Michael Rosenbaum on Smallville, Gino Vannelli on Yacht Rock & E.T.’s Million-Dollar Sotheby’s Auction

Summary

Podcast Summary: Adam Carolla Show featuring Michael Rosenbaum, Gino Vanelli, and E.T.’s Sotheby’s Auction

Release Date: March 31, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of The Adam Carolla Show, host Adam Carolla engages with former Smallville star Michael Rosenbaum and legendary yacht rocker Gino Vanelli. The conversation delves into Michael's breakthrough role, the intricacies of acting in a long-term TV series, Gino's illustrious music career, and concludes with a discussion on E.T.’s iconic model auctioned by Sotheby's.

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Interview with Michael Rosenbaum on Smallville

[03:19] Michael Rosenbaum Joins the Show Adam welcomes Michael Rosenbaum, known for his portrayal of Lex Luthor on Smallville, reminiscing about their past collaborations.

Breakthrough Role and Audition Process Michael shares his journey to landing the role of Lex Luthor:

• Confidence Boost: After an initial intimidating audition setup, Michael recalls, “I felt more confidence than I've ever felt in my life” ([09:27]).
• Shaving for the Role: Discusses the rigorous process of shaving his head for authenticity, stating, “It's like Mach 3 shaving my head... It was a two and a half-hour process every day” ([10:00]).

Balancing Character Traits Michael explains the challenge of embodying Lex Luthor by combining being dangerous, charismatic, and funny:

• “I circled, I'll be dangerous here. I'll be charismatic here,” he notes ([08:24]).

Work Ethic and Early Mornings The conversation shifts to the demanding work schedule on set:

• Michael and Adam discuss the difficulties of waking up early for filming, with Michael humorously stating, “I have to smack myself in the face just to get myself going in the morning” ([11:13]).

Humorous Banter on Physical Attributes A light-hearted segment ensues where Adam and Michael debate the correlation between physical attributes:

• Notable Quote: Adam muses, “I think they like what it's conveying... Maybe it's advertised. Maybe the reason they're attracted to it is the advertisement” ([19:29]).

Realtors and Home Shopping Frustrations Adam vents about his experiences with realtors struggling to remember crucial details about high-end homes:

• “If he can remember that the slab is 63 by 126... Why can't you remember 2250 square feet?” ([45:30]).

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Conversation with Gino Vanelli on Yacht Rock and Music Career

[61:23] Introducing Gino Vanelli Gino joins via Zoom, sharing insights from his music career and the resurgence of yacht rock.

Meeting Herb Alpert and Landing a Record Deal Gino narrates his serendipitous encounter with Herb Alpert:

• Synchronicity: “I ran back to the... and then Herb said, just a minute, Johnny. He summoned me over,” recounts Gino ([72:09]).
• Touring with Stevie Wonder: Describes touring with Stevie Wonder and performing on Soul Train:
  • “I was staying at the Hallmark Hotel, and I started hearing my song wafting through the air... I grabbed his arm... he said, welcome to the family” ([72:05]).

Songwriting and Musical Influences Gino discusses his songwriting process and influences from R&B and Motown:

• “The writers of the 50s and 60s were extremely good... good lyrics, good melodies, good parts, good arrangements” ([78:18]).

Authenticity vs. Trends in Music He contrasts authentic musical expression with trend-following genres like disco:

• “If you go back and you look at that album, there's an authenticity to that record... but everything other than that was not authentic” ([88:16]).

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News Segment: E.T.’s Million-Dollar Sotheby’s Auction and Other Highlights

[97:13] E.T.’s Original Model Auctioned at Sotheby’s The hosts discuss the auction of the original E.T. model used in Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic:

• Auction Details: Expected to fetch between $600,000 and $900,000, one of three made for the movie.
• Notable Quote: Adam humorously states, “Nerds are the rich ones now... They love all this stuff” ([106:08]).

[110:00] Incident at Smith College Adam expresses frustration over a reported incident involving a noose at Smith College:

• Event Summary: A student, Amou Kanute, was accused of staging a hate crime by placing a noose in a cafeteria.
• Adam’s Commentary: He criticizes the handling of the situation, asserting, “Everybody who snapped into action and put their fucking boot on everyone's neck during COVID... now we're going to have dudes to rebuild it” ([113:00]).

Governor Initiatives for Boys and Men Jason Mayhem Miller reports on Democratic governors initiating programs to support boys and men:

• Details: Governors like Ned Lamont and Gretchen Whitmer are focusing on increasing young men's enrollment in education and skilled training programs.
• Adam’s Take: He sarcastically remarks, “Now the Democrats have to pretend to give a shit about young dudes” ([100:10]).

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Closing Remarks and Final Banter

The episode wraps up with the hosts sharing humorous exchanges about societal issues, personal anecdotes, and promoting upcoming events and products. Adam emphasizes the importance of real men in society, critiques cultural trends, and highlights the need for practical skills over theoretical knowledge.

Notable Quote: Adam passionately states, “You need dudes... to rebuild it when shit's gonna break” ([105:28]).

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Conclusion

This episode of The Adam Carolla Show offers a blend of insightful discussions on acting and music careers, interspersed with Adam’s trademark humor and candid takes on societal issues. From Michael Rosenbaum’s experiences on Smallville to Gino Vanelli’s journey in the music industry, listeners are treated to engaging conversations that balance depth with entertainment.

Transcript

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[Gino Vanelli]

From Corolla 1 Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, actor Michael Rosenbaum and yacht rocker Gino Vanelli. Plus the news and trending topics with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now, if he could fly, he'd pick you up. He'd also make sure there were dogs on the flight. Adam Corolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Get it on Got to get it on no choice but to get a mandate get it on Michael Rosenbaum, back in studio. It's been too long. Good to see you, my friend.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You pay for that song.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, I know Dickie from the Boss Tones, so what does that mean?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You get a discount?

[Adam Carolla]

I, you know, if you really. I know you. You play music and it's interesting. Some people own their own publishing and they can just give it to you. Some don't.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And then others don't own their own publish like the guys from Blues Traveler. But. But if they're really cool like, like they are, they will go, we'll just re record the song and then you can have it.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, like Taylor Swift doesn't own her shot.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah. So they re recorded that.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think so.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't know her name either.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

She gave me love.

[Adam Carolla]

Taylor Swift can just go recreate her album again.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

Which is weird.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Weird.

[Adam Carolla]

It's weird.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It sounds the same. I was trying to listen to like the Fix. Remember the band the Fix.

[Adam Carolla]

Sure. One thing leads to another. Whatever. Saved by Zero. Saved by Zero.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Saved by Zero.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

And I was playing on whatever shop. Shopify. Can you, can you do that on Spotify?

[Adam Carolla]

They got the Ring Doorbell network.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I've been plugging them so often. I know, but I heard their song and I was like, this doesn't sound. What the hell they do this song? It was a rerecord.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, it's just not. Never as good.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll tell you what, I'll get you. Or they used to do like. Like you'd be at the car wash and there'd be a cassette. It'd be the best of the Temptations. And you go for $4. $4 and soon as you plug it in. Especially because I have a weird ear and hyper vigilance. I'm like, something's off. Initially it's the same songs re recorded by the guys because Columbia Record owns all the masters, but they don't record it at A and M Records with Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound. They have one guy in a Casio and then the lead singer from the Temptations. And it sounds tinny. Re recording a song, it sounds tinny.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And weird, you know, legging his own shit.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Did you return it for $4?

[Adam Carolla]

I gotta say, ever since I got rich, I've never returned to anything ever.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know, I, I'm not as rich as you, but I'll return shit just on pizza.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I ain't rich at all. Just never.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know, like, like if I ordered grubhub and someone just shit in a McDonald's bag and just gave it to me, I'd go in the kitchen and go, well, what are you gonna do?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Well, I just, I just had somebody, I ordered shoes and they gave me two right footed shoes. Maybe, swear to God in my life. And so I didn't have a receipt, I didn't have anything but this. They go, well, why don't you wear the shoe? It took me a month. And I go, well, cause I bought these other ones and they fit so perfectly that I bought a blue pair but you sent me to.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well you're gonna send those back around in a circle.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, and then you got to pay for the shipping. And I'm like, I'm not paying for the shipping.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe they were implying you couldn't dance.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe that was, maybe that's intentional. Like this guy, have you seen this guy try to move?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

He's going to kick right boots.

[Adam Carolla]

By the way, the podcast Inside of you with Michael Rosenbaum is. And the website you can go to www.inside of you podcast.com Also, I guess people know you from this. Lex Luther from Smallville and Guardians. That was the break I was at the big. That was the big break.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I did a lot of other stuff like Urban Legend and some movies and things like that, but. And some failed TV shows. But Smallville was the first time I actually called my parents and I said, I think things are going to change a little bit.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, it's iconic character and like you killed it. Like you made that character your own. Because that character has been other places. But you know, I don't know, it struck a chord with me.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Thanks a Lot of people, you know, it was. It was a great role. And, you know, when I first got it, I. No one who knows me thought, you're going to get this role because I'm just a goof. And, you know, and they're like, you know, I'm auditioning for Lex Luthor. I'm meeting for that. And they didn't take it seriously. And then I remember my agent said, hey, you're going in. They've seen 700 guys, and they can't find their guy. I go, all right, well, why don't you ask him what 700 guys are doing wrong? That's what I said. I didn't care. And I was like, it's on the wb, which became the cw. I. I thought it was going to be some cheesy show. I didn't. So they said, no, it's going to be serious. And they. They want you to be dangerous. They want you to be charismatic, funny. Like three different things that all kind.

[Adam Carolla]

Of compete with each other. Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

And I had three pages of dialogue, so I circled, I'll be dangerous here. I'll be charismatic here. And that's what I did. And I went in the audition, and it was one of those things where you hear, where when you don't care, you'll. You'll get it. And I walked in there, and the casting director had this chair set up, and I go, oh, no, I'm gonna stand. She goes, well, I have the lighting all set up for this. I go, could you change it? I really want to stand. Lex Luthor wouldn't sit. So she goes, she was pissed. And I was like, oh, she hates me. I went out for 10 minutes and I came back in, and I just felt more confidence than I've ever felt in my life, which I'm always a nervous wreck about things. And then they called me. Two weeks later, they called my agent. My agent says, wow, you were great. They want you to come back in for the network and studio. And I said without a. Even a pause. I said, nah. What do you mean, no? I'm not a star. I'm nobody. I go, I'll never be that good in that audition. You tell them to rewind that tape.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

And he goes, you're gonna lose this job. And a couple weeks later, they called back and they said, you got the part.

[Adam Carolla]

They love you.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

They love it. If you really mean it, they can have Snow's yes. You know, but when it's a real no. And it really was, and I was. Then I was scared I was like, oh my God, I, what am I gonna do? And then I shaved my head that one day in the trailer. And then all of a sudden I felt weird, you know, because I had hair my whole life and I was just this young, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

Did they tell you to shave your head?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

No, I shaved it when I got the part.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but did they say Lex Luthor?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, yeah. They say, we're shaving his head. We're not giving you a ball cap. And I said, okay. And I thought in my feeble mind that it would, I would have at least a little hair. I'd be buzz cut or something. No, it's like, it's like Mach 3 shading my head. It's, it is then three layers of makeup to shade out so I don't have any hairline. And so I didn't realize it was going to be a two and a half hour process every day. And I got them down to about an hour and 15 by the end of the series. But yeah, could you imagine? Sometimes it was six. I mean, look, poor me. I got paid a lot of money and it was, it was a great role. But if the crew calls 6:00am I'm there at 4.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, yeah. People don't realize the hours. The hours are tough, man. I hate it.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Especially the older you get. You don't, you don't like, I don't like. Who likes long hours?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you know what it is? It's, it's my, it is. My kryptonite is an early wake up. I've never got used to it. I'm right back in high school and the alarm goes off and I'm like, oh, same thing, you know, Now I'm old and I'm on the road and I gotta meet the guy in the lobby and we got an early flight. The alarm goes, oh, yeah, anxiety, fatigue.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't, I have to smack myself in the face just to get myself going in the morning. It takes, I'm looking at my watch now. I don't have one, but it's like it is still early for me. And what is it, 12:30?

[Adam Carolla]

You, by the way, can, if you say to me, look, you gotta get up at 5 on Friday and be in at the. Whatever. You've now ruined the whole week for me. I will just think about Friday wake up call. Like, it's so sad. The people, okay, I want to know if they're the same people. There's like a small subsection of people who like working out. They like it, you know, What I mean, and now it's not the, oh, I feel better after I've worked out. So I do it. No, it's. I like working out.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't believe it.

