KAMALA HARRIS SERVES UP WORD SALAD + MEDIA PERSONALITY XAVIAER DUROUSSEAU

Summary

Summary of "KAMALA HARRIS SERVES UP WORD SALAD + MEDIA PERSONALITY XAVIAER DUROUSSEAU" Episode

Introduction In this episode of The Adam Carolla Show, host Adam Carolla welcomes political commentator Xavier Derusso as his guest. The trio delves into a variety of topics ranging from personal anecdotes to deep political and social commentary, all delivered with Adam's signature humor and candidness.

Driving Anecdotes and Road Safety [00:59 – 03:36] Adam kicks off the episode by sharing his extensive driving experience in Los Angeles over the past 45 years. He recounts his unique driving style—often steering with his knee and avoiding accidents through hyper-vigilance. Adam describes a near-miss incident on the 5 freeway, highlighting his ability to prevent collisions with quick reflexes:

Adam Carolla [02:15]: "I have never made contact with another automobile... I drive with one hand. I sometimes steer with my knee."

Nostalgia for Beef Ribs and Changing Culinary Trends [03:36 – 14:25] The conversation shifts to Adam's nostalgic memories of beef ribs from Love's Barbecue and how their popularity has waned in favor of smaller pork ribs. Adam and Xavier reminisce about the affordability and size of beef ribs in the past:

Adam Carolla [08:40]: "When I say rib ribs meant big ribs, now they're all baby back ribs..."

Jason Mayhem Miller joins the discussion, providing insights into the culinary industry's shift due to cost and preparation challenges:

Jason Mayhem Miller [18:35]: "Beef ribs are a more expensive cut and take much longer to prepare and cook."

Guest Introduction and Personal Journey [40:05 – 43:13] Xavier Derusso introduces himself, detailing his transformation from a liberal household upbringing to a critic of progressive ideologies. He shares his experience on a Netflix reality show, where preparing to debunk PragerU led him to reevaluate and change his perspectives:

Xavier Derusso: "I ended up backing out of the show and changing my whole perspective."

Systemic Racism and Community Critique [44:07 – 68:59] Adam and Xavier engage in a heated discussion about systemic racism, internal community policing, and the disparities between different racial groups. Adam criticizes the black community's self-policing and stereotypes, comparing them unfavorably to Asian and white communities' achievements:

Adam Carolla [55:24]: "We don't like to have to defend white dudes who are horrible... I don't have to defend Joe Biden."

Gig Gangle, another guest, adds to the conversation by discussing racial profiling, the impact of stereotypes on the black community, and the challenges of breaking out of societal boxes:

Gig Gangle [46:15]: "They continuously move the goalposts... Asians have to score on average 450 points higher than the average black person in order to get into the same program at the same college."

The trio debates the effectiveness of current political approaches, with a strong critique of the Biden administration's racial policies and messaging:

Adam Carolla [56:40]: "They're talking about junk fees... This is what Joe Biden does."

Climate Change and Public Policy Critique [77:53 – 82:53] Adam and Xavier discuss Admiral Rachel Levine's Broadway cameo addressing climate change's impact on black communities. They criticize the administration's handling of climate-related issues, labeling the initiatives as ineffective and misallocated:

Adam Carolla [80:26]: "You could have driven. You could have stayed home, you could have taken a bus... That's another bullshit move."

Celebrity Commentary and Social Perceptions [93:20 – 121:02] The conversation shifts to celebrity culture, focusing on Pete Davidson's struggles with public perception despite dating high-profile women. Adam and Gig express disdain for celebrities who portray themselves as victims while maintaining privileged relationships:

Adam Carolla [116:36]: "They play the victim... Why did you even become a public figure if that was something that you were going to moan about?"

They also touch upon the legacy of actors like Gig Young, highlighting tragic personal histories and the fleeting nature of fame:

Adam Carolla [123:08]: "Gig Young got married and killed his wife on their wedding night, then killed himself."

Advertisements and Light-Hearted Segments [Throughout] Interspersed with discussions are advertisements for brands like SimpliSafe, BetOnline, Home Chef, and Pluto TV. These segments are seamlessly integrated into the conversation but are skipped in this summary as per instructions.

Conclusion and Future Plans [129:45 – 130:29] As the episode winds down, Adam discusses upcoming shows in San Luis, Monterey, and Napa, encouraging listeners to attend. He also humorously critiques the repetition of positive messaging in political speeches versus actionable solutions:

Adam Carolla [127:30]: "They did this thing all timer... He doesn't have a vetting process for his words because he only goes to friendly places and gives speeches."

The episode concludes with light-hearted banter, maintaining the show's characteristic blend of humor and sharp critique.

Notable Quotes:

• Adam Carolla [00:59]: "I drive with one hand. I sometimes steer with my knee."
• Adam Carolla [08:40]: "When I say rib ribs meant big ribs, now they're all baby back ribs..."
• Adam Carolla [55:24]: "We don't like to have to defend white dudes who are horrible... I don't have to defend Joe Biden."
• Gig Gangle [46:15]: "They continuously move the goalposts... Asians have to score on average 450 points higher than the average black person in order to get into the same program at the same college."
• Adam Carolla [80:26]: "You could have driven. You could have stayed home, you could have taken a bus... That's another bullshit move."

Key Takeaways:

• Driving and Personal Safety: Adam's unique driving style and near-accident experiences highlight the chaotic nature of Los Angeles traffic.
• Culinary Nostalgia: A longing for traditional beef ribs reflects changes in culinary trends and economic considerations within the food industry.
• Political and Social Critique: The episode offers a scathing analysis of systemic racism, internal community dynamics, and the effectiveness of current political leadership.
• Celebrity Culture: Discussions reveal frustration with how celebrities handle public scrutiny and maintain privileged lifestyles despite personal struggles.
• Policy and Practicality: Criticism of governmental approaches to climate change and social issues emphasizes the need for actionable solutions over rhetoric.

This episode presents a blend of personal anecdotes, humor, and sharp socio-political commentary, inviting listeners to reflect on contemporary societal issues through Adam Carolla's unfiltered lens.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

Well, in this episode, very interesting. Political commentator Xavier Derusso joins me. Mayhem's got some news. I got a lot to complain about. And we'll do all that right after this. All right, this show brought to you in part by SimpliSafe. If you have 30 minutes, you never have to worry about break ins ever again. Just go to simplisafe.com Adam get all the sensors you need, all the help you need as well to set it up. Custom system is going to show up post [e-mail] Adam.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, the host of, respectfully Xavier, Xavier Durusso. Plus the news and trending topics with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now the sage of the San Fernando Valley, Adam Corolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on, got to get on a choice I'm gonna mandate you get it on, man, get it on. Got a lot to get into today. So I, I'm not bragging, but I have been driving in Los Angeles and I've been driving in Los angeles for approximately 45 years. Right in the middle of Los Angeles. And not like I limited myself to the Toluca Lake area. I work downtown, I worked Simi Valley, I worked Malibu. When I worked construction, I just drove wherever the jobs were. Now it's pretty much, you know, wake up at Drew's house in Pasadena, drive over here to work all Saturday and then at 5 o'clock get in the car and go to Torrance to do a couple of shows that night. I mean, that's. I drive always everywhere, all the way through everywhere, from, you know, here to San Diego and from here to San Francisco. That's all I do. I have never made contact with another automobile. And I do not drive. I drive with one hand. I sometimes steer with my knee. I do not employ any safe driving techniques other than being hyper vigilant. But I do not drive with. I'm not at 10 and 2, lot of knee driving. Do not like to sit in lanes that are stopped up. We'll be all over the lanes, making space all the time. But I've never made contact with another vehicle. I had a vehicle or two bump me a little bit, but I just kind of waved them off because I didn't want to go stand by the side of the freeway an uninsured illegal Mexican, because that's who hits you here. So on the way to the end, the club on Saturday night, going down the five, I got about as close, I can tell you from racing cars. There is, oh, this is close. Or we're tight on each other and then there's at some point where you go, oh, we're making contact, we're making contact.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And I got to the threshold of we are making contact, which I never get to because I always leave a little room. I'm always going down the five. I'm trying to get to Torrance, the freeway. The lane in the middle just stops and the dude who's a little bit ahead of me but right next to me just makes a move. He just goes, he just. It's like his lane came to a stop fast and he just went, fuck it. And he just yanked and went right, right into my lane. And I just, All I did was react hard and just go right into the other lane. Now if there was a car next to me, I would have smashed into that car and then this guy would have just driven off and then me and that person would have been dealing with it by the side of the road and it would have been me who was at fault, allegedly, cuz I'm the one who won. But this guy just went hard and I was like, oh, we're making contact. And I just gave a boop and just pow. Just moved right with him the second, you know, inches away. Thank God there wasn't a car next because there wasn't a moment to look. Yeah, it was just, we're moving and if there's somebody there, I'm hitting them. But I didn't. But I realized when people do the. Oh, you're lucky. You're lucky. You're lucky. It's not luck. I drive that way. I've avoided many, many accidents where we would surely make contact. If I. All I had to do was stay the course for 2/10 of a second, this guy would have mashed right inside my car. He just violently changed lanes. He braked first, like he did a move where he's like, oh, my lane is stopping, but the other lane's open. He started to brake and then he went fucking. He went pow, like hard dip. I was right there. Anyway, missed that. Then called Mike Gogs. You don't know Mike August as well as I, but he's got, he has a certain kind of momentum, a personal momentum, when he figures once he makes a proclamation, that's it. You can ask all the questions you want. It is done. He said it. So he's sitting there at the end, who. I don't know if they're famous for their barbecue, but they like to talk about their barbecue a lot.

[Xavier Derusso]

Who?

[Adam Carolla]

The end.

[Xavier Derusso]

The club.

[Adam Carolla]

It's okay. I've had better, but I've had worse. It's fine. But they like their barbecue over there. So I call Mike and I go, mike, how's it going over there? Because he's there, he's like, I got the brisket. It's pretty good Said. But the ribs. The ribs are really good. I go, oh, yeah. He goes, yeah, they got the big ones. I go, oh, they got the beef ribs. He goes, yeah. I go, oh, Now, I don't know what's going on, but something happened to the beef ribs. Beef ribs. When I was a kid, not that the Corollas ever went out for ribs, because that was. You know, that would be joy, and it would bring some joy to the children. But I used to see commercials for Love's Barbecue. When you're in love, the whole world's delicious. So Love's barbecue would have, like, rib night, you know, 12, 9.99, rib night, you know, and all. All I knew from Loves is I would see the commercials on. It would be rib night. It's not like I would walk into my mom and go, hey, mom, how about we capitalize on Love's rib night?

[Xavier Derusso]

It was foregone conclusion that you were not getting ribs.

[Adam Carolla]

If you were in, like, a German concentration camp, you wouldn't go to one of the guards, hey, Loves is having rib night. You just go, this is. I'm here. This is not gonna happen. You're not getting any ribs. But I knew we have the love. It's a rib lovers crime. I would sit in my sweat box in North Hollywood at age, like, 11 and just go, God damn. Oh, God damn. Look, could you imagine going to Loves for rib night? And by the way, I would also fantasize, like, who had. Who pulls down the kind of coin that they could afford. Because when you go to Loves for rib night, it's not just you. For $9.99, there may be two or three other people. I mean, we may be talking about $40 worth of ribs over here, people. And I knew there was a ribs. 1982, I knew there was a loves right off the 101 freeway in, like, Reseda. Again, I knew where everything was. I'd just never been inside of one of them. Later on, I got to go inside of some of those legendary restaurants to clean their carpets. Oh, damn. But it was a move.

[Xavier Derusso]

I remember that era.

[Adam Carolla]

Step toward the light. We have the commercial from 1982. What was rib in 1982, it had gotten to, like, 1299 for rib. All right, we're going to find out when you're in love.

[Xavier Derusso]

The one's delicious.

[Adam Carolla]

How long has it been since you had ribs?

[Xavier Derusso]

I bet that it was that Clint.

[Adam Carolla]

Eastwood or Clint Eastwood feel alike. Go to loves and eat Love's ribs. You'll sing love song now. Everybody sing along. Rib lovers.

[Xavier Derusso]

Love loves ribs now the special rib lovers.

[Adam Carolla]

$6.99 is only $6.99.

[Xavier Derusso]

Oh, man.

[Adam Carolla]

My dad was like, that's a car payment. Not that we've been extended credit, but it could be like, 6.6.99. And my parents would be like, are you nuts? But. So I say to Mike, oh, they got the big ribs. He goes, oh, yeah. I go, the beef ribs on the.

[Xavier Derusso]

Side of the car?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I go, I don't know why. I don't see those anywhere. When I was a kid, when you said rib ribs meant big ribs, now they're all baby back ribs, so I don't know what happened to cows or maybe the tomahawk chop did something to it, or I don't know what's going on. But the big beef rib I've not enjoyed in a while. So I said to Mike, I go, they got the big ones, huh? Yeah, they got the beef one. The big beef ones. He goes, yeah, they're great. I go, all right, well, I'm coming out there. You know, I worked up an appetite not getting into an accident. So I come pulling in there, and it's all baby back ribs, all the pork spare ribs, small ribs, meaty but small. So I go back and I go, well, so where's. Pardon me for being sane. I'm like, somebody ate all the beef ribs. Mike must ate all the beef ribs. So let's get some more beef ribs over here. Go back there. I go, mike, what happened to the beef ribs? Yeah, they're there. I go, those are just. Those are the pork ribs. Yeah. Okay, but, Mike, remember the part where I kept saying beef rib, beef. That got the big ones. The big. You don't see those. You don't see those anymore. Boy, am I looking forward to this. Cause you don't see those. That's your opportunity to stop. The third time I say anything, I'm telling people all the time. The third time I go, huh, huh. Wow. Cause you don't see the. Like, that is curious. When I start making curious sounds like, well, huh. If I say things like, do tell.

