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Adam Carolla
Well, in this episode, very funny comedian Big J Okerson is in studio. Also, Anthony Constantino. You may not know the name, but you're gonna want to know it after you hear him. Also, Mayhem with news and all that right after this. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Big J Okerson.
Big J Okerson
And congressional candidate and CEO of Sticker Mule, Anthony Constantino.
Adam Carolla
Plus the news and trending topics with Jason Mayhem Miller. And now a man who's always pissed off and occasionally pissed on, Adam Corolla. All right, get it on, man. Got to get it on. Big J Okerson is instead studio backed by popular demand, has a very funny crowd work. Two parter special that is out. Part one's out. Part two's coming out. That'll be April 20th. I watched and I listened to part one. I was on my phone, I just was going about my business. And I like your look, don't get me wrong. But it's comedy. I can just hear you.
Big J Okerson
No, I'm actually curious what you thought listening to it, because I wonder how much it translates without seeing.
Adam Carolla
I do. You know, you're talking about a woman. She's got a big set of cans. You want to know if they're real.
Big J Okerson
I painted it. Yeah. I painted a nice picture.
Adam Carolla
Real expensive. Yeah, you're Picasso with your tongue work. Yeah. But there is something, I think it's a good point in that it's not exactly what you're talking about, but when I used to do tons of radio, they go, here's the copy to read on the errand, I'd go, you read it, I'll close my eyes. And then they'd read it and I'd close my eyes and I'd go, okay, that sounds like shit, right? You gotta go fix it. And they go, look good to me. It's like, yeah, it's good. You have to hear it. You have to. Like, when I write books, I'm like, read it back out loud and let me hear what it sounds like. And stand up specials, you should be able to hear them and understand them.
Big J Okerson
And this one, I was worried about that particularly. Everything else I do, I hate, like watching the style. I'll cut every angle to just dead on in front of me, up high. So I don't tend to look at any of the stuff I put out, but I will usually listen to it. This one, I didn't though, like, listen to it.
Adam Carolla
It's real sharp improv and you can, you know, there's kind of crowd work, you know, sometimes there's kind of lazy crowd work where people aren't picking interesting angles. You're just kind of making fun of people or you're just throwing. You're going kind of scatological or swearing a lot or whatever that sort of crowd work crutch is. But you in this special were kind of picking angles, you know, like the stay at home dad bit was really funny.
Big J Okerson
A one armed man. Yeah, that was interesting. The motorcycle chicks. I remember a few of the people from the. From the time it was good. I mean, at the end of the day, there's only so many starting points. When I first, when I did my first couple crowd work things like albums and stuff, I put out crowd work sessions. The second one I called, I promised myself I wouldn't ask because. Which I love. I think it's always funny when you could trivialize somebody's comedy down to like a few things. And for me they would always go, hey, have you ever fucked a black guy before? Was always how they whittled it down. And that second album, I call it, I promised myself I wouldn't ask because every time a moment comes up with the audience where it would be the perfect question to ask, I was like, ah, right now I would ask you this because it's a jump off point always. That's the thing. There's only so many places to jump off. Where do you work? Are you guys a couple? Do you have kids? You know, you dressed like you work here or something, you know, try to find out what they do. It's kind of where you go from there, I think is what makes it, you know, I mean, like more interesting. You can only start from so many ways. Then you have to like take an angle. Yeah, A lot of times it does stop. It just kind of like you look like this, you know. Exactly, you said.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I mean, you have to start with the obvious. So if the person has a huge rack or the person has crazy hair or it's a mixed race couple or lesbian couple or something, you have to kind of start with that and then hopefully. And that's the same place everyone's gonna start. And then at some point you pick interesting angles.
Big J Okerson
Well, it's just trying to like also guessing a lot of things is what kind of keeps it fresh too. Like before you even let them really answer. Oh yeah, you just make up your own answer.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, the hair stylist. Yeah, yeah. And there's a thing, and it may be more than meets the eye because we are human beings, but we're also animals, you know, and we. We do kind of understand vibes and scent and sort of invisible stuff. Like the animal world. Like, you know, where they go. That dog, he. He knew his owner was in trouble. You know, it's like, how do you know? You know. Yeah, there's like a kind of instinct part of it, and it's not, you know, it's not. It's not all about what's right in front of you. Some of it is invisible.
Big J Okerson
Right.
Adam Carolla
You know, and like. Like when I used to do Loveline, the thing that I found interesting is if you put headphones on and you don't see the person, but you just hear their voice, you start hearing things in people's voices that are patterns. So you hear angry, you hear gay, and you start hearing everything. But I could hear people who worked with metal. I knew what welders sound different than accountants. And there's a sound of a guy who welds.
Big J Okerson
Oh, truck drivers have a sound, right?
Adam Carolla
Like, for sure. And you start equating the sound. And by the way, you don't go into it thinking truck driver or welder. You're just talking to the person at some point, you know, minute three, you go.
Big J Okerson
It hits you.
Adam Carolla
Do you work with metal? And they go, well, sheet metal. And you go, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, there's a sound.
Big J Okerson
You do work with metal, right?
Adam Carolla
There's a sound. So when you're up there and you know, there's. You do the hairdresser. Guess they look like hairdressers, but they could also look like 30 other jobs.
Big J Okerson
Oh, yeah.
Adam Carolla
So what are you picking up is the question. What is your brain doing that you don't know about?
Big J Okerson
Well, it's definitely like multiple. That was thing a lot of comics would say, though. Like, there's like the two voices going. It's what you're saying and thinking about how you're tying it into the next thing sometimes, which happens. I think that's the same thing with the crowd work. I just. Like you said to almost just keep like the things sharp. It's more about your imagination. That's very, like, interesting to say that because it kind of is the things I make up. One of my favorite things to do now is whenever there's empty seats in the front because, like, reserved tickets that didn't show up or something. Just designing. Pointing those out and designing an idea of why they're not here. They were going to come tonight. Husband killed wife and children and Turned the gun on himself. They just could have made it to the show. Maybe we could have gotten posted.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Big J Okerson
Or a full table bachelor party. Guys that all killed each other because they thought the other ones were going to turn them in for killing a hooker.
Adam Carolla
Right? Yeah. Just very bad things or something.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, yeah. The other thing, too is funny to give. It's funny getting old within. I started comedy at 19. I'm 47 now, so, like, that many years doing it. My references run the gambit so much. That is also fun to do, to give full movie like plots that the crowd doesn't get.
Adam Carolla
It is.
Big J Okerson
So for you to get the thing, it's like, yeah, that's very bad things. They all started killing each other because they killed a hooker in a hotel room.
Adam Carolla
It is. It's sad that younger people. But I think there's a difference. You know, you could give the full.
Big J Okerson
Plotline for Footloose as a story and people will not know what you're talking about.
Adam Carolla
I know.
Big J Okerson
And God forbid, if they do, it's going to be that shitty remake with the girl from Dancing with the Stars.
Adam Carolla
That was my partner in Dancing with the Stars.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Well, she's cool.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I think it was her. Yeah. No, I know. I have to explain people what Face off is about. It's a sad, sad place, Right.
Big J Okerson
Of all things, what's Face off about? He goes, take three guesses. You'll probably nail it. That was one of the funniest moments when I did Last comic Standing. I forget what season I went to the nighttime round, the live show or whatever, you know, the tape show for tv. And Craig Robinson was hosting. Greg Giraldo was one of the judges.
Adam Carolla
One of the judges.
Big J Okerson
He was one of the judges that year. And they were on a commercial, you know, a forced commercial break. And it's just quiet in the room completely. And Craig Robinson, it's like also a tense moment. I think we're all on stage because this is the. They're going to pick people out. And Craig Robinson goes, well, I might as well tell you guys, I got a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine coming out in a couple weeks. And Craig Giraldo just goes, what's that about? I mean, they killed in the room. That was such a fun. Hey, what's that about?
Adam Carolla
The entire title is the movie I Miss Geraldos. Funny guy.
Big J Okerson
Him and Patrice, both would be very interesting in these times.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, Patrice, I know. Everyone seems to know him but me. I didn't really know him that well. Geraldo. I did know a Little bit. But I think I always remember being backstage at the Pam Anderson roast on Comedy Central. I don't know why there's all these little snapshots that stand out to me. He goes up to me and he goes, carolla, he goes, you're half Mexican, right? And I go, no, I'm not. I'm a half Italian and Irish or something, but I'm not half Mexican. He goes, okay. And then, like an hour later, we're doing the roast. He's like, adam, Carolla. Carolla. Half Mexican, half Italian.
Big J Okerson
And I'm like.
Adam Carolla
I remember thinking to myself, why'd you even ask? You know what I mean? Like, if you're just gonna power forward with whatever that joke was, in fairness.
Big J Okerson
The guy was on copious amounts of drugs. He may have remembered it wrong.
Adam Carolla
It's tr. It's also funny when people go, I would like to. I would like to validate my joke, but in lieu of validation, I'll take a laugh anyway. So I didn't validate him, but it didn't matter. The show was in an hour, and he was going far.
Big J Okerson
I forgot you were on that roast. That was a wild one.
Adam Carolla
Oh, roast.
Big J Okerson
That was one of the last ones they really let go. Wild roast.
Adam Carolla
Used to be you up there with a pile of three by five cards.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And then you. You know, you're going ninth, and you're doing Pam Anderson, and somebody. Eight guys did the Tommy Lee steers the tugboat with his cock joke. And you're just pulling yours out of your pile and throwing it, dropping it on the ground because you. They didn't do the. I have no. You know what? You know, the roasting is kind of funny. It's like clocks in a comedy club. There were zero clocks in a comedy club. There were zero. And I, as kind of a guy who didn't grow up playing the clubs, I grew up doing radio. I didn't grow up, but I did sketch and improv and stuff. I wasn't a club guy. And then at some point, I got to the clubs, and they'd be like, okay, first guy's doing 10 minutes tight. Next guy's doing 18 minutes tight, and he's gonna bring you up. And if we can keep it to, like, 50 minutes so we can turn the room around, I'd, okay, is there a clock? No, we don't have a clock. I'd go, seems like, of all places, a clock. It'd be good if you had a clock. Or stop telling everyone the exact times of everything.
Big J Okerson
I think it's passive aggressive. So I never put it. Because they ask, why don't you just put it in your pre show rider for. So they have. Make sure they definitely have a clock. Because I am blown away, but I feel like that seems passive aggressive because the ones that have it are like, of course. But it's a mind blow. How many comedy clubs or they go, the one I just did. I was in Syracuse last weekend, and I asked, I go, do you guys have a clock on stage? They go, no, we can get one. And it was. I mean, it was a little something you put on a desk. Not even red numbers. It was like the. It was the darker gray numbers on the green screen thing. And it's like, so every, you know, 15 minutes or so, I got to.
Adam Carolla
Crowd sees me squint, look down, take a knee.
Big J Okerson
I'm like, this should be exactly. If you want everyone to do exact times, the idea of winging it until you get a light to let you know you have five minutes left is strange.
Adam Carolla
Well, so I remember years ago, basically, my favorite. I can't even remember the name of the club is like, eight months ago or something ago. Do you have a clock? And the chick goes, we have one. But it broke. I'm like, by the way, it's funny when people offer excuses to. To make them sound better and you now think less of them. Like, I was like, yeah, what are you gonna do? You pretty much get a clock assigned to you when you graduate high school, and that's kind of your only clock.
Big J Okerson
And now we don't have one of those tiny screwdrivers for the battery thing.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So that's enough of that. Well, I guess. Well, we're not. Boy, you're a fairly young woman in your 20s. It's gonna be tough to go another 60 years or so without ever knowing what time it is.
Big J Okerson
Adam, you actually came here for the no clock phase of this show, the no clock era.
Adam Carolla
So there was never a clock. And then at some point, I showed up at some club, and it could have been Denver. I know you shot yours in Denver, not this one of the clubs in Denver or something. And there was like a balcony with an upper deck, and there was a clock right in the middle between the two spaces on that three foot of drywall that separates the ceiling from the balcony on the upper deck. And I walked downstage, and there it was like, this is what time it is. And I was like, yes, yes. And then from that point on, over the next, like, 12 years, slowly, every other club got a clock. And now it's rare that there isn't a clock. But what I was alluding to is when you do the roast now, like, I did the Alec Baldwin roast a couple of years ago, and the way it works is everyone knows all the jokes and they go, well, you're doing this joke. Oh, Jeff Ross is doing the same joke, and he's going on before you, so don't do that joke. Do this joke. It took 20 years for them to figure out that maybe we all shouldn't just write the same joke. And then luck of the draw, if you're going later, your jokes all got eaten up by the guys who went in front of you, so you had to throw your jokes out. And if you would have known that that guy was doing your joke five spots in front of you, you would have gotten rid of it and come up with another joke. We just did it this way for years.
