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First we have Adam Krula Show 1756.
Gina Grad
Featuring Vinnie Torresch, Gina Grant and Brian Bishop from 2016.
Adam Carolla
Gina Grad, good day.
Brian Bishop
Good day to you.
Adam Carolla
And bald Brian, if he me good.
Brian Bishop
I take his ass to Red Lobster.
Gina Grad
Out of context, very popular amongst our listeners.
Adam Carolla
Vinnie Tortorich is here. Vinnie, one of my favorite guys.
Vinny Tortorich
How you doing man?
Adam Carolla
It's good to see you again.
Vinny Tortorich
Same here.
Adam Carolla
Vinnie's nutritionist, he's an exercise guru, he's a fitness guy, he's a trainer. And I think it was talking to Howie Mandel and Howie Mandel's in fantastic shape. You forget because he's Howie Mandel, but he's a six year old dude who's in really good shape. And I was talking to him and he was talking about Vinny and Vinny wrote a book and Fitness Confidential and I brought Vinnie in and we did take a knee with Vinnie and I found it very fascinating, very interesting, very. And then I went, got his book and I'd been listening to it. And I learned a lot about Vinny. I learned a lot about fitness and nutrition. And one of these things where I was passing it along to my wife, explaining what the kids need to eat and what they don't need to eat. And it's kind of welcome with open.
Gina Grad
Arms, that advice.
Adam Carolla
It can be a little challenge at the house sometimes.
Vinny Tortorich
So wait, your wife, she doesn't. She doesn't like me?
Adam Carolla
No, it's not you. It's that I do a lot of passing along of information and I have to qualify a lot of it with. These aren't my ideas. So don't.
Gina Grad
Don't preface.
Adam Carolla
Don't reject them. Yeah.
Gina Grad
Out of hand.
Adam Carolla
I was just.
Vinny Tortorich
Go back. What happened?
Adam Carolla
Well, I've found myself saying, like Vinnie says, you know, the toast in the morning with the margarine on it for Natalia is just not. That's no bueno. That's just chemicals and carbs. And they just need an egg or a piece of bacon or a piece of bacon and egg, you know, because Vinnie. Vinnie's whole thing is no margarine. Use butter. Use real whole butter.
Vinny Tortorich
Right.
Adam Carolla
You know, and little things that are kind of nice. Like, I like cream in my coffee, but I've been drink. I'd been putting skim milk in there. Think healthier choice. And Vinny said, no, put cream in there. It's better for you. It satiates you.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah. Because they cut everything out and leave the lactose. And lactose is sugar. So you're having a glass of sugar when you have coffee with skim milk. It's basically, that's what your liver sees.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Vinny Tortorich
But we were talking more specifically about your wife.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Vinny Tortorich
And here, let me give you an example. Whenever people listen to your show, let's say the husband listens, but the wife doesn't.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Vinny Tortorich
And then they'll say, well, Adam said. And at the end of the week, it's gonna be, fuck Adam. I don't want to hear from Adam.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Now imagine being Adam. And so it's like a lot of. Well, it's kind of an interesting thing, which is. And Vinny says, you know, well, give your kid a yogurt, but don't give him the zero fat yogurt, give him the whole yogurt. Well, guess what? It's hard to find whole yogurt.
Vinny Tortorich
Almost impossible.
Adam Carolla
It's so fucking weird that everything has a big fat zero on it. And you're like, just give me the yogurt. And like, yeah, Trader Joe's doesn't have regular yogurt, or Ralph's doesn't. And it's like, it's a challenge to find products that do not advertise themselves as skim or zero fat or all fats removed or fat substitute replaced or whatever it is, because that's such a bragging point. But if you listen to Vinnie, you realize we crave it, we need it, we're satiated by it, and it's actually a good thing.
Brian Bishop
And it might help, like you said, with portion control, because we're not eating 10 times as much as we generally would if it was low fat.
Vinny Tortorich
Right. But portion control really isn't the problem. And I'm sure you don't want to turn the whole show into this.
