SHOCKING Wildfire Update - Adam Carolla is FURIOUS! + White House Correspondents’ Shooting

Summary

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The Adam Carolla Show

Episode: SHOCKING Wildfire Update – Adam Carolla is FURIOUS! + White House Correspondents’ Shooting

Date: April 28, 2026

Guests: Alicia Krause (co-hosting)

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Episode Overview

This episode brings together Adam Carolla and Alicia Krause for an in-depth, free-wheeling conversation focused on two main stories:

1. A shocking update on Malibu wildfire recovery and California’s byzantine rebuilding regulations
2. Reaction and commentary on the recent shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Adam launches into his signature, unfiltered rants on California’s housing mess, government incompetence, and media hysteria. With Alicia, they explore class divides in disaster recovery, the impact of over-regulation, political rhetoric contributing to violence, and the ongoing polarization of American society—all delivered with humor, skepticism, and no-holds-barred wit.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Malibu Wildfire Update & California’s Housing Woes

[02:51 – 27:17]

• Adam’s Malibu Fire Vlog:

  • Adam recounts visiting Spencer Pratt’s Airstream on Billionaires Beach, observing a completely empty reservoir and burned-out lots (03:32).
  • No meaningful rebuilding has occurred over a year and a half since the fires, despite the area’s immense wealth (04:32–05:44).
  • “Money’s not an issue for these people. There’s zero building a year and a half in, except for one lot, which I’m obsessed with.” – Adam (08:35)

• Class Disparities in Disaster Recovery:

  • Adam and Alicia contrast Malibu’s ultra-wealthy fire victims with lower-income residents in Altadena, noting that for the latter, a paid-off modest home is the primary means of generational wealth (05:09–07:05).
  • Alicia points out how estate taxes can rob families of this essential security, a viewpoint shared by both conservatives and groups like the Black Chamber of Commerce (07:16–08:14).

• Overregulation, Safety Theater, and Building Mania:

  • Adam goes into obsessive detail about a single Malibu lot being rebuilt with “the most foundation you’ve ever seen in your life” — a $3 million base for a private home because of regulatory overkill (10:04–14:38).
  • Rant on how houses built on simple telephone pole pilings in the 1960s held up just fine, but new rules demand hyper-engineered, ultra-expensive foundations (15:07–22:20).
  • Critique of redundancy: “At a certain point, it becomes too much. Then you just keep passing that on in terms of time and money. That’s why we can’t build anything.” – Adam (20:44)

• Septic System Hypocrisy:

  • Adam rails against California’s obsession with bulletproof septic requirements for Malibu rebuilds while allowing “RV slumlords” to dump waste straight into the ocean (25:23–26:27).
  • “Literally, we have homeless people living in sewers and emptying everything in sewers…and you guys were fine with that?” – Adam (25:28)

Notable Moment:

• Adam compares his building obsession to “Foundations on the Spectrum,” riffing on his Rain Man-like recall for rebar and slab specs. Hilarious and self-deprecating (15:07–15:36).

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2. Political Rhetoric, Media, and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting

[55:43 – 100:22]

• Incident Recap & Security:

  • Alicia details the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, identifying the suspect as Cole Thomas Allen from Torrance, CA, and commends Secret Service response (55:43–56:53).
  • Security measures (ballroom built after Reagan assassination attempt, safe holding areas) described as both necessary and emblematic of the times.

• Media Hysteria & Political Violence:

  • Adam lambasts the uniformly negative media & political response to Trump, charging that years of hyperbolic rhetoric breeds real-world violence (66:27–68:03).
  • “Every time you call them fascist or Hitler, you are saying to an assassin—please take him out so that we can regain our...” – Adam (68:58)

• Clueless Journalism:

  • Dana Bash’s limp questioning of Jamie Raskin for “heated rhetoric” is mocked for avoiding specifics about incendiary statements (71:18–75:17).
  • “I’m going to ask you about toning down the rhetoric. Then I’m going to cite zero rhetoric. And then I’m going to let you bash him for three minutes.” – Adam (74:05)

• Social Media & Conspiracies:

  • Discussion of online conspiracies that the incident was staged, fueled by viral moments and media mistrust (78:14–79:06).
  • “Some people have said...that looks like a dummy. Or that looks like it was generated…” – Alicia (78:43)

• Culture of Division:

  • Commiseration that years of leftist academic, activist, and media influence have produced “institutionally formed” would-be assassins (Will Riccardella tweet, read by Alicia, 93:02–93:42).
  • “It looks more like a product of [the system]...media and politics helped build the moral permission structure.” (93:06)

Memorable Quotes:

• “If nobody knows what side you’re on in World War II, you live in a fucked up nation.” – Adam (31:44)
• “I don’t like unions. I never liked them…used to rail against SAG and AFTRA. I don’t want to be in this union. I fucking hate the union.” – Adam (33:20–34:20; see also 41:21)
• “If you guaranteed the result, then everyone’s in. The real thing that really separates the men from the boys is the no guarantee of results. And you still do it.” – Adam (49:29–50:41)

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3. Energetic Drive, Motivation, and Culture

[45:00 – 53:32]

• Hulk Hogan Doc & ‘The Motor’:
  • Adam praises the Hulk Hogan Netflix doc for celebrating unstoppable energy, noting that hustle (“the motor”) is undervalued in discussions about talent and success (45:00–45:57).
  • Alicia and Adam discuss nature vs nurture in drive and how many Americans are increasingly flatliner, lacking initiative unless there’s instant reward (46:49–52:32).

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4. Comedy, Culture, and Roasts

[79:40 – 84:49]

• Jimmy Kimmel’s Controversial Joke:
  • Jimmy Kimmel’s “expectant widow” joke about Melania Trump gets scrutiny after the shooting, though Adam notes it’s a standard roast trope and not offensive if not for current polarization (80:47–83:20).
  • “Anyone, it is also a trope. Any younger, beautiful woman who’s married to an older guy, especially if the guy’s rumored to be sort of a douchey, you would make that joke at any roast.” – Adam (82:15)

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5. Race, Violence, and Cultural Hypocrisy

[84:49 – 89:03]

• Eddie Murphy on Black Presidents:
  • Adam observes the old comedy trope that the first black president would be shot, yet in reality Obama served two peaceful terms; contrasting this with violence against Trump. (84:49–89:03)
  • “The reality is we had a black president for two terms and nobody shot at him on the right … but Trump, this is the third attempt in two years.” – Adam (88:00)

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6. Bonus: Molly Ringwald & Cultural Sidebars

[93:46 – 100:22]

• Alicia and Adam riff about Molly Ringwald’s viral video denouncing “fascism” and ICE brutality, mock her WWII “history” (World War 11), and Adam shares personal anecdotes about the Ringwald family (93:46–100:22).
• Critique of old-school Hollywood, celebrity activism, and the loss of “pure” talent amid today's influencer culture.

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• Adam on Rebuilding Lags in Malibu:
  “There’s zero building year and a half in, except for one lot, which I’m obsessed with…” (08:35)

• Alicia on Generational Wealth:
  “They understand that the number one way to keep a family out of poverty is to have a home, like a stable home and living situation. I mean, it is better for children, for the elderly, for everybody across the board…” (07:27)

• Adam on Bureaucratic Obstructionism:
  “At a certain point, it becomes too much. And then…you just keep passing that on in terms of time and money.” (20:44)

• Riff on Safety Hypocrisy:
  “You had RVs lined up all the way down PCH … dumping [waste] into the ocean, you fucking idiots. They dumped it into the ocean. And you guys were fine with that?” (25:29)

• On Economic Drive:
  “You could be a Ferrari, but if you’re out of gas, you’re just parked, man.” (51:38)

• On Political Rhetoric and Violence:
  “Every time you call them fascist or Hitler, you are saying to an assassin, please take him out so that we could regain our...” (68:58)

• Mocking Media Incompetence:
  “I’m going to ask you about toning down the rhetoric. Then I’m going to cite zero rhetoric. And then I’m going to let you bash him for three minutes.” (74:05)

• Will Riccardella on Modern Political Violence:
  Alicia reads:
  "He was a well-educated, credentialed, employed and institutionally formed. That’s what makes this so disturbing…media and politics helped build the moral permission structure." (93:06)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment | Start – End | Key Topics | |-----------------------------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------| | Malibu Wildfire Update & Housing | 02:51 – 27:17 | Fire aftermath, class divides, construction overkill, septic | | Union Rants / COVID & Compliance | 33:20 – 43:22 | Union politics, forced membership, teacher unions, COVID closures | | Hulk Hogan 'Motor' & Personal Success | 45:00 – 53:32 | Drive, energy, incentive, nature vs nurture | | News – WH Correspondents’ Shooting | 55:43 – 74:53 | Incident recap, political violence, rhetoric, media bias | | Comedy, Roasts, and Culture | 79:40 – 84:49 | Kimmel’s joke, roast tropes, comedy double standards | | Racial Tropes & Political Violence | 84:49 – 89:40 | Eddie Murphy clip, Obama’s presidency, left-right comparisons | | Academia & Will Riccardella’s Tweet | 93:02 – 93:42 | Radicalization and “bourgeois terrorism” | | Molly Ringwald, Celebrity Activism | 93:46 – 100:22 | Cultural riffs, old Hollywood, virtue signaling |

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Summary: Tone & Style

• Signature Adam Carolla: caustic, observant, unfiltered, with technical rants and sharp class commentary.
• Alicia brings grounded policy insights, deftly balancing Adam’s rants with stats and real-world examples.
• Full of darkly comedic asides, self-aware tangents, and recurring deep dives into the absurdity of bureaucracy, regulatory overreach, and cultural double standards.
• Language is direct, casual, and laced with irreverence; laughter punctuates even serious topics.
• If you want an episode that sums up the Carolla style—combining construction-site wisdom, class politics, cynicism about government, and relentless media skepticism—this is it.

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And now your host, Adam Cor. Yeah. Get it on, guys. Get it on. Get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. Checking everything out on YouTube, I see the numbers. Thanks. Alicia Krause is here.

