Neal McDonough Reveals the Truth About His Hollywood Fallout + Elisha Krauss

Summary

The Adam Carolla Show: Episode Featuring Neil McDonough and Elisha Krauss

Release Date: May 27, 2025

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Summary:

In this dynamic episode of "The Adam Carolla Show," host Adam Carolla engages in a thought-provoking conversation with renowned actor Neil McDonough and news commentator Alicia Krause. The discussion spans a wide range of topics, including political strategies, societal changes, the entertainment industry, personal growth, and family life. Through candid exchanges and insightful commentary, the episode offers listeners a comprehensive look into contemporary issues and personal experiences.

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1. Introduction of Guests

[00:45] The episode kicks off with Adam introducing Neil McDonough, highlighting his impressive career in film and television with credits such as "Minority Report," "Walking Tall," and "Band of Brothers." Alicia Krause provides brief news updates, setting the stage for the main discussion.

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2. Political Commentary: The Manufactured "Dude"

[01:30 - 07:21]

Adam and Alicia delve into a critical analysis of the political left's attempts to "manufacture" or "synthesize" stereotypical masculine figures, often referred to as "bros." Adam shares insights from a conversation with Dr. Drew, highlighting how the left seeks to create male archetypes that embody traditional traits like hunting, trucks, and football. However, these efforts sometimes result in recruiting individuals who don’t naturally fit these profiles, leading to inauthentic representations.

Notable Quote:

• Adam Carolla ([03:23]): "They want a dude who does really... hunting elk with a bow and arrow and then eating the elk. He wasn't told to talk about eating elk. That's what he does."

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3. Society and Race: Superficial Engagements

[07:21 - 13:53]

The conversation shifts to broader societal issues, including the left's approach to addressing racial communities and gender identities. Adam and Alicia critique what they perceive as superficial attempts to engage with these groups without genuine understanding or connection, suggesting that these efforts are more about appeasing voters than creating meaningful change.

Notable Quote:

• Alicia Krause ([11:41]): "I like the guy. I'm saying they are looking for a cartoon caricature of a dude of what they think it is."

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4. Media and Corporate Influence: Supporting American Manufacturing

[11:41 - 23:32]

Adam criticizes media corporations and outlines how businesses, such as American Giant, differentiate themselves by maintaining American manufacturing standards. He contrasts this with the fast fashion industry's global, low-cost production practices, emphasizing the importance of supporting American-made products to preserve jobs and communities.

Notable Quote:

• Adam Carolla ([22:21]): "You can go into Home Depot and you can get a sheet of half inch CDX. Good. One side, four by ply for 26 bucks."

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5. Airline Fees and Consumer Impact

[17:42 - 29:50]

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing new airline fee policies aimed at disclosing additional costs upfront. Adam and Alicia interpret these policies as politically motivated rather than consumer-friendly, arguing that they disproportionately affect marginalized and low-income groups.

Notable Quote:

• Adam Carolla ([21:00]): "It affects poor people. And black people who may be wealthy. Like this would affect Julius Irving and Jay Z and Beyoncé because while they're not poor and they're..."

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6. Featuring Neil McDonough: Career Insights and Personal Journey

[68:25 - 127:51]

Neil McDonough shares his journey in the acting industry, detailing his struggles, career highlights, and recent projects. He reflects on moments of personal hardship and how his faith and family have been instrumental in his resilience and success. Neil discusses his collaboration with Angel Studios, emphasizing their unique funding model and commitment to faith-based, family-oriented films.

Notable Quotes:

• Neil McDonough ([78:53]): "Now I'm part owner of the Austin Gamblers Team Rodeo. How I got to this point is pretty amazing..."
• Adam Carolla ([60:45]): "You can’t fake it because you'd already get out of there."

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7. Filmmaking and Angel Studios: A New Model for Success

[68:58 - 127:08]

The discussion turns to Neil's collaboration with Angel Studios, exploring their guild-based funding system that supports independent filmmakers. Neil highlights the success of previous projects and lauds the integrity and dedication of the Angel Studios team. They discuss the challenges of traditional Hollywood and how Angel Studios provides an alternative platform for creators who might otherwise be overlooked.

Notable Quote:

• Neil McDonough ([95:59]): "The key to happiness is gratitude... you just have to work harder at it."

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8. Personal Life and Gratitude: Balancing Work and Family

[114:55 - 122:58]

Neil and Adam explore themes of gratitude and personal growth, sharing anecdotes from their childhoods and discussing their parenting philosophies. They emphasize the importance of hard work, resilience, and fostering independence in their children. The conversation highlights how gratitude and strong family relationships contribute to personal happiness and success.

Notable Quote:

• Neil McDonough ([119:14]): "You got to be grateful. You have to really think about it and say, holy smokes, I'm here."

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9. Closing Remarks: Future Projects and Final Thoughts

[127:27 - 129:02]

The episode concludes with Neil promoting his upcoming film "The Last Rodeo," discussing its themes and production background. Adam summarizes the key takeaways about integrity, perseverance, and the evolving nature of media and society. Final interactions underscore the mutual respect and camaraderie between the guests.

Notable Quote:

• Adam Carolla ([127:40]): "Neal McDonough is your motivation. For me, cars and Newman. For you, it's acting and Newman."

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Conclusion:

This episode of "The Adam Carolla Show" offers a rich blend of political critique, personal storytelling, and industry insights. Adam Carolla and his guests provide candid and humorous explorations of contemporary issues, the entertainment industry, and personal growth, making it an informative and entertaining listen for both regular fans and new audiences alike. The inclusion of notable quotes with specific timestamps enhances the narrative, providing emphasis on key points discussed throughout the episode.

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Notable Quotes Highlighted:

• Adam Carolla ([03:23]): "They want a dude who does really... hunting elk with a bow and arrow and then eating the elk."
• Adam Carolla ([06:37]): "You cannot synthesize and manufacture somebody who likes bow hunting and UFC and football and trucks."
• Adam Carolla ([21:00]): "It affects poor people. And black people who may be wealthy."
• Neil McDonough ([78:53]): "Now I'm part owner of the Austin Gamblers Team Rodeo."
• Neil McDonough ([119:14]): "You got to be grateful. You have to really think about it and say, holy smokes, I'm here."

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Listeners who haven't tuned into the episode will find this summary both comprehensive and engaging, capturing the essence of the discussions and providing valuable insights into the guests' perspectives and experiences.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Alicia Krause]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Neil McDonough]

From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest Today, actor Neil McDonough. Plus the news and trending topics with Alicia Crouse. And now earlier today he got the symptoms of myocarditis from the stress of trying to spell myocarditis. Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on, got to get on. Gotta mandate you get it on. Alicia Krause is back, gonna do the news for us today. Good to see you, my dear.

[Alicia Krause]

Thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

I have topics that I wrote down, things to talk to you about.

[Alicia Krause]

Really?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Figured you'd be good for a few of these.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay, throw em at me.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I was talking to Dr. Drew today because a lot of people on the left are talking about guys like how do we get to bros? Where are these bros? Where's our bro? Where's our Joe Rogan? We need a dude. You know, and then they're like, okay, we need to get a dude.

[Alicia Krause]

But what is a dude?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, see, the thing I realize is to the left, they want to synthesize a dude. They want to manufacture a dude. They're like, big burly guy drinking beer, talk about football, likes hunting and trucks. And so when they recruit Tim Walls, who's a nut job pussy who wants tampons in men's rooms, they go, tim, Tim, you gotta pretend like you're a dude. So what would a dude do? Well, let's get footage of you hunting and then let's have you constantly. You got an International Harvester, you got a truck. It's kind of like a. That's like a Bronco.

[Alicia Krause]

You go, the new ones don't count.

[Adam Carolla]

We get shots of you wrenching on your 72 international harvester. And then that's dude. Cuz that's what dudes. It's like these people are academics. They're from academia. They don't know what dudes are. They don't like dudes. They don't experience dudes. They're not married to dudes. It's like explaining to a different culture or a different tribe, like, what a dude is. And so they'll go, all right, so talk about hunting. Football, right? Beer. Beer. You like beer. And it's like, no. Joe Rogan likes the UFC. He liked the UFC 25 years ago.

[Alicia Krause]

He's not new to it.

[Adam Carolla]

He likes shooting elk with a bow and arrow and then eating the elk. He wasn't told to talk about eating elk. That's what he does.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And so I realized they're approaching it like a dumb shit, like who they are, which is academia. They don't know what it is. They wanna sit down, they wanna get a spreadsheet, and they wanna have a discussion group, and they wanna try to figure out what a dude is.

[Alicia Krause]

Do you remember when they had the Obamacare guy and he looked like he was in a Snuggie and he had his little ginger tea and he was sipping on it?

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

And they were supposed to try to make Obamacare look cool for people under the age. I feel like now when they're looking for the dude, they either go to, like, Timothee Chalamet or Tim Waltz. They should be going to. I don't know. Even though he's pretty. Like a Dax Shepard, Chris Pratt. You know what I mean? Like, man. Like actual manly man that fix things and do things, you know, they have been.

[Adam Carolla]

I would go, as long as we're on Tim's. I'd go with Tim Tebow if I was looking for a dude.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. But here's the dude who does really.

[Alicia Krause]

Great things, by the way.

[Adam Carolla]

I like the guy. I'm saying they are looking for a cartoon caricature of a dude of what they think is. Because they don't know it. Well, first off, they don't like dudes. They spent the last 20 years yelling @ dudes.

[Alicia Krause]

They simultaneously chastise men for being what they think is manly.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Alicia Krause]

And then say, well, wait, how are we possibly losing their vote?

[Adam Carolla]

Right? So they don't like dudes. I would say. Here's what I would say with them. I don't think they like black people either. They certainly don't live in neighborhoods populated with black people.

[Alicia Krause]

That's the nimby.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. They're not huge fans of black people. There's things they could do to help black people. Like talk about fatherless homes which they never talk about. They just talk about keeping parks open an extra hour or something like that. They talk about everything except for the thing that would affect the black community in a positive way. So one could argue that they're not really into the black community, but they need the black community and they wanna talk about the black community. And now they're doing the same thing with men. They don't like them. They certainly don't like dudes. It's very gauche to work on your own car, get grease on your fingernails, go hunting. This is all stuff they hate. They want everyone to go to college. They wanna cancel every shop, class and replace some DEI information center or something. They don't like it. But now they got caught and they're like, all right, you know how we've been pretending to care and like black people for the last 40 years? We gotta do that with heterosexual dudes.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. And I think that we saw that this last election cycle definitely proved that they don't have the Rust Belt Union vote anymore. And I think that they just so heavily relied on that for such a long time of pulling in that dude vote that they don't have it anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So here's the fundamental problem. You cannot synthesize and manufacture somebody who likes bow hunting and UFC and football and trucks. And you either work on stuff or you don't work on stuff. You can't make the guy into a handyman or a carpenter. You can't synthesize.

[Alicia Krause]

You can't, like, place him in a Home Depot and expect him to be able to DIY things if he's, like, doesn't even know where a Home Depot is.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So that's not gonna work. Then the next plan is, well, then we'll just find a guy who does all that stuff naturally works, hunts all that.

[Alicia Krause]

My husband, heterosexual. It turns out he's a conservative.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But that guy's not down with your kooky, insane, he, she, third, bathroom, women playing sports. So you have a fundamental problem. You can't manufacture the guy. And anyone who is that is not going along with your crazy shit. Yep. So I would argue you're gonna have to change your crazy shit to attract that guy.

[Alicia Krause]

But I think that they are so embedded in it and they're in such a bubble of their own making that they have other people saying to them, yeah, yeah, that's a really good idea. We should do this. Like, look at all the Kamala Waltz ads that tried to make him look manly. Or look at even now when he talks and he's like, well, you know, I was brought in to get the man vote, and he's bragging about it, and it's like, my dude, you didn't do a good job of getting that vote. You would be the. The. You know, what is the. I guess he would be vice President of the United States if that were the case. I just called him the second dude because he was like a second second dude to her.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. I study this. I'm a dude. I'm sensitive, but I know how to fix things. Like, fixing things. But it was never grafted on me. So I like tools, stuff and cars and stuff like that.

[Alicia Krause]

It's innate in some people, and in others it's not. I mean, we've talked about this before. I think women are usually nicer to look at, sometimes better to be around.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm.

[Alicia Krause]

More emotional, more nurturing. There are some things that you just are not going to innately change about the DNA structure of, like, men and women and how different we are.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And that's part of their problem, is they're trying to bend nature and science and human behavior in some direction that it won't go well for.

[Alicia Krause]

For probably you could argue the 60s for sure. But even beforehand, academia has been trying to make women act more like men, and men may act more like women. And I don't think that that is, like, true feminism or true equality. And I don't think that that's going to be beneficial to left, right or center.

[Adam Carolla]

No. And why. First off, why would you want to. I am telling you, when I meet up with somebody that is really handy on the computer and can do things that I can't do and set up the Alexa thing and program my phone and stuff like that, put your website.

