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Well, in this episode, very funny. Comedian Monique Marvez is back. Speaking of strong women, Brittany Force, dragster driver. Yeah, John Force's daughter. Setting all kind of records out there. Mayhem's got the news and we'll do all that right after this. Bet online. Hey, it's Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. Football season is in full swing and there's no better place to get in on the action than bet online. You're number one source for all things football. Betonline gives you more ways to play with the latest odds, breaking news, live scores, and even in game betting. So you never miss out on a moment from every NFL and college game and matchup. Betonline is your place for all things football. And if you love MLB or UFC or NHL, anything with letters in it, futures, even, Betonline keeps you locked into the action all year long. And don't Forget the BETOnline VIP program with exclusive level up bonuses, weekly cash boosts and rewards designed for serious players. Head to BetOnline today. That's BetOnline. The game starts here. Foreign.
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Studios in Glendale, California. This is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Monique Marvez.
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And.
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Race car and dragster driver Brittany Force. Plus the news with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now everything rubs him the wrong way except himself. Adam Carolla.
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Yeah, get it on, got to get it on. No choice but mandate. You get it on. And welcome back Monique Marvez, very funny comedian. Inspirational as well. It's funny. She's got live dates everywhere. Garland Cultural Arts in Garland, Texas, and also Jones Center, Springdale, Arkansas. Also got a very funny special on DryBar. Is it one or is there more than one special?
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I just got one. They haven't released the second one yet.
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Oh.
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Filmed but not out.
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When did you shoot it?
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August 2nd.
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Hmm. Hey, you know dates.
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I do.
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Yeah. I don't do that. My thing is like, I'd be like, I don't know, it's been like seven weeks or something.
C
I was on September 24th of last year. I was on two days after my birthday.
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That's true.
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And you had a chocolate cake for me.
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I did.
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So, yeah. So we've been friends now for a year and a month.
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Some of that cake's still in the fridge if you want to take it home with you. I don't remember dates. I don't know what that thing is. But then also you may have a little bit of that syndrome, a little.
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Bit of that Mary Lou Henner thing.
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Yeah, Mary Lou Henner and Bob Petrella Bob Petrella is a guy I met at Acme Comedy Theater a million years ago, and he was just Bob Petrella from Beaver Falls. And he would always kind of like. I'd say, like, when did I. I don't remember how long I've been part of the Acme Show. And he goes, eh, Wednesday. That'd be 1990. You joined on a Wednesday. And I'd be like, bob, how do you know that? And he'd go, oh, because the Steelers were playing Thursday Night Football. I remember that week.
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I have a little bit of that.
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And he would tell me, and then we looked at as kind of a novelty, like, ask Bob, you know, like when my kids were born or whatever. Bob will know, you know. And then I saw that 60 minute special, and it was Mary Lou Henner. And then Petrello, the guy.
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I saw that 60 Minutes, the guy.
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I wanted to with Zach. Me, theater with that nobody cared about. He knew dates. Right. That was about all we had with him.
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I don't know that it's a skill set that's gonna get you anywhere.
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I don't know how much utility it has. It'll be good for relationships.
C
Oh, no, it won't. No, it won't. I have many a boyfriend who says, you don't forget anything.
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I know, but do you know how many girlfriends where they go, I told you it was on the 29th. And I go, you never told me that was on the 29th. Or, here's how much this cost. Like some date or something. And they go, that's the way I know it. At least it would shut them up, because they know you have a photographic memory.
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True.
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And they didn't say it or didn't happen or that wasn't the date or whatever that is. Almost everyone argue with explains to me, they told me, and I don't know what I'm talking about.
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You know, what's the important thing, Adam? You're kind of the boss in most of your relationship, so you don't really have to know.
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Mm. I don't know. I don't think of myself. I'm with Tony Danza. I'm like, who's the boss? I don't feel like I'm the boss. I'm not really. I didn't have that in my marriage. I wasn't the boss. I didn't get anything wrong. How were you married? I was like, 18 years. And I never got any requests I made or anything. Any suggestions or requests. They were all ignored. I didn't get anything.
C
That's horrible.
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I agree. I don't know.
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And you're pretty reasonable as people go. You're actually a very reasonable man.
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I had wild requests like, I will lease you $100,000 car, and in return, you need to have the second set of spare keys by the in that wooden bowl that I put at the entry door so that when you're out of town, I could move the car if I need to.
C
That's insane.
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I understand. It was a different time.
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You should have seen it.
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We're living in a different America.
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Thigh high boots and my ability to use a flyswatter liberally like that riding crop.
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But I get what you. So, yeah, there's a lot of those kinds of requests they never heeded, never worked out interesting. Watering flower pots and things like that. Basics.
C
You're in charge of the plants.
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Well, if you live with someone who doesn't do anything, then eventually you become in charge of everything. Okay, so that's kind of how that pans out.
C
That's not how I would have seen it going down.
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Well, people who don't do anything think they do tons of stuff. That's another. Then you have an argument.
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You know what I love about being on the show with you, but I'm.
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Never in charge, if that's what you.
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Mean, is that, number one, you're a critical thinker. So we always end up having conversations that are not based on anything that's sort of jingoistic or in the zeitgeist or just because, you know, a group of people believes this way or that way. I really love that about you. We always have. Just like, very. Like, we both bonded over our shared hatred of graffiti last time I was here, and you told such a great story about graffiti. And the other thing that I very much love about being on here with you is how completely authentically you roll. Like, you don't have any sort of defenses of, like, oh, I have this intelligent, has a good memory woman on the show with me. You know, I better kind of get my hackles up or watch what I say or. You're always just like, very freeform with me. And I like that because, believe it or not, a lot of men, I can feel them like, you know, oh, this I got to watch this one. This is a cagey one, you know, like, they're in some kind of spiritual MMA match with me, and you're not like that at all.
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Well, there's a lot of talk where guys go, he's intimidated by strong woman or a woman who makes more money. Than him. And I don't know. I feel like we must have discussed this. I've been.
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We never discussed that.
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I've always wanted a woman who made more money than me. As a matter of fact, I would be super happy with a woman that made 10% of what I made. I wouldn't be insecure with it at all. I would apply it.
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I might fall into that category. I don't know how much you make, but I might fall into the 10% category.
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I'd be very happy with that relationship and I would enjoy it if a woman made more than me. I do have a theory, possibly controversial. I'll circle back to what you're saying. And I talked to Dr. Drew about this, and I think it may explain a lot of what's going on in our society. I don't have lots of insecurities. I don't really have any insecurities. I just have things I don't know and I'm not good at. And then if you said to me, are you good on the computer? I'd go, oh, no, I don't know anything about it. I'm not good at it. And then they'd go, do you want to be good at it? I'd go, I think you're right. I should. But also pay guys to be good at it. And then they're good at it. And then I get what I want. I don't type. I don't know how to make a tie. There's plenty of stuff. I just go, no, it's not my scene. I'm not good at it. I'm not going to pretend like I'm good at it. And I'm not even going to tell you that I'm a C minus on something where I'm an F or D. So I'm fine with it. But I have skill sets, and I think a lot of it is probably carpentry. I think in building and mechanics, a lot of it is fixing stuff and building stuff and troubleshooting mechanical things. That gives me kind of a base of security where I have a field of expertise. And then I also have written some books and made some documentaries. So I walk around and I think a lot of it is being over 5, 9, and working as a boxing coach in the past. I feel secure. I don't feel threatened by people. People can put their hands on me. I don't spaz out. So, like, I have a base of feeling competent and so I don't have the insecurity. And I run into a lot of people that seem to be like little Chihuahuas, like, barking all the time. Everything's an offense. Everything's up front. Everything is like, you disrespected me. And I'm like, I don't. You can't disrespect me. I don't have that gear. It doesn't matter to me. I understand what I know. I don't have the chip on my shoulder. I just. You could. You could say you're dumb, you're unfair, you're unfunny, and you don't know shit. And I'd be like, all right. But I know what I know, and that's not correct. So I walk around not feeling full of myself. I just feel competent. I know what I do. I know what I earn. I know how it goes when I go and do something, and I get it. So I don't have that feeling of, like. And then a strong woman who's funny, you know, I don't feel like I need to repel that or defend against it.
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And I also even wonder what the term a strong woman even means. By definition, like, I don't consider my going back to you. I'm not insecure. I'm also, I don't believe, full of myself. But the other thing is, it begs the question, what kind of woman are you hanging out with? If by comparison, I'm strong, I don't feel that I'm particularly strong.
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I believe the term strong woman was invented by women who are trying to stick it to guys. Like, intimidated. Like, when they go scared of those who look different than them. I'm like, I don't know anyone who's ever said, I'm scared of people look different. That's what you say. That's what a progressive on CNN says about a white dude. But I know tons of white dudes. I've been drunk with tons of white dudes. No one's ever confided in me that they're scared of people look different than them. They have a maid or a nanny or a foreman on their job or a guy on their football team who's different than them. And they've never said a word about it.
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Well, thank you. Because going a step further than that, again, I consider myself very girly. I'm like a girly girl. I consider myself to be very feminine and girlish. And to me, strong is one of those things that I don't take it as a positive when people say, you're a strong woman. I just wanna be a woman.
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Yeah, I agree. I Think, like I said, it's a term coined by progressive women on the left to make fun of sort of Republican white dudes going scared. Can't handle this Supreme Court justice because she's a strong woman. It's like, nah, he disagrees with what she's saying. It's like, it's not. I can't handle. A lot of these guys have like wives that are like, oh, she runs a half marathon and takes care of the kids and is running her own business out of the living room. And they go, look at her, look at her. She can do anything. They like it. I don't know why anyone would not want. I would like strong, by the way. I guess strong they mean opinions, not how much you can squat. But I think they mean strong. I've never been with a woman who hasn't told me to fuck off or I don't know what I'm talking about, or no, I'm not gonna do it. It happens all the time.
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Well, my dad always taught me in a non completely non sexist way. My dad said, monique, defer to the bigger brain. He said, 90% of the time you're going to be the smartest person. Of course, he was my dad, you're going to be the smartest person in the room. But that 10% celebrate when there's somebody that can teach you something and there's something to be had in the relationship, defer to the bigger brain. And I always, I'm very happy when I'm around somebody. Like, it's funny because you say that makes. Because again, it's not a dude thing. But men are. Dr. Drew, I think, would support me. Men identify more with their work, their job, their income, their field of expertise, insofar as professionalism. So, okay, so for a man to say, I'd like a woman to make 10% of what I make, you know, that's very cool. And for me as a woman, I would love to be with my equality intellectually. Like, it's not even about money. If somebody and I can sit and discuss things and there's not dead air where I hit a patch of I just said something and you have no idea. 50% of the time, if 50% of the time I could bring up a name like Bertrand Russell and I don't get a blank stare. Even if you say, I've never read Bertrand Russell, but I know who he is. I know that he's a writer. I know he's a, you know, somewhat of a funny philosopher, so to speak. Okay. But it doesn't happen.
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Well, you bringing up an interesting point, which. And I run into this a lot, and I sort of. I question it. I query out loud about this different gauging, different people and sort of what they know. Like, I know guys that have, like, you sort of a photographic memory, and they're very sharp. And when they talk or they sort of explain something or they tell me something that I recollect, I defer to them because I know who they are and sort of how they roll. And then there's other people and there's a lot of other people, and I know them. And I know. By the way, I immediately go into, like, I'll go, so what day is the show? Or whatever? They go, It's Saturday the 28th. And I'll go, okay, what time? They go, show's at 8 o'. Clock. And I'll go, okay, thanks. And I'll hang up the phone with them and then I'll go, daphne, check with the club. Make sure the show's at 8 o'. Clock. Make sure, because that person has a bad batting average and I don't trust them. The other guy, if he said that, I will never. I'd hang up the phone with him, and I'd never check to see if the club says the door's open or the show's at. I would never. He's an accurate person. So I sort of gauge everybody and then I act accordingly because I do it for myself, correct? Because I don't want to show up an hour late or early or whatever that thing is. Other people don't do a good job of gauging who they're speaking to. They just have one mode. I'm right, you're dumb, or fuck you, or whatever that thing is. And I'm like, pick and choose the people that you're talking to. And I'll give you an extreme example. You could be fighting with somebody, and there could be a person in front of you that looks old and looks small and looks withered, and they're yelling, fuck you, bitch. And you go, fuck you. And you start walking at them and they go, I'll kick your ass, you. I'll kick your ass. All right? But then there are cops that have guns out. And that has to be a totally different thing.
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Yeah.
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And a lot of people just have that, fuck you, I'm walking toward you.
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Amen.
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And they don't care if it's an elderly Asian woman or a cop with his gun drawn.
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They got one mode, they got one speed.
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Now, I Don't know why you don't understand the difference between a lizard and an alligator.
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Right?
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But I do. Correct. And I don't really fuck with my friends who are accurate. But the other ones that are inaccurate, I will get into it with them, just knowing who they are. So if I have one of my friends that's inaccurate, say something. I'll go, I don't know about that. I'm going to check on that. If I have an accurate friend of mine say something, I go, really? Wow, that's amazing. Because I believe him.
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I like the way you say that because you're accurate.
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You're an accurate person. And people always go, is that guy nice or mean or smart? I just go, I just want accurate. You gotta be accurate. Can't talk about shit you don't know all day.
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That's a great metric, because I. And I'm gonna take that and I'm gonna use it, and I'm gonna say that you gave it to me. Because that being said, I do read the room. It's not like I bring up Bertrand Russell with randos. It's like if somebody. If we're discussing literature of a specific type in a specific niche, then you.
