Gavin Newsom’s Thoughts on GOD and Trans Kids + Should Don Lemon Be Arrested?

Summary

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The Adam Carolla Show

Episode: Gavin Newsom’s Thoughts on GOD and Trans Kids + Should Don Lemon Be Arrested?
Date: January 20, 2026
Host: Adam Carolla
Guest/Co-host: Alicia Krauss

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode explores Adam Carolla’s signature comedic and critical breakdown of current political and cultural events. The focus is on Gavin Newsom’s ambiguous approach to social issues (notably transgender policy), Don Lemon’s controversial protest in a Minneapolis church, and the broader problems Carolla sees in political discourse, leadership, and societal attitudes. Throughout, Carolla is joined by Alicia Krauss for lively banter and news commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Personal Anecdote: Adam’s Oregon Bathroom Saga

(00:00–19:10)

• Adam recounts a road trip through rural Oregon, where he and his friend Mike struggle to find a restroom. Adam humorously details their increasingly desperate attempts to relieve themselves, culminating in a confrontation with an irate local who films and berates them.
• Themes: Societal judgment, lack of empathy, the urge to mind others’ business, and the oddity of public shaming for harmless acts.

Notable Moments:

• Adam: “If you need to know anything about me, peeing in a shaker bottle does not disqualify you from using that shaker bottle the following morning.” (04:38)
• Alicia: “I’m pro peeing on the side of the road… I am anti getting involved with shit that you don’t need to get involved with.” (14:05)

2. Media Consumption & Society’s Perception

(19:10–22:59)

• Adam explains his fascination for watching and analyzing things he disagrees with—commercials, podcasts, politicians. He sees it as a study into “other people’s versions of reality.”
• He frames his listening to Alyssa Milano’s podcast (and her defense of Gavin Newsom) not as hate-listening but as a curiosity for how others think.

Quote:
Adam: “I tend to like to study things versus be entertained by things. There’s irony and curiosity—and kind of an educational part.”

3. Gavin Newsom’s Achievements: Substance or Style?

(22:59–30:28; 33:29–48:12)

• Alyssa Milano’s defense of Newsom: Adam and Alicia dissect a list of Newsom’s supposed accomplishments—mental health reform, empowering youth, fighting hate, gun violence prevention, etc.—and deride them as vague, feel-good slogans without concrete backing.
• Adam’s Critique: Carolla laments that political discourse has become “all chick talk... liberal talk,” full of emotional buzzwords (“empowering youth,” “fighting hate”) that substitute for real achievements or measurable action.
• Newsom’s evasiveness: Carolla plays Newsom’s response to Ben Shapiro’s pointed question about whether boys can become girls; Newsom responds in nonsensical, deflective platitudes about the “grace of God,” refusing to give a direct answer.
• Adam’s Analysis: Newsom can’t answer because he is caught between progressive party expectations and the national opinion, showing a disconnect between political class and everyday people.

Memorable Quotes:

• Adam: “He says nothing, but is sort of savvy about it. Kamala Harris says nothing, and is clumsy about it.” (21:21)

• Alicia: “The girls that are suing Newsom... for allowing boys in girls sports don’t feel very empowered.” (23:27)

• Adam (mocking Newsom): “Yeah, I just—I think for the grace of God… I appreciate the sympathy. I feel terrible for anybody who’s suffering…” (38:29)

• Alicia: “He got put in a corner and he can’t answer ‘boys are boys and girls are girls.’” (38:34)

• Adam: “We all live in a world of—well, that’s what we’re calling our reality.” (29:36)

• Segment Highlight:

  • Newsom’s Chat with Ben Shapiro (36:10–45:24):
    • [36:56] Newsom: “Yeah, I just—Well, I think for the grace of God. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate the sympathy…”
    • Adam and Alicia react with bewilderment at his inability to plainly answer.

4. Political Pandering: Race and Class

(48:12–54:59)

• Carolla revisits a past interview with Newsom, lampooning his attempts to discuss racial economic disparities in access to banking. Newsom’s circular, deflective responses illustrated (through an A.I. Burt Reynolds skit) how political figures often introduce subjects they can’t substantively defend when faced with a well-prepared interviewer.

Notable Segment:

• Adam (as NPR interviewer): “Why did you bring up black and Hispanic?”
• Newsom/Burt: “Because the magnitude is ominous…”

5. Crime, Justice, and Societal Priorities

(54:59–63:17)

• The hosts discuss the killing of an elderly Asian man in San Francisco, larger questions around criminal justice reform, and a perceived disconnect between progressive leniency for violent offenders and true public safety.
• Carolla invokes a “leaky basement” metaphor to illustrate the folly of addressing root causes superficially rather than substantively excavating problems.

Quote:
Adam: “You belong in jail. The guy who commits welfare fraud needs to go to jail too, but he’s not gonna hurt me. The rando violence people—you need to be put away.”

6. Don Lemon, Activism, and Victimhood

(73:31–85:39)

• Incident Explored: Don Lemon, post-CNN, joins anti-ICE protesters in “storming” a Minneapolis church during services, livestreaming his actions and later calling the congregation “white supremacists.”
• Legal Perspective: Alicia highlights the irony of leftist activists being protected (and sometimes prosecuted) under the same laws (FACE Act) they once wielded against pro-life protesters.
• Broader Social Critique: Carolla likens left-wing activist behavior to a sports analogy—fans who can’t just enjoy their own bar, but must disrupt their “rivals,” seeking attention and then decrying victimhood when called out.
• Meta-criticisms: Carolla bemoans the need for constant drama and condemnation—“victim” status as default posture for activist-journalists.

Notable Quotes:

• Adam: “Go to the Seattle bar, watch your fucking team, and shut the fuck up. That’s all we’re trying to do here.” (82:10)
• Alicia: “As a churchgoing mama, it really pissed me off seeing those poor kids… now they’re terrorized and afraid to go to church.” (84:42)
• Don Lemon (audio): “It’s religious freedom but only if you’re a Christian and only if you’re a white male.” (77:26)

7. Participation Trophies & Social Attitudes

(85:39–91:38)

• Discussion inspired by a Matthew McConaughey podcast segment about “chasing perfection,” 4.2 GPAs, and the real meaning of participation awards.
• Adam defends the concept of a participation trophy as just recognition of showing up, arguing the problem isn’t these trophies, but the devaluing of true achievement when everyone gets the same rewards.

Quote:
Adam: “A participation trophy is just that. It’s a participation trophy. Everybody gets a participation trophy because everyone who came here went to all the practices, went to all the games, and basically made it through.”

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Additional Highlights

Political/Culture News & Commentary

• Rick Caruso won’t run for CA governor or LA mayor; Carolla ruefully observes the city “chose the antithesis” in Karen Bass.
  • Adam: “If LA was a franchise… It’s between Tom Brady and Ryan Leaf. We took Ryan Leaf.” (93:06)
• Critique of Karen Bass’s history with Cuba and far-left associations.

Recurring Themes

• Widespread frustration with vapid political discourse—“all vibes, no facts.”
• Mocking of identity politics and virtue signaling—Carolla’s patience for “chick talk/liberal talk” is sarcastic at best.
• Critique of a cultural shift toward victimhood, performative morality, and soft standards.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "We just rented the truck, but… We just take off, and, you know, the guy said he's calling the cops and he's got the plates… Mike was looking over his shoulder for the next several miles." (Pee saga, 14:26)
• “He’s not saying anything, he’s just using chick talk: ‘Empowering youth. Fighting hate.’ It’s not a good thought because all thoughts ‘take the place of other thoughts’.” (26:14)
• “Can boys be girls? He can’t answer that. No. But now the question is, why?” (40:33)
• On Don Lemon: “You acted like we didn’t know who you were… You’re all just crazy leftist lunatics who pretended to be middle-of-the-road journalists.” (75:49)
• Sports bar analogy: “Go to your Seattle bar, get a beer, and shut the fuck up… Then you come in, try to change the channel, and yell you’re under attack.” (82:10–84:28)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment | Time (MM:SS) | |--------------------------|-------------| | Oregon Pee Story | 00:00–19:10 | | Critique of Social Discourse / Alyssa Milano | 19:10–22:59 | | Newsom’s Accomplishments/Trans Kids Debate | 22:59–48:12 | | Newsom Banking Interview Parody | 48:12–54:59 | | Violent Crime & Justice System | 54:59–63:17 | | Don Lemon & Minneapolis Church | 73:31–85:39 | | Participation Trophies & Education | 85:39–91:38 | | Rick Caruso Decision / Karen Bass | 91:38–97:42 |

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Tone

The episode is marked by Adam’s trademark sarcastic, irreverent humor, often blunt criticism, and skepticism toward both mainstream media and progressive political leadership. Alicia Krauss provides grounded, slightly more earnest commentary, adding news updates and offering a socially conservative but pragmatic perspective.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode is a quintessential slice of Adam Carolla: story-driven, biting cultural satire laced with political skepticism and aversion to groupthink. If you’re seeking a no-holds-barred account of current events—with equal parts comedy, frustration, and mockery of “chick talk” slogans and virtue signaling—you’ll find it here. Political correctness, vague political promises, activist journalism, and fleeting standards in society all get the Carolla treatment. Be prepared for candid language and unapologetic opinions.

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Advertisements, intro/outro segments, and unrelated banter have been omitted for clarity and focus.

Transcript

[A]

Well, in this episode, Alicia Krause hangs in and does the news and I get to many, many subjects and we'll do all that right after this. Adam's on the east coast at the end of this month. Don't miss shows in New York City at Rodney's, Thursday, January 29, 7pm with Anthony Scaramucci and 9:30 with the Ace man and special guests. Then he joins Megyn Kelly in Chester, New York at the Sugarloaf Performing Arts center on Friday, January 30th and on Saturday, January 31st, two shows at the Trump Kennedy center in Washington D.C. tickets for all these shows and more information always [e-mail]. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. The NFL playoffs are here and Betonline gives you more ways to play. With betonline, you get the latest odds, breaking news and live scores. With Betonline's in game betting, you'll never miss a moment of the college football playoffs and the road to the super bowl as well. When it's time to switch gears, dive into Betonline's casino packed with hundreds of the hottest slots, classic table games, live dealers and massive jackpots just waiting for you. And if you love the NBA or the ufc, NHL, it's all there. You can place a little bet on the action. Keep get in on the action. Please don't Forget the BETOnline VIP program with exclusive level up bonuses, weekly cash boosts and rewards designed for serious players. Head to Betonline today because at betonline, the game starts here. From Corolla One studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Today we'll get the news from the Washington examiners, Alicia Krauss. And now Adam Carolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on the judgment government mandate. You get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. We love that about you. All right, so. So I drove. I was in Oregon.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

Yeah. And drove from Grants Pass to Bend, Oregon, which is amazing. Bend, Oregon is beautiful.

[B]

It's a cute little town. We were there this summer for a couple of days.

[A]

Oh, you were? Yeah. It's beautiful.

[B]

Floated the river with the kids.

[A]

Beautiful.

[B]

Drank some beer.

[A]

Beautiful, beautiful. But I want to bring something up. I don't know. Alicia may have a take on this. I think guys will have a take on this.

