Rainn Wilson Exposes Hollywood, Angelina Jolie Criticizes America & Crockett: “Crime Doesn’t Equal Criminal”

Summary

Adam Carolla Show — Rainn Wilson Exposes Hollywood, Angelina Jolie Criticizes America & Crockett: “Crime Doesn’t Equal Criminal”

Date: September 23, 2025
Host: Adam Carolla
Guest: Alicia Krause (Washington Examiner)
Notable Clips from: Rainn Wilson, Mark Ruffalo, Angelina Jolie, Jasmine Crockett

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Adam Carolla Show dives into recent headlines and celebrity culture through Adam’s notably unfiltered, humorous lens, alongside Washington Examiner’s Alicia Krause. The pair analyze reactions in Hollywood to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, discuss celebrity takes on America’s state of affairs, debate the proliferation of celebrity podcasts, and break down viral political soundbites with trademark sarcasm and skepticism.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Charlie's Kirk Assassination & Hollywood’s Reaction

• Adam Carolla on Consistency in Morality (02:17–05:41)
  • Rainn Wilson claimed some liberal Hollywood friends were "celebrating" Kirk’s assassination. Adam considers what it means to be consistent — if you believe someone is evil, why wouldn’t you celebrate their death, but most people simply don’t apply their moral labels consistently.
  • Adam highlights the difference between religious and secular views on “evil”: religious folks tend to reserve “evil” for truly heinous acts, while secular or political zealots blur the definition (04:25).
    • “If Nancy Pelosi’s evil and mass murderers are evil, then one of them’s not evil or both of them aren’t evil.” – Adam Carolla [06:22]
• Weaponization of Language & Media (07:11–09:10)
  • Adam notes that political rhetoric increasingly borrows religious fervor—labeling adversaries as “evil” without real belief, mainly to win arguments (“calling Trump Hitlerian”).
    • “They say it, but they don’t believe it. Now here’s what I’m getting to…” – Adam [08:25]

2. The Generational Divide & Crate Training Metaphor

• Impact of Media on Youth vs. Older Generations (09:19–11:38)
  • Adam likens the shaping of young minds to crate training puppies, asserting that older adults (like himself) are less susceptible to propaganda due to their formative years spent away from screens.
    • “You can crate train them. But... you can’t do it to old Adam Carolla. His brain... the cement on the sidewalk of Adam Carolla’s brain dried a long time ago.” – Adam [10:03]

3. Rainn Wilson & Mark Ruffalo: Podcast Clip on Political Violence (12:15–14:14)

• Rainn Wilson’s Moral Stand
  • Wilson calls out his Hollywood peers for their cavalier attitude:
    • “Shooting someone that we disagree with… is so colossally wrongheaded.” – Rainn Wilson [12:24]
  • Mark Ruffalo agrees, sharing personal loss to gun violence and urging against cheering an opponent’s death:
    • “There’s no winning... there’s no idea that if we cheer on our opponents being hurt... we win as a society.” – Mark Ruffalo [13:11]
• Adam’s Take on Celeb Podcasts
  • Adam jokes that not everyone needs a podcast, comparing Ruffalo’s rambling to talk-radio filler:
    • “If you took an hour long podcast of his and got rid of the air and the filler... it could be nine minutes.” – Adam [15:07]

4. Angelina Jolie’s Critique of America & Celebrity Podcasts

• Jolie at San Sebastian Film Festival (17:35–19:17)
  • Jolie says she doesn’t “recognize my country” anymore; Adam lampoons how out-of-touch celebs generalize about decline without acknowledging real problems:
    • “If she would walk through [LA neighborhoods]... look at all the signs in Spanish... I would go, you’re right... But she would never say that. She would just talk about systemic oppression or totalitarian... but never impacts them.” – Adam [17:59]
• Who Deserves a Podcast? (19:18–21:32)
  • Adam jokes about being the “Grand Poobah of Podcasts,” deciding who gets one—Gwyneth Paltrow gets a six-month “trial badge,” but not Angelina Jolie, who is too cautious in her statements.
    • “She already said she had to be careful what she says. That’s not going to make for an interesting podcast.” – Adam [21:32]

5. Celebrity Ingratitude and America-Bashing

• Adam’s Rant on Gratefulness (21:59–25:12)
  • Adam expresses particular disdain for immigrants or refugees who succeed in America but still criticize it harshly (Charlize Theron, Trevor Noah, Ilhan Omar):
    • “If your heart’s in the Sudan or whatever... just go fucking back.” – Adam [22:34]
  • He ranks “levels of ingratitude,” placing Ilhan Omar at the top:
    • “Those are the worst for me.” – Adam [25:03]

6. The Gender Card, Misogyny, and Political Cliches

• Debate Clip: Alex Wagner, Joe Manchin & Misogyny in Politics (25:14–29:07)
  • Wagner argues misogyny prevents women from winning elections; Manchin counters that strong female candidates can thrive.
    • “Any woman? I just think misogyny runs deeper and stronger than you’d like to imagine.” – Alex Wagner [25:34]
    • “Put up a good female candidate... and I bet you white women... would vote for that woman.” – Alicia Krause [26:21]
  • Adam and Alicia argue voters care more about policy and competence than identity and mock the “vote for them because of their hoo-ha” approach (26:48).