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Then you talk about it as a comedian. Yeah, you gotta do that.
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Know your room.
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You gotta do it. And it's. I cannot tell you how many times I am, like, sitting in front of a person who. Who's talking to another person, and they're like, listen, I went to the airport the other day, and I'm sitting at the lounge, and who comes in? Emerson Boozer.
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Emerson Boozer.
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And I'll stop him. I'll go, that person has no fucking idea what you're talking about. I know Emerson Boozer. The guy was one of the great jets, running back from the 70s. That person's 28, and it's a chicken. And she doesn't know. She doesn't know what you're saying.
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Might as well say John Wayne.
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And they go, everyone knows who Emerson. And I'll go, do you know who Emerson? No, I don't. I'm sorry. I go, okay. They don't know what you're. I don't know why I need to stand in between you and explain what this person knows and what this person doesn't know. But it's a room reader and they don't have it. And you do. I mean, you do comedy. I was doing comedy, Kimmel's Club, I don't know, two weeks ago. And I just got out there and started in on It. And I was like, okay, these people, they're not going for what I got on the menu right now. So I am going to the specials, and I'm just going to start racking my brain for stuff that these guys. Because I knew four minutes in, this is not going to be a sort of business as usual for whatever reason, age time, sobriety, whatever. This was not. I was not gonna just plow through my act.
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This wasn't an Adam Carolla crowd.
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I'm gonna have to change this thing up. Maybe they were, but not this kind of Adam Corolla. They wanted something else. Whatever that is, they wanted something else. And I sussed it out in the first four minutes because I did not want the next 55 minutes to be painful. But then you're right, it's probably a thing a comedian just does.
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Right?
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Right.
C
Well, when you said Emerson Boozer, I lit up, because when I was a little girl, my dad had season tickets to all the Miami Dolphin games.
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What?
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Yeah. So I'm the person that I used to be able to name the undefeated season lineup. Like, I could tell you. Number 12, Jim Kick. You know, Nick Bonaconi. Like, I knew their numbers, you know?
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All right, so let's see. Jake Scott, safety, backup quarterback. Howard Twilley, Larry Zonka.
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Yeah, Larry.
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Larry little guard, I believe. Nick Bonacani, linebacker.
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Remember Mercury Morris.
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Sure, sure. So does this prison roommate remember some as well? Mercury Morris, Jim Kick. Okay. Those guys used to have great mustaches back then.
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Big stashes.
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Yeah. You know Larry Zanka, right?
C
Yeah, yeah.
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You know the psychic, James Von Praag?
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I've heard the name, yes.
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I'm going to show you a picture, and I'm going to just tell you in advance that James Von Praag looks exactly like Larry Zonka if Larry Zanka was gay.
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That's how I feel about David Hasselhoff and Dan Marino. Lord of no Rings.
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That's a good call, too. Now, I'm not saying. I'm not saying that James Von Pragg is gay. I'm saying if Lary Shanka was gay, which is not the same as saying.
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No, I get it.
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Is gay. Yeah. And you're right. Marino and the Hoff.
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Yeah.
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You know, Yeah.
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I never saw an episode of Knight Rider the same as a dolphin. Yeah, yeah.
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And then.
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Ooh.
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But also in Knight Rider, Hasselhoff had an evil twin.
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There you go.
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And that actor could have actually been the guy who's playing that. All right. That picture somewhere in our computer.
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Omg.
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I Don't think I've ever been more correct in my life.
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You are super correct. Even the eyebrows again. I almost can't tell who's who. Except for the clef chin.
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Well, one guy is gay. Except for. I don't know if he's gay. I just know it's what Larry Zonka would look like if Larry Zonka was.
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Gay and had a blue suit.
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That's. That's all. Wait, no. Larry Zanka's on the right. Oh, my God. James von Prague looks so much like Larry Zonka that he looks more like Larry Zonka than Larry. Larry Zonka.
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Exactly.
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That's Larry Zonka on the right.
C
Wow. Wow. Many, many, many, many moons ago, when I was a kid, John Belushi did the cocker off with Joe Cocker on Saturday Night Live.
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Oh, really?
C
And halfway through, I was starting to get confused. Which one was Joe Cocker and which one was John Belushi?
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Speaking of marriage, Emma Watson from Lord of the Hobbits. I don't watch.
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No, no, she's a Harry Potter thing, I think.
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Harry Potter. Harry Potter, yeah. She's the one that's always doing battle with J.K. rowlings. I think probably she's a dingbat, but, God, she's talking about marriage. And I thought you'd be a good person to show this clip to. By the way, she's doing a podcast. I'm gonna put it. I'm gonna put it to Dawson, you and Monique.
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Okay.
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Jay Shetty, I think his name is doing the pod. In terms of dudes sitting, what is more feminine? The super deep Barack Obama leg cross, where they just cross their legs so hard. Newsom does it and Obama does it, and every super progressive sort of wafy dude does it. Sort of, Sort of. They'll do the heavy. Oh, God, what's his name? From Canada?
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It's an above the knee cross.
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Above the knee cross. Okay.
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Above the knee cross.
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Yeah. Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau is probably the king, but I don't know. You'd have to have a competition between him and Obama and Newsom. In terms of the deeper, how much further above the knee could they get? But watch this vid and watch Jay, the male who's interviewing Emma Watson. And look how he's sitting. And I want to know what's more feminine.
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Is that her engagement ring, by the way?
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Yes. Although it's not engagement ring. She'll explain.
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Okay.
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Diamond ring on her hand.
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My friends, they each bought me this ring. To me, it represents the Life that I've built, which was the one that I really wanted.
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He asked, would you want to get married?
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It's such a violence and it's such a cruelty. And especially women to make them feel like they have no worth because they haven't forced to its culmination. Something that I just don't think can or should ever be forced.
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Nobody's doing that, Emma. No, men are pressuring. You can pause it there for a second. What the fuck is she talking about?
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You got me. Is it marriage? Is she talking about marriage?
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She talking about the violence and the forcing and the whatever.
C
Sounds like a handmaid's tale.
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Yeah, I just have a theory that people with an accent can say dumber things with a British accent.
C
With a British accent? Not with a southern accent.
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No, no.
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You gotta be on your game with a southern accent.
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I don't know, maybe this clip plays because somehow we go back and you'll show Jay Shetty sitting there and I'll get into my sitting expose in a second. You guys feel pressure on your own.
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Diane Keaton died and Devin said, but she wasn't married.
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I mean, is it not a little odd when someone who's 80 has never.
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Been married, male or female?
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But they also. It could be that they wanted to get married but just never did. Or. Or they just don't believe that somebody should be with somebody for the rest of their lives, no matter what. Who are you talking to, us or yourself right now? This is unbelievable. That got really confessional all of a sudden. You gave an impassioned speech about. Oh, okay, so I must have won. How did I. Let's see, how did I see? All right, now you gotta hop on his pod and show me. Cause I'll figure this out. So she hates marriage or whatever the violence, I don't know. But back to our subject. You can get married and do a whole bunch of stuff. You don't have to give up everything and stay in your house and never work again. And you don't have to do any of that stuff.
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I was a road comedian.
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I know your guys. The guy didn't work as much as you, right?
C
Correct. When I got divorced, I had to pay alimony for two years.
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I do love that story, by the way. I don't know why.
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I know why.
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Well, again, in these modern times, when a guy does that, we all as guys look down on him like, listen, lazy sack of shit, get a fucking job and have some goddamn dignity. I would argue that's a two way street. If there's an able bodied woman who wants to sit around and get paid and never work again and travel off the dime of her husband. She's as big a piece of shit as he is.
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You know, I'm not huge on pejoratives, so, you know, but what I will tell you is I am in agreement. Meaning both of them are people that need to put, you know, pick themselves up by their bootstraps and figure it out. Because if you had the quote unquote lifestyle to which you've grown accustomed. But, but technically you grew accustomed because the other person loved you and wanted you to have a good life and.
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Yeah.
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And had an understanding of like, hey, I subsidize your life with money, cash money. But you subsidize mine with currency, energy. You're kind, you're supportive, you're there, you're in my corner, you come to my shows, you're, you know, you're part of Team Monique. Okay, great, good. But if, but the universe seeks balance. Like if I'm giving you cash and I'm getting nothing, at some point the imbalance is going to bring about the end.
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I would argue with this bullshit law of the life you're accustomed to. Because of course, every, pardon me, many people I speak to, they'll go, what was it like growing up? And they'll go, well, my dad was really successful in commercial real estate and we had a big house and like a good life. We go on vacations. And then in 08, the market fell apart and we had to move into an apartment. And I go, well, what about the life you're accustomed to, bro?
C
Right?
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And it's like, well, shit happens.
C
Absolutely, yes.
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So I don't know about this. Guaranteed accustomed to. And by the way, the life you're accustomed to is living in a huge house and never fucking doing jack shit and driving $100,000 car. It's not a very realistic life to get accustomed to.
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No, it's a moment, it's a dream. Be thankful you had it when you had it.
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I'm with you, sister. All right, I gotta find Jay sitting. There he is. There he is. There he is. Now what is that? He's not legless.
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He's sitting on his feet.
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He's sitting on his feet. Now, what is more effeminate and also. Oh, well, I'm making my point. Cause Emma's sitting on her feet too. So I don't know when it became first off. Okay, said this a lot. I don't know when it became cool to put your shoes on furniture it's.
C
Not cool in my house.
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I know people like Sarah Silverman. When she sits down on your sofa, both feet, both soles of both feet go up onto the. And I always look at it kind of like you just walk from the car up the driveway. You shouldn't have both your feet. I mean, I like Sarah, but it's a weird way to sit.
C
Well, it's definitely challenging to your host.
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I would find it to be uncomfortable, too, but he owns the furniture, I assume. But when did dudes start sitting like chicks? And is this part of the deep leg cross? And then if you saw two guys, you didn't know who they were, and I just said, I'll show you a picture of a guy who sits with both feet. He sits on his feet on a padded club chair. Or I'll show you a guy with this super deep leg cross who's the gay one. Who's gayer?
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It's funny you should ask that, because with me, it's an age thing. I. Before I would give you the answer, I'd look to see how old the person was. Because men, and I say men because they have outdoor plumbing. Males under 27 are a completely different animal than males over 20. I mean, a different animal, Adam, in.
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The sense that they are.
C
They're, for lack of a better term, they're very comfortable with their feminine side.
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Right. But Barack Obama's 63, and he does the deepest of the leg cross.
C
Right. I'm not going to lie to you. I've never know. I don't pay attention.
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You got to start focusing. You have to prioritize, get super focused on nothing and then start building patterns.
C
Okay. Okay.
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Because Justin Trudeau, Newsom Obama, these are guys in their 50s and 60s, and they do the deepest of the. The knee cross. So it's not a young man's sport, per se. I agree with you. Young guys don't care. I mean, they don't care about anything.
C
Young man, sport.
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But I'm saying. And also, your nuts get a little bigger and a little more, you know, saggier that I was. I was looking for a more delicate phraseology. But yeah, pendular. There's chances for testicular torsion, which is a big deal.
C
Torsion.
A
Yeah. But my point is, it is a young man's sport. But old guys do it, too. But only old guys who signal. They want to signal to their audience where they're at.
C
Well, again, because. And you just hit on something. They're signaling. Forgive me, I'm hip. I get what you're about. I'm comfortable with my feminine, you know, whatever.
A
It's a progressive.
C
Whatever the message is. It's an interesting thing because as a woman of a certain age, I'm very cognizant of. Not when people say, like, dress your age, I'm not sure what that means, but I'm very cognizant of not going in the other direction and having, you know, I've got as good a midriff as women half my age. But it's not appropriate for me to march around in low slung jeans in a sports bra. Like, that's just not a look that I feel I could pull off with a straight face.
A
Yeah, well, who's it? Lauren Sanchez, who's married to Bezos.
C
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A
She doesn't have an issue with that. All right, so we gotta answer the question. I show you a picture of the deep leg cross. Both guys are, let's say, 35, 40 years old.
C
Okay.
A
Deep leg cross versus both feet on the chair sitting also. Each position I don't find comfortable at all. I feel like I would cut the blood off to my ankles or whatever. Which one do we think is gay?
B
I think that the sitting on your feet is gayer, although there's less risk of a torsion episode. Sitting on your feet.
C
Sitting on your feet is, Is more protective.
B
He's more gay. It's. He. There's a lot of nonverbal cues here.
A
He's.
B
He's sitting like a girl. This is how girls sit and talk at slumber parties.
A
He does that.
B
He's sitting at a slumber party.
C
Is that his jam?
B
It's just like he's got his hand on his chin.
A
And what he's. But what he's doing is he's going, you talk whatever you want about marriage like an angry shrew and you will get no pushback. Yes, I will take all this. Yes, I will take all this in.
C
Okay.
A
Doesn't mean he's right. What do you think, Monique?
C
I don't have an opinion on it because he's doing something that I like, which is he's wearing man shoes. I have a big shoe with sports.
B
Hold on, hold on.
A
Well, they just pulled up a random picture of Obama, who's the president at the time.
C
Right. But I like the shoes and the, like, I don't like the casual vibe.
A
But sorry, fellas, don't put up pictures. It always makes the person talk about the picture. I just, I'm asking generic leg cross versus sitting on feet.
C
Sitting on feet to Me, and I don't even want to say gayer. I want to say. Not a signal that would tell me this is a hot guy that, you know, that you want to.
