Andrew Gruel (3:25)

Thank you.

Adam Carolla (3:26)

A little unfinished business out with you and I, but just something I've been thinking about a lot. We like to talk pizza. I'm a thin crust, New York style guy. I like olives, Black olives, Black olives. But I like sausage and onion. I like sausage better than pepperoni or meatball better than pepperoni because pepperoni dominates. It's like it's too salty and whatever for me. Also, don't trust anything. Like you go to Domino's or Papa John's or whatever, you get a pepperoni pizza, it is littered with pepperoni. Like almost too much. It's really the only top area. Too much. You order sausage, you get. There'll be whole slices with no sausage on it. So something's up with pepperoni where they're giving it away.

Andrew Gruel (4:15)

Wait, let me ask though. We never went into this. Do you like the sausage sliced or the sausage out of the casing?

Adam Carolla (4:22)

It's a big. It's a lot of debate going on in the studio about that. I like it sliced and I like the wheels of it on there. But I'll take the crumble as well. But sliced, I like the wheels better. And I don't know why. It just suggests a better quality or they thought about it or something. Or maybe I like the way it just sits and gets a little cooked on the outside of the sausage wheel or something. But I like the sausage wheel and I like onion. And I realize that I don't really care if it's red onion or white onion. I like them both.

Andrew Gruel (4:54)

If it's white onion, do you want it cooked more?

Adam Carolla (4:57)

I'm trying to think like sort of chopped up versus stringy. I don't know. I've not gotten that granular. Other than when somebody goes, we're getting a pizza and they go, we got a cheese, we got two pepperoni and we got a veggie lovers. I'm always pissed. I'm always like, why didn't we get a sausage? Why didn't we get an olive? How come there's no veggie lover is just too much fucking vegetable on top of a pizza. So now you've ruined it. You know what I mean? You have to pick your battles with the veggies.

Andrew Gruel (5:27)

And then they always throw broccoli on there. And the broccoli is rarely cooked.

Adam Carolla (5:30)

Broccoli's like, I don't know what it near a pizza, but the one I really wanted to solve with you is I started noticing lots of packets of crushed red pepper like the pepper packet and then the Parmesan packet. There's a lot of mic popping going on here. And I realized I don't think I really want peppers on my pizza that way. Like dried peppers on the pizza. But I can't pooh pooh it because I've never really done it. I just don't like it. Parmesan seems counterfeit, counterintuitive to me. It's covered with cheese. I don't want Parmesan on it. That's me. But I love garlic powder, so maybe, maybe I'm a heretic. I don't know.

Andrew Gruel (6:14)

Garlic powder, that's an east coast thing. Yeah, garlic powder. Oh, let's back up. Right. So the peppers. I'll tell you what's wrong with the peppers, the pop and the peppers with the Parmesan. Peter did that, is that you've got too much pepper in the package. But the package size, even though it's only an ounce, you need a couple of those little seeds spread out. That's it. Because maybe a little bit of pop to make it bite. Which is why I use fresh cracked black pepper as opposed to the pepper packets. You get the same bite and bitterness that you're looking for. Now if you want the hot pizza with a ton of the dried peppers, then just throw jalapenos on there. Pickled or roasted.

Adam Carolla (6:47)

Where did he come down on the Parmesan cheese?

Andrew Gruel (6:49)

Here we go. The Parmesan cheese that you get that pre grated stuff that sits out or the stuff that comes in the packets that's treated with so much anti caking agents and ultimately wood pulp. That's not even Parmesan.

Adam Carolla (7:00)

It seems counterintuitive to me to get a fresh slice of pizza and then take weird dried up wood pulp and like smoke spread it all over the top of it. It doesn't.

Andrew Gruel (7:10)

We did that as kids when mom cooked horrible spaghetti. Then it was like, yeah, smother it, right? It's the. Let's fix it with a little bit of this or a little bit of that. It's in the fridge or it's sitting on the counter now. I will tell you. We owned a pizza shop called Big Parm with a P, right? Big Parma Big Parm. You got it. And behind it was. So you ordered your pizza and then we had a big old wheel of Parmesan Reggiano, the real Parmesan that's got that umami flavor in there. And at the end we would, if you wanted, we would grate the fresh parm on the Pizza, which just gave that extra, like, umami just at the end. Totally different flavor profile. If you go with fresh parm. I'm okay with the parm on the pizza, but you don't always need it. Yeah, you don't always need it.

Adam Carolla (7:50)

So we got some hot spork talk off the air, and I like to think the way you think. And you said that you use sporks at home. And then I thought, well, what would. Chef gruel wouldn't use a plastic spork at home. So there must be metallic sporks, which I asked about, and I thought, I've never seen one for sale. And then you said you had yours made.

Andrew Gruel (8:17)

Yeah, we did. We've got specialty sporks at home. We've got, I want to say like 36. You open the drawers and typically, right, it's the fork, the spoon, the knife. And it may be an extra for whatever you have more of. We've got spork, spork, spork knife.

Adam Carolla (8:30)

And I never really drilled down on the spork, but you're right when you eat food with rice and bits of meat and vegetables and stuff like that. So it's just weird balancing act sort of thing. You're saying, can you buy a new metallic spork?

Andrew Gruel (8:47)

You can now. They've got them on. You gotta find them on Amazon or any of the other places you shop online. They've got them, but they're buried. Because the spoon and fork industry, big spoon, big fork, they don't want you buying a foam, buying a spork.

Adam Carolla (9:01)

But the spork is more utility. Form and function, form and function.

Andrew Gruel (9:06)

So you're making it work. Rice bowls, stews, even thick, hearty soups, you name it. And the thing is, in the event it's 11 o' clock at night and you just want a bowl of cereal and there's no clean spoons, you can use the spork.

Adam Carolla (9:20)

You can use it. All right, so spork, avail yourself of some sporks. All right, City council, I know you're now on the Huntington beach, is it?

Andrew Gruel (9:31)

Yep. Huntington Beach City Council.

Adam Carolla (9:34)

And you're learning a lot about politics now. And the thing that's disappointing to me as someone who grew up in Southern California, is Southern California was supposed to be the sort of laid back, live and let live people like to chill, kind of be left alone and do their own thing, you know, and we would argue a lot about like, hey, man, if you want a pot plant in your backyard, what's wrong with having A pot plant in your backyard, it's that kind of stuff. But it wasn't big, huge bloated government.

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Adam Carolla (10:09)

Non government entities and people on the dole and the payroll and everyone's getting fucking fat and kickbacks and that was like, like Louisiana, New Orleans. That's what happened over there. Here our politicians were cool and they wore Hawaiian shirts and everything was cool. And then at some point we got all fucking bloated with kickbacks. And now I feel like California's more corrupt than any other state when it comes to all. We spent $24 billion on homeless. Except for. There's no homeless anything. Somehow the money just got all doled out and all these non governmental agencies and all that kind of stuff. But am I right or not?

Andrew Gruel (10:53)

No, you're 1,000% right. And I couldn't tell you any of my city councilmen growing up or getting into business, right. It's only become something that people have paid attention to over the past probably 10 years or so as the corruption, I think has come out. But I look at it like this, especially in California, you got Sacramento, they're like the franchisor, right? And then you've got the local city governments. Think of them as the franchisees. They pay a royalty up to the franchisor and they have to operate according to Sacramento's operating plan or their standard operating protocols. And then they give kick back up, right? So kick back down up. So if the franchisor Sacramento, they got a corrupt scheme going on and they're making 20 billion, it's like, well, you local cities who follow our protocol, you're gonna get a little bit of that. It's gonna trickle down. But if you're a city that bucks against that trend and says, no, we're not gonna do it, we're gonna call out the corruption. We are our own independent city and we don't need Sacramento telling us what to do with our local residents. Well, guess what? They're gonna defranchise you. They're gonna deflag you, right?

Adam Carolla (11:51)

So you're a Taco Bell and you go, I wanna start serving lettuce cups.

Andrew Gruel (11:57)

Yes.

Adam Carolla (11:57)

And they go, no, no, no, you are not. And then they'll cut you off.

Andrew Gruel (12:02)

They cut you off.

Adam Carolla (12:03)

So your city's being sued by California and by Newsom, right?

Andrew Gruel (12:08)

Yep. We've got many lawsuits. So we've got. The biggest one is on the housing mandates. I don't know if people realize this, but the hcd, which is the Housing Department of Sacramento or California, said that there needs to be a certain number of affordable houses living across every single city. And they arbitrarily told every single city, you need to come up with your own housing element is what it's called. And if you don't come up with your own housing element, we're going to tell you how many structures you need to build. High density, Right. And they're not building any of this. They're not putting the money up for it. So ultimately, we did our housing element years ago and they said, no, you need to build like 13 or 14,000 new units within the next five years. Isn't this 14,000 units? And we said, no, it doesn't fit our city plan. And we didn't adopt the housing element. So they sued us, which if you don't adopt a housing element and then they ultimately sue you, it goes to court over what's called builder's remedy. So they say in the event you don't have the housing element adopted, then the builders can come in and override any of your local zoning code ordinances, anything. The builders own your city and they will build sky high.

Adam Carolla (13:13)

Right.

Andrew Gruel (13:13)

So we're in a lawsuit over that right now. We're saying it's unconstitutional. We're charter city.

Adam Carolla (13:18)

And you're also in a lawsuit over inappropriate books in the library's voter ID.

Andrew Gruel (13:25)

Yeah, we're the only of 489 cities in California, we're the only city that actually passed voter ID as a measure in the city.