[Xavier Derusso]

Now it's time to correct the record.

[Adam Carolla]

It's Time to stop and go. Hold on. Let me just. They're not the big. They're not. Okay. Mike was born in the United States.

[Xavier Derusso]

He was.

[Adam Carolla]

Mike's my age. Mike has eaten everything, including ribs, the whole time. So in the process of. Me. Keep going, the beef ribs, the big ones. He knows what a beef rib is, and he's eating a pork rib. Why does he now? The answer is he just said big, and after that, we're just. Whatever it is I said, it was like.

[Xavier Derusso]

Or maybe he wanted to let you down. You know, he wanted to keep you. You know, just survived a harrowing experience.

[Adam Carolla]

He didn't know that. I didn't convey that to him.

[Xavier Derusso]

I thought he could hear it in your voice.

[Adam Carolla]

You could hear a certain tremble in my voice. I was just like, okay, why does it have to go this way?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Could it go any other way?

[Adam Carolla]

It can't go any other way. But there is a point where you could go, oh, you're talking about beef ribs. No, these are baby back. They're plump. I mean, they're big for baby back. But they're not talking about the big ribs. The big beef ribs. No, not. Not beef.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

But every now and then, Mike August is right.

[Adam Carolla]

Every now and again.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And so you kind of. You end up giving them the benefit of the doubt. But there should be a spidey sense there that says, now I gotta verify my spidey sense. Trust but verify.

[Adam Carolla]

Here's my spidey sense. I've played this club before. They sent me back with the Farmers spread of barbecue. A little bit of everything. No beef rip. So now I'm like, oh, now they got the beef ribs. And then I'm like, go. You never see those anywhere. Now I don't know if someone can find the answer. And by the way, we still need the loves commercial where the guy goes, when you're in love, the whole world's delicious. I still need that one. But 6. 99. 6.99. In the 80s.

[Xavier Derusso]

Ah, Reagan's America.

[Adam Carolla]

Also, it used to be commercials. They used to try to pull off the whole chef thing. It was like a white guy with a mustache. He was fat, with the chef's hat. He was presenting the plate. Now it's a bunch of illegals in the kitchen, and they don't even try that anymore. But, yeah, and I don't know, Dawson, you can look around, but what happened to the beef barbecue rib? They're just kind of gone.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I'm gonna shit on your point.

[Adam Carolla]

You ate one last night.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

No, about a year ago when I was in Austin doing this, doing some shows. Went to Terry Black's, one of the. One of the good higher end barbecue joints out there. Their beef rib is the greatest thing on earth.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that's not cheating on my point. I want to be.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I don't know why they're not out here.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm not saying they don't exist. I'm saying, where are they?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Texas.

[Adam Carolla]

But what. What happened out here? What happened to our beef ribs?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I don't know.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, I like when you can. You know what I mean? You're done. You're left with this giant weapon.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's awesome. No, I agree. Oh, we have the loves jingle. I said, too many Asians out here. What's going on with the beef ring?

[Xavier Derusso]

The world's delicious.

[Adam Carolla]

This is all the entertainment I had as a young person. Memorizing, you know. Oh, I got the Pete Ellis Dodge song memorized. I got the Cal Worthington song memorized. I got the love song memorized to watch the commercial for the super bowl motocross. I get to see all the good commercials and memorize all the theme songs. So that was enough excitement for me. All right, so no beef ribs. But, Dawson, I want you to get to the bottom of it, all right? I want to know. I want to know. And listen, I'm not saying they don't exist. I'm not saying you can't find them. I'm saying what happened to them? They used to be kind of ubiquitous. If you went to a place in ordered ribs, that's what you got. Now you've got pork.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You know, I think the pork lobby just spent entire amounts of money to make pork.

[Adam Carolla]

The scaling rib. Elon's gonna cut that shit.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, listen. You know, what you do is you get a couple of beef ribs and a couple of pork ribs. That's the way you do it.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. I saw commercials. There are certain indicators. Mayhem. That society is broke loose of its mooring, adrift in the sea. And I've told everyone, watch TV commercials. TV commercials will tell you where it's at. Used to be loves and truck driving schools. Latest commercial I saw is for supplements for all the people that are on weight loss drugs. What?

[Xavier Derusso]

Oh, yeah, that makes sense, I guess, because then you get osteoarthritis.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't. Everyone's on the weight loss drugs. And so now we need a supplement. Raplenza. Wow, they made that one up. Raplenza. I'll play the commercial. So now everyone who's on all these fakac drugs is going to need to be sold something else to put into their body. Meanwhile, when loves was having 699 rib night, no one was fat. Hmm. When you're on Raplensa, the world's delicious. All right, here it is. If you're one of the millions of people enjoying the weight loss benefits of GLP1s like Ozempic, Manjaro, Wegovy and others, now you can get the nutritional support you need with Raplenza. Raplensa is physician formulated nutritional support designed for GLP1 users. So you can look great and feel great while you lose weight.

[Dawson]

It is a game changer.

[Adam Carolla]

I've got energy, I feel great. Nothing else worked for me like this. All right, hold on, let me explain. What else could work? Not eating so much and then exercising and then eating the right stuff. You wouldn't need the Raplenza or the shots. You could just. It's like it makes me not eat so much. Oh, there's a way to not eat so much. You cannot eat so much. And also Mayhem. You know about this?

[Xavier Derusso]

No. Yeah. Weight cutting is a specialty.

[Adam Carolla]

How much did you need to cut?

[Xavier Derusso]

I caught like 23 pounds in a day before. But you know, it's not to be done. But you know that, that's, that's.

[Adam Carolla]

You had to get down to 185.

[Xavier Derusso]

I would walk around like 210.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Xavier Derusso]

So it was like a nice, like long, yeah, hard stretch and I don't.

[Adam Carolla]

Know, but here's what I'm telling everybody. I am telling you it's not the weight. It's. You lose your ability to have dominion over yourself. You go, I got to lose some weight. I'm not going to do it. You know what I mean? I'm not going to eat that or I'm going to sweat it out. I'm not talking about cutting weight for the octagon, but I just mean now there's a pill for everything. Okay. You may have solved the problem of the weight, but you created another problem with a total lack of discipline, which shall then bleed into every facet of your life. So you'd be the skinniest, laziest fuck on the planet. Dawson has rib answers.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, well, it appears that first of all, the beef ribs are a more expensive cut and they take much longer to prepare and cook. So it's a bottom line thing with restaurants. Ribs is now synonymous with pork and bacon. Baby Rock. Thanks to Chili's probably. And that's why, especially in California, but most places they're saying outside of cattle country, it's very difficult to find beef ribs.

[Xavier Derusso]

Damn.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, it is interesting that all roads lead to cheaper and easier. Like we talked about with passion fruit iced tea or whatever the they're talking about. It's always, I suspect, limes. The reason it's all limes and no lemons anymore. And every time I say give me a lemon, I get handed a lime, is because a lime can sit on top of your refrigerator for seven months and still be fine. Lemons, Lemons go.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. So then this reminded me of another commercial which was the beginning of the end. Do you remember there's an actual medication for people that are strung out on opioids?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yes, yes. To help you poop.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

That's when the problem really fucking started.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, right, huh?

[Adam Carolla]

Saying people, when, Listen, when you can drive from Santa Monica to here, from PCH to here, at some point you'll be traveling on the 10 Freeway right off PCH, and you'll go under an overpass and you will see a cage built, a shark cage built under the overpass. It's like five feet high. Because human beings sleep there and we must prevent them from sleeping there. So we will put a cage there so they can't sleep on the dirt underneath the freeway overpass. Now you can build that cage. But I would argue, bigger picture. What the fuck is going on with your society that human beings are asleep in 2025, are sleeping on dirt under. Under a freeway overpass? And then I would say, why don't we address that problem versus build the cage? Cuz you'll never be able to build enough cages. That won't work. So I would say if we're coming out with Movantic guys on a construction site.

[Xavier Derusso]

Movantic. I get it.

[Adam Carolla]

Move.

[Xavier Derusso]

You gotta movement.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, if you're coming out commercials for medication for people that are ODing on other medications who can't take a solid shit, that's a problem. But here's the commercial guy on a construction site.

[Mike Gogs]

Hi, I'm Frank. I take Movantiq for oic. Opioid induced constipation.

[Adam Carolla]

I like, had a bad day.

[Mike Gogs]

My doctor prescribed opioids, which helped with the chronic pain, but backed me up big time. Tried prunes, laxatives. Still constipated? Yeah, had to talk to my doctor.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get off the opioids.

[Mike Gogs]

How long you been holding this in?

[Adam Carolla]

All right, pause it for a second. Hold on.

[Xavier Derusso]

So handsome to be talking about poop.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, he looks like every fucking guy was Strung out on Percocets that I work construction with.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, can I say this? Did they ask for Hunter Biden? Look alike. People associate him with drug abuse. So we kind of want someone who looks a little like Hunter. Also, he had to audition.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, I know.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, he ran this with his girlfriend the night before. Like the sides, like he sat on the bed and he was like, line. And she's like, constipation. Okay, I'm gonna try. I'm have fun with that one. I want fun with that one. I'm gonna sort of smile a little and hang my. I'm gonna take a pause.

[Xavier Derusso]

Pregnant pause.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, dramatic. You call it dramatic pause. And hang that one in. And then also, what would you rather. All right, so I'm audition. I'm doing commercial auditions. All right, Would you rather play the guy who strung out on pain pills, who now can't take a dump because he strung out on pain pills, is gonna now take another pharmaceutical in order to take a dump cuz he can't quit the pain pills? Are we doing that? You wanna be cast in that commercial or do you wanna be cast in the herpes commercial where the woman talks, she breaks down the fourth wall. She's talking to the camera saying she had herpes and now she's on medication as the boyfriend who stands next to her with a sort of judgment free posture. Because you didn't give her the herpes.

[Xavier Derusso]

Well, I'm.

[Adam Carolla]

She got the herpes from the last boyfriend that was banging her.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And now you're there catching it and you're sensitive to what's going on.

[Xavier Derusso]

Well. Cause you don't want to get it, so you get.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't want to get it, so.

[Xavier Derusso]

You take these pills.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't want to get it, but.

[Xavier Derusso]

I'd much rather have a twinkle in my eyes. And talk about constipation.

[Adam Carolla]

You'd rather talk about. But remember you're a drug addict.

[Xavier Derusso]

Oh, okay.

[Adam Carolla]

The herpes guy. It's not his fault.

[Xavier Derusso]

He did nothing wrong.

[Adam Carolla]

He did nothing wrong, but now he's being cuckolded by herpes. And she has it and she's talking to the person, you know, she's breaking down the fourth wall. You're a victim. But in our society, it's kind of a weak position to be the second sloppy herpes second.

[Xavier Derusso]

Holding her, holding her dress like, you know, alongside of her with the sad look.

[Adam Carolla]

You guys are pushing mountain bikes. And then you stop and then she starts talking about her herpes.

[Xavier Derusso]

Do I have to touch her seat.

[Adam Carolla]

You have to kind of help her hold her mountain bike while she's talking about having herpes. But again, you didn't give her the herpes.

[Xavier Derusso]

You know when I've done this, Am I getting paid scale?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, same. Same pay.

[Xavier Derusso]

All right, then I'll take it.

[Adam Carolla]

You'll do the herpes? Yeah.

[Xavier Derusso]

I'll do the herpes commercial, too. I mean, if I'm gonna.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, no, you don't get to do both of them.

[Xavier Derusso]

Well, then what the hell, man? I'm trying to get it skit somewhere in Hollywood. I got constipation because my Percocet addiction. And I got.

[Adam Carolla]

My girlfriend's got herpes, I think. Do you think this guy made a move where he goes, I hurt my back on the construction site, and his hand went up, kind of rubbed his hand. I think that was his decision. I don't think that the director fed him that.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

He's remembering the pain.

[Adam Carolla]

He's remembering. Yeah. Roll it back. No, he made a couple seconds. He made good choices. Okay, let's go. Let's see. Here we go.

[Mike Gogs]

My doctor prescribed opioids, which helped with the chronic pain, but backed me up.

[Xavier Derusso]

Back me up.

[Mike Gogs]

Hi, I'm Frank. I take Movantic for oic. Opioid induced constipation.

[Adam Carolla]

That's either the way he did that.

[Mike Gogs]

Not a bad back injury.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. Rubbing the neck.

[Mike Gogs]

Prescribed opioids, which helped with the chronic pain, but back me up big time. Tried prunes, laxatives. Still constipated. Had to talk to my doctor. She said, how long you been holding this in?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, he looked at the camera, he.

