Stolen Land, ICE Out + More Idiotic Political Statements at Grammys

Summary

The Adam Carolla Show — Feb 3, 2026

Episode: "Stolen Land, ICE Out + More Idiotic Political Statements at Grammys"

Guests: Alicia Krause (Washington Examiner)

Main Theme:

Adam Carolla and Alicia Krause dissect the political grandstanding at the 2026 Grammy Awards, focusing on statements like “ICE Out” and “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land.” Intertwined are Adam’s signature comedic rants, irreverent analogies, observations on showbiz groupthink, and behind-the-scenes stories from his own hectic week in media.

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Episode Overview

• Purpose: Tackling the hypocrisy and groupthink of celebrity activism at awards shows – especially at the Grammys – with sidebars into California politics, bureaucracy, and Carolla’s recent travel adventures.
• Tone: Sardonic, irreverent, observational, with rapid-fire banter and Adam’s biting humor.
• Key Topics:
  • Grammys virtue signaling (“ICE out”, “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land”)
  • The economics and psychology of Hollywood groupthink
  • Celebrity wealth and hypocrisy
  • Insightful tangents on California politics, government inefficiency, and bureaucracy
  • Media bubble and why dissent isn’t tolerated in left-leaning entertainment spheres
  • Adam’s schedule – Bill Maher, Gutfeld, Mark Normand and Sam Morril, Megyn Kelly, DC/Kennedy Center, pizza mishaps

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Detailed Breakdown & Key Insights

1. Carolla’s Media Week Recap

• Timestamps: 02:27 – 23:48
• Highlights:
  • Carolla opens with behind-the-scenes stories from "Funny You Should Ask" (Byron Allen’s show), Bill Maher’s "Club Random" podcast, Gutfeld, Mark Normand & Sam Morril’s "We Might Be Drunk" podcast, and live shows with Megyn Kelly.
  • Quote: "Hanging out with Mark and Sam and being funny is not work... but put them all into one day and then it turns into work." (23:22, Adam)
  • Anecdotes about "pizza disasters" while on the road—broccoli on pizza and the eternal debate over margherita pizza.
  • Discussion of Maher’s rightward shift: “Bill is probably—he's going further to the right... I think he's being pushed from the left.” (05:14, Adam)
  • Carolla riffs on "F U money" vs "F Me money".
    • Quote: “Bill has F Me money, which is more money than F U money... F Me money is: I don’t care, I’m fighting that bitch in court.” (09:28, Adam)

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2. Virtue Signaling at the Grammys

• Timestamps: 25:32 – 47:03
• Highlights:
  • Alicia and Adam react to on-stage activism from Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, and others.
  • Adam’s disdain for platitudinous applause lines at awards shows:
    • “Ice out is defund the police, or ‘No child should go to bed hungry’... that’s not a solution.” (28:50, Adam)
    • The crowd’s Pavlovian reaction is likened to yelling “Hook ‘em Horns!” at a Texas crowd.
      • Quote: "All you gotta do is yell Hook 'em Horns and the whole place erupts... it’s low-hanging fruit." (30:13, Adam)
    • On hypocrisy: "They all know what the subjects are... [they] don’t want to be thrown out of the club." (43:18, Adam)
  • On Billie Eilish saying, "No one is illegal on stolen land."
    • Quote: "These people are becoming parodies of themselves." (36:08, Adam)
    • Adam parodies the ephemeral causes that cycle through Hollywood (MeToo, Ukraine, COVID, BLM, defund police, Palestine), mocking the lack of introspection or lasting commitment.
    • “How are they all magically in the Exact same place 100% on all of it all the time?” (37:32, Adam)
    • Explanation: They're incentivized to virtue signal in lockstep because dissent equals exile from the industry.

Memorable Digressions:

• Adam’s analogy: Why actors won’t dissent politically ("If you were a young actor or director..." 43:42) and why they virtue signal to stay in favor.
• Audience disconnect: “They’re only talking to people that work for them... When you’re in that bubble, there’s no cracks of reality that can get through.” (46:21, Alicia)

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3. Political Statements, Law Enforcement, and the Jewish Community

• Timestamps: 61:30 – 66:11
• Highlights:
  • Philly DA Larry Krasner’s anti-ICE speech is played and lambasted.
    • Quote: “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are.” (62:01, Krasner)
    • Adam: “Your comparison to law enforcement doing a job that the American people voted for ... to Nazis is wildly insulting to any Jew with any sort of historical connection to the Holocaust at all.” (63:04, Adam)
  • Discussion on why Jewish Hollywood and political figures don’t speak up against this Nazi rhetoric (“Because if they started speaking up, then they’d be tossed out too... they want to get along.” 64:10)

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4. California Bureaucracy and Tax Madness

• Timestamps: 70:48 – 77:26
• Highlights:
  • Upcoming California “mileage tax” proposal—Carolla rails against new forms of taxation and the inability of the government to cut spending.
    • Quote: “You must figure out a way to reduce spending or figure out a way to bring in more tax dollars. They never think about ways to reduce spending.” (72:26, Adam)
  • The state's self-destructive incentives—including the exodus of productive citizens and ratcheting up taxes on those who remain.
  • Critique of government-created “deputy inspector” jobs: bureaucracy feeding itself and stifling progress (54:04).

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5. Audience, Art, and Media Segregation

• Timestamps: 91:46 – 98:38
• Highlights:
  • Why left-wing artists refuse to perform at the newly dubbed “Trump Kennedy Center.”
    • “Your audience is your audience, you know, and that’s who comes out and sees you… but the other place is just mortars and bricks and wires.” (91:46, Adam)
  • On why leftists rarely go on right-leaning shows, and why people like Fauci avoided questions outside safe media bubbles. (“Fauci’s scared and Fauci’s lying. He didn’t want to go to places that would ask him real questions.” 98:52, Adam)
    • Analogy: "It’s like when you go, ‘What’s in the trunk?’ and they won’t open it—there’s something in the trunk." (101:43)

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6. Societal Reflections

• Timestamps: Throughout
• Highlights:
  • Adam and Alicia’s consistent theme: The modern culture industry is driven by fear of ostracism, not honest conviction.
  • On the rapid cycling of causes and virtue-signaling in Hollywood: "Six years, six movements. Nobody ever talks about the stuff they were talking about five years ago or three years ago. It's a new thing, right?" (37:10, Adam)
  • On celebrity hypocrisy: "Billie Eilish lives on what I heard is about 4 acres and about $14 million estate ... But shut your fucking face. Just shut up." (57:02, Adam)
  • On open debate and questioning one’s beliefs:
    • “I'm open to be questioned and questioning myself. So then I can further investigate and figure out why I believe what I believe.” (102:37, Alicia)

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On awards show platitudes:

  "ICE out is... that's not a solution. You're just telling people who enforce laws to leave. And then we wouldn't have any problems. If we didn't have... you could argue that if we didn't have lead testing kits, then we'd have no detection of lead... but we'd still have a problem." — Adam (28:50)

• On groupthink in Hollywood:

  “How are they all magically in the Exact same place 100% on all of it all the time?... And the answer is, they're not. They don't want to be thrown out of the club.” — Adam (37:32, 45:50)

• On 'F U' vs 'F Me' money:

  "Bill has F Me money, which is more money than F U money... F Me money is: I don’t care, I’m fighting that bitch in court." — Adam (09:28)

• On Hatred for Law Enforcement:

  “Your comparison to law enforcement... to Nazis is wildly insulting to any Jew with any sort of historical connection to the Holocaust at all.” — Adam (63:04)

• On leftist bubbles:

  "When you're in that bubble, there's no cracks of reality that can get through." — Alicia (46:21)

• On refusing to debate the other side:

  “Fauci’s a coward and he’s a pussy and he’s a liar and he didn’t wanna go to places that would ask him real questions.” — Adam (98:52)

• On hypocrisy:

  “Billie Eilish lives on what I heard is about 4 acres and about $14 million estate ... But shut your fucking face. Just shut up.” — Adam (57:02)

• On backlash for celebrity opinions:

  “When you get up there on an international stage, Billie Eilish, and say something, don't play the victim when people respond to what you said.” — Alicia (58:28)

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Memorable Segment Timestamps

• Carolla’s wild travel week & F-U money: 02:27–15:00
• Virtue signaling at the Grammys / ICE Out rant: 25:32–47:00
• Jelly Roll’s Jesus speech & crowd reaction: 59:00–61:12
• Philly DA Krasner “wannabe Nazis” anti-ICE speech: 61:43–63:04
• California’s mileage tax debate and bureaucratic waste: 70:48–77:26
• Hollywood leftism & why dissenters are excluded: 37:32–47:03, 91:46–98:38

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Final Thoughts

The episode centers on the performance of political ideology at the Grammys, the echo chamber of Hollywood, and the cost for anyone who dissents. Carolla deconstructs the motivations behind celebrity activism, emphasizing the hazards of groupthink and the disconnection from everyday people, while using both humor and sharp analogies to explore California’s head-spinning bureaucracy and government dysfunction. The discussion repeatedly returns to personal accountability, the peril of ideological bubbles, and the rewards and risks of standing apart from the crowd.

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For listeners: This episode is an unfiltered, relentlessly sardonic tour of pop culture’s political pageantry and the increasingly bizarre behavior of those who shape our culture and laws – with a side of pizza.

Transcript

[A]

Well, in this episode we have no guests because Pac man dropped out. But that's all right. Leisha Krause comes in and we're getting some good stuff. Lots of news, and we'll do all that right after this. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. If you care about predictions, you care about props. And nobody does props like Betonline. For years, we've been the home of legitimate sports betting with dinner, deep markets, sharp odds and players, props that reward real insight from kickoff to final whistle. Betonline gives you live betting, instant updates, and in game predictions that move as the action unfolds. Plus, elevate your play with BetOnline casino and VIP rewards built for serious players prediction markets. Follow the conversation. Bet online defines it. Bet online. The game starts here. Thanks for tuning in to the Adam Carolla Show. You can watch the full show on YouTube. Just search Adam Carolla show and hit subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can also get the podcasts wherever you like to listen. And for extra content, ad free episodes and more, you can head over to our substack and sign up today. This episode is brought to you by SimpliSafe. From Corolla One studios in Glendale, California. This is the Adam Carolla Show. Today we'll discuss the news with the Washington Examiner's Alicia Krause. And now, Adam Carolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on the church to get on their mandate. You get it on. Yeah. Pac Man Jones was supposed to be on the show today, but something happened. But that's all right. We got his doppelganger, Alicia Krause.

[B]

Hello.

[A]

Hello. Whoa. Was that Pac Man? No, I had to look up and see. You squint. She looks just like Pac Man.

[B]

All right, I have to google this gentleman to see if that's a compliment or not.

[A]

No, don't do it. Oh, gosh. Don't do it. All right. We got a lot of stuff to get into.

[B]

Sure do.

