, dude, there's a guy from a TV show, an actor that trains here. I'm like, oh, really? Then I'd come in and they go, that's him over there. So I never really met him at the, at the studio, but I would.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

When I was working at the strip club and I was dating strippers back in the. In the 90s, like, the main date I would take him to is take him to Sunday night at the Comedy Store to watch the open mic night.

[A]

What strip club?

[B]

The Bear Elegance by the airport.

[A]

Oh, Bear Elegance.

[B]

You ever hear of that one?

[A]

Oh, yeah, it was all by the airport. There was a Bob's Classy lady in Van Nuys. And I have had all of them.

[B]

All the Oddball.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And Midnight Rendezvous. No, not Midnight Rendezvous. I don't think of the name of it. But anyway, yeah, I. I've been to all of them. But anyway, so Rogan, you meet there.

[B]

So I met him at the. So he was. I was on a date at this comedy store and then Joe Rogan goes up on stage and I Told the girl, that guy trains at my gym. Oh, my God. So then when he got off stage, it was in the or. He comes out and I go, yo, what's up, dude? We both trained at John Jocks. He goes, oh, you trained there too? And that's where we really met. And then we started hanging out and we became friends. And he would say, dude, you should try to go on stage, man. Do an open mic night. He thought I could do it too. And I did go up a few times. A couple times I survived. But a few other times, it was a disaster. So I realized back then, I thought, wow, comedy is two things. Public speaking skills and being funny. Some people can be funny in the parking lot, but when they get up on stage and, you know, they're under pressure, they fold. And then some people have great public speaking skills. They can get up on stage and they might not even be funny, but they're so comfortable on stage, you know? So I realized, like, man, you gotta have both. And to have those public speaking skills, I was gonna have to go up like a regular comedian, like four, five, six sets a week. And I'm like. I realized, like, I can't do that. I'll just be going a whole different direction than music if I had to spend so much time getting my public speaking skills together. So I decided, you know what? I'm not gonna do stand up anymore. But I like writing. So me and Joe, we were planning on putting together a sketch comedy show. And we had, like, 30 sketches, and we would write together. And then all of a sudden, he calls me and goes, yo, comedy. Sancho wants to keep the man show going. And they heard I was pitching a sketch comedy show, so they asked me, I'm gonna do it. I go, this is the show we're gonna get. It's happening. I'm like, oh, my God.

[A]

And I. And so you were in the writers room for the man show, Season five.

[B]

Whatever season that was.

[A]

That was season five. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

It was a horrible experience, though. Cause they did not wanna hire me. They refused to hire me. Cause I had no TV experience.

[A]

Oh, Comedy Central.

[B]

Yeah. But Joe made them hire me. It got ugly. He basically said, you bring this guy in or there's gonna be problems. Cause he was already on Fear Factor. Fear Factor already had blown up. So he had no reason, really, financially, to go into a cable show when he was on the number one NBC show out there.

[A]

Yeah, it was kind of funny. I never thought about it, but especially with Fear Factor being back now with Johnny Knoxville, they used to call me, I feel like once a year for like three years. And they go, what do you think about hosting Fear Factor? And I now realize, I didn't realize it at the time. I would go, well, I was doing Loveline, probably the man show, and stuff like that. And I'd go, so what about hosting Fear Factor? Well, just kind of gauging your temperature on hosting Fear Factor. And I'd go, well, yeah, tell me about it, or I'm open to it, hypothetically, what's it entail? Or whatever. And then I wouldn't hear back from them, but then I'd hear from them a year from then and they'd go, we're asking again about you hosting Fear Factor. And what I realize now is they were just using me to get Joe to sign or get his price down or get whatever. Because what they were doing is they were probably going, adam Carolla said he'd host Fear Factor. Now you want to sign your contract or should we get Corolla to do it? And they're probably just using it as leverage to try to get him to sign because I never had any more follow up phone calls on it. It was always just, we're gonna take your temperature on hosting. But I realized they were just thinking about trying to get Joe to sign. And then later on I left the man show, and then he took over at the man show, which is kind of a weird dance.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. So they finally hired me. But day one, day one, they made it really clear that they hated me, like, within, because we came in with 30 sketches already and we put them up, me and Joe put them up on. It's, you know that their studio is right there off Santa Monica and like Highland Hollywood Center. Yes.

[A]

So that was where we were.

[B]

They took down all. They said, listen, we ain't doing those, we're writing new ones. I'm like, we spent like a year writing those and they were just like, no, we're not going to use those. And right there we realized, oh, shit, they're coming down. Like, they, they made it clear within the first half hour they don't give a fuck about me. They're just gonna hire me and they're gonna pay me, but they don't give a fuck. So after that first day, it was really bad.

[A]

Even Joe, those were the producers, all.

[B]

Of them, they all hated me because Joe made them hire me.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, there's. It's always such a weird business.

[B]

It was crazy.

[A]

I know.

[B]

So the end of that first day, Joe said, You know what? Joe goes, it's hard to write in this environment. Because that first day, they gave me some assignments to write and him too. And it was really. It was like, dude, they treated us like shit the first day. Because once he signed, they're like, fuck you. You know, you already signed, dog. You got to do whatever we say. So Joe said, we can't. This is not the right environment. We want to. We're going to work at home. We're going to work from home. And they said, go, get the fuck out of here. Work from home. So they let me. The only time I showed up to the studio was when we taped the show.

[A]

So we had. We. When we did the man show, would not let the producers of the man show come onto set. Jimmy hated the producers so much that he was like, you guys cannot show up here. You cannot be a part of this in any way, shape or form. And Comedy Central wasn't like, we did the man show autonomously. There was no producers, there was no input. There was no Comedy Central. There was no anything. We just. We did it. And that was clear. And it was weird. I mean, Jimmy's, you know, can be a little prickly sometimes. He was just like, you fuckers aren't coming near this place, and we're not doing it if you come near here. So stay the fuck back. And you're off.

[B]

Stayed away, and they stayed away, and.

[A]

They stayed away, and we did. And look, I. You know, I was like, all the time. I'm a just a dude from the Valley. I didn't get Stone. Stanley produced it. Scott Stone. We'd be like, where's Scott Stone? He's in Israel for three weeks. I'd go, I wish I was fucking somewhere for three weeks. Instead of, he's get. By the way. I know he's insulted, but he's getting paid and he's in Israel. We're the ones who are working all night on this shit, busting our hump. So I didn't. I looked as if fucking joke was on us, like they weren't doing anything. But when we left, then they got to come in and they got to produce. Oh, yeah. So the man show was never produced. It'll say, produced by Stone Stanley or produced by the fucking. Produced by. It's all bullshit. We produced it, we created it, we wrote it, we cast it, we did everything. And that's the reason it was a good show. Then we left, and then they came in and they started producing, and that's what happened. That's who you had to deal with.

[B]

Oh, my God, it was horrible. It was a nightmare. It really was. And I had quit my strip club job that I had for 10 years, and I was making good money there. And, whoa, did I regret that?

[A]

You're making good money because you get tipped out?

[B]

Yes. The girls tip you out based on how many lap dances they do.

[A]

Oh, really? That's a good gig.

[B]

It was a great gig. But when I left, I was like, fuck you guys. I'm gonna blow up. So my thing was like, we're gonna blow the show up. We're gonna parlay it into movies. And that's how I'll get my music in. I'll get my music in through the back door. So I thought, like, oh, this is it. I made it. I made it. And I was 32 years old. I thought I made it. And then within a half an hour of the day one, I'm like, big mistake. These guys are fucking assholes.

[A]

So did you guys have. You guys. Did you have a writer's room, or did you guys all just splinter off and go write remotely?

[B]

There was nine writers. There was the head writer, and then there was nine writers. And that first day, they put three guys in one room, three guys in another room. And then they gave us assignments, but I was only there working one day. And then after that, I still got paid, but I worked at home. So I had to come up with one sketch a day. That's all. And they never used. So I would write a sketch, and then they're like, fuck that, dude. They just. They just totally ignored me. They realized, okay, my checks were $939 a week. So they go, that. That's nothing. We'll just give them that money just so. Just to keep Joe happy. Yeah.

[A]

For those who want to know, like, when I did it, we had an office, and the main office was, like, me and Jimmy and Daniel. It's just the three of us in a big office. And then I'd, like, have an idea for a sketch or a bit or like a. Like a parody or commercial or something. And then I would have an assistant writer, and then I would just go up to my assistant writer's little office, and I would sit down in his office, and I'd go, here's what I'm thinking about. And then he'd start typing while I was talking. And we had a writer's room and all that. But I can't even keep track of the stuff I wrote versus them. I don't know how you do it. If you're all spread out, we had to be all under the same roof, had to have the same sort of things, had to be copacetic. We had to, like, you know, we would put out a huge cork board and just put all the bits on it and, you know, come up with all the manovations and all the shit we'd come up with. But the thing that you guys had is you had a template to begin with. Like, you had a place, a format, like a template, a template.

[B]

The juggies.

[A]

The juggies. But what I don't think anyone realizes that Stone, Stanley, who were supposed to be the producers of the man show, never really produced the man show. We produced the man show. And so when Jimmy, me and Daniel, our crew left, there wasn't anything to leave behind because they'd never done it. And that was the problem.

[B]

They just had the name. They just owned the name.

[A]

And that's it. Yeah, they just had.

[B]

What was the final straw that made you leave?

[A]

There wasn't really a final straw. Jimmy and I wanted to do the man show just because we wanted to do a show together. It was very organic. We didn't really. You know, the thing about a show, a movie or anything, it's like you just need an excuse. Jimmy and I wanted an excuse to work together, to hire the people we wanted to hire, to work with the people we wanted to work with and then. And to do the kind of comedy we wanted to do. And you can't really just call it the show. You have to, like, create something and have a format and stuff. But if you really look at the bits, it's just an excuse for me and Jimmy to do the kind of show that we think would be funny, you know, and we did it, and we did over 100 episodes. And when we got to the end, we were sort of like, we've done 100 episodes. I don't know what more like. I think for a lot of people, the goal is to just keep doing more. Yeah, but 100 episodes is enough time to say what you want to say and do what you want to do. And so Jimmy got the call to do the ABC talk show, and so we were done. He was going to go do the talk show, and the show was successful. So Comedy Central came to me and they went, continue, we want to do a fifth season with you. And I said, I'd like to go with Jimmy to go work on starting his new talk show. And they said, well, why don't you just do one more season? And I said, I'm really just gonna go because we're done. We've done 100 episodes. And they said, you can do whatever you want. You can do it alone. We could pair you. We can pair you with anyone you want. You choose. You do. They gave me the keys and they just went, do whatever the fuck you want, but don't leave. And we kept having these meetings, and I kept telling them, I'm leaving. It's not personal. They said, we'll give you a 50,000 an episode. And I said, thanks, but I'm gonna go with Jimmy. And so then I just left and went with Jimmy. And like, I said, we were like. We did 100, I don't know, eight episodes or something like that. And to me, that was like, that's enough. Cause, you know, from doing music, you have a bunch of ideas for songs in your head, you know, and then you do your first album and you get all your songs on there, and then it becomes a big hit. And then they come to you and they go, we need another album. And you're like, well, I don't really have that many songs in my head anymore. I got them all out. And then they go, well, come up with some songs. So now you're coming up with shit versus, you know, I got most of the stuff I had in my head. I got it out in the first hundred episodes. And now you're just sitting around creating something that's not really in your head. You're just like, we gotta fill this. We gotta fill 26 episodes. And I don't have any thoughts.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So at a certain point, like, it is kind of. I think it's the same with music. I had a bunch of bits that I wanted to do my whole life, and I did them. And now I'm sitting around going, I gotta come up with bits that I'm not even thinking about now.