Adam Carolla
I don't mind.
Brian Bishop
I'm pretty curious.
Vinny Tortorich
The bottom line is you're sick today, so I'll talk, you hang out.
Adam Carolla
All right?
Vinny Tortorich
Portion control is a problem when you're eating high carbs, because at some point, once you start eating anything high carb. When I say high carb, I'm not talking about a vegetable or fruit. I'm talking things that will spike your insulin, grains, cause ghrelin and your leptin sensors to be stuck in the on position. Okay? When you're doing that type of thing, all of a sudden, it doesn't matter what you're eating. You can't stop. The best example I give is if I gave you a bag of Doritos, and it's the family bag, if you have one, once it touches your tongue before you get halfway through, you can't get them in your mouth quick enough. And then you're going to rip the Mylar open and start licking the inside out. And you can have another bag if someone gave it to you.
Brian Bishop
Did you see me in my car.
Adam Carolla
On the way home?
Vinny Tortorich
Have you ever had that happen?
Brian Bishop
Yeah.
Vinny Tortorich
Okay, so if I took you, let's say we went to Ruth Chris, just me and you, or Red Lobster.
Brian Bishop
Oh, now you're talking.
Vinny Tortorich
Let's say you and I went to Red Lobster.
Brian Bishop
You know what had to happen.
Vinny Tortorich
That means I fucked you good.
Brian Bishop
If I fuck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah.
Brian Bishop
Thank you, Beyonce.
Vinny Tortorich
So is that a Beyonce thing?
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Gina Grad
Nope.
Adam Carolla
Nope.
Brian Bishop
Totally mine. Go ahead.
Vinny Tortorich
Okay, well, anyway, you're hotter than Beyonce.
Adam Carolla
But that's just between me and Minnie. Geez.
Vinny Tortorich
So anyway, we go to Red Lobster and you get the. I've never been to Red Lobster. The lobster special, and it's drowned in butter, and you have A great time. When you're done with that meal, if they brought you another sizzling plate of lobster, you're gonna say, pack it up.
Brian Bishop
Can't do it.
Vinny Tortorich
Take it home to my dog. Why? Because one will cause ghrelin and leptin and insulin to do, and the other one will keep you sated and you won't want to eat more. Sorry to bore your audience.
Adam Carolla
No, but part of the things that I've always sort of felt like egg whites. Nonsense. Eat the whole egg. The yolk's really good for you. Things that you want to hear, actually. Have some bacon, have some eggs, cook them in real butter. Don't have to spray the pam on there. Actually enjoy it. And it's stuff that's. It's counter. Well, it's counterintuitive in the sense that we decided that fat was the enemy. So we decided to get rid of all fat and everyone just got fatter. And at some point we got away from steaks and got into pasta and everyone just got fatter. But it was like, pasta can't make you fat. Look at it, it's so skinny. It's pasta that comes from a big fat cow that comes from a little skinny country shaped like a boot. How could it be fattening? But Vinny, what Vinny, what I learned from listening to his book is kind of. Your mom was right or your grandma was right. Like the kind of stuff that she made, eggs and bacon and pot roast for dinner and stuff like that. She was right about it. We're the ones who started getting away from it. We started eating Nutra bars for breakfast and having. Having Mac salad with cut up lean chicken breast for thing and glazed honey vinaigrette. Whatever. But there were much thinner back then than we are now. And they didn't even think about it.
Vinny Tortorich
Well, think about the 80s. I think both Gina and Brian are probably too young to remember this. Definitely too young for me in the 80s. Snack Wells who were raised on those boxes. So let me ask you, Gina, you read the back of the box and it's, you know, it looks like a serving whole thing and it's only 600 calories. But when you take fat out, what do you put in?
Brian Bishop
Sugar.
Vinny Tortorich
You put in sugar so you create a problem. It's a chemical shitstorm.
Brian Bishop
Snack wells and diet, Right? Yeah, yeah.
Vinny Tortorich
And tab. Back when the ladies had to see the pink can.
