Senator John Kennedy EXPOSES the TRUTH behind the Government Shutdown

Summary

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Podcast Summary

Adam Carolla Show

Episode: Senator John Kennedy EXPOSES the TRUTH behind the Government Shutdown
Date: October 16, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode features an in-depth and candid interview with Republican Senator John Kennedy, known for his sharp wit and colorful analogies, as he “exposes” what’s really behind the most recent government shutdown. The discussion covers the mechanics and politics of the shutdown, the influence of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, lawfare, media manipulation, and the state of modern American politics. Adam and his co-hosts also riff on contemporary pop culture and inject a hefty dose of irreverent humor throughout. The episode transitions from comic banter and social observation to an extended, substantive political conversation with Senator Kennedy.

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Key Segments and Timestamps

Small Talk and Comedy Banter
[00:00–25:00]
Adam opens with news about sports, stand-up gigs with guest comic Rudy Pavich, and riffs on generational resentment, workplace attitudes, and race, including his notorious "Ernest Lee Bigot" character sketches. They gently transition into observations about public interactions and the current political climate.

Cultural and Media Commentary
[25:00–49:00]

• The group critiques media narratives, notably The View’s COVID-19 coverage ([36:00]), and the liberal tendency to rely on emotional arguments over effective policy discussion.
• Adam and Rudy discuss legacy versus new media, using Jon Stewart and Larry David for reference, and explore problems of partisanship in pop culture.

Senator John Kennedy Interview
[66:44–102:49]

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In-Depth Interview with Senator John Kennedy

The Power of Plain Talk

[66:44–68:01]

• Adam praises Kennedy’s communication style.
• Kennedy: “God gave me the right to remain silent, but not the ability.” ([68:01])
• Kennedy says his goal is clarity and directness, deliberately eschewing political jargon.

Government Shutdown: The Real Story

[68:01–73:37]

• Kennedy explains that the budget expired, and Democrats (via Schumer) demanded a $1.5 trillion spending deal or threatened a shutdown:

  “The Democrats have tried to muddy the water to make it look deep. But here's what happened...we're not asking for anything except keep government open so we can negotiate a budget...This is a multiple vehicle pile-up, but it's not our fault.” ([69:08])

• The conflict centers on progressive (“loon wing”) control of Democratic leadership, specifically Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders’ influence.

Progressive Wing Steering the Party

[72:11–74:14]

• Adam compares Democrats to a Viking ship: most are just rowing, but a progressive minority controls the rudder.
• Kennedy:

  “Their leader is a congresswoman, Ocasio Cortez...That's who Schumer is taking orders from, because he's up for reelection...[People] thought they were getting the second coming of Bill Clinton...instead, they got the second cousin of Bernie Sanders or Ocasio Cortez.” ([72:11])

What the Progressives Want

[75:07–76:24]

• Kennedy: They want chaos as a step toward consolidating control in the name of virtue and intelligence:

  “They think the American people are stupid. They want everyone to send all their money and all their freedom to Washington so they can make decisions for the rest of us.” ([75:07])

The Rise of Elite Narcissism in Politics

[78:02–80:15]

• Adam and Kennedy agree that a new kind of arrogance—embodied by figures like Barack and Michelle Obama—has changed the tone in politics from humble public service to top-down elitism.
• Kennedy:

  “They think anybody who disagrees with them is not just wrong, they're insane...racist...Nazis...They're often wrong, but they're never in doubt.” ([78:06])

The Shadow Presidency and Legacy Media

[80:15–93:54]

• Kennedy argues Biden is not truly in control; former Obama aides run things via the teleprompter.
• The Trump prosecutions (“lawfare”) are unprecedented, sending dangerous signals about American justice:

  “That’s the sort of thing that happens in countries whose Powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat. That doesn't happen in America.” ([83:08])

• Both agree the rise of podcasting and independent media are blindsiding political strategists still stuck in the legacy media age.

On Lawfare and the Comey Indictment

[81:12–85:15]

• Kennedy: The DoJ and FBI, under Garland, crossed a “Rubicon” by prosecuting a former president and unleashing unpredictable consequences.
• Comey’s indictment is only the beginning: “There will be others, in my opinion.” ([85:15])

Media Control, the Laptop, and Election Manipulation

[88:27–89:33]

• Adam: Media and political interests collude to guide voter perception (e.g., suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story).
• Kennedy: The American people ultimately saw through this attempt to engineer the election and punished the manipulators.

The Failures of Kamala Harris

[94:57–97:40]

• Adam and Kennedy react to Kamala Harris claiming she is the “most qualified” person to be president.
• Kennedy:

  “I have seen the polling...most Americans looked at the vice president and thought to themselves, ‘When her IQ gets to 75, she ought to sell.’” ([95:19])

Who Leads the Democrats Now?

[99:05–100:53]

• Kennedy argues the 2028 race is wide open, with Newsom, Pritzker, and others contending.
• The next Democratic winner will be whoever goes back to practical, relatable kitchen-table issues:

  “Democrats won’t win again until they start talking to real people about real problems.” ([100:53])

The Future of the Shutdown

[101:02–102:33]

• Kennedy expects this shutdown to be the longest in history, predicting it’ll last at least until November 1.
• The likely resolution: “It ends when Senator Schumer goes to six or eight of his colleagues and says, ‘Bail me out…I don’t know how to get government back open.’” ([101:59])

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Notable Quotes

• Kennedy: “God gave me the right to remain silent, but not the ability.” ([68:01])
• Adam Carolla: “It’s an elitism meets a narcissism...I’m not here to tell people how to live or what to do. The ones who dove in with both feet were the ones who jumped at the idea of controlling other people's lives.” ([76:24])
• Kennedy: “They’re often wrong, but they're never in doubt.” ([78:06])
• Kennedy: “That's the sort of thing that happens in countries whose Powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat. That doesn't happen in America.” ([83:08])
• Kennedy (on Kamala Harris): “When her IQ gets to 75, she ought to sell.” ([95:19])
• Kennedy: “Democrats won’t win again until they start talking to real people about real problems.” ([100:53])

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Episode Tone and Style

Adam’s signature irreverent, edgy, and improvisational humor is present throughout, even in serious policy discussions. Senator Kennedy matches it with deadpan wit and memorable one-liners, making for a mix of biting social critique, sharp political insight, and pure entertainment. The conversation is frank, unfiltered, often provocative, and—despite the subject matter—frequently laugh-out-loud funny.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode provides a forceful overview of the latest government shutdown, a scathing critique of progressive influence in the Democratic Party, trenchant commentary on media and lawfare, and a discussion about the shifting landscape of American political discourse. Kennedy’s appearance is packed with plain talk and memorable metaphors, offering clarity in the usual fog of Washington-speak. It's an essential listen for anyone looking to understand the stakes and spin in contemporary politics, all delivered through Adam Carolla’s uncensored comedic lens.

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Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

Well, in this episode, Republican Senator John Kennedy, the guy with all the phrases and jokes, that guy, the guy who's always on Fox, super funny guy, nice guy. He's gonna join us. Also, Rudy Pavich has news and we'll do all that right after this.

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[Senator John Kennedy]

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[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

From Corolla 1 Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, Senator John Kennedy. Plus the news with Rudy Povich. And now, earlier today, he walked by a scary Halloween display, but then realized it was just another LA homeless encampment.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Adam Carolla.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on that church. We got a mandate. Get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. I'd love how you guys been watching the news. Our new segment on YouTube and the vlogs and everything. Nice. Rudy Pavich is here. Very funny. Stand up. Some say too funny.

[Rudy Pavich]

Some. Who are these people?

[Adam Carolla]

I was standing in the back of Soul Joel's over the weekend and Rudy had him rocking and rat a tat tat bringing the heat. The audience was erupting in laughter. And I was just standing back there going, huh? I want to go after this now. Not that I'm not funnier than you, but you were just in full stride. And I feel like I walk out. It's like when you get on the treadmill and you go, I'm just going to walk at two miles an hour for five minutes. You know, like one Journey song and then start to build up. You were full sprint.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And then I was gonna get out there and start my walking lap, my warmup. Sure. And that's. It's too big a. Too big a divide.

[Rudy Pavich]

Well, that's nice. I always hate. You know, the thing I love most about going before you is that regardless of how the crowd is, you still go out and do. You've always said it doesn't matter who goes in front of you, you still have to go out and be funny. And I've always had, like, such a weird part when somebody goes out in front of me and they bring the heat and. And now I go, God damn it. Now I got to go out there and get on that goddamn bike and pedal faster because I don't have a choice where. Regardless, you crush every time. I don't think I've ever seen you have a bad set.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Rudy Pavich]

I don't think so.

[Adam Carolla]

God love you, Rudy. I appreciate your candor. All right, so Rudy's funny. And we were just in Pottstown, and we're sold. Joel's and then the. Not the Mariners. That. Who the hell just won in the playoffs?

[Rudy Pavich]

The Brewers.

[Adam Carolla]

The Brewers.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

The brewers won. Rudy was excited.

[Rudy Pavich]

I've had a long couple of days to sit and think about our conversation after that game. And I just want to say, you know what? I think I've turned the leaf on my Dan Gladden story.

[Adam Carolla]

Someone was rude to Rudy when he was 8, and he's held onto it. But this is how people, and mostly chicks, are. You can you go to a restaurant, could be your favorite. Could be a perennial favorite. Could have gone there as a kid. You have a really bad experience, and you never go back.