[B]

Yeah, it's exactly like that in music. The only thing that's different, though, is with music, as far as live performance goes, people want to hear the same shit over, and they'll be mad if they don't hear the same songs over and over. But in comedy, if they hear the same jokes over, you need new material. They don't want to hear the same jokes. Maybe. Maybe they want to hear it the second time, but the third time they're done.

[A]

So you end up. That's when you befriend Joe or you and Joe become friends.

[B]

Yeah. Before the man show. Then he dragged the man show. And during that job, man, I was like, this show's gonna get canceled and I'm gonna be out of a fucking job. And I'm 32 years old and there's no record deal in sight. Fuck. You know, I never contemplated suicide, but I did understand it. But this is why people kill themselves. If I was weak, I might fucking just jump off a building because I'm like, I'm not gonna. I'm gonna have to go back to swinging a hammer. I'm gonna have to go back to waking up at 5:30 in the fucking morning. Holy shit. And then, so during, during that season, I had, in Jiu Jitsu, I had won the North American qualifier for the World Championships, it's called adcc, and it was in Brazil. So I'd won the trials and, and the trip to Brazil was right in the middle of that season. And then. And Joe, in his contract, he was coming with me, he said, during these days, during that week, I'm going to be gone. So he got that off up front because I knew I was going there six months in advance. I won the trials and then six months later, we're the World Championship. So I thought, damn, my life's going to suck. But at least I got this free trip to Brazil. Fuck, I'm going to have one at least. I didn't expect to beat anybody. I was a brown belt and everybody there were black belt world champions, including Hoyler Gracie. Who. The Gracie family are the ones that blew Jiu Jitsu up. They're the most famous family in martial arts ever. Yeah, and Hoyler Gracie was the most decorated. No one ever had even scored a point against him. He won it three times in a row. And so I went down there thinking I was just gonna get whooped, but at least I got a free vacation. And then when I get back, I. I gotta figure out my life. So I went down there and I submitted Hoyla Gracie, the guy. So then when I came back, I was like, oh, shit. A friend of mine goes, dude, quit that man. Show job and open up a school right now.

[A]

I'm like, fuck.

[B]

So that's what I did. I remember I was on the 101, pulled over, called Joe, said, Joe, thank you with all my heart for making Comedy Central hire me, but, you know, I'm fucking depressed. You know, I'm gonna. This, this is my, this is my chance to, to, to open up a school. And again, I thought I was just gonna open up a school just until I got a record deal. I didn't think, you know, I'd be where I'M at today with. With Jiu Jitsu, I thought, okay, cool, cool job. This would be a cool ass job. I teach people how to kill and protect themselves until I get that record deal. So Joe was like, he totally got it because he understood, like, how. How they treated me and what little respect they had for me. So he understood. So I just started teaching Jiu Jitsu in. In Hollywood at some boxing gym called the Bomb squad. First day, 18 people showed up. And then from there, I just built little by little. And now I have a, you know, like 220 schools that license my name around. Oh, really?

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah, so that's. That's what pays the rent. Still make music, still putting out albums, but independently. And no one wants to hear my music, but I still put it out anyways.

[A]

Well, you know, look, people should do what they feel they should do and want to do and feels good to them, whether people are watching or listening or not. You know, I don't. I never really liked it when people start qualifying things like, well, who's gonna be there? Or how much am I gonna get paid? It's like, you either fucking play music or you do comedy, or you do jiu jitsu, or you don't. You don't sit around and try to figure out who's watching, who's gonna get paid.

[B]

I'm glad I never got signed out. Now I'm glad I'm like, I don't want any part of the music business. You know, I'm glad.

[A]

But if you play music, you play music. I mean, it's like when I would go out to lunch with Jimmy back in the day, nobody paid us. We would just sit there and make each other laugh as hard as we could for the. The two hours were at lunch, but we never looked toward who's paying us or who's. He did it because he did it. I did it because that's what I did, and that's who you should be. And so if you're a person whose passion is music or your passion is comedy, you'll always win if you're doing it because you love doing it and because that's what you do. There's so many people that do it because they're looking at the end game. They want to get paid or they want to get famous or they want to get laid or whatever that is. And I would argue you're not really that into it if those are your rules. You know what I mean? It's like, what would you do? What do you do for free? What do you do on weekends? What do you do when no one's watching? If that's what you do, then that's what you're into, you know? And it's like, I'm a carpenter. I don't need it for money. I don't get paid to do it. I do it because that's what I do.

[B]

Did you build this studio?

[A]

Yeah, I did build this studio.

[B]

You did?

[A]

I built this whole place out.

[B]

Holy shit. That's awesome.

[A]

But it's what I like doing. You know what I mean? And I didn't have people watching me or filming me or anything. That's just what I do.

[B]

When you walked into the studio, when I complimented you on how good the studio looked, I swear to God, I had no idea you built this. I was impressed with this table. You made this table, too.

[A]

Did not make the table. Built. Built everything else. Did not build the table. So I'll be straight with you, okay? But people, like I said, if you love music, then you play music, and it's fine. It's like your passion. And I'm the same way with comedy and building. So you. Sorry. Getting back to you. You know, the thing about jiu Jitsu feels so intimate.

[B]

It is.

[A]

And it's, like, so close. And so, yeah, you have to. You have to.

[B]

You have to decide. It's. Is it worth it to get into these crazy positions with other men? Is it worth it to. To be able to get really good at immobilizing an attacker? Put them out, put them to sleep? Is it worth it to get really good at putting people to sleep and breaking their limbs? Is it worth it? And the people that stay say, okay, it's worth it. The people that don't do it, they're like, fuck that. This ain't worth it, dude. I'd rather get my ass kicked.

[A]

Well, now do you have. I was thinking about this the other day. So I had really uncanny balance when I was young. I mean, still kind of do. But I learned to ride a unicycle in, like, half a day or something like that. I was really good on a unicycle. And I always used to before puberty. We didn't have wrestling in my high school, but when I was poor, I just. When I was a kid, we just wrestled. We wrestled. That's all we did, because that was the only entertainment. We didn't have, like, video games or anything. And I would wrestle everyone, and I'd whip everyone all the time. But I realized it was kind of my balance that Got them. It wasn't any technique. I didn't know anything. I wasn't trained or anything. I just beat everyone because I had balance. And then sometimes I'll see, like, Jon Jones grappling with people and I'll see his legs spread out in a certain way. And I realized, oh, he has weird balance. Like, it's a balance.

[B]

Well, that's what wrestling. Wrestling, that's what it is. Wrestling is a game of balance. Like, who has. It's really who has the best.

[A]

So do you have natural balance? Cause balance is its own thing. It's like. It's a. It's like there's certain things that are like foot speed. Foot speed is its own thing. You don't get to train and run a 4, 3 40. It's a foot speed thing. Quickness is a little bit of its own thing. Having rhythm, singing voice. You know, there are things that are kind of their own thing. Balance is a kind of a thing. It's its own thing. And it's just there or it's not. You can't really teach it.

[B]

Wrestling is the sport of balance. That's all it is. Because it's, you know, you're just trying to take each other down, and the person with the best balance is going to be the hardest one to take down. That's why you see. Are you a fan of NFL at all? I'm a big football fan. And you notice that the football players that. Like Ray Lewis, for instance, he's considered probably the best or one of the best linebackers of all time. He was a high school wrestling champion.

[A]

Oh, he was.

[B]

So you think about, like, linebackers are, you know, they get blocked. That's what they. That's what the offensive players do. They block the linemen and they block the linebackers. But if you're a really good wrestler, it's going to be very hard to block a wrestler. So. Same thing with Micah Parsons. He's playing, you know, with the packers now, and he's. He was a wrestling youth phenom and he can't. It's hard to block wrestlers. Same thing.

[A]

Interesting thing.

[B]

Mason Graham, he's a defensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns. He was picked fifth last year, the fifth guy picked in the draft, and he's a wrestling champion.

[A]

That's interesting because I could always sort of out. I wasn't the biggest or the strongest, but I would get the better of almost everyone I contacted with. But it was all sort of technique.

[B]

Were you a skateboarder at all?

[A]

No, I roller skates I had. So I had weird. I had a longing for balance. Like a weird thing. Like, I was the kind of person that if we were standing around and there was a Guardrail that was 20ft long, I would jump up on it and go, I'll get on it. I'll get on it and I'll walk across it. I'll walk back. Just because, like, I had a thing where even when I was older, I had this trainer for a little bit and he said, he goes, you got really good balance. I go, yeah, we had a yoga ball. He goes, try standing on the yoga ball. I said, all right. I had to do it barefoot. Can't do it with shoes. I climbed up on it and I. I stood up on it. I just stood on it. And he went, see if you can catch this medicine ball from the yoga ball. I was like, okay. And he kind of underhanded it to me and I caught it. I was like, all right, they're back. Ten minutes later, he's firing the yoga ball at me as hard as he can. I'm catching and firing it back, but I'm standing on a yoga ball and I'm catching a medicine ball and like firing back to him. I'm 45 at this point. And he's like, you got weird, weird something balance. And I'm like, yeah, I always had that. Like, I always rode the unicycle and stuff like that. And what it does is it makes you good at stuff fast but doesn't make you an expert at stuff you can things like just competitive driving in a car. O'Reilly Auto Parts. Yeah, they're in the business of keeping your car on the road. They offer friendly, helpful service and all the knowledge you need. So if you can figure out why my car is having issues, well, then you're always going to be my first call. And that's what O'Reilly does. They figure out what the problem is. They have thousands of parts in stock and can test your battery for free in or out of the car. Need wipers, brake lights or quick fix. They've got you covered and they have the right part. Everyone who works there is knowledgeable and friendly. The professional parts people at O'Reilly, well, that's your one stop shop. If you're a DIY guy or you know your auto stuff, you can do it there or you can go online. Either go into the store, you can go online to O'Reilly Auto Parts. Am I right, Dawson? Stop by O'Reilly Auto Parts today or visit us at O'ReillyAuto.com Adam that's O'ReillyAuto.com.