[Mike Gogs]

Flashed the camera told me that Movantic is specifically designed for OIC and can help you go more often. Don't take Movantic if you have a bowel blockage or a history of them. Movantic may cause serious side effects, including symptoms, opioid withdrawal, stomach, severe stomach pain and or diarrhea and tears in the stomach or intestine. Tell your doctor about any side effects and about medicines you take. Ovantic may interact with it.

[Adam Carolla]

Probably taking Percocet.

[Xavier Derusso]

Why hold it in.

[Mike Gogs]

Have your move. Antic moment.

[Adam Carolla]

Talk to your doctor.

[Mike Gogs]

If you can't afford your medication. AstraZeneca may be able to help.

[Adam Carolla]

Now, the good news is with this commercial.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I have been on enough construction sites that that's a real construction site. I don't like fake construction sites and things.

[Xavier Derusso]

That's what I was gonna ask you.

[Adam Carolla]

Studs are all spread out, all cattywampus Nothing's on layout or anything. Nailing schedules are bad. Wrong materials, everything. Just do it in sitcoms. It's always wrong. It's always wrong. But that's a real construction site. So I believe this guy. I don't know if his name is Frank. I don't know. We can find out. We have Hunter Biden and Mozanti guy or Lex or whatever guy. I think they were going for a Hunter Biden, what I call at least a feel alike. Right? All right, so now we got commercials for stuff you shouldn't be taking in the first place to counteract the side effects of the stuff you shouldn't be taking in the first place, but you're too weak to not take the stuff in the first place.

[Xavier Derusso]

That's America, baby.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. All right, the Philly mayor was funny because she's. I don't know if she was a DEI hire. I don't know why they voted her in, but she doesn't seem like the best. And the brides, she's had a couple of gaffes.

[Xavier Derusso]

I missed them.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, first she was trying to spell the word eagles.

[Xavier Derusso]

Oh, I saw that one.

[Adam Carolla]

That was funny.

[Xavier Derusso]

I thought that was pretty good.

[Adam Carolla]

And then later on, she had another gaffe. But we'll do the eagles for now.

[Dawson]

Let me hear you all say E, L, G, L, E, S. Eagles. Let's go first.

[Adam Carolla]

And then more recently, she did this one. It's a little more innocuous, but it's kind of funny.

[Dawson]

Reminded us all through their excellence that nothing is possible when we work together as a team.

[Adam Carolla]

Perfect for Philly, Nothing is possible. And then somebody tweeted me this. And then I wrote back, I could care less. And then everyone wrote back, you couldn't care less. I was like, I'm making a joke, you fucking idiots. You see what I did? I did. I could care less. Which is exactly what. That's what she did. Nobody has a sense of humor these days.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I saw that and I knew because we had discussed it on this show. But I also saw the Trap and I just waited.

[Adam Carolla]

Also, nobody. The Movantic. Who's the actor from Movantic? Yeah, we're getting that guy needs to work.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

He thought he was gonna be the next flow from Progressive.

[Xavier Derusso]

He probably is. We just keep giving him attention. Mike McGowan.

[Adam Carolla]

What, his name's not Frank?

[Xavier Derusso]

No.

[Adam Carolla]

And what else was he on? He's in movies.

[Xavier Derusso]

Law and Order, Special Victim Unit.

[Adam Carolla]

Everyone's been in Law and Order by now.

[Xavier Derusso]

But I was back in 99, man.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a long time to hold the shit. He's known for law and order, this guy. Gets around.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Procedure stuff. He's working. When's his life.

[Xavier Derusso]

He was professional when he took that dramatic pause and when he gave the twinkle to the camera at the end.

[Adam Carolla]

Of there, it was.

[Xavier Derusso]

It was a good.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, he made it his own. He had fun with it. Yeah, he's skilled.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Mike McGowan.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I got a. Another tidbit of rib information.

[Xavier Derusso]

Oh, wow.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

They are apparently difficult to sell at restaurants because patrons find them comically large.

[Xavier Derusso]

They are. And they get on. Bro, it's on your face. You're having a bukkake party with these ribs.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I've not been to one of those in a while.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, yeah, they're fun. It's like bar mitzvah.

[Adam Carolla]

What's protocol? Do you bring a bottle of wine to a bukkake party? I mean, you don't want to show up empty handed. Make some, like, Ambros or something.

[Xavier Derusso]

Think of oil.

[Adam Carolla]

Oil or.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, yeah, Ambrosia is good, but maybe more like a lasagna. Make sure to close it up. All the sides.

[Adam Carolla]

Do lasagna or I'll. But I'll do a seven layer dip.

[Xavier Derusso]

Sketchy.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll. I'll do like a white cheese pizza. Like all, you know, no red sauce. You keep it white. All right. The other thing that bothers me, I don't know, it's funny. I make a lot of tweets, and they're sarcastic tweets. And in my sarcastic tweets, oftentimes people believe me, like when I say I could care less, they correct me and stuff.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Somebody tweeted me, like, the world's greatest mom like, that the kid was in some junior B. Some junior dirt bike race, right? And the thing stalled out. And I think I liked this one, but I didn't tell you it was coming. But the mom comes running out there, jumps on the XR75, starts kicking it, but the first thing she does is pick it up and take the back tire three foot off the ground and starts leaning forward because she was, like, priming the car or doing something. She knew what she was doing. She pulls it forward, lifts it off the ground. She goes running about 80 yards onto the track, grabs the XR75 Honda, pulls it forward, flops it down, jumps on it, kicks it like 10 times, fires it up, hands it back to the son or the daughter, whatever. They jump on it and get back in the race. And so somebody wrote, mom's greatest, greatest mom ever. And then I wrote back, it seems like only yesterday my mom grabbed my YZ80, tilted it up to prime the carb, fired it, and got me back in the race. And then people answered me by going, YZ80 was my first bike too. And didn't know you were a dirt biker Ace I like even more. Has anyone ever listened to 10 seconds of me? First off, the idea that I would own a YZ80 Yamaha when I was 10 is insane. Considerably more than rib night. It loves. Right? And that the fact that Chris Corolla would run out onto a dirt track and prime my carb with the two stroke and get me back in the race. I get it. Not everyone's a fan. Yeah, but you have to know. You have to know there's no possible way that Chris Carolla I know would buy Adam Corolla YZ80.

[Xavier Derusso]

Not everybody listened to every moment of the show, unfortunately. I know the ex people especially, they're just like, really like, you know, they're hit or miss. They know they would listen to everything or they haven't. They haven't seen you in a while. And they're like, oh, yeah, I'm a dirt bike fan too.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, I'll see if we have that one. But, yeah, see, when I was a kid, it was a Honda XR75 or Yamaha YZ80. Those are. That's what you. That you want. Well, let's show this woman. She goes running out into the middle of a dirt track. There's a dude on it, kicking it, can't get it going. She's like, get off it gets a back tire four feet off the ground.

[Xavier Derusso]

Nice.

[Adam Carolla]

She's trying to prime something. She's trying to get fuel going to the pickup on the tank or something out of the carb or something like that. Then jumps on it, kicks it, kicks the shit out of it, kick starts it like four times, gets it up on the pipe, throws her kid back on it and tells her kid to go back in the race. Now, her kid was later killed on the Whoopty Doo section, but that does not disqualify, negate what this woman did. She had no way of knowing that her kid would die in the Whoopty Doo section half a lap later. That was. But. And it's not negating my point, you know what I mean? What I'm saying, If I went out and I just detailed your car. Cause it was your birthday and then you went out and got into a horrible accident. That wouldn't. But it's not me. Yeah, yeah, right. The gesture's still there.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So anyway, the fact that Chris Carolla would prime my car with 2 stroke on my YZ80 and get me back in the races, you should not respond to that. Look, if I, if I ever write anything positive, you should know I'm kidding. Yeah, yeah, okay.

[Xavier Derusso]

I got that vibe already. You get shortened to the point on Twitter.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It's time to check Adam's voicemail.

[Adam Carolla]

Ace, I got a freeway sign for.

[Xavier Derusso]

You from Arizona, the land of creative freeway signs.

[Adam Carolla]

The sign reads, on Valentine's Day, using.

[Xavier Derusso]

Your turning signal is our love language. So there you go. Get it on.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

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[Adam Carolla]

Well, Xavier Darusso's in studio. You may know him from Prageru. Many of those efforts got a YouTube show. Respectfully, Xavier, discuss pop culture and politics as well. Interesting trajectory for your life and your career. Good to see you.

[Gig Gangle]

Thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

So you like? There's a lot of Prageru people, but a lot of, I think people in general, younger people who are on a kind of real liberal blm, kind of hard left kind of path and then somehow extricated themselves but had some sort of wake up, aha moment. But I don't know if it was an evolution for you or it was just like a moment where you went, oh, I'm thinking differently.

[Gig Gangle]

So my journey was quite the rollercoaster. So I grew up in a very liberal household, very progressive. And in 2020, I at that point, I'd already been a BLM activist for years just on my own doing stuff online. And I was bored during the pandemic. So I applied to be on this Netflix reality show where essentially my entire character was a catfish online that was also teaching people how to be a blm activist and a WOKE activist. And in the process of getting ready for the show, I started studying the counter arguments. And I was going to make a whole series debunking Prager U. But instead I debunked myself. So much so that I ended up backing out of the show and changing my whole perspective.

[Adam Carolla]

And I don't know about your family of origins, but my family's very progressive almost. My grandmother was sort of a communist in the 30s and stuff. I mean really real progressive stuff. And my mom was that way, although she just got welfare and food stamps and stuff. And I was thus kind of progressive. My dad was that way too. Just cause that's where you grow up, you know, it's almost like, hey, you speak this language, you have this accent, you know, you eat these foods, you know, that's just how you grow up. But I did figure out early on that all these people are losers and they're miserable and they're unsuccessful and they never get anything done. And so I was kind of looking at it going, well, I don't know if this is the path. You guys all live in squalor and are miserable, so why is it I should follow you on this journey? Forget about what the journey was or whether the journey was accurate or not. It was still kind of a. Do I want to end up like these people?

[Gig Gangle]

You know, it's so funny, but I.

[Adam Carolla]

Don'T know how your family was chaotic.

[Gig Gangle]

When I look in retrospect, it's like so many of the people that I thought as a kid were just quirky or had their weird little personality traits. It's like, oh, looking back, no, you were bipolar or you are just autistic or you have some type of mental illness or whatever it is going on. And I just didn't realize in growing up. But yeah, my family for the most part has been very woke. I would dare to say my dad's side is very Marxist. A lot of them are just like anti white people, anti everything conservative. And a lot of that comes from just their upbringing as well. Like my dad, he actually has a recessive trait of super light skin. So he's lighter than you and complexion, but looks very Afrocentric otherwise. And his dad was darker than me, so he disowned him because he was too light. So it's just this generational thing that kept going on that I ended up breaking out of the cycle.

[Adam Carolla]

Do they. You know, the part I'm always curious about is nothing ever comes out the other end. And I was saying that with the black community, they have an ability to have no results for extended periods of time. And black women especially, like, I wanna say, this shit's been going on for 60 years. None of the promises have ever been kept. Nothing ever comes out the other side. At what point do you start to explore alternative angles on things? Like, Japanese men wouldn't put up with this shit for 10 minutes. You couldn't tell a group of Japanese men as a politician? Here's what I'm like, elect me, I'm gonna. 60 years goes by, same shit still going on. They would have abandoned this shit years ago.

[Gig Gangle]

Well, that's something I find so irritating about the black community because there's so much creativity, there's so much passion. There's all these different things. But black people are always the first to put other black people into boxes or try to pigeonhole the direction that we need to take our lives. Like, I think back, for example. So I was born in Southside Chicago, like, right next to O block over in Inglewood. But I grew. I spent my summers there, but I grew up.

[Adam Carolla]

You guys have a Inglewood there, too?

[Xavier Derusso]

That's my question.

[Gig Gangle]

Oh, it is as hood as hood gets.

[Adam Carolla]

Is your Inglewood hoodier than our Inglewood? Yes, but we gentrified ours, like, 10 minutes ago. Our Inglewood, like, 10 years ago was Inglewood. It was Ingle hood. We're not even.

[Gig Gangle]

Or that Inglewood isn't even close to gentrification at this point. Point. And my family fled out of there like Harriet Tubman in the middle of the night and went to the cornfields of Pontiac, Illinois, this small little town. And it was interesting, just growing up, seeing the differences between the two. But anyway, that small cornfield town had, like, this great FFA program where you could go and learn about agribusiness and all of this. And when I joined those classes, thinking like, oh, well, I don't know a lot of black people who work in agricultural business. If we have the number one in the nation, shouldn't I join it? I got roasted by my family. They're like, you think you're a farmer? Your black ass is about to go and try to learn about farming. So it's like, here is this direction that I could have went, that could have been lucrative for me, that I've been bullied out of by other black people. Black people don't let other black people step out of the box. But my cousin went and took that same route, and now she's making a whole bunch of money over in Honolulu because she went and dared to step out of the box that people told her she shouldn't put herself in.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I've said a few times that my white privilege is really just nobody cares. I get to do whatever I wanted. There's no, you can't do this or you gotta do that, or you shouldn't be reading this, or you shouldn't be talking this way or anything. You get left alone. And I don't know why the black community does so much sort of self policing. I don't feel like it's helpful. And that's kind of what happened to you.