Adam Carolla (13:32)

The voter ID thing to me is the most telling part of their politics, which is you should have two sort of thoughts at the same time. You should think, a, everyone needs to present ID when they vote because as they tell us, it's the most important fundamental patriotic thing you can do as an American. They don't say, buy beer or buy cigarettes or go through an airport or check into a hotel. Checking into a Radisson hotel's most patriotic and your civic duty, but yet you need an ID for everything. So they tell you that and then they argue with you. When someone wants to ask that someone show I.D. now, I would be down with them if they said, yes, you must show ID when you vote. And yes, there are a fraction of the percentage of society that does not possess an ID for I don't know what reasons, but we will help those people get an ID so that they can vote and function in our society. Because I don't really know, like, if you said to me, look, you got a son, he's 19. True. Would you rather him be confined to A wheelchair for the rest of his life or try to navigate our society with no id. I'd go put him in the wheelchair. You get in a wheelchair, at least there's a curb and a lift and a thing. You're in a wheelchair. The Holiday Inn has a mechanical arm to lower you into the swimming pool. By law, no id, you don't get into the hotel. There is no testing out the swimming pool because you don't get through the airport to get to the hotel. There is no life, there is no anything without an id. So the notion that in these modern times they would be fighting for this is insane. And the only conclusion a sane person could come to is they want people who are here illegally to vote. Because there's no other conclusion.

Andrew Gruel (15:53)

Which is why when you survey all Californians of all political parties, the lion's share of them say and agree with voter id. Like, that's the interesting thing about this. We can't agree on anything. But yet. Actually, I think it's along. 70% of Californians say, yeah, sure, voter ID. I had my license expire a couple months ago, and I thought they'd send me a new one. And I was traveling, I didn't think much of it, so I went online. I'm like, yeah, they'll just send me the new one or send me the piece of paper. They're like, oh, no, you haven't got your eyes checked out, so you gotta go to the dmv. So, long story short, I went a week without an id. That was the toughest week of my life.

Adam Carolla (16:28)

That's what I said. As you described, it's a week in a wheelchair.

Andrew Gruel (16:31)

No rent. You're right. No renting cars, no going into hotel rooms because I couldn't get home to get my passport. Funny enough, I was actually ultimately able to travel a little bit. But, yeah, it was tough. It was tough. And then, side note, when I did go to the dmv, the guy was like, okay, get your eyes checked. And then he's like, what are the letters right there? And I got them all wrong. And he's like, oh, you mean DBDLT or whatever.

Adam Carolla (16:53)

Oh, he's helping you along.

Andrew Gruel (16:54)

Yeah, that's it.

Adam Carolla (16:54)

And enabler. Yeah. So the idea that one side is for voter ID and the other side won't stop arguing about this thing that everyone needs, otherwise you can't function in the society. And essentially making excuses for your constituency to not have ID is essentially damning them to a life that is outside of society. And I'll take it a step further, I'll take it to a little moral, spiritual, whatever. If in modern times you do not possess an id, you are not participating with our democracy, you are not involved, you're not paying taxes, you are not a participant in this society because you can't function in this society without an id, and thus I don't want your ass voting. I really don't. Because do not tell me you have no ID yet. You pay into the tax base, contribute, work, and so on and so forth. You don't do anything but take and fuck y'. All. So if you're just gonna take shit, I don't want you voting anyway. Okay? We do this thing where I go, well, that guy's a felon. He can't vote. Okay? So when that guy was 18 or 19, he tried to rob a liquor store and put his hands on somebody and knocked him over or whatever it is. Well, now he's 35, okay? But he can't vote. But why not? Well, he's a felon. Okay, well, how about people that just fucking collect money from the government, never pay any fucking taxes, and are on the dole and on every subsidy there is from the government? What are they? Why should they get to vote? They're not any fucking better than the felon that cost us as much as that fucking guy. So if you're not contributing, you ain't voting. I don't. I don't care. People think that's insane, but why all these people are going to do is vote for shit that gives them more free shit. I don't want them fucking with it. I want people got skin in the game voting.

Andrew Gruel (18:57)

I don't think it's that extreme. You said people say that's insane. I don't think people think that's insane. Perhaps, you know, the delivery is excitable, but I don't think it's insane. I actually think most people agree with that. That thesis.

Adam Carolla (19:09)

Right? All right, so you're being sued because you're asking for id, which is something that the hotel and the airport and the liquor store and every other entity in that neighborhood asks for in order to navigate that thing. So they sound like fucking idiots when they talk about this shit, but that's a weird one. The other one is the library and the materials.

Andrew Gruel (19:34)

Yeah, there were books in the library that were questionable books, you know, and we said, the city said, well, we're gonna move these into a section of the library where it's like 18 plus or you gotta have a parent check them out. Etc. We weren't removing them, but of course ACLU sues you. You know, it's free.

Adam Carolla (19:50)

ACLU, everybody, Sierra Club, ACLU, all these places, they all went fucking woke and left. They used to just be an organization to protect civil liberties. And so did Anti this and Anti Hate and naacp. They're all groups that were there to protect other groups. And then they went fucking left and woke and they're all ruined now. And it's a weird thing.

Andrew Gruel (20:16)

And the organizations, originally it was like, look, we're gonna be non biased. We're gonna be able to support anybody's case so long as their speech is being infringed upon or whatever rights they're protecting.

Adam Carolla (20:25)

Yeah, the Klan is gonna march in Skokie and we're gonna defend that.

Andrew Gruel (20:28)

Yeah.

Adam Carolla (20:29)

Remember, that's how they started. But now they're. Now they're going after every conservative.

Andrew Gruel (20:33)

Yeah, just. It's just. You're right.

Adam Carolla (20:35)

It is a weird. It's kind of an interesting default thing, though. It's like, why does every organization end up drifting left? It's kind of an interesting thought because they start as. It's sort of like, well, Netflix or the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club. But they end up drifting and next thing you know, they're weighing into the transgender. The Sierra Club wants to talk about the transgender community. It's like, why don't you talk about fucking Sequoia Theresa assholes. What are you talking about transgender for? But they all drift over, and I'm guessing money starts coming in, and then they start doing the bidding of. And then we're in California.

Andrew Gruel (21:21)

They're the vehicle through which a lot of these lawsuits occur. So because of their nonprofit status, et cetera, like, they can file these lawsuits and then they bring in just an arbitrary plaintiff or they lean in on a case, and 90% of the time, their legal fees are being covered by state law or federal law or what have you. Right. Based on a threshold in the case. So they're getting their legal fees covered. And much of this is just financial warfare. So it's like, we're gonna sue as the aclu, and we know that you don't have the money as a city or as a corporation or whoever. They're suing whomever they're suing, and then they pile these cases on you, and then ultimately you have to settle. So they're using the might and the power as this nonprofit which has grown, but they're getting their money from other nonprofits, as we saw through the DOJ process. And they're getting their money from all these US Aides of the world. And then ultimately the political action committees are moving their money into these non profits under the guise of we're doing good, but it's nothing more than another political action committee under the guise of this nonprofit or whatever their fake mission is. And there's thousands of them because we see it. I see we get a lawsuit. And then, you know, people in city council are like, oh, another one from, you know, Bob, blah, blah, blah, or whatever this nonprofit is. And it's like, hey, are we gonna have to pay legal fees on this? Well, yes, of course. Cause they met the threshold. And then the city's gonna get buried in X, Y and Z. We should probably just settle the districting. You know, we talk about redistricting on the. No, on 50 and the state redistricting. Cities get sued left and right. It's a single plaintiff with a nonprofit behind it that sue these cities to redistrict internally. Especially cities in which there's Republican majorities under the idea that, well, there's an underrepresented minority group in your city and the districts don't properly represent those. We're gonna redraw the lines within the city to maintain, try and maintain a majority for years going forward.

Adam Carolla (23:14)

Yeah, it's sort of a sad thing where we're now in the process part of life. And we're not really, as I was complaining about building the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam or whatever. I think if, you know, you looked at kind of a historical calendar, you know, you'd go, well, there's the Revolutionary War and then there's the Civil War, and then there's the Industrial Revolution, and then there's World War II, and then there's the boom of post World War II in America and automotive manufacturing and the big three and industrialists and technology and stuff. And if you got to this phase, like when future generations study, it's just gonna be the lawyer argument, dumb chick phase, where it's just fucking dumb chicks and lawyers just arguing everything. And they'll go, did you build anything? No, we couldn't build anything. Why not? We just fuck. Everything was tied up with lawyers and the Sierra Club and the Coastal Commission, a bunch of dumb chicks. And we just argued.

Andrew Gruel (24:16)

That's it.

Adam Carolla (24:16)

We just argued.

Andrew Gruel (24:17)

It's the arguing revolution.

Adam Carolla (24:19)

We will build nothing. No bullet train will get finished. No nothing. A train from here to Las Vegas. There'll be no bridges, no dams, no bullet trains. Just lawyers and dumb chicks. Middle aged, dumb Chicks and lawyers and we just argue and nobody works. And that's all. Nobody works. And we just argue and make excuses for people that don't work and then people are fat. And there we go. That's this phase we've all got lucky enough to land in the middle of. Yeah. Yeah.

Andrew Gruel (24:47)

It's exciting. Well, I guess on that note, I'm going to go swimming in the ocean for a while.