Big J Okerson
Are you able to. The problem with me doing roasts and I've done a handful, is that I can't use, like, without giving a bibliography. I can't use other people's jokes. I don't know why it bothers me so much to, like, get the accolades for someone else's jokes. And what's interesting about that, it's based on insecurity. I'm not a very good writer. That's not my strength, like, sitting and just, like, writing, like, pounding out jokes like that. So I'm insecure about that. So I'm like, well, I needed clearly, writers for this to work. So I have to, like, prove to myself that my stuff will work myself. But because interestingly enough, I say that the people who I know are the best writers. You know, Kurt Metzger is. I think he's a genius writer. One of my oldest friends. I've never had somebody call me more to be like, hey, help me with a punch for this. Because he does, because he's a writer. So he's like, he's given his workout so much. It doesn't, like, bother him like that, but it's on my insecurity. It makes me do it. So weirdly enough, the best roast I've had, probably at least the most fun for me, it ended up being nerve wracking. But I was asked to do the jelly roll roast, and then I said I couldn't because I didn't have time to, you know, two weeks. I just thought, I'm not gonna be able to write for all that. And then they were like, well, that's not a roast. They said, it's not a roast. It's just like, get there and say something nice. And then I got there, and it was a roast, very much so. And I was on the dais, and I just went up there and kind of like, went down the line. I was able to, like, it made me listen more because by the time I go up, I was like, seventh or something. By the time I go up, you know, it's like, I'm like, I've already known what people have already said. And then just kind of organically went just kind of down the line and did it. Which was almost easier for me to work that way. I say the same thing anytime I've sitting in. Why I don't sit and put pen to paper and go like, hey, I do an hour or two of writing a day is because my mind just genuinely, you know, I'm like, what do I do all the time? Flying airplanes are weird. Has this been covered yet? It's too simple like that. I work better on the fly because I'm putting pressure on myself in some way.
Adam Carolla
So a few things. You know, the thing about other people's jokes, I was always insane about that. Like, I can't do. I'm not gonna do other. I won't do other people's jokes. I was very rigid about it, and I felt the same way. And then the reason I couldn't do standup in the beginning is like, I don't. I can't even do my own jokes twice.
Big J Okerson
Right.
Adam Carolla
You know, I can't say, hey, my girlfriend broke up with me the other day. A year later, hey, my girlfriend broke up. I was like, you're lying. Your girlfriend didn't break up with you the other day. It was over a year ago. You know, like, I couldn't do any of that.
Big J Okerson
I'm bad at that. And what I would do with my jokes in that regard is if I was telling the joke semi consistently for a couple months, that joke gets to a point where I'd go, so me and this girl broke up, shit, like, seven months ago. And it meant so much to me to add that. Real timeline.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. At a certain point, it becomes like killing prostitutes. You look forward to it. It's difficult at the beginning, but at.
Big J Okerson
Some point, once you find your rhythm.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I'm just saying, at a certain point, when you realize that's what everyone else does, you are hobbling yourself, essentially. And the audience doesn't give a shit who wrote that joke and doesn't know that. But they're not sophisticated enough to know the better and don't assume and don't care. Just like you didn't care when you were watching you watch Bob Hope when you're nine. You don't ask who's writing. It's Joe Smith.
Big J Okerson
But they're like, they like the way you told it. You did a. It doesn't hit me like that on like, like when I've done episodes like Louie or something, like, I'm fine taking directions. I don't feel like that's my world. Even if it's comedy. I'm like, well, I'll do your lines on this sitcom.
Adam Carolla
The handiest script.
Big J Okerson
But. Yeah, but it's also like, I don't have any. Like, like, I wouldn't do it like this like, thing. I'm like, I don't know. I don't know.
Adam Carolla
I get that. I'm just saying at a certain point you realize it's, it's baked into the format and you shouldn't fight the format and the format works. And why are you making it unnecessarily difficult on yourself?
Big J Okerson
Yeah, I don't. I say it's just that it's just based on the insecurity that's like, if I, if I have to do this job, I need somebody to help me write it. And it's like kind of like a. You know, I also put all my eggs in like the kind of stand up performance basket. I mean, I do so much broadcasting now, but that kind of became something out of comedy. So it was always so for me, it's like I said, I've never written scripts and pitch show ideas and stuff like that, you know, like, I've really always laid it out. So I guess the only thing I have, the one time I did, when we did our Skank Fest festival in Houston, the one year we did a roast for Louis J. Gomez. And one of the things I said was funny that comedian Josh Adam Myers gave me and I said it and it got a laugh. And immediately afterwards said, josh Eden Myers wrote that. Like, I have to get a bibliography.
Adam Carolla
No, no.
Big J Okerson
Steal the valor.
Adam Carolla
No, I, I get it. It's.
Big J Okerson
But people that. That's also a situation where a friend gave me a line too. I understand, like at these things they have teams of writers, like, and giving stuff. But it is interesting. Like, to me, again, we're inside baseball on it. So when I watched those roast though, that I've done and I was given, like, hey, if you want some jokes, like, here's a bunch of them and I'll Read them and I'll bet they're funny and stuff. And then when you hear another comedian tell the joke, you're like, oh, that's one of the written ones, right?
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah. The other thing too is they give you the joke and you can still make it your own because you're rarely going to say it verbatim, how it was presented to you. But there's the joke and then there's the topic of the joke or the idea of the joke or the gestalt of the joke. And sometimes you look at it and you go, oh, yeah, that gives me an idea.
Big J Okerson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
Like, that's a good idea. And now it's a way to kind of customize someone else's joke to technically kind of be your joke.
Big J Okerson
I've done. That's been very helpful before. When I did Rich Voss's roast, I hired two young comics who I've watched, like, the roast battles, who were very good at it. And I didn't use any of their jokes, but they came up with jokes. They did almost the thing I needed, like, the research.
Adam Carolla
Right, right.
Big J Okerson
So it was like a joke about, like, you know, this comedian. I think it was like Bonnie McFarlane. It was some joke about her, like, spending time hanging out with a teacher inappropriately. Like, I think the teacher took her and friends to a strip club or something.
Adam Carolla
Right. Which you would have never known.
Big J Okerson
And I didn't know that. Yeah. Off the gate. So I was like, oh, I could think of something funny about that process. So that was like. I did. I did find that very helpful.
Adam Carolla
So when you write. Well, I don't know, there's different types of writers.
Big J Okerson
I also wrote a couple, like, and I could say, because it was fun, he did. Well, nothing to do with that, but I get so married to, like, if I write it. I wrote one script ever with Lewis and Dave. We did wrote a Legion of Skank script before we ever did the podcast. And I couldn't believe that we wrote such a concise story that had like this beginning, middle. I thought the characters were like. It told you who they were. I'm sure it was written terribly in hindsight, obviously, but it never went anywhere. But we fit it. We wrote it in the most unconventional, like. And now he would say this. And now what would you say here? You know, it took us forever, months to write this thing, which I know is slow turnover for like a 22 minute pilot. But I'm so impressed with it that when we took it around places and they were kind of like, yeah, it's funny, but we're not interested. It was like stabbing me through the chest. I'm like, I didn't think I could even possibly write a script. And now we did, and you're saying this isn't good enough. So with writing the same thing. I wrote a couple things for Steve O. When he did the Sheen roast. Maybe it was. I forget which one it was. He did trump one of them, but whatever. When he did, I wrote some jokes for him, and he did what we're saying. He kind of, like, took them and made it with the way he wanted to say it. And when I was watching it, I was like, no, no, no. You know, and he was doing fine, but it was like I was so married to it. I'm like, why would you think that it would be better a different way? And I'm sure it was for him. Like, that makes total sense. He wants to put in his voice, which you should.
Adam Carolla
There is such a thing as it's not all subjective. Like, there is such a way of making a joke better or worse.
Big J Okerson
Sure. Oh, yeah.
Adam Carolla
And you're professional enough and have low enough self esteem to sit around and watch someone do it and go, oh, yeah, that guy just made a little bit better, or, oh, yeah, that guy made it a little bit worse.
Big J Okerson
Oh, sure. No, without a doubt. But also, the thing is, like, if you're a writer, like, someone of the writer's mentality walks away from it because they couldn't care less.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
You know, I mean, if you take their thing, and the two guys that helped me write, like, they saw the roast and though I didn't use their jokes necessarily, but I don't think they were like, you know, I paid them, they got their money.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. I mean, at a certain point, it's a job. And whether it's writer or coroner, it's just, you know, it's a job. You can't weep every time someone under 30 dies in a moped accident.
Big J Okerson
I worry about the weakness of my writing so much that it's that it's like I get so attached if I do it. And I'm like, it's like the same thing. It would be the equivalent of, like, building a brick wall all day and then someone coming and just knocking it down. It's like, that's the hard work. I look at writing like, this is so against the grain of how I would do it, but I'm gonna do it. So when I put that effort in and then I'm like, oh, wow. And it's. It's not that bad. It would kill me if people were like, yeah, I'm gonna leave. You know, if somebody was just like, the way I would do, I'm like, yeah, that one's. I'm not doing that. I'm scrapping it. I'd be like, I think.
Adam Carolla
But I think if you get philosophical about it, you go, I spent all day building this brick wall, and then someone just came in and knocked it down. So it seems like a waste. But I do know how to use a T trowel now. I do know how to bag mortar. And I do know how I. I did learn and get the experience of building it. Even though it's lying on the floor right now. Yeah. And if you go sort of philosophically that way, then everyone can knock down your brick wall, but you'll still have the experience of being a Mason.
Big J Okerson
And you could always. Yeah, you could always use that. No, you're not wrong at all. Like I said, that's why I have a. But I've never, like, tried to get into a. When I've heard descriptions of writers rooms. That sounds terrifying to me. Like, that pressure cooker. I don't know. Like, if I picture how, like, an SNL sketch is written, a bunch of people yelling across the table, and then he trips and says, van down by the river. I don't know if I'd work well in that. What? He just fat and falls. That's the whole thing.
Adam Carolla
I've been in a lot of writers rooms, and they change from place to place, but most of it is talking about food. Where are we eating? That's a lot of talk in the writer's room.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, probably.
Adam Carolla
There's the lunch. There's the lunch discussion, which starts at, like, 10, 15, and then at some point, if it's gonna be a long night, it's a, what if we got sushi and just brought it here? Like, there's a lot of food related talk is what I remember. It's interesting. I kind of vibe with it. I liked it, but also I'm impressed with it. You gotta be. I was always good in that environment and usually funnier than most of the people in it. But I don't know what it would feel like if I felt like the least funny guy in that room, because that would kind of suck. Having nine guys being funnier all the time or taking my. You know, what happens is you come at the punchline and at some point someone goes, all right, we have our five. Now let's see if we can get a Seven. And you're like, oh, mine was out of ten. Right.
Big J Okerson
I'm also. And always since I started comedy, been pretty dirty and like, even if the jokes aren't, I'm just like, foul mouth. They've always just kind of talked that way. And I never, like, I got to that point. I always feel for that reason too. Like, writer, like real writers. It's like a. Like, I also feel like I'm getting bullied by nerds. Situations, like, you walk in, they're like, oh, here comes. What's it gonna be in a dick and pussy thing again? Like, well, it might start there, but I mean, let's see where it goes. Like, you know, it doesn't always just end there.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I mean, there's. I just did my first dry bar special and I'm fixing to do another one. And there's definitely something to being clean.
Big J Okerson
Are you. And like, are you doing it to challenge yourself at all or was it not difficult for you to do? Because people say, I get suggestions all the time, which I think sounds like a very interesting idea. They go, you should just do like, make it a thing that you're doing a clean hour special or something. And I'm like, you kind of have fun with it.
Adam Carolla
It's kind of like somebody saying, you should do a seven day bone broth cleanse. And you go, what's that mean? No. Okay. No alcohol, no meat, no, no, no nothing. You do bone broth in the morning and you drink unsweetened Gatorade for lunch, and then you do bone broth. And then at the end they go, you'll drop ten pounds, you'll feel better. And you're like, yeah, but I don't want to do that. Yeah, but if you challenge yourself to do it, you'll be glad. First off, you'll have energy throughout the day. And you're like, I want a hamburger. They go, no, no, it's a bone broth. And so this is basically the comedic version of that where you go, look, we could all technically do a bone broth cleanse for seven days.
Big J Okerson
Sure.
Adam Carolla
None of us can't do it. There's no reason, medically or spiritually or for religious purposes that we couldn't do it. Now, do we have the intestinal fortitude to do it? Like, are we tough enough to do it? Can we? Everyone could walk 20 miles. If your car broke down in the fucking desert and you were gonna die, then you would walk 20 miles.
Big J Okerson
Necessity.
Adam Carolla
Can you walk on your own 20 miles? You know, 300 laps around your house, you know, and the answer is no. But the answer is really, because I'm soft.
Big J Okerson
Right.
Adam Carolla
You know, and so once in a while, you go with something with something like the bone broth cleanse that I'm sort of making up. But I'm saying, like, you would be in charge of. Do you know how many people. How many people have you met where they go, Monday, I start the bone. And then you see them Monday, and they're eating a breakfast burrito. Not this Monday. Not this first of the year, though. Like. Like a lot of that shit where.
Big J Okerson
They kick it down the road because there's something coming up. Well, I got a wedding.
Adam Carolla
Right, right. This is. It's on the calendar. We are shooting your dry bar clean special. And we're shooting it in, you know, five weeks, and it's there and you're going. And that's.
Big J Okerson
That was your approach to clean things up or right from scratch?
Adam Carolla
There was some. Right from scratch. There was some find like this premise. Well, there was a couple things. There was like 30, 25% of the stuff I was doing was like, oh, that's not dirty.
Big J Okerson
Right.
Adam Carolla
I feel dirty in my head. And it's boxed in between dirty shit. But that's not inherently. That's just a joke. That's fine.
