Trump Wants to be the Next Pope + Political Commentator Benny Johnson

Summary

Podcast Summary: Adam Carolla Show - "Trump Wants to be the Next Pope + Political Commentator Benny Johnson"

Introduction

In the episode released on May 1, 2025, Adam Carolla welcomes political commentator Benny Johnson to the studio, setting the stage for an engaging and spirited discussion. The conversation is marked by Adam's characteristic humor and unfiltered commentary, delving into topics ranging from cultural appropriation to California's political landscape.

Cultural Appropriation and Representation

One of the primary discussions centers around cultural appropriation, particularly in the entertainment industry. Benny Johnson initiates the conversation by highlighting the masculine aesthetic of the podcast studio, which includes elements like race cars and oil barrels adorned with images of Jimmy Kimmel.

• Adam Carolla (02:24): Criticizes the backlash against Jimmy Kimmel's impersonations, arguing, "But when he's on the man show doing Oprah or Karl Malone, that's not blackface. That's a guy doing Karl Malone who's not black to start with."

Adam further elaborates on his stance, differentiating between harmful historical practices and contemporary impersonations:

• Adam Carolla (03:19): "This thing, one is a minstrel show from 100 years ago, which is made to be humiliating to black people, and the other is Jimmy Fallon doing Sammy Davis Jr. I wanted to have a separation between the two of those."

Studio Decor and Self-Consciousness

Adam expresses his discomfort with the extensive display of images and memorabilia in his studio, comparing it to the White House's decorative choices. This self-awareness leads to a humorous contemplation of whether to hide or display new portraits of himself.

• Adam Carolla (04:26): "There's nothing in this place but pictures that people have taken of me or given me or banners of me that are up all over the place."

Throwback Trends in Fast Food

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to nostalgia, particularly through the lens of fast food. Adam and Benny discuss the resurgence of throwback menus at establishments like Taco Bell, advocating for the return of classic items that evoke childhood memories.

• Adam Carolla (06:30): "I can go to Taco Bell, and all of a sudden it's 1974, and I'm getting a Bell Beefer and I'm getting frijoles and I'm getting all the stuff that existed."

They debate whether items like the Mexican Pizza constitute cultural appropriation, ultimately defending traditional pizza as "the least broken thing on the planet."

• Adam Carolla (08:54): "Pizza should not. If there was a list of 200 million things on it that we needed to fix or modify, pizza wouldn't get near the list."

California's Political Landscape and Skill Shortage

Adam launches into a passionate rant about California's political dysfunction, blaming the state's reliance on lawyers and a lack of skilled workers for its inability to execute infrastructure projects effectively.

• Adam Carolla (16:28): "California can't. There's nothing you can do without getting sued. And then they sort of like it, which is weird."

He criticizes political figures like Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, and Kamala Harris, asserting that they lack the practical skills necessary for governance and infrastructure development.

• Adam Carolla (22:35): "They have an inability to build things because they have not developed or nurtured any of these skills."

Media Critique and Democratic Party Discontent

The conversation shifts to a critique of the media's handling of Democratic Party narratives. Referencing Chuck Todd's comments, Adam and Benny argue that the media fails to hold Democratic figures accountable while doubling standards are applied to their Republican counterparts.

• Chuck Todd Clip (50:47): "This is not a media failure. This is a failure of the Democratic Party."

• Adam Carolla (52:20): "That's why he's an idiot. He's getting animated and he's yelling about Joe Biden's wife. It's her fault."

Celebrity and Political Figures: Meghan Markle, Oprah, and Kamala Harris

Adam and Benny delve into criticisms of various female public figures, including Meghan Markle, Oprah Winfrey, and Kamala Harris. They discuss perceptions of hypocrisy in social justice stances and question the authenticity of their public personas.

• Benny Johnson (42:44): "She will have to explain to another woman why she's busy or what her schedule is."

• Adam Carolla (43:42): "This is every podcast, including a bunch of dude podcasts, look just like this."

Humorous Segments and Audience Interaction

Towards the end of the episode, Adam, Benny, and co-host Jason Mayhem Miller engage in a comedic segment involving a metaphorical wheel with various celebrity choices. This light-hearted interaction serves to break up the heavier political discourse, showcasing the show's dynamic and entertaining nature.

• Adam Carolla (94:42): "If you do, that's Amir Parks, you'll be able to..."

Conclusion

The episode concludes with a mix of humor and final thoughts on the discussed topics. Adam plugs upcoming live shows, maintaining the show's blend of comedy and commentary.

• Adam Carolla (99:50): "Until next time, Saddam for Benny and Mayhem saying Mahala."

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Adam Carolla (02:28): "Cultural appropriation. Boobs."

• Adam Carolla (08:54): "Pizza is the least broken thing on the planet."

• Adam Carolla (16:28): "California can't. There's nothing you can do without getting sued."

• Chuck Todd Clip (50:53): "This is not a media failure. This is a failure of the Democratic Party."

• Adam Carolla (52:51): "You are the umpires. You're supposed to call balls and strikes."

• Benny Johnson (57:32): "The strategy to protect Democrat politicians from critical questions is a failing one."

This episode of The Adam Carolla Show encapsulates a broad spectrum of topics, from cultural debates and nostalgic reflections to sharp political critiques, all delivered with the hosts' signature humor and candidness. Benny Johnson's insights complement Adam's rants, providing listeners with both entertainment and food for thought.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Get it on. Got to get it on. The church. We got a mandate. Get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling friend. Love that about you. Benny Johnson, political commentator in the studio. Good to see you, Adam.

[Benny Johnson]

It's an honor to be here. This is, if I could tell your audience this is the most masculine studio that exists in the podcasting space. There, there is a, there are multiple race cars.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

There's fossil fuels everywhere. I'm sure you're brewing beer or whiskey here somewhere. I'm sure there's a dead body in one of the, one of the oil barrels in the back. And it is. And there's a lot of photos of not pre woke. Jimmy Kimmel all over the wall.

[Adam Carolla]

Pre woke. Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Cultural appropriation. Boobs.

[Adam Carolla]

Let's say, you know, I got a couple thoughts, people. I got a million thoughts. People have a problem with Jimmy's current politics. But, and that's fine. Everyone is entitled their opinions. But when he's on the man show doing Oprah or Karl Malone, that's not blackface. That's a guy doing Karl Malone who's not black to start with. So if you're gonna Karl Malone, you have to make yourself into a black Karl Malone because Karl Malone is black. It's the weirdest argument. I fight Back against it all the time. I dressed as Mr. T when I was 19 and I made myself his color because the same way if a woman is Ivanka Trump, she put on a blonde wig.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

This thing, one is a minstrel show from 100 years ago, which is made to be humiliating to black people, and the other is Jimmy Fallon doing Sammy Davis Jr. I wanted to have a separation between the two of those, is what I'm saying. So, number one, that's number one. But this place, I feel very self conscious, and I think about it on an almost daily basis, which is, there's nothing in this place but pictures that people have taken of me or given me or banners of me that are up all over the place. And it feels a little weird coming from where I'm coming from or what I came from. But it's also, when somebody does an oil painting portrait of me, then I don't know what to do with it. Should I just put it in the back, put it in the attic like Dorian Gray, and just forget about it, or do I hang it up on the wall? So I just decided I'm hanging it all up on the wall.

[Benny Johnson]

You're following the Trump decoration patterns in the White House.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

If anybody from Vladimir Putin to an artist in Butler, Pennsylvania, makes an oil painting of Trump is liable to go up in the White House and replace a portrait of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

[Adam Carolla]

I gotta tell you, I've said it before, but when I went to do one of the many talk shows I've forgotten about over a long career of doing people's talk shows, you know, I did the Donny Marie talk show. I did Terry Bradshaw's talk show. I did everybody's.

[Benny Johnson]

Terry Bradshaw had a talk show.

[Adam Carolla]

This is why I'm bringing it up like it's insane. Magic Johnson had a late night show. Like, I did every single show. And you haven't heard of 80% of them. But one time I walked in to do some female. I can't even recall her name. She was like a news reporter. She had like a daytime TV show, you know, and it was just pictures of her everywhere. In her studio, in the backstage area, pictures of her laying on a longboard while a bunch of Samoan guys held her above her head on a bikini. And she was wearing a bikini. And I just looked at it. I said, this is the most obnoxious.

[Benny Johnson]

Can't do that anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

This is so obnoxious, and this is so narcissistic. And now I enter this building and it's just Pictures of me on a surfboard with Samoans and I feel self conscious, to be honest.

[Benny Johnson]

You love America. There are parts of American culture here. There's an old school Taco Bell logo that just brought me back to my childhood. Listen, there's memorabilia. I didn't know you were in a camel's ad. I had no idea that you were in a cigarette, like an old oil guy.

[Adam Carolla]

Looks like me.

[Benny Johnson]

It looks just like you.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, let me say this. I just came up with a great idea. It's gonna make us both rich, okay? We don't need any of this podcasting mishigash, you know, and all this touring and all the live shows and all that. Forget about it. Okay. You reminded me of something. I have an idea. It's a good one. You ready?

[Benny Johnson]

I'm here.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. The NFL and now MLB I think does it as well. I don't think the NBA does it. The NFL does. The throwback uniforms, they go. And everyone loves the throwback uniforms. There were uniforms from the 60s, from the 70s, like people remember when they were kids watching the old Seahawks uniform or the old anything. They're Dallas Cowboys. Okay.

[Benny Johnson]

Buccaneers, where I come from. Ranch.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's all good.

[Benny Johnson]

Everyone loves orange Buccaneers logo. Right, Right.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. Fast food, throwback menu. Once a month. One Sunday.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

One Sunday. One Sunday a month. I can go to Taco Bell, and all of a sudden it's 1974, and I'm getting a Bell beefer and I'm getting frijoles and I'm getting all the stuff that existed. I'm getting a tostada. I'm getting all this stuff I loved when I was a kid that they pulled off the menu.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And now replaced with, you know, way too much. Just, you know, squeeze cheese and mountain cream. Mountain Dew. None of it. All gone one Sunday. And everybody's got to do it. Jack in the Box. Got to bring back the old apple pies. Wait, Dawson, you're the only person over 19 that goes to Jack in the Box that I'm aware of. Do they still have the old school apple piece?

[Dawson]

I don't think so. I've never gotten an apple pie. There are just two tacos and a jumbo Jack.