[Adam Carolla]

Dr. Drew's one of those guys, he's like, I like working out. Oh, Mayhem. One of those assholes. There's also a subset of people who like getting up early. And they do. And also, you know, they are that because I did morning radio and morning radio. Get up at 4:45. That's your whole fucking living. And by the way, it gets really depressing when you talk to people, like at a party or something, they go, what do you do? I go, I'm doing morning radio. What time does that start? And I go, 6am and they go, what time do you have to get up at nine, bitch. Like, yeah, before six. You know, before sex. Because it starts at six. And they go, what time do you have to get up? And I go, I don't know, like 4:45. And they go, I would kill myself.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm doing it tomorrow. But it was brutal. But most morning show guys go, well, I do the morning, so I get up at 4:45. So when Saturday comes around, I mean, I'm lucky if I make it to 5:30, maybe 6. I'm like, I'll go to fucking noon on Saturday. Like, I'll go right back into bear mode. Yeah, no problemo.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't know, you said a second ago about loving to work out. I don't believe those people. I believe that. What I do believe, well, there's.

[Adam Carolla]

There's this many of them. There's three of them in the United States.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Well, what I do believe is that once you work out afterwards, you got through it. You feel like, hey, I did something today. There's a sense that's accomplishment.

[Adam Carolla]

No, that's.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

That's normal.

[Adam Carolla]

That's awake. Go.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I'm gonna wake up at six and I'm gonna lift heavy weight.

[Adam Carolla]

You know who they are? No. They're all the fucking swimmers. All the. I gotta be in the pool by 5:45.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I fought five men before I came here. And I feel great right now. You do, but I'm not. Yeah. Hopping in the pool at 6am no, thanks.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, okay. Who is there a smaller. Okay, there's three assholes. There's the. Oh, no, I'm going to add four. Four. I'm going to add four. All right, there's the. I love waking up early. I just do. I just. That's my clock. And then you go, I go to bed drunk at 3. 3 in the morning. I'll still wake up at 5:30. I'm like, you wake not fucked up or what? I just naturally get up. I know, I know, but you went to bed drunk at three. Yeah, I just naturally get up at five. Okay, okay, we hate that guy. Hate that guy. Hate that guy. Then there's the I genuinely love working out guy. Yep, I hate that guy. Then there's the I don't really care for food guy. Like, I'm just not really into food. Like, I'll eat, but I'm not really. I don't really like food that much. Like, I don't care. I'll eat some cottage cheese and raisins for dinner. Like, I don't. We don't have to go to a steakhouse. Like, I don't really care about food. Now. These are small percentages, but they're out there.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Hate that guy.

[Adam Carolla]

Hate that guy. Fourth is, I've never drank. And then you go, you had a problem like back in the. No, I just, just, just never. It's not my thing. And I like, I tried a beer once. Yeah, not for me. And I go, I know, but you didn't drive your car through an orphanage or anything. When you're shit face. And they go, nah, I just don't care for the test. All right, who do we hate more? Let's. Let's rank. Rank them. You gotta rank them.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know, at least the guy that doesn't drink isn't an idiot. Like, you know, buffoon fucking your day up. Like, gets ridiculously drunk. The guy, the food guy, it's like, oh, great, then I'll eat whatever I want. You'll fucking eat whatever I'm having or wherever I'm going.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. You know, then, well, I'll eat some of your food.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

No, I don't like that.

[Adam Carolla]

No, when you order, I know I had friends that were light, you know, and when you go out to eat with them, at some point they just pushed a plate. Like, there's still 17 fries and half. Half a quesadilla there, you know, like, that's where you reach over the table, right? Yeah, yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

But I'd say the workout guy, people I love, I love lifting, love pumping.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Dude, I'm all in on the guy who wakes up early in the morning and loves it.

[Adam Carolla]

You love it.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

No, fuck that guy. How do you do that? Like, the natural biological clock is not before.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I got to tell you, Trump is two of these things. He is Trump. Is he sleeps three hours a night guy. And never drank. Just because he's just never, never drank. Yeah, you know what I mean? He's too.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

And the food.

[Adam Carolla]

He's not the food.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't care.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I mean, he doesn't. Most billionaires don't eat at Arby's. You know what I mean?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

But that's a shame.

[Adam Carolla]

You want to live in that world.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

No, no.

[Adam Carolla]

I would argue that fast food, it's like saying that guy's so rich. You know, like when a super successful actor gets caught with a street walker prostitute, you know, go, he can afford a high class. I know, but once in a while you want that. He wants the fast food, you know, McDonald's, you know, in n out burger is in and out burger. I don't care what they're. They don't have a Michelin. Right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I think that's true. You could have the most beautiful girl. You hear about this all the time. These guys, these big actors, whatever, have the hottest girl on the planet. But deep down he's watching fat porn.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know what I mean? Like, but it's a different kind of fat. Like it's like, you know, it's like just tatted out. It's like a sister and brother in law.

[Adam Carolla]

It's like dark weird stuff. Like in. I think it was Rocky 3 where Apollo took him back to the streets. You know what I mean? Took him back to the gym. You know, kept it real. You've been too pampered for too long. Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You need to go back to fast food.

[Adam Carolla]

Back to fast food. Back to horse, sixty dollar hoes.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, man, I, you know, sometimes, you know, they say it just cleans you out. It's good for the body. I mean, fast food, fast food.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, let me. I was in the shower last night thinking on this. You said, oh, I hate fat guy. I hate that guy. The shower thing.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Shower guy.

[Adam Carolla]

I really want to get to the bottom of this. I think about guys who like women with a big ass. The big ass guys, right now, the brothers like the big ass guys. You don't see like the Asians or the Jews like a big bulbous, you know, ass. And then I, many years ago, I decided that the guys who like the big asses have the big dicks. Because what are you gonna do with that if you have a micro penis? Like, honestly, what is that?

[Latasha Brown]

Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Cause it looks even smaller.

[Adam Carolla]

It's like a toddler driving a Winnebago. Yeah. Like he can't see over the dash, you know? What? I mean, like, how's it gonna work? You know? And then as I was in the shower last night, thinking about, like, who are the big ass guys? I thought, big hog guys and the brothers. That's a good theory. And then my next one is, I think they like the advertising of their big dick. Cause if I see a chick with a big bulbous ass and a guy with his arm around her and they're, like, walking down the boardwalk, I go, look at that. Oh, he's got a big hog. He's got a big. Then you start looking for the pledge. You know, I immediately think, that guy's got a big unit. And so maybe it's advertised. Maybe the reason they're attracted to it is the advertisement. You know, What's a Rolex? For seeing what time it is or telling people. Telling people who the fuck you are. Right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I gotta admit that.

[Adam Carolla]

Is that a Rolex? I bet a Rolex would be a snug fit on that guy's hog.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't know what it is. But in the later years, I never liked larger butts. But I am attracted to larger butts sometimes. I mean, if I see a girl with a great butt and it happens to be a little bigger than. I'm sort of like, wow, that's, bro.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I'm all in. My neck will break.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What I don't like is the fake butts.

[Adam Carolla]

That's weird to me. You know what?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't understand how you could put a fake ass in your ass.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Hey, bud, don't knock it till you try it. You have that? Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It's gotta feel, like, pretty nice.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's gotta feel weird.

[Adam Carolla]

Nope, it doesn't.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What is it? What is it?

[Adam Carolla]

They.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

They. Okay, they jam a bunch of new fat in their butt, all right? Then they put on some Spanx to mold that thing. And then they just hang out like that for a while till it solidifies. Now you got robot ass, but it looks fake.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I could spot a fake ass.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You think? Sometimes you can't.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Like, for instance.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, let me explain. It's like gaydar, but you don't know the ones that make it under your gaydar. You know what I mean? Like, you don't know the asses you don't spot.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

The best ones are ones that you can't even tell, really. I know they're out there, man. They started with makeup, and now they're moved on. We have the technology.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I just saw a celebrity.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm with you, by the way. Michael. You don't like them.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I'm telling you guys, you won't even know.

[Adam Carolla]

I know.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Pleasing to them.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What are you talking about? I. I recognize them all the time. If I went up to them, I'd bet a million dollars it's a fake ass.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well, I know, but the ones that you like and don't know. Yeah. Got right through there. You don't even know why you like it. It's gonna Genesee quoi until you know her plastic surgeon.

[Adam Carolla]

You cage fighters and all your French.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's. Yeah, I. I just.

[Adam Carolla]

They don't like a friend now.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't like when you could feel like fakies. I don't mind fake kitties. I don't mind them. See, I don't mind them if it's like, if. Unless you start to feel the. The fakeness and the heart. If you could, like, trampoline off of them. I don't. I don't think that. That's. That's right. You like each his own, her own.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't mind a bulbous ass.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't mind a big butt. And I cannot lie.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. These other brothers. Can't deny your face.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You get frung.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. Would it be out of line for me to hire a butt model, a large butt model, to walk around with me through the Burbank Mall to put guys on notice that Corolla's got a big hog.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Hey, that probably would do something I.

[Adam Carolla]

Would say to her. Now, look, this is gonna sound creepy, but you're not gonna have to disrobe or anything. I just need you to kind of play my girlfriend while I do a few victory laughs around this. And the other guys are like, get the word out.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Check out dog Carolin. Yeah, yeah, he's Corollin.

[Adam Carolla]

And you don't even. I don't think it's a conscious thought. It's just when you see a chick with a big ass and you see a dude with his arm around, you're like, big hog. But it's not even the top of mind.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It's just.

[Adam Carolla]

You assume.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I never thought that. But, you know, it's. I. You're probably. There's some truth to that, because you can't go in there with, like, a little, you know, Q tip and just be like, oh, yeah, that big jar. I mean, look at me.

[Adam Carolla]

Can't park a Miata in a blimp hanger.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

No, you can't. I mean, you can.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, you could try.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Unless you have 50 miatas. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm saying I think if you just had the Big ass. Here's my experiment. You ready? All right, let's just. Let's pick. Let's pick a guy.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Okay?

[Adam Carolla]

Let's. And it won't be Matt Damon. Matt Damon. But just a dude who's like Matt Damon s about that height, about that build, you know, that age.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Sam Rockwell.

[Adam Carolla]

Sam Rockwell.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Good looking guy.

[Adam Carolla]

Great looking guy. Great actor, right? But we don't. In this scenario, he's not Sam Rockwell. He's just a dude. He's an average white Cockwell.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Sam Cockwell.

[Adam Carolla]

He's an average white dude, right? Okay. And we took that average white dude and we put him with like a skinny ass, skinny ass chick, right? We put him in the Lululemons and we put the, like the skin like skinny Asian ass. You know what I mean? Just skinny ass. And we had him.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Or a skinny Jewish ass could be skinny Jewish. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Asian tradition. Okay, look, let's not muddy the watershed. Skinny ass, skinny ass. And you had him just do a lap around the mall. And we just have dudes hanging back and looking. Then you took that same dude and you put him with the big round ass and had him do a lap and then came back and you said, okay, which time Mark the guy's cock size when the works bucks by the first time and then by the second time mark that it would always be bigger. For the big ass ass. It would be bigger.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I'm gonna agree with you there. Yeah, I really, I really have to agree with him there. It's a legitimate point. It's.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think anyone really likes a huge ass. They like what it's conveying.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What is it conveying? Like a big.

[Adam Carolla]

I got a big dick Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. I don't know if you knew this, but anyone can get the same Premium Wireless for 15amonth plan that I've been enjoying. It's not just for celebrities.

[Latasha Brown]

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[Adam Carolla]

One of your assistant's assistants switch you to Mint Mobile today. I'm told it's super easy to do@mint mobile.com Switch upfront payment of $45 for three month plan equivalent to $15 per month. Required intro rate first three months only, then full price plan options available, taxes and fees, extra fee, full [e-mail]. well, does anyone need like, like you see like the Lamborghini SUV and it's 300 grand and it's a fucking pain in the ass. And does anyone need, you know, showcasing your Ford Explorer fucking XL with the leather interior? It's all you really need. But you're telling everyone, here's who I am.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Sure. Or maybe if you're driving a $300,000 car or you're, you know, maybe it's because of the opposite. The opposite reason.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that. I'm not saying they have a big car.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm saying you get out of the Lambo with your Rolex and your fat ass, bitch, and everyone goes, that guy's rich with a huge cock. Now, it could be a fake Rolex and it could have leased a Lambo. You know, he could have rented it for the day.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

But that's what we think, and that's why these guys need a big ass.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I had no idea we were going to talk about this.

[Adam Carolla]

I didn't either. I'm sick about the shower last night.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, I know, but your theory, you know, guys that have big ones probably gravitate towards girls with bigger butts because they feel like they could.

[Adam Carolla]

If you walk to a guy, if you walked in a guy's, like, workout room in his. In his home, and you saw kettlebells there and you didn't know the guy, but all you saw was kettlebells that were like 50 and up weight wise, you'd go, oh, I bet this dude's a monster. Like, you just see it and you go, that guy's got to be a big guy. It's the same kind of thing. It's let. It's letting the world analogy. It's letting the world know who you are. I don't know. You could be £80 pound. 80 pound weakling. But I'm seeing the kettlebells. That's all. All right. That's all.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I'll concur.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, I got another subject for you. I want to hear it, and I really want to know this. I was. I'm. I'm displaced because of Malibu, the fire. Oh, Malibu. That's right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

That's all right. So it sucks.