7. Jasmine Crockett’s Viral ‘Crime Doesn’t Equal Criminal’ Clip

• Crockett’s Logic Examined (32:45–35:37)
  • Crockett: “Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal.” [33:34]
  • Adam and Alicia ridicule the logic, riffing on similarly nonsensical statements:
    • “Just because I’m a clown and I work at a circus doesn’t make me a circus clown.” – Adam [34:42]
  • Dawson: “What she said was just so profound.” [33:55] (With obvious sarcasm)
• Wider Problem: Head-Nodders and Willful Media Ignorance
  • Adam rails against those who accept headline-grabbing banalities without question, arguing that the real problem isn’t the kooky guest but the sycophantic hosts:
    • “It’s not the nut job... in your studio who’s at fault. It’s the head nodders.” – Adam [33:38]

8. Media Manipulation & Truth in the Age of Video & AI

• Video Evidence No Longer Conclusive (36:22–38:18)
  • Adam and Alicia discuss how even “video proof” is losing credibility in an era of AI, selective editing, and intentional misinterpretation — referencing Trump jokes being spun as serious by NPR and CNN:
    • “Most... fake news... is all on video. You can watch the video on your phone but still [people are] moving forward with it.” – Adam [36:59]
  • Adam: “Now I don’t know what you call it when you willfully misinterpret things other people say, but that’s a bad place to be.” [38:13]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Celebrity “Wokism” and Hypocrisy

  • “They don’t all need [podcasts]. There are people who can talk and people who can think.” – Adam [14:48]
  • “Do they believe it? No, they do not. And they don’t believe Hitler either. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get dumb 15 year olds. That doesn’t mean you can’t get Greta Thunberg to believe it.” – Adam [11:05]

• On Gratitude and American Opportunity

  • “If we literally saved your life because you fled here and that’s just bash, bash, bash. Those are the worst for me.” – Adam [25:03]

• On Podcasting as a Skill

  • “It’s a skill and it’s an invisible skill and people don’t get it... You gotta practice.” – Adam [15:28]

• Best Sarcastic Riffs & Jokes

  • “Just because I’m the dean of students at Colfax elementary doesn’t mean I’m the dean of students at Colfax Elementary.” – Adam [35:11]
  • “When it comes to death, I dream of a world where everyone has a seat at the table of dignity.” – Adam [35:34]

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Important Timestamps

• 02:17–05:41: Adam on “evil,” religion, and Hollywood’s reactions
• 07:11–09:10: Rhetorical labeling and moral consistency in politics
• 12:24–14:14: Rainn Wilson and Mark Ruffalo on not celebrating political violence
• 17:35–19:17: Angelina Jolie’s concerns & Adam’s local LA reality check
• 21:59–25:12: Celebrity gratitude/ungratefulness and America-bashing
• 25:14–29:07: Gender, misogyny claims, and failed female Democratic candidates
• 32:45–35:37: Jasmine Crockett “crime vs. criminal” logic breakdown
• 36:22–38:18: The unreliability of media/video in an AI era

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Final Takeaway

This episode embodies Adam Carolla’s signature mix of high-tempo banter, cultural skepticism, and comedic rants. The discussion flips between current events, the absurdities of virtue-signaling Hollywood, the vacuousness of some celebrity podcasts, and serious themes of moral consistency, media manipulation, and genuine gratitude for American opportunity. The back-and-forth with Alicia Krause grounds the show with thoughtful—if irreverent—debate, and each segment is loaded with punchlines and pointed critiques that regular listeners and newcomers alike can appreciate.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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From Corolla 1 Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Today, Adam discusses the news with the Washington Examiner's Alicia Krauss. And now his mother never took Tylenol when she was pregnant, but she did consult a biorhythm wheel.

[Adam Carolla]

ADAM carolla, yeah, get it on. Got to get it on the church. You're gonna get it on all. So little format change. We have a roundtable that I did with Dave Rubin and Sage Deal and I was on location in Arizona. They were there for the funeral. I was in Arizona. Anyway, and I invited them to my hotel suite and we sat down. We did a nice interesting long form roundtable conversation that'll be airing as well. But we wanted to get some news.

[Dawson]

We have some news.

[Adam Carolla]

So now we have news and you can listen to that segment as well. But news with Alicia Crouse and related.

[Dawson]

To our late friend Charlie Kirk, of course, known from the office, actor Rainn Wilson said that he has some Hollywood liberal friends that are currently celebrating his assassination.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you know, in a world where you try to be consistent, one should be celebrating the death of evil. If one is being consistent.

[Dawson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Or, you know, I mean, if, you know, if somebody said I had a neighbor who was an old man and I hated the guy's guts and he rode me and he called Department of Building and Safety and he checked unsanitary living conditions on me and my house was fine and renovated. Anyway, the whole point is when he died, I didn't shed a tear.

[Dawson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Now, I didn't make posts on Facebook explaining that I was happy.