[Rudy Pavich]

Never think, yeah, you'll never go back. Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

And that's how people are wired, and that's why you have to kind of watch. You have to watch yourself a little bit. Like, I've been in this business long enough that people that were literally interning for us at one of the guys who interned for us at the man show runs the entire reality division at abc, and we have to go in and have pitch meetings with him. So I wasn't a douche to that guy because, well, I could have been a douche to that guy, but you never know who's going where and when. It's nice not to be a douche to anybody, but be careful, because people end up in positions and they have dominion over you, and they can greenlight things or they can make decisions that affect you. And it's best not just to have pissed off people sprinkled around who could be, at some point, working the proverbial door at the club you want to get into.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, it's always nice when the people that you love and admire, when they're on their way up, make it. You go, I knew that guy was going to do it, but, boy, does it suck when the people that you don't like make it to that next level. And then you're like, ah, shit. First off, I was only a douche to that guy because he deserved my douchery towards him.

[Adam Carolla]

Dan. Glenn.

[Rudy Pavich]

Dan Gladden. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So Dan Gladden, the pitcher for. Wait a minute.

[Rudy Pavich]

No, I believe it was. Was he a third basement I don't know. I have to go back and look. But you had a good. Yeah, but. But basically what I. The story was when I was 8, after the Minnesota Twins had won the World Series. So this was in the. 8. 1 in 87. So they were, like, on, like, a Minnesota tour. 88. They came to St. Cloud, Minnesota, where I was living. It was like Gladden Bly. Maybe not Bly. Levin. There was a few other ones in the mix. And I, I. He was standing by a back door, like, smoking a cigarette or something, and I walked up and asked for an autograph.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

And.

[Rudy Pavich]

And he declined because he said, hey, kid, there's a line. And I've always held onto it. So I stopped cheering for The Minnesota Twins. DeFacto, became a Brewers fan. And then you pointed out, as I told the story, you go. You said something along the lines of, well, hey, man, there was a thing while you were supposed to. You were supposed to be in line. Like, that's how the.

[Adam Carolla]

You are dealing.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah. And you're right. And after I started thinking about. I'm like, you know what? It wasn't so much about Dan Gladden that I disliked or liked that story, but I think the biggest thing about it was the people that I was around when I was that age were the biggest shitheads. They were impossible to watch sports with. And then when I moved to Wisconsin and I found a new group of friends and what I considered to be a new family, I didn't want to be on the outskirts. So that is why I then became a Brewers fan at the age of 20. And it doesn't, you know, negate the fact that this thing happened between Dan and I. But I think I'm looking at it through different eyes now, because for years, I held on to so much resentment. And then as you and I sat there and you pointed out, well, hey, if. You know, maybe if you were a better human being, you would have went and stood in line. I was like, yeah, you know what? Maybe you're right. I should have gotten. I wanted an autograph. I should have gone the correct channels to do it. And I didn't. And.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, it takes a big man. Absolutely.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So, you know, I was thinking about. And he said, dan Gladden out smoking. Baseball is really the only sport where you don't have to give up smoking. Yeah. Like other sports, you play hockey, you play basketball, you play football. Someone's gonna go, hey, man, you should really. Baseball. If I was a doctor and he said, I smoke, I'd go, okay. I Don't feel like that's gonna affect your game.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, there's a good.

[Adam Carolla]

You never run for more than. Let's. The maximum you're gonna run is about 11 seconds. That'll be the max. That'll be if you leg out a triple. You're not gonna hit. You'll trot. If it goes over the fence, you're legging out first, maybe into second base. Like, your cardiovascular's gonna have to be good for about 11 seconds. You're 26. Smoke up.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, there's a great story about John Kruck where he's, like, out warming up, and he's, like, smoking a cigarette, and some lady yells out, hey, crock, have some respect for yourself. You're an athlete. And he goes, ma', am, I'm a ball player. You're like, yeah, that's totally the difference between the two. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. So I thought of something. I was watching a clip of a young black man being tasered by the cops. I'm always interested. I'm interested. Like, in the part, they yell, stop. Stop. Turn around, I.D. iD. They just walk away. They just walk away. But at some point, they yell, taser. Taser. Taser. And that should get the attention of the person, because now they're moments away from being shot with a taser. And. And then their body locks up, and then they just go face first down on the asphalt. And I was watching it, and I realized there's a lot of brothers out there that don't seem to respect the taser. Then I thought of a joke, and you don't know my character. I only do it during football. I never do it on stage. But I came with this character called Ernest Bigot. And Ernest Bigot, his catchphrase is, I'm just asking. I'm just asking. I'm just asking. So, like, Ernest Bigot would say, do black folk think Axe body spray is called ask? I'm just asking. I'm just asking.

[Rudy Pavich]

Oh, this is a bumper sticker.

[Adam Carolla]

Ernest Lee Bigot Lee. I love it. Ernest Bigot is just asking. So I came up with a racist. Earnestly. Just asking. Because it's been a while, but earnestly, Bigot wants to know if future generations of black folk are gonna be immune to the police taser.

[Rudy Pavich]

Just asking.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, just asking. Like it does with bug spray and cockroaches, where eventually it doesn't affect the next generation.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, rattlesnakes ain't rattling anymore because of evolution.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. But I'm just asking.

[Rudy Pavich]

Just ask him.

[Adam Carolla]

Just asking. I can't figure out if it's Ernest Bigot or Ernest Lee Bigot.

[Rudy Pavich]

I like Lee. You can even go Ernest L. And then people would go what's the L for Lee? And then they could say it out earnestly. Yeah, earnestly. Yeah. I could see what's his face. Frank Caliendo doing a segment of this on Fox NFL Sunday.

[Adam Carolla]

Earnestly Bigot. He'll play earnestly. He's just asking.

[Rudy Pavich]

He's just asking, that's all. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

The other offensive thought I had was I was thinking about as I travel and as I travel the airports and the hotels and stuff, the lumberyards, the lumber yards mostly airports, security, hotels and stuff like that. I'm running into a lot of angry chicks out there and it's tough dude. Cause it's like I'm like just asking. I had to come if you want to know how I'm wired. Like here's the comedy, here's the comedy of how I'm wired. I didn't even say this. So I'm in Fort Lauderdale and we're doing Patrick Bet David's show. Okay, Patrick Bet David is his show that we taped. Starts at 9:00am and ends about 11, 11:15. You know they keep it a little loose, could end at 11, 1115, 1118 or whatever it is. So me and Andrew have all our stuff at the hotel they put us up at which is the day after we saw you. And the car is gonna pick us up at 8:30 in the morning that they sent and take us up the street to his studio which is six, seven, eight minutes away. It's under 10 minutes. So I start doing the math. Checkout is 11 in the morning. I got my room full of luggage and I don't really want to drag all my luggage to Patrick Betts studio. What I would like to do is get ready for that show Also that show's kind of a hair gel, button down shirt kind of thing. And now we're traveling which is sweat jacket and ball cap and sweatpants and stuff. So my master plan is I'm gonna go do his show and then get back in the car and come back to the hotel, get my bags, change, wash the hair gel out of my hair and go back and go to the airport. The car's gonna wait, takes to the airport. So I go and talk to the person behind the counter. It's 11am checkout so we're not going to make it back. They go until 11, maybe 11:15, maybe we'll get back at 11:30. If we're lucky, but the key card's not going to work. So then I go talk to the woman behind the counter who's a semi sizable woman of color. And I go, hey, can we get a late checkout? And she goes, now I did this in New York when I had to do Gutfeld and get out of there and stuff. I always need a late checkout. Just the way the schedule lays out. Gutfeld, I got till 1:30. She goes, you got till noon? And she was a little shitty about it. And now I'm like, every time I try to get a late checkout, the person's nice. And I go, we'll try and see what we can do or whatever, but she just goes, I'll give it till noon, which is an hour, but it's not really. The best you're ever gonna do is like 3pm 1:30 is kind of mid range. Noon is not great, but she gave me noon and she was a little shitty about it. And not horrible, just a little curt. And then she goes, you go past noon, you gotta pay.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So then I go, okay, give me the key. Cause I know we're gonna need new keys. Give us the new keys in advance. And Andrew, you gotta do it too. And then we'll get out. Now the other thing I keep wondering about with all the middle aged black chicks being mean to me is are they just watching Jasmine Crockett all day scream about racism and then they go to work at the airport and then here comes MAGA man around the middle aged rich guy and they're like, fuck you. Which by the way, men might be able to separate this. I don't think women can. If you are going to be fed a steady diet of systemic racism and this guy doesn't want you here and if he had it his way, you'd be put on Devil's island or something. I don't expect a lot of courtesy at the airport or behind the counter. I don't expect you hitting me on the head of a flathead shovel. But I don't expect a sort of genuine hospitality toward the enemy, just like I would expect other attempts on Trump's life if he is in fact Hitler. So if you idiots buy into the steady diet of race hustling that you've been getting from the Obamas and everyone else, well, yeah, this is a reasonable outcome. You're being a little shitty, you know.