[Alicia Krause]

Put the tour dates on there, all that stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm very happy. And when they find out that I have tools and can fix things that they might need to be fixed, then they're happy. If we both had tools and no computer skills or both had computer skills and no tools, then neither one of us would be that happy, or at least we'd be half as happy.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, now you're making the argument for what conservatives say is the importance of the individual and what skills and abilities do they bring to the table? It doesn't matter what gender they are or what they identify as. But the left can't wrap their minds around that concept, so that's why they keep repeating these same mistakes.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, if you think about what academia does is they're constantly going, Men 18 to 34 Hispanic women between the ages of. How many Hispanics do we have on campus? How many blacks do we have on campus? How many, how many, how many? It's constantly segregating. And, you know, they'll do it with penguins or they'll do it with people. That's the process of it. You know what I mean? And so they naturally go into that. It's like a default setting for them. What group are you in? Okay, heterosexual. Okay, good. What's your okay between the age of. Okay, go over there and then where are you? And then once we've segregated everyone, we're like, okay, how do we get the. We'll get the gay lesbian community over here. And then there's a Latina whatever, and then there's the trans. And they're constantly doing that, which is a mistake. And I think they're starting to kind of figure it out, but they can't help themselves.

[Alicia Krause]

I think that they really need to clean house. And I hate to give advice to Democrats, but I think that they need to clean house. From the Ilhan Omar's radical SJP types to the part of the LGBTQ community that doesn't want this to the trans stuff, it's just. It's too extreme. And I think that conservatives are just consistently responding to it, but they also need to be careful to not just always be responding and to be planning ahead.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Neil McDonough]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

I have a clip of Biden which you've not seen, but it's my favorite. But my favorite things are the ones that kind of slide under the radar of life.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

And they're not. You know, everyone has seen footage of him falling, trying to get up the stairs of Air Force One.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep. Or the one where he was at the. What was it, the G7 summit. And like all of the world leaders are trying to guide him to the spot and he's just like staring off into the distance like he's a toddler.

[Adam Carolla]

Cheap fake. Cheap fake. That was edited. So now that's the one that catches everyone's eye. The thing that's always funny, too is when he fell on the stairs, they were like. It was very windy that day. Well, I don't want the wind to be able to knock over the leader of the free world.

[Alicia Krause]

I would agree to that.

[Adam Carolla]

But anyway, it's very windy.

[Alicia Krause]

Give the guy some more and sure put some weight on him.

[Adam Carolla]

So. But there's a clip that I love and I haven't really played it since all the Biden stuff came out, but it's more under the heading. It's not gaffes and stutters and he's not disoriented, but clearly he's saying something that he does not know what it means or what motivated it. Somebody told him, talk about this.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, Lord.

[Adam Carolla]

And because it makes no sense to anyone, I've ran it by hundreds of people. No one knows what he's talking about. And what it declares to me is he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's more the handlers just tell him what to say. And so people are saying, who was running the White House, who's the guy with the auto pan? And blah, blah, blah. Well, this clip, when you see it through the lens of what you know, today will be Biden speaking about something that makes no sense. And he doesn't know what he's saying. But he doesn't. What I'm saying is when people are alert and they start saying something that doesn't make sense, they end up catching themselves and sort of explaining typically Most people that sort of go, you know, they'll do a thing where they'll go like. Well, my. They'll go like, my mom is older than my dad. Oh, wait, my dad's older than my mom. Sorry. They'll do that kind of thing.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, he did that. He couldn't catch himself in those mistakes in the interview with the FBI. Right. Like the special prosecutor.

[Adam Carolla]

No, that was awesome.

[Alicia Krause]

Do you remember the year his son died?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Although, I gotta tell you, I don't have a lot of sympathy for Joe. Cause I think he's a race hustler and a liar. And he's.

[Alicia Krause]

It's been his M.O. for a really long time.

[Adam Carolla]

I am with him on the dates. I am. People go, when did you guys start the man show? I'm like, maybe 96, 98. No, probably early 90s, late 90s, you know. And they'll go, when did you start loveline? I go, 97.

[Alicia Krause]

Let me call doctor. Let's see.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm far. Yeah, Yeah. I don't know. But I don't pay attention.

[Alicia Krause]

And I get it. Like, Ben Shapiro said the same thing. My husband is not the person that books flights for the family. We're planning summer vacations now. It's almost officially summer. And, like, I'm the mom. I do that. I have all those dates in my head. Social Security numbers, yada, yada. I get that. But I am just saying I can tell you how old I was when my grandfather died. Like when I lost my first grandparent. Heaven forbid, knock on wood. It never happens. I were to lose a more immediate family member, I think I'd remember the year in which they died. Yeah, right. And so also because he made it a campaign talking point for so long.

[Adam Carolla]

No, listen, again, I'm not defending him. He was addled. He's an addled old man, dates or not. All right, but this is the one. This is my favorite. Because it makes no sense. And he doesn't know it makes no sense. And somebody told him to say it.

[Unnamed Speaker]

The Department of Transportation is working on rules that would require airlines and travel sites to disclose fees up front. Fees like things. If you want to sit next to your young child, well, guess what? Or check your baggage. Or change your ticket. You're going to be surprised they're going to charge you for that without telling you your ticket's going to cost a heck of a lot more. And that's not a Federal Communications Commission. They're working on a rule that would make the same thing for fees that Internet companies all Right.

[Adam Carolla]

You pause it. This is not the clip we have in the computer that I run 27 times. But it's another clip. But that's okay. We'll keep playing it.

[Neil McDonough]

It's not in the computer.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it isn't?

[Neil McDonough]

We are having to relocate it.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. I know. Must be somewhere weird.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay, can we talk about how awkward.

[Adam Carolla]

Those people, though, look behind him, everyone behind Joe, just. I would be more comfortable wearing a Klan hood.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, my goodness.

[Adam Carolla]

Than I would with whatever was on my face when he was talking. All right, that's just me. Here we go.

[Unnamed Speaker]

The Department of Transportation is working on rules that would require airlines and travel sites to disclose fees up front. Fees like things if you want to sit next to your young child.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, it must be further into this thing because, I don't know, it's something I played that I thought was on the computer, like 70. So I don't know where it is, but you can go ahead. Just keep playing it.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And that's not a Federal Communications Commission. They're working on a rule that would make the same thing for fees that Internet companies charge, requiring them to show those costs up front. I'm not saying they can't charge it, but you got to let you know they're going to charge it. You can make a decision. Some airlines, if you want six mile, here it is between you and the seat in front. You pay more money, but you don't know it until you purchase your ticket.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, now pause. I sit in this next room, and I make travel plans all the time. And I just sit with my assistant, and I go, what's first class? Salt Lake City? And she goes, this much? And I go, okay, what's coach? She goes, that much? And I go, what about. They have Coach plus? Yeah. How much is it? $87 more. What do you get? You get priority baggage. You get the space above your head. You get six inch of knee. It's like, extra 87 bucks. Yeah. How long's the flight? And she's just sitting on her computer. I have no idea. What. Do you know what he's saying?

[Alicia Krause]

No. Did he say, like, there's you can buy the seats in front of you or that you don't know if the seat's in front of? Like, he's saying, I'll run it.

[Adam Carolla]

Go back 10 seconds and you'll tell me if this makes any sense to anyone living in modern America, but you.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Don'T know it until.

[Adam Carolla]

Wait, go back another 10. Sorry, go ahead.

[Unnamed Speaker]

You put more inches between you and the Seat in front, you pay more.

[Adam Carolla]

Go back a little more. Just a little. All right, here we go.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Saying they can't charge it, but you got to let you know they're going to charge it. You can make a decision. Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money, but you don't know it until you purchase your ticket. Look, folks, these are junk fees. They're unfair and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low income folks. And people of color.

[Adam Carolla]

And people of color different than low income.

[Alicia Krause]

There it is.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the race hustle that we miss so much. But it's not just. This doesn't affect poor people. It affects poor people. And black people who may be wealthy. Like this would affect Julius Irving and this would affect Jay Z and Beyonce because while they're not poor and they're.

[Alicia Krause]

On their private jet, they are black.

[Adam Carolla]

And this would fight because when you're working the computer for United Airlines, you would have to ask if this was a black person that was trying to book these tickets.

[Alicia Krause]

Also, it makes no sense at all. You can see what seats are taken. You can see the price of the seat even. Am I allowed to say what I think the worst airline in the world is or is that not something that I can say?

[Adam Carolla]

Go ahead. Avelo, They're a sponsor.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, they're giving me.

[Adam Carolla]

Really? This has been brought to you by Avelo Airlines.

[Alicia Krause]

They're giving me real cheap flights to bend this summer with our family. But you literally have to. You can only have a backpack that's actually smaller than the average backpack. Or they will charge you like $80 to carry on a backpack. Like, but it is very clear in every step of the booking process we're going to charge you for that. I want to take a shit every.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. Okay. I'm circling back, but I do feel like I need to defend a Velo Airlines in that. And I want to say this to everybody.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

You brought up Home Depot earlier. I've said this before, but it bears repeating. You can go into Home Depot and you can get a sheet of half inch CDX. Good. One side, four by ply. For 26 bucks.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Or you can go up the street to the Anahwalt lumber and you can pay $39. Right. And you go. So then sometimes people go into the Anahalt lumber and they'll go, what? $39. I can get it for 26 bucks over at home. Right. But at Anwalt, the guy works there is Going to tell you you should go with OSB instead of CDX ply. It's going to be better if you're doing shear wall because he's a carpenter. Like, he knows what he's doing.

[Alicia Krause]

He knows all the details. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And they're going to put it on the forklift. They're going to bring it over to your car and they're going to help you load it. So you have a choice. If it's nothing but savings, then go to the Home Depot, get a cart, schlep it over and do it. And I do that. And that's fine. It's cheaper. But do not complain when the more boutique place that has better service and more experience charges you for that.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, I'm typically team. I like corporations that innovate and make money and give people jobs. So I'm totally fine with it. But.

[Adam Carolla]

And my thing is, like, I fly Southwest all the time. You know what you're getting? It's 89 bucks to Phoenix. Suck it up.

[Alicia Krause]

But now they're doing the. They have, like, designated seating.

[Adam Carolla]

I like. I like it. But I'm saying jet suite X is on the table. It's just $489 instead of $89. And I get to make that decision. But what I don't get to do is go on the Southwest flight and start complaining that there's not enough knee room because I'm choosing Southwest. This.

[Alicia Krause]

He's insane.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, run it back one more time. Just bombs like. Now you see it through the lens of Joe Biden not knowing what he's saying and somebody loading up a prompter. Now the question is, is who could possibly put this into a prompter?

[Alicia Krause]

Or is he.

[Adam Carolla]

Or is he free balling it?

[Alicia Krause]

I think he's freeballing. I think he's free balling.

[Adam Carolla]

He's ad libbing. All right, here we go.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Cost up front. I'm not saying they can't charge it, but you got to let you know they're going to charge it. You can make a decision. Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money.

[Adam Carolla]

Hold on. I got another carpentry thing.

[Alicia Krause]

I love the carpentry analysis.

[Adam Carolla]

I have two problems. I have problems with people that point the wrong direction. This has been discussed. I'm out in Malibu now. You're pointing towards Simi Valley. Don't do it. You're pointing the wrong direction. You're pointing toward Vegas.

[Alicia Krause]

You and my husband would get along really well, and I don't like it.

[Adam Carolla]

And I also don't like the Biden's up there. He's like, you want an extra 6 inches of leg? That's 19 inches. You're holding your hands too far apart for 6 inches, by the way. Look down. I'll show you. What, six inches. This is six inches. Not this. Your hands are too wide. Okay, I'm nitpicking, but here we go.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Until you purchase your ticket. Look, folks, these are junk fees. They're unfair and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low income folks and people of color.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so let's stop it. It's marginalized. So let's just break this down.

[Alicia Krause]

It's marginalized people of color.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, no, it's low income as well.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, it's three different groups.

[Adam Carolla]

So you could be low income and this would hit you hard because obviously more money for you and your limited income is a big deal. But what if you were marginalized? Like you were gay?

[Alicia Krause]

I guess. Do pregnant people count as marginalized?

[Adam Carolla]

Not to them. No, no, no.

[Alicia Krause]

Pregnant dudes, pregnant people, but not pregnant women.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Marginalized would be gay, trans and something. And then there would be the people of color, which is a third group. People think I'm talking about nothing. This is what this guy does all day, is divide everybody. He just said this costs more to do this thing. He doesn't need to go hits these people harder. All of these parking tickets hit poor people harder than rich people.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes, but also your license plate in the state of California costs you more as a rich person because you're more likely to have a fancy car. Yeah, like there is a balance. I mean, the lottery hits is a tax that hits poor people harder. But he's not anti that. Last I checked.

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, I just can't believe. I actually feel like we don't have to. But if I watch this video like a couple more times, I can tell you exactly where he goes off prompter and where he goes back on prompt.

[Neil McDonough]

I was just going to say that that Last sentence is 100% on prompt.

[Alicia Krause]

You can tell that that was the staff written one. And him pretending like he's ever flown commercial for the last 20 years and being like the six inches that's him going off.

[Adam Carolla]

Also in the pantheon of a wide open border, a failing school system, and horrible infrastructure, where does commercial flight in nice space and 49 extra dollars for folks that are flying commercially, how does that impact. First off, the poorest Americans don't fly. They just don't fly. Yeah, they're poor. They don't fly.

[Alicia Krause]

There's a lot of Americans that don't go on business trips.