[Dawson]

That or saying all the horrible things that he said or ever did.

[Adam Carolla]

No, but I was not, I was not upset because I kept it pretty consistent. I did not like the guy. He was a bad person in my world. He did bad things to me. And if you then believe that that's who this person is, then it would make sense that you would celebrate the death of that person. I mean, they're sort of extremes, you know, I don't.

[Dawson]

Does faith component play into it or does also a political component? I mean, Don Jr. Talked about at the funeral, he was like, there's one side that celebrates death and there's another side that doesn't. And we wanna be on the side that doesn't celebrate it.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they don't have a religion. Politics is their religion. So then you have a religion and everybody who was at the Charlie Kirk Memorial has a religion. And so they're deeply religious. So if the devil died, then they would celebrate. But to the atheists, there are no devils. There's living devils. There's Trump and Kirk and Tucker Carlson depending on what day it is, and Ben Shapiro depending on what other day it is. And they just have the people they disagree with, but they don't have God or heaven or the rapture or anything. So this is their religion. Which by the way, is why they paint everything in a sort of religious text, you know, Evil.

[Dawson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Meaning religious people like you take all the Charlie Kirk people, you know, the people who filled the stadium and the people who spoke, they don't like a lot of, you know, they don't like Nancy Pelosi, but they don't really throw around the word evil. They just don't like her. And they disagree with the policy and stuff. Because if you're religious, evil, like a.

[Dawson]

Dumb bee might be the meanest thing they say about her.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. Because you need to use the word evil for real evil. Yes, because there is actual evil. Having two walk in size refrigerators filled with Haagen Dazs double fudge does not make you evil.

[Dawson]

Getting your hair done during COVID when everybody else was shut down.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But that doesn't make you Stalin. That doesn't make you a person that digs mass graves and things like that. So I think there's a context that religious people have where they go, this is what evil is. And we will save our stuff for what is evil. And the guy who shot Charlie Kirk is evil, so we'll call him evil and we'll call the ladies from the View dumb bitches. And that's where we'll take it.

[Dawson]

But we're not broad stroking everybody on the left that we disagree with as evil.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, they claim to be religious, but they're not religious. And so.

[Dawson]

Oh, like Nancy Pelosi who claims to be Catholic, but Nancy Pelosi for pro abortion.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, and Biden and all that kind of stuff. So they're not. And neither is Hollywood. So then evil gets real blurry for them because they can think that if Hobby Lobby is not giving their female employees birth control, then they're evil.

[Dawson]

Meanwhile, and the nuns who also wouldn't do the same thing that the Obama administration wanted to sue are also evil.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But then they forget about the people in parts of Africa that are Boko Haram or something who's abducting young school age girls and killing them. So my thing with evil is I don't like to toss it out that willy nilly because I feel like it loses some of its impact. You know what I mean? If I call every. If Nancy Pelosi's evil and mass murders are evil, then one of them's not evil or both of them aren't evil.

[Dawson]

And when you can, there is a danger I'm not gonna be that type of person that's like, well, words are dangerous. That's not my vibe. But when the left is consistently saying those things over and over and over again, then it does fudge the lines a bit because it's like, so then somebody should be killed for what they say. Well then, should they?

[Adam Carolla]

Here's an interesting thing and I'll see if I can be a little bit profound here. Cause I had a thought today I had never thought about, which is sometimes you can be, it can be okay. It's like when they call people racist, they don't believe that that person's racist. They just throw stuff out all day.

[Dawson]

Every day to try to win an argument that they have no factual evidence for.

[Adam Carolla]

They don't have enough dignity to realize that's kind of a horrible thing to say about somebody and you should choose your words wisely. And you know, this person wasn't that. But they don't. It's a dignity thing. But anyway, they call everyone racist and again, they don't believe it. So we do this thing where it's like you got all these guys calling Trump Hitlerian and a dictator going into the election. Then they win the election and oh, they're having lunch with him at the White House and everyone goes, why would you have lunch with Hitler? Because they never believed he was Hitler. That's Why? They have love with Hitler. But these are been there, done that. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, 70 something year olds. 80 something. They've been around the block a zillion times.

[Dawson]

They know they have to kiss the ring.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but they're not that corruptible in that they don't think he's Hitlerian, they don't think he's racist. They don't think he's socialist or he's a dictator. They say it, but they don't believe it. Now here's what I'm getting to. Well, first off, if Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi actually thought Trump was Hitlerian or Hitler, then they should get themselves a briefcase bomb and go visit him. And in the Oval Office. That's what a patriot would do. If you thought that's what it was. They don't think it.

[Dawson]

Or actually unseat him in a constitutional manner. Maybe create a military coup. There's lots of options.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but.

[Dawson]

But they haven't even pursued that.

[Adam Carolla]

They did the whole. What I'm saying is it'd be Project Valkyrie or whatever that Tom Cruise movie was. The whole point is, is they don't believe it, is what I'm saying. They don't believe it. But. And I don't believe it, and you don't believe it. Cause we're older, we've been there and we've done that, and that's fine. But what if I just grew up staring at screens and playing first shooter video games and on all these dark corners of the web since I was 9 and now I'm 21? Well, then I might believe it. Because I used to say during COVID they're scaring all the kids so they can crate train the kids. Because you gotta get hold of that pup young and crate train them early and you get ahold of.