A
A feminine. Let's just say.
C
So feminine. Yes.
B
So gayer.
C
Yeah, well, I mean, you guys are, you know that that's an adjective.
A
Sitting on feet is more feminine.
C
Absolutely. And it doesn't sick. There's certain signals. I'm just going to lay it out. There's certain cultures. For instance, I recently got hit on when I tell you about, you know, youth, men under this certain age. I got hit on by a very, very young man.
A
How old?
C
26. But he stood a chance and I'll tell you, nothing happened, but I was intrigued and delighted and felt very like yum, yum, yum.
A
So pardon me, but how do you know you're being hit on?
C
There are cues when somebody asked to be alone with you in a place where a door shuts and there's a flat surface.
A
Oh, really?
C
Yeah.
A
You guys were in the kitchen. No. So he was, he made a full.
C
Court press, but he was not American. He was Israeli. And having been in Israel, Israeli men culturally are very forward and they don't mince words. And you know, so he came across as very masculine and in possession of his own masculinity of like, you're a woman. I like what you're about. I heard your age. You said it on stage. I'm not put off by it at all. You, you know, if you're interested, I'm interested. Let's make something happen. And I was incredibly flattered because of the fact that I felt like I was being hit on by a man versus a boy or because there's, there's, you know, 50 year old men that are wearing. First of all, if you're a grown man, don't wear 52 bracelets, you know, these beaded bracelets. Oh no.
B
Oh no.
C
Did I do.
A
It's all I do. It's all I do. That's all I do. I'm tell guys to take your stupid bead bracelet off.
C
Okay. So if you're a grown ass man.
A
Yeah.
C
Do not come at me wearing a bunch of bracelets, clinking around when we're talking.
A
I shouldn't hear you coming.
C
Thank you.
A
The only time I want to hear you come is on my back. Yeah, I agree.
C
Well, not on my back.
A
I got it. But I understand what you're saying, but.
C
The point I'm making is there's, there's a certain kind of grown Girly man.
A
Yes, that.
C
You know, a certain kind of grown girly man. Like if you're. If, if we're at dinner and you start asking the waiter too many questions about the food, that's a total turn off. Like, just order it and eat it. I don't want to know if the cow was happy, was free. I don't want. All right, like, you're allowed two questions. You're allowed two questions about the food. That's it. Two. And then I. And then you're. And then it's a turn off for me.
A
I agree.
C
Just order and salad dressing on the side. I'm not. If a guy. I understand if you're watching your health because something's happened, you've had a heart attack or something. Okay, fight. I get it. But if you're just like a regular dude and you're like, I'd like to see. I've actually been with men that have said, I'm having a Caesar salad. Can you have the. No. The Caesar salad is a. You mix it and you put the croutons on top and then sprinkle some cheese. If you're, you know, if you're getting a chopped salad, the. They're chopping and mixing the dressing.
A
You don't want the dressing on the side.
C
No, you want it in the chop.
A
So it's in the chat.
C
There's certain clues that a man will. And I always tell women the way a man eats is a litmus test of what's going to happen behind closed doors. You don't want that on the side guy. You don't want the picky eater guy. You want the soup slurper.
A
You want the watermelon with no hands guy. That guy just right through the rind, spits it out. Hands like a pie eating contest. Lifts it up. It's like your face is all red, it's covered. I don't care. I'll eat this watermelon any day of the month. And he powers back into the watermelon, sloshing around, making noise.
C
That's what I see.
A
At some point, kids come in the room. He screams at him, get the fuck out of here. I'm eating melon. It goes right back down again.
C
Exactly. That's the guy.
A
That's the guy. That's the keeper.
C
Yeah. You don't want that salad dressing on the side. What kind of beef is this? Free range. Like you don't want that guy.
A
No, no, no, no, no.
C
And I'm very. I know that sounds very old fashioned and very Not.
A
No, I'm with you. You can learn a lot about a man and a woman by sort of just watching them order. Yes, yes, I agree.
C
And those are the signals that I look out for. There's so many little things that when people, when they want to get into it really quickly about something when they're controversial, like, I know who you are. I've been on your show. I know what you're about, so I'm cool. But if I'm at dinner with somebody and within three minutes they're trying to figure out who I voted for, that's a big turn off. Like, can I get to know you as a person first? Then we'll get into deeper conversations or whatever. And one of the things I always point out is that you speak so highly of Jimmy Kimmel and the fact that you guys are very different people. Very, very different people. But you as a critical thinker are able to say, okay, you know, I can set this aside and focus on this. I mean, it's biblical. Mind the gold. Like, get to know me. Find the gold in me before you start deciding how you feel about me. For things that I don't think are systemic or, you know, super obvious.
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A
I'm picturing a guy who heard this podcast taking you out on a date.
C
It's probably not gonna happen now.
A
And he's sitting there and the waiter comes by. Would you like to order Sir? Yeah, I'd like a whole watermelon. Sir, this is Mr. Chow's. Okay, half a watermelon. Sir, this is m. Okay, some watermelon.
C
From your mouth to God's ear.
A
That's just like a whole watermelon and some zip ties. So I just go and put my hands behind my back a little bit here.
C
From your mouth to God's.
A
I have a theory. I've never had this theory. I got two thoughts. I collect thoughts as you talk.
C
Thank you.
A
First off, you talked about your Israeli Jewish guy, which are.
C
I don't even know if he's Jewish, but he's Israeli, so I'm gonna assume.
A
Okay. Who are different than our North American domesticated Jews. And I've said this a million times. The Krav Magra, Israeli hairy forearm.
C
I grew up in Miami. I know those guys.
A
Those dudes are quite a bit different than the agent William Morris runs Hollywood. Sort of wafy Jew, the meek Jew here. And then I thought, well, I don't know if it's caused by this, but could you imagine if Israel just had to protect itself with our Jews? Hamas would just roll right in and fucking destroy them. Our North American versus the Israeli.
C
It's a very different animal.
A
Different animal.
C
Such a different.
A
Totally different animal.
C
But Alaskan Americans, because I performed on Alaska cruises, an Alaskan male, you meet a regular guy who lives in Juneau or Skagway is very different than a lower 48 white American male.
A
Oh, yeah, Dawson, I was talking about your. Your song. We. Because we decided that Dawson should be the Don Ho of Alaska.
C
Don Ho.
A
Yes, Tiny Bubbles. And his name's going to be Don Kodiak. No, Don Hodiak. I think Don Hodiak is going to be him taking over because. Listen, by the way, this is not a reflection on you, Dawson, but Don Ho is a talented hack who couldn't have cut it on the mainland. Or he goes to Hawaii and takes over the whole. Takes over the whole thing and gets a TV show tiny bubble in the water. It's like. I don't know what Don Hole does, but he took over Hawaii.
C
He did.
A
He couldn't take over New York or Los Angeles, but he went to Hawaii. And do we have this song, by the way?
B
Oh, yeah. This is my first hit. This is first hit written by AI. Up in the land where the cold winds bite where the mountains rise in the day stretch night There's a giant in the timber he's wild and he's free A shadow on the shoreline Just watching Me, they say you ain't seen power until you stared one down. And old Don Hodiak knows this bear run town.
D
Nice.
A
You know. You know, I brought this up cuz somebody said to me on the road, they go list AI is great, but they're not going to take the place of us. The. The artists, the joke writers, the songwriters. I go, we out a Don Hodiak song that's every bit as good as Man Eater and better than Abracadabra by Steve Miller in 10 seconds with AI.
B
It's kind of growing on me now.
A
It's not really. Can AI write a great song? It's more like we accept plenty of shit songs. I've been hearing shitty songs my entire life. Written by Non A, written by hall and Oates mostly, but Steve Miller and other really shitty bands and that seems to work for them.
C
I heard undercover angel on 70s at 7.
A
Midnight Fantasy. I never had a dream that made sweet love to meet Undercover angel an answer to my prayer and I guess those songs about beating off.
C
I said what?
A
I said, I said, all right. She said, lovely, lovely, lovely. Undercover Angel, Midnight Fantasy.
C
By the way, I think AI would have been embarrassed if somebody said, did you write that, AI?
A
Oh, what would it want? Say what? Say who, who, who we? I say, all right. I said lovely.
E
Love.
A
Love. By the way, that in the pantheon of. You know how everyone has songs they heard when they were a kid and they screwed up the words. Yeah, I think. I think for 27 years. I said Undercover Angel, Midnight Tennessee. I don't know. The guy lived in Tennessee.
D
You know, then.
A
My word. I didn't know it was a Midnight Fantasy.
C
You've unleashed a Kraken of memories. Do you remember the Telephone Man? I can hang it where you want, have it with a buzz. You can have it with a ring about. Oh, yeah. It's about a guy who was allegedly. The whole thing's like a metaphor maybe, kind of sort. Yeah. He's going to. Went to my apartment. He's going to put up the telephone in her new apartment.
A
Yeah, yeah, but.
C
But it's.
A
Yeah, I brought my organ to the party, but nobody asked me to play. It's one of those songs.
C
Remember Pilot? Pilot Magic. Oh, oh, oh, it's mad. And people used to say it's my dick instead of magic. Yeah. We were ninth graders.
A
Now they say Ozempic. Oh, didn't they take that?
C
Did they?
B
Yes, they did. Pilot is the band.
C
Pilot is the band.
B
Yeah, I remember Alan Parsons produced that one.
C
Are you kidding me?
A
It's Parsony sounding the same guy that.
C
Did Dark side of the Moon did magic. Oh, man.
A
Oh, by the way, I would script the words to that, too, because he'd go, ho, ho, ho. It's magic, you know? And he'd say, believe it's not so I don't go, how do I say never believe in my soul? Oh. And I don't know why, but again, it's not so. So I'm from North Hollywood. No one said, that's not so. They'd go, get the fuck out, douche dude. And they'd punch you.
C
Well, even the Verve, they had the song We Were Only Freshmen. There's a song back in the day when everybody had the Verve and the Verve pipe, they had, like, you know.
A
The Verve and the Verve Pipe.
C
Yeah. And they had the song We Were Only Freshmen. I used to sing they Were Only Flesh Wounds, which is a much better song.
A
All right. I knew those guys well.
C
Did you?
A
Yeah. Pretty well when they came out, all that sound.
C
The Verve, the Verve Pipe. You know Brick. Remember those guys? He's a Brick.
A
The Verve. The Verve Pipe did the Freshman, right? And then there's Brick House. And then Brick.
C
Yeah, Brick was, I think, Ben Fold Five.
A
Benfold Five. Yeah. All those.
C
When you're saying songs that we put up with that were not great songs, these were major hits.
A
I know. Except for they were good songs. Compared to Maneater and Abracadabra, I'm saying we've done shit.
C
Abracadabra.
A
We can't lump in.
C
I want to reach out and grab you.
A
Yes. You can't. Come on. You can't lump in Undercover angel with Brick, is what I'm saying.
C
No, no, no, of course not.
A
So I don't know if AI can write Brick.
C
Brick was a good song, but AI.
A
Can write Undercover angel and they can write Don Hodiak.
C
Yeah.
A
That was every bit as good as at least half the Eagles songs. At least from a dialogue standpoint. From a lyrical standpoint, Don Hodiak was as competent as one half of all Eagles songs.
C
Okay, hang on. We are at one year and one month of friendship, and you are just now revealing that you don't revere the Eagles?
A
To me, I hate the Eagles. I do, too, because they're totally fucked out. Like, I don't ever need to hear another Eagles song in my life, and that kind of sucks.
C
I'm the most hated song.
A
They're good players. They're good band. Let's not throw. I'm not gonna say, like, okay, let's put it to you this way. They're comedians. You don't like and you don't really appreciate it. But I will say the person is skilled and the audience laughs. I don't like it. But I'm not gonna say the guy's a hack. He's one of the shit. No, no, no, I get it.
C
I get it. Critical Thinker.
A
They're very skilled band who has some good songs, many shitty songs, and who has some sort of deal with the devil, perhaps hatched at the Hotel California so many years ago, where somebody decided that every fucking Fleetwood Mac song and every Eagle song we need to hear on some kind of loop, even mediocre middle of the road, fucked out, simpleton bullshit songs. And they will not stop playing those songs.
C
Can I tell you something?
A
Yes.
C
My favorite part of the Big Lebowski is when he tells the cab driver, I just hate the Eagle. Get out of my cab.
A
Like, I don't. And my whole thing is, I wouldn't have to. Here's what I'm saying. I don't like nachos with pump cheese on bullshit stadium where they go, no, okay, I don't like them. Okay. I don't like them. And so what I do is I never eat them. But what if three times a day when I was driving my car, someone grabbed those nachos and shoved them in my face and went, you're fucking eating these shitty nachos. I went, I want to hear Graham Parker. I want to hear John Hyatt. I want to hear. I don't want to hear this. And they go, no, no, you're eating these nachos. And that's me and the Eagles. I don't want them.
C
I'm the same.
A
I don't ever want to hear them again. They're fucked out. Most of their songs are mediocre shit. Same with hall and Oates, and I'm tired of it. And Steve Miller's possibly worse.
C
I call that three chord white guy overbite music. There's a certain sound that does nothing for me.
A
That's it.
C
And it reminds me of kids in high. There were certain pot smoking behind the gym kids that were not like, they were not nice. You know, they were just not nice. And that. That kind of music, for some reason takes me right back to the not nice pot kids.