Adam Carolla
Right?
Vinny Tortorich
The good old days.
Adam Carolla
So in a nutshell. And we'll, we'll get into it and we'll get in our game too. But you get to get rid of the skim this and the part that, part fat that, and get the real McCoy. And the rule is, stay away from the carbs for the most part, Right?
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah. The complex, the crappy carbs.
Adam Carolla
But also, here's another counterintuitive thing I believe I remember from talking to Vinny before. Better to eat white rice than to eat brown rice.
Gina Grad
Why is that?
Adam Carolla
I don't know. Ask Vinnie.
Vinny Tortorich
It really makes no difference.
Adam Carolla
Or makes no difference.
Vinny Tortorich
Out of all the grains, rice is the least egregious. That's the one you can have. You know, when you look at pasta and you look at corn, rice will cause less of a glucose spike or a glycogen load than any other processed carb. And there is no difference between brown rice and white rice in terms of.
Gina Grad
What it does to you.
Adam Carolla
But what I'm saying, your liver doesn't.
Vinny Tortorich
Go, wait a minute. Brian just had brown rice.
Adam Carolla
What I'm saying is I prefer white rice if I'm eating Chinese food three and a half to one over brown rice, but will often sacrifice and get the brown rice in the name of health. But it turns out, who cares?
Gina Grad
They're like, oh, brown rice, I'm being good today. I'll get the brown rice.
Adam Carolla
Right. I'm just saying, like, you make all these sacrifices in the name of health and weight and whatever, and it turns out half of them you don't need to make.
Brian Bishop
Can I ask one question?
Adam Carolla
Yes.
Brian Bishop
The thing that really throws me about this, because my whole family is just plagued with heart disease. All my grandparents died of heart attacks young. What about cholesterol in terms of the eggs and the bacon and that kind of thing?
Vinny Tortorich
Okay. And Dr. Drew, I was doing. I did Dr. Drew's show a few times, and he agrees that eating cholesterol does not cause you to have higher cholesterol. Your serum cholesterol is your serum cholesterol. There's actually people out there. A guy named Iver Cummins who has a great video. You should go check it out online. It's called the cholesterol conundrum, and it's exactly what Adam was talking about the other day. I was listening to your show and you were talking about in the NFL, if they could just have a gimp that comes out.
Adam Carolla
Thank you.
Vinny Tortorich
So what?
Gina Grad
I heard that one show where he talked about that.
Vinny Tortorich
I heard one this week where he talked about it every week. Yeah, Ivor is one of these scientists. He's out of Ireland, by the way. Check this guy out. Even Guys look at him and go, Jesus Christ. His voice, he's hot. You're going to love him. Ivor is a scientist that they bring in. Whenever, you know, scientists get in their own head what they want the result to be, and that becomes the result. Like, they will fight for that to become the result. So then some of these big companies who can't live with that, they bring Iver in the gimp. And he looks at everything with fresh eyes. And when a doctor told him that he was going to die of cholesterol because his cholesterol was too high and he wanted to figure it out, he found a high fat, high cholesterol diet and then started doing all of the research that the health community should have done. He did it on his own. You need to check this guy out. It's really cool, okay?
Adam Carolla
But the bottom line is a lot. It's counterintuitive to almost everything we've been taught over the last 20 years. And the bottom line is, have some eggs for breakfast and have a piece of steak for dinner and just easy on the pasta, easy on the pie, and get your exercise and go about it. But the artificially extracting the calories and or fat from food, it always feels like a fool's errand.
Gina Grad
It's a game of whack a mole. It's going to come somewhere else.