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[B]

Do you ski or snowboard?

[A]

I. It was the funniest thing ever. I was saying that, I was saying to Dr. Drew yesterday, he goes, do you ski? I, I go, well, first off, nobody, nobody in Corolla family can't ski. That means you have to buy lift passes and equipment and have a car that could get up to a mountain without overheating and shit. Like, we wouldn't do that. I said to him, I said, one time When I was 16, I went skiing with someone else's family and I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I was like 16 and they just put me on skis and two hours into it, I'm going 50 miles an hour down those slopes because I got great balance and I'm fucking, I'm a speed demon and I have no regard for my personal safety. So I was just like, fuck this. I ended up getting whacked in the face and stitches in my head and stuff like that. But I was going for it. Like, yeah, I was always like, fast, speed, balance, whatever. But there was no, you know, my high school, we didn't have a wrestling team.

[B]

You would have been good at wrestling.

[A]

I would have been good at wrestling. I could throw people around all, all the time. But it was, I realized it was balance and balance is a weird built in thing. And I, I have twins and I had that board, the Bosu board or whatever, the one, the cylinder in the middle of it. You could like rock back and forth and whatever. And I would get on that thing, by the way, as an old person, I could jump up, switch feet and land on the other side facing the other direction. It's totally doable. It seems hairy. Yeah, it seems weird. Seems like you're going to kill yourself. But I could face you, hop up, sweat my feet and land on the other side, facing the other way and just go back and forth. You can do it. It's not. Seems harder. Seems like it's hairier than it, than it is because you think you're gonna eat shit. But I used to put my son on that Thing when He was like 5 years old and he'd just be like, he'd just fall over. I put my daughter on it. I could see her little hips going, like switching, like her brain was like firing her hips, you know, And I realized, oh, she's got that. He doesn't have that. But that's just a thing. Yeah, you know, it's just like kind of a built in.

[B]

It's built in and you know, just like anything, just like speed's built in and like. But you could take it to the highest level, so you know what I mean?

[A]

Oh, you could train and get better and blah, blah, blah.

[B]

I have a student who did that as a white belt. When he first started Jiu Jitsu, he would get on that cylinder like you're talking about with the board, and he would do it before class, like every time he'd show up. And now he's got like insane. That's what he's known for, is his balance is insane.

[A]

Right? Yeah, it's good. The thing about balance is it makes you better at everything and it also makes you catch on to things faster.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Like, I realized the very first time I did a competitive driving school for the Toyota Grand Prix or whatever, I just showed up. I'd never done anything like it. And they instruct you, they're gonna turn in here and do that and then whip the wheel around and then pull the E brake and we'll wet the thing down or whatever. And I did it. And they were like, oh, you've done these schools before. And I was like, I've never done this before. I just. I can follow your instructions. I realized it was the balance that made you get it, like the pit.

[B]

Team, like changing tires and stuff on these cars or driving. Driving it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. It just. I just sort of realized that balance just sort of makes you catch on to things. Yeah. A little faster and be a little bit better and understand instructions a little better, I think.

[B]

Yeah. The more balance you have, the less clumsiness you have and the less awkwardness you have. For sure.

[A]

Yeah. It's just. I'm not doing a great job of articulating it. I'm just saying balance is its own thing. It's kind of interesting and I would recommend people work on it a little bit. Get that double ended board or whatever.

[B]

Totally. People are doing that. Like they're doing. It's like a half a ball. It's like a ball. You're having a half of one and they're doing like pistol squats. Like One legged squats on them and keeping their balance.

[A]

Right, right, right, right, right.

[B]

People really work up. Balance is huge for sure. Especially for sports.

[A]

Yeah. And you can learn. I, I learned to ride the unicycle in like three hours or something. Something like that. Wasn't my unicycle. Somebody else's. But yeah, yeah, you can get you. It's, it's good. I think it's good for your head too. I think it, I think it like, I think, you know, they go, you got to have a good work life balance or good mental balance or something like that. I really think it's like literal balance. Like work on your balance a little. It's kind of good for your, it's good for your noggin too. It's not just good for wrestling or riding the unicycle or whatever. Larry Zonka, I'm told, was also a wrestling phenomenon. Who was the.

[B]

Yeah, it'll work for running backs too, because this year again, back to the Cleveland Browns. We have a rookie named Quinshon Judkins and I really like him because the guy we've had for the last couple years named Jerome Ford, same offensive line, but when Jerome Ford runs, it's different than when Quinshawn Junk Judkins runs. It's totally different. Like, whoa. There's a big difference because Judkins, it's. He's hard to bring down and he gets arm tackles don't bring him down and half ass tackles. He has great balance. And then I find out he's like a pro skateboarder.

[A]

Oh, yeah, right, right.

[B]

You know, skateboarding is like another sport that's all about balance.

[A]

Oh, yeah, surfing.

[B]

If you look at like surfing, it's all about balance, right? Can you balance on a wave? It's all about balance.

[A]

No, it's crazy. And it's really about sort of tying in the totality. Everything, every molecule is worth it.

[B]

Have you ever tried surfing?

[A]

No. I mean, I know I should. I'm not. See my promise. I was always landlocked. That's from North Hollywood. No one had any money. No one could afford a surfboard or a wet surface or driving to the hills or skiing or anything. So we all just sat around and I would then create my own little balance games. But I'd have to do it like locally. I couldn't go to surfing. I couldn't buy a surfboard. We couldn't go anywhere or do anything. I mean, how'd you grow up?

[B]

Poor? Totally. I mean, Santa Ana, that's where They, I think in the 60s, all the white people left LA and they went down to Orange County, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Mission Viejo. But then they realized, like, where are we going to put all the Mexicans? Because we need Mexicans. So they designated Santa Ana. That's where they put all the Mexicans. My grandfather raised 10 kids on manual labor cutting grass. And I cut grass for a couple of weeks too. That's. That's when I. That's when I really knew, like, oh my God, I got to be a rock star because I can't do this labor shit. I actually was a landscaper for two weeks.

[A]

Labor sucks.

[B]

I did a little roofing too. I'm like, oh, my God, I can't do this shit. I gotta make it in music. Fuck.

[A]

Well, look, it's good to find out what you don't want to do. And I think, I don't think people really get the value. And they talk a lot about exposing kids to this and exposing kids to that. You know, take them to the art museum and expose them. But expose them to a bunch of shit they don't really want to do. That's helpful too. I argue about that all the time. I go fucking get a job at McDonald's and find out what you don't want to do. I worked at McDonald's. I found out what I didn't want to do. I mean, I was. Most of what I got out of life was basically finding out what I don't want to do. I was a carpenter. I was doing manual labor and I was like, I don't want to do this. I don't want to do it for a prolonged period of time. I don't want to do it when I'm 50.

[B]

What was the first thing you did in regards to show business? Like open mic night or something or.

[A]

It was like I was doing open mics and I was doing sketch comedy. I was doing the Acme Comedy Theater Crownlings. You know, I was doing sketch in Hollywood. Yeah, I was doing sketch.

[B]

At first it was open mic nights. That was the very. Do you remember your first one?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I was open mics. I didn't, I didn't know what I was doing. Like, I didn't have my voice. I didn't, I was, I was, I was up there, like pretending to be a stand up comedian.

[B]

Were people telling, you should do stand up, you should do stand up?

[A]

No, Nobody, nobody ever told me I should do anything. No, no. I didn't get any encouragement from anybody. It was like, I mean, I shouldn't say. I mean, I don't know how bleak it was, but I felt like I was funny. Like, I felt like I had a good sense of balance. Like, I was like, I have this thing that I can do, and I know I can do this thing that's in me. I mean, you don't get paid for having a good sense of balance unless you figure out a job working with Cirque du Soleil or something like that. But it's like, it's a thing. Like, so balance is like, I have this thing I'm good at now. I don't know how the fuck I'm going to get paid to ride a unicycle. I don't know how that's going to work. But I was the same way with. I have a sense of humor. I know that now. I have no fucking idea how I'm going to get paid for having a sense of humor, but I know I have a sense of humor. And nobody encouraged me to do anything. They were just, work. Just get a job and fight to keep it. I was the one who was, like, going, no, I think there's something more. And my friends and anyone I was around was like, you know, I could remember telling them, like, look, man, I don't want to be doing this shit when I'm 50. And they were like, you're 22. Who gives a fuck? Have a beer. You know? And I was like, I get it, but I don't want to do this. I'm looking down the road a little bit. I don't want to be doing this down the road. And they're like, well, you know, life sucks and then you die. You know, Have a beer. And I was like, I'm going to go take a Groundlings class at night. And they were like, all right, well, we're going to have some beers and have a good time and get late. Yeah. And I was like, you guys stay back. Have some beers and get laid. I'm going to the fucking Groundlings, and I'm gonna give them money I don't even have for these classes, and I'm gonna drive my truck over there. I don't even have car insurance, and I'll give them money for these classes. And they all wanted. They all didn't get what I was doing at all. And so, no, there wasn't any form of encouragement from my family or from them or from anybody. Yeah. Weird.

[B]

I started Jiu Jitsu when I was 24.

[A]

Wow. That's old.

[B]

That's when. Yeah. That's when I moved. I was already in Hollywood for a couple years. So my family and all my friends in Santa Ana, I was. They never ever looked at me as a fighter or like anybody that was tough or I was always a pussy. I cried over anything. I was always. I was never like this tough guy. Even though I wrestled, I never. I wrestled a couple years in high school, but I never considered that martial arts at all. I thought it was just one on one football. I thought fighting was like, you have to be on your feet. So once they started, now I'm in Hollywood and every now and then I'd, you know, I'd come down for Christmas or Thanksgiving and then they found out that I was doing jiu jitsu, but they're like, oh my God, he's taking self defense classes. Like, yeah, right. You know, they never. Then I started competing and they just could never accept that, like, I was getting good at a martial art, you know, it wasn't until after I went to Brazil and beat Hoyla Gracie, then they're like, wait a minute, you're actually kind of good at this. I'm like, I've been doing it for nine years, but I just had this reputation of being such a big pussy that it was very hard for them. Like, my uncle called me once and he worked at a auto parts place and he said, yo, one of my co workers here, he said, his son has your book on martial arts. I'm like, yeah, because I really didn't talk about it. I've written a few books on martial arts. And they can't believe, like, what, what do you know? I'm like, I don't know. They keep paying me. I don't know. I'm just gonna do this till I get a record deal, but it's a cool job until, you know, I get signed.