[Rudy Pavich]

Although for the years in the like the late 90s, early 2000s, they did those studies. Is grand theft auto making kids go out and you Know, commit crimes. Well, I don't know. Maybe not out of a video game. They're being influenced by it. But when they see actual people, this is actually them turning their point on top of them. Because when they say, you know, I didn't think I could do it till I saw somebody who looked like me in that movie or on tv. And now they're finally seeing people who look like them who are giving shit to everybody. And now you're right, they are taking a little bit of a green light when they watch news segments that go down this route.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I'm not even know how conscious it is, but if you fed me a steady diet of white devil shit, and these are probably CNN watchers, well, then my attitude would change. But, okay, so she gives me the hour. So then we go to Patrick David's show. And I'm sitting in there, and it's so funny now I'm staring at the clock. They got a big. In there, and it's like 11:20. And he's trying to wrap it up because at noon we're gonna get locked out of the room. And also then have to pay for the extra to get. And I need to get new keys, and I gotta deal with this bitch again. And I don't wanna do it. I'm just staring at the clock, right? So I'm staring at the clock, and it's like 1121 or something. And I go, good, good. We can just wrap it. We can leave. Haul down the street. Just as long as I can slide that key card in before noon. I'll get into the room and then I'll get my bags and I can work it out. So Patrick is wrapping up, and one of his guys go, you know, Adam, who do you think's gonna win for governor in California or whatever? And I'm like, I don't know. What's his nose? Here we go. By the way, two things, everybody. If there's ever a situation where I'm interested in you and your dog, that means I'm gonna make fun of you and your dog. Like, I'm in the airport and go, oh, what's his name? That means I'm gonna make fun of that dog later. And if you ever hear me not talking for a long period of time, that means I'm in. I wanna go home, like, right away. Cause otherwise I'll be all in. So they just keep going. And it gets to, like, 11:30, and they wrap it up, and everyone's real nice. And I'm like, okay, okay, we can just jump in the car, we'll get out, we'll get to the. And then of course there's segment producers. As I'm walking, I was like, could you come back in the studio? We're gonna lay this thing down where you look into the camera and you say. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay. And so I'm like barking into the camera. And then I'm walking out, the people are following me, like, hey, can we get a picture in front of the motorcycle and stuff? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but come on. Here we go, here we go. And I'm staring at the clock. Cause I now I'm obsessed with, with. I don't want to get locked out of the room. I don't want to deal with this bitch again. I don't want to have to get a new key. And I don't want to pay the fee for missing it by two minutes. And so the segment producer lady is like, hey, can we.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

And we.

[Adam Carolla]

This thing and I want to talk to you about it. I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's good, it's good. We take pictures and I literally just storm out and jump in the car. And it's like, I'm staring and it's like 11:44, but it's only a seven minute ride. And as long as I can get in the room by. And so I just burst out, I'm in the car, but Andrew's nowhere to be found. So she's got his ear. Could you tell Adam back where? And I'm just sitting back in the car like, come on. Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. And at some point I start calling Andrew as he's walking out of the place. And I'm like, come on. And we get there and we get dropped off from the hotel and it is like 1151. And I'm like, I'm just gonna swipe that key card and I'll get in that room and I got this. And Andrew and I hop in the elevator and like I see down in the lobby, the car's waiting. Get up the room like 11:55, swipe the card. No good.

[Rudy Pavich]

No, no, of course not.

[Adam Carolla]

No good, no good. And then I call Andrew. Your car. Yeah, no good, no good. I go, okay, back down, back downstairs, back down. See the chick behind. Hey, the card. You know, still got a little time on the clock, but it didn't work. Issues Andrew a new card. Issues me a new card. Go back again.

[Rudy Pavich]

They should grandfather You a couple of minutes for that. Walk down to the elevator.

[Adam Carolla]

Go back up. I'm on the top floor. I'm on the 15th floor, 14th floor. I'm top all the way at the end of the hall. Go down again. Car doesn't work. Call Andrew, does your card work? Yeah, my card work. I'm 0 for 2. I'm 0 for 2 now. Once again, I don't know what's going on here, but. Oh, for two. Back down again. Now in. Now it's after 12, and there's nothing I can do. You talk to a dude, Andrew, who just scanned your. Your old card. What's that mean? Yeah, it was. I was talking to a gentleman behind the counter. There were two people behind the counter. I went to the guy. Yeah, yeah, go to the guy. Find the guy. So I'm dealing with the chick, and now I'm back for a second or third time. Like, it doesn't work. This card's not working. And then they do a lot of. Did you do the whatever? And I'm like, yeah. And she goes, all right, I'm gonna call the janitor, the maintenance guy, and he's gonna meet you.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, let's go there.

[Adam Carolla]

And I go, okay. And he's, you know, English is not fantastic. And I go, just grab the. Just grab. Of course, she's got to try my card first, because you don't believe me. So here it is. Put on there. Red. Oh, by the way, I forgot about this. I spent my whole life with this. You know what I mean? After coming down the first time, and it didn't work, and then the second time it didn't work, the chick behind the counter, she goes, what color the door?

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

What?

[Adam Carolla]

I go, what's that? What color the door? I go, the door. What? Oh, what color did the light turn on? The lock? You mean it was red? She goes, okay. Yelling. What color the door is? Probably not a lot of people are gonna know exactly. Beige.

[Rudy Pavich]

It was like a green portal, like Rick and Morty is what it looked like.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Navajo. White is the color of the door, my lad. Yeah, you could say. Did it turn red or green when you. But yes, it turned red because it wouldn't let me in.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Anyway, so then she gets hold of the janitor. Then I go to the top, and I meet the janitor, and the janitor gets his universal fob out. And first he's got to check my car. He's got to make sure it was pulled shut. Right. Checking the mechanism or something. And then at some point, He. He takes his universal fob and he wipes it on there and it turns green. And then he does it. Opens the door a foot and then he shuts it back. And he goes, it works. And I go, no, no, no, I gotta get in. I gotta get in. And he goes, you're not coming back. I go, no, no, I'm coming in. I'm never coming back. That'll be that. So I got in there. But then I started thinking of. I've been thinking about this for a long time, which is we've created a society where we forced women into the workplace and a lot of them don't know their dads have issues with men and are pissed off. And then I realize back in the day when a woman hated her dad but was forced to work, she became a stripper. And that worked out for us because we became daddy. And that was a good situation. Now they're forced to work, they hate their dads, but they're fat, so they can't strip. They have to work at the airport, and that's where the ire comes out. So what used to work like in the 90s because all the strippers were basically chicks who hated their dad, who had to get out there and make some hay while the sun was shining. But now everyone's fat because of seed oils and they're all working behind the counter somewhere. And then I gotta see em and now I interact with them and I don't have a stack of singles.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, well, this could also be a moment for Ernest Lee Bigot. When is. He's just asking. Remember? Just asking. When is it that instead of a late checkout, you're gonna ask for a person of color checkout? Ah, see, just asking.

[Adam Carolla]

It could be color time. Colored people time.

[Rudy Pavich]

Exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Rudy Pavich]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Obviously they wouldn't say colored people time. There's no way, because there's no way the Marriott would get away with. But they might go person of color time. Thus including everybody.

[Adam Carolla]

I did learn from the Museum of Tolerance or slavery or whatever it was, the Black Heritage Museum, that I think being punctual is a white person's thing. I don't know if you heard about that.

[Rudy Pavich]

I've heard rumblings in our community, sure. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So maybe that is a good thing. Dawson, can you find. Is it in the African American Museum in, like, Washington, D.C. where they claim, here's something. Here's some Anglo traits. And I think being prompt is one of them.

[Rudy Pavich]

I have a dream.

[Adam Carolla]

Follow through Yeah, I have a dream. It's between 12am and 4am yes.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, I believe it's also. You know, I'm not even going to try to use. I'm going to butcher his joke. I'm sorry. But a mutual friend of ours, our friend Ryan, has a joke where he said that he went to the Negro League Museum in Kansas City. Negro League Baseball Museum. And he goes, I didn't know this. The bus they rode on, all back seats.

[Adam Carolla]

That's funny. Ernest is just asking.

[Rudy Pavich]

Just asking, just asking.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so this is interesting. People are talking about, well, in this department, I'll shift gears, but I'm gonna ask for Rudy's input here. I had a dream many years ago, and anyone who's fan of Loveline might recall that almost 30 years ago, I started Loveline almost 30 years ago. And shortly after I started Loveline, I would say to Dr. Drew, I just want this country run like a business. And I would go, I just want some businessman in there. Just nuts and bolts business. That's decisions. And I would always say, just find me a businessman and run it like a business. That's who I want. I don't want the guy, the president, to be a lawyer, and I don't want him to have this pedigree or that pedigree. I just want him to be a business dude. And we make decisions based like a businessman would make it. Oh, you have the.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

This is a great headline for the Miami Herald. Smithsonian Museum apologizes for saying hard work and rational thought is white culture.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, we were out of our minds. Well, this will lead and this will dovetail into this, which is to say 28 years ago, when I said into a microphone, I just want a businessman, nuts and bolts, whatever makes the most sense. And that's how we'll run the country. I thought in my mind, well, that's pragmatic and that would work. What I didn't realize is that we would become infants, come unglued emotionally and become a bunch of scared, retarded pussies, and that it wouldn't work because the scared, retarded pussies would go nuts when the businessman was making decisions. So I figured we'd have. And basically I was talking about Trump before there was a Trump for president. I just kept saying, business guy, business guy. It's all deals, it's all business, and we'll run the country that way. Which I thought was a capital idea. If everyone had the mindset they had in 1997, then it would work. But now we have a bunch of screaming, fucking retarded pussies, and it can't work because they start screaming and crying and pushing and stripping their clothes off and laying in the middle of the street of Portland and shit like that. We have a bunch of pussies going nuts. And I did not anticipate adults turning into crazy pussies.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, yeah. Between the lay down and working the front desk at the Ramada in Fort Lauderdale, they're all goddamn crazy.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, now, let's see, there's one more thing. Yes. The Cheryl Hines.

[Rudy Pavich]

Oh, that's actually in the news, if you want to.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you got that in the news.

[Rudy Pavich]

If you want to save it for.

[Adam Carolla]

We may have a separate clip, but I'll keep it for you in the news. Greta Thunberg, you got her in the news?

[Rudy Pavich]

Oh, I don't have her in the news, no. But I did see that she was tortured on a boat.

[Adam Carolla]

Tortured and beaten and abused.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

I just had. I just had the greatest epiphany.

[Adam Carolla]

Let's hear it.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

She looks like he man from Masters of the Universe.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, she does.

[Rudy Pavich]

Absolutely.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. The page girl did not have the power.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, yeah. There was also a cartoon in the Sunday paper that was kind of like a ye olde cartoon that she had that same look, like the. The bangs up top or.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

Yeah. Or you know, one of those extras in a Monty Python.