[Adam Carolla]

There's many, many Americans that don't fly. No, it's really the people that do all the flying is like the same two do people flying constantly.

[Alicia Krause]

And how come they don't do a better job putting their shit through the TSA line when I'm there?

[Adam Carolla]

You know what, you make a fine point. So it's marginalized, it's low income, and it's people of color.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Who need to be separated from marginalized and low income. You could be a rich person of color, but this would affect you. Oh, it's true, but it doesn't really explain how it would impact someone who was of color and rich.

[Alicia Krause]

Can we find out who had the auto pen and who wrote these horrible speeches?

[Adam Carolla]

I want to hear it one more time. And I just want you to tell me when he gets off or goes back to the. I don't mean the whole thing doesn't. Sorry. Yes. When he goes back to the prompter.

[Unnamed Speaker]

He'S charged, requiring them to show those costs up front. I'm not saying they can't charge it, but you got to let you know they're going to charge it. You can make a decision.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money, but you don't know it until you purchase.

[Alicia Krause]

There he goes back to prompter.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Look, folks, these are junk fees. They're unfair and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low income folks and people of color.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so it's interesting he didn't need the prompter to do the race baiting that he just ends everything with marginalized people of color. Marginalized people of color.

[Alicia Krause]

But I think that that part was like on. On prompter. I think he says definitely on prompter. He does the filler joke.

[Neil McDonough]

That sentence too well constructed.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, the reason.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, hold on a second. I will say that, but I'll give the devil his due. He has said that so many times. Like he works. He wakes up in the morning and goes, marginalized in people of color. No, I was only doing it because normally they have those prompter windows on the right and then they switch to the left and he went down the middle. That's why I didn't do it. But who. The. The point is, we have no idea what he's saying to this day.

[Alicia Krause]

Also, but did he have prostate cancer there?

[Adam Carolla]

Even if I knew what he was saying, it would not impact anybody in America. It is not in anyone's top 700 items.

[Alicia Krause]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Okay. Knee room. Also, everybody is down with the concept of, would you like to sit in an exit or emergency row or something and get a little extra bulkhead and get some extra knee room?

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

That's all anyone does all day when they book flights.

[Alicia Krause]

And if the plane goes down, are you willing to accept, you know, they give you that, Please look me in the eyes and say, yes, you can.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

By the way, they don't let pregnant people sit in the exit row, so that's another marginalized group. Yay. Pregnant people can be marginalized.

[Adam Carolla]

Who is marginalized?

[Alicia Krause]

Gay, lesbian, probably Satanists, but not Christians or Jews.

[Adam Carolla]

It must be rough being Asian about now, because you don't get any group anymore.

[Alicia Krause]

I mean, they were kept out of Harvard for a really long time.

[Adam Carolla]

That's what I'm saying. They're not marginalized. Even though they are marginalized, they're not black or brown communities.

[Alicia Krause]

They don't qualify to the left as.

[Adam Carolla]

They don't really qualify for anything. So I'm just gonna carve out Asian right now. I'm gonna put marginalized. More about your sexuality and lifestyle.

[Alicia Krause]

That makes sense.

[Adam Carolla]

And I'm gonna put low income. I'm just gonna put the Corollas in there. I'm just gonna say put my family in there. And then people of color is mostly black, but could be Hispanic, but not.

[Alicia Krause]

Asian, and definitely not. If you voted for Trump, if you're in the people of color group and you voted for Trump, then you're totally out.

[Adam Carolla]

That is correct.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. Now, I would if I was trying to help out the folks on the left in the dude department.

[Alicia Krause]

Mm.

[Adam Carolla]

I've been obsessed with the way progressive guys cross their legs. They cross their legs like women. And if you watch Trudeau and if you watch Obama did it, if you watch them all, they all do the signal. It's like I'm presenting to you who I am. Now. My favorite picture is Trump, because Trump holds his knees 22 inches apart and then creates a diamond with his hands, his thumb, and his forefinger and then holds it in front of his crotch to accentuate his nut sack.

[Alicia Krause]

I've literally never noticed that before. This is like, a key difference between men and women right here, by the way.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So what Trudeau does. First things first. I am telling you, I have, and I'm not bragging, but a fairly prodigious nut sack. I cannot sit for longer than 10 seconds with my legs crossed as hard as Trudeau crosses his without cutting the blood off, my nuts will fall asleep.

[Alicia Krause]

This is why you book first class.

[Adam Carolla]

This is why I need a bulkhead. I literally, when I make fun of guys who sit that way, I'll throw my leg over. I last for four seconds. It's too painful. I have to throw my leg back over the other side. Trudeau does it. And when he does it, he exposes his colorful socks, which is him presenting to a crowd who he is and how he votes. And if you watch, if you see Trudeau do it, he's a hard cross. Now, the harder you are to the left, the harder you cross, the more.

[Alicia Krause]

Dramatic you are about the crossing of the lane.

[Adam Carolla]

You cross harder, there's a little room, a little wiggle room. I sit. When I cross my legs, I put my ankle on top of my kneecap and swing it wide open.

[Alicia Krause]

That's not crossing your leg. That's a hip flexor.

[Adam Carolla]

That's a hip flex. I do not. I would never dream of trying to fold a leg over. It's signaling to the world, I have no balls. I am ball less.

[Alicia Krause]

It does seem, you know how they say, like sometimes when, like the first date advice is like, oh, if somebody's talking to you and they mimic your mannerisms and that means that they like you. I feel like this is like them as men almost taking the little dog approach.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

Even if. It's just like, even if they don't recognize it, they are taking a, like a. You are the dominant. Like in that photo. Trump looks like the dominant person in the photo.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. Well, he. He's the alpha. He's a dude.

[Alicia Krause]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

Trudeau has no nutsack. And he's down with the lgbt. He's down with the trans community. I don't have nutsack either.

[Alicia Krause]

He's like a Ken doll.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? That's what he's saying.

[Alicia Krause]

Obama was the very first, I think, world leader to rock the girl cross, the lay cross.

[Adam Carolla]

And Obama, which we're looking at now, he actually has his cross legged knee further past. He's way crossed up. Right. And then I started thinking about, so what they're doing. What they don't know they're doing is they're sort of signaling. They're going, here's. I know you cross your legs. I know how you vote. I know. I know where you're down. I know what you think about almost every subject.

[Alicia Krause]

I said this to all of my single girlfriends.

[Adam Carolla]

Be like, be, watch out for the leg crossers.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, it's not even just how they vote. It is that submissive thing.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

And, like, you want a relationship where there's equality, but you don't want a relationship as a woman where you have to make, like, all the decisions and wear the pants and make the run to Home Depot. That's the dude's job.

[Adam Carolla]

It is. Then I see James Comey on Colbert and Comey's got the chick leg cross, too.

[Alicia Krause]

Did he always have that or did he just start?

[Adam Carolla]

I've been around long enough to remember. Now, I will say this. I'm gonna be up front. There are a handful of organic leg crossing dudes. Organic, Okay. A handful. It's a small percentage. I'm not proud to say it, but Dr. Drew is a chick leg crosser and he was back in 96. And I remember going, what's going on with your legs? Crossing my legs like a chick. Like a chick. Like, I made a big deal out of it because I never saw it. No one would ever go on Johnny Carson and do that kind of leg cross as a dude.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, no.

[Adam Carolla]

Milton Berle couldn't have pulled that off. Point is, is it's now a thing. Just like a bunch of rope bracelets. Just like Bruce Springsteen with his one earring. No women can wear bracelets. It's men.

[Alicia Krause]

My beaded mom bracelet with my rope bracelet.

[Adam Carolla]

You're a woman. You're a woman. Women wear bracelets. Men do not wear bracelets.

[Alicia Krause]

What about necklaces for men?

[Adam Carolla]

None of it. There's no room for any jewelry, even.

[Alicia Krause]

If it's like a rosary or a saint or a name or something.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm gonna carve out one exception.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Jeff Probst from Survivor.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

That guy pulls off a choker. That guy can pull a choker off like nobody. Nobody.

[Alicia Krause]

He's allowed. Is he also allowed to cross his legs? Is he in, like a super.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm convinced that guy does not age because of the choker. The blood never gets out of his head. You know what I mean? It never gets out of his head. Bruce has got a bunch of bracelets now. Bruce. Oh, the boss. Yeah, he's got all his rope bracelets. And by the way, they make sure and present. They roll their sleeve back and they go, hey, see all my bracelets. Watch me cross my legs and then view all of my bracelets. I'm going to take a picture where I roll my sleeve down. I'm presenting. This is how I do it. I'm submissive now. You know where I'm at. Okay. Okay. So that's where we're at. Comey. They all do it now.

[Alicia Krause]

It's so interesting.

[Adam Carolla]

There's no way men's hips or nut sacks evolved in the last 20 years. Physiologically. It's a mental thing. It's an emotional mental thing. And so you are gonna go on Colbert. You may not even talk about politics, but let's let Colbert in the audience know where I come down, where I'm coming from, where I'm coming from. Let me roll my sleeve up.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Flash some cloth bracelets and then take my one knee and mash it over my other knee in a super uncomfortable position. That position was only invented because chicks wore mini skirts on talk shows and couldn't show off the hoo ha because they're up on a riser.

[Alicia Krause]

You're supposed to do the, like. What I'm trying to do now is like the little princess thing. Like the Princess Kate. It was like the royal. It's like you put the knees together and then you slightly tilt your legs to the side. Like. Like, foot over ankle. That is what you're supposed to do. Because even cross leg.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

I mean, maybe not if you're a Kar Jenner, but if you're any other woman in the world, you get a little cellulite.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

And a little bit too much leg when you do the cross.

[Adam Carolla]

What you're talking about with the knees together, the foot over the other foot.

[Alicia Krause]

It's like the princess.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's your new side saddle. Ladies used to ride side saddle because they were ladies.

[Alicia Krause]

It's the modern side saddle.

[Adam Carolla]

The modern side saddle.

[Alicia Krause]

There you go. But I like the Princess Kate.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, Trump goes western. Oh, he goes western with a big sash.

[Alicia Krause]

Now that you said the thing about the diamond shape around his crotch, I can't unhear it. And I'm just gonna see it every single time I see a photo of him.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, when he sits down with Trudeau, he's like, I don't wanna be mistaken for this Quimby. So I'm just gonna thread my knees out, make a diamond with my hands, and draw focus to my nut sack.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, Lord.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, let's see. Do you have news?

[Alicia Krause]

I do have some news.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we'll do some of that.

[Alicia Krause]

All right. Speaking of the man woman nut sack, this is applicable. I've been paying attention to this story on Instagram for a while. Alliance Defending Freedom is representing a Christian camp in Colorado. Idrahaji is the name of the camp. It stands for I'd rather have Jesus, and it's a Christian camp.

[Adam Carolla]

There acronym.

[Alicia Krause]

The age is. Are between 6 and 17. And it served Colorado families of faith. And they say that they actually accept people of all backgrounds, but they have to be okay with them, you know, identifying, like, girls as girls and boys as boys because they have separate sleeping. Right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Alicia Krause]

And the camp filed a complaint in federal court back a couple weeks ago challenging new state licensing rules issued by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood that allegedly required children's resident camps to permit campers access to bathing, dressing, and sleeping facilities that align with the camper's gender identity. So the camp essentially is getting shut down by the state because they don't pay attention to the First Amendment.

[Adam Carolla]

What the fuck happened to Colorado? Colorado used to be a normal place, like home of Coors and John Denver, you know what I mean? And then they fucking broke hard. Something happened.

[Alicia Krause]

Was it the legalization of pot?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. But it's why you have an out of control homeless problem and a crime problem and why you're ruining your city. Something happened, like you could chart Minneapolis, Minnesota, Like Denver, Colorado, when I was a kid, it was just fucking Paul Bunyan and horseback riding and the Flatiron Mountain range and the Rockies and dudes and camping and hunting. And Minnesota was Bud Grant and Minnesota Vikings and stuff. And you guys went off the fucking rails in the last, like 20 years. And you've completely ruined your brand.

[Alicia Krause]

It's such a beautiful place, too. And I feel like there's lots of normal people. This is crazy, though, because under the new state policy, according to this article, the camp must choose between upholding its religious beliefs and mission or abandoning those in order to keep its license. So they could completely use their license. It gets even better. They're going to send in a regulator.

[Adam Carolla]

It's the other. First off, it's more academia. It's like, well, you got to send in somebody to go in and verify. Like, you don't. You can leave people. You can leave people alone.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

There could be a Boy Scouts and there can be a Girl Scouts, and then boys could join the Boy Scouts and girls could join the Girl Scouts and then we'll be done. We don't need. We do not need to tear everything down.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, apparently. I mean, honestly. And I think the ADF is arguing that, like, this is just in complete violation of their First Amendment rights because they're going to have a licensed specialist that would visit the camps to make sure that they're in compliance with letting boys sleep with girls and girls sleep with boys.

[Adam Carolla]

Colorado's a place where they had the masterpiece cake baker. Guy and they went in, they wanted the gay cake and then they wanted the trans cake. And then it had to go to the Supreme Court. And you had to destroy a small business because a bunch of nutjobs went in there and filed lawsuits against it. And you guys were all down with it. And it went all the way to the Supreme Court. You guys, I don't know what happened with Colorado, but you fuckers lost it. You've lost it. I don't know why you'd want to go down this road. All it does is ruin cities and.