[A]

I don't even. I never really tried to fully explain to my family what I was doing. They sort of knew, but not really, but they just, they were. Nobody in my family had cable tv, so they didn't possess cable tv. And the only way you could find me was on cable tv.

[B]

Did you ever move to Hollywood or you just stayed in the Valley the whole time?

[A]

I lived in the Valley basically my whole life. And then I moved to La Canada because I built a gym called the Bodies in Motion where I was an instructor at a gym, but it was a boxing gym and that was in locking the out. And the gym was like in Pasadena or something. So I moved, rented a room, opened up, you know, like, roommates, rented house kind of stuff. And then the first house ever got was up in the Hollywood Hills below the Hollywood sign.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, it was great.

[B]

Is that the middle of man? Was that man show money?

[A]

I. No, that was probably Loveline money.

[B]

Ooh. They were paying that good.

[A]

Well, I owed the IRS money. I had no money. And I was like, I literally owed the IRS money. I had to give payments of, like, I don't know, 20 bucks a month or something to the IRS. I can't remember what it was, but I got into radio and I started making money in radio. And then I did, like, one season of Loveline on mtv, but we didn't know if it was getting picked up for another season or whatever. And I just hauled off. The second I paid off the irs, and the second I'd saved up a down payment, I just immediately bought a house up in the Hollywood Hills. A junker. I mean, a cool old bones, but it was a broken down old house. And. And everyone's like, you barely in show business. Like, you've been doing this for 10 minutes. Like, how do we know? You don't know where your money's coming from. You don't know where. If you're gonna get another season, you don't know anything. And I was like, I don't care. I'm doing it. And I just bought this house up there. It was 350 grand for a house under the Hollywood sign.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Back then, that's cheap. I know. And it needed a lot of help, but it needed a lot of rehab. But I was a carpenter, so I was like, oh, I can do.

[B]

Spent a lot of time fixing it up.

[A]

I did. I spent a lot of time fixing it up, and it turned out pretty cool. And it's probably worth. I don't own it anymore, but it's probably worth like two and a half million bucks today. But the point is, I was just like, listen, I'm going for it. And that house. I saw that house. I'd only looked at, like, two or three houses. And I said, I'm getting this. And everyone said, you're not. You haven't looked at enough houses. And I said, I've been looking at houses my whole life. I just haven't had any money. I'm working on every. I worked on everyone's fucking house. I've seen everyone's house. I live in neighborhoods. I'm looking at houses my whole life. I just don't have money now. I have money, and I've seen enough houses and I want this house. So I was always kind of like, I'm betting on me and I'm moving forward. I'm doing this.

[B]

That's awesome, man. That's one thing I haven't bought is a house. Looked at a bunch of houses, but, man, it just seems like we just. We're always getting outbid. It's crazy. And there's only been two houses that we weren't outbid. And, like, the owners were like, take it, take it, it's yours. And then it was an escrow, and we did the inspections, and one of them, the foundation, was garbage. And we had a. We were gonna have to spend another 150k redoing the foundation. And then another one. We found out it was in Granada Hills, I think it was. And it was next to the. It was too good to be true. It was like, a lot of space and like, whoa. How come we're the only ones qualified for this? Doesn't make any sense. We kept. We keep getting outbid on every other one. And then we. Look, we did some research, and there was a Rocketdyne, which is like, some company that make. Makes propulsion stuff for NASA, and they had an accident there years ago. A lot of people got brain cancer in that area. So that's.

[A]

I started like, oh, shit.

[B]

We knew it was too good to be true, so we had to pull out of that one. And then since then, you're just like, you know what? It's not a good time to buy right now.

[A]

For some reason, I know you're into. I don't know, will we call them conspiracy theorists? Theories, I don't know, coincidence theories. Coincidence theories. I gotta tell you, I would say if you asked me pre Covid about any of these things, I'd be like, ah, no, no, no, no. After Covid, I'm like, okay, all right, all right. I'm much closer to the tinfoil hat. I tell people, I don't have a tinfoil hat. It's a tin foil yarmulke. It's not as big as a hat, but it's still made out of foil, and it's still in my head. And now I'm just starting to realize everything seems to be about money. Everything's just like, follow the money. Like, everything ends up just being money.

[B]

Money in control.

[A]

In control.

[B]

People in power. They spend all their time doing things that will keep their power. No one wants to lose their power. So whatever it takes to keep the power. It's just the human condition. And it seems like this world is Run by evil forces. It doesn't seem like good people run, are in control of the world. It seems like it's evil.

[A]

I'm trying to always trying to sort of negotiate that in my head. Like when I sort of think about politicians and people like, is George Soros evil or does he just have a way of looking at life that's sort of different than I might look at life? Or even like Gavin Newsom, like he's been in here, I've interviewed him. He has a 10 cent head and he's kind of a sociopath. But is he bad? Like, is he evil or does he just have a bunch of fucking ideas that end up causing very negative outcomes? Because at a certain point people get killed with shit policy, you know, But I can't figure out, like, what's the end game because they end up kissing their kids good night every night. They're family oriented and they like music and what is it, you know, like, who is evil? Like, who are we talking about here? And there's people that, you know, people on the left think Trump is evil, and then people on the right think Obama's evil. But are they evil? Everyone has kids and wants to drink a glass of wine and watch a sitcom, like at night. What is it?

[B]

I think it's just a combination of a couple things. Keeping your power, money. There could be a lot of compromising going on and blackmailing going on. That's how, that's how, that's how you know you can take a good guy who loves his family, loves his kids, but man, he got caught some stuff and now he's got on him and now he's got to listen to what they say, you know, that, that's generally how you know you would run an organization that was built on acquiring as much power as possible. Just like you take it down a street level. That's how gangs run. Gangs, Gangs. Like if you want to join a gang in a general sense, you're gonna have to do something really bad that they have something on you. Like if you kill someone and they see that you got a body on you now, oh, they could trust you now. They know because you got a body. And what are you gonna do? You're gonna tell on us you got a body. So I think there's a lot of that. It's just mafia stuff, like mafia tactics. I think the way the cartel runs in Mexico and in the United States too, I think there's a bigger cartel that is using the same style of tactics.

[A]

So you think of the Obamas, and you just go, what's going on? To have money, they have power. They have influence. But the weird thing about a lot of these people is I never hear them saying certain things like, it'd be great if Obama. It'd be great if both Obamas just said, listen, we're not living in a racist country. Now, everyone get the fuck to work. It's fine. It's an even playing field. Like, let's all do this. You don't have to worry about that. But they never do. It's always just sort of hustle. Like, it's always the same conversation I hear from them.

[B]

Yeah, but it's the people that are in power. There's a reason why they're in power. They made some, they got some. They have a job to do. And if they didn't want to do the job, they would not be in power. So the people with the power in this world, they're really smart. They know how to manipulate the masses. With psyops. There's psyops going on all the time. And the news is basically just propaganda.

[A]

Well, yeah. I mean, take something like Covid. Like, I knew something was going on, so I knew something was wrong with COVID super early.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I pointed it out and I got vocal about it. And it struck me that there was a pattern. And the pattern was sort of interrupted, and I knew something was missing. Like, for me, like, I'm pattern oriented, and I wasn't hearing the ages of the deaths, and they were keeping the ages out of the news. And it bothered me and it bumped me. And so I would start talking about it. And so I caught on early that this was something. And then it was like lab leak versus wet market and all this stuff. And also, it's interesting. It's all stuff I was yelling into the microphone about. But whenever there's a pandemic or something like aids, they always go to Africa. Because what I'm saying is AIDS is relatively bad in the United States, but it's. It's horrible in Africa. Right. Like, everything's always worse in Africa. So they always go to Africa if there's something going wrong with it.

[B]

It all depends on what you think AIDS is.

[A]

Oh, well, now we're getting really deep. But I'm just gonna say I didn't hear any Covid talk out of Africa. There was no discussion. There was what's going on in Spain, what's going on in Italy, and the.

[B]

Presidents in the countries in Africa that opposed the COVID mandates, they got killed.

[A]

Oh, really? I didn't hear.

[B]

I think that was three of them. They got killed. They were against it.

[A]

They weren't. So I didn't hear any story, any horror stories about Africa. And then I realized it's because they're all young. It's because they're all fit. Like, they're not heavy, they're not old. And a lot of them are on hydroxychloroquine. So they're on something already. And they're young and they're fit. And that's why it's not decimating that population. But I had things that were like, indicators to me that made me think, this is bullshit or this is going. What's going on now? I don't know. Was it all just about an election year? Like, what was pushing Covid? Like, and how did all the news agencies get bought in and corrupted? Is that all pharmaceuticals?

[B]

I don't know for sure. I wasn't in the meetings. But it's obvious that a lot of countries were working together on this, that were in lockstep. There was a plan, and they were talking about it like, people like, you know, deep in the rabbit holes, myself included. I mean, we saw this coming before. We're like, damn, are they going to do a pandemic? Are they going to do a pandemic? They're going to do it. Check this out. They already started. They're gonna do a pandemic. Like a fake one. I think it was all fake. I don't think that. I think it was just the flu. You know, I just. People had the exact same symptoms. It was the exact same thing. And then I think it was all fake. They just hijacked the flu and. Because if this was real, Jiu jitsu would have been wiped out. We were the opposite of social distancing. And we never stopped. I have over 200 schools worldwide. We didn't have one person die. And we're doing the opposite of what they told us to do. We're sweating and dripping every eight min. New man. And we just. A new dude. A new dude just sweating. Not just getting close, but squeezing as hard as you can and not one death. And I mentioned that to Dr. Peter McCullough. He's like, you know, super anti the jab. But he. He thinks it was like a real thing.

[A]

And he thinks what was a real thing?

[B]

He thinks Covid was real. And so I asked him on Alex Johnshaw. I go, then why didn't. Nobody in jiu jitsu, nobody in the ufc, nobody in NFL, nobody in any sport. How come nobody in Jiu Jitsu? How come nobody in my schools died? And we did the opposite. And he said, because you developed immunity. I go, if that's true, then why didn't the beginners die? The beginner should have died. So you sign up for Jiu Jitsu, and then you're immune. Why didn't they just tell everybody? Sign up for Jiu Jitsu? As soon as you sign, you're immune. Nobody died.

[A]

It never affected Young and healthy and strong. The flu kills old people.

[B]

Old people that have four comorbidities, and that's what they found at the end of the day. They found it. And then nobody died of the flu for two years.

[A]

Right? Right.