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Sure am.

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Big news. So we thought we'd bring Alicia in, who's got insights and thoughts. But we got a lot of time to get to that. So I thought I'd tell you something that we discovered a couple of days ago, which was Andrew and I were out about shooting with our Malibu vlog, our fire vlog. And we're going to Spencer Pratt's Airstream trailer where his house used to be. And we were up on the hill, we looked down and noticed the reservoir was completely empty for the fire. And Andrew, it feels wrong to laugh

[B]

at it, but it's like what else is new?

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Andrew flew his drone.

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Oh, that's cool.

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Over the reservoir and it's really cool high def stuff. You see crows going by. And he's flying over this reservoir which is up in the hills of the Palisades that once again is completely empty. It is bone dry. And actually there's two aqueducts and both of them are dry. So I don't know that we learned our lesson, but you can go to iamcroll.com and see us. It's pretty majestic stuff. It's pretty crazy. But it is a full blown empty aqueduct sitting. By the way, you can take the drone off from a burnt out lot where the fire. There's many homes that were burnt out in that same area that now has the dry aqueduct.

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Well, had the dry aqueduct and still has the dry aqueduct.

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Yes, you're right. I don't know that it ever got refilled in the last year and a half. And also on that note, it's been a year and a half and there is no building in Malibu whatsoever. And here's the thing that's interesting. I think Altadena is a much different demographic. That is, I'm gonna make this up. But the average income of the person who lives along PCH that was burnt out on the ocean side.

[B]

Ooh, real rich.

[A]

The average income is probably 15 to 20 a year. Maybe on the low side maybe it's. I mean, God, what's his name's houses. I'll think of whose house is up there. And Andrew, tell me too.

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But I mean I could list all the celebrities that I know have spots in Malibu and some of them have second homes out there.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of. Oh for sure, there's a lot of that. I mean average income may be 40 or 50 million along there. Now you go to Altadena and the average thing is $72,000 a year combined or something.

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A lot of the people in Altadena that lost places, they were multi generational homes. There are a lot of blue collar hourly workers or friends of ours that are like both Parents working, two kids in public school. Like, first home. Probably their only home they're ever gonna have.

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Yeah, listen, I come from these people. My dad ended up in Altadena, but my mom lived in a house in North Hollywood. And then her mom died, and then she moved to her house, her other house in North Hollywood. I mean, whatever wealth my mom had, which was. It was only shit her mom left her in the form of a home, which one was $10,000 in the early 50s, and there was $12,000 in the early 50s. And then she sold the house I grew up in for like 680, 10 years ago, and they bulldozed it.

[B]

Wow, they do that so much.

[A]

Now she's in a pile of shit that her grandma and grandparents lived in in another part of North Hollywood. And that's, you know, 1400 square feet, one bathroom, one bed, whatever that thing's worth. 1.9. So. And it only costs $12,000 in 1953.

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Yeah.

[A]

So that house was paid off in 1975. And now there's just 2 million bucks sitting there. Except for it's my stepdad's in there now.

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But on top of the all of the problems that we often discuss on the show, the thing about California that sucks that Democrats want to make a federal issue, is that like estate tax?

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Yes.

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And so then you have so many lower middle class people, like, the number one way. This is where the black Chamber of Commerce actually agrees with conservatives. They're against the estate tax because they understand that the number one way to keep a family out of poverty is to have a home, like a stable home and living situation. I mean, it is better for children, for the elderly, for everybody across the board, no matter what race or creed you come from. And yet Democrats specifically here in California want to say, your mom should have paid all those taxes and increased taxes on, like, the property value.

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Right.

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And then on top of that, if you needed that home and she gave it, whether you need the home or not, but she willed it to you, then, well, you have to pay the estate tax and all that stuff that was gifted to you.

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It's totally insane. And nobody's less deserving than the California government of that money.

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Aqueduct's empty for us.

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Oh. Guy I was trying to think of is Larry Ellison. Is it Larry Ellison? Yeah. He's got a place on that side. It's a little bigger, but yes, the average income.

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Kamala just bought a spot in Big Doom. Yeah, Point Doom.

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Point Doom. You figure that out. And along that highway and the average. Maybe 40 million. And then you go to Altadena and it's 47,000 or something like that. But there's no rebuilding and it's not for lack of money, and it's not for any of the reasons that you might run into an Altadena where you're underinsured and it's a generational thing. The guy's living in a house that may be worth 1.5, but he's a janitor at the high school down the street. So there's a lot of that. These people have money to throw at the problem architect, and they can hire expediters and engineers. Money's not an issue for these people. There's zero building year and a half in, except for one lot, which I am obsessed with. And as I have Andrew fly the

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drone over it, I visited this one. Cause you were talking about the caissons.

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All I ever do is go to the slot. I'm kinda, you know, if you're gonna make an argument for me being on the spectrum, I think this lot would help you make your argument. The part where I'm just smarter, know everything. It's not really. That's not really an argument for me being on the spectrum.

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The excessive behavior.

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Yeah. Or the part where I close my eyes when you talk or I just remember shit you forgot, that means you're fucking an idiot. That's not.

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You draw circles on your notes.

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The obsession with a lot in Malibu would be. Now the lot has how many croissants? Oh, well, we're into the 50s or 60s. But the lot has. I'll give you some numbers. It has 3,000 yards of concrete in it. I literally just spoke to the foreman engineer and we just stood there and I said, download everything to me. And I have a fucking steel trap for mine. If we're talking about numbers and rebar thickness and blah, blah, blah, but not

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your girlfriend's birthday or anniversary or favorite color.

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No, because it's not important. Like rebar is. It's a 13 inch slab. A 13 inch slab, ladies and gentlemen, is not a household slab. Anyone's house is on a slab, is 4 inches. Really 4 inches. If it's a little beefier, like sometimes in the garage, cause you're pulling the car in, they might put it on five or six. Airport landing runways are 13 inches thick. This is a 13 inch thick slab. 300 yards in the slab, which means 30 cement trucks or concrete, to be technical, 30 concrete, 30 full trucks. Just for the top part, slab. The other one has 3,000 all total, 3,000 yards. That is three. 300. 300 concrete trucks. How much does this single family. Single family dwelling. 3 million bucks per for the base. That's 3 million for the base.

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Do you know you can. I do look at Zillow a lot. I could get a really nice house in LA for 3 million.

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Yeah. This is the base.

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That's insane.

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That's for the foundation. That has nothing to do with the framing or the windows or the sink or the countertops.

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So all in, what do you think that this house is going to be?

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Well, here's how you would do it. Here's what I know. And by the way, the slab is number five. Rebar, five, eight. Remember, each number is an eighth. You'd love a. I'm sitting there with the foreman and I go, what size rebars in those grade beams? And he goes, nine. And I go, nine inch and an eighth. And he goes, I don't know. I go, you don't know.

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I feel like you should find out who the owner is and volunteer to be the honorary GC and just document the process of you being the GC on this.

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Like this build, the slab is filled, is 13 inches thick, but it also has these big long grade beams inside of it that are filled with concrete too. This thing, if there's an earthquake, people head for this address. It is. Here's how the math works. Approximately. Custom. Nice. Now everyone kind of does a thing where they go, how much per square foot? And it's like, well, do you want Carrara marble or do you want vinyl on the floor?

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Are you doing IKEA countertops or.

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Yeah, right, right. High end in a place like this would be 1,000 or 1,200 a square foot.

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My guess was gonna be 15. So that's lower than I thought.

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Turn of the house. But. Well, these owners are probably going to ratchet it up with the appliances, with the materials, with all the finishes and fix yours. You can just keep going and going and going. But you figure, let's just say 1500 a square foot to build the house. The house going to be. The house is going to be 6,000 square feet. So now you're at 9 million for the house, but you gotta tack on 3 million for the base.

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That's insane.

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So now you're 12 million. And that doesn't count the land. I mean, if you're buying the land, the land is a double lot. It's a wider lot than most. The narrower lots were six mil. So you gotta figure 13, 14 for the land. Because it's wider than a double lot. So now you're basically 25 all in. That's the bottom, but. And you go, Jesus Christ. Why $25 million? You might get 33 for it. You might get 40 for it, depending on the market. Yeah. So you go, that guy's a fool. Not really.

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So you think, you know, it's a developer, you know, and you don't want to see. No, no.

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It's a family's house. Wow. But here's the part that I keep telling everybody. The house that used to be there, There was a house, and it was tiny. No, no, it was decent size. They just remodeled it. This is all you get when you have Asperger syndrome and you just stand there like Rain man talking to guys that are trying to work the whole time.

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Have you watched Love on the Spectrum?

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That's me. Foundations on the spectrum, Mechanical engineering on the spectrum. I'm like. I was at rebar number five. Number five. Number five. Five, five. Number five is five, eight, Number nine in the caissons. That's inch and an eighth. Yeah, right. Inch and eighth. The slab is that 16 on center. 12 on center. 12 on center number five. 12 on center number five. 13 inch slab caissons.

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I like buildings. I like building things.

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I like buildings. I like things. Go ahead and drop those toothpicks. Let me count them for you. So I just stand there and talk to guys. Well, the reality is there's always 25 Mexicans going at it hard. But once in a blue moon, there's some white dude with a beard wearing boots, and he's just standing there looking at everybody.

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I take on the going at it hard.

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They're going at it hard. But when I see the gringo standing there in the boots not working, I'm like, let's go talk to that guy. And then that guy downloads all the info to me about seawalls and caissons and slab thicknesses and all of that.

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So do you approve of the excessiveness of the foundation, or do you think it's completely unnecessary?

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Well, it begs. There's a foundational problem here. And the problem. Here's what we get back to now. I don't know, Andrew, if you can do this in your footage. But what I was saying is the existing home that's there, that was built in the 60s. When I spoke to the architect, he said, I remodeled this house before it burned down. They did a full remod. I said, Jesus Christ. 3,000 yards of concrete in the foundation. He said, can you Believe that the house that was built here in 1961 had zero concrete in the foundation.