[Alicia Krause]

Ruin states or shut down a camp that's existed for 70 years and like service thousands of children. And they also. The camp was very clear. They were like, you do not have to identify as Judeo Christian person to send your child to camp here. You just have to say, like, we will separate boys and girls. I don't see how this is a problem.

[Adam Carolla]

Getting back to our initial conversation. When you talk to dudes, they want to go to the garage and wrench on their projects or go hunting or they want to do stuff, you know what I mean? And you go, how about you spend all your time trying to ruin some Christian camp? And they go, I don't, I don't care.

[Alicia Krause]

Not a priority.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to go work on stuff.

[Alicia Krause]

But if you tell the cross legged.

[Adam Carolla]

The lake crossing, they don't have hobbies. Their hobby is getting involved with your shit.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Their hobby is ruining your stuff. They don't have their own stuff. That's what I'm saying.

[Alicia Krause]

No, it's true.

[Adam Carolla]

Most guys, any guy I know who's a rancher or builder or whatever, all they want to do is be left alone to work on their stuff. They have no interest. What you do in your camp, that's your business. It's your camp. Their business is getting involved with other people's business. That's their hobby.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. They have to get in the way of it. All.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Alicia Krause]

Of the parents, of the religion.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. They can't have it.

[Alicia Krause]

Of the individual, yes. Must listen to the state.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Alicia Krause]

So this one's kind of interesting. Are you an Epstein didn't kill himself person?

[Adam Carolla]

I tend not to believe a lot of the stuff I've been hearing lately because it's all turned out to be a lie.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

But I do look at Kash Patel and Bongino's pretty straight shooters. So I feel like if they came down on the side of suicide, I would tend to listen to them more than I would listen to, let's say, Jake Tapper.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, we can take a listen. So they. They. They actually came down on the side of suicide.

[Adam Carolla]

And we.

[Alicia Krause]

We. We have a clip right here.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Epstein committed suicide.

[Adam Carolla]

People don't believe it. Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion.

[Alicia Krause]

But as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who's.

[Adam Carolla]

Been in that prison system, who's been.

[Alicia Krause]

In the metropolitan detention center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide.

[Adam Carolla]

When you see one, and that's what that was.

[Unnamed Speaker]

He killed himself Again, you want me to.

[Adam Carolla]

I've seen the whole file.

[Unnamed Speaker]

He killed himself.

[Adam Carolla]

So I believe. I would tend to believe Bongino. I do not know Cash Patel that well, but I would tend to believe him. On the other hand, the fact that nothing ever comes out about anything to do with Epstein is a little curious.

[Alicia Krause]

Well, I get why conspiracy theories develop because it's like the lack of transparency. That's what you're saying.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, what I'm saying is this is one of the biggest. I mean, look, we're now getting everything that P. Diddy did and every celebrity that showed up, and we're getting all the testimonials, all the victim statements all the time. We could fill case files.

[Alicia Krause]

You know that there's people that think that Diddy and Epstein were connected too. That's another conspiracy theory.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I'm saying if you are a male porn star that goes by the handle of the Punisher or something, you may get called into court, exposed testimony, what have you. But Bill Clinton is different than that guy. There's an apparatus that's there to protect, like the Clintons, let's say. So he was not involved with P. Diddy, per se, but he may have been involved with Epstein. And Epstein is where the apparatus is. We don't have that apparatus protecting us.

[Alicia Krause]

And so now there's people like on the right, the far right, and part of the MAGA movement that are mad at Bongino and Cash Patel for saying this. And they're saying that the apparatus got to them. Do you think the apparatus got to them or do you think. I mean, honestly, I didn't. But then seeing that clip of Bongino again, he does kind of look like a little deer in the headlights.

[Adam Carolla]

I will say this, I will say that I think of myself as a fairly upright guy. I'm not a liar and a blah, blah, blah. But I can tell you sort of morally when you go, well, listen, I like this country and I'm a blue collar guy and I think we should bring manufacturing back to this country. And I'm all for that. And then someone goes, all right, well, you're doing merch, right? And I go, yeah, well, if we do your T shirt in Indiana, it's going to be $31 a unit. I'm like, okay, we do China, it's $4 a unit.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All of a sudden I'm not so. Not quite as patriotic as I was five minutes earlier. I'm like, oh, really? Oh, so I do get that when people say to somebody, listen, you say this and it's gonna cause a shitstorm the likes of which you've never seen. And there's some guys you like that may get caught up in this. And it may also. It's a kind of a look, you have an agenda, you're doing great things. You really wanna upset that and stop doing all the great things you're doing and blah, blah, blah.

[Alicia Krause]

So you're on the side of the apparatus, thought to them.

[Adam Carolla]

People make business decisions, you see it all the time. And it doesn't really make you immoral necessarily. It is a business decision. Everybody who manufactures something in China started off by wanting to manufacture something in the United States and then found out.

[Alicia Krause]

How much expensive it was.

[Adam Carolla]

And then all of a sudden they kind of. Then they start making deals. They go, well, you know, I have employees and I gotta pay them. And you know, if I've charged 31 a unit, I'm not gonna have as much to pay them. And you start making concessions.

[Alicia Krause]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

So yeah, I'm open to that. I don't even really hold it against the person because nine and a half out of 10 people would do what.

[Alicia Krause]

They do if they were in that same position. I think that's where you get the keyboard warriors that are conspiratorial online.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

Hello. In the comments that if they were in the same position, they would probably do the same thing Cash and Bongino are doing. Right.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm saying, I would say, look, I'm going into this position, full transparency. I'm only gonna tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. But at some point, Trump might pull you aside and go, look on this issue with the diamond, with the diamond in front of his nut sack. Sit down.

[Alicia Krause]

I'm never forgetting that.

[Adam Carolla]

Now let me just dust off my diamond.

[Alicia Krause]

Every time.

[Adam Carolla]

Here we go. Focus on the diamond. Yeah. Everyone is luck.

[Alicia Krause]

So you say that you're an honest person. Have you ever pretended to work when you weren't working?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's the next story.

[Alicia Krause]

Uh huh.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I have a problem, which was my work was. If you work construction, which is what.

[Alicia Krause]

I did, it's pretty obvious if you're.

[Adam Carolla]

Not working, there is no not working. Because you're standing there and then you get yelled at. You just get yelled at. You need to be moving. If you just stop and you're just standing in the site, someone will yell at you, get going.

[Alicia Krause]

Be like that Drywall was supposed to be a.

[Adam Carolla]

There's no. You can't stand in the middle of a construction site not doing anything and go, I am working. You can't do any. You can't do it. And so the problem with first things, everyone with their goddamn phone. It's down 20% just with the phone.

[Alicia Krause]

Okay. But also I think so there's this new ghost working trend. This is from the New York Post. And it's a lot of employees that they're actually saying that they're burned out. And the reason why they pretend to work at work is because they feel like a boss is either on one extreme or micromanaging them or on the other extreme doesn't give them enough direction. But you're right, it's not a job that is like a craft, like carpentry or dentistry or something very specific. It's an office job. Sometimes in remote places, I'm trying to.

[Adam Carolla]

Think how much lateral fake work movement I've ever had, which is to say, first, work the Grill at McDonald's. Next, me and Kamala would work the grill. Gotta make sure Studio City McDonald's. Gotta make sure there's zero fakeage there. You're standing there, they start yelling at you. If you weren't putting up the horses.

[Alicia Krause]

Honking the horns in the drive through line.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, we didn't have a drive through, actually.

[Alicia Krause]

Really?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

Where was that location?

[Adam Carolla]

It was the one in Studio. Oh, I don't know. Talk to my press secretary. It was the one in Studio City. That is now gone.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah. Because I don't think I've ever seen one.

[Adam Carolla]

It was right off of Ventura Boulevard.

[Alicia Krause]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

Between Coldwater and Laurel Canyon. Oh, sorry. Between Colfax and Laurel Canyon. And it was up in Studio City.

[Alicia Krause]

That was probably hoppin' it was the.

[Adam Carolla]

Kind of one of the earlier. Eh, there wasn't a lot. There was one further down, more like Sherman Oaks, Encino area. But this was there. It was a new mall. Now I think there's like a Trader Joe's there and a something something.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, it's where the Sephora and the Trader Joe's and the Mendocino Farms and stuff are.

[Adam Carolla]

I wouldn't know where the Sephora was, but.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes, well, because I'm a person who crosses my legs. I do.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. So.

[Alicia Krause]

So you're saying you're honest and every job you've had is very, like, hands on.

[Adam Carolla]

I had that job and then I had liquor store delivery guy. But that was another thing where you couldn't fake it because they'd give you the couple cases of booze and you have to take it somewhere. And it's like they would call if you want.

[Alicia Krause]

They're like, where's my booze?

[Adam Carolla]

Right, right. So I did that. Then I did carpet cleaning. Now, carpet cleaning you could not work because we would do restaurants and we would have to do restaurants in the middle of the night.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, they wouldn't know. I mean, I feel like you would notice.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's a built in problem with carpet cleaning. Like a fundamental problem.

[Alicia Krause]

The before and after.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, like the.

[Alicia Krause]

And the smell, probably.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You'd go into the hamburger hamlet in Westwood and you'd clean the carpet. Or the country kitchen or wherever we do Tony Romas. You know, we do really greasy, crappy food places. So you can tell the difference between clean carpet and horrible dirty carpet, which would be coming out of the kitchen all greasy. It was a mess. But I got dropped off in the middle of the night because it would close and I'd be there all night. But I could sit in a booth and do nothing for an hour, but the carpet wasn't gonna get cleaned.

[Alicia Krause]

Or you could do the job and then, like, take a nap after.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

I mean, like, you could try to.

[Adam Carolla]

The problem is it's. If you work nonstop, you'd already get out of there. 2:30 in the morning.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Or you could sit down for a half hour and get out at three.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But you didn't really want to hang out because you wanted to go home because it was like the middle of the night.

[Alicia Krause]

It's a better place to sleep at home.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So I was motivated. Plus, I couldn't tell Art Fuss, my manager.

[Alicia Krause]

Is that a comedy name or was that really his name?

[Adam Carolla]

Art Fuss.

[Alicia Krause]

That sounds like a sitcom character name.

[Adam Carolla]

He's the greatest. And if he dropped you off to clean the Pizza Hut in Pasadena and you told him it took five hours, he'd go, that's an hour and a half. Cause he knew what size the Pizza Hut was.

[Alicia Krause]

I appreciate bosses like that that actually know how long a job will take because they worked their way up right.

[Adam Carolla]

In the carpet cleaning world. It's pretty straightforward. If you got a huge place. I once cleaned Edwards Air Force Base.

[Alicia Krause]

Whoa.

[Adam Carolla]

Whoa. That is like terminals, acreage.

[Alicia Krause]

Whoa.

[Adam Carolla]

Just acres. Just acres of carpet as far as you could see.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

That was like a 12 hour day. Cause Art knew that was Edwards Air Force Base. But if they dropped you off at the Colony Kitchen, he knew how big it was.

[Alicia Krause]

90 minutes.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Two hours maybe. But you weren't gonna milk it past two hours.

[Alicia Krause]

So we've made it very clear that, like your listeners that are doing real.

[Adam Carolla]

Work, not often construction, then it was construction. And when you're digging ditches, you're either digging ditches or you're not digging ditches. A foreman's just standing there. If you're just standing there, he's gonna start yelling at you.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And then he would fire you. And then later on, I became a boxing coach, but that was the same thing. It was like an hour long class. Couldn't really fake teaching an hour long boxing class.

[Alicia Krause]

And then somebody might punch you in the face if they didn't feel like they were getting their money's worth.

[Adam Carolla]

And then radio. But radio, you had to be there and you had to talk and stuff. And then tv. About the closest I could get but on TV is we had an office. Me and Jimmy shared a big office. And I loved napping.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, good papa.

[Adam Carolla]

I loved nap. Yeah, but it was totally frowned on back then. But see, I worked nights and then I'd come home at 12:30 at night and I'd go to bed at 1:30, maybe 2, and I'd get up and come into the man show. And at like three in the afternoon I was like, I wanna take a nap.

[Alicia Krause]

That post lunch slump too.

[Adam Carolla]

Post lunch slump. And back then, now you're virtuous. Like, oh, the science says not. Back then you were just lazy and a pussy. And I would like slink out. Like I'd go like, I'm gonna go check out the stage or something. But I would go into my dressing room and I would take a 20 minute nap.

[Alicia Krause]

Do you ever get caught?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah, they'd come looking for me.

[Alicia Krause]

That's so funny.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I used to sneak into my producers. Had a couple of lady producers that had a sofa and I'd sneak into their office, just let me lay down for a time. But they'd come looking for me.

[Alicia Krause]

I do have to admit I have not done what 23% of people say that they did. They walked around the office with a notebook to look busy, to look like they're headed somewhere. Right. 22% said that they would randomly type gibberish on their keyboards.