[B]

Come on. Then the PCR tests are bullshit. They're not checking for viruses. It was all bullshit. The guy who invented the PCR test, he said it was bullshit. He said, Doctor, Dr. Fauci's full of shit. He said it was all bull. The tests were bullshit. Like, you got Covid, and you weren't even sick. They go, you got Covid. I'm like, I guess I get Covid, but I'm not even sick.

[A]

So did we just mobilize? Like, so you go, so then what happens? So you go, all right, so somebody comes up with the phrase black lives matter. And then the next thing you know, Kmart has an aisle dedicated to black lives matter. Because they're just mobilizing. They're just doing what they do. The people who make masks. I was literally. I was leaving a hotel this morning. I looked down, and I saw that round sticker that said safe distance or Stand here or whatever. That I know. But it's good business for the people who print those things and make those stickers. And it's a good business for the mask people. It's good business for Purell, and it's good business for cnn. Like, is everyone else just following in on the business side of it?

[B]

Yeah, that's definitely happening. But I think the people with the power, call them whatever you want. The elite, Illuminati, Deep state, whatever you want to call them, it doesn't matter. The people running this shit, they're not part of a country. They're part of the whole world. And they're all working together. And it's probably. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't if you had them all in one big room. I'm pretty sure international bankers will be in there. You know, I'm pretty sure, like, whoever owns, like, the biggest media companies and newspaper publications, like, the biggest, like the big ones. I'm sure they'll be in that room.

[A]

So is this sort of like climate change and that? There's just tons of people who profit from this shit.

[B]

Oh, bullshit.

[A]

I know it's all bullshit, but they're just so much money. It's so much money. Like, you take a look, you take something like climate change and you go, okay, that's trillions and trillions of dollars. Nothing ever comes out the other end. It's basically the end. You know, the non governmental, they wanted.

[B]

The carbon tax, right?

[A]

Right.

[B]

Oh, that was. Whoo. That got us closer to world government. The ultimate goal. The ultimate goal. And it's always been this. Even back in Roman times, the ultimate goal was one world government.

[A]

Right. They're always pushing for this. Like the Paris Climate Summit and stuff, the accord. We're all going to join the un. We're all going to join the Paris Climate Summit. Like, we're all going to join.

[B]

Like they really care. Oh, they care so much. Why the hell are you guys spraying chemtrails everywhere?

[A]

You.

[B]

You claim it. That's the real climate change. The climate change. They're causing it.

[A]

Yeah. So it's like, you know, they fly privately to Davos and do the fucking big climate change thing and all this. Yeah, I know, but it's kind of on us as citizens because when I started mouthing off about COVID super early on, everyone just attacked me. And I'm like, you fucking pussies. You fucking cowards. What the fuck are you attacking me for? I'm. I'm trying to sp. A little truth around here and you're all coming at me. And by the way, you don't work for Pfizer or Upjohn. You're just a citizen. And you're using your voice to attack another citizen who happens to be truthful about this. And I'm speaking up about it.

[B]

They're defending Big Pharma. Unbelievable.

[A]

Fucking, it's like, it's pathetic. By the way, people wanna know. And I'm online calling these people cowards and pussies every 10 minutes. Fuck you. You deserve everything you get. You fucking cowards. You did this. And if you don't want to do it, then fucking apologize and shut up when the next thing comes down the pike. Sit it out. Fucking know it all. Yeah, but you fucking cowards and pussies, you caved to this because you were scared. Not of COVID You're scared of the mob. They all were scared of the fucking mob and the big you know. You know, I had Newsweek writing an article about me and shit like that. They're all fucking cowards. They're all wrong. They never retract anything. They were wrong about everything. But I don't know if they're just wrong or they're just lying or whether they attack Joe Rogan about horse paste or whatever the fuck that is.

[B]

They're all working together. They're all. It's like the Mafia. It really is.

[A]

Right. But you'll just cash out your dignity for nothing, like Sanjay Gupta. You just fucking cash your reputation, your dignity for nothing for a couple of bucks, a fucking paycheck from cnn. It's sad.

[B]

He got eviscerated, though, on Joe Rogan's podcast.

[A]

Well, he should have.

[B]

That was incredible.

[A]

Well, first off, when you're lying, it's really hard to wiggle your way out of it. You know what I mean? When you're just fucking lying. And that's all he did, and that's all CNN did, and that's all Newsweek did to me. Fucking attacking me. I told everyone there were. I sent a tweet out pretty early saying, look, the only. The only people dying of this thing are old people and sick people. And the rescue, just like the flu, rescue pussies got played just like the flu. And everyone fucking turned on me.

[B]

All they did is put the flu on the bench and they took over and they made up some new shit and all that, in my opinion, all that gain of function research thing at these virology labs and go, oh, look, they created. I'm like, in my opinion, they didn't create shit. If they could create, if they did, oh, man, what a terrible job you did. You got the same numbers as the flu. You go, what a terrible job. What a terrible job you did. But to me, they're just. In my opinion, I think all those emails and all that stuff, or the money's being. Money's just being stolen. They're not actually working on trying to create a virus that could kill a bunch. They wish. They want people to believe that they're doing that. They want it. That's why they push it down now. They go, because they wanted you. They want. In the beginning, they wanted everyone arguing between what? Did it come from a bat or did it come from an evil scientist? Some people say, oh, it came from an evil scientist. Look, there's money going to virology labs. And then they go, no, we got to really believe that it came from a bat. They wanted you to argue because both of Them, both of them basically imply that it's real.

[A]

Right.

[B]

It's real. And that you're gonna need the vaccine. So whatever one you believe, you're gonna need the vaccine instead of, dude, it's just the flu.

[A]

Yeah, listen, again.

[B]

The homeless would have been wiped out. They say the homeless would have been. They go, why didn't the homeless get wiped out? Oh, because, again, like the jujitsu thing. Because they're immune. Go, wait a minute. So you either wash your hands 10 times a day or you don't wash at all and you'll be fine. That doesn't make any sense.

[A]

I know.

[B]

That doesn't make any sense. Again, the homeless would have been wiped the fuck out. They would have been the first to go, and Jiu Jitsu would have gone. If I would have had two people die of COVID on me, I would have just. I would have quit. I would have said, oh, shit, this is real. But it's not real. Nobody died. Not one person.

[A]

No. Not one healthy person.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

That was sweating on each other and smashing each other. Listen, we would have all been dead if that was real.

[A]

I said this, we're nuts. But again, it's not the Illuminati. It's the neighbors who enforced all this shit. We didn't have to do it. You cowards made this happen. Impossible. It's mostly women.

[B]

But it will never happen again. They can never do it again.

[A]

It was not going to work unless it didn't work with me the first time. It's not going to work the second time. They're going to try.

[B]

They've already tried, though, and it didn't work. They've tried to bring it back like two or three times and just nothing. Crickets, right?

[A]

Yeah. You fucked up your entire reputation.

[B]

So it's weird in like a metaphoric way. That fake pandemic was like a vaccine for a real pandemic. You know what I mean?

[A]

Good point. To go out on the podcast, look into it with Eddie Bravo. Also going to be at Hyenas in Dallas, Texas, coming up with Sam Tripoli. Good.

[B]

Yeah. We're going to do Houston and Dallas end of April. Go to Sam tripoli.com for tickets and.

[A]

10Th Planet Jiu Jitsu as well. Good to see you, Eddie Bravo.

[B]

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

[A]

We'll take a quick break. Be back with Alicia Kraus in the news right after this. American financing. Well, what if you could delay your next to mortgage payments? Imagine having that extra cash in your pocket. Just. Well, we just passed the holidays. But a lot of people did a little spending and you need a little extra cash in your pocket. If money's tight, groceries, gas bills piling up, you're not alone. Most people put that on a credit card and those rates are crazy. They're insane. 20, even 30% American financing can help you use your home equity to pay off that debt. They offer rates in the low fives and salary based mortgage consultants help you restructure your loan. No upfront fees. Customers average Saving is about 800 bucks a month. That's like 10 grand. It's like an arrays without switching jobs, just getting a $10,000 raise. That's how much that adds up to be American financing. Am I right Dawson? Call now before it's too late. American Financing 866-889-5154 that's 866-889-5154 visit americanfinancing.net Adam Huel well, I'm a busy guy, always filming the podcast, always on the road, always doing standup. So I like to get my protein goals hit in an easy, convenient way. And that's why I started using Huels High protein starter kit. It's a combo of ready to drink bottles and black edition powder. I actually just got off the road and I take the powder with me when I travel. Ready to drink has 35 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, gluten free and no fake junk on days at home. Well, I go to the powder in some water, just shake it up in a bottle, put a little protein in there, same nutrients, same great taste right there. Just put the powder in there. Having both keeps me consistent when life gets a little chaotic. Each one cost under five bucks, which is cheaper than a lot of takeout I'd probably grab. And it's a lot better for you. It's Huel, right Dawson if you're focusing on protein right now or just trying to feel a little more put together, this bundle really helps. Limited time offer Get Huels full high protein starter kit today with our exclusive offer of 20% off online with our code [e-mail] Adam20 new customers only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show. In the spirit of Murrow Jennings Cronkite, here's another great moment in local news.

[B]

Yes, this was a huge letdown.

[C]

This was my Christmas present and I got a loss.

[A]

I'm feeling two of two things.

[C]

A I want A.J. brown packing his bags and I want.

[B]

Him somewhere else that is not here.

[C]

I love You AJ but like, you can't make those drops in that game. And I also want Kevin Petullo flipping burgers at like the local McDonald's or something. I don't care.

[A]

Why do you say that?

[C]

Whenever he's an offensive coordinator, it's like he's flipping burgers. One side he's cooking. One half he's cooking and the other half is completely raw.

[A]

That's a great moment in local news. Now back to the Adam Carolla show. Kids talking Eagles. Yeah, I was performing all weekend and the games were always on and I'd have to leave with four minutes left in the fourth quarter to go out on stage and have no idea how.

[C]

The game, what happened.