[A]

Sure do. First things first, I had a crazy schedule last week. I started off doing Funny should Ask, which is Byron Allen's show on Tuesday. And those shoot, they gang tape always have to go slow. Those shows, they do six episodes in a day. So they go from the call times like 8:30 and then you get out of there at 8:30 at night. That's just fine. But it's a long day. But then Wednesday I did Bill Maher's show, which is Club Random Show.

[B]

How'd that go? I think I saw you that day.

[A]

Yeah, good it's always a little tough. Cause he smokes a little spleef and has a few drinks and then you do too. And look out.

[B]

Wait, you smoked a little?

[A]

No, I didn't smoke.

[B]

I was like, I didn't know this.

[A]

About you Had a little cocktail. But yeah, it's fun, it's interesting. It's good. I mean, I did it maybe the first week or two. He put the show on the air and now I did it last week and kind of fun. You know, shows are all a little bit different. You go to his sort of man cave, guest house sort of thing on his property and you sit there on the set and they get you all ready and they do something that's interesting that other shows don't do, which is they put a lav mic on you, which I think speaks to probably his TV background.

[B]

Oh, like hbo. It's less podcast and more hbo.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And it's a lav. And I don't know, I mean, Dawson could kind of tell us, but I think the sound is a little better when you're just speaking into a mic like we are now.

[B]

But the radio in us, like that old fashioned talk radio vibe.

[A]

It works. Coincidentally, I did sound for Bill Maher show for about two months early on. Early on. And they. I think they silent fired me because it was after the John McEnroe interview. John McEnroe wears a lot of jewelry. And when John McEnroe speaks, sometimes he plays tennis. He's moving like he's. Yeah, there's all these chains jingling, jangling right into love. Right. He's got the chain. Yeah. He's not a. I don't think of him as a big jewelry guy, but he probably has a few chains that do it.

[B]

So it only takes a couple of things.

[A]

Yeah, they lav you up. They put the little mic pack and they run the thing down your shirt.

[B]

It's like when I go on cable tv.

[A]

Yeah. Like on cable tv and you know, the sounds fine, but you're not leaning into a mic and then you just sit back in a sort of comfortable diner club chair, I think they call it. So I'm comfortable.

[B]

Well, it's funky patterns.

[A]

Yeah. And then the thing that's interesting about it, that's different, is Bill makes an entrance. He walks in and sits down. It's not. We don't normally you're sitting there. Three, two, one, go. He walks in, sits down, and the show starts, which is kind of nice. And then you just have a conversation about everything. Bill is probably. He's going further to the right, mainly. Had enough of the left. I think that's. I don't think he's attracted to the right. I think he's being pushed from the left. I think if somebody ends up anywhere, it would be for one of two reasons. You're either being, you know, when you leave a relationship, you're either attracted to somebody else or being pushed out by whoever you're with.

[B]

And he's being pushed out by the.

[A]

Feel like he's being pushed out. Well, it's kind of the difference between living in California. Living in California, as I've always said, no one ever left California. My entire life, it was just throngs of people who are from other parts of the country, and no one ever left unless they got transferred for their job or something.

[B]

And then they were crying, they hated it.

[A]

And the only place anyone could ever move would be maybe Hawaii. They just go, I'm retiring. Or my parents had a condo there and they died, and I'm just moving. I'm surfing or something. But no one would ever move. Now people are leaving. And sort of the bad news is for California is when you talk to people who are leaving, you go, where are you going? And they go, texas, Florida, Nevada, I don't care. Phoenix, like Arizona, Tennessee, I don't care. So that's the people to Idaho. When you go to Hawaii, you're being attracted to go to Hawaii. And when you're company transfers you to Denver, you're being attracted to Denver, but now you're being repelled. We're just leaving. So that's the difference between attraction and being repelled. And he's just being repelled. He's being pushed from the left over toward the right. And he is funny. He's intellectually honest. He's 70 years old, as he told me, he just turned 70.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

And he has. What's better than FU money. You know what that is, Alicia Cox?

[B]

I wish I had some from time to time.

[A]

No, you don't.

[B]

Why?

[A]

You wish you had F me money. F me money is more precious than F you money.

[B]

Oh, really? Okay.

[A]

F U money is where that came.

[B]

From the television show Billions, right?

[A]

F U money.

[B]

Yeah. Isn't that one of the things?

[A]

F U money's been around for a long time? F U money is.

[B]

You got enough. If somebody F's around, they can find out because you could buy their company and own them.

[A]

That's FU mostly I think of FU is like some employee quits and claims you were racist against them and sexually promiscuous. And they want you to pay them $100,000.

[B]

Yeah, that's not really my M.O. but interesting.

[A]

Well, you don't have fu. You don't have F me money, so. Widely attributed to author James Clavell in his book. Interesting 1981 book. Anyway, now listen to me. The point is, this person wants 100 grand to go away, then I have F me money. Now, F me money is. I go, I don't care. I'm fighting that bitch in court. And then. Then my financial advisors say, it's gonna cost you a million dollars to fight her in court. And I go, I don't care.

[B]

Oh, that's like what Peter Thiel did to that now defunct liberal media company, right? Yes.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Like, that was amazing.

[A]

Right, Gawker. Right? Gawker.

[B]

That's F me money. So Phil has fu, not F me money.

[A]

No, no.

[B]

Oh, he has both.

[A]

Bill has F me money, which is more money than f you money.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

Okay. So you can fuck yourself and still not care. Yeah, that's great, because you just want.

[B]

To win and prove a point.

[A]

F u money is like, where you go, I'm going to take all the money I owe alimony to and I'm going to put it into nickels and I'm going to drag it over to my ex's house, you know, or something like that. That's a calorie burner and stuff like that. But it's not F me money. F me money's shutting down Gawker and all that kind of stuff.

[B]

Sometimes I have dreams of F u money, of, like, buying up former companies that I used to work for and proving them wrong and firing all the managers who were doing it.

[A]

So, yeah, FU money would be. Probably buy the companies and then run the companies and make money. F you money is buy the company and shutter it and lose all the money. But you're out of it. The people you hate are out too. I'm not even. I am losing money. F you. F me. F everyone. Bill is 70. He has no kids. He has no wife. He's been making millions of dollars for the last decades in this town without ever taking a month off. I mean, he's been working, touring, and getting paid good HBO money nonstop for 40 years.

[B]

I was going to say as long as I've been alive.

[A]

40 years. So he's got F me money and he's like, I'm old and I'm rich and I get to tell the truth. When you're young and rich. You don't necessarily get to tell the truth because you're not gonna get invited to cocktail parties and you wanna go.

[B]

Or get re signed by a very liberal network.

[A]

Yeah, but when you're old and you're rich, you're like, I say whatever I want.

[B]

I wonder if this is the first time it's crossed my mind cuz the show is pretty successful. I wonder if it's ever crossed his mind that he's worried that hbo or would HBO consider a. If they don't like what he has to say. I feel like he's like so baked into the cake over there. That'd be so unusual for them to do.

[A]

Agreed. And he does well and the show's really good and so on and so forth. So anyway, went over there and sat down with him and had a laugh.

[B]

Wait, Was this the D.C. weekend too?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So then you did have a crazy.

[A]

Travel week after that. After doing. After doing Bill's show and finishing Wednesday night, I got home and got up at 5:30 in the morning. Say 5:30, maybe 5 to make that.

[B]

Flight where you lose the whole day in the air.

[A]

Yes. That's LAX to LaGuardia. No. Where'd we land? Newark. Newark? Yeah, we land in Newark and then had to do two shows at Rodney's that night.

[B]

Oh wow. In New Fort D.C. yes.

[A]

Geez. Did two shows that night.

[B]

Did you get some good pasta and pizza though, Like Thursday?

[A]

Let me tell you something. There is no dinner. It's two shows Thursday night. Andrew bought way too much pizza. That's fine.

[B]

But did he get the right kind of pizza?

[A]

He had one thing, but it had broccoli on it. Ew. Yeah, I know. Look, I want to just see.

[B]

What are you looking precautious?

[A]

I like to look at Dawson's face. Red had broccoli. And by the way, I was completely fine with the whole thing because I talked to Andrew and obviously he was on the phone and Andrew goes, I'm gonna order some pizzas. And I was like, all right, well go ahead. There's only me, Mike and Andrew. Right? So then we get back, you really.

[B]

Need just one pizza for three dudes.

[A]

We get there and then I look at the pizza and there's cheese. Cheese. Okay, fine. And then there's Neapolitan or whatever the one is that I don't really want, which I never get. Who gets that pizza? The one with the big bay leaf on top of the. What is that one Margarita. There's a margarita.

[B]

Oh, I like the Margarita.

[A]

Everyone loves a margarita, but no one really wants a margarita. Everyone loves it, but no one really wants it. Everyone would rather have real pizza than a margherita. But anyway, cheese, Cheese, Margarita. And then a meaty thing, a sausagey thing, but it had broccoli on it. So then broccoli. Broccoli's a pizza killer, by the way. It doesn't help. It's better. There are few things you can say. This would be better if this was gone. And broccoli is one of the few things that actually hurts pizza. It's like kitty litter on pizza. It sops up the goodness. But anyway, a little bit of broccoli. What was that? Pizza. How did broccoli get. And by the way, he just felt like he is a vegetarian, so that pizza's not for him because it has sausage on it. I was setting up for the podcast. It was. Someone at Rodney's went rogue, gave them a credit card. They picked up the margarita. Someone. Everyone went. Someone went rogue. I said, just. Yeah, just meat lovers.

[B]

Now that person is listening to the show.

[A]

So then the comedy, whatever is the whole night. I was like, four large pizzas. Jesus Christ. And then at some point, I took one home and finished it. When we're packing up, I go, we're packing up at Dr. Drew's house, where me and Mike stayed. And I go, hey, man, listen, we gotta. And I wasn't if you noticed, Andrew. I, the number one pizza complainer in America, did no complaining. I just took the pizza. I ate the pizza. I didn't say anything about broccoli. I didn't say anything about the margarita. I didn't say anything. And then I'm sitting in Drew's living room, we're packing up, and I go, hey, man, we gotta kick Andrew over a few bucks. I mean, he bought, like, $150 worth of pizza. He's not a rich guy. I don't know why he bought so much pizza, but he shouldn't have to eat it. Pardon the pun. So we gotta give him a few bucks for the pizza. And then Mike goes, oh, we paid for that pizza. And I'm like, oh, you motherfucker. God damn it. God damn it. Now I'm so retroactively pissed that there was broccoli and a margarita and two regular cheese. So somebody. Maybe it's just me, but I cannot let people order. I have to get involved. Otherwise, you'll get margarita and you'll get broccoli. What kind of meat lover wants broccoli on their pizza? Is there a meat lover who loves the meat? Unless it's a gay version of meat lover. Like, maybe Don Lemon loves broccoli on his pizza. But broccoli is so. Broccoli is not good anywhere. But it's really bad on a pizza and totally unnecessary. It had, like, sausage and onion and olive and broccoli. There's no world where broccoli is good on a pizza. No nothing. That person is a sociopath. I am a guy who enjoys broccoli. If I eat a steak and you steam me up some broccoli and put some butter on it, I will enjoy. I like broccoli. Not good on pizza and margarita. And everyone says they like it, but they don't. They'd rather have whatever I order them more. So that's. So you didn't order the pizza, Andrew. Then the club ordered it. I said, one plane and one meat lovers. And I said, do not put pepperoni on it because it overpowers the rest of the pizza. No pepperoni. And then I went back to getting ready for the show. And then there are four large pizzas. Someone with broccoli. Jesus Christ.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Remember the last time we went to Rodney's, we had a little pizza cake situation.

