Mission Impossible’s Stephen Oyoung on Fighting Tom Cruise + Biden Breaks Silence after Cancer Diagnosis

Summary

Adam Carolla Show Episode Summary Episode Title: Mission Impossible’s Stephen Oyoung on Fighting Tom Cruise + Biden Breaks Silence after Cancer Diagnosis
Release Date: June 4, 2025
Host: Adam Carolla
Guests: Stephen O. Young (Stuntman and Actor from Mission Impossible), Alicia Krause (News Segment Host), Dr. Drew Pinsky

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1. Introduction

The episode kicks off with Adam Carolla welcoming listeners and introducing the main topics: Alicia Krause delivering the news, and stuntman-actor Stephen O. Young discussing his role in the latest Mission Impossible film. (00:00 - 02:10)

2. The "Sandwich Mom" Metaphor and Cultural Commentary

Adam introduces a unique metaphor comparing sandwich-making to parenting and societal values. He proposes that the quality and variety of sandwiches a country embraces reflect the diversity and effectiveness of its parenting and cultural inclusivity.

• Notable Quote:
  Adam Carolla (03:04): “If you had a mom that was good with the sandwiches ... she's probably good all the way around.”

Alicia Krause engages in the discussion, sharing her homeschooling experience where she made her own sandwiches, highlighting the balance between parental involvement and fostering independence in children.

• Notable Quote:
  Alicia Krause (10:32): “I grew up making my own sandwiches ... because I was homeschooled all 12 years.”

3. Mental Health, Over-Diagnosis, and Self-Diagnosis

The conversation shifts to the topic of mental health, where Adam criticizes the prevalence of self-diagnosed conditions on platforms like TikTok. He argues that many mental health issues are exaggerated or fabricated, promoting a "mind over matter" approach.

• Notable Quote:
  Adam Carolla (29:08): “There's nothing wrong. You have to stop announcing to everyone you're not well all the time.”

Alicia counters by referencing experts like Jonathan Haidt, emphasizing the importance of a supportive nuclear family for children's success.

• Notable Quote:
  Alicia Krause (12:55): “Typically, mom can do that or does better at being a mom when there's a dad there.”

4. Critique of Pharmaceutical Advertising and Jardians Commercial

Adam berates the Jardians commercial for its exhaustive list of side effects, arguing that such advertisements are intrusive and unnecessary. He emphasizes personal responsibility over pharmaceutical intervention.

• Notable Quote:
  Adam Carolla (42:50): “I have a world where I have seen 721 tampon commercials... but I don’t use a tampon.”

Alicia discusses the lack of informed consent in the medical community, linking it to a litigious society and over-reliance on medication.

5. Immigration and Anti-Semitic Attack in Boulder, Colorado

Alicia brings up a tragic incident involving an Egyptian illegal immigrant who attacked Jewish individuals, including a Holocaust survivor. She criticizes the Democratic stance on immigration, suggesting it indirectly contributes to such tragedies by not enforcing strict immigration laws.

• Notable Quote:
  Alicia Krause (73:23): “He was given a work permit while he waited for his immigration apparently. ... he tried to burn up some old Jews.”

Adam extends the criticism by questioning the effectiveness of gun laws and immigration policies, advocating for stricter enforcement to prevent such attacks.

6. Street Vendors vs. Established Businesses

Adam and Alicia debate the impact of street vendors on small businesses. Adam argues that street vendors undercut licensed businesses due to lower overhead costs, while Alicia believes there is room for both, emphasizing competition and market niches.

• Notable Quote:
  Adam Carolla (86:11): “The guy who owns Toluca Lake flower store... he can't because it's not permitted or zoned for him to do that.”

They discuss the regulatory environment in Los Angeles, with Alicia suggesting that most street vendors are licensed and regulated, a point Adam disputes by citing data skepticism.

7. Guest Interview: Stephen O. Young on Stunt Work and Mission Impossible

Stephen O. Young joins the show to discuss his experiences as a stuntman and actor in the Mission Impossible franchise. He shares insights into the physical and mental demands of performing high-risk stunts, applauding the continued emphasis on practical effects over CGI.

• Notable Quote:
  Stephen O. Young (102:34): “I always wanted to be an actor because they get the glory and the FaceTime.”

Dr. Drew Pinsky and Adam delve into specific stunts, praising Tom Cruise’s dedication and the craftsmanship behind the action sequences.

• Notable Quote:
  Adam Carolla (132:15): “So, yeah, I'll tell you my greatest takeaway from watching him on the wing of the airplane...”

Stephen discusses upcoming projects, including The Wrecking Crew, highlighting the importance of perseverance and creating one’s own opportunities in the entertainment industry.

8. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

The episode wraps up with a reflection on cultural representation in media, the importance of repetition and discipline in mastering skills, and a nod to the dynamic nature of American society. Adam encourages listeners to create their own paths rather than relying on traditional avenues for success.

• Notable Quote:
  Adam Carolla (128:44): “Make your own show is what I'm saying. Create your own thing.”

Stephen shares inspiring anecdotes about his career and interactions with industry legends like Tom Cruise, reinforcing the episode's themes of hard work and self-initiative.

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Key Takeaways:

• Cultural Metaphors: Using everyday elements like sandwiches to reflect broader societal and parenting values.
• Mental Health Critique: Skepticism towards the proliferation of self-diagnosed mental conditions and over-reliance on pharmaceuticals.
• Immigration Stance: Advocating for stricter immigration enforcement to prevent potential threats while criticizing current Democratic policies.
• Street Vendors Debate: Balancing support for small businesses with concerns over competition and regulatory compliance.
• Stunt Work Insights: Emphasizing the physical and mental rigor of stunt professionals and the value of practical effects in modern filmmaking.
• Personal Initiative: Encouraging listeners to create their own opportunities and shows rather than waiting for traditional pathways to open up.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Adam Carolla (03:04): “If you had a mom that was good with the sandwiches ... she's probably good all the way around.”
• Alicia Krause (10:32): “I grew up making my own sandwiches ... because I was homeschooled all 12 years.”
• Adam Carolla (29:08): “There's nothing wrong. You have to stop announcing to everyone you're not well all the time.”
• Alicia Krause (12:55): “Typically, mom can do that or does better at being a mom when there's a dad there.”
• Adam Carolla (42:50): “I have a world where I have seen 721 tampon commercials... but I don’t use a tampon.”
• Alicia Krause (73:23): “He was given a work permit while he waited for his immigration apparently. ... he tried to burn up some old Jews.”
• Adam Carolla (86:11): “The guy who owns Toluca Lake flower store... he can't because it's not permitted or zoned for him to do that.”
• Stephen O. Young (102:34): “I always wanted to be an actor because they get the glory and the FaceTime.”
• Adam Carolla (132:15): “So, yeah, I'll tell you my greatest takeaway from watching him on the wing of the airplane...”

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This comprehensive summary encapsulates the episode's multifaceted discussions, offering insights into cultural critiques, personal anecdotes, and industry-specific conversations. Whether you're a regular listener or new to the Adam Carolla Show, this summary provides a clear overview of the episode's key themes and memorable moments.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

From Corolla One studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, stuntman and actor from the new Mission Impossible, Stephen O. Young. Plus the news and trending topics with Alicia Crouse. And now, disgusting abomination, Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on, Judge. We're gonna mend it. You get it on. Thanks for tuning in. We love that. Thanks for going over to the YouTube page and watching all these fun clips. We're cutting up for you guys. And the vlogs for fire vlogs. Thanks for supporting all that. It's been quite a success. Lots of good feedback. Thank you very much. Alicia Kraus is here. She's going to do the news and a little role playing.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, I don't know if I agreed to that.

[Adam Carolla]

You agreed to a little cosplay, my lady.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay. The roleplay part, my husband would be like.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's a role. He's like, your dad passed you in a very important role. Okay, so we'll get into that in a second. I got much to think about.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm now obsessed and slash fascinated on this concept that I came up with some months ago. And I've now expanded it into a more global concept. There's a micro and a macro here.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, wow.

[Adam Carolla]

And I've been thinking about it a lot. And what I've been thinking about a lot is your young life.

[Alicia Krause]

And he thinks I'm young.

[Adam Carolla]

No. I'm going to the wayback Machine, baby. I'm picturing Alicia Crouse as a youngster and her sandwich situation. Now, before you answer, I've been thinking about it for a while, and I.

[Alicia Krause]

Thought my sandwich situation or sandwiches Globally.

[Adam Carolla]

Globally, but also micro and macro, which is to say, if you had a mom that was good with the sandwiches, did a lot of work, made you what you wanted. It's not really about what kind of sandwich it was. What kind of sandwich do you want? And did you get that sandwich? If that was your mom, you had a pretty on top of it, good mom. Globally, she's probably good all the way around. You know what I mean? And conversely, if you had a bad sandwich mom, she was probably bad all the way around. And I was thinking about it, and I talked to Dr. Drew about it for about 20 minutes today. And I know his mom. I knew his mom, and I knew his relationship with his mom, and I knew what kind of person his mom was.

[Alicia Krause]

And did it confirm your theory?

[Dawson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

I was like, you did not have a good sandwich experience growing up. And he was like, yeah, I got a shit sandwich. And I said, now there's also an option. And it's a range you could have. Believe it or not, there's a zero sandwich mom.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, like the mom that forgets or just doesn't give a shit. So she doesn't.

[Adam Carolla]

No sandwich mom.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's, you know, high on drugs, locked in a room the whole time, not coming out. I mean, there's a. There's a zero sandwich mom. Right? And then there's the boar's head of the heap. You know, he likes smoked gouda, and smoked gouda he shall have. There's that. Buying special rolls. He's a Kaiser man.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, that's my children. They get their grandmother's homemade sourdough.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, that's just what I'm telling you. But you're good mom, is what I'm saying. But you don't. You're not a 10 in the sandwich department. And then put cigarettes out on them and beat them with a cane. It's like you're also the mom that's saving for college and in the stands at girls volleyball game. And it's a global thing. But I'm saying We no longer need to look at all aspects of a child's life with. Just delve into the sandwich part. And then I went global with it.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

This country is the best. And we're also number one sandwich country. We're number one. And now, first off, when you're at number one sandwich company or country, you're basically saying, a, we value diversity because we have like 700 different kinds of sandwiches.

[Alicia Krause]

They're all really good.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. And then what does a sandwich take? It takes a village. We're a melting pot. It's like. It's not. We don't just eat beef tongue sandwich. It's like, no, we need smoked turkey over here, and someone's got to make the cheese. A little provolone would be nice. Then there's the tomato and the pickle slices. It's like, what we need is. We need. This is what this country is. We need welders.

[Alicia Krause]

Anyone else very hungry right now?

[Adam Carolla]

I'm getting hungry. We need.

[Alicia Krause]

Get some sandwiches.

[Adam Carolla]

We need the SpaceX people. But we also need plumbers. But we also.

[Alicia Krause]

And they all like a good sandwich.

[Adam Carolla]

And we need cello players. Like, we just got. We just. We do everything here.

[Alicia Krause]

Pulled pork and a blt. All crazy.

[Adam Carolla]

It all adds to the others.

[Alicia Krause]

That's true.

[Adam Carolla]

You see what I'm saying?

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And also, if you're a shit sandwich nation, your nation sucks too. No one goes, oh, you've been to the delis in Darfur? Oh, my God. No, no. You show me the shit box country, I'll show you the zero sandwich. Now here's the bad countries. You ready? Every country. And I've researched this. Every country. Why have my people do it? But the point is this. Every country. Most every country has a sandwich.

[Alicia Krause]

Really?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, most. But they got one sandwich.

[Alicia Krause]

It's their sandwich that they're, like, known for.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. They got. Well, we got pita bread with the shawarma on it, but we don't have a blt, obviously. And a million other sandwiches.

[Dawson]

France has a baguette with brie.

[Adam Carolla]

France has France. No, hold on a second. France is a good sandwich nation because they're a good nation. UK is a good sandwich. And now look, we're number one. I'm not saying we're not number.

[Alicia Krause]

Number one in the sandwiches, but that's.

[Adam Carolla]

Why we're number one. It's our diversity. We have 7 million different sandwiches. They're all good. By the way, we all welcome your sandwich. I like a falafel, I like a poor boy, and I like a You know, Cuban sandwich or whatever.

[Alicia Krause]

Eat the same sandwich all the time.

[Adam Carolla]

It's our diversity.

[Alicia Krause]

So. You know, it's funny, now that you say this, my mind is kind of blown, and I feel like Stanford or USC or somebody should do a deeper dive into this.

[Adam Carolla]

Denmark is known for their sandwiches, but it's also a great nation. It's a safe nation.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Is what I'm saying. It's a good. Here's what I'm saying. I will tell you nothing about the Alicia Krause. You're going on vacation, I'm going to send you there.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay, Sweet.

[Adam Carolla]

I won't tell you anything about rivers or lakes or castles or beaches or anything. I will just tell you they're very diverse and very good with their sandwiches versus they have no sandwich game. They have one sandwich or no sandwich.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

You pick the one with the most sandwiches. That's the best place to go to.

[Alicia Krause]

Also, they probably have a decent. If they have a good sandwich, they probably have decent, like, beer and wine, too.

[Adam Carolla]

It's everything. Except we have 7,000 IPAs. We have. Germany has good sandwiches, but they make Porsche and Audi in BMW, too. Shit countries have one shit sandwich. It makes zero cars. It's a thing. It's global.

[Alicia Krause]

So you know what I just realized? Like, my mind is blown here. Whenever I travel across the country for speeches or I'm sure, like, you and you're doing your standup and stuff, you. I always Google whatever city I'm in, whether it's Chicago, Pittsburgh, dfw, Austin. Like, what is, like, this. This food of the city, Right. And then I want to go to a place that has that food. And oftentimes, it's usually a take on a burger or a sandwich.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, like permanentes in Pittsburgh or something like that.

[Alicia Krause]

Exactly. I've totally been there.

[Adam Carolla]

So you're a great sandwich, mom.

[Alicia Krause]

It's the boar's head and the homemade sourdough.

[Adam Carolla]

How did you grow up?

[Alicia Krause]

So this is gonna weird you out. I grew up making my own sandwiches. Not because I have a shit mom, but because I was homeschooled all 12 years. So, like, we could just, like, do it ourselves. And I actually think that there's something in doing it yourself.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm gonna. I'm offering a third homeschool.

[Alicia Krause]

Kids.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I hadn't worked that into my original equation, but. No, I'm gonna say this. Are you ready? There is no sandwich, mom. That's what I had. Then there's shit sandwich, mom. That's what Drew had. Then there's top 10 sandwich mom. That's what you are.

[Alicia Krause]

Thank you very much.

[Adam Carolla]

There is a third one, which is both parents are very busy and or professional and shall provide you with all the necessary ingredients for your own wonderful sandwich. But you shall make it. Cause Mom's heading to the law office.