Adam Carolla
And I also feel like these people, where they go, like, you can eat Jenny Craig, you can sign up for $50, your meals half, and where you're on someone else's pre. Whatever meal for how long? Like, I mean, the thing where, okay, you're gonna play a James Bond's girlfriend in three months or something, but is this gonna be the rest of your life? Like, how can this possibly not end? You know, I mean, how? I, you know, I. It's. Even when I hear about people who are on a cleanse and this kind of stuff, I'm like, how does this not. Yeah, no, you know, honestly, the benefit of a cleanse, to me, it shouldn't be called a cleanse. It should be called a flogging. And it's basically, can I flog myself for nine days, right? Or 10 days or eight days, or whatever the cleanse is. It's more of a. Why don't you just see how long you can go without jacking off? Like, as long as you're not flogging yourself. Well, yeah, as it were. What I'm saying is, like, when I see people, it's the same way I feel about religion, where I go well, it doesn't do anything. But I understand that you're mastering yourself.
Gina Grad
The discipline aspect.
Adam Carolla
Yes. Yeah. There's no toxins, you're flushing, but you.
Gina Grad
Are taking control of whatever felt like.
Adam Carolla
Right. And for that, fine. But the whole sort of diet or the meal deal or whatever it is, it just feels like it's gotta come to an end in two weeks.
Vinny Tortorich
I mentioned that in my book, Fitness Confidential. You know, we're the only animal that thinks we're doing good when we don't get enough to eat. And the example I give in the book is it would be like a lion going back to the lion den and saying to your cubs, hey, guess what? I didn't kill that gazelle today. But it's okay. We're being good. We get to starve. Humans are the only animals that literally think they're having a good day when they don't get enough to eat. And that's not how you lose weight.
Adam Carolla
When it comes to the all important question of spirits, beer versus wine versus vodka is a lot of people have a like, well, vodka's clear, so that's better than whiskey and whiskeys and blah, blah, blah. I believe Vinnie said if it's distilled, it's better than if it's not distilled or fermented or something.
Vinny Tortorich
That's exactly what Vinnie. Wait, that's third person. Okay, yes. The only thing that's distilled that you want to stay away from is if they add sugar later. And by the way, they're doing that more and more.
Adam Carolla
So in other words, so like cotton candy, vodka.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah. Or now they have honey. You know, like Jack Daniels honey, Yada, yada, maple.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Gina Grad
Imagine explaining that to actually Jack Daniel.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah, Imagine going back and explaining literally shoot himself. It was like, wait a minute. You took the perfect what and did what with it?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, we got a quimby running this company. Gotta take him down.
Gina Grad
He burns his own shack down.
Adam Carolla
That's right. Yeah. So no big difference between whiskey and vodka, but a difference between beer and whiskey.
Vinny Tortorich
Big difference. Beer. Think of beer as liquid bread. That's what the monks used to call it.
Brian Bishop
Angel Reese and McDonald's.
Adam Carolla
UNA QPC Con salsa barbecue. Itosino Papitas. El Angel Reese special. Cibos El Angel Ree special.
Gina Grad
Solo E McDonald's.
Adam Carolla
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Vinny Tortorich
Liquid bread. So they were kind of cheating, as people in religion like to do. They would go, okay, I'm going to fast for two years. And you know, you read this, this literature, my God, these guys didn't eat anything for two years. How. How could they? They just fucking drank beer. They had liquid breath. They were high and full the entire time. And wine, Wine is pretty close to beer. It has a higher sugar content. Now, are we talking about a glass of wine twice a week? No, we're talking every night a couple of bottles.
Adam Carolla
So better pouring yourself a cocktail than pouring yourself a beer for caloric intake. Caloric intake?
Vinny Tortorich
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Gina Grad
Wrong.
Adam Carolla
No, not caloric intake, but in terms of how your body is going to.
Vinny Tortorich
React, hormones, glycogen spike, glucose loads. The beer will cause that. You never hear of a whiskey belly, but you do hear of a beer belly.
Gina Grad
Okay, yeah.
Adam Carolla
All right. Although I have had whiskey dick.
Gina Grad
Yeah. Look in the gin blossoms in the nose.