Adam Carolla (24:55)

I realized there was this clip of a Cardinals player who broke off a long run. Many people saw it and the Cardinals, I think, were 2 and 2 and kind of in the hunt a little bit. And it's the fourth quarter and they're up on the 04 Titans and this guy busts off a 70 something yard run and. And it's 6 to 21 with 13 minutes in the fourth quarter. The point is they're going to go up. They're going to go up 28 to 6 in the fourth quarter, so this game's going to be done. But instead he drops the ball before he crosses the goal line and. And then it's a touchback and then the Cardinals lose the game, which is pretty. He's literally two and a half inches away from the Cardinals going three and two versus two and three and he's. Nobody near him. And anyway, so what happened was, is I've noticed this happens way more than you'd think it would happen in the NFL and at college. And a couple of things I've noticed. One is the other players go console the person. Now, I played a lot of football and if you pulled a bonehead move like that that cost us the game, you would not go console the guy. You'd fucking yell at the guy at every level, high school, college, pro. And you would have done it up until about 10 minutes ago. But then we started putting stop hate in the end zone and end racism and, and look to see, you know, play with love and all this bullshit. So now all these guys have to go consult this guy, but the coach lights into the guy, chews his ear and then goes storming off. All right, now pause it there. Historically, in football, that's the way football worked. Football is a team sport and you let the team down, you're in trouble. It's like the military. And when I played football, oh, they would single people out and they would shame them all the time. And you would learn some lesson from it. Like they would line. They always line everyone up at the tackling sled or the blocking sled. Some of the sleds were. Had like five or seven dummies to hit. You know, the sled's a crazy invention. If anyone's had the experience of firing out on sleds, like, constantly. It's weird, but the coach would always get up there and he'd go, you're on the defensive side of the ball, so look for the ball to move, but don't listen to the count, you know? And he, like. He like, hold the ball out. And everyone would be down in their stance, and you go, ready, sit. Hut, hut. And hold them on. And somebody go, hut. And some guy would lurch forward and fall forward and go, oh, great. Higginstaller's offsides, everybody. All right, you can all do a lap. Everyone can do a lap. You know, you can thank Higginstaller. Everyone thank Higginstaller for your lap. And he goes, come on, take off. Everyone go. And everyone start running. Fucking Higgins. Stuck. God damn it. You'd be running this lap out in the San Fernando Valley, sweating your ass off, right? Oh, the good news is, after all these years, I realized something. As I was going to your restaurant, I was driving to Slapfish. Is it Calico? Calico, yeah. Slapfish was sold by Slapfish. Okay. Yeah. I was going. I was going, is it Slapfish or California calico? It was a fish. I was driving to Calico, and for the first time in all my life, it's a way for me, it's like, take the 5, take the 110, take the whatever, get off on the thing, cut across. It's a part of town. I've lived here my whole life. I've never drive out that way. I'm driving down the street, I pass this big place. I look up, I see a sign that says Leisure World on it. I was like, finally, I've seen the mythical Leisure World. Because every one of my football coaches in the San Fernando Valley for the North Hollywood Trojans, when I was like nine, it'd always be like, gentlemen, this isn't Leisure World. Let's do some more push ups, then we're gonna run.

Andrew Gruel (29:40)

I don't.

Adam Carolla (29:40)

You think you're in Leisure World, Carolla? You think you're in Leisure World? And I was so, like, first, I don't even know what the word leisure. I'm 10. I don't know what the word leisure means. And I don't know where Leisure World is. But eventually. And no, I don't think anyone would mistake getting yelled at by fat guy with a windbreaker in the San Fernando Valleys being in Leisure World. But, yeah, that was always Leisure world. And after 50 years, I'm just driving down the street, I look up and I'm like, there it is, there's leisure world. Mr. Fitzgerald was yelling about Leisure World the whole time. Yeah, that was always fun.

Andrew Gruel (30:15)

He's probably living there. We call it Seizure World, by the way.

Adam Carolla (30:18)

Oh, really?

Andrew Gruel (30:19)

Yeah. You wanna know what else is sick about Leisure World?

Adam Carolla (30:22)

No, I gotta know about Leisure World. Cause it was promised that I was living in Leisure World when I was nine, doing wind sprints.

Andrew Gruel (30:29)

And this is allegedly, but I know from the fire department it also applies to other old folks homes, highest incidence of STDs because they're just. It is just Leisure on. Leisure.

Adam Carolla (30:39)

It's on, you know. Yeah. So finally spotted Leisure World and what happened.

Andrew Gruel (30:44)

Maybe even Hagenstahler, you know, he's probably living in there too.

Adam Carolla (30:50)

Higginstar was one of those eight year old kids that was like so big at eight, you know, like he looked, you know, every once in a while there's one of those kids that looks like he's in the Russian mob. Oh yeah, like he's an enforcer for the Russian Mob. But he's 7 or 8. It's that big box, forehead and stuff and super tower looking. And also it's weird to be, you know, eight or nine and built, you know what I mean? But he was like that guy and he couldn't. He played. No, they put him at nose guard because you know, where else are you going to put HigginsThahler? And he wouldn't want to get in a stance. He was so dia was like, I'll just stand and just grab people, you know, he was like Frankenstein. And the coach would always be on the sideline. Higginstoller, get in your stance, you know, because he would get down and then he would start creeping up, you know, next thing you know he's just standing there. But yeah, you would get shamed. And then you did not want to jump off sides because you don't want to have the whole team take a lap. So this guy carelessly throws the ball. And also this didn't sneak up on anyone. This is a problem. It's happened a lot. It happened earlier this year, I think and everyone has been told, look, man, you keep that ball tucked two steps into the end zone before you start celebrating, like, do not do this. And so he drops it and it costs the team, the game, the whole team and the coach who by the way, shall be fighting for his job. And it's, you know, pretty big, you know, three and two, you're in the hunt two and three, you're not exactly in the hunt, right? Yep. So. So he has ambitions and he got pissed off and he went and lit the guy up. Now the dude is, you know, the running back is 235, 6, 3. He's a load. He's a big dude and he's 23. It's not like the coach intimidated him physically, but he went and lit the guy up and then had to give a press conference the next day apologizing for what, what everybody would have done historically and should have done. All right, we'll listen to it. I didn't see the video, David, but yeah, I actually, I woke up this morning and didn't feel great about it, honestly. And so in the team meeting, I addressed it. I apologized to Omari, apologized to the team. I just told him I kind of let the moment of what happened and get the better of me there. Home Chef. Well, you know, the kids are back in school. Between drop offs, homework, picking up the socks off the floor, the last thing you want to do is worry about what's for dinner. That's where Home Chef comes in and saves the day. They send fresh pre portioned meals right to your door. You just open the box, follow a couple easy steps and buy. And boom, dinner's done. I made one of their oven ready chicken dishes last week. Came out perfectly. Crispy, juicy. Didn't destroy my kitchen in the process. Home Chef makes cooking simple, fresh food delivered, easy recipes and meals that actually taste good. So whether you want a full 30 minute dinner, something oven ready, or even a microwavable meal, Home Chef's got it all. They've got a family menu too, so everyone eats happy. And here's a nice bonus. Home Chef customers save an average of 86 bucks a month on groceries. So you can eat right and save money with Home Chef. Right, Dawson.

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All right, there's the point. I think you guys tell me. We're living in a weird super sensitive optics based world and I think white dudes screaming at black dude is not good optically. I don't think it would be the same with a black coach and a white player. We're living in a babyfied, pussified world where no one gets to yell at anybody. But I think there's a racial component to it that gets people agitated. And I also think it's sort of like a. It's a weird position for NFL coaches and especially NBA coaches to be in because if you're the coach of the NBA, if you're Steve Kerr, you can't go, ah, by the way, I'm not down with this Black Lives Matter bullshit. So don't put your stupid flags up here. Because he has to coach a bunch of black guys. And so I think there's an element of that in sports. I think the NFL does a lot of that with like end racism and shit like that when it's not an issue, but they feel like that's their group, you know, these are the players we gotta keep them asking.

Andrew Gruel (36:40)

First of all, they're also behind, right? By the time the movement gets all the way up to the NFL or in these big institutions, they're like two or three. Like right now people look at it and they're thinking to themselves what we're over? Like come on, we figured this out. But the NFL still virtue signaling, all of this is mush. I look at this as mush, right? If you took a 50 year old dad today, you took 10 of them and you combined them into one. Most of them are mushy, right? They're gonna, you're gonna Pillsbury Doughboy, you're gonna press in their bellies. You take ten 50 year old dads from 1972 and they're hard men who have been working and are working out and they're not going to put up with their kid playing around, screwing around, dropping the ball. They're going to tell grab ass playing.

Adam Carolla (37:21)

Leisure World gentlemen, hold on. By the way, you either got gentlemen or the, or the real bad one. Ladies. You got the ladies. That was a real shamer.

Andrew Gruel (37:32)

Yeah, but nowadays if you do that, you're fired.

Adam Carolla (37:36)

You know what Mr. Gallagher used to do? He had his daughter Kelly, who was almost an Olympic caliber gymnast. She was one of these girls that 11 was going for the Junior Olympics or whatever. At some point when we're out in the sun. He's just putting us through the push ups and stuff like that. Like a drill sergeant. At some point he would always bust out. My daughter's all girl Olympic tryout team. Does more push ups and complains less. And then every guy was like, oh shit, the girls are beating. Like that was.

Andrew Gruel (38:09)

Yeah, but nowadays if you say that then it's. They would all clap and be like, you know. Yeah, that's right.

Adam Carolla (38:15)

How do you even know what a woman is, Mr. Gallagher?

Andrew Gruel (38:18)

Yeah, don't bring that up. Well, but that's the type of stuff that. One of the other things going back to this point is we actually banned flags outside of American flags in the city of Huntington Beach. We banned any other flag, right? So it wasn't that we were banning the trans flag or we were banning all these political flags. We said, look, look, you fly your political flag, then this person's gonna fly there. There's gonna be a million flags up here. All it is is the American flag. Bam. Sued by the aclu, of course, aclu. So you know, but that's the weakness, like the mental weakness. We're making a clean concise point. It's one flag, one country and it's non controversial. If it is, get out.

Adam Carolla (38:56)

Right, I agree.

Andrew Gruel (38:58)

But yet here we are in the lawsuits, which is, by the way, this football stuff is indicative of our society as a whole. So the guy dropping the ball two yards before the touchdown because he doesn't care, frankly, that is a metaphor for our entire society, of our argument society or the, what did we call it? The revolution of argument coming after the industrial or the baby boom.

Adam Carolla (39:22)

Yeah, yeah, we argue, that's all. By the way, we don't want to do anything physical. So we argue what do we produce?

Andrew Gruel (39:28)

What's our gdp?

Adam Carolla (39:29)

We bad ideas is what we export. And then once in a while, Europe and Canada, we go, oh, we have some horrible fucking ideas. Would you like to borrow those about immigration, about the Muslim folk, about the trans stuff? You guys can borrow all our really shitty woke ideas and then you can fuck up your society too. And they're like, thank you America. We'll work on fucking up our society as well. Yep, so we're good at that. We're fucked up Canada, fucked up Western Europe. But let's get credit. Like we give the black man credit for Elvis's shit. We were there first. You just took our shit ideas, incorporated them. And now you got a bunch of fucking angry Muslims and trans people running around your society fucking it up.