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No way.

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Zero.

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It was just like.

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Was all built in piles. Now they take the telephone pole, they pile it into the ground just like the pier, and then they build the house on top of it, and it never goes anywhere. And the houses. That house was built on those piers and the houses next to it that all burned down. If you go to see what the remnants of the foundation is. There is no remnants of a foundation. There's telephone poles that look like they got burnt down about 2 foot above the sand. So everything was built on a telephone pole, and there were zero concrete and the foundation was ready to go in one day, they just bring a pile driver out there, a bunch of those telephone poles, drive them into the ground. The science was you whack them into the ground till they stop going into the ground.

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And when they stop right on the ocean, it's like they literally.

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I read, I read, I read it, I read on it, I read on it a foundation.

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Poles.

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I read about poles. I read about holes. I read about foundations, roundations, Creosote. They dip them in creosote. Creosote is the black stuff. Black stuff's on the tar. Creosote. Creosote builds up in your chimney. Mm. Dangerous. Catches on fire. They dip it in that creosote, they run it into the sand, and it lasts a thousand years, unless there's a fire because there's no oxygen that gets to it. The oxygen's what destroys things. It's all in the article, by the way. There's different kinds of piles. Now. A caisson is drill a hole, drop a rebar, cage number nine and fill it with concrete. A pile is. Take a telephone pole and pile drive it into the ground. You end up with the same product. And then there's one where you put it into the ground and you sort of screw it into the ground. But the old telephone pole ones lasted forever. As insane as it sounds, you have to think about it. The piers up the street, built in 1905, it's sitting on telephone poles.

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I wonder how old the pier in Santa Barbara is, because I always think about that when I hear cars driving on it and they're doing the. You know, and you can just hear all those.

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They used to build everything out of wood. You found the original house on Zillow. Holy crap.

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Interesting.

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So.

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Oh, that was pretty.

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It was pretty. But it's all on telephone poles. Yeah. The entire base.

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Further up the coast, too. Like, if you go to. Not El Pescador, what's the. What's the one cave beach up there where the scene from Greece was filmed at the beginning? El Matador.

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I don't know.

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I'm not, like, if you go to, like, El Matador, you To try to

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bait me into that day talk.

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If you go into Broad beach and stuff, there are still homes there that look like that with the filings.

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Yeah.

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So that was a fancy house inside.

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Yeah. So it all burnt down. And now that foundation. Oh, good job, Andrew. It's all wood now. It's all gone. And it is replaced with the most foundation you've ever seen in your life. $3 million. So here's the thing. People say, fine, isn't it better? Isn't it safer? We're an earthquake country or whatever it is. I always say there's nothing wrong with, like, safety and even some redundancy. Like, an airplane should have a switch to put that landing gear down, but it should also have a crank that you could do it manually if there's some electrical problem with the switch.

[B]

And a pilot that can do those

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things, well, he would probably fly the plane, but you would get somebody to go down and crank the gear down. But redundancy is a good thing. And every one of my race cars has a fire suppression system in it. It's not a fire extinguisher clamped to the roll bar. It's a literal system that just shoots halon gas everywhere. It'll put you out. It'll put the engine out. There's one over the engine. There's one over the fuel tank. There's one at you. It'll put you out. And you go, well, it adds a little weight to the car, and it adds some expense. It's not easy to put a fire suppression system in a race car. But you go, all right, I get it. That makes sense. But at a certain point, you gotta stop, because at a certain point, it becomes too much. And then when it becomes too much, since nothing's free, then you just keep passing that on in terms of time and money. So whatever this person had in the 60s on the telephone poles was sufficient to keep the place up for the next 60 years.

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At that time, it was probably, like, very modern. Like, it was the most. It could have been one of the most advanced. You know what I mean?

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They only did things one way. They just put telephone poles into the ground. They put a pier on it. They put a house on it. They put a dynamic.

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But if it ain't broke, don't fix it. They weren't like, could we do some cement?

[A]

To be fair, most of this has to do with the seawall and the septic. They're so freaked out about the septic now. So you have to build a seawall around the septic. So it's like septic and engineering. But my whole point is what was there in the past is good enough. But if you're going to rebuild, maybe you should rebuild twice as strong as what was there. But you rebuilding 10,000 times as strong as what was there. And that cost a bunch of money and takes a bunch of time. And that's why we can't build anything because of that. So there is one house on billionaires beach, on Broad Beach. I don't know, 50 houses gone, one is being rebuilt with a whole bunch of millionaires who would love to spend the summer in their Malibu house. And that is because of regulation and because of what they have to. I don't know who has the. First off, you gotta have $3 million laying around to do the slab. At the end of the day, when it's done and the last nickel is spent, you're just on a slab. Yeah, that'll be it. And then you can start building. And yes, the houses you were showing me, Andrew, before the houses next to it were also built on telephone poles. I have a friend who has a house right next to this house. And it was just now you showed me the drone shot and it was on telephone poles. I go to his house, stand out on his deck and stop. You had it. You had it, Andrew. Yeah. No, you had it. You can just see. What you see now is you see these little. You go around the other side. Sorry, you had it around the other side. You can just see. You had it. You had it when I said you had it, Andrew. Go around the other side.

[B]

Poor Andrew.

[A]

I know, but he is on the spectrum and this is his fault. You showed me the side. Other side is what I'm saying to you, Andrew. The other side now. You had it, he had. There it is. You can stop it there. You can stop it. You can see that, those little nubs sticking out. That's where the house. You don't see any. The other houses around it just were cleared off. If the concrete was there, the concrete would still be there. There is nothing there because there never was anything. Which is nuts, but that's why we can't do it. But the people who push all this shit hide behind safety. It's a safer and they're so worried about the septic system you had before the fire. You had RVs lined up all the way down PCH. Gross fucked up, methed out RVs parked all the way down PCH operated by

[B]

slumlords, by the way.

[A]

Yes. And guess where they. Guess how they took care of their septic system?

[B]

They dumped it into the ocean.

[A]

They dumped it into the ocean, you fucking idiots. They dumped it into the ocean. And you guys were fine with that? There was no problemo.

[B]

Not allowed to clean that up.

[A]

Junkies living in the ocean, I mean, they just. Andrew just had a vid of some guy just emptying a septic tank into the storm drain. I mean, what do you expect them to do when it comes time to empty? Call Sprucey Latrine and have the guy come over and do all the paperwork and pay him $1,200? No, they're gonna just dump it in the storm drain and it ends up in the fucking ocean. And by the way, when you guys don't manage your forest and you don't fill your aqueducts and it fire burns everything to the ground, and then a week later a rainstorm hits and everything slides down the hill into the ocean, is that better or worse than a fucking septic tank, you idiots?

[B]

This video was trending. I follow. Do you follow Street People of Los Angeles on Instagram? They had it over there too, but obviously it was all over X. It's just disgusting that this person.

[A]

Yeah, well, all right, I didn't want to watch. I'm going to throw up. But here's the whole point. Literally, we have homeless people living in sewers and emptying everything in sewers, and everything in the sewer is. Is a storm drain that goes right down to the bay, and then the fire drains everything down the bay. So why are you guys so picky about the septic? The guy could put in a brand new septic system that was bulletproof. And by the way, the contractor is going, these new septic systems are bulletproof, but we still need a $2 million seawall going all the way around it. So that's what you get. And that's the problem. Adam Carolla foundation on the spectrum.

[B]

It could be produced by Alicia Krause.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. I was like, is that epoxy rebar? Cause they paint it with epoxy. Yeah.

[B]

So some friends said that a girlfriend said a while ago, and other people have, like, copied it, that, like, cooking shows would be funnier if you had toddlers with the professional chefs, like, stopping them all along the way, you know, it would be hilarious if it was like, my children and you're working on a construction project and you're like, really into the 8th or the 9th, whatever, rebar. And my children are like, but why? And like, hammering things are not supposed to hammer. That would be a hilarious show.

[A]

I missed that. I'd watch it, but for me, not for your kids. Also, something was making the rounds that I thought was funny, but I can't tell if she fixed it or not. Was an Ilhan Omar thing where she said World War 11. Now she was reading. She meant World War II, but somebody wrote it in Roman numeral.

[B]

But that's how it's always written in the history books, is it not?

[A]

Well, yes, I think I made that

[B]

mistake maybe in third grade when I was reading it for the first time.

[A]

But the clip isn't long enough to see if she fixed it. And that's kind of the question.

[B]

The last time the Alien Enemies act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War 11. Doing.

[A]

Doing.

[B]

Doing World War 11.

[A]

I think she wanted to say during, but I don't know. She's definitely mean. She's super mean.

[B]

I've heard stories.

[A]

You have?

[B]

Uh huh.

[A]

Where'd you hear stories from?

[B]

From friends on the hill.

[A]

Mm. She's mean, but I think she's a little mean and dumb. I don't know, but is there any. I know they cut it there, but there's gotta be raw footage to see if she doubles back and fixes see if she doubles back and fixes her mistake. Here's my whole thing.

[B]

I could see her not fixing it.

[A]

I don't like to jump on people when they misspeak because you speak a lot and you slip up and I

[B]

mean, there's probably tons of audio and or video of you and I saying something stupid or misspeaking.

[A]

I was talking about Billy beer, and it was Jimmy Carter's brother was Billy Carter. And Billy had his own kind of beer. And after saying Billy beer and Jimmy and then Jimmy had a brother, at some point I was like, billy's brother had a beer and it's like, not Billy's, Jimmy's brother. I went back and forth to between Jimmy and Billy too many times.

[B]

I once said on tv, I meant to say that Trump was going to be a lame duck president, but I said he was a lame duck president. And all the commenters were like, you dumb blonde bitch.

[A]

Yeah. I was like, sorry, I was drinking.

[B]

Damn it. Damn it.

[A]

All right, so yeah, we'll see if there's more footage of that somewhere, but it looks like it's just cut there. I don't think like she went back and fixed her stuff.