Big J Okerson
Is dry bar not accept any suggestive things at all.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So the thing with drybar, and the problem is people go, well, you can't say shit or fuck. That's not the challenge. It's the premise.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's more. Because, you know, it's always for that. But I remember having that issue when I did the only late night show I ever did was Jimmy Fallon before it became this night show, when it was like, late night with Jimmy Fallon. And it was like the same thing. You come back and you go, well, what do you mean? I can't say this joke, you know, it was like something about my daughter when she was little, cut holes in her underwear, right? And they're like, I mean, you're sexualizing your daughter. I'm like, no. Like, you're kind of making that leap yourself. You know, in my mind, they're like, well, no, that's just considered a dirty joke. And I'm like, but that's what I'm going like. I'm not saying fuck or shit or anything.
Adam Carolla
Well, so that's the kind of. That's the rub. So you go, listen, I have this button where I go, I'd rather fuck my mom, but I'm gonna have to change it to, I'd rather make whoopee with my mom. Yeah, that's not gonna work either. Nothing with your mom works, no matter how nice you make it.
Big J Okerson
You see, the problem is sex with your mother.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. It's not really the verbiage. It's the thought of having a sex or sexualizing your daughter, whatever it is. And that's where the trouble comes in, because you don't realize how many of your premises have that kind of thing to them.
Big J Okerson
It's funny when someone's in that mode and doesn't know what other people's gripes are. When I did Bert Kreischer's Cabin show, I'm seeing towards the end of the episode, there's an idea of me and him oil wrestling in. In, like, a pool, outside in Speedos was the thing. And I went to the director, who I knew, thank God, and I was like, hey, man, I genuinely, like, I love Bert and everything. I don't want to do that. Like, it's not that I'll do whatever kind of wrestling and stuff like that. Like, I'm not Burt. Like, I'm not comfortable being like, hey, look how fat I am in this bikini. You know? I'm like, I don't like that. I was like, can we not do it? And then he calls Birdie, goes, bert, come here. He goes. He goes, jay's not really keen on doing the wrestling in the Speedos or the oil wrestling in Speedos. He goes. He's like, we don't have to use oil. We could just use water and pretend. I'm like, it's not Burt. It's not what we're wrestling in, you understand? It's the. I don't want to be in a Speedo on tv.
Adam Carolla
If you'd done the bone broth cleanse like you promised, then you'd be fine with it.
Big J Okerson
What Monday are we starting this goddamn thing?
Adam Carolla
Well, so I tell every comedian, take. Take the dry bar challenge.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Like, find your material. List it out, break it down. Start pulling stuff out. Start tweaking stuff.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And see if you can do it. And you can.
Big J Okerson
I think I can do it. Yeah. That's really, like. You know, it's funny. I started this at 19, and it was the idea of that, like, man, even though I know we have to work plenty. But I was like, oh, I'll never have to work. Especially on, like, the work is. The traveling, whatever, getting jobs, all that stuff. Agents, managers. That's all the work press doing all that shit is the work. To me, the doing comedy part was always so easy to some degree.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Even though I've gotten like, you know, I had to learn plenty of lessons and I wasn't like, I didn't start off great at it in any way, you know, so, like, I wasn't like a prodigy of any sort. But, like, being funny came very easy to me. I was like, where I was like, I could think of funny things all day, every day and go talk about them. That's not the issue. So then it's like that it becomes the first time where you're like, no, you have to like, sit and really, like, you know, even when I do specials, I just. I'm doing a material special. I like, all right, book me a couple weekends and I'll tell those clubs like, hey, guys, it's not gonna be like a all over the place show, like normal. I'm running, I'm trying to find the order. I'm gonna do a special in of my jokes.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, no, so it does. So I'm fixing to do another one this weekend. And it's like, oh, really? Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Where at you here in la?
Adam Carolla
No, they shoot em in Provo at their club, at a theater that they have all wired up. And if you go to the back of this facility, you will see papers spread out all over in front of the TV set, like on the table and stuff. That's me literally combing through stuff going, did this last time, but this is too dirty. But maybe if I tweak that or this is clean, I could do this. And what you're talking about is homework. Yeah, what you're talking about is the book report that you and I never did.
Big J Okerson
Nope.
Adam Carolla
I never studied for a test. I never did a book report.
Big J Okerson
Cliff Notes. I always said to this day, why I was never been like a big reader, like, book reader, is not that I can't read. My reading comprehension is terrible because I don't think there was one thing I was ever supposed to read and take a test on where I didn't look at question first and then just go, all right, these are the keywords I'm looking for. Just scanning a page and being like, there is the answer. Yeah, I was. Everything was a shortcut. I never applied myself.
Adam Carolla
No, I never applied myself either. I was a horrible student. And so homework, book reports, things like that. Any kind of homework or any kind of preparation was a disaster. Never did it. I never did it.
Big J Okerson
Day before guy.
Adam Carolla
I didn't even really do it day of I hoped for multiple choice. Then I would just take guesses if.
Big J Okerson
They couldn't believe, I'd be aghast if somebody wouldn't let me copy their homework in the morning. I go, what?
Adam Carolla
It was horrible. And so then you get out of that environment. You go onto a nightclub stage, I go onto a construction site, but either way, never gonna read again. That's my proclamation. I'm so fucking done with books or writing. I'm never gonna read or write again. That's what I thought to myself. And so I just started working with racists and illiterate Mexicans and stuff, and there was no recommendations on book clubs or anything. And that was it. And then all of a sudden, I'm in show business, and it's like, they're gonna give you a $500,000 advance if you write this book. And I'm like, oh, right. How many pages? You know, it was like, I remember it going, like. I remember them going, oh, it's funny. I go, how much book do you need for this? You know? And they go between, like, 90 and maybe 110,000 words. And I go, what is that? How many you got to tell me? Pages?
Big J Okerson
190,000 words.
Adam Carolla
I don't know what that is.
Big J Okerson
Is that how long it is?
Adam Carolla
Right. I don't know what. You got to give me page count. And they're like, ah, between, you know, 265 and 300 or something. I was like, that sounds like a lot of writing pages, right? So I swore off of reading or writing, and I said, you know, good day. I was like, I left high school. I threw my scarf over my shoulder and I went, good day to you with your books and your writing and your spelling and all that stuff. And I just got on a construction site where it's like, it could never happen again. And then all of a sudden, I got shoved into a writer's room, and I was like, here we are. So I know that feeling with comedians of homework. And I think the ones, the ones that are really good and get paid and so on and so forth are the ones that are like, you and the legal secretary mind like Seinfeld. Jimmy Kimmel's that way. He loves homework. He's sitting there just banging away and banging away and typing and typing and banging away and reading and stuff. And I was like, I didn't get into this to read exactly. I thought it was supposed to be slamming drugs and talking to chicks, fucking prostitutes and stuff, and talking shit about other comedians not writing all day.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, I Have to buy stationery and pens.
Adam Carolla
But that's why he excels. Cause he took this natural ability. He went, Jerry Rice, you took the ability and then you attach it to the work ethic.
Big J Okerson
Absolutely. But work ethic also a. Want to kind of keep doing. I've said, I've been doing this so long, and I started with Kevin Hart. There's always a thing I say. And that was interesting thing to watch his kind of meteoric rise when it happened. And it did take longer than a lot of people think. But, like, it did when it happened. It happened, you know, And. But in the limited time I've spent with him over the last, like, 15 years. I don't envy, like, that world, though, either, do you know? I mean, like, what he. And he was a big homework guy from the day we started. You know, I always say to his credit, like, he would. I'd pick him up to go play basketball, and he'd be like, hey, drop me the swing by the post office. I gotta drop off a package. You know, it's in a manila envelope with a VHS and, like, a fake resume and a headshot that he got blown up at Rite Aid. And what are you doing to a black college promoter? Show promoter. So I get some, like, work. Don't you have to be able to do, like, an hour of comedy for that? He's like, I'll figure it out.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
And, like, he just did, like, he was the guy that did that. And he wanted to, like, grind and work and wake up early and write jokes and think about. And color code. The thing, you know, Nate Bargazzi, very much like that. I bring up Nate also, on the other point about the clean stuff. That's one of the most enviable things in comedy to me, is Nate's ability to be clean and so funny that that's not even how it reads to you. Do you know what I mean? Like, the first thing you say about Nate is like, well, he's a clean comedian.
Adam Carolla
It's hilarious first.
Big J Okerson
And then it's like, it happens to be, like, squeaky clean.
Adam Carolla
No. If you don't know someone as being anything.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Even if it's Christian rock. You're like, those guys fucking rock.
Big J Okerson
That's how Creed and Pod snuck in.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And it's the ultimate tip of the cap to just go. All this person is. Is being funny. And then someone reminds you. You go, they're clean. And he goes, they are.
Big J Okerson
Yeah. Yeah.
Anthony Constantino
Oh, wow.
Big J Okerson
That's right. I guess he doesn't curse at all. Brian Regan was always like that.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah.
Big J Okerson
Another one was clean, but you weren't like, he's trying to be squeaky clean. Oh, this is how he talks always.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Doesn't blow my mind. He's not a guy who, you know, I'm late for my fucking appointment. He's just not a guy who talks like that during the day. I feel like. Just believe it, you know?
Adam Carolla
Right. Yeah.
Big J Okerson
I would be definitely, like, figuring it out because I went along. Doing clean comedy.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Well, again, but over the years, I've.
Big J Okerson
Also had jokes that are technically very clean. I just don't like. But I also tend to write, like. I mean, I just kind of came and never really grew out of the idea that, like, Can I get you worried for a second first before. You see, I'm just kidding about something. You know what I mean? So it's like, not that it's edge lording necessarily, but, like, if it's not a joke that's dirty necessarily. It's definitely, like, supposed to make some people go, what? And then go, oh, okay. You know, definitely try to, like, just edgy. Such a lame word. But, I mean, it's definitely just the things I'm drawn to talk about more.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I. So I would recommend it in the challenge department, but like I said, it falls under the heading of the bone broth challenge, which is, you can do it.
Big J Okerson
No, absolutely you can. I'd like to. I said, it's come up several times. I should try to just, like, see if I can do it. I'm sure I can. I mean, I hope. No, I mean, I made my grandmother laugh until she passed. Never from my comedy, my stand up comedy at all.
Adam Carolla
The interesting part of it is you will do it. It's not gonna be. I hope I can. Once you set your mind to it and you start focusing on it a little bit, you will definitely do it.
Big J Okerson
Like you said, it's gotta be something. Like I was saying, I have to be proud of it, though. I mean, I can't be like, well, here's a clean set. That's whatever I'd want to be. Like, I can't believe I did. Like, this is great. I'm gonna.
Adam Carolla
No, I mean, you'll go back and you'll end up sort of like the Seinfeld or the Bargazzi or something where you go, oh, those are good jokes. Like, it's not. It's not a compromise type thing. It's more of a challenge type thing.
Big J Okerson
When I did Jimmy Fallon, I pretty sure I was a heavy Contribution to the guy who books it getting fired because he, he. And by the way, God bless Jeff Singer. I'll always give him his kudos because he was the booker. He's booked a lot of things since I've been in comedy and that was the last thing he was doing there. And he saw me, had me do a set at him for. At a club. I did as clean as I thought I could do. And he was like, let's do it. I want to do this. Like, I want to get you on. I want to be the first person to get you on, like late night tv. And there was times I thought he just gave up. So I wouldn't hear from him for a few weeks. And then he would call back and be like, so where we at? Were you able to like iron this joke out to get a little bit more TV friendly? And I would be like, oh, I thought we weren't doing it. So it took about four months or so from him saying, let's do it for me to get on. And zero hour I said, or he called me and goes, they need you to change this joke. And the joke was about being an Eagles fan and Michael Vick was the quarterback.
Adam Carolla
Congrats, by the way.
Big J Okerson
Thank you. He was. Michael Vick was the quarterback at the time. And I said a joke that they were fine with for months. This was never one under contention until the last day. To I'd say Michael Vick, I know he's done terrible things, but, you know, he's on my team now and that just kind of takes over everything. I was like, if he scores for my team, I'll throw him a dog and let him tear it apart like a werewolf in the end zone. And it went on from there. The Roots were into it. They're Eagles fans, but the zero hour they called up and they were like, you can't say rip a dog apart like a werewolf. I'm like, that's clean and you can't say it. So I changed it. I wrote back and changed it and it was a game time. I couldn't think of much and it was the pressure of it. I didn't do well. And what I was going to say was, I'll throw him a stuffed animal dog and let him tear it apart like a werewolf which loses all the punch.
Adam Carolla
Right?