[Alicia Krause]

That makes sense.

[Adam Carolla]

I will accept that. If you want to have all the materials for a good sandwich and the kid is old enough or what have you, then so be it.

[Alicia Krause]

They can make their own sandwich. They can make the sandwich in that.

[Adam Carolla]

Drew brought up the nanny. It was so funny. We were talking to Daphne and she was like, my mom? No, no. We're talking to Andrew. And he said, my mom used to toast the bread. And Drew's head exploded. Like, toast the bread. Like, he didn't even know that was an option for the sandwich. The actual.

[Alicia Krause]

It depends on the sandwich.

[Adam Carolla]

It does help, but the extra. Yeah, but the shit sandwich mom does not toast bread before the sandwich. That's a good. That's the loving mom.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Cause the sandwich is 10% better depending on the sandwich, if it's on the toasted bread. But it's an extra step and it's effort. That shit sandwich mom doesn't want to put in.

[Alicia Krause]

This is.

[Adam Carolla]

Which is also then a global problem, because she's not putting the extra effort in anywhere. The sandwich is a metaphor. It's a yardstick to measure mom. And it's a yardstick to measure societies, cultures in other countries.

[Alicia Krause]

You know, what's interesting is Jonathan Haidt recently said, and I think Emily Oster and other statisticians have talked about, like, back to the mom thing. Typically, mom can do that or does better at being a mom when there's a dad there. Right. This traditional nuclear family that even kids that didn't grow up with both parents in the home, if they live in a neighborhood or a community in which the majority of the families like mom and dad are together, statistically, they go on to be more successful in life. So that speaks to what you're saying, like, broadly as a nation. Lots of sandwiches equal lots of good moms. That's why we're number one.

[Adam Carolla]

Vietnam is a single sandwich society.

[Alicia Krause]

Is it a bond? Me?

[Adam Carolla]

Yep.

[Alicia Krause]

So good.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, it's good, but it's just one.

[Alicia Krause]

It's better when they come here and make it here and they integrate.

[Adam Carolla]

It's all they got. We integrate here. Mexico, one sandwich. Greece, one sandwich.

[Dawson]

Dawson, I want to just shit on one of your points a little bit.

[Adam Carolla]

You kind of got started with France, but go ahead.

[Dawson]

In the uk, they eat butter sandwiches. I don't really think that England is a strong sandwich.

[Alicia Krause]

I don't know. They have a Londoner and a Londoner is like a marmalade, a ham, a cheese and like fresh bread. That sounds delicious.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm only going off my research which says, well, first off, look, we have bologna sandwiches. I don't like bologna sandwiches. I don't know who does.

[Alicia Krause]

I have a guy that does.

[Adam Carolla]

I love them bologna sandwiches.

[Alicia Krause]

I know two guys that do.

[Adam Carolla]

Of course you love baloney sandwich. Look, what's the last time you made.

[Dawson]

A bologna sandwich within a month?

[Adam Carolla]

You made a boy, bought bologna, made a sandwich. Yeah, because I know I only ever go, nobody does this, Dawson, because I did it yesterday. My doesn't matter what it is.

[Dawson]

My mom and dad raised us to kind of take care of ourselves and as soon as we were able, physically able to make our own lunches, we had to do that.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we had bologna sandwiches too, but I hate it. I'm old now.

[Dawson]

Like baloney, bologna, salami. Those are pretty much our go tos in the house.

[Adam Carolla]

So you still in modern times do a bologna sandwich Still.

[Dawson]

I love it.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so it's a shit sandwich that France and other countries and the aforementioned Denmark probably wouldn't embrace bologna sandwiches. But we have them here.

[Dawson]

You got to put fritos on a bologna sandwich.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we're not as high as you are either, so.

[Dawson]

Good.

[Adam Carolla]

The other countries are going to have their own butter sandwich or whatever sandwich that we don't embrace. But they also also have a variety. Denmark, UK and France are big players in the sandwich market according to my research. But US is number one by far. We have franchises. We have all the sandwich franchises everywhere. We do, we do $160 billion in sandwiches every year.

[Dawson]

We have sandwich professionals.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, we do.

[Dawson]

In the United States, guys.

[Alicia Krause]

My mom and dad mostly. My mom though used to run a Subway.

[Adam Carolla]

What?

[Alicia Krause]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

You are the perfect person to speak to.

[Alicia Krause]

It's like flashback. Do you know those like big blow up costumes that they wear that are supposed to look like a foot long sandwich? I had to help some poor high school student see out of one of those.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh really?

[Alicia Krause]

Walk them around, you know, the city, the county fair and the local parade on the 4th of July in my little green Subway sandwich shirt.

[Adam Carolla]

Also the other side of the sandwich is a kind of a joy and participation. Which is to say like Jim Carolla didn't have a sandwich. My dad didn't have a sandwich. But it's also he didn't Embrace life, per se. You know what I mean? Like, the best moment is when you take your son or your daughter, you go to the Jersey Mike's, and you go, I want the foot long on the white bread with the smoked turkey. I want extra vinaigrette sauce on there. Tomato. Really hungry, guys. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. You do it, and then you look at your son or your daughter and you go, what do you want? And then they go, I want the Italian special with extra olives or some shit. And you go, now we're just enjoying each other. And then the greatest bonding moment is you sit down, you want a bite of my sandwich, and I take a bite of yours. So it's not. It's not. It's not just about, I need sustenance. It's like, my dad didn't enjoy life enough to give himself a sandwich. You know, he didn't have a. I love. You know, we're going down Felipe's. We're getting a French dip. You know, like, he. That. That's a joyful thing.

[Alicia Krause]

That's such a good point. There's. I don't know if I should say the name of the place, but there's like. There's so many good sandwich spots in la, by the way. And, like, a sandwich is probably my husband's love language. And every weekend we do a family hike, usually like Griffith Park, Malibu somewhere. And then afterwards, we go get a sandwich. And like, we do that with our love.

[Adam Carolla]

There's love. There's great bonding.

[Alicia Krause]

We have four kids, and we get, like, five different sandwiches, and we just split it all up.

[Adam Carolla]

This now. So Drew's family did not do that.

[Alicia Krause]

Aw, poor Drew.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? But it's not. It's. Cause my family didn't do it. Like, shit. Families don't do that because it's a thing. But it's not about, we need calories. We just hiked. It's like, we want to do something joyful.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes. That creates, like, happy memories and tasty food and, like, it's insight into other people and what they like. Like, what's your favorite sandwich?

[Adam Carolla]

The beauty of the sandwich is it moves around. You know what I mean? Like, it could be the Reuben sandwich, it could be the pastrami sandwich, it could be the corned beef sandwich. Like, it'll move a great turkey deli kind of thing. Great Italian style. I mean, it'll move around.

[Dawson]

Yeah, but you have to choose.

[Adam Carolla]

I have to choose.

[Alicia Krause]

Gun to your head. You had to choose.

[Adam Carolla]

I would say that when I go in and make my sandwich. I would get smoked turkey. I would get a cheese that was a little more interesting like provolone. I would get mustard, mayo, and a little olive oil vinaigrette sauce on there. I like a little moist, you know, I would definitely want big slabs of beefsteak tomato on there.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Not, you know, lettuce is fine, but unnecessary. Little onion, but light, you know, lightly kind of long shreds of it, you know, just to get a little onion taste in there. A little pickle action. And that's, that's probably my sandwich if I had to live off one.

[Alicia Krause]

Sometimes I do like a like pickle on. I like something with a crunch. Like honestly, I love a good like Italian or I love like prosciutto mozzarella. Like oh, crunchy baguette. So good. But like at home I would choose like my mother in law's sourdough. Sometimes my husband smokes a little like bacon on the green egg and like do a homemade BLT with like the fresh. Like it's just so good. It screams summer to me too. Like summertime deliciousness.

[Adam Carolla]

So remember, I'm a good mom.

[Alicia Krause]

I'm. I make good sandwiches. And America needs more good moms. Is that what we boil down to?

[Adam Carolla]

And sandwiches and good luck. If you're an adult and somebody goes, what was your mom's sandwich? I said to Drew and he goes, shit sandwich. I was like, all right, that's bad. That means not a good global relationship with your mom. You should go, my mom used to make the best. And then you get into a little bit.

[Alicia Krause]

Or she cut the crust off of.

[Adam Carolla]

My PB and sandwich. Whatever it takes. You want that story? Not no sandwich or shit sandwich.

[Alicia Krause]

So is this a question?

[Adam Carolla]

And in a nation, the more variety of sandwiches that are embraced, the more inclusive. I would argue that this country really doesn't have racism because of our sandwich embracing culture.

[Alicia Krause]

Larry Elder would agree.

[Adam Carolla]

Larry would agree with my sandwich.

[Alicia Krause]

No, but also, should this be like a dating app? Is this a way for men and women to figure out. Because you don't just marry the person, you don't just date the person. It's the whole family.

[Dawson]

I'm looking for a girl who likes a Monte Cristo.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes, but not only who likes a Monte Cristo, whose mom maybe taught her how to make it or whose mom used to make her sandwiches.

[Adam Carolla]

The app's called it's just a sandwich from the guys who brought you. It's just lunch. It's just a sandwich with lunch.

[Alicia Krause]

Uh huh.

[Adam Carolla]

And you Learn.

[Alicia Krause]

Look, psychological.

[Adam Carolla]

It's true. When you're dating a woman and she's telling you how much she hates her dad, that's going to be trouble for you. It's not going to work out. If you're looking at a woman and you want to know, going to make a good mom for your children one day. The sandwich. The sandwich is everything. All you need to know is the sandwich and if she's some sort of weird vegan bitch. And it's like, fuck that. We can't eat sandwiches. I want to know. I want.

[Alicia Krause]

Just get out on the first date.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to go to Jersey Mike's. You know what I'm going to do? I don't know if I would tell them. I would just go. You know what? I planned a whole picnic for our first date. I think it'd be nice.

[Alicia Krause]

And you got the sandwiches.

[Adam Carolla]

I wouldn't be so presumptuous. Oh, we're going to go. We'll just swing by Jersey Mike's on the way up to the trail and you order whatever you like, my lady.

[Alicia Krause]

It's a good way to read that.

[Adam Carolla]

And I'm just going to sit there with the notepad time. Stand up.

[Alicia Krause]

No, but I'm also saying that smoked provolone. I know Dr. Drew is in a happy and healthy long time relationship, but I'm saying as a woman, if you go on a first date with a dude and you're like, hey, so like school lunches. My favorite was PB&J. What was yours? And they're like, oh, I didn't get that. Then you know there's also going to be mommy issues with the dude too.

[Adam Carolla]

Or you get the weirdo, the guy goes head cheese. Yeah, that's a right. Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

New dating app.

[Adam Carolla]

New dating app.

[Alicia Krause]

Gonna go in on it with me.

[Adam Carolla]

It's just a sandwich.

[Alicia Krause]

It's just a sandwich.

[Adam Carolla]

You learn a lot. And also, you know what you don't want? You know what, the other thing about.

[Alicia Krause]

The sandwich, other than vegan and the head cheese guy.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

They're gone.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

The other is not allowed on the app. The other is when I say to my lady friend, just go tell the Jersey Mike's guy whatever you want. I'm just gonna stand over here, get my pay when they're ready. I'm listening. I'm making notes. I'm judging. If you get too like, you go toasted, but lightly toasted mayo, but light mayo, could have the mustard on the side. You get too modular and too granular and Too specific. She's a pain in the ass. She's a pain in the ass.

[Alicia Krause]

Having worked at the subway line and people tell you all the things they don't want instead of the things that they do.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

No. Always choose the shorter option for the first poor person behind the counter.

[Adam Carolla]

I can tell you a pain in the ass person by how many specific details you need to weave into that sandwich order.

[Alicia Krause]

And like, I'm gluten free, high maintenance. Could you just make sure Is that whole wheat organically?

[Adam Carolla]

Know what I'm gonna say? I'm going. You know what? I left my wallet in the car. I'm just gonna run out. You're just gonna hear it fire up and me speed away.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. All right. So we've solved that problem.

[Alicia Krause]

Cool.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Stephen O. Young]

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[Adam Carolla]

Now, on to other things. You got a part to read?

[Alicia Krause]

I do, yes.

[Adam Carolla]

The variety of Uber drivers is mind numbing to me. Yeah, I.

[Alicia Krause]

It's kind of fun, but also it's kind of like Russian roulette.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh my God. I got into an Uber here and drove to North Hollywood. Toluca Lake, four miles as the crow flies. But it was like 12, 14 minute ride the other day and this chick picked me up and the door didn't shut to the back before she started in. No, you started hard. Now I went to this place in North Hollywood. I ubered back here. Guy picked me up. There was not one word.

[Alicia Krause]

He didn't say a word.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know that he exhaled. I think I got in and he just went. And we just drove in a vacuum all the way here. There was not a word exchanged versus the most Verbiage per mile I've ever heard in my life on the way to the same place 10 minutes later.

[Alicia Krause]

So. But you know, on the app, you can say, like, what temperature you want, what music you want.

[Adam Carolla]

Sandwich.

[Alicia Krause]

There we go. Another app idea. Uber eats in the Uber ride.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Alicia Krause]

They should combine the two. But did you select any of those things?

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Alicia Krause]

She just had a hard day and wanted to chit chat a little bit.

[Adam Carolla]

She had a lot going on, and I've been really kind of breaking this down, and I'd be very interested in hearing your take on it as a woman, as a sandwich mom of four. I want to know, because I tell people all the time when they say you're not very empathetic, you're not very sympathetic. You don't really go like, oh, yeah, no. Right. No, you had to be scared. I would be so scared. You know what I mean?

[Alicia Krause]

You're not the doctor Drew in the scenario.

[Adam Carolla]

He's such a dick. He's such a dick. I've told Dr. Drew a thousand times. His. His bedside manner sucks. It sucks. And he does it to me all the time. I was telling him, I was talking to him today, and I said, I got this injection of steroids, and it's real thick, and how do you get it in the syringe? And it kind of talked me through it a little bit. And I said, all right, all right, I'm gonna do that later. And he goes, it's gonna hurt. And I was like, what? And I was like, I'm doing it, I'm doing it anyway. Why do you have to fill my head with this?

[Alicia Krause]

Why?

[Adam Carolla]

And by the way, all the stuff he says is gonna be bad is never bad. He told me when I got my hernia surgery, I was gonna be bad for two weeks. I was gonna be writhing in pain. It was gonna be so brutal.

[Alicia Krause]

Maybe he does that. So then mentally.

[Adam Carolla]

Pussy.

[Alicia Krause]

No, no, I'm saying maybe as your friend, he's doing that so mentally you're prepared for the worst. And then you can walk out of it and be like, that wasn't that bad.