[B]

Literally the same place, Same place. It was like the Westwood One gal ordered it. And there was confusion, but it was a mic lost in translation, because that's what Mike does.

[A]

Cause Mike wrote. I said, mike, just make sure there's one sausage and onion. And he wrote sausage and onion. And then he put a space and he wrote only. And that made the person think it wasn't supposed to have cheese or sauce on it. Because he's the only person on the planet that puts the word only after the toppings. Everyone else just goes, give me a pepperoni. Give me a sausage and onion. But he put the word only in there, and that got them.

[B]

I feel like we should do a compilation at the end of this year. It's like the year in review, but it's all of Mike's mishaps.

[A]

I cannot tell you, Andrew. The pain, the disappointment, and the rage that coursed through my veins once I found out I paid for the pizza when I thought you paid for it. I was in a very generous mood. I didn't say anything about the broccoli, and I didn't say anything about the margarita. I didn't say anything. And then I found out I bought the broccoli. And then I was. I'm thrilled that I wasn't there when that happened. Yes. And we took the margarita home. And Mike ate all of it. So that's what happened with that.

[B]

Okay, now I'm hungry.

[A]

I then went from that two shows Thursday night, Friday did the Mark Norman and Sam Morrell We May Be Drunk podcast at noon.

[B]

Did you drink on that one too, like you did on Bill's?

[A]

Tasted a little of their rye. I don't want to be rude. They have their own rye. And we walked in like. I mean, it was zero degree temperature vortex. I don't have. I have cold weather gear that will do for a short distance, but not a long haul.

[B]

But like, probably the cold weather gear that I have that's like if it's in the 30s or the 40s, not like below freezing.

[A]

It was really bad. And we trekked it from Drew's place to their place, which was about a half hour trek outside. It was pretty damn brutal. And then did that from noon to 1:30. Then went from there to Gutfeld. Gutfeld show was from like 2 to 3.

[B]

Yeah. I heard he likes to tape early on Fridays.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Get out of there for the weekend.

[A]

Gutfeld is so loose and so easy. I mean, he shows up five minutes before the show starts. Gutfeld was really sweet. Cause he was telling me he was listening a lot to this podcast and getting a lot of ideas and stuff from it, which I'm always fine with that. And he said ever since Scott Adams died, he's coming to me for his ideas, which is sweet. Cause I love Scott Adams.

[B]

That's an honor.

[A]

Yeah, it was a real honor. That's the way I thought of him. He's a good guy and all that. We did that.

[B]

That's a fun show too. Who were you one with?

[A]

That's fun. Chef Gruel, who'll be in here.

[B]

Love him.

[A]

Any moment now. Let's see.

[B]

Get Chef Grohl to bring us all some food.

[A]

He probably will.

[B]

He's like so good. The restaurant's so good.

[A]

Also Shalhoub. Tom Shalhoub. And who was sitting next? Oh. Oh, Kennedy. Kennedy.

[B]

Oh, that's a great panel.

[A]

Yeah. I go back so far with Kennedy from KROC days. She was called the Virgin Kennedy. We called her the Virgin Kennedy.

[B]

No way.

[A]

Yeah. Girls tomorrow.

[B]

I just remember her from mtv. But that's so KROC was pre.

[A]

Pre mtv. Kroc. Because KROC kind of is a farm team for mtv. Carson Daly, me, Drew, blah, blah, blah. So then we go do that. Then we get in a car and drive for two hours to go out of New York 65 miles out. But traffic and all that kind of stuff. To do the live show with Megyn Kelly, which is in a theater. That's.

[B]

That was Westchester, right?

[A]

Oh, Andrew knows. I'm so bad with all this. With all this stuff. Chester. It's in Chester.

[B]

Chester, not Westchester. Two very different places.

[A]

Well, it's got the word Chester in it. Then we do that show Friday night and then drive two hours back to the city and then get up Saturday morning and take a four hour train ride from New York to D.C. and then do two shows at the Kennedy Center.

[B]

The soon to be shuttered for two years. Kennedy Center.

[A]

Shut that place down and.

[B]

And you could have been like one of the last shows there.

[A]

D.C. and then fly out Sunday morning to come back to here to work here.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

On Sunday from D.C. so that. That was my weekend.

[B]

So you're telling me you need a nap and. Or an espresso martini, stat.

[A]

I took a. Yes, I slept for like 11 hours the other night because I'm like, I'm done.

[B]

I think if something I've learned working with you these last few months is like, please don't ever stop working because then I'm afraid you'll just die.

[A]

I don't.

[B]

Look, it's like you're one of those people that. It's like they cannot retire because they would be bored out of their minds.

[A]

Nope.

[B]

And would just like, you have something to do.

[A]

No, I would just. I would never be bored. I would immediately build and do car related stuff.

[B]

That's true.

[A]

I would always. I have major hobbies.

[B]

You have. But you also have hobbies that give you kind of like instant gratification and like a purpose and like fulfillment.

[A]

Well, none of.

[B]

But I still think you should never retire.

[A]

None of the stuff in and of itself is work. Hanging out with Mark and Sam and being funny is not work. And hanging out with Gutfeld and being funny is not work. And hanging out on stage with Megyn Kelly, who's a world class speaker and fun is not work either. But put them all into one day and then it turns into work.

[B]

It's the travel.

[A]

It's the travel. Yes. So there was that. That was kind of crazy. Last few days. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listen, if you're in any sort of relationship, you know that they can have their issues. Luckily, therapy can help you find your way out. February's coming. And sometimes the most romantic thing you can do is taking the time to fix your relationship. Hey, I'm 61 and I'm still trying to Figure out what's going on in my head. So time ain't gonna heal everything. One thing I know for sure is that it helps to talk to someone. BetterHelp therapists work according to a strict code of conduct and are fully licensed in the US with over 30,000 therapists to choose from. They make sure you find a good fit, sign up and get 10% [e-mail] Carolla that's better. H E L P.com Corolla Pluto TV.

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You're welcome. We want to talk about some of the Grammys the other night.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[A]

And some of the speeches and some of the stuff. I, I think we have a Bad Bunny and we have a Billie Eilish and you guys have heard this stuff but you haven't really heard my take on it. So we'll, we can start. We can start with Bad Bunny which.

[B]

Is kind of a. Do you like him? I actually like his music.

[A]

No, I don't know his music. I heard he was a first time ever. I heard he was a reggaeton artist and that's my least favorite Ahsoka Soca and reggaeton is the word.

[B]

I don't know that he's. That I would say that his latest album which was also nominated for it's a new category like album cover of the year which was kind of weird because it's like just a lawn chair on its side. But anyway I like a lot of it. When I was training for the Camino I'd use it to keep the beat on hikes when I was trying to be really keep my time. I don't first off because it reminded me of cubano jazz. That's what it reminded me of.

[A]

I'm not going to try to diminish anyone's musical accomplishments now. I think I would prefer certain kinds of music over this kind of music. But I'm not. See I'll tell you what I never get into. When Trump and sometimes even Hannity and guys like that when they start going after people they'll go robert De Niro, a loser, never made a good movie. Zero talent. I got more talent. It might be can act his way out. It's like okay, no, no, no, no He's a great actor who's been involved with many great movies. And then you disagree with him on this subject and he's got a 10 cent head and. And he's just trying to give some red meat to his super leftist lunatic base. And he's a gifted actor.

[B]

And that's how I feel about Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish. I think they're both idiots when it comes to public policy and government and the IDF and immigration and ICE out and all this other bs, but like, they are incredibly talented singer songwriters.

[A]

Now, I would say I don't know Bad Bunny that well and I probably don't appreciate his genre of music, but I could never. Now he's from Puerto Rico. Does that make him an American citizen?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Okay, so he's gonna give a speech, but I never get the oversimplification of things. And then also. But I mean, I guess it's. The left does it all the time. It's kind of weird because they always talk about how complicated everything is and how nuanced everything is.

[B]

And they loved a bunch of people.

[A]

And they get to the root cause of everything. And then Tim Walls goes. Thugs kicking open doors, pointing at people look different than them and disappearing them into sweat gulags. That's your description of what's happening?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. All right. All right, so let's hear him. I'm gonna say eyes out. That's easy.

[B]

He got a really long applause on that.

[A]

All right, pause it for a second. ICE out is defund the police or no child should go to bed hungry or everyone should have world class. That's not a solution. You're just telling people who enforce laws to leave. And then we wouldn't have any problems. If we didn't have. Okay, if we didn't, you could argue that if we didn't have lead testing kits, then we'd have no detection of lead inside of houses or pipes, which would be true. But we'd still have a problem. And we'd still have lead, but we.

[B]

Wouldn'T know about it.

[A]

Right. And if you had no carbon monoxide sensor in your house, then you'd never have a problem with carbon monoxide. Except for you'd still have carbon monoxide. You just wouldn't have a buzzer going off. So their plan is to get rid of everything.

[B]

Cause the buzzer's super annoying and it's like affecting their sleep and how they feel about things.

[A]

Right. All right, so he says I sound.

[B]

Let's ignore the poison.

[A]

Means he has a 10 cent head. But everyone claps so it feels good. That's the easiest, by the way. Can I say this too?

[B]

The other thing is, they do it for the applause.

[A]

Let me give you guys two extreme examples of Ace, man.

[B]

Uh huh.

[A]

Dawson was there for one of them. Perhaps. I went and played like University of, I don't know, Texas Longhorns or whatever, you know, 4,000 people there. Me and Dr. Drew, college tour many years ago. All you gotta do is yell hook em horns and the whole place erupts. You just yell, hook em horns.

[B]

It's low hanging fruit.

[A]

You go, hook em horns. And if you have a joke that doesn't go over well, you yell, hook em horns. If things get a little. You yell, hook em horns. And you know, that whole place, you just go, I shout. And the whole. Everyone's gonna rise up on their feet and start going nuts. All right? On the other hand, you go to the club I played in Alaska and stand in front of that partisan crowd and explain to them that the fresh caught salmon that I got from your Alaskan river is no better than the frozen shit I got from Trader Joe's. And watch that audience the turn fast. And my thing is, well, this happened last.