[Adam Carolla]

I have found. Well, I appreciate that because I had basically two modes I had working, which is all construction, it's just work. And occasionally you had to look like you're working. If somebody turned the corner and you weren't working, you had to get kind of busy, you know what I mean? But I've realized the new generation doesn't care what you think if they're working or not. Maybe, and maybe it's a California thing, But I remember so vividly I was leaving here on a Thursday at like 11 in the morning and I had one of my guys, I literally had my bags and was heading to the airport to work over the weekend and I had Mike August out there in the Uber and he had his bag and I'm having. I was like walking out of this building and I looked at one of my guys who was sitting in this office with this chair and I just go, what are you doing? He goes, playing video games. And I go, I am walking out of the building, never to be seen again. I'm getting on a flight, gonna pay a little extra for knee rooms. I didn't know it. I didn't know it until I got back. Thank God I'm not a person of color, but I was like, I'm walking out the door. All you had to do is pretend like you're doing something on your computer. You don't have to tell me you're playing a video game.

[Alicia Krause]

He was honest.

[Adam Carolla]

People do a lot of that. Yeah, yeah. The guy killed the coeds, but he confessed, so good enough, right? Good dude. Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

Have you ever walked around? I've done this before. I've pretended to be on the phone when I am getting catcalled or something.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, by construction site, you mean?

[Alicia Krause]

Or skid row? Either one. Oh, no, but I'm saying, like. So apparently a whopping 50% of these people in the office have held their phones to their ears pretending to be on a phone call.

[Adam Carolla]

Look, there's a problem. There is a computer and there is a phone.

[Alicia Krause]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And the phone can be used to do work. Or the phone could be used to watch. Yeah.

[Alicia Krause]

TikTok.

[Adam Carolla]

Or pornography. Okay. But it's right there, and it's the same device.

[Alicia Krause]

And they have the privacy filters now, too, like the privacy screens.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Alicia Krause]

So you really can't always see what the person is doing when you walk by on.

[Adam Carolla]

And so now the person's on their computer. Are they working? What? Don't know. Are they looking up. Are they on Zillow? Looking up houses? I don't know. They're on their computer. The computer is either a great instrument for work or great instrument for leisure. I don't know which one it is. You could be checking your roto league on it and. Or doing the work I want you to do. I don't know. The thing about the old days when I worked on a construction site, you had a shovel. The shovel was not used for pleasure. It was not used for leisure. It was used or it wasn't. So if you set your shovel down and were just standing, they'd go, hey, pick up the shovel. But I can't yell, hey, get on the computer. Because you may be working. I don't know what you're doing. That's my point. And we don't know what you're doing. And nobody knows what you're doing. That's the problem. I see people staring at their phone all the time. I can't tell if they're working or not working.

[Alicia Krause]

They could be watching your show at work.

[Adam Carolla]

They could be watching me at work.

[Alicia Krause]

And then when their boss walks by, they're like in the comments section pretending to write a report.

[Adam Carolla]

Nobody really cares whether you catch them working or not anymore. I've realized, really, that's my experience. I grew up being paranoid that you would be caught not working. I used to. I sat on scaffolding once with a guy doing construction, who I liked. Once in a while, you'd get an English speaking guy in there. It was rare, but like, an English speaking guy. And even more rare would be, like, a guy with a sense of humor like you could actually talk to. And we sat on scaffoldings. Just. We sat on it. Cause we're up at the top near a ceiling.

[Alicia Krause]

And definitely did not cross your legs.

[Adam Carolla]

No leg crossing on a job site. And we were doing repointing work, which is tucking grout in between bricks endlessly. It's endless. It's like, picture a wall of brick that goes on for as far as you can see. And then you get this little tuck trowel. And you just sit there and you just tuck. Tuck sitting. He's tucking away. I'm tucking away. But we were talking and we were tucking.

[Alicia Krause]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And my foreman came by and yelled, hey, shut up. No talking.

[Alicia Krause]

I was like, because men can't multitask. Your foreman knew this.

[Adam Carolla]

He saw the hawk, which is the thing with the mortar on it and the tuck drowel. And we're working, but we're talking. Cause we're sitting five feet from each other. And he's doing this section, and I'm doing this section. He said, no, tuck.

[Alicia Krause]

No. Not allowed.

[Adam Carolla]

Not allowed.

[Alicia Krause]

And you're like, I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna have my own show one day.

[Adam Carolla]

One day there's gonna be something called the Internet. And on it, you will find something called podcasters. I should prove you wrong, sir.

[Alicia Krause]

You proved him wrong.

[Adam Carolla]

I did. All right. Well, that was fun. Alicia Krause. Oh, let me give you a plug.

[Alicia Krause]

Oh, thanks.

[Adam Carolla]

You can check out Newsmakers, Weekly Op Ed, The Washington examiner, YouTube. Right. Where would you like. Should people just go to your website that want to read you and hear you?

[Alicia Krause]

I know you won't check me out on Instagram because you're not on Instagram.

[Adam Carolla]

I work, baby.

[Alicia Krause]

Everybody else. Instagram is work. Instagram can be work, too.

[Adam Carolla]

I shovel, you understand? And I use my tuck trowel. But I don't do the tuck move. Justin Trudeau does. That's a different tuck move. Neil McDonough, great actor, is going to be on in his Angel Studios offering the Last Rodeo, which I've seen a lot of great clips for. Looks Real good. We'll talk to him right after this. Simply safe. Well, it's important to feel safe when you're at home. And I mean, you know, that's what people do. That's why they have smoke detectors and dogs and stuff like that. They like to feel safe. And traditional security systems, well, they, they take action after something has already happened. Like after somebody broke in. Oh, now they take action, but somebody's standing in your living room, it's too late. By then, Simplisafe is setting a new standard in home security. Simplisafe's active guard outdoor protection can help prevent break ins before they happen with AI powered cameras backed by live professional monitoring agents. They monitor your property to detect suspicious activity before a window breaks. Monitoring plans start affordably around a buck a day. We've always used Simplisafe here. They've been a huge sponsor and a great support of the show since almost day one. And I'm a fan of their product. It is Simplisafe, right, Dawson?

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[Adam Carolla]

Neal McDonough's in studio. He's I would say very recognizable actor.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Thank you, Adam.

[Adam Carolla]

Lots of movies, lots of tv. Minority Report, Walking Tall. I forgot about Walking Tall. The remake of Walking Tall and Band of Brothers and so many, so many projects. The Last Rodeos, the name of the latest film. It'll be in theaters. That'll be May 23rd. It's an angel Studios production. I just did a couple of dry bars with those guys, so I get it. I love those guys.

[Unnamed Speaker]

They're just great. They know what they're doing, they know how to advertise their projects, they know the right things to put out there. And they have that guild that votes on everything. So it's. Once you pass that guild, you know the numbers are going to do well at the box office.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's a little nerve wracking, I would say, and a little disconcerting even when you go, I just shot a stand up special. And I go, we're going to push it through the guild. And I go, how's that work? Oh, we show it to all our people and then they vote.

[Unnamed Speaker]

There's a million people in the guild now.

[Adam Carolla]

And I'm like, oh, so what if they don't like us?

[Unnamed Speaker]

They're honest.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, they're honest.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Yeah. Which is great. Which I love.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's a very interesting model and I like it. And I like the fact that these guys were sort of outsiders and they're Mormon and they're provo and they would everything Hollywood hates, which is wholesome, nice, family oriented people. Hollywood can't stand it. They're not gay, they're not trans, they're not anything. They're just good, solid citizens. And for some reason Hollywood hates those people. But they've gone out and made a business out of it.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Well, if you go way back, you know, they hated Mel Gibson when he, you know, did the Passion of the Christ and he made so much money on his terms.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And then, yeah, Hollywood doesn't like anyone to be too successful without Hollywood helping them be successful. There's something to that for sure. I get it. However, what Angel Studios is doing is, you know, we did our first movie, the Shift, this small little five million dollar film did really well. Then we did Homestead together another $5 million film, did 23 million in the box office. And now we're here doing an eight and a half million dollar film that I wrote with my writing partner Derek Presley and John Abnett the director and produce it with my wife Reve. And here we are talking about this amazing film that we all put together and we're so stinking proud.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it looks really good. I saw the trailer moments ago, and it doesn't look like there's any budgetary issues on it. It looks real good.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Well, Jon Avnett's, you know, after, you know, up close and personal, Fried Green Tomatoes, all the Justifieds, everything that he's done. 88 minutes, which we worked on. He knows what he's doing. So he made it look like a $50 million film for $8.5 million budget.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And I'm really just happy. It's sort of like that. There's an alternative to people. Here's what I feel like. I feel like people had a monopoly, and in a way, it was that way with sort of mainstream media up until 10 minutes ago. They just sort of had a monopoly on things, and they could decide what politician was gonna get elected or what the themes were. And whatever theme they were pushing, they were sort of in control of that. And Hollywood sort of monopoly and. And newspapers had a monopoly. Everyone had a monopoly, and they controlled themes. And if you went against the theme or you buck the system, then they'd push you out of the system. And people were scared to be pushed out of the system.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Because there was nowhere else to go. It was basically a campsite with a fire and food. And you go, I disagree with what you guys are talking about around the campfire. But you could get wished out into the corn fields and freeze to death.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I got kicked out into that cornfield, and I froze to death for a couple years because I didn't do it the way that Hollywood wanted me to do it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. What was the story behind that?

[Unnamed Speaker]

Everyone knows I won't do kissing scenes or sex scenes or anything like that. I'll kill a million guys on screen, which is fine. But if you kill so many people, I'm like, you're not actually killing somebody. But if I'm in bed kissing another woman, I just feel that's just kind of weird. And I didn't want to do it for this one show, and it was in my contract. That's just not what I'm going to do. And they pushed me, and then they fired me. And then everyone thought I was this crazy religious zealot because I wouldn't kiss another woman on screen. Well, that's not the point. I just didn't want to put my wife through it. My wife was cool with it, though. Reve was like, you're an actor. You have to do what you have to do. I'm like, yeah, but I just don't want to put you through that. It just seems weird. So I became, you know, after getting crushed, you know, I came back with Justified. You know, thank you to John Avnet and. And Graham Yoster bringing me out of the ashes on that one. And then I just. For the last 10, 15 years, it's a string of fantastic villains. And my goal was I was gonna be the best villain in Hollywood. And I think I pretty much got there. And now I have enough faith in the system that people are giving me money to now play the hero in a film. I mean, look that poster. This is the first time I've starred in a film as the good guy, really, who kisses the woman in the end. And that woman that I kiss in the end is none other than my actual wife, Rivet. And when I told her that she was gonna play my wife in the movie, she goes, I'm not an actress. I'm like, well, look, there's three flashback scenes to my wife who's passed away, and I have to kiss her passionately when she's dying. And the only person I can do that with is you. So you have to do it. And she agreed and she was fantastic in it.

[Adam Carolla]

Graham Yost wrote Speed. I didn't know that.

[Unnamed Speaker]

He did.

[Adam Carolla]

He did, yeah. So it's nice that there's a place where people can go outside of the mainstream. And in a way, podcasting is that way, but doing standup over dry bar versus Netflix and things like that. And it's nice that there's alternatives and there's an appetite for it. It wouldn't work if there wasn't an appetite for it.

[Unnamed Speaker]

There is, obviously.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And like I said, the Angel Studio guys are interesting. Cause they started off as sort of marketing guys and squatty potty and things like that, and then just spun it off in a studio. And when you go there, it's impressive. Like they have their own buildings. That's awesome. And also, I don't know. See, I'm a non religious person, but I can tell the difference between religious people and non religious people. And those people are just nicer. They're just over there.

[Unnamed Speaker]

They're just kind human beings that want to kind of do the right thing. And I love being around the Harmon Brothers. They're just really good guys who are big family guys who want to succeed in this business by doing the right things and making the right projects for people. And no one else is really doing that. And they did it and they keep doing it. And I'm blessed beyond belief that Reve and I and the McDonough Company and Kip Con Wise are our partner are. Are so in deep with Angel Studios.

[Adam Carolla]

Have we passed the point now where you could be wished out into the cornfield and wither and die? Have we jumped that shark? Is there. You know, they do. You know, it started, you know, they would do it with comedians, but now people are just making their own specials, putting them on YouTube, hammering checks, getting a huge audience. You know, there's. There's countless stories of people that were almost blacklisted, essentially, who just broke out and went and did their own thing. Are we at a point, a saturation point where they can't really do it.

[Unnamed Speaker]

To you anymore if you do something really stupid? You could, yeah, obviously. But I think there's also a shift in what people want to see. I think you look at the numbers that the films that angel do. And look, angel just, you know, this King of Kings came out this last weekend, a $20 million opening weekend.