[Adam Carolla]

It does suck.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It really sucks.

[Adam Carolla]

It. It sucks. But just like Rocky going back to the streets, that's me. You know, I had the lavish home and all the amenities and the view and the whole thing, and now it's just like, you know, duplex and Burbank, you know, it's fucking 80s shitty cabinetry and stuff, you know, I'm back.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

There's no tomorrow.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm back to the gym.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

There is no tomorrow.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Look, we'll do tomorrow. I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

And that scene when I walked into the bad duplex in Burbank was Like when Rocky went back to the gym and the streets, you know, and all the brothers are working out like eyeballs ball. And I'm like, I was Corolla, what the are you doing here? It's like I'm taking it back to the streets and I got my. With my big. The big ass, you know, So I kind of got.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You got Stallone, his brother singing in the back. Take it back, take it back.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's got a trash can. Yeah, it's the middle of July.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Working out in the old gym in Burbank.

[Adam Carolla]

He's hot, dude. So. All right, now here's the question needs to be answered, all right? The on Fridays, I'm fucking back on the street now. So the for the fucking garbage man is me, me, me. Because it's a bunch of. I'm used to being at the end of the cul de sac up on the hill. Fucking garbage guy, do what you want. I'm a mile away from you now. It's just all fucking starts at 7 in the morning, you know, Nothing, nothing wakes you like pneumatics, you know what I mean? It's a weird pump with the pneumatic, you know, it's a trash can. Did you guys see Full Metal Jacket? Of course. All right, when the commanding officer, when the DI was waking everyone up in the morning, what did he use? A trash can.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

He took a wooden spoon and went bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. He used. It's an instrument to wake people up. It really is. It's like the loudest fucking thing is the trash can and the pneumatic arm.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

And this happens how often?

[Adam Carolla]

It happens every Friday.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You're here.

[Adam Carolla]

No, no, it happens at 7.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's that early. I don't know whether.

[Adam Carolla]

See, here's the thing, okay? Now the question then, that's Friday. On Wednesday, it's leaf blower at 7am.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Now that drives me crazy.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm laying in bed, I'm talking, and then I say, wait a minute, kill me now. I said, cut me.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Come me, Kill me.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I say, look, these gardeners, they don't work from 7am to 8am and then go home. They go to another job. They're a gardener all fucking day. They work, presumably. I used to work in the trades, you know, you work 7 to 3:30, basically some somewhere they have to show up at 2 or noon.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

House 7.

[Adam Carolla]

Why is it wherever I live, it's always fucking 7am Girls, we're gonna go.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Start with Corolla's house and move on. What do you guys think, yeah, let's do it.

[Adam Carolla]

And what about the trash guys? You think they work for an hour a day? That's they got to pull up somewhere at noon. They're trash guys. They're going all day. They don't work from 7 to 8 at my house and then, and then go home. They gotta go somewhere.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I never, I never thought that. I always hear the same thing on Thursdays. It's like 6:37 in the morning. I hear the garbage trucks and I'm like, now that I think about, I'm like, why can they have started with the Johansson's neighborhood?

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

How about 8:30, 8?

[Adam Carolla]

You have to have like a route.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what I mean? You don't, you don't do Burbank and Santa Monica. You have to do, there's lots of.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Different, you know, they're all getting started.

[Adam Carolla]

No, you don't do one house in Burbank and go to the next house in Santa Monica.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

You do the Glendale, Burbank. In that area, you do that run and then at some point I guess you got to make a dump run, I guess got to be. But at some point you have to come back. Meaning I will. Look, if you interviewed a garbage man and you said, how much do you work? They wouldn't go five hours a week. I work an hour a day. Right, Just Corolla's house and wherever he moves to. Yeah, we followed him from Malibu displaced.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

So we followed him. Why did you feel at home?

[Adam Carolla]

They have to work from 7am to 4 every day. They work every day like they work 40 hour week. So they gotta show up somewhere at 2 somewhere. But I never, I know not where. I've never in the car. And the fucking gardener with the leaf blower has to go somewhere. Follow them at noon, follow them, right?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Follow them and see where they go next and then next and then go into their supervisor and say, hey, here's a couple hundred. Can they start maybe 8:30, right?

[Adam Carolla]

I'm pretty sure I could go straight to Hector and just go, hey man, hey dude.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

If you could just make an hour.

[Adam Carolla]

Here'S a 12 pack of Takati. Do not fucking show beer before noon. I love Mexican beer. What are you talking about? So here's, I just, I'm laying in bed tossing, turning at 7:15, just going, first off, leaf blowers are illegal. I've yelled about it a million times. The gas powered leaf blowers have been illegal in Los Angeles for 25 years. We don't. Oh yeah, we do. Not qualify. They still use 1999. 1999. And they do not enforce it. They enforce every other law, but they will not enforce that law.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I have a leaf blower.

[Adam Carolla]

You do? Uh huh.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's electric and I am like an old New York Jewish man in Long island every morning. I love leaf blowing. There's something peaceful and tranquil about it. You get out there and you just clean away and your house looks great and you just. And I'll. I'll do it twice a day sometimes. Sometimes in the fall.

[Adam Carolla]

You got a pressure washer?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

No, I don't, I don't have that, but I do.

[Adam Carolla]

You gotta get a pressure washer.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Do you have one of those?

[Adam Carolla]

I probably am a multi pressure washer owner. But pressure washing is super satisfying. Summer version of the leaf blower. Like you see aquatic version of the leap.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know what? I would do that cuz I get some rust sometimes in my. On my driveway. I'm going to have to.

[Adam Carolla]

You need the pressure washer. That's a satisfying feeling like when you get that pressure washer fired up and you add the suds to it and then you hose down your car with it.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, hey, hey.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Bob Barker's on.

[Adam Carolla]

Bob Barker's on.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Why is that all? That's one of the best theme songs, isn't it?

[Adam Carolla]

It's.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

So what would you say the best theme song is of any show ever on tv?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I'm gonna have to look at Dawson right now.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Dawson's Creek.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm going to say Streets of San Francisco. I'm gonna have you look that one up. And I mean in terms of arrangements, you know, I mean Gilligan's island is sort of Gilligan's island or you know, tells the story. Brady Bunch tells the story. But Streets. Turn it up.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, oh yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

This is a different version. That is a. That was not the TV version.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Try the Little House on the Prairie.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, this is also weird, but go.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

To Little House on the Prairie.

[Adam Carolla]

Hold on.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

This is the bootleg version.

[Adam Carolla]

Watch how this, watch how this goes. It's not going to work for you.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

But watch how this is cinematic. If, if you do Little House on the Prairie.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, here it is. No, this is it.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, this is yours.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, the harpsichord, I think.

[Adam Carolla]

Listen, what show is this? Streets of San Francisco with Carl Malton. Oh, I like. And what's his name? Jazzy.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, that's good. Oh, Jackie Brown. What about Little House on the Prairie?

[Adam Carolla]

We didn't got there.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, you're waiting. Yeah, this is pretty. I can't believe I never heard this.

[Adam Carolla]

The best. Listen, that face.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I like your trouble.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You won't like Little House. I know it, but you won't like it.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

99.5.

[Adam Carolla]

That is. That is a rocking. I. I can do Little House.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's. It's. When it gets going, it almost puts a tear in your eye.

[Adam Carolla]

It's. It's melodic and it captures. Crank it up.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Watch this.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Little House on the Prairie starring Michael Landy.

[Adam Carolla]

It's nice.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's just. It's nostalgic.

[Adam Carolla]

It captures the mood. It doesn't kick ass.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Well, Sanford Sun's pretty good.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

More Jefferson's.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Sanford and Son.

[Adam Carolla]

Johnny Quest. Dawson.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Johnny Quest.

[Adam Carolla]

Johnny Quest is. Is the best. This is nice.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's nice though, isn't it? It's just soothing. I like soothing.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah. I'm a Christopher Cross sailing kind of guy.

[Adam Carolla]

I. Yeah, I used to watch all these shows.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, me too.

[Adam Carolla]

It was bad. When you see. It's a bad sign when you see an impoverished first family from 1871 and you go, boy, they got it good over there.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know why? They loved each other.

[Adam Carolla]

They loved each other.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

They had a family.

[Adam Carolla]

Mama's making stew at night.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah. Dad's not beating his son.

[Adam Carolla]

Beautiful hearth.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, yeah. Nice hearth.

[Adam Carolla]

Nice. All right. There it is.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It was kind of in sync with that whatever on the TV over there. It's kind of cool.

[Adam Carolla]

It's the greatest.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, this is. Oh, this is the show. They got the video.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, I didn't. I wasn't. You know. What the ho.

[Adam Carolla]

Listen, a horror. Barnes, man.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You watch this?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't remember this.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, I want to rerun for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah. You know, I never. Never saw that show.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that's why you missed the greatest theme of ever.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Not much older than I am.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I have. I have hyper vigilance. And I didn't have. I didn't read. And all I had was tv and I would just stare at the. I didn't have company. I would just stare at the TV all day and I would listen to all the. All the themes.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Are you a reader now?

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Never read.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I never read. I never read. I sort of have this. Well, I'm lazy. Well, yeah, that's number one. Number two, I have a sort of negative relationship with reading. It feels like work and homework and embarrassment, you know, like, I couldn't read. I have the same. I've had this happen a few times. You ever, like, work with a fat guy who was clearly picked on like in junior high. And then you go to him. Like, you'll go, hey, we're playing. We're doing a whole softball game this weekend. You want to come out? And they go, oh, no, no, I'm good. And you go, no, no, it's just. It's fun. It's. The girls are playing everyone in the office. Yeah, yeah, I'm good.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Good.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, and you go, just.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

No matter.

[Adam Carolla]

No, it's like your brain, you're triggering them to. Like, everyone's making fun of them, and fat guy can't play.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You feel like.

[Adam Carolla]

That's why I was reading. That's how I'm with you.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

They're like, hey, you know, you should read this book. It's great. It's like, no, I don't really. I'm not good at it.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I'm good.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, no.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You could read, can't you? It's like. Well, no, not really. I don't like to.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. It is.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I can't. I can't. When I read something, I have to read it again and again sometimes to really comprehend what's going on. So that's. That's a problem.

[Adam Carolla]

Wait.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Wait up, Carolla. How you get all this knowledge inside your head? Never read a book.

[Adam Carolla]

I will tell you that. Here's what I will tell you.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

All right?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

He watches the news. That's where you learn everything.

[Adam Carolla]

Everybody. No, there is a small element of. Without sounding like an asshole, but there's some people that sit around and they sort of absorb other people's ideas. That's what reading is a lot. And my thing is, like, I'd like to make my own ideas. So, you know, coming up with such gems as big asses and big dicks and things like.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You came up with that?

[Adam Carolla]

If I was sitting in the shower? Yeah. If I was sitting around reading man in the Sea or something like that, then I wouldn't.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Crime and Punishment.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

If you read, like, history books or, like, there's just some great history there, I agree.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm lazy and shitty. I like watching a document, and I do. I absorb a lot more when I listen than if I read.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

And when you see something, you kind of see it and hear it and kind of like, that gets in.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I'm the opposite. And the fact that if you were. If you said to me, look, I'm gonna tell you how to get to my house from here. I'm just gonna tell you one time, and I'm not gonna write it down. You can't use ways or anything.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I'm in trouble.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll give you $10,000. But I will tell you how to get to my house. I would immediately close my eyes, and I would go tell me. And then. And I will close my eyes, and I would hear all that you had to say. And then I would probably be able to do it. If I opened my eyes, I'd lose some of it.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah. I. Maybe I should do that more often because people are like, all right, you.

[Adam Carolla]

Take a left at the.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let me read.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You'd say you're an auditory learner.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I see.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know what it is for me, it's always been because I was kind of a slow learner. If I. If I really am interested in something.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

If something really interests me, that's when I'll do the research and I'll be, you know, like, I'll catch a book.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And dig into it. Like, just be all over it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Hyper focused on it. But, yeah. I don't know. I learned. I think I learned better listening, too.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, let's. Let's now.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Well, he's writing something down.

[Adam Carolla]

No, no. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm writing it down because now that leads me to what we're talking about.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Which is I've complained many times that realtors. Okay, I angered a few realtors that I know.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, you did.

[Adam Carolla]

I did. There are good. There are some good realtors. Like, there were some good Nazis. Like who, G. Fritz, Helmut. You didn't know this? No. I mean, there were guys that probably snuck food in to the prisoners or felt horrible, but they couldn't. They weren't going to risk being killed themselves. Now, listen. No, this is just Tourette's. I have good. I work with them. But many are just there for the paycheck and the whatever. They don't want a real job. And I've told people on this podcast that I have been out because I am displaced from Malibu. It's burnt to the ground. I have no realistic expectation about when I'm going back to Malibu. So I've looked. I've been house shopping, and I'm looking at houses, and probably 60% of the houses. I walk in on a home that's $2.6 million, and I walk in, and the realtor guy standing there, and I go, how many square feet is this place? And he goes, the flyer's on the table. Go check it. And I go, you can't commit 2,300 to your head. Or 3,200 or 3,286. You can't commit.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What year was the house built? You should know.