[Adam Carolla]

Their apple pie is far superior to the McDonald's apple pie, but I don't know if they still have it. But here's the whole point. Whatever your place is, we're kicking it back to 1972 and we're doing it now.

[Benny Johnson]

Does the Mexican pizza offend you? Mexican pizza, you're talking about cultural appropriation here with Karl Malone, Jimmy Kimmel, Oprah does. Is Mexican pizza cultural appropriation? Right. Should Italians be offended by that? Should Italians be up in arms, have their own, like, Italian lives matter kind of.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm looking at Taco Bell has a nostalgic menu, but there's no.

[Benny Johnson]

You have to call the Mexican pizza. I'm not going crazy.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

I'm remembering this correctly because they even cut it. They cut it like a pizza.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, listen, here's the thing. Here's the thing with everything.

[Benny Johnson]

I don't know if we can find the Mexican pizza. It's real.

[Adam Carolla]

Leave pizza alone. Leave pizza alone. Pizza is the least broken thing on the planet. You want to go down and work on the Gaza Strip? Go ahead. And then there's a lot of stuff. There's Congress, there's the border, there's taxes. There's a school system. Pizza should not. If there was a list of 200 million things on it that we needed to fix or modify, pizza wouldn't get near the list. Pizza is the least broken thing on the planet. It's like pizza and blowjobs are unbroken. It's an unbroken chain of perfection that goes back thousands of years. Leave it alone. It's done. We do not need any cheese in the crust. We don't need dipping sauce. We don't need anything. You don't know why it's pizza. Yeah, it's unbroken. There's so many things to work on before you get to pizza, and yet we're all in on pizza now. Pizza. We got the Baconator pizza. We got the pizza that's just covered in 70 pounds of pepperoni. There's. We're injecting cheese where cheese doesn't belong. Now I think Pizza Hut's showing up, like, three different types of dipping sauce.

[Benny Johnson]

Hot dogs baked into the crust. You guys feel me? There's, like, the hot dogs that were in the crust. Hot dogs. Yeah. No.

[Adam Carolla]

Leave it alone.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Taco Bell did this two months ago in the nostalgia. I'm two months behind the geniuses at Taco Bell.

[Benny Johnson]

All right? But pizza and blowjobs would be a great restaurant if you. If you started. Pizza and blowjobs.

[Adam Carolla]

Pizza and blowjobs, you'd be able to.

[Benny Johnson]

Put them all out of business.

[Adam Carolla]

It'd be, like the only restaurant where people went, what are you here for? And they went, I don't know. Either one's good or both.

[Benny Johnson]

We'll do both time. Pizza.

[Adam Carolla]

Blowjobs. Not broken. No, I'm saying I'm saying, like, you know, sometimes women will be talking like, oh, you put an Altoid in your mouth, and then the sensation, not broken. Get the Altoid out of the mouth. Get the cheese out of the crust.

[Benny Johnson]

Get the Altoids out of the pizza, too.

[Adam Carolla]

Get the Altoids out. Oh, that's coming.

[Benny Johnson]

I've tried that. Yeah, I'm sure they've tried that.

[Adam Carolla]

They have three different kinds of dipping sauce now. Like, as if we're not fat enough as a society. Like, listen, you can get plenty fat eating pizza, but now we're dunking it. It's insane.

[Benny Johnson]

I hate to bring it back to this, but Jimmy Kimmel as Oprah fat shaming the maid is hysterical.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree.

[Benny Johnson]

It's hysterical. I'm not gonna scold that. I think it's some of the funniest comedy ever made, and we should celebrate it. I agree.

[Adam Carolla]

I loved Karl Malone and I loved Oprah.

[Benny Johnson]

The only problem people have with it is that the people calling it racist. The only problem that anybody has with it is that they don't live by their own standards. And they can't live by their own standards because they'll celebrate Beyonce going platinum blonde. Right. And that's not cultural appropriation.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, there's never. Listen, first off, it's never a two way street. It's not like, what if it was White Lives Matter? What if we had white History Month? Or what if we had a white only, you know, frat? Or what if we did. Okay, what if we did a whites only college graduation? Okay, the people be outraged, but they're black dorms and black only. It's all. It's all a mistake. And by the way, if it's bad one direction, it's bad the other direction, it's just bad. And it's weird. I said to Dr. Drew, like, by the way, the Taco Bell has a throwback menu, but I still don't see any bell beefer. I mean, their greatest achievement as a company is the belt beefer. It's basically a dry sloppy joe. But it's awesome. It's a taco on a hamburger bun. It's awesome.

[Benny Johnson]

All right, can I see it?

[Adam Carolla]

Can you see a bell? You're too young. You're too young to know what the majesty of the bell beefer.

[Benny Johnson]

That's a sloppy Joe that was served at Taco Bell.

[Adam Carolla]

It's a sloppy Joe without the slope. It's basically a dry sloppy Joe. And I don't mean dry is a pejorative. I just mean it's not sloppy.

[Benny Johnson]

Do the prices go back to like 80 cents. Right. For a burrito. Do the prices go back?

[Adam Carolla]

Everything at Taco Bell, here's how old I am. Taco Bell and your wienerschnitzel were like 19 cents. Like literally one buck.

[Benny Johnson]

What era are we talking here? Like this?

[Adam Carolla]

We're talking 1871, just after the Civil War, just before the invention of the automobile. Right in that window. There's about a 14 year window in there. That's when it was night. It was, I remember 19 cents. You can find a Der Wiener Schnitzel and or a Taco Bell menu from back in the day. I don't need a receipt, but you can show a menu and it'll be 19 cents. One buck. One buck. You would go to the Derwiner Schnitzel. You get four hot dogs and a Coke for one buck. Now, not that the Corollas had the buck. I didn't get the buck part, but I used to go on runs for my friend's dad. Give you like $3 and you come back like 26 tacos. It was crazy. And they had a fire pit. Do you remember the fire pit in Taco Bell? In front of all the Taco Bells there was a big block about 5ft around, lava rock, gas powered pit. And it was fun because you could eat your 19 cent tostada and then you take your straw and you like melt it in the fire pit. Could you imagine in Southern California some company going, we're gonna have open flames in front. First off, they'd never get the permit. Secondly, if they did, there'd be homeless people cooking pigeons on it every single night. And by the way, the guy who managed the Taco Bell, if he tried to get the homeless people who were cooking the pigeons away from the fire pit, he'd be sued by the LA County. That's how this city works.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, I noticed that driving in here, one of the most beautiful drives I've ever taken. But homeless people littered throughout the entire thing. Kind of takes away from the natural beauty of the area. And it's like, where are they putting the sewage for that camper? Exactly. Like, where's that going?

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, we're looking at a menu from 2002. 2002 or I don't know when it's from, but it has a bell beefer on it. That's 89 cents. But remember I said 19 cents. And if you see cinnamon crispers. Listen, first off, Mexicans, we'll handle the dessert. You guys putting powdered sugar on a broken taco Shell is not dessert. You guys don't do dessert. You can't. You got churros and flan. I love it when Taco Bell's like, hey, we got dessert. What is it? It's tortilla chips with brown sugar on it. Like, okay, that's not dessert.

[Benny Johnson]

It was delicious as a kid. The America you grew up in doesn't exist anymore. Cause that sounds awesome to have a. Just a ball pit. You know, I got four little kids at four and under, and there's no ball pits anymore. There's no play places anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, really?

[Benny Johnson]

They just don't exist. They take all the liability. You get one lawsuit, and all the flame pits go away from Taco Bell. You lose all the ball. There's no such thing as a ball pit. I grew up in the ball pit at a McDonald's.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think people fully understand lawyers and damage and what they've done. They sort of blame it on the politicians a lot, and there's enough blame to go around, but the lawyers have really destroyed this country, and especially California. California can't. There's nothing you can do without getting sued. And then they sort of like it, which is weird. And also, the bar never polices its own or anything. It's a mess. In California lawyers.

[Benny Johnson]

Goes your rant on the Coastal Commission. First off, it's probably the most nuclear rant in the history of dysfunctional California politics. But it opened up, I think, so many people's eyes to what the future is going to be. And everyone said. Everyone said, no, no, no. We're gonna. We're gonna bulldoze this thing. It's gonna be happening fast. You were right, man.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, they're not. They're not even.

[Benny Johnson]

You were right.

[Adam Carolla]

I was there. I mean, what are we talking about? We're talking about four months. Has it been four months? It's been right on the cusp of four months. I was there four days ago. Devin started on a lot of those properties. I mean, it is a full mess now. The Army Corps of Engineers has been dutiful and doing the best they can, but I went up to Mescal Canyon, and it's not even close. Nothing's been touched. It's just home after home after home. Complete swimming pools filled with black water. Just nothing. It just not even touched in four months. They're not even gonna come close. There's nothing that's gonna go on there for a long time.

[Benny Johnson]

Years, you think? Years and years.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Well, the thing about Los Angeles and California in general, they don't know how to do things because they've never done anything. So somebody goes, let's build a train. I mean, listen, if you said to my ex wife and my mom, let's build a bullet train that go okay? And then they'd sit there because they don't have any skills. They don't know what to do. Like, they don't know how to do things. Do you know what I'm saying? KAREN Bass, City Council they don't. They know how to go out and like, celebrate during Gay Pride Month and stuff like that. That's why they love all the non stuff. But they don't know how to do stuff, really. We're just looking at the show the other week. One of the city councils, Nithya Raman, she goes out and celebrates them taking down a U turn sign in a gay neighborhood so guys can get back to cruising and blowing guys and shrubs and stuff. But she celebrates the taking down. She doesn't celebrate putting anything up. She can't put anything up. They tear down a tree house in Sherman Oaks. They can tear stuff down. They can pull signs down. They don't know how to build a bullet train or new home or homeless shelters or housing. They can't do anything. They can't build anything. They can protest and take stuff down. That's all they do. They want to take the sign down. They want to take Trump down. They want to take, you know, J.D. vance down. They want to take Elon Musk down. They want to burn a Tesla. They don't know how to build a Tesla. They can't build anything. They don't have skills. They have an inability to build things because they have not developed or nurtured any of these skills and. Or they don't like people that build stuff. They're nuisance. They like people who go to college and sit around and talk and have committees and boards who then break off into smaller groups and have more conversations. They don't physically build anything. They don't like carpenters. They don't like welders. They don't like those guys. So they, they don't have the right mindset to do it. It's. It's like, look, building something, it's like it's two parts. One is you have to know how to build. And then the other part is you have to be interested in building. They're over two. They want to get stuff taken down. They don't put anything up, so they don't have a skill set. Look at Karen Bass. Look at Our mayor. You think she has any skill? She doesn't have any ability. She doesn't even know what she's doing. She's literally. She gave a speech and she's like, if people want to build a house that was the existing. The old size of 2,000 square foot, that's fine. But if they want to make it more bigger or more taller or something, she says, you can't say square footage. You can't even say add square footage. She doesn't know what it is. She never done it. It's great. She's like, if you make it more longer and wider with more stuff, er, well, that's different. She doesn't know what she's doing. Kamala Harris doesn't know what she's doing. None of these people know what they're doing. They talk. That's what they do. Michelle Obama talks. She doesn't do stuff. Yes, she talks.