[B]

This happened over the weekend at the Grammys. He gets cheers for this. Billie Eilish gets cheers for what she says, which we'll get to in a little bit. But then Jelly Roll gets up and is like, jesus is awesome and saved my life. And only God bless her, Reba McEntire is clapping. And they can't even show anybody else because everybody else is like, wait, what? Why are we talking about Jesus?

[A]

It's real easy to get in front of that crowd in Texas and yell hook em horns. Real easy. It's tough to get in front of an Alaskan crowd and tell them the truth. It is the truth too. It's fresh salmon, not fresh. We're pulling the salmon straight out of the river. We're cooking it up that night and I'm eating it going, it's exactly the same as the shit I got from Trader Joe's. Exactly the same as Costco. Same thing.

[B]

I mean, I feel like Kirkland should now be hiring you to do an ad for their salmon based on that analysis.

[A]

All right, so we'll play more bad bunnies. We're not savage, we're not animals. We're not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans. Well, some of you are rapists and some of your killers and pedophiles. I want to say to the people I know it's, it's tough to know not to hate on these days. And I was thinking sometime we get contaminados. I don't know how to say that in English. The hate get more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. Guys, it's the word salad.

[B]

I mean, those protesters.

[A]

We need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. Okay? He's a fucking. He's got a 10 cent head. Listen.

[B]

You mean so like attacking female journalists in downtown LA and saying kill a cop is not.

[A]

It's all projection. It's all projection. All this hate and cruelty and all this stuff. It's like, look, when you take your 9 year old to the dentist and the guy's drilling away on your nine year old's teeth, your kid is miserable, crying. I mean, you can call it being a bad parent, hateful, a cruel parent, or the kid needs a filling. Like there's just business. And business sometimes gets a little messy and sometimes people get hurt, but that's what it is. And the notion of that they can take everything and turn it into a comic book like Trump. Hate, intimidation and fear. It's like, no, no, he's got a problem. You left the border open. Millions of people came in and we have to get them out. And by the way, getting them out will get messy, especially if you don't help and you fight it.

[B]

Turns out we've deported more people from red states and red cities, but there haven't been the fallout. Yes, there has been in Minneapolis. Why? The question is why? I also kind of take issue with, we are all Americans. No, sir, you are an American. I am an American. But the people that ICE is gathering up and deporting and putting, you know, checking their asylum papers are not American.

[A]

Well, would any of this, if you ask these people if this would work, whatever your description of this is, if we just did Canada as an example, so everyone who sneaks into Canada is just Canadian. And then if the Canadian and guards and border patrol try to find you and send you back to the United States, they're way out of line and it's because they're cruel. Like, what if we just. And what if Canada built a wall and said, nobody's coming through here unless you're Canadian or you have work visas or whatever. Like, if we just took all these rules and we applied it to Canada, you'd have no problem with it.

[B]

Well, that's what's so funny.

[A]

They're allowed to do it.

[B]

Yeah, we have a lot of friends from Scandinavia and their. Other than Sweden until more recently, like Finland, for example. Their fricking immigration system is so tough. Yes, it's incredibly tough.

[A]

Canada's the worst, but.

[B]

And Canada is the worst too. And leftists often look to, oh, let's look to Finland, let's look to Canada, let's look to all these countries that are so socialist and leftist until it comes to that very issue and then they completely ignore it.

[A]

All right, I think we got a Billie Eilish clip to play as well. Who's. It's funny how much.

[B]

I mean, at least she's wearing the Ice out pin and not the bloody Intifada pin this time.

[A]

Oh, that's nice. Oh yeah, there's a pin. We got a new pin. She's also the most miserable 25 year old kazillionaire I've ever met. But here we go.

[B]

No one is illegal on stolen land. Sabrina Carpenter.

[A]

These people, These people are. They're becoming parodies of themselves.

[B]

Yeah, it's just really hard to know.

[A]

What to say and what to do right now.

[B]

And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices really do matter and the people matter and. All right, why does she dress like a Scottish priest?

[A]

I don't know. She's got a 10 cent head too. But let me just explain the rule, let me explain what's going on and you can help fill in some of these blanks. But every year there's something new and there is a Covid version of this where you talk about the heroes and the nurses. And then there's a Ukraine version of this where we wear a pin for the Ukraine. And then there's a time's up a belief and then there's a Black Lives Matter.

[B]

I mean, there was the anti idf like Free Palestine.

[A]

Right? Right. So there's little. It's literally in six years, there's six movements. Nobody ever talks about the stuff they were talking about five years ago or three years ago. It's a new thing, right?

[B]

Political jargon for them. And talking points and feelings when it comes to politics and being anti Trump are as quickly changing as fashion for.

[A]

These guys right now. Let me explain the phenomen because as I've said a million times, they're all in lockstep with one another every single time, which is an impossibility because we got a Super bowl coming up, we got Seattle, we got New England. If you said to them. Everybody makes an acceptance speech, has to say who they're for or give a thumbs up or a thumbs down. You'd get a lot of Go Go Birds, Flyhawks or whatever. And then you'd get a lot of Go Patriots. It'd be split. It'd be split. And they're split on everything except for none of these subjects. No black lives matter. No. Time's up. No back defund the police. No Israel, anything. Palestine, whatever. No. What do we call them? Ice out. Me too. Okay. How does a group of people this diverse, by the way? Men, women, young, old. I mean, at the top of the food chain, you got Jane Fonda, 90 years old. You got Billie Eilish at 24 and a half, right? You got gay, you got straight, you got black, you got white. How are they all Seattle fans? How do we get them all into one boat? And by the way, what's Covid have to do with ice? And what's ICE have to do with Palestine? And what's Palestine have to do with Black lives matter? What's black lives matter have to do with I'm with her. Or believe all women or anything? They're all very diverse. This goes from regional things to diseases to social issues. How are they all magically in the Exact same place? 100% on all of it all the time? And if there is one person who may not be ICE out like a jelly roll, they'll never go, hey, fuck y'.

[B]

All.

[A]

You're nuts. These people risk their lives every day. Their average pay, $62,000 a year. You guys are billionaires. You all live behind gated communities. So you're all a bunch of hypocrites. No, no, they just go, Jesus Christ. 1 thank you. Which is code with, I disagree with you progressive pricks. But they don't. They can't. No one says anything. All it is is everyone goes and praises the Seahawks. And then every once in a while, some guy goes, I love the Seahawks too, but I think Belichick should be in the hall of Fame. But anyway, just saying, going back, don't say anything. Okay, so how's this happen? Well, how it happens, okay, they are in a business. You could listen to all of the Grammy winning songs, Album of the year, video of the year, whatever it is. And there's no discernible difference than the other one that lost. And you may in fact like the one that lost better. It's not Picture of the year Movie film of the year. What do you get? Moonlight?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Does anyone fucking want to See it. If you show that to a normal person and you show them any other movie that has been. Didn't even win, just well spoke. Show moonlight and then show em Back to the Future and every human being will say, I like Back to the Future better. But Back to the Future did not win it. Whatever. So it's not a quality situation. And soon it'll be sinners or oh.

[B]

It'S 100% gonna be sinners at the Oscars.

[A]

Right. I sit back. Or the other movie, whatever it is, I sit back here with these guys and they're fairly progressive and they're Hollywood whatever. And they're super honest guys. I watch football with them and I go sinners. Do I need to say they are all like. And these are progressive guys that six and a half maybe. Yeah, not really. You don't really need to. One battle after the other. I saw it. It's horribly flawed. It's comic, comically, whatever. Are those the two best films of the year? No, not at all. If those people started saying we support Trump, guess who's out. Yeah, you are fucking out. And if you support Ice, you're out. And if you're not down with Black Lives Matter out, and you're not wanting to free Palestine, you're out. So it's all out. So now we have a weird thing. We have a group in the films Oscars. We have a group Sundance documentaries. I make Sundance worthy documentaries. You can check my scores on Rotten Tomatoes. I'll never get into Sundance.

[B]

Did you see that about the Melania documentary? It has 6% critic and it's like 98% audience, right?

[A]

Okay.

[B]

It happens all the time.

[A]

It is a horrible business model for me. Who makes documentaries. Who needs to sell documentaries at Sundance? It's a pathetic business model for me to talk how I talk about COVID or anything else, which means no entry into Sundance. You take all my docs and you add up all the scores, it'll be much higher than what gets accepted into Sundance. But I don't because I fucking talk too much. Fine, I accept it.

[B]

Because you have principles. Damn it.

[A]

Nah, I just talked. All right. These people who are making music know it could be anybody who gets like Emmys, Oscars, Grammys, whatever, whatever that thing is. Times most interesting person of the year. Times most influential black, you know, whatever. All right, Never. So they understand. So then they get up there and they go, this is a group that I don't want to be shunned from or tossed out. I cannot be pushed out of this tent.

[B]

Because in a lot of ways it's their livelihood.

[A]

In a lot of ways it is their livelihood.

[B]

It's a whole thing. Right. Bill can do that now.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, and maybe he would have. I don't know him personally. Maybe he would have done it 20 years ago if the left was as crazy then as they are now. But like, he can do it now because of his age and because of his wealth. If you have lots of people that are getting up there that don't feel comfortable being ousted yet because of their age and their wealth.

[A]

If you were a young actor or director and you just got up there and you go, look, I'm sorry you guys don't like it, but I voted for Trump and I voted for this.

[B]

And that's our audience.

[A]

Right? That guy's never working again in this town. That guy can go to Angel Studios now, that's 10 minutes old now. But you're gone, you're shunned, you're out. So they all know it and they all know what the subjects are. Here's Covid. Yeah. Shutting down schools for it. Good. Wearing a useless mask for it. Good.

[B]

Getting a job.

[A]

Getting experimental vaccine multiple times. Experimental. Just say yes. Good. Okay, six foot distancing, no signs behind, you're for it. Good. Shutting down churches. Good. How about Black Lives Matter rallies? No, no, we're for those. Those are fine. We can keep going with those. Okay, whatever the subject, you guys, here's what it is. And this will prevent you from getting kicked out of the club. Now we're gonna have an award show and you get up there and whoever praises whatever your policies are the loudest and oh, and by the way, we hate Trump, so you gotta say something shitty about him and then something great about Black Lives Matter or whatever that thing is. Whoever does that the best is gonna stay in the club the longest. So now you have a decision to make. You do one of three things. You can either go up there and do ice out and nobody's illegal. And by the way, these are just platitudes. No one's ever gonna ask you to do anything. You don't have to go to a rally or march, you don't have to get. You go back to your double dated commitment. You take your security detail, get in your ar the limo and go back to your double gated community. Do not worry, nothing's ever going to follow you home, you'll be fine. But you can either do that or you can go up there and just be neutral, not say anything. But that will make people wonder if you should be in the club. Or you can touch that third rail and say, you love ICE and you love Trump, in which case you're 100% out and you're going to get booed off this stage. So what do these people do? And then people go, I don't get it. Like, how do they all believe the same thing? Like, how did they all end up in the same place with COVID How they all know that Ivermectin was horse based? How they all against, by the way, Ice and Border Patrol, who was doing their thing under Obama, like, gangbusters. Why are they all in the exact same place all the time? And the answer is, they're not. They don't want to be thrown out of the club. So they get the marching orders and they want the people to cheer.