[Rudy Pavich]

Oh, yeah, Bring out your dad. One of those. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

She also aesthetically, like when she first came on the scene at 16 or whatever, she was. I don't want to think I'm a douche. She was like, at a crossroads in the looks department. You're like, oh, this could turn out pretty good. Or this could go the other direction.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

If you're 25 and they say she hasn't aged well, things are not going good.

[Adam Carolla]

Is she 25?

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

I don't. I think probably.

[Adam Carolla]

No. She's like. She's like 22 or something, but she.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

Still hasn't aged well at all.

[Adam Carolla]

When she first came on the scene, you were like, this could go one of two directions. And it didn't. It went the bad direction with the page boy. But. All right, she's 22. So here's the point. She claims she was beaten and punched and whatever. Okay, first things first. This attention whore is gonna run to a microphone as soon as she's released from the Israeli prison. So if anyone is coming in, they have to be under strict orders to not lay a hand on her or do anything to her, because she's immediately gonna grouse about it when she finds a microphone. But if you're 4 foot nothing and 90 pounds and you are in fact being punched and kicked, I would assume there'd be some physical manifestation of that. Like the chick who was. The blonde chick who was a reporter in Portland like a week ago, who was punched by the antifa. She claims she was punched by antifa and she has a fucking shiner. You don't want to know why she got fucking punched. She got punched by antifa. If Greta Thunberg. If she was in prison and dropped a coffee mug and it landed on top of her foot and left a mark, don't you think there'd be a photograph of that?

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, if there was one bruise on that crazy bitch, don't you think she would chronicle that?

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, well, nowadays people get a hangnail and they wanna talk about it, right? Yeah. She's got her ass whipped. You'd definitely be seeing some photos of it.

[Adam Carolla]

She talked about it, but nothing. What was so Greta Thunberg. They kicked me every time the flag touched my face.

[Rudy Pavich]

What?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know what that means.

[Rudy Pavich]

I don't know what that means.

[Adam Carolla]

She was kicked and punched and tortured. She was in there less than a week.

[Rudy Pavich]

Okay, this looks like the Sydney Sweeney version of Greta Thunberg. She actually looks in the shadows with her eyes all photoshopped, actually. I mean, I don't know about you, but I mean, that photo. Yeah, but the other ones I see.

[Adam Carolla]

Plus, I would like by the way she was kept in solitary confinement for hours. Everybody with bugs.

[Rudy Pavich]

With bugs.

[Adam Carolla]

I would love to talk to anyone who's in solitary confinement for hours versus months or days or years. People. I can't fell sick. Yeah, well, first things first. It's a prison, so it's not gonna be a Four Seasons. But if you had a black eye, then we would know it because you would have a picture of it. And I don't know who wrote this article, but it's interesting they showed a picture of her in the shadows because a picture of her in the light, we would all see that she completely unmarked. And then her being punched and kicked would make us realize she was lying.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, that bloody, lying mouth is covered up in the shadows there.

[Adam Carolla]

That's right.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you?

[Senator John Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Rudy Pavich]

You want to do news right now?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Rudy Pavich]

Let's do it. All right. So getting to that Cheryl Hines story. Cheryl Hines clashes with the view over husband RFK Jr. S record for serving Americans. The Health secretary's wife pushes back on claims that he is the least qualified HHS head in history. As Sonny Hoston went on about. The problem, respectfully, is that your husband is the least qualified Department of Health and Human Services that we have ever had in history. He has also spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion, and I think it is very dangerous. I say that with the utmost respect. We got a clip.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

Spread a lot of misinformation, a lot.

[Rudy Pavich]

Of chaos, a lot of confusion. Clap it up.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

It's just a very dangerous thing.

[Rudy Pavich]

I say it with the utmost respect. Some of it's good and some of it's not. That's the point.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

Listen, we all have different views.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yes.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

And when you say, you know, misinformation, disinformation. We could go back to Covid when he's connecting circumcision and autism. All right, may I finish?

[Adam Carolla]

I'll pause it there for a second. First off, they hate Covid talk. They fucking hate Covid talk. Cause it's five minutes old and they're all fucking liars. Or stupider liar. She brings up Covid, and you go into circumcision.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Also.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, they go. All the misinformation, like, it's that thing. It's that thing. It's like, listen, what happened to Charlie Kirk was wrong. I disagree with everything that came out of his mouth, but it was still wrong. It's like, what do you disagree with? You disagree with everything that came out of his mouth.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Everything?

[Adam Carolla]

Everything.

[Rudy Pavich]

Everything.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, everything. So when he said, take care of your family and raise your kids, or with a disagreement with that you didn't disagree with. They do it all the time. They just disagree. How much, Miss? What? Look, we just had a pandemic. We just had a pandemic, ladies of the View. So it's easy to keep score. Let's just take the shit he said about COVID versus the stuff you guys said about COVID and we'll get a batting average, okay? So no one is batting a thousand, but let's see who has a higher batting average. And I will put. Put my Net worth on him. So what are you talking about? All the misinformation. I love it. They go, all the stuff. All the stuff. Yeah. No one's gonna be perfect in their batting average. His is much higher than yours. Okay, but let her finish. Sorry.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

I finished.

[Adam Carolla]

Please.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

When people. Fauci. People were saying, when you get the vaccine, you cannot transmit Covid, it will stop Covid. And that was disinformation. Misinformation.

[Senator John Kennedy]

We were also still learning about it. It was a. Because now the doctors will acknowledge that.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

And Dr. Fauci has a medical.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, pause it there. Dr. Fauci has a medical degree. That's right. That's why he was able to do gain of function in a Wuhan lab. Chris Carolla does not have a medical degree, so she wouldn't be able to do gain of function research in a Wuhan lab behind people's backs. And she wouldn't need to be pardoned for that reason either. So, first, I love the medical degree. Yes. Everyone who was either wrong about COVID or lied about COVID had a medical degree that you guys threw in our face. There's also many people with medical degrees that were correct that you shunned and said, need to be deplatformed. So I'm not sure how this medical degree part works, ladies of the View, but they. As soon as you bring up Covid, I go, we didn't know. We didn't know. We didn't know. You never said you didn't know. You said you knew.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So it's stupid or liar in his case. Fauci was lying. But I love the backtrack of we're fucking retarded and we don't know anything. And by the way, then why should we listen to you when you make decrees? Okay, because your argument is, why are you listening to me?

[Senator John Kennedy]

So.

[Adam Carolla]

So it'd be like you and I are driving to the club, and I go, rudy, I got this. I've been in this club a million times. Go right up here on Hoover street and then take that straight away to Adams Avenue, and then we'll go down to Martin Luther King, and then at some point, we're out of town.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, well, Adam, I know you have your way, but listen, my. Like, I. I saw a shortcut through that ditch.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, okay. We're in the middle of the barrio. We're not near the club. And then you go, what the fuck? And I go, why are you listening to me? Yeah, I don't know.

[Rudy Pavich]

I don't have a degree. I Don't have a driver's license.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm not Magellan. Yes, I. Well, because I spoke with authority for a long time, and I told you where to go the whole time. And at the end when you say you didn't know where you were going, my excuse is, why are you listening to me? Because I don't know anything.

[Rudy Pavich]

I was still learning the way during that time. We were still learning the way.

[Adam Carolla]

But you're trying to get people deplatformed. Fired from their jobs, thrown out of the fire department, lose their pension, locked out of their jobs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you didn't know anything. But you didn't know anything. Okay, so you shut the beaches and you shut outdoor dining, but you didn't know. Okay, what else don't you know for the next crisis that comes up? Okay, and then are you basically saying then we shouldn't listen to you because you don't know shit and you talk with authority. And by the way, you didn't end anything with a question mark. It was exclamation point. Everything was. I know. Remember, Fauci was science. You didn't believe in him. You missed out on the science part. So the I know. Crowd now backpedals, and again, their excuses were imbeciles and we're incompetent and we didn't know anything. That's the best we got. Yeah, okay. All right, bitches. We're not listening to you then. Yeah, there's more. I think there's. You can go back, like, 10 seconds. I do love when you bring up Covid and misinformation from forest scans foreskin.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

Right.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Because now the doctors will acknowledge that it.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

And Dr. Fauci has a medical sign. They were censoring Bobby because Bobby said, where's the science to show us this? And there wasn't any. But people attacked him and said, you're wrong. So it's like. Like, let's. Let's take a step back. I know that's your opinion, and that's okay. Spread a lot.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, well, you know, a lot of the other stuff that they talked about in this that I love Cheryl for, because it feels like Cheryl's starting to. Her winds are starting to change a little bit as time is going on, and maybe she's sort of seen that her political party is full of shit.

[Adam Carolla]

I think so. Also, she needed to navigate Hollywood for a long time now. Okay, so here's Larry David's a fucking nut job. He's a political lefty, insane person. Like, he may be. Let's see, he would be left of Mark Ruffalo or maybe tied in the political nut job. Insanity. Global climate change. Just fuck stick retard. Super hard left, so he's great in task. Your boss is a super hard left dude. Super hard. And you don't know when you're coming back for the last season. So what are you gonna do? Put on a MAGA hat and stroll down the boardwalk at Venice Beach? I don't think so. Hollywood people are pussies, and they know where the fucking bread's coming from. And they just shut up and suck a dick because they're co. She wasn't gonna upset the apple cart over there at hbo, especially with Larry David, so she had to just shut up. Now she's in charge. Her man's in the catbird seat. It used to be shut up. And don't piss off Larry David because he's a fucking lunatic and a leftist. Now it's season. The season's wrapped. That's it. No more Curb youb Enthusiasm. Oh, and my guy is Trump's guy and Trump's president. So now she's like, fuck y'.