Big J Okerson
Everything. But I was just like, well, we're here now, so I kind of got to play the game. And when I got out on stage, genuinely, I just autopiloted the joke.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Said it the right way. It wasn't a. It definitely wasn't, like, a set at the original. Yeah, it wasn't a Jim Morrison Light My Fire moment. It was definitely, like, as soon as I said it, like, I kept my face fine, but inside I was like, oh, right. Damn it. I hope it doesn't, like, tank the whole thing. But it went great in the room. And when I got off stage, I said to the producer, not the guy who booked it. I was like, hey, is it okay? Like, I thought. I think I wasn't supposed to say the one line. And I said it, and I was about this. And he goes. He goes, crowd. He said, crowd liked it. It's fine. And I also realized in that moment, I think sometimes some of the editing they do is they think the subject is going to upset the audience. You know what I mean? They're worried about it not going well and you not knowing how to recover. But I also write jokes, which is something they couldn't possibly know. But, I mean, when I do write jokes, I write them. This is Patrice advice, actually. He gave a long time ago, like, be able to defend your jokes, even if the defense is like, well, it's ridiculous, and I made it up. Or be like, yeah, I stand behind that. So, like, well, I did the joke, and the guy was like, but they don't want the crowd. They don't want the crowd to go bad. And then you not know how to recover. I was not worried about that. So it went well. But then the next day, the guy called me, and he was like, you know, thousands upon thousands of hate mails from, like, PETA people. And I started getting PETA stuff right away, and really, from it. Yeah. And then, you know, I was trying to. I was like. I was like, hey, well, think of all the people who aren't lunatics who just liked it.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Big J Okerson
Or didn't think twice about it.
Adam Carolla
But they left it in.
Big J Okerson
They left it in there that night for sure. But it is removed from the history of NBC.
Adam Carolla
Oh, it is?
Big J Okerson
Yeah. Jimmy Faure saw him recently and remind him the story. We're not old friends or anything. And he was like, oh, let me see if I could somehow locate that. I was like, I'd love to have a copy of it. I mean, the show's over, so shouldn't be a problem. But you cannot find it online anywhere in archives.
Adam Carolla
It is interesting what people take offense to. And it's also weird. I mean, the rules, especially the ones from the bygone era, you know, I mean, it's a lot like, you know, young women can't wear pants, you know, from the 50s or something. And you just. Two drinking fountains, you know, and you just go, what the fuck? Like, what? And I remember, like, weird things like the. The French whore can be holding a cigarette, but it can't be lit. Now, if it is lit, it can be lit, but she has to say something negative about it if it is lit, but she, by all means, cannot take a drag off the cigarette. And it's like, for who is this benefiting? And I would always say, do people smoke? And they'd go, yeah. And I'd go, okay. Is it possible to suggest that this person may smoke? There are people who do smoke. So she could be a person who smokes, and it's not.
Big J Okerson
You have to act like it doesn't exist in the world, right?
Adam Carolla
That's the weird. The weird part is smoking exists and she happens. Or we're on a construction site, the foreman smokes. Is that okay? Because it does exist. So why can't we acknowledge something exists? It's like, well, they can hold the cigarette, but they just. It can't be lit.
Big J Okerson
The world wants to be treated like babies, and I don't think they want to. I think people think they want to, because I thought that struck stuck out with me. I watched the eagles parade on YouTube, and I was watching the. The Fox affiliates coverage on YouTube TV, and, you know, every time those guys get up there and they go, man, we're fucking champions. They block it. And then someone goes, we apologize for the profanity. He says he's excited that they're champions. And then he comes back and he goes, I can't fucking believe it, man. And they're like, oh, sorry. We. I mean, every five seconds, they're just apologizing. It's like, lady, we're fine.
Adam Carolla
Right?
Big J Okerson
Everyone can handle this. A funny thing about that Michael Vick joke, though, the biggest backfire of it for me was it was a relatively new joke. When I went on. In 2012, I went on the last, like, of the Mayhem Fest tour, which was like. It was like a bunch of metal bands and stuff that year. I think it was like Slipknot and stuff. And I went on that tour, and the first date that I jumped on the tour with them was Philly Camden, you know, the E. Center out there. And I was like, oh, this is home. And I go. And I got this great Michael Vick joke. I go, it is going to kill in this room. You know, a metal audience and stuff. And I got up on stage and I was having an O case. It's a very weird thing when they didn't really. A lot of people don't know who I was, especially at this time. And I'm walking on stage and they're like, who's this roadie grabbing a microphone, doing comedy and bring out Slipknot, no one cares. And I went out there and the set was going good. I go home and it closed. This is gonna be a big joke here in Philadelphia. And I was like, michael Vick scores a touchdown for the Eagles. I'll throw him a dog limb, tear it apart like a werewolf. And I mean, some 50 year old guy or something, he stood up in his chair and all I can hear, he goes, no, no.
Adam Carolla
Wow.
Big J Okerson
I was rattled, to say the least. I mean, I finished my set, but I was almost like my friends who were leaving that night because they were dropping me off on the tour, I was almost like, I might just come home with you guys. I don't think I should do this next two weeks of this tour. I'm like, that was awful. I was not expecting that.
Adam Carolla
I'm always profoundly curious and slightly disgusted by people who completely internalize everything, as if it was like, sort of meant for them. It's insane and have no sense that comedians get up there and they sort of make jokes about stuff, you know, and it's hypothetical and it's supposed to be extreme because that's part of how it's worked. And it's also, most of it is physically impossible. Like you throwing a dog out to Michael Vick. Like, is there any possibility this could actually happen?
Big J Okerson
It's stomach churning and it makes me lose faith in people.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Big J Okerson
When you hear that, it's like just. The question is like, if it sounds ridiculous, it's because it's not true.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Big J Okerson
You know what I mean? And if it's like, if someone says the true story, I promise you, it's not like no one goes, hey, this is a true story. Unless they're being wildly hilarious. No one goes, true story. Me and my friends raped a girl yesterday and we buried her behind a wall. You know, it's like, it's not going.
Adam Carolla
To be like that, probably, but it is funny. It's funny when you think about something that you want. Like, you go, I'm doing this. This is funny. I'm gonna do this. I have a whole slate of jokes about how much my mom hated me and now she's dead. And no matter what I ever say, it never works. They just hate it they go, oh, oh, come on, you're wrong. She loved you. She just didn't know it. You know, it's like, oh, oh. And I'll tell it. I've told her a time or two. But this insane joke about the song Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree, and it's a story about a guy who's a convict, and he comes home and he doesn't know if his love will still be waiting for him. And he'll understand if she doesn't. Because he's done his time, but now he's been freed. And he comes back in the prison bus to find a thousand yellow ribbons tied around the olog tree, which meant his love would take him back. But no one ever discusses why he was in prison. He brutally raped a nine year old. And everyone just goes, no, it's funny. It's cut out of the sword. They're like, no. I'm like, it's a funny concept. He wasn't in there for tax evasion. Like, why was he in prison? I tried it. I did it like two times. And each time I do it, people just be like, no. And I'm like, all right, fuck it.
Big J Okerson
It's a tribute. I found. I found this out not long ago. And I'll say this on stage, it's a tribute to your storytelling, your storytelling ability. People get invested about things. It's almost the thing I said in the beginning of the show with the experiment of, like, if I see empty chairs up front, right, Like I used to, almost arbitrarily. My joke would always be, I saved these for my parents. And then I was like, you know, it's more fun, like every time. Let's just make. Why would there be three empty chairs? Let's just find the funniest thing for that.
Adam Carolla
And so they think. I was part of the songwriting team for that Tony Orlando song from 1972, you know?
Big J Okerson
Yes. The stuff, all the things you've invested in, you judge them for going like, so you've blindly accepted all these things.
Adam Carolla
Yes. And the story would keep going that it was the woman's daughter who he raped, who accepted him back. And now he's coming back into the home and everyone's just like, no, it was his stepdaughter.
Big J Okerson
Relax. Their kids will have normal eyes.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it is. I'll tell you the other thing that's funny is when you go over the 20 pages of jokes to try to figure out the dry bar stuff, every once in a while, I'll come across one that is the most fucking craziest, dirtiest one ever. And I'll just sit there and fantasize that joke.
Big J Okerson
The dream bubble.
Adam Carolla
I spotted one the other day, which was, I never do this joke anyway. But I was like, I feel bad for the porn set makeup artist. Like, whoever the artist is makeup artist on the porn set because she's an artist. I mean, it's makeup artist. And she spends all day working on this chick's face. And that's her job and that's her canvas. And I said, it's like she's a makeup artist. It'd be like if you just sat home and you were painting a bowl of fruit and you just put the finishing touches on it and some black guy with a huge cock just burst in and just shot jizz all over it. You'd be totally upset, right? And I just sit on that back sofa and I fantasize about telling that joke in Provost. And then there's always that weird part where I go, I think I could clean it up.
Big J Okerson
He goes, maybe if I say African American.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, what if I said African American? I didn't say jizz. I said load.
Big J Okerson
By the way, that's the same goes in theory with our. You built a brick wall and busted it down. He goes, hey, at least you know how to put on whore makeup. Still. Right after that black eye busts all over her face. You gotta look at it philosophically and know that now you've picked up the skills of art makeup.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, they. I was thinking, she'll be the first.
Big J Okerson
Person to design black cum resistant makeup.
Adam Carolla
Right? Get a big contract by Maybel.
Big J Okerson
I'd like to see Carolla turns the makeup world upside down on its head.
Adam Carolla
That's right. That's right. He turns lemons into jizz A. All right, let's take a break. We'll get Mayhem Miller in here. Jay's gonna hang out, right? We'll do a little news. The special. It's very funny. It's a two parter.
Big J Okerson
Thank you so much.
Adam Carolla
Crowd work. They them is the name. It's out on YouTube. And then the second one's coming out April 20th. And again, you can watch it and you'll go, I don't know where he's going to go here, but it goes somewhere good. All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll do the news right after this. Homes.com knows that when it comes to home shopping, it's never just about the house or condo. It's about the home. And what makes a home is More than just a house or property. It's the location, it's the neighborhood. If you have kids, it's also schools, nearby, parks, transportation options, all the above. That's why homes.com goes above and beyond to bring home shoppers the in depth information they need to find the right home. And when I say in depth, I'm talking about deep. That's right. Each listing features comprehensive information about the neighborhood, complete with a video guide. They also have details about local schools with test scores, state rankings, and student to teacher ratio. They even have an agent directory with the sales history of each agent. So when it comes to finding a home, not just a house, this is everything you need to know all in one place. Homes.com. homes.com. We've done your homework. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. Betonline is the world's most trusted betting platform and your number one source for online betting in 2025. Whether you're a seasoned fan or a first time better, Betonline is your ultimate game day companion with the largest selection of odds on everything from NBA, college basketball, exclusive in game, live betting. Betonline is your ultimate game day companion. And if you like the NHL, you like a little hockey or the UFC, if that's your thing, BetOnline is your number one sports betting source. From every three pointer to every hat trick, Betonline has you covered with the odds, stats and more for every single game, every play and every win. It is Betonline. The game starts here.
Big J Okerson
She was older than me. I was actually 17 when I lost my virginity. She was 22 years old. Not a girlfriend or anything, anything, just a neighbor girl. 22 year old neighbor girl. She lived with her uncle next door. Who knows what was going on there. She must have been damaged because one day I was walking by and she goes, you know what? I'm gonna make you a man. And I was like, okay, lady. She was older and had expectations on the whole deal. So she was like, all right, you gotta get a hotel room. And I'm like, cool. Well, now we got to get my mom involved in this project because I don't have a credit card.
Adam Carolla
Big J Okerson is on the Adam Carolla show. Jay's got the crowd work special that's on YouTube and then dates as well. Coming up, where do we go to find your touring schedule, Jay?
Big J Okerson
BigJComedy.com.
Adam Carolla
Oh, okay.
Big J Okerson
My new tour, Big J Okerson Peter North American tour coming on a scene near you. If you get it, you get it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, The Decorator's been in here before.
Big J Okerson
Really?
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah.
Big J Okerson
Oh, wow. You interviewed Peter North.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I did.
Big J Okerson
It's gotta be awesome.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
I mean, does he rule or not at all? I would assume not at all.
Adam Carolla
He's Canadian.
Big J Okerson
Really?
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
That explains it. We warmed his balls up and there was all that jizz in there.
Adam Carolla
Nice call.
Big J Okerson
It was like a melting glacier in there.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. It is a weird. It is a weird thing. Yes. He produces copious amounts of semen. And for some reason, that's an important part of the visual experience for us, which is a sad testimonial. It's also, you know, we're horrible when you're like, I got some great porn, but the guy's wearing a rubber. And you're like, fuck it, I'm out. Why is it rubber ruining the guy.
Big J Okerson
Is very oddly important in pornography. Yeah. Oddly important. It's gotta be a humongous penis. I need to see this girl earn em cash.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
And, yeah, if I see the word cream pie, I'm like, boring.
Adam Carolla
It also makes you wonder how many other guys have that ability and we don't know it because there has to be guys sitting home going, amen. I've seen. Okay, he's fine.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
And you're like. And you're like, oh, you're so good. Why don't you. Because I'm a dentist. Like, not everyone is going into porn just because they have a huge load. Like, I'm a Jehovah's Witness who has a huge load, but I'm not gonna film it.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
You know what I mean?
Big J Okerson
Save it for their wives. What a waste. A great jizz.
Adam Carolla
But what percentage. Like, we assume Peter north is the only guy who can do that, but it's the only guy who's willing to let us watch him do it. I would say there are many more who would be like, I'm not gonna let you watch me do this just because I can do it.
Big J Okerson
We have to live with that secret. How many people do you think just in this studio have enormous loads? We know Byron can suck his own wiener.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. That we know. And he can do mine.
Big J Okerson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
You didn't know that about him.
Big J Okerson
So if you could suck your own dick, you don't even know if you have big loads.