[B]

No. And I think that even if she recognized that she made a mistake, she wouldn't go back and fix it.

[A]

It's not like any of her constituency would ever call her on it either because they didn't make any big contribution in World War II. It's oh, we couldn't have done it without the Somalis help.

[B]

Storm's beaches.

[A]

This is a bad, I'll tell you a bad sign for your country if nobody knows what side you're on in World War II. Cuz it's a world war. And if people like Somalia, who are they fighting for and they're like that, they have guns and stuff. Like if you don't know where you're. Here's two. I'll give you three signs you live in a fucked up nation. One is you get the T shirts from the team that lost the super bowl or the World Series, any sporting event. You get the loser T shirts. B, nobody knows what side you're on in World War II. And you may in fact not have been on a side and even been recruited. Like we're not gonna win this one without the Somalians. People like, people that's like, eh, you know, like your fat friend with the bad back. And you go, we gotta move this sofa. And you just kind of look at em, you go, you're good. You're just gonna fuck this up.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then the third is no automobile. And everyone goes, what do you care about automobile? It's like that's a sign that you have technology and innovation and engineering. A level of wealth and a level of skill.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And a level of desire. Somalia during World War II, was it even called Somalia? So a lot of stuff changes. But I don't guess her constituency that is busy ripping off daycare centers knows a whole lot about World War II. So I don't think anyone's gonna. I mean World War 11 and is that a new one or an old one? All right, so let's see. Somalia During World War II, Somalia was a major front, front in the East African campaign. But that's us fighting Italy. Rommel, you bastard. I read your book. Italy Occupied British Somalia.

[B]

Somaliland.

[A]

Somaliland. Oh, Somaliland. Also, if you have land behind your name, it's not a good sign.

[B]

That means that you were occupied by somebody else for a while.

[A]

All right, so they were there. And we were fighting them in the African campaign with Patton and Rommel and Bradley and whoever else fought, I guess it would probably be Bradley on the English side and then Rommel on the German side and then Patton on the American side.

[B]

Who was the Italian general? I don't, Mussolini was like the leader, but I don't know that I know an Italian general because if it was Italian Somaliland, sorry, mom, she was my teacher, so it's her fault.

[A]

Uh huh. Giovanni Messi was the Italian, not the soccer player. No. All right, so another clip to show to you. So I don't like unions. I don't like them. I never liked them. And by the way, if you guys think any of this is some sort of new fangled Republican stuff, I used to rail against SAG and AFTRA because they would your first paycheck, they would take it and put you in the union. And I'd go, I don't want to be in the union. They'd go, well, we already took your paycheck. And I'd be like, I don't know, that feels mildly illegal and sort of un American that you just took my paycheck.

[B]

Turns out the Supreme Court agrees with

[A]

you and put me in a union that I don't wanna be in. And then people would go and oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly Auto Parts. Yeah, O'Reilly Auto Parts. They're in the business of keeping your car on the road. There are not many car issues I can't figure out, but if I'm stumped, I'll call O'Reilly immediately. And they usually have the answers for me. They've got thousands of parts in stock or you can shop online at O'Reilly as well. If you're in a jam, they will test your battery for free. And if it needs to be replaced, they will help you find the right one because there's a lot of different sizes. So whether you're a car aficionado or an auto novice, you'll see the employees at O'Reilly Auto Parts are helpful and friendly. O'Reilly is your one stop shop for all things auto. Do it yourself. It's O'Reilly, right? Dawson, stop by O'Reilly Auto Parts today or visit us@O'ReillyAuto.com Adam that's O'ReillyAuto.com Adam

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[A]

You know what, Andrew? Here's a good thing to look up. In 19, probably 99, but maybe it was 98, there was a big SAG commercial actors were striking. There was a big problem with commercial actors and unions and sag and it had all these bullshit actors siding up with the commercial actors. And I would go, I don't give a shit about commercial actors. They don't do anything. And then people would say to me all the time, first off, you're in the union, bro. Stick with your people. And I'd go, I don't want to be in the union. I fucking hate the union.

[B]

You're not my people.

[A]

And you're not my people. And then they'd go, what about you? You do commercials, you've done commercials. Now you need the union down the corridor. How are you going to get paid if you don't? I go, listen, here's how my commercials work. The company comes to James Baby Doll Dixon, my agent, and they go, we want Adam to do our AT&T calling card commercial. How much? And then he quotes them some number. And then they go, that's too high. And then they haggle a little bit. And then we end up with a number that had nothing to do with the union. I don't need the union. I'm not getting scale. I'm getting paid more than scale, so I don't need the union. And then they'd go, oh yeah, what about your healthcare? What about the union health care? I go, look for the money they're taking from me. I could just privately enroll. I'm 37 and healthy. I could just enroll and pay $46 a month and I could have my own healthcare that was better. Like I don't wanna be in the union. And I hate unions. Cuz I think they end up and they should never be politicized. Cause I don't want teachers unions dictating whether schools can be stated, stayed open to the governor or to the mayor, whomever. I don't want that kind of relationship with them. So. The commercial actors went on strike and I would say 99, I remember where I was, I was doing like Craig Kilborn's show and I was telling everyone, fuck you, I don't care about your shitty union, I don't want to be in your union. They're like, you got to stick with the union. And Jason Alexander was mad. People are posturing. They're doing whatever actors do. So it is kind of funny when

[B]

like the A listers pretend like they care.

[A]

They pretend like they care. That's there.

[B]

The background actors snap into action.

[A]

Yes, they pretend like they care. So the thing that was funny, the Oscars were created as a union busting tactic. Well, that's interesting. Now what year? Yeah, began May 1, 2000, ended October 30, 2000. May 2000. Okay, so I said 99, but it was 2000. All right, so I was Mr. Unpopular because I was making fun of the union. And then tell them I don't give a shit about union. And then here's. You want to know what the number one answer people say to me? They go, some of these actors, some of these commercial actors, they work two, three, four days, four days a year. How they supposed to support their family? And I go, how about they get a fucking job? They need to get paid 50 grand for a day of sitting in the back of a convertible Mustang and going down PCH with no fucking dialogue for Cialis commercial, fuck yourself. And then they go, but these guys only work like four or five days. I go, okay, let's just say I'm a roofer. And I go, you know I'm a roofer, but I only work like three days, three days a year max. So give me 50 grand for each day I work. Or maybe I should get a fucking job. So then I would yell at them and then everyone yelled at me. But here's my whole point. Less people think this is some new version of me that is 26 years old, 26 years ago. Now you smash forward to Covid. And again, here comes an unpopular stance. I'm right, you Guys are wrong. Fuck yourself. It's not a popularity contest. I'm saying the exact same thing during COVID as I was during the actors strike. Fuck you. I don't want to be in this union and I don't care who hears it.

[B]

Good for you.

[A]

And by the way, if you don't like it, union, throw me out of the union.

[B]

Well, I think the Janus decision by the Supreme Court was like a no brainer. And I'm surprised that it took decades in the making because you had states like California that has forced unions. Then you had states like Texas that was a right. What was it called? Right to work. Had right to work laws that were like, no, you're not forced into the unions of Southwest and American Airlines and other companies that are based there. And I think a lot of companies chose to be based there for that very reason. And turns out Texas economy's doing pretty dang good and more people are moving there than they're moving to California.

[A]

Well, we have the Chris Ruffo Newsom clip. And then the whole point is it's like, yeah, so I would be in a union and the teacher's union and then I would be supporting Gavin Newsom, a guy I despise.

[B]

Well, that was part of the Janus decision. Was a brave teacher. That was like when 80% of the money goes to Democratic politicians, like of 80%, it's something like 80% of unions. And I could be off on that number because it was a couple of years old at the time of the case. Were just going straight to Democratic politicians. How is that fair? And it is unconstitutional as determined. I think it was unconstitutional even before it was determined, clearly. But of like, this is not okay. Like I'm being forced to give money to something that I vehemently oppose. Like on a political and a moral

[A]

level, should there be a straight line between teachers unions and any politician? Like, I feel the same way. Like, the LA Times will go, we're gonna endorse Nithya Rahman. And I'm like, why do you say that? Now you're gonna write a hit piece on Spencer Pratt and I don't believe you because you said who you endorsed. You're just the newspaper. Just report the news. And you're the governor and you're the school teachers union. You're not. I don't want you scratching each other's backs because then when some bullshit like Covid comes down the pike and I want the schools opened and you won't, it makes me suspicious because the unions are now controlling you.

[B]

Well, it gets more iffy too, when there are public sector unions involved as well, because it's like literally taxpayer dollars being negotiated by two different parties that I don't think care about the taxpayer.

[A]

Here is Chris Ruffo to explain what goes on with Newsom and unions and. Sorry. And the fraud we've been uncovering that they have not been looking into because these in home care providers give about $150 million a year to the labor unions, which are of course, Gavin Newsom's number one kind of political power base. And so it is a cycle of corruption. Newsom gives $30 billion in taxpayer money to these in home caregivers, including huge numbers of fraud. These caregivers give money to the unions, the unions give the money back to Gavin Newsom. This is the, the dirty business of California. And we've blown it wide open, Chris, because. All right, so now you know how it works.

[B]

Surprise, surprise.

[A]

And why they're not looking into it. You're not.

[B]

Oh, like the Southern Poverty Law center story, right? Like, I wonder why the Biden DOJ didn't want to look into that. Because the Southern Poverty Law center, sorry, say that five times fast. Is funded by all leftist woke millionaires and billionaires that are anti, anti racism.

[A]

Yes. Right. But we're worried about the dictator Donald Trump King.

[B]

No kings.

[A]

Oh, the no kings. All right, so I want to just tell you guys something not to do with anything because we'll get more into all this with Alicia and the news coming up. I've been watching the Hulk Hogan.

[B]

Oh, is it good?