[Gig Gangle]

Yeah, it's like this crabs in a bucket type of thing. It's like, I see that now that I'm working with conservatives and Republicans, I have all these people who are so mad at me and they're like, how dare you? They hate you, they don't support you. And they're reading me for filth, telling me that the people that I'm around who love me actually hate me. So it's like, what am I supposed to do? Go down and be in the bucket with you guys that are all telling me that I'm a sellout and a coon because I don't agree with you.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the thing about the left is they're not fans of Trump or Elon Musk. But if you're Larry Elder, if you're black, Thomas Sowell or whoever, and you're conservative, you really get it. And if you're a black woman, you really get it because they expect you. Again, part of my white privilege. I don't have. I don't have to defend white dudes who are horrible. You know what I mean? Like, if there was some. If there was some George Floyd version of a white guy, me and Mayhem would just make fun of him and go, good, he's dead.

[Xavier Derusso]

Good.

[Adam Carolla]

One less fucking criminal. One less junkie.

[Xavier Derusso]

Good.

[Adam Carolla]

One less white trash guy to deal with. You know what I mean? We don't have to march for that guy. He's just fucking a drug addict now. He's dead. You know what I mean? Tried to hammer a check, didn't work out. Fine. I don't have to have any. And I don't have to defend Joe Biden. He's an idiot. I don't like him. I think he was corrupt. I don't have to take any sides. I don't want to. I can love Thomas Sowell and hate Joe Biden. That's the gift.

[Gig Gangle]

Well, one of the best things to ever happen to me was I Recently learned that I'm 2% Chinese. So I started identifying with that because I really love Asian culture. I mean, Asians really have all their stuff together. If you look at all the good metrics, they're at the top. All the bad metrics, they are at the bottom.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. And they're the true minority, which is. And I'll screw it up, but it's like, you know, Hispanics like you know, 30 something percent or something. Blacks, you know, 13%, Asians like 4%. So they are a minority, they just happen to excel. So we don't call them minorities anymore. We don't treat them like minorities because we've changed the definition of minority. Now minority just means not doing well.

[Gig Gangle]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Which is stupid. It should mean what it is, which is a smaller group and they excel. And when you go down the list, whitey's in the middle. Like Nigerians outperform white people in this country. So they're pretty darn black last time I checked. But they have a strong emphasis on education in family. So thus they cop ahead of the white man because we don't have as strong an allegiance to that. Basically illustrating that anyone can come here and do anything they want. But here are the rules. Family education, don't have kids out of wedlock, blah blah blah. And somebody could start working that with the black community. But they're cowards and the other people are race hustlers and they're just getting paid off it, I guess.

[Gig Gangle]

Yeah, I mean they continuously move the goalposts. I think it's so interesting how Asians, we Asians, get written out of the conversation of being minorities when if there's anyone that should argue that they're systemically oppressed, it's Asians. Because like if you look at college admissions, for example, Asians have to score on average 450points higher than the average black person in order to get into the same program at the same college. And that is out of control. And then whenever there's any type of thing where they're cutting out white people from being able to get opportunities, they put Asians in there too. As if Asians aren't a minority. Then when you look over at Nigerians and you can't say it's just skin color cuz Nigerians are killing the game again in every metric. It's cuz they don't glorify hood rat culture. The hood rattery that is elevated in the black community in general. It's just this loser culture that continues to put us back into the same shambles that we've been in for decades. Nigerians are not having that. They're out getting educations, getting their bag, and prioritizing the things that are going to elevate their community rather than just be in the trenches with hood rats.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And so Joe Biden or Kamala Harris end up just kind of sadly being race hustlers, which was sad. I thought Joe Biden was gonna be kinda down the middle and a little like Uncle Joe and Steady Joe and whatever. And he just went right back into race hustling. There's a clip, Dawson. It's the baggage handling one that I love because it's Joe Biden. And if someone said you only have 19 seconds to really describe the Joe Biden administration, I just go, I'll show you 19 seconds of Joe Biden. And it's perfect. But there's something. I'd watch this clip 20 times and I'd forgotten. There's one part that's part of the race hustle that eluded me the first 25 times I've seen it. There's a second part with a race hustle that I reacted to, but I forgot the first. So when he starts explaining who these. Okay, let's just break down the game film because he makes no sense. Okay, here it is. Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money, but you don't know it until you purchase your ticket. All right, pause it. Okay. Okay. Well, now, this is perfect for Joe Biden because no one knows what the fuck he's talking about. Stop right now. Does anyone know? No, I'm confused what he means. I travel all the time.

[Gig Gangle]

So what airline is he talking about?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's perfect because it goes. Some airlines. No, no, all airlines charge you for Coach plus or Premium Plus. They give it some euphemistic title. You get a little more knee room and you get an entree or something or whatever that thing is. You get the baggage space above your head. You get all the stuff you used to get for free, basically is what they do. You get treated with dignity. All right, so his first premise is. I don't know what his premise is. Some airlines know all airlines, and then. And then you don't know it until after you buy the ticket. No, you do know it, because you sign up for it. Because it's like saying some restaurants serve shrimp cocktail, but you don't know it's. No, you order shrimp cocktail and then you pay for the shrimp. Or you don't but let's see who this affects. Buckle up. Junk fees. They're unfair and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low income folks and people of color. All right, pause it. All right, so the fact that he makes a distinction between poor people and people of color is race hustling. Cuz he's basically saying it affects poor people. So you say a $62 parking ticket would affect poor people and people of color, but not rich people of color or not any people of color or poor people if they were people of color? Yes, it affects poor people, but not and people of color. You know what I'm saying? And by the way, who are people of color now? Are they Hispanic or is it just black at this point?

[Gig Gangle]

Pretty much.

[Adam Carolla]

But show that again, because he said that he has three or four categories. He starts with marginalized. So let me ask. So it affects. Okay, the extra $41 that American Airlines has charged for the extra six inches of knee room has affects the marginalized community, which I'm not sure who that is in 2023 or whatever he gave. Is that like the gay or lesbian?

[Gig Gangle]

It just depends on the crowd he's talking to at this point.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, so it's marginalized people and it's poor people and then it's also people of color who are marginalized. Or are you covered by the marginalized community umbrella or you have your own space?

[Gig Gangle]

I need to start seeing Venn diagrams of what is categorized as what.

[Adam Carolla]

So again, this extra money affects. And by the way, poor people don't fly commercially that often. They take the bus, but okay, or they don't go anywhere. Like me when I was a kid, we didn't go anywhere because we didn't have money. So why would we get on a flight? But if we did, we wouldn't have bought the extra knee room. That I can tell you. All right, Just the community that it affects, the marginalized. And by the way, this is all Biden did was race hustle the entire time. What is this marginalized community you speak of? Who's affected by airlines charging you for knee room and baggage space?

[Gig Gangle]

I mean, if you feel oppressed by the price of extra knee room, then you just have bad priorities because nobody told you to hop on that flight. You could have driven. You could have stayed home, you could have taken a bus.

[Adam Carolla]

Also, how would you know when you were booking the ticket over online? How would they know who the marginalized communities were? They wouldn't know. Would they know if you were gay or trans?

[Xavier Derusso]

There's something like, there's a checkbox now. I think you gotta do the trans checkbox. I am not a robot. I am not trans.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, okay. And then what would happen for like, Caitlyn Jenner? Is Caitlyn Jenner part of the marginalized community?

[Xavier Derusso]

She's a robot. Right, Sorry, I got confused.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, let's play. I wanna know. Just listen to the group. It's marginalized community and it's poor people and it's people of color.

[Gig Gangle]

But it all gets canceled out when you're a Trump supporter, though, so. Caitlin.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you're not. Yeah, you know. No, no more.

[Gig Gangle]

Caitlyn is just white.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, you're just white and tall. Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money, but you don't know it until you purchase your ticket. Look, folks, these are junk fees. They're unfair and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low income folks and people of color.

[Xavier Derusso]

It's like a boxer. You jab people's jab. That's his jab.

[Adam Carolla]

Low income people of color, marginalized. Low income people of col. Marginalized. Okay, Exactly. That's his mantra. Okay? If somebody said to me, explain Joe Biden's administration. I go, watch this tape. And then they'd go, what the fuck is he talking about? And you go, exactly. But he did do a little race hustling. He's talking about baggage fees and junk fees and knee room. And he managed to get a little race hustle in 19 seconds. He got a little race hustle in there. That's what Joe Biden does.

[Gig Gangle]

And you know, he's part of that too. He probably left like, oh, I really did that. I got them all this time.

[Adam Carolla]

I think he's happy about including all the races in his hustle this time. I like when he says low income folks. Like, he makes it noble. These are mostly lazy people. I grew up with these fucking people. I'll give you an example. I was talking to my son and I called him when I was coming home from doing two sold out shows and not enjoying large beef ribs at the end. And I call him at like 11. I was driving home at like 11:30. I was at this goddamn shop moving stuff at like 8 in the morning. And at some point I drove to torrance and did two shows and I was driving home like 11:30 at night. He's 19, 18. And I said, I said, listen, man, it's Saturday night, I'm working. Be prepared to work some weekends. I don't know what you're studying, I don't know what you think you're gonna do, but be prepared to work some weekends. Cause my mom, my dad, my grandma, nobody in my family ever worked one weekend, ever. So listen, marginalized community or poor folk or whatever it is, got to work some weekends. You work some weekends, buy a little knee room. That's. That's the way. That's the way it works. Yes, I shall be working this coming weekend as well. Do not define when you work and when you don't work. Just have jobs, do stuff. But that's Joe Biden. Now the question is, did Joe Biden know what he was saying? It's not his idea. Somebody put him up to this. But what does he think he's saying? And then what do they think he's saying? Cuz what he's saying, I've showed this to 10 people. It doesn't. They don't know what he's saying because it doesn't make sense.

[Gig Gangle]

You know, I find it ironic because we always say how the left is the side that's really good with linguistics and knowing how to word things in a way that makes it sound like it's so impactful when really the meaning of it is absolutely nothing. But they propped up Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who are just so far from articulate in any way. It's like I never understand what they're saying. Whenever Kamala especially speaks, I just want to ask for a transcript because I need to see what she just said written on paper. So I realized just how idiotic those. That scramble of words really was.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, she just had one, I think, on Broadway.

[Xavier Derusso]

Oh, yeah, we got that in the news.

[Adam Carolla]

We'll wait, we'll wait on that for the news. But, yeah, well, what they do is they put in a lot of sort of buzz phrases that sound like they mean something, but they don't really mean anything or if. Or that aren't really executable, you know, I mean, like, so when, you know, the governor of New York or the mayor of New York says, you know, if one person dies of COVID that's one too many, everyone nods. But then he ships a bunch of people to nursing homes and there's thousands of people dead. And so I'd like to agree with him. Yeah, that's one too many. Except for there's a bunch of dead people from COVID already. So I'm not sure what your point is. I mean, I could. This is the battle cry of these people, where they go, nobody's Illegal. Everyone needs to be treated with dignity. Everyone needs a seat at the table. I'm done. Oh, and everyone needs world class education, healthcare. And that's what I believe. I believe a child. I don't believe healthcare should be an option, and I don't believe education should be an option. I believe every child should have access to world class healthcare and a world class education. All right, let's get something to eat.

[Gig Gangle]

In the country they're from.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they just do it. It's a weird. Again, everything I learned, I learned from my dumbo family who thought this way. But behind it, they were always super cheap and never did anything for anybody. There was nothing ever behind it. Like Joe Biden makes a speech about knee room and marginalized people and the black community. That was three years ago. People, I don't know, something happened. I mean, did some change or something was affected or. I don't know what became of this process. By the way, I would have worked on bigger problems than knee room on commercial flights if I was Joe. But that's what he wanted. He wanted to do this. I mean, Gavin Newsom told me the homeless problem was his number one issue ten years ago in the studio. Now, that may be his number one issue, but nothing ever comes out. The other end, we don't have. He didn't solve anything or do anything.

[Gig Gangle]

You know, when he brings up race and he wants to say, let's talk about black issues. The thing is, there are so many things that affect obviously more than just black people, but that black people are particularly concerned about, like school choice and education standards, how low the literacy rates are, getting the crime out of the community, these progressive district attorneys keeping criminals on the street. But the thing is, they don't talk about any of the conversations that minorities actually would care about because then that would require action. It's much easier to talk about something that's irrelevant or that there are no feasible action steps because then you can just talk this big talk and not do anything. It's like ask. Ask any black person who cares about the fees of getting extra legroom. Nobody cares.

[Adam Carolla]

So are you saying to the basic person in the black community, crime would be higher priority than knee room?

[Gig Gangle]

100%.

[Adam Carolla]

Are you saying that? But you don't speak for the black community. That's just you.

[Gig Gangle]

I bet if I'm Chinese.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's right, you're Chinese now. Yes. If I spoke to other members of the black community, just sort of stopped them on the street and I said, what is the biggest problem facing the Black community today. They'd go knee room, then crime, then.

[Gig Gangle]

Education, then something about Beyonce.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And something about the Tuskegee Airmen not having as much knee room as some of the other pilots did not go.