[Senator John Kennedy]

All.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

See what I'm saying?

[Rudy Pavich]

Why doesn't it work the other way, though?

[Adam Carolla]

Like, why?

[Rudy Pavich]

How come guys like us can look at Larry David and go, absolute comedic genius. We can sit and watch Kirby enthusiasm. Somebody who's on the left can't watch something that you put out or like a Tyler Fisher or something that the Daily Wire puts out. You know, they did that movie a few years ago. What was it called? Something with the balls. Something. I'm speaking.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But why is it that the old male team, transgender, said they were gonna go play. Play basketball against the girls?

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah. So why is it that we have no problem going the other way and watching people who.

[Adam Carolla]

Why are we so much better than everyone? I'll tell you why. I want you to cut me off at minute 22. They do this thing all the time. And I believe that they hurt their arguments because when people dig into me, they go, he said this, he said that. He did this, did that. And they'll go, the unfunny Adam Carolla, blah, blah, blah. Now there is no way of units to measure. Funny. But I'm funnier than all these people. You can't say that I'm not funny because that's what I've been doing for 30 years, and I haven't missed a day. So the. You know. So you can't, like, you can go. You can say I can go, Fuck LeBron James. He's a race hustler. And that guy sucks at basketball because now I seem like an idiot, because he clearly doesn't suck at basketball, and I clearly don't suck at comedy. Otherwise I wouldn't do it for as long as I have done it. And by the way, pre politics, I was considered funny by the same people. So did you just. I. You decided I wasn't funny at some point. So they have to work an emotional component into everything, which is the unfunny, not funny. Not gonna watch that. Versus a separation. Because I would say about Jon Stewart, let's say I would go, well, I disagree with a lot of his political stances, but he's a good dude. He pays taxes, he loves his country, and he's good to his kids. All right? Now, the other side is, I disagree with the political stances. And he's Hitler. Right? And the one that's always weird is he'll go, his policy, the Ron DeSantis policy of cruelty. That's what he is. He's an evil dog catcher from a Disney movie from the 60s.

[Rudy Pavich]

Cats and Bags.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? Right. He's crazy cruel. He hates kids and he's cruel. Yeah, that's Ron DeSantis. He's cruel. You idiots just say you disagree, and also you hurt your argument when you start piling on. You know, it's that sort of. When you're a kid, you go, you know, some point, the guy beats you verbally. And you'd go, oh, fine, but I'm not. You're fat. It's like, okay, you've been defeated because you're arguing over something, and now you just had to yell out at, the guy was fat. So they can't do it because the argument isn't enough. They lose the argument. They're not gonna win the argument. So they have to add on the extra spiritual moral things of being cruel or evil or racist or bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic. They have to tack on all the window dressing because the argument just based on the merits of the argument or the policy just. That's not gonna work because the numbers don't pencil out in that department. So then they have to go to this sort of cruelty department. So you go, I don't think we should raise the minimum wage because you raise it to 20 bucks an hour, as they did here in California. And there's a lot of people out of work and a lot of businesses going under and a lot of kiosks now, and automation and robotation and robotachin and all the stuff that we're gonna get rid of. We're gonna put these people out of work and then you can't argue the numbers. You're not gonna be able to argue the numbers. It's gonna raise the price of the food. Businesses are gonna go out, they're gonna start cutting back on staff, and everyone's gonna be part time. No, one full time. All right, so you can't make that argument. I believe mothers should get a living wage. And you're cruel for wanting to deny them and their children food because you can't make an argument that works with the numbers. So you start working the emotional side of it, and you'll see it when you argue with your kids. You know, what's a kid say? What's a kid say who doesn't make the team, who's nine, who comes home from school? Coach hates, Coach hates me. That's an emotional argument. Not, you fucking suck at baseball. It's coach hates me. Not if I worked harder and learned to hit a curve or whatever it is. It's coach hates me. Right? That's an emotional argument. You just got an F in your history class. Why? The teacher has it out for me. These are emotional arguments because you can't compete. You're not writing the book reports, you're not doing the homework, you're not doing the work. So everything boils down to this person's cruel. This person doesn't want families to eat this one. You're making an emotional argument because your numbers aren't working in the stats department of the argument.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, the best Charlie Kirk videos are the ones where he talks people back into a corner and then they go, you got a big head. And then they turn around and run away. I've showed so many people those videos and go. Cuz they would disagree with everything he would say for no reason. It was just like, I hate this guy. And I go, do you love your family? Do you want peace? Do you want a nice community? Yeah. Well, that's what this guy wants. You disagree on 20% of what he says.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. All right, we have a video of Larry Larry David finding out on that show. It's my favorite show. We just bring progressive rich white dudes and tell them their family's own slaves.

[Rudy Pavich]

This isn't AI, is it such an.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Odd combination on my father's side of the. Of the Germany and.

[Adam Carolla]

And the South? Yeah.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Two places that we have fought against as a country.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, right. Oh my goodness. I hope no slaves show up on this, please.

[Rudy Pavich]

Turn the page.

[Adam Carolla]

Now, Larry. This is another part of the 18th.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Oh.

[Rudy Pavich]

Oh, you did it. You did it. I knew it. I knew it.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Unbelievable.

[Adam Carolla]

Unbelievable. Boy, that's unbelievable.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Oh, boy, oh, boy. Name of the slave owner?

[Rudy Pavich]

Henry Bernstein.

[Adam Carolla]

My great grandfather was a slave owner. Earnestly bigot. Just asking.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Female. Age?

[Rudy Pavich]

17.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Mulatto.

[Rudy Pavich]

Oh, Professor, I'm so sorry.

[Senator John Kennedy]

You can see why my father didn't want to tell me anything about his family.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, so There you go, Mr. Pius. Yeah. Okay, can we just do this, and I mean it, with the. What's Larry David's net worth? Okay. Can we do something like this? They talk about reparations all the time. We argue about reparations, and then some people go, my family wasn't even in this country. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so my kid's mom's family is all born in Italy. My dad's parents are born in Italy, and nobody's known anything here but poverty. There's no slave owners with the Corollas. We're too new to this country. My kids have no slave owner reparation anything. There's nothing there.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, well, you had slaves except for your mom bought them used at a garage sale.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. We'd go slave dumpster diving on Friday nights. She covered one with a sheet, which is in Porto. That's what she'd do with her sofa. All right, Larry David's net worth is $400 million. He's 77 years old, so he's not gonna be able to spend that money with the time he's got left on this planet. So he and his party, and he's very progressive, are for reparations.

[Rudy Pavich]

Sure.

[Adam Carolla]

And he has a history of slave ownership in his family, and so does Ben Affleck, who's net worth is 600 million, and so does. Oh, who else did we talk about? We talked about Andrew. Ben Affleck has this. I'd love. Who was the other guy who was revealed? Oh, Sonny Hassan. All right.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

Nick Kennedy. Yeah. Okay, so you guys are all bleeding heart liberals, and you're for reparations, and your family has slave ownership and you're all multimillionaires. I don't have your money, and my family has no history with this, and I'm against reparations, so I'm 0 for 3. You guys are 3 for 3. Why not cough up some cash? Why not just get that side of the aisle? Who is for reparations? And here's all you here. It'll be easy if you're for reparations, and there's a history of slave ownership, and your net worth is more than $30 million. Then you cut a check. That'll be a substantial amount of money. I mean, look, Larry David's net worth could go from 300 or, sorry, 400 million to 375. It's not gonna put a dent in his bank account. And there's Sunny Haas and can cut a check. Ben Affleck can cut a check. They can all cut a check. And then they could get what they want, which is reparations.

[Rudy Pavich]

Hold on.

[Adam Carolla]

Do you want reparations? Yes. Okay, good news. Yeah, great news. Great news. Your family owns slaves, and you're rich, so you cut a check. What about Carolla? Carolla's family didn't own slaves. He doesn't have your net worth, and he's not for reparations. So cut a check. Mr. Reparation Guy, who never will cut a check, by the way. But it's pretty easy. Why isn't some. Why isn't Jasmine Crockett pitch this? Like, why does it, like. Let's just look. Let's see if you own slaves, see what your net worth is, and let's do it.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Rudy Pavich]

Aren't we paying for our white privilege, though? Isn't that. Yeah, that's what we have to do.

[Adam Carolla]

Every time I travel, I know.

[Rudy Pavich]

You know, man, I got pulled over on my way to a gig the other night, and the police officer let me go with a warning. And when I called somebody, I was on the phone telling them about it, and they go, there's that white privilege kicking in. I was like, no, no. That's the respectful hands up on the steering wheel where they can see them. Sir, do you mind if I reach into my glove box and grab my registration?

[Adam Carolla]

Sir?

[Rudy Pavich]

I'm gonna reach around and grab my wallet all the whole time. Being incredibly respectful at the end of it. And it was a Latino cop. Guy walks up and goes, hey, man, just keep it slow in these small towns. I said, no problem, Officer. Have a great night. That's how you get out. It's not because he walked in, was like, oh, whitey. Keep moving, bud.

[Adam Carolla]

By the way, there aren't. I mean, the majority of cops in LA are black or brown or women or something. It's not that good old. It's not like Murph, the redhead from Union 76 comes out. You don't know who Murph is? Murph, if you find me a commercial from Murph of Union 76. That's the whitest dude.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

He had a hound dog too, right, Murph? Didn't he?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know if Murph had a hound dog. He was the friendly guy. By the way, they would run these state these commercials in la. And that's what I thought going to the gas station was going to be like when I got older and got a license, got a car. I didn't know it'd be the steely eyed Middle Eastern guy going, no, no, no, no, no pump three. No, no pump for you. No pump, no. I didn't know it was that behind the bulletproof glass. I thought Murph was going to come out. Yeah, he's going to come out. Go. Can I check your oil?