[B]

Guys have a take on most things.

[A]

Yeah, well, but I'm correct in my takes. Other guys are just blowing air. So I'll show you a picture. It's about a 3 hour and 2315, 320 drive. And it's just endless, beautiful highway. But they're not gas stations along the way. I'm from la, I'm from California. When something's three hours away, it's all highway. And then you can get off and get in and out. Burger or take a leak or whatever, whatever. But this is just a country, just a pass. I mean, beautiful big pine trees, snow on the ground. It's Mount something. We couldn't figure it out. And then I stopped paying attention. But it's not Rainier and it's not Shasta and it's not anywhere. So we're driving for a long period of time through the pines.

[B]

Did you see any other cars on the road?

[A]

Yeah, there are a couple out there and we passed a few, but it was a beautiful scenic drive.

[B]

How many deer did you almost hit?

[A]

You know, we saw no wildlife, which is weird. We kept commenting on that, but it's God's country.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And it's beautiful and there's big ponderosa pines and trees and it's beautiful. But at a certain point I said to Mike, I gotta take a piss. And there are no proper piss places.

[B]

Well, the woods is a great proper piss place.

[A]

The woods is great. But I am wearing cloth Nikes and we're, we're in the snow now and the highway's clear. But if you want to get to the woods, you got 30ft of snow to walk through. Also not height wise, but 30ft distance wise.

[B]

It looked like some of the two lane highway there didn't have shoulder. So then how do you pull off? Yeah, to take a pee in the woods.

[A]

So I, because I'm a gentleman, I said, mike, I'm just gonna fill up my shaker bottle. That'll do. And by the way, if you need to know anything about me, peeing in a shaker bottle does not disqualify you from using that shaker bottle the following morning. It doesn't even necessarily require soap.

[B]

Oh God.

[A]

Just a little hot water rinse and a good shake and we're good. So I said, mike, I'll just fill this bottle up. And Mike said. Mike looked down at the nav and he said, you know, we got something coming up. We're hitting the intersection, the cross street, the main whatever in 6.8 miles. But he's doing 85. So I'm like, all right, I think I can gut it out till we get to the highway and there'll be a diner there or something. So I go, all Right. I'll hold it. But I already had the thought that I was gonna pee in this bottle. So it kind of started my internal clock, you know what I mean?

[B]

Ticking the time.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

How much longer can you hold your bladder?

[A]

Mike said he had to go, too. I said, all right, well, I'll hold it with you in solidarity until we get to the highway. So we got to the highway, and immediately there was like, a diner. Not a Denny's or a Waffle House or anything, Just a. Just a diner.

[B]

Mom and Pop kind of place.

[A]

Yeah. And we immediately just pulled across the street and pulled in the parking lot. And the first thing I saw was, bathroom for patrons only. Because it's 85 miles of nothing highway. So everyone who gets to that tea goes in to use that bathroom. So I kind of got it. Cause I'm totally. By the way, I don't think businesses are under any obligation to, like, do what's right or whatever. It's your business. It's your business.

[B]

You're losing using their electricity, their resources, their plumbing.

[A]

Well, also, if you're at a space where clearly it's endless highway. And then we hit your restaurant, every 19 minutes, someone's gonna be taking a piss in your bathroom and then walking out. Then you gotta clean the toilet. So I'm fine with that. So I see the sign and I think, yeah, okay, I get it. I'll, like. Things start going through my head. Like, I'll buy a donut, or I'll take some hash browns to go.

[B]

Is there a strawberry rhubarb pie in the box?

[A]

Something, Right? But. So I go to open the door, and it's locked. And then I kind of look through the window, and it doesn't appear that anyone is in the restaurant.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

So now I gotta take a pee, right? So I go, you know what? I'm not gonna walk around this place looking. It's bright, you know, it's one in the afternoon. There's cars going down the highway. I'll do this move where I'll open the door to the truck we'd rented, which sits up a little high, thankfully. And then I will nestle myself in the corner where the door hinge is on the truck, and I will pretend to go through something in the glove box for a long period of time. But meanwhile, I'm going to fill up my shaker bottle. So I was standing there filling up my shaker.

[B]

Why weren't you just peeing in the dirt?

[A]

Well, it was 1 in the afternoon, and there were many cars Coming down the highway, like I just said, that's.

[B]

Why I decided to really try to hide it.

[A]

I'm not really. All right, first off, I'm not really trying to hide. I'm saying if there are a bunch of cars going down the highway, well, look, why go walk to the forest? Why not just piss in the highway?

[B]

Because if you're facing. I don't know, I grew up in the country on a lot of two lane roads. I've seen a lot of dudes with their back turned to the highway. I know that they're taking a piss and it doesn't bother me.

[A]

It doesn't bother you. But I would say if you have the choice of just standing in your car door and doing that, then you've created a little stall for yourself.

[B]

Oh, I'm a woman. I've had to pop a squat between two open car doors.

[A]

Yeah. And also, technically, if a cop's driving down the street, you can be sighted if they just see your back.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, I didn't know this. Okay, you're playing it.

[A]

You can get indecent exposure, I think, for doing that.

[B]

Even if it's not out.

[A]

How would one.

[B]

No, I'm saying, like, if you're not facing. Never mind.

[A]

We don't listen, when you turn your back to the highway and it's a two way highway, somebody's coming your direction. Anyway, let's not get mired.

[B]

Details.

[A]

Well, I was gonna say dumb questions, but details. All right. I opened the truck door and I'm standing there filling up my bottle. Mike, couple minutes earlier, has made his way around the restaurant to see what's happening. Yeah, I'm about halfway into my whiz when I hear a guy yelling, we're not in Mexico, bro. And then I see this guy filming Mike and following Mike behind him as Mike's pulling the zipper up in his pants and filming everything and yelling at him the entire time. I got you on camera, I got the plates for your truck. It was also kind of a weird thing. You know when guys are on a roll and they just go. He goes, the truck evidently was from Texas. And he goes, what do we got? Texas. I knew it. Like, I don't know what that says about urinating. I'd say there are people out of Texas. Probably pee too.

[B]

Clearly I didn't have a problem with it. And I'm Texas adjacent in Oklahoma.

[A]

And we.

[B]

Maybe that's the thing.

[A]

We just rented the truck, but. So we don't know where it's from.

[B]

Stereotype you.

[A]

I Don't. When people get on a roll, they'll just start going, you know, and then they'll be calling you a bunch of shit. And they go, where'd you get those shoes, bro? And it's like, I don't know, they're tennis shoes. You're just going. You're going.

[B]

Everything's giving you ammo, right?

[A]

So he's yelling at Mike. I'm now having to cut my piss off because I'm facing him and he's filming everything. And he's screaming at Mike. And Mike had. Mike wasn't pissing on the restaurant or in the restaurant. He went past to some propane tanks that were down the road and tried to nestle himself in between the propane tanks. And the guy comes running out of the restaurant, filming him and screaming at the top of his lungs. Now, first things first. Should we make certain rules in society.

[B]

Where it's like you don't feel somebody taking a piss?

[A]

What do you mean?

[B]

Like, that guy should not be filming Mike.

[A]

I would say this. Everybody would love to be at home in their bathroom doing their business. Sometimes nature calls, and it happens quite often. So first off, you gotta be well over the novelty of it because you've done it yourself. Everyone you know has done it yourself. Everyone has kids, has pulled off and had done the. Okay. It's not a novelty, number one. Number two, there's a little bit of a moment. I don't know, it'd be like no smoking in surgical centers. It's like, come on. This person's in a space that's kind of vulnerable right now. Could we leave them be? And also, they're not doing this for sport, you know what I mean? Obviously, they're on the road, they're turning their back, they're going down the thing. They're not. They wish they could go into the restaurant.

[B]

He's not like on La Cienigo Boulevard.

[A]

Just waving his dick around. So he's following Mike. He's screaming at Mike, I have to cut my shit short, cuz even though I'm facing him and standing there. Oh, yeah. So the guy just keeps filming us. Mike jumps in the car and we just take off, right? And I don't know if Mike got. I think Mike may have finished his piss, but I didn't. So then we take off and, you know, the guy said he's calling the cops and he's got the plates. And so we're kind of driving down the highway just wondering if cop's gonna light us up. Cause he Described the car, described the plates. Probably said, we're pissing on some danger.

[B]

Were you wondering if he recognized you? Was gonna post it on YouTube and then you have to worry about that?

[A]

Yeah, I had a lot of thoughts went through my mind, but my main thought, which I have with everything, is why? Just why? How necessary is this part of life? How necessary is this? Whether it's this guy or I'm gonna go to a church in Minneapolis and start screaming at people. Could you just not. Just don't do it. It's fine. You'll be fine. No one's gonna ask you, did you bust anyone peeing today? It's not gonna happen. You just look out your window, see a guy taking a piss, and then look back down on your Twitter feed.

[B]

It's also, I mean, not to stereotype much, but you and Mike aren't very like troublemaker looking type dudes.

[A]

Yeah, just middle aged guys in a rental car trying to make our way.

[B]

Through life that clearly we're trying to go into the diner that was closed and you're like, I have to pee.

[A]

Right?

[B]

Like, it's just. So then it's almost as stupid as somebody yelling at me for like letting my kid pee on the side of the road, right? Like, that's just dumb. I'm pro peeing on the side of my.

[A]

I'm pro peeing too. But he was pro peeing propane. He was peeing on a propane tank. But I am anti getting involved with shit that you don't need to get involved with. You don't. And once in a while you get shot by an ICE officer. But at worst you do is just get in an argument with a fellow American while you're trying to take a piss.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So we get in the truck. Mike's looking over his shoulder, wondering if cops are gonna roll up. Cause it's a small town and this guy may have just picked up his phone and been like, hey, Ted.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You and your cruiser got a couple of fucking shit kickers from Texas come on in here and start peeing all over the place. Yeah. I want you to fucking put some scare into these guys. Pull them over. They're in a white gray, decent exposure.

[B]

Yeah, I saw it, I saw it, I saw it all.

[A]

So we go driving and at a certain point I'm like, well, Mike, I hate to burden you, but I'm not done pissing. I was mid piss when this guy came running out with his fucking camera. So I need to find another place to take a leak. So Mike Goes, we're driving and there's this like, abandoned shopping mall, like, literally boarded up windows off the highway. I go, just pull over here. I got my bottle back out. I'll empty the bottle in the bush and I'll just turn my back and I'll finish my piss bottle. And as I'm getting my wiener out and getting the bottle in place, I look like, off to the side and I see about. I see about 200ft away, like, homeless dude kind of walking trucking through the parking lot. And I'm like, he's fucking homeless. And then also, he could go a thousand different directions. He could go straight, he could go right.

[B]

I go, he's not coming at you.

[A]

Fuck that, you know? Now I'm pissing again. I get about halfway in. The guy literally comes so close to the open door of the truck that he almost hits my shoulder. And I hear like, hey, bro. And I'm like, does it have to be this way? Does it have to? I'm taking a piss. Can we just do this? You have to come in and fucking strafe me. Like, do I have to get fucking crop dusted?