[Adam Carolla]

Literally, here's how it works. You go, how many square feet is house? 47% will tell you. The other half go, you can grab the sheet on the way, and then you go, what year is the house? And about the same amount. Like 50% will do it. And then at some point when they tell you that, you know, the house was built in 1957 or something, but everything's fucking brand new or whatever, you go, when do they do the remodel? And they go, let me check that sheet over that water heater. Like it's $2.6 million. But here's the thing. I went in to a place on Sherman Way, sort of deep North Hollywood, where they just sell stones and slabs and tile and countertops. It's just like a whole row of just flooring and countertops.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Sounds like anxiety to me.

[Adam Carolla]

And I come walking in there and some little miniature Mexican guys, like, 60 comes, like, walking out like, hey, my friend, what do you need? I go, what. What do you guys do? You do prefab stuff, like counters, and then you do big slabs that can fabricate. And he goes, yeah. I go, what is the. Do you have the Caesar stone or the quartz? He's like, the Caesar stone isn't quartz. Quartz is quartz. Caesar stone. Caesar stone. I go, okay, well, what size of the slab? He's like 63 wide by 126. I go, okay, so 5 foot 3 by 10 foot 6. Yeah. I go, okay, we walk in, and then he goes. I go, what are the prefab countertops? What are Those? They're like 103 by 24. I go, how big's the bullnose? Inch and a half. How big's the splash? Does backsplash come with that? No. Yeah. I go, was it four inches? No, it's six inches. I go, okay, how much is this slab? He goes, 350. I go, this motherfucker knows way more about his $400 slab than the bitch with a 2.7 million dollar house. We've already. He's already shot out more numbers.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, you're right.

[Adam Carolla]

If he can fucking remember that the slab is 63 by 126. And why can't you remember 2250 square feet?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Probably because they're showing so many houses that they're like, fuck this.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I'm not doing it all afternoon on a Saturday, like, open house.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Do you leave him? You're like, I'm done with that guy.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I just go get the piece of paper and go, what the up with these jack offs.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I don't want to give them money when you find somebody who's hungry.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I'm not gonna take a principled stand on a house that I really want just because I jack off and loafers didn't.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

My real estate was my realtor, actually, I love this guy, Bill Parks from Chicago. When I bought my house, you know what, he, he got me a present. He got me a washer and dryer upstairs.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, he bought me a stack, stack, stack, washer and dryer. He bought me that. I was like, who are you?

[Adam Carolla]

That's good.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

That was my first house, the only house I've ever purchased. So to me that was pretty cool. But it's a rarity. I mean, most guys don't know what the hell they're talking about.

[Adam Carolla]

They're just this guy, square footage. I bet working in this little shitty tile place in North Hollywood knew way more about his product than almost any realtor I've ever spoke to about the home. That was 2 million plus versus 350 bucks.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Jesus.

[Adam Carolla]

It's fucking sad.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's sad.

[Adam Carolla]

It's a sad.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

And you spend. It's a big investment.

[Adam Carolla]

It's a big investment.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know, you invest.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, look, here's the whole thing. I will walk across the room and go get the piece of paper and see that it's 2,380 square feet. I'll find that out. I just don't like the fact that you're sitting and you don't know and you point at the paper.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know what you want? You want some guy who knows his shit, right away you're like, all right, you want somebody who, when I walk.

[Adam Carolla]

In there with my big ass girlfriend trying to make a point, I expect a certain amount of respect. You know, I'll bet you if I had a girlfriend with a huge ass and I walked in there, they would know it.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh yeah, they know because they've got.

[Adam Carolla]

That guy's a huge hog. I don't want to disappoint Mr. Carolla. Yeah, yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

4,700 square feet, 10 inches.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, we know who you are, Mr. Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, backsplash. One last thing I gotta get into. Get this. Adults with financial literacy skills have 82% more wealth than those who don't. From swimming lessons to piano classes, us parents invest in so many things to enrich our kids lives. But are we investing in their future financial success? With Greenlight. You can teach your kids financial literacy skills like earning, saving and investing. And this investment costs less than that. After school treat start prioritizing their financial education and future today with a risk free [e-mail] wondery greenlight.com wondery the space station. All right, now listen. I'm right about everything all the time. That's just, I'm just always right. I'm always right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Do you admit when you're wrong ever?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it just has never happened.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's just never heard. Right, right.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, no, it, it, it has happened.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

96 he actually just went, yeah, no.

[Adam Carolla]

I told a guy a few weeks ago after a comedy show that a Honda XR75 motorcycle from the 70s was a two stroke motor. And he said it was a four stroke motor and he had one. And it turned out he was right. It was a four stroke motor. And I had to admit I was wrong.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Did it upset you?

[Adam Carolla]

I did not like what I saw looking back at me in the mirror that night, if that's what you're talking about. Now the YZ80 Yamaha, that, that's two stroke but not the XR. All right. Anyway, so I can be wrong. Hey, and about big dicks, is this.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

The first time he's admitted to being wrong?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, he would commit a sepu.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm not wrong about any, any societal traps.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Society, okay?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

The big thing.

[Adam Carolla]

So when someone starts going, you know, it's Latinx, I'm like, okay, get the fuck out of here. That's. Nobody's going to use that. You were talking about Smallville and WB and you know, CW stuff. Cw? I was at an affiliate in Chicago when Loveline, the TV show, was gonna be a syndicated television show.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I've done that show. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And we had to go down to the affiliate and like do some glad handing. And it was me and Drew and they were like, now listen, we need to get you guys in front of a brick wall, you know, wearing a bomber jacket. Cause it's 1997 or whatever it is. And then they go, we're merging and we got this whole new campaign. And they go, you gotta say it's the dubba dubba dubba dubba W B. And I was like, that's never gonna catch on. No one's ever gonna say it. It's never gonna work. And they're like, just do it. And I'm like, it's never gonna. And Drew's like, I'll do it. And then it's like this comedy where you go, it's the dubba dubba dubba, dubba, dubba, dubba U B. No, it's the dubba dubba dubba dubba dubba U B. And I go, it's the dubba dubba da no. Dubba dubba dubba. And I'm like, it's not gonna work. You're gonna abandon this? Someone's gonna get fired. It's not going to work. No one's ever going to do this. No one's going to do this. Five minutes from now, everyone who thought of this is going to be embarrassed, and it's going to be a relic, and no one's going to do it. It's the duba duba dubba. And I'm that way with pronouns like whatever. I just go, it's a fuck. This is not.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I make a lot of mistakes. And I just say, is that right? Is that. Is that right?

[Adam Carolla]

Every. Everything. Covid, I just went, okay, I got it. You're wrong about everything. I've been saying for a million years with everyone with their peanut allergies and their food allergies, and everyone's stomachs are shit. Every human under 40 gives you a long list of shit they can't eat and all this. And I was like, these people didn't exist when I was young. Where'd all the peanut allergies come from? I never met.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

There were a lot of allergies back.

[Adam Carolla]

When every single human being in my junior high and grade school brought a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school every single day. So where were the allergies?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

The people who. You know, the food has changed? The way they make foods, the breads, the.

[Adam Carolla]

It may be all this. You know, listen, we had Wonder Bread and Jif peanut butter.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I was fine.

[Adam Carolla]

It was all shit, too. But I know it's all the purelling. It's all the way. It's. Don't touch my baby. Wipe your hands down with Purell, then you can hold the baby. I go, you're hurting people. You're hurting. It's the floor and the fauna. We need it. You need. You need. Your immune system. It was activated.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It was a time we used to. Like when we were kids, you know, in Indiana, growing up. You just go. You don't. You drink out of garden hoses, you jump fences, you catch fireflies, your pans are dirty, and you just. That's how you build it up.

[Adam Carolla]

You fucking play all day in the dirt and then go pick a tree with apricots on it and just put your hand in your Fucking mouth all day. I said we're overdoing it. With the cleanliness. All the wiping down of everything. All the Clorox. The Clorox wipes and all the hand stuff and all the sanitizer. You're fucking everyone up. Knock it off.

[Latasha Brown]

Off.

[Adam Carolla]

And everyone's like, you. You're gross. Everyone called me gross. I yelled at everyone all the time. You don't need to take three showers a day. You don't need the antibacterial soap. You don't have to scrub. It's all fucking Unilever. It's all pharma. It's all. It's all a money maker. It's all, scare it. Get the moms. Scare the moms. Have the moms wipe everything. I don't use soap.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You don't?

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What do you use?

[Adam Carolla]

I just rinse.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You rinse?

[Adam Carolla]

I take a freezing cold. I just.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

No, no, no.

[Adam Carolla]

Really? Yeah. Just hit the cold. Cold freeze, freezing valley water. And I never turn it to the hot. I just. The cold rinse. I get out.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

No Axe Body wash, no cold, no nothing.

[Adam Carolla]

No germ. Now there's a story. Dawson has it somewhere. Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise.

[Gino Vanelli]

It's all in the headline. The International Space Station is too clean and it's making astronauts sicken.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Gino Vanelli]

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are plagued by persistent rashes, unusual allergies and a variety of infections, including fungi, cold sores and shingles. Researchers now think they know why the orbiting lab doesn't have enough germs.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, you need germs. Moms, crazy moms. Covid people wiping everything down off them. You're weakening your kids. You're hurting your kids. It's like. It's a weird thing where I tell them, stop it with the parent. Like, oh, you don't like your kids? But I don't like. No, you're fucking up your kids, you fucking lunatics. These companies, everything is going for the mom. The mom is doing all the buying for the house. The guy, traditionally, is out, he's working, and the mom's calling the shots at the house. Like, COVID Protocol. That's the mom. They're not the. Dude. So they're seeing the commercials with all the slathering on and the weird thing. They do the graphics, like, here's your countertop, the guy gutting a chicken or something. And then they. Then they wipe it down with the leading brand and they show weird green speckles that are miniature germs. The little germs. And the mom sits there.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It's so funny.

[Adam Carolla]

And they just go, oh, I'm a good mom. I'm a good mom. And then they go, buy all that shit, and then they dump it all over their fucking kids and all over the countertops. And then their kids have asthma and peanut allergies and they turn them all into fucking weak little pussies.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You seem to me like someone who'd be a little ocd. Like, I am. Who would. I thought you'd be like, no. At least you don't. You wash your hands after a shit right after you take a shit.

[Adam Carolla]

It depends where I am.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Depends where you are.

[Adam Carolla]

I famously threw a cashew on the tarmac of Burbank Airport. When I was walking out to my Southwest flight. I saw a pigeon and I threw a cashew at it and it rolled down the asphalt and the pigeon walked up to it and it picked it up, up. And it looked at it and then it dropped it and went away. I don't know what the up with this pigeon, but it walked away. Like, not good enough for the pigeon. And I go, well, that. I walked over there, picked that up right in the mouth. Right in the mouth. That's all I do.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Jesus on the tarmac.

[Adam Carolla]

Dawson, how many sick days you've been with me for 20 years.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

20 years.

[Gino Vanelli]

You've never been out sick as far as I can recall. What, you've worked sick? Maybe one. You've been sick maybe once in the last 20 years.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You've been sick once in 20 years.

[Adam Carolla]

I will get little things, but I never.

[Gino Vanelli]

Max twice.

[Adam Carolla]

I've never missed.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You know, I don't get. I don't get sick a lot. Not going.

[Adam Carolla]

You got ask me what I'm allergic to.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What are you allergic to?

[Adam Carolla]

Don't know. Never. Nothing.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I'm allergic to shrimp, crustaceans. I can't.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, some things are, like, kind of woven into the DNA.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

And I will say when I. This is true. When I don't have gluten, I swear to God. When I don't have. I've had it. When I don't. I feel better if I just get off it for a week.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, well, everybody has the. I'm better with this and not as bad.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I really am. Like, my allergies, everything. I don't feel as heavy.

[Adam Carolla]

No, there's definitely that. I'm talking about half the kids having asthma, half the kids being allergic to this and allergic to that. Yeah, look, I've said it a zillion times, which is. I used to do the analogy, which is when Astronauts go to outer space, they lose muscle mass and density because they're floating. I said, kids, kids need some gravity down here, otherwise they atrophy. They have to work out. And your immune system needs the same thing. It's got to work out a little bit. We can't just have everyone float through fucking life. Everyone is fat, everyone's got an allergy, everyone's weak. Everyone's talking about what they're getting deep into their victimhood. It's like you are fucking them up emotionally and physically with all the Purell and all the wiping down and all the shit like that. And I've been saying it for as long as I've had a mic in front of me. And now every study is like, we shower too much as Americans. We use too much soap. The antibacterial soap is not good for you. The Purell is not good for you. It's all. This is 20 minutes old. But I've been on this shit for 25 years and all I ever get called is gross and stupid.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I only take one shower a day. How about you?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I take two, three. Because I'm wrestling dudes all the time. My microbiome is buff. Like I like get coughed in the face by kids. I like dudes. Like I'm like a petri dish kind of.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You, you shower once a day?