[A]

All of them ended and there were mostly all barn burners, man. Parody. Amazing. All right, Alicia Krause has news. I have a vlog installment which is my one year anniversary of the fires in Malibu, Palisades and Altadena. And so I got a little one minute trailer to play you guys, but you can go to amcroll.com and just check out the. Again, it's the 30. It's about 30 minutes long, but it's the one year anniversary of nothing getting done. But I'll play the clip. All right, so the four major caissons on the outside of the seawall are where the house is going to go. The seawall is on the caissons underneath it. And these things go down about four stories into the ground. And again, if you look on top of the caissons, Nissans that form the sea wall, there's no rebar sticking out. So they're not going to try to tie those tops in. These have 22 inches of rebar sticking out because they are going to tie those in with horizontal concrete forms that are called bond beams. So all those are going to be tied together. You can see it in their neighboring structure. You can see, see the caissons coming up and the Bond beam is going across the top. And once that Bond beam goes across the top, probably three feet high, probably another 30 yards of concrete just in this front Bond beam, then they'll build on top of that. So basically that scene in Planet of the Apes where Charlton Heston saw the Statue of Liberty, that's what'll be here in 2000 years. Nothing else will be here. He'll just be staring at this. You damn dirty coastal commission. All right, all right. So it's crazy. I don't know. I get going the regulation, people. It's the regulation. It's a weird thing because when you own something property, and then somebody from the city comes over and goes, hey, you gonna do some work on this property? You go, yeah. You put a chain link fence around that oak tree at the top of the hill and you go, I don't wanna do that, it's my property. And they go do it or you don't get your permit. And people sort of go along with it, but it's stupid stupidity. But it's the most intrusive a government can be.

[C]

So I'm gonna confess to something. I hope that the statute of limitations are up, but it's one of the times I said, eff it to Uncle Sam. Specifically here in la, our little Brussels Griffin died toward the end of COVID and my husband was out of town for work and the country girl and.

[A]

Me came out your Brussels Griffin as.

[C]

Like, they're a cute little dog that looks like an Ewok.

[A]

Uh huh.

[C]

And so I called my girlfriend that has a farm in Colorado and I was like, hey, how should I properly bury this thing in my yard? So I waited for the girls to go to bed. They all said goodbye to the dog, they all cried. And I wet the ground, dug a hole, did everything she told me to do. Buried the dog, go inside, pour myself a glass of wine. So it's mama's time to cry over the dead dog now. Googled it. Guess what it's illegal to do in the city of la.

[A]

It's illegal to do everything in la. I don't think people really.

[C]

And I literally was like, it was one of the times in my life I said the F word aloud. I was like, like, seriously, F it. This is my yard. This is my yard. This is my dog.

[A]

It's my dog's car.

[C]

Why am I gonna pay some vet $1000 to cremate him?

[A]

It's so, you know, I was. It's so you're fucking everyone with your big fucking government. I was doing shows in Colorado and I was doing a bit where I was talking about the masterpiece cake baker and the guys out of Denver, Colorado. And look, I think we can distill my world and their world and your world and the progressive world down to this case, this situation. Like, if you want. How do I feel about this? How do you feel about this? It's right there. The guy ran a small business and he employed people and he paid his taxes and he created a product that people in the community consumed. It's like, you want this guy? By the way, this guy's not the enemy. City of Denver compared to all the other state of Colorado. You have people fucking ripping off the government all day long. But you've decided that this guy is the enemy, which is number one. Like the homeowners, the taxpayers, the people that keep the lights on. We're not the enemy. Leave us alone. So the gay couple comes in. They tell him to bake them a gay wedding cake for their marriage. He says, I can't do it. And the city and the state. And then a heterosexual couple wants him to do a transition cake, and they sue him. And it literally goes to the.

[C]

He can't win. He keeps winning in court.

[A]

It goes to the Supreme Court. You're bankrupting a guy who just says, I'm religious. I'll bake anyone anything. But I know I'm not baking a gay wedding cake because it's against what I feel my religion would dictate. Okay? Go across the street and city and state. Don't get involved. You should not be involved with this at all. It's his prerogative. And by the way, you can go get a cake anywhere and that'll be that. But I was, though. It's something that's driven me nuts. It drives me nuts. But I was doing a show, and a guy who worked for the Masterpiece Cake baker, he came up to me and was like, we're doing stuff. Meet and greet after the show, signing autographs or whatever. And he said, you know, this thing had to go to the Colorado Supreme Court. Do you understand this, Dawson? You ready to get pissed? Yes. You want to know what the Supreme Court said? He is no longer allowed to bake wedding cakes. Not gay wedding cakes. No wedding cakes.

[C]

No wedding cakes.

[A]

They've dictated that this baker, and they go, that's 65% of his business. You're not allowed to do this. People, I don't know what you think or what you want, but how much bigger do you want government to be? Bigger do you want fucking government to be? You fucking retard sheep imbeciles. How much bigger do you want government to be? You want the government dictating to this small business owner who he can make his cakes for? That's what you want.

[C]

They want it to be so good, right?

[A]

Because.

[B]

You'Re a hero.

[A]

You're a hero. You're all fucking heroes, okay? The difference between me and them is that, yeah, that's it. They're all for it. My mom and everyone she knows would have loved to shut this guy's business down. I don't give a fuck. And by the way you're the same people that want a women's only gym and a black dormitory on the college campus and black graduation ceremony. So are you for segregation or what are you for? Yeah, well, no, because they wanted in.

[C]

The women's only gym. If they identified us, right, the end.

[A]

Result'S gonna be government cake. Government cake.

[B]

I know.

[A]

Shut the fuck up, everyone. I can't believe you people are fighting. It's not good. And they make you eat it. You're fighting for this. This is what you want.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

You applaud this.

[C]

That's what they want.

[A]

What the fuck happened to everybody? They don't want me to be able.

[C]

To bury my dog. They don't want you to be able to, like, say, no, I'm not using a chain links fence to tie up that oak tree. They want, you know, Somali images to defraud the government for this.

[A]

Growing up, we had two, two rules as kids. No crybabies, no tattletales. Yeah, if we just got back to that, we'd all be good. All right, what do you got for the news?

[C]

So did anybody watch the Golden Globes on Sunday night?

[A]

I was working.

[C]

You were working?

[A]

Yes.

[C]

I liked Nikki's act. Some buddies of ours in the conservative podcast world didn't love it so much, but it wasn't too bad. She had one bit where she talked about CBS being like, the top editor. And I thought it was joke about how when they edited the Kamala Harris, his interview, right? But Shapiro and Ruben and others read it as a joke of, like, no, not liking Barry Weiss over at CBS News. Now, it is a funny.

[A]

You know, it's a funny thing about the left. They did the same thing with CBS as they're doing as they did with X. Listen, you guys had it your way. You got to fucking lie and use this platform and lie the whole time. And then somebody else got hold of it and went, look, look, we're gonna open it up. And now you guys are all crying like stuck pigs. We don't get to lie anymore. Yes, you don't get to lie anymore. Bari Weiss just wants to tell the truth, and Elon Musk just wants the truth. You guys used to control what the truth was, and now you're pissed because you don't get to control it anymore.

[C]

What the truth is.

[A]

Right. Which is kind of telling, but that's just what it is now. So you don't get to cry about it.

[C]

But we're the bad guys. Yes, we're the bad guys. Okay, so comedian Wanda Sykes Mark Ruffalo, Ariana Grande, a few other people, they were wearing their Ice out pins on the red carpet because this is the new thing. And then Mark Ruffalo is also wearing his Be good pin. Wanda Sykes, though, decided to go after Bill Maher. I guess she doesn't like his tone of comedy. This is pretty telling.

[A]

And that's the other thing, too. God forbid, Bill Maher just tell the truth a little bit and they get angry. All right, here we go. You give us so much, but I would love a little less.

[C]

Just try less.

[A]

Bill does not tell like this. Bill.

[C]

A little less. A little less of his type of truth in comedy.

[A]

I don't even know what that joke is, really.

[C]

I don't think it is a joke. I think that's the laugh. Is everybody there feels compelled to laugh because it's their own people?

[A]

Was she accepting or presenting an award?

[C]

She's presenting.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

She was scripted. She wanted less.

[C]

She. She also. We have another video of her talking about. Oh, yeah, this is great. She's talking about how horrible the government is too.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah, here we go.

[B]

The pin.

[A]

Be good.

[B]

Tell me about it.

[C]

Yes, of course.

[B]

This is for the mother who was murdered by ICE agent. And it's really sad. And, you know, I know people are.

[C]

Out marching and all to.

[B]

And we need to speak up. We need to be out there and shut this rogue government down because it's.

[A]

Just awful what they're doing to people.

[C]

You could tell she didn't know her name, the mother.

[A]

Also. You idiots left the border wide open for four years and a whole bunch of people came over. And now we have to figure out who came over here and mop up the mess that you guys made. And you're angry about it, but I don't know, what's the alternative?

[C]

I've had this. I'm sure you have had dinners and conversations with liberal center right leaning friends over the last week about Renee Goode's death. And you cannot, I think, as a normal human being, look at that and think it's. Yeah, totally good. Glad she's dead. She wasn't a gang banger. She wasn't a cartel member. She was just supportive of those people. And it is a. That is the definition of a tragedy. But I think what frustrates me is these same people that are standing up for her don't recognize, oh, the drug, gun and human trafficking of innocent girls that's happening at the southern border. Like, do they know the names of those women that are, like, dragged over here to Be sex slaves and put up on only fans by like coyotes and cartel leaders. Like where are the pins for them?

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They don't. They're fucking dumb shits. They're very convenient. And somebody tweeted out this story, which I was on it in 2017, cuz I forgot about this story that took place in Minnesota. It was another woman being shot to death by an officer. And nobody gave two shits, by the way. These people never give a shit because the woman was blonde and the officer shot him was black and Somali. But I'll play this clip. It's the same place, it's the same thing. It's literally apples to apples. It's a officer, it's a civilian, it's a woman. And the difference is the narrative doesn't work for them. No. She was outside of the car and he shot her from inside the car. You haven't even heard this story. Because it's crazy. I'll play the clip and then I'll play the thing. It's crazy. So do you know who the last white girl to get unalived by law enforcement in Minneapolis was before Renee Good. No, you don't. And I bet you don't know that the person who did it was the first Somali police officer in the entire United States and that they were convicted.

[B]

Of murder and it was later overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court and they.

[A]

Only served a couple years. Bet you didn't know that, did you? This story is insane. This woman was a blonde yoga instructor from Australia, I believe. Wow. She called the cops because there was like a disturbance in the alley or whatever at night, like behind her place or something. So she called the cops. The cops rolled up. She was in her bathrobe and they thought she was. And she came down to talk to the cops and the partner. Not the guy driving the car, the guy in the passenger seat. The Somali cop pulled his gun out and shot her across his partner out of the squad car and killed this unarmed woman who called the cops, who came to see the cop car in her fucking bathrobe.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Now you can talk about. There's, you know, we get into the cop killing thing all the time. It's like unarmed, you know, Michael Brown, you know, hands up, don't you?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

He's a 700 pound giant man who was wrestling with a cop, trying to.

[C]

Get him for his gun.

[A]

For his gun, his hands. Okay.

[B]

He got shot.