[Gig Gangle]

I'm still traumatized from learning about Tuskegee as a child.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Gig Gangle]

Even as a liberal, as woke as I was at that point, I was not getting that shot. Oh, no, no. Not until I saw some other people try it first.

[Adam Carolla]

You're healthy and you're fit, so you don't. You don't need it.

[Gig Gangle]

Well, I felt like I didn't need it regardless. But in retrospect, I'm really glad I didn't get it because I saw a lot of people who were young and healthy ended up having the most adverse, just, like, effects from it.

[Adam Carolla]

So.

[Gig Gangle]

Still weirds me out.

[Adam Carolla]

How's your family, your media family dealing with you now that you've gone Benedict Arnold on them?

[Gig Gangle]

All of the above. I have some family members who are supportive just in nature. Like, they don't necessarily agree with what I say, but they're just happy that I'm doing my thing. I have some people who have woken up with me, and then I have some that just complain. Completely exiled me. Like, I still have a sibling who refuses to speak to me, made his whole all of his kids and his wife delete me on all social media. I was banned from going to a couple funerals because they said that I was a KKK member. Still trying to figure out how that would benefit me, but apparently I'm a white supremacist.

[Xavier Derusso]

That's their justification. They're saying that you're a white supremacist even though you're clearly full of melanin.

[Gig Gangle]

Again, don't know how that would benefit me, but they said that that's the side that I'm on simply because I wanted limited government.

[Adam Carolla]

It's kind of weird. I mean, I always say weird, but I don't really mean weird. It's something sadder than weird. But the hustle, whenever I think they're gonna drop it or it's 20, 25 or these are modern times, they go hard. They still go hard with the race hustle. And it's kind of. It's embarrassing now, I find. I think it's a question I'll ask you because I have asked certain black comedians and stuff, like when white politicians are basically explaining that you can't get an ID and that you can't educate yourself or that you can't take care of your family at Some point, when does it become insulting? Aren't you insulted if I, as an adult male who's half Italian, if every speech was about how retarded Italians were and they can't be held responsible cuz they're too fucked up to even get licenses or bring bottles of water to vote or whatever it is. Like at a certain point I'd go, hey cool. It's sort of embarrassing. Now I Wonder why the LeBron James's and the oprazes and all the leaders in the black community like pipe up and go, we can get an id. Next subject.

[Gig Gangle]

Because the bar is in hell. The standards are so low when it comes to communication to the black community. I mean, fear has been the Achilles heel of the black community for so long. All you have to do is tell us like, oh, you need to be afraid of police brutality or oppression or segregation is coming back and then all these black people are going to be in the uproar and not do their own research. Because again, for so long we have been told what we need to think. We've been told the path that we need to go on. And now it's black people policing other black people with that same standard. One way that I got a few people to at least hear me out in the black community is I told them, I'm like, look at the way that Republicans are trying to reach the black community. They're talking to us about issues. They're going and shaking your hand. They're asking you like, what is your quality of life like? Or lifelike. Then you look at what Kamala Harris is doing to win the black community. And they have Meg thee stallion up there twerking and it's like, okay, is this the club? Is that how you're trying to win us over? You think that we're so unintelligent that bringing Beyonce on stage to rip off Amber Rose's speech is all it takes to get us to win, to be won over. And the sad part is that it works.

[Xavier Derusso]

How important is it to you to bring people, more black people over to your side than it is for you to just exist in this space as a commentator?

[Gig Gangle]

You know, for me personally, my goal isn't even necessarily to get black people on my side or to tell black people what to think. I just want black people to think. I just want more independent black or independent minded people in general, particularly in the black community. Because it's exhausting to me how so many people keep themselves in this box and then they think they're oppressed it's like, no, you're not suspended. Systemically oppressed. You are systemically disempowered. Where you have allowed messaging to strip away all of your own mental capabilities of what it is that you're able to do and the access you have in this world. And then when someone like me says that, and because like I live a comfortable life now, I get to go to air one, it's like, whoop dee doo. So they'll be like, oh, where you came from, money? It's like, no, I didn't. I come from the trenches of Southside Chicago. But you know what I chose from a very young age? I chose to go to class, to get straight A's, to go to college, to work, to work on weekends.

[Xavier Derusso]

So is it safe to say? So you don't believe in systemic racism?

[Gig Gangle]

Not anymore. I think that there are certain industries that have elements of that. Like, I think the entertainment space has a lot of systemic issues still. But ironically that's a more left leaning space. But I think as a nation, just by definition, there is not systemic racism. If anything, people of color are inequality, position of privilege. When you look at the way that certain standards, and I hate to say it like this, certain standards are lowered. The barrier of entry to get into a college is lower when you are a certain minority group. There are companies that have diversity quotas. So you can't say that there's systemic oppression while also being systemically subsidized.

[Xavier Derusso]

You're saying it's swung that way, hard the other way. That's what you're saying.

[Gig Gangle]

It has. And I can understand why it was like that in the mid-1900s, but nowadays I feel like the focus needs to be put elsewhere.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's a third element here, and I'm gonna tell my team too, because it's comical. Admiral Levine, you know my favorite, I'm gonna miss that thing. Admiral Levine gave the speech on like Black History Month about how climate change affected black people more. Just when you're talking about sort of condescending bullshit that's just there to agitate black people. So find that now what mayhem is referring to. And this is the conversation that is never had. It's never had, which is you go, okay, but what about cops? And what about cops pulling over black people and that kind of stuff, you go, don't tell me, blah, blah, blah. So what about, okay, let's get rid of the cops, New York cab drivers not wanting to pick up a black man, you know, at night in the wrong neighborhood. Don't tell me. Okay, so now this is the conversation that's never had. Cab drivers and cops and whatever, they're not in the business. Cops aren't in the business of pulling people over and then sort of finding nothing and then going, all right, go about your way. Because that's just a waste of their time. I can tell you, as a poor white person who drove a kind of beater pickup truck, I got pulled over a lot back in the day. And now never, never, never. Because I drive a new car, I intentionally leave the dealer cardboard plate on it because it's like, God, I'm just gonna look up this guy's license plate or whatever it is. I just. You get. You drive a nice car. So they go, oh, white guy. Nope. Oh, rich guy. Yeah, yeah. Because there's a much lesser chance. They need a return on their investment. Their investment is pulling me over. They need some expired this or license that or driving under whatever. Dui, whatever that thing is. The poor Mexican in the pickup truck. You're going to find some fruit on that tree. When you pull that person over, there'll be something. Something white dude. No. But now you go back to New York cab driver. So they go, okay, black man getting pulled over by new. Well, New York cab drivers. All they want is to get paid and not get stabbed and go home. Literally, that's all they want. So if there's a black man and black men are creating a disproportionate number of violent crimes, then the cab driver, who's not a white guy. Cab drivers from somewhere else. This is the part they don't tell you. The cab driver's from a different country. And all that guy knows is that that dude, statistically will rob me higher than the white dude will. But by the way, if there's an Asian woman over here, I will pick her up before I'll pick up the white guy, because all I want to do is get paid.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And get home. And if I went and drove, think about any of us. Let's just say you drive a cab, but you go to Uzgrukistan and you're just driving. I'm making up a place. But you go there. When you go there, they go. These dudes who look like this, they're higher percentage of creating crime. Like, they. Not all of them. But you're better off picking up that dude than you are picking up that. Well, then if you're driving at night through Isgregistan and you're a cab driver. I was driving a cab. I'D be much less likely to pick that dude up.

[Xavier Derusso]

I'd be racist.

[Adam Carolla]

But I will be alive, right? I would try to pick up women, Asians, I got other cultures that'll go before white guy. So now you get in this thing where you go, don't tell me there's not racism. But let's not forget there is a lot of self imposed racism. If your group is going to be disproportionately involved with violent crime, then yes, you will get profiled. And if your group is going to do a lot of smashing grabs, then yes, when you come into the store, people are going to watch you and then you're going to get offended. Why are you watching me? Because your group disproportionately is involved in these crimes. That's how it works. And people will not let that go and they shouldn't let it go. That's our wiring. So you can say, oh, I am being, I am being monitored basically in this store just because I'm a young black man with a hoodie on. Yes, you are. And until your group does not participate in those types of crimes, you shall be monitored. That's how it works. Sorry, no one's going to write it on paper. It's not going to be a company wide memo at Target. But yes, that's how it works. Conversely, it's not like white guys get off the hook. Women, an elderly woman will be monitored the least. There's a pecking order. It's not just white man, black, black man, there's all different races. And the first one who gets picked up before anybody by the cab driver is a woman. That's the least.

[Gig Gangle]

I mean, this is why I tend to hyper focus on the black community so much. Cause it's like, yes, there, there is stereotyping out there, but I need black people to stop giving people a reason to be stereotyped. I had a video go viral on TikTok a few months ago because this just happened to me. I got racially profiled in a Nordstrom and as irritated as I was, as I'm sitting here trying to get my shoes, I couldn't even blame them that much because just a couple months before this same mall was just getting robbed and all these different videos at all these different department stores in LA of people just going in and robbing them. What do they look like? I hate to say it, I hate to say it, but they often look like me just without my Chinese genetics. So it pisses me off when I see black people going out and acting a fool and making our entire community look bad. Because like you said, disproportionate amount of violent crime, 54% of the murders in this country come from black people. If black people stopped doing that, and obviously it's not majority of black people within the community, but that's small group within the community is making our entire community look bad. And I can't blame people for having certain aversions. But even with that, even with the certain cab drivers who won't pick up a black person, there's a difference between systemic racism and circumstantial racism. A lot of people try to put words in my mouth and say that I don't think racism exists at all. I actually just did a whole debrief on this on my show. Respectfully, Xavier, on YouTube, where I was looking at some of my old content where I used to view everything through the lens of race. And in retrospect I've realized, oh, no, because this particular person is being racist or because I might have had a racist boss, that does not mean the entire system of America is racist. There is always going to be ignorant racist people. But realizing individualized racism or circumstantial racism is different from systemic racism completely changed my worldview.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree. We have Admiral Levine. Buckle up black people. Cause this. He. She dressed as. Is he gonna rap Salva. It's she.

[Xavier Derusso]

Oh, my bad.

[Adam Carolla]

She. Hello. Gonna tell you about climate change for black people during Black History Month.

[Xavier Derusso]

What the hell?

[Admiral Rachel Levine]

Hello, I'm Admiral Rachel Levine. This Black History Month, I'm pleased to partner with OMH in advancing better health through better understanding for black communities. Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and mental health of black communities. Black Americans are more likely.

[Adam Carolla]

I will also explain. I'll go look. Someone will go, what's the Biden administration? What is that like? What was that four years like? I got 19 seconds of Joe Biden and then this thing. I got a minute, eight seconds. You watch these two, you're still under a minute and a half. You'll know everything about the Biden. You'll be an expert. What was it? It was four years of this. We could talk about Afghanistan and we could talk about tariffs or whatever, taxes, anything. Or you could just watch these two tapes and then you'd know exactly what Joe Biden was for four years. All right, so it affects the black community at a greater instances than it does white people. We're kind of. By the way, maybe it affects the black people more But I don't see a lot of black faces at the rallies. I feel like that's the white woman's territory. Greta Thunberg was pretty, pretty white last I checked. Like all the celebrities and all the blowhard chicks. I'm saying climate change is kind of our hockey.

[Xavier Derusso]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

That ain't the NBA.

[Gig Gangle]

What's so confusing to me about this video is aren't we white people the ones getting sunburns? Black people aren't the ones being affected by the changes in climate. Be so for real.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, I'm sure Admiral Levine in a two piece out there slathering on the paba. All right, she's gonna go on now. It's gonna go on and explain that like black people get surveyed and say they have anxiety about it, but this is another bullshit move where, like you say to people, what do you think of the environment? Pretty freaked out. And you go, yeah. And they go, okay. Because listen, listen to these statistics.

[Admiral Rachel Levine]

Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and mental health of black communities. Physical black Americans are more likely than white Americans to live in areas and housing that increase their susceptibility to climate related health issues. And 65% of black Americans report feeling anxious about climate change's impact.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Admiral Rachel Levine]

Through our Office of Climate Change and Health Equity and the Office of Environmental Justice.

[Adam Carolla]

Pause. I'll tell you what it is. I live in Malibu. It's all the black people live right there on the beach. They're scared that the tide. Oh, there's no black people in Malibu. Sorry. I'm sorry. There's, ah, there's one black dude I used to see walking Dr. Dre, probably Nigerian. And he was like, he explained himself. He's like, oh, hey, Adam, big fan. And I was like, you know who I am? And he goes, yeah, man, see you on the Byron Allen Show. And I was like, okay, now we're back. And we're back. All right, so 65% of the black community says that it gives them anxiety because they live in places where the climate is worse, even though it's the same place that white people live.

[Xavier Derusso]

No, I read about this. It's people, like a lot of black people live near low lying rivers. Ah, that's what they're referring to. Oh, my God. And then they flood and then you're out of a house.

[Adam Carolla]

Ah, that's what she's talking about. Yeah, okay, keep going. I mean, he. They.