[B]

I also think that there's an element of, like, as we talked about with liberal Karens, like millennial women that just do whatever the left tells them to do because of the brainwashing. I think that there is a level of that brainwashing and ignorance here that these people are so in their own bubbles that they're not going to the person who paid 150 bucks to sit in the nosebleeds at their concert and being like, tell me your life story and what's your family like? And who'd your parents vote for? They're only talking to the people, like, that work for them, that write their paychecks for them, that plan their tours, that book these things. Media that's super friendly. And when you're in that bubble, there's no cracks of reality that can get through.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, they probably could have. There was lots of stuff they could have figured out about defunding police. It's like, you gotta kinda know that's a third grade kind of question. Like, that's not gonna work out.

[B]

But not when they're told by Al Sharpt and Don Lemon and everybody like, oh, well, we have to defund the police because the police are inherently racist.

[A]

And I know, but I would argue here's deeper. All right, sorry. Here's my argument. We go, oh, they're brainwashed. They're brainwashed. But it's like they put their mask on during COVID when the cameras fired up. When the cameras were down, they were off. So are they brainwashed or are they doing this for the camera? Cause if they were brainwashed, they'd be wearing it in the bathtub.

[B]

And some of them did.

[A]

Do you understand the point I'M making.

[B]

No, I do, though.

[A]

All right, thank you.

[B]

Now, I'm not saying broadly every single one of them.

[A]

No, no, I'm not saying. I think they get the message, and I think they get the message of how this is gonna work. And they hide, you know, they go, hey, we don't tell people what to say. Yeah, you don't tell people what to say or what to think. They get the message. It's like when Justin Trudeau's like, I never had vax mandates. No, you didn't have VAX mandates. You couldn't fly. You couldn't be on a train, shut down churches. You couldn't take public transportation. You couldn't travel, and you couldn't have your job and you couldn't go to a restaurant. But there were no vac. There were no mandates, you fucking douche. Yeah. That is a mandate. And so they do. You know, at CNN or wherever, we don't tell people what to say with their acceptance speech. We don't. I know. You don't say it. They get the job. All right. Yeah. Billie Eilish, somebody tweeted me that lives on, like, four acres in a gated place with, like, $14 million.

[B]

This is the same thing that. So people say this because of American, you know, Native Americans. And then people say this because of, you know, oh, well, Gaza's stolen land and yada, yada. But, like, where does this end? I. For all. For millennia, yes, nations and peoples all over the world have been conquering and taking land from other people. So am I supposed to, like, look up my house on Zillow and then go back in the records and see who owned it a thousand years ago and, like, pay their family reparations?

[A]

I like the time. Andrew, I'd like to read this. We're trying to read this thing. Oh, thank you. It's her. So I guess there's not a clip on it. I cannot really read it from here, but maybe. Dawson, you want me to read it?

[B]

Oh, you can read it.

[A]

You have good eyes. By the way, before I sound too old, your TV's four feet closer than mine. That's why. Sorry, go ahead.

[B]

All right, so somebody Anthony. Anthony Cumia on X said, let's look at Glendale, where Billy lives, just down the road, Native Americans lived along the Glendale Narrows at the Los Angeles River, Known to the Tongiva people as Paima Paxatae. I can't see that for thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers.

[A]

Yes. All right, we will take ourselves a break. We got some news. And then we'll get a little more in this Billie Eilish stuff and we'll do that right after this. Home Chef well, this time of year it is cold and it's dark and everyone wants something warm and they want it to be easy. Home Chef makes cozy home cooked meals simple. They have oven ready or hearty recipes that actually make winter dinners effortless. Home Chef is rated number one by users of other meal kits for quality, convenience, value, taste and recipe ease. That's about all you need. And now with dishes co created alongside celebrity chef like Gordon Ramsay. Huh? Heard that name? I have. You can enjoy restaurant quality meals at home. Not only does it taste great, but it's affordable too. Home Chef customers save an average of 86 bucks per month on grocery bills. It's Home Chef. Right, Dawson? For a limited time, Home Chef is offering our listeners 50% off and free shipping for your first box plus free dessert for life. Go to home chef.com Adam that's home chef.com Adam for 50% off your first box and free dessert for life. Home chef.com Adam must be an active subscriber to receive free dessert. Homes.com Some might say homes.com is the best home shopping site. It may be homes.com's super comprehensive and transparent agent directory. Or Maybe it's that homes.com is the only site that always directly connects you with the listing agent who knows the home the best. Perhaps it's because homes.com has the most in depth neighborhood content of any home shopping site that's extensively researched to highlight the personality of each neighborhood. Homes.com they go above and beyond to bring home shoppers the in depth info they need to find the right home right away. Love hanging [e-mail] checking it out. Kicking tires. You should too. Homes.com that's homes.com we've done your homework. It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Hey Adam, this is Deputy Inspector the inspector that's right across the street from the firehouse on pch. I haven't seen you down there in a while. If you come by, you know where to find me. I'll be in my truck. Talk to you later. Love your show. You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744. Yeah, Deputy Inspector. Inspectors. I'll tell I'll be fast, but the city has inspectors and you call for inspection when you build and you just kind of go along in sequential order. Get the foundation inspected, get the framing inspected, get the drywall.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Deputy inspectors are inspectors that the city doesn't provide. You pay them a lot.

[B]

Oh, we've talked about this.

[A]

And they watch you weld, or they watch you and they tell you if.

[B]

You'Re doing it right or wrong or not.

[A]

I didn't even know I've had deputy inspectors. Like I said, most of them sit in their truck and eat and watch and then you pay them. But you're not gonna say anything cuz you need the certificate they give you.

[B]

It seems so like USSR vibes.

[A]

Well, here's what it is.

[B]

Like Communist Russia. It's like, well, you must pay this man to do the thing so you can get the approval.

[A]

Here's what I want to explain to all cities with the, with all their overly burdensome regulations and red tape, cottage industries start popping up. So you go, well, we need tons of inspectors. And then you go, why? Because we wanna see everything. And they go, okay. So I was doing steel work, and the steel work needs a deputy inspector to watch the people weld. Literally, I'm just gonna watch you weld. Then later on I'm gonna take a ultrasound, sonogram, machine, magnetometer, and I'm gonna go over every weld and we'll get a report on the integrity of the welds. And I'm like, why do we need the guy watching if. Then we're just gonna go put it a microflux over it and X ray every weld. And they go, why? Cause it's a rule. And you're paying the guy.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

So they don't care. So what happens is you start getting overly burdensome with your regulations and then deputy inspectors start popping up. That's not a job. That never was a job. There's no such thing as a deputy inspector. But now there is such a thing as a deputy inspector. And once you start creating all these rules, you have so much red tape. Downtown permits, there's jobs called expediters. My job is I push through all the red tape and I get you to the front of the line. I'll have to then pay you to get a permit when I didn't need to. Except for there's so much red tape now. The line is so long now I need an expediter. So all these other ancillary jobs start cropping up and then it becomes its own ecosystem and its own economy. But it's all created with your fucking red tape. And you wanna know like, oh, no building, we can't get any permits or whatever. Of course there's no permits. There's no building. You've created a massive bureaucracy that doesn't work. Grinds everything to a halt and it causes all these side businesses that come up and NGOs and no, no, the money doesn't go to the homeless. It goes to these NGOs that help the homeless. And next thing you know it's all gone and nothing got helped and nothing got worked and everything.

[B]

Grounds for the fire relief concert.

[A]

Yes. Everything just grinds to a fucking halt. And listen, just. There's only one answer, which is deregulate. You have to bring it back. That's it. And they won't do it.

[B]

That's a leftist worst nightmare, Right?

[A]

It's less rules.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Well, basically what it is is more of you and freedom and less of us and dominion over you. And we hate that. Yes. And then we're gonna call Trump, we're gonna call him a dictator.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he's saying less rules. He's the only dictator in history that says less rules.

[B]

Yeah. That says let the people build on their land.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

It's stolen land. I guess we all live on stolen land, according to Billie Eilish.

[A]

Billie Eilish lives on what I heard is about 4 acres and about $14 million estate. Good for her with security and a gate. And I'm all for it too. And probably a house that's like 7,200 square feet or something. Big house, big estate, big property, big bucks, lots of security and she's living the American dream and I got no problem with that whatsoever. But Shut your fucking face. Just shut up. Just shut up. And the part where there's backlash and oh, everyone's going after her now. Yeah. Cuz you're fucking running your fucking face and you're dumb.

[B]

Since when does I mean for.

[A]

That's why the backlash, by the way.

[B]

From the time my two year old's been on a no streak, right? And then he got real surprised when his daddy said, you can't. Don't speak to your mother that way. Right from the time we are infants, we say something and there is a. We're eliciting a response. Sometimes it's a mediocre like meh. Sometimes it's aggressive, sometimes it's positive for all of humanity. This is what happens when you speak. Yes, there will be hate towards us in the comments. Probably more me than you.

[A]

No. Yes.

[B]

But that's. It comes with the job. Yeah, like so when you get up there on an international stage, Billie Eilish. And say something, don't play the victim when People respond to what you said.

[A]

And you guys over there are the first to jump on. If there was some preacher who's preaching fire and brimstone about gays and gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, and a man shouldn't be laying down with another man and does all that, then gets caught in a gay affair, you guys just zip it. Or they all jump off.

[B]

They love it.

[A]

They love it. This is basically that.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

You're just saying this thing, and then you'll get caught in a $14 million house.

[B]

So don't say it on Native American land.

[A]

Be gay and be quiet. That's what I'm saying. All right. Now, Jelly Roll has his speech, and I guess he agrees with Ice. Now, he can't. He's not gonna.

[B]

We don't know.

[A]

We do.

[B]

He loves Jesus, so we also think that he likes law and order.

[A]

He's not gonna commit suicide up there and talk about taking Trump. Believe me, he voted for Trump. And he's all law and order and he's all this, but he's not.

[B]

Why can't he vote? Because he's a felon.

[A]

That's a good point. I don't think he can code, which is Jesus Christ. Let me try to get this out. First of all, Jesus, I hear you. And I'm listening, Lord. I am listening, Lord. Second of all, I want to thank my beautiful wife. I would have never changed my life without you. I'd ended up dead or in jail. I'd have killed myself if it wasn't for you and Jesus. I thank you for that. I thank you for my label. Birkin Bow. Country radio, baby. What's up, dog? Oh. Republic, John Manil. We did it, baby. There was a time in my life, y', all, that I was. I was broken. That's why I wrote this album. I didn't think I had a chance, y'. All. There was days that I thought the darkest things. I was a horrible human. There was a moment in my life that all I had was a bible this big and a radio the same size and a 6 by 8 foot cell. And I believe that those two things could change my life. I believe that music had the power to change my life, and God had the power to change my life. And I want to tell y' all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus. And anybody can have a relationship with him. I love you, Lord. All right.