A
It's really the program directors who force it on us. But okay, I wanted to bring something up. Cause we're talking about guys sitting like chicks and wearing a bunch of beaded bracelets and all this fucking nonsense now.
C
And asking a lot of questions in the restaurant.
A
Yeah. So let me also, with their food allergies and their dietary restrictions.
C
Do you have any of those?
A
Ask me if I have any fucking dietary restrictions. No, I don't fucking give a shit.
C
You know what I say in my act? I was born before allergies.
A
Yes.
C
That's what I tell people. I was born before allergies.
A
Hey, watch this. Andrew, remember that half a steak I brought home from Morton's on Sunday night in Florida? Remember that? Remember Sunday night? Yeah, I remember that. I took you to Morton's.
C
Wow.
A
For a romantic dinner in Fort Lauderdale.
C
Nice. Well played.
A
We finished up dinner about 9:30 or something. Went back to the hotel. I remember that. I remember I took my steak with me. Yes. And I put it in a car. They gave me that cardboard box that never stays closed.
C
Yeah.
A
Somebody invented that cardboard box that has a thing on it, but it never stays closed. I put that in the fridge overnight.
C
In your hotel?
A
In my hotel. I Woke up at 7:30 the following morning, went and did Patrick Bet David's show. To be fair, I left it in the fridge till I got back. And then at noon I took that and I shoved it in my bag. No ice, no bag, no nothing. Just the cardboard. I shoved it in there amongst my clothes. And what I forgot is we had a layover and we were three hours early to the episode. We left at noon, Florida time. Right. And we landed in Burbank at 10. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We had a layover and we left early. We had a. It was a long travel day, but we landed about 9:30 or 10. My driver dropped Andrew off at his modest home and then drove me and I got home at 11. That steak had been in a box in between my jeans and my underpants in the hold of an airplane since noon, Florida time, which I guess would have been 9am Louisiana time till 11 that night. And it traveled from Florida, where'd we go? Denver. And then to Burbank. And then the trunk of the limousine. And then I put it in the fridge when I got home on Monday night at 11. And then the following day, guess who ate that shit for dinner? This guy right here.
C
When I used to work at the Comedy Caravan in Bardstown on Bardstown Road, they used to have free pizza night on Fridays in the lobby. Wick's Pizza down the street, very delicious. And inevitably I would snag an entire pizza for myself and I would drive to the next gig with the pizza sitting on the back seat. Until the cheese would go transparent.
A
Now when it goes clear.
C
Yeah. And my mom, who's a registered taught nursing. My mom would constantly tell me about road food. Like, you're going to die from the.
A
Stuff that you eat or it'll make you stronger.
C
And guess what? I would, as they say in the South, I would eat on that pizza.
A
Yeah.
C
For three days. I would have pizza for breakfast with truck stop coffee to save money.
A
You build up your immunity.
C
Nothing happened to me.
A
I know.
B
I was spending the night at a friend's house one time we had a party over there and I Woke up at 3 o' clock in the morning, 5 o' clock in the morning, starving. Went into his fridge and pulled out a Tupperware of what I believed was stew. I threw it in the microwave, I ate it. It was super good. Washed out the thing and then I went to sleep. And I wake up the next day and three dudes are looking over me going, are you all right? Why?
A
Yeah.
B
Said you ate moldy food that was in the fridge for three, four months. Are you sure? And I'm like, yeah, I'm fine.
C
Probably cleared up your skin or something.
A
Yeah, exactly. It builds you up and antibiotics take you down. All right, so my last theory here.
C
I don't need it. I don't do antibiotics either. The eagles and antibiotics smart. I won't take them.
A
Here's what I'm thinking. Guys are always on a quest to get laid and they will do what they have to do.
C
That's what I say. They're just trying to get the car off the lot.
A
That's right. So you go look at all these dudes in the Occupy Wall Street. It's like, well, the women are sincere and the dudes are showing up trying to get laid. Probably, right? Or a large percentage. So they just will do what they have to do. So dudes acting like chicks, bracelets sitting with their feet on the furniture, deep across. When dudes started presenting like chicks was right about the time women started openly talking about their lesbian experiences. And it was all the talk, you know, like, oh, in college I had a lesbian, or I've been with a woman. Or, you know, they started speaking about it. And I think guys started figuring out, oh, she will do a chick and she won't do a big hairy dude or feel threatened, perhaps. So maybe I'll just start. I don't even know if it wasn't a memo that went around. No, I'll just start wearing bracelets and sitting like a chick. And then the chick in Front of me who just said she's been with a chick will be that I'll have a better option of getting in her pants because she's kind of bi. And now I'm kind of present as bi because I'm sort of. I got a cock and balls, but I sit like a chick and I wear bracelets.
C
Interestingly enough, I've had a theory because I'm a fruit fly. Like, I attract gay men like nobody's business. And I've had a theory for many, many years. It predates all of this whole gender business, which is. Nothing is a bigger challenge to some women than thinking they're gonna either bring a guy back to our side, he's bi and he's experimented, but he's. Or he's outright gay, but he. But he's not super gay. He's on the continuum of sexuality. He's mostly gay, but a little bit straight. Like, mostly dead. Like in the Princess Bride. Like, he's mostly dead. And I think that there's something that gets engaged in people when they think they're gonna be the special one. I'm gonna be the one that's gonna make you man up or come back to our team. I used to do a whole bit in my act years ago, and again, I say things I don't care. You know, like, you say people like me don't like me. I used to have a bit in my act about Sandra Bullock marrying Jesse James. And I would say, like, what part of you being America's sweetheart did you think that that, you know, fur color covered roundhouse of yours was gonna stop that train? Like, at what point are you delusional thinking, look at this guy, look at who he was married to. Look at the tattoos on his knuckles. Like, just a casual glance would show you, this guy's gonna be a problem for someone who doesn't know how to manage that kind of guy.
A
Right?
C
Like, there's no amount of sex and tuna casserole that's gonna straighten that out and not make it a problem. But women love that.
A
Hold on. Sex and tuna casserole are two different.
C
Well, no, they're two different things. I meant, like, I personally love a good tuna casserole.
B
I think it's a good don hood sex.
A
Tuna casserole. Yeah. I'm just saying. I don't know. When you go sex and then you go. You start the next. The next word starts with tuna.
C
No.
A
Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
B
Casserole.
C
Okay, focus on casserole. Yeah, I love casseroles. But I. Yeah, but the point I'm making is when women see a man that they think is like a. Some sort of a challenge, that they can make them behave differently.
A
Yes.
C
That just engages them.
A
Yes.
C
I'm the. And as you well know, my dry bar special just on their site alone has 70 million views. And the opening line is, pick one you like. They're going to stay that way. And people think that's the funniest thing in the world. That it's like, it's not a joke.
A
No.
C
It's the truest of the truest things.
A
Yes.
C
Pick one. That if he didn't change a hair on his head and he started losing the hairs on his head, you'd still be good. Pick that guy. And I don't know why that's such a challenge to the. To the human condition.
A
Trying to think I am also just who I am.
C
But I think that's where we bond.
A
But I played tons of team sports and I was a builder carpenter, which is just a succession of guys who are older than you telling you you're doing shit wrong and do it this way and you're not doing it right. It's all carpentry is no books, no classes, no certification. You just show up on a job. That's life.
C
That is literally a metaphor for life.
A
You got a dude going, you're doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong. Do it this way, because I said so. You're doing it wrong. So I. While I am who I am, I'm pretty coachable with basic stuff. Like, if you said, look, kick your shoes off when you come in the front door, I'd go, I don't like walking around. My socks and my shoes are fine. And then you go, just do it. And I'd go, okay. And then I would kick my shoes off. I would remember to do it, which is me still not being different. But if you tell me stuff, I'll remember to do it and do it just because I'm coachable, even if I don't even think it's the right thing to do, I'll just do it. And I wonder if men and. Or people who were coached a lot can be not different, but follow whatever the wacky rules there are.
C
Well, last time I was here, you told me a great story about how you're coachable, but you used the example that your housekeeper told you to pour the hot beverage into the cream bottle and shake it and that you would be able to get all the cream out versus just turning it upside down and shaking it and, you know, trying to get all the cream out. And you told me that glass bottle. Glass bottle, yeah. That if somebody told you something and it made any kind of sense, but that made a lot of sense. And if somebody says, hey, you don't like walking around in your socks, but like you said about the couch, the soles of your feet have been on the street. So if you take your shoes off.
A
If you tell me to do shit, like, a lot of women will have thoughts about water, bottled water, filtered water, whatever. Water, lot of water thoughts, a lot of water related thoughts. And I'll just go, yeah, all right. I'll get you the bottle of water. Even though the filter's coming through the sink or whatever it is. I disagree with it, but I don't really care.
C
It's not the hill you're gonna die on.
A
No. If you want the keys hung up in one place and the shoes kicked off and the towel not on the floor or whatever that thing is, I'll try to abide.
C
See, I think one of the core things that you and I, and I'm a little bit older than you, but we're very similar. I think with me, I have a tiny handful of things that are non negotiable. A tiny handful of things. Outside of that, I don't have a dog in that fight.
A
Yes.
C
I don't like to waste time. It's not worth the effort. I don't care.
A
People have a lot of rules and it's not good to have rules. No. By what they'll eat or what they'll do or what they'll say, or lots of like, I won't do this and I'm not doing that. And I agree.
C
One of my core issues, I have non negotiables and there's so few that you would think it's okay. A non negotiable for me. No drugs. I don't want drugs around me. I don't want to see people using drugs. I don't want any part of that culture. Don't go out on my balcony and smoke a joint. I don't want any. I don't want it around me. It's a non negotiable. Some people think that's judgmental. It's not judgmental. I just don't want it around me, that's all. I don't care what you do when you're not in my space or in my face. That's one not. And you would be surprised how many people even take offense to that. They think I'm judging. I'm not judging. I just don't want it around me.
A
My thing, I guess, would be, I would understand if you didn't want me to do a rail of coke on your coffee table.
C
Thank you.
A
But if I was to go to your backyard and smoke a joint and then maybe gargle and come back in, I don't think that'd be objectionable. But.
C
But if I asked you not to, could you not smoke it when you got home?
A
I could definitely not do it, but it would probably start. Some of these things drift into a why. You know, I get it. Like, there's sort of pragmatic stuff and then there's like, I don't want you to do this. And then there's a sort of. Well, you're not in the same room and you're never. Like, some people just have the. Don't watch that show or something. And it's like, I'm watching it and you don't have to be in this room and I can just watch it. And then now, to me, it has to live somewhere. And by the way, I will accept you saying, when you get high, I don't feel like I can talk to you when you're not high, I feel like you drift off and you don't pay attention and you're having trouble understanding. I would accept that. Okay, but if me being high, I'm not a pot guy, but if me being high just sort of chillaxed me like a glass of wine at night, then I would argue for. How about I go out in the backyard, shut the slider, blow half a joint and then come back in? That's what I would say.
E
Okay.
C
Me personally, it's a non negotiable.
A
That is.
C
Well, also, whatever you do when you're. I dated a guy who was a black, A drunk. Like, he just had no off switch. Once he started drinking, he was a wonderful human being, the nicest guy in the world. And the rule was, I don't care what you do when you're away from me.
A
All right, but see, the rule is that guy can't drink in front of you. But football's on and I want a Miller Lite and I don't get like, he gets.
C
No, that's fine.
A
That's what I'm saying.
C
Totally fine.
A
Okay.
C
Totally fine.
A
Well, I'm saying in my world, if I go out and smoke the joint, then I come back in and I take a piss inside on one of your potted plants, and then you talk And I don't track what you're saying, then you're allowed to do it. If I come back in, I'm a gentleman and we can have a conversation. If I can't tell, if you can't tell.
C
Fair enough.
A
All right, Monique, let me give you a plug.
C
Thank you.
A
Where do we go to find your tour guests?
C
Everything, Everything is@moniquemarvez.com. i have a link tree on my Instagram and the dates that you plugged were fabulous. Garland on the 24th, Springdale on the 25th. I'm in Conroe, Texas, at Lucy Blues on the 26th and in November, I'm at Mudmouth. Did I say that right? New Jersey.
A
It isn't written here, so it's on my website.
C
So go to my website, go to my Insta, go to the link tree and please come meet me and see me. Monmouth. Thank you. I'm there. Friday 21st November.
A
A very funny standup. All right, Monique, always great seeing you. We'll bring mayhem into the news right after this hydro. Oh, good news. I was on my hydro last night. You know those workouts where you finish and you think, did I actually get any stronger? Well, with hydro there's no guessing. Just 20 minutes, 86% of your muscles get worked. And I got to tell you, 20 minutes. I had to catch a flight, mid morning flight the other day and I got up and I wasn't feeling, but I knew by the time I got to New York it's going to be 9:30 at night and the hotel, I was going to have a drink on the plane. I was like, hop on that hydro right now. And I was like, oh, I'm tired. I'm going to sit in my bathrobe and watch TV. I was like, 20 minutes, let's go. And I just hopped on, I just popped it out. So now there's the new hydro arc. Most advanced rower they've ever built. Designed to make you stronger, smarter and more consistent. It's got hydro metrics, first of its kind. Performance tracking measures your power, endurance, precision. Every single time you row, you can literally watch your strength build stroke by stroke. Plus personalized workouts and recommendations. No more guessing. And I don't have to think of what class to take. It adapts to you. It's hydro. I use it every day.
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B
It's time to check Adam's voicemail.