[Benny Johnson]

Never created anything. They don't know what society.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So we have a place that just burnt down. Okay, let's just forget about LA. Let's just say it was World War II. And we build. We're at a factory that builds Liberty ships. They build ships for merchant marines to transverse the oceans and bring supplies and whatever. Okay. Let's just say it just burned to the ground. And then Bass, Karen Bass and Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom showed up and said, we got to rebuild the factory. Okay. But they can't because they don't know how. That's the whole thing.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And they may not even be interested in rebuilding the factory. They have to say they're interested. They do not possess the skill set to do this because they've never done it. But guess what? I don't know how to macrame. Never done it. I don't possess that skill and I'm not interested in it. There's a bunch of stuff I don't know how to do, but I don't run the city, and that's their problem. So we're screwed. But maybe we'll get rid of these people. I don't know.

[Benny Johnson]

I live in Tampa. My entire neighborhood is Cubans. And I was over at my neighbor's house the other night, and he's an older man, he's 70 years old. He's a Cuban. And he has a photo of Pre Castro Cuba, where he was born.

[Adam Carolla]

Right?

[Benny Johnson]

And it's a photograph of the hospital and the street that he was born on. It was gorgeous. Spanish architecture is beautiful, is pristine. And then he has a side by side of what it looks like today, which looks like the front lines of Ukraine or front lines of Gaza. It looks like Gaza. Right, right, right. But there's been no war. It would almost be. You could explain away it away if it had been bombed.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

But it hasn't been bombed. It had been destroyed on purpose by people who staged a revolution to destroy something, which is what Castro did. And that's all they knew how to do.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

And that's all. That's all they ever know how to do. And it was very sad. Like, wander around. I mean, I'm staying in Beverly Hills for, you know, for a conference while I'm out of here. And you're walking around and you're looking at every single thing that's been built there was built. Everything good was built in 1930 and nothing has been improved on. And as a hundred years ago. And I'm looking at the Beverly Hills City hall and it's gorgeous. I don't know if you can pull up. It's one of the most beautiful buildings you ever seen.

[Adam Carolla]

It's beautiful.

[Benny Johnson]

Built in 1930. And it's like, wait a second, that wasn't even 100 years ago. Why did we, first off, stop building buildings like this? And then secondly, would we even know how if we wanted to do this again?

[Adam Carolla]

They can't even make a bell beaver today. We don't have a skilled enough workforce to produce a bell beaver of my.

[Benny Johnson]

Life is the bell beefer.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I mean, look, there's certain trades that are dying, like plaster. Nobody plasters, you know, really working a hawk and a trowel, wallpaper, like stuff, stuff like that. We need it, we gotta get it back. It drives me insane. I never hear politicians talk about it. I mean, I hear Trump will talk about it, but I've never heard a Democrat talk about, like skills and trades. And we need this. And they're so fixated on college. And it makes sense that they want everyone to go to college because they want everyone indoctrinated into their crazy mind cult. And that's where they get indoctrinated. Now when you go off to be an apprentice, to be a finished carpenter or to do welding or to be an electrician, you don't get indoctrinated. You actually get into another mindset, which is a pragmatic mindset, which then ends up making you the opposite of whatever it is they're trying to achieve in college. So guys, blue collar guys, guys that work with their hands building trades guys, their brain isn't mush and polluted it's the nut jobs. The ones, the he's a she or the pronouns or whatever. The fight, you know, the gays for Gaza or whatever, the. For Palestine or whatever, whatever. That stuff doesn't work on a job site because job sites are. The most pragmatic spot on the planet is a job site. There's no feelings. I've never heard a guy go, in my heart, I know those bar trusts don't belong here. Like, they don't. It just. When are the bar trusts coming? Who's going to put them in? How are we gonna get them up there? It's the most pragmatic place on the planet. So all those guys think, first off, they think in a linear way. When somebody says to them, shut down the border, they go, all right, we'll put a fence up and put a bunch of guards at the border. They don't go down to talk to the triangle countries about motivation for folks migration. Yeah, they don't. Do not come. Doesn't mean anything. It's like saying somebody should take that web choice and put it up there. It's like, well, you're the only guy here, so you gotta go do it. And that's just how building guys are. They're super pragmatic. You want that running your city because there's an application to the homeless problem, there's an application to schooling problems, there's border problems like that. Just pragmatic. We have thoughts and feelings and good vibes. People running Los Angeles, and that's why it's shit. And that's why San Francisco's shit. Because we have good vibes. Folks running it with no practical sense.

[Benny Johnson]

Did Trump change anything? Did. When Trump was here doing that tour, I'm sure you were tracking it closely. And he was doing that tour like a builder. He's a builder. I've got, you know, one of the neatest experiences of my life is I walked with Trump when he was still a candidate through this old gorgeous but totally dilapidated building in Washington, D.C. that he turned into his Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. and he's walking through it in one of his first tours and he brought a couple of people along. Well, first off, the builders love him. The guys who were working there at the site love him. Trump can talk the shop, he talks the shop with these guys. He's actually like handling the tools. It's like unbelievable to see Trump on a job site. And then two, he's all about, like, when can we get, how quickly can we get it? Can we get it done? Faster. And I watched that same Trump for the first time. I saw that same guy again when he was back here looking at the Palisades.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

And looking at the destruction. And he was like, why is this taking so long? Why can't it just get done? Why can't we just get it done now? Did that have any material effect on the burn area?

[Adam Carolla]

No, because Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom hate Trump, so they don't. They want his money, but they've declared war on his policies, so he's not in a good mood in terms of helping them out. So they're double screwing their constituency because he is the guy who's gonna be in charge of the purse strings. And they hate Trump, so he's gonna be less likely to be generous with California. So it's awesome. No, listen, he's a builder. I don't think people fully understand this, but the people who build stuff, do stuff and they're always in a hurry. Commercial builders and even myself, when I start on a project, I'm in a hurry. I'm nuts. It's weird. It takes over. I don't know if people fully, like, understand that it kind of takes over, but it does. You become engulfed in this. Like, what are we doing? Let's go. What's taking so long? Where's the poor? Where's the concrete? Where's the pumper? You get immersed in it and you just want to hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. So that's why Trump's yelling at that press conference, Hurry. Like, let him do it. Do it tonight. Go. You know what I mean? Karen Bass, like, slow, whoa, whoa. Be safe. Gotta slow it down, slow it down. Take it down now. Like an R and B band from the 60s. Now it's time to bring it down. Slow groove. So she's not gonna get anything done.

[Benny Johnson]

We drove in from LAX and we drove by the water and power of Los Angeles. The building, which is one of those magisterial 1930s style buildings, art deco style buildings. And it was a homeless camp, Adam.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

And I never seen this. I videotaped it, I popped it up and all the comments are, no, you don't understand. Like, any public building is a homeless camp here in la.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

Cause there's rules about removing them from public spaces. And so the building that is responsible for the cleanup is itself a filthy din of drug use and horrors beyond human comprehension. And I said, well, that's just like a perfect metaphor for, I guess, what's happening here and why it's taking so long.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

It's a thing where you have to, here's the problem with bad policies. You have to live through the bad policy to then at some point reject it. You know what I mean? So you go to your wife, I think it'd be a good idea to go to bed at night with the back door where the kitchen is. I'd like it to be open to the outside. And then your wife would go, yeah, but there's raccoons around here. Like, what if they come in, they start eating the dog food. I get into the cereal and you go, that's my policy. So you just do it. And then at some point you come downstairs and there's cereal all over the place and the dog food thrown all over the place because the raccoons came in. And then you go, your wife goes, can we shut the door now? And you go, I'm going to have a meeting about it and we're going to talk about it, we're going to think about it. And then you, six months later, this has happened 35 times. And then you go, can we shut the door? Now. And the kitchen's been destroyed. And you go, all right, let's shut that door. And now you have to rebuild the kitchen. Okay? It was a horrible policy. Your wife knew what was gonna happen for some reason. You didn't. And then we lived through it. Maybe one of the kids perished. Cause got some Lyme disease from a raccoon or something. There's some loss, and then at some point, we'll just rebuild it. But we didn't have to do the shit policy. We didn't have to do it. We could have defund the police or whatever, open the border up. We didn't have to do it, but we did it.

[Benny Johnson]

So I'm gonna come home after this show, and I'm gonna ask my wife if I can start franchising the blowjob and pizza place.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

Good idea or bad idea?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, first off, we combine the throwback blowjob and pizza Sundays, once a month. You know, 70s pricing. Yeah. I mean, you could. Listen, I think, you know, they. They had. I think Dawson will back me up. There's been bands back in the day who named themselves Free Beer just to put it up on the marquee.

[Benny Johnson]

Just to give people ladies. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And they were like, I just wrote band called, like, Free Beer. Just put it Up.

[Dawson]

Absolutely. There are hundreds.

[Adam Carolla]

I want to start a band called Post no Bills because that. You get advertising all over every construction site, every barrier, but you just name it Pizza and Blow Jobs. Just like Bare Naked Ladies. Like, that'll get people in the door. You know what I mean? What? We sell them after that? Well, that's our business. But we name it Pizza and Blowjobs.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Dawson]

I always wanted to have a car wash and call it Lots of. Lots of Hot Ladies. And then people would just get their car washed there and wonder where the ladies are.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Ladies and Suds. There was a. There was a. I miss, you know, you kids. Sorry. Everything's a franchise now. Everything's big corporate, everything. There used to be independent places all over the place. There was a place called Dog and Suds. So, like, hot dogs and beer, you know, like, just called Dog. They had all these. You think about your childhood. These places were scattered all over the place. And now it's all, you know, it's all Starbucks, you know, or whatever it is. It's all just under one big corporate banner. Dog and Suds. They had to drive it. I think it was. I think they sold root beer and hot dogs. But damn, A and W. Do you.