[B]

That is so weird.

[A]

Like, why? What's the necessity? I know you're crazy. Yeah, I know you're homeless, but I'm taking a piss. Do you have to come say.

[B]

Hi?

[A]

Do you have to say something? He literally almost hit my shoulder as he circled past me. And by the way, he didn't ask for money. He didn't do anything. He just interrupted my piss as he then went down the side.

[B]

He was trying to be alpha. He was like, this is my burned out old ship mall. How dare you take a piss here?

[A]

Yes. So there's that.

[B]

Did it ruin your taste? Like Oregon is ruined for you because of the peeing incidents?

[A]

Here's what I was thinking. Here's what I was thinking. I have a couple thoughts, and I know it just feels this way, but doesn't it feel oftentimes like there needs to be a witness all the time? Like once in a while you're doing some shit where you're trying to pull out of your driveway, but another car's parked too close, and you're trying to get close, and all of a sudden the neighbor just comes out to get the newspaper and you just find him just sitting there watching you, and you're trying to do nine point maneuver, and it's like, do you need. Do I need a witness? Do you have to watch this, like, pissing? If you put a stopwatch on it, like, I'm looking at a ticking clock right now. Like, let me. You know when people go, I can take a piss in five minutes, they mean 37 seconds. Like, I will tell you. I will tell you. T minus now. Okay, So I just started pissing now.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

I will alert you when we get to 30 seconds and you think you're done. It's a while.

[B]

You're ready to go.

[A]

Anyone who's boxed or done radio knows what. 30 seconds.

[B]

Or had a baby. Contractions.

[A]

I've done all three. So keep in mind I'm still pissing.

[B]

Uh huh. That's a very long.

[A]

And we've not got to 30 seconds.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

All right, so I'm still peeing. This is about what I would. I would take. Okay.

[B]

And.

[A]

Now. Okay, that's 30 seconds.

[B]

And you couldn't be uninterrupted.

[A]

All I needed was, let's say 45 seconds tops. 45 seconds in the middle of fucking nowhere. Just 45 seconds to pee. But no, no, sorry, not gonna happen. Not gonna happen. You're not gonna get 45 seconds to just pee alone. Somebody's gonna have to get involved with this in an empty strip mall. And next door. And another time next to a restaurant that's not open. There's no cars anywhere. And the other one's a deserted strip mall. But yet there must. There had to be a discussion.

[B]

The irony is you could probably go out on Hollywood Boulevard and pee and nobody would get in your way.

[A]

Yes. God.

[B]

But in the middle of nowhere. It was a problem.

[A]

All right?

[B]

So I'm sorry. I hope you go back and enjoy Oregon and don't let that get to you.

[A]

I can't. I'm now permanently traumatized.

[B]

You're afraid that there's a warrant out for your arrest for indecent.

[A]

Mike was looking over his shoulder for the next several miles. All right. Then when I was flying home, I was checking out Alyssa Milano's podcast, which I do from time to time.

[B]

Why?

[A]

Well, I am equally as entertained with people I disagree with as people I agree with.

[B]

I can see that. Yeah.

[A]

And I'm almost equally entertained by really bad movies as I am with really good movies.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And I think it's the gene for me. As I've stated many times, I study TV commercials and I watch TV commercials and everyone else fast forwards through TV commercials.

[B]

You find them fascinating?

[A]

I found them interesting glimpses into society. And I'm curious, like what. What we're talking about, what we're portraying and things of that nature. So I tend to like to study things versus and be entertained by things. Like. Like, and it's. It's a. There's a little irony and there's a little curiosity, and then there's also a kind of an educational part. Like, I want to know what people are thinking or how these people think or what they're.

[B]

Or who their audience is too.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And also I think that's always fascinating.

[A]

Kind of like, what is their version of life? Cause I realize I keep hearing everyone's version of life. Like I said, like, Tim Walls is like these jackbooted thugs kicking open doors. Gazpacho, gazpachos. Getting people to identify their neighbors because they're people of color and then taking them to gulags. Like, I'm like, well, that's an interesting ver. You have an interesting version of what's happening in your head. But I mean, I've talked, you know, I've talked to a lot of people about a lot of things. You know, when you watch sports and there's a good call or bad call or something and you have the room, you go, what are you talking about? He was out by miles.

[B]

You really identify politically, sports wise, even personally. Like, what. What side people are on? Like, who's their team and who are they?

[A]

What side they're on? And then how it's kind of twisting reality for them. So I was listening. So she was talking to her co host and I think the guy just said, like, well, what do you like about Gavin Newsom? And then she's like, now from my standpoint, I don't like anything about Gavin Newsom. I would say somebody said, well, say something positive about Gavin Newsom. I'd go, well, he's got. He's got good posture and he speaks well. But if you break it down, he doesn't say anything. So I don't know what he's saying, but he says he's savvy. He says nothing, but is sort of savvy about it. And then Kamala Harris says nothing and is clumsy about it, basically. So give him credit. Now, I will tell you, because he's been in here, he's worthless. Because the thing about talking points and being well spoken, you can make it through a sort of cursory inspection. But if we keep drilling down and we don't move, then you will fall apart. And that's what happened to him here. I just didn't go anywhere. Everyone else does one follow up and then they go, next subject, and that's that. Oh, we'll agree to Disagree, and then they move on. But anyway, her co host asked her what she liked about Gavin Newsom, and I found it enlightening. Gavin Newsom trolling outside of California. Mostly what I heard was Democrats not liking Gavin Newsom. But I want you to hear what he. I want to hear what he's done for California. What does he do? Hold on.

[B]

I will give you a list.

[A]

This is just 2023.

[B]

Transforming mental health care.

[A]

Investing in care. Empowering youth. All right, stop. First off, okay, now, this is what I'm saying. Alyssa Milano. No one knows what empowering youth means, but if it is, if we are doing that, let's knock the fuck off. They're a little too empowered. They're on mini bikes doing donuts in front of cop cars in the middle of the intersection.

[B]

I would actually argue that the girls that are suing Gavin Newsom and their public schools across the state for Gavin Newsom and Democrats allowing boys in the girls sports don't feel very empowered.

[A]

But he's empowering you.

[B]

He's empowering the youth that Alyssa Milano wants him to empower. By the way, since 2023, our mental health crisis has gotten worse here in the States.

[A]

I know, but I have no idea.

[B]

What does it mean?

[A]

No, none of it means. But here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying. And it'll never happen. But here's who I am. If she said.

[B]

He.

[A]

Passed a bill that took the workman's comp dividend and gave it back to the employers so they could hire more people, I go, okay, good, good. But it's never that. It's all good vibes and puppies and dream catchers. It's empowering youth. That means zero. It's all. And whatever you fix, you put a bunch of time into a system that's broken, and it's still broken. So I don't know what that means, but let's carry on. Let's hear it. But I want you to hear what he. I want to hear what he's done for California. What does he do? Hold on.

[B]

I will give you a list.

[A]

This is just 2023.

[B]

Transforming mental health Care.

[A]

Investing in care. Empowering youth. Ensuring accountability.

[B]

Making communities safer. He's fought hate, addressed the fentanyl crisis. Okay?

[A]

So many of us fought hate, everybody. He didn't ensure accountability on the homeless accounting. He vetoed that. Yeah, he fought hate everybody. Does your guy fight hate? He empowered youth to throw shit at police officers. He fought hate. Fighting hate everybody.

[B]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't California have, like, some of the highest fentanyl, like, death rates?

[A]

We're the worst in everything, but. Well, he's. He's addressed it, though, by empowering the.

[B]

Youth using the fentanyl.

[A]

I don't know. It's like, me, I came to your house and I dressed your termite problem, and then I left. But I dressed it.

[B]

Hey, Alicia, you have a termite problem.

[A]

That'll be $800 now. I'm leaving. I gotta go pee on something.

[B]

Gonna go.

[A]

Yeah. He's empowered youth.

[B]

Okay, I don't even know if she believes it.

[A]

He fights, by the way, this fucking fighting hate thing, I still. It's nebulous. It's all chick talk. Sorry. It's liberal talk empowering youth. While liberal talk is chick talk empowering youth and fighting hate is just a thought. It's a stupid thought. It's not a good thought, by the way. It isn't a good thought because all thoughts sort of take the place of other thoughts.

[B]

No, stupid thoughts take the place of action. And people feel good about having the thoughts and they don't actually do anything about it.

[A]

You know what? I used the word satiated, which is feeling good is like, feeling good. Like, oh, you worked out, you felt good, but you still gotta work out tomorrow. Satiated is like, check the box. I ran on the treadmill for 10 minutes today. Done and done. You know what I mean? It's like, all right, I announce that no child should go to bed hungry. All right, I'm done. I am satiated.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

All right, sorry. Keep playing it for fun.

[B]

Organized crime. He stopped gun violence. Leading edge in wildfire response. Oh, wait, what? Didn't he, like, cut the budget? Like he specifically cut the state budget right before the LA fires. Like he and Karen Bass in each.

[A]

Of their budget, 20, 23. He stopped gun violence like a superhero. Like a train. Boom. Yeah. Bullets in the air. He swatted them out like flies.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

All right, what else has he done?

[B]

Structure. He also was the first mayor, when he was the mayor of San Francisco to marry a same sex couple on the steps of the early 2019.

[A]

Or go back to 1987. Climate action. All right, all right, sorry.

[B]

And he was with Kimberly Guilfoyle. Is that what she's talking about?

[A]

Well, that's my. He's the first mayor, by the way. He went out for a fucking photo op is what he did. Because he's in San Francisco and he realizes that'll get him some votes. All right, I Wanna hear it all the way through? Sorry, I won't step on it. This is what Gavin Newsom is done. Justice reform.

[B]

He's addressed homelessness, improved education, managed the state's water resources.

[A]

All right, hold on. Just start at the beginning. I won't. I just want to go right through it. I know you can't make it 8 seconds. Cuz it's like water resources. What? The fucking reservoirs were all dried up. Okay, I won't interrupt. I just want to hear what Gavin. Alyssa Milano. Why? Alyssa Milano wants Gavin Newsom to be president. This is why. But I want you to hear what he. I want to hear what he's done for California. What does he do? Hold on.

[B]

I will give you a list.

[A]

This is just 2023.

[B]

Transforming mental health care.

[A]

Investing in care. Empowering youth. Ensuring accountability, making communities safer.

[B]

He's fought hate, addressed the fentanyl crisis.

[A]

Cracking down on organized crime.

[B]

He stopped gun violence, leading edge in wildfire response infrastructure. He also was the first mayor, when he was the mayor of San Francisco, to marry a same sex couple on the steps of City Hall.

[A]

Health care expansion, climate action, criminal justice reform.

[B]

He's addressed homelessness, improved education, managed the state's water resources. By the way, this is chatgpt, so I'm not like, looking this up on his website.

[A]

And that's fair. And I would love to, like, actually see details there and what he's done. Because first of all, I want to say very clear, I would vote and very loud.

[B]

That guy's about to say he'd vote for Gavin Newsom's corpse over any Republican.