Andrew Gruel (40:15)

So good luck and you know what's weird about watching that is, as I say, this is a parallel universe. And I was talking about this on Gutfeld the other day. We read the article about the author who promoted and basically sleeping with your cousin or your sister. Right. They were promoting inbreeding. What's so wrong about inbreeding? Right. And we know why they were doing that in England. In England. And everyone's going, oh, well, you know, think about it. Actually, it's not a bad idea. And I said, this is. That's the world we would have been living in, by the way, if we didn't vote Trump in, if Kamala had gotten in office. We're looking at our alternate future right now in the uk.

Adam Carolla (40:50)

Tons. Nonstop trans talk. Nonstop. What about black Biden? If you asked Biden what his favorite flavor of ice cream was, he would explain vanilla. And then he would explain that black and brown people don't have access to soft swirl. And he wove race into every single conversation he had. And just the nonsense. Just to break the respite from race talk. Everything was trans by race, black and brown. He couldn't stop saying it. And I have. I got a clip to play, but I do like it. But you gotta queue it up to the right place, Andrew. But I do like the Biden junk fees, baggage thing, if you don't believe me. Because he's talking about knee room and extra on a flight. I'm going out of town and doing stuff in New York. I just went through this with my assistant. It's like, how much is coach? How much is coach plus how much is business class? How much is first class? What do you get with coach plus you get six inches of knee room and you get to board first, but you don't get complimentary beverages. It's all sorted out before the tickets are bought, which is the crazy thing. That's why this clip is the most insane thing in the world. But I only play it to remind everybody of how it was nonstop black and brown, because this affected black and brown people in the more than something. But I don't even know how that. But. Well, we'll play it when you got it. Just because I can't. It's a perennial all star for me.

Andrew Gruel (42:44)

The overhead space and the baggage is actually a key one. If you have a bag and you want that overhead space, you got a board early. That's where they get.

Adam Carolla (42:51)

I know. Because they steal. Because we've lost our dignity.

Andrew Gruel (42:56)

Yes, we have.

Adam Carolla (42:58)

I've flown first class, got on last, and had to check a bag. And I go, I got a first class ticket. And they go, yeah, but it's all full above your seat. I go, that's because everyone who gets on the plane just throws their shit on over my seat. But you shouldn't let them do that. Yeah, along with the coaches not being able to yell at the players anymore. There used to be, and there still is a curtain in between first class and coach, but everyone in coach just goes right through the curtain and goes and takes a shit in the first class head. It's a thin curtain, it's mesh.

Andrew Gruel (43:32)

It's funny you say that. So I was sitting first seat up against the bulkhead last week, going to New York, right, Regular seats, but right at first class. And the lady, I got up and I was going to go use the restroom to go all the way to the back because I respect the norms you respect. And she grabs me, by the way, double mask, not kidding. And I'm not. Maybe she had something wrong with her.

Adam Carolla (43:52)

She working there.

Andrew Gruel (43:53)

She was sitting on the aisle seat, she grabs my hand and she goes, go use first class right there. And I go, yeah, but I'm trying to explain. I said the curtain's closed and I just don't feel right. She goes, no, you go, use that one.

Adam Carolla (44:04)

Yeah, it's yours, it's yours.

Andrew Gruel (44:05)

Get up there and use it.

Adam Carolla (44:07)

Yes. Why should we be held back? Right? Because the people there paid an extra 1500 bucks.

Andrew Gruel (44:15)

So they're paying for you. That's the point. That's trickle down economics from a socialist.

Adam Carolla (44:20)

They should be able to get the shitter. Then show me the Kissinger clip, the Adam Kissinger one. Because that we can make a meal out of, which is on the sort of subject of this, which is. So this is him. I don't know what his. I don't know if he's a senator, whatever it is, I think he's from California. All the worst are from California.

Andrew Gruel (44:43)

No, Chicago. Kissinger, originally a Republican.

Adam Carolla (44:46)

Oh, okay. So this guy's a world class pussy and he cries all the time, but he does this thing and it drives me insane. But we'll, we'll listen to it.

Adam Kinzinger (44:56)

You know what's crazy? I've got to imagine that being trans is a struggle for people who are probably initially, they're very confused. They're, you know, they feel maybe some shame, whatever. And so they, they find themselves in a place of struggle, I would guess, initially. And then you think of immigrants who come to the United States, yes, illegally and yes, wrongly, but they Come here out of desperation in most cases because they want to support their family, their kids, they don't have an opportunity in Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador or whatever. And so these people are willing to even leave their family in many cases and risk everything to provide. And MAGA and Trump and Fox News simply constantly punch down, punch down. They call themselves men while punching down at people that are struggling or people like immigrants that are working harder than any of them, whatever. Dare work in, in a month of their life.

Adam Carolla (46:09)

All right, pause it.

Adam Kinzinger (46:10)

Harder.

Adam Carolla (46:10)

All right, right off. These fucking pussies. They drive me nuts. You come from some academia or your dad was a lawyer, whatever that thing is. Every white guy I knew was with me on a construction site, digging ditches, fucking carrying drywall. That's all we did, all of us. There's plenty of white dudes born here. Fucking worked. Always worked. Just cause you never did those shit jobs doesn't mean I didn't do those shit jobs. And everyone I went to high school with didn't do those shit jobs. And I love this weird like bully punching down. Yeah, yeah, we hate poor people. I'm rich. I hate poor people. I'm white. I don't like Hispanics. I don't like poor people because they anger me, because they work too hard or something. I don't know what the. I'm not sure exactly what the entire thesis is, but maybe somebody has a plan or has an idea, but it's not because they're mean or they're racist or they're bullies. Maybe they just have a plan. Do you know what I mean? Everything just has to be beaten down because they're scared of people look different than them. It's like, it's. Yes, that's. Wait, we'll hear it out and then we'll play. But it's great. It's awesome.

Adam Kinzinger (47:27)

Harder than any of them would ever dare work in, in a month of their life. The immigrants work harder in a day.

Adam Carolla (47:34)

One day than you do in a month.

Adam Kinzinger (47:36)

The fact that this is what their obsession is, is to punch down at people that need help.

Jason Mayhem Miller (47:41)

We hate people.

Adam Kinzinger (47:42)

It's actually disgusting.

Adam Carolla (47:44)

Oh man.

Adam Kinzinger (47:44)

How do you call yourself? How do you call yourself an alpha male? And like punch when your obsession becomes belittling people?

Adam Carolla (47:52)

Yeah, that's.

Adam Kinzinger (47:53)

Now I get it. Truthfully, inside they feel very small.

Adam Carolla (47:57)

That's why they scared, insecure. That's right.

Adam Kinzinger (47:59)

To call themselves alpha males and then look for a minority segment of a population.

Adam Carolla (48:05)

Just go after.

Adam Kinzinger (48:06)

Pound on them.

Adam Carolla (48:07)

Punch them, man.

Adam Kinzinger (48:08)

Get them down every day. By the way, that I've been thinking about this recently, man, I've just gotten angrier and angry and I've gotten angrier that people will either tweet in all caps or they'll put Trump's little fight, fight, fight picture up or whatever stupid thing they do, call themselves an alpha male and beat up on people less fortunate than them in many cases. Hold on, child.

Adam Carolla (48:32)

It's, it's, it's insane what's going on.

Adam Kinzinger (48:35)

I've got to tell you, if you're thinking about what it was like to be a man in 1950, it wasn't that. It wasn't that, huh? 1950. That generation came home from World War II and generally raised families and defended them and they actually built a really great country.

Adam Carolla (48:52)

Now we're just punching Mexicans.

Adam Kinzinger (48:55)

It's disgusting.

Andrew Gruel (48:57)

He's got some serious psychological problems.

Adam Carolla (48:59)

I know, but also he said, fucking dope. People aren't trotting out the, this guy's a fucking dope. This is his read of what society is.

Andrew Gruel (49:12)

But they're detached. And this is what I learned now, being in politics. First of all, just so you know, everything he said is wrong. Let me explain to you, and this is gonna be very controversial, but I've worked and opened restaurants all over the country. I've worked with undocumented restaurant workers, right? I've gotten to know all of them. I've worked in all of these different hands on, blue collar jobs, which, funny enough, side note, when they want to insult me, they call me, oh, you're just a dumb cook, right? It's like, wait, oh, so now that I'm blue collar, you're gonna use that as an insult against me, right? People who come here from Mexico right now, this is the current reality. They own homes, they have farms, they have families. In Mexico, the value of the dollar is better and they can get more because a lot of Americans, in many cases, right, in restaurants and certain things, they just won't work or the government's giving them too much stimulus. They come here and work for certain periods of time. They all live together, right? So they have no expenses and all they do is work. And they send all of their money back to Mexico and they have homes, some of them have mansions in Mexico. They're not leaving and good for them. I'm not, I don't. That if that's the way the system is set up, then that's the way the system is set up. But to pretend like these are people leaving their war torn country because they have to leave their family. That is not true. That is fundamentally not true. Look, I remember years ago, we had a guy came worked for us, came for the summer, worked all day, every day, was making tons of money, right? And I said to him, I was like, oh. He's like, I gotta go back home. I said, why? He's like, oh, I own all these businesses back in Mexico. I said, what? He goes, yeah, retail, these retail operations, etc. So basically, like, all the money that he made, thousands and 20, $30,000 sends back for the businesses and then has this empire down there in Mexico and he has to just chill out. But he's working hard, so you can't give him a hard time for that.

Adam Carolla (50:56)

Yeah. And you're sort of talking the nuts and bolts and economics of it. And from a guy who knows, because firsthand, I mean, as a matter of fact, between working construction in Southern California and working in restaurants, I'd say got a pretty good finger on the pulse of the Hispanic workman.