Adam Carolla
That's right. So, yeah. So there's a Peter north, but she'd have to kind of go, well, okay, there's 335 million people in this country. Let's open it to the world, though. You know what I mean? We can rule China out, probably in Japan for some reason. But what I'm saying is there has to be other people who can do what he does. We just don't know about it.
Big J Okerson
And very few new pornography. The ones that do have their own and I'm sorry to use the industry term here, compilations.
Adam Carolla
Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.
Big J Okerson
I hate to pull it.
Adam Carolla
Industry terms also, I wonder. There must be some sort of sweet spot where you go, look, you don't beat off for three days, but don't do two weeks, you'll have a retrograde ejaculation or something, you know what I mean?
Big J Okerson
The most is celery juice. That's what Tommy Lee says his huge loads come from. And I believe Peter north says, I.
Adam Carolla
Saw him on Inside the Actors Center. You're right. I do recall that episode when James Lipton asked him where his huge loads came from.
Big J Okerson
Celery juice. Can it be possible?
Adam Carolla
Let me tell you something, people. It's like once in a while you see some guy with great calf muscles, you know, and they go, I used to play volleyball in high school. Okay, that's not that. This is just great calves. You're 41. You know what I mean? Like, you just have great calves. You know what I mean? Tommy Lee just have a load. It's not celery juice that's doing any of this stuff.
Big J Okerson
Some people just produce more.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I guess it's interesting.
Big J Okerson
I've never been. In fact, anytime I've ever. Anytime I've ever shot a distance that I found impressive of any kind. Whoever else was involved in that with me, we do like a. Oh, look at that. Yeah. It's a real, like. Can you believe that? No way.
Adam Carolla
What?
Big J Okerson
The wall. Shut up.
Adam Carolla
Worst gig ever. Peter North's stepmom through those formative years, you know what I mean? Like, 13 to the time he turned 19 and moved out to the States. You imagine that poor woman having to deal with the fucking socks, the comforter. I mean, every place is a crime scene of jib. Yeah. Walk in his room and just slip. Feet go flying over her head.
Big J Okerson
How much would it suck to be Peter North's child or father and not have a big dick and shoot baby loads? The first time. Yeah. The first time a girl goes, like, jumps off of his dick and goes like, hose me down, right? It just like hits her like an Indian tear.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
You're like, I thought you were Peter North's son.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
I don't want your laugh.
Adam Carolla
It doesn't really work, like. But Michael Jordan's son doesn't play hoop. You know, probably legendary load, though. I don't know if you know that.
Big J Okerson
But, no, Bronny James is clearly the smaller load of the two.
Adam Carolla
Yes. It's gotta be. It's a cross to bear, is what I'm saying.
Big J Okerson
Knowing your father's a huge cock and a wonderful load.
Adam Carolla
That's a bizarre.
Big J Okerson
I met Nina Hartley once, and that was the first question I asked her. I go, are Peter North's loads that big? And she goes, he produces three tablespoons. The average man produces less than a teaspoon. And I think it was the only words we said to each other. Danny Bonaduce walked in and threw things up in a disarray.
Adam Carolla
Well, speaking of measuring loads and I'm writing this stuff down for my dry bar. Hey, you guys all know the Norseman, right? A lot of knowing nods. Okay.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Now, Dawson, you can look this up, but it was always alleged that the band 10cc was named after that, wasn't it?
Big J Okerson
It is, I believe. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Which is a. I've heard it. People all heard it, but I don't know.
Big J Okerson
Have you felt it on your back? Is the question.
Adam Carolla
Is it a Richard Gere type gerbil situation, or is it actually something? All right, do some news, man.
Big J Okerson
Well, you're not gon that.
Adam Carolla
We're going to stay right on this. And Ohio and Mississippi Bill aims to make ejaculating without intent to conceive a felony costing over $10,000. Yeah. The legislation, dubbed the Conception Begins at Erection act, pretty much tries to criminalize coming without coming. Like, without trying to make a baby. Oh, I see. It's sort of a troll. The bill has several exceptions. Men using contraception, donating sperm, masturbating, or engaging in sexual activities with LGBTQ individuals would not be something. What do you think the average ratio is? Like you ejaculating in the presence of a woman, with a woman, whatever she may be doing, or on your own. And I know what the ratio is. For me, it's not a good ratio. It's not. Although I got off to a head start, like, in high school. Like, it probably built up a pretty large number before I even got with the woman. You know what I mean?
Big J Okerson
Jerking off to sex.
Adam Carolla
But there's gotta be. What would be considered a good ratio? You know, like a three to one ratio would be a good. Oh, yeah, that'd be a good ratio. Right.
Big J Okerson
But also, I think as you aging, I think does this, too. It starts evening out the number more.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
You were younger, you jerked off so.
Adam Carolla
Much more than you fucked, you could never keep up.
Big J Okerson
And then if you're not with somebody for a little while, even if you're. If you with somebody every day for the year you're together, then you go through a spell where you're not. You were also still jerking off in that year. But as you get older, how many times now I like, I'm like, oh, I'll do this and I'll jerk off and I'll go to bed and I just start watching True Crime. And I'm like, I guess just bed. It's so not cool to jerk off.
Adam Carolla
Especially when you're living at Dr. Drew's house.
Big J Okerson
Oh, yeah, that would make me second guess it.
Adam Carolla
Constantly extra element involved with it.
Big J Okerson
But he's gonna psychoanalyze why you're doing.
Adam Carolla
Is true that you hit some sort of threshold when you toy with the idea of beating off and give up on it and then go to bed, which is nothing you would have done when you were 19.
Big J Okerson
If you were gonna do it. You were gonna do it, right?
Adam Carolla
It was all systems go. There wasn't ever that sort of kick the can down the road kind of masturbation thing. And when you get older, you go, it's true. You get caught up on some Netflix special or something. And then it's done.
Big J Okerson
My home base masturbation is at an all time low because without volume, it just takes too long. I'm pyrusing too much, too many open tabs. But when I'm on the road in a hotel room, you can have volume, which changes everything and it could be much faster. But then I get on the road and then you're just tired at night, and then you're like, I'll do it tomorrow during the day. Then the sun's coming in and I'm like, I should do something more productive than jerk off.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. My thing is I'll do it on the shuttle on the way to the airport because that's. That's downtime.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, yeah.
Adam Carolla
You know what I mean?
Big J Okerson
That time belongs.
Adam Carolla
And sometimes there's only four or five people on there. All right, sorry. What else you got? We got some more news. The president of New York University's College Republicans forced to resign after calling Barron Trump an oddity on campus. I don't get this one.
Big J Okerson
Me neither.
Adam Carolla
His last name is Trump and he's seven foot tall. So already squarely in the oddity department, right? Yeah, but yeah, she was forced to step down and she says her comments were misconstrued and she's actually criticizing the media's unhealthy fascination with Barron and general lack of respect for his privacy as he tries to navigate college life.
Big J Okerson
That's the president's son. I know.
Adam Carolla
Everything about it is weird.
Big J Okerson
Can you just leave him alone?
Adam Carolla
But I don't know why she would have to step down or why they took such offense to this. Yeah. I don't know.
Big J Okerson
Can't say a kid's a weirdo.
Adam Carolla
I don't know. You should hope, though. Let me just say this. Everyone I know has been shit canned. But no one I've ever known or grew up with or no one in my family's ever had to step down. Step down? Yeah, yeah. You know, take it in the spirit in which I'm delivering it. It means you did something at some point if you have to step down, you know, like prime ministers have to step down, Dock workers get fired. Yeah, some bullshit. If you haven't stepped down, you've sort of arrived. It's a good sign that you're stepping down. That's the whole thing.
Big J Okerson
Said he was an oddity.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Well, the College Republicans of American deemed her remarks inappropriate, and they say they do not align with the values and principles of their organization. So I guess the subtext here is that she sort of criticized Trump. I don't know. I think they're overreacting. Can I say this, too? We're not really factoring in that. We all know about life. They didn't like this bitch to begin with. And so when they don't like you, they look for excuses to get rid of you, like I've done with roommates and stuff, you know, like, you don't like the fucking guy, and so you go, listen, man, you left the bread out one too many times, so I gotta have to move on. But you're really saying, I don't like it. And when we don't understand in politics and all these kinds of roles, you're like, good. It doesn't seem like that much that they're asking the person. It's like they probably didn't like her. Yeah. And then that's kind of how people work. And if they really like you, they bend over backwards to save your job. To save your job. Right. So keep that in mind. Like, nobody liked her. Yeah, exactly.
Big J Okerson
Yeah. She sucked a female head of the Republican thing. Someone's in college.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
I'm not saying female. Female Republicans in general. Who knows? I'm saying in college, if that's what you want to be.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Something tells me you're not doing coke off a guy's dick.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Oh, let me write that down for the driver.
Big J Okerson
And by the way, freely I give it to you.
Adam Carolla
Well, I want to say dick. Peter North. Dick. I'll write that down. All right, moving on.
Big J Okerson
Trevor, Noah.
Adam Carolla
Does anyone think. Anyone think Peter North. Peter's the name of your dick and he's from Canada? Yeah. Like, does anyone ever, like, sometimes stumble on to stuff or you go, you've heard about it for 30 years, and then at some point you wake up one day and you go, oh, that's what that means.
Big J Okerson
I always took it as boner.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Yeah, me too. Pointing straight up. But he is from. He's from Canada. If I went to Canada and I just had a picture of Peter north and a picture of Rowdy Roddy Piper and a picture of, like, let's see, like, Justin Bieber. Yeah. And like, in your wallet folded up and I just showed the average Canadian, like, where do you think we'd land on the. You know. Oh, yeah, I know. That guy is. Versus. I haven't seen Michael J. Fox trying to.
Big J Okerson
Rick Moranis.
Anthony Constantino
Rick Moranis.
Big J Okerson
John Candy.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Like, let's put together a power ranking.
Big J Okerson
That was all of them. I'll bet you we got all of them now.
Adam Carolla
Alan Thick.
Big J Okerson
Okay. All right.
Anthony Constantino
I'll.
Adam Carolla
I'll bet you Peter north would probably be somewhere in the middle. I don't think they'd be. I don't think he'd be at the bottom. Below Mike Myers.
Big J Okerson
Above Gretzky. Yeah, I think for sure, though, now the rest of my life. That Canadian fact is one of those things I'll put in the back of my head and pull out a lot when I'm making a Canadian reference. I know your gods, Nickelback and Peter North.
Adam Carolla
What did. What province was. Make sure, Dawson. Double check my Northman math. Make sure he's from Alberta.
Big J Okerson
You want the 10cc answer?
Adam Carolla
We'll find out. Yeah, 10cc.
Big J Okerson
So the story followed them around their entire career.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Big J Okerson
The average amount of ejaculate is 9cc.
Adam Carolla
And 10cc gave them one lauda.
Big J Okerson
No. The guy who signed them to the record deal had a dream the night before he gave them their name that.
Adam Carolla
A band that he had signed had simultaneously topped the charts of the singles and the albums in America.
Big J Okerson
And that band was called 10cc. He went to the band and said, here's your band name. And they said, okay.
Adam Carolla
All right.
Big J Okerson
And then he winked at a camera dream. Right.
Adam Carolla
Alvin Joseph Brown, AKA Peter North. Alvin Alden. Alden Joseph Brown, AKA Okay.
Big J Okerson
Alden Brown's a good porn name for a black porn star.
Adam Carolla
You're right. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Anthony Constantino
Wow.
Big J Okerson
He was out there.
Adam Carolla
He was the north.
Anthony Constantino
It's like a Viking swinging his hammer.
Big J Okerson
We find out he's like. He's a. He's native.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
The Great moon is spoken.
Adam Carolla
62Cc cover band.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Covering jizz band. All right, let's do one more. All right, bud. Trevor Noah wonders aloud whether integration was right thing to do for the U.S. i think we have some footage here. Trevor Noah is a weird dude because he comes from South Africa, and then he basically flees here. And then he makes billions of dollars here, partly because he's black. Cause he's not that funny. And then fucking beats this country up and calls it racist the whole time, which is a weird fortune. No, but I mean, let's just imagine. I mean, like, let's just flip the script for a second. Big J. But let's just say you go, okay, there's some nation. There's some Caribbean nation. You know what I mean? It's like a black Caribbean nation. And it turns out the United States killed your dad on the street, and it's crime. And maybe they don't like white guys like you or something. They don't like guys from Philly or whatever it is. And then you flee to this Caribbean nation, right? And they kind of embrace you and they put you on TV and they let you stay, stand in front of all of them and insult them and everything. And they pay you millions of dollars, and you just sit there and talk about how racist they are against white people. Yeah, it's kind of a weird angle, right?
Big J Okerson
It's a very, very weird angle. But he also comes from a culture that believes you can cure AIDS by fucking babies. And if you hide from fire, it won't burn you. So.
Adam Carolla
Oh, hold on, let me write that down for the dry bar.
Big J Okerson
What was that jumping off part?
Adam Carolla
My fucking.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, it's a wacky place, South Africa. But I'm curious why he came here. To be like, yeah, critical of the country is pretty odd. Every one of those bitches come here.
Adam Carolla
He fled here.
Big J Okerson
But that's what I'm saying. If he wants to be critical of, that's fine. But then again, he should be like, but thank God, right? All those terrible things. Yeah, thank God.
Adam Carolla
And the dry bar special. I can't say fucking babies. I'll say making whoopee.
Big J Okerson
Thank you.