[A]

Well, I'll play the end. I'll play the end of the pod, sir. Now we can get to the Titanic clip. But she loves Gavin Newsom. But we all live in a world of. Well, that's what we're calling our reality. But she's calling it her reality that he's. But I don't care whose reality you are. Empowering teens doesn't mean anything. But maybe it's some transgender thing. I don't.

[B]

I think that's what it is. I think it's empowering the people that Alyssa Milano wants to see empowered. Not empowering the average girls who don't want boys in their sports in the state of California.

[A]

Right.

[B]

It's not empowering the kids that were sitting out and refusing to mask during COVID It's empowering the kids whose mommies come and read during LGBTQ week.

[A]

Yeah, that's.

[B]

That's what it is. It's the picking and the choosing of the rights and the empowerment.

[A]

Right. All right, we have our second clip, which we're going to play right now. Fair enough. And you know, like I said, if he's the nominee, I will be loudly behind him. I would vote for almost anything. I can't imagine any situation where I wouldn't vote against whatever the next Republican nominee is. There's nobody there who is acceptable. Fair enough. But I worry about it. And what it feels like to me, honestly, is like we're watching the Titanic sink and so we're starting to shoot.

[B]

Holes in the hull.

[A]

And I think that's bad for us. We've also talked, I don't think America can survive Trump, and I don't think we'll be a United States forever. And this just might be the death throes of it. And if that's the case, let's have another cocktail.

[B]

I think it's 50 minutes. We should probably.

[A]

All right. I don't know where they survive Trump thing. I don't know what the guy. I don't know what you know about his agenda that I never see. Well, here's what I do know. Everything you guys predict does not come true.

[B]

Yes. That Trump is not stop being president. He's gonna cancel elections. He's gonna use ice in the streets to cause chaos.

[A]

It could be all things Covid. Whatever it is you guys predict, it doesn't come true. So maybe this is just one more of your predictions that's not gonna, I mean, sleep. You know what I would say to all these assholes? I'd go sleep. Well, tonight you're wrong about everything and you don't have to worry and have that other cocktail you want and have that cocktail. Yeah. So I'm fascinated by it. Homes.com. well, some might say homes.com is the best home shopping site. And maybe homes.com's super comprehensive and transparent agent directory. Or Maybe it's at. Homes.com is the only site that always directly connects you with the listing agent who knows the home the best. Perhaps, just Perhaps, it's because homes.com has the most in depth neighborhood content of any home shopping site that's extensively researched to highlight the personality of each neighborhood. I'd say it's probably all the above. I love going to homes.com. i like to just see what's going on out there. I'm sort of a fan, you know, and you should be too. But especially if you're looking for a home. Homes.com goes above and beyond to bring home shoppers the in depth info they need to find the right home. Homes.com. that's homes.com. we've done your homework.

[B]

Pluto TV has thousands of free movies and TV shows. This is the mindset. Free. This is the mantra. With movies like Joe dirt, pixels and 51st days, this is awesome. And TV shows like Survivor, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Fairly Odd Parents and Ghosts, Pluto TV is always free.

[A]

Huzzah.

[B]

Pluto TV stream now. Pain ever.

[A]

You're welcome.

[B]

Gavin Newsom. Man, though. It's so clear to me by what he's doing and his savviness, even though he says nothing and his flip floppiness, like, you know, he was with our buddy Ben Shapiro the other day and just like, literally flip flopped on everything and then had to release a statement about how. No, no, I didn't mean those things I said when I was under the gun with Ben. Heaven forbid. He's gearing up and he's trying to put together clips that make him look like a moderate for when he runs for president.

[A]

Right. And my general argument with this is always the same argument, which is America. Let's just say America said, we want somebody. And by the way, Andrew or Dawson, you can look for the clip of him talking to Ben about males being women, female and female. He gives a weird gibberish answer at the end. It's awesome. But here's what I am saying. If we say, as America, this is what we want, and we just went, we want someone who's a good mechanic, who knows how to fix a car. And that was it. And then One guy's like, Mr. Goodrench has always done that. The other guy wanted to abolish the internal combustion engine and rides a horse and wanted to do lane diets and everything else. A bunch of tweets. And now comes the election. And the guy who had all these things saying, ride a bicycle. Lane diets. I ride a horse. I don't trust anyone in. As that guy now goes on his 57th birthday. You know, I changed my mind about all of it. And look, I got grease underneath my fingernails because I like to wrench on a car, too. It's like, well, I don't believe that's who you are. We just got through with this with Tim Walls. Tim Walsh tried to pretend to be Mr. Minnesota Dad. I'm gonna gap the plugs on my International Harvester and I'm going ice fishing. I like hunting. And it turns out you're a screaming lesbian is who you are. Yeah, so you tried to fool us 10 minutes ago. But here's what I'm saying, America, why are we taking the word for the guy or the girl who put all the tweets out saying they want to get rid of all the shit we want or whatever it is? Why not just take the person that always said it?

[B]

I don't get you can't change that quickly overnight.

[A]

Well, here's what I would say. One guy's a mechanic, and the other guy has had all anti tool tweets and anti car tweets and now says he's a mechanic. But why take the chance? Why not just take the mechanic out?

[B]

The average voter is stupid, and they look at how suave and savvy he is, and they're like, they're only seeing what's in front of him. They're not even looking at the record. This happened with Barack Obama in 2008, too.

[A]

All right, we have the clip of Gavin, but here, the part you have to listen to with Newsom and Ben Shapiro is you tell me what Newsom said after he got asked again. I think this idea that, again, people are going to public schools and coming back, having surgeries and coming back the next day is absurd. No, but there are. There are certainly cases in which. In which kids are being, quote, unquote, socially transitioned at school without parents knowing about it. I know some of the parents to whom this has happened. I mean, this is the fundamental question that lies at the root of all of this is the question that you're not wanting to answer, which is whether boys can become girls. Yeah, I just don't. Why. I think. For the grace of God. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate the pause there. I don't know what he's. What is that?

[B]

I think he's literally. Was he trying to say, like, but for the grace of God go, I. Like, I don't have the answer. Like, only God knows. Like, grace.

[A]

He has a couple of phrases. This is a newer one. But he'll go, like, you know, you go. You know, you go, adam, I heard you're cheating on your girlfriend. Go ahead.

[B]

Hey, Adam, how. Why are you cheating on your girlfriend?

[A]

It's not a zero sum game. And then you go, all right, well, next question. Right?

[B]

He says that's what would happen on cmn.

[A]

He says shit. Like, he has a couple of idioms that he says.

[B]

I love how Ben smirked when he said, but for great. Like, for the grace of God.

[A]

Go back. What do you mean, go back? 10 seconds. So he'll say, all right. He basically goes, can boys become girls? Or girls become boys. And here's his answer. I mean, this is the fundamental question that lies at the root of all of this, is the question that you're not wanting to answer, which is whether boys can become girls. Yeah, I just. Well, I think for the grace of God. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate the sympathy. Well, he'll gonna continue. Let him know he's. They also feel terrible for. Listen, anybody who's suffering with any sort of. I mean, I think it's mental or physical. Generations for in time immemorial. I. You know, God bless. Okay, here's what I'm saying. Human beings. Have we gotten so dumb that we don't know when people aren't talking.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Anymore? I have no idea. Does anyone know what he just said?

[B]

I don't think that we're the dumb ones here. I think that he's. He got put in a corner and he can't answer. Boys are boys and girls are girls.

[A]

All right, now, yes, he has to. As much as I love Ben, but unfortunately, that was your time to go. You're speaking gibberish.

[B]

What does that mean?

[A]

I don't know what it means. Can you give me an answer? What does that mean? I have no idea.

[B]

So you believe that God created them, male and female? He created them. Like. Is that what you're trying to say, Kevin Newsom?

[A]

You got to hear it again, and we'll let it run. But he just gets asked flat out, yes or no, boy or girl, and he can't. I still don't know what it is. I don't know. I don't know what it is. No, play the part. You just played me. Cause I listened to it eight times. I was like, did he? What is he.

[B]

He didn't answer.

[A]

Well, he didn't answer. But what does he think he's saying? And the answer with Gavin Newsom's. He doesn't care what he's saying and doesn't think what he's saying. He's just saying which kids are being, quote, unquote, socially transitioned at school without parents knowing about it? I know some of the parents to whom this has happened. I mean, this is the. The. The fundamental question that lies at the root of all of this is the question that you're not wanting to answer, which is whether boys can become girls. Yeah, I just don't. Well, I think I'm for the grace of God. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate the sympathy. I also feel terrible for anybody who's suffering with any sort of. I mean, I think it's Mental or physical. But generations, for time immemorial, I, you know, God bless. But this idea, I still don't know.

[B]

What does that mean?

[A]

I don't know. But sorry, Ben, you're gonna have to fucking throw the gibberish flag on this one. And that's the problem.

[B]

Should we have a gibberish flag like we do like an NFL like yellow flag flag on the plane.

[A]

You'd get tennis elbow reaching for it so many times when Gavin Newsom speaks. Now Gavin Newsom did that with me, but I just kept asking, what, what, what? What, what, what, what, what? And Ben's too nice a guy, but Ben should have just let him sit there and answer. He helped him out.

[B]

Can boys be girls? He can't answer that.

[A]

No. But now the question. So here's the interesting part.

[B]

And if he.

[A]

Of why he can't answer that. Yeah, he can't answer that because America is not with him. Act of rationality. The average American believes boys are boys and girls are girls. And he's running not as mayor of San Francisco, when he can give whatever answer he wants. Cuz he's got a bunch of crackpots who are ruining the city, but they believe him on this gender thing. But it's not gonna work nationally. So now he can't answer because he can't say yes or what? He can't say a boy's a boy and a girl's a girl. Because then he would get in trouble with his party.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Who are, who are fucking retards on the hard left who he needs for the presidential primary. Right. So he can't offend them. But also there's the rest of the people live in America who, you know, it's an, you know, 80, 20 or 9010 type issue.

[B]

I think it's literally an 8020 issue.

[A]

So he has to pretend nothing. Which by the way, I don't know, do you want someone running on nothing?

[B]

Well, that was Kamala, right?

[A]

She was against fracking. She's for fracking. I think we. There might be a longer version of this. I don't know if he ever answers anything though. Fundamental question that lies at the root of all of this is the question that you're not wanting to answer, which is whether boys can become girls. Yeah, I just. Well, I think for the grace of God. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate the sympathy. I also feel terrible for. Listen, anybody who's suffering with any sort of. I mean, I think it's been the case generations, for time immemorial. I, you know, God Bless. I just, I, I don't know, I just don't understand why, I don't know why this is a hard one. Why is it such a. I'm, I'm curious. I, I understand the political potency of it. It's not politically potent, but it's just how. It's so few, we're talking about so few people. It's not about the, that, that are, that are struggling with, with, with, with, with gender identity issues. A lot of remarkable people, a lot of wildly successful people and they've gone on their life, have credible lives. I just, I don't know. There's so much hate and bigotry, so much condemnation. Hold on a second. He always goes right to the hate and the bigotry.

[B]

Hater and a bigot. If you don't want Your daughter, a 12 year old daughter, in a locker.