[Dawson]

Then they have to rely on you.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, you can crate train them.

[Dawson]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

But. And you go, hey. Into the crate. They just go running for the crate. You can't do it to old Adam Carolla. His brain. The cement on the sidewalk of Adam Carolla's brain dried a long time ago. And you can't put your initials in it. Bitch. That's a.

[Dawson]

There's a tree with roots growing up under it.

[Adam Carolla]

Popped it up. Old woman fell, broke her hip last weekend. City still never got to. It's been four years.

[Dawson]

Gum is just pressed into the.

[Adam Carolla]

I like when the city puts spray paint on it where it's like, look, we're not gonna fix anything, but we will Put some spray paint on it.

[Dawson]

Make sure your walker doesn't hit this.

[Adam Carolla]

Old broad so you can't get to me. I don't believe you that he is Hitler. But if all I did was play video games and sit online and go to deep corners of the web since age 10, or if you were 21.

[Dawson]

If you were in the Rainn Wilson. Mark Ruffalo. Liberal Hollywood circles, Those people ain't 21 that have been sitting on video games. They're in their 40s, 50s, and 60s and they're like calling the shots on the entertainment that the world is seeing.

[Adam Carolla]

But they don't believe it either.

[Dawson]

Well, okay, so they don't believe it.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, like do you know, moderately rich people live on the hillside of Malibu, but super rich Hollywood people all live along the coast on the, I mean, you gotta think about that stretch of Malibu. Carbon beach and whatnot. Billionaires beach. You walk up and down Pacific coast highway, people always go, oh, that's Leonardo DiCaprio's place. Like, I literally. A showbiz friend of mine lived next door to Leonardo DiCaprio. Everything is, oh, oh, that's Barbara Streische. She has all the wokests, all the most environmentalists, all. They're all vying to pay an extra $20 million to get 60ft closer to the ocean. Although they never stop talking about sea rising. So do they believe it? No, they do not. Yep, they do not believe it. And they don't believe Hitler either. But that doesn't mean you can't get dumb 15 year olds. That doesn't mean you can't get Greta Thunberg to believe it.

[Dawson]

Oh, God.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so we'll listen to the clip. Who is this? Mark Ruffalo.

[Dawson]

So this is Mark Ruffalo's podcast and Rainn Wilson was on the podcast over the weekend and this is what he had to say.

[Rainn Wilson]

His ideas. Shooting someone that we disagree with, even if they're vociferous and loud and out there, is so colossally wrong headed. I spoke to a couple of, let's say some liberal friends last night at an event and they were like, you won't find me shedding any tears. And someone else was like, oh, well, it was a little bit of a kind of a good riddance thing. And it's like, guys, no.

[Mark Ruffalo]

Yeah, I know.

[Rainn Wilson]

No. And we cannot think or talk that way at all. That is not okay.

[Mark Ruffalo]

So dangerous, man. I mean, my first thought was, you know, also, we had another school shooting.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Rainn Wilson]

Which totally got buried in the headlines.

[Mark Ruffalo]

Got buried in the Headlines. Of course it would, though. And listen, I'm someone who. My brother was, was, was murdered. My. I mean, I lost my brother through gun violence, you know, and so this is a real personal topic for me. There's no winning. We'll never win this way. There's no, there's no idea that if, if we cheer on our opponents being hurt or harmed in any way that we win as a society and there's. We all lose like those. I know what his family is going through. Like, I understand that on such a personal level. And it's a tragedy that not only the person who is killed experiences, but the entire family and community.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think Mark Ruffalo needs a podcast. This not a guy needs a podcast.

[Dawson]

But even though I agree with you that he does need a podcast, and I Disagree with him 99.999% of the time, like his stances on Israel is just utter bullshit. I appreciate him saying this. Well, we're getting so crazy that this has to be said.

[Adam Carolla]

The bar so goddamn low now that a guy just speaking sense and being halfway through, like, we're not okay with murder.

[Dawson]

You not okay with murder. Oh, you're not okay with murder. And then we're cheering him on now.

[Adam Carolla]

Something we can agree on. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, not everyone needs a podcast. Mark doesn't need a podcast.

[Dawson]

There's a lot of celebrities that have podcasts though. Like, there's a lot.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, a lot. They don't all need one. There are people who can talk and people who can think.

[Dawson]

And sometimes it's not the same.

[Adam Carolla]

If you took an hour long podcast of his and got rid of the air and the filler and the stuff that didn't need to be said, it could be nine minutes.

[Dawson]

So talk radio thing, when I was a producer, sometimes when you had a fill in host, they would always request a ton of guests and a ton of callers. And the reason they request a ton of guests and a ton of callers is because they don't feel confident in their ability to fill three hours of radio.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it's a.

[Dawson]

Which is actually two hours of radio. Once you take out the commercials and the break, you know, all that stuff.