[Adam Carolla]

I wouldn't, I normally don't. I used to go days without showering. Days and days. And if you got me a thing of shampoo, that shit was good for 14 years because it was only, you know, pre sex pube lather, you know, that you had to think about the thing. I wouldn't shower. I would not shower.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Like showering really is for the. Your private area, you know, you get a little bit.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I get sweaty.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It starts to. You gotta make sure that stuff's clean.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I love shower, you know, train hard shower.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Try like a very clean.

[Adam Carolla]

I only shower because of the cold shower. If I wasn't.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Does that really help? Should I do it cold? I. I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

It's really about doing. You don't want to do. Do it really is. That's all.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I have a plunge and I, I really haven't used it that much.

[Adam Carolla]

You have a cold plunge?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I swim.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Sits there. No.

[Adam Carolla]

So you do have the cold plunge? I have a cold plunge.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I have infrared sauna. The cold plunge. I do when it's summer. I. There's something about freezing and going into freezing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, you just, you just do it. Cuz it's Miserable.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

It is miserable. But supposedly it helps you. There's a lot of theories.

[Adam Carolla]

It helps you cuz it's miserable. That's what I'm telling everybody.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I always hit that.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Usually the miserable things. The miserable things.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Inflammation is the big thing. Reduce inflammation and then your body runs more efficiently.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, let me.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I like this.

[Adam Carolla]

Let me give you a plug in education. Well, you learned about big asses.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, I learned a lot.

[Adam Carolla]

Today, Gino Vanelli is going to join us.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Gino Vanelli?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, do you?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, listen, he's zooming in. If you want to hang out, give me a.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Give me a song.

[Adam Carolla]

I just wanna sing. Stop and tell you how I feel about you, babe. I just want to stop. And there's Living inside my shell.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Myself or living inside my. Living inside myself. Living inside my. A shell.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, does he say shell? Let's listen.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I love this.

[Adam Carolla]

Does he say shelf and shell?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I think he does.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll figure it out.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Dude, what a genius.

[Adam Carolla]

Do it, Michael.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What a voice, man.

[Adam Carolla]

She's a cloud, the hounds above.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You gotta get to the chorus, too.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, we're getting there.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Right?

[Adam Carolla]

This is called foreplay.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Here comes Living inside myself.

[Adam Carolla]

This shell. You're right. Yeah. Oh, well, good news, because he's on the show. All right, we didn't take a quick break. Gino's with us, joining us via Zoom. We'll take a break. Michael, hang out then.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, thanks for, you know, you. You doing a podcast so long inspired me, and I've been doing it six years for Inside of you with Michael Rosenbaum. So I, I really love doing it. And, you know, should we put it to a song?

[Adam Carolla]

Like maybe Gina could be like, Michael's living inside of you.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

What are you doing? A fair to middling pie.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Gino, would you do that? Living inside of you. That's my show. Inside of you.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, hang on, hang on. We'll take a quick break. Gino, you hang on too. And we'll come right back with the legendary Gino Vanelli right after this. O'Reilly. Oh, you know the jingle, right? Oh, oh, oh. O'Reilly Auto Parts. Yeah. You want to keep your car on the road? Well, that's where O'Reilly comes in. They offer friendly, helpful service parts knowledge, all the things you need for maintenance and repair. I'm a car guy. Always gone to O'Reilly. When I lived in North Hollywood, I used to go the one in North Hollywood. And then I moved to LA Canada and I went to the one in LA Canada, and then I moved to La Crescenta. And I still went to the one in La Canada because there wasn't one in La Crescenta. You get the picture. I've been a fan for a while. So whether you're a car aficionado or an auto novice, you're going to find the employees at O'Reilly Auto Parts are knowledgeable, helpful, and best of all, friendly. So stop by O'Reilly, go buy O'Reilly Auto Parts. Do it today. Or you can visit them online@o'reillyauto.com Adam that's o'reillyauto.com Adam.

[Gino Vanelli]

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[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, when I think about.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

When I think about those nights in Montreal. Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Gina's from Montreal, right?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Gino, you look great.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, so you're singing. You're singing about your life.

[Latasha Brown]

Yeah, that's unfortunately the way it goes.

[Adam Carolla]

Are you in Oregon right now?

[Latasha Brown]

I'm just outside of Portland.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, hold on a second. Michael's gotta sing and then we'll get to it.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

You gotta sing. Sing along.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. I just wanna stop Until I think about you, babe I just wanna stop Whoever wanna be without you, babe I just wanna stop for your love.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Oh, I can't hit those. Gosh, how do you hit those notes like that? When you write a song, do you just say, I'm gonna sing something that no one else can?

[Latasha Brown]

No, you just, just hang with the piano and that's all. You know, you guys are real softies. My God.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. I love it all. You have no idea.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Me, too. Me, too.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you know, I gotta ask you about yacht rock. Cause I just saw the doc, which was cool. And I realized it's having a resurgence, I would say, but. And you're not really, you know, I don't consider you a yacht rocker. But you're. You got songs on that playlist, right?

[Latasha Brown]

Well, it's just, it just fits in, you know, the age group and people have fun. I've done a couple of them. And it's, it's a nice ride and people are receptive and you get to do what you want to do. So it's really not all that bad.

[Adam Carolla]

So you came out to Los Angeles when you were really young, right?

[Latasha Brown]

20.

[Adam Carolla]

20. And you'd had a career in Canada and came out here to sort of make your bones.

[Latasha Brown]

I had some kind of career out of high school. I got a record deal with RCA Victor, and I had sort of a semi hit in Canada, and it kind of showed me a little bit of what it was like. And then I moved to New York for about a year and a half. Lived in Harlem and park benches in Queens, Corona, and just a bunch of places that really were not like home. But it was a great lesson. And then I decided to form a band and we made a band, and I saved enough money, and after I had about four or five thousand dollars, took a jet plane to California and stayed for four months and nothing happened. And until that fateful meeting with Herb Alpert.

[Adam Carolla]

Herb Alpert of A and M Records. He's the. He's the A and. But Herb Alpert had tons of hits. Oh, yeah. And was strange to have a trumpeter have big hits, but he didn't have a number one hit. But when he sung, he had a number one hit as a singer. Herb Alpert did, which I can think of it, Gino, you'll probably know it. This guy.

[Latasha Brown]

Yeah, this guy's in love with.

[Adam Carolla]

This guy's in love. So the guy has all these hits playing the trumpet, and then he decides to sing one, and it's number one. Crazy. And still. Still alive, right?

[Latasha Brown]

Yes, yes. He still tours. I think he's 87, 88. And he's. He's still in good shape. He plays very well, too. I just saw him a couple years ago here in Portland.

[Adam Carolla]

I would love. You got that guy's number. I'd love to talk to that guy.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I always think of this, don't you, when you think of Herb Alpert.

[Adam Carolla]

Tijuana Brass, Rise. Oh, he's had a ton of them.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I know, but, like, didn't they rip that off for, like, one of the rap songs?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, this is him. That's right.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So, Gina, you, Gino, you meet her where? Like, how do you find him?

[Latasha Brown]

Well, I had been hanging out in LA for four months, and all the doors really were not very open to me. And we were staying at a place called the Orange Motel. I don't know if you remember that. It was on Sunset, and it was where sleaze bags kind of hung out. It was $5 a day. And my mother made the mistake of sending 35 bucks, which we needed. I wanted a little more time. She sent it to Hollywood, Florida, instead of Hollywood, California. And so my Brother and I were living the. The owner of the hotel or the manager couldn't tell the difference between us, I guess. One morning my brother said, we got five bucks left, left, and it's. It's the hamburger Hamlet, I think. And then we're done, we're going home. I said, I can't go home. He said, well, what are you going to do? I said, well, if I got a panhandle, I'll panhandle. But I said, I. I really feel I should be here and I'm not going home till I'm. Till I get the record deal that I want to get. So that morning I woke up, I couldn't sleep very well. 4:30, 5:00 in the morning. And I walked along Sunset Boulevard. It was still a little bit dark and there was. I think there's an old Episcopalian church along Sunset Boulevard. And I decided just to go in. I just needed quiet. I needed to sit down to think of what I was going to do. It's kind of creepy a little bit because I hadn't been in a church since I was 7 or 8 years old. And I sat down and I felt very peaceful and I fell asleep in. In the pews. And I actually woke up because I didn't sleep all night. I Woke up almost four hours later around 10 o'clock. Sock and interesting thing. I just knew exactly. I. It's almost like I saw it, you know, as a replay. And I ran back to the. To the motel, took the sock out of my brother's mouth and. Because he snored some and.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Yeah, I was waiting for that.

[Adam Carolla]

Why.

[Latasha Brown]

So I said, joe, come, we're going. He said, where are we going? I can't tell you. So I took my guitar. We parked ourselves in front of the Charlie Chaplin Studios.

[Adam Carolla]

A. M. Yeah, yeah.

[Latasha Brown]

And. And of course there's a tower there. And the guard who later found out his name is Johnny, he's an ex Vietnam vet, you know, was holstering a gun and all. He came down his little tower about five steps. He had a kind of a limp, a gimp. And he said, what you fellas doing? I said, waiting for a friend. He said, you know, you can't go through these gates. I said, I. I know I can't. And he says, just make sure you don't. I says, I won't. And two hours later we're still there. And I don't know why I'm there. My brother looks at me, why are we here? I said, I'm not quite sure yet. And then suddenly, about three hours later, I saw this man with Jack black hair walk across the parking lot. And lo and behold, it was Herb Albert. And I said, that's what I saw. And I dropped my guitar, ran through the gates. And of course, Johnny the guard says you. He says, I knew you'd do it. And so he started chasing me. I had a head start on him because he had that bad limp from Vietnam. And I got to her, I grabbed his arm, and of course, I was a bit scary looking at myself. My hair is about here and all that kind of stuff. And he turned white or gray or some white or shade of pale. And he said, what do you want? Just before I told him what I wanted, Johnny grabbed my arm, hauled me away, and swearing, cussing at me. And so he was dragging me away. And I turned one more time, and I looked at her, and our eyes just kind of locked. And Herb said, just a minute, Johnny. He summoned me over, and I came to her. He's, what do you want? I said, can you let me play for you? Which is 20 minutes, 10 minutes. You might like what I have. He thought about it, went into his pocket, wrote me a little pass, come back in 30 minutes. And of course, Johnny wasn't too happy because his job was on the line, maybe. So I came back 30 minutes later, I played him a bunch of songs, which really became songs on the first two or three albums. And he had his head on the back of his hand, resting it there. And he just picked up his head and just said, welcome to the family.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Good Lord.

[Latasha Brown]

That's how I got at the record deal.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, wow.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

That doesn't happen anymore.

[Latasha Brown]

No. Well, there are no record deals to be gotten.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's true. I. I have. I've been through those gates. And I worked at A and M as a painter, painting the cyclorama on the studio where they would film Soul Train and bands would film videos there. They would have to paint it black, and then they'd paint it white, and they'd do. They airbrush the sky on there. And it looked like, you know, before cgi, it looked like you were floating in the sky. And I would go through that gate and go around that place and paint. They'd have. The Tubes did a video there, and Van Halen did a video there when I was there. And the Police did a video there when I was painting that stupid cyclorama. But I never met Herb Albert. I just painted the place. But what was it is interesting. And so then the question is I have a similar entrance into show business, which is completely different. And I won't bore everyone with this story, but it's the same premise, which is. Something became very important to me. And all of a sudden, I was showing up at a place and knocking on the door and trying make my way in, and I wasn't a motivated person, and I never had episodes of this in the past. Just all of a sudden, it became very important to me to go to this place and go find this person. And I did a comedy version of what you're talking about, but I never had that again or before. So then what is that?

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Fate.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. What do you call that?

[Latasha Brown]

Synchronicity.

[Adam Carolla]

Synchronicity was the name of the Police album that I was still painting the site for.

[Latasha Brown]

He stole it from CG Young. CG Young first coined the word synchronicity, when all elements come together, disparate elements coming together, feeling like a miracle.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. But the question is, how do you know? Like, why did you have that experience?

[Latasha Brown]

That's a very, very good question. Because I think as soon as I went home the next day, I was in my room, and my father came to my room. He says, why are you solemn? He said, you should be just jumping for joy. He says, for five years, you've been looking for a record deal, and you got a record deal with one of the best record companies in the world, and Herb wants to produce you himself and all that kind of stuff. You're going to be his pet. And I said, I know. He said, well, then why are you solemn?

[Adam Carolla]

Because.