[A]

Room with a boy, you can, by the way, you can answer the question, do you know what I mean?

[B]

Push back on it there. He's like, I don't understand. No, it isn't just a political thing. I think for a lot of people it's biological and moral.

[A]

Yeah. Andrew, we got to get Burt Reynolds on this clip, man. I need Burt Reynolds doing the voice of Gavin Newsom on this. I may want to dust off my Burt Reynolds. Me talking to him about check cashing places too. It's been long enough, but. All right, I want to hear a little more of this. Sorry, I don't know. I couldn't. I didn't hear the end. You can go back 10 seconds and see what it has to say. Issues. A lot of remarkable people, a lot of wildly successful people, and they've gone in their life, have incredible lives. I just, I don't know. There's so much hate and bigotry, so much condemnation. This is the part where I start to object. Okay. The idea that you may not be spewing it. No, no, no. Like some others, trust me, this is the business they're in. Yeah, okay. Terrible people, Bad people. Here we go, here we go. Answer the fucking question. Instead of the bad people thing, say lots of terrible things. But yes, it is not an act of bigotry to say that a boy cannot become a girl. Nor should my children be taught in K through 12 public schools that a boy can become a girl. Yeah. That is not an act of bigotry. That's an act of rationality and biological simplicity. I respect your point of view and you know, but good people disagree on this. I know, but in a lot of States, not just California. Well established rules, by the way, that predate me. Again, this is not where I started. We're campaigning and advocating on these issues as some suggestions. And, and look, I'm with the governor, Governor Spencer Cox, who said about many of these issues, never so much attention been placed on so few people. The problem is, I do think that on an electoral level, to go to the politics, it is a barrier to entry for a lot of people. I agree with that. I agree. Boy can become a girl and then just. I do agree on a realistic. And by the way, and I respect, if that's your barrier to then listening to people on a myriad of other issues, so be it. It is what it is. I find it strange that even if you wish to have a public policy that pursues something different, we cannot just admit that boys and girls are two different things and that a boy cannot become a girl. Why is this so difficult? Yeah, I understand your point of view. And you know, and I also respect Caitlyn Jenner. You know, I do. And I respect for individuals. Well, no, he's got the deep leg grass. He's like, I gotta crush my nuts a little more.

[B]

His eyes darting around and his little shoulder pants.

[A]

And like I've said some, I've said it 100,000 times, there's something wrong with him. But the, the question is, why don't people know there's something wrong with him? And that's kind of been my.

[B]

Because we live in a society of stupid people, right?

[A]

I remember once I was just going, I go, DJ Khaled, that guy's such a sack of shit. What a douche. What a talentless douchebag. And then the person I was talking to was like, I love DJ Khaled. You talking about DJ account? I love that guy. And I'm like, how does it. Was this some sort of. Here's what I'm saying. Whether it's me trying to.

[B]

He does have some really catchy hits.

[A]

Is it me? Is it just me trying to take a 45 second piss and somebody being sent from heaven or hell to come interrupt me? Is it just my lot in life that I would look at a guy like Gavin Newsom and go, this guy's a sociopathic nut and he has nothing. And literally, like the last conversation I have with my mom, my mom went, well, I don't know who Larry Elder is, but I know who Gavin Newsom is and I'm voting for him. And I'm like, wow, but are you always. Are you guys all just Cast in a play to drive me insane. Like, does the guy. Is the homeless guy even a homeless guy? Yeah. Or maybe he's just an actor where they put up a bad sweatshirt and go, Carol's gonna go piss him and go, go. Like, there's a guy with a headset going, go. Move now. Move now. The hawk has landed. Camera two, camera two. Pearl's peeing again. And then irate guy supposed to be filming Mike. Is Mike in on it, too?

[B]

Ooh, am I?

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

Have you watched the show Pluribus?

[A]

I've heard about it, but I have not seen it.

[B]

It's pretty good. Episode one was a little creepy for me, but it is almost that premise of being like, why is everybody buying into this thing that seems so horrible and antithetical to human independence and nature? And everybody's just like, this is wonderful. And you're like, no, it ain't. I think that it is a blessing and a curse to sometimes be that person that can see truth and see things with nuance and see things. Some things are black and white, some things are not. And be able to pause and be like, let's see what happens here. Or, let's see, is this person consistent or not? What have they done for the state of California? And all of the time that they were governor, turns out it was shit. And I'm not gonna let him get away saying that he did something that he didn't do. But you could have a Democratic voter in Iowa or South Carolina that's like, he's so charming, and he says that he cares about trans people, and he did a good job in California, so I'm gonna choose to believe him. And that's what's wrong with our voting system.

[A]

Thank you, Alicia Krauska. Summed up nicely, I will say I decided to get AI Burt Reynolds and do the voice of Gavin Newsom. And I decided to create a character who was an NPR woman who would be my voice. And we verbatim captured the conversation I had with Gavin Newsom. And this is how much sense Gavin Newsom makes. And by the way, let it be known that Ben Shapiro brought up a subject that Gavin Newsom did not want to talk about. And then Gavin danced around it for five minutes, and then they moved on. And he sort of did not want this brought up. When Gavin Newsom came into my studio, he brought up the subject of black and Hispanics not having access to checking out. So that's his subject. I don't know anything about that subject. I don't know what's going on at the check cashing place. I don't know that 50% of black and Hispanics don't have access to checking accounts. I do know he's lying, and that can't be correct. And having access to. I don't even know what that means. If you want a checking account, you're black or Hispanic, go get one. But either way, that's not my subject. So he should be able to back up his own subject. Cause that's his subject. I know, but don't bring up shit you can't. I'm. I'm a babe in the woods. I'm not planning on talking about predatory check cashing place. I've never been to one. I don't own one. I don't know anything about that.

[B]

You didn't vote for somebody who's supportive of one, to your knowledge, right? Yeah.

[A]

All right, this is it. Gavin's Burt REYNOLDS and I'm NPRchick. Half of African Americans in the state of California, roughly half of Latino families, have no access to a checking account or an atmosphere. Things we take for granted. They don't have a checking account.

[B]

What's wrong with them?

[A]

Well, because they don't have the resources to sock those things away.

[B]

Why do we have them?

[A]

A lot of different reasons, but roughly half those families don't.

[B]

Why do Armenians have them?

[A]

But where they end up is a check cashing place.

[B]

But I want to know why those groups, why do those two groups not have access?

[A]

Just happens to be that we can talk about.

[B]

Are they flawed?

[A]

No, they're hardly flawed, but they're struggling.

[B]

Genetically flawed?

[A]

Hardly. Absolutely not.

[B]

Do Asians have this problem?

[A]

I mean, a lot of communities have problems. A lot of whites have these problems.

[B]

So it's not just black and Hispanic?

[A]

No, but.

[B]

Well, why did you bring up black and Hispanic?

[A]

Because the magnitude is ominous.

[B]

But why so many of them?

[A]

It just happens to be just the magnitude.

[B]

That's the way God planned it.

[A]

Not at all.

[B]

Well, what happened to them?

[A]

There are a lot of issues and communities are struggling.

[B]

Why are they struggling?

[A]

A lot of different reasons.

[B]

Hispanics have been here. Blacks have been here longer than we have been here.

[A]

Well, we can, we can surmise.

[B]

What about Asians? They were put in internment camps.

[A]

Yeah, we. In fact, it all initiated out of San Francisco. The Chinese Exclusion act came out of progressive San Francisco.

[B]

So are they at the check cashing places?

[A]

A lot of Asians certainly do.

[B]

Oh, so why don't you include them?

[A]

Because then the only reason why is the magnitude of the problem.

[B]

But there's no way to figure out how that happened.

[A]

We could talk about, you know, what I'm dealing with. I don't want to have a sociological debate.

[B]

Sure. Why would you. Why would you want to do that? Because the person from the Times wouldn't write good things about you if you did that.

[A]

No, that's not the case. Because I want to deal with reality.

[B]

You want to deal with reality? I can tell you what reality is.

[A]

People are struggling. People are suffering. I want to deal with the problems in a pragmatic way.

[B]

Why are they struggling and why are they suffering?

[A]

We can hold hands and surmise about all these other reasons.

[B]

I don't want to do that. I want to know why they're struggling. Why are they struggling?

[A]

A lot of folks are struggling because they can't find jobs.

[B]

Why?

[A]

Blacks and Hispanics, across the board, all socioeconomics.

[B]

So everybody is struggling.

[A]

Everybody is struggling.

[B]

So Asians are suffering just as much as blacks.

[A]

The face of welfare is not an African American family.

[B]

Oh, so it's Asian, Jewish. It's all of them Caucasian. Okay. We're all struggling.

[A]

A lot of folks are struggling.

[B]

Okay. I might not hate AI anymore.

[A]

He has no fucking idea what he's saying, which is weird. Does anybody around him ever poke him and go, you don't say anything.

[B]

He threw his own press office and social media team under the bus in the last week, too. It's like, because they called the shooting of Renee Goode a domestic act of government terror or something. Domestic terror. Government funded terror. And then he had to backtrack that. I don't think that people follow up with him. And I think that we know why he used the blacks and Hispanics line when he was on the show with you. It's because he was trying to pander to his audience, not realizing who he was sitting across from. And that you wouldn't pander to that.

[A]

He didn't see that NPR chick coming. Well, I just kept asking the same question, but he didn't.

[B]

Yeah, why and how and why and what makes them so different? And how and why were they different?

[A]

Listen, if you're going to bring up a problem as a human being, but certainly as a politician, like, if you go, listen, we got a problem with lead in the pipes, and a lot of kids are getting lead poisoned because These pipes are 100 years old, and then I go, okay, what do we want to do? We're going to replace the pipes? I don't know. Well, why would you want to Replace the pipes, you bring up the problem and then you give us the solution. But he wouldn't give the solution, just problems. Speaking of his, I think hometown of San Francisco, there is a case. And now I've been screaming about this since I've had a microphone, but I really do mean it. And I don't really understand why judges in the criminal system doesn't really recognize this, like the difference between something that is technically criminal behavior and then posing a threat to society, which is to say the story was Antwan Watson basically murdered this elderly Asian guy. Now it's a weird case where the guy, the elderly guy, 84 year old guy. It's so weird. You know what I love about the left? The left is like, oh, we gotta stop all this Asian hate and all these elderly elderly Asians being beaten. And then it's like, oh, who's doing it? Oh, black guys. All right, well, next subject. Like, all right, sorry, Asians, you're out on your own.

[B]

It's also why they don't speak up about anti Semitism because the people going after them are a protected class as well.

[A]

Yeah, right, right, right. So they're very. They pick and choose their subjects. This guy, this elderly Asian guy, is 84. Was just, he was just walk, I don't know, standing in his driveway or something.

[B]

I don't know if I can watch this.

[A]

It's not that bad if you like football, but not when it's an 84.

[B]

Year old man that I know dies.

[A]

Some of those guys are in the league. So he just runs across and he just puts his shoulder into him and he just topples him and the guy conks his head and he dies. Right? So now then they go, why'd you do that? He doesn't know the guy didn't. He just killed him. And literally, can you imagine just being on the other side of the street and seeing an 84 year old miniature Asian man and going, I'm gonna get a full run in stardom and just throw my body at him like a linebacker.