[Adam Carolla]

Nah, he doesn't know what he's doing. He does it all the time. But anyway.

[Alicia Krause]

So neither of you are empathetic is what you're saying.

[Adam Carolla]

He may be.

[Alicia Krause]

I think he is.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm not. But here's my thing. People tell me all the time, they go. They go, well, my problem is I didn't eat for like 12 hours. And then I ate. And then I ate red meat and Then so what? It made me want to lay down. And I'm like, you're fine, you're fine. It's just up, you know, just go, go, go. And they go, I don't have. I have like an acid. It's not acid reflux, but I have a stom my head hurts myself because I go, just get up, get up. Go start dust your shit off and just get the fuck to work. And they're like, I don't feel right. And I'm like, put on some classical music and take a hike. Go break a sweat. Go jump into a freezing lake. Just go, get going. And they go, I'm not. Well, I'm not. And I'm like, stop announcing to everyone you're not well all the time.

[Alicia Krause]

Some things used to be kept private also.

[Adam Carolla]

It's all in your fucking head. Just fucking get going, Break a sweat, get moving, you'll be fine. Get to work, get a hobby, get whatever. Stop thinking about stuff all the time.

[Alicia Krause]

That is true.

[Adam Carolla]

Listen, they big pharma has figured out 10 different medications that you all need to be on. Except for you don't need to be on these things. What you need is a workout. You need a hobby. You need a passion. You need a goal.

[Alicia Krause]

Maybe a friend.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe a friend. Maybe a cold plunge, Maybe a nature hike. Maybe a little box or Beethoven and a sandwich. Maybe a sandwich. Maybe a good sandwich therapy. Sandwich therapy. Okay, stop telling me what's wrong with you. Yeah, there's nothing wrong. You know, many people. How many people's backs are fucked up that aren't really fucked up, they're just mental cases. How many people have headaches all the time? Everyone under 40 has got some shit going on with their stomach. I can't eat hot food. Yes, you can. You can do. I went on the show Hot Ones. I ate every fucking wing. I got to Scoville scale 5 billion. Did you say that wing? I did nothing. I did nothing. I went home that day at dinner, took a shit the next morning, got went to work. I didn't know. I wouldn't have known what I did because I wasn't thinking about it. And I don't care.

[Alicia Krause]

That's a really.

[Adam Carolla]

People are way too up in their head.

[Alicia Krause]

I couldn't do hot ones.

[Adam Carolla]

Wait, so I'm not. Listen, I have a lot of empathy for like compound fractures and stuff, you know, but you and whatever your ailment is in your head that you like.

[Alicia Krause]

Self diagnosed on TikTok.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, not well. A doctor will tell you you're on the spectrum of everything. And then prescribe you drugs? Yes, okay, but here's what I'm saying. That's his business. And you're buying into it. Don't buy into it. Fucking get busy. Go get busy.

[Alicia Krause]

So you're really kind of preaching the like, mind over matter, like the Dennis Prager, act happy, be happy. Like act healthy, be healthy.

[Adam Carolla]

Nobody on a farm has your problems. Why? Why? Because they gotta get up and they gotta do shit.

[Alicia Krause]

They gotta do the thing and they.

[Adam Carolla]

Just go do it. And stop telling me about your back or what this meal made you feel like.

[Alicia Krause]

And you don't want your Uber driver to ever, ever do that.

[Adam Carolla]

She started now.

[Alicia Krause]

Hang on, I have a question. I don't mean to trigger you. Had it been a dude, would you be more annoyed or less annoyed?

[Adam Carolla]

I go harder on the dudes.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Cuz now you're pussy. On top of all your fake bullshit, you're puss. I have more sympathy for women. And also I am a guy, so I know you're full of shit.

[Alicia Krause]

You know what's so funny?

[Adam Carolla]

Also, I worked with a thousand guys. None of them ever had any of your problems. What happened in the last 10 minutes? And I was like, oh, right, we were poor and had to fucking work.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes. But what's funny is there is definitely like a bullshit meter that I think men are able to judge other men and women are able to judge other women. Right. Like, we can just read it in a different way.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm at the point where when someone is telling me what's wrong with their stomach and what's wrong with their back, I don't believe them anymore. I think there's something wrong with their head.

[Alicia Krause]

It's like a group problem. It's like the trends that you see in young girls or teens that have addiction.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's like every third celebrity's son is transitioning. Is that an actual medical situation that happened in the last nine years? Every other celebrity son is getting their dick cut off in the last 10 minutes. Do we think that's an actual phenomenon or is that just something drunk their fucking head and they're buying into some bullshit? Or maybe it's true. Or as Bill Maher, whomever points out, only in Los Angeles and New York.

[Alicia Krause]

Never in the heartland amongst very rich, white, liberal people.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I don't think so. And then you get to the celebrities where it's like, I got three kids and they're all transitioning. It's like, all right, something is going.

[Alicia Krause]

On other than this, psychologically, mentally, Emotionally, I mean, this is what Abigail Shrier and everybody talk about, right?

[Adam Carolla]

And what that person needs is a, hey, you're a woman. That's fine. You're going through a rough patch. We'll get a little counseling. Don't cut your tits off. Move ahead.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, but heaven forbids society and the left embrace womanhood.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I embrace it. Cause I want a fucking sandwich. But my thing is I am not doing you a favor by getting down in your retarded mud and rolling around with you. I'd rather say you're fine. Get up. Rub some dirt on it. Let's get back to work. Here, make me a sandwich and keep your titty. All right. So this woman who's a young woman.

[Alicia Krause]

Aw, that's sad.

[Adam Carolla]

I feel bad because they're inundated with all of what is wrong with them.

[Alicia Krause]

All the time, all day, every day.

[Adam Carolla]

And they start embracing it. Now I just filmed my feet.

[Alicia Krause]

Stop.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I didn't want to film her.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, okay.

[Adam Carolla]

And then I wrote a little transcript for you to play the role of her. But I'll play you my little setup which for some reason was on the screen and has now been removed. Not sure why we do that, but here we go. And what else you got?

[Dr. Drew]

80.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. All right. Kind of heard her talk a little there, but all right.

[Alicia Krause]

So you said what else you got?

[Adam Carolla]

That was my. Anyway, you can edit out. The whole plan was I didn't want to get sued and hear her name on. I didn't hear her talk on camera. So anyway, but that was my plan anyway, so. Hold on a second. We just got to stop. Andrew, you got to cut. I can't hear her talk, you understand? So cut it. But I don't know why you needed four seconds of me, but I like what you were trying to do. All right, you ready? I asked her. I sat in her car for six minutes while she told me what was wrong with her. And then at a certain point I thought I should record this cuz I'm never gonna remember all that is wrong. What appeared to be a very healthy, able bodied 29 year old woman or young woman. I have no idea exactly how old she was. All right. And the following is what she said. What do you have?

[Alicia Krause]

I have adhd, pcos, PMDD and also muscular dystrophy. And I was born to like a 49, 50 year old man, my father. And my mom was 38 and she had me on birth control and antibiotics. And no one at the time told her that in the 90s that antibiotics. Antibiotics actually counteract birth control.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, is that all of it? What about the other part we talked about talking about? That's on there or. I have it. Oh, you got another page.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, there's also the poly. Well, so PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome and that causes some women to be elevated in estrogen or testosterone. And I have more elevated testosterone is what she told you?

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

Premenstrual dysphoria disorder.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. I asked her what does all these letters mean? But she also gave a big global Late stage diagnosed autism. Late stage diagnosed autism. That's what she had. That's her overall. That's on the billboard.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

And then what all the letters stand for, she has.

[Alicia Krause]

So PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome, which causes some women to be elevated in estrogen or testosterone. She said that she had more testosterone. Premenstrual dysphoria disorder is pmdd. It's a severe form of premenstrual syndrome. Pms, characterized by significant premenstrual mood disturbance, often with prominent mood reactivity and irritability. Symptoms can include depression, anxiety, irritability and anger and are severe enough to interfere with social or occupational functioning.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

And then she was late adult, diagnosed autistic.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. This is just the beginning of what this person had. This is.

[Alicia Krause]

And she told you about this in a 10 minute car ride?

[Adam Carolla]

No highway miles, all street. This is all on the street. Maybe this is like side streets.

[Alicia Krause]

Maybe she felt safe with you.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, pardon the pun. It was not a two way street because I was starting to get nervous now that she was talking about suicidal ideations and stuff. And I was like, I'm in the back if you want to just drive us off a cliff about now.

[Alicia Krause]

Dear Lord have mercy.

[Adam Carolla]

It was weird.

[Alicia Krause]

So like one star.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I didn't care. I found it interesting. But the part that was interesting is that this person has been listening to a steady. She'd been fed a steady diet of all these syndromes.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, from childhood.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, that everyone's on the spectrum of. And what she needed is someone around her to go, hey, get up, it's five in the morning, we're taking a cold dunk in the lake and then we're going on a fucking eight mile hike. Let's go.

[Alicia Krause]

I actually feel like when she talks about how her mom had her because of when she was on birth control and antibiotics, like in the 90s. My loving mother, as you pointed out, I'm such a good mom. Goes to. Oh, she wasn't wanted or she never felt wanted. And that is like the core of all of her issues.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Alicia Krause]

Right.

[Dawson]

Yeah, I guess there's a. I think there's a lot of attention seeking in this.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah, no, no.

[Dawson]

She did feel loved and wanted. She wouldn't be over diagnosed.

[Adam Carolla]

But let me tell you guys something. A kid and Andrew. Oh yeah, here it is. You get rid of that Jardiance commercial because this is going to lead into it. Look, look, anyone who has kids, anyone who's ever had kids will understand this scenario. The one kid comes in, 4 year old, and they come in and like, woo, I skin my knee, I skin my knee. And then mommy, good mommy stops making the sandwich and rushes over and goes, oh, are you okay? Are you okay? And then sit down, here's a juice box, let me clean up for you. I'll take care.

[Dr. Drew]

Shh.

[Adam Carolla]

And the other kid will watch it. And then the other kid will go, I hurt my finger. And then the mom, because the kid's going, okay, all this attention.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep, for the second.

[Adam Carolla]

All this love, all this is getting. Now I don't want to hurt my knee, but I would like mama to come up to me and pay this kind of attention to me. So when we offer all this stuff magically, everyone now is on the spectrum for everything and has everything, has everything because. Because you have the pharmaceutical companies and the medical big medicine pushing it and don't even get me started, they're pushing stuff where they go, you ever wake up in the morning and feel not quite yourself? You ever have trouble going to bed at night? You ever feel like you should have more energy but you don't? Or maybe you just can't enjoy. Yeah, that's everyone. All the fucking time. Depending on what day it is, bitch. No one said it was gonna be a happy free ride and we're gonna sail right through society. No, every day I wake up and I feel a little groggy and a little tired. That's everybody. Dogs wake up and feel a little groggy, feel a little tired. You feel like you're not yourself till you get that first cup of coffee. Yes, everybody feels this way. Or you know, it's like the soothsayer going, ladies, you love chocolate. Sometimes when you have it, you feel a little guilty for having. Yes, yes, everybody, everybody, everybody all the time.

[Alicia Krause]

That's who we are every single day, right? Welcome to humanity.

[Adam Carolla]

Now that you're a little older, you just can't do some of the stuff you used to do.

[Alicia Krause]

No shit.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, yeah, that's everyone all the time. Everything. So stop trying to sell us shit.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

For our stomach and our head. Cause our head and our stomach is fucked up. Everyone's head and stomach's fucked up. They're putting you on more of this shit and that's fucking up the floor and the fauna. And you're up in her head. This chick was so far up in her head that she had diagnosed herself with like 17 different syndromes even though she was young and totally able bodied.

[Alicia Krause]

So how did you end the car ride?

[Adam Carolla]

All I did was sit there and ask questions.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. And agree and like nod head in agreement.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. I wanted to because you enabled her. I wanted to hear more. Listen, here's a little tip for everybody.

[Alicia Krause]

Half kidding.

[Adam Carolla]

If I ever act interested, you should be suspicious. Especially in your dog and especially if we're at the airport. That means I'm gonna make fun of.

[Alicia Krause]

You at some point later on this podcast.

[Adam Carolla]

Look out for that. I have this Jardiance commercial and it's the one where they're singing. Also a lot of work for heavyset actors, which I never thought there would be in Hollywood, but now we need fat actors. I want you to listen to the list of potential side effects. I know it's an old joke. I know it's been said before this one. There's a new leader in the clubhouse and it's Jardiance. But we'll just play the whole thing because it's funny. I have type 2 diabetes, but I manage it well.

[Alicia Krause]

It's a little pill with a big story to tell.

[Adam Carolla]

I love the dance at each day start. As time went on, it was easy to see I'm lowering my A1C.

[Alicia Krause]

And for adults with type 2 diabetes.

[Adam Carolla]

And known heart disease, Jardians can lower.

[F]

The risk of cardiovascular death too. Serious side effects include increased ketones in blood or urine, which can be fatal. Stop Jardians and call your doctor right away if you have nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, trouble breathing or increased ketones. Jardians may cause dehydration that can suddenly worsen kidney function and make you feel dizzy, lightheaded or weak upon standing. Genital yeast infections in men and women, urinary tract infections, low BL sugar or a rare life threatening bacterial infection between and around the anus and genitals can occur. Call your doctor right away if you have fever or feel weak or tired and pain, tenderness, swelling or redness in the genital area. Don't use if allergic to Jardians. Stop use if you have a serious allergic Reaction. Call your doctor if you have rash, swelling, difficulty breathing or swallowing. You may have increased risk for lower limb loss. Call your doctor right away if you have new pain or tenderness, sores, ulcers or infection in your legs or feet.

[Stephen O. Young]

Little pill with a big story to tell.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, the. The little pill with the big story to tell how many times it can kill you.

[Adam Carolla]

I've never heard the anal part. I've heard a lot of nausea and diarrhea and headaches and stuff. I never heard anal and genitals who.

[Alicia Krause]

Are losing lower limbs.

[Dawson]

They were, they were describing the chode.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Dawson]

If you got an irritated ch, they.

[Adam Carolla]

Should have just said chop.

[Dawson]

Taking Jardians.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that was fascinating to me. And then the other thing that I really liked is I've said this a million times. They do this whole thing where they go, talk to your doctor, talk to your doctor about Jardians. And my thing is, I'm just sitting there watching a little tv. I'm not gonna talk to my doctor about Jardians. Cause I don't have type 1 whatever diabetes or whatever he's got over there. I'm not. But if you do, you should go talk to your doctor. I'm still getting the anal speech. I'm getting secondhand anal talk over here. I'm not a candidate for this thing that you're pushing now. I get a world where I have seen 721 tampon commercials in the last two years and I do not use a tampon. But I get it, that's fine. They don't know.