[Adam Carolla]

I talk through the commercials. So for me it's a full three hours, babe. It's a skill and it's an invisible skill and people don't get it and it's reps and it's everything else. And it's no different than playing the piano or riding a unicycle or archery or something. You gotta practice.

[Dawson]

I love how you do a couple of things that you can do.

[Adam Carolla]

Archery, piano, unicycle. No, I named things specifically that I can't do. But I can ride a unicycle. But no one would hand somebody a unicycle and go, off you go. You'd go, I never wrote, come on.

[Dawson]

Hop on, do it. Anybody can do it.

[Adam Carolla]

You'd go, no, the guy's gotta do it for a little while. Or piano or archery.

[Dawson]

Yep. It's a gift.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, no, no, but it's also. I'm saying it's not a gift. It's.

[Dawson]

I think it's both. Well, look, I think it's totally both. I think that. So I used to work for Hannity and I used to produce his radio show. And Sean is unique in that he has the ability to do cable TV and a three hour radio show. And his, like, original love was radio. You're unique in that you can do stand up comedy and podcasting. There are people that are kick ass stand up comics, but they couldn't do a podcast every day.

[Adam Carolla]

I thank you. And I'm not really pushing back against both. I'm saying the reps part of it will make you proficient at it, but you don't get to Sean Hannity household name level without the gift and the reps. You know, back to archery. I could sit and hire an instructor who came to your home every day for an hour, and you could be okay, but you wouldn't be gifted. Like someone might be gifted or a race car driver.

[Dawson]

Yeah, I'm not gonna be an Olympic archer.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You could get around the track at a good pace on the car, but you wouldn't necessarily have that instinct, you know? So, yeah, reps are important and rep. We've all been on people's radio shows that just had reps and they didn't have any ability, but the reps were enough to kind of keep the plate spinning. All right, anyway, Mark Ruffalo doesn't need a podcast. Here we go. What's our next story?

[Dawson]

Our next story is kind of along the same lines of the importance of free speech. Angelina Jolie said that she doesn't recognize the United States while advocating for free speech at a film, the San Sebastian International Film Festival. I was just there. I saw them setting up for that.

[Adam Carolla]

I would say this. Here's one of the few times I could agree with Angelina Jolie.

[Dawson]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

If she would walk through the San Fernando Valley, walk through Sunland, walk through Pacoima, walk through Canoga park, look at all the signs in Spanish. Listen to all the radio shows. See all the garbage and graffiti everywhere and see everyone selling the dogs on the street and go, go. I don't recognize this country. I would go, you're right, bitch. I don't either. It looks more like Tijuana to me. But she would never say that. She would just talk about systemic oppression or totalitarian. Whatever, whatever, but never impacts them.

[Dawson]

I think she likes the international vibe. She says, quote, I have to say that I love my country, and I don't at this time recognize my country. She told this to people at a press conference, specifically per the Hollywood Reporter on Sunday. I've always lived internationally. My family's international. Of course, I'm sure she's referring to her children who are adopted from, what, four different countries, I'm guessing. My life, my worldview is equal and united. Anything anywhere that divides or limits personal expressions and freedoms for anyone, I think is very dangerous. I think these are such serious times that we have to be careful not to say things so casually. And she said that she was gonna be careful about what she said at the press conference, which is really sad. And then she said, but these are very, very heavy times.

[Adam Carolla]

She doesn't need a podcast either.

[Dawson]

Agree.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll decide. I would like to just.

[Dawson]

You want a list? That'd be a fun.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to issue badges like New York City used to do with taxis or liquor permits out here.

[Dawson]

This celebrity deserves a podcast. This celebrity does not tell me why.

[Adam Carolla]

I the Pooh Bah. The grand poobah of podcasters. You convince me why you deserve a podcast, and I will either issue you a podcast.

[Dawson]

I think I just want to toss out names and then you can be like, yay or nay.

[Adam Carolla]

You know what, though? I'm gonna be a little more even handed.

[Dawson]

Do it well. Some people who are actors and stuff, they obviously, like, have the relationships. They can get the. Like you. You can get certain celebrities in here. That's interesting conversation that the American audience likes to see, like the behind the curtain. And they do it well. But then others, like, do not do it well, and they're trying to copycat, and it just doesn't work.

[Podcast Announcer]

I got one for you. Yeah, I can't remember her name, but it's the woman who made the vagina candles. Should she have a podcast?

[Adam Carolla]

Gwyneth Paltrow. Gwyneth Paltrow?

[Dawson]

God, no.

[Adam Carolla]

I'd have to smell the candle and sleep on it physically. On. When I say on it, I mean on the candle. We knew I Think I was trying. I hope I was being clear.

[Dawson]

I got it.

[Adam Carolla]

A lot of people think I'm thinking about it. When I say sleep on it, I mean actually on that candle, but not with it. Now she's. She's very interesting. She's got.

[Dawson]

I can't stand the sound of my life experience.

[Adam Carolla]

She's been there and she's done that. I would listen to her. She has to now come in and impress me before I issue her her badge. That lets her do podcasts.

[Dawson]

We talked to her about ski accidents and.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Dawson]

And defeating legalistic.