Adam Carolla
With babies. I'm just making notes.
Big J Okerson
You're putting your twist on it. Flavor.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's Like I told you earlier, take other people's ideas and just put a little. Your own pepper on there. That cool red. All right, let's hear what this turncoat has to say.
Big J Okerson
I think the part of the reason Finland is able to do it is because. Have you been to Finland?
Anthony Constantino
Very homogenous.
Adam Carolla
I've been to Finland.
Big J Okerson
You know who's in Finland?
Adam Carolla
Finnish people.
Big J Okerson
That's it.
Adam Carolla
That's it.
Big J Okerson
And because they're all Finnish, there's an idea of, like, no, we all head in the same direction. We all know what our actions mean. And that's a really powerful thing I've learned in communicating with other people. When I'm in a room with anyone, where we start to tie together multiple things. So if I'm in a room with black people already, there's like an implicit trust because we know what certain actions. Hold on, hold on.
Adam Carolla
Pause. He's like the black Kamala Harris. He says a bunch of shit where you go, oh, yeah? What the fuck's he talking about? He loves the sound of his own fucking voice. This guy talks about shit like it's important all the time.
Big J Okerson
I know there's people in comedy, I guess, who may say important things. I've never been drawn to that. And also, I feel like if I ever do, like, a broadcast of any kind and the conversation is an hour of earnest speech.
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Big J Okerson
Fuck it. I would be like, I hope that doesn't come out. Or I hope they decided to put it out. Cause I'm like, that's not what we.
Adam Carolla
Well, when you say earnest, unless you mean the hey, Vern guy.
Big J Okerson
Which is.
Adam Carolla
That's fine.
Big J Okerson
That is fine.
Adam Carolla
All right, well, here are the rest.
Big J Okerson
Of the Ernest goes to South Africa.
Adam Carolla
Let's hear what the rest of the blowhard has to say.
Big J Okerson
I can see Ernest goes to North Africa.
Adam Carolla
Hi, Barn.
Big J Okerson
With anyone where we start to tie together multiple things. So if I'm in a room with black people already, there's like, an implicit trust, because we know what certain actions.
Adam Carolla
Words, and vibes mean.
Big J Okerson
But I would love to know if.
Adam Carolla
You think integration was the right solution.
Big J Okerson
Maybe on the other side of, you know, of civil rights.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
No, No, I don't. And I don't think it's actually that controversial.
Anthony Constantino
If you understand that segregation and integration.
Big J Okerson
Weren'T the only options, and you're being.
Anthony Constantino
Integrated into institutions, into a culture that's.
Adam Carolla
A culture that feeds off of hierarchy.
Big J Okerson
That feeds off of insecurity, anxiety. Why are we being integrated into that?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, this dumb fuck. I don't know, man. Like, okay, you're gonna tell me. We don't integrate people. This is America. Black people, Asian people. It's everybody. Mexicans. What the hell? I don't understand how he's saying that.
Big J Okerson
This. I feel like this stuff is going bizarrely backwards.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
I bring this point up a lot because I think it was crazy. They did like two Woodstock 99 documentaries.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
And one of the. Now, here's the thing. I think what doesn't get said enough in a situation. I think the 90s was a rough time. I think it was a pretty great time. Maybe I'm wrong for race relations, a great time. I think for women, it was kind of a rough time because that's when, like, the culture really flipped like that. Girls Gone Wild, like, yeah, show us your tits. Show your tits. Like everything they went right. When they tried to bend that Woodstock thing, they were doing dmx, doing the song My N Words. And he's. And he's Woodstock, you know, it's a diverse audience, but it's very white also. And when he's doing the line, he's putting the mic out to the audience and everyone's singing along. And I was like, oh, man, that always looked so much fun. When they show that performance and then the narrative of it, they're going, these white people just willy nilly saying the word. I'm like, the black guy next to him doesn't care because they all love DMX. And they're singing DMX's words. It's like it's been forced now that. To change. If you're gonna change the narrative of that, it's very easy to get where we're at now. Because if you just look at that and go, look at these white people just willy nilly happy to say the word, he goes, they're singing a song they love. DMS isn't an issue. Stole the word, made it pros. You know what I mean?
Adam Carolla
He stole it from racism and gave it back to everyone. And then they reneged on it. Once AOL came out, I came up with the greatest rapper, pnx, Peter North. X rated porn. And he just. He doesn't hold the mic out. He holds his hog out. B and X. And my dog's mic becomes like a Gallagher concert. All right, on that happy note, I gotta write that down.
Big J Okerson
Dry bar, dry ball, we're coming for you. I think you wrote about 25 minutes already.
Adam Carolla
How easy? But, you know, I'm going to private clean three or four minutes off of that. Big J, the special the crowd work special them, they out as we speak. And then second part's coming out. YouTube live dates. You can hop on to Big J, bigjcomedy.com bigj comedy.com, we'll take a break. Anthony. Oh, Constantino. Very interesting guy Boxes. And I'm looking forward to talking to him. We'll talk to him right after this. Ever walk into a store and not know what kind of wine to get? Well, I've stopped wasting time at the grocery store staring at a giant wall of wine and not knowing what to pick. That's why I love our next sponsor, Naked Wines. Naked Wines. Mmm. Chardonnay. Smooth classic. Naked Wines is a service that directly connects you to the world's finest independent winemakers so you can get award winning wine delivered straight to your door. Take the guesswork out of it. Who the hell knows what's going on at this supermarket? Why make all these decisions? Go with Naked Wine. Let the geniuses, let the wine experts figure it out. Use our code ADAM for the code and password@nakedwines.com and get their incredible deal of six bottles for just $39.99. Yes, six bottles for just $39,99. Use the code adamanakedwines.com and have a little conversation starter. Next time you pop one of these bad boys, it's Naked Wine. Am I right, Joe? Now is the time to join the naked Wines community. Head to nakedwines.com Adam, click enter voucher and put in my code Adam for both the code and password for six bottles of wine for just $39.99 with shipping included. That's $100 off your first six bottles@nakedwines.com Adam and use the code and password Adam for six bottles of wine for 39.99. Oh, oh, oh. O'Reilly Auto Parts. Bam. You know the song, right? Mm. They're in the business of keeping your car on the road. O'Reilly Auto Parts offers friendly, helpful service and all the parts and knowledge you need to maintain and repair your automobile. Always been an O'Reilly guy. Used to go the one out in North Hollywood when I was over there. Then I moved to La Crescenta and went to the one up Foothill. Still swing by there every once in a while because I'm a hands on guy. So whether you're a car aficionado or an auto novice, you'll find the employees at O'Reilly Auto Parts are knowledgeable, helpful, and best off, they're friendly. Because some of those auto parts guys can be a little tough around the edges. Stop by O'Reilly Auto Parts today or you can visit us@o'reillyauto.com Adam that's o'reillyauto.com Adam Pluto TV is the place for.
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Big J Okerson
On $25 million for voluntary male circumcisions in Mozambique. Now back to the Adam Coroll the Show.
Adam Carolla
All right, Anthony Constantino is joining us via Zoom. He's running for Congress to represent New York's 21st congressional district. He's a boxer. He's an entrepreneur, Scott. Big company. We'll get into it. Sticker mule as well. Good to see you, Anthony.
Anthony Constantino
Good. You forgot to mention, I'm a big fan of Adam Carolla. I've been a fan for a very long time, since the Man Show.
Adam Carolla
Oh, thanks. Well, I was watching you box. I was watching one of your fights earlier online, and you look sharp. A lot of guys I used to teach boxing, so I sort of am a critic, you know, but the form was tight and you looked good in your bout.
Anthony Constantino
Well, I learned to box in the heart of boxing in Mexico City. My coach wishes I wasn't doing this. He wishes I was boxing still. So I learned in the capital, boxing in Mexico City. Well, one of the capitals of boxing in the world. World Mexico City. And it's a fun sport. You know, when you're a CEO, people always question whether you got there by luck or not. So I said, why don't I do another career and prove that it wasn't just luck that I can do, you know, more than one thing very well. And so that was the, the genesis of me getting into boxing. You know, people aren't so nice to business people sometimes. They say, oh, they just got lucky or whatever the case may be. But it's not so easy to get in the ring in Mexico City and knock four people out in a row, which I did. And I did it with four different punches.
Adam Carolla
Oh, really? Oh, that's interesting. That means something, especially if you're doing anything with your lead hand, I think you fight orthodox, right?
Anthony Constantino
Yeah. I got a knockout with a straight right. I got a knockout with a left hook. I got a knockout with the straight to the body. I broke his ribs, and then I got an uppercut to the solar plexus.
Adam Carolla
Uppercut to the body.
Anthony Constantino
The uppercut to the body.
Adam Carolla
Who do you like? Who are some of the legendary guys you.
Big J Okerson
You.
Adam Carolla
You model yourself after or you like?
Anthony Constantino
Well, my style is my own, but I like Mike Tyson. You know, everybody has to like Mike. How can you not like Mike Tyson? He's from around here. I'm in a town called. My company's in a kind of town called Amsterdam, New York City called Amsterdam. Mike got his career in the cat skills. His first trainer, Bobby Stewart, is actually lives in Amsterdam, New York. He trained me for a short while when I was a kid, and I messed around with boxing for a short while when I was a kid, but I didn't really take up the gloves until I turned 36 years old. But how can you not love Mike Tyson? I read both of his books, and I've been a lifelong fan of Mike.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, well, I mean, he was basically a heavyweight with the form of a middleweight, which you just don't really see very often. And that's just an anomaly that you probably never see again, because now heavyweights are six, eight, so guys that are five'ten and a half aren't really gonna be able to fight as heavyweight. And. And it's hard to do it when you have that vulture wingspan, to have that kind of form that's as tight as Tyson's was. But Tyson was fighting guys that were 6:1, 6:2, so it could kind of do it back then.
Anthony Constantino
Exactly. Little. Little different. Mike's one of the few living legends on this earth today. Donald Trump probably one of the other living legends on our planet. And so, yeah, I like Mike. My style is a little bit different than his. I'm a counter puncher, and, you know, I don't throw a lot of punch. I'm very defensive. I didn't get hit a lot, which is a good thing. When you're a CEO, you don't want to get hit too much and lose your brain cells. So. But, yeah, I was a counter puncher in boxing, and similar to President Trump, I'm a counterpuncher politically as well. I've been in politics for just a few months, and, yeah, I like the counter punch. People say I'm mean, but I see the way President Trump talks about politics. He always says well, I'm only mean to people that are mean to me first. So people come after me, and then I come after them 10 times harder. And that's. That's how my political experience has been so far. Very similar to my boxing experience. I like people to come on me first, and then I respond. I think it's a lot harder when you're. When you're on the attack. Some boxers are very effective. They just. They just go on the attack, and then that's how they win. But, you know, I like. I like the punches coming at me first.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And you keep your hands up, which means they can and you'll be all right.
Anthony Constantino
Exactly. Keep the hands up. A lot of shoulder endurance. I've lost it right now, you know, with the. I'm all or nothing. So it's been politics for the last three or four months. So I haven't been any time in the gym. When I was boxing, it was four or five hours. Hours a day in the gym, but. But yeah, now no time in the gym, but yeah, great shoulder endurance. Keep your hands up and. And try not to get hit. And I got a wonderful coach. He still calls me or text me because I don't have time to answer all the phone calls anymore. It's hard in this world. But he texts me every day. He's like, I wish you were back here boxing instead of doing what you're doing. But boxing, sort of a selfish endeavor. You do it for yourself. It's fun. Just sort of a fun, selfish endeavor. You're not really making the world a better place. Boxing, you know, politics is a. A little bit more of an altruistic endeavor. And you only get so much time on this earth. And I got the box. I had a good time doing it. Sort of miss it, but, you know, it's sort of a selfish endeavor. Politics is a little bit different.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And it's a new world order. And it's interesting how long we went along with the old world order. You know, I mean, when you think about the contrast of Biden to Trump, it seems so vast. I don't even really know what Biden wanted. I don't know what he was doing. I don't know what his thoughts were. The weird thing is I always thought he was a bad person because I thought he was a race hustler and he was also a grifter trying to enrich his family. But everyone else just thought he was a good dude. But a good dude who wanted what. I don't know what his policies were. I don't know anything other than sort of get along.
Anthony Constantino
Sure. I've only been in this world a little bit of time, so I think I'm learning fairly quickly. What most politicians want is they just want to keep their jobs. They just want to keep their political jobs. Politicians aren't action oriented. You know, I box like built a company. My company's 1200 people. Business people are action oriented. Obviously, athletes and boxers in particular are action oriented. Politicians are just looking to keep their job and they say words that sound nice. Basically, politicians are in the business of saying words and doing things that sound nice so that they can keep their jobs. You know, at the end of the day, I started realizing we all need jobs, everybody needs jobs. And these politicians, they need jobs too, but they don't know how to do things. They've never been in a boxing ring, they've never ran a business. For the most part, Joe Biden doesn't really know how to do things. He just knows how to say words. And sometimes he says not so nice words like the fine people hoax. That wasn't very nice of him when he ran his whole campaign on the basis of a lie. That wasn't a very nice thing to do.