[Alicia Krause]

That's half of the TV watching audience. I get that.

[Adam Carolla]

But you've been told to talk to your doctor if you have this problem. And he or she can talk you through Jardiance over here. Now the lawyers go, you have to list all the potential side effects. So my argument is that's on your doctor. Your doctor. First off, you have a 1 minute commercial with 47 seconds of it about anal leakage of the warnings. We don't need that. You can talk to your doc, by the way, I don't want you to memorize a Jardian's commercial. No, you should go sit down with your doctor. And then your doctor could talk to you about the dangers of lower limb amputation.

[Alicia Krause]

But not.

[Adam Carolla]

We don't need it now.

[Alicia Krause]

But here's the problem. I talk about this all the time. Informed consent exists so rarely in the United States, broadly in the medical community, that I think that's part of the reason that, you know, we're in such a litigious society, are people like, oh, I did this drug that my doctor said was okay, and then it wasn't okay? Yes, because it's the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors that actually aren't being like, hey, you know, you have type 1 diabetes. Here's all the things that we should be doing or could be doing. They're just, quite frankly, you know.

[Dawson]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

And people in the comments are probably gonna get pissed at me. You're like just pushing drugs at this point.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I, I, you don't want to.

[Alicia Krause]

Deal with the root problem of the scenario. You just want to lose some fucking weight.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Dawson]

You know, one of the tactics the pharmaceutical reps use to get doctors to prescribe is sandwiches. They bring them lunch.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, no, this is a negative about sandwiches. How dare you be negative about sandwiches.

[Adam Carolla]

Bring them. So you have to wait for that.

[Dawson]

It's true.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they bring them lunch, but they take them on vacations too. I mean, look, the point is, is I don't want to hear about all the side effects on a commercial. Especially when I grew up, they'd say there'd be commercials for like, it'd be like ultra cleaning solution. Right. And they'd go, they'd always go, use it in your home, use it in the bathroom, use it in the kitchen, use it on your boat, use it on your rv. Use it everywhere you have it. And I go, just say use it everywhere. Yeah, because now we're covered with the boat and the RV and the sink. You just named off seven places I could use this and then said everywhere.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Once you say, talk to your doctor, we're done. Because you've said, do not take this drug unless you talk to your doctor. Medical professional, talk to them about the risk. Leave Adam alone. I'm eating and I'm watching tv and you're talking about analysis and genital swelling.

[Alicia Krause]

It was like bleeding and swelling and leakage. Now I'm not hungry anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to hear the warning one more time and picture me watching some football. Watching some football and trying to eat while I'm listening to this.

[Alicia Krause]

I just want to know who my brother in law is. A songwriter and I just like. Who wrote this thing?

[Adam Carolla]

Barry Manilow. Go ahead. That's two.

[F]

Serious side effects include increased ketones and blood or urine, which can be fatal. Stop Jardians and call your doctor right away if you have nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, trouble breathing or increased ketones. Jardians may cause dehydration that can suddenly worsen kidney function and make you feel dizzy, lightheaded or weak upon standing. Genital yeast infections in men and women, urinary tract infections, low blood sugar or a rare life threatening bacterial infection between and around the anus and genitals can occur. Call your doctor right away if you have fever or feel weak or tired and pain, tenderness, swelling or redness in the genital area. Don't use if allergic to Jardians. Stop use if you have a serious allergic reaction. Call your doctor if you have rash, swelling, difficulty breathing or swallowing. You may have increased risk for lower limb loss. Call your doctor right away if you have new pain or tenderness, sores, ulcers or infection in your legs or feet.

[Adam Carolla]

It's more than half the commercial.

[Alicia Krause]

And I love that when the one line, the guy kind of makes the funny face as if he's listening to the one.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Anal leakage. What? All right, let's take a break. You got some news?

[Alicia Krause]

I do.

[Adam Carolla]

We'll do that right after this.

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[Dawson]

It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Ace man John in South Carolina. Been a fan since Love Line, bro.

[Adam Carolla]

Listen, I'm going to solve your heavy.

[Dawson]

Coaster problem cheaply, easily, and it looks good. Go to Lowe's, go to Home Depot, go to your cabin cabinet store and get your granite samples.

[Adam Carolla]

They're about three by three.

[Dawson]

Then go get your plasti dip, spray your flex seal, spray some rubberized spray.

[Adam Carolla]

Tape off the face, put it face down, spray the other five sides with plastidip.

[Dawson]

Now you got a heavy coaster. It won't slip on your table and it looks good because it's granite. Thanks, bro.

[Adam Carolla]

See ya.

[Dawson]

You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I had a coaster weight issue.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, you don't like these little guys.

[Adam Carolla]

They're too light. And if you put like a frosty mug or a hot mug or something, they stick. But they always pop off right when you're turning the cup and then they fall in your lap.

[Alicia Krause]

That is annoying.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't like that.

[Alicia Krause]

So I feel like that guy should start an Etsy store. I like the idea. Get some soapstone.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, Samples.

[Alicia Krause]

I love me samples. Whether it's home goods or not, the store. Home goods, like goods around the home.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

I'm not one of those eat, pray, love home good people.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I like a laminate sample. Oh, yeah, yeah, like a Formica thing.

[Alicia Krause]

What do you use that for?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I used to build cabinets a lot and I used to do a lot of laying up of laminates. And you'd get a big chain with like 400 different ones and you'd go through them like, what would be the best surface for this table I'm building or these cabinets or whatever.

[Alicia Krause]

I'd like to have all that out.

[Adam Carolla]

You look at it and go, I'll take this one and have like a serial number on the back. And then you'd go to the laminate place and you'd order it.

[Alicia Krause]

I feel like I went to all the granite places in all of Van Nuys when we remodeled our kitchen.

[Adam Carolla]

No, there's a whole row of stone places on Sherman Way. And it starts in North Hollywood and goes to Van Nuys, but it's. Yeah, deep North Hollywood.

[Alicia Krause]

I think I went in them all.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they're always great because. Well, it used to be stone guys were all Middle Eastern guys and they.

[Alicia Krause]

Still pretty much the stereotype. Well, at least in my personal experience.

[Adam Carolla]

What it is is if you. Each trade attracts a Certain nationality or group. Like, a lot of jobs do this. And stone guys attract this Middle Eastern group who. It was always entertaining to watch them install the stone. Because everybody else on the job site is wearing boots, and these guys are wearing loafers. Like dress loafers and Armani Exchange jeans. Yes. They have a weird dress code. They don't come in like the white man does.

[Alicia Krause]

I know. I felt like it was Middle Eastern and then, like, Eastern European, Russian, or a lot of fabricators. And the guys that are in the shop.

[Dr. Drew]

Mm.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's.

[Alicia Krause]

I worked with. We actually. Yeah. Went with two different places. Cause soapstone from one, granite from the other. And that was a whole thing.

[Adam Carolla]

It's kind of fun in that you. First off, you'd go in there.

[Alicia Krause]

It's very pretty.

[Adam Carolla]

And you pick out a slab.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, it feels very like.

[Adam Carolla]

And the slabs are the raw cut out from the stone. And then you go. It's always funny. It's always funny. Cause they show you the slab with all these different amazing colors, like what nature can do, and crystals and stuff in it. And then the guy's like, this one is from a volcano in Istanbul. And you go, how much is that one? I go, $400. You go, that's too much. It's like, it's from a volcano in Istanbul. They got it, they pulled it out, and they put it on a wet saw, and they cut a slab of. Should be $17,000 for the amount of work this thing.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, some of them are now is.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. But it's all pretty now. You get the cultured stuff, Caesar stone and that kind of stuff. But I'm saying none of them are from here.

[Alicia Krause]

And yet they're so relatively cheap.

[Adam Carolla]

They're from parts unknown, and they weigh a lot. And someone quarried a volcano, brought it up, cut it into a slab, and somehow it ended up in North Hollywood. And if I did that work, I would want a lot more.

[Alicia Krause]

He'd be like, I need half a million dollars.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the way I feel with a lot of stuff.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I feel that way with honey.

[Alicia Krause]

Ooh. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, when they go like, well, I have a couple of hives, and I go harvest the honey. And then I put it in the thing, and then I filter the honey. But this is filtered. And then I put it in the thing, and it's like $3.99. And I'm like, I'd want $2,700 for that bottle of honey.

[Alicia Krause]

So I have a. This is why when there was the whole, like, egg increase of cost and stuff. My kids eat so many eggs, Eggs. And I remember being like, I actually kind of understand because I have friends and family that have chickens and there's a lot of work that goes into those chickens. And like, good eggs are good.

[Adam Carolla]

I. I feel the same way, like when people, like, sometimes people go like, head of lettuce, $4. What the hell, man? And I'm like, I don't know. It took a lot to get that here at this Galton.

[Alicia Krause]

Somebody in Central Valley grew it, then.

[Adam Carolla]

They cleaned it, then they put it on a truck, then they shipped it then and they put it. And then it got to somehow the Gelson's guy got it and he put it on the thing. And I'm balking at the 399 or whatever. I'm like, I'm that way with everything. I mean, we should be that way with everything.

[Alicia Krause]

It's a good perspective. But then you also, because of Biden Flation, have to empathize with like the Middle America person.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll tell you where it's bullshit. Yeah, it's bullshit in the trades that are like, the woman that gets her hair blown out for $181 or something. It's like, bitch, you worked on that hair for 20. No materials. You don't need to make 150 bucks an hour. Like, fine if you do. But what I'm saying is, the head of lettuce, I go, okay, the eggs sustenance or the hamburger or whatever it is, I go. Or sheet of plywood you want 26 bucks for? I go, there's a lot. And by the way, I can't make my own plywood. Fine. It's the haircut that's really expensive for no fucking good reason. That's the one.

[Alicia Krause]

I don't accept capitalism. It's supply and demand economics.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm fine with it. That's the one I don't go for.

[Alicia Krause]

And my hair girl of almost 11 years would tell you it's probably because, like, all the fricking licensing and permits and all that kind of stuff they gotta do too.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, don't get me started in California. Go ahead.

[Alicia Krause]

I'm getting my hair did tomorrow. So here in California, obviously, we are in a lovely blue state. Newsom and Biden, buddy buddies. Biden has now broken his silence on his cancer diagnosis. And he joked that he was mentally competent. We have video of it. And there's also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office.

[Adam Carolla]

You can see that I'm mentally incompetent and I can't walk and I can.

[Dr. Drew]

Beat the hell out of both of them.

[Alicia Krause]

Do you want to reply to any of those reports and also.

[Adam Carolla]

Be out of both of them? What is. Which one?

[Alicia Krause]

So he's talking about, like, the rumors. I think what he meant is he's talking about the rumors about his mental competence and beating cancer.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, so he's.

[Alicia Krause]

He's going to beat dementia and cancer is like what he's claiming there.

[Adam Carolla]

I guess it's also kind of weird when everyone is sort of like, he's always challenging someone to a push up contest or a spelling bee or let's go behind the gym or something. How about you just take a mental acuity test?

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, that'd be nice.

[Adam Carolla]

They have a test and then you could just go take it. Like if somebody said to me, here's the world. Here's the world we live in. If a cop pulls you over and goes, you been drinking tonight? You go, no, I haven't had a drink at all. All right. Want to take this breathalyzer from me? Then the answer is, yeah, go get it. Because I haven't had a drink. It's not, I haven't had a drink, and I'm not taking the breathalyzer.

[Alicia Krause]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the problem.

[Alicia Krause]

If you have nothing to hide, that's where we're at.

[Adam Carolla]

So if people keep. You know what I would say? I would say, you guys think I'm incapacitated mentally or I'm falling off or I have a problem. I don't. But I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go memorize the list of ailments for the Jardians commercial, and then I'm gonna sing them right back to you.

[Alicia Krause]

I'm gonna prove to you.

[Adam Carolla]

What time is it? Noon. What day is it? Tuesday. All right, I will see you at noon on Friday. And I will not have a script or a teleprompter and I will sing you the Jardian list of ailments, and then you will know that I'm competent. Right.

[Alicia Krause]

There's more to that clip, though. I mean, his demeanor is so. I mean, to have that level of narcissism.

[Adam Carolla]

He's a weird. I don't. There's a thing. Well, it's a new world order, I guess. All right, let's just. Let's go back 10 seconds. We'll hear the rest of the clip here.

[Alicia Krause]

Office.

[Adam Carolla]

You can see that I'm mentally incompetent and I can't walk and I can.

[Dr. Drew]

Beat the hell out of both of them.

[Adam Carolla]

Of them.

[Alicia Krause]

Do you want to reply to any of those reports and also to the fact that there are some Democrats who are now questioning whether you should have run for reelection in the first place?

[Adam Carolla]

Why didn't they run against me then?

[Dr. Drew]

Because I had beaten them.

[Alicia Krause]

Do you have any regrets?

[Adam Carolla]

No, no one has any regrets.

[Alicia Krause]

He sounds like the crazy old man. Like, on the street corner. I would have beaten him.

[Adam Carolla]

Did he have an answer on the any regrets part, by the way?

[Alicia Krause]

No, I think he just kind of, like wandered off.

[Adam Carolla]

He usually has none. Look, his. All right. His problem always has. Yes. He has a weird, narcissistic slash angry slash sort of inability to view himself.

[Alicia Krause]

Like he can't be self reflective.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Which is to say. Which a lot of people have in politics. But what I would say, like, you say to me, like, accuse me of. Okay, Somebody says to you, what about your son? What about all his business deals? I've never talked to my son about his business deals ever.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, okay, okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, first off, that makes you a bad dad if you've never spoke to.

[Alicia Krause]

Your son about how business is going. Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Cause if your son had a frozen yogurt place in Pasadena when he'd come over for Thanksgiving, you guys would be sitting around, you'd go, hey, boy, how's the froyo going?

[Alicia Krause]

And then he would say, there's always money in the banana stand.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. I'm saying you've never talked to your son about business ever. It's a weird thing. Now what you can say is you go, yeah, my son travels around and he does business. And sometimes we'll talk about some stuff. Always legal. I always tell him, you're representing the Bidens when you're out there, so keep it on the up and up. But he has business. He's an adult. He does what he does. You know what I'm saying?

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. I just give him fatherly support.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. I support my son. I support my son. And if you go look, you seem a little mentally diminished. You're old and so on and so forth. You go, look, yeah, I'm older. And like anybody, stuff comes a little slower when you're older. You remember that street you grew up on or some kid's name you went to high school with or something.

[Alicia Krause]

Or the year your son died.

[Adam Carolla]

Or the year my son died. Yeah. There's certain things also, I can't play football like I used to play. Like there's something that goes on when you get older. That's how it goes now. Now the important shit I still understand very well and also surround myself with super competent people and we make competent.

[Alicia Krause]

Decisions, but he's, like, incapable of doing that.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. He can't reflect. He can't.