[Adam Carolla]

She hit a guy on the slope. The guy sued her, she won. What I'd probably do with her is I'd go, I'm gonna issue you a six month badge and we'll see how it goes.

[Dawson]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

And if I don't like what I hear? Then you'll get no badge. Okay, I will take the badge back, but let's just see how this goes. Trial badge. But she could have. That's my whole point. I don't know. She could be out of this world. I don't want to say she's bad just because I would assume she's bad, but she might be super interesting.

[Dawson]

So you'll give her a six month badge, but Angelina Jolie, you don't want to hear at all.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, she already said she had to be careful what she says.

[Dawson]

Yeah. So that's not going to make for an interesting podcast.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Dawson]

You need a little edge.

[Podcast Announcer]

This might be a softball. Charlize Theron.

[Adam Carolla]

Hate. Charlize Theron. Hater. But I'll listen to what she has to say.

[Podcast Announcer]

Don't you think you already know what she has to say?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, see, this is. We don't want.

[Dawson]

A lot of these people don't have much to say because they're so used to saying things that have been written by other people.

[Adam Carolla]

Charlize Theron. I don't know if you guys are whipping Theron. I don't know if you're there. I file them under the Ilhan Omar heading in that people who live here, who hate this country bother me. But people who come here from shitty countries and thrive here, who shit on this country bother me to a next level.

[Dawson]

Look at that.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? And the people who. Especially the people have experienced all the fruits of this country while.

[Dawson]

Like Mom. Donnie.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. While escaping someplace. Now, the worse your country was and the more you have here, the more I hate you. And she came from South Africa and she got here. Oh. Oh, God. Trevor. Noah. Does this too. He comes here from South Africa and then he talks about what a racist piece of shit this country is. It drives me nuts. I don't wanna get into that simple game of why don't you just go back? But I do think that. Just go fucking back. If your heart's in the Sudan or whatever the fuck it is, just go enjoy your paradise that you fled from with guys chasing you with machetes. But, okay, she came here, she's a billionaire, has a life of Riley, adopts whomever she wants to adopt, and then goes on tirades explaining to us why there's certain places she won't bring her black kids because of this racist country we're living in. Except for she never says the places, just.

[Dawson]

And also, she's never like, Mobile, Alabama.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, and her kid, statistically, is gonna get shot by a black kid, not by a white supremacist if they are.

[Dawson]

In an unsafe neighborhood that BLM has told us shouldn't be policed.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Dawson]

And joins a gang.

[Adam Carolla]

So, you know, there's Ilhan Omar's at the top because her country was horrible and she's a millionaire now and all she does is shit on this country. But there is plenty of room for anybody.

[Dawson]

Again, does Ilhan Omar have a podcast?

[Adam Carolla]

No, she shouldn't. Well, first off, she's not a great speaker.

[Dawson]

I'd rather her have spend her time on a podcast than her spending. Spend time like passing horrible legislation and radicalizing the Democratic Party.

[Adam Carolla]

Cnn. Okay. Homegrown, sort of homegrown.

[Dawson]

Ungratefulness is, I think, more so understandable because you have been. It's like the bourgeois terrorists. It's like you're in this little protective bubble and you like to think that you're a quote unquote freedom fighter and you have this. All of these first world privileges that you think are horrible and awful while you're living off of daddy's trust fund.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Dawson]

I can kind of understand the psyche of that. So I agree wholeheartedly. But when it's someone else from another country that's come here and utilized our awesome system to grow themselves and to grow their bank accounts and to grow their fame, then they're. Then they do that.

[Adam Carolla]

Especially if you like, if we literally saved your life because you fled here and that's just bash, bash, bash. Those are the worst for me.

[Dawson]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

That's why I hate the worst. All right, what's the next one?

[Dawson]

All right, apparently misogyny knows no gender. Alex Wagner and Senator Joe Manchin discussed Kamala Harris's New book apparently woke words and government shutdowns on Bill Maher over the weekend. We have a weekend. We have a video of this.

[Adam Carolla]

No podcast for Alex Wagner. You don't think that Republicans would vote for a woman?

[Alex Wagner]

Any woman? I just think misogyny runs deeper and stronger than you'd like to imagine.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm not. I think if the country is ready.

[Joe Manchin]

For a change bill, and if it.

[Adam Carolla]

Has a good woman or a good.

[Joe Manchin]

Strong woman, I think when every time I had to negotiate a bill and I had senators, female senators, I always got, I thought, a better bill. The compassion they brought to it, the understanding they brought to it, was different than what a man thinks, and they had so much more.

[Adam Carolla]

So maybe no podcast. Maybe so far behind most other countries in the world. I don't know.

[Alex Wagner]

White women keep giving elections to Donald Trump. So, you know, there's that reality, too. It's not just. We're talking about a binary here where it's men and women. Just misogyny knows no gender.

[Dawson]

Oh, really?

[Adam Carolla]

Ugh.