Andrew Gruel (51:18)

We probably shared some teammates at some point.

Adam Carolla (51:21)

You know, as well, though, Yeah, I have an affinity for these guys because I am a fan of anyone who works hard. I realize, unfortunately, when you don't work hard, I loathe that. I hate lazy, so it's sort of a seesaw for me. It's not just I love guys who work hard and am indifferent. When I hear fucking lazy, it drives me nuts. Especially young dude and lazy. When young dudes are lazy, it bothers the shit out of me. But it's more because they're dooming their future by being lazy and young. But anyway, and also because I came up with so many. Like, my partners were early on were like, Jimmy Kimmel and Dr. Drew. And those two guys never stopped working. They never stopped, you know, when Drew and I. When Drew and I would go out of town, we'd have to do a show in Florida on a Friday night. And we would finish Loveline at midnight. And I would say to Drew, we're going out of town. We don't live that horribly far apart from one another. And we gotta be at the airport at like 6 in the morning. But we would get home at 12:30. I go to bed at, like, 1. I had a million go to bed at 1:32 o', clock, get up at 4, you know, go, go out of town. Go do a job. Go do Stern, whatever. But I used to say to Drew, I'd go, why don't you pick me up on your way to the airport at, like, 5:15 in the morning. We'll go together at the airport. We don't have both pay for car parking. And he would go, I gotta make the rounds at the hospital. And I'd go, wait a minute, it's 12 o' clock now. Yeah, we gotta be at the airport at 6:00am at LAX. Yeah, you gotta make the rounds, go. Yeah, 4:30, maybe 4. He'd go, you can come with me. I used to tell him, I always remember telling him this, it was funny. He goes, you can come with me back to my house and just sleep at my house, but we gotta get up at 4 and make the rounds and you can just wait in the car. And I said, oh, gee, Drew, will you leave the window cracked open so I can get some air? Yeah. And he's a sign. Yeah, he's okay.

Andrew Gruel (53:48)

He has snacks. Don't break the window.

Adam Carolla (53:51)

So I grew up around, I came up with those dudes, you know what I mean? And so when I see fucking lazy ass dudes, young dudes now, I'm like, I have no time for you. But the Kissinger thing is funny because they create some sort of alternate universe where everyone hates everyone else and punches down and bullies. Everything's about bullying everybody. And it's like, I don't know anyone who thinks that way. And the reason I don't, the reason they don't think that way is that because it's counterproductive. It's not good to be a bully because these people stop working for you or don't want to work for you, or go across the street and work for your competitor. And also this thing of like, he just is racist or he just hates people or he's angry at poor people. It's like, well, that's a pretty big calorie burner and nothing with no upside. Yes, there's no reward in, doesn't make sense from a business standpoint. And they live in a cartoon. They live in a cartoon world where the boss is evil and he's just taking it out on brown people or women or.

Andrew Gruel (55:12)

It's even lower than that. It's the Smurfs and it's the evil doctor, right, Controlling the Smurfs. But they, I mean, it's insulting to the group of people they pretend that they're protecting. They're making it out as if these immigrants have no agency, no self worth and they need the Kinzingers of the world to protect them.

Adam Carolla (55:29)

I'll tell you, it's also wildly grandiose because like, I love it when the person there's this thing about this narcissistic grandiosity where it's like, I care about all children of the. Okay, shut the fuck up, hero. Yes, hero. You care about everyone all the time. How about you shut the fuck up for 10 seconds?

Andrew Gruel (55:50)

But it's the same person who two days later will be talking about how they wish their political opponents were dead. You know, these people don't have any real virtue or like, moral compass.

Adam Carolla (55:59)

Well, I would argue you wouldn't need to cut videos. I've never feel compelled to video myself going, you know, I love children. I want world class healthcare for everybody. And immigrants, no one's illegal. I love the gay and lesbian community. Like, why do we need a video of me proclaiming? Let's just watch it one more time. Just because it, it makes me, it makes me angry. But he also, he sounds like a simpleton. Like, he sounds, he sounds dumb. And I don't know if he knows that he sounds dumb because he's too busy being a hero.

Adam Kinzinger (56:37)

You know what's crazy? I've got to imagine that being trans is a struggle for people who are probably, initially, they're very confused. They're, you know, they feel maybe some shame, whatever. And so they, they find themselves in a place of struggle, I would guess, initially. And then you think of immigrants who come to the United States, yes, illegally and yes, wrongly. But they come here out of desperation in most cases because they want to support their family, their kids. They don't have an opportunity in Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador or whatever. And so these people are willing to even leave their family in many cases and risk everything to provide. And MAGA and Trump and Fox News simply constantly punch down, punch down. They call themselves men while punching down at people that are struggling or people like immigrants that are working harder than any of them whatever dare work in, in a month of their life. The immigrants work harder in a day. The fact this is what their obsession is, is to punch down at people that need help is actually disgusting. How do you call yourself, how do you call yourself an alpha male when your obsession becomes belittling people? Now I get it. Truthfully, inside they feel very small. That's why they do it. But to call themselves alpha males and then look for a minority segment of a population and pound on them? I don't know. Every day, by the way, every day that I've been thinking about this recently, I've just gotten angrier and angrier and I've gotten angrier that people will either tweet in all caps. Or they'll put Trump's little fight, fight, fight, picture up, or whatever stupid thing they do, Call themselves an alpha male and beat up on people less fortunate than them.

Adam Carolla (58:47)

In any case, that's what I look for.

Adam Kinzinger (58:48)

It's childhood.

Adam Carolla (58:49)

It's fortunate. Disgusting fortune.

Adam Kinzinger (58:52)

And I've got to tell you, if you're thinking about what it was like to be a man in 1950, it wasn't that.

Adam Carolla (58:57)

All right, can we get a sombrero and a mustache on this guy? I'm not kidding, Andrew. We can do that, right?

Andrew Gruel (59:05)

Oh, so easy. AI right there.

Adam Carolla (59:07)

AI right there.

Andrew Gruel (59:08)

But Adam came in with the trans, which, by the way, I'm still trying to figure out how the trans element worked into his little soliloquy.

Adam Carolla (59:15)

He was sitting and imagining what it'd be like to be trans.

Andrew Gruel (59:18)

Yeah, exactly. Thank you.

Adam Carolla (59:19)

I don't think it's that big a leap of the imagination to picture Adam as trans.

Andrew Gruel (59:24)

No, not at all. But then for him to go see, he hit. It's like the greatest hits, right? Or it's a menu. I developed a menu. And they're like, give me your. So it's like, well, we're gonna have the Mac and cheese bites. We gotta have the hot dogs in a blanket, right? Or what? Pigs in a blanket. He's like, okay, I gotta hit trans. I gotta hit Mexico. I gotta hit punching down. Because somebody brought that up a lot of times. So I'll bring it up a lot of times. And then. And then I gotta talk about Trump being a little man, right? So he's like, I got em.

Adam Carolla (59:49)

All right? But you're right in that. Why does this information need to be shared? Because A, we already know this is how you feel. And then secondly, this. There is no solution offered here. This is near. This is just virtue signaling. You don't explain. I want a video going, and here's my plan.

Andrew Gruel (60:13)

Bingo. Or I want a video where you're intellectually trying to convince somebody to switch sides. So it's like when the protesters shut down the 405, that's not gonna change my mind. I'm not gonna be driving and be sitting in two hours of traffic and say, you know what? Since I've been sitting in this traffic looking at these flags, I can't get on my flight anymore. I've decided to give it a little extra time to consider your side. I think I'm on board.

Adam Carolla (60:37)

Right? There's not a single no, you want to plow into them like an elderly driving through a farmer's Market. That's my plan. Or this crazy black man driving through Wisconsin Christmas parade that CNN will never talk about because they don't like the optics.

Andrew Gruel (60:53)

I didn't even know that happened. No, I do.

Adam Carolla (60:56)

Yeah, I know. It's great what they report on, what they don't report on, but. Yeah. So, no, that's my whole point. You being angry and throwing a tantrum does not educate me at all as to what your stance is on any subject. And you explaining stuff that doesn't make sense. Here's what I'm saying. If somebody. And I used to. I used to get into this with Drew, actually, who used to be a little bit of a drama queen back in the day. But it's like kids. Kids go. The teacher starts screaming at me, and you go, why? Because he hates me. You go, no, no. Why did the teacher start swearing? Because he's got it in for me. He doesn't like me. And you go, why? Why? Doesn't make sense for him just to single out kids they don't like and spend a bunch of time. Well, I kicked him in the shin. Okay, well, now we're getting somewhere. You know what I mean? And so you just. Here's what's happening. Because the person is mean is a 9 year old's version of life. His argument is, anyone on the right does all this because they're angry and because they're mean. They're bad guys. There's no. Well, what is motivating. Whatever it is that you don't want. Like, for instance, I don't want Drag Queen story hour at the public library. But is that because I'm mean or because I'm homophobic or because I'm transphobic or just because I don't want trannies telling stories to three year olds? They can tell them to high schoolers if anyone wants to go to that rally.

Andrew Gruel (62:40)

Well, it's the same idea with the flag. I was explaining to you, we don't want these flags because it's ultimately going to create division across the community no matter what the flag is. So let's remove the problem. No, you're racist. No, you're a transphobe. No, we just don't want the flag.

Adam Carolla (62:54)

Right. All right, so that thing doesn't exist anymore. That old clip we had.

Announcer (62:59)

May I add one thing to Kinzinger really quick?

Adam Carolla (63:01)

Yes.

Announcer (63:02)

He's got Slava Ukraine in his X profile, and he didn't say a single word about the Ukrainian refugee was murdered on the subway. Not a single word.

Adam Carolla (63:13)

Doesn't care about that, right? No. No.

Announcer (63:16)

So that's all you need to know.

Andrew Gruel (63:18)

There's a shinier toy now.