Adam Carolla
Well, people don't really stop and really drill down on how insanely narcissistic that entire chapter was. So he has said way more than once, and by the way, we assume he's lying, which is another weird part where you just go, you know, someone's oh, Anthony said this or that. I went, oh, yeah, he's just lying. He doesn't really know what he's talking about. It's a weird thing if somebody said that about me, you know, Adam just lies, you know, whatever, I'd be insulted by it. But according to Biden, and if you really just think about this, according to Biden at the time, I don't know, he's 75 years old or he's 76 years old or whatever it is. He's retired. He's done it all in politics. He's been the vice president and he's just sitting home watching tv and then he sees Trump give the good people on both sides speech, which is an insane speech to pick apart because he says both sides, which already makes it null and void. And then he explains he's not talking about the white supremacists and he's not talking about the Klansmen. Like it's all there, you can see it all there. And then 75 year old elderly Joe Biden springs up out of his La Z boy to his feet and says, now I must run to put an end to racism. It's the most narcissistic. Someone should have said to him, joe, shut the fuck up with that story. You sound like an egotist asshole. But anyway, then he stands up. Then he says, I'm gonna run to put an end to racism. Except for somebody could have explained to him in five minutes. Watch the rest of the tape, Joe. He doesn't say it.
Anthony Constantino
Watch the rest of the tape. He watched the rest of the tape.
Adam Carolla
He did. So he lies. He lies and then he gets elected. And all he does while he's elected the entire time is agitate black people and does nothing for race relations.
Anthony Constantino
Well, he was very disrespectful towards the black population long ago. And I suspect that that level of disrespect is still in his heart and it's in the heart of many Democrats. But, yes, he knows that was a lie. He saw the entire speech. I heard the speech, too. I said, this is a perfect speech. What is the president supposed to do? He's supposed to defend both sides. There were people there that wanted to protect American history and there are other people there that felt differently. And he said, we have good people on both sides, but I condemn totally to neo Nazis and. And those types of people. And so he gave a perfect speech. But the Democrats, you know, the Democrat media and the Democrats, they all lied. The American people, a lot of people fell for that lie. Your old friend Jimmy Kimmel. I'm sure he. He sold that lie a lot. He's supposed to be a comedian, but I don't see him do comedy anymore. He just cries a lot. I said, he's more of a crybaby than a comedian nowadays. I don't know what happened to him.
Adam Carolla
I love Jimmy, but, you know, he does live in her.
Anthony Constantino
Let me give me on his show.
Adam Carolla
I'll get your book. How's this. How's this coming Monday?
Anthony Constantino
This bigger guy trying to be Mike Lindell 2.0. And they say, and so Mike did it. Mike had. Mike had fun on that show. Maybe. I think it'll probably go worse for Jimmy with me than with Mike, but. But I'm a little bit different than Mike Lindell. So they said. Was he like Mike Lindell? I don't know if he's.
Adam Carolla
So. It's a weird. What I keep finding peculiar is whether it's good people on both sides or inject bleach or march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol. Why are they intentionally lying to themselves about what transpired and what was said. I get that there's something in for them. Something in for it for them. Good. But it's on tape, you know what I mean? Trump never said inject bleach. If you watch the tape, there's a context to it and it all makes sense and it's based on something else. It's a weird time that the news agencies are intentionally lying to themselves and then pushing it out and regurgitating it, which is sort of the opposite of news. And I don't know why they're doing this with their reputation. I get it. If you're some Hollywood celebrity and you're just looking for some thatta boys on the Internet, but if you're CNN or LA Times or New York Times, you're an actual news organization, why are you playing so fast and loose with your reputation?
Anthony Constantino
I think I understand, I've understood it for the last eight years. Finally. Well, I finally decided to get involved in it so I could help educate people. But many of these news organizations and many of the political actors that perpetrated these hoaxes on the American people, they're self interested people that are trying to protect their pocketbooks, they're trying to protect their own lives and their way of life and they're trying to protect their jobs. A lot of people in the news media, they have relationships with people that are in the government and so they're protecting their friends and their cousins and their wives and their husbands that are in government. The government's been around for us. Government's been around for a long time. And whenever you have an organization that's been around forever, there's a lot of corruption in that organization. Even businesses that have been around for a long time, you can call it corruption or incompetence. Corruption and incompetence always creep in to any organization that's been around for a long time. So there's obviously a lot of incompetence in the US Government. There's a lot of corruption in the US Government. And the people in the media, they have friends front, they have friendships with these people that are in the government that need protection. Some of them have family relationships. And they said they saw President Trump, they said, this guy's going to get in there, he's going to find a corruption, he's going to find incompetence, he's going to take action as he's doing with Elon Musk now. And they acted to protect their own interest. They acted to protect their friends and their family members. And that's what the government did. By and large. You got how many millions of people work for the U.S. government. And they all were scared shitless that President Trump was going to do a turnaround. And generally turnarounds in business or in organizations means incompetent people get fired. That's what's happening en masse now with Elon at President Trump's side. And that's why they say these things. They don't have good ideas.
Adam Carolla
Do you think they're gonna be able to turn it around? Because it seems. Let's forget about Doge and Elon and Trump for a second. Let's just talk about something like Covid. When they started with COVID at the infancy of COVID when they were lying and they were trying to deplatform people who disagreed with them and everyone was attacking everyone online who had an alternative opinion and any doctor that started talking about alternative remedies and things like that, at the very beginning, I would say 95% of society agreed with them. My opinions about COVID that I voiced, I was in a vast minority at the beginning. Vast. And at some point, as the months sort of turned into years, it sort of became like, well, maybe we shouldn't have given the 13 year old boy the vax. And maybe it did emanate, maybe it emanated from a lab and not from a pangolin and maybe they weren't correct and, or lied about natural immunity or whatever, but. But the pendulum started to really swing and swing and swing and it took a while, but whereas I used to be in the 2 percentile, I'm now in the 71 percentile because everyone sort of generally agrees with the stuff I was saying five years ago now. And Trump kind of feels like that's the way it's going. It always starts off as Trump. Elon, these guys, they want your social, Social Security number so they could take over the government and blah, blah, blah. And he's hit Larian and we're going to lose our democracy. But couple years goes by and gas prices go down and the Middle east settles in and there's no skirmishes abroad and we have no illegal immigration. And at some point, you now joining me and my 70 percentile. What's your thought on that?
Anthony Constantino
Well, you deserve a lot of credit for being so brave back then. What they did was really nasty at that time. They really made it difficult for the correct information to get out there because first of all, they censored everybody on the Internet. So there was no way to talk on the Internet. And then they made these rules that people couldn't leave their homes, and they intimidated people and they put fear in the minds of people. They shut down the bars and all the meeting centers. They even shut down churches. So they really made it impossible for people to communicate. They. They really made it hard. You deserve a lot of credit for your bravery speaking up back then, because it wasn't an easy thing to do. There was no way to get the message out. They took you off of social media. They said you couldn't leave your house. They shut down all the gathering places. And I think you're right. We're going to see the same thing eventually. The truth ended up winning. We're going to see the same thing with the president. See, he's already had 30 days to do a lot of good work, and Elon's had done a lot of good work, too, in a lot of. In the last 30 days. And we're going to see four years of that. So it's going to be very difficult for them by the end of four years to sway people to believe. But people should never forget. And it bothers me, people forget how badly the these government actors behaved during COVID They were lying through their teeth. In fact, I have a friend of mine, very respected doctor, was a Democrat, and he's totally disgusted with Dr. Fauci. He agrees with Elon. Dr. Fauci should be in prison. He was totally disgusted by the pardon. And this is a Democrat. So I think the truth is getting out there. Dr. Foushee probably should be in jail for his disgusting behavior. He terrorized millions of people. I mean, it really terrorized the whole world by lying to people and by attacking the president. If we didn't have Dr. Fauci doing what he was doing, we probably wouldn't have had the entire Joe Biden presidency. You blame his lies on the Joe Biden presidency, so you deserve a lot of credit. But now these liars, these liars are in a tough situation because you're gonna have four years of people like President Trump, Elon, myself, speaking truth to people. And they're going to get results from their people. The people are going to see the truth. They're going to see the results in this. I hope this era of, you know, really just living in absurdity goes away for a very long time. Probably won't go away forever because things change, but we got to make it go away for a really long time. It bothers me. People forgotten lot about the pandemic already, they're already forgetting. But I think Democrat voters should remember their own party act behaved horribly during the pandemic, particularly in New York state. I'm from New York. The way it was here. And unlike other people, I had an interesting experience during the pandemic because I travel a lot and I saw things other people generally don't see. You would go from state to state or even country to country, and it was like living in different planets. I mean, New York, they. They really terrorized people. People here were just scared shitless of COVID They didn't want to leave their house. They were, they were severely traumatized by their political leaders. And then you would go to a place like Florida where people are still partying and having fun in the bars, or you go to other countries where life was normal for the most part. But you know, it was interesting. I spent time in Dominican Republic during, during the pandemic. And when you were near the American resorts, the restrictions were out of control. And as you drifted away, suddenly normality resumed in life. And so I hope people don't forget how badly the Democrats behave. But you're right. Four years of President Trump, Elon, and people like myself speaking truth is going to be really difficult. Hopefully we don't go back to this era of absurdity that we just lived through.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, it's funny, I said to someone the other day, or like you, you really want to put Fauci in jail? I was like, we put Martha Stewart in jail. Jail.
Anthony Constantino
Well, I don't really like to see people go to jail in general, but, you know, when people behave as badly as he did, he was lying through his teeth to the American people for a very long time. He obviously was acting as a scientist, he was acting as a political actor. He kept saying, I AM Science, I'm Mr. Science. But he was a political actor that was there to try to hurt President Trump. And he sacrificed the well being of millions of people in order to deliver Joe Biden the presidency. I think his sole intention was to help Joe Biden and be getting to the White House. And he didn't care how many people he hurt or how many people he lied to. He lied totally about the origins of COVID And like I said, it's interesting. When I had a doctor friend of mine, very respected doctor that was a Democrat that wasn't anti Trump, he called me. He's the one that persuaded me to the perspective that Dr. Fauci should be in jail. He said what Joe Biden did, pardoning him is totally Disgusting. As a doctor, my job is to protect people. And this guy was hurting people.
Adam Carolla
Well, you talked about something that nobody really talks about, but the damage that fear causes and all the politicians. You're from New York, I'm from California. And the fear hustling, insane fear hustling. And I'm an old guy and I can put thoughts together and I know who I'm dealing with, but I'm not an 11 year old girl who would be totally freaked out by these fear hustlers. And the heads of the teachers unions or Gavin Newsom or the mayor explaining it was too dangerous to have Thanksgiving indoors, you had to have it in the yard this year and things like that. They scrambled a lot of young minds and did a lot of, of irreparable damage to young people with their fear hustling. And they knew what they were doing. And that's the kind of perverted, sick part of this chapter. Gavin Newsom knew what he was doing when he was hustling the fear and scaring the shit out of all the seventh graders and then going out to the French laundry that weekend and hoisting a glass full of expensive wine shoulder to shoulder with 28 of his closest friends.
Anthony Constantino
It was a disgusting era that we shouldn't forget. And they traumatized the kids, but they traumatized a lot of adults too. I have friends of mine, believe it or not, my company operates in, in Italy, so I have, I, I service Europe out of Italy. I have about 100 employees in Italy. The further you get to the left, the worse it gets. So the way Italy treated people during COVID was totally despicable. They had people locked in their homes, they couldn't leave. I have friends of mine whose family members were, you know, sadly, I don't know if I should even say this or not, but I had friends of mine whose family members sadly passed away in hospitals and they weren't allowed to come say goodbye and they knew what was going on and they wanted to come see their parents and they couldn't do it because of far left policies that affected Italy. But we had similar stuff going on in the United States where you couldn't go into hospitals to be with family members and stuff like that. People are suffering. And even to this day I see people, you know, it was an interesting thing. I see people, older people to get covet. They talk about you have to isolate, you have to stay away from your family. Well, is there a better way to, you know, maybe push people in a really bad direction, health wise, than to Socially isolate them. You know, you have a person at 70 years old old and they lock them in the basement. They shouldn't be locking people in the basement when they're 70 years old because they have Covid. They should tell them, look, you need your kids around you. You need your kids and your grandkids around you, comforting you and, and taking care of you and helping you get through covet so you come out of it okay. Why would you lock grandma and grandpa in the basement during COVID That's what the Democrats were doing. It made no sense at all. You have somebody 70 years old and you socially isolate them. That's, that's why you saw the death rate. You saw, if you had love and care and social, socialization, people would have survived Covid a lot better. They did really nasty things. You know, I get it. If you got a 20 year old and you say, keep them away from grandma, that makes sense. But if you have a 70 year old and you lock the 70 year old in the basement, that's not good for people's health.
Adam Carolla
How much of this. So I'm with you. I'm like, how come more people aren't angry? How come more people aren't speaking up? How come more reporters aren't asking politicians, like real questions about how they acted during COVID And then I realized, oh, because most of them were the pussies who went along with it. And they don't want to relive their shame. I think there's a fair bit of shame. I know so many people that went along with it. Not only went along with it, became sort of enforcers of it. And they never want to hear about COVID again because it was essentially a crime. And they weren't in the crime. They were the crowd that was cheering it on. And they feel a certain amount of shame. I've found that it takes a ton of character for people to go, wow, was I wrong. And by the way, the next time you got an idea, I won't shoot it down so fast. I might tend to listen to it. I don't hear CNN or anybody micro or macro talking about it because they're basically indicting themselves. They're just saying, I was wrong. And people don't want to have to go back and do that as a news organization or as a neighbor.