[A]

Oh, yeah, it's gotta be good. Come on, Hulk Hogan. I'll tell you what you get from watching his Netflix special. The dude had a motor. He had a motor, man. He had energy. And it's not something we talk about enough. You know, we talk about kids. We're like, is he going to the right school? Did you get him in pre K? Pre, pre, pre K. Like when he's two, like, he needs to be go. You know, he needs to be exposed to classical music as a zygote. And then he needs to go to all the museums and he needs language. All that is for not with no motor. You gotta have a motor. I know people that are flatliners. Nothing. There's nothing. I don't care what they're interested in. And you can't get them interested in anything. And you need energy. And I'm not just talking about like sort of caloric energy. Like you just need to have a motor. You need to.

[B]

You know, it's like a drive.

[A]

Yeah. The story of Hulk Hogan is he had a motor. He wanted to be a musician. He was in a band. He was, like, out there training and wrestling all the way through the ranks. But even when you see him in the ring celebrating, he's like, it looks like someone hooked him up to 240, 240reebok. And ran a pulse through him. Maybe a phase two, maybe 240, I don't know, maybe 220amp circuit. 200amp circuit, something like that. And he just was like, electric. And it's like, oh, yeah, that's a lot of energy. And then I think about my mom moving from her mom's house to her mom's other house, and I realized, not a motor, you know? And then.

[B]

Do you think it's a choice? Do you think it's nature versus nurture? Do you think it's genetic? Is it all of the above?

[A]

It is. A lot of it is genetic, I think. I do not think you can graft energy onto people. You can kind of threaten them and you can kind of tempt them. And you take that garbage out and I'll give you $5 or something. Or you can go, or you take the garbage out, or I'll beat the shit out of you. But the just go ahead and do it, people, it's a little built in, but anybody can do it. And that's kind of the rub, because you say that I always play my $10,000 rule with everybody. Everyone who goes, I was gonna do it, but I didn't have enough time. But I know I said I was gonna clean out the garage this weekend. I know it's been three weekends. I've said that. But there was so much traffic when I was coming home. And I go, what If I said $10,000 to get that garage clean? Oh, yeah, I'd do it. And by the way, people admit it. They go, oh, for 10,000, yeah. I go, well, okay, then you can do it. But you don't.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

So everybody do it. If you go, I need you to get up every morning and jog five miles at 6am I can't do that. $10,000 at the end of the month, I'll do it. And they wouldn't miss a day.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's very rare that you would have someone screw that one up if there was cash at the end. So, first off, anyone can do it. Now, some people are more naturally likely to do it.

[B]

Do you think that those people that are more naturally because Hulk clearly wanted like kind of the fame and the fortune, right? But he, and he was willing to invest the time. But I think that I don't know if it's American culture, just cultural generally now worldwide where it's like how much of my time am I really going to invest if there is no reward? Like how long are people willing to wait for the reward? And I feel like you have these MLM schemes and like these marketing guys on TikTok that are like I can make you, you know, a millionaire in a year and all this stuff and they're selling the idea of the fortune and they're telling you that you got to work harder and hustle harder and all this crap. But it's like how long? I think everybody kind of has a breaking point where they're like, okay, I'll do the five miles a day for a certain amount of time before I like need to see a result. Or I'll work really hard and wake up at 6am every day as long as I can hopefully see a result. I think the people that you hear that fail and keep going and going, I'm like, what is that in them? That's fascinating to me.

[A]

That is the rub. So the rub about doing anything is the lack of guarantee. So if you say to people, you get up, you do your road work every morning for one month at 6am there'll be $10,000 cash waiting for you on the last day. Everyone I know now, I grew up with some colossal fuck up so they could even fuck that up on like day 13. Just slept through the alarm or something like that. I didn't know there are people who can defy even that. But everyone I know would have done it. But that's not the bet. When you want to be a professional wrestler or comedian or singer or artist or anything that you're kind of aspirational stuff the bet. And this is where people fall off fast. The bet is I need you to get up every morning at 6am and do five miles of road work. And at the end of the month there may be ten grand, but probably not now. The good news is you're going to get stronger and you're going to get better just doing it.

[B]

You might lose £10 help your longevity.

[A]

Even if it's for free, you should just do it. In that case, every one of my friends would then get into a real big discussion. What do you mean maybe or probably not. 50, 50 coin toss and you'd go now lower than that. Maybe lower than 50%. Every one of my friends would be out then at that point. So the thing about where it is you want to do, If you guaranteed the result, then everyone's in the real thing that really separates the men from the boys is the no guarantee results. And you still do it. And then you go, well, who are those people? And those are people that do it because that's what they do. Those are the people who go on walks, see garbage on the ground, pick it up and walk it into. Not because there's a ring doorbell camera on them, but just because it's the right thing to do. Like they just have a way, they have one mode. And energy in Hulk's energy was like, you realize that's something that needs to be discussed. We are always talking about training and like expertise and education and getting the right education. But it's like you could be a Ferrari, but if you're out of gas, you're just parked. You're just parked, man. You're just parked. I mean you could be the greatest, you know, you could, you be the, you could be Jimi Hendrix guitar. But if it's unplugged, it's unplugged. There's nothing there. Like you need that energy and you realize a lot of people don't have it and sort of more and more young people don't have it.

[B]

I would like to argue that some of that I don't know what Hulk's, I haven't watched it and I don't know what his element of like faith. Because I do think that there's like a general drive to people. But I think that sometimes we've seen how specifically Gen Z and now Gen Alpha are being raised in homes that are like non religious. And I think that the energy that you speak to can be like a physical mental insanity and craziness. But I also wonder like how much of that comes from people's like sense of purpose and like inner like or a spiritual motive of like I'm going to be, I'm gonna pick up the trash when nobody's looking because that's like the morally right thing to do. I'm going to stop the crime from occurring because that's the morally right thing to do. I'm going to build a business and employ others because I think that's the morally right thing to do. And I think that, I don't know, maybe we could look at like that there's fewer people that are willing to do those tough things because we're so in an instant Gratification, culture, that it's not easy.

[A]

No, it's not. I mean, to do what Hulk did is hours alone in the gym and working with sweaty guys and stuff. None of it's fun, none of it's good. And no one wants to go through it. They wanna hop to Wrestlemania, but they don't wanna do all the part, all the tough in between that led into it. All right, you got a ton of news. We'll take a quick break. Come right back after this.

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Well, the big one from over the weekend, I had dozens of friends and former colleagues in the room of the White House Correspondents Dinner, of course, just to do a roundup of what happened. The accused gunman, Cole Thomas Allen, 31, is from right here in Torrance, California. He apparently was apprehended by law enforcement. There's tons of crazy video, including video that we have of the president, first lady Melania Trump's reaction when gunshots were heard. We now know that they were all in a main ballroom on the kind of like the basement level fence, 2600 people was built specifically after the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan back in 1981 for this reason, because there's a safe holding room behind the dais and then there's a separate entrance for the President to use. Secret Service was fully responsible for the security at this event, but the hotel did have other guests there and we know that the gunman was staying there and clearly was able to train, plane, an automobile, except I don't think he planed at all and was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, knives and other weapons.

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This is the. Unfortunately for everyone, this is a big argument for the ballroom on the White

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House that was turning on X over the weekend.

[A]

The thing about the ballroom is now I know you guys are full of shit. Cuz know you. Here's how you guys should work. You should go hate Trump, hate him, hate him, hate him. And I don't like this whole Iraq or Iran war. I'm against that. But look, having the border closed down. Okay, that's good. And then what about experimental drugs or psilocybin for guys who are shell shocked? Yeah, okay, that one's good. I don't like the tariffs. Okay. What about the ballroom? I don't care. Someone's paying for it. I don't care. You guys just hate everything. Makes me think you just hate him because no reason to hate a ballroom that donors are paying for.

[B]

Yep. So here we have the moments of when that's Caroline Levitt, First Lady, Michelle Obama, the Mentalist. I think his name is Oz something. I just went blank on his name. President Trump and then the president of the White House Correspondents Association, Weijiajiang.

[A]

Who is that? Who that is?

[B]

Yes. So she, she had already spoken earlier in the night about the importance of the First Amendment and thanked President Trump for going because I don't think he's attended since before he ran for office.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

I want to say it was like 2010, 2011 was the last time he was there and he was going to speak tonight or that night. And so Weija had already spoken. The Mentalist is like doing a trick for the first lady and everybody up on the Daisy. And this transpired Oz Perlman,

[A]

by the way, it was literally the second Oz paid off his trick that the firing started because the woman, the Chinese woman, Wei Zhijiang is going, oh my God, like I can't believe you just did that thing. Guess dead cat's name. And right there when the firing started, he didn't. It wasn't a second later.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So if it started 10 seconds at least. Everyone could have marveled at what the Mentalist did, but it literally happened simultaneously.

[B]

Simultaneously. He had a statement that he put out on X and Instagram saying that the Secret Service did a stellar job of keeping everybody up on the dais safe. Wei Shizhang later got up and said, hey, we're gonna be doing this again. But, yeah, I mean, poor Caroline Lovett. She's pregnant. Steven Miller's wife is pregnant. There are other pregnant women. I mean, I guess my thought went to, like, all the pregnant ladies was the first thing. Like, been there, done that. Do not want to be running in heels.

[A]

I'm not happy to say, but I was thinking about them before the shooting started. You know me. Certain guys got certain proclivities, I think we call it.

[B]

This is another angle.

[A]

Yeah, crazy.

[B]

Of people starting to react.

[A]

I liked all the. All the lady journalists stealing wine.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

That was kind of fun.

[B]

That clip was kind of amazing. And by the way, is it really stealing if you're. If your company paid for the alcohol that's on the table? I will defend it.

[A]

Ladies, listen, you know, there's a lot of times people get really uppity about stuff. The woman who's my hero is the one that just started chugging.

[B]

Oh, I missed that one. We need to be friends.

[A]

Yeah. Look, first off, it's sort of like saying, you know, it's like the pilot going, the number three engine's on fire. Hey, if you're not chugging, what's left? That is your time to do it. You know what I mean? Like, there's shots, fire.