[Admiral Rachel Levine]

Black Americans report feeling anxious about climate change's impact through our Office of Climate change and health Equity and the Office of Environmental Justice. We're working with providers.

[Adam Carolla]

What the fuck you think that's costing us? I don't know. Environment. The Office of Environmental Justice. Millions. As to how many schools could have been built if we got rid of those two offices right there?

[Gig Gangle]

We could have had water in the Palisades.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, we could have had water in the Palisades if they just got rid of those two offices. God, imagine all the grift and the graft and the money that is just pouring into the Environmental Justice. Oh, God. Okay, Sorry, go back 10 seconds. I want to hear those two offices one more time.

[Admiral Rachel Levine]

Their susceptibility to climate related health issues. And 65% of black Americans report feeling anxious about climate change's impact. Through our Office of Climate Change and Health Equity and the Office of Environmental justice, we're working with providers and community leaders to identify innovative approaches that empower communities to address to health consequences linked to climate change. Visit hhs.

[Adam Carolla]

This is fucking. This is cow saying anything. Is any of this, is any of this happening?

[Xavier Derusso]

Is there something.

[Adam Carolla]

You're gonna go talk to leaders? And here's what I'm saying. These are all process people. This is process. They don't wanna get shit done. Elon Musk and Trump want to get shit done. These people wanna talk about having meetings with community leaders and a seat at the table. All they want to do is talk. Nobody wants to do anything.

[Gig Gangle]

No one wants to build anything.

[Adam Carolla]

No one wants to work. They just want to sit and talk about it.

[Gig Gangle]

I mean, I need to know, when you say 65% of black people, who are the black people that you got to take this survey? What black people? Did you get to say, oh, I want to do a survey about how I'm affected by climate change?

[Xavier Derusso]

It's like, it's weird because they have a whole office that makes you scared of climate change. Scared of climate change. And then they go, hey, are you scared of climate change?

[Adam Carolla]

Let me tell you how these tests work. Anybody, anyone's ever taken one of those are you an alcoholic Test? Are you an alcoholic? Do you find yourself enjoying social situations with a cocktail in your hand? You go, oh, yeah, I guess I'd like that. Do you find that after a stressful day you want to reach for a glass of wine? Like, yeah, I could see that. Do you like a beer during the weekends to celebrate? You find it easier to approach people in social environments if you've had a couple of drinks? Yeah, it probably takes the edge off after you say yes to 18 out of 20 of these questions. If you had said yes to two or more, like two or more, would.

[Gig Gangle]

They sell you a.

[Xavier Derusso]

Are you kidding?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. All right.

[Gig Gangle]

Four more years of that and I literally slit my wrist like, I can't do it anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, my God. EPA will empower community efforts to confront and overcome persistent pollution challenges in underserved communities that have often led to worse health and economic outcomes over the decades. $3 billion in the environmental and climate justice grants. 3 billion? 3 billion the B. You don't understand. If they'd ship that 3 billion out to California, we could have 8 foot more train track from Bakersfield to Merced. We really could have used that money for something.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

The weirdest thing that I can never figure out is we're simultaneously out of money and simultaneously have as much money to waste on anything as much as we can. Like, you literally go, we gotta get some of these schools in the deep San Fernando Valley air conditioning because it's 107 degrees sometimes in May and June. And people go, we don't have the money to put an air conditioner wall mount unit. That's like, we have $3 billion for the environmental Justice League. Like, why don't we have $186 for a window unit for the school in Pacoima?

[Gig Gangle]

It would make too much sense. I mean, one of my favorite pastimes is just going and seeing all the stupid things that our government spends money on. I recently learned that we are funding essentially a DEI Sesame street in Iraq. As if they're ever going to worship black, gay, obese, trans people in the way that America does. And we're just supposed to be okay with. That's where our money is going to. It's like it's constantly BS that we are spending all of our funds on. As if Flint, Michigan doesn't still have polluted water.

[Adam Carolla]

It is. You know, it was summed up very succinctly here. As I've brought up before, when Gavin Newsom was in here, I was like, gavin, I just want to start with the big stuff and get to the. And he goes, I like to work small to big. And I stop. I believe it now that my house is burnt down. But okay. But that's sort of their weirdness is they like this stuff and the infrastructure part, like the pothole filling part and the building dams and the clearing the forest, that's just boring shit. They didn't get elected for that. They got elected to make, like, big sweeping social changes. And that's why? Every speech is about being free to love who you want to love, but there's no pothole talk. Pothole talk, that's like your Dad's politician. That's like 50s guy, you know what I mean? Like, who the fuck they thought? So Kamala Harris was here to make sweeping social change in the fabric of America. Not deal with boring shit like aqueducts and clearing the fire brush in the forest and stuff. That's like. But it is kind of. We need mundane stuff. Like you have to be boring. Like, you want a boring politician who's just kind of like, clean up the garbage, clean up the graffiti, fill the potholes, crime. They're not into that. During these big sweeping social change, Barack Obama was like hope and change. It was all change. It wasn't maintenance based. You know what I mean? Whatever's going on with the water or the pipes or Flint, Michigan, or like I said, what is less sexy than managing the forest? You know what I mean? Like, when you go to your bullshit cocktail party, you think you want to talk to the Hollywood elite about clearing brush. That's boring shit. You want to talk about sweeping social change that you're enacting.

[Gig Gangle]

I mean, maybe the prior generations, but Gen Z is so over it. I feel like Gen Z, we are all just sick and tired of this talk of we want to make sure you feel good. We want to make sure everybody's happy and included. Some people need to be excluded. A little bit of exclusivity does a lot for people. It makes them, you know, reevaluate situations. And then when it comes to just like feeling good, in love with who you love, we're gonna do that anyway. Everybody's going to go and live their life the way that they want to at this point. Like, the reason that Gen Z is so over, particularly Gen Z males are so over this BS is because we want to talk about the fact that everything that should be accessible to us has become so unbearingly expensive that we no longer can get there anymore. We want to talk about the fact that, like, you know, I'm not afraid. I love to talk about environmentalism or climate change. You know, I'm very interested in that conversation. But let's actually have conversations that are relevant, such as, what are we doing to make it more feasible for us to be clean? What are we doing with nuclear energy? How are we actually going to address not having water? Like by the Palisades?

[Adam Carolla]

They don't want to. That's all nuts and bolts shit. And they don't want to care about it now. I know. But it defeats their arguments of good vibes. We have 18 seconds of Gavin Newsom on this show explaining he likes to work small. Big, very small. Well, I don't know about that. With huge socioeconomic issues, with generational poverty, there's a lot of others in government. Start big and then we'll get down to the small stuff.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I like sweating the small stuff and then getting the big stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

I think it's bottom up thinking, not top down.

[Xavier Derusso]

I know.

[Adam Carolla]

I know that you're gonna hear me gone.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, exactly. I know that.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, princess. We have a new retarded princess who wrote in on his retarded pony and has a horrible fucking idea. But by the way, to be fair to Gavin Newsom, he doesn't know what he's saying. He's just saying I like to work small to big. That doesn't mean anything. And by the way, from a governmental standpoint, that means you want to work on one stop sign at one intersection that's not by anyone's house versus big versus aqueducts and things like that. All right? He's a fucking retarded narcissist, which is weird. It's also weird that people put up with it.

[Xavier Derusso]

But anyway, retardcissist.

[Adam Carolla]

He's a retardcist. All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back. We'll do some news right after this. Oh, oh, oh. O'Reilly Auto Parts. Bam. You know the song, right? Mm. They're in the business of keeping your car on the road. O'Reilly Auto Parts offers friendly, helpful service and all the parts and knowledge you need to maintain and repair your automobile. Always been an O'Reilly guy. Used to go the one out in North Hollywood when I was over there. Then I moved to La Crescenta, went to the one up on Foothill. Still swing by there every once in a while because I'm a hands on guy. So whether you're a car aficionado or an auto novice, you'll find the employees at O'Reilly Auto Parts are knowledgeable, helpful, and best off, they're friendly because some of those auto parts guys can be a little tough around the edges. Stop by O'Reilly Auto Parts today or you can visit us@o'reillyauto.com Adam. That's O'Reillyauto.com Adam. Well, you want to start a business, your own business, a small business, and grow it this year? Let's do this. And now's the best time to start shopify is going to help you. I started a business and I use Shopify and I'm glad I did. Shopify makes it simple to create your brand, open for business and get your first sale. Get your store up and running. It's easy. And they've got thousands of customizable templates that can help you with all the details like shipping taxes, payments from one single dashboard, allowing you to focus on the important stuff like growing your business because you want to be freed up to grow your business, not burdened with the nickel and dime stuff. Let Shopify help you with that. With Shopify, your first sale is closer than you think. It's Shopify, right Dawson?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Jason Mayhem Miller]

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[Gig Gangle]

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[Gig Gangle]

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[Gig Gangle]

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[Jason Mayhem Miller]

In the spirit of Murrow, Jennings Cronkite, here's another great moment in local news.

[Adam Carolla]

We're playing Cars.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

All we heard was, like a big boom and.

[Adam Carolla]

And then we just were shook and.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

We were, like, paralyzed and we didn't know what happened. So we went outside and we were like, oh, there's a fire.

[Adam Carolla]

And then I went to go grab my dad's fire extinguisher.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

That's a great moment in local news. Now back to the Adam Carolla show.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, man, what's going on? I'm doing a bunch of shows coming up. San Luis, Monterey, and Napa. And I think San Luis got checked the order, Dawson. I think that's the order. Yeah, I think Monterey is. Monterey's got some tickets, but Napa and Santa Luis Obispo is going. So I think. And I think you got the order right there. But that's coming up February 28th, March 1st and March 2nd. All right, Xavier and Mayhem, you want to get going? A little news here.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, here's some news. We alluded to it earlier, but Kamala Harris made a Broadway cameo and dished up some of her classic word salad. Let's let the video speak for a second.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, she made her Broadway cameo.

[Xavier Derusso]

She did.

[Adam Carolla]

Because if you make a Broadway cameo now, you can do that in Van Nuys in your kitchen, right?

[Xavier Derusso]

I think so.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. We're getting real granular with verbiage. You know, Also, it's a R B band from the 80s or 90s.

[Xavier Derusso]

Oh, yeah, cameo Cam.

[Adam Carolla]

You must be hot for them.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, the Jam.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. Sorry. This is her. Oh, my goodness.

[Dawson]

But spirit's tired but cannot be defeated. Let anybody defeat that. Is that. What do we have left when we think about, like, these moments where we see things that are being taken, but also, let's see it as, you know, nature pours a vacuum. So where some. Where there's a vacancy, then let's fill it, right? And let's know that the. The reality is that the progress of our nation has always been about the expansion of rights, not the restriction of rights. We're seeing a A U turn right now for those rights to be maintained, which means we have to be vigilant. And it's just the nature of it. I mean, look what. I mean, this beautiful play and everything that we know, he was suppressed. He had to suppress so much, but who knew? And you know, he took those risks. But we have to. We have to be clear eyed. And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty in everything. Right. These things all coexist. But I believe we fight for something, not against something.

[Gig Gangle]

Thank you so much.

[Adam Carolla]

I just.

[Xavier Derusso]

They just cringe my balls inside.

[Adam Carolla]

She loves rights. She's all for the rights, but 10 minutes ago, her administration was trying to force everyone to get experimental vaccination against their will or get fucking shit canned from their government job or any job. So is she that into rights? I don't know. I feel like forcing people to be vaccinated, especially when it was something that didn't affect them. If you were young and you're healthy, forcing kids to get vaccinated when they didn't need vaccinations, would that be. What side of the rights argument are you on with that argument?

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, the Internet went buck wild on her. Calling her drunk and auntie vibes.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Also, listen, I gotta say something. There is a problem with too much positivity around you. Now, people think you can't have enough positivity around you, but a little negativity will keep you in the lane that you need to be in. And like I said, my friends when I grew up, one time I worked with a guy who was from Durango and his name was Kelly, and we installed closets, but he was in a band and he had black cowboy boots. And I thought they were kind of cool. And so I went out and I bought myself some black cowboy boots. And then the next Saturday night, I walked out with my black cowboy boots on. And my old friends from the neighborhood, I said, now we're going out. And I go, now those fucking boots, pussy. Take those fucking boots off. We're not going out with your fucking cowboy ass. No, you look gay. No, you're not doing it. They didn't nod their head and applaud. They made fun of me. And then I took the boots off and I never wore them again. So when she's given her speech, let's run her speech again, man.

[Xavier Derusso]

Do we have to?

[Adam Carolla]

But when she's saying something that's nonsensical, instead of everyone going, mmm, oh, yeah. Mm. They need mayhem. Yelling, what the fuck you talking about?

[Xavier Derusso]

Fuck you talking about, bitch?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, now let's weave it in. But this. But if enough guys stop going, like, I used to sit in an office with Jimmy Kimmel, I'd go, I got a real funny idea for a bit, you know? And then I'd pitch it to him and he'd go, that's not funny. I go, I thought it was funny. Yeah, well, no one else does. So moving on. If he just laughed hysterically, then I'd have a bunch of lame bits because there would be no vetting process. So she doesn't have a vetting process for her words because she only goes to friendly places and gives speeches. And everyone just goes, mmm, mmm, mmm. They should be. Well, let's try it.