[Adam Carolla]

That's really.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's phenomenal, you know, so I think the heartland of America is a group of people that were really overlooked in the decision making in Hollywood.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Unnamed Speaker]

So now that companies like angel are going out there and the movies that, you know, before we did films with angel, our first movie we did a couple Years ago for $350,000, this hitman who finds his religious heart and has to off all the bad guys. So. And that film did really well. Then we did a part two to that called Boone, which we raised one and a half million dollars to make that film. That film did really well. Then we kept building and building and building with the same kind of theme. Make sure you have a really good story that has a faith backdrop to it. Not so much a faith based film, but a real movie that has a little faith to it that challenges the viewer as to if you really are what you say you are, are you? And that's what I love to write to. And now that we're writing all these movies and our next one is the Wicked and the Righteous, this big Western that's Cain and Abel in the West. And they have the same kind of themes, but the themes that I grew up with as a kid I loved watching. You know, my favorite film as a kid was the Cowboys with John Wayne. I've watched it over and over and over again, and those themes have always resonated with me. And it seems now it's been resonating a lot with the United States of America and their audience And I just love tapping into it.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it seems like we've lost our mooring a little bit and we're drifting sort of as a society. We're just getting into stuff that seems ugly and sort of violent. And I don't know, it's just sort of the difference between. And they'll see films, you'll see stuff on the Internet and someone will go, Los Angeles, 1949. And someone just films Sunset Strip. From Sunset all the way down to the ocean. And it's clean and it's nice and people are well dressed and there's no graffiti and there's no homeless and there's no garbage. And then you sort of contrast it to where we're at today. And then people can go, well, we were this way in the 50s, and we had other things going on in the 50s that we don't want. And I'm sort of saying, yeah, but let's just use my trip down Sunset Boulevard or Wilshire Boulevard or What did downtown LA look like in 1955? And what's it look like in 2025?

[Unnamed Speaker]

I would have moved here in the early 90s, even. It was just massive.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't have to go that far, right? You don't have to go that far. And then if you showed it to time traveling historians, they'd go, well, whatever they're doing in 2025 doesn't seem like it's working. Whatever this is, it's not good.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And you're right. And you're privy to it a lot more than I am because you talk about it every day on your shows. You talk about society, you talk about where we're going as a country. You talk about the pimples and all me in my life. It's really all about Reve and our five kids and coaching the kids and bring them to school and doing stuff or being on set and working. So I guess I don't see it as much or I don't notice it as much because I have a job to do. And my job is God's my boss. And I'm gonna do everything I can to do the best that I can for my boss. And when I made that decision 10 years ago, after I stopped drinking, it was a monumental shift in everything that I thought of. I was penniless. I had nothing. I had zero. And to come back now and just about to start our 11th production together with my wife and to have angel support and have so much support out there. And now I'm part owner of the Austin Gamblers Team Rodeo. How I got to this point is pretty amazing, but I'm always trying to find the positivity in things, and I think that's the difference to how I was years ago as to how I am now is you gotta find the positive or you drive yourself crazy.

[Adam Carolla]

So you were 50 or almost 50 when you sort of bottomed out.

[Unnamed Speaker]

It's.

[Adam Carolla]

Normally, if you bottom out, I wouldn't.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Have thought of it that way, but, yeah, I guess you're right.

[Adam Carolla]

50, you just sort of stay there.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right. And I just dug deeper. And, you know, I have someone like Reve in my life. That. It was brutal. You know, what I went through was something I wouldn't want anyone to go through. You know, losing your houses, your cars, your image, your everything. And it was really hard. But I thank God for that, because I wouldn't be here right now on the Adam Carolla show had I not gone through all of that horrible stuff. It made me dig deeper and say, okay, what kind of man is Neal McDonough? What do you really stand for? What do you want to do with your life? What do you want your kids to look up to you and say, and my kids are all doing so well in all their different things in sports and school, and now we're here. It's. It's pretty remarkable where I am right now.

[Adam Carolla]

So how did you get to your lowest, in your opinion? And what was that journey down? I mean, was it just work dried up and bills piled up?

[Unnamed Speaker]

Yeah. I mean, work came to a stop. You know, for two years, I couldn't. And I'm the guy who was always working. I was a character type of guy who was working nonstop.

[Adam Carolla]

And how concerted an effort was it to have you not work in Hollywood?

[Unnamed Speaker]

I couldn't get an audition. I couldn't get a meeting. I couldn't get anything because everyone thought I was just. Just. They pushed me out.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I'm sorry. What would that have been like? 2,000?

[Unnamed Speaker]

2010 is what it was.

[Adam Carolla]

So it was 15 years ago, 2010.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Yeah. I don't want to go back that far and talk about all this stuff. I'd rather talk about the future and where we are now. Yeah, it was a tough time. We all, you know, it was what it was. But it's a piece of me that thanks them because maybe I was just taking my career with too much of a cavalier approach, perhaps. Maybe I wasn't digging deep enough as a man of faith or using my talents to the best that I could. And Maybe I got called out on it.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I mean, there is a thing. It happened to me a little bit at the beginning of my career where stuff just came easily. I didn't know how hard it was to get a TV show on the air. Cause I would just get TV shows on the air and there wasn't a. A problem. And then at some point you realize, oh, it's really difficult to get a TV show on the air and to have it run multiple seasons. It was early and often and kind of easy. And so, I don't know, almost like an athlete who didn't need to practice that hard. It sort of came easily, but then some point you get a little bit older and you realize, no, you got to practice a little harder. And you think, why? Never had to do it in the past. It's like, well, now you do. And did it come easily for you at the beginning?

[Unnamed Speaker]

Yeah, I mean, I had 10 years of. 15 years of just always working from all the projects I did. So I was always fortunate with that. But I think you're kind of right. I think that if I were a quarterback, maybe I wasn't throwing as crisp as I was or as I should have or I could have. So. So when I came back and did Justified, that was my shot back at the title. And Gram Yost wrote me some beautiful stuff. And that was one of my favorite things I've ever done. I just let loose, and I didn't have any fear or care of what anyone thought. So I think as an artist, I changed quite a bit from pre Justified to after Justified, where every role that I got, my dad said, if they give you a dollar, give two dollars worth of effort. And I prided myself on really working incredibly hard at every character, not worrying what anybody else thought, but what was the character, and really find the truth of that character and not let audiences down. And by doing so, it's been pretty remarkable for the last 10 years.

[Adam Carolla]

And were you religious when you were younger and you sort of drifted away from it, or you had a sort of. Of reacquaintance with your religion at some point?

[Unnamed Speaker]

I mean, my mom and dad were always. You know, when I grew up in Boston, I lived right across the street from a church, so my grandmother would grab me by the ear daily and walk into church, into an active church daily, all the time. And still to this day, I try to stop by a church every day. Whether it's a temple or a mosque or church or whatever, a place of worship. I like to stop by and just Say thanks for five minutes. That's just my thing. And it grounds me and it makes me realize how fortunate I am to be who I am and where I am. So I was always very close to God. I was always talking to him. But I think there was probably a time there in the late 2000s, maybe I wasn't thinking about God so much. I was thinking more about stuff. Thinking about the shiny new car, the big house, or all those kinds of things. Those things which I found out aren't real. They'll be taken away from you if you don't do the right things. And that's really not what you. What isn't really important in life either. What's important in life is your relationship with your wife, your relationship with your kids. And paramount to all that is your relationship with God. For me, and I don't care what your religion is. God created us all. That makes us all brothers and sisters. And we should all just be rooting for each other that much more instead of fighting about who's right, who has the right religion, who's the right color, who's the right race, who's the right creed, who's the right. Gosh, it's exhausting when you really think about it.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

It is. You know, it's funny, I said to somebody once, I said, you know, when you think about sort of. You look at the Earth's calendar and how long it's been here and how long humanity's been here and how long we're here, you know, relative to the calendar, you know, I don't know. 10 minutes on one day of the year is basically you if you make it to eight, you know, And I thought everyone else who's here when we're here, we should be looking at him and going, isn't this crazy that we're here at the same time instead of punching them?

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

We should be going, this is crazy because there was these times way before us, and there'll be times way after we learn from the past for this one moment. Kind of crazy that we're just here, right? And instead we're thrown in, you know, we're carving a swastika into the guy's Tesla. You know what I mean? That guy and you guy. If you look at my Earth calendar, you're both just here for. It's stupendous that you would both be here at the same time.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And it's a gift that we are here.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Unnamed Speaker]

So since it is a gift, shouldn't we just enjoy the present that much more? The present of having that gift of being here at this time instead of worrying about what everyone else thinks about you. I tell my kids, you know, when you're playing sports, you're playing. You can't worry about who you're competing against. You can't worry about what they think. All you can do is be the best version of you. And my dad was like, he pounded that into me, really pounded it into me. Don't worry about anybody else. Just be the best you that you can be. When you do that, you don't have any fear, you don't have any angst, you don't have any. Anything. It's just in the moment. Always try to be in the moment. And you Know, Reve is my wife is incredible at. You know, your two feet are planted right now. Where are you? What's it all about, and what are you gonna do about it?

[Adam Carolla]

You were a real good baseball player growing up, right?

[Unnamed Speaker]

Hockey, too. Yeah, and hockey. I make the joke that all these teeth are fake and this nose has been broken so many times. It's straight now from hockey. Gosh, I love hockey.

[Adam Carolla]

And in baseball, did the Pirates. Did you enter the aaa or did you get.

[Unnamed Speaker]

No, I was contracted by the Pirates at the same week I was offered my first movie role. Lou Gehrig in the Babe Ruth Story.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Unnamed Speaker]

And I called my dad and I said, dad, I got a dilemma. He goes, what is it, son? I'm like, well, I got offered a contract by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Unnamed Speaker]

What are they paying you? Well, it's a $1,700 signing bonus to start with, but then after that, who knows? You can go, oh, don't worry. It's not about the money, son. What's the other one? I said, well, I just got offered Lou Gehrig and the Babe Ruth Story. And he said, wonderful. How much are they paying you? And I said, $50,000. He hung up on me. And it was the best advice I ever. My life. And, you know, it's. Yeah, I've always loved acting since I was a kid with five older siblings. My job was to entertain everyone. So it was just kind of this natural progression for me to be the entertainer. And for me, when I was pitching, it was my entertainment. It was just pure joy. I loved pitching. I just loved baseball, and I loved every sport that I play. But there's something about getting in front of a camera where nothing else in the world exists. When I become this character where. Where I can just method my guy in and out seamlessly. Where I can just. When they call action, I'm not Neil anymore. I'm this character. Whatever I play, and then when they call cut, I can snap out of it. And Reve taught me that years ago when I was doing Band of Brothers, I was living my character. I used to live my character 24 7. I was pure method actor. Took the beds out of my hotel room when I was a soldier in something or doing just crazy stuff to get into the character.

[Adam Carolla]

Sleep on the box spring or the floor.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Sleep on the floor? Yeah, absolutely. For months. When I did a movie called Ravenous, which is one of my favorite movies, but Revea, about two months into dating, she was like, look, unless you can figure out how to turn it on, and off. This isn't going to work. You're going to drive yourself crazy and everyone else around you crazy. I was like, I'm a trained actor from Lambda in London. I went to Syracuse. What are you talking about? You can't. And after two days of being all by myself without, Reve was like, oh, I think she's right. And from that time on, I've learned how to keep my method style, but be able to turn it on and off, and it's pretty awesome.

[Adam Carolla]

So you're big into sports, high school hockey, baseball. And that's sort of the dream, I guess, when you're young. Was it sort of hockey, baseball, acting, or how would you. You put those when you were a young man?

[Unnamed Speaker]

I think it. You know, we talked about it earlier. I think when I was a kid, my brother Gerard and I snuck into the movie theater in Hyannis where I grew up, and the Sting was playing. And when I saw this thing and I saw Paul Newman for the first time, I was like, I want to be like that guy. I want to be in movies. I want to entertain people. This is really kind of cool. And then I just kept watching his movies, and that's really what kind of got me moving forward into, I think, if he can do it, why can't I do it? I was just this dumb, confident kid.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you both. You got the same eyes.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's true.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And here I am now because of. Really a lot was because of Paul Newman when I started with. And so for me, I guess acting was always the top of the list for me that that's what I really wanted to do and to get to play different characters and different athletes. And now to get to. You know, I knew nothing about bull riding when I wrote this. It was. I was doing a western, The Warrant Part 2, that Reve and I were producing. And I hate being away from Revea and the kids. And when I'm on location, we were in Arizona. I was driving home one day, and I just pulled over to the side of the road, just overcome with, oh, gosh, I can't do this anymore. And the thought came into my head, what would ever happen to me if something happened to reveal your wife? My wife. And I'm looking out in the field, and I see horses. And all of a sudden, this idea came into my head. This is not from me. I know. This came from above. Write a script. Rocky on a Bull about a grandfather who's losing his grandson to the same thing he lost his wife to in brain cancer. And within 24 hours, I kind of voice dictated what the outline of the film was. And within a week, my writing partner and I wrote our first draft. And a week later, it was sold and set up. And then two years almost to the date, it's in the movie theater. That doesn't happen. That's nothing but a gift from above that everything lined up. I got my favorite director of all time to direct it. I got two of my best friends in Hollywood to be in it. Michael T. Williamson, who's Bubba Gump, Christopher McDonald, who shooter Gavin, you know, from Happy Gilmore.