[Dawson]

By the way, so bad. So I like Nikki Haley. Probably gonna get hit for that in the comments. But, like, put up a good female candidate. And I bet you white women in the country that care about national security and our bank accounts not going downhill and schools being better for our children would vote for that woman. But turns out Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton haven't been that. So stop trying to be like, vote for them because of their hoo ha. How about we vote for the person that we think is gonna be best for us, our business, and our families?

[Adam Carolla]

Speaking of hoo ha, I'm gonna need one of Paltrow candles ordered up for the night. I sleep on that tonight.

[Podcast Announcer]

Got it.

[Adam Carolla]

So get that express shit.

[Dawson]

You think you can Amazon prime it?

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I was thinking I spent the day and then the evening with Dave Rubin and Sage Steele, and in our world, in the projection world of the Democrats, like, gay man, gay man, black woman, woman of color.

[Dawson]

Unless you're conservative.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but. But I realized as I met them and we hung out and then went out with Sage's husband that night, and everybody and I took them out to dinner. I just thought. I never thought about their sexual proclivities or the color of their skin once the entire time. Because I would just know Sage as Sage and Dave is Dave. I don't know. It makes no nevermind. I mean, I know it sounds convenient. Guys like me are the guys they claim think about it the most and would never vote for.

[Dawson]

Yeah, like you and Trump and the.

[Adam Carolla]

Bible Belt people and blah, blah, blah. I have zero interest. Dave Rubin. The second he starts giving me ideas, then he ceases to be a gay man and he's just a guy with ideas. You know, And I don't know, a person, first off, said this a million times. If this is their game, and it is their game. Gavin Newsom is 6 foot 2 and he's white. I'm 6 foot 2 and I'm white. We're approximately the same age. We're both heterosexuals, and we're both born and bred in California. And I think he's a sociopathic imbecile, dangerous nut job. I would never want him coming near the White House. He's dangerous to me because his ideas are so corrupt. But he doesn't even have his own ideas. He's a sociopathic fucking buffoon. And I would much rather have the blackest man I know, Larry Elder, as the governor of California. Why? Because his ideas are better. And I don't know.

[Dawson]

And by the way, his ideas are better. Not just for you, the six foot two white man from Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. But his ideas are better, we think, and we have the proof to back it up for every single American, including the minority ones.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So it's so condescending and slimy and just kind of gross to constantly go, we couldn't. Hillary Clinton is horribly flawed person. And Kamala Harris is wildly flawed. And they're both bad people with bad ideas. I would never.

[Dawson]

They're really bad communicators, too.

[Adam Carolla]

They're both really bad at getting their message across. Yes.

[Dawson]

On the other hand, maybe women aren't misogynistic. We just have really good BS monitors.

[Adam Carolla]

I would take Hillary Clinton over Joe Biden. I mean, it'd be close, but I'd take Hillary Clinton over Joe Biden.

[Dawson]

We saw how horrible he was.

[Adam Carolla]

But I would take sage steel over Mitt Romney. All right, so just knock it off. It's 2025.

[Dawson]

Mitt Romney, also a six two white guy, actually. I don't know if he's that tall. I think he's over six feet, though he may be.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, we got one more.

[Dawson]

We do have one more.

[Adam Carolla]

All right.

[Dawson]

Okay. Jasmine Crockett up there with Ilhan Omar and AOC of ladies that we do not want to have a podcast.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, to be fair to Jasmine, she just lies. I mean, Ilhan believes it, but I think Jasmine just lies. She doesn't care whose podcast is.

[Dawson]

I don't know. It's the. Oh, Jonathan Van Ness, he's one of the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy guys.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, okay.

[Dawson]

How do you not know this? So he's one of the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy guys. Do you know the premise of the show?

[Adam Carolla]

He's got Kenny G's hair, but maybe.

[Dawson]

His hair is actually kind of fabulous.

[Adam Carolla]

Maybe the G stands for gay.

[Dawson]

Well, he is very gay. Well, then that's Kenny G. Sometimes he cross dresses.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay.

[Dawson]

He wears the heels and the dresses.

[Adam Carolla]

People's hair bother me a lot. But all right, so wait, does my.

[Dawson]

Hair bother you today?

[Adam Carolla]

No, no, no.

[Dawson]

I am like. You don't like men with long hair?

[Podcast Announcer]

Well, it's like almost. That guy can't really decide.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't like, like, I don't like people with lots of hair and lots of trouble hair.

[Dawson]

Trouble hair.

[Adam Carolla]

Trouble hair.

[Dawson]

Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I was sitting in a lobby of a fancy hotel over the weekend and a family came in and the three daughters, probably aged nine to 13, all just had massive cornrow. Just piles, just piles of hair. And I just thought, that's a full time job for all three of you. Like, you're spending an inordinate amount of time dealing with this hair. And you know, there's 24 hours in the day. I mean, there's only a certain amount. There's a finite amount of time you can spend on things.

[Dawson]

But God gave them that hair. God, I don't think Gabe. Jonathan Van Ness this hair. He's like, he's working on this hair. So he's. I think he's spending an inordinate amount of time on his hair.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, God didn't give anyone three foot long braids.