Adam Carolla (63:20)

Yeah. They don't care about anything if there's a optics issue. Chef Gruel, everybody. American gravy. It's out. It's on iheart now. And two shows. You got a Tuesday and a Thursday show. And a good book too. Where should we find your cookbook?

Andrew Gruel (63:39)

Chef Gruel's family cookbook@www.andrewcookbook.com.

Adam Carolla (63:44)

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Voicemail Caller (66:38)

Hi, Adam. I was frying bacon this morning and thinking about you. When it comes to sandwich moms, I'm wondering if you can take the sandwich making too far. For instance, I make the sourdough bread from scratch. I make the mayonnaise from scratch. I do layers of turkey, two types of cheese, grilled onions, bacon. Then at the end, I toast the sandwich in the pan so that the cheese melts everything together. There's always a pickup. So my question for you is, is extreme sandwich mom just as bad as shitty sandwich mom or no sandwich mom? Would love to hear your thoughts. Get it on.

Announcer (67:14)

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Adam Carolla (67:20)

Anything can take a turn toward the dark side, you know, like there's women who work out too much, you know, and you go, that sounds like you got a nice fit wife there. But, yeah, but she's a little too obsessed with it, you know? There's like a sexual version of that. Anything to the extreme. If it is a negative, it's something I would have liked to take for a test ride. For about 11 years, from age 5.

Jason Mayhem Miller (67:48)

To 16, Ed Gein's mom's made him delicious sandwiches, and look what happened to him.

Adam Carolla (67:53)

I saw that. There's a series on now with that. I'm tempted to watch it.

Jason Mayhem Miller (67:58)

I read many books on the case and wow.

Adam Carolla (68:01)

Can I say we may have a new leader in the shit sandwich clubhouse. I'm looking at you, Dawson, for a reason. I like to know where everyone's mom is in the sandwich department. Andrew's mom's a toasted bread mom. Gonna see her in Philly coming up this weekend. But I got to chatting with our friend Izzy backstage at Kimmel's Club. Dawson's buddy, my buddy, come out, helps with the merch, so on and so forth. And he brought up the sandwich, and I know he's pretty whitish trash, and he described the sandwich his mom made, Which. Now, remember Dr. Drew? No, hold on. Michael Chiklis is the top of the sandwich list so far. That his dad had a sandwich that he invented that was sold, named after him or something, and his mom made, like, fresh bread and stuff like that.

Announcer (69:02)

He's number one with a bullet.

Adam Carolla (69:04)

Michael Chiklis is the commish of sandwiches. And then Dr. Drew's at the bottom with the shit sandwich. I'm lower than him with no sandwich. But Izzy may have bumped Dr. Drew off in the shit sandwich department.

Announcer (69:22)

What's the sandwich?

Adam Carolla (69:23)

I can't believe you spent that much time drinking with that man and you didn't find out what his sandwich was.

Announcer (69:28)

Growing up, food would with our buzz, so.

Adam Carolla (69:32)

Well, talking about food's not gonna soak up any alcohol last night.

Announcer (69:37)

It's a mental thing.

Adam Carolla (69:38)

You're right. You're right. Even talk about a sandwich, you feel the buzz wearing off.

Announcer (69:41)

Exactly.

Adam Carolla (69:43)

So he said he got white bread, American cheese. Not grilled, just American cheese, white bread and jelly.

Announcer (69:55)

That's disgusting.

Adam Carolla (69:56)

I said I've never heard of that sandwich. Child abuse calls child protective services. Like fucking shitty grape jelly on top of the cold American cheese on the white bread.

Announcer (70:09)

It makes perfect sense why Izzy never told me that before. That is a horrible, horrible experience he.

Adam Carolla (70:14)

Wanted me never to talk about about on the air, but here we are.

Jason Mayhem Miller (70:16)

And unusual.

Adam Carolla (70:17)

Yeah. So he. Now I gotta drill down with Drew. Cause Drew, you know, he's got. He uses a little hyperbole. His shit sandwich may not been as bad as Izzy's shit sandwich. Still can't beat my no sandwich. But Izzy's giving it a try with his shit sandwich. Cause that sounds horrible. And, I don't know, something less nutritious you could send your kid to school with. It's white bread, processed cheese, and the grape jelly back then was just corn syrup and purple dye number seven. And, you know, sugar and trans fats. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Yeah. And carbs. And empty. Empty carbs. Empty carbs. When the carb is sticking to the roof of your mouth, it is empty, baby.

Jason Mayhem Miller (70:59)

All the nutritional value has been bleached away in that wonder bread.

Adam Carolla (71:02)

Right. All right, so maybe Izzy at the top of the pyramid.

Announcer (71:06)

I think so.

Jason Mayhem Miller (71:09)

I think so, too, man.

Adam Carolla (71:10)

All right, what's going on in the news?

Jason Mayhem Miller (71:12)

Well, in the news, you'll be surprised. Did you guys know that Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bipartisan bill to raise the salaries of California firefighters nine months after the most expensive inferno in state history incinerated Los Angeles?

Adam Carolla (71:26)

Well, listen, first off, I. You know, okay, firefighters. And one of the reasons I want to be a firefighter is I learned the schedule, and they would tell me all the time. They'd go, like, well, three days on, four days off, or something like that. And I go, what's three days on me? It's like, well, you live at the firehouse. I was like, well what do you do? You know, eat chili, play foosball, clean the fire truck, go out on calls. And I was like, that feels like. And then four days of off, you know what I mean? Like every, I mean firemen work, I don't know, look it up. LA county firefighter. But I would say firefighters work less than half the number of days in every month.

Jason Mayhem Miller (72:11)

So sounds like three to four. Yeah, that works out.

Adam Carolla (72:15)

I mean out of a 30 day month they work 13 days or something like that. Now I know everyone talks about danger and everything else. I like firemen. Also firemen. I've been to a few firehouses, they're almost always in a good mood, which means they're not that stressed out. But let's see. So what's it say? So average. So average working days per month for 30 days. Month is 10 days. 10, 10. Okay. I average 28 and a half working days out of a 30 day month. Now I got an easy job, so I don't care. But you work 10 days out of a 30 day month and then I cannot tell you, especially now that I'm old. When I see a failure hit 49 year old dude, now he looks like. These guys look like they could play college football. And I talk to these guys. I was at Thanksgiving a few years ago and it's like young, there was like a dude, he was like 49 or something. I was like, what are you firing? Oh, how's that going? I'm going to retire next year. I'm like, you're fit, you're trimmed, healthy, young. Yeah, yeah, retire. I wait a year, I get full benefits and full pay. It's like are you just retire and by the way, you work 10 days, it's a pretty fucking good job in that department. I'll tell you.

Jason Mayhem Miller (73:39)

On the other side of that, Ace, you gotta admit that it'd be pretty traumatic in certain ways, pulling dead bodies out, you know?

Adam Carolla (73:46)

Yeah, it's a really hard job. Yeah, I couldn't be paramedic is a different thing for me. And now that there's homeless people fucking dying everywhere, that's a different thing. And starting fires in the Hill. But you know, it's funny, everybody who works in Hollywood, every executive, every producer, they all used to be lawyers. No one used to be a fireman. Cause it's a good fucking job. Lawyers, stressful and shitty and they hate everybody and they got an ulcer and they fucking can't stand what they become kind of thing. I've never. It'd be Interesting to think what is the. I am telling you, the number one job is used to be a law lawyer. That's why when you run into all these people like Mike August, you go, oh, Mike August. What do you do? Show business. You book shows, do live shows?

Jason Mayhem Miller (74:35)

Yeah.

Adam Carolla (74:35)

Used to be a lawyer, though. Don't fuck with him. Everything's like, used to be a lawyer. Used to be a lawyer. Lawyers. The number one. I've spent a ton of money, trained my ass off, went to a ton of school, passed the bar, and I'm not doing it anymore. So that's like the number one job. Doctor, there's a fair bit of doctor, there's a fair bit of used to be school teacher, a lot of used to teach history, Used to be a cop. There's fair amount of used to be a cop. Never hear that. Used to be a fireman. Cause it's a good gig.

Jason Mayhem Miller (75:09)

You settle in and get that pension.

Adam Carolla (75:11)

Ten days, you average Chilean Dalmatians.

Jason Mayhem Miller (75:15)

Are you kidding me?

Adam Carolla (75:16)

Yeah, so my whole thing is, I don't know. And they get paid okay? And I don't, I don't need them to have a raise. But what I would say is look for the price of the bullet train, that'll never be completed. We could have had aqueducts and a system and fire hydrants that worked and alert systems could have paved over Merced. We could have had planes that dropped the chemical retardant and everything. Why don't we just take money from somewhere and put it into the system? That's fine. Okay.

Jason Mayhem Miller (75:48)

Next up, Trump says Diddy asked for a presidential pardon after receiving a 50 month sentence and he calls him Puff Daddy.

Adam Carolla (75:56)

I don't. Do we even know why Diddy, other than kind of being an asshole or being a douche or whatever? Like this man act thing. Like somebody from Nevada, he brought a prostitute in from Vegas to Henderson to fuck his girlfriend. Like that's. That's a thing. That's really. There's a man act. I mean, shouldn't the man act, which was originally, I don't know, look at the man act. But basically, I think you know the dominant black heavyweight, Johnson, or was it Jim?

Jason Mayhem Miller (76:38)

Jack Johnson.

Adam Carolla (76:38)

Jack Johnson, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jack Johnson. I think the man act was like, like partially because of him.

Jason Mayhem Miller (76:45)

Yeah, he was like bringing prostitutes all over the country with them.