[Adam Carolla]

Sure.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And it was just. And we got to use all the PBR writers, and Sean Gleason, who's the president of pbr, made the movie look like you were at a PBR event. He gave us everything. He gave us the top bulls. He gave us all their writers playing themselves in the movie, which lent made this great authenticity to the film. So all these things lined up and everything worked together. And here we are now on the Adam Carolla show, talking about my favorite new movie. My favorite movie that I've ever been part of is this one right now that's about to come out.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, is it fair to say? Cause I've said quite a few times, Because I just wrote a short script for a commercial parody that popped into my head, and I was talking to somebody and I said, I got this funny idea. It might be funny if we just do it. I used to do a lot of this when we did the Man Show. I would sit around, do a lot of writing for bits and five, six page, minute and a half commercial parodies or something like that. But it was fun. It was a fun little challenge. So I had this idea, and I hadn't done it in a long time. It's not really the business of I'm in anymore, but it's been rolling around in my head. And so at some point, I went to the next room and I had a guy sit down and I just dictated this thing as fast as I could. And then a guy I was talking to before, I said, I got it, I did it. I sent it to you. Check it out. And he went, you did it. That didn't take any time. And I said, if the idea is good, it goes fast.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

And I would tell people all the time, and they go, I got this idea for whatever, a movie, a commercial parody, a song, anything. But every time I tried, I just can't get it down. I was like, the idea is no good.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Leave it alone. Because the good ideas. You can't type fast enough to keep up with a good idea. And it flows.

[Unnamed Speaker]

It flows. And if it's not flowing, it's not a good idea.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I mean, you can try to approach it from a little different angle or bounce it off somebody else, but after a couple attempts at it, maybe it's not a good idea.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

And I've always felt that way.

[Unnamed Speaker]

But that's part of the work, isn't it? Because by just flushing your soul out of your brain out with all these different ideas, the good ones always rise to the top.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And then you have to take advantage of that. And, I mean, look at your career. Look at what you've done in the last 25 years, whatever it is. It's kind of incredible. You know what I mean?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think of it that way.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Well, of course you don't think of it that way, because that's who you are. You're a good guy who does his work really hard. He works very hard at what he does. That's awesome. Most people don't put that kind of time in.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, as I say repeatedly, when you really know what real work is, which for me was construction for so many years, doing a podcast on a Saturday doesn't really feel like a lot of work. Or doing a second standup show or a third standup show, it just doesn't feel like work. But I come from a place where work.

[Unnamed Speaker]

But that's because you love doing what you do.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, you know, it's kind of a. It's interesting.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I love how I put Adam on the spot. Now he's backpedaling, probably for the first time in a long time. Don't you love that? Isn't it great? You're welcome, boys.

[Adam Carolla]

My goal was to get paid for talking and ideas versus moving boxes and moving stuff. You know, and all from 0 to 30, I only got paid to move things physically or make something, you know, frame something, drywall something, move something. And I dreamt of getting paid for ideas. And so then once I got paid for my ideas, I was like, well, that's not work. Because the best part of work when you're moving boxes for a living or just physically moving stuff or building stuff physically, is you get a half hour for lunch, you sit down, and you have a conversation with the guys you're working with, and you have a couple of laughs, and then at some point, somebody comes over and yells at you to get back to Work. And you go, all right, now back to the work part. But this is the fun part.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I would love to have been at that lunch session with Adam Carolla, sitting around with a half an hour with a ham and cheese sandwich and a Coke and saying, okay, here's what I feel about life.

[Adam Carolla]

Boom. I'll tell you the problem that I had, basically, which is half. I did it out here in SoCal, in LA. Half of the crew doesn't speak English, right? So that was one part, and the other part didn't really speak comedy. So I was kind of falling on deaf ears. Once in a while, there'd be some dude that kind of had a sense of humor, but they weren't attracted to this business, you know? So it was a bunch of guys that. That, you know, they wanted to go to the lake on the weekend, ride their jet ski, and they wanted to get some rims for their van or something. But it wasn't a heady crowd, you know? And I always remember trying to explain the Groundlings to them, you know, and they were like, what is this thing? And I'd. Well, it's the Groundlings. And they'd go, what is that? And I'd go, it's improv. And they'd go, I don't know what that is. Like, at the Improv, like the club. No, not stand up. Like you make it up. And they'd go, everything for them would always be, how much they pay you to do this? And I'd go, no, they don't pay you. You pay them.

[Unnamed Speaker]

You pay them exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

To do. Hold on. You pay them to make stuff up? Yeah. Okay. I don't know what you're talking about, but you sound like an idiot. And when do you do this? Oh, I do it at night, after.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I do this after a long day of work.

[Adam Carolla]

And they go, so you cost 350 bucks to be in a class where you make stuff up, but you never get paid.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And I'm like, yeah, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[Adam Carolla]

But if you do a good job, they'll let you take another class.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Where you pay them more.

[Unnamed Speaker]

500.

[Adam Carolla]

And they're like, get the hell out of here. And they never knew what I was talking about. And I used to sort of question it myself because at some point, a guy pulled up in a new truck, and it was a big deal if somebody got a new truck, you know, and they go, he got a new Ford ranger with the V6 in it, the crew cab, and Everyone would come out, look around.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, where'd you get it? We got it at Galpin. It's like, oh, wow. And then they'd see my piece of crap Mazda with the beater, you know, and they'd go, well, you know, you stop taking those ground classes.

[Unnamed Speaker]

You'd have enough to buy the Ranger.

[Adam Carolla]

You could get the Ranger then, you idiot. And then I'd be like, yeah, because the Groundling payments, about the Ranger payment.

[Unnamed Speaker]

How many Paul Newman cars do you own?

[Adam Carolla]

13.

[Unnamed Speaker]

There you go, pal. I think you did good, kid. I think you did good. Yeah, I think you did good.

[Adam Carolla]

But I really had the thought. It's like, I go, but if I buy that truck, then I gotta make those payments.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Locked in. And I can't do something else because I need that payment, you know, And I. And I struggled with it, but I. I thought about it a lot.

[Unnamed Speaker]

But you knew at a young age that you had some kind of gift. You couldn't probably put your finger on it, but you knew there was something there.

[Adam Carolla]

I didn't know if anyone else would ever know. I felt like I had an ability, but I had almost no faith that anyone else would recognize that. So it's a kind of a weird relationship with confidence. It's like you going, I think I'm the best looking, eligible bachelor at this sock hop. But then the next part of me is, but no one's gonna dance with you, right? So that's the way I felt.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Interesting.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. It's a weird place. It's a weird place to land. Because I did know I had an ability. And it couldn't be argued with. Cause I understood it. But no one in my family ever talked about it or nurtured it or, you know, watered it. So I was like, all right, you have an ability that no one cares about.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Well, you know, as a young kid, if I didn't entertain my brothers, they just beat me up. I mean, they would torture me. They'd try to light me on fire, throw knives at my feet, lock me into the dryer, do whatever it took. I also learned how to turn the tears on in an instant.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Unnamed Speaker]

So it was the greatest acting classes I ever had were, you know, my brothers called themselves the executioners. 1, 2, 3, and 4. And if I didn't, were they all older? I was a mistake kid. Yeah. My mom always said it was the best mistake she ever made. Thanks, Mom.

[Adam Carolla]

So you were the youngest.

[Unnamed Speaker]

So I had a tough audience right.

[Adam Carolla]

Out of the shit, too, with those.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Guys, it was tough.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think people. I mean, people are. We're living in some sort of sanitized microaggression world now. Like, I don't think they understood what kind of sort of.

[Unnamed Speaker]

You get three fights just walking to school, right? You know, that was Boston. It was just different, you know, And. And it was a tough place. You know, my brothers are tough. They are just tough dudes, you know, I was fortunate that most of my schooling. My parents moved down to Cape Cod, and I lived on the Cape my whole life.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Unnamed Speaker]

So it was just this awesome place to grow up. And I think my parents, you know, knowing that I love sports, but knowing that I loved. You know, I wanted to be an actor at a young age. But from first grade through eighth grade, I never made any plays. I got cut from every play. I was a tooth in one play and a tree in another. That's all I got. And then finally, my freshman year, I auditioned for your're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Snoopy. And the director's like, wow, you're really good. Where are you from? And I said, I'm from here. And how come I've never seen you in any of the shows? I'm like, I know. No one's given me a shot. And he goes, well, you just got your shot. You're gonna be Snoopy, and you're a good man, Charlie Brown.

[Adam Carolla]

How old were you?

[Unnamed Speaker]

14. And my first night that I did it, my mom would go at home and we'd work the numbers together. She was a really good piano player. And we would just work the numbers. Work the numbers, work the numbers. Prepare, prepare, prepare. And my opening night, my first music cue came, and I froze, and I looked at an audience of 700 people. I was like, oh, my gosh. And then I looked down in the audience, and there was my mom sitting in the front row. And then all of a sudden, I got it and I sang the song, and everyone thought I was joking. When I paused, everyone said, oh, that was pretty cool. Dramatic pause. You did. I'm like, no, I was crapping my pants. And then after that, I got a standing ovation. And I was like, okay, this is it. This is what I know I'm really good at.

[Adam Carolla]

How's your singing voice?

[Unnamed Speaker]

Yeah, still really good. I did musicals. I still do musicals. The last one we did, I played Annie up in Vancouver a couple years back and just had the greatest time. It was, you know, anytime I get. And being on stage last Summer, I got to play Whitey Bulger on stage back a one night show back in Boston. And to do that in front of the hometown crowd playing Whitey Bulger was just kind of. We didn't rehearse. I rehearsed twice on Zoom. The rest of the cast had been rehearsing for months. I was doing a show, Tulskang, I think it was Tulsa. I can't remember what it was. And I got to Boston and the director's like, are you ready for this? Right? I'm like, yeah, I got it. Where are my spots? And he goes, you're gonna be here for that part. Here for that, here for there, here for that, here for that. I'm great. And then all of a sudden, again, nervous before I got on stage. But as soon as those lights go up, nothing exists except for who I am as a character. And I got up on stage and there's people screaming out, we love you.

[Adam Carolla]

Why do you.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Next to you sob you killed my blah, blah. Which as playing Whitey just fueled me even more. So I just dug deeper and it was one of the most electric performances I've ever been part of. And it was again, to be on stage and show it all to my family and friends and half of my high school from Barnstable High School was like, are you kidding me? This is a dream come true. And I'm one very lucky, blessed dude.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they say that the key to happiness is gratitude, and I have trouble in the gratitude department. But every time they go, you gotta have gratitude because that's what really makes you happy. And you go, yeah, of course. Because if you're sitting around thinking about things that didn't work and lamenting things or saying, I should be here instead of there, you're not gonna be happy.

[Unnamed Speaker]

You can't. You just can't.

[Adam Carolla]

But it's a kind of a. It's a sad default setting that I think a lot of humans have most do most. And it's sort of a. I always describe it this way. Like if you have a tooth and the tooth is achy and it hurts, you'll just flick it with your tongue throughout the day. And every time you do it, it hurts a little bit.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

And you'll just do it again, keep doing it. And. And it's sad. It's a sad default setting. And I'm trying to think now, religion is good because it gives you gratitude. I don't know that it gives you gratitude, but it helps facilitate gratitude. And I'm trying to Think of how one maintains a gratitude in a vacuum of religion. And it's doable, but I feel like you have to work harder at it.

[Unnamed Speaker]

For me personally, I grew up Catholic, my kids go to Christian school. But for me personally, I don't really consider myself, I don't really consider myself a really religious person. That word can be misconstrued on so many levels. I've read every book from the Quran to the Torah to the Bible to the, the Book of Mormon to Taoism to everything. And there's bits of all of them that all kind of say the same thing. Just be nice to each other, love each other, be kinder to each other, and your life will be blessed. And it's true. And it's like you just said, Adam, gratitude is kind of everything. If you truly are grateful for what you have, like for this moment that you're in right now, where you are wherever you are in this world, if you really think about all the gifts that you have at your fingertips and all the things that have been given to you, you, you got to be grateful. You have to really think about it and say, holy smokes, I'm here. How did I get here? And isn't this pretty awesome that I'm here? Because I could be someplace a lot worse. I could be dead.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Unnamed Speaker]

And it generally doesn't.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, no, it generally doesn't. You know, a fire hits, I'm in Malibu. I leave in the middle of the night. It's been months. I've not gone back. I mean, grabbing socks and underwear, but displaced. Go look for a house to buy, find a house, put a bid in on the house. Don't get the house. Go find another house. Have the same thing happen again. You have these conversations, like, found a house, and I liked it. And I said, this is the house. And I'm talking to the realtor, and I go, what should we do? Because there's a couple of people want this house. And he goes, well, we'll just put a bid in it, asking. And then if it goes up, we'll come. And I said, okay, but make sure they understand that I'm putting the bid in it, asking, but if I can move up a little because I really want this house. And they. Oh, no, you'll be in the conversation. We'll figure it all out. They gave their word they're not going to sell this house without notifying every. It'll give you a chance to counter. Two days later, talk to the guy, the household.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I go, what happened? They took their bid, and then they took someone else's bid. It was higher. And that was that. Well, what about the whole counter conversation? Yeah. Well, they didn't do it, but you counter. I'm not grateful, but I should be.

[Unnamed Speaker]

But you can't worry about other people's integrity and their word.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I totally.

[Unnamed Speaker]

All you can live by is your word and what you stand for. Right. Or else you'll be let down by so many people.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I know. It is. It's incredible. And I'm like, well, what about the conversation that we had about countering? And they're like, yeah, well, he didn't do it. He said he would, but they went somewhere, another direction. And I'm like, okay. So then the question is, how do I maintain my gratitude when I'm on the phone with the guy and he's telling me the house is gone?