[Latasha Brown]

I said, because I don't know how it happened.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

And what was New York back in the early days? Because it was a very different place than it is now.

[Latasha Brown]

Well, I was a very, you know, green kid from Montreal. I did my reading and studying and all that kind of stuff, music theory. But I didn't know the streets like. Like New York streets in 1971. 70. That was. It was. That was a tough place in those days. And when I got there, I. I didn't know all those ladies hanging on the sidewalks, who they were and what they were. And when they started kind of calling out to me and saying, hey, handsome, and da, da, da, da, da. I said, wow, this is the shit. I want to live here. But then I later found out that it was kind of, you know, a trade. And I got. I really cut my teeth there, you know, and I got close. And the great part about being in New York was that I ended up having a quick brush with Columbia Studios and got to visit all the studios where Simon and Garfunkel recorded and things like that. So it was an education.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Gino, I love you. I gotta take off, but I'm a huge fan. This is a real treat. I had no idea you'd be here. So make sure you listen to my podcast, please. Inside of you of Michael Roosevelt possibly.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Come on, Gino. Oh yeah.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

I was hoping you're write the theme song for it. Adam, this has been great.

[Latasha Brown]

Love you're saying.

[Adam Carolla]

Good to see you, brother.

[Latasha Brown]

Good to see you.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Bombas makes the most comfortable socks, underwear and T shirts. Warning, Bombas are so absurdly comfortable you may throw out all your other clothes. Sorry, do we legally have to say that? No, this is just how I talk. And I really love my Bombas. They do feel that good. And they do good too. One item purchased equals one item donated. To feel good and do good, go to bombas.com wondry and use code wondry for 20% off your first purchase. That's B O M bas.com wondry and use code wonry at checkout. Good to see it's been too long. Come back soon. So Gino, let's see. Gino, speaking of plugs, has dates. It's going out April 12, June 4, June 18. Playing all over the place. New York and Arlington, Texas and Lufkin, Texas and Genove.com is where you go. Are you doing. How much touring are you doing? Are you doing a lot of dates?

[Latasha Brown]

Just, just the right amount, I think, you know, just to keep myself intact. We got a brand new album that just came out, the Life I got a couple weeks ago and I'm sort of. I mean, you can't really say you're promoting a record anymore, but I'm doing a few songs from the record and it's fun to do new stuff too. Not only do the old stuff, have you ever.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you do covers as well or have you ever done that?

[Latasha Brown]

No, I, I did enough of that when, you know, I was in a bar band, you know, in my teens.

[Adam Carolla]

What kind of stuff would you cover back in the day?

[Latasha Brown]

Yeah, Creedence Clearwater Revival and you know, you know, geez. All the OJ's stuff, you know, Temptations, you know. Montreal was a very big R B sound town. Yeah. Not, not very big on kind of Anglophiled Anglified rock because the French population, they were really a dance, a dance crowd.

[Adam Carolla]

So I guess that's a good. I guess the ojs and that sort of R B is A good bass for learning, for, for music like, like you can go anywhere from there, right?

[Latasha Brown]

Well, first of all, I mean, I, I, I learned the art of songwriting a lot. I mean, of course, I went back all the way to Irving, Irving Berlin and even Schubert and people like that. But if you want to learn contemporary songwriting, I mean, the writers of the 50s and 60s were extremely good. All the people who wrote the Gamble and Huff wrote all the Motown hits. And of course, Stevie took part of his own writing and were great writers, not to mention Linda McCartney and all the British people, too. As far as R and B was concerned, it wasn't just simple dance music and a good beat. There were good lyrics, good melodies, good parts, good arrangements, and that was really a lot of my background.

[Adam Carolla]

What are some of your favorites from that, that era?

[Latasha Brown]

Well, without a doubt, Marvin Gaye.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I got to meet them, too. I want to hear about. I love to me, my favorite song from that era is Tears of a Clown.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Robinson Smokey. Just. I love the arrangement. I love that it has an oboe featured.

[Latasha Brown]

Yeah, no, it's a great, It's a great tune, and it still stands up today. Of course.

[Adam Carolla]

I, I swear I heard it three days ago in the car. I was like, turn it up. It, it sounds. It does not sound like some of the sort of doo woppy, you know, where you can put a stamp on it, you know, the Dell Vikings or something, where you go, oh, you know, that's. It's got an oboe in it. Or bassoon. It's a bassoon. The baseline's the best. It's got. It's got a piccolo and a bassoon and a killer baseline. And the lyrics are great. All right, tell me about Marvin. Marvin Gay.

[Latasha Brown]

Well, I mean, Marvin, you know, I always had good hits with Tammy Terrell. You know, I'm high enough. Elbows, all those great hits. Great Vine. But when he hit with what's Going out, the what's Going on album, that record was a milestone. And with Mercy, Mercy Me and all those, I mean, it's, it's still a very, very deep record, even by standards. And I got to meet him, he stayed. A lot of people used to stay at the Hallmark Hotel. In later years, that's how I got to tour with Stevie Wonder. I was staying at the Hallmark Hotel, and I was frustrated over a couple parts. We're recording the Powerful People record, and I'm sorry. Yeah, the Powerful People record. And so I, I went out by poolside and I started hearing. I fell asleep and I started Hearing my song wafting through the air. And I heard is a Crazy Life. Wait a minute. That song sounds familiar. Ah, it's my song. Okay. So I woke up and I started following it. And lo and behold, it was Stevie and his brother. And Stevie was singing the tune. And his brother said, hey, there's. There's the cat with the hair who wrote the song. So I said, I met with cd we exchanged hugs, and he told me he really liked the record. And I said, well, of course. I said, you know, I'm a big fan of yours. And suddenly, I mean, I think, you know, within two minutes, he said, you know, Shaka Khan's not feeling too well. He said, would you like to tour with me? And really? I said, yes. No, really. He said, I, I, I, I. I'd like you to do seven dates with me. And so I. I said, well, will I be killed? Oh, you know, I mean, people love you. He said, no, no. He says, you.

[Adam Carolla]

You'll.

[Latasha Brown]

You'll do fine. And he was right. In fact, he was gracious enough to actually announce me at some of the shows. And so when we were in Cincinnati.

[Adam Carolla]

What year is this? Sorry.

[Latasha Brown]

Approximately 74.

[Adam Carolla]

74.

[Latasha Brown]

Talk about synchronicity. People Got a Move, was suddenly top 10 on the R and B charts, and I was on tour with Stevie Wonder. I mean, I had nothing to do with it. I just recorded it. And I just showed up and I get a call in Cincinnati, my hotel room, and I'm rushing to get sound check, and it's, are you Gino Bonelli? And I said, yes. This. This is Don Cornelius.

[Adam Carolla]

Soul Train.

[Latasha Brown]

Yeah. He said to me, would you like to do Soul Train? I said, this really is dawn, right? He says, yes. I. He said, what kind? I have confession. He said, what? I'm white. And he said, oh, it's okay. We consider you off white here. We want you to do the show. And I did the show. And he was gracious enough to accept my condition, which was that we would do a live version of it. We didn't just lip sync the record.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, wow. And that was on the a. M. Stage right there?

[Latasha Brown]

I don't think so.

[Adam Carolla]

Later on, maybe it moved.

[Latasha Brown]

Yeah, later on, they did it. And he was so gracious. And it really helped my career a lot. So, I mean that. Like, I talk about all the things, the doors that open up when you're kind of on the right road.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I think the key to your success is going places and falling asleep. I feel like every time you take a nap, something Good happens. But you can't do it in your own bed. You got to do it in a church or by a pool. But every time Chino nods off somewhere, something good happens.

[Latasha Brown]

But you know, it's because when you're that, you know, that driven, your radar are up all the time. So even when you're napping, you're not nice.

[Adam Carolla]

So what was it like 1970? I mean, so Stevie Wonder's. I mean, he's been popular for a long time, but he's really popular in that era.

[Latasha Brown]

Oh yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And he's no longer little Stevie Wonder. I mean, or did he go by little Stevie Wonder back then?

[Latasha Brown]

Well, only in the first years of Motown years, but later on when he had music on my mind and then he had interviewed visions and fulfillingness and all those great records. I mean, he, he just broke through a glass.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So they didn't call him little Stevie Wonder in 74. And. And he's going out playing huge venues and you're going out and opening. Yeah. How many songs you doing when you open?

[Latasha Brown]

Oh, I did a half an hour set, 35 minutes, something like that. And I, I was kind of a little shaken in my boots a little bit, but we got some standing ovations and is. It was primarily an all black audience and I fit in very well and they kind of dug what I was doing. And so for years we maintained, you know, a very soulful audience.

[Adam Carolla]

That's. It's interesting because back then it would be an all black audience, but I don't know if Kendrick Lamar came played so far it'd be mostly white audience.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

Like things have changed, I'm guessing.

[Latasha Brown]

Well, yeah, but we were dealing with people really trying to be together in those days. And. And it showed and, and we were all really making an effort sharing music, sharing, you know, rhythms and lyrics. And that was, that was the M.O. of the early 70s, you know, in, in into the mid 70s, then late 70s when disco came out in the 80s, of course things changed it, you know, but in those days, people really try hard.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

When you're doing songwriting, like you're doing like these love songs, do you have like a muse? Is there someone that you're singing that song at? You know, because you have these stirring like, renditions. You know, there's crazy like, I don't know how to I. Yacht rock had something in it where you like feel it and you're, you know, it's like the movie scene where the girl's looking hot in my head at least.

[Latasha Brown]

Did you have that I always had an itch. Put it that way. You got to scratch that itch. And once the itch goes away, you can't write anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Did for you were, you know, when disco starts to come in and take over, are you sort of disgusted by it? I just mean as an artist. I guess what I'm saying is I'm a comedian and sometimes there's different genres of comedy and stuff gets really popular and all the purists sort of sit around and go, what is this bullshit? Jesus Christ, this is embarrassing. I wouldn't do that.

[Latasha Brown]

Well, you touched upon something that really was an issue because Brother to Brother was my biggest record. It was double platinum record. And Herb came to me one day and he said, you know, know me and Jerry, and Jerry Moss was the M of A and M. He says, we're going to kind of take a back seat and, and we're going to leave the affairs, the day to day affairs to a fellow at the time named Gil Friesen. And. And I was, I was renegotiating my contract with, with, with A M Records at the same time after Brother to Brother, a bunch of other record companies wanted to sign me. So I was trying to decide should I stay at A and M them or should I go with Warner's or Columbia or whatever. And so I had a deep conversation with her about it. And I said, you know, I don't want, I don't want to be disloyal to you guys, but I said, I really need to go where it's best for me. So he said, we'll have a conversation, you know, with, with Gil. I said, the only reason I'm saying that is because you're telling me you're not going to be here anymore. And Herb and I would be, would really confide in each other about, you know, how to approach things. And you like the way I did this and that and that. That. So I go to Gil's office and he's going to answer your question. Gil kind of sits back and puts his feet on the desk and says, you know, you should be doing disco.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, damn.

[Latasha Brown]

And I said, okay, I'm out of here. And that's really why I. I left A nine records.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, wow. Yeah. I mean, it did. It corrupted. It got to the Rolling Stones, it got to Rod Stewart, it got to artists that had previously created a bunch of great work and then Post created a bunch of work, but it came on like a bad fashion idea. I remember I bought an old Spanish house from 1927 in Hollywood. Hills and I happened. Happened to be putting it together in, like, 03 04, and this woman friend kept coming in going, you gotta go shabby chic. And I go, I'm not going shabby chic. I'm going, 1920s Hollywood. She goes, yeah, but shabby chic. I go, you know what this is gonna look like in 10 years when it's all shabby chic? Doubt they're gonna put a time stamp on it. It's gonna be embarrassing. And I realized people get so caught up in the moment that they think this would be a good idea. It happens architecturally. It happens from a fashion standpoint, happens from a music standpoint, happens with automobile design.

[Latasha Brown]

There's a caveat to that, though. And the caveat is that there are people that are designated for that kind of stuff. And when Saturday Night Fever came out, it was a good movie. It had kind of a theme that young people related to. And the music the Bee Gees did was perfect for it. And that was so natural because that was what they wanted to be. Well, for guys like Rod Stewart, me, that's not what we naturally did. And so, I mean, it's sort of placating. And Whereas, you know, the Bee Gees were doing that kind of dance stuff from 1975, 76. And so when. If you go back and you look at that album, there's an authenticity to that record with Saturday Night Fever and How deep is your Love and so on and so forth. And you could feel it's a soundtrack, and it had originality and authenticity to it. But for me, everything other than. Or anything other than that was not authentic.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I agree. It's not that it is bad in and of itself. It's like, my dad's just a dude from South Philadelphia. Or he was, and then he gets divorced in 1975, and before you know it, he's got the hair out to here. Gino Vanelli. Asca. Yeah. The Corolla's got the big Italian hair, too. He's got the medallion outside of the turtleneck. He's got jeans that lace up in the front, and in the back, he's got platform shoes. And I'm like, who the hell's this guy?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

You could tell by the way he uses his walk.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right. He's a woman's man. And I. I go, oh, he's trying to reinvent himself so he can get laid. But I wasn't buying it. I was 8. I was like, come on, that's not.