[B]

No.

[A]

Okay, so then he gets, you know, slap on the wrist and whatever. Because he was what?

[B]

Younger. Younger at the time. Right, yeah, I remember. They were like, you shouldn't try him as an adult, even though he was legally an adult.

[A]

All right, but, so here's what I'm saying, everybody, we're at an issue. We're having an issue. Okay? So the issue is we have a lot of progressive DA's and judges and the system. All right? So what happened was, is the system Got too filled with young black men. The system, the prisons, the whole system.

[B]

The one that Alyssa Milano said that Gavin Newsom reformed, right?

[A]

It's got too many of them. So. So they tried to reform the system. Now what they didn't figure out is the system is just the system. The system just waits for people to come into the courtroom and then decides where they did or something. Now if you wanna fix it, you try to figure out why so many of these people are coming into the courtroom. That's what you wanna know. That's what Gavin Newsom didn't wanna answer. Why? Why so many blacks and Hispanics? It's a check cashing place. Now, if you wanna fix it, that's how you do it. But they try to fix it. Almost like if you're all right, here's what I'll say. If you have a leaky basement, there are hundreds of products you could paint on from inside the basement, on the inside of the wall. But you're on the inside. The only real way to fix it is to go outside and excavate down 12ft and put all the water block and wrap and everything on the outside. Now that's fucking major surgery. The inside is $30 bucket of dry lock. In a weekend. In a weekend. It'll never. But it'll always start flaking off because you have a math. You have a math problem. It's coming from the outside and you're patching the inside. And you go, well, what do you have to do on the outside? Well, outside is you gotta get a backhoe and you gotta start digging. And you go, I don't have that kind of money. And you go, all right, but you're not going to fit. Fix the problem. You can patch it a little bit. So then they got a bunch of activist judges who are like, well, if there's too many black youth males in the system, then stop putting them in jail and start letting them back out again. Which obviously just means more young black guys running around now empowered with. This is a revolving door. And so you hear the stories of the Guy got arrested 53 times before he put the screwdriver in the chick's neck and stuff like that. That it's going to just keep happening. Now here's the whole thing. There are many, many crimes, and some are real easy. Like for me, like, if you embezzle from your company, I would like you dealt with. But you pose no danger to me on the subway. You're a criminal, but you're sort of doing it in your Own house, so to speak. And I would like you brought to justice. But you're not gonna attack me on the subway. Yeah, and my grandfather can hose down his driveway without you getting a running start and killing him. Killing him. Okay, so. And then there's like, some crossover, like drunk driving, which is. Well, you're not a killer, but you do get drunk and you do get behind the wheel, and we could be driving next to you, and you could hurt me.

[B]

You could kill a family of five. Cause you're being a stupid asshole.

[A]

Yeah, well, that's not.

[B]

That's how I feel about drunk drivers.

[A]

Save the pejoratives. Save the pejoratives. Okay, that's not. Here's the point. The point is that has some crossover, you know, income tax evasion or something like that. That's between you and Uncle Sam. And by the way, they do take enough money, but. Okay, God bless and whatever. And I hear about these guys. He had a pond.

[B]

You sound like a defense attorney.

[A]

He had a white policy scheme or whatever. No, but remember that couple from St. Louis? And they're like, somebody broke a gate. And it was the summer love and the Black Lives Matter.

[B]

And they were outside with their guns, everyone's mom.

[A]

And they go, I'll get the M16, you get the pistol, and we'll just stand on our porch. And then we had to try to make an example of them by putting them in jail for four years or something.

[B]

Ridiculous.

[A]

They're not the problem.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And they don't pose any danger to me.

[B]

And by the way, turns out they didn't shoot anybody.

[A]

And also turns out you guys stood back and watched cities burn to the ground. So why can't people tell?

[B]

Care of their own property?

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Okay. You people with the guns have nothing to do with me. As a matter of fact, I would like you as my neighbor. I'm fine with you. I'm fine with you. But. And even. Even the wife that poisons her rich husband to try to get the life insurance, while I don't condone it and I don't like her, she's never gonna hurt me.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

She's never gonna poison me or my kids. I may marry that lady. Well, once she hammers that life insurance check and I'm flush. Okay. But the randos, the walking down the street, cold cock, punch in the face, hit on the head with a stab in the neck on the train, trying.

[B]

To stab tourists on Hollywood Boulevard.

[A]

Rando. Rando. You people are the most dangerous people in our society. And you need to be put away. And these are the people they're doing the revolving thing with. So. Of course. So there's like a thing where it's like, well, you know, he, he just punched a strange woman who was jogging past him on the sidewalk. I'm sorry if you are capable of putting your hands on a stranger. And by the way, you're not even robbing them. You're literally just hurting them. It's hurt like, like I get the robbery gone wrong. I'm not gonna argue for you. But all right, you tried to get the guy's wallet and he fought back and you knocked him down or something. This is literally just violence. And it's literally just violence against essentially vulnerable people. Lots of women and lots of elderly and elderly women. If you can do that, then I immediately need you removed.

[B]

You belong in jail.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And look, and, or out of the country, depending on your citizenship status.

[A]

The guy who, who commits welfare fraud needs to go to jail too, but he's still not gonna hurt me. This guy is randomly attacking people. Anyone who does this, you can meet. No revolving door on the rando violence people.

[B]

But the problem is, like you mentioned, those activist prosecutors, as we've seen, and activist judges that we've seen that have said, well, white collar crime guy, rich, old white, probably Trump voting Republican, he must go to jail. This 19 year old kid that killed an 84 year old man, you know, the recidivism rates in that community are just too high and we need to try to like, get him out of this cycle of systemic racism within the system.

[A]

And so therefore, yeah, we don't want him in the system right now. I get they're being heroes, but tell that to your grandpa or the woman riding the subway. Fucking idiots. All right, all right, take a break. Alicia Krause has the news and we'll do that right after this. Huel. Well, I'm a busy guy filming podcasts out on the road, doing standup, so, you know, like to hit my protein goals. And I like it to be convenient. And that's why I started using Huel's high protein starter kit, a combo of ready to drink bottles and Black edition powder. Ready to drink has 35 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, gluten free, and no fake junk. On days at home, I go with the powder and some water, just mix it up in my shake bottle. Same protein, same nutrients, same great taste. Having both keeps me consistent when life gets chaotic. Yeah, I travel a lot, a lot of early mornings, a lot of airports, a lot of hotels got to keep the Huel on hand. Each one costs under five bucks, which is cheaper than a lot of takeout I'd otherwise be eating and it wouldn't be good for me. It's fuel, right? Dawson, if you're focusing on protein right now or just trying to feel a little more put together, this bundle really helps. Limited time offer Get Huel's full high protein starter kit today with our exclusive offer of 20% off online with our code [e-mail] Adam20 new customers only. Thank you to Huell for partnering and supporting our show. If you love epic stories of myth and legend, listen up. Before Camelot and the Crown, the Pendragon cycle Rise of the Merlin tells the origin story. Watch the legend that shaped Britain in a seven episode cinematic epic. This is not a retelling of the King Arthur story. It's the rise of the world that made Arthur possible. The Pendragon cycle Rise of the Merlin Premieres on Daily Wire plus on January 22nd. Shot across multiple international locations, years in the making, this series brings myth to life. It has amazing production value, full scale battles and a sweeping original orchestral score. At its core, this is a return to classic epic storytelling. A story where faith, prophecy and sacrifice truly matter. Stream Pendragon Cycle Rise of the Merlin starting January 22nd only on Daily Wire plus. It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Ace, man, I almost died laughing when you said engine foot after Motorhead. I don't know if a lot of people got it, but it was classic. You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744. Yeah, somebody said, what was Lemmy's first span before Motorhead? And I said engine foot. And, you know, may have been appreciated via the eyebrow movement here in the clubhouse, but not a lot of applauding went on. But that's all right.

[B]

You're a nod eyebrow.

[A]

Well, you know, I think I, I think, you know, I picked another word for motor, which was engine. And then I went from the head down to the foot, you know. All right, I didn't write it down or anything, but I appreciate people are listening.

[B]

You didn't do that over the weekend. That wasn't a joke.

[A]

You led with, can we institute something? Cause I like lessons and laws and like societal norms. Can we institute something? There were two pizza boxes back there. I just happened to go check out one and it's empty. Can we. Would you guys all be for, and, I don't know, a vote of the Office who the individual was who took the last piece of pizza.

[B]

Probably the new guy.

[A]

But can we make a nationwide law that we train you? Start training your kids on this. Like, you don't get out of the sixth grade, which is if you take the last piece of fucking pizza, throw away the fucking box. Don't shut the lid and walk away. Because then I think there's a piece of pizza in there, and then I open it up and it's empty because you had the last piece, but you never threw away the box. But the rule is you must chuck the box. Hold on. Addendum. When you take the last piece of pizza, you either chuck the box or you leave the lid open. If you don't have a place to do it, okay? But you don't shuck the lid and walk away. And by the way, I'll say the same thing for mayonnaise and Tabasco and everything else. When the fucking thing is empty, don't put it away.

[B]

Oh, my God, throw it out. Biggest pet peeve.

[A]

Throw it away.

[B]

My kids will sneak a bag of chips and then leave it with a clip on it and everything. And I'm like, who did this?

[A]

What's wrong with the clip?

[B]

Well, because they finished the bag and it's just crumbs at the bottom. So I go in thinking there's a bag of chips and they've tried to hide it. I mean, maybe it's clever. What are your thoughts, though, on. So say you have one cheese pizza and one pepperoni pizza, and all the cheese pizza is gone. Home alone storyline starting right here. But. And then. But there's. Or there's like a couple pieces of cheese, and then somebody just to condense space, put some of the cheese in the pepperoni box. Does that annoy you?

[A]

No. I don't mind consolidation. I don't mind consolidation if it's consolidation.

[B]

Of two different kinds, you know? Is that a girlfriend that got annoyed at that one time?

[A]

Look here, let me explain. I like where your head's at. Cause there's effort.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Walking away from the empty pizza box just makes you a piece of shit. See what I did there?

[B]

But I'm bummed.

[A]

No, I just mean that you don't care about anyone. You're lazy. You got your piece of pizza, you're done. The consolidation thing is a calorie burner. I like it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I'm fine with it. And I don't think it's confusing. You open it up and you go, okay, we have three cheese and three pepperoni left. I'll do the math here now. But we do need a ratio consideration, which is to say we do. And I've been yelling about this my whole life. We do way too much. And anyone that's been on a set, a movie set or a TV set, when they send the PA out to the lunch run, they'll go. Because they'll do it when you're filming someone's going on a lunch run. And they'll go, all right, we're going to Jersey Mike's. And then somebody will inevitably tell this person, they'll go, get 10 beef, you know, 10 roast beef, 10 turkey and 10 veggies. And the person will start leaving, and I'll go, no one's here. There's a vegetarian. Or there is. It's one. And she packed her own lunch. Or no one's.

[B]

And then don't order 10 veggies.