[Dawson]

Everything that we know, he ended up. He was suppressed. He had to suppress so much. But he knew and you know, he took those risks. But we have to be clear eyed. And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty in everything.

[Xavier Derusso]

What the you talking about?

[Dawson]

But I believe we fight for something, not against something.

[Adam Carolla]

What does it even mean?

[Gig Gangle]

Thank you so much.

[Adam Carolla]

Go ahead. Come on, one more.

[Xavier Derusso]

What the.

[Dawson]

Everything that we know, he ended that he was suppressing. He had to suppress so much. But he knew and you know, he took those risks. But we have to be clear eyed. And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty in everything. Right? No, these things all coexist.

[Adam Carolla]

That's gobbledygook.

[Dawson]

But I believe we fight for something, not against something, obviously.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's good. I like bitch. I look a little more insulting, but that's. We can work on it. That's good.

[Gig Gangle]

Can I just say that listening to Kamala Harris has the same effect on the brain as a person with dyslexia trying to read, because it's like my.

[Xavier Derusso]

Brain just scrambled this. I felt like I had schizophrenia right then.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Gig Gangle]

I want to get drunk with her so bad. I would love to go get bottomless mimosas with her and just hear her say the dumbest shit and just gas her up. Because my toxic trait is when I'm talking to someone who's stupid and delusional, I will gas them up. I'm like, you know what we're about to do? What we're about to do. And what we're doing is what we have been doing. And the time is now to do what we should have did. I'm like, yes, queen. Go ahead, auntie.

[Adam Carolla]

You better go.

[Gig Gangle]

You know what?

[Adam Carolla]

We need another one.

[Gig Gangle]

Get her a guava mimosa. Right now?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. It's the process people versus let's do shit people. And the process people don't want to do anything. Like, Rick Caruso is a commercial developer who wants to do shit. And Karen Bass is a process person who wants to talk about shit. And that's. We shouldn't have process people in the we need shit done departments. We can't have them in that world. They don't work as football coaches or like offensive coordinators or mayors or presidents. They don't. And we somehow like it. Women like it more than men. They want to hear the talk over and over and go, oh, yeah, yeah. But nothing comes out the other end. And I think we're getting to the end of it, I hope. All right, what else you got? Mayhem.

[Xavier Derusso]

All right, moving on from Kamala. California under fire for $9.5 billion spending on health care for illegal immigrants amid a budget crisis.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but no one's illegal, Remember, no human's illegal. And everyone deserves access to world class health care.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah. California Democratic leadership is facing intense criticism as new reports reveal that the state is spending the 9.5 billion on health care for illegal immigrants. And that's why a lot of people in California are suffering. Emergency rooms are overflowing, creating dangerous wait times for patient. Hospitals are struggling to stay afloat because of the influx of illegal immigrants. Hardworking families find it difficult, increasingly difficult to afford their own health care despite paying some of the highest taxes in the nation.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they do this thing all timer. Like, these people do nothing but come and contribute and do the jobs Americans won't do. This is such bullshit.

[Gig Gangle]

A lie from the pit of hell.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree.

[Gig Gangle]

In my tiny little cornfield town, every single summer, there would be busloads of illegal immigrants who would come in and stay at this ghetto motel called the Palomar, and they would wreak havoc.

[Adam Carolla]

All you talk about Illinois when you guys moved out to the sticks.

[Gig Gangle]

Yeah, when we were out in the country, every single year, these illegal immigrants would come, they would tear up, like, our soccer fields that we would practice on. They would be doing all this crime. Like, I cannot express enough how pro mass deportation I am. And then every time I say that, people are like, oh, you're going to hell. Well, if I go to hell, at least I'll have the documentation to be there. Okay, you are illegal in this country. So, like, oh, like, no person's illegal. If you are not supposed to be here, then what else are you? Because let me go to Mexico or to one of these other countries and try to tell them how to run their country and tell them that they need to be giving me benefits.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's certain things. Like, I work with plenty of legal dudes doing construction my whole life. I work with dudes that had like six DUIs. And it's a culture thing. It's like in the world they're from. You knock off on a Wednesday at 3:30 and you pound a couple beers on the job site, you catch a buzz and then you get in the truck and you drive back to your old lady. You know what I mean? They're not. Culturally, that's where they're at. That's why they have so many DUIs, because it's like they're not like us culturally. They have. There's certain things that are different.

[Gig Gangle]

I'll call ice. I'll call ICE on all of them.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. So also, if Canada said we're building a border wall, would any of us be offended? I'd be like, it's their country, I hope. And would you want to anyone you knew? Like if there was somebody who you knew who just wandered into Canada and it's like, well, where's Brett? Well, he's in Canada. Oh, well now they found him and they're bringing him back, would you be outraged or would you just be like, yeah, I guess Canada has the right to have borders and laws and they're sovereign nation so they can do what they want. Why is everyone so fucking outraged when we do it? You know, wall, you can come here, you have to do it legally and lawfully, and then you can hang out here.

[Gig Gangle]

I mean, the analogy I give to people, it's like, okay, if you have a fence or a gate around your house, what is it that you're trying to do? And it's like you're just creating that extra barrier of safety and protection so random people aren't just sitting in your backyard. It's like, is that not the exact same thing? You don't have room at your table for every single illegal immigrant or every single person to come and eat dinner at your table. So why would we do that in our country?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, also, I mean, really, just think about the math. Like if there's a whole bunch of extra people here that are using the system, then yes, forget about the hospital rooms, Forget about the hospital rooms or the emergency rooms. Let's do it this way. Much easier to do. When I was young, you could go to the park on a Saturday and you could go use the baseball diamond or make a nice football field in the patch of grass in the middle. Whatever, you go there now there's 29 soccer games going on. You don't get the baseball diamond or the patch of grass because there's a whole bunch of illegals playing soccer and taking up the whole Fucking field. Now you can go. Those are noble people. Those are good people. Those are whatever. There's not an infinite amount of space at parks. There's not an infinite number of parks and baseball diamonds. If there's going to be a whole bunch of people here who like playing soccer, they're going to get there at 7:00 on Saturday. And when you and your white buddies roll up at noon, there's gonna be no field left for your ass. That's how it works. So it's not so different than the emergency room, which is if there's a bunch of people that are here and they just happen to get the emergency room before you, then you're gonna show up and you're gonna get behind them in line, and you're gonna have to wait for the baseball diamond or the soccer field. How else would this go?

[Gig Gangle]

I mean, that's literally what happened in my childhood when I say that these illegal immigrants would go and be playing soc. Trust me, I know they're illegal because a lot of them would get deported. They would go and play soccer on our football training field, and then we would ask them to move, and then they would say, can we just have 10 minutes?

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Gig Gangle]

Get your ass off of our grass. Go pick up the credentials that it requires to be here. And then I'll be a little less pissed off. But it's not like these people come over here and they're mindful to our system. They weren't mindful when they came here, so of course they're not mindful when they're here. I'm for proper immigration people having the credentials to be here. But don't piss me off and come over here with no birth certificate, no visa, no green card, and then have the audacity to tell us how to run our country.

[Adam Carolla]

How close were you to DeKalb, Illinois?

[Gig Gangle]

Not that far, I think. Like, I mean, the way I was driving, probably an hour.

[Adam Carolla]

The first college Drew and I ever went to was DeKalb in northern Illinois. And we didn't know what the fuck we were doing. They just booked us to play a college. I was like, what are we gonna do, Drew? Go up there and talk for a while.

[Gig Gangle]

No one knows what they're doing in Illinois.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know what's going on. But we got to DeKalb, Illinois, and I found out two things. They invented barbed wire in DeKalb. That's that. And the second is Cindy Crawford from DeKalb.

[Gig Gangle]

Very nice. American treasure.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah. But I kept saying to them, it's not where you're born, it's where you end up. She was born in DeKalb, Illinois, and left when she was 13 and never came back to DeKalb, Illinois. That's not a tip of the cap to DeKalb. That's a random. Where you're born is random. Where you move to now as an adult, that's you making a decision. So now she lives in Malibu. So Malibu should be bragging that Cindy Crawford decided to move into Malibu, not DeKalb, Illinois, bragging about Cindy Crawford's dad forgot to pull out 13 years ago. See what I'm saying?

[Xavier Derusso]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

So DeKalb quit bragging about the person that immediately left and is never coming back. I don't know. It's a weird brag. It's the person got old enough to buy a bus ticket and left. Yeah, that's not that. That means you have a bad city, not a good city. The good looking person wanted to leave.

[Xavier Derusso]

Well, they want to be proud about something.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they got barbed wire. They invented barbed wire. But then I explained to them, you know, did you really invent barbed wire? Because wire and barbs existed, you know, you just kind of made a peanut butter cup out of them. You don't think someone would have invented barbed wire? See, if DeKalb, Illinois invented barbed wire and if Cindy Crawford rests from there. But, man, you realize when you get out of Chicago, you get into the sticks, it gets pretty rural pretty fast out there. Right.

[Gig Gangle]

Everything in my town was about corn. Like we were the Corn Belt Conference. If you won a trophy, it was a golden corn cob. Everything was about corn in that town.

[Adam Carolla]

And they brought all the migrants or illegals in to do all the corn harvesting. Yes.

[Gig Gangle]

Every single summer, there would be like three busloads. The Palomar Hotel was the pit of hell. Every time that there was a murder in town, it either happened at Fell park, where the degenerates went, or Palomar Hotel or Motel, where all the illegals went. They even shut down one of the buildings and they still went and stayed there.

[Adam Carolla]

Joseph F. Glidden invented barbed wire in DeKalb, Illinois. Patent it 1874. Glidden was known as the father of barbed wire. Also, that could be confused with the person who played the dad of Pam Anderson in the 90s. Classic barbed wire.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

Because that also was the father of Barb Barbara Wire.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You know what's unfortunate about DeKalb, they have a corn festival and they do not call it corn on De Kalb.

[Adam Carolla]

You should be running for mayor of that place. Seriously, I could win with that. Cindy Crawford is also from DeKalb. Yeah. See, don't say I don't pay attention when you're talking to me about DeKalb, Illinois. I remember very well. And the other thing I remember, too, I'm from LA. This is 1998, 97. And at some point when you do these things, you do the whole event, but the student union wants to meet with you and have dinner with you. And they do, like, a little part where they pay you, and then you'd go talk in front of 3,000 students. But before that, there's a thing where it's like the student union and some of the leaders want to have you for dinner or some event that just for them take pictures and whatever. And we went to some old firehouse and something or doing some dinner or whatever, and they pulled a casserole out. And I'm from North Holland. I'm like, I haven't seen a casserole since 1973. Like, oh, we eat casserole here. I like casserole. I just haven't seen a casserole in 26 years. This is crazy. But it made me realize, oh, this is farm belt. This is casserole country.

[Gig Gangle]

That's so Midwestern. Everything can be a casserole in Illinois.

[Adam Carolla]

They shouldn't call it flyover country. They should call it casserole country because it's got alliterations like, what, dogs? Dawson was saying with the. Yeah, sorry, Casserole country.

[Gig Gangle]

I love good green bean casserole.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Gig Gangle]

It's a Pontiac delicacy.

[Adam Carolla]

No. Nobody should have ever fucked with the tuna casserole or the green bean casserole. Casserole was never broken. Why'd we get away from it? I mean, we're too snooty here in la. You don't want to lower ourselves. You know, we decided, oh, there's something called sushi and we should do that. No man casserole.

[Xavier Derusso]

Get some carbs.

[Gig Gangle]

Peak Caucasian culture is casserole. White people make the greatest casseroles. I will never even trust a black person's casserole. It has to be from the Caucus Mountains or I don't want it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, no, it is. It's white man's fare. We do casserole. Don't mess with us.

[Xavier Derusso]

And some celebrity news. Pete Davidson claims he was harassed about his love life because he's ugly despite dating Hollywood hot girls. The comedian former Saturday Night Live cast members candidly addressed it. He's been linked to A lot of prominent figures, including pop star Ariana Grande, TV mogul Kim Kardashian. And reflecting on the media's portrayal, he remarked, everyone is dating everyone. It's Hollywood. But because I'm ugly, they wrote about me. I was harassed for, like, five years, and it made my life a living hell.

[Adam Carolla]

Shut the hell up.

[Gig Gangle]

He. I'm sorry. It's like, okay, I'm so sorry. You got to date Kim Kardashian, Kate Beckinsale, and Ariana Grande. What did you think was going to happen when you dated some of the most prominent women in our entire nation? And now you want to sit here and play the victim? Like, oh, no. Like, I'm famous and people ask me questions. Shut the hell up. Why did you even become a public figure if that was something that you were going to moan about?

[Adam Carolla]

We're looking objectively. People like parody. They like, like, the guy has to be as good looking, and we like people to look somewhere in the same ballpark. Kate Beckinsale. Oh, man.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, you talk all you want about the Kardashians with Kate Beckinsale. That's good. And I don't know, is there anyone better looking over 50?

[Xavier Derusso]

Probably not.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, Kate Beckinsale's like 54 years old and still a smoke show.

[Gig Gangle]

Say, competing with Halle Berry is probably the only one I can think of.