Adam Carolla
That's right. All right. Ari's from Boston. He's 19. He' Ari. Ari. Oh, hi. Hey. Hi. Oh, longtime listener, second time caller. I called you a while back. Thanks, Ari. What's going on? No problem. Well, I wanted to ask you if you've heard of Milo Yiannopoulos. It's a very long Greek name. And his current tour of the country and what he's talking about. No, I don't think I have. But I get most of my information when people sort of tweet at me and forward things and articles and things like that, but I don't think anyone's done this. What's his rap? Well, basically, he's a British journalist.
Vinny Tortorich
He's based in London.
Adam Carolla
But currently he's been becoming popular because he's pushing against the current climate on college campuses of. I don't know if you've heard safe spaces and trigger warnings. Yeah, sure, yeah, I know. We will not rest until everyone in this country's a colossal, gaping pussy. A big oozing gaping pussy. And I don't know to what end. I'm not sure how that's gonna serve us.
Gina Grad
What's the goal we're trying to achieve?
Adam Carolla
My whole point is, if there is a war and we need to go to fight, or if we need to build another Golden Gate Bridge, we're gonna be fucking shit out of luck, cuz everyone's gonna be an unqualified pussy. I don't get it.
Gina Grad
Deport some Canadians. Yeah, lumberjacks.
Adam Carolla
That's right. So I may have seen a thing or two, or maybe somebody forwarded a tweet or two, an article or something, but the rap for him is what again? So he's a journalist and he's been writing against these ideas for a while and now he's going on tour across America and a few other countries and stuff, and he's pushing against those ideas and it's really cool. He just showed up at Rutgers University. He gave a talk on Tuesday, I think, and then a bunch of protesters showed up and smeared fake blood all over their faces. I like when people desecrate themselves. A quote from one of the protesters said, rutgers groups should not invite anyone like him because what we stand for is inclusion and diversity. If a speaker makes someone feel unsafe or uncomfortable, then they should not come to campus.
Brian Bishop
That's not very inclusive.
Adam Carolla
I know. I love the diversity and the inclusiveness. Meaning you stay home. We're all posies. It is one thing. I'll tell you one thing about. I'll tip my hat to the Nazis and tell them they desecrate Jewish stuff, but never themselves. They have those super cool Ralph Lauren outfits.
Brian Bishop
Yeah, Hugo Boss.
Adam Carolla
Hugo Boss, yeah. They said, you know what? If we get really cool outfits, we'll never have to go. The day you start showing up in board shorts and hoodies everywhere, then it becomes easy to desecrate yourself. Gotta get these guys a good outfit.
Gina Grad
You'd really like this guy. I've heard him on a few podcasts and I've read a lot about him. One thing that I think the caller. I don't think I heard him mention is that he kind of gets away.
Adam Carolla
With a lot of this because he's gay.
Gina Grad
So he goes after a lot of feminists with logical arguments, and then they can't call him a misogynist or a Sexist or whatever. It's an interesting. You can be gay and a misogynist. Right? He. It's a lot harder. You can be. It's a harder thing to call him. It's.
Adam Carolla
We are so fucked up that if you're black, you're allowed to say whatever you want about black culture, but if you're not, you can have no opinion, which is insane. You should be able to have opinion if you're a woman you can be tough on, but you can't be. You know, it's that kind of thing. And it's certainly that way. Number one is black, Asian, a little bit. But gay is also right up there, too. Gary. Yep. Let's get a picture of me sucking your cock so I can have carte blanche in terms of speaking my mind about the feminist movement. And that doesn't make you gay. By the way, on this podcast.
Gina Grad
Make sure you're wearing that new shirt.
Adam Carolla
I'm wearing my new T shirt. Yeah. Remind me to mention that later on.
Gina Grad
My hundredth T shirt is splotched by Gary.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, you can say whatever you want as long as you're of that ethnicity or that's part of your tribe or that's your sexual proclivity, which, again, it's another form of stupid racism we have, which is. You'll see it in just about every show, though. Like, when they do, like, there's a real quiet form of it, which is when they have a news team and there's like six journalists and one of them's black. And then someone's got to interview Cam Newton or the president. They was a. Jb, go over there and talk to Cam. Like, they'll send the black guy to go talk to the black guy. I think they think they're going to.