Big J Okerson
Correct.
Anthony Constantino
You're probably right. We need a great historian to step forward and write a book so it's documented. So everybody, we need one of those bestsellers that everybody's talking about, about. We have some Great writers in America and in the world. And somebody's got to step forward and write the book, make it a bestseller. We got to talk about this situation. It's something we shouldn't forget about. It's a once in a lifetime thing. Once in a lifetime thing that happened to us. And the behavior is really badly. We have to learn from it. But I suspect you're right. People are embarrassed. Similar to Russia. The Russia hoax on a smaller scale. And the fine people hoax on a smaller scale. Obviously, Covid. The COVID stuff was the worst of all. Covid propaganda was the worst of all. But, but, you know, people don't want to talk about Russia collusion anymore. All these Democrats, they just keep bouncing from hoax to hoax to hoax. So now they talk about the January 6th situation. It's like you just go from one hoax to the other. I go, do you. Are you ever embarrassed of any of the hoaxes you fell for? Why do you think this one's the correct one? I mean, they, they, they just keep shifting to the latest one. They say, this time we got them. This time it's a real thing. But it's like you got. You're the same people that sold the COVID area. You're the same people that sold, sold the Russia hysteria are the same people that sold the fine people hoax and so many other. The inject bleak chokes and so many other things that, you know, I probably forgot. There's. How many hoaxes have there been over the last eight years? Probably 50.
Adam Carolla
Well, I mean, you're.
Anthony Constantino
People are getting smart. People are getting sick of it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, you're even, you know, you're kind of going with the Trump related or Trump adjacent stuff. There's tons of other stories that racist related, you know, Jussie Smollett sort of stuff. There was Bubba Wallace, I think, that NASCAR driver. And like the news, I mean, there's just endless hoax and they get burned every single time and they do not slow the roll. But the comedy is these people want to discuss mis and disinformation with us and they want to make sure that we don't engage in this mis or disinformation and that they possibly need to be in charge of what is mis and disinformation so that people aren't being lied to, except for they are the only ones who lied over the last decade.
Anthony Constantino
Correct. You're right. I was just gonna say you brought it up. I'll say we had the biggest hoax of all, maybe was the whole misinformation hoax. This Notion that we have to remove people from society, they remove their voice. I called it social execution. They would just take you off of the Internet completely if you said anything that they deemed is wrong. Of course, for the longest time, you know, the concept of doing that was a joke completely. But we just lived through an era where there was this hoax perpetrated on society that. That we have to remove people and mass from the social conversation. That the only way to protect democracy is to remove half the country from participating in democracy or to remove 20 or 30% of the country from participating in democracy. That was a massive hoax unto itself. Thankfully, Elon Musk saved us from that hoax. But, you know, that was a big hoax too. The notion that you have to remove people from the conversation in order to protect the conversation. That doesn't make any sense at all. I agree that we should probably be careful with anonymous actors, but they were removing people that have been on this Earth for 50 or 60 or 70 years. That sterling reputations. These were lawyers and doctors and scientists that thought differently. Said, no, you said one wrong statement. I called it social execution. You're socially executed. You're off of Twitter and X and Facebook. And they wanted the idea that if you're off one, you got to be off all the other ones too. So my friend Roger Stone, who was the first in my corner politically, he became my friend over the last few months. Also a very funny guy. Roger doesn't get credit for his own comedic talents, but he's a funny guy. And, and, but, you know, he was the first to encourage me to get into politics. He's still banned from Facebook still to this day, and he had about a million followers, I believe, on X. And they removed his account. Why would you remove the account of an advisor to President Trump? Roger Stone was the original campaign advisor to President Trump, and they removed them. Whether he has good ideas or bad ideas. Is that's the type of person that you want to hear from. It's a historically important figure. Why would you remove that person from the conversation? I understand criticism towards anonymous actors, but you shouldn't be removing doctors and lawyers and historically famous people from the conversation.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, Kyle Rittenhouse was another story that became a crazy hoax story as well as I recall that they, you know, all you have to do is watch the View and see what the ladies got wrong this week. And it just never ends. But I think if your policies are failing, if you are failing as an entity and. Or wasting billions of dollars or whatever's going on, I'm In California, we have a bullet train that's just a hole where we dump billions of dollars or we have a homeless population. We've spent billions of dol. When your policy is failing horribly, then you do need control over the information. So you need the Los Angeles Times if your policy is failing, you need the New York Times. You need CNN when the policy fails dramatically and dismally, like Joe Biden in the border. These entities could have brought attention to the border, but they never did. It's a failing policy. But as long as you have CNN and New York Times in your hip pocket, then you'll be okay. I mean, it's no different than if you were a husband who had multiple affairs on your wife. All right, I'm not going to be able to undo that, but what I can do is go talk to TMZ and make sure that we're good. Because if you're good with tmz, then they'll protect you. That was their plan. Their plan was have horrible failing policies or a son who has a laptop, who has all kinds of incriminating evidence on it, who definitely went to Ukraine and cut deals with Burisma and Russia and so on and so forth. And Tony Bobulinski is giving interviews. It was all this stuff. Stuff. You can't control the laptop, you can't control your junkie son because that did happen. But what you can do is control these ex CIA and FBI guys and CIA and CNN and the news outlets, and those will be your allies, and that'll be as good as it never happening. So, yes, the laptop is real, but we'll get these 51 experts to sign this document, and then we'll get CNN to report on it, and then we'll be fine. And that's what you have to do when your administration is failing.
Big J Okerson
Correct.
Anthony Constantino
You're 100% right. Bad policy is why they went for the censorship. They didn't know what they were doing, so they had to censor people. But, you know, people talk about policy all the time in politics, and there's good policy and bad policy. The Democrats have bad policy. But there's another thing that's important in the political world that is less, that's appreciated, and that's called action. And so we need people that have good ideas. And the Democrats have mostly all bad ideas, but we need people to have good ideas that also know how to act. That's why I'm excited to get involved. And President Trump's one of the people that he has good ideas. Elon Musk has a lot of good ideas, but they also know how to act. Too many, too often in politics we get into ideological debates purely say, oh, well, this person has good policy, this person has bad policy. But all too often people with good policy ideas don't know how to act. I can tell you I know how to act. My policy Ideas created a 1200 person company. In a way, my own ideas allowed me to get four knockouts in the world of boxing. I know how to create ideas that deliver results and I know how to act too. So part one is good ideas. Part two is acting to get your ideas brought to reality. We see President Trump doing that very effectively. Elon Musk is helping. A lot of other people are getting involved that think similarly. And I think actions and underappreciated skill in the political world, good ideas are just, no, no.
Adam Carolla
It's no more process, no more talk. Let's get pragmatic, let's get some boots on the ground, let's get it done. Let me give your website out. Vote for Anthony. Vote the number four correct.
Anthony Constantino
Perfect, got it.
Adam Carolla
Anthony.com number four, letter four.
Anthony Constantino
Either way, number four, letter four. We make it easy on people, right? It's called using good decision making because some people get confused. And so we got vote for Anthony. I like it with the number, but you can write it with the word for. You can write it with the word for as well.
Adam Carolla
That's Congress. That's New York's 21st congressional district. Anthony, thanks for carving some time out. When you come to la, come see us in person.
Anthony Constantino
I was just there actually representing Maga at the Grammys, so that was fun. Hopefully. I don't know when I'll be back. Well, my brother used to live in believe it or not. I'll just leave one last joke. My brother went to Berkeley and he would tell me all the time, I'd say, you want me to come visit you? He would say, don't come here. It's going to go really badly. You're going end up, you know, it's going to go really badly. He would always tell me, don't come out this way. So I had a good time at the Grammys, but, you know, I don't make it out there too often. Next time, hopefully I see in person.
Adam Carolla
I'll hold the focus pads for you next time you come out.
Anthony Constantino
Sounds great. Sounds great, right? We're going to get some chaos in the political world now. That's what needs to happen in New York state.
Adam Carolla
Thanks, Anthony. I appreciate it.
Anthony Constantino
Thank you.
Adam Carolla
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Podcast Summary: Adam Carolla Show - "Trevor Noah's Bizarre Take on Desegregation + Big Jay Oakerson + Anthony Constantino"
Release Date: February 20, 2025
00:30 - Introduction to Big J Okerson Adam Carolla welcomes Big J Okerson, highlighting his popularity and upcoming comedy specials. Big J discusses his approach to crowd work, emphasizing the importance of selecting unique angles over relying on clichés or scatological humor.
02:16 - Translating Visual Comedy to Audio Adam shares his experience watching Big J’s part one of his special on his phone, noting the challenge of understanding visual elements through audio alone. Big J expresses curiosity about how well his visual jokes translate without being seen.
03:08 - Effective Crowd Work Techniques Big J elaborates on his method of engaging the audience by observing and guessing details about them, such as their professions or relationships, to create more personalized and humorous interactions. He criticizes generic crowd work that relies on targeting obvious traits without depth.
06:44 - The Role of Imagination in Comedy Both comedians discuss how imagination plays a vital role in crafting jokes during live performances. Big J shares his favorite technique of inventing backstories for empty seats, turning them into humorous scenarios, such as "husband killed wife and children" or "bachelor party gone wrong."
09:19 - Experiences with Roasts Big J recounts his experiences participating in roasts, highlighting the challenges of writing original material without relying on others' jokes. He emphasizes the importance of authenticity and personal touch in delivering effective roast humor.
12:36 - The Importance of Timing in Comedy Clubs Adam and Big J discuss the absence of clocks in comedy clubs and how it affects performers' timing. They share anecdotes about struggles with keeping track of time during sets and the passive-aggressive nature of comedy club management regarding timekeeping.
17:05 - Overcoming Insecurity in Writing Jokes Big J opens up about his insecurities as a writer, explaining his reluctance to use others' jokes and his preference for crafting his material independently. He acknowledges the difficulty in stepping into writers' rooms but appreciates the collaborative efforts when he does participate.
24:46 - Challenges of Writing and Collaboration Big J describes the emotional toll of writing jokes and the attachment to his material, likening it to building a brick wall only to have it demolished. He expresses apprehension about collaborative writing environments but recognizes the necessity of teamwork in certain settings.
87:06 - Introduction to Anthony Constantino Adam introduces Anthony Constantino, highlighting his multifaceted career as a boxer, entrepreneur, and congressional candidate. Anthony expresses admiration for Adam and shares his boxing background, including training in Mexico City and his knockout techniques.
89:27 - Comparing Boxing and Politics Anthony draws parallels between his boxing style as a counter-puncher and his approach to politics. He emphasizes the importance of responsiveness and strategic action, contrasting it with what he perceives as the inefficiency and corruption within the current political system.
93:24 - Critique of Media and Political Corruption Anthony criticizes mainstream media outlets and political actors for their role in perpetuating misinformation and protecting their interests over the public good. He highlights the challenges of combating entrenched corruption and the need for authentic leadership that combines good ideas with actionable results.
95:12 - Reflections on COVID-19 Pandemic Handling Anthony shares his firsthand observations of the pandemic, particularly the oppressive measures in places like New York and Italy. He condemns the excessive social isolation policies, arguing they caused more harm than good by traumatizing individuals and failing to effectively manage the crisis.
99:29 - The Need for Historical Documentation Anthony stresses the importance of documenting the government's mishandling of the pandemic to prevent future repetitions. He advocates for a balanced historical record that acknowledges both the failures and the eventual truths emerging from the crisis.
101:50 - The Impact of Fear-Based Policies Anthony discusses how fear-based policies during the pandemic led to widespread misinformation and societal trauma. He underscores the role of media in amplifying fear and obstructing truthful discourse, calling for a return to transparency and rational policy-making.
114:50 - Future Political Landscape and Media Control Anthony envisions a political landscape where truth prevails over media-driven misinformation. He supports figures like Elon Musk and President Trump for their roles in challenging the status quo and promoting transparent communication, despite facing resistance from established media institutions.
Comedy Craftsmanship: Both Adam Carolla and Big J Okerson delve into the nuances of crafting effective comedy, emphasizing originality, strategic crowd engagement, and overcoming personal insecurities in writing jokes.
Political Disillusionment: Anthony Constantino offers a critical perspective on the current political and media landscape, highlighting systemic corruption, media manipulation, and the detrimental impact of fear-based policies during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Call for Authentic Leadership: Constantino advocates for leaders who combine innovative ideas with actionable strategies, drawing parallels between successful entrepreneurs and ideal political figures.
Media Accountability: A recurring theme is the need for media accountability and transparency to combat misinformation and promote truthful discourse in society.
Personal Responsibility: Both guests stress the importance of personal responsibility—whether in comedy by crafting genuine material or in politics by advocating for informed and honest leadership.
This episode of the Adam Carolla Show provides a rich and insightful discussion on the art of comedy and the complexities of the current political climate. Big J Okerson shares valuable techniques and personal experiences that highlight the depth required in stand-up comedy, while Anthony Constantino offers a candid critique of political corruption and media complicity, advocating for a future driven by truth and effective leadership.
For listeners who missed the episode, this summary encapsulates the key points and discussions, offering a comprehensive overview of the engaging conversations and thought-provoking insights shared by Adam Carolla and his esteemed guests.