[Alicia Krause]

The fact that in his mind he's like, well, how come the Democrats didn't run? Because you shut them out. Because the DNC apparatus told everybody, sit down and shut up and don't do anything against him.

[Adam Carolla]

No. When Trump was talking to him about his son and Biden and business and Russia, he was all like, that's all you. That's you. You know what I mean? Like, he goes, he could have gone, my son's 52. He has a life. I don't know where he is at all. I don't know where he is right now, but he's a good guy and he would never do anything illegal.

[Dawson]

It's also. I'd like to listen to it again because I believe he's saying, anyone who looks at me can see that I'm mentally incompetent.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. No, I. I think he was trying to crack a joke.

[Dawson]

Was he?

[Alicia Krause]

I think he was trying to be funny, but maybe.

[Dawson]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, he was.

[Alicia Krause]

Behind every joke is a hint of truth.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you think he was legitimately saying that?

[Dawson]

No, no, no. I think he said it by mistake. I think he meant to say, anyone who looks at me can see I'm mentally competent. But he said incompetent.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, well, let's listen again. I'll say it again. Let's see what he does. Does. But can I say this? If he would remember the Jardian's list of side effects, I would go, this guy's give the devil his due. He should.

[Alicia Krause]

And the choreography. What was the choreography?

[Adam Carolla]

I'll tell at this point. He can do it sitting down. I just need it in the right order. Go ahead.

[Alicia Krause]

And there's also been a lot of discussion recently about your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office.

[Adam Carolla]

You can see that I'm mentally incompetent. I can't walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them.

[Alicia Krause]

Do you want to reply to any of those?

[Dawson]

So, you know, I don't know if.

[Stephen O. Young]

It was a joke.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. He goes, you can see that? Spoke now. I think he was saying, you can see that I'm mentally incompetent by looking at me or something. I don't know. I. The other thing with Biden is all bets are off all the time.

[Alicia Krause]

I never have any idea what is going to come out of his mouth.

[Adam Carolla]

What is. But either way, I would be much more sympathetic to Joe Biden if I didn't think he was a bad person who just stirred racial hostilities for years. I mean, let's not forget he only ran because he saw white supremacists with tiki torches and bloodshot eyes coming out of the woods.

[Alicia Krause]

That's what he says anyway.

[Adam Carolla]

That's when he stood up and said, I'm going to stop racism in this country and then peddled racism for four years and then dropped out.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So nice job. Thanks for the hustle.

[Alicia Krause]

And only he was the man that could beat Donald Trump. I think that he still thinks that.

[Adam Carolla]

He can beat Trump and racism. Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay, so I have an interesting question to pose. At least I think it's interesting. Do you think that the Democrats care more about gun control or potentially like immigration?

[Adam Carolla]

They got a bunch of stuff they claim to care about, but they don't really care about it because they talk about gun control all the time. But another five kids just got shot in Chicago during the time we started the news. And they don't ever bring that up.

[Alicia Krause]

They don't bring that up.

[Adam Carolla]

So they bring up women's rights, but they're into freeing Palestine. They're kind of all over the road when it comes to what they're into, what they're not into. I don't really think they're into anything.

[Alicia Krause]

It's just what gets the loud noises reaction maybe.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, because they get very vocal about voter ID and they seem to care about it a lot. And then somebody kind of tells them no one cares or whatever and then they go, all right, what's next? And Gavin Newsom comes in here and talks about predatory check cashing places for 20 minutes. That was 12 years ago. I've never heard him bring up predatory check cashing places ever again. So they talk a lot about the border, they talk about a lot of stuff, but they never seem to follow up with it. And I would assume they don't care. I've said a million times, if you thought something was an actual problem like you went, look, there's people waiting in line and they're in Atlanta area and it's hot outside and they can't rehydrate waiting in line to vote. Cuz these people can't hand them water within. First off, I don't know what the fuck they're even talking about. Number one, just bring your own stupid water like you bring everywhere. But I don't know why someone has to hand you water, but. All right. This is a big problem. People in Georgia are falling over with heat prostration because they can't bring. They can't hydrate themselves within 100ft. Okay? It's a big problem. Okay, then pull up the water mobile, park it. Rent a Sparklets truck, park it outside, put a hundred foot cone away from the front door and hand everybody that's further than 100ft a bottle so they can be hydrated. Or tell them before you get in line, swing by the Sparklets mobile and we'll give you a bottle of cold water and then you can go vote without passing out.

[Alicia Krause]

And it doesn't come from any specific candidate. Just drink water, just have water.

[Adam Carolla]

Just come, we'll do it. We care about a big problem. Or you can't get IDs in the inner city or black kids can't get a good. We'll do a DMV outreach like the blood Mobile, like the Bookmobile. We have Oscar Mayer mobile. We have Mobile put at the end of shit. And we go. What is the. Okay, we have something called Meals on Wheels. What do we got? Well, there's a lot of poor people in bad parts of town and they're old and they can't go out in a veil. Oh, good. So we have a van and we just go by and we deliver them food because they can't get out of there. Okay. The concept of the Blood mobile is we need blood, but people aren't going into the. They're not going in the Red Cross.

[Alicia Krause]

We'll bring like literally to offices. They do.

[Adam Carolla]

We'll bring it to them. We'll bring it to them.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, so have a Winnebago. Staff it with DMV employees and processing and whatever, computer, laptops, whatever you need.

[Alicia Krause]

Bring it all over Georgia and go.

[Adam Carolla]

Right on into those tough parts of town where people don't have access to whatever. And then tell them when you're coming. Have them leave work or leave the factory or leave school, whatever. We will get them an id. Yeah, because we'll come. But I've never heard you say that you have no plan for it.

[Alicia Krause]

How dare you ask them to come up with a plan.

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[Alicia Krause]

So so this next story is kind of along those lines. The horrific anti Semitic attack in Boulder, Colorado. The guy so the same Democrats that are like, oh no, we shouldn't have borders. Secretary Rubio is the worst for like trying to interpret the visa laws to keep people out that deserve to be here that are seeking asylum, yada yada. Well, on Sunday of this week, for those that don't already know, there was an Egyptian illegal immigrant who had overstayed his tourist visa in 2022 and that would have allowed him to come for six months. Top cops. He overstayed like maybe a half a million other foreign foreigners. This is according to the New York Post do every single year. So half a million other foreigners. Not saying that they're all going to be terrorist anti Semites, but that's a lot of people. And then he claimed asylum and said so he wouldn't be kicked out. He was given a work permit while he waited for his immigration apparently. By the way, I heard on NPR this morning this guy decided he didn't tell any of his family and friends what he was doing. None of them were in on it. He waited till his daughter finished her high school graduation before he went and tried to burn up some old Jews, including a Holocaust survivor driver. So all that to say like for the left, that's like some in some corners. Oh, hate is wrong. Words are violence.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Alicia Krause]

All these things also should not deport everybody. He tried to get a gun. This is where gun laws don't work because bad guys are gonna do whatever they can. He tried to get a gun, but because of his illegal immigration status, it makes him criminal. He then decided to YouTube how to make Molotov cocktails. So it's a host of all of these issues that they claim to care about and now it's complete crickets from them.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, couple things and then I'll push back a little bit.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

The here illegally thing, I think about all the time, like, no one's illegal or these people are dreamers, or they come here to work, or they're all hard working, good people, whatever. Look, forget about this country, let's just do Canada. I think we can all agree if my kid just said, I'm going to Canada, I'm going to hang out as long as I can, I'm going to wander around, I'll work underground or whatever, I'd be like, okay, but if they catch you, they're going to kick you out because you're not Canadian, you don't belong there. We have borders. Canada, I don't know. Does Canada have a wall? I don't know. It's their business, their sovereign nation. They're Canada. I don't think I have a right to wander over there and hang out and do whatever. And I would not judge. And these, everyone on the left would not judge Canada. If somebody was hanging out in there, not a citizen of Canada, did not have the right, proper documentation or paperwork, and they grabbed up, not put them in a gulag, just told them you gotta leave. And this took them back to their country of origin. I don't think anyone has a fundamental problem with that anywhere except for the United States. And then somehow it's different. Different.

[Alicia Krause]

I don't know though, because you see like the leftist uprisings in places like Greece and Italy and Germany and Scandinavia where they were like, yes, yes, let's let in all these refugees. And if you say otherwise, then you're the person that's in a lot.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they're, they're going, they're going full retard over there. And they're going to fuck up their cultures as well. Because not all cultures are created equal. And there's a reason people are fleeing their places because there's too many of them and they fucked it up.

[Alicia Krause]

There's also a reason why you're, you've seen what the Mainstream media would call, like, hard right leaders.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Alicia Krause]

Like Hungarian and all these others that are, you know, in. What's his face?

[Adam Carolla]

Hungary.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. And. Well, in Hungary. I'm not sure about that guy yet, but.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I mean, he's a new. Well, what I'm saying is, I know what point you're making, but Viktor Orban is like, Hungary is called Hungary because it's filled with Hungarians and not with Muslims. So that's the way we like it. And that's fine. And. And that's good. Have Hungary remain hungry.

[Alicia Krause]

Javier Malay, Giorgio Maloney. I think that even. And now we're going to be. I'm the nerd that's watching what's happening in the Korean election because they're saying, we want to work with the United States and we don't want to be beholden to the ccp. So I think that there are movements, like there is the right that is counteracting all over the world the leftist movements that have said, we must let everybody in. We must have no borders at all.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I will tell you this. I've told everyone, anytime since someone put a microphone in front of my face 30 years ago, I go, the reason Mexico is Mexico is because it's filled with Mexicans. You can say it's a hate crime. I didn't say it was good or bad. I just said that's who they are. That's their culture. That's what it is. When enough of them move somewhere else, they set up Mexico. If you go to buy a slab on Sherman Way and Victory or Sherman Way and Laurel Canyon or something, you will find Mexico because there's a lot of Mexicans. You'll hear the music, you'll taste the food. That's the culture. That's what happens when they set up. You go over to Fairfax, it's a Jewish district, and you will have something that resembles that. Okay? And there's different cultures for different parts of town.

[Alicia Krause]

Glendale, Armenian.

[Adam Carolla]

Glendale Armenian. That's right. That's right. You're gonna smell a lot of cologne and you're gonna be annoyed by a lot of BMW 3 Series cars with catback exhaust. Cause those fuckers love throwing revs. And they love some. They love the note of the exhaust. And it's like they fucking love exhaust and they love cologne and they love cigarettes.

[Alicia Krause]

But do they love sandwiches?

[Adam Carolla]

I'm gonna have to check with Mark Geragos. But I am telling you, if you go out to Burbank or Glendale, every third place is like a tobacco shop. Especially where I'M at in Burbank temporarily and you go around with people who are. I'm from Malibu, so. Malibu. There's no culture of smoking in Malibu. It's Malibu. You go to the Armo place. Yeah. They're smoking weed. Yeah, it's true, they're smoking weed. There is weed. There are weed places, but they're not tobacco. Yeah, I didn't even know there were tobacco places. Yeah, I mean, I know there are, but I mean it's like in my.

[Alicia Krause]

World, I didn't realize they were so prevalent.

[Adam Carolla]

When you want cigarettes, you go to the 7 11, you get cigarettes. I didn't know it was like tobacco. Well, their culture, they smoke.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's also funny too because. Because if you drive around Glendale at night, you go, what's with all these Armo dudes? They're always just standing around the sidewalk in front of their. They're smoking, they're in an apartment, their old lady told them to go take it outside and they just go, stand out. They smoke. All right. It's a cultural thing. Fine. Now lots of cologne and a cat back exhaust is a little annoying, but it's not terrorists. You see what I'm saying?

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, it's not. An Egyptian illegal immigrant overstaying his visa and then attacking.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's illegal to marry your seven year old granddaughter. Whatever your culture, Whatever your culture has. That ain't it. So that's fine. But if that is your culture and there's enough of you. Yes. Then we're going for Sharia law here because there's an abundance of you. Why wouldn't you.

[Alicia Krause]

Look, it's also the mindset to shift us. I don't know that. It's the mindset of Mexican immigrants, Canadian immigrants, Armenian immigrants to completely shift the infrastructure and the government of the United States.

[Adam Carolla]

Here's what I will say. You're young spring chicken. When I was young, 16 probably start about 16 would make the trip over to Tijuana to have some fun. And the first thing you notice when you go to Tijuana is it's a street vendor culture. 3 year olds selling Chiclets, guy selling marionettes, everyone's cooking tacos, street tacos. And you walk in and you're a little surprised if you're used to our culture because our culture formally have no street vendors. Didn't exist. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. It was, you wanted a sandwich, you go to the sandwich place or there's the Sears over there, there's a strip mall. It's A strip mall with tons of stuff in it. Yes. You just go to the Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks Mall over there, and you want to see a movie or get a hot dog on a stick. No street. Street vending culture at all. A, it was illegal. B, not part of our culture. We just didn't do the street thing. And I think if you would have talked to people from a different time, back in the 80s, 90s, whatever, in the San Fernando Valley Lane, they go, would you buy some corn and a hot dog and maybe a fruit salad off that guy on the street? They'd go, no, I'm not going. I'll go into the Lucky's Market right over here and I'll get a fruit salad. I'm not going buying it off the guy in the street. That's not. We don't do it. And by the way, we don't haggle, per se. We're not hagglers at the price. How much is the blanket? Well, it's what the price says. We don't go in there. And culture, okay? Now, since I started going to Tijuana in the early 80s till modern day Los Angeles, the culture shifted. And the Tijuana culture has shifted to here because there's lots of Hispanics here now. And now when you drive around, it's street vendor everything, all the fucking time. So then you go, are you indicting that? Or is. Are you judging their culture? Or is this some sort of pejorative or negative or something? And the answer is, it's street vendor culture. They do it. We formally didn't do it. But there's so many of them here now that now we do it.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, it's infiltrated our culture.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? And then I will go, I don't like it.

[Alicia Krause]

And I will go, I do.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? Except for. Not if you own the Toluca Lake flower store that was by Forest Lawn and you can't do business anymore because they're selling flowers all up and down Forest Lawn Drive and undercutting you.

[Alicia Krause]

But I. Then I would argue, no, just. Just make better flowers and maybe consider who your market is.

[Adam Carolla]

And you have to write this down.

[Alicia Krause]

Adjust.

[Adam Carolla]

Make better flowers.

[Alicia Krause]

When Henry Ford created the automobile and all these carriage guys were like, oh, no, he's making a horseless carriage.

[Adam Carolla]

But you want Toluca Lake to flourish. To make better flowers.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. Make better, more affordable flowers.

[Adam Carolla]

More affordable than 12 bucks for a full bouquet? When you have a staff and insurance.