[B]

I love him so much.

[A]

He was. He can Vote because he was pardoned.

[B]

Oh, okay. Wait. You get your voting rights back when you're pardoned.

[A]

I guess that's how it works.

[B]

Interesting. I did not do that jeopardy. Question for 500. I feel like. So at the Grammys, for people who don't know, there's obviously, like, the celebrity level and then there's like, the attendees level. And a lot of the attendees are, like, fans and real people. And I felt like it was so interesting that CBS was, like, just. They panned to Reba twice, Right? And then. And then you can hear, like, the normies clapping for Jesus.

[A]

Right?

[B]

But the look on celebrities faces when they then went to Trevor, Noah, and the crowd. There were people literally mouthing to each other like, wtf? Like, they were stunned at what he had just said.

[A]

Yeah, they hate Jesus over there.

[B]

Heaven forbid.

[A]

They're heathens. Mm.

[B]

That's not a surprise, though.

[A]

All right, what do you got in the news over there?

[B]

Also in the news. So remember that Philly DA I think we talked about him last week, who said that he was gonna hunt you down? Talking about ICE agents.

[A]

I can't remember if we talked about him or not. I saw it, but I can't ever remember.

[B]

Okay, here we go. We have the video.

[A]

Is this Larry Krasnon?

[B]

This is Larry Krasner.

[A]

Oh, Krasner. Yeah, same guy.

[B]

A Democrat district attorney. Oh, looky, looky. Backed by none other than George Soros in Philadelphia last week in Penn Square, he denounced ICE agents and called him a bunch of wannabe Nazis. We have the video.

[A]

This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That's what they are. In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. That's gonna be the worst movie ever. Because they're not Nazis. I don't know who these people are. I'm now, like, very. I'm kind of disappointed, but also surprised at how dumb adults are. Nobody thinks they're Nazis. There's nobody. First off, your comparison to law enforcement doing a job that the American people voted for and Congress ratified to Nazis is wildly insulting to any Jew with any sort of historical connection to the Holocaust at all.

[B]

You mean like Tim Waltz saying that? Like immigrants hiding in the attic or like Anne Frank.

[A]

Yes. Now, the Jews are leftists mainly, but they're not really leftists. They're scared. And they've been persecuted so many times that they want to get along. And they realize, especially if they're trying to work in Hollywood or in California or in show business or in politics, they have to just shut up all the time. So they're in a weird position. So Jews who are very traditionally, they're traditional people, they family oriented education, community, church and everything like that have to shut up because they're scared. Because if they started speaking up, then they'd be tossed out too. And also they vote Democrat. So the Democrats are the ones who say, who make all the Hitler Nazi associations. And Jews should be speaking out.

[B]

Well, to his credit, Josh Shapiro, who is a Jew, you know, he.

[A]

But Spielberg should be saying.

[B]

This is.

[A]

Spielberg should be saying, I made a movie called Schindler's List. Fuck this guy. But he can't because he's scared of being thrown out of the club. So now you Jews have to just eat shit. Which is sad, but it's sad that you don't have a backbone.

[B]

Well, Josh Shapiro, apparently he was too Jewish for Kamala Harris. Remember when she was running for president. He is the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and a practicing Jew. And he said that the. He told Fox News that such remarks are, quote, unacceptable, abhorrent, and it is wrong, period. Hard stop. End of sentence. Honestly, not to give the Democrats too much free advice that I think is good. That should be the guy that they picked to run in 2028.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Stay away from the AOCs. Go with like a more kind of level headed Democrat that's willing to speak up against this kind of crap.

[A]

It's also weird that these people. He is not a black leader and he is not the leader of a Latino movement. He's just the DA of a major American city.

[B]

But that's an important job.

[A]

I'm not saying it's not an important job. Did I say it wasn't important?

[B]

You were saying? He's just though, like, I don't get the.

[A]

No, he's a. Oh, did I say the word? Just.

[B]

You said he's just the da.

[A]

Well, no. What I mean is. Now we gotta check the tape. What I mean is he's not Black Lives Matter leader and he's not running a Latino group. He is a DA of a major city. Check the tape, Dawson. Now I gotta find out. I'm saying just. I don't mean it's not a job. I mean he only does this. He only does this. He's in charge of law in a major city.

[B]

I got it.

[A]

And he's declared war on law enforcement in his city.

[B]

I got it.

[A]

Now which is now a crazy world to be in because he is what they call the top cop. That's they call the D.A. the top cop, but he's not for law enforcement.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And he's not only not foreign law enforcement, he's trying to get these people killed by calling them Nazis and going after them.

[B]

We will hunt you down. It's crazy now.

[A]

It's insane that he's in charge of the law in that region now.

[B]

A House Intelligence Committee member, Greg Stube, a Republican of Florida, called him out and recommended that Attorney General Pam Bondi take a closer look at this ever escalating remarks on the issue. He said the DOJ should absolutely arrest and convict this guy. Apparently, he cited a federal code categorizing threatening a federal officer as a felony. That's punishable by up to 10 years in prison. So it would be like America's top cop going after Philadelphia's top cop.

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You're welcome.

[B]

I mean, he's not gonna go to jail.

[A]

No, but it never. He'll. He'll be a martyr like Don Lemon. But it never works. Whatever. When they. I. I don't. Also, it's kind of a weird thing like, why did you get into this business if that's where you're at?

[B]

If you don't want to enforce the law.

[A]

Yes, but we're now living in a time where he's talking about hunting down people who enforce the law. But he's the head top cop of Philadelphia, which is crazy times, but it's all crazy. And they all have derangement. Okay? So here's what I'm saying. You must have Trump derangement syndrome in order to say such. That. And Shapiro doesn't have Trump derangement syndrome. He doesn't like Trump, and he disagrees with Trump, but he doesn't have a syndrome that makes you scream crazy things into a microphone, which are like Trump Tourette's. Yes, it is. And you could be. These are punishable crimes. In certain cases, you're putting yourself in harm's way potentially, and you're saying insane things to your constituency.

[B]

All right, so here in California, I've been paying attention to the gubernatorial race, and something that I feel like is such a dichotomy is Democratic candidates, I think, like one of the mayor of Stockton or somebody's running, and they're like, my goal is to, you know, reduce prosecutions and also increase safety. And I'm like, how does this work?

[A]

Right?

[B]

Like, how does this work?

[A]

Community policing?

[B]

Like. Like, felonies, misdemeanors and misdemeanors. Nothing in the state that didn't really help. Like, if you just ignore that something bad is happening, doesn't mean that the bad thing ain't happening. It's like, what this guy's doing.

[A]

Yeah, he's horrible. God, it's so scary, the whole Soros thing. One day, a crazy anarchist gets billions of dollars and comes into town and gets everyone elected who agrees with them, and then they ruin the town. It's a weird process that feels like kind of un American. But anyway, so then Krasner's got to say insane things, and also he's an idiot. But, I mean, you have the mayor of Seattle, like, saying the same kind of stuff.

[B]

I mean, are you gonna investigate any daycare fraud?

[A]

Nope.

[B]

Nope. Not at all.

[A]

Not gonna do that.

[B]

What was her name?

[A]

Oh, God, these people are central casting. All right, what else you got?

[B]

All right, so speaking of the California gubernatorial race, a GOP gubernatorial candidate, friend of the pod, Steve Hilton, is talking about this new insane tax that would charge California drivers per mile. Have you heard about this? Yes, Passed last week. Apparently, Steve Hilton talks about, quote, if Democrats get their way, the journey and every single journey made by anywhere, anyone in California will be tracked. And we're gonna have to pay a charge for every mile that we drive. It's kind of outrageous on top of the fact that, like, we pay the highest taxes per gallon of gas in the state. California's proposed mileage tax, also called a road charge, would replace the gas tax with a per mile fee. The Controversial Assembly Bill 1421 passed by. Wait for it, 43 to 18 last Thursday. Despite pushback from critics suspicious of other pinches on their wallets. The bill does not enact the tax, but will research rates and collection methods by the California Transportation Commission and the state transportation Agency. And then the report on those conclusions is due by January of next year.

[A]

All right, so they pushed everyone into electric cars, and then they got their way. They got a lot of people in California driving electric cars, and then they weren't be able. They weren't able to gouge them with gas tax. So now they're having a revenue issue. There's a fundamental thing that I think is national, but it's also a California problem. And we're sort of the tip of the spear. You must figure out a way to reduce spending or figure out a way to bring in more tax dollars.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They never think about ways to reduce spending. They always think about ways to bring in more tax dollars. And they're obsessed with mansion tax and billionaire tax and the mileage tax. And they sit around all day figuring out ways to get more money out of people who are already leaving California. They also want to do a tax that if you leave, you still have to pay for the next 10 years and stuff like that. I don't understand why there isn't any thoughts about reducing the burden. I mean, if you save a dollar, it's the same as making a dollar. There's so many ways to reduce your budget, which they never will do. They just keep hiring people and they have a problem.

[B]

The only budgets they like to reduce are for clearing out debris and funding fire departments.

[A]

Well, not debris. Yeah. But managing the forest.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Yes. And keeping the. The fuel. Yes. Okay. They don't wanna do that. So they have a problem. The problem is their constituency is basically illegals who get free shit. And then teachers unions and people who work at the airport and people who are on the dole. Essentially, their constituency are people they pay. They're not entrepreneurs who go about their business and job creators. They're teachers unions and illegals who are getting welfare and food stamps and whatever, Medicaid, everything. So your entire constituency, your voting block, is made up of people who either don't pay Taxes or do pay some taxes and then use you for a piggy bank and a paycheck. So now you have a choice. You can tell those people we gotta cut way back on all the stuff you've been getting for free from us, which means trouble for you because they may not vote for you. Or you can go find a rich guy and tell him to pay his fair share even though he's already paying way more than his fair share, and we can figure out new things to tax.

[B]

But then what happens when. And this could happen in New York City with mom Donnie. Right. It could happen here in California if, heaven forbid, we don't get a decent Republican as governor next time around is then all the billionaires leave, the middle class people like myself, the small business owners who can't afford an extra thousand dollars per year or it's a pinch, right? Then this starts to happen and people continue to flee. And then your deficit continues and continues. And then you only have people that are on the payroll or mooching off the system.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Then the state is worse off than it is. I'm just curious about the general timeline of like, how long does it take for that to come into effect before people wake up?

[A]

Well, I mean, we're already there and that people are leaving.

[B]

But I mean, the wake up. Where's the wake up point?