[A]

Right? But they do that. And then at the end, there's nine veggies sitting there. And then what people do with veggie sandwiches, they'll pick through the corpse of it. Like, they'll start pulling cheese off and stuff like that. But okay, don't do it. Get your numbers right. Like, I go, look, don't get 10 veggie. If there's no vegetarians on this set, go ask who's a vegetarian. You know, like, don't just go, that's one less freeze the thing now sandwich we're gonna have. I was at the. Like on the road, as I'd explain, and I was in Oregon and I was like, at the Ramada Inn or, I don't know, whatever the hotel, they have the continental breakfast, you know, from 6am to 10. And I went down there just to check it out, get some coffee. And I went down there and they had the chafing dish that had the pre made. I'm calling them omelets, but sort of miniature little egg and cheese or whatever.

[B]

Nothing like a frittata kind of thing.

[A]

Yeah, it was a small. Looked like the size of a jack in the box taco on its side. Right. And it just had two things. One said veggie and egg white, and the other just said cheddar cheese.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And regular egg. And I go, all right, well, that sounds good. And I lift it up and the cheddar cheese was gone. And there were 11 veggie egg white ones. Because nobody wants the veggie egg white one. But what I'm saying is it takes just as much effort to make a veggie egg white one as it does to make the cheddar cheese one. So why don't you. We just have a very few. It's like. And then you go in the room and they have coffees, and there's two regular and two decaf. We're not 50. 50. I've been to Starbucks a thousand times. I've never heard anyone order a decaf.

[B]

Half of the place is ordering decaf.

[A]

That's not the ratio. It's not. Half the guys that Bend Ramada in want the veggie one. No, it's less than 10%. And it's the same as it is with the coffee. It's less than 10%. Don't make your ratio. Fix your ratio.

[B]

But this is the problem, though. It's the loudest voices get the most attention. It's like Shake Shack used to have the tastiest peanut butter, like, milkshake. And then they announced a few years ago, I think, when I was pregnant with baby number three and, like, craving that sucker. Oh, no, we're not gonna do this anymore. Because out of respect for people that come into our stores with a peanut allergy. And I was like, third trimester raging. And I told the manager, I'm like, oh, you mean the less than 2% of the country that has a peanut allergy?

[A]

Well, that really has a peanut allergy.

[B]

Who really has a peanut allergy? EpiPen needed peanut allergy.

[A]

46% claim to have one. All right.

[B]

But it's the same thing. So then that one vegetarian that goes there can't be like, oh, my God, the Ramada Inn and bend was out of my vegetarian omelet, and they're anti vegetarian.

[A]

Well, the only thing that was good about Southwest was the peanuts, and those are all gone. All right, let's do some news.

[B]

Let's do some news. I don't know if there's any good news coming out of Minnesota these days. It's kind of crazy. We have video of Don Lemon, a former CNN host. He's been put, quote unquote, on notice by the Justice Department after he joined a group of anti ice agitators who stormed a church in Minneapolis during a service. Like, over the last couple days. It was this Sunday. Lemon has been posting independent journalism that he's super duper proud of since being fired by cnn. And he's been documenting the Minnesota chaos following the fatal ice shooting of Renee Nicole Good. He entered the church along with anti ice agitators and began filming and told that the. The viewers there at the church and during his live Stream that this was the freedom to protest and what the First Amendment was all about. Let's watch what he thinks the First Amendment is all about because we can break that down later.

[A]

What do you think of this? I mean, this is unacceptable. It's shameful.

[B]

This is the past shameful to.

[A]

To interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship. But there were folks. I have to take care of my flock. Listen, we live in a. There's a constitution in the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest. We're here to worship. We're here to worship Jesus because that's the hope of these cities. That's the hope of the world, is Jesus Christ. I'm gonna be very respectful. Please don't push me though. We're here. We're here to worship Jesus. That's why we're here. Okay? That's why we're here. That's what we're about. Don't you think Jesus would be understanding? And we're about love. These folks. We're about spreading the love of Jesus. But did you try to talk to them as a Christian? No one is willing to talk. Okay? I have to take care of my church and my family. So I asked this. You actually would also leave this building. You don't want us to chronicle. You're here to worship. I'm always worship. I'm a Christian. We're here. Well, we're here to worship. We're here to worship. I suck a little cat. Yeah. All right. Okay, a couple things.

[B]

The hand.

[A]

Every single one of these former CNN or anybody news journalists who go off on their own, always, surprise, surprise, Hard leftists.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And the whole time, shocking off. The whole time. They're employed by cnn. They're doing this. You don't know what my politics are. You don't know how I vote. You're all just crazy leftist lunatics who pretended to be middle of the road journalists working for CNN really done a.

[B]

Shitty job of pretending to be.

[A]

Well, you acted like we didn't know who you were.

[B]

We were the judgmental ones. So he talks there. By the way, the whole oh, get your hands off me is such like a girly move. I know, but like the pastor. Don Lemon put his hand on the pastor. The pastor reciprocated. I didn't see a push. Like, where's the push, man?

[A]

He was trying to keep little. Little rain.

[B]

So Carmi Harmeet Dillon, who's awesome, she wrote over on X. She's the Justice Department's assistant attorney general specifically for The Civil Rights Division. She said, a house of worship is not a public forum for your protest. It's a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws. Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service. So this is where, as a super duper pro life person, that's been kind of against the FACE Act. I'm going to point and laugh at my leftist friends because the FACE act prevents pro lifers from praying or protesting within a certain space of a reproductive facility.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And Planned Parenthood and leftists use this all the time to stop old ladies from praying outside of Planned Parenthoods. But this also, the same act, protects this church and any religious disruptions, specifically on private property, which is what these people were doing.

[A]

Yeah. By the way, Harmeet's gonna come out to D.C. at the Kennedy center and come say hi.

[B]

Oh, that's awesome.

[A]

Out there on January 31st. So we sort of text back and forth a little bit.

[B]

That's awesome. So, Don Lamon, to double down on you being right about him being a radical leftist, he did a podcast interview after this incident, and he called the people of the church white supremacists.

[A]

And there's a certain degree of entitlement. I think people who are, you know, in religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy. And they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country. When actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom. It's religious freedom, but only if you're a Christian and only if you're a white male, pretty much. And so, Yeah, I absolutely. 100%, but it's an intimidation tactic. And, you know, I said, I don't understand how I've become the face of it. When I was a journalist. I do understand that I'm the biggest name there. And I'm also, as I was on with my producers this morning, you and Kylie talk all the time. My producers were saying. I said, how did I lead to nervousness? My producer said, don, you're a gay black man. If you remember that. If you remember that, it'll solve every problem.

[B]

I think the guys have a picture of one of the white supremacists that he was talking about there. It's a scared Asian dad huddling his son and with his Asian wife sitting in the pew looking shocked, even when he was harassing the pastor there. And the pastor was graciously giving him time and answering him. Did you see the white mom and the black mom walking past, like, trying to get their kids out of the church?

[A]

Yeah. Look, first off, they're all narcissists. And really what they cannot reconcile is nobody gives a shit about them. So the worst thing you can say to a narcissist is, who. Who are you? Nobody cares. I mean, not even in a bad way. Just I don't know who you are.

[B]

Like white supremacists right there.

[A]

Right? So in the. So it's like when you're on a schoolyard and you have a crush on somebody, you hope that that person has a crush on you and you can go steady, but in lieu of that, that it's better almost when they come and pull on your pigtails or kick you in the shin or whatever, something. But the worst you can have is nothing. I don't know who that person is, and I'm not interested. Okay? That's the worst. So we don't know who these people are, and we're not interested. And at a certain point, they get bored with their obscurity and then they have to come to us and. Cause all of these things are self inflicted. Every single thing they do is they get out, they get in front, they push, they shove, and then they become victims. Then what Don Lemon does is he goes into a church which is in the middle of a service and goes, as a gay man, as a black man, I know I'm not. Well, you don't have to come in here. So it's all self inflicted. Everything they do.

[B]

The best part was the end of that clip. If we can pull it back up where he talks about Don Lemon's like, oh, don't these people have a first amendment right? Like, don't you want to talk to them? And the pastor's like, none of these people want to talk to us.

[A]

Right?

[B]

Like, and I think that. So here's the. Here's the other thing. Now, we know news reports that pastor right there has the same last name as an ICE officer that works at like, a Minneapolis facility. So these anti ice protesters went to this poor dude's church who might be completely unaffiliated with the ICE officer that they were trying to dox and target, right? And they want us to think that they're the good guys.

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You're welcome. Well, here's here, let me just give you the kind of the. I will give you the long and the short of all of this. Most people work this way. The people think like I think and Alicia thinks. And the normal people, you just go, all right, let's see. The Rams are playing Seattle. Good for the championship. Whatever. I'm a Rams fan and I would be happy just to take my son and go to a Rams bar and watch the Rams game amongst Rams fans. Now here's the problem with the super angry Seattle fans and all the crazy bitches. They're not happy to go to the Seattle bar and enjoy the Seattle game. They would do that for the first quarter. But at a certain point, instead of just sitting with like minded Seattle people and cheering your team on, that's not enough for you. Then you have to get up and you have to go to the Rams bar. And then you walk in and you go, I have every right to be here. And the Rams guys goes, fine, have a beer, sit down. And you go, okay. And then you realize you're not getting enough attention just sitting and having a beer. So then you get up and you go, you know what? I want to change the channel. I want to watch women's basketball. And then we go, hold on, dude, no, we're watching the Rams, man, Rams game. And matter of fact, why don't you go back to the Seattle bar and pitch that at the Seattle bar. Or better yet, just go to the Seattle bar and shut the fuck up and watch it. I'm not doing it. Then at a certain point, you stand up on the bar and you start reaching for the TV remote and you start changing the channels and a Rams fan grabs you and pulls you back down. And then you start screaming, I'm under attack. Yes, that's exactly what all you assholes are doing. Go to the Seattle bar, watch your fucking team, and shut the fuck up. That's all we're trying to do here. But you have to do this. And then at some point, you become a victim because you've come into our bar and you want to change that. And by the way, if you just wanted to come into our bar wearing your Seattle jersey and sit down and have a Michelob Ultra, you would have been left alone. Now, if I put my Rams jersey on and went to your bar, I wouldn't have been left alone.

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They probably would have been left alone had they gone into the church, sat through the service, then asked to talk to the pastor.

[A]

You can't do that.

[B]

Even if they had protested on the street. But they went into private property.

[A]

That's right. Because you need to be a victim. Because you have to be a victim.

[B]

As a churchgoing mama, it really pissed me off seeing those poor kids because they have no idea what's going on.

[A]

No, I know.

[B]

And now they're terrorized and afraid to go to church and asking mommy what happened and why those people were yelling at them.

[A]

Yes, just go to your Seattle bar, get a beer and shut the fuck up. That's all. Easy, easy when it goes. And then while you're on the Rams bar trying to change the TV set and people are yelling at you, you're yelling. I didn't ask for any of this. I don't want any of this.

[B]

Why are you hitting me, bro?

[A]

I know that's what you're doing, so just fucking stay in your bar. But you don't want that. That's not what you. You can't just sit there and enjoy what you enjoy, you know, because. Cannot be done.