A
Jeff in Chicago, man, I got one for you. On the communication front, I, I'm curious, has anybody ever done this to you? I texted somebody just half an hour ago asking for a yes or no question or yes or no answer on a question. And the guy wrote me back and said, I'm in a meeting right now instead of yes or no. And believe me, I would have taken either or get it out, man.
B
You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744.
A
I, I do have a thing where people spend more time sometimes telling me what they can't do or can do rather than answering the fucking question. Like I tell people, you could have just answered it in the time you told me. You know, they'll pull the phone off and they'll go, I'm speaking to the realtor right now, okay? And he's go, I just said, what time do you want to do dinner? So you can just say eight, but all right. That took more time. My grandmother used to do that extra, extra. So it's a thing. It's a sort of settle your hash thing.
D
Certain people can be Short and curtain. Others have to be flowery in there.
C
Well, I.
A
Am short and curt. I don't feel like our conversation needs to coast to a stop. You know, when the treadmill has the warm down thing, some people hit that button. It's like, all right, let's slow it. There's people who go, all right, Dr. Drew's this way. So you just go, dinner, Saturday, 8 o'.
C
Clock.
A
8 o'. Clock. All right. And you just hang up. You don't have to go, well, then I'll see you then. And then goes, looking forward to it. It's just, we're done, we're done. We finish. See?
D
But to be fair, that's like a best bud that's been friends with you and knows you for years.
A
Yep, that's true.
D
You know, a lot of people feel inclined to run on sentences.
A
I don't like nice people. I like accurate people that show up.
D
Well, glad to be here.
A
Here's what I want. You ready?
D
Yeah.
A
I want the guy I'm talking to who's short on the phone and go, Got it. Then we hang up. But then when I see him Saturday night at 8 o' clock for dinner, he's there waiting when I walk in, versus the super nice person that's 25 minutes late. That's what I'm talking about. Yes, yes.
D
Problem with that.
A
All right, what do you got?
D
Hey. First in the news, I got a Powerball winner, Edwin Castro, who won that largest Powerball jackpot in US history. He's investing millions to rebuild his hometown of Altadena, which was devastated by January's deadly eatin fire.
A
Mmm. I went to a job site on Pacific coast highway this morning. I'll share more because we're going to talk to the guy and was talking to the guy who's working on the foundation, drilling the caissons and building the seawall. Sea wall on one side, retaining wall on the PCH side, because they got to retain PCH and then they got to have a seawall. Huge project, 60, 70ft in front of them. And those 60 foot long caissons that are being dropped anyway, they're drilling it. I started getting into it with him. I said, how much into this foundation before you can start building? When you build a house, first comes the foundation. And if you're building a house in a flat lot in the middle of Arizona and the earth is fine and things copacetic, you dig a 2 foot deep by 16 inch wide sort of footing around the perimeter and you pour like a 4 inch slab, let's say. And the house would be 2,000 square feet. And someone might say, oh, it's going to be 19 grand for the slab or for the foundation, or maybe it's 26,000 bucks. But if you're building in the Hollywood Hills and you had to get some caissons down on the ground, you want your house to hang over the side of the hill, then it's going to cost more at the beach where these guys are building. I said, how much Just in the foundation. This is probably 2 million, a little over. You're going to bury over 2 million bucks in this lot and you won't even see any of it before you start.
D
Indiana Jones can't even dig it up.
A
No. I said, that is some crazy, crazy ass shit.
D
That is some crazy. What are they doing defending for when Godzilla walks in off the sea?
A
Well, as I was saying to the guy, the house right next to you, that was built in the 50s, all it has is old telephone poles smashed down into the ground. And that house, you know what got that house? Not an earthquake, not the tide, a fire. Same thing that got the house with all the foundation. So the city's worried about the foundation, but they're not worried about the fire.
D
But that would upset the whole apple cart if you had regulations in place to make it fireproof.
A
Yeah. So it was kind of interesting. But yeah. I took a picture of the cages that go down into the caissons. They gotta drill so deep into. They have to drill six stories. They drill a six story building into the ground. I go, how many of these you putting in the ground? He goes, 30. 30?
D
Yeah. They go far enough? Yeah. They go far enough to get over.
A
There to woo 30. Yeah. I said, well, some of them's for the retaining wall, some's for the seawall, but it's about 30. Holy shit. I know these guys just fucking drilling away. Yeah. Don't fall in the hole. The guy said, that thing's seven stories down, man. He said you, you fall. He said, that's some of that sand gives way. You go down, he goes. Once you start going down, you don't stop there'. There's no grabbing. You're just down to the bottom. But you know what, Andrew, write this down. I've been saying this for a long time. This country never more divided. Right. Mayhem.
D
Accurate.
A
Yeah, yeah. Lot of fighting. Nothing can unite us. We can't even get the, the government. The government shut down. Okay. Lot of acrimony. I've been saying for a long time, we Need a baby Jessica stuck in a well moment to bring us together, you know what I mean? Like you could picture Trump and Chuck Schumer sitting in front of the TV just standing there like will she be alive when one arm goes around the other guy talking about the baby down the well, Right? Yeah, I got a daughter too, man, that would unite.
D
I was hoping for alien invasion, you know what I mean?
A
Because we would be fired up. We're still arguing about that. But baby in a well. This country needs to be united, reunited with a baby in a well type moment. Okay? Now here's the problem. We're fresh out of wells, we don't do a lot of wells anymore. And we need it to be. It's gotta be a white kid, you know what I mean? Sorry, demographics. We ran it through a filter, we focus tested this. Everyone knows JonBenet's name, right? Do we know the 2 million 7 year old black kids that got hit with drive bys in that same time? We don't know their names. Okay, so let's keep it real.
B
We could probably figure out a few of them.
A
A few what? What are you saying, Dawson?
D
A couple of charismatic black kids out there?
B
DeShawn in there.
A
Ah, you don't know. You're shitting on my point, but you don't. You don't know any black. We don't know anyone. We know blondes. All right, come on, save it for the good stuff, all right? It's gotta be blonde kid, girl, probably 4 to 5.
D
Now what type of harrowing situation would this blonde lady be in or we.
A
Don'T have a well. I know, I know, but we have a lot of caisson holes.
D
Oh, you got it, you got it.
A
Baby Jessica fell down the caisson hole. The tide is rising. By midnight, that tide is going to get up past that hole and it's going right down into that hole. And baby Jessica's going to drown unless we get some sort of bipartisan help to get her. Because we have that scene where the guy's operating the crane, that guy's a Republican. But then we have the Hispanic chicken who's guiding him over the thing. And she's a Democrat. But you know what? Not for today.
D
For today, I was imagining Trump and Kamala braiding a rope together.
A
Could be that. There's a lot of different scenarios here. But we gotta get a blonde kid in one of those caisson holes. And then we'll bring CNN together, fox, and we'll all agree on one thing as a nation, that that kid needs to get out of this well. Now, we're not gonna call it a case on hole because that's too confusing. A lot of Americans don't want to.
D
We don't even know what that is. Yeah, but, you know, I'll volunteer to throw her down the well. I mean.
A
Oh, yeah, I'll get her. I'll have my. Yeah, okay. You get her down that well.
D
I'll get her there. You get the rebubs and Dems together.
A
All right, I'll do that. I'm gonna have to talk to the guys with the case on Rick because I don't want them lowering the cage into the. Into the hole because she won't be able to get to the bottom of. She's going to get caught up on rebar. I need her one piece at the bottom of that hole.
D
Don't take all the ring cams down, too. I don't want to be on this tape.
A
We got to time it with the tide, too, so that the tide. We got eight hours, gentlemen. Eight hours.
D
Somebody do these calculations.
A
All right, we'll talk to meteorologists, but we'll also talk to a sea captain who knows these parts. You know, like a Quint type from Jaws. He'll be nibbling on a saltine. He doesn't have a good feeling about this baby in the well.
D
We're going to need a bigger caisson.
B
Baby in the well. I'll find her for you for 12.
A
That's right.
B
But I'll catch her and kill her for 15.
A
Yeah, listen, Quint, we don't want her killed. Here's some more saltines.
B
Farewell.
A
Ladies of Spain. That'll do it. That'll bring this nation together. That'll heal. Yes.
D
The healing that we need.
A
The healing power of the baby in the well. We're long overdue. All right, what stories do you have?
D
Next up, we got a co host on ABC's the View acknowledged Tuesday they like more Republican guests to appear on the talk show. After actress Cheryl Hines, wife of the health and human services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, appeared on the program, the show's liberal co host remarked that they'd like more guests that weren't aligned with them politically. We got a clip.
C
I think that we should have more Republicans on the show, but they don't.
A
Want to come on.
C
They're scared of us. It's like Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she finds the Republican men afraid of powerful women.
A
Well, that may be true of all.
C
The political persuasions, but if they would come on this show and they can explain to us, what they're trying to do to this country.
A
Yeah, didn't Bill Maher. Didn't Bill Maher straighten this out several months ago when he explained. And there's a clip of it that he invites Republicans to come on constantly and they come on and he invites Democrats to come on constantly and they never come on to be as guesses as shown.
D
It's a little bit about narrative control, I think. I think that they're constantly, like obsessed with their image. They have to have control of whatever narrative goes out there.
A
Well, it's also most of the shit they're arguing is batshit crazy. So that's hard to defend it. And you can poke holes in it. I mean, that's when Katie Porter got busted because a reporter dared to do her job and ask a couple of follow up questions and she wasn't ready for it and she didn't like it. I mean, listen, Gavin Newsom came on this show. I asked him two follow up questions and he fucking folded like a house of cards. So, no, they don't want to go to unfriendly places. They go to friendly places. They have friendly places. They don't want Ben Shapiro sitting in between them, schooling them up. It would ruin their week.
B
Well, I mean, they just had Byron Donald's on the news.
A
Correct.
B
I mean, on the View, correct. Like if just a few months ago.
A
Listen, it's few and far between is what it is.
B
What I'm saying is when they asked, they come on. She's lying.
A
Yes.
C
They don't.
A
She's totally lying. Yes. They don't ask. Sorry. Oh, we got the clip ready. Sorry. And she is a Republican congressman from South Carolina, member of the House Armed Services Committee, who recently announced running for governor in 2026. Very exciting. Nancy Mace. I don't feel like this is what I'm talking about, but. Well, thank you for being here. I always say that to my Republican friends. I say it every week. The Republicans show up. The Democrats do not. I say it every week. I'm gonna say it every week. Stop asking me why the Clintons had never been on the show. They were invited aoc all these people, they never come. Ask them. All right, good. There you go. And you're right, Andrew. He did a long jag on it like six months ago. But I guess he did one last week or the week before or whatever. I guess that's his thought. Okay. They get invited to a friendly.
D
Yeah, it's like, we'll put them to task.
A
Bill Maher is like, right Right. It's, you know, the coach who goes, tough, but I'm fair. You know, okay, he's tough, but he's fair. But you're going to have to answer questions. You're batshit crazy stuff and it's not going to work with him and you have batshit crazy ideas. So it's not going to work.
B
Isn't what's happening right now. Isn't Newsom saying that Joe Rogan wouldn't dare have him on the podcast, but Rogan totally would. Nobody believes him.
A
Right.
B
He just won't go on. And so the front that he puts on instead of saying, I don't have the balls to go there is he.
A
Won'T have the balls if he's trolling.
D
He's saying he would go on, but then turns it down. That's ridiculous.
B
I just saw a tweet.
A
Let me find out what it is.
D
He's doing this kind of. He's trying to be Trump. He's doing a Trump type movement.
A
Yes.
D
And his press office releases. Joe Rogan is a snack sized podcaster who can't stop talking about me. Obsessed crush. No, thank you. But is too scared to have on me. Have me on and let his audience hear the truth.
B
Just like, yeah, it's insanity.
A
Right? Yeah. They don't care anymore. I mean, listen, calling everyone who disagrees with you a racist is pretty insane. But they'll just do it. It's. It's. They're done with it. Yeah. If you. Do we ever play Katie Porter on with Piers Morgan on Bill Maher? I don't think we've done that. That's a recent one. I got that one. But if you do or don't. I don't. But she's not interested in having Piers Morgan ask her normal questions. Like he does a follow up, you know, and she'll go, I disagree with everything Riley Gaines says. And then he'll go, like what? She just wants to get money. What's that have to do with it? What do you mean? You ask a follow up question, then they get into trouble. Sorry, go ahead. He'll find that.
D
Yeah.
A
Ladies from the View or Beyond. Oh, here it is.
D
Here we are.
A
Yeah, this is great. This bitch drives me nuts. She drives me nuts. And not cause she's a cow. She drove me nuts six years before this. But he should be able to have a civil debate. Nobody, including Riley Gaines, who I disagree with strongly, should be. Should you disagree with. Out of interest. I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make their Decisions about who. And what has she said that's actually wrong? I think that what she has done is try to turn this. We talked about people, you know, becoming. Using things to kind of get likes and get clicks. All right, you can pause it. Okay. What has she said that's wrong? Go ahead. Okay, Dawson, ask me what Gavin Newsom has said was wrong.
B
What did Gavin Newsom say?