[Benny Johnson]

Ever go to one of those A and W's?

[Adam Carolla]

A and W is the best.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, I think they're still around. I think they're still like. There's still like a few kicking, but they used to be all over the place. And W. Yeah, no, I, I agree.

[Adam Carolla]

There's a, there's a Foster's Freeze that's sort of in my neighborhood in terms of making kids fatter. They got a burger that's a Mac and cheeseburger. It's a burger with Mac and cheese. Like if you couldn't squeeze any more calories in that bunny, it's a Mac and cheeseburger. All right, I got stuff I wanna get into on my list. Can someone whip around here and turn the air on? I forgot to turn it on. It's getting kinda getting a little stuffy in here. All right. Speaking of the crowd that talks, there's Meghan Markle. It's the new world order. It's like the Michelle Obama, Meghan Markle, Kamala Harris. It's mostly chick think. I call it like chick think.

[Benny Johnson]

Girl boss. Insufferable girl boss.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. They want to sit and talk about everything. Dude, boss wants to go out and swing that hammer. Yes. Wants to get it done.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Correct. And for some reason, the double word salad nothingness talk is attractive to sadly more and more dudes who are basically, you know, lactating at this point, like just producing estrogen. They just somehow. And women love talking about their schedule, but it always feels like compensation. What I mean is, is like I'm busy. I'm always busy. And like I'll be heading toward LAX at 6:30 tomorrow morning. I'll do five shows in Florida. I'll be back on Monday. I'll do shows on Monday. I'm busy. But I don't have to sit around and talk about my schedule all the time because it's understood, I'm busy. Meghan Markle. I don't think it's that busy, but she's gonna explain to another woman why she's busy or what her schedule is. So we'll play. And by the way, Byron, the set, which in this case would be Benny's set, is not turned on or doesn't appear to be on. So, you know, for the guests, but gotta get that checklist going. All right, here we go.

[Michelle Obama]

If I don't have meetings in the morning, then I try to do school drop off. So they're at two different schools. So that's our big circuit. So from 6:30 in the morning, on drop off mornings for me, I'm not home till 9, by the way.

[Adam Carolla]

You get into a $120,000 Range Rover with Connelly leather and an automatic, and you just drop off. If in fact, you do the drop off. Not unclear, but okay. It's actually. It's fun when you listen to women talk on the phone and you know what their schedule is, but they're talking to another woman. It's awesome.

[Benny Johnson]

How are you. So if you're this busy, how are you doing a podcast? Like some irrelevant podcast? Jamie Kern.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I thought you were talking to me.

[Benny Johnson]

If you're this busy, then how is.

[Adam Carolla]

She did the drop off.

[Benny Johnson]

She's doing a podcast Next to taking all the beatings. Yeah. Next to, like, a basket with a throw rug in it and a fake plant and, like, a rocking chair. Like a. Yeah, it's so weird.

[Adam Carolla]

I know. Every new rocking chair, every woman's fake book, every woman's podcast should just be called, now back to shabby chic.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Veronica Johnson, this is why I love your studio.

[Benny Johnson]

This is why I love you. Walk in. The first thing you see when you walk in is cigarettes. Ads, ads. Ads for beer and whiskey. And then Jimmy Kimmel with a bunch of, like, cheerleaders around him, like, grinning from ear to ear. That's what you see. You see some cultural appropriation, some dirty jokes, your books, and it's great. I mean, it's like the opposite of this. This is every podcast, including a bunch of dude podcasts, look just like this. It's all feminine.

[Adam Carolla]

Everyone's in their pajamas, slippers. Everyone's. Everyone's just bathing.

[Benny Johnson]

It looks like rehab is what it looks. This looks like a very expensive rehab. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know how comfortable people need to be, but I. I feel like a desk chair. Office chair is good enough. All right, let's hear what she has to say.

[Michelle Obama]

If I don't have meetings in the morning, then I try to do school drop off. So they're at two different schools, so that's a big circuit. So from 6:30 in the morning on drop off mornings for me, I'm not home till 9.

[Benny Johnson]

Whoo. Oh, man.

[Dawson]

Oh, wow.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow. Reminds of my schedule back when I said, swing a hammer, man.

[Dawson]

If they still live in Montecito, they probably live at least 20 minutes from the freeway, so you can just pack 40 minutes of that. In getting to her secluded house.

[Adam Carolla]

When I used to be on the job site, my scary foreman, Mike Stromat, he'd always go, listen, we don't. You don't show up at 7. You're rolled out and working at 7. So I'm hearing saws going and compressors firing up at 7, not you walking on to this job site at 7. And we're like, okay, scary guy, what.

[Benny Johnson]

Are the chances that she doesn't drop her kids off at school? That it's actually a chauffeur with some level of security? Right? Like, what are the chances all this is fake? She's like little cookie.

[Adam Carolla]

We get up in the morning, we go to the McDonald's drive thru. Kamala Harris gives us our breakfast sandwich. It's about the same chance, the same chances as Kamala Harris working at a McDonald's. Whatever that means to you, I'll put it up there with the same chance.

[Benny Johnson]

How'd she survive that? Because it clearly was a fake. It's clearly a lie, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

This is like a clear. It's a clear lie on the backs of working class people. So that's. You're talking about real cultural appropriation. That's actual cultural appropriation. Because there are millions of people who worked in fast food. One of them and got fryer burns on their hands for life.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

And that's real cultural appropriation. Not only that, she was working at a McDonald's in Quebec?

[Adam Carolla]

I don't. We don't know. Yeah, we don't know. But here's the point. How did she get away with it? Because the biased journalist that Chuck Todd is trying to. Trying to support never nailed her down.

[Benny Johnson]

Can't ask her.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, well, here's what it is.

[Benny Johnson]

No one can ask. Do you have any physical proof at all of this happening in your life?

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, let me explain. Let me explain something. To my generation, and I'm the same age as Kamala. To my generation, working at McDonald's was our Vietnam. That's our Vietnam. Because now if you're 10 years older, you guys in country, man, everyone goes, oh, wow. Wow, man. You know what I mean? I did three tours. You know, that's there. We don't have Vietnam. We don't have World War II. We have McDonald's. I worked at McDonald's when I was 15 and a half. Don't tell me about heartache. Don't tell me about pain. Don't tell. I've lost a lot of good men. Lost a lot of. That's why you didn't make friends when you went there.

[Benny Johnson]

I did the fries.

[Adam Carolla]

Keep your head down.

[Benny Johnson]

One time. What did you do at McDonald's? He goes, I did the fries.

[Adam Carolla]

No, listen, it is our Vietnam. It is our Vietnam because we don't really have. We didn't have anything happen in that time period. Nothing happened from 1978 to 1984. We don't really have anything. We. I don't know. Grenada. You know what I mean? We didn't have anything. So when we're trying to get some points, like, you know, like the Greatest Generation. Did you storm the beach at Normandy? And you wrote an autobiography, you would work that in Stolen Valor?

[Benny Johnson]

You're saying this is Stolen Valor from Kamala Harris?

[Adam Carolla]

It's exactly. Because that is our Normandy. That is our Vietnam. That's all there is, is working at McDonald's. Nobody can do worse. There's no more pain. There's no more heartache. So more devastation than working at McDonald's, especially in that time period, because minimum wage was $3.09, taxes taken out. And my version of working at McDonald's was like, I'm in Vietnam. I'm not in the rear with the gear. I'm going through the tunnels trying to root out Charlie.

[Benny Johnson]

What did you do?

[Adam Carolla]

With a flashlight in my mouth, I had to work the grill. I only worked the grill. I never got to the counter. I never got to the cash register. I only did the grill. I sat over this manhole cover that was 400 degrees in perpetuity, just sweating onto that thing and searing burgers. That's my Vietnam. Okay, okay. So if she wrote two biographies about herself and did not mention her Vietnam in them, which have been working. And also I've written. I wrote an autobiography. I state, working at McDonald's and my manager, Ken, and it was the Studio City one. And here's what year it was. It's in there. You want to know why? Because A, it's your Vietnam. It's our Vietnam. It's my Vietnam. Every time I hear that drive through Bell, it's like helicopters, like Charlie's, like slow motion.

[Benny Johnson]

Creedence Clearwater Revival.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. When you write autobiography, you go in order. You go, when I was six, we moved to this town, and we lived in this town and my grandparents, and you just go. And then I got to high school, and I played football in high school. And then I. You know. And at some point, as you're going down the highway of chronological life, you run into the McDonald's, because that's when. Then when I was 16, I worked at the McDonald's. That's what you do. You don't skip over McDonald's. So the fact that she wrote, I think, two books and didn't bring up McDonald's obviously means she's lying. Now listen, I'll play a Chuck Todd's clip. And the reason I'll play Chuck Todd's clip is because Kamala Harris is going to lie because she wants you to think she worked at McDonald's, which is, you know, I'd like to not live in that world, but we do live in that world. And then people can say, well, what about Trump? Okay, he lies too, about things, but he gets called out constantly. Chuck Todd or anybody on his side of the aisle could have interviewed Kamala Harris and got to the bottom of the McDonald's situation. Yes, they never did. They just went, worked at McDonald's. Right, right. Okay. Someone's celebrating a birthday. All right, here we go. Chuck Todd. This is great. This is great.

[Chuck Todd]

This is not a media failure. This is a failure of the Democratic Party.

[Adam Carolla]

Hold on.

[Chuck Todd]

And I just.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, it's a media failure. He's talking about Biden and his mental collapse. Yeah, it's a media failure. And that you didn't report on the Democratic Party.

[Dawson]

Some would say complicit.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, the Democratic Party's trying to win an election. They're not going to discuss this. But anyway, Chuck blames the Democratic Party.