[Adam Carolla]

Off the top of my head. No, you're right. You're right. Which goes to show that when you have the genetic hand, like the cut, I just call it a certain cut. Like, Halle Berry takes all these provocative pictures. Cause, like, you would, too, if that was just. You can age, you can get as old as you want. You're still gonna have that same shape. You know what I mean? Like Kate Beckinsale, 51. Halle Berry's, I don't know, 57 or 58. 58, but she still has that shape. And then you see chicks that are 14 that don't, you know, it ain't about the age. Yeah, yeah, it's about the cut. No, you, you know, crow's feet start kicking in and stuff starts, you know, hanging a little bit. But Halle Berry has a shape, and time is not gonna mess with her shape. It'll mess with some skin stuff and stuff like that. You know what I mean?

[Gig Gangle]

I mean, I know she's had some work, but even Jane Fonda is like a thousand. And she still looks good.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. And sounds sharper than ever. Yeah, genius, that one. Jesus Christ. All right, sorry. I think Henry. Wait, What? Fonda's coming on this show this week. Peter Fonda. They've got a.

[Xavier Derusso]

We got a Fonda in the.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, no. We got a Carradine. Sorry. We got a Carradine. The Carradines. The Fondas. We got it. All right. Sorry.

[Xavier Derusso]

Nah. Yeah. Davis comments shed light on challenges celebrities face with their private lives become public spectacles, often leading to unwarranted judgment and scrutiny.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but don't date super famous chicks.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

That's all.

[Gig Gangle]

Yeah.

[Xavier Derusso]

He just dated.

[Adam Carolla]

Easy to. Easy to do.

[Gig Gangle]

It's like people. It's because people benefit so much from playing the victim that he has just realized that it's the niche that he was going to go into for a long time. Because, I mean, Jay Z has been ugly as hell for a very long time. And he hasn't been complaining about being called ugly while dating Beyonce. He's up there looking like a live crustacean, but he's still happy with his life.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I don't know if his tentacle hair is working out.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah. Yeah. He does look like Davy Jones.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Yeah, I agree. So listen, like, Pete Holmes is cute. He's like Pete Davidson. I mean, Pete Holmes. Pete Davidson. Pete Holmes is cute on the ice, too. Pete. They're both comedians. Pete Davidson is cute and a kind of puppy dog. I'll kind of save you kind of way. And Jay Z is not. He's a little homely. There's such a thing as home. So they like Pete. And then once. But look, here's how women work. Women, it's the same. Look, handbags. What's the deal with handbags and women? Who needs a $20,000 handbag? If you see a $20,000 handbag and then you see some knockoff being sold on the streets of Manhattan, it's the same.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Same materials and everything. It's just not authentic. But what are we talking about? Other women want it, other women covet it. That's where the argument starts. And all you gotta do is get Kate Beckinsale to go around town with you for a while, then you guys break up. And then Kim Kardashian comes in because Kate Beckinsale is one of the most beautiful women in the world. And if she's with you, then I have the okay to be with you. That's how that works. And that's when the dominoes start falling.

[Gig Gangle]

They elevate you to a whole new tier, like the second Ariana Grande. And Pete broke up. I knew he was gonna be with a list of famous women. Yeah. Because he has to co sign now the stamp of approval. They have entire shows about people who've been divorced by their famous husband, the Real Housewives. Majority of these real are like basketball wives. Majority of these people aren't even married to the people who made them famous anymore. But they're still famous just because they used to get shacked up with some of these famous people. Like Shaq.

[Adam Carolla]

We got Jay Z and Joe Camel.

[Xavier Derusso]

Spot on. Oh, man.

[Gig Gangle]

And that's a flattering picture of Jay Z, mind you.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Xavier Derusso]

It's the most handsome day.

[Gig Gangle]

He's actually moisturized and hydrated that day.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. That's all right. But what about Chris Carter and Godzooki in the fake. No, but in the annals of a real celebrity person, Chris Carter, hall of Fame, Minnesota Vikings, just caught touchdowns. And Godzuki, who's Godzilla's son in the fake department. I mean, who's closer because who's closer to a creature that man just drew? I mean, although man didn't draw Godzooky. He was made, like out of styrofoam. But is Jay Z closer to Joe Camel or is Chris Carter closer to Godzooki?

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, I'm voting Godzooki all the way.

[Gig Gangle]

I gotta go Jay Z. I mean, you can't convince me this isn't the same image.

[Adam Carolla]

Back to Godzooki.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Have you ever seen Robert Parrish next to Calibus from Clash of the Titans?

[Adam Carolla]

No. Celtics Robert Parrish.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

No, Take that up. All right, Work on that. Got another story, man.

[Xavier Derusso]

Well, yeah. Saturday Night Live, we're talking about. Pete Davidson celebrates his 50 years and his rankings of the top cast members. I don't know if you have your favorite, but there's some highlights here.

[Adam Carolla]

Pete Davidson. Pete Davidson cannot be anywhere near that list.

[Xavier Derusso]

No, right. I mean, he's not on this list, that's for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, if you went top 2,000.

[Xavier Derusso]

I know. Yeah. He was a nice, like, bit player. He was like a. I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, he was the worst. He was. Yeah, he was amongst the worst on that.

[Xavier Derusso]

But he was the only guy who could play Rami Malek. They looked exactly the same. They did a funny bit where they were each other. All right, but some highlights from the top 30 year. Bobby Monahan from 2008. 2017. A lot of versatile characters and including the memorable drunk uncle. Yeah. Monahan's nine season tenor showcases ability to blend.

[Adam Carolla]

What number is she coming in?

[Xavier Derusso]

I mean, this is like just highlights from the top 30.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay.

[Xavier Derusso]

So they. Yeah, it didn't give me exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

I Think Moynihan would make that, but all right.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, I. I thought he had some good, good bits. And also on the Christmas special, he did, like a strain. He always had this funny song that he would do. Sherry O'Terry is from 95 to 2000. Jedla. Energetic performances, zany characters, a lot of highlights with her and Will Ferrell. I know Tracy Morgan, you know, he did the. Tracy Morgan played himself about. In every. Every sketch. Dude from 96, 2003.

[Adam Carolla]

They're more. Eddie Murphy did Tracy Morgan during the 50th anniversary. And then Tracy Morgan played Tracy Morgan or played somebody else.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Darius. He played a guy named Darius.

[Adam Carolla]

Played a guy named Darius. But Eddie Murphy does fun. Eh, Tracy Morgan's pretty good. Not as good as, like, Jay Morris and guys that really do it, but yeah, yeah.

[Xavier Derusso]

Mike Myers, of course, on the list, 89 to 95, you know, created Wayne's World. Gilda Radner is on there. One of the original cast members died young.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, like ovarian cancer. Maybe 48 or even younger. Maybe like 42 or something. Married to Gene Wilder.

[Xavier Derusso]

42, huh? Yeah, she.

[Adam Carolla]

She died. I went on a whole deep dive because I was watching a Gene Wilder doc, which I've seen before, but it's good. Gene Wilder was a real talent and did a lot of stuff. Willy Wonka and Young Frankenstein and all that kind of stir crazy and all that kind of stuff. And married Gilda Radner. And then Gilda Radner died at like 42 or something. 40. Young. 40, in her 40s. Yeah, for sure. And then. And then was it a whole. I went on a whole dive. I wanted to see when Marty Feldman died. Marty Feldman with the big bulging eyes. He died in 48.

[Xavier Derusso]

Damn.

[Adam Carolla]

And then the guy from Monty Python who died young also died at 48. Yes. Guild at 42. Yeah. Graham Chapman died at 48. And so Marty Feldman died at 48. And then, Dawson, looking at you, there was a famous Western actor and the reason his name was Gig Johnson or something. Gig was his first name. They wanted him to play the sheriff. No, they wanted him to play Gene Wilder's part. The Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles. Gig Young. Gig Young. He was a Western actor from back in the day. So I was like, what happened to Gig Young? John Wayne movies and stuff. There's a famous actor. I just went to his online. Gig Young got married and killed his wife, I think, on their wedding night. And then killed himself.

[Xavier Derusso]

Damn.

[Adam Carolla]

And didn't. Wouldn't get that much publicity. But that was a pretty bold Move for a famous guy to do back then.

[Xavier Derusso]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

He was a famous actor. He got an Academy Award. He was like, well known. I mean, he was well known enough so that when they did blazing saddles in 1975, Mel Brooks is like, well, we'll get gig. Young will do it. He hired him.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And it turned out he was drinking a little too much. And it wasn't up to the thing, but it's not like he auditioned or anything. He was a famous actor. Yeah.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Dawson, who did he kill? Did he kill his.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

He killed his 31 year old wife when he was 64, three weeks into their wedding.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, three weeks. And then killed himself. Yes.

[Gig Gangle]

Did he say why?

[Adam Carolla]

Or like, bitch couldn't cook. I. It's pretty crazy thing for a famous guy to do. If there was young wife. Yeah.

[Xavier Derusso]

I'd say. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Not even a month into the marriage.

[Gig Gangle]

Chris Benoit from wwe, remember that situation? That was traumatizing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. He won Academy Award. Won Academy Award for supporting. And they shoot horses, don't they? I guess in 1969. No suicide note, no anything. It was like an impulse buy. Was like, oh, we got into an argument with my bride of three weeks. Does it say three weeks on there?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, it says three weeks.

[Adam Carolla]

Bride of three weeks. Killed her.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

No motive.

[Adam Carolla]

Just killed her and then killed himself. And society moved right on.

[Xavier Derusso]

The honeymoon is over.

[Adam Carolla]

There wasn't any TMZ back then. It's just like, all right.

[Gig Gangle]

Or Wendy Williams.

[Adam Carolla]

Or Wendy Williams. Yeah, but that's pretty hairy.

[Xavier Derusso]

Also the gnarliest thing I've heard today. All right.

[Adam Carolla]

31 year old. 31 year old's like, what the. I think he was an alcoholic. I think this is an argument for not having a gun in your nightstand because I think there is no suicide note. There's no nothing. He was probably drinking and raging pretty hard. They probably got into a pretty big blowout and he just went and fucked, got the gun and shot her. And then once he shot her, he was like, no, now I got to go. Well, now I got to go. Yeah.

[Xavier Derusso]

Too easy.

[Gig Gangle]

I'm doomed.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so on that super positive note, Nightmare. All you GIG Young fans out there. Oh, let me. Let me see if I can cleanse everyone's palette. All right, Playmate of the year 1980. 79. 80. 81. Gig Gangle. You want to see a piece of ass Gig Gangle playmate Gig Gangle. Just to plant. Just to cleanse your palate in the negative Gig.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

This is going to be very positive gig.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, yeah, It's a nice gig economy.

[Adam Carolla]

And who knows where she got her name. Maybe after the famous Gig Young, but her name was Gig Gangle.

[Xavier Derusso]

Hey.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, hey. Oh. Just go to the COVID But I mean, you want to. Remember I was explaining earlier sort of how you're cut. She was cut very nicely.

[Gig Gangle]

Does she still look like that now?

[Adam Carolla]

I like to think I don't. Ask Pete Davidson. He's banging it. If you find the COVID of her Playmate of the Year. She did a spread. I think her and Burt Reynolds are on the COVID But there is a playmate named Gig Gangle who does not get her due when people talk about whatever. Oh, she is. Let's find me that cover. She is one of the hottest Playmates ever. You put it up there if you got it. Or any picture of Gig Gangle. I'll accept that. Yeah. There's Bert. There's Burt Reynolds. Gig gangle from 19. What year is that? 78. 79.

[Xavier Derusso]

I don't know. But ass standards have certainly changed because she is, you know, quite a flat one.

[Adam Carolla]

79. That's not a. That's only from your neighborhood. That's true. You grew up in a black neighborhood. It's true.

[Gig Gangle]

People are also just so used now to people, to girls filling up their asses with cement.

[Adam Carolla]

Find another good shot of Gig Gangle. And that was her name as far as I knew.

[Gig Gangle]

This is the America that I need Trump to bring back.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, this is uncultural speech. I totally agree. See how happy Burt Reynolds was with Gig Gangle? All right, one more picture Gig Gangle, and we'll go out on top. You guys can just Google image.

[Xavier Derusso]

Yeah, let's see those Gangles again.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, let's see. All right. Oh. Oh, yeah, man.

[Xavier Derusso]

Gangle. Gangle.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a good looking woman right there.

[Xavier Derusso]

A couple of good ganglers right there. Yeah, I gotta tell you, I'm all gangled out.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so there's your happy gig. Xavier, let me give you a plug and tell people to check out your YouTube show. Respectfully, Xavier, that's available on YouTube. Also PragerU stuff. How can we find out about you on Prageru?

[Gig Gangle]

Yes, head to prageru.com we are a 501c3 nonprofit. Please make a tax deductible donation to keep all our videos free. And then I'm on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, et cetera. All Xavier. Twitter's XavierD. Can't get that username.

[Adam Carolla]

You can go to AdamCroll.com for all the live shows coming to a town near you. And until next time, this is Adam for Xavier, Mayhem and Gig. Thanks for having me, Mahala.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You can leave us a voicemail at 888-634-1744 and get tickets to see the Ace man at AdamCorola.com.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Gig Gangle]

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[Gig Gangle]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Gig Gangle]

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