[Alicia Krause]

I love to go to the flower market. I have not seen a dozen roses for 12 bucks in a long time. I'm just saying that I don't think so. You have an awesome podcast. You're one of the godfathers of podcasting. Hold on. Does it undercut you when other people create a podcast or does it just create more rivalry and healthy competition?

[Adam Carolla]

So if you owned a Mexican food restaurant, you'd be fine with people selling tacos in front of your Mexican food restaurant?

[Alicia Krause]

I don't know. I'd be fine with it. But like you said earlier in the show, I'd have to get over it, be better at what I do.

[Adam Carolla]

Make a better taco.

[Alicia Krause]

Make a better taco.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, at a cheaper taco.

[Alicia Krause]

Not always. But just because it's cheaper, it doesn't mean it's better.

[Adam Carolla]

But how you have to deal with insurance.

[Alicia Krause]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

And employees.

[Alicia Krause]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

EEOC and health inspectors.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. This is why we need Newsom and mortgage out of the way so we don't have to.

[Adam Carolla]

But how would you.

[Alicia Krause]

But I just don't think.

[Adam Carolla]

How is Toluca Lake Florist gonna compete with the guys who don't have any open house?

[Alicia Krause]

How to Tuluka Lake Florist gonna compete with 1-800-Flowers or ProFlowers or anybody else then?

[Adam Carolla]

But they also have to pay taxes and have employees and insurance and stuff they have to deal with.

[Alicia Krause]

You know, in the city of la, you actually have to have a license technically to be a street vendor.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. So you think all these people are licensed?

[Alicia Krause]

I'm not saying that they are or not. I just have to indict all of them. If you're going to use the argument of like, that is not fair because this person is more lean and mean and is undercutting because their product is cheaper than like big florist. I, I think that you could use that as an example for unfortunately the government to step in it whether it's, oh well, private schools, undercut public schools. That that's not fair. That's the argument that teacher unions make. Right. Well, electric cars are undercutting, you know, fuel vehicle or fuel vehicles are undercutting electric cars because it's cheaper to make a fuel vehicle than an electric vehicle. So therefore we need the state of California, the federal government to subsidize the electric car companies. That's right. If you, you would argument fuel though.

[Adam Carolla]

If you had an electric car though. I mean there's some say not anti.

[Alicia Krause]

Electric car used to have one. But I'm saying that the argument that I think you're making isn't, isn't you have to Be able to apply it, like, I don't understand the logic, like across the board, okay, that I'm not anti the street. If you're bettering their life and building a business for themselves. And maybe one day they will be the size of the Toluca Lake Florist. And I don't want the little old lady running the Toluca Lake Florist to completely lose her livelihood.

[Adam Carolla]

But I mean, she's gonna make better flowers.

[Alicia Krause]

Maybe she can make better and cheaper flowers. She can, she can market and argue for like what she does better than the, than the street vendor.

[Adam Carolla]

But she has so much overhead. How does she do them cheaper?

[Alicia Krause]

Well, I don't know. I'd have to call and talk to her. I don't exactly know how, but she can buy more. Most likely because she's been in business for longer. She already has a built in clientele that isn't just going to visit Forest Lawn Cemetery. They're buying corsages for prom and bouquets for anniversaries and Valentine's Day. And maybe she's doing some, some weddings and having to compete with some big guns like Mar Garden. Right. And so she has a different clientele than the street vendor does.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, maybe this is on me because I said flowers, but let's go with food. What would the food. What the restaurant do because they have so many health codes and have to pay overtime and insurance and there's lots of stuff that they have to pay, not to mention rent.

[Alicia Krause]

So, okay, so much of that. You're a Mexican restaurant in Studio City and you're like, I don't want the guy with the taco stand coming out in front of my. Sit down. Nice white tablecloth Mexican restaurant in Studio City.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah. Any rest? Any, any. Whatever it is. But it's hard to compete because he doesn't have overhead, I would argue.

[Alicia Krause]

I mean, you've been to New York City. You can walk out of Del Frisco's on, on Avenue of America's and there's a hot dog guy and like a guy making, you know, tortas and sandwiches and tacos and stuff out there too. I think that there is enough of a market for all of these people to potentially grow and succeed. I don't know, maybe I'm too idealistic.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, listen, I think if you want to have a license, like a business license, and you pay taxes.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, that's why I'm the libertarian and I think that business licenses are bullshit.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, at some point I would like you paying taxes. I Guess. And contributing to the system, number one. Number two, I'm not, I'm pretty libertarian. But on the other hand, I understand health codes or inspections or things like that. Like certain safety cars have airbags and crumple zones. And I go, all right, I'm fine with certain safety related issues.

[Alicia Krause]

FAA regulations are a good idea. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And you go, well, it's gonna cost an extra 20 bucks a ticket or something. And I go, okay, I understand a sor. Base safety. So I feel that way about food, which is I don't want you to have to get a license to cut hair. If you want to cut hair, you can cut hair. If you don't do a good haircut, you're not going to get any business. And I'm fine with that. But cutting hair isn't inherently dangerous. Whereas food and faa, that would be. So I have certain rules and then certain ones I, I don't. But so in terms of street vendors, I don't want it to turn into a bazaar where you can't walk down the street because there's tents and generators and food going. Like there's a, maybe once a week.

[Alicia Krause]

Like a farmer's house.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, there's a public space kind of a thing, which is, I would like to just walk down the sidewalk and not have to walk around guys with modified shopping carts with propane on them and stuff. Then there's a kind of a heavy health part, which is you're doing those hot dogs wrapped in bacon or whatever and you're cooking it on a griddle out here. But the guy who runs, who used to run the Staples center back when it was Staples center used to show me pictures of like giant cockroaches and stuff. And on those things. So there's like a health standard part. But also my argument is the guy who opens the business is paying this premium and you're undercutting that guy. And you can tell that guy to sell his tacos cheaper, but he can't because of his overhead. He has huge mortgages or rents and things like that and insurance and stuff to pay.

[Alicia Krause]

Not to sound like a heartless capitalistic conservative, but I'm not just telling him to maybe be cheaper. I'm telling him to maybe be better. Or there is enough of a niche in the market for the taco stand guy guy and the luxury lobster filled caviar tacos. That's brick and mortar.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but you keep shifting that as some sort of gourmet taco. I'm just saying he makes. Yeah, but you Told the florist to make better flowers.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, I, I don't really think that's option God's job.

[Alicia Krause]

I don't know how that's actually what I say. I say I don't make flowers. I just put them together really pretty.

[Adam Carolla]

Florist is getting them from the same place downtown the Mexican is, but the Mexican doesn't have insurance and overhead and employees and things, so he can do it much cheaper on force.

[Alicia Krause]

Isn't that what America is all about? Like that guy being able to do that and like, have his low cost overhead and be like. And have a level of ingenuity and like, grit and grow.

[Adam Carolla]

The guy who owns Toluca Lake flower store would like to set up across the street from the Forest Lawn, but he can't because it's not permitted or zoned for him to do that. See what I'm saying? He's further.

[Alicia Krause]

So you're saying that it's unfair.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but you saying make better flowers or have another podcast crop up, it's not really a great argument on your half. Now, look, I agree if you make a killer, whatever, lasagna people will come to you, but it's still unfair to whoever owns businesses who are required to do so much to run a business from a health coach standpoint.

[Alicia Krause]

And I'm just saying it's a different kind of business. And if we're using the example of Los Angeles, those street vendors are licensed and regulated by the city and have to pay insurance. And in fact, years ago when I.

[Adam Carolla]

First met them, they do if they're licensed. Look, if you go to a Sofi game, they're guys selling Takati beers out of a cooler and shots of tequila. Do you think those guys are licensed?

[Alicia Krause]

No, I'm not defending all of them.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I'm asking, do you think everyone you see on this, do you think the majority of the people you see on the street are licensed?

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, I think at the main. Especially like where they know that there's gonna be eyeballs and there's gonna be government employees that come around looking for their cert for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

More than 50%.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes, that would be my assumption.

[Adam Carolla]

In Los Angeles, roughly 1.4. The estimated 50,000 street vendors are licensed.

[Alicia Krause]

1.4.

[Adam Carolla]

That's higher than I thought.

[Alicia Krause]

All right, where's that data?

[Adam Carolla]

They don't have licenses. They're not here legally.

[Alicia Krause]

That's three on one.

[Adam Carolla]

Free on one. That's from Google. That is from Google.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, we trust Big, Big tech. No, no.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, Big Tech's gonna Go the other. They're not gonna go. They're gonna go the other way on this slant.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay, so 1.4.

[Dr. Drew]

They probably.

[Alicia Krause]

Interesting to hear that.

[Adam Carolla]

They probably jacked that number up.

[Alicia Krause]

Nobody supports little guy trying to build a business and live the American dream.

[Adam Carolla]

It's not building a business.

[Dawson]

1.4%.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, 1.4%.

[Alicia Krause]

How many are they saying like that estimated. Oh, there's more than 50,000 street vendors in LA county for sure.

[Dawson]

And I honestly think there's probably zero people enforcing it.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you. Do you think there's more than 50,000? That seems like a lot of street vendors for all of.

[Alicia Krause]

But, well, if you include. So there's like jewelry, there's food, floral.

[Dawson]

Like next time you're driving down Sherman Way and checking out all those stone shops, check out the makeshift fashion store set up on chain link fences.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, I get it.

[Dawson]

Close to Lancashire.

[Adam Carolla]

I get it. It's a lot. But also 50,000 people on the street selling stuff sounds.

[Dawson]

It's a lot.

[Adam Carolla]

Sounds pretty or what?

[Alicia Krause]

The county of LA is 12 million.

[Adam Carolla]

Let's try to figure this out. Is your argument. There's more, but there's still 1.4. Because if the 1.4 is still the 1.4 licensed, well, we could do seven out of 75,000 or 100,000. 1.4 had a license, but it would.

[Alicia Krause]

Still be now a greater street vendors are disappointing me. I'm going to go out there on Forest Lawn and tell them I defended them.

[Adam Carolla]

Google. Google yourself.

[Alicia Krause]

Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Look it up. I was surprised that even 1.4%. No, I would have said a very slight percentage of them has a license. Yeah, that's what I would have said. All right, all right.

[Alicia Krause]

Hey, look at this. We found something we disagree on.

[Adam Carolla]

Flowers. Oh, no.

[Dawson]

I was gonna say it the other way though. What if you just said 98.6% of the street vending in Los Angeles is unlicensed.

[Alicia Krause]

It's unlicensed.

[Dawson]

It's so close to 100%.

[Adam Carolla]

I would assume it was. But the other thing is, is this. I was, I forgot I was gonna push back the guy. Gun accessibility or gun laws.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Back to Bolton. Because people go, well, he didn't get the gun. The gun laws don't work because he made a Molotov cocktail instead.

[Alicia Krause]

Or still trying to kill Jews.

[Adam Carolla]

Whatever it is, still trying to kill Jews. But if I was an advocate of gun laws, I would say no, it did work. He wanted to get a gun. He could have done more damage.

[Alicia Krause]

Could have done more damage with a gun than the 12 Molotov cocktails that he. He made it home. I don't know that I would agree.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, if Molotov cocktails were more effective than guns, then armies would all be armed with Molotov cocktails and not guns. Thank you.

[Alicia Krause]

I also think additionally, though, like, well.

[Adam Carolla]

Every other shooting, two people died.

[Alicia Krause]

I don't know what the calendar. I think there's two people.

[Adam Carolla]

I know.

[Alicia Krause]

Two were in critical condition and over eight were injured.

[Adam Carolla]

You can do more damage with a gun. That's what I'm saying. Saying I'm not a gun guy. I'm not a gun. I like freedoms, and I don't believe. I'm not into the gun laws, and I'm with you on that, but I'm just saying they would take that argument and they would push it back and go, oh, it did work, because he had to go make this now.

[Alicia Krause]

So what would their response be to him being, like, an illegal immigrant that overstayed his visa then?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that they wouldn't say anything about. Or they would say the overwhelming amount of these people are hardworking. And I would go, I'm not a. I'm just saying one. Then they go, more Americans kill. And I go, yeah, but if one. If one, it's too many. If that's your son or your daughter. Right.

[Alicia Krause]

For sure.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Alicia Krause, let me give you a plug. Weekly op ed for the Washington Examiner.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Yep. This week's subject, why Toluca Lake needs to make better flowers. Newsmakers, what is called website aliciacraus.com. yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep. This week, it's actually about the stupidity of Gavin Newsom and our Attorney General not defending girls in sports.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, okay. Yes, I agree with that.

[Alicia Krause]

Yay. We found something we agree on again.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

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[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

Stephen Oyang has joined us. Mission Impossible, the final reckoning is where you can find him in theaters as we speak. You guys have heard all about that. Plays a master diver in that. And I haven't seen the movie yet. I intend to, but I'm guessing it's that whole cruise hold your breath underwater thing.

[Dr. Drew]

That's right. It's this whole submarine sequence which I think is one of the best sequences in the entire franchise.

[Adam Carolla]

Cause he trained to like hold his breath for three minutes plus or something.

[Dr. Drew]

I think it was something like six minutes. Yeah, I think he did that for Rogue Nation 3. Yeah, or 4. But then he just kept doing it because he loved it so much. I heard stories from, you know, the dive team out in England. Everybody's heard the stories. So yeah, I mean, the guy is like a mermaid. So. Yeah, man.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the thing about holding your breath, which I have some experience in, is you can train yourself and you can practice and you can get better at it. And it's an interesting process because it's about fighting a nature and slowing it down. And some of it is physical and a lot of it's mental. But once you get past four minutes, it gets really weird and uncomfortable.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah, you're literally fighting your body. I mean, I'm no real expert. I just play One on tv.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Dr. Drew]

But yeah, absolutely. Especially if you're talking about cold water. I mean, good. Or, you know, for him, he has to actually do movement underwater as well. So that's, that's not easy.

[Adam Carolla]

I mean, so, you know, it's kind of nice that in a world of cgi, the stunt has not gone away. And maybe, maybe Cruz has helped, maybe Keanu Reeves, you know, these guys have brought this stuff back and it's not gone the way the dodo.

[Dr. Drew]

Yes, absolutely. You know, know, Jackie Chan, I think, is the OG and, and Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves. For them to be doing what they're doing, such a high level. I mean, these guys, I always say they could have been stuntmen.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Dr. Drew]

They could show people up. So I think it's phenomenal. I think it's what audiences want to see, especially with AI especially. And, you know, talking on theme of this movie, it's all about battling AI it's the future of the industry, all that kind of stuff. This is very meta and I think it's fantastic what he did. Did, for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

You start as a stuntman.

[Dr. Drew]

I did, yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And then evolved into acting.