[Chuck Todd]

This is not a media failure. This is a failure of the Democratic Party. And I just sort of the virtue signaling that some people have done to try to say that the media missed this story. They didn't miss this story. David Ignatius wrote, I just refuse to accept this, this stupid premise because it's a right wing, manufactured right wing premise. In order to sustain the media. The media's got plenty of things to attack them for. And there are MSNBC and CNN and pundits that absolutely carried water for Joe Biden, but that they're not journalists, they're former strategists that carried water for Joe Biden. The journalist David Ignatius wrote a very high profile column in October of 23.

[Adam Carolla]

Saying, all right, first off, October 23rd was long after we all knew the guy was addled and a mess and could never possibly make it another four years. So end of 23 is not Johnny on the spot when it comes to writing. And by the way, you citing one guy who wrote an article in one publication is not journalists in general. Idiot.

[Benny Johnson]

So you're going to robe yourself in glory and in valor here when you've already quit your NBC job, Right? Where the hell were you when you were at NBC? The same company that hired Jen Psaki whilst she was the press secretary. The single biggest Scandal in media versus political history is Jen Psaki being press secretary under contract at NBC.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. All right.

[Benny Johnson]

And he didn't say jack shit about that. He didn't complain. He didn't do a show on it.

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Benny Johnson]

He never yapped like this when he was at NBC when he was getting the paycheck.

[Adam Carolla]

Let me tell you. Let me tell you how. Let me tell you what these people do, what the journalists do with this Biden story that they can't seem to get away from. It's the same thing Biden does with his civil rights marches. And I went down to South Africa and I met with Nelson Mandela, and I was arrested on the tarmac. And I. Arm in arm, we went through the Pettus Bridge together. And I would go down to the black. You didn't do jack shit. You didn't do any of it. Nobody saw you do it. There's no record of you being arrested, and you didn't do any of it. You wish you did it, Chuck. You wish you stood up. You wish there was some tape of you saying something that would validate this, but it doesn't exist because you're a coward. You're bought and sold and paid for, and you never did it. So now you're gonna retroactively circle back, just like Kamala working at McDonald's. You didn't do it, bitch.

[Benny Johnson]

There is a record of Joe Biden having black kids touch his hairy legs.

[Adam Carolla]

That's true.

[Benny Johnson]

In the pool, there's a record of Joe Biden. And this is backed up by his friend Mouse.

[Adam Carolla]

Corn pop.

[Benny Johnson]

Yep. And there's a record of Joe Biden going after a young black man calling him a racial slur. And Esther, because of the amount of pomade he had in his hair, and then threatening to kill him. He got a rusty razor blade and a rusty chain and tried to murder a corn pop. This is a story that Joe Biden tells under his own fruition. I know. This is the Corn Pop. The story of Corn Pop. I would. I need this to be made into a movie.

[Adam Carolla]

I need the Corn Pop.

[Benny Johnson]

The dramatic Corn Pop. The true life of Corn Pop.

[Adam Carolla]

I'd love that.

[Benny Johnson]

Joe Biden. You were forced to feel Joe Biden's hairy legs. And then Joe Biden calls you a slur, and then you have to fight him.

[Adam Carolla]

I wonder if we can get Terrence Howard. You know, he's not doing the same Cook movie.

[Benny Johnson]

He won't do gay scenes.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, we have. Sorry. We have another minute of Chuck Todd being outraged. It's funny. He Gets himself further into stupidville.

[Chuck Todd]

The journalist David Ignatius wrote a very high profile column in October of 23 saying, is he really running? Again, this doesn't seem like a good idea. People like me were promoting Dean Phillips's campaign because he was running Wall street campaign. So, you know.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, nobody knew about this.

[Chuck Todd]

Isn't WMDS where the White House worked with the mainstream media to manufacture a story that did not exist? That was a press failure. Massive press failure. This was not that failure. This is an attempt by some to virtue signal. And it's this horrible sort of pitting different news organizations against each other when ultimately the people at fault are Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Joe Biden.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, hold on. Pause it.

[Benny Johnson]

It's like a meme of this.

[Adam Carolla]

Jill Biden is the wife of the adult guy who likes living in the White House. So she's gonna say, ask Jill. Okay. Hey, Jill, what about Hunter's laptop? I don't know. That doesn't exist. My husband never talked to his son about business, ever. Never talked to the smartest guy he knows, by the way, about business. Okay. That's what Jill does because Jill wants to continue living in the White House. So, Chuck, why are you listening to Jill? Jill's got an agenda. You're a journalist. Oh, let's ask Richard Nixon about Watergate. Well, he said, there's nothing to see here. Okay, everyone go home. Is that his fault? He's naming Democratic leaders and the wife of the President, saying it's their fault. They're going to say whatever it is they can say. They're going to say, Joe Biden is fine. Donald Trump is Hitler. Now, is Joe Biden fine? No. Is Donald Trump Hitler? No. Don't take their word for it. You're journalists, remember that. I thought the journalists were supposed to journalize. That's why he's an idiot. He's getting animated and he's yelling about Joe Biden's wife. It's her fault. It's not her fault. She doesn't want to leave. It's like saying it's not the umpire's fault, it's the manager, the Dodgers fault for arguing like, no, no. He's got an agenda. He wants the guy to be safe. You are the umpires. You're supposed to call balls and strikes.

[Benny Johnson]

Bill Clinton went 27 times to Epstein Island.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Benny Johnson]

And do you know yet to be. Has yet to be. Yes, it's on the flight logs. Has yet to be asked a single time. On the record.

[Adam Carolla]

I do about this.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Now we've looked. Trust me, if that video exists, we'd play it all the time. But he has yet to be asked about this. Hillary is yet to be asked about this. Hillary ran for damn president. She's teaching a class at Columbia University. Nobody asks about this. Not once. There's no, not one piece of tape of any of the interviews that they do where there's like, so just something in the news. Epstein, why?

[Adam Carolla]

Why?

[Benny Johnson]

So many times on the plane.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

Why? And just let that awkward silence hang there and just let him answer.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

And so until they start treating it the way that they would if it was anyone else. And that, I mean, that is. It's amazing. Like, that is like the inter sanctum. That is the thing that must not be talked about, must not be spoken of, questions you cannot ask. And so I have zero tolerance for the moralizing and the virtue signaling and the feline energy. His arms flailing around. Look how upset he's getting. He's getting so angry about it.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

And it's like you haven't asked Bill Clinton about Epstein Island. So your opinion here is irrelevant.

[Adam Carolla]

It's weird. I did see a clip and Dawson, maybe you can find it. And Andrew, I didn't talk to you about it before the show and I don't know where it came from. I just saw it this morning on my phone. It was Minka Brzezinski from Morning Joe talking to Joe Biden about the records and the woman who claims he molested. Whatever. And I don't know how old it is. I don't know when it's from. I'm tipping my cat. Cap Dominka, who's asking a question and following up with a question. It's the follow up where they fall off. But he's asking about this woman and Joe Biden. Boy, does he not have answers in this. But I don't know what year. I don't know what this is. When. This is from 2020.

[Benny Johnson]

Oh, it's from 2020, when he was running from the basement. So here he is in the basement.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, it's great. Listen to Biden.

[Michelle Obama]

Why not approve a search of her name in those records?

[Adam Carolla]

Tara Reid. Yeah.

[Mika Brzezinski]

Approve a search of her name.

[Michelle Obama]

Yes. And reveal anything that might be related to Tara Reid in the University of Delaware records.

[Mika Brzezinski]

There is nothing. They wouldn't. They're not there. And if they. If, you know, I don't understand what the point you're trying to make the.

[Michelle Obama]

Point, by definition, the point I'm trying to make is that you are approving and actually calling for a search of the National Archives records of anything pertaining to Tara Reid. I'm asking why not do the same in the University of Delaware records, which have raised questions because they were supposed to be revealed to the public and then they were sealed for a longer period of time. Why not do it for both sets of records?

[Mika Brzezinski]

Because the material in the University of Delaware has no personnel files and has. But it does have a lot of confidential conversations that I had with the President about a particular issue that I had with the heads of state of other places. That that would not be something that would be revealed while I was in public office or while I was seeking public office. It just stands reason, the best of my knowledge, no one else has done that either.

[Michelle Obama]

I'm just talking about her name, not anybody else in those records. A search for that. Nothing classified. The President or anybody else. I'm just asking, why Search for terror.

[Benny Johnson]

This is how the Epstein would go if somebody ever asked Bill Clinton about Epstein.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Mika Brzezinski]

Look, I mean, who. Who does that search?

[Michelle Obama]

The University of Delaware, perhaps you set up a commission that can do it. I don't know. Whatever is the fairest way to create the most transparency.

[Mika Brzezinski]

Well, this is. Look, Mika, she said she filed a report. She has her employment record still. She said she refiled a report.

[Benny Johnson]

This. They're capable of journalism.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[Benny Johnson]

To do it.

[Adam Carolla]

That's it. Right. Also, I love it when you act to be. Act confused. What are you talking about? I love the infused confusion when nobody has an answer.

[Benny Johnson]

This is why I like how Trump did this brawler of an interview with ABC News the 100 days. And it's just shadow boxing, right? It's like bloodthirsty and they're going at each other and it's great. It's exactly what you need to do to prove, one, that you're not scared of your record and who you are. And then two, that these people got nothing on you.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that. I mean, again, it's my. You know, the cop pulls you over and he goes, can you pop the trunk? I wanna see what's in the trunk. And you spend 20 minutes going, there's nothing in the trunk. And he goes, okay, just pop the trunk. Yeah. Why? Who's gonna. The trunk? Wait a minute. Pop your trunk of your car. I don't have your car. No, no. Pop the trunk. You want me to pop the trunk of your car? No, See, whenever. If there's nothing. If there's nothing in the trunk. You pop it because you're like, I want to get the hell out of here, so I'm going to pop it. You're going to look in it. There's not going to be anything but a space saver spare, and then I'm going to leave. Yes, but you don't act confused about what he's asking.

[Benny Johnson]

The strategy to protect people.

[Adam Carolla]

You always say you're full of shit.

[Benny Johnson]

The strategy to protect, like, Democrat politicians from critical questions is a failing one, because you end up with the Kamala McDonald's situation where she can't prove it. And then Donald Trump goes and works at McDonald's. Why didn't Kamala just go work at McDonald's?

[Adam Carolla]

Why not build a time machine and work at McDonald's?

[Benny Johnson]

Well, why didn't she do that on the campaign trail? It's so. It's such an. It would be such an easy win.