[Rudy Pavich]

Always have a rag wiping oil off his hand. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Murph was the widest dude who was the most helpful guy. The noise would go off, bing, bing, the bell when you'd go over the air hose, that would alert Murph. Murph would come out. Check that tire pressure. Check that oil.

[Rudy Pavich]

Check that oil. Yeah, pop that hood psi is a little low on that front left, Mr. Higgins. Don't worry about it though. Old Gus has got you.

[Adam Carolla]

Gus has gotcha, Murph. Union 76 commercial. That's, ah, this one. That's the whitest guy ever. Murph76 station and a Volkswagen Bug. Yep.

[Senator John Kennedy]

My engine's missing and my wife won't talk to me.

[Adam Carolla]

The newlywed. You're off to a pretty rough start.

[Senator John Kennedy]

He said he had the car tuned up.

[Rudy Pavich]

I did.

[Senator John Kennedy]

He did.

[Adam Carolla]

Then why are we here instead of that honeymoon lodge? Somebody probably pulled the spark plug wire. It's an old wedding drink. Turn it off. Okay. Start her up.

[Rudy Pavich]

Murph. You saved my marriage.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, getting people off to a smooth start is what the spirit of 76 is all about.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

That's funny, dude. I, I had an old, I had an old Volkswagen Bug and there was a 76 at the corner of my house or down the street. And I would take it there to this old white guy who would fix it. And every single time he'd fix it, he'd look at me and hand me a bill and say something like 30 bucks never get rid of this car.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, you can fix it. Well, you can almost fix yourself, by the way. Is sabotaging someone's engine an old wedding trail? I feel like that's a, that's a cruel joke. You know, they're by the side of the road, it's at night, they're both buzzed. You Know what I mean? They get hit by semi trucks. Yeah. Guys hopped up on trucker speed. And they get cleaned out. Like that's. It's kind of. I mean, tying cans to the back of the car. So be it.

[Rudy Pavich]

Great. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But fucking with the distributor cap and pulling a spark plug wire and making it miss, That's a little cruel.

[Rudy Pavich]

I'm sorry. Hey, I banged your wife in the broom closet on your wedding night. You know those old wedding gags?

[Adam Carolla]

Old wedding gag. Yeah. So Murph just went down there and fixed it. But Murph is who. That's who I thought I was gonna be dealing with in Los Angeles. Not scary foreign guy.

[Senator John Kennedy]

What? Dance?

[Adam Carolla]

No. Just screaming at me through the bulletproof glass.

[Rudy Pavich]

They pull spark plug wire. Old wedding trick.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

All right.

[Adam Carolla]

You got one more?

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah. Let's do. Letitia James, New York's top law enforcer is housing a cop hating fugitive relative with a lengthy felony rap sheet who was twice arrested for assaulting police officers at one of her Virginia homes.

[Adam Carolla]

According to court documents, her great step, her great granddaughter. Niece. What is she grand.

[Rudy Pavich]

Niece.

[Adam Carolla]

Her grandniece has a crazy rap, like, felon record.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

Oh, it's insane.

[Adam Carolla]

A rap sheet. Yeah. But it's also. It includes getting pulled over four times in the same day.

[Rudy Pavich]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Like, literally, it's like, I just saw this. I was like, it's so easy to avoid cops. It's so easy. Not. No. Now it's easy not to interact with cops. It's easy. You just don't do shit that attracts them. Wait, do we have the clip or was it. I heard it all. Well, you can lay it out.

[Rudy Pavich]

Yeah, There was no. Yeah. I didn't see a clip. But talking about her grand niece. Nikia Thompson, 36, wanted for failing to complete the terms of her parole following a 2011 arrest in Winston Salem. In that case, she was charged with malicious conduct by a prisoner, a felony, along with assault of a government official and resisting a public officer.

[Adam Carolla]

But then.

[Rudy Pavich]

Keep going. This was 2020. Since she's been living in Virginia in the house that Letitia James owns, she's been charged of possession of burglary tools, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and grand larceny. Including the summer before. In July, Thompson was hit with four citations in a single day, including driving 80 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone and stopping her vehicle improperly on a highway. It was just the year before that that she was ticketed once again for doing 80 and a 55 and got a Summons for improper child restraint.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So earnestly, Bigot wants to know if she got her together with the guy who's been tased a million times. I think you find at some point their kids are going to be impervious to pepper spray and tasing. Well, here's. Okay, I will put this in perspective and then we'll talk to Senator John Kennedy. The thing about the lawfare and the turnabout, is it fair play? And then he's using the legal system to go after and so on and so forth. I will just paint a picture for everyone because Letitia James ran on doing that to him. She ran on saying, I'll find something and take Trump down. Okay. Which is an insane thing. The same to a microphone. Okay, so turnabout is fair play, and this isn't anything, and this is nothing. Burger. Yeah, technically she did it, but so does half of America and whatever. Whatever. Okay, I'll tell you what this is. This is basically, you're the Oakland Raiders and you just got screwed by the Tuck rule. And it's bullshit. And you don't know what it is and you don't even know why, but you just lost the game because of Tom Brady and some rule that we didn't even know about. But they're going to the super bowl and you're going home because of the Tuck rule. And now it's a new game and you got the ball and the Patriots are rushing your quarterback. Go ahead and call the tuck rule. Well, we're going to take that Tuck rule. Sure, you can win the game now. And it's like, whoa, that's Tuck rules bullshit. It is, but it worked for you guys and you won the game. So now we're just gonna implement the same rule and you can go, it's a BS Rule. Okay, but it worked for you guys. Yeah. So now we're just claiming it again.

[Rudy Pavich]

Well, in the same breath, talking about Gavin Newsom as he was trolling Trump once again this weekend. They put out a graphic on what was his. It was press office posted a photo on X of President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu clutching hands and comparing them to dumb and dumber. So you're right. They always say, hey, man, we want more decorum in our politics. And now they're figuring out that that doesn't work for you. So you have to troll. You have to go be that guy who's a little offensive, and you have to start a couple of fires. And now Gavin Newsom finally figured it out, so he's got people in his press office posting stuff like this.

[Adam Carolla]

I get it. But this dumb and dumber work when you end a war and get hostages back.

[Rudy Pavich]

Even Andrew pointed out. So you're comparing them to two lovable people. Like what?

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

The Adam Carolla show presents Senator John Kennedy's birthday cocktail party for November 21st. Let's see who's here. Let's welcome French writer, philosopher and playwright Voltaire. Let's welcome the 258th pope of the Catholic Church, Benedict the 25th. Here's the American politician who committed suicide on live TV. Bud Dwyer from the Memphis Horns. Saxophonist Andrew Love, Harold Ramis is here. Let's welcome Goldie Hawn from the Men's Warehouse. George Zimmer is here, the guy who wrote the theme song to the Greatest American Hero. Stephen Geyer is here. Let's welcome actress Nicolette Schwarzenegger. Sheridan. Icelandic singer Bjork. Troy Aikman just walked in. Here's Ken Griffey Jr. Michael Strahan. Singer Carly Rae Jepsen is here. And the senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin. Senator John Kennedy is on the Adam Carolla Show.

[Adam Carolla]

Good to see you, Senator.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Adam, good to see you, man. Thanks for having me.

[Adam Carolla]

My pleasure. I see on TV all the time with your witticisms and your analogies, very funny and effective. I think you can paint a picture with a short analogy or a funny saying much more effectively than a long run on sentence. Has that always been your style?

[Senator John Kennedy]

Yes. And my business, in large part, Adam, is a lot like yours, is communication. And the American people are busy. They, you know, they're busy getting up every day and going to work and obeying the law and paying their taxes. They don't have time to sit around all day listening to politicians honk on like a goose. So when I have a chance to communicate to them and make my points, I've got four or five minutes. And I want it to be memorable and I want it to be genuine and I want it to be plain. And I wanted to be candid. And sometimes that gets me in trouble. But God gave me the right to remain silent, but not the ability.

[Adam Carolla]

How to Test Negative for Stupid and why Washington Never Will. It's available now and wherever you get finer books. So I guess the shutdown seems like something everyone is talking about. I know the Republicans seem like they would like to stop spending so much money, especially on frivolous things and especially on frivolous things that take place off of the shores of this country, which I wholeheartedly agree with. I'm from California. So we spend billions on a train that goes nowhere and then we scrap it. And we're weirdly sort of immune to it because the numbers are so astronomical now that you almost can't digest them. And so you end up sort of becoming immune to this. But just in general, I feel like the Republicans are the party of trying to save some money, and that money is taxpayer money.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, we are. And this shutdown is really very simple. Now The Democrats have tried to muddy the water to make it look deep. But here's what happened Tuesday. Two weeks ago, our country just rocked it along, minding its own business. The budget expired. Our budget expired that day at midnight. But we've been talking to the Democrats about working on a new budget. And I thought we were making progress. And then all of a sudden, Senator Schumer came to us and said, here's the deal. Unless you give us $1.5 trillion to spend, as we tell you, we're going to vote to shut down the government. And, you know, our heads snapped back. My mother didn't raise a fool, and if she did, it was one of my brothers. There's no way I was going to vote for that. There's no way President Trump was going to support that. There's no way my Republican colleagues were going to vote for that. And so we just said, well, do what you got to do, because we're not giving you $1.5 trillion. We're trying to reduce the size of the government. And that's really what's going on, Adam. We're not asking for anything. We're not asking for a single solitary thing except keep government open so we can negotiate a budget. And that's what's going on. I mean, it's a multiple vehicle pile up, but it's not our fault. It's Senator Schumer and his puppeteer, Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. So do you think that's what's going on? I mean, Schumer's hanging on for dear life and it's sort of the super progressive side of the aisle. That is weird because I think of, I never thought of it this way, but I'm picturing Democrats in general, like the Democrats I know. Let's just say they're in a large Viking ship and they're all just paddling. They have an oar in their hand and they're just rowing in a large Viking ship. And that's what most of them are doing. But there's a handful of people and they're in charge of the rudder and they're going, we're not going the direction you want us to go. And the majority are just going, we're just trying to make land. We're just rowing. We're just hardworking folks. And they're going, no, no, we're steering toward climate change and the trans community and all the weird stuff that nobody wants. And the majority of you rowing don't want. But we're in Control of the rudder. And I feel that's what happened with Biden. Biden got sold to us like some sort of middle of the road, you know, slow and steady Uncle Joe and all that. But he. And that's what people voted for. But that's not who was in charge of the rudder. That's not who was steering the ship.