[B]

Did you see the video of the old man sitting in the chair eating his food while everybody else is under the table?

[A]

Yes, that would be me. Oh, actually, I'd be onto other people's food.

[B]

You'd be going around like.

[A]

But I just love the woman who was chugging that bottle of red. Right.

[B]

Service is jumping from chair to chair, looking for the line of secession for the President of the United States to make sure everybody's out in the building and safe. And there's a shot of Adam, like, this gal. So to be fair, everybody had already been, like, told that they could go home. I think that this woman and somebody on Instagram was like, she got the babysitter. It's Mom's night out. You might as well take what you paid for.

[A]

I will defend her till the. Till the bitter end. Just like Katie Porter yelling at her lackeys. I'm not going to hold that against her.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Not at all.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

All the people that. All the greats that won World War II yelled at people. General Patton yelled at guys in hospital beds, for Christ's sake. You can yell to pa. Who cares?

[B]

I think the guys in the hospital beds, though, is very different than, like, being a, you know, a witch about a circumstance.

[A]

But if she had any policies that I agreed with, I'd let her yell at her staff and then I would back her on her policies. But she yells at her staff and she has horrible policy, so it lines up well. The yelling part is neither here nor there when it comes to running the city. As a matter of fact, I do think the yellers sort of get more done in their own way. Like, I've seen the Devil wears Prada, like, 13 times. And wait, and Meryl Streep's character is mean, but she fucking ran a hell of a publication. You know what I mean?

[B]

You've seen it 13 times?

[A]

6.

[B]

You like that movie?

[A]

That's right. I watched that. I watched Sex and the City. I watched all those movies.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Mm.

[B]

So you like a little, like, Rom Com?

[A]

I do. And also it's a good movie. Like, it's a. Well, it's a well crafted movie.

[B]

So I'm doing a mom's night out when the next one comes out.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So if you want to join Adam, you can be the dd.

[A]

Meryl Streep is a mean bitch who runs a super tight ship.

[B]

Everyone is fabulous doing that.

[A]

Everyone is scared of her. She yells at everybody, and a whole bunch of shit gets done.

[B]

But you know that they've done studies, though, that show that, like, corporal punishment and yelling at kids specifically, and actually incorporated corporations across the board. It creates a distrust in leadership, and then it has less loyalty and people are less likely to perform when they are, like, mistreated that way.

[A]

Yelling at kids?

[B]

Look, no, but I'm saying, like, from childhood on, they talk about, like.

[A]

Here's the problem, though. You're comparing it to what? Because the alternative is like, sort of zero getting yelled at. And then that makes with a bunch of people, you know, taking the day off for their half birthday. Anyway, I don't mind Katie Porter yelling at her staff. What I mind is her horrific, destructive policies.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

All right, so they're trying to kill Trump.

[B]

Yep. Well, the guy's manifesto said that he was willing to. He said he didn't want to kill, like, hotel staff or even hotel security, but he said that, like, law enforcement, secret service agents, everybody that got anybody within the administration was up for grabs, but that his main target was President Trump. And then what is really crazy, I mean, once again, guys, 2600 people in the room, left, right and center. I mean, you had representatives from MS, now, cnn, Daily Wire, Fox News, npr. I mean, the list goes on and on. There was a broad group of media represented in that room, and he saw them all as complicit, even the most radical left ones, just because they were present in the room. And he said he would be willing to kill them. If that isn't a wake up call to the mainstream media that these people are evil and maybe we need to stop feeding into their craziness, I don't know what is.

[A]

Also, didn't he say that? I mean, he's in Ted Lieu's district, who's a fucking complete moron and a liar, but Ted Lieu is the one who's always up there saying that Trump's a pedophile and that Trump's trying to harm kids or kill kids. Like, if you keep saying that about somebody, then that person does need to be shot because you're saying he's trying to kill kids and he's a pedophile and he's hit larian and he's a tyrannical dictator and he's trying to end our American experiment, then, yeah, that person should get shot at. Just like you'd be right to shoot at Hitler back in the day. You would be a hero. Here's what they say. They go, it's basically like saying. So they go, I never said violence. I never said. No, you said Hitler 30 times.

[B]

You said child pedophile.

[A]

Right? And we'll play some of these. But what I'm saying is, it's like if I said, it's like someone goes, somebody tried to put that dog down and they're blaming you. And I never said put the dog down. I just said his was riddled with cancer and probably wouldn't make it through the week. But I didn't say put him down. I just said, he's riddled with cancer. He's probably not gonna make it the week. I never said go check the tape. I didn't say put the dog down. No, they are doing what they would do if you said what you said. So when you say Hitler and you say end of democracy, then somebody's got to stop that. All right, we'll play a super montage of super dumb people saying it.

[B]

Let me ask you tonight, do you

[A]

think Donald Trump is a fascist?

[B]

Come on.

[A]

This is what kicking the shit out of Fascism. Well, well, try to prevent the spread of the lawlessness and the fascism that's been unleashed against us.

[B]

So when we say Donald Trump is a fascist fascism.

[A]

Watch your checker notes.

[B]

Huge complaints.

[A]

Watch your checker notes.

[B]

Is uniting racism, bigotry, a form of racist.

[A]

Yeah, racist nationalism. Hold on a second. I gotta write racist nationalism on a napkin and put it next to me. Watch her one more time. Just watch her go. Just a bigger. It's a bigger. A diggery do. It's a bigotry. It's a racism. It's a white form of nationalism. Like, I don't know. Do you even know what you're saying?

[B]

No.

[A]

All right, watch her again. Just take from the top. It's fun.

[B]

Fascism, A huge component of fascism is uniting racism, bigotry, a form of racist nationalism.

[A]

You're now living in a fascist fat mind country.

[B]

We are worried about potential rise of fascism in this country. We're worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of

[A]

government, not only to roll over to Donald Trump's will, but to roll over our democracy and allow him to take over this country as a fascist dictator.

[B]

When fascism isn't just coming, it's already here.

[A]

The former chairman of the Joint Chief Mark Milley, said no one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist to his core.

[B]

No, I mean, to your point, if no one has ever been more dangerous to this country, then, dear God, that's terrifying. And what are we supposed to do about it?

[A]

You got to kill him. We want to maintain our democracy. I've done Celebrity Apprentice with him and also done Marriage Ref. I've done a few shows with him, but he never pulled me aside and talked to me about fascism. But what my question is, he's fascist to his core, but he started being fascist when he was 73 and a half. Or when did he start being fascist?

[B]

Not when they were going to his wedding.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

Not when they were hanging out. Mar a Lago.

[A]

Right, so.

[B]

Not when they went to his Christmas party at Trump Tower.

[A]

These people who are in the system are lying. And I've said it a million times, they are lying. But young men are listening and they are picking up weapons. That's the problem. And that's why they're responsible, because they're like, I never said kill him. Every time you call them fascist or Hitler, you are saying to an assassin, please take him out so that we could regain our. And every time we say we've lost our Country. Let's just hear Pritzker. Pritzker talk for a second. How do you prove to somebody that you're a U.S. citizen? Your accent, the color of your skin, that's not the country we live in. You know, you shouldn't have to walk around with papers the way that they did in, in the early days of Nazi Germany to prove that you belong and that you're not one of them. And that is essentially the kind of country that we're becoming. If you allow ICE to simply grab people after racial profiling, walk around. They love saying papers because it sounds very Nazi. World War II.

[B]

They love people that have papers though, when it comes to their Second Amendment rights or whether or not they want to pull their kids out of public school and be able to homeschool them or send them to a private school or, I don't know, some of the vaccines.

[A]

Some of those people, Malibu just start rebuilding their house on their land. Yeah, what are they with their money? No papers necessary. Just hiring your own engineers and just get going. Architects and engineers. This is a great one. I tell you why I like this Dana Bash. Speaking to Jamie Raskin once.

[B]

Did he have pink eye?

[A]

Yes, sorry.

[B]

He's mom and me. I'm like, get that man out of the studio. That's really contagious.

[A]

So here's the thing that's interesting about Raskin. One is he's just lying. What are you talking about? But it's Dana Bash. Dana Bash is on cnn. She's clearly partisan and she clearly hates Trump. But it's a day after the shooting and she's gotta ask a question about toning down the rhetoric. Right. Okay. It's not Jamie Raskin. People are getting this clip and going, it's Jamie Raskin. It's not him, it's Dana Bash. It is both. It is both. But we'll listen to her and by the way, we'll listen to her follow ups. And what? Listen to this hard hitting piece of journalism.

[B]

Yeah. And you have, as many of your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you think twice about that? When something like this happens, what rhetoric

[A]

do you have in mind?

[B]

Just talking about some of the fact that he, you know, is terrible for this country and so on and so forth. I understand you have examples.

[A]

Hitler, it's Hitler.

[B]

He's the end of democracy. He's a pedophile. That's in the Epstein files. I mean, the list goes on and on.

[A]

He's bad for this country, so on and so forth.

[B]

Russia by the way, he's Putin's puppet.

[A]

Okay. Dangerous rhetoric is not saying the person you disagree with is bad for this country. I would say that about Kamala Harris. And anybody would say that about Kamala Harris who didn't vote for Kamala Harris, I would go, she's bad for this country. That's not.

[B]

She's gonna take her country in the wrong direction. We think she's anti Congress, constitutional. Like, there's arguments that we can make that aren't about her being evil.

[A]

Dana Bash is bought and paid for, and she's a shill because she can't even come up with the question to ask. Yes, you're right. You can say Trump Hitler. You can say Trump Putin's cat spa. You can say Russian collusion. You know, about everything. But listen to her. She's not even quoting rhetoric. Me saying, I don't think that guy would do a good job is not rhetoric. Rhetoric.

[B]

Have used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you think twice about that? When something like this happens, what rhetoric

[A]

do you have in mind?

[B]

Just talking about some of the fact that he is terrible for this country and so on and so forth. I understand that. That's your Democratic right. And so on and so forth.