[Latasha Brown]

Who you are, Adam. Everybody dressed that way in Montreal, way before it was fashion.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Latasha Brown]

Absolutely. When you went down St. Catherine street, and it could have been like 1967, 68, 69, way before, even early 70s, before all that disco stuff came. And that came out 10 years later. I remember going down St. Catherine street, going to some of the cafes, the outside. Cafes, Cafes. When I was 17, 18 years old, and always open, see through shirt with a big medallion because everybody looked like me. I mean, it's like that was your.

[Adam Carolla]

Uniform do you have now. But so with this in mind, most women who I know who are like 50, 55, you could pull out a picture of them from 1987 with the jersey hair, and they just win. They're leaning against an Iraq Camaro. The hair's out to here, and they go, oh, put that away. Put it away. Put it away. Do you have any put it away moments for you? Or was it. Did you feel like. Well, that's how you came up.

[Latasha Brown]

It's all in my closet.

[Adam Carolla]

Great, man. Well, let me give you a plug, Gino. The new album, the Life I Got, it's out as we speak. And also live dates coming up. April, June and June. We're going to Texas, and then we're going to be in New York. And the website is Genov for calendar events, live shows, things of that nature album and beyond. Yeah, great to.

[Latasha Brown]

I didn't know you were such a music fan.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm not. Okay. I know everything because I don't read. So I just listen and listen and listen and listen. And all I did was listen to the radio my whole life. And then also I worked construction and worked alone a lot. Like, I worked at people's houses a lot. And all I had was the radio. So I would constantly just listen and listen to the radio. Yeah.

[Latasha Brown]

Because when I was asked, I was told that, you know, oh, you're gonna do the Adam Carolla show. I said, why into music or why? I don't know. I never saw you in that light.

[Adam Carolla]

I can't play an instrument. I can't sing. I don't know anything about the theory of it, but I do know what's good. And I do have a weird sonic gene where I can remember all the songs and all. All the most. The lyrics and all the stuff. It's just locked in my head. I mean, I don't know. There's studies, but the study is basically, you'll remember a song a lot more than you'll remember the class in the sixth grade or a lesson that was taught you in history, music just gets.

[Latasha Brown]

And you know why? There is a scientific reason for that. Because the part of our brain that actually listens and communicates and, and gets into the music is really in the center of our brain. And it's one of the first parts of our brain. And that's why people that have serious dementia or Alzheimer's will forget everything else. But you put a set of earphones on them and they'll come alive.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's deep, it's interesting, it's powerful. It's really when you realize, I don't know, are we more human, are we more animal? The way people respond and move and dance and have these almost religious experiences just to show these young girls at a Taylor Swift concert, 13, just sort of closing their eyes and singing that they're having an old timey, almost got the vapors. Religious experience. And that runs deep, man.

[Latasha Brown]

It does.

[Adam Carolla]

And I find it fascinating. Gino, great talking to you. And if you're ever out in la, come by.

[Latasha Brown]

Thank you. I appreciate it. I will.

[Adam Carolla]

The great Gino Vanelli. All right, now, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back and do the news right after this. Rough Greens. Well, sometimes in life you want to get at the truth. You got to look at the numbers. Crunch those numbers. Naturopathic Dr. Dennis Blake Black, the creator of Rough Greens, well, he tells us, unfortunately, 50%, half of all dogs over 10 are gonna die of cancer. And that's preventable. And Dr. Dennis is quite a passionate man. And it's your dog's diet. You gotta clean up that diet. I know it's a hassle. You don't wanna switch foods. Well, you don't have to. There's good news. Thousands of testimonials, by the way, five star reviews. They'll tell everybody every month. Ruff Greens is now the number one all natural dog supplement in America and nobody beats it. I gave it to my dog, Phil, and you can see the difference almost immediately. You don't have to change the food to improve your dog's health. You just add a scoop of Rough greens and you can see the results. It's Rough greens, Right? Dawson, fetch a free Jumpstart trial bag.

[Gino Vanelli]

For your dog today. Go to ruffgreens.com. just use promo code ADAM. That's R U F F greens.com and use promo code ADAM. And just cover shipping. You don't have to change your dog's food to improve your dog's health. Just add a scoop of rough greens.

[Adam Carolla]

Shopify. When you think about successful businesses like Gymshark. Sure, you think about a great product and great marketing. But an often overlooked secret is actually the business behind the business making selling Simple. Simple. Nobody does selling better than Shopify, Home of the number one checkout on the planet. And the not so secret secret with shop pay that boosts conversions up to 50%. That is a lot. So if you're into growing your business, your commerce platform better be ready to sell whenever your customers are scrolling or strolling on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere in between. And that's Shopify, right, Dawson?

[Gino Vanelli]

Established in 2025. Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at shopify.com corolla all lowercase go to shopify.com corolla to start selling with Shopify today. Shopify.com corolla it's time to check Adam's voicemail mail.

[Adam Carolla]

Hey, Ace, man, you know, if you're going to spin the wheel of Avril Lavine and Admiral Marie Lavine, you might as well add Adam Levine on there. I'd rather spin the wheel between Adam Levine than Admiral Levine any day, man.

[Gino Vanelli]

So, yeah, get it on. You can leave us a message at 888-634.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, that's the whole point. You gotta be miserable if you lose. I'm gonna miss Admiral Levine. I have no idea. Half these fucking retarded freak shows that were in the last administration, like, where do they go now? The circus? Like, what do you do? Just go to Wall street and get a job? Msnbc, I guess you go to msnbc. Just go somewhere you can lie. You can keep lying or something. I don't know. Where are all these fucking feckless losers go?

[Gino Vanelli]

Non profits.

[Adam Carolla]

Non profits.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Grinder.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Grinder. All right. And who was the one? Wait a minute. We had Admiral Levine and Avril Lavigne.

[Gino Vanelli]

And then Adam Levine, the singer of Maroon 5.

[Adam Carolla]

I understand that part. No, we haven't done that.

[Gino Vanelli]

Katy Perry and Katy Porter.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, Katy Perry and Katy Porter. Yeah, that sentence. Hmm. That's a tough.

[Gino Vanelli]

That's a tough wheel.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Man. I'll roll them dice.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. Well, all right. What do you got there?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, bud, look. In recent months, three Democratic governors have announced initiatives geared towards helping boys and men. Democratic governors, including West Moore, Maryland, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan are increasingly focusing on addressing challenges faced by boys and men's, a demographic that is shown a notable shift towards Republican candidates in recent elections. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the trend, it's interesting.

[Adam Carolla]

Now the Democrats have to pretend to give a shit about young dudes.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well, they're.

[Adam Carolla]

Some of them could even be white.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Governor Whitmer has pledged to sign an executive order.

[Adam Carolla]

That fucking retarded cow. She went fucking nuts, by the way. Wasn't she kidnapped?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

What about the kidnapping?

[Adam Carolla]

She plotted a kidnap. Yeah, yeah, the FBI plotted a fucking kidnapping. That fucking cow locked everyone down and then went boating. She was locking down gardening sections of. Of hardware stores during COVID Listen, anybody who snapped into action and put their fucking boot on everyone's neck during COVID Fuck right off. Fuck off. It was a dry run. It was a dry run. Newsome Whitmer, all the over officious folks who snapped into action said, how much can I oppress the folks I rule over? You all should be out. Because now you shut beaches, you shut the fucking lake, you shut the boats, you shut the hardware stores. It's like, okay, now I know who you are Now I know exactly who you are. And I want nothing to do with you because I like freedom because I live in America. So she's fucking horrible. But anyway, they all have to pretend to give a shit about young dudes now because they're losing their. They were the enemy. Young white dudes were always the enemy or heterosexual dudes or whatever, and now they're losing their constituencies. So now they have to pretend to give a fuck.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yes, sign an executive order aimed at increasing young men's enrollment in education and skilled training programs. So, yeah, they're doing some catch up right now.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, okay. Perhaps you shouldn't have waged war on them for the last 15 years, you fucking retards. That would have been nice.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

We got a clip of Negro toxic.

[Adam Carolla]

Masculinity and all you assholes, your Connecticut governor trying to. By the way, let me say this. Let me just say this. Please listen to me. Everyone. I toured the sites of Altadena and the Palisades and Malibu. There's a whole bunch of people with dicks and balls who are fucking driving excavators and trucks and operating all the heavy equipment. All the fucking people you hate, all the people who didn't go to college, all the guys with the cocks and the balls, all the guys who don't give you their pronouns. That place is being completely rebuilt by just that. Them. Yeah, nobody looks like you. Nobody uses pronouns. No, he, she's. None of your fucking freak shows, none of your Admiral Levine's. Nobody looks like that. It's just a bunch of Fucking dudes who go by he and him. So let's not run them out of society. The reason we shouldn't run those guys out of society is because every once in a while, shit's gonna break, burn, and then you need dudes to rebuild it. You understand? Not you fairies, dudes. Not your fucking pals. Real dudes. The dudes you don't like. Every once in a while, shit's going to burn down and you need someone to come in there and clean up the mess and then rebuild it, or war is going to break out or fucking bridge needs to be rebuilt. And guess who we need. Dudes.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Not your fucking LGBT community buddy dudes. Not your fucking black lives matter fat bitches. Dudes. You understand? So stop fucking waging a war on dudes, because every once in a while, you may need one.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

Because every once in a while, you may need to get shit done. Oh, God damn.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

We didn't have mail.

[Adam Carolla]

What's right? I didn't see any chicks. I didn't see any. Anyone who looked like Admiral Levine. I just saw dudes. That's all I saw. Working all the equipment, doing all the heavy lifting and doing all the fucking work.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Sorry, we got to stay. We got a clip about this.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. I got a DEI initiative, which maybe folks on both sides of the aisle might appreciate. I want to do outreach to get more in the teaching. Dudes.

[Latasha Brown]

Look.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

What do you say, Doug? More men in the teaching.

[Latasha Brown]

Look.

[Adam Carolla]

Statistically, it's the boys who are the most likely to be disconnected youth. And a few more male mentors in the classroom and in the playing field.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

As a coach just might help.

[Adam Carolla]

What say you, education committee?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

All right, well, yeah. I mean, just saying what we already know.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. All the. Everything in the stupid Gillette toxic masculinity commercial. Oh, God. When. When. When. When the. When the corporations jump on board, too, it's always, ah, I don't know. This is an old story for me. I'm just telling everyone to fuck off.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

For a million years.

[Adam Carolla]

We need shop class. We need dudes. I'm not gonna fucking apologize for knowing how to build shit. And you need people to know how to build shit, not your fucking process. People sit around and have all your theories about everything. You need fucking people to work every once in a while. Those are dudes, so do not declare war on guys just because they didn't go to college and they don't talk the right way.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Thank you.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Moving on. Sotheby's to auction the original ET model used in Spielberg's 1982 sci fi classic.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, check it out. There's gotta be.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Behold.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, none of this shit, none of this existed back in the day. Memorabilia. Yeah, they didn't care, really.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Not in the 70s. Like, nobody wanted some fit like a Ronald Reagan original, you know, you could do.

[Adam Carolla]

Look, you had Dorothy's ruby slippers. Baseball cards. They had baseball cards. Yeah. But this kind of stuff, I guarantee when this movie ended, everyone just walked off the set and they left over a, you know, fiberglass ET Sitting in the corner. And then some teamster like picked it up, said, what do you want with this? And someone said, I don't know, put it over there. And I swear to God, there's always a story where at some point, look, some. Some point, somebody give me $75 for this thing. And everyone's like, ah, good, they. And they left. And now it's going to be a million.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, it's going to be. It's one of three made for the movie. It's expected to fetch between 600 grand and 900 grand, which probably means more than a million.

[Adam Carolla]

I think it's this shit. First off, nerds are the rich ones now.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

It used to be dudes were rich. Now nerds are rich. Nerds. Nerds. The techie bros. I mean, those guys. And they're all fucking nerds. And they want all this shit. They love all this stuff. All the. Anything Star Wars y or anything. Any Darth Vader's helmet or whatever. I mean, that shit to those guys. More money.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

This auction it's at is called these are such things. 20th century horror, science fiction and fantasy on screen.

[Adam Carolla]

When's it going off?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It is on March 21 and concludes on April 3.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it's an online thing.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It is.

[Adam Carolla]

And started already.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Exactly. And the other iconic films, Wizard, Vaughn, Total Recall, Blade Runner, Labyrinth and Jurassic Park. They're featuring all items from costumes, props and posters.

[Adam Carolla]

There's really nothing we won't buy. Right, Right. Like we'll do porn star panties.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

We'll do chicks who fart in a mason jar. We'll do ET I want the third.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Tit from Total Recall.