[A]

Where's the wake up is the wake up is a tough point for progressive people because they're not in that business. I've not had one person, okay? I yelled about COVID for five years. I got yelled at by everybody. And I've not had one human being come up to me and go, sorry, I was wrong, you were right.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Not one. I'm sorry too. But they're not in the business of apologizing. Who has apologized about COVID Guess what? It came from the lab. Oh, I guess we'll be getting an apology for that. Our masks don't work. Or Ivermectin or the jab or whatever it is. They are not in the business of admitting they're wrong. So you're asking them to do something which is admit they're wrong. Now what they might do is they might quietly go into the voting booth.

[B]

That's all I want them to do. I'm saying, when's that wake up point?

[A]

Yes. That may be coming soon. Where they go, I don't want that fucking cow Katie Porter destroying this fucking nation. Like she is dumb and angry and. And stupid enough.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I don't want any more incompetent dei Karen Bass hires or something. We need to get some competent dudes up in here and get this shit fixed.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And that quietly may happen.

[B]

Who are the 18 brave souls in the California assembly that voted against this?

[A]

Jesus Christ. All they do is sit around and think about ways to. And also, by the way, it's win, win. It's more money and more control. They're gonna know where you go.

[B]

That's also the writing was on the wall here. I mean, as this article notes, the proposed tax is coming as the state faces nearly $3 billion budget deficit, and lawmakers are looking to make up lost revenue from. Wait for it. Drivers switching to electric and hybrid vehicles.

[A]

That you made us do.

[B]

Yeah. Which they commanded that we do.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And they incentivized it.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

It's like, guys, come on.

[A]

Well, you can kind of set your watch on it if you really. If you really think about it. Jesus Christ. $14 million is her house. 14 million bucks. Billie Eilish.

[B]

That's nice.

[A]

Mm. Yeah. That's 2,000 bucks a square foot. That is a lot.

[B]

How many square feet? So it's like 7,000 square feet.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

Wow, that was real fast math for this homeschooler who's horrible at math.

[A]

That was good. Yeah.

[B]

All right, next story. You were just at the Trump Kennedy Center.

[A]

Yes, I was.

[B]

Turns out it's going to be shut down and rebranded for a spectacular result. Do we have video of the president talking about this? He says the president made the recommendation to completely close the center for two years instead of keeping it partially open to undergo renovations after one review of the arts building conducted by the contractors and music, musical art and institutions, yada, yada. He said if they don't close that the quality of construction will not be nearly as good. And he noted that the decision to close the center for two years is totally subject to the board approval. NPR is having a heyday with this. I was listening to them this morning. They're super upset over there at up first, they were saying that they actually think that this is a sign that maybe the Kennedy center will not reopen because of the public that have been canceling their memberships and not attending. And they're saying the upheaval and him getting rid of the DEI people on the board, that he's just gonna try to trumpify it or it's never gonna reopen. And the arts in D.C. are dead.

[A]

I rocked that place so hard. The foundation came apart, bruh. So they gotta do a serious pour over there. It's gotta be fixed. If I'm the last or if I'm the last comedian to play that place. That'll be a feather in my cap.

[B]

That'd be cool.

[A]

Yeah. First off, it's beautiful. It's a great facility. It was. You know, it's right. DC's small. Everything's real nearby. I had a good time over there. Harmeet Dhillon came by.

[B]

Love her.

[A]

Love her. Said hi, brought some of her, like, doj friends with her.

[B]

So if we're ever in trouble, you got some numbers for me?

[A]

I think I could make a phone call. Thanks. Let's see. NPR has the Trump Kennedy center confused with the Cinerama Dome, which will never open up again. Closed in 2020. Oh, Cinema Dome was closed up in 2020. I thought that's where the Arc Light was now. No close.

[B]

Sad. No, but they were legitimately like, oh, will it never reopen?

[A]

Cinemarama Dome was part of the Arc Light or part of the complex or something over there. They used to have it where you saw the big movies were. In the Cinerama Dome.

[B]

No, I remember when it closed down and everybody was really sad about it.

[A]

Due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Official announcement, April. But why will it never open again? Too expensive. And it's just. It just keeps getting pushed back year by year by year. Was the Cinerama dome built, like 71 or something? It's. It's a National historic registered spot.

[B]

It looks like 60s vibes.

[A]

Late 60s? Yeah, early that, you know, they'd show Earthquake. It's a Cinerama Dome and Towering Inferno, like those type of movies, The Cinerama Dome. I'll be curious. Okay, so let me figure this one out. And tell me, Andrew, if this is part of it, 63 is when they started, I guess, or was finished in 63 earlier than I thought. Okay. We had a big earthquake here In, I think 74, but maybe it was 72. I can't remember.

[B]

We just came up on the anniversary of the Northridge earthquake.

[A]

Oh, we did.

[B]

I think it's 35 years since Northridge.

[A]

That was 94.

[B]

It was. So it was 30. When was Northridge?

[A]

94 was like 35 years. No, it was like 94. I was there. It was early, like February, March. Okay, 32 years. I'm like, it opened in 63, by the way. All right, so I was right. No, well, you're right that it's from the 60s. That's true. The earthquake's from 94.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

All right, so here's the thing the Cinerama Dome is like, oh, it's a mad, mad, mad world was playing there. Okay. It's a big concrete pour. Like, the roof is, you know, shotcrete or gunite or whatever. It's like a big concrete dome. It's a big thing. Whatever that was before the 72 earthquake. They put big regulations in place after every earthquake.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Okay. This thing is not up to code is what I'm saying now. I'm sure it's been retrofitted over the years, but this would be a tough building to bring up to a modern earthquake code in California.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

And so I may be guessing that that's why I. Because I used to do earthquake rehab work, that it's not just we're staying closed and never reopening because someone might make it into a nightclub or a restaurant or something like that. I am guessing that part of the problem is if you said, I would like to buy the Cinerama Dome and open it up and make it a skating rink, someone would go, you must meet these new earthquake regulations. And they're never. They might have to take the dome off to do that. So I don't know. Here's the question now, Andrew. The Cinerama Dome, would they ever do a big retrofit on that place? And I'm sure they did. And if so, is that place up to code, like right now? And if so, it's right in the middle of sunset on Hollywood. Like, you'd think somebody would buy it and turn it into the world's coolest restaurant or something like that. So it leads me to believe that maybe there's something going on. Andrew can look into that.

[B]

They couldn't get the permits.

[A]

And, yeah, they needed a deputy inspector. And you can do another sea. The iconic cinematic dome in Los Angeles, which closed March 2020, has not undergone a major finalized structural retrofit or remodeling since its 1963 construction. Though it has been maintained and secured by the Buh, buh, buh. The and faces ongoing delays for its planned reopening. Past upgrades, renovation plans. There have been long standing plans for renovation. To reopen the venue is discussed. Focusing on retro, restoring the interior, improving comfort. Sheath. It's simple sheath underwear makes the most comfortable briefs I've ever worn. I'm wearing them now. They are great. The stretchy fabric is made out of moisture. Wicking technology that makes everything cool in the right spots. I wear them every time I'm on stage. Well, even a little shot of talcum down There before I leave the house sometimes or hit the rowing machine. And I'm surprised it took someone so long to figure this out. They've got the dual pouch. That's right. The dual pouch. Makes sense. Do the math. This keeps your man parts separated from everything else. It's a game changer. I wish I had this when I was still working construction back in the day. It would have been a lot more comfortable. She Sheath also has bamboo shirts and hoodies, all designed for maximum comfort. Am I right, Dawson? Go to sheath.com now and use the promo code Adam to receive 20% off today. That's sheath.com today and use the promo code Adam for 20% off. Simply safe. Well, if you're like me, then you like staying prepared for anything. And that's what I hate about most security systems. They wait for something to happen, for something to break before they do something. But simply safe. They have active guard outdoor protection AI and live monitoring Agents catch people lurking around your property before they're inside. And it's super affordable. With monitoring plans Starting at only $1 a day, we know the government isn't going to protect us. They should, but they don't. So I suggest you start doing it yourself. That's why I use SimpliSafe. Two eyes. SimpliSafe. Am I right, Dawson? You can get 50% off your new SimpliSafe system with professional monitoring and your first month [e-mail], adam. Again, that's 50% off your new Simplisafe system with professional monitoring and your first month [e-mail], adam. There's no safe like Simplisafe. Blah, blah, blah. I would guess if that place has not been touched since 1963, there's a lot to do. There's gonna be a lot of retrofitting to do, and it's gonna cost a lot of money. And that's part of. I think that's part of what's holding this up and keeping it closed when it reopens.

[B]

We should do a live show from there.

[A]

I was walking when we were talking about me and Jimmy going and seeing sex in the city, too, I think. And getting caught by TMZ and whatever. We were walking out of the Cinerama Dome.

[B]

That's awesome.

[A]

Yeah. All right, let's do another. Do you have another story?

[B]

I do. Oh, well, no, I don't.

[A]

Oh, well, then what was the last story we were talking about?

[B]

The last story we were talking about was the Kennedy Center.

[A]

Mmm.

[B]

Yep. It's closing on July 4th, by the way. So you have some time. They did a premiere for Melania there and the first lady and the President showed up to watch it. Have you seen the Melania documentary?

[A]

No.

[B]

I got invited to like a private screening last week and I didn't get to go see it, but I've heard it's actually pretty good all over la. I've been seeing all the billboards and at the bus stops for it and it's like, Melania. And then people are. Spray painting is in the Epstein files over it.

[A]

I saw the one where they put the Hitler mustache on her.

[B]

Aw, that's sad. I haven't seen that. I just. Everyone I see says it's in the Epstein files. Like from West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, the Valley, everywhere.

[A]

I saw the one where she was taking a dump on the American flag. Oh, really? Wow. Would Hitler be insulted or would he be warm hearted knowing about his legacy that we're essentially calling the first wife, we're calling her Hitler. That we're calling ice. Literally. Look, it's like I'm Adam Carolla. If I was dead for 100 years and every douchebag that came down the pike was being called Adam Carolla, I'd probably go, no, he's just a douchebag. He's not that funny. Why are you calling him me? You know what I mean.

[B]

He's not as funny or as successful as I am.

[A]

Yeah, true, he's racist, but that's not. I was a lot more than that. Like, like, would Hitler be insulted with all the comparisons, or would he be delighted that we're using his name every 15 seconds in this country?

[B]

And somebody needs to tell this to the modern day left.

[A]

Yes, you're delighting Hitler.

[B]

He's so excited. He's burning in hell and is like, this is amazing.

[A]

I mean, everybody has a very finite amount of time on the planet. Your legacy, whether you're Hitler or Abe Lincoln, is really all you got. And that makes you eternal. And we are speaking his name every single day, all day.

[B]

More so than Abe Lincoln's has spoken.

[A]

Oh, more than Jesus Christ. I mean, if you watch.

[B]

Especially at the Grammys.

[A]

Yeah, at the Grammys, we got one guy talking about Jesus, we got a thousand people talking about Hitler. So Hitler, you've got a much better publicist than, you know, speaking of Abraham.