[A]

Yeah, okay. In Hitler and so forth. All right, let's listen to it now. She's gonna let him answer. By the way, nice job, Dana, with the reporting.

[B]

I do like the orange suit, though.

[A]

I would wear that feet to the fire. Here we go.

[B]

And so on and so forth. I understand that that's your Democratic right, but overall.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Do you.

[A]

I have a responsibility. I have a problem with Donald Trump at all. I mean, I talk about the policies of this administration, the authoritarianism like we saw on display in Minneapolis, where two of our citizens were gunned down in the streets for exercising their First Amendment rights. We're not. Alex Prednisone and others have, you know, died in custody. I'm talking about policies. I don't personalize it. And I certainly have never called the press the enemy of the people. I think the press are the people's best friend, and that's why it's written right there into the First Amendment. We need the press to be a vigilant watchdog against every level of government, federal, state, local, all of it.

[B]

You're not going to get an argument from me on that before I let you go.

[A]

Nice piece of journalism there, Dan. You know, when he said stuff about things being bad for our country and stuff, and so on and so forth, et cetera. With more stuff. Anyway, we'll let you go. Hold on. I'm gonna ask you about toning down the rhetoric. Then I'm going to cite zero rhetoric. And then I'm gonna let you bash him for three minutes, and then I'm gonna wrap it up and say that

[B]

you agree with him, too.

[A]

You agree? Yep. Well, you're right there, Jeremy.

[B]

I can't decide if I. I'm more terrified at the pink eye that he decided to go on a national Sunday show with or the fact that in that one shot, he looks like General or Emperor Palpatine. Like his face is in makeup, like cnn. I don't know. Maybe an aesthetician in the hair and makeup room wanted him to look that bad, but it was not good.

[A]

Yeah, sorry.

[B]

That was such a girl comment.

[A]

No, no. He needed to ask if they could switch sides because we had the bad eye toward us, and it was. It was drawing me in. He needed to fucking talk to Dan Crenshaw and be like, hey, bro, can

[B]

I borrow a patch?

[A]

Can I borrow a patch, bro? I know we disagree on a couple subjects, but I need the patch.

[B]

I just think it is laughable that. I mean, she's a seasoned anchor. She's been doing this for a really long time. She's interviewed a lot of sitting congressmen, senators, governors, like Gavin Newsom that have used that rhetoric about Donald Trump, and she couldn't think of a thing to say.

[A]

Well, he said it was gonna be bad and stuff. She's a hack. Sorry journalist, but get your shit.

[B]

I believe Dana was in that room. CBS News people were in that room. NPR News reporters were in that room. This guy was willing to kill them all to get to Donald Trump.

[A]

There's a newsome. One of him spazzing out. I can't remember if we. If I gave you that one or not, Andrew, but Newsom screaming about totalitarian dictatorship stuff, it's kind of. I'm kind of at the point where it's become comical a little bit. If it wasn't so much shooting going on, but these people are.

[B]

If there weren't lives at stake, it would be laughable.

[A]

There is something I find awesome about, like, righteous indignation, but only when it's faked. Like Newsom does fake righteous indignation. Here he is, people disappearing. No due process. No. No oversight, zero accountability happening in the United States of America today. People ask, well, is authoritarianism. You're being hyperbolic. We're being hyperbolic. Damn it. He's mad. If you're a black and Brown community. It's here in this country.

[B]

Sorry. The hands are so distracting.

[A]

And he's doing the Macarena. It's funny, but I do, like, feigned, like, when he goes damn or bullshit or something, that means he's feigning outrage.

[B]

Yes. I think he tries to talk like that to make him look like a tough guy.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

You using that language is like a part of who you are. You've used it for a very long time. But, like, when some people use it, it's like, are you trying to be cool? Like, are you trying to be like, how you doing, fellow kids?

[A]

I don't know if you heard, but I've been on a job site a time or two, and that's how we speak. Give me that. Damn. Rebar, rebar, rebar, rebar. Get the hell out of here with that.

[B]

I'm done.

[A]

All right, what else we got?

[B]

Well, right after this happened, I mean, as it was actually happening, it's really scary to go on social media and see all the conspiracies that were spreading so fast. Even President Trump was alarmed at how quickly they spread. I mean, you and I could. Dana Bash probably couldn't do it, but you and I can, off the top of our heads, probably name five or six major conspiracies that have just taken hold of society at this point. And President Trump referenced that. There were people, though, left, right and center that were just saying, like, maybe this was staged. They're trying to distract from the war in Iran. This was staged. He's trying to get his approval ratings up. This was staged. Like, how come everybody looks? And they use the Wei Zhijiang video that you referenced. She was reacting to the mentalist. She wasn't reacting to the sound. And they were like, she acted too soon.

[A]

She was, like, responding to Oz. And right at the reveal, the shooting started. So she was, like, going, oh, my God. And then they started shooting. She had to change her face and change her direction, but that was, like, simultaneous.

[B]

But some people have said that that's part of it. Other people have taken a screen grab of Melania Trump kind of reacting, and they're like, this doesn't look like her. Have you seen that one?

[A]

No, I haven't seen that.

[B]

So. So it's. I mean, it is in the video. One of the videos that we showed it was that first video of the side angle. People are like, well, that doesn't look like Melania. That looks like a dummy. Or like, that looks like it was generated or something. I mean, it's kind of crazy. Just all of the conspiracies that are out there. And I, I think that sometimes the media is to blame for that, too.

[A]

Yeah, it's weird because they're like, the real conspiracy theories are more like good people on both sides and inject bleach and all the sort of nonsense that they say that get into the zeitgeist and turns into January 6th was an insurrection stuff. That's the real sort of conspiracy theory bullshit that actually worked. This stuff is like, this is like flat Earthers to me. Like, I'm just sort of like, meh,

[B]

like, moon landing people or. There was no moon landing people. All right, ready to move on. Next story. Kind of related, though. So your buddy Jimmy Kimmel. Last week, during Thursday's episode of the Jimmy Kimmel Live show, the host parodied the White House Correspondent's Dinner in advance and delivered his own alternative comedy monologue as the event's emcee. And among the gags, Jimmel Kimmel joked that Melania had, quote, the glow of an expectant widow. Let's play that video.

[A]

We'll figure that out. Yeah, I got a little different take on this. I mean, you can put a different take on this.

[B]

I think we might agree on this. Donald Trump has waded into the controversy surrounding this resurface video from a few days ago about the joke about the first lady. Melania actually tweeted earlier today that Kimmel's broadcaster, abc, needed to, quote, unquote, take a stand in a Monday morning tweet. And Donald targeted the comedian in a statement of his own about it being a really shocking joke.

[A]

Our first lady, Melania is here. Look at Melania. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. All right, so I'll approach this from a comedic standpoint. A couple things. One is when you make a joke and then nothing happens, like, there was no shooting. No one made a thing about it before the shooting. So then it's kind of a thing where you go like, oh, that Alicia Krause. I hate that bitch. I hope she dies. And then two days later, you get in a car crash and you die. Then everyone looks at me and goes, now I'm angry at you, at me. But I'm like, but if she never got in a car crash, you never said anything like this thing happened then the joke happened before. So, A, it's unrelated. B, I mean, to be fair, now people do this one, too. It's not like he wrote that joke, but he said that joke. But he didn't write that joke. Somebody wrote that joke and he said it cuz he thought it was funny. But that's a pretty typical roast joke.

[B]

My perspective, when my husband and I

[A]

saw this and also. Sorry, anybody, Any. It is also a trope. Any younger, beautiful woman who's married to an older guy, especially if the guy's rumored to be sort of a douchey, you would make that joke at any roast and.

[B]

Or rich. Like a younger woman. My perspective was, oh, she's an attractive woman that is significantly younger than him.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

That married him for his fame and fortune.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

So whenever he dies, whether he was president or not.

[A]

Yes. Like, you would make that joke.

[B]

You could make that joke about Lauren Sanchez marrying Jeff Bezos, even though they're more similar in age, is like, well, she's waiting for her cash out. Right.

[A]

You. If Trump, Trump was at a roast on Thursday, you would do that joke. If he was still to his face. Well, if he'd never been president. Yeah, you would do that joke. But. Yeah, I get it. But now here's the problem.

[B]

I think it's.

[A]

Once there's a lot of sewage under the bridge, then the pump is already primed.

[B]

And I think that that's people's perspective. I mean, our friends Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin were playing clips on their show about other jokes that he's made about Stephen Miller and about other members of the administration. And I think that sometimes people, they develop that case based on other things that he has said over time. Cumulative effect they deem as not funny.

[A]

I agree. But this one, although people think it's egregious for the reasons I just explained, I don't. But there is something interesting I was thinking about. There's an Eddie Murphy tape on Carson that I was thinking about, which is. So here's something interesting about our society. And it kind of fits in with the Southern Poverty Law Center. A trope of a lot of black comedians throughout the 80s and the 90s was could you imagine the first black president? Now, there were two things that were kind of interesting about this. The first is the first black president was used as a milestone or a benchmark of racism is now gone. When this country can elect a black president, that'll be the day things are healed. Are healed. And it's in our rearview mirror. And so we always kind of used it as that milestone. Now, of course, once we did that, we all doubled down on racism because the race hustlers had to work overtime at this point to get paid. And you guys all got played or who? Not people listening to me. But America got played because these people wanted to get paid. And they had a problem, which is a black president in a country that they're calling racist, which is elected by a majority of white people.

[B]

So they had to pay to create racism issues.

[A]

Right? That's what happened there. But the other trope by all black comedians was when, if and when there is a black president, he's gonna have to run serpentine everywhere because our racist nation is basically gonna assassinate him immediately. This is Eddie Murphy from 1982 on the Johnny Carson show.

[B]

Then I'm gonna run for president.

[A]

Cause we haven't had any black presidents lately.

[B]

They have. Somebody black should run. It'd be different. There's nothing to lose. It'd be fun.

[A]

Man. It can't get no worse than it's been the past hundred years.