[Adam Carolla]

I think it would.

[Benny Johnson]

McDonald's. In their statement, their statement, they said, kamala's welcome.

[Adam Carolla]

It would have drawn more attention to her lying about it. I do believe there's just. Again, it's. Pop the trunk.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

You just go, Adam, I don't believe you worked at McDonald's. Just say it. Tell me that. Go ahead, Benny. Tell me. Tell me. I don't believe it. Repeat after me, Adam. I don't.

[Benny Johnson]

I don't believe that you worked at McDonald's. Adam.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, well, I'll tell that to my manager, Ken, from 1979 at the Studio City McDonald's. Want to do a sweep and a mop at the dining area in the outdoor area and make burgers all day. Burgers up. Wrap, please. Cheese. Count on Max, please. Cheese. Three, please. Thank you. I'll tell you the wrap. I'll take Zach. I'll walk through that place blindfolded and tell you where everything is. I know where the basement is, where the washer and dryer was, where we got dressed in our uniforms to come back up. You punch in. You couldn't punch in before you got in your uniform. I'll tell you every single detail. You want to hear about it? I will not go. Well, that's your opinion. I will. But if I didn't work at McDonald's, then I would not say that, and that's it. But she's lying or she's clinically insane. Do you know what I'm saying? Because if you think she's pathological, you.

[Benny Johnson]

Can, like, make up things.

[Adam Carolla]

She's pathological. But what I'm saying is, if, in fact, she did work at McDonald's. They would have a news crew show up at the McDonald's. That's outside of Montreal. They would interview the 71 year old manager, who was her manager, and he'd sit around and wax poetic about what a hard worker she was and how she never said no and always took the garbage out. That's exact. They would do a 20 minute 60 minutes, would do a 20 minute fluff piece on what a great McDonald's employee she was. And they would show her own time card and they would do the whole thing, but nothing. Because she's lying. Because she won't pop the trunk. But there's nothing in the trunk.

[Benny Johnson]

Stolen valor. You're exactly right. Stolen valor.

[Adam Carolla]

That is our Vietnam.

[Benny Johnson]

Yep. Working class. Stolen valor. I have a weird thing to lie about. She's gonna be your next. Is she gonna be your next governor, Adam? I mean, jeez, man.

[Adam Carolla]

What? I mean it. If you are my age, McDonald's is your Vietnam.

[Benny Johnson]

Is she gonna be the next governor? Is that like confirmed? Is she gonna run? Do you. What do you hear?

[Adam Carolla]

We might. She has. Maybe. Maybe we'll bottom out to the point where somebody rejects that. I don't know. Because it's insane. All right, we'll take a break. Mayhem's out there. He's got some news and we'll do it right after hims hair. Well, guys, if you're starting to notice your hair's thinning a little bit when you look in the mirror, you're not alone. Life just gets busier and busier and it can feel like there's not enough time in the day to do something about it. So try hims. HIMS Hair Loss Solutions. HIMS provides you with convenient access to a range of hair loss treatments that work all from the comfort of your own couch. No insurance is needed and one low price covers everything from treatments to ongoing care. HIMS has hundreds of thousands of trusted subscribers and they can help you get the confidence back. That's right. The one you had when you had that full head of hair. Get it back to visibly thicker hair. Fuller. Thicker hair. It works with hims. Am I right, Dawson?

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[Adam Carolla]

Benny Johnson in studios. Got a podcast, Bennett Johnson show, available on YouTube and wherever you find YouTube and wherever you find, find our podcast Mayhem. Miller's got some news is in studio. What do you got? Mayhem?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I got some news. Since you had it in your set, let's just start out with this. Trump says, I'd like to be pope. He thinks he's. We think he's joking. But he said in an interview here, Donald Trump jokingly said he would be the number one choice for the next leader of the Catholic Church as pope.

[Benny Johnson]

I'd like to be pope.

[Adam Carolla]

That would be my number one choice. No, I don't know. I have no preference, I must say. We have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who's buried good. So we'll see what happens.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I really think he'll be the dark horse candidate.

[Adam Carolla]

First off, how could you say no to anything Trump says. I mean, predicts, like, you couldn't go, get out of here. That's out of the question. Because who knows in these crazy modern times? I'm not into the Pope. I didn't like the last Pope that much. He had some weird pope progressive policies. He didn't like borders and stuff like that. He's sort of like, it's that John Lennon bs, You know, they go, imagine. Imagine a world with no borders. Imagine with no. Yeah, okay. Good luck over there. I want guys with guns on the border.

[Benny Johnson]

Vatican has got massive walls. So Pope's got huge walls.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Donald Trump's got a Pope hat. So he has a gold MAGA hat. So he has a gold and white MAGA hat that looks very similar to the Pope.

[Adam Carolla]

It's Pope ish.

[Benny Johnson]

So maybe he's been telling us the whole time. Maybe he's been telling us for a while. Think about the power of a President Pope. Maybe this is the guy who could really fix shit around here.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, Pope.

[Benny Johnson]

The President Pope. You could really do the Crusades the right way. Yeah. You could do the Crusades all over again.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah. Imagine if he worked on toilets to a President Pope Plummer.

[Adam Carolla]

President Pope. A lot of alliteration.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, what else do we got?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Right. There's a new rule in the Oscars. They will actually require the voters to watch the films. That's right. A lot of the Academy did not watch the film. How they verify is through an app after 2020.

[Adam Carolla]

I know, but I mean, it's like people going, I'm taking traffic school online. Like you are.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Exactly right.

[Adam Carolla]

How are you doing that?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

What they found is a lot of the voters would just open it in a tab, turn off the audio, and then switch to another tab.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay. Well, it's their Fault for having 10 best film nominations. And. And this one's about a gay guy who turned out, you know, he found his lover on the beach. And it's like, okay, do what some movies people want to see. Narrow it down to five. I'm in. The stuff they're showing now sucks, and there's too many of them.

[Benny Johnson]

This explains the Oscars that win because nobody has seen any of these movies. Nobody's ever seen all the movies that win. Everyone's like, I don't. I haven't seen that. They want vibes. Yeah. It should just be, listen, I got a plan. And I'm not trying to help out Hollywood here, but I got a plan. Just make Ricky Gervais and Adam Carolla the permanent Host forever.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

And just do a live roast of all the pedos in the audience and all their Epstein flights. Right. And just. Just do that. Just do it. Just do what Gervais did. That was a killer. That will win forever and you will have the highest rated.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

If you turn it into a live roast of Hollywood was a classic and you just did that, then all of America would tune in. And then it looked like Holly actually, this is really trying to help. It looked like Hollywood's in on the joke. It would humanize.

[Adam Carolla]

No, you're right. And I'll take it a step further. I'll take it a step further. Ricky Gervais is great, but treat it like the Tom Brady roast where you have guests, a succession of guys come in and women and do the roasting. You know what I mean? Doesn't have Ricky. Ricky will start it off. Ricky will be the master of ceremonies. Ricky will do some roasting. And then we bring on Kevin Hart or whoever and he keeps roasting. And we just keep the succession of roasters coming across.

[Benny Johnson]

Right. And maybe like movies that make a lot of money, I get a chance to win something. Or maybe one you have the Minecraft category. I don't know.

[Adam Carolla]

It is a. It is a weird thing in that. That we're so caught up in these billionaires with the rich guys daddy's money that when a movie makes a lot of money, it becomes unpopular in that circle as well for literally being successful.

[Benny Johnson]

Isn't the popularity of a movie how many people have seen it? Isn't that the point of this art is that you want a lot of people to see your art and to experience it and to feel something. And so if nobody has seen your best picture.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Which I don't know what the list of the best pictures are, but like, nobody's seen any of this. It's all crap. And it's all. It's all. You know. Exactly. Right. Dude, gay guys turn into ponies. Right. And just go prance off to Thailand.

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Benny Johnson]

Nobody's ever seen it.

[Adam Carolla]

I was there the year I think moonlight won.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And it's. It's, you know, it's not a great movie, but who cares? But it never show. Pops up on cable. No one ever needs to watch it. No one needs to see it again. Like you win best picture and it's gone. It's never seen or spoke of again.

[Benny Johnson]

Was it the one where they got the card wrong?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

No, that was the one with Bruce Willis falling in love all the time.

[Adam Carolla]

That was a sitcom.

[Benny Johnson]

Moonlight Was they got the card wrong. Right. They couldn't even get the best picture nominee correct. They had to go run back and say, no, actually, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

They thought it was the musical and it turned out to be Moonlight.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It was the black dude in the La La Land.

[Adam Carolla]

With the La La Land.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Gay dude in the 60s.

[Adam Carolla]

No, it's just watching dudes make out. I had an Oscar award winning. Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama said, as a black man, that she. She really feels something as a black man this morning. I don't know. You guys should grab the clip. Like, she straight up said it to Marlon Wayne's. This is now going thermonuclear. Viral.

[Adam Carolla]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I've seen the clip. Marlon Wayans is raising a trans kid, and she says, as a black man. But she's talking about him, isn't she?

[Benny Johnson]

I think it's open to interpretation.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, let's listen. I wanted to talk, Marlon, a bit about, you know, just so proud of how you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender. Absolutely. And that's, you know, that warms my heart, particularly as a black man, you know, Would you care to share that journey of.

[Benny Johnson]

I'm just saying it's a weird way to phrase that. That's all I'm saying. It's just. It's a weird way to phrase it.

[Adam Carolla]

Now. I don't. Look, here's the thing. It's kind of like, you know, Trump and he said to inject bleach or whatever. You can watch him say. He doesn't say to inject bleach, but if you hate Trump, you'll say, he said inject bleach. He's like, can't you put something inside that would sanitize the blood or something? Like he did something.

[Benny Johnson]

I think they're doing it. They're doing. They're doing this on purpose. They're doing the Big Mike thing. They know the Big Mike meme. They're doing it on purpose to get a ton of accounts to share the clip. Think about all the free publicity. Think about all the. This is genius.

[Adam Carolla]

Actually, you're saying the rage bait.

[Benny Johnson]

Reverse engineering. Actually, the Big Mike, Big Mike, Inception.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah. We're all troll ception. We're all going back and forth now.

[Benny Johnson]

Everybody shares the clip. Nobody would ever watch that podcast. Have you checked out on our YouTube channel? There's.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, I think she just needs to fix her hair. She'll be fine.