A
I told that fucking retard that the homeless problem was caused by people with mental conditions and drug addicts. And he told me it was single moms who were divorced with two kids and a full time job. That was number one. That he was fucking wrong about that. He said to me, okay, you want to keep going? Because I can keep going, right? I don't go well. He just wants attention. No, no, that wasn't the question, you cow. We want to know what he said was wrong. But, Pierce, she's not up to this, is what I'm saying. Because her ideas are bad. Because Riley Gaines is right. But. Sorry, go ahead. I've got no chuck for Riley Gaines personally, but all I've seen her do is stand up for women's rights to fairness and equality. She actually competed against Lia Thomas and it was obviously unfair. Lia Thomas won one of the races in the NCAA Championships by 50 seconds against a bunch of biological females who simply couldn't keep up. That cannot be right. It cannot be fair. That is something that I trust. I think our sporting bodies should be dealing with.
C
And by the way, Riley is speaking.
A
Up for herself, and that is her.
E
Prerogative and I respect.
A
I think she's speaking up for pretty much every female athlete in the world. She doesn't want to. You think she. First off, she didn't sign up for that. She thought Bill Maher was going to be she. Mayhem.
D
Yeah.
A
Mayhem Miller.
D
Yeah, yeah, that's me.
A
King of the octagon. All right. Did you ever duck a fight where you thought, I could beat the shit out of that guy?
D
Never.
A
Right. But what if you thought that guy might get the better of you?
D
I never dug the fight. Maybe I should have, but, yeah, never did.
A
I would argue careers last longer when you avoid guys who you're pretty sure could beat the shit out of you.
D
I've heard it described by Ariel Helwani as a calculated turning down of a fight.
A
Yeah. People make what they call the football when the receiver goes out of bounds instead of tries to grind out another two yards. He made a business decision is what they call that. And these people make business decisions and they're not in the business of showing up.
D
They just want to fight a fool. Tomato cans all the time. They don't want to actually be taken a task by a legitimate opponent.
A
I've seen Rocky 3. Was it 3 where he got the tomato can? Yeah. That's good.
D
All right.
A
Because he was telling his trainer that he was, you know, won his last 20 fights and he's like, those were tomato cans. I set them up with you.
D
He's in his mansion.
A
Yeah. The robot that's serving him had to get back to the streets. Yeah.
D
Why? Clubber Leg was just doing push ups and getting ready every day.
A
Yeah, yeah.
D
Look, don't test me on Rocky knowledge.
A
Yeah, the robot. By the way, I bet I'd love to have a scene where, like, Paulie was trying to. Trying to get with the robot. No, I like a scene where they.
B
Got her to change its voice.
A
Oh, yeah, yeah. And then someone's like, oh, he brings you a beer, she brings you a beer. Yeah, yeah, she's great, but don't believe a word she says. You can't listen to her. She is a liar. All right, we got. By the way, you know what? As right off this subject, Brittany Force, who's race car driver and drag racing, this says rails.
D
I understand.
A
It's all funny. Car and rail, top fuel. And we're going to find that out. Lots of records. She, As I look at this, you go, fastest run ever, by the way. 343 and a half miles an hour. Recorded 12 runs over 340 miles an hour. None existed before 2025. Now listen, Katie Porter, if you go, listen, I don't think any of those women, if Usain Bolt became a woman, I don't think any of those biological women are going to be able to keep up with the guy. And same with the boxing ring and same with the high jump. But if you want to compete in drag racing, then there is no advantage. I mean, there is no feminine drag race. There's no female designation or male designation or transitioning designation that wouldn't go over great in the pits. I've been to some of those races, but because it's not about strength and it's not about upper body strength. It's just about reaction time, experience and skill. Then, yeah, there's sports, I don't know, archery or something like that, where you go, oh, I don't know that we need a male and they don't have a male and a female division in automotive races. Horse jumping and horse jumping there. Is there male or female?
D
Both Both athletes compete together.
A
Right. And women go 30 pounds lighter than.
B
Horse that actually gets the medal. You know, honestly, I think it's the. The horse, it doesn't really get the medal, but.
A
But the.
B
Yeah, they're judging the horse.
A
Right. There's a handful of events that it's unnecessary to separate male and female, but that ain't wrestling and it ain't boxing. It ain't basketball. It's not football, it's not baseball, it's not a whole bunch of other ones. So if you want to pick that sport, then fine.
D
And combine that live and I TikTok reality.
A
All right, listen, we got to get.
B
Why is there men and women's curling?
A
I don't know that there is. Yeah, there is. Yeah, there's men and women. I've seen men and women do it. I've seen couples do it and I've seen men do it. Women do it.
B
I mean, there's only men and only women.
A
We're talking the highest level. There shouldn't be men and women's curling. Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day because the. Yeah, it takes exertion, equestrian shooting, sailing. I'm looking down at the cheat sheet here, but it is curling. Now, do women have a curling advantage because of the early broom play?
B
Right.
D
I think you're right.
A
Yeah.
B
Possible.
A
I don't know.
D
Yeah, yeah.
A
And also that, that curling stone, it.
B
Makes even the playing field kind of like.
A
Yeah, but it's like a canned ham. And girls are way better at like.
D
That squat down position, you know that you have to be to release the stone off into the distance.
A
I don't know how they even keep scoring currently. I mean, I kind of do. What is like, like what is the average female curling score and male curling score, if it even works that way? Like, like with 100 yard, I think it's like with a hundred yard, it's.
B
Kind of like bocce on ice.
A
100 yard dash, you go. The male record on the 100 meter is 9.2. And the women is 104 or whatever. Whatever that is. The average combined score in women's curling game is around 12 to 13 points. All right, how about the men? I guess that's what I'm asking. Is there a combined score in the male. And then we'll see if there's some kind of advantage here.
D
Oh, single average score. All right. Oh, that was for bicep curls.
A
Can we do an apples to apples on this?
D
Yeah, I know.
A
And then we'll bring. Well, it has an average Combined score for women's curling, so it'd have to have.
D
Yeah, it mistook the curling, you know, AI.
A
Oh, curling. Curling. Oh, curling. Oh, okay. Well, anyway, drag racing. Look, John Force is Brittany's dad. That guy's the king of the funny cars. And now Brittany's the queen. So we'll take a quick break. I'll bring in Brittany Force right after this. Simply Safe. Well, you ever wonder about your security system? Is it really security? I mean, I just saw a video. An arsonist tries torching a family's house. Simplisafe. Well, it stopped the guy cold, right? Then before the flames start, you can hear the monitoring agent on the phone with dispatch. Total pro, not sleeping on the job. Most systems, well, they wait till someone's already inside. Too late, right? Simply Safe's different. Their AI powered cameras catch threats before they cross the line. Real agents confront the intruder, yelling over the speakers, sounding sirens, making it clear they're being watched. And the police are coming. That's security before the crime, not after the crime. I trust Simplisafe to protect my home, to protect my family. Always did. They've been sponsors for decades now. Everything, well over a decade. But everything that matters, that's Simplisafe. Am I right, Dawson?
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Brittany Force in studio. Gonna retire after this season. Many, many victories in Top Fuel. And again records the 343 and a half at Indianapolis. Miles per hour. That can't be a thousand feet, can it?
E
Yes, it can.
A
Oh, my God. So they went from a quarter mile, which is. I don't know, 13, 13, 20. 1320. I should have asked you. They went from a quarter mile at 1320ft because it was getting too hairy and too fast, and they shortened it to 1,000ft. So once they shorten it to 1,000ft, the times got a little bit slower because people would go faster as they went longer. Right? Is that correct? So when I saw the 343 and a half, I was like, that had to be on a quarter mile. But they're not running on a quarter mile. So you did that in 1,000ft.
E
We did. It was Indianapolis. I've done it a handful of times. The 340 plus top field dragsters, we've always said 330 miles per hour in less than four seconds, and now drivers are hitting 340 plus. We did it in Indianapolis. 343.51 miles per hour. It was fast. Let me tell you.
A
You could feel that difference even though it was 10 miles an hour, you know, less than 5% of whatever you're traveling.
E
But that run, you could. There's runs where I'll get out of the car and it'll feel really fast and nope, it was just a typical run. And then sometimes you're on the other side of it. On that run, though, I have a radio in my ear so I could talk to my team on the run. If there's anything wrong, they could get on, tell me to shut the car off. That run, I knew it was a quick one. It was from that 700ft to 1,000ft. It really put me back in the seat, and it was accelerating more than I've ever felt before. So when I got up to the top end, shut my car down, I'm like, what did we run? What did we run? And they said the mile per hour. I couldn't even believe it.
A
Now there's no talking during the run. I mean, can't hear anything.
E
No, it's more the team, the crew communicating back and forth. I have it for safety reasons.
A
Oh, they're talking to each other.
E
Yeah. But once I go up to stage and run, make a run, it's quiet on the other end. Now if there's something crazy, I can't hear, but they'll tell me to. I hear the beep of the radio and they'll tell me to. I know that's my cue to. Something's wrong. They see something, shut the car off.
A
So they can't communicate. But a beep they can communicate with even. Mid run.
E
Yes, mid run. They've seen that it had cylinders out. Shut the car off.
A
Shut it. Yeah. For safety and for not destroying more of the car.
E
Yes.
A
Right. Longevity. So what do you equate getting over 340? Is it newer tire compounds being able to hook up? Because horsepower has never really been an issue for that sport. Right. It's been more about traction.
E
Well, this season we removed our mud flaps. That's what we call them. Air deflectors on the side of the car. We've removed those. How can we pinpoint is that the reason our mile per hour has picked up this year? I mean, you have to weigh out. My rookie season was 2013. So how do you compare one season to all the seasons I've done before? But it's also. My crew chief's really been focused on comparing our car to other cars. We were always slower, 600ft on, 700ft to that thousand foot marker. So he's been really trying to tighten that up, accelerate quicker there. And that's where we believe the speed's coming from.
A
Are you tearing down the engines between every run?
E
Yes, they are.
A
So it doesn't matter if it's qualifying or practice or whatever, the engine just gets torn down, correct?
E
100%. Well, I have eight guys in there tearing an engine apart. They could do it in 35 minutes. Probably.
A
They can take it all apart and rebuild it and rebuild it.
E
Parts that we can use again, they'll assess later. But in race day qualifying, it's just get everything off of it, rebuild it.
A
So they're not able to like machine the block or anything in that period of time. No new bearings, new rings, that kind of stuff.
E
At John Forrest Racing, we make everything in house. It's all our own parts. We've developed that over the last few years. But no, these guys, it's just pulling it all off the car, rebuilding it for the next run.
A
Yeah. Just so for. People know, like, when you have a car and it's old and it's got 500,000 miles on it, and then you take it in, you go, I gotta rebuild the engine. They take it all apart, and then they have to send it to the machine shop and bore and hone and fix the cylinders. And, you know, there's a whole machining process. But this is like, take it all apart, put all the parts back on and go again.
E
Yeah. Our machine shops are in Indy, and.
A
We'Re travel all across the country. And you guys are doing your own, I don't know, pistons, rods, bearings, cams and stuff.
E
Yeah, we're building everything now, really in house.
A
That's pretty heavy duty, because most people, you know, you farm out things like camshafts and cranks and pistons and stuff like that.
E
Yeah, we've come a long way in that department. Just again, building. It's right out Brownsburg, Indiana. We have a huge facility there, and that's where they build everything. Build our chassis there too, now.
A
Really. And do they have. What are the rules for the engine? Because they need parity as much as they can. So they go, no more than 500 cubic inches or 700 cubic inches or whatever. They. But they gotta lock you off at some spot. Right. And then they have to lock you off with, I don't know, compression, fuel, certainly. Intake stuff, blower size or whatever. What's the displacement of the engine?
E
I don't know that question. That's a creature.
A
Nobody knows the horse. The riders don't know the horse.
B
Yeah.
A
I've talked to Ian Indian F1 guys, where I go, what size engines in that thing? And they go, it's like a 1.2. I go, no, no, it's bigger than that. It's a lot bigger than that. They go, I don't know, but it's a big block.
E
500 cubic inch.
A
It's 500. Oh, okay. Well, that's 500 cubic inches. And it's. Yeah, I guess those things were all hemis. They still are based off.
E
Now we're sponsored by Chevrolet, so everything is Chevrolet.
A
It's a hemispherical head, but not a hemi, like, mopar sort of stuff. So it's a Chevy big block in there that makes. Do they even know how much horsepower they make now?
E
More than 11,000.
A
Oh, really? Because it used. The answer would be like, I don't know, because there's no dyno that can measure 9,000 horsepower.
E
No, we think it's about 11,000 horsepower.
A
About 11,000. And it's mostly about hooking up the rear tires. Or is it. Could you get by with a thousand horsepower for horsepower?
E
Is that what you're asking?
A
Well, I mean, usually they had more horsepower than they could use because it was more about spinning the rear tires than it was more horse. More horsepower just mean more spinning of the rear tires.
E
I'll tell you, with all the mile per hours we've done this year, my crew chief, I haven't shared this with anyone, but he said that there's still more in it.
A
It.
E
There's still more in it for ET on the board, for mile per hour. On the board. Where that lines up with horsepower, I'm not sure. Again, it's just an estimate. 11,000. We've been saying that for a few years. Has it advanced past that?
A
Probably so. Elapsed times about 4. What's your best?
E
I hold the record in Reading, Pennsylvania, back in 2019. 3.62. 3.
A
ET 3.62. Wow. Now. So I always tell people when I talk to them about this stuff, I go, look, if you picked a supercar, it's a Ferrari or McLaren or Lamborghini or something. And back in the day, I don't know, Tesla and electric cars have kind of screwed up the equation a little bit because they're so quick to 60 now. But a supercar, a supercar, back in the day, you know, Countach or Ferrari or something, you know, 0 to 60 is like 6 seconds or something like that, and then at some point, zero to 60. And like a real hypercar something would be modern hypercar would be 3 seconds or sub 3 or something like that. But you're going 60 at the end of that time. You're going well over 300 miles an hour in the same elapsed time, which is kind of insane because if you ever sit in one of those cars at red light and somebody throws a few revs and drops a clutch, you get pulled back like you go, whoa, we're hauling ass.