[Senator John Kennedy]

I think you. You're absolutely right. That's a good analogy. The loon wing, the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, it's not every Democrat, but it's a pretty big part of them, maybe a third of the party, 40%, but they're in control. And their leader is a congresswoman, Ocasio Cortez. Now, she's helped along by Senator Bernie Sanders, for example, but they're in control. They're about to elect a socialist mayor of New York. And that's who Senator Schumer is taking orders from, because he's up for reelection in a couple years in New York and he wants the loon wing of his party to love him. And that's why he's trying to ingratiate himself to them and to the congresswoman with a. With a shutdown. And you're right about President Biden. And I think most people who voted for President Biden thought they were getting the second coming of Bill Clinton, who by modern standards was a moderate Democrat. Instead, they got the second cousin of Bernie Sanders or Ocasio Cortez. And that's who's in control of the party. And they're running things.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And what they got was an auto pen and a bunch of people in charge who they didn't vote for. And so.

[Senator John Kennedy]

But yeah, that was just gonna say this wing of the party, these people are crazy as bedbugs. They hate. They hate George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato. They think they're all racist. They think kids can change genders at recess and we're supposed to honor that. I mean, they're just crazy. But they are in control.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. And that's kind of an argument I have with people sometimes where they go, what about the Klan or the proud boys? They're not in control of the Republican Party. They bring up the Klan every 10 minutes. I've never seen a Klansman. I'm in Southern California. So they don't have a lot of rallies in this neck of the woods, but they're not in charge of anything. The loony side fringe is not the fringe. It's the majority in terms of policy. They are in Control. They are dictating policy, and it's nutty and it's dangerous. And then you kind of get back to, what do they want? It seems to me like they want chaos because it doesn't seem that any of their requests are clear or have an end game.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, yes, they want chaos, but out of the chaos here is what they really want. They think they are smarter and more virtuous than the American people. They think the American people are stupid. And so they want the American people to send all of their money and all of their freedom to the loon wing of the Democratic Party in Washington. And they will make decisions for the rest of us because we're not smart enough and we're not virtuous enough to do the right thing. They think that they can spend your money better than you can. It's the most elitist view, arrogant view I can possibly imagine. But that's what they believe. That's what President Biden's people believed. Deep down, I think that's what President Obama believes. And that's what we're. That's what we're dealing with. A bunch of people that have more zeal than wisdom. They're often wrong, but they're never in doubt. They have all the answers. Yeah, just ask.

[Adam Carolla]

It's an elitism meets a narcissism. Like there's a kind of. You have to be narcissistic to want that kind of dominion over people. Regular folk who aren't elitists and narcissists. When you say, do you wanna be in charge of a group of people? They go, no, that's uncomfortable. It's not for me to say. It's not for me to dictate to them what to do or how to go about it. That's the way I felt all during COVID I'm not here to tell people how to live or what to do. The ones who dove in with both feet were the ones who jumped at the idea of controlling other people's lives. That's why I find it so rich that guys like Gavin Newsom would talk to us and lecture us about socialism and totalitarianism and control and dominion and stuff. We just got done with COVID He did everything to control everybody in his state. And so did Gretchen Whitmer, and so did whoever's running, whoever's up. Chicago, New York. They all did it. So why are you lecturing us about control over your citizens when we just did an experiment called Covid? It was 10 minutes ago and you guys all failed.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, that's a good analysis, but you have to understand. I think you do, but many people don't. Don't. They don't see it from the inside like I do, and, like, to some extent, you do. These people. How can I put this? These people really think they're the smartest people on the planet.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Senator John Kennedy]

And they also think that they're righteous.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Senator John Kennedy]

They think anybody who disagrees with them is not just wrong, they're insane. They're racist, and they're sexist, and they're misogynistic and they're Nazis and they're bigots, and I could go down the list. That's why I say they're often wrong, but they're never in doubt.

[Adam Carolla]

I think Barack Obama, and even more so maybe Michelle Obama became the sort of poster children for that, like, super elite. He speaks like we're hanging on every utterance that comes out of our mouth. He talks so deliberately and so slow, as if we're all kneeling at the hem of the man who's come down from the mountain, who's carrying the tablets with the wisdom. He doesn't say anything. She doesn't say anything either. But they're both poster children for this era of sort of super elite. And yes, they have much more education than you do, and you couldn't possibly understand, but they're gonna save you from yourself, essentially.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's the most arrogant approach you can have as really a human being. And I didn't. I'm sure I was gonna say I didn't see as much of it. I felt like the Obamas ushered that in. Bill Clinton didn't have that. And Jimmy Carter, you could say what you want about Jimmy Carter, but he didn't have that. Elite, listen to me because you're too dumb to make your own decisions. Vibe. He didn't talk down to everybody. He wasn't that. And neither was Clinton, and neither were the Bushes, and Reagan wasn't that way. And we sort of sailed all the way through. And then we got to Obama, and this started and it continued. I think Kamala Harris tried to pick it up, but she wasn't capable of pulling it off.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, personally, President Biden wouldn't like that. But he wasn't in control. The people around him were in control. And the people around him were basically former aides to President Obama. I was often asked during President Biden's term by my people back home in Louisiana who's really the president, because they would listen to President Biden on tv, and he would talk like he was from outer space. And they would say he can't possibly be making decisions. Who's making the decisions? Kennedy And I would tell them the real president is whoever has control of that teleprompter. And I think the people that have the control of that teleprompter, in addition to President Biden's family, but on a day to day basis, were the five or six top aides to President Biden. And they were all former Obama people.

[Adam Carolla]

Where we at with the Comey indictment? And a lot of what we would. They would call lawfare, which is convenient because these guys engaged in what I believe is a crime. And then they figured as long as we're in charge, we'll always be safe. And then the guy they tried to get put away got back in charge. His name is Donald Trump. And now he's going back to right a wrong, which they call lawfare. But it's not. It's basically they broke the law and thought they were gonna get away with it. And so now there's all these characters and it's, you know, a lot of the people that signed the 51 intelligence experts that signed the document that said Hunter Biden's laptop had all the characteristics of Russian disinformation or whatever it is. All those people, then there's also probably room for Obama on that list. I think it'll all come out sort of like Covid all came out sort of like Russia. The whole Russia Hillary Clinton Steele dossier. It only goes one direction. It's only gonna go one direction for Fauci. It's never gonna turn out. He's never gonna be Saint Fauci who was on a candle. It's all gonna be bad lab. Did it come from a wet market? Did it come from a lab? I know how all this is gonna end. All of it is gonna end the opposite of what you were saying. Not you, but they were saying all through it. Stolen election, spying on Trump. It's all gonna go one direction. But the question is how many and how long and what's your take on it?

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, I remember when it started. I think at the instruction of the Biden White House Attorney General Merrick Garland decided for the first time in this country's history to prosecute a former president of the United States who also was the chief opponent of Attorney General Garland's boss, President Biden. That had never happened in the history of our country. It's not supposed to happen in America. That's the sort of thing that happens in Countries whose powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat. That doesn't happen in America. To put to add sugar on top. They got the New York Attorney General and a District Attorney in Georgia to try to put the President of the United States in jail under state law. And the American people saw through this. And it did more to help Trump than it did to hurting. But what it also did is unleash spirits that can't be controlled. I mean, once you start this stuff, it's hard to put that genie back in the bottle. Now, what I think the Attorney General, now Attorney General Bondi and the FBI Director Patel are trying to do is they're trying to go through the FBI and the Justice Department, they're trying to lift up the good people and get rid of the bad people and put in jail the people who broke the law. They started with Mr. Comey. Mr. Comey did more to undermine the institution of criminal justice in America than anybody I can think of. He's been indicted. Will his indictment be sustained? Will it be thrown out? Will he be convicted? I don't know. That'll be up to our courts. But there will be others, in my opinion.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, because it seems pretty evident that they had an agenda. And you can talk about the law and you can talk about statutes and you can talk about letter of the law, but if you just sort of take the 10,000 foot view of the whole thing, you had an institution that had a bunch of people at the top that were clearly invested in Trump not being the president. They just were. And you always carve out the rank and file and the good guys and the cop on the beat and the guys out in the field doing the real work. Yes, it's not them, but they're not necessary for this. It's the guys at the top. And the guys at the top had a very vested interest in him not becoming the President. Now, there's a lot of reasons, and part of it is just kind of a status quo. We don't want the wild card coming in here shaking things up. We'll take what we know. And by the way, you go along and you get along. Cove pure. You know, we don't talk about water nearly enough. Clean drinking water is one of the best investments for your family's health. And that's why I gotta tell you about Covpure. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now. Honestly, it's the best water purifier I've ever tried. Here's something most People don't realize when you take meds, your body doesn't absorb all of it. A lot of that stuff gets flushed down the toilet. Antibiotics, antidepressants, even hormone disruptors from birth control. And the water treatment plants, well, they're horrible at filtering that crap out. No wonder society is so messed up. Yeah. Think about what's in everything and what's coursing through everyone's body. That's why I purify my water with COVID Pure. The best filtration system on the market. And it's crazy easy. Sits right on your countertop. No plumbing, no tearing into walls, no tapping into stuff, no drilling, no drywall patch. It just sits there. You just fill it up and you plug it in. And by the way, it's got different modes. You can get your water cold. I was just using it last night. Try it. I really think you're going to enjoy it it. Am I right, Dawson?