[Benny Johnson]

There's a.

[Adam Carolla]

It is funny that she Went from Jackie Kennedy to earth a kitt in like three years. You know what I mean? Like when she was trying to sell herself to white America, she had a full Jackie Kennedy hairdresser. Like hot iron short little bob looked like Mary Tyler Moore. And now she's full Mandingo warrior sister.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Hard wig, soft light.

[Benny Johnson]

It's like, what Mandingo. You just did it.

[Adam Carolla]

See, there you go. That's right.

[Benny Johnson]

As a black man. As a black man, I wish I.

[Adam Carolla]

Could convey more with my hair. I might got nothing to say. I just got hair.

[Benny Johnson]

Have you seen the stegosaurus one where she has like stegosaurus plates all the way down? It's great. It was one of her more recent podcasts. Michelle Obama making a lot of news. It's like Meghan Markle, I want to be left alone, but I'm gonna continue to make podcasts. Yeah. To do as radical and extreme and cringeworthy of things. To keep getting attention and stop paying attention to me.

[Adam Carolla]

She said in another clip, she goes, I have trouble sleeping at night knowing that these people are being rounded up and taken across the border. And I thought to myself, which mansion are you in?

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, that's right.

[Adam Carolla]

And you're having difficulty sleeping. Would that be the one in Hawaii or the one in Chicago or the mansion?

[Benny Johnson]

She's got 30 acres in Martha's Vineyard and she could house a lot of migrants there. Has she ever offered to like open up those 30 acres to lean tos and tents and burn barrels? Has she ever thought she's got multiple private mansions on massive estates. Has she ever turned her home into a migrant shelter?

[Adam Carolla]

I'm gonna go. No, no, no. They don't care.

[Benny Johnson]

When 50 migrants were sent, when 50 Venezuelans were sent to Martha's Vineyard, they called the National Guard to deport them. That's a matter of historic record.

[Adam Carolla]

I know none of these people would open their doors to anybody ever. And yeah, and also we have your husband saying at some point, you got enough. Like you got enough. He keeps lecturing America about having too much. Too much. I'd say six, seven mansions is probably, probably about the top. You should be good.

[Benny Johnson]

Her DNC speech, she said that she's suspicious of people who take too much. That's an exact quote. Suspicious.

[Adam Carolla]

She's suspicious.

[Benny Johnson]

By the way, her husband deported 5.3 million people. By the way, I like putting Trump to shame, actually, based on the run up, Trump deported 2.1 in his first term. So to get to the Obama level, deportations, they got to. I mean, those are Rookie numbers, right? You got a 3X? Yeah. You got a 3X.

[Adam Carolla]

All the verbiage. Not about the deportation, but she's like, she's suspicious of people that take too much. Like you. Creating a product and having a job and then selling it and having employees is not taking. You're not taking something. You're creating something.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah. Is she talking about a salad bar? I don't understand.

[Adam Carolla]

She doesn't like rich people because all they do is take. You know what I mean? But no, all they do is make bitch. They make stuff and then they sell it, and then they get compensated for it. They're not taking. And it's like these guys stealing these tax dollars. It's their own money. They'd like to pay less of it to a federal government who squanders it, but it's their money. They're not stealing the money. It's their money. The way they couch everything is interesting. She's suspicious of people who take too much. Elon Musk makes a bunch of stuff. He doesn't take a bunch of stuff. But all right, what else we got, baby?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

All right. A decade ago, if a woman ran a sub three hour Boston Marathon only six months after giving birth, she'd be guaranteed a fawning spread in a fitness magazine. But last week, only days after running the vaunted race in 2 hours and 50 minutes, a new mom, Natalie Daniels, booted from a running club because she spoke out about fairness in women's sports.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

She said that trans athletes should not be running with the women. And they kicked her out of her running club. There she is right there after the.

[Adam Carolla]

Mm. The. Okay, the male record is like two hours and, I don't know, five minutes, six minutes something there. The females, probably about 20 minutes, 15, 20 minutes later than that. That's kind of the difference in the men's and the females. I don't. Again, a lot of controversy. It's a weird thing where people go, it hardly ever happens. So why are we talking about it? I don't know. You guys talk a lot about school shootings. They don't. Every five minutes, there's stuff that we don't like. We don't like it, we don't like it. So we'll just say no. You know what I mean? Like, you go, well, bees hardly ever attack farmers. And you go, okay, but one is enough, right? I mean, that's enough.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

When we did this story about pool and the two trans women closing the bracket, I didn't care. But somehow it feels something with the physicality in it really hits home. Like this is. She's right. She's right about this.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, the men's record is 203. This is for the Boston Marathon. And the women's is 217 and a half. So it's right about 15. Here's minutes off.

[Benny Johnson]

This is what I don't understand. So Jeff Bezos has this space dildo, right. That he shoots up into space. And they made this big deal two weeks ago about the all first female space dildo flight.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

Where the women were luggage. Right. On the flight. They didn't have anything to do. They didn't fly the rocket. The rocket was paid for by a man. It was designed by a man. It was flown by a man. But the women got all the headlines. So they know what a woman is in that flight.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

You have Katy Perry, you have a bunch of, you know, you have insufferable journalists. Yeah. And. Yeah, and girl bosses. Right. Staff stopped in there and journalists, they know what a girl is for specific moments. Right. Like Ketanji Brown, Jackson. I want a black female on the Supreme Court.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

If it was a black, trans man wouldn't have been nominated by Joe Biden to the Supreme Court.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

So it's this selective. Well, Kamala Harris, we're talking about, like color. It's the outrage with Jimmy Kimmel doing blackface and Dave Chappelle doing whiteface.

[Adam Carolla]

Right, Right.

[Benny Johnson]

When Dave Chappelle plays a white guy. Equally hysterical. But only one gets outrage.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

They can select and choose. And that's what's. I mean, that's cognitive dissonance. That's sociopathic behavior.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

When. When you can hold two competing ideas and your head at the same time, they can select and choose. They damn well know what a woman is. They just choose when it's going to be celebrated and what we're going to qualify as. A woman. If Jeff Bezos had shot a bunch of trans men, transgender dudes up into space, they would not have been hailing it as the first woman flight. They wouldn't have done it.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Wait, we talking about women on testosterone? That's what you're saying. So like a man. That's a trans man.

[Adam Carolla]

You got it backwards, huh?

[Benny Johnson]

I'm saying that they choose what their definition of woman is depending on what headline they want.

[Adam Carolla]

So is Chaz Bono. Is Chaz Bono a trans man, by the way?

[Benny Johnson]

Should ask Michelle Obama what you should do is. You should.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I'm there with pronouns and the transition. I immediately get confused because the whole notion of we and they and them as one guy. And then the greatest articles you'll read are like the LA Times, where I go, then the woman followed the young girl into the bathroom, and then they pulled out their penis. And it's like, they. There's more. No, no, one guy. Wait, one woman. You said a woman followed the woman. No, but the woman pulled her penis out and then raped the. Yeah, they raped the child. Gang rape. No, no one. Them. It's like. Okay, I think they do it on purpose because I immediately start swimming and I go. I don't. I don't even know. Do what you've got to do. I got to keep walking here. I don't know what's going on. Is Chaz Bono trans man?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yes, that's what you call a trans man? Because born a female and become Chaz.

[Adam Carolla]

Bono would look like shit in one of those blue jumpers that they wore. The scuba suits would ruin the aesthetic of that flight.

[Benny Johnson]

Those are scuba suits.

[Adam Carolla]

Almost immediately. But then Bruce Jenner or Caitlyn Jenner could probably pull it off.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Don't. Dead name.

[Benny Johnson]

No space helmets. The door opened from the inside. Always a bad idea. Jeff Bezos went and did a. Jeff Bezos went and staged opening the door. It was fake.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It's bothering me. It's fake, isn't it? Bezos.

[Benny Johnson]

Bezos. Bezos.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't know. I.

[Benny Johnson]

It was a fake. They staged a fake door opening that.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, for certain people called Maga. Maga. For a long time, too. I don't know. With the Bezos and the Bezos. I'd say Jeff Bezos, but there is. It would be phonetically Bezos. Right.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

And how's Bezos supposed to sell dick flights if, you know, he never has a photo shoot? Like, I'm telling you that this whole thing was.

[Benny Johnson]

It was a massive.

[Adam Carolla]

I will say this. I will give the ladies the do and that, pardon the pun, it takes some balls to get up into a rocket and be launched. And I don't know. I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but I've seen enough spaceships blow up that I would have thoughts about climbing into one. Although I'm sure his is a kind of bottle rocket versus a cannon, because you're trying to get to Mars, it's gonna take a little more thrust and so forth.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Well, if I'm going to transition and then held hands with Gayle King and Katy Per, I'd be ready to go, baby.

[Adam Carolla]

Katy Perry seems like she's losing it, and I don't know what's going on, but she feels like she's got an Olympic brain or something. Or something happened. Is something going on?

[Benny Johnson]

Irrelevance, which is the worst. Which is the worst thing that can ever happen to you if you.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

She still sells tickets and she's still out there.

[Benny Johnson]

Barely sells tickets.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Somebody get video of her dancing like an idiot.

[Benny Johnson]

That's really where she's melting. What would be fun is the Ticketmaster. Just go pull up a Katy Perry show and you can click on Ticketmaster and see that it's half empty. You can see a half empty arena, look. Yeah, this is a crash out, man.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I keep seeing videos of her dancing and she's doing the spacesuit.

[Benny Johnson]

Right. So she's. The whole thing was a. The whole thing was propaganda for her failing tour, which makes it extra sad, really.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

It sounds like a lot of people.

[Benny Johnson]

Are there, but no, go to. You can go to ticket. Just go. Easiest way to tell is go to Ticketmaster, see how many seats have been sold. Go to some. Go to some recent concerts. You'll see like half. Half the seats are still available.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Oh, all right. Yeah, I can get some. Good.

[Benny Johnson]

By the way, what's happening now is they're moving a bunch of people. They, they. So they, they closed down entire sections of the stadium and then move people down into the pit. Right.