E
Yeah, we're pulling six to seven GS within the first second and a half. And then we do negative 6Gs when we throw our chutes at the top end.
A
What is the catapult off the aircraft carrier? G? What's the top gun? G?
E
I don't know.
A
You should know because this is good. Somebody look it up. Andrew. So I think you're pulling more GS than the F18 that's being launched off the deck of the catapulting off the deck.
E
I'll tell you, you feel it. It's like getting the wind knocked out of you every single time. It also depends. Sometimes it's shutting the car off on the top end is more intense than the launch. And the first second and a half. Sometimes it's when you throw your chutes, you're shutting the car down that it's like I said, getting kicked in the chest. Getting the wind knocked out of you takes your breath away.
A
You have to pull the chutes.
E
Yeah.
A
Will the chutes go if you have some sort of issue where you're unable to pull them?
E
We have them on automatic timers in case something happens to me in the car. They'll automatically go. My crew chief could shut the car off from the starting line with the button.
A
Oh, really? Yeah. I was assuming you pulled the chutes, but I was also assuming there'd be some mechanism in place that if you.
E
Passed out or something, 100%, it'll all go off. All the timers will set everything off. Shut the car off in case. Yeah, I get knocked out or something goes wrong in the car. But I still go through the motions every time. Whether the chutes, it beats me and I can't get to them. I still go through every motion of shutting the car off myself.
A
Yeah, yeah. So you do it. But there's a fail safe.
E
There is, yes.
A
All right. I asked what it was like to be launched off a carrier deck. Not the load limit for an F18 in terms of when its wing would break off on a turn. I'm just saying, what is it to be launched?
B
I'm looking right now. All I got is it says 2 to 4 GS, but it's going to vary by aircraft. So I'm looking up F16.
A
Oh, whatever. It doesn't matter. Two to four. I mean, you're quite a bit higher than being launched. So screw you, Tom Cruise. And you're doing dragsters.
E
Yep.
A
But did you do funny cars like your dad?
E
I got licensed in a funny car. It was probably. Gosh, when was that? 20, 15, 16. Somewhere in there. That is a whole different animal. I mean, now you're talking about. And I drive the dragsters, the long skinny ones. 300 inch wheelbase. Now you're talking. A funny car. Short, short wheelbase, engine's in your lap. It is in front of you. When it explodes, it's exploding in your face and trying to steer this thing. I'll never forget, I was testing it in Italy.
A
The funny car.
E
The funny car. I was testing the funny car. It was actually Courtney's funny car. So it had her name on it. Had Traxxas, your sister along the side. Yeah, my younger sister Courtney. And just doing the burnout. I wasn't used to it. I'm used to a dragster. They go pretty straight. You don't do much steering. I oversteered the thing about took out two of the cones, backed the thing up. It was all over the place. Just couldn't keep it straight. Again, not used to that wheel base. And everyone thought, did Courtney forget how to drive? What is she doing out there? No one knew it was me in the car. But we were going to go down that road that possibly if we have to get out of driving top feel. I was going to go to funny car. I was so happy when sponsors fell through and Monster came on board and I was able to stay in a dragster. That's what I like. That's what I'm used to. I've driven dragsters my whole life in the sportsman division super comp a fuel and my rookie season was 2013. In Top Fuel.
A
Yeah, dragsters about the fastest zero to 300 in anything. So it's funny, sometimes they go out to the salt flats and they try to set records for different divisions and stuff. And that guy went 240 miles an hour on a two mile run, you know, like kind of thing both ways and it's, it's all cool, but it's not, it's not 343.5 miles1 going around down in a thousand feet. I don't know how you get more sort of intense than that. I mean there's a lot of forms of racing and lots of thrills and excitement. But I don't know how you're going to pack more into, you know, under five seconds, under three seconds.
E
I know, I think I'm kind of at my limit. I think that's good enough as long as those records hold. Now the second that record's taken away and somebody beats it, I want to get back in the seat to beat that record. But right now we hold it. We've held it for, you know, years.
A
I honestly, I thought it was 3:30 something. I would have said 340 something.
E
Yeah, that happened this year.
A
Who's the closest or how close is someone to beating their record?
E
Doug Coletta. I want to say Doug Coletta this year. And Sean Langdon.
A
Is that the son of Connie Coletta?
E
Yeah. All family related, Doug. It's the Coletta team. Doug Coletta.
A
You know, I know the sport's safer and it's faster and it's better now. But you don't have good commercials. Like they used to have good commercials.
E
I can recall some of my dad's.
A
They were the best commercials. I just sat home and I used to study commercials. I wasn't going to the drag races. Cause we didn't have a car that could make it there, ironically. But the commercials. And even before your dad's. Well, I don't know. Your dad was in. He came a little after the Big Daddy Don Garletts and the Shirley Cha Cha Muldownies and the Hawaiian and the Chi Town hustler and the TV Tommy Ivo. There's all these guys, like 60s, 70s guys. And your dad was more 80s and 90s. When did your dad hit?
E
Well, when he started winning, it was in the 90s, but he was racing in the 80s.
A
Yeah. So this is late 60s, early 70s. Snake, mongoose, kind of.
E
Yep. That was right in his era when he was getting started.
A
Oh, really? Because this thing. Well, your dad, it's kind of timeless. Your dad. How old is your dad?
E
76. I want to say he's pretty much.
A
The winningest quarter mile guy in history.
E
Sixteen championships. Unbelievable.
A
Unbelievable. But I think the Snake and the Mongoose goes back to like the 60s even. Cause one was army and one was Navy and I can't remember which one. They tried to make a movie about it recently.
E
Yeah. Yes.
A
I didn't see it because I didn't hear. It was great.
E
Yes. I don't remember when that movie came out. Yeah, they did do a movie on it.
A
They had like Hot Wheels and stuff. Lunch boxes. I don't know. There was a drag racing, funny car, weird zeitgeist thing in this country, sort of mid-70s, where it just got. I don't know, it was like pickleball or something. It just kind of came out of nowhere. And then everyone. Then it was there, you know, and everyone's talking about it. There's lots of personalities. And then they, you know, I mean, they do the Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney and you know, Big Daddy's gunning for her. And it was all this sort of. Billie Jean King is playing Bobby Riggs in tennis. Male versus female. I mean, that stuff had, I guess, been somewhat settled by the time you got to the sport.
E
In regards to what?
A
It wasn't such a novelty to have. Surely Cha Cha Muldan was an insane novelty that she's running with the boys.
E
Yeah, I don't think so. When I got. But again, I grew up in the sport, so a lot of people I was very familiar with, I've been around those people, a lot of the competition people in the sport for a long time and it is a very family sport. So when I came in, I was also following in my sister's footsteps. Ashley drove funny car for a handful of years and then Courtney got in right before me, before I got into a dragster. So they kind of opened that door for me. But again, we were really welcomed. I never had any pushback. Being a female, it was never a problem anything. It was an advantage. It helped us get sponsors. Half the sponsors that we got were they liked the idea of a female that could win in a male dominated sport. So it always helped me.
A
Never see Heart Like a Wheel.
E
No, I've never seen it.
A
How can you not see this happens? I'm intrigued in this.
E
What year was it?
A
It's old, I know, but it's never seen it. Ever made about a female dragster driver. That's a slap in the face. If Shirley Cha Muldowney found out that you did not see Hart Like a Wheel, she would be disgusted.
C
I have not.
E
I'll put it on my list.
A
Sure you will. I'm following up. This is insane. Was Jeff Bridges in that movie too? We got a trailer never seen. Like, it'd be like Dawson. It'd be like, hey. They go, you know, let's see. If someone said to me, Adam, you know that movie that was about guys used to race vintage Datsuns and then were into podcasting and then did stand up, and I'd be like, yeah, I heard of it, but I've never seen it.
E
You know what other movie I've never seen? Star wars my whole life. May the force be with you. May the force be with you.
A
Listen. Oh, yeah, you don't have oh, Force. Oh, Force. You still don't have to. You don't have to see that.
B
That's right up there with being Angie and never hearing the Rolling Stone song.
A
There are a lot of those.
B
Force and Force.
A
I don't. So I do have an obsession with. People have a popular song named after them or they're named after. Or I share the name of a pop and they've never heard the song. I'm like, somebody must have sung that to you when you're a baby.
E
Someone told you.
A
But this is unacceptable. This Heart Like a Wheel business.
E
It's on my list.
A
All right. And let's not play the oh, that's from 1978. Come on. Plenty. Old stuff you've seen, you've heard about. Does your dad know you haven't seen Heart Like a Wheel?
E
No, I don't think so.
A
He would be really disappointed.
E
What if he hasn't seen it?
A
Well, I would be upset, but not devastated like I am now. I would just be upset with him. And I would just look at him and just go, john, I think you're capable better than this. And you know what I would tell him? I'd say, john, I'm not angry. I'm disappointed. That's what I would say. But with you, I'm angry because you're female and this is a movie. Do we have the trailer? All right, what year is this? 78. Heart let go. Everybody has one special dream.
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For most of us, it remains distant and unfulfilled. She dreamed of winning.
A
She wanted to go where only. Only a few men adventured.
B
Some made it and some didn't.
A
Some go, some blow. They have rules against a woman driving.
C
The last thing they're looking for is.
A
A driver who's a housewife of Schenectady with a kid.
C
Maybe they just want somebody who wins.
A
She challenged them all in the fastest and most powerful spot caught on Earth.
B
You're going to go up against Garlet?
E
I'm going to.
A
Well, I'm just looking for little lady showing her nerves when it really counts. I don't think she can handle it. A 2500 horsepower machine. 2500 to 250 miles per hour in less than six seconds. And she became one of the most extraordinary champions of our time.
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The Shirley Modowne story.
A
They age like fine wine.
B
Hot like a wheel.
A
Wheel. This must be early 80s or something. All right.
E
Okay. You know what movie I did see? My sister and I watched it religiously when we were in the sportsman division. They did a Disney movie on the Ender Sisters.
A
The Ender Sisters.
E
Erica Enders, who drives pro stock. Her and her sister Courtney, who raced junior dragsters. That's what we watched.
A
All right. It's a deep cut. Wasn't a wide release.
E
It was probably 2000s.
A
What was it called?
E
I don't remember. I don't know. I just know it was Disney and it had the Enders in it.
A
But it was like a TV show or a film.
E
No, no, it was a movie. It was a movie. A short movie on Disney Channel.
A
All right, but that's not a feature. No, this was a feature film starring whoever played Shirley. Chamul Downey. Who's that actor?
E
It was before my time.
A
Everything was before your time. It's not an excuse. Yeah. And it's like saying, I don't know what happened in World War II.
B
Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney was played by Bonnie Bedelia.
A
Bonnie Bedelia, that's right. Oh, right. On track would have been. I didn't. Not like I knew that. Except someone put it on my screen.
E
That's it. Yeah.
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Also known as Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges and Bruce Barlow.
A
Bruce Barlow, Yeah. All right, let's not try to wiggle out of this sin of not seeing Hart Like a Wheel by bringing up some obscure Disney short that may have run in somebody's trailer when they're, you know, in between runs. Let's see. Bonnie Bedelia. Oh, yeah. She played the wife of McClane in Die Hard. She was dying. Wait a minute. Have you seen Diehard?
E
No.
A
No, but let me say this. I gotta tell you.
B
Now we're all angry.
A
Everyone's angry now. You've angered the staff. I will say this, but you have to watch it. I said, okay, you haven't seen Master and Commander.
D
Okay.
A
Now, I said to Daphne in the other room was young. I said, oh, man. Master and Commander was on the airplane and I watched I Love Them. And she goes, I've never seen it. And at first I was angry like I was with you and Hart. Like a wheel. But then there's a part of me that went, man, I wish I'd never seen it, because I've seen it 14 times and it's great. But if you said to me how much to have never seen Master and Commander, but you can go home and enjoy it tonight on Blu Ray, I'd be like, I'll give you 100 bucks, and then I'll go home and watch Master and Commander. So never seen Die Hard?
E
No.
A
You should go home and enjoy the majesty of Bruce Willis in Die Hard.
E
No, I've never seen that one.
A
All right, so here's the assignment. We're going to go. We're gonna start with Die Hard.
E
Okay. Why are we starting with Die Hard? Where did Die Hard come from?
A
Well, it's important to me. It's a kind of personal thing.
E
Okay, well.
A
Cause Bonnie Bedelia played Bruce Willis wife in Die Hard, and she was Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney.
E
Got it.
A
So it makes perfect sense that you need to see Die Hard.
E
Okay.
A
Heart Like a Wheel. I don't know. 1980 movies can be a little dated. Might be a little hard to stick with. Although with you, it's gonna be Great. Cause you're gonna see dragsters that are front engine dragsters. You're gonna hear them all the times. It's gonna seem very interesting to you. And, you know, kind of old pictures. Dad's, you know, your dad's probably an extra in it.
E
He's in the background somewhere.
A
He's in the background. So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go for you. I'm gonna go Die Hard. And then I'm gonna go Heart Like a Wheel.
E
Okay.
A
And then we'll go, master and Commander.
E
Okay. I got homework.