Adam Carolla (76:49)

Right, okay, I love that. Brothers haven't really slowed their roll in all these years, you know what I mean? But as soon as Southwest Airlines came into our nation's conscience, we should have got rid of the man act. For 89 bucks, if you can fly the bitch in from Henderson. He used to drive these chip people. He'd throw them in the rumble seat of the Duesenberg or the Stutz Bearcat and drag people around from state to state. But if I'm on the fucking phone with my lady friend who lives in Henderson for tax purposes, and I just go, hey, Melinda, you think you can fly out and fuck my girlfriend and I'll watch or whatever it is, that's a man acting there. That's not Jack Johnson. The Man Acts federal law criminalizing interstate foreign, blah, blah, Blah. Passed in 1910. The law was a response early 1910. Fears of industrialization, urbanization, immigration. Where's the Jack Johnson part of the Mann Act? The act is response. Let's see if you can figure out Jack. Anyway, it was put in place to bust successful black men. And so maybe it was used as intentional. There's precedent for this. But.

Jason Mayhem Miller (78:07)

But it's also. Okay, you know, his. His team is arguing later on to, oh, here we go. Jack Johnson was convicted in 1913 for violating the Man act, also known as the White Slave Traffic act, the federal law prohibiting the transport of women across state lines for immoral purposes. Despite the law's stated goal, combating prostitution and trafficking, the prosecution of the first black heavyweight champion was widely seen as racially motivated. Due to public outrage over his relationships with white women, Johnson fled the country before his sentence, living in exile for several years before returning to the US and serving his prison term. 2018. Donald Trump issued a posthumous pardon for Johnson, acknowledging the racially motivated injustice.

Adam Carolla (78:52)

So P. Diddy was like, hey, remember what he did for Jack Johnson? How about this brother right over here? So P. Diddy's a bad dude, but I don't think you should go to prison for just being a horrible person. If we're gonna bring up breaking some laws. Yeah, if we're gonna bring up some charges and bring up some charges. And this just didn't. I don't know.

Jason Mayhem Miller (79:16)

That's what his team plans on arguing at the appeal. I read that the whole point of the sentence was they were trying to prosecute it or charge him with other crimes that didn't get found guilty on. So the judge is using his discretion.

Adam Carolla (79:35)

On the other hand, four years, while it may suck, it's big picture. Diddy did okay.

Jason Mayhem Miller (79:45)

Yeah.

Adam Carolla (79:46)

And also, he's got time served, right? I mean, he's got a year worth of time served. Oh, Diddy saying white men like Trump need to be, oh, oh, oh, we Got Diddy, uh. Oh, yeah. Diddy's not gonna help his case here. If this man is elected, we're not standing by no more getting killed. We not scared of anybody standing up and standing by. We're on the verge of a race war. Mm. He's not gonna stand by. All right, well, Trump should let him rock. Not in fucking prison in that case, by the way.

Announcer (80:24)

So Jack Johnson got in trouble because he brought his own prostitute, one that he already had a relationship with, across state lines to his fight. So they used it. Yeah, it was definitely racially motivated in him, but he got a posthumous pardon. Guess who pardoned him?

Adam Carolla (80:42)

Trump 2018. Yeah, he read that, but, yeah, I wonder. You know, fellas, I'll tell you what I like to do, Dawson. You go back and forth. You go to Vegas every once in a while. Sometimes you get a lady friend. When you're.

Announcer (80:55)

Depends on the price, but, yeah, when.

Adam Carolla (80:56)

You'Re coming back from Vegas with your lady friend, you should go, I don't think we should travel in the same car. And then they go, why? And then you go, well, there's the man act. And then they go, well, what's that for? Well, you can't take prostitutes across. And then they go, I'm not a prostitute. And you go, okay, he dropped her.

Jason Mayhem Miller (81:14)

Off at Buffalo Bills.

Adam Carolla (81:16)

Now, listen, not technically, yes, you're not technically a prostitute, but you've, you know, definitely been with some dudes, and I just don't want to chance it, you understand? And I'm just going to drop you off at Whiskey Pete's.

Jason Mayhem Miller (81:30)

That's it.

Adam Carolla (81:30)

You can thumb into North Hollywood.

Announcer (81:32)

Yeah, just thumb it from Terribles.

Adam Carolla (81:34)

Yeah, yeah, I'll drop you off. They have 57 pumps. No waiting. Speaking of pumping, you've done a lot of that. And again, what is a professional prostitute? What's an amateur prostitute? I don't want to find out. So I'm just going to drop you off at Whiskey Pete's. You thumb it to my place in North Hollywood, and no har feelings. I'll see you in seven hours.

Announcer (81:55)

Well, the ride home would be more peaceful.

Adam Carolla (81:59)

All right, what else you got? All right, I got that AI could.

Jason Mayhem Miller (82:01)

Wipe out 100 million US jobs, from nurses to truck drivers over the next decade, according to a report by Bernie Sanders. Yeah. The analysis, ironically based on ChatGPT findings, found a new tech could erase jobs from a wide range of fields, including white and blue collar jobs. 40% of registered nurses could lose their job, 47% of truck drivers, 64% of.

Adam Carolla (82:25)

Accountants wait a minute, hold on. Nurses in the 40s, nurses in the 40s.

Jason Mayhem Miller (82:32)

Yeah.

Adam Carolla (82:33)

Drug drivers in the 40s too. And then teachers since in the 60s. Yeah. Listen, in a way, I like it because it forces a trade. It's like you gotta think about a trade, man. If you got a young son or daughter, you gotta think about a trade. Because in all my trade experience, the distance we are from putting data in a computer and have, have it do the accounting or the tax burden for the following quarter, whatever, that it could figure out that the, the self driving car, stuff like that, that the, you know, go into the apartment building, demo out the kitchen, you know, install. Hang the drywall tape and mud. Tape and mud. You know, put the tile down, grout the tile, install the new cabinets, install the plumbing. Like we're 100 years away from that robot. You know, like we got robots and they go, that robot can dance and that robot can jog and stuff like that. But you know, the shit that these guys are doing, you know, installing just something like, like. Like a very basic part of plumbing would be installing a garbage disposal. That's kind of easy, DIY stuff. We're a long ways away from a robot being able to show up and install a garbage disposal. Not to mention roofing. And also lots of sort of editorial decisions you have to make sort of there. It's not just all about move one thing to the next place. Speaking of that, and Andrew has a picture of it. I sent him an update. They are gonna. They are starting on one lot I've seen in Malibu. They're starting to do the caissons into the ground. And I went by and I looked at the length of the cage, the caisson cage, a round cage, probably two foot around. I don't know, looks like Watts Towers or something. And if you go to the next picture, it's all rebar. I don't know why it's purple, but that shit is six stories and it gets dropped into the ground and it goes all the way down, all the way into the earth. I don't know that people know. I think I sent you a couple of these, Andrew. I don't know that people know how far into the ground this shit goes.

Jason Mayhem Miller (85:39)

Is that earthquake proof? That's the reason for this? I don't know.

Adam Carolla (85:42)

This is more with the water, I don't know. But if you look at this picture, you can go to amcro.com these are the cages that get dropped into the hole after the caisson drill drills into the earth. These things ain't 20ft long. No, these things go off into the sunset. And by the way, they don't stick out of the earth. They go all the way in. So you gotta drill all the way down, up.

Jason Mayhem Miller (86:09)

And they drop this fill with concrete.

Adam Carolla (86:11)

Yes, but here's the whole thing. Remember, Dawson, I'm not gonna put you on the spot here, but remember the famous Joel McHale rant about him? Went in his swimming pool?

Announcer (86:27)

Yes.

Adam Carolla (86:28)

And I was wanting my house built in 1929 with nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. The nothing rant. Now, if you can find the nothing rant, we'll accept it. But here's what I'm saying. Every house that's burnt down now, that was built there in the 40s and 50s, sat on telephone poles that got pounded 10ft into the ground. Literally. A telephone pole that was 11 inches around, made of wood dipped in creosote, like, dipped in tar. And then a pile driver just whacked it into the ground and whacked it in the ground 14ft.

Jason Mayhem Miller (87:09)

And we regulated ourselves into drilling to the center of the earth to dip queso.

Adam Carolla (87:15)

And then the house was built on top of those pylons, like the Malibu Pier. Wait a minute, Andrew. What year is the Malibu Pier? The Malibu Pier must be from the 40s and 50s. It's all just pylons pounded into the ground out in the ocean. Yeah. Malibu Pier's been there for 65, 80 years. All right, so the point is this. They used to do it, and then they build the house in 1947, and in 2025, the house was fine, but then the fire took it. And now they go, you must build Hitler's bunker. And they go, but the house that was here before was on telephone poles that just got pounded in the ground. And they go, we're gonna need 20 caissons all going 30ft into bedrock and those fucking things.

Andrew Gruel (88:10)

Yeah.

Jason Mayhem Miller (88:10)

Who wrote this law? The rebar lobby.

Adam Carolla (88:12)

When you stand. When you stand under a six story building and you look up to a six story building, that's how far this stuff goes in. And by the way, that just gets you to the soil line that gets you to the ground. You could, by the way, you could spend 3 million bucks drilling, dropping yards and yards and yards of concrete, pumped into everything, pumped in. And you could put 20 of these things all around, all according to what the engineer wanted, blah, blah, blah. I could show up with a flathead shovel. You could have $2 million in this. I could show up with a flathead shovel and just. Just shovel some sand over the top. The top looks like you took a trash can lid from a trash can, just put it on the ground and you could walk up and go, well, they haven't started work here yet. You couldn't even see it. What it would take to move that house with those 70ft into the ground with hundreds of yards of concrete. And by the way, they're all going to get tied together with these huge grade beams. I mean, I mean you are talking indestructible. Indestructible. And my whole thing, here's my whole thing, okay, you have to upgrade from the telephone poles. Malibu Pier 1905. It's still there. It's all wood. There's no caissons. It's just wood in the ground. Just like every one of these houses was just wood in the ground. So here's what I'm saying, here's all I'm saying. You would like to upgrade. Okay, fine. We didn't have the technology back then. Now we do have the technology. We have the rebar, we have the caisson rigs, we can pump the concrete. What you're saying is reasonable. So you making this new structure five times stronger than the old structure. I'll abide by that. It's gonna take extra time, it's gonna cost money. But fine, we'll make it five times stronger or 10 times stronger. But you are building this 2,000 times stronger. 2,000 times. I mean, the difference between a telephone pole being pounded into the sand 12ft and seven story caissons littered all over the place with grade beams and rebar and pumped concrete creek. It's insane. It is so overkill that you don't. And so what happens is people go, it's a safety first kind of. Yeah, it's a safety first, but someone has to pay for that. Meaning you could go, I want to build a house. And then someone could go, I want 4 foot thick concrete walls in my house. And you'd go, yeah, I don't want to pay for that. That's going to cost too much. It's not worth it. You understand? You're making a house that could defeat an atom bomb. Somebody is paying and the city doesn't pay for it. So the city engineer just goes, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, go, go. How far do you want to go into bedrock? 5ft. Make it 25ft. Cuz they're not the one who's there drilling it and doing is. If this is what it. If this. By the way, this is just on a lot of in Malibu, this Is next to Grant Cardone's house. I was just walking last night and I saw it. And then I got up this morning and I went there to take a picture. Like an insane man. But. And I talked to the guys working the caisson rig. And by the way, it's not a fast process. You gotta go down. All the way down. Anyway, I talked to the guys and they were like, yeah, I've gone about 70ft each one of these. I'm like, okay, you're gonna have 3 million bucks tied in to shit we can't see. I mean, I mean they'll get the grade beams for and stuff. But before the first two by four piece of plywood, the first building piece of material, just what's in the ground. You have millions of dollars into the ground.