[B]

I say bro more now.

[A]

Thank you. Bruh.

[B]

Bruh.

[A]

Bruh.

[B]

My 12 year old says bruh.

[A]

Bruh.

[B]

That's like a kid thing now. You know, they say like, bruh.

[A]

I didn't know that. But I do know if you say American, that's fine. But if you say Merican, you just start with an M. That means you're a super. Patriot.

[B]

It depends on what? Crowds.

[A]

Merc.

[B]

Not in Minneapolis right now?

[A]

No.

[B]

All right, so Matthew McConaughey was recently on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast and he spoke about his dislike for participation medals and how chasing perfection is really what drives him.

[A]

Yeah, well, but I'm also, as you know from the book, I'm not into extra credit. I don't like 4.2 GPAs. That tells me like what happened? Are we. Then we're not given the right Test or if 4 was the pinnacle cycle, you know, that means not many people should be getting it, if anybody. So now we're getting four twos, four fours. That tells me we've over leveraged the original task or we've added amnesty or too many places to not do have the real competence and merit at the task that you're supposed to give. Because especially I think in the west, because we want everyone to feel really Great. Participation trophies, 4.2 GPA. Well, I feel better.

[B]

He goes on.

[A]

To say, but like, Jay seemed shanty, seemed bored or didn't know what he was talking about. I don't. Yes, I've won. Okay, first off, 1,000%.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

There's no such thing as giving 110%. We'll just do 100%. That'll be that. And 4.0. That's the max. You can get it or not, but we don't have to keep going above what we had. And we need a better term for participation trophy because participation trophies have always existed and they're a good thing.

[B]

Do you think they are?

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Because you're part of the team and everybody's working together kind of situation or.

[A]

Well, you know, it's a weird thing and maybe it's just cause I played way too much football and popcorn or football. A participation trophy is just that. It's a participation trophy.

[B]

Yeah. Everybody knows you're not the first place person.

[A]

Everybody who shows up to this 10K is going to get a little button that said, I ran this 10k. Somebody's going to win this 10k and they'll get a trophy and they'll be a best offensive player, best defensive player, most valuable player. Sometimes they'll break it down like best lineman, best defensive back and stuff like that. Most improved, blah, blah, blah. But everybody gets a participation trophy because everyone who came here went to all the practices, went to all the games and basically made it through a participation.

[B]

And also helped the team. Like if you're talking about a team sport.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

I mean, you might not everybody's the quarterback. But it does take a team effort to win a game.

[A]

Yeah, but you could have just been riding the pine the whole time, as we would say. But you still scrimmaged and practiced and played the defense on the scrimmage and stuff like that. Listen, a participation trophy saying. And I know what he means, but we need a better term because it's like saying we shouldn't be handing out these high school diplomas. It's like, no, no. If you went to high school and you completed high school, then you get a diploma. You don't get valedictorian and you don't get a free ride to Harvard and you don't get class clown or best looking. You just get a piece of paper that says you want here. And you completed this. Now it's worth as much as a participation trophy is, which is not anything, but you should still have it. So it's called something. They're sort of saying, stop giving out. Stop giving everyone the most valuable trophy. But here's really what they did. They reverse engineered it. They went, everyone gets a participation trophy and we're not going to give out most valuable trophy because that'll make people.

[B]

Feel ashamed of like a bad thing because you weren't giving out the best thing.

[A]

Right, right. And the participation trophy and all cassette, you know, especially you play football. You go to all the practices and sweat it out and run all the wind sprints and do all the push ups and stuff. Good. Here's a fucking trophy. You should get a trophy for that. Just like you should get a. You, you should get a piece of paper that says you graduated North Hollywood High. It doesn't mean you're top of the class. It doesn't mean anything or whatever.

[B]

My home state school.

[A]

Right. You just won. Yeah. The Pots and Pans International. Yeah. You were there.

[B]

And I learned some things.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Learned how to read.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

I was a valedictorian of my class, though.

[A]

Really? You beat out your kid brother.

[B]

That's the joke.

[A]

It's gotta be.

[B]

There's some really good homeschool jokes.

[A]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

I got C. What are the good homeschool jokes?

[B]

The good homeschool jokes. Oh, gosh. The other one is like, I was always teacher's pet.

[A]

I'll tell you the only reason why. Sorry, I don't want to be a nitpick, but I keep saying now with homeschooling, they get a collective together.

[B]

They do. That's cheating.

[A]

Is that cheating?

[B]

But when they go to like a Co. Not a co. A co op isn't always cheating. Like, I have a girlfriend down the South Bay that runs an awesome co op, and that's like, once or twice a week, the kids get together and hang out and play. But they're literally kind of like. Like charter schools, essentially, where you bring your kid for a half day and somebody is teaching your kid that. That's like a type of private school to me. That's not like homeschooling, but there is.

[A]

Such a homeschooling where it's like three families come together.

[B]

Those were pods, and those kind of started during COVID but they're still paying a teacher, so that ain't homeschooling either.

[A]

No, no. But I mean, is there a thing where you go, this mother's gonna do Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then that mother's gonna do like.

[B]

I have heard of that. I've never experienced that when I was homeschooled or when I homeschooled my girls. I didn't do that. It was me and them.

[A]

I think my mom probably would have made the worst homeschool teacher.

[B]

I felt like I did so hard, man. I'm not smart enough to do it past 6th grade. History. Bible literature is my jam. Math?

[A]

Nope.

[B]

This is why my husband makes the money and I just spend it.

[A]

Good for you.

[B]

Speaking of money, billionaire developer friend of the program, Rick Caruso, won't be running for California governor or LA mayor. This bomb dropped on us on Friday, and I went to dinner with some friends that night that were pissed off at him. I'm curious about your take about this, but Rick Caruso spent a lot of last year publicly muling this run for California governor or Los Angeles, this mayor. And his ultimate decision in his Instagram post that he posted on Friday evening was neither. He said that he will not run for either office this year, putting an end to the projected. All the speculation that he would launch some sort of political bid in 2026. He said, quote, after much reflection and many heartfelt conversations with my family, I've decided not to pursue elected office at this time. It was a difficult decision, and I am deeply disappointed to step back from an election that is so critical to California's future. He encouraged people that he wants to keep working on fire recovery through his nonprofit, Steadfast LA, and help people rebuild their homes, etc. So a lot of people on the right, and I'm sure you saw this, were like, shame on you. You kind of held up potentially good candidates. You held up these candidates from Getting money. And you, like, kiss the ring and the booty of Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom. I mean, I. I like Rick. I don't agree with him on everything. And I think that people who have said that he is like Trump Light are totally off bait. But I don't know that I go to the. Oh, shame on you. You held up everything for everybody. What's your stance?

[A]

I like him. I know him personally. He's a good guy. I sit around and I just sort of think about LA and what we've done in the last few years, and to think that we could have had Rick Caruso. And instead, you know, it's kind of one thing where you go, we could have had Rick Caruso, but instead we got this guy who's something like Rick Caruso. We got Karen Bass. So basically the antithesis of Rick Caruso. If LA was a franchise, we'd be like, look, it's between Tom Brady and Ryan Leaf, who's going to be the franchise quarterback for la. And we went, we're taking Ryan Leaf. And then we watched Tom Brady's career while Ryan flamed out. And it's like, we could have had this, but we chose that. And the that that we chose was the antithesis of this and the worst thing that could happen. And again, just another dingbat who has no interest or thoughts. Or maybe he's just a communist. I don't know if Karen. I mean, she's been to Cuba enough. I don't know what her. I don't know if it's in contrast.

[B]

It's a little Bernie Sanders light, I think.

[A]

Oh, yeah, she's real. Like, when you look into Karen Bash, look, you can kind of go, oh, come on, give me a break. But I'm sorry, if you've been to Cuba 17 times, maybe there is some connection there. I've not been to Cuba ever. Cause it's not my thing. But you've been there 17 times. How many times has Karen Bass been to Cuba?

[B]

Almost as many as Bernie. Maybe. Didn't he honeymoon there?

[A]

He honeymooned 15 trips. He honeymooned in the Soviet Union. She visited Cuba 15 times, reportedly taking. Sorry, 15 trips. Young community activists. All right, I'm just saying.

[B]

Wait, so she has been 18 times. So she went on 15 trips in the 70s and then several more, like between the 70s and 20.

[A]

20. 18 times.

[B]

18 times.

[A]

Okay, well, maybe she has some allegiance or some thoughts about their way of governing, and perhaps she took some of that back here.

[B]

I don't know if I've been To back to Oklahoma to visit my mom 18 times since I left at 18.

[A]

Well, that's kind of my thing. Like, if you.

[B]

You have an affinity for a place.

[A]

If I had been to the Netherlands 20 times and then I was running for mayor, you could think that some of my thought process might think about, well, how would they do it over there? But anyway, so we could add Rick Caruso. We got a dunce instead, who may not even just be incompetent. She may just be sort of secretly, quietly doing her what? We just think of her as dumb or, like, incompetent.

[B]

Incompetent. I would say incompetent.

[A]

Right. But it might go deeper than that. Like, I can't.

[B]

I don't know if you can be dumb, having been able to win and keep office in politics.

[A]

I shouldn't say dumb. I shouldn't say dumb.

[B]

That's why I think incompetence or wrong.

[A]

Well, I think wrong. Yeah.

[B]

Especially, like, based on our belief systems.

[A]

She blames the homelessness on income inequality, which is stupid. Right. So here's the point. Maybe she's not dumb, but she has super dumb thoughts all the time, which I would argue makes you de facto dumb.

[B]

That's true. I see it now. I understand that correlation. It is interesting, though, that he talks about, like, I'm sorry to sit this out. I don't know. It kind of read to me as, like, maybe more of a personal decision than, like, a strategic political or business one.

[A]

Well, Rick's got a pretty good life going for himself.

[B]

Well, at that event that you guys did together at the Americana, he talked about, like, the importance of public service. And public service isn't just serving in politics, which I would completely agree with. And I think that that's a good thing for the average citizen to understand. Like, in order to sacrifice and serve your neighborhood, your family, your country, you don't have to run for mayor. Right. But sometimes we need guys like a Rick that are capable of putting the reputation, their money on the line and doing it. And I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm now voting for Spencer Pratt.

[A]

I'm fine with him. She was in a group called Veserramos Brigade, which is basically Castro Youth.

[B]

Oh, lovely.

[A]

Yeah, it's awesome.

[B]

Awesome. Just a stone's throw away from Hitler Youth.

[A]

Why shouldn't she rub California or at least Los Angeles?

[B]

Oh, Lord have mercy.

[A]

All right, I'm gonna be in New York at Rodney's, doing a live podcast there with Scaramucci. And then I'm doing a stand up show and then I'm off with Megyn Kelly to Chester, New York. That show probably sell out but then you can go to check out DC Gonna be there as well. Alicia Krause Weekly op ed for the Washington examiner everybody and good job. Until next time. Sam Crowford Alicia Krause saying mahalo. Make sure you get tickets to see the ace [e-mail] and then leave us a voicemail about the show. 8 at 863-41744 again [e-mail].

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