A
Yeah. All right, now listen, I'm gonna follow up. I don't want this to be one of those. Sure, right. Nut job. And then go home and not watch any of those movies. All right?
E
Okay.
A
What's the order again?
E
We start with Die Hard, Right. Then we go to the Shirley Muldowney movie Heart Like a Wheel. Heart Like a Wheel.
A
Oh, boy.
E
And then the final one.
A
See, this is why I knew you gotta write this down. Master Commander.
E
And you're gonna love master and command.
A
Now, Commander. Now two of them. You're gonna love Heart Like a Wheel. That's homework.
E
Okay.
A
You gotta appreciate and pay homage to, really, the first woman. The first lady of drag racing. Yes. Who's still around. I guess she must show up at some of the events.
E
Dallas, I believe, last weekend.
A
Oh, she was. So it's like she goes around and signs autographs and does her thing, right?
E
Yes.
A
Heart like a wheel's 83. So it's a little later than I thought. So retire after this. Why? In a sport like this where you're on top of your game and it's not, you know, it's not like football, where it's like, oh, I mean, you know, you're 33, you're old in football. Like, you gotta retire, you know, you just can't keep up. You can keep up, so why retire? You're young.
E
I'm not saying the word retire because there's a chance down the road I may come back. I don't know until I get there, but it's. I got married last year and my husband and I want to start a family. That is the reason we want to. And I don't want to step out in the middle of a season. NHRA has put in this rule where you can, as a female, if you get pregnant during your season, step out and put a replacement driver in. I don't want to do that to my team. I'm dedicating my time to trying to win races I'm dedicating my time to my team, my sponsors and trying to win a championship at the end of the season or if I'm not doing that, I want to dedicate it to starting a family. I don't think there's a space for both in between. I just don't. So I don't want to take advantage of that role, which is how I've come to end of the season I'm going to step out, we're going to see if we could start a family and down the road, who knows, maybe I'll come back. That door is always open for me if the opportunity's still there.
A
Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney would get into that dragster with a Baby Bjorn on and a newborn strap to her chest harness up and go, no, not me. She would do it. It's in Heart Like a Wheel, act two. You'll see it.
E
I don't believe you right now.
A
It wasn't in the trailer. But she puts a Baby Bjorn on, puts a toddler, straps in and that five way harness, I don't know, you probably got a six way. Now what do they do with those harnesses?
E
It said seven point harness.
A
Seven point. Oh, let's see. Five point I figured out and then they turned a five point to a six point and I was like, eh, it's still just the sub belt. But then where's the. I can't figure out where the seventh is coming from.
E
So shoulder, lap, leg and then one crotch.
A
Oh, leg. How's the leg harness work? I can't figure out how the leg six way. How's the leg harness work?
E
It's not comfortable at all. It straps your leg where the belt is pretty low on your stomach and they all latch in and then we latch in our arm restraint.
A
Arm restraints? Yeah. So they are those ones I think.
E
Latch into the leg. I can never see with my helmet and everything on. I have somebody that belts me in. I can't do it myself. I cinch my belts down my shoulder ones, not my lap ones. Can't do that. There's no room for. Yeah, there's not a lot of seven point harness. I wear about 25 pounds of gear. It's a lot.
A
Yeah. And during the summer months it's hot. Yeah, like Pomona is pretty hot most of the time.
E
Right. In the summer we're all over. Let's see, this year, Richmond, Virginia was probably one of the hottest ones in Norwalk, Ohio. Miserably hot and humid, uncomfortable.
A
And they don't have Cool suits.
E
No, I have air that hooks up, fresh air that hooks up. But it's more so your visor doesn't fog up and helps you breathe. When you're in there and it's first round and you're nervous and your heart's pumping and it helps you breathe a little bit better. Slow your breath down.
A
How do you do in terms of confinement? I've been in a lot of race cars and I don't mind being strapped down. A lot of people have a reaction where they get claustrophobic. They go, I don't like this feeling of being strapped in. I kind of like the feeling of being strapped in.
E
It doesn't bother me. I. I pull my belts tight.
A
I pull my belts super tight, too. I like the feeling of it.
E
They like it loose. They like to wiggle. And I'm like, if I'm wrecking, if I'm going in the wall 300 miles per hour, I don't want to budge. I pull them so tight that I can barely expand my lugs and take a deep breath. That's how tight I am in there.
A
Yeah, I agree. I did a. I did a celebrity grand prix race with Melanie Troxell, who you must know as a female funny car, and she was in with the pro division that I was in. But to be fair to her, she wasn't really a road racer. She was like quarter mile. I don't know, maybe a thousand feet.
E
No, I think it was quarter mile back then.
A
Yeah. So she was a professional driver, but she wasn't a road racer. So it was kind of. She didn't have an advantage that a lot of road racers have. But anyway, I did that race and the stupid belt was hooked around the seat and the thing, and it just came loose in the beginning of the race. I spent the first two laps trying to get this stupid thing. Cause I hate the feeling of sliding around inside of the belt. It's like, it'd be the equivalent of saying, like playing basketball, but your shoe's not tied tight and your foot's sliding around inside the shoe. And. And some people kind of like that. But I'm like, I want my foot and the shoe to be one.
E
Oh, I want to be locked in. I want to be. My body's pressed against the seat that is poured for my body. I'm the only one that could fit in that car.
A
Right.
E
I like to be. Yes.
A
It's a custom made seat and you want to be cinched up. I agree. I completely agree. And you have to have Guys do the lap belt. Even I do that. The guys, they lean in because you can't get it. You don't have from where you are.
E
I can't put my elbows up to yank them.
A
You don't have the leverage to do it. Yes. And they pull it tight. You feel like you sucked down.
E
Yes.
A
I agree with that feeling. We're simpatica. So we agree on this.
E
Yeah. That's one thing I always check. You said your belts came loose before we start the car. I check that. I could one get my lap belt. There's been times where I was strapped in wrong and one of the straps went over my release buckle. So if you had a problem, how do you get out of the car? So I always check that, make sure I could reach that. And then I checked my steering wheel because I had my steering wheel come off on a run once. So there's certain things I check to make sure.
A
Because the bell will have just one cam thing where you can. You hit one release, all of them pop.
E
They all go.
A
Right. Except for it's attached to the one last. But the steering wheel is removable, right?
E
Yes.
A
And they'll lock in. But also, sometimes people just set them on and they don't lock in. You could pull them off.
E
Yes.
A
And you have to do that with race cars. Yeah, that could be an issue.
E
It could have been. I got lucky. It happened at about 900ft. Luckily, I was shutting the car off when the steering wheel landed. I was just holding it here. It wasn't attached any longer. Through the chutes, turned the fuel off, got on the brake. Just prayed that the thing stayed straight. And it did.
A
Yeah, because race cars, a lot of them, the steering wheel pops off so you can get in the car, and then when it pops to put it back on, it's got like a spline drive, but you gotta pop it like, it's gotta catch or it'll just sit there. And there's no indication that it's not on.
E
Yeah. Trust me. I double check that now every time I get in there.
A
You gotta learn. How's your dad doing? Your dad had a very bad accident, Richmond, last year. Right. About as bad as he's had in his career. Right.
E
It was definitely one of the worst. He's been through some horrific crashes. This one was awful. It was Richmond, Virginia, last year, and he suffered a traumatic brain injury from it. So he was in the hospital for months. We were in Richmond. Whole family moved out there. We were living there for about three weeks, and then we relocated him to Phoenix where he started physical therapy and then he did outpatient therapy once he got back home. But it was not easy going in there and he's pretty much made a full recovery. It's incredible.
A
Well, your dad is John Force, one of a kind, and, like, huge personality.
C
And.
A
You know, I don't know if your dad ever thought about this, but, you know, there used to be. The sport had a lot of big personalities. I mean, it had like, TV Tommy Ivo, who was like a TV star when he was a kid, and then started building crazy dragsters. All wheel drive. I mean, that's all dragsters, but like funny cars. It's like all wheel drive with four engines and stuff. Like, there's a kind of PT Barnum kind of thing where people had big nicknames, big personalities.
E
Yeah, it was more like you were talking earlier, talking about the snake and the mongoose and the Hawaiian and the.
A
Chi Town Hustler and everyone had a monster. Everyone had a nickname. And then I guess it became like a business and a sport. But then your dad kind of came in and brought the personality back to the sport.
E
He is a huge personality. I mean, he was in here.
A
Yes.
E
He was on the show. He was so excited about meeting you.
A
I never say this about people, but I always go, your dad was a trip. Like, you just don't have that many different qualities.
E
People always ask me, does he just turn it on for the camera and. No, he is like that 100% of the time. 24 7. He is just. He is the. I don't know where he gets his energy from. I honestly don't. He has more energy than any person I've ever met. And he is a character.
A
Yeah. So I'm glad he's on the mend.
E
Yeah, he's doing great. He's been back out, I mean, since last year. Vegas was his first race at the end of the season that he came back was with all our teams and he's pretty much been to all of them since.
A
Oh, good. Well, give my love.
E
I will.
A
And where should we go to find out your schedule and people want to talk to you.
E
I'm on Instagram. Brittany Force, BrittneyForce B R I T T A N Y F O r c or nhra.com as our full schedule. We have two races left. We're coming in quick on the end of our season. We go to Vegas in another week and then we end in Pomona, California.
A
Well, some go, some blows. They used to say in the commercials they ain't the greatest commercials ever. Oh, we have your dad doing commercial bloopers.
E
Okay.
A
By the way.
E
Oh, gosh, no, not this. Pull up his Fram commercial. That was probably one of my favorites.
A
When I was a kid doing commercial bloopers for Fram.
E
Fram was one of the good ones.
A
I remember that Fram filters.
E
And it was. They had a full script and he changed the entire script. He always likes to come in and control everything, change everything that was planned, directed the whole thing. And they changed the script and ended up airing it. They loved it.
A
Oh, really? Fram? Yeah, I guess these are old legacy companies. I mean, Fram's still going strong, right? I don't know if that got bought up by somebody or like what the deal is, but I always remember FRAM filters, those orange filters. All right, if you can find Fram in the next 30 seconds, John Forrest and frame filters. All right, let's see. With sound Frame Extra guard filter with its new short, presenting eight time funny car champion, John Forrest to test the frame Extra guard filter with its new short grip top.
E
Again, this was his idea.
A
See, I still got it. Thank you.
D
About that rope.
A
Textured grip.
F
Couldn't drop it if I wanted to.
A
Oh, baby. The new frame Extra guard with shore grip. It sure makes changing your oil filler a lot easier.
E
Those are the commercials I remember as a kid.
A
Those are great. Where's your dad from?
C
Here?
E
He's born and raised in California.
D
Oh, really?
E
Yeah, went to school. Bell Gardens.
A
Really? Yeah, because he's got a lot of slim pickings in him now. I'm sure you've seen Blazing Saddles. Oh. Oh, boy.
E
Who stars in that one? What year?
A
Fella by the name of Eugene Wilde.
E
Why would I have seen these movies? Are they 70s?
A
All right, you know what?
E
No, I know the name. I couldn't tell you the theme of the movie or anything.
A
Slim Pickens got a little bit. His dad's got a little Slim Pickens the actor in him, but I wouldn't think he was from out here, but out here. You know, back in the day, place was a little more rural than it is now.
E
I'm guessing he was a truck driver. So he was living all over.
A
Oh, he was?
E
Yeah.
A
Oh, man. All right. So sorry. Wait a minute. Insta britneyforce is where we go.
E
Yep. I'm on Instagram.
A
Two more races.
E
Yeah.
A
How we doing in the points department?
E
We're fifth right now. We're in a pretty good place. Had a tough weekend last weekend. I went to the semis. Mechanical error. Did a Burnout. Steve Torrance in the lane next to me. We were just killing it all weekend long. Qualifying was great. I was on top of my game. Reaction time and. And went to go back up from the burnout. Car died.
A
Oh, mechanical failure. Yeah, so mechanical.
E
Push the car back. No, push the car back. Get out of the car. It's really tough to not have a shot at it, to not have a chance. So that was a tough weekend for us.
A
All right. I am going to be at Flappers doing shows there October 29th out here in Burbank and then Boston at the Wilbur Theater November 6th and then the 7th Buffalo at Electric City and go to AdamCroll.com for my dates. And Monique Marvez, you can check her dates out@moniquemarvez.com as well. Brittany, thanks for coming out. Say hi to pops.
E
Thanks for having me. I will.
A
For me.
E
Thank you.
A
And I'm gonna quiz you on heart like a wheel next time I see you.
E
Okay? Sounds good.
A
So till next time, Adam Crow for Brittany Force and Monique Marvez. And ma' am saying Mahala, pick up.
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Guests:
Adam Carolla returns for a lively episode blending his signature comedic rants with conversations about gender roles, relationships, and modern masculinity. He dives deep with comedian Monique Marvez, famed for her sharp wit and candid takes on dating, strong women, and what turns her off about “sissy men.” Later, Adam switches gears (literally) with top NHRA driver Brittany Force to explore what it feels like to go over 300 mph, life in the male-dominated world of drag racing, and why she’s stepping away from the sport. The episode is brimming with authentic back-and-forths, generational humor, culture critiques, and inside stories from the world of stand-up and motorsport.
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This episode captures the Adam Carolla Show’s trademark irreverence, with fierce honesty, sharp social commentary, and a cast of guests unafraid to speak their minds on relationships, work, masculinity, and what it feels like to hurtle through life (and down a drag strip) at top speed.