[Dr. Drew]

Yes. I mean, I always wanted to be an actor because they get the glory and the FaceTime. Right. You know, martial arts and stunts was my. My way into it. I didn't go to, you know, I didn't go to acting school. I didn't have any connections. I'm not. I don't have family that's in the industry. But I was, I was raised here in California my whole life. And, you know, after I graduated college, I just had a dream. I knew kung fu and I had a dream. That's it.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, martial arts is good training for everything because it's just repetition. And the repetition part is the part that people have trouble with.

[Dr. Drew]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

With everything. They have it with language, they have it with a musical instrument. Absolutely. Anything you would like to achieve. It's pretty much repetition and then repetition sucks.

[Dr. Drew]

Tell me about it.

[Adam Carolla]

But there was a time when repetition was a pastime because we didn't have all the options. And so you could kind of discipline yourself to go in the basement and master the harmonica or something. My kid can't do that because there's too many, Too many options.

[Dr. Drew]

Take those options away. My brother. Send that boy out, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I mean, that's what happens is. And I realize it, it's like my son loves music, loves vintage music, loves old stuff, loves everything. And he's got a good ear and he's Smart. And he gets it. And he's turning 19. But, like, when I'll lay some stuff on him, he'll listen and it's like he'll go, oh, yeah, it's good. He's got a good ear, right? But he wanted to play the bass guitar. And I was like, he's never gonna play the bass guitar. Because the same room that has a bass guitar has an 80 inch television set. So where's he going and what's he doing? And he's got an electric bike and he's got a thing that he can swipe and get as much free food as he wants.

[Dr. Drew]

You're describing. What is it? Rocky 4, right? Where Rocky has to go to the Alaskan wilderness to train, versus Drago, who has all the stuff, the cool stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, it's funny. I'm describing two. Yeah. I'm describing three and four. Cause he had to get back to the streets.

[Dr. Drew]

Oh, well, there you go.

[Adam Carolla]

Because he had his robot and his Maserati and all the accoutrements of the rich life. And then. So then the question. It's weird. This is a deep cut and a weird one, but it's been on my mind, so I'm going to throw it to Dawson. There's a Graham Parker song from the late 80s, maybe the early 90s, and it's called Big man on Paper. And it's an interesting song, not one of my favorites, but I like it and I always. It's an old song. It's 35 years old now, and there's a line in it where he's basically saying, we used to struggle to find food, and now the struggle is to not eat too much of it. You know what I mean? Which is a weird thing because I used to be poor and struggled to find food, and now it's everyone offering me free donuts and me going, I'd like to. I really like. I'm turning away stuff. And that's the new world order. It's finding the struggle versus how we grew up.

[Dr. Drew]

True. Although I will say. I will say both of us. I will say, man, the struggle is real now. You know, it's getting worse.

[Adam Carolla]

You have to impose this. It's like, look, there was no cold water plunge. When there was no hot water, it was all a cold water plunge. You know what I mean? And now there's hot water running out of every spigot, and now you have to go get a cold plunge.

[Stephen O. Young]

Yeah.

[Dr. Drew]

No, I agree. I agree. Well, not to get too esoteric, but literally, kung Fu, which is the Chinese kung fu, Right. That literally translates to hard work, skill. That's it. And you can have kung fu in anything.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Dr. Drew]

Harmonica, whatever, race car driving, all of that, Right. And so wrestling, right. You talk about martial arts is in every culture. So Western discipline also have wrestling. And you know, so. Yeah, absolutely. It's discipline, breed success, basically. Grit.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You want to go, you know, if you want to go to a racetrack and go fast around it, you should go find a videotape where they take you around the track. And then you should watch it 30,000 times. Now, you're gonna be bored about the third time you see it. But if you wanna see everything and you wanna memorize it and you wanna know where the apex is and all that stuff, then you have to sit there and watch the same video over and over and over again. And then you can also learn to play the piano the same way.

[Dr. Drew]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

But then the question is, in a world where you don't need to do it now there's gonna be a very small percentage of people that does do it. And nobody used to be fat because food was scarce and the well was far away. Now food's abundant and it's cheap and it's whatever. And now we got a lot of fat people and now who's okay. Back in the day, rich people were the heavy people because they had access to it. Now rich people have access to trainers and nutrition and good nutrition and information and whatever. And the poor people are the fat people. And that's our society now.

[Dr. Drew]

Unhealthy.

[Adam Carolla]

Unhealthy.

[Dr. Drew]

It costs money to be healthy, that's for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know, though. I would say, and I've talked to people about it who are sort of in the game. It is more to go to an erwan. Way more. I agree. Than going to John's Market in the hood. All right, that is fine. But having eggs and eating an apple and keeping it clean, you don't have to eat junk. You know what I mean? And it can be done. Now, maybe it's a little more of a sacrifice, I agree. But there's a way to do it on the cheap.

[Dr. Drew]

Sure.

[Adam Carolla]

And I would like to encourage people to do it because you can hard boil up some eggs and eat them with a little hot sauce or whatever, and it's not that yummy, but it's good. Hey, it'll be good for you.

[Dr. Drew]

My wife and I, we do that. She had like a poor student's diet when she was studying in New York. She had A bowl of rice with some soy sauce and I think it was some egg and that's it. And maybe some little, I don't know, Japanese, like, breadcrumbs thing pack. It was delicious. For her.

[Adam Carolla]

What is she. What is she studying or what did she say?

[Dr. Drew]

Well, she was studying. I believe it was. Oh, my gosh. You're gonna get me in trouble, man. With my wife. I just got married. I got married a year ago. So it was marketing, I believe, or business.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, look, if she was trying to be a dentist or something, you couldn't remember that.

[Dr. Drew]

That would be awful.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a bigger issue.

[Dr. Drew]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Dawson, who's leaving now? Sorry. It's about. It's about a third of the way into the song and he talks about.

[Dr. Drew]

Oh, we're going to play it.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm looking for that lyric. It's been rolling around my head for a long time. He wants to see all this, but he's just a big man on paper. He's not doing anything about it. He's just gonna say, I want all this, but I'm not doing anything.

[Dr. Drew]

So I think, well, yeah, I mean, to that I would say, well, you know, going back to Mission, it's like.

[Adam Carolla]

Wait, hold on one second. I think he'll lay it out. He'll lay out the lyric I was talking about in a second. Although I don't know what Dawson's looking at. Always like that line.

[Stephen O. Young]

So I hit the arcade and then get back in the car and drive.

[Adam Carolla]

Drive, drive down that empty highway again.

[Stephen O. Young]

Surrounded by food.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't worry about starvation, only temptation. Keep it sane. And he wrote that in, like, 89. And he just goes, surrounded by food. You don't worry about starvation, just temptation in keeping sane. And I'm like. He wrote. I don't know, was that 89 or 90 or something?

[Dawson]

Yes, 89. The album Human Soul.

[Adam Carolla]

And I'm like, that's a long time ago. And I remember at the time I was poor and hungry and stuff and I was like, what does that line exactly mean? But I think he was onto something.

[Dr. Drew]

Well, did you have a dream and a goal to work towards? Because maybe. Maybe that's the key too.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Dr. Drew]

Right. If you have a goal, right? You're gonna be, oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Goals.

[Dr. Drew]

Goals helpful if you have a dream.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I like a goal.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah, I like. Goals are good.

[Adam Carolla]

I had a goal. Yeah, you gotta have a goal.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah. You know, and so all these successful people, you know, Tom Cruise, like, in between scenes, he's doing dialogue scenes and then he Goes and does some crazy stunt where he's hanging 17,000ft off the air at 200 miles per hour with no parachute.

[Adam Carolla]

Were you around for that day?

[Dr. Drew]

No. What happened was, for me, I'm just, you know, I'm in the studio, right. I'm in the set. I'm in the submarine set. And we're filming this, this dialogue heavy sequence. And then we take three days off, we come back and we're like, well, where did Tom go? And then the day we get back, we see the paparazzi pictures. Oh, and it's him. They went down to the south coast of England to get some pickup shots of. Of this airplane sequence because they weren't happy with, you know, or they. They're. They're that particular perfectionist. Right. I think this really was his magnum opus for action. You know, they. They pulled out all this stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

Is there such a thing as too intense?

[Dr. Drew]

Yes. And that's this for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

You gotta deal with too intense.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[Adam Carolla]

Screw up a line or anything.

[Dr. Drew]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

In front of two Intense.

[Dr. Drew]

Yes. I think every actor feels that pressure. Absolutely. I mean, the good thing about Tom and McHugh, Christopher McQuarrie, is they're incredibly gracious. You know, obviously I'm saying this because I want to be on Top Gun 3, but it's true. They were like, day one, you come in, you have no idea what to expect. You're like, this is America's preeminent, one of the last great American movie stars that we have watched him growing up. I love all of his movies. And then, you know, first thing he does is, is come by all of the new actors and says, welcome to the family, you know, shakes all her hands. And when he looks at you, you really feel like you and him are like just having a moment. Like I'm the only person he's talking to. This is wild. And Q is this incredibly eloquent, you know, Oscar winning writer, screenwriter, director. And again, super gracious, super nice. So, yes, while it is incredibly intense because it's a however many million dollar.

[Adam Carolla]

Production, Makari wrote the Usual Suspect. He sure did. On my screen.

[Stephen O. Young]

That's.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a great movie.

[Dr. Drew]

And let's not forget the Way of the Gun, his follow up.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, right.

[Dr. Drew]

Incredible. Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Hey, are you finding your Asian? Are they okay? Wait, what? Right. I'm what? Right.

[Dr. Drew]

Adam, hold on.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, Let me tell you. Yep. Let me tell you how this used to work.

[Dr. Drew]

You.

[Adam Carolla]

We used to go, look, we'll just have white people.

[Dr. Drew]

You did. Are you serious?

[Adam Carolla]

I Watch Friends over the weekend. Yeah, I was in a. You know, when you're in a hotel, I've never really thought about this. But you don't. I was trapped. I was doing a bunch of shows, right?

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And so when you have a tv, you have to make a deal with that tv, because I love tv. And when I travel, I do not have control over my tv. I can't reverse it. I can't save stuff. I don't have stuff in my queue. I can't finish watching F1 drive to survive, you know what I mean? Or whatever. You know, I. Okay, here's what I like. I'm sitting home and the Pee Wee Herman two parter comes on, right? And then I watch the first part of the Pee Wee Herman watch. And then I go, oh, we haven't even got to the part where he got caught in the Florida porn store, you know. And I go, well, that's got to be in part two. And then I go, tonight I'm going to have a glass of wine and I'm going to watch Part two. But when you're on the road, whatever's on, that's what's on. And then so the bar changes. You no longer get to think about nines and tens. You're settled for a three or four, which is literally like the bars closing at night. Same math. So I turn on the TV at noon in Tacoma and Friends is on. And I go, you know what this is? Now, I wouldn't watch Friends if I was back in la. I'd watch the rest of the Pee Wee Herman doc, but I don't have that control. Friends is good enough for here. And I'm watching Friends and it's all white people all the time.

[Dr. Drew]

All the time.

[Adam Carolla]

Nothing.

[Dr. Drew]

But it was a different world.

[Adam Carolla]

And then at some point somebody went, we gotta get some black representation.

[Dr. Drew]

You did that.

[Adam Carolla]

And then that was 20 years of getting some black representation. And then we covered that. And then at some point someone went, what about the Asians? They don't really complain that much.

[Dr. Drew]

They don't.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. They went, but you know what? We should have that representation. And so being Asian and trying to get cast in film roles may have been a liability when Friends was at the top of their game.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But now all of a sudden people are like, oh, wait a minute, we need an Asian in there. And it gets better.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah. Have you seen. Yes, obviously. Look, every. Every demo wants more representation.

[Adam Carolla]

Sure.

[Dr. Drew]

Absolutely. I will say to your point. Yes. I mean, it's never been a better time. Look, at all the young, young talent coming up. You know, Karate Kid legends, things like that. You know, Last Airbender TV show. These things. Right. That didn't exist. Exist for my generation. And my generation was better off than the generation before. So. Yes. And you know, to get this part in Mission Impossible as an Asian male actor.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah. Like, honestly. Yeah. Part of a. Part of my thinking was like, what? Because there was something like 500 submissions. They looked at 250 people, right. And it came down to two. And I don't believe there was a, like a racial quota or something. I think they. They literally just. McHugh told me he was just looking for people that were cool.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, and by the way, I should say, I think I said oh, Yang instead of oh, Young.

[Dr. Drew]

Listen, it's all good.

[Adam Carolla]

Jimmy. Oh Yang.

[Dr. Drew]

I mean, it's. It's the same. Hey, tell him I said hi. It's the same Chinese last name. I'm not related to him, but if he wants to hire Yang and oh Young.

[Adam Carolla]

The same.

[Dr. Drew]

Absolutely. And ow. Yang Aoyang, all that. It's all the same Chinese last name. We all might be related. So Chinese Jimmy, throw a bone to your third cousin over here.

[Adam Carolla]

I love Jimmy.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah, I love him, too.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

So you grew up out here?

[Dr. Drew]

I did. Southern California. Where'd you grow up? Cerritos, California.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh. Or the Auto Square is.

[Dr. Drew]

That's right. Yes, absolutely. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

See, I grew up with a limited movement in North Hollywood, so, like, I knew Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks and Studio City. And then all the other places had car dealers. Cal Worthington.

[Dr. Drew]

Mr. Cal Worthington. Yes. With this giant bear that he'd ride on.

[Adam Carolla]

On Bellflower Boulevard. And then they had the Cerritos Auto Square. Like, I'd never been to any of these places, and I couldn't get there. But I knew them by their auto commercials.

[Dr. Drew]

Hey, they're great. Yeah. Cerritos Auto Square is still out there.

[Adam Carolla]

Pete Ellis, Dodge, Long beach freeway, Firestone exit. He's in Southgate, everybody. But I only know it from his stupid song.

[Dr. Drew]

Yes. And listen. We all listened to you growing up. Yes. Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

So you listen to K Rock?

[Dr. Drew]

We listened to K Rock.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Dr. Drew]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Weird. Different radio time back then, right?

[Dr. Drew]

Weird, wasn't it? Like the golden time.

[Stephen O. Young]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

No, weird. Weird. I can't explain to my kids what that world was and how that world worked, but it was communal and different and kind of interesting that people listened to a radio and you had to catch things at the same time. The greatest compliment I would ever get is people go, like, I'd sit in my driveway until you were done talking about blah, blah, blah, before you went to commercial, where I would get out of my car. And so the notion of. Notion of my son, who loves, like, listening to books, you know, audiobooks and podcasts and stuff like that, the notion he'd have to sit in the driveway because he had to hear it, because it wasn't. He couldn't rewind it or repeat it. It's a lot like me on the road watching friends realize what it is.

[Dr. Drew]

And we're back full circle. I see how you did that. That was very good.

[Adam Carolla]

Did you like Dr. Drew?