[A]

That's what he did. He wrestled with a cop. And then Lebron James laments the poor girl who was trying to Stab the other girl in the middle of stabbing her, got shot. But there's things you can do. Look, this latest thing, she's behind the wheels, she's asked to stop. She's asked to get out of the car. She goes forward, she hits the guy, she gets shot. You can say, well, isn't it all a bit of an overreaction? You know, George Floyd, whatever. Yes, George Floyd passed a bad check. Cops got called, wrestled with cops, got put in the back of a car, said he couldn't breathe, pulled out again, wrestled with cops again. Okay, this is none of that. This is literally you calling the cops and then seeing the squad car pull up out front of your building and you walking out and getting dusted by a cop. That. But that is way worse than any of this stuff.

[C]

I don't remember any marches you idiots.

[A]

Can go, well, she didn't deserve to. Yeah, I know the woman driving the minivan didn't deserve to die, but she was still driving a vehicle, and she did move, encroach toward a police officer and so on. And she put herself into that situation.

[C]

She was trained by leftist groups that were allegedly funded by George Soros to be put in that situation.

[A]

Right. There's lots of stand up and fight and get in front of and all your fucking bullshit nonsense, and now people are dead because, yes, you're gonna and fight, and more people are gonna get shot. She was shot by this. His name was Mohamed Noor, and he was a Somali. He was the first Somali cop. And of course, has he been funneling.

[C]

Money to terrorist groups?

[A]

The optics look horrible. Yeah, they're horrible optics for cnn. A black guy, a Somali guy, a cop, shoots a blonde woman dead. So that's why we move the fuck on. This shooting in Minnesota was 10 times more egregious than the ones Mark Ruffalo is wearing her fucking pin for. You fucking pussy. But you know what? Mark Ruffalo doesn't know about this story, and neither do any of those assholes at the Golden Globes.

[C]

Yeah, you're probably right.

[A]

Oh, they have no idea.

[C]

Do you want to listen to Mark Ruffalo talk about how horrible and dangerous.

[A]

And scary America is?

[C]

Because we have that, too.

[A]

And I made a joke. I made a mark. I don't know why it was a Mark Ruffalo joke, but. But somebody asked me when I was on the road, somebody was doing my home, doing their due diligence, and they said, you're getting a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.

[C]

Oh, that's cool.

[A]

I Know, I blocked it from my mind, but it is cool. And they said, where do you want your star? And I never, you know, I'm still being interviewed, trying to be funny, but I hadn't thought about it, you know, they said, where do you want your star? I said, well, not next to Trump's star. And they said, why not? You don't like Trump? And I said, no, I like Trump. But once a week, when they show up with the pickaxe to destroy Trump's star, they're gonna turn around, be walking back to the van, and they're gonna see my star go, oh, fuck this guy. As long as we got the ax out, we're right here. I said, I wanna be next to Mark Ruffalo, star where I won't get the pickaxe.

[C]

That's a solid call. I even know he had a star.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

Just don't put the star next to anyone who's openly conservative or a Jew in Hollywood, and you'll be safe.

[A]

If I get next. I am thoroughly convinced that if mine was next to Trump on the way back to the Prius, I would get hit.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Because the pickaxe already out.

[C]

Put it next to Mark Ruffalo where all the SJP pro Hamas types won't do anything to touch it.

[A]

That's where I want to be. Now let's hear what the great Mark Ruffalo has to say. This is for her. This is for the people in the United States who are terrorized and scared today. I know I'm one of them in this country. And what I'm seeing here happening is not America. Mark, why do you feel that this platform is still useful to spread a message like this? Listen, I want to pretend like this. I want to be here to celebrate, and I am here to celebrate, and I'm proud to have a Golden Globe nomination. But also, this is not normal anymore. And so I don't know how I could be quiet. And I'm feeling a little sick, so it's hard to BS right now.

[C]

Oh, he's sick. Wasn't he one of the ones that told us to get vaccinated and wear a mask?

[A]

It's hard to BS when you're sick. I'm at my best when I'm sick in terms of the BS they do.

[C]

I feel like when you're sick and when you're old, it's like, no filter, man.

[A]

Well, there's more BSing when you're not sick, because that's when you're calling in sick. But you're going fish the day after the Super Bowl. That's right, Amos.

[C]

Ah, man, get back from the bachelor weekend. Can't come in tomorrow. I'm just not feeling myself terrorized. Do you feel terrorized?

[A]

Oh, I wake up. Listen. It is so easy to avoid getting shot by a cop. It's real easy. You just listen to what they say and you'll be fine. And by the way, don't go down there. That's the other thing too. If there's shit going on, stay at home.

[C]

If there's stuff going on, just. Just don't try to obstruct anybody in a uniform with a gun. That's just like a good rule.

[A]

I'll put it to you this way. I just got done walking through the airport. They tell you what to do every.

[C]

10Ft and it's on the speakers too if you're a toddler.

[A]

If the guy asked for my ID and I just got him in a headlock instead, then I might get fucked with by cops. Or you can just comply. If you really think about an airport, you have white, black, black, women, Hispanic, young and old, all just funneling through this place times a million a week. Everyone complies. Everyone goes right through the airport.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

Stop complying. Then you get stuck.

[C]

You get on a no fly list.

[A]

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[A]

Huzzah.

[C]

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[A]

You're welcome. All right, what's next?

[C]

All right, well, I did like some of the dresses, but this isn't the show for that.

[A]

No.

[C]

You don't want to break down the dresses. Liked.

[A]

I don't know. I'll listen if you got. If you got something.

[C]

No, no, it's fine. I love Nikki's dress. I actually liked Miley Cyrus's dress. I don't know why people are knocking it. It was great. Okay, so comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers are apparently walking back comments about Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett. You know, the sassy congresswoman. I like her style, too. Most time don't like her politics, though. Apparently they encouraged fans not to donate to her Senate campaign. The episode was posted a couple weeks ago and the co host waded into the political territory by debating the Democratic party strategy for 20 Crockett's electability. Here's a clip.

[B]

Should we have listened to the populist message all along? Is that ultimately what would work for them?

[A]

Yes. It's not going to be Gavin Newsom. And when Anytime a politician is making it too obviously about themselves. I'm already done. Don't waste your money sending to Jasmine Crockett. Do not do it. I must agree. Don't do it. Don't. You're going to waste your money. Take it from someone who sent Sarah Gideon, like, a ton of money in me.

[C]

So they got a ton of backlash.

[A]

Why they got a ton of backlash?

[C]

Because she is a liberal darling and you're not allowed to say, don't send money to her. So then they put this statement up on their Instagram stories and they had to apologize. And he said that they should not have weighed in on it and transportation and candor matter, yada, yada. And they're so sorry.

[A]

Transportation.

[C]

Transparency.

[A]

Okay. Cause transportation.

[C]

Did I say transportation? I didn't.

[A]

Well, it matters. I would argue it matters more than transportation. Sorry.

[C]

Transportation, transparency, and cannabis.

[A]

And the ultimate transparency in transportation is Wonder Woman's jet. She has invisible jet, which there's a little flaw in the invisible jet department because Wonder Woman flies an invisible jet. So you go, she's not visible. So it just looks like a woman sailing across the sky, which would draw more eyeballs than an actual jet would.

[C]

I wish I were invisible right now, because that was a dumb blonde moment. Anyway, they said that the transparency and candor matter deeply to them, especially on the podcast. I'm a very progressive person.

[A]

Listen, here's. Let me just say this, everybody. When you walk back, shit that you.

[C]

Mean, then I don't find you genuine.

[A]

No. Then you're not genuine. I do not believe you. There's no more. You know, it's like I actually would.

[C]

Start listening to their show if they double down on it.

[A]

Well, like, like Kamala Harris was against fracking, then she's for fracking. What is she? She's just walking shit around trying to get votes. Now you assholes are just walking shit around. If you meant it, well, you said it, so I'm assuming you mean it.

[C]

He said that he has great respect for her and he regrets his words suggested otherwise. No, it doesn't suggest otherwise. You just saw her grift and you're calling it out. I feel like people on the right and the left need to be doing this. And when you don't do it, then your side ends up losing because you have grifters like her who are on CNN and MSNBC all the time collecting money but not helping the progressive movement. I mean, I hate to give free advice to Democrats, but he should have doubled down on this.

[A]

They're assholes and we don't need to listen to anything they have to say cuz they're fucking. They're cowards and they're liars. Cuz they're walking shit back. All right, all right. We have a clip of.

[C]

Oh, we have the Mayor of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[A]

What happened to guy I wrote a book called in 50 years we'll all Be Chicks? This guy's a chick.

[C]

He's even got the nicely coiffed hair going on. He looks a little sad though. So after months of Democrats, including him, saying there was no fraud, no fraud, no fraud, no fraud. Here we go, walking him back.

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Let me ask you about the leadership in your state. Dozens of people in Minnesota have been charged and convicted with stealing millions of dollars of taxpayer money for government programs. Do you think Governor Walls did enough to stop the fraud in your state? And do you support his decision not to run for reelection? Well, look, Governor Walz is the reason that we've got paid family leave in Minnesota. He's the reason we've got free school lunches. Him and I, we've been through thick and thin. But did he do enough to combat fraud? Did he do enough to combat fraud? Look, obviously everybody could have done more to prevent fraud. I love when they expand it out. Well, obviously everybody. So a guy who runs a bait and tackle place outside of Garrison Keillor's place could have done more. Whenever they expand it, we all could have done.

[C]

Dawson could have done more.

[A]

Yeah, everyone could have done more. I could have done more. Except for we. I think the comptroller could have Done a little more. Right. We don't write checks, so we just pay taxes. You guys then distribute the money. So I don't. Garbage men. I all could have done. We all could have done more. So whenever they start including everybody, that's a bad that. So here's how they do it. First they go, this never happened. Then the next thing they do is, it may have happened, but this is really just. Just the right attacking us. Then it goes to Republicans pounce. Yeah. Then it goes to, it happened, but not that much. Then it goes to it, oh, well, it definitely did happen, but happened before I got here, and here's why I don't. And then it expands into everybody wishes. And then there's a thing where. Now Newsom will do this all the time. He'll expand it. He'll go, what about your homeless problem, Gavin? Many cities are struggling with. Yeah, we're not asking about them. We're asking about you. You and your city and your state, not you. When they expand it, that means they're doing it.

[C]

Or whenever you ask him about the budget, he always talks about how California is the world's fourth largest economy.

[A]

Leading the way. Leading the way. All right, I want to hear a little more of him. Sorry. Obviously, everybody could have done more to prevent fraud. And I think that's a fair point to make. Do more to prevent fraud. And you look what he's doing right now. He's setting up a whole new bunch of infrastruct to do that. And by the way, look, the fraud's real. We've all got to acknowledge that. The fraud is very real. And. And by the way, when somebody commits fraud, and there are many that have done that, you investigate it, you charge, you prosecute, and yeah, you put the person in jail.