[Unnamed Speaker]

I didn't say having gratitude all the time is easy.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Oh, my gosh. No, no. Sometimes it's brutally hard, but once you realize when those brutal things do happen to you, how grateful you are to have had that opportunity first and foremost and to enjoy the moment that you're. I know it sounds corny, but that's just Who I am.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, can we say it to you this way? There's a micro gratitude and a macro gratitude.

[Unnamed Speaker]

True.

[Adam Carolla]

So you should live under a macro gratitude umbrella. But it's not like if someone cuts you off on the freeway, you're gonna have gratitude towards a.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Sometimes I wanna punch a guy in the face. That's just being the Irish Catholic in me growing up in Boston.

[Adam Carolla]

Micro.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Unnamed Speaker]

And that's the stuff that trips you up.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So there's gonna be micro digressions, but macro live under that umbrella of gratitude.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's a good way of putting it.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, it is.

[Unnamed Speaker]

You're a pretty clever guy. He's a clever guy, isn't he?

[Adam Carolla]

I should write that down. So you, you're pretty blessed guy because of, you know, most people either get the brains or the brawn. You know, they're not artistic and, you know, captain of the hockey team or getting asked to sign a contract for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Sorry, Penguins. All right, so that's pretty good stuff. And how much of this do you attribute to growing up, how you grew up, and your brother's sort of rough and tumble approach to your childhood? Because I do think boys need that rough and tumble play. They do. And we've tried to remove it and we've done a pretty good job of carving it out of most kids childhood. And now we've decided it's like toxic masculinity. And I think a lot of boys are suffering.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Well, I think that coaching so many teams and so many kids. When I was a kid, we played sandlot everything in the wintertime we were on the ponds playing hockey. In the summertime or in the springtime, we're out in the field setting up bases and hitting the snot out of baseballs.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's just what we did. Yes, now everything's scheduled. Yes, now everything is a practice that has to be by this certain coach. Kids never. I think when kids are at their best as athletes, it's when they're playing against their buddies. You don't want to win more than when you're playing against your best friend. My best friend growing up, Mark Childs. I've never been hit so hard in hockey in my whole life. And I saw him coming, but I couldn't get out of the way in time. And he smoked me and knocked me out.

[Adam Carolla]

Really.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Still my best friend. And then the next shift out there, I was just going after him. And that's part of just playing sandlot pickup sports. Everything is so scheduled now for kids that it's hard for kids to really dig deep in athletics. I think it's really hard. At our house, we have five kids. I'll toss a ball in the backyard and I'll say, all right, guys, go play for the next half hour. And. And I'll go outside or I'll look at the window and I'll stare at them without them knowing. Sometimes I probably do. And they're playing hard against each other, and I think that's what helps them be such good athletes. Our oldest son is off playing D1 golf in San Francisco. University of San Francisco. My next daughter, who's going to play volleyball, and she's trying to figure out what college she wants to go to now. They love sports, and I see young men in particular, when they're not playing sports, a scheduled sport, they're home playing Fortnite or they're playing video games. And it's. And it's hard to get them to climb trees and run through the woods and break things or snap things or get in fights with the kid next door. That doesn't happen anymore. It's just a different time for young boys. And it's. You know, I kind of. Reve's really good at it and making the kids go out and run around and do stupid stuff. Just don't come home. Just go out. When we lived in Canada for seven years. Give it up for Tawwassen. Love you guys up there. You know, Morgan or Catherine, our oldest two, they would get on their bikes and come back when it got dark. You can't really do that in la.

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Unnamed Speaker]

So I missed that part of Canada. That it was just kind of like how I grew up in Cape Cod. Would I let my kids go out on a barely frozen pond and go play hockey now without testing it myself? My parents never tested the ice. Test it yourself. See if it's safe enough. So let's shoot a puck out in the middle of the ice and have our dog chase after it. And if the dog got to the puck, it was good. If the dog didn't get to the puck, the dog knew. Oh, well, it's starting to crack. I'm going backwards.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh.

[Unnamed Speaker]

The dog would tell you that dog was awesome. So. But you. But now everything's.

[Adam Carolla]

You need a big dog to test it.

[Unnamed Speaker]

He was a pretty big. Yeah, Val was a pretty big. He was a Labrador. So he's a pretty big boy. Girl, I should say so. I think it has changed. I think it's tougher for younger guys to be guys anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And I think the chickens are coming home to roost. I'm feeling it, like, I'm seeing it out there. I'm just kind of sensing it. And we've been trying to talk boys out of being boys. And everyone's on pharmaceuticals now. Everyone's whatever. All these. These things they're suffering now is because we tried to sanitize the world for them and we've weakened their system. It's no different than the astronauts in the space center. You know, they get weak when they come. They stay in a zero gravity environment for too long. You just lose muscle mass and bone density. Yeah.

[Unnamed Speaker]

So again, it goes back to, I can't really control anything out there. All I can control is what I do as a dad. And when our kids see mom and dad working hard to make movies, when they see us, I'm in the gym in the morning at our house, busting it, working hard, taking my Protein Flip My Life. This is this protein powder that this company that I'm part of now pounding that stuff. And they say, oh, dad, can I have some? Yeah. No. They're taking Flip My Life Shakes and doing certain things to make sure that they're in shape and getting it. Because I see mom and dad working hard and things are going well for mom and dad. Well, I want to be like that. If they're working hard, then I should work harder. So our kids, I guarantee you right now, my daughter Clover is in the backyard shooting baskets. I guarantee it. And probably playing with our youngest son, Jammer. And London is probably upstairs in her room doing ballet and working her pirouettes and such.

[Adam Carolla]

Because Jammer.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Jammer's a dude. He's going to be a tank.

[Adam Carolla]

Is his name Jammer?

[Unnamed Speaker]

His name is James. But quickly it became Jammer and. And it was just this boy's boy. And our oldest son is six five. Jammer's gonna be bigger than him. So I'm really nice to jammer.

[Adam Carolla]

Your wife's 6 3, right?

[Unnamed Speaker]

She is, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So that's where a lot of that height comes from. Right.

[Unnamed Speaker]

For sure. I'm six' six' one, so it's. I thank Reve for the height because those genes have played very well with our kids and their athletes. Our oldest daughter's six, almost six' three. Clover's 13, and she's 616 1. At 13, London is 56 and probably tapped out. And she's like, this is as tall as I want to be because I want to be a movie star and I want to be an athlete. So everyone kind of got what they wanted. It's pretty awesome.

[Adam Carolla]

So you, even though you're this star athlete, you have this acting bug early and it doesn't sound like your brothers got bit by it, but I don't know. And then how do you really account for that?

[Unnamed Speaker]

I think my parents would just, you know, my oldest brother was a professor for 30 years. And my sister went over to Ireland and started her own newspaper in Galway. Next brother has a hedge fund in Boston who does really well. The next one again, this brainiac professor. And then my next, another brother owns his own sign company. For the last 40 years, he was maybe my best friend on the planet. My brother Bob and I talk daily all the time. But they all were fighting beer drinking guys in high school. And my mom said, if you don't drink in high school, I'll buy you a used car by the time you're all done. And so she had so much faith in me doing whatever you want. And my dad was, again, if you're gonna do something, be the best you can. And I just loved theater. I loved being on stage. I think that's why I was such a good pitcher, because I love being on the stage of a mound. There was something to that, to me that, you know, I know our oldest son, Morgan, in golf. He loves that moment of standing over a ball. Nothing exists and just smashing it. And I owe it all me to my parents. And they've instilled that into me. And now we're putting into our kids. And Reveille's parents are the same. She was a top athlete in South Africa and 6 foot 3, supermodel. And I'm a lucky dude.

[Adam Carolla]

What was her sport?

[Unnamed Speaker]

A couple of them. She broke records in high jump. Really? She was unbelievable. High jump? Yeah. But netball, which is kind of like basketball without dribbling and without a backboard.

[Adam Carolla]

That is so funny. I was interviewing Tiger Woods Caddy the other day and he said, netball, it's an awesome sport. And I think he said cricket and rugby and netball for the girls.

[Unnamed Speaker]

He said he's either from Australia, South Africa, New Zealand.

[Adam Carolla]

New Zealand. And I was like, he was just talking, so I didn't stop him. But I wanted to circle back to, I got the rugby and I got the cricket, but netball I didn't get. So I just let him go. But it's funny, I just thought about netball.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Hey, hey. There it is.

[Adam Carolla]

So it's basketball minus the backboard and.

[Unnamed Speaker]

No dribble and no dribbling. You take two strides, you Get a pass it two strides, you get a. Well, it might be two or three. I think it's two. Two strides you get a pass. So you're flying up and down. And I remember over this one tournament in Thousand Oaks a couple years ago, of the four games, the total score was 101 points for Reveill's team. She scored 97 of them.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Unnamed Speaker]

She was a freak. She could just bury. Was just great to watch. Plus a six foot three. She cannot rebound anybody.

[Adam Carolla]

She'd be in the WNBA now.

[Unnamed Speaker]

She.

[Adam Carolla]

She was out here, right?

[Unnamed Speaker]

Oh, for sure, for sure. She loves it. Look at that.

[Adam Carolla]

We're watching. Watching a clip of it, huh? Well, you think a pickleball could catch you on out here? This could. This could catch you on.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Give me no duels and a bucket of nuts. And this is perfect right here.

[Adam Carolla]

It's kind of interesting. I never thought about what it would be without dribbling, but it makes it better.

[Unnamed Speaker]

It's a great game. It's a great game.

[Adam Carolla]

Netball. Who the hell net? All right. The film the Last Rodeo, in theaters May 23. Angel Studios love those guys. Support. They're such good guys. I was talking to my guy, booked stand up stuff and I go, how does it work with the Angel Studios? You do a standup special and then they put it through the Guild and then the guild subscribes and they get enough subscriptions and you get a cut of the whatever and then it goes up on YouTube and then they monetize it, you know, And I go, like. Cause this town, I go, well, how do you know they're not just keeping all the money? Because they just report back to you. I don't have any way of knowing what the guild signed up for. They could just. I got a check for 20 grand. I could have got a check for 20 bucks, but. And I judge. But they're good.

[Unnamed Speaker]

They're so tricks about everything because they're so. They have this earnestness, this honesty.

[Adam Carolla]

They want integrity.

[Unnamed Speaker]

They want to show that they're doing the right thing for everyone.

[Adam Carolla]

I know Mike just said to me, you know what? You can't really enforce it, but they have a lot of integrity and they're good dudes. And I was like, they are so.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I don't worry about it and getting to know them. I see the kind of car they drive and I see their homes. Nothing special, you know, an eight year old Explorer to fit all the kids in. You know, these guys aren't in it for the money, for themselves. They're in it to make the world a better place.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I went shooting with them last time we were out there, which was fun. But also I think they also understand that this is part of the long game and the short game. The short grabby game doesn't work. It works for 10 minutes. But this is a marathon. It's not a sprint. And everyone I know, everyone I know who got grabby is not in is out. Everyone I know who was pretty honest and long game and took care of and so on and so forth, they're in. And it works out. Like you can. You can say, oh, they have religion or they have integrity, but it's also the model. If you wanted to make money, it certainly is.

[Unnamed Speaker]

I mean, you could lie and cheat and steal and say that you are of that ilk and not be it and make money and fine. But I've been really fortunate to be part of companies that when they say they're faith friendly and faith based, they really are. Angel is a group that is faith based. Like this company that I'm part of flipped my life. They're a bunch of faith guys. And this other gold company that I'm now on the board of this new gold, I don't know why I'm talking about this, but Genesis gold group, they're these faith based guys that will help you invest your money in gold correctly. And I checked out all these guys, I look at their track records and they're just good people who want to help. That doesn't happen very often and certainly in Hollywood it doesn't happen kind of every.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I know. And I mean, we all know the story. And I can think of many people where they're like, this guy's a manager and he's got this guy. He's got that guy and he's got me and he's got Kimmel.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's why I fired everyone. And the only person running my career is my wife.

[Adam Carolla]

Revenge.

[Unnamed Speaker]

She's my manager.

[Adam Carolla]

At some point it catches up to them.

[Unnamed Speaker]

It does.

[Adam Carolla]

And it just does. And so the marathon, not a sprint, man. That's the way you gotta look at it. Neil, always great to talk to you.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Thanks, brother. Thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll get you the Newman doc. I'll give you a link to it or something so you can enjoy that. I love that off the air.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That's my guy.

[Adam Carolla]

You're a big Newman fan.

[Unnamed Speaker]

That is my guy.

[Adam Carolla]

And he's your motivation. For me, cars in Newman. For you, it's acting in Newman. But you're gonna see a whole nother side of Newman can't wait. All right, Neal McDonough, great talking to you, my friend.

[Unnamed Speaker]

Thanks, Adam. Thank you very much.

[Adam Carolla]

And I'm gonna be in Tacoma, Washington, doing two at the Tacoma Comedy Club. That'll be this Friday and Saturday and then Sunday, Spokane, Washington, doing two shows over there at Spokane Comedy Club. So till next time, Saddam, for Neal McDonough and Alicia Krause saying mahalo.

[Neil McDonough]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Unnamed Speaker]

Oh my God, I love it.

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[Adam Carolla]

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