[B]

Lincoln, that was one of the symphonies. There was supposed to be a symphony about Abraham Lincoln and symphony, really, Like a orchestral director. He had a whole score of music that he wrote about Abraham Lincoln. He pulled out of the Kennedy center because it's now Trump Kennedy, and he doesn't want to work with Donald Trump. Which I'm just like, guys, if your art is so important and so beautiful and espousing good beliefs that are better for society and virtuous and all these things that you say it is, wouldn't you want to appeal to, like, any audience you possibly can?

[A]

Well, you know, or could.

[B]

Sorry if I was. Bad grammar.

[A]

Every. The venue is just a box with speakers and a microphone. Your audience is your audience, you know, and that's who comes out and sees you. You know, so there are comedy clubs or theaters. You know, you go, well, who's a very progressive comedian? You go, patton Oswalt. Okay. He's very progressive. Okay, okay. Well, he's played the Lowe's Theater or the. Let's see what's in Boston. I just played the Wilbur. The Wilbur, okay. Patton Oswald played the Wilbur more than once. Adam Carolla's played the Wilbur more than once.

[B]

When the Wilbur is not political, the Wilbur isn't.

[A]

The Wilbur's a box that's 120 years old. Patton Oswald shows up, and people who think like him show up to the audience. Adam Carolla shows up, and people who think like Adam Carolla show up to the audience, but the other place is just mortars and bricks and wires.

[B]

But I guess I'm the weirdo that. And I think you are, too. Outside of showing up at a comedy club, you will go on CNN or Piers Morgan or I think a progressive podcast, like I do, because you want to potentially reach other people that might disagree with you.

[A]

I don't even.

[B]

Whereas I'm saying I don't even do that.

[A]

I just. People invite me to come on something, and I usually say, if my schedule will permit, I will do that.

[B]

But you have leftists that are like, well, hell, no, I'll never go on Fox News. Right? This is something that politicians or celebrities say or do all the time. Or I'll never work with Angel Studios. I'll never go on out of Gorilla.

[A]

They're mostly scared because they don't want to get whooped. I mean, in some sort of argument with Jesse Waters. I mean, they're mostly. Mark Ruffalo doesn't want to go on that. He says it's kind of like saying, like, you're in junior high and you go, brad Higgins wants to fight, and you go, I'd love to kick that guy's ass, but I'm not gonna stoop to his level. But meanwhile, you're just chicken shit and you're scared he's gonna beat your ass. And that's why the left doesn't come out to the right side.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The reason, as Bill Maher says all the time, Kamala Harris, Obama's, whatever, they never go on Bill Maher's show. All the people on the right go on Bill Maher's show because they show up with a belief and some stats and they'll hold up their end and Bill will hold up his end too. But Kamala Harris is never going to go. I mean, why? Let's just do a thought experiment.

[B]

Oh, fun.

[A]

Possibly. But I really want everyone to think about this. I brought it up before, but I'm just gonna lay it out. During COVID Fauci wanted people to get vaccinated. Okay? So that's our base. Our base is he wants people to get vaccinated and he's going on a campaign where he's gonna tell everyone to please get vaccinated. Then we're getting a little more granular. He's going to say, and you know who's not getting vaccinated? It's the Trump voting. Hannity watchers, who are the ones who are resisting getting vaccinated. Okay. And Hannity has a much larger audience than CNBC or cnn.

[B]

Absolutely. Combined.

[A]

Okay, so let's just do it this way. Forget about vaccines. Let's just say I had a business where I sold taco shells and I got a company that does pre made taco shells and they go, what do you want to do, Adam? And I go, I want to get the word out about my taco shells. Okay. All right, well, Hannity does 3 million viewers a night and CNN does 285. And I go, oh, I'm not gonna do Hannity. Well, wait a minute. You want everyone to eat your taco shells. Right. And who's not buying your taco shells? The people who watch Hannity. Oh, well, good news. And by the way, your taco shells are the best. Yeah. And they never caused harm to anybody. No. And they're safe and effective taco shells. Yes, they are. Well, good, cuz Hannity will have you on to talk about your taco shells. I'm not going on that show. Now what's going on, Fauci? Well, Fauci's scared and he's gonna get pushback and he's not gonna be able to defend himself because he's missing a lot of facts and he's lying a lot. And so he doesn't go on there. So this thing where they go, oh, Fauci's not gonna. Why wouldn't Fauci, who, by the way, is not a politician. He just wants people to get vaccinated. Why not go find the biggest audience? If you're selling vaccines, and those are the people who aren't taking your vaccine.

[B]

Specifically, his response was, well, they're anti science. They're gonna ask me gotcha questions. Was that was his excuse at the time. Right?

[A]

They always do the gotcha questions or set up or not gonna get a fair shake. Here's the whole thing. What do you mean? You have all the information, and you are science.

[B]

You're supposed to be the expert.

[A]

Just go fucking settle Hannity's hash. Just go straighten them out. If somebody said to me, like, okay, find a subject, or find something I feel passionate about or a subject I know. Well, like, I go, all right, I know Home Improvement. Well, okay, why don't you go on Ty Pennington's Home Improvement podcast? Because I don't want him to give me any gotcha questions. I mean, I know everything. What are these gotcha questions? Well, he's gonna be combative. He can be combative all he wants. I know more about the subject than he knows. Yeah, but what if he doesn't give you a fair shake? I don't know what that means. I can talk about this subject because I'm an expert in the subject. Unless I have something to hide. Unless I've been lying. And that's where Fauci comes in and Kamala Harris can't talk, and she's gonna have problems with real questions. I mean, Bill Maher. The fact that neither one of the Obamas. I mean, Michelle Obama pops up on every fakacta podcast that's ever come down the pike.

[B]

Oh, like call her Daddy.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

Once a former first lady of the United States, Gates was on the Call Her Daddy podcast.

[A]

I'm saying fakacta. I'm talking deep fuck cocktail. I'm talking shit you never heard of. I don't. You've heard of Call her. I get what you're saying, but at least you've heard of that. This is shit you've never heard of. She'll go on. And I mean it. I see clips where all the. I've been podcasting for 17 years. I see these clips. I have no idea who these people are. I don't know what this is, but I'm sorry. No, but forget about Joe Rogan. Forget about Bill Maher. So the question is why I Mean, you want the audience. We can agree that these platforms have the biggest audience. You don't want the audience. And you're a righteous truth teller.

[B]

They want the ass kissing, right?

[A]

No, you're lying, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. You would have a lot of trouble with basic questions that Bill Maher would ask. So you're a coward and it's weird, but you want publicity. But you'll never go take a challenge. So that's why these people don't go any of these places. And it's cowardly and people should just call it what it is. They're fucking scared. Fauci's scared and Fauci's lying. And he's gonna get a softball whatever with Joe Morning Joe for. And he's not gonna get it with Bill Maher.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Now, Bill Maher isn't gonna tear him a new asshole and he's not gonna be disrespectful, but he is gonna have questions and follow up questions and follow.

[B]

Up questions which used to be called journalism, but I guess the mainstream media forgot that it was their job.

[A]

And Gavin Newsom will never come back on this podcast cause he got follow up questions. So yes, it's fine. But let's first off, stop pretending like these guys are virtuous and they're just going to tell the truth. Fauci's a coward and he's a pussy and he's a liar and he didn't wanna go to places that would ask him real questions.

[B]

But what about a leftist orchestra symphony dude being like, I'm not going to bring my art to the Trump Kennedy center because it is now dubbed the Trump Kennedy Center.

[A]

They're just virtue signaling.

[B]

And also, it's all in the same vein.

[A]

I know, but the left. But it's one thing not to do Hannity. You don't get minus points for that if you're Fauci. If you don't do Trump Kennedy center, then you do get points for that. So it's all about the signal. They live in a world of sort of. They live in a world of sort of bumper stickers and slogans and memes and animation. Right. So everything is symbolic to them. And when you kind of go to them, hey, what's going on? What's going on with the homeless? Where are the permits? What's going on with this fire? They go, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm not going to rest until everybody lives with dignity. You know what I mean? So they live in a meme world of stuff that doesn't really exist. So they're much more involved and worried about that world than they are living in a real world where you play an actual concert.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, I like to talk to the other side, but maybe I'm a weirdo.

[A]

Well, I also. I don't have any. I'll go on any show because I feel good about my points that I'm talking about. I don't feel. I feel like Fauci knew he was lying about gain.

[B]

He didn't wanna be asked questions.

[A]

Gain of function. I mean, just leak. The origins of COVID Just the origins of COVID They were all lying about the origins of COVID You assholes backed them up and applauded them. I asked. Didn't make sense to me. But he knows. Here's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's. What's in the trunk? What's in the trunk? Cop pulls you over. What's in the trunk? Nothing. All right. Will you pop the trunk? No. What's in the trunk? Just road flares in the check and a space saver spare. All right, sir, we'll just pop the trunk now. We'll just pop it and there'll be nothing. What's in the trunk? Nothing. Just pop it. I'm going to call my attorney. Okay.

[B]

I plead the fifth.

[A]

Something's in the trunk. That's all.

[B]

But I think that what you're speaking to is, yes, you're confident in. But you're confident in your beliefs. But I think that you're also confident enough, or we are confident enough in our beliefs that I'm open to be questioned and questioning myself. So then I can further investigate and figure out why I believe what I believe. And I find that friends of ours like Larry Elder, Dave Rubin, that's when they started to make the move. The shift from the left to the right or the left to the center or the left to sanity was when they allowed themselves to question things. And I think that that's an important part of all of humanity, is like not viewing it as they're gonna ask me a gotcha or I'm gonna lose the debate. But being willing to address. Maybe I am wrong here and I'm willing to figure out why.

[A]

Well, it's like I went on Bill Mahers and I said, look, I'm not against the vaccine I had. And perfect example, I had kids that were 14. I had parents that were 90. I said, let the parents get the vaccine. They're elderly. Who cares? And then I don't want the 14 year olds getting it, and then I don't really want it because I'm fine.

[B]

Yeah, you had no comorbidities or anything else.

[A]

All right, does that seem pretty in the middle? And can we agree on this? And why does that feel like a gotcha thing or whatever? And then they go, well, Adam, you're going to have to defend that. Like I. Okay, I'll defend it. I'll be real good at defending that.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Oh, right. Going to Florida.

[B]

Oh, fun.

[A]

Oh, man. I get to get on an airplane for a change. That'll be nice. Thursday, Orlando, Funny bone. We're doing a live pod there with Michael Yeoh and Rudy will be there as well. And then Naples off the hook, man. Good food over there. Early shows are sold out Friday and Saturday, but there's still some tickets left for the later shows, everybody. And you just go to AdamCroll.com for all the live stuff. Alicia Krause, op ed for the Washington Examiner. Always a good read, so check her out with that. And until next time, Sam Crolla for Alicia Krause. Sayin, mahalo. Pick up your phone and leave us a voicemail at 888-634-Call-1-744 and get tickets to see the Ace man at AdamCarolla.com.

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