[Adam Carolla]

They'll do the third tit. They'll do the Batmobile. Like there's just nothing. There's nothing we won't buy.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

No.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I want one of those Ford Explorers from Jurassic Park. Yeah, roll that up.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah. They. I don't know. It's a. Is the bidding, Dawson? You're gonna have to check. Is the bidding started already? Is it, like online, is it up to a certain number now? And also, you gotta understand. Yeah, you're right. They don't make one, they make three. You know, they make the hero one and then the one for this. And there's like the one that gets blown up. You know, like they. They do that. Backups of everything. Now, does this thing move or do anything? I don't believe.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It's animatronic. It didn't say in the article that. But it's just a model, I guess.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And it just. Exactly what you see. That's what it is. So he just, like, looks kind of forlorn or confused.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, it's funny, all the guys that do all the stuff, like there's the gun collectors, then there's the watch collectors, then there's the E.T. star wars nerds collectors, then there's the car collectors, then there's the sneaker heads, and they all make fun of each other. You're right. The fucking gun guys are like, I like to shoot those fucking sneaker pussies. Look at those guys. Got a fucking closet full of fucking Air Jordans they're never gonna wear. They all make fun of each other, except they're all the same dude. You're right. They're all the same guy. You get watches, he gets sneakers, you get E.T. but the car guys, we're. The real dude's real. Does it say, Dawson, is it up?

[Gino Vanelli]

The opening bid will be half a million dollars.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, okay.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the opening bid. All right. All right.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

A city employee accused of planting a noose at her own desk is getting charged with staging a hate crime.

[Adam Carolla]

Can I say this where we just forget about all the fake bullshit where people. Oh, somebody wrote something on some black kid's dorm room door or something. Where are we? Just in the noose department. Hasn't every noose related story been bullshit? Yes, every Bubba Wallace set up. Well, first things first, can I say, you know, like the great Sigmund Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

And sometimes a loop in a string is just a loop. It's not for someone to grab and pull a garage door down. It's not all a noose.

[Gino Vanelli]

There was Jussie Smollett, Bubba Wallace and the exercise equipment in Oakland, California.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Yes. Right. They're still looking into that. Yes. Yeah, that's right. Yes. Everything's a hate crime. Everything's a hate crime except for there's not enough actual hate to go around, so they have to manufacture it. Okay?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

So, yeah, Police determined that Brown's DNA matched the DNA found on the noose. So she tied the noose herself and placed it on her desk. There she is.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, look, if somebody says to you, look. When you say to a kid, when you skin your niece and you're down on the ground and you're crying and you're six years old, when you say that to a kid and mom will come and hug you and tell you it's okay and ask you if you want some ice cream, do you want some ice cream? And you, tears coming down, and she's let me take care of you and she'll take care of you. At some point, you kind of learn, hey, not too bad. I think I should fucking hold my knee and fall on the ground as much as I can because I'll get some free ice cream and some attention on it. If you just tell black people you're just. You're not wanted and everyone's attacking you, but if something actually happens, everyone's gonna rally around you and build you up and then you're gonna have a press conference and then we can talk about how strong you are emotionally being able to overcome these things. Well, yeah, a lot of these fucking idiots are gonna do it. Why wouldn't you do it? We're. But we're beckoning them to do it. We're setting the table for them to do it. And so of course they're doing it. Why wouldn't they do it?

[Gino Vanelli]

You know, it's step one should be in all these investigations, the person reporting the noose crime. Just check their Google history and see if it says somewhere. How do you tie a noose?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's right.

[Gino Vanelli]

I don't know how to do. If I had to tie. I don't know. I don't think anybody does. You got to look that shit up on YouTube.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I'm from the South. I'll show you.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. I couldn't even do a win. Windsor.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

No, I mean overhand not.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Can we be at the point now where you just assume it's a hoax until otherwise notified, everybody's smoling.

[Gino Vanelli]

Normal people can, but no, no, they're going to double trip this. It's not going to end.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

How many times you think that people got away with this and didn't get smolet?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, what ends up happening? Here's what ends up happening. Like there was a great, great story out of a college where the. And you can look for it, Dawson. I'm closing my eyes because I'm trying to remember There was a college maybe in the south, and they closed the cafeteria. They said, the cafeteria is closed. And some black, maybe exchange student, even from Africa or something, but a black student walked into the closed cafeteria and then sat down and started, like, eating. And then the white custodian or the cafeteria worker guy came around and went, hey, hey, you can't be in here. We're closed, so you gotta see yourself out. And then she saw herself out. And then she cried. Racism. And then the first thing that's insane is they immediately snap into action. They go, all right, well, we gotta fire the custodian. The security guy guy pulled her out of the cafeteria that was closed. We gotta fire him. So let's get rid of him. So they fire him. And it's always like, well, what do you want to hear his story? Or we just fire him. So then they fire him. Then it's all over the news. Then she gets interviewed. And then she's holding back the tears during the interview. And then dumb shits like my mom go, you see? You see what kind of nation we're living in? Do you see what this is? It's still going on today. Today. And then six months later, there's a small little blurb that it never really happened. And the guy that got fired gets his job back with severance. But nobody. CNN doesn't get. CNN's done with the story by then. Yeah, yeah, and that's how it works. What was that story?

[Gino Vanelli]

Smith College, July 2018. She was sitting in a. In an area of the cafeteria that was closed. A cafeteria worker in his 60s with poor vision noticed a figure in the distance eating in a closed off Larry area. The dorm, the janitor.

[Adam Carolla]

By the way, they're getting janitors fired.

[Gino Vanelli]

Yeah, yeah, they fired him. I'm trying to figure out what happened.

[Adam Carolla]

They fired the guy who came around and went, hey, person, closed. It's closed. A person of any color, it's close. Who happens to be black and has a grievance. And who knows if this bitch is brainwashed or whatever it is. There's tape of her, Dawson, like, doing an interview and crying. Yeah, that's the other part I like too. It's like, I wish I was that good an actress. Where I got to go fucking sit in some closed off area, eat a ham sandwich, and then, oh, God save you if you try to ask me to leave because I'll shut this fucking college down, man.

[Gino Vanelli]

The video from the New York Post is unavailable for this one. But yeah, she said, she said all I did was Be black and sit.

[Adam Carolla]

In a restricted area while being black in 2008. And, by the way, on a college campus in 2018. You really made. Really? Really? Half the people are gay, the other half are black, and there's, like, 2% Asian. Is it really? Really? Who is this? Think it's a Klan college. Ooh, write that down. There's a clown college.

[Gino Vanelli]

It's Smith College.

[Adam Carolla]

Smith College. The exotically named. Yeah, I believe that's.

[Gino Vanelli]

Isn't that a women's college?

[Adam Carolla]

I think it is. At some point, by the way, they fire the janitors. Probably just some Mexican dude who makes 40 grand a year. Now they get rid of him immediately, no fucking due process. And then at some point, they have to reinstate him. And they end up getting sued because I would sue, too, if I was the janitor who got up and told the chick the cafeteria was close.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Doing your job?

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Yeah. Did she have a good name, Dawson? I can't remember if she had a good name or not, but anyway, those are the times.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well, this lady, Allentown is.

[Adam Carolla]

I knew she had a good name.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well, this girl with the noose is a Latasha Brown.

[Adam Carolla]

Latasha. Oh, come on. That's too close to retarda. Oh, we got the vid of her.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, here we go.

[Adam Carolla]

This person comes here maybe from another country, eats in the wrong place and has some probably Hispanic guy tell her to leave because it's a restricted. I don't know. Don't you feel like your whole. Don't you feel like half of your adult life, you've gone places and people go, I'm sorry, this exhibit's closed or this thing's closed. You gotta come back tomorrow. We don't open till five. Like, how many times, Dawson, you've been to a fucking hotel or a party or something, a wedding or something, you walk up to the bar and you go, give me a Bud Light. And they go, we're not.

[Gino Vanelli]

Not another five minutes.

[Adam Carolla]

We got another. I've done it. Where it's like, what time is it? Well, we open at 5. What time is it? 4:58 and 41 seconds. I'm like, how about you start getting the Bud Light? We don't start serving. Give me a scenario where that Bud Light hits my hand at 4, 59 and 21 seconds, where you get fired in this empty bar, in this empty lobby of this empty hotel. Is there a part? And the person will stand there. 2:40. Okay? You got 32 and a half seconds, right? You could just pour the beer. Okay. All right, I don't get to cry discrimination, all right? This is the person that went and sat in the cafeteria where she wasn't supposed to be in the cafeteria, and then was just asked to leave. She wasn't pepper sprayed. They didn't let a police dog go on her. But here she is, and that's just not fair. This shouldn't happen to anyone at all. Amou Kanute is a rising sophomore at Smith College and works here this summer teaching chemistry to high schoolers for Smith's STEM program. She was reading in the dining hall of the Tyler House dorm here Tuesday. Next thing you know, I see the cop walk in with Smith employee whom I've never seen before. And the man asked me, we were wondering why you're here. She says police told her an employee had called about a suspicious black man. She recorded video with her phone. Oh, I was eating lunch. I'm working the summer program. Adding her own text on Instagram with a post. That's prompted outrage from supporters. It just still upsets me to just talk about it, because I don't even. A guy goes wondering why you're here, not get on the ground, Blackie. She's in an area she's not supposed to be. So someone is telling her, you gotta leave. But all right. It's prompted outrage from supporters. It just still upsets me to just talk about it because I don't even feel safe on my own campus and I'm away from home. I'm the first in my family to go to college. I'm doing this not only for me, but for my family, for my ancestors. Smith's president sent a state apologizing and assuring the student that she belongs in all Smith spaces. This is. Hold on. This is what created these fucking broken toys. We broke them because this guy, he should have said, hey, bitch, get your shit together and eat your sandwich somewhere else. But he's gotta. They gotta make a statement and they have to apologize. They have to talk about what a painful incident this is. It reminds us of a legacy of racism. Let me read the president's statement. Oh, President Kathleen McCartney.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. She belongs at Smith College, and she belongs in all Smith College spaces. So there are no areas that are. So if she wants to go into the kitchen and make herself a sandwich in the cafeteria, she could do that. She could walk into the boys room. She could join a basketball game on Saturday, I guess just run out there. I mean, you know, party of the. She could run out there. If Smith has a football team or they're doing a gymnastics event. She could jump on those parallel bars. Cuz there are no spaces that she's not allowed at.

[Gino Vanelli]

She gets to access everybody's dorm room.

[Adam Carolla]

She could sleep in anyone's dorm room. Oh, what are the hours for the library?

[Gino Vanelli]

Oh, it's 24.

[Adam Carolla]

7. Well, for this bitch, yeah, for you. And it closed at 5pm but she can walk in drunk at 2am because. Because that's a space that she can. Oh, speaking of spaces. Park where you want.

[Gino Vanelli]

I like how she doesn't like what the cafeteria is serving. She just hopped the counter and get a brick of cheese out of the fridge.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah, it's all spaces are open to her. This painful incident reminds us of the ongoing legacy. I like that ongoing legacy. I feel like it's either a legacy or it's ongoing. I don't know if it's a ongoing legacy, but I. All right, you had us with legacy of racism. But there's an ongoing legacy of racism. By the way, who's keeping the legacy of racism alive? Bitch? Maybe it's Kathleen McCartney from Smith College. Maybe you guys are the keepers of the flame for racism legacy. Cuz that's all you fuckers talk about. But there's an ongoing legacy of racism and the bias in which people of color are targeted while simply going about their business of going about business of their daily lives. So you just walk around Smith College and you're being targeted now bring it on home.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Here's the good part.

[Adam Carolla]

Building an inclusive, diverse and sustainable community is urgent and ongoing work. And if somebody said to me, why did Kamala Harris lose the election? Go read this statement. Read this. Okay. That's why she lost. Because people got a fucking impacted asshole of this. It's a fucking asshole of this shit.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh my God.

[Adam Carolla]

Jesus Christ, bitch. You sat in the cafeteria. Somebody wanted to know what you're doing there and that's it. And I feel bad for her cuz she's broken. Bitches like Kathleen McCarten, president of Smith College. Broker, we broke you. What you needed is someone to go, hey, this ain't a racist place. Now to go fucking read your book somewhere else and get going. That's what. Not fire the janitor and apologize.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

All right?

[Adam Carolla]

Mayhem. I'm disgusted. Now I'm done.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Sorry, bud.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you got me fucking going.

[Michael Rosenbaum]

All right.

[Adam Carolla]

Gino Vanelli, man, that was a conversation. The life I got Name the album out as we speak. Michael Rosenbaum. That was interesting too. Inside living inside of you with Michael Rosenbaum. I'm going to be in San Diego doing standup April 11th and 12th at the American Comedy Club, and then I'm all over the place. Just go to AdamKroll.com for that. Until next time, Adam Kroll for Michael Rosenbaum and Gino Vanelli and Mayhem Set and mahalo.

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