[Adam Carolla]

That reminds me, I'm gonna be in Port Char, Charlotte, Florida, at Visani Italia Steakhouse and comedy club. Comedy theater. So, you know, those of you who may have not got the ticket to Katy Perry, but still want some world class entertainment, that's what we do. We move them up front. You know, we got the guys making pasta in the back. We move that audience. Now the first couple of shows are sold out, but I think there's some tickets for the late night show.

[Dawson]

You know, the wheel of Katy Perry, Katie Porter.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah.

[Dawson]

We should make the wheel interesting and throw in Katie Lang.

[Adam Carolla]

Mmm. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a kg, but it'll work. It'll work. Yeah. I had a wheel. I should tell Benny about it. We had the. Okay. All right. There's Avril Lavigne, who I find to be very attractive. And then there's Admiral Levine, who's not as attractive a female as Avril. And so the question gets asked, do we spin that wheel? If you go 50, 50 on that wheel. And now we're Katy Perry and then Katie Porter. Do we spin that wheel?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Hell no.

[Adam Carolla]

And you know, look, people try to negotiate the wheel. You know what I mean? People like to talk other guys who go, I don't care if it's 99 to 1. Oh, you gotta spin that wheel. Now that question. The question is, do you spin Admiral.

[Benny Johnson]

Levine versus Admiral Ackbar?

[Adam Carolla]

What wheel do you go? Will you go 50. 50 on this wheel Mayhem? Yeah, obviously you will, Benny.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Either way, baby.

[Adam Carolla]

I feel like we're gonna have to convene and talk percentages for you.

[Benny Johnson]

No way.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

I love uniform.

[Benny Johnson]

Sorry. 50%.

[Adam Carolla]

That is not at 50. What if we do it? If we do a 55. 45 type split.

[Benny Johnson]

So that guy right there, Admiral Levine, played football at West Point, actually.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I did not know Mark Milley was.

[Benny Johnson]

The Joint Chiefs of Staff. Oh, wow. So the whole, like. I'm just. I. I'm not. Not down for that. Not down to see that.

[Adam Carolla]

Will you do. How about a 60, 40 type split it.

[Benny Johnson]

I'm going to go if there's a. If there's a percentage chance. So you're saying there's a chance.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, I'm saying.

[Benny Johnson]

So you're saying there's a chance.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm saying.

[Benny Johnson]

I'm not spinning the wheel. I'm not. Okay, not down.

[Adam Carolla]

Hold on.

[Benny Johnson]

Not down for any ad. Any. Any Admiral.

[Adam Carolla]

What if I showed you some of those Avril Lavigne skater girl videos from, like, 20 years ago? Might that wet your whistle.

[Benny Johnson]

Has she done anything since then?

[Adam Carolla]

I'll tell you what. Cause I'm feeling generous. Let's just say it's Avril Lavigne, circa as you know her from 2007 or 5 or whenever it is. Can we get to a 60, 40 split then?

[Benny Johnson]

If it was Avril Lavigne versus Admiral Ackbar, I would spin that wheel.

[Adam Carolla]

You won't go in 60. 40 split.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, I'd be happy to take the chance with Admiral Ackbar. Okay. All right.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, how about Katy Perry? How about Katie Porter? Katie. Katy Perry.

[Benny Johnson]

Dude, Katy Porter.

[Adam Carolla]

Can we.

[Benny Johnson]

Is rough. So Katie Porter's divorce records show that she was physically abusive to her husband, threw a cast iron pan into his face, was like. Assaulted her husband. He, like, had a mental breakdown. He had to go into therapy because of her.

[Adam Carolla]

I'd be in therapy.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Honestly?

[Benny Johnson]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Pan or not.

[Benny Johnson]

And speaking. That is the Admiral act on Bobby. Listen, you're not exactly.

[Adam Carolla]

You're not giving a Winnebago.

[Benny Johnson]

It's a trap.

[Adam Carolla]

This is a trap. Not going across country with. You're not married.

[Benny Johnson]

Adam is.

[Adam Carolla]

At night. It's just a night of passion.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Sweaty one.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah. There wouldn't be Any. Yeah, there wouldn't be any passion.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you're not. You won't. How about a 55, 45 type split between these two?

[Benny Johnson]

Listen, man, I've seen too much Katy Perry in my feed. She's gone nuts and she's crashing out.

[Adam Carolla]

She's hurt her own. She's hurt the wheel. Crazy in the head.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, this ain't helping the wheel. Right. Because I'm not that interested in Katy Perry, to be perfectly frank with you.

[Dawson]

You can put up the Katie Lang.

[Benny Johnson]

There's so many.

[Dawson]

Is that sweet in the pot.

[Benny Johnson]

All these videos. All these videos of her at this new concert that she's doing is. They're going viral for all the wrong reasons. Something's. You're right. Something's messed up.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

She is skinny these days.

[Benny Johnson]

Some went.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Not saying nothing.

[Benny Johnson]

She went. She went crazy, man.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, something.

[Benny Johnson]

She's on the Britney Spears trajectory. Yeah, I think she's on her way to the Britney Spears.

[Adam Carolla]

What if we do a Britney Spears? Aries Spears, heavyset black comedian. How about. What about a Spears? We deal. Can we do a 50? 50 Aries Spears. Not a good looking.

[Benny Johnson]

You should ask Russell Brand throwing Randy Spears. Is the guy that you should be asking about this.

[Dawson]

Was that a porn guy from the 80s? Randy Spears?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, if there wasn't someone left money on the table. All right, so I got three wheels. You got to pick one of them. We're gonna go Aries Spears, Britney Spears. We're gonna Katy Perry, Katy Porter. Then there's the Admiral and Avril. Which wheel did we pick?

[Benny Johnson]

I don't know. The Spears. You're gonna have to make the Spears one because I gotta.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't know who Aries Spears is? Oh, wow. All right, we'll do the Aries Spears one. I don't know. It's gonna help you, but we'll do it.

[Benny Johnson]

This is a trap. It's a trap. I'm going Admiral Ackbar.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. You cannot create your own wheel. The wheel speaks. Why is that? That's Aries Spears and that's Britney Spears. Now do we spin that wheel again?

[Benny Johnson]

This is. Okay, so the entire I'll give you a game here is predicated on me on you wanting one half of the wheel.

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Benny Johnson]

And you're using, like, these. You're using these, like, absolutely. Like way too many miles on them. Pop stars. That. And you're using these photos 20 years ago, the wheel. Avril Lavigne.

[Adam Carolla]

The wheel represents. The wheel represents them in their prime. It's like if I could put Raquel Welch on the wheel. Well, she's dead, but this is Raquel Welch, 1969. You see what I'm saying? That's at the wheel with the current day Eric Spears.

[Benny Johnson]

You know, I was gonna say, I got a wife I've been married to for seven years. Freaking lover.

[Adam Carolla]

What's her maiden last name? Maybe we can make a wheel.

[Benny Johnson]

Riley.

[Adam Carolla]

Riley.

[Benny Johnson]

Riley.

[Adam Carolla]

All right. Riley Gaines. No, let's Pat Riley. Pat Riley. That's right.

[Dawson]

Choose your wheel.

[Adam Carolla]

You got to choose the wheel.

[Benny Johnson]

Pat Riley versus Caitlin Riley.

[Adam Carolla]

We can build the wheel off the air, but it is the star at the height of their powers that they're sexiest is the most alluring. All right.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay. I mean, you know, listen, if you. If you rewind back to 2000. Britney Spears. Yeah, right, like that.

[Adam Carolla]

I already did. We don't have to walk. We don't have to verbalize what I've already said five times. It's them. It's them in the prime. What do you take? Wheel.

[Benny Johnson]

I mean, if I'm going to have. If I'm being forced into it, I guess this.

[Adam Carolla]

On the other side of the. You didn't choose the wheel with two women. You're gonna have to get with like some kind of life coach and figure out this wheel thing, because this is. I've never sent you into a tailspin.

[Benny Johnson]

Can you throw. Show me the. The. The options here. Can you put my wife and Pat Riley on one?

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Too late, Spears. You win. Perfect.

[Adam Carolla]

Riley Gaines. Is Pat Riley back in his playing days, too? All right. All right. Mayhem. I've grown weary. The wheel.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, I know.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm burnt on the wheel. Let's give some plugs out. Benny the podcast, the Benny Show. It's available on YouTube wherever you listen to find our podcasts as well. Do you get. You look exactly like Bob Saget. You must get that a lot.

[Benny Johnson]

Thanks. Thank you. Does that come up a lot of compliment?

[Adam Carolla]

Beautiful. Does that happen a lot?

[Benny Johnson]

No, never. Take it as a massive compliment. Thank you.

[Jason Mayhem Miller]

Yeah, y'all definitely.

[Adam Carolla]

Does it ever come up?

[Benny Johnson]

Does on occasion.

[Adam Carolla]

On occasion.

[Benny Johnson]

On occasion.

[Adam Carolla]

You think that you are. You look like a young Bob Saget.

[Benny Johnson]

May you rest in peace.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

What happened there? Do you know? You must have known him, right?

[Adam Carolla]

I did, yeah. Bob's a great dude. Everyone loved Bob. You know, was out doing shows. I think, by the way, there are certain things, sort of like the guy who shot off Trump's ear. We cremated him. He's gone. We don't really know anything. It's like, okay, it's a little too fast and friendly. You know what I mean? The Sagat thing. Stepped out of the shower, maybe slept. Here's the way I would to slipped in the tub, whacked the head on the side of the toilet, did what I would have done, which is gone. I got a headache. I'm going to bed. And then didn't wake up, which you can do, but who knows if there was some sort of stuff with the vaccination and whatever. I'm not really big conspiracy theory guy, but it did seem like, I don't know, he collapsed and then, well, what's her name? Collapsed on stage two. Can't think of her name, but we're just talking about her in another show. I don't know what the answer is. He was a good dude and he was nice, you know, easy on the eyes, you know.

[Benny Johnson]

Thank you, Al.

[Adam Carolla]

And it was Heather McDonald who collapsed on stage. I was trying to think. Trying to think of. All right, anyway, look like Saget. Good for you. You're young Bob Saget who's alive. That's a good. That's a good way to go through Life. Go to amcroll.com for all the live shows and until next time, Saddam for Benny and Mayhem saying Mahala.

[Dawson]

Pick up your phone, leave us a voicemail, the numbers 888-634-1744, and then get tickets to see Adam Corolla. You can get them at adamcola.

[Adam Carolla]

Foreign.

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