[Dr. Drew]

Of course. Listen. We all listen to Loveline, and we all grew up with that and learned so much about that and avoided mistakes and made mistakes and probably called in for that. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You grew up and you got into martial arts early.

[Dr. Drew]

Well, I got into martial arts around late high school because my father, he was always a martial artist, but he was a mechanical engineer. And, you know, as a strong, you know, Asian father, he was like, I. I want you to study and not hurt yourself. Right. And so, okay, when I went to college, then I could do whatever I wanted. So then I learned martial arts, and I got obsessed with it. That was around the time Matrix came out. So, you know, that's when it kind of opened my eyes to where it was like, wait a minute, this is not just some niche thing, because, you know, back in the day, kung fu movies were always badly dubbed. They were a joke. Even if the performers were skilled, the gods of martial arts movies were amazing, but it was a joke. And then Matrix comes out and it's mainstream and the world embraces, and that was the first time. So I shout out to Keanu Reeves, I'm like, man, wait a minute. Maybe I could do this. Yeah, you know, maybe I could be a part of this. So if I wasn't going to do movies, I was going to open up a martial arts school or something. But, yeah, I just thought, like, every Asian man, martial artist, we're all like, I want to be the next Bruce Lee. And it's like, well, come on, there's a billion of us, and a lot of them are really good. So I just did as much as I could, broke into stunts, and then from stunts, worked my way up into acting, you know, And I'm just. I'm just so happy to even be on this podcast, baby. Because, listen, I'm like one of a million struggling LA actors out there. You know what I mean? We're all the same.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, here's. I mean, here's my head on it. I feel like you either have to bring something that's Sort of you're uniquely qualified to do or you have to sort of create your own vehicle. And then it's a. Basically it's sort of this and it's what I figured out a long time ago, which is it's a park and there's tons and tons and tons of dudes who are good at basketball at this park. So you go, I will bring a basketball to this park and then you can use my basketball. But I must play in this game. I need to create something, a reason for you to let me play because there's so many people that are good with a dusting of. I think I'm better than all these guys, but you don't know it and you're making the rules. So I'm never going to make the team. So I'm going to bring my own basketball. And that's what sort of creating your own vehicle does.

[Dr. Drew]

That's an incredible analogy. I completely agree 1000%.

[Adam Carolla]

It's good to have a little low self esteem in this business because you go, why would anyone hire me or want me but if I can create the man show came about cause Jimmy Kimmel said to me after going on an audition, he said he went on audition for Good Morning Encino or some morning TV cable show where he had to be likable and perky and stuff like that. And he just said to me when he got home from this audition, he was 26 and a half or something, I was 29 or 30. He just said, look, they want me to be likable to women. My own wife doesn't like me, so this is never going to work. I said, true. He said, what we need to do is we create our own show and then you and I can be in that show. But we have to create the show. We can't. You go on that audition, I'll go on this audition. Because they're never, they don't see guy who's going to Host the Oscars four times come walking through the door. They just see 26 and a half year old Jimmy Kimmel and they go, we need you to be likable to women and okay, see ya. And then they hire somebody else.

[Dr. Drew]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

So make your own show is what I'm saying. Create your own thing.

[Dr. Drew]

Absolutely. You know, I actually, this latest, obviously working on Mission Impossible, that really taught me that, you know, because I saw Tom had to literally produce this himself. You know what I mean? I don't think this, I don't think he's insurable. You know what I Mean, so. And we all heard the stories about how he kept production going during COVID Things of that nature. You know, the industry is very tough. Tough. And it is definitely profit driven. And you know, if they're giving Tom Cruise a hard time.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, right.

[Dr. Drew]

And he has to battle through.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Dr. Drew]

You know, what, what do we have to do? Right. So I think gone are the days where as actors, everybody's always asking, you know, oh, what advice would you give aspiring actors? And I'm always saying, don't quit. But I think the story you just told is absolutely true. Like, you really do kind of have to go it alone a little. You know, make your own thing, carve out your own space, produce your own thing. Because if you try to wait for somebody to pluck you out of obscurity, it's just not going to happen. This, you know, I mean, it could happen, but that's like lightning hitting, right? Or winning the lottery.

[Adam Carolla]

It's not. Yeah. It's not something to count on. And don't expect people to sort of recognize your greatness or anything.

[Dr. Drew]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

I was actually, when I was worked early with Jimmy, we were told not to work together because they didn't like us together. We got a little rowdy together or something. So it's like you guys break apart. And then when I went in, they wanted me to do a radio show on some other radio station or something like that. And I went in and I said, okay, but how about we bring Jimmy in and we'll do like a team because we're funny together. And the guy said, he's not a behind the mic guy, he's a producer, but he's not in front of the camera. He's not talent. He produces. So you don't want that guy. Whatever. And I remember thinking, that guy hosted the Oscars four times. That was your assessment of who he was, which is not talent and late night show and everything else. But I was is like, don't count on them accurately assessing anyone's ability, including yours.

[Dr. Drew]

That is so true. And it goes back to one saying that I always have, which is, I was working in the business for 10, 12 years, something like that, doing stunts. And then at a certain point I realized to myself, if I don't make my own dream come true, I'm just gonna be working to make other people happen.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Dr. Drew]

You know, and so I said to myself, like, I just have to stop. I have to say no to some things. I have to fail. Literally, just fail. Start from the ground up almost and just do that. Because otherwise I'll just kind of be stuck doing something that I. I didn't see myself doing, you know, and, and didn't want to do. But that's not to say stunts is not an amazing path. Like, obviously, obviously you can be a stunt person, become a fight coordinator, become a second unit director, become a director, director, become a producer. There's a lot of avenues. Obviously, the guys who made John Wick and Extraction, these people are phenomenally talented. And the industry is sort of recognizing stunts more for that, obviously. So it's an interesting time that I got out of it. Great timing.

[Adam Carolla]

Stephen, are stunts safer now than they used to be?

[Dr. Drew]

Absolutely, absolutely. Absolutely, yes. You know, unless you're in the third world or something. But yes, when you're, you know, when you're making a big time Hollywood movie. Yeah, for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

What, what's the craziest stunt?

[Dr. Drew]

Oh, you don't want to ask me. I'm just a fighter guy.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to know that you've seen.

[Dr. Drew]

Oh, that's the cruise.

[Adam Carolla]

Riding the motorcycle off the mountain was pretty, pretty intense. That.

[Dr. Drew]

I mean, I didn't see that personally. But yes, I would have to say that is right up there for biggest stunts ever done. And obviously, obviously, his kind of Buster Keaton, you know, biplane chase that he did for this movie is absolute insanity. I think that is probably. Yeah. The biggest stunt sequence ever. So, you know, between him and Jackie Chan, I think those are the gods of stunt guys, actors who can do stunts.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Dr. Drew]

He's not a stunt guy, obviously.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I mean, Jackie's an acrobat.

[Dr. Drew]

Jackie is an acrobat. Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's really amazing. And the stuff is, like, clever.

[Dr. Drew]

Yes. And funny and fun.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's what I mean. It's like. It's clever when he dives through the shopping cart, then pops up and, you know, does all that stuff.

[Dr. Drew]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. He's. He is, I don't know, a national treasure.

[Dr. Drew]

He's a global treasure.

[Adam Carolla]

A global treasure.

[Dr. Drew]

That's what I mean. I want to give flowers to both of them because, you know, let's not forget, you know, like, these are the guys. These are the.

[Adam Carolla]

When Cruz does the motorcycle jump off the cliff, there's no zip line or harness there. He just jumps a motorcycle off a cliff with a parachute.

[Dr. Drew]

That's right. And he did it six times.

[Adam Carolla]

Six times.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah. And I think when he did his HALO jump, I just read it the other night. When he did his halo jump in Fallout, he did that over a hundred times.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Dr. Drew]

So that's what's so funny to me. You know, a lot of people say, oh, I wish I was a stunt person. And it's like, yeah, it's fun to do it once.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Dr. Drew]

But then you gotta do it like you said, back to the beginning of the conversation.

[Adam Carolla]

Repetition. Yeah.

[Dr. Drew]

Can you do the reps? You know, because the first time is fun, the second time is okay. Third time, now you're like, do we. Didn't we get it? We got it. Right, Clearly. But it's. No, no. So, yeah, props to them. Props to him for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

So what's we're wanting, we got some footage of it, but instead. Is this from the movie we're looking.

[Dr. Drew]

At this looks like behind the scenes, bts.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, behind the scenes stuff.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Now, he had to have a harness on, right?

[Dr. Drew]

Yes, I believe there's a harness here. Yeah. You know, when he's doing his wing walking, I don't think it's full on, just him floating, but even with the harness, listen, you know, after you do stunts for so many years, you realize you can get hurt.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. Walking across the street, the plane can crash.

[Dr. Drew]

The plane could crash. Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

And then catch on fire. And then you're harnessed in.

[Dr. Drew]

It's all the things you don't. Look at that. Look at that.

[Adam Carolla]

It's crazed.

[Dr. Drew]

That's what I mean, right? Look at this.

[Adam Carolla]

It's crazed.

[Dr. Drew]

This is wild.

[Adam Carolla]

It's wild.

[Dr. Drew]

And then the plane itself, when it goes inverted like that, apparently it runs out of fuel because the fuel pump, as, you know, as a race car driver, it's not made for that. So they have to finagle a way around all this. And, you know, every little, Every second that you see on screen, that's. I don't even know how many. How many takes, how many minutes he's up in air doing that.

[Adam Carolla]

So, yeah, I'll tell you my greatest takeaway from watching him on the wing of the airplane, which is if you hit Tom Cruise's head with more than 150 miles an hour worth of air, his hair will turn into Mo Howard's haircut from the Three Stooges almost instantly. Like, there's no telling what your hair will turn into, but he'll go from Tom Cruise to Mo from the Three Stooges. Almost me. There's a shot where he's on the wing where he's got Mo's haircut.

[Dr. Drew]

Hey, the Tom Cruise hair game is strong.

[Adam Carolla]

Still strong.

[Dr. Drew]

It's strong. Every new movie he comes out with, he changes his hairstyle. And I at least for me, when I was a kid, I would always try to change my hair. Like, remember Mission Impossible to two comes out and he has a beautiful, long, luscious hair. And every guy was like, I'm gonna grow on my hair. Yeah, let's do this.

[Adam Carolla]

I only met him. I met him once at Jimmy's house.

[Dr. Drew]

Oh, well, okay.

[Adam Carolla]

That's all I met. Okay.

[Dr. Drew]

Sorry. You know him socially, that must be nice.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, he brought donuts with his mom.

[Dr. Drew]

There it is. You know, he bought my family in law dinner.

[Adam Carolla]

He did.

[Dr. Drew]

So we had a little break in film. I go on vacation with my new wife and there it is. He's a little more handsome than that.

[Adam Carolla]

But, you know, he's better looking than Mo Howard. But that's the same barber, but only when there's 200 miles worth of wind in his head. But yes, go ahead.

[Dr. Drew]

Yes. So we had a little break in filming and I went on a little vacation, little Spanish vacation with my new wife and my new family in law. And we come back to London on a Friday. I'm supposed to film on a Monday day. And we're at this fancy restaurant and we're waiting, you know, for our table.

[Adam Carolla]

In London.

[Dr. Drew]

In London and some fancy restaurant. I didn't know what it was. And I feel two hands slap the back of my shoulders and I'm like, who is this? So I turn around, pissed off. Right, right. And it's Tom Cruise doing this.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Dr. Drew]

And then Chris McQuarrie and I guess they were there to have a business dinner or something because, I don't know, some high power exec was in the corner or whatever and I was just like, what? And so we had. I had dinner with my, you know, my family and I couldn't even concentrate. I was like, don't look at him. Don't make eye contact. Have you ever had dinner, like when your boss is across the way from you? It's impossible. So around the middle of the dinner, he gets up, goes to the bathroom, comes back. I'm like, nobody look at him, nobody make eye contact. And he just stands at our table and is like, let's take some pictures, huh?

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Dr. Drew]

And everybody in the restaurant's looking up, up, like, why is Tom taking pictures with this random Asian family? Who are these people? Is he gonna do this for all of us?

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Dr. Drew]

So he took pictures and was so nice. He was telling my new father in law, like, yeah, Steven's a great actor.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Dr. Drew]

Which, look, when you're an Asian father in law, you are hard ass, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Dr. Drew]

And I was trying to impress this man for months.

[Adam Carolla]

Sure.

[Dr. Drew]

And then so for Tom Cruise to do that, and at the end of the meal, he paid for our dinner and you know, I was like to my father in law, I was like, what's up? Huh? What do you think? And he was just like, yeah, he's okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they're tough to impress Asian father in laws. But Tom Cruise coming in and endorsing you, you're not going to do any better.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah. So I will always thank Tom for that because he didn't have to do that. You know, he's my boss. He could have just been like, hey, nice to see you.

[Adam Carolla]

What is, what is next for you, Stephen?

[Dr. Drew]

I am in. You will see me with Jason Momoa. Yeah. In the Wrecking Crew.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, when is that coming out?

[Dr. Drew]

I think that comes out in November or December on Amazon.

[Adam Carolla]

On Amazon, yeah. And that's a.

[Dr. Drew]

With Dave Bautista.

[Adam Carolla]

Uh huh.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Dave Bautista and so some other. That's a good name.

[Dr. Drew]

Jason Momoa. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Actiony action.

[Dr. Drew]

Yes, exactly. Action comedy. So, you know, and then after that, I think I'm gonna do what you're saying, man, I just got to make your own thing and not wait for Hollywood to make you something, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you can try.

[Dr. Drew]

You can try.

[Adam Carolla]

I wouldn't count on it.

[Dr. Drew]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Steven, let me give you a plug again. Mission Impossible. And then the Wrecking Crew is coming out November, Netflix, Amazon. Oh, Amazon. Sorry.

[Dr. Drew]

Also not related to Jimmy Oyang. But if you want to call me Jimmy, call me Steven Oyoung.

[Adam Carolla]

There you go, Steven O. Young, everybody. Thanks, Steven. This has been fun. Thanks for the stories. I'm gonna be in Salt Lake doing stand up shows and that'll be at Wise Guys coming up on the 13th and 14th of June. Go to AdamCroll.com for all the live shows because there's stuff all over the place. Going to Jimmy's club in Vegas and so on and so forth. And Stephen will come back whenever the new movie comes out on Amazon.

[Dr. Drew]

Whenever you'll have me, bro.

[Adam Carolla]

And I'll have you whenever you'll have us. Until next time. S for Leisha and Steven saying mahalo.

[Dawson]

Pick up your phone and leave us a voicemail. The number is 888-634-1744. And remember, get tickets to see the A Man in Salt lake [e-mail].

[Adam Carolla]

Foreign.

[Stephen O. Young]

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