Jason Mayhem Miller (92:18)

I don't understand the benefit. Here's the benefit against earthquakes.

Announcer (92:23)

I don't get bureaucrats.

Jason Mayhem Miller (92:25)

Yeah, no, I know. Everybody needs a job.

Adam Carolla (92:27)

Well, the benefit is this. I will never. If I'm the engineer, right? And you go, I want to engineer this thing. Could be a tool shed, you know. And I go, you go, it's just a 8 by 8 tool shed. We don't need more than a 2 by 4 roof rafter or ceiling joists. It's nothing, you know. And I go, yeah, okay, make it a two by ten. And you go, oh, that's way over for what I need. It doesn't need. Doesn't have a second story. And I go, yeah, let's make it a two by ten. And you go, but that's going to cost a lot of money. It's going to take more time, whatever. In my world, if it's two by fours and somebody falls through the roof, I'm getting sued. I'll just go 2 by 10 and then I'm covered. So I'll go maximum and then I'll be covered. So that's what they do. They just go, you want to do caissons 20ft into the ground? You go, yeah. They go, make it 80ft.

Announcer (93:24)

And the word.

Adam Carolla (93:25)

And they just walk away.

Jason Mayhem Miller (93:25)

They don't.

Adam Carolla (93:26)

If they had to cut a check, they wouldn't do it.

Announcer (93:29)

I believe in La Jolla there were some examples where they didn't get down into the bedrock and they didn't really secure the foundation to the cliffs. And, and I think some of those. I think some of those resulted in some major lawsuits a long time ago.

Adam Carolla (93:43)

It. It can happen. But let's not forget every house, every other house that burnt down was on telephone poles across from the 1905 telephone pole pier called the Malibu Pier. And now you got these cages, and it's going to be 200 grand a cage to drill it, drop it, form it, fill it with concrete. And that just gets you to the dirt. It literally just gets you to the dirt.

Jason Mayhem Miller (94:15)

And conversely, you have, like, no new regulations on fire retardant and new. You know what I mean?

Adam Carolla (94:20)

You can frame it out of wood after that.

Jason Mayhem Miller (94:23)

Yeah, exactly. So zero sense.

Adam Carolla (94:26)

I don't know. But if somebody said, look, if you were in Nevada and you're on a flat lot and somebody said, I want to build a 2,000 square foot home here, because these houses are only going to be 1,800ft, 2,000 square feet. They're not going to be that big. And he said, all right, you go, how much? You go, well, let's say the foundation, slab footing, whatever. You're in for 75 grand or 100 grand or whatever, then you can build the house for 400 bucks a square foot. But what if I said, said it's gonna be 3 million bucks before you start building anything. There's gonna be 300. It's gonna be 3 million bucks buried in the ground before you start anything. That's the crazy part. So I didn't.

Jason Mayhem Miller (95:15)

So it's like a nightclub. They're, like charging $70 for a drink. That way they keep the pores out.

Adam Carolla (95:21)

I don't. I just know it's city, it's bureaucracy. It only goes one way and it gets crazier and the engineering gets crazier, and it just goes. Goes deeper and bigger and stronger and more unnecessary. And I did it. I did it. When I pulled a permit to build my super garage, I had to put. I don't know if you have that, but I had to do the case on, sir.

Announcer (95:43)

I got the famous nothing.

Adam Carolla (95:45)

Nothing. Okay, yes. If you want to do any building in this goddamn city, especially if it's up in the hills, you must either build the Hoover Dam. This is like 18 years ago, by the way. This is me 18 years ago ringing the bell. Go ahead, sir. Hide behind the veil of safety. Hey, just playing it safe. Hey, better safe than sorry. Hey, we're an earthquake country.

House Owner/Builder (96:10)

My house was built in 1929. It has no reinforced concrete, no plywood because plywood wasn't invented. No simpson straps, no HDs, no hold downs, no all thread, no J bolts, no nothing. Nothing, nothing. They had some poor Irish guy, poor foundation, and they set a house on it.

Adam Carolla (96:34)

That was it.

House Owner/Builder (96:35)

There was no straps and no Teo clips and no 835s and no continuous shear wall and no moments and no nothing. No nailing schedule, no inspector, no nothing, nothing, nothing. Now that house was built in nineteen goddamn twenty nine. And you know where it is today, right? The F word was put by all the dead people with no hold downs and no rebar and no bunkers and no straps and no nothing. Why it's in earthquake country. It's an earthquake, right? Now what do you think the house did, you retards? Did it sprout legs and run to Montana every time there was an earthquake and then and then hustle back and land on its foundation?

Announcer (97:21)

By the way, this is at about 8:20 on a nice August morning in 2006 years.

House Owner/Builder (97:29)

No pylons, no gray beams, no retaining walls, nothing. I don't know what we're yelling about. 80 goddamn years through every goddamn earthquake this city could put up and it is move not an inch.

Adam Carolla (97:44)

But yet when I add a garage onto the back of the house, it.

House Owner/Builder (97:49)

Has to withstand an oil tanker running aground and plowing into the side of it.

Adam Carolla (97:57)

Why?

House Owner/Builder (97:58)

Because the structure that I build new can't be twice as strong as the existing house. Can't be 10 times as strong, can't be a thousand times as strong. It must be be 1 million times as strong as the structure that it's next to. Well, first off, what do you think? Where do you think I mean the kids are going to be when the next big one hits? In the garage. Hey kids, we moved your cribs out to the garage so we can withstand a nuclear tank. Listen you idiots, make the goddamn thing stronger than the existing structure. Not a million times stronger.

Adam Carolla (98:35)

All right, that went on for another 10 minutes screaming nothing.

Jason Mayhem Miller (98:37)

I recall.

Adam Carolla (98:40)

It'S literally like saying look, we got a new car and it's a little bit safer. And you go, what's it got? Crumple zones and airbag. Now it's got a full roll cage and fire suppression system and it's a Kevlar tub. And then you have to wear a six way harness. It's like my grandpa's Buick. Worked fine.

Jason Mayhem Miller (99:01)

Not, not need tank treads on that Buick.

Adam Carolla (99:04)

Oh, I'm gonna keep going over there and checking those. I'm gonna find out how many yards they got a pump in every one of those holes. It is such. What's the colossal deregulation?

Jason Mayhem Miller (99:14)

Would it have to be a complete regime change?

Adam Carolla (99:17)

Get Newsom out of there. So you gotta convince. You have to convince dumb chicks that less safe is better. Number one, good luck. Good luck explaining that to Katie Porter. Right, right. The same bitches who shut schools down for two years because of school safety and teacher safety and. Well, okay, so your kid's healthy, but what if he gets it and brings it home? Because we all live with our grandparents, don't you know? Because it's like Italy in 1939 here in Southern California. You're gonna have to convince one of those bitches that we should make it less safe, that we should go in a less safety direction. Even though basically what you're saying is go to 1000 times overbuilt. Can we just go to 500 times over built? But they would never go. So we're going less safety, which optically they don't like. We're going with, hey, the rich guy cutting the checks is getting gouged. So it's rich, whitey wants a break and less safety. That's strike one and two for those bitches. It's not like they ever cut a check. They just tell you to cut a check. And it would also get them to have to understand some, like, basic engineering and some basic economics and some basic decency, and that's out of the bridge too far. Right, right. They're the people that blame Toyota for catalytic converter theft. So they're not clear that you have to convince them. And then something on the coastal commission, and it's a bunch of angry bitches who are, by the way, pissed at rich people who are building on the coast.

Jason Mayhem Miller (101:00)

Well, if you could reframe it as, like, a housing crisis solution to bring the regulations down, I think that could win some voters.

Adam Carolla (101:07)

Yeah. If I told them my transitioning mixed race son daughter wept openly because of the depth of these caissons, then maybe I could make some headway. All right, Mayhem, you've done it again. I'm gonna be at Rodney's in New York doing Stand up. Dr. Drew's gonna do stand up for the first time in his career. Some tickets left for that. I gotta go.

Jason Mayhem Miller (101:32)

I gotta see this.

Adam Carolla (101:33)

I'll film it. Cat Tim's gonna be there. We're doing a live pod, and then we're doing a stand up show. And Kat's gonna do standup as well. Sol Joel's after that, Pottstown doing some stand up there. And you can go to amcroll.com for all the live shows. Mayhem, you got anywhere?

Jason Mayhem Miller (101:47)

Yeah, man. I'm on the YouTube Mayhem Show.

Adam Carolla (101:50)

Go to the YouTube Mayhem Show. Chef Gruel as well. American gravy. Until next time. Adam Kroll for Chef Gruel Mayhem. Say it Mahala Pick up your phone.

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