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

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[Adam Carolla]

So they have a certain amount of power. For instance, Hunter Biden's laptop comes around. They're aware of it, they're in control of it, they understand it. But they also understand that they have a certain amount of control over the election. And they can do things at the most extreme. Arrest President Trump and put him in prison. That would be a way to stop him from ever getting in control again. Or little things like we can shape the election. We'll just take this laptop which could be hurt, which we're definitely gonna shave a few points off of our guys votes and we'll just steer it in a certain way that makes it look like it's something different than what it is and we'll control the outcome of the election in that way for as much as we can control it. That part of it all seems abundantly clear. There's a lot of Americans that don't wanna admit it and they don't wanna think that their side did it. But there's no other way to process what happened.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, here I talk about this in my book. Here's what I think happened from an inside perspective. President Biden is the president. During the campaign, he was able to hide in his basement because of the COVID virus. Once he became president, almost immediately, people could see that he had neurodegenerative disease. He was old. He couldn't finish a sentence without taking a nap. He had to have a teleprompter for everything. And so the people controlling President Biden said, oh, my gosh, you know, he could get beat for reelection. So they say, well, we think Trump's going to run against him, so let's put Trump in jail. And even if we don't put him in jail, we'll hurt him enough that he can't get elected and President Biden can be reelected. Well, once again, they underestimated the American people. The American people said, wait a minute, this isn't fair. You didn't just get. You didn't just. You got President Trump's. You didn't get his name out of the Yellow Pages. You decide you want to prosecute him, it's a political prosecution. And it backfired on him. And then President Biden had to leave the race. He didn't do it voluntarily. He had to. And Vice President Harris was even worse. And that's why we are where we are. And once again, I'll come back to my original point. Never underestimate the American people. They may not read Aristotle every day because they're too busy earning a living, but they are plenty smart and they will figure it out. And they figured this out.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I'll add to that, which is. And it reminded me we have a clip of Kamala Harris talking about no one was more qualified to run for president than her. That. I don't know if you saw it, but you'll probably get some entertainment out of it. I'll let my guys in the booth find it. But I also think that they were working under the auspices of a media and a landscape that was about five to eight years old. They knew that the LA Times and the New York Times and 60 Minutes and they had all the legacy media in their hip pocket. Right. And so they're working under that. But what they didn't realize was the new landscape for media, the podcasts and all the alternative stuff and all the voices that weren't around. And so they were sort of working under an old premise, which is we have everybody. And you can put this down for a second. I'll finish this. Or we'll figure it out. But they thought we have everybody in our back pocket. We have all the legacy media, so we can say whatever we want, and no one will be the wiser. But that was before. Now people are the wiser.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, yeah, the world's changed. People don't just get their news from legacy media. They get their news from social media. They get their news from. From podcasts out of. I don't. I don't have time. I wish I did. To listen to very many podcasts, because I'm going from meeting to meeting and vote to vote. But my wife, for example, and I don't think she's atypical. She. She is addicted to podcasts. It is. It is extraordinary how many Americans get their news from podcasts. And. And. And many people in professional politicians, they still don't get it today. Yeah, you can. The legacy media is not. They're the legacy media, but they're not the media that's really in control. Yeah, they're. I can see the day when the major networks, abc, cbs, NBC, they're gonna be as dead as Jimmy Hoffa.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Be as dead as fried chicken. Nobody's gonna listen to them.

[Adam Carolla]

They did. They were sort of. It was funny because they said it's tantamount to them going, we need to get an endorsement from Oprah, and once we get Oprah and Beyonce to endorse us, then we're gonna win. Yes. That may have been true years ago. Not anymore. So they were still running under a legacy media trot Oprah out, trot Beyonce out mindset, and they should have been running under a new media podcast mindset. I'll show you this clip of Keri Swisher, I think, sort of clumsily talking to Kamala, and Kamala explaining how overqualified she was. That is a decent resume, but go ahead. Well, some people have actually said I.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Was the most qualified candidate ever to run for president.

[Adam Carolla]

I like the some people say, very.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Nice, but go ahead.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm just speaking fact.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Okay. So I'm curious of your reaction to that.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, I know the vice president. We served in the United States Senate together. We were on the Judiciary Committee together. She was very scripted. I think she's a lovely person, and she's entitled to her opinion. But I have seen the polling before she got in the race, and the poll showed that most Americans looked at the vice president and thought to themselves, when her IQ gets to 75. She ought to sell.

[Clip Voice / News Clip Speaker]

Now.

[Senator John Kennedy]

That's what the polling showed. I pointed that out at the time and the legacy media beat up on me like I stole Christmas. But that's what the polling showed. And I don't think she expected to be running for president. But I also don't think they expected President Biden to have a major league goat rodeo meltdown in front of the American people in his first and only debate. And so it was thrust upon her. And the choice and the reason I think Trump won. People looked at Trump and Harris and they said, here's my choice. Trump represents Hope because I know something about him. I know what things were like in his first term. Trump represents Hope. Harris represents more hurt. She'll be just like President Biden, and that's why she got beaten. That's why President Trump won. That's my opinion.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, also, you know, most qualified to be president, you know, being DA of San Francisco or holding some position where you're in the pockets of donors and contributors and stuff. I don't know if I like those kind of qualifications. I would take this guy was a farmer. This guy was a veteran or a Navy seal. This guy ran his own business in my world, welder who ran his own welding business. I like those qualifications better than working in the city council for Los Angeles.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Well, to be a successful political leader, you do have to be smart, but it's more than that. You have to be mature. You have to be governed by morality, not appetite and ambition. You have to have good judgment. You've got to exercise power intelligently. You've got to know which bridge to burn and which bridge to cross. And you can serve in public life all you want to, but if you don't have those skills, then you're not going to be a good president or a good governor or a good mayor. You're just not. You also have to have the ability to communicate. And Vice President Harris could never. She just couldn't communicate. She could. Nobody ever. They did. She like. She was, she was speaking in Sanskrit. Nobody knew what she was talking about. Trump, on the other hand, you may like him, you may dislike, but you, you know exactly where he's coming from. And I think, I think some, I think most people, whether they like him or dislike him, voted for him or didn't, they respect the transparency. And he's pretty much done what he said he would do.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I'm out here in California, so we have Gavin Newsom out here who I despise, but it's only because he's a sociopath and he's very destructive. But I don't know, is he the leader in the clubhouse for the Democratic nominee?

[Senator John Kennedy]

I, I think it's got, I think it's wide open. I, I, I, I think you'll see a lot of people run Newsom Pritzker, you might see Vice President Harris run the game, the governor of Kentucky, the governor of Pennsylvania, Rahm Emanuel. And the experts will tell us who's going to win, who's going to lose. And the experts will be wrong. And I think the Democrat that has the best chance of winning is the one that goes to Bill Clinton, for example, and says how do I get people to stop laughing at my Democratic Party? How do I start talking about the things that moms and dads really worry about when they lie down to sleep at night and can't and when moms and dads lie down to sleep at night and can't, they're not lying there worried about, worried about transgenderism. They're not worried about that. They're worried about how to pay their light bill and their kids education, worried about inflation. They're worried about the enemies that we can see throughout the world that hate America, that want to kill us and drink our blood out of a boot. And the Democrats won't win again, in my opinion, until they start talking to real people about real problems.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, let's hope they don't. Last question the shutdown predictions. What's coming up? When's the next meeting?

[Senator John Kennedy]

I think it'll last. I think right now knowing where negotiations or the lack thereof stand. And this will probably be the longest shutdown in the history of ever. I think a lot of Americans don't really care one way or the other. I think it will last at least until November 1st.

[Dawson (Producer/Assistant)]

Really.

[Senator John Kennedy]

But yeah, yeah, I think it's going to be a long one because what Schumer is asking for is unreasonable. We're not going to give him $1.5 trillion. At least I'm not. And I don't think he can afford to back down because then he looks like a weak weenie. And so he's just we're going to sit here for a while. President Trump.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Senator John Kennedy]

President Trump is just going to keep running the country.

[Adam Carolla]

How does it end?

[Senator John Kennedy]

I think it ends when president or when Senator Schumer goes to six or eight of his Democratic Senate colleagues and says, guys, I need a favor vote to vote to open up government. I can't support you. In fact, I've got a, I'VE got to criticize you and I've got to vote no because I've got to look tough. But get help, bail me out because I've got. I don't know how to get government back open. But what he's got to worry about, Adam, is he's got to worry about that looking like a mutiny. So. But that's how I think it will get out of it.

[Adam Carolla]

The book, how to test negative for Stupid and why Washington Never will. It's available now and insta and X at. Senator John Kennedy, great to talk to you. I'm a fan.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Same here, man. Thanks, Adam. Right back at you. You're a rock star, man. I appreciate you having me.

[Adam Carolla]

I hope we can do it again soon.

[Senator John Kennedy]

Let's do it.

[Adam Carolla]

Let's do it. Thank you, Mr. Kennedy. All right. I want to tell you, I'm going to be flappers October 29th right here in Burbank. And then also November 6th, Boston, Mass, Wilbur Theater, beautiful theater. And then November 7th, day after Buffalo, New York, electricity. Go to AdamCorell.com for all the live shows. Until next time, the emperor, senator John Kennedy and Rudy Pavich saying mahalo.

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