[Dawson]

No, that's true. But they genetically have different hair. And like using the cornrows is the way that they do their hair. Like, that's fine.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm saying they spend an inordinate amount of time on their hair and I think it's a waste of time.

[Dawson]

Do you know how much time white women spend on their hair other than this one right here? Because I don't think it ever.

[Adam Carolla]

You couldn't spend more time than what these guys were spending on their hair, because that's a lot. All right, you disagree. Here we go. Although you don't know what I'm talking about. But anyway, let's go ahead.

[Jasmine Crockett]

What ends up having people become criminally impacted really informs so much of what I do legislatively. Right? So when people are like, oh, you know, crime is terrible and yes, it is. Right? Like, because when somebody goes out and commits a crime, they don't typically, you know, say, well, I'm a D or I'm an R, I'm an I. It's not like literally, like, it's about, well, how do you fix it? How do you make community safer? And I do think that I'm in a unique situation because I was having the conversations with people that were going out and committing crimes, and so I understood what was kind of pushing them there. And so I do want people to know that just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal.

[Dawson]

That.

[Jasmine Crockett]

That is completely different being a criminal.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, you can pause it here.

[Dawson]

Yep. Uh huh.

[Adam Carolla]

Dawson's been around long enough to hear me. I've been yelling about this for a decade now. It's not the nut job, crackpot, stupid politician in your studio who's at fault. It's the head nodders. Aha. You do say, like, they go, what.

[Dawson]

She said was just so profound.

[Adam Carolla]

Just because I am a Pisces doesn't mean I act like a. Yeah, okay, I hear I've yelled about it all the time. That was all the idiots on CNN who are like, well, this horse pace. No one went, hey, you know, you're misunderstanding this point. Or there's a polite way to do it. You can go, that sounded confusing.

[Dawson]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Explain that.

[Dawson]

Well, but I want to hear.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to hear his. Uh huh. That's my favorite.

[Dawson]

The part where she says, just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal. That's when he does the.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. Powerful. I've never thought about that before.

[Jasmine Crockett]

You want people to know that just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal. That is completely different.

[Adam Carolla]

So hold on. Sounds like soup. Just because I'm a clown and I work at a circus doesn't make me a circus clown. You ready, Dawson? Some knowing. I want some knowing nods. All right, you ready? Just because I'm the dean of students at Colfax elementary doesn't mean I'm the dean of students at Colfax Elementary. That went up. That had a question mark to it.

[Podcast Announcer]

That was a Tell me more.

[Adam Carolla]

I want a knowing. I want a knowing grunt. I want a knowing grunt. You know, in my world, one death is too many deaths. When it comes to death, I dream of a world where everyone has a seat at the table of dignity.

[Dawson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And where no child gets left behind.

[Podcast Announcer]

You know, she began by talking about what she does legislatively. I would argue that you've done the exact same amount of legislative work Well.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know that she ever goes to work. All I do is see her on tv, on podcasts, shows and podcasts, behind.

[Dawson]

A podium talking about Governor Hot Wheels.

[Adam Carolla]

Governor Hot Wheels. I forgot about that.

[Dawson]

Remember that? And then she said she didn't say it. And then there was video of her saying it. She's like, own up to it.

[Adam Carolla]

I will say this. We are living in a world now where videotape of you doing or saying something doesn't mean that much.

[Dawson]

Oh my God. My husband and I were talking about this last night, like with conspiracy theories because of just AI and editing and all the talking heads and it's like who can be trusted and who can't. It's real life mentoring candidate meets, I don't know, 1984 meets a lot of factors when you could, you could make up something that you and I said and it could go viral. And then once the truth comes out, it's like the New York Times corrections that come out like a week later and like a bajillion people see the first one, but then only 50,000 people see the second. It's kind of scary.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the scary part is most of the sort of hoaxes or fake news or whatever we had to deal with all throughout Covid and before that, a lot of Russiagate stuff and that kind of stuff. It's all on video. Their self imposed confusion about fine people on both sides or whatever it is, injecting bleach or something. You can watch the video on your phone but still moving forward with it. And then my favorite one is when someone is clearly joking, says somebody or.

[Dawson]

Like Trump was at the memorial service about hating his enemies and he like was doing it for the laugh.

[Adam Carolla]

No. Yes.

[Dawson]

But NPR and CNN run with despite forgiveness from a mostly Christian audience. Donald Trump says he hates his enemies.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the ones I like. Yes, I like that one. I like Dictator Day one.

[Dawson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Cuz in the same video he goes, then I'm going back and I'm just gonna do it to drill and get energy independent. It's the most interpretable thing on the planet. So now I don't know what you call it when you willfully misinterpret things other people say, but that's a bad place to be.

[Dawson]

Dishonest, lack of character, dangerous as a journalist.

[Adam Carolla]

It's not a good default setting journalist, as I would say.

[Dawson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Alicia, let's give you a plug.

[Dawson]

Thanks.

[Adam Carolla]

Weekly op ed for the Washington examiner newsmakers and website aliciacraft.com youm can go to adamcarolla.com for all my live shows. Until next time, Adam Crowfoot, Alicia Krause saying mahalo.

[Podcast Announcer]

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