[C]

Oh, like ICE officers are doing.

[A]

You put the person in jail as an individual. You do not hold an entire community, any community, accountable for the actions of individuals.

[C]

It's fascinating. I agreed with the second half of what the dude said, but he doesn't understand that that's exactly what ICE officers are doing.

[A]

Well, also, when they do this thing where there's another thing too, where they go, nobody's doing more now it's like, we're not talking about now. We're talking about then failure. Like when you embezzle money from the bank you work at for 20 years. We're talking about that. That. We're not talking about what you're doing next Monday. We're talking about that number one. Then number two, when they do the procedural stuff, they go, we will find you, we'll arrest you, we'll try you. And we're. Yeah, I get that's what you do with criminals. The question is, why haven't you done any of this shit in the last 20 years, you fucking pansy. He's just running out the clock in that answer, right?

[C]

And the hand motions and the pausing and enunciation of the words. It is a good stall.

[A]

They run out the clock. And then she never asks any. By the way, that's me depressed, guys. She's fucking horrible. She's a piece of shit. She's the one who did. I'm telling you, the greatest clip. Like if you want, you know, oh.

[C]

You'Ve shown me this one before.

[A]

They're clips that I would call time capsule clips.

[C]

I did not believe it when I saw it.

[A]

When people go, when people are like, like, well, how would you capture this moment we're in? Like, I would show em if someone said what was this era like? I would show em the VW commercial where the biracial gay couple hijacks a sheep and takes it home to raise them with their suv. I'd go, that's where we were. That's us, that's our society.

[C]

That's what was happening.

[A]

And Trump is trying to debate Biden and Trump's talking about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russiagate and all that stuff. And Biden's laptop and Hunter's laptop and that little dumb bitch is sitting there going, can we get back to race? We gotta talk about race. I'm like, okay, that's perfect, perfect. She's running interference for Biden because she wants to talk about race in 2021 or whatever the fuck it was. It's a non issue that you guys wanna keep talking about so you can use as a cudgel a weapon. And that was her. It was her going, we have to get back to race, gentlemen. 80 year old guys, we gotta talk about race. Race in America. Keep talking about race. We're not gonna talk about all the shit that's actually happening and wrong with government.

[C]

Remember when people on both sides of the aisle were actually afraid of like journalists and reporters?

[A]

Oh God, they're so.

[C]

And like the Sunday shows used to be some of the best of the best.

[A]

I know, like, oh, here it is. By the way, we'll show it to you just because it makes me laugh.

[B]

Joe, they're calling you a corrupt politician.

[A]

Nobody's President Trump. I want to stay on the issue of race.

[B]

We're talking about the issue of President.

[A]

Trump is talking about race right now, and I do want to stay on.

[C]

The issue of race.

[A]

Okay, let's just talk about race so we can make black people more angry.

[C]

I do love Trump's hand motion.

[A]

Kristen Welker. Nice job, bitch. Speaking of race, that's gotta be di. Higher for her, right? That's not. She's fucking horrible at her job. Gentlemen, I want to talk about race. Okay, you could look into the laptop, bitch, but you're not.

[C]

Not the. Like, look into the laptop. Look into all the riots that they called peaceful protests.

[A]

No, no, we have to keep talking about race.

[C]

That was, like, literally happening then. Louisiana was burning. LA and Portland were burning.

[A]

We gotta talk about race. Nope, more racetrack. All right, one more.

[C]

All right. I noticed you're wearing green today. I'm wearing red.

[A]

I'm wearing green because Mark Ruffalo said, I don't know what I'm wearing. Blue. Am I wearing blue?

[C]

Iranian sisters right now who are marching in the streets on my hat. They're guesstimating that, like, close to 2,000 people have probably been arrested and over 500 are dead. But we don't know for sure because the, you know, the regime has shut down Internet and cell service over the weekend. There were people, you know, marching for freedom in Iran, and a man drove a U haul truck straight through this crowd of protesters in la. I think this is over in the Beverlywood area. And the event in the aftermath was all caught on tape from so many different angles. Did you see this?

[A]

Well, no, I kept. Like I said, I was working and traveling and doing shows and stuff, and I was not able to catch. Keep up with. I heard bits and pieces. I didn't.

[C]

There were, like, hundreds of people, if not thousands of people who showed up in LA protesting against the regime in Iran, and they're heard screaming as this massive vehicle just bulldozes straight through the group, seemingly without regard for humans there. And in other clips, you can see that cops are seen trying to snatch the man out of the vehicle. So this is the video of the vehicle just rolling down the street.

[A]

Okay. It's just driving through the Now. I mean, is there somebody on the roof of it?

[C]

Somebody apparently jumped on the roof because they were trying to remove his pro regime sign.

[A]

Oh.

[C]

And then when he finally gets to a point where he has to come to a stop, there's this video of these, like, good for them. Average citizens going all Guardian Angels on his ass, like, trying to get him out of the cab before the cops get there. And then there's like another video of the cops trying to just separate everybody and try to figure out what. What the hell was going on.

[A]

Now, to be fair to him, he was in a U haul trying to get the fuck out of California. So maybe his argument would be, well.

[C]

He wanted to go back to Iraq.

[A]

Gavin Newsom. So bad. I was just trying to grab. Paying a premium, too. He's paying a premium because once again, his money's worth it. Three grand to get it to Austin, but 30 bucks to get it back from Austin. So he paid his premium. He's got Grandma's attic up there. He's got the super. I love reading about how easy it is to load him up. Maybe that was it. So. So he drove a U haul through this crowd.

[C]

Yeah. It's scary.

[A]

Yeah. And didn't run anyone over, huh?

[C]

I mean, that's like a terror attack. That's.

[A]

What is that a Mexican flag?

[B]

Mix of the Iranian flag.

[A]

I can't tell. There's too many flags. Same color in the same schemes.

[B]

Same color.

[C]

What?

[A]

The Mexican flag and the Iranian flag. That was a Mexican flag at the Iranian protest.

[C]

What's really cool is that a lot of people. So you see that flag with the lion on it? It will. Was what happened. It was what they had before the Ayatollah, okay? And so people all around the world are going to Iranian embassies and replacing to the OG5.

[A]

I'll tell you all, I would. Here's what. I would like to go on a tour, a U haul van tour of. I would just literally show the first episode of Saturday night live from 1975. And I would show the first 10 seconds of the news. And I would put together a montage. Because you show the news from SNL from 1975, and Chevy Chase will get up there and go, well, trouble in the Middle East. And I'd go, trouble in the Middle East. Trouble in the Middle East. And then I would put a montage together with a calendar and the pages blowing by. Trouble in the Middle East. Every fucking news, every news broadcast I've seen in the last 75 years starts with Trouble in the Middle East. And then I would go, could you people get your fucking shit together, for the love of Christ? It's trouble in the Middle East. It's always trouble in the Middle East. Maybe we should internalize some of this. Perhaps it's you. Perhaps it has something to do with the people who live in the Middle east that every single news since I've been alive has started off with trouble. In the Middle East.

[C]

I think when you look at the area broadly, but it's just like that's like saying like trouble in the United States. Well, turns out Minnesota and LA are gonna have different types of trouble than Dallas and Austin are. Right. And I think that when you look at the Middle east, the problems of the Iranian people are very different than the problems of the Egyptian people.

[A]

But it's all back to one thing, which is we can't fucking do this. Can't just get along. Can't just have a government, can't just not fucking persecute people.

[C]

Bad guys.

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I know, but we have bad guys. There's bad guys in Canada. But it doesn't start off with trouble in Canada. It starts off with trouble in the Middle east and it will never end. And it's the people that's the problem. That's the problem. Yeah. I believe it was probably right around 50 years ago, the fall of the Shah of Iran. And we all of us have Iranian friends whose parents fled in the early 70s and they're fully normal, cool, American adjusted people.

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Yeah.

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Yes. Nobody remembers about those guys. Let's go back in power.

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But there's people. What you're seeing now with like the protests there is like they haven't. I mean this is a perfect example of why America is a beautiful experiment that worked is we have that First Amendment that lets you. And I say stand up.

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What about slavery?

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We have the Second Amendment.

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What about the Trail of Tears?

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We can neutralize.

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Uh huh.

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What about the Japanese American internment camps? Mark Buffalo wants to know. He wants to know what about the internment camps?

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Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Well he wants to know.

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But I think part of the reason why there's consistently trouble in the Middle east is that the people there do not have the rights and the freedoms that we do here. That's why. And Canada ain't as great. Sorry guys. To the Great White north it is certainly not. But they also have different rights that people in the Middle east do not have. So they can't.

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At a certain point you gotta figure out why they decide it was a bad idea to have rights. I mean you gotta, you gotta start deconstructing it as certain ways.

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Oh. When it comes to the Ayatollah, it's because of radical Islam.

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Yeah. I'm just saying whatever the plan is, it's been a while, let's think about shifting.

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You wanna push a timeline?

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I don't know, you wanna blame the water or you want to blame the people? You want to blame the powers or the People that are in power. You want to blame the religion. Whatever it is, it's not working out is what I'm saying. Maybe. Hopefully it'll change a change of direction, I would say. I basically say the same thing to Al Sharpton and all the race hustlers out here. Whatever it is you're doing for the black community maybe should knock it off. Maybe a little direction change would be the way to go. Because I'm looking at the stats and you guys haven't had.

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Yeah.

[A]

That's all I'm saying.

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It's very fascinating to live at a time like between what's happening Iran right now, what's happening in Ukraine, what's happening in Venezuela. Like, there could be shifts happening all over the world.

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It'd be nice. All right, this weekend, me, I'll be in Oregon. Grants Pass. That's right. Rogue theater. And that'll be Friday. And then Saturday, I'll be in Midtown Ballroom. That'll be in Benda, Oregon. And we're going to New York. Gonna be at Rodney's, doing some live shows there on the 29th. And stand up there as well. Heading on out to. Heading out to D.C. at the Kennedy center.

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In the Trump Center.

[A]

The Trump Kennedy. Well, the thing that's funny is RFK Junior's people got hold of me, and he wants to come out, and that's his name, his family's name. That's fun. So we may do something on stage. We're gonna figure that out. Alicia Kraus, you got your op ed at the Washington Examiner.

[C]

Sure do.

[A]

And Eddie Bravo's got his podcast. Look into it with Eddie Bravo. You go to Adam Kroll.com for all the live shows. Until next time, Adam Kroll for Eddie Bravo and Alicia Krause saying mahalo. You can leave us a voicemail message at 888-634-1744. You should do it. And then get tickets to see Adam Crow or [e-mail].

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