[B]

I figured, why not take the risk?

[A]

Everybody's afraid to run, though.

[B]

Cause they know that Even though it's

[A]

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Interesting.

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Yeah, it is interesting that Obama sailed through two terms with no gunshots.

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Thank God. Kamala Harris as vice president.

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Right.

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She didn't have any security threats that we're aware of.

[A]

Right. So it's kind of this weird thing that they always put racism on the right and violence on the right, but the reality is it's on the left.

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Turns out to back that point up statistically. There are lots of really good studies out there that show that the left is more prone to think that political assassination is. Okay, well, like we saw this.

[A]

Jamie Raskin is a douche, but he doesn't need to be eliminated because he's not calling for totalitarian leadership and to end our way of life and to round up people of color and put them in cages or gulags or something. If he was, and I actually thought that, then I would be cheering on somebody taking him out. But he's not calling for that and I'm sober enough to Understand that you guys are saying this guy's rounding up people. I mean, you listen. I mean, you listen to 8 seconds of Gavin Newsom. He's declaring a fatwa on Trump. He's basically putting a target on him.

[B]

Tom Stier's done the same with ICE agents, right?

[A]

Yes.

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Like, they need to be tried, they need to go to jail. They're guilty of this, you know, and fundamentally putting all law enforcement, specifically ICE agents, in the same category as those guys that shot, you know, civilians in Minnesota.

[A]

Yeah, we have to have.

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And like, when you. When you equate to them all, that's a problem.

[A]

The guy who captured this, summed this up pretty well was Will Riccardella.

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Yeah, I think that's how you say it.

[A]

Will Riccardella. I think he had a tweet out that was pretty thoughtful. But it sort of encapsulates what we're sort of saying about this, which is now the new World Order. Because this stuff, you gotta think about a lot of this stuff. I mean, and Trump is now 9 or 10 years old, right. As far as the scene goes, Right. So you got guys, young men who are 11, 9, 13, 15, have been fed a steady diet of this shit when they were starting in the third grade, and now they're 19 and they know where dad's hunting rifle is.

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This guy was 31 years old. So to that point, the rhetoric against Trump started before his prefrontal cortex was fully formed.

[A]

Good point.

[B]

But that didn't have a. Honestly, when you look at his resume, which Will points out here in this tweet, it was reminiscent of the kid that shot the insurance CEO.

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Yes.

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It's this level of bourgeois terrorism that the modern day left is applauding. And if they're not openly applauding it, they're like, wink, wink, nod, nod. Will keep saying these things despite the results that they're having in real life.

[A]

Well, you just think also about the sort of trickle down effect of like that clip from Trump's first administration where TMZ ran into the LA police commissioner and asked the guy, he was like, police union commission or something outside of Spagos. And he was like, hey there, they're taking a pickaxe to Trump's star. And he's like, what are you gonna do? And he goes, do you like that? He goes, I don't mind it. He, like, got in his car and he drove away. Like, these are all enablers. When you're talking to Nancy Pelosi and you're telling her about tearing down statues he's like, hey, people are gonna do what they're gonna do. Yes, people are gonna do what they're gonna do.

[B]

This is what the revolution looks like, right?

[A]

Yeah, that's what they're gonna do. You're gonna have to break a few eggs to make that omelet. All right. You want to read this? Alicia Krause?

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Sure. So Will said the White House Correspondents association alleged shooter wasn't some nut job lurking on the fringes of a society forgotten by the system. He was a well educated, credentialed, employed and institutionally formed. That's what makes this so disturbing. At first glance, this doesn't look like a breakdown of the system. It looks more like a product of it academia. Kudos to that. Media and politics helped build the moral permission structure. Let that sink in. I mean, yeah. As somebody that's spoken on college campuses for the last 10 plus years and been going with colleagues who've done so for a much longer period of time, 100%.

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Also, Molly Ringwald has come undone. I don't know if you saw that.

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Oh, yeah.

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I've known Molly since she was 11.

[B]

What?

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Yeah, they grew up up the street for me. Had a crush on her sister. Oh, yeah.

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She's cute as Molly.

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I will say this. When I was in the, you know, in high school. When I was in high school, Molly was younger. She's four, three, four years younger than I am. So she was too young, I would say. If I was laying down numbers, I would go, Molly, six. Her sister Beth, nine and a half to nine and three quarter.

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And she's not the famous one.

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Nope. But they came out here for her to be the famous one, which is crazy. Cause she's a stunning blonde.

[B]

Interesting.

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But ended up the kid's sister with the red hair. Ended up being the one that took off.

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Well, I mean, she did have a lot of talent. And apparently John Hughes had a thing for redheads, so he likes to cast redheads.

[A]

That's interesting.

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In his films.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. There was a movie. There was a TV movie, I would say, and you can look it up when we play Molly's thing. But there was a TV movie from. It would have been probably like 1978 or something like that called Danger island or Cutthroat island or some stupid island thing. It was a TV movie and it was like five really cute chicks get stuck on an island. And that's why they moved from Placerville, California out here, so that Beth could launch her career.

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Interesting.

[A]

She looked like Marilyn Monroe.

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See I feel like, though, that is a sad sign of the times to me. Cause now everybody that has a fake face and is famous on TikTok gets an acting opportunity. Whereas back in the good old days, like, you could just have pure talent and be kind of cute.

[A]

That's me.

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And still get famous.

[A]

You sound like my stage mom, by the way. What's the opposite of a stage mom? My grandmother was like, he's not very charismatic. I don't know why. He's. Thanks, stage grandma.

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People laugh at you.

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I don't get it. All right, we'll play a little. Molly.

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I don't spend a lot of time doing this, talking to you like this, unless I'm, I don't know, recommending a foundation or telling you to get your kids vaccinated against meningitis. But I feel like I can't stay silent. And neither should you.

[A]

And never can stay silent, can they?

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There's something horrible, horrible going on in our country right now. And we have one of the greatest countries, had one of the greatest countries in the world. And I've always been so proud to be an American. But right now, now this is a fascist government. It's not becoming a fascist government. It is a fascist government. And ICE is brutalizing people. And I don't care how you identify. If you're a Democrat, if you're a Republican, if you're independent, if you don't like to be political at all, it doesn't matter. You have to look at what kind of country you want to live in. And I don't think that I need to remind you. You know, I'll just give a little history lesson here quick, but appreciate it. You know, if you look at what happened in France, where I lived during

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World War 11, you know, a few

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years in my 20s, you know, they were taken over by the Nazis. They were invaded. They were taking over. And a lot of people. A lot of people collaborated. And then there were people that did not collaborate and were part of the Resistance. Eventually, they got their country back. And those people who collaborated were found to be criminal. And that is what's going to happen. I mean, you should not support what is going on just because these are human beings and we are human beings, and we cannot forget our humanity. But if you don't care about that, if you only care about yourself, then realize that you are going to be seen as a collaborationist.

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Okay, we're going to Brazil, and I

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don't think that anybody wants that. I don't think.

[A]

Pass up the van. We're going to Brazil.

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History. So please, wrong set of history. Please use your voice and protest. You know, these are, these are children. These are children who are being taken away from their parents. These are mothers who are being killed. These are fathers, these are, these are ICU nurses. These are people that, that are good people. I'm just that now their, their families have to grieve them for doing nothing except for standing up what's right for what's right for keeping. For keeping women from being brutalized by these monsters. And they are monsters.

[A]

Well, you gotta kill those monsters.

[B]

They're human beings as well, but they have forgotten that they're human beings and they have become monsters years. Please don't let yourself Pixar movie become like that. Please remember your humanity. Think about your kids. Think about your grandkids. Think about your sister and your brother. These are all people who have, have kids or fathers or mothers or aunts and uncles and people who love them. And we all have people that love us and we love people.

[A]

Okay, let me write this down.

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I hope that we love people. I certainly do.

[A]

She does all right. She loves people. Crash Island, 1981. Well, there, there we go. Now, probably filmed in 80. 81 is weird because it came out in 81, but she came out here before 81 to film it. So they must have sat on it for. And I was gonna say crashed a plane, but I'm not. A plane full of children and young teens on their way to a swim meet crash into the ocean, leaving them and the crew stranded on an unknown island. This is back in the 80s when we didn't know islands. We didn't have stuff charted out. Like people go, I'm going to Hawaii. And I'd go where? I never heard of that.

[B]

Oh, wax on, wax off guy is in it.

[A]

Pat Morita's in it. Goddamn. No wonder she figured it had legs.

[B]

That's impressive. It's a pretty good lineup.

[A]

Yeah. Beth Ringwald, I don't know. Well, so far all I got is Pat Morita.

[B]

But that guy on the upper left that was like the captain. He looks familiar too. Warren Berlinger.

[A]

Warren Berlinger.

[B]

Why does he look like. Was he in Pollyanna or something? He looks really familiar to me.

[A]

Don't know.

[B]

But, but we all. We know you're better at random movies Nobody's seen for 500. Alec.

[A]

Beth played Susan and she was good cause I believed her name was Susan. So she did a bang up job. But yeah, came out from up north to do that and now, oh my God. Cannonball Run. This guy was in the Long Goodbye, the World According to Garp. That's the Bellinger guy, whatever his name is. All right, you can check the tape. We'll do it in the next show. We'll figure that one out. All right, Las Vegas meet coming up at Kimmel's. That'll be four shows. That'll be the 8th and 9th of May. And then Visalia doing the Covina Laugh Factory with a special huge guest. Alicia will back me up.

[B]

I'm excited.

[A]

That's gonna be a good one. Can't tell you for reasons, but you will not be disappointed. Visalia playing the Fox Theater May 15, then the 16th Modesto Theater. Go to amcro.com for all the live stuff. What do you got, Alicia Krause?

[B]

Oh, I just got my Instagram and stuff over at Daily Wire, so check it out.

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Until next time, I am Crawford Alicia Krause saying mahalo. You can leave us a voicemail at 888-634-1744 and get tickets to see the Ace man at AdamCarola.com.

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