Gina Grad
Get some information where it's like, yeah.
Adam Carolla
Like, his comfort level will be greater somehow.
Brian Bishop
His defenses will be down.
Gina Grad
Maybe that's true, but at least. Maybe it is true, but at least acknowledge it. Like, it's. It's the. I don't know if you saw. I was editing a drop. I never heard if he said this, but it's a weird form of the. Racism works both ways. Like, the people that can't say this doesn't mean the other people can say. You know what I mean? It should be. Everyone can say everything. But we're in a weird. You can't say that because you're in this group, but this person can say that because they're in this group. It's a weird.
Adam Carolla
Yes, but you will. You'll notice with the correspondence dispatched to the whatever, they'll match up. Often the brother ain't talking to the professional snowboarder. Talking to Cam Newton. And they do a lot of that. Just kind of like. Well, he. It's this thing of like. It's not that he's a better journalist than the other guy. It's just, okay, his comfort level will be better.
Vinny Tortorich
We created that. I mean, yes, totally created by. I mean, before the N word was the N word. As soon as it became the N word, I went, oh, boy, there we go. We gave it power. It had no power before that. Yeah, we created that power.
Adam Carolla
We created everything. But we like it that way. But also, it's not that these ass wipes and pussies who are covering themselves in fake blood who are going out there when this guy's speaking actually feel like they are. They don't feel at all threatened. They don't feel in fear. They don't feel like their safety's been compromised. They don't feel anything. They don't believe it. Nobody believes it. Everybody. Here's what it is. Here's all you need to know. There's a. Everyone as a human being has a strong persecution bone in their body. Just a little persecution bone. And it goes. There's a million versions of it. There's the version where I'm sitting down in Vegas at the blackjack table. The person to my left gets blackjacked. The person to the right gets blackjacked. And I have a 14. And I'm like, of course. Yeah, of course. This guy, that guy. Never me.
Gina Grad
So typical.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, you never. You rarely can experience that and just sort of float above it, you know, like, oh, look at that. Oh, look at you guys. Well, good for you. No, so look at me. Look what I got. Look at that.
Brian Bishop
Traffic is a big example, right?
Adam Carolla
Oh, look, that guy cut me off. Cut. Cut me off. He didn't cut you off. He cut just a car off. He cut it off. He actually cut it off. A bunch of bonderized metal, galvanized steel off. He didn't even cut you. He cut a car off.
Gina Grad
He cut every car off behind you. If you think about it, Every car you're sitting and.
Adam Carolla
Oh, look at him. Look at him. You know, this thing. Oh, Whenever I'm in a rush, it's always traffic, you know, And I never catch a. Everybody sort of goes through life with that capacity. It's near the tip. It's not something that we have in the chamber, but it's on Deck, that victim kind of persecution thing, it's also something that as a society, we learn to tamp down and sort of go, nobody's gunning for you. The guy's probably in a rush. He didn't signal. He didn't see you. He's just trying to get to work. I'm sure he's on the phone right now having a bad day. Or, hey, yeah, she got blackjack, and she got blackjack. They can take their $29 winnings back to their double wide and share it with their toothless partner. You can go back up to your $4 million house on the hill. No one ever says that. It's just this kind of. This is how we go through life. But we kept it tamped down because first off, it wasn't couth. You weren't supposed to sit at the blackjack table of life and go, how come she gets. It's unfair that he get. How come I got. And then that guy, he moved. He wasn't even there. So those are actually my cards. If he didn't sit down, I would have got that hand. It was uncouth. It was considered in poor form. Well, now it's all out the window. And not only is it all out the window, we're fucking turbocharging it, and we're encouraging people to come out there, and we're now finding this victimhood, which we all have, that commonality. We're fanning the flame. We used to go, shh, sweetie. You didn't get the job because you were under qualified or because someone was better at it than you. It's not because of your gender. It's not because of your sex, not because your ethnicity. It's not because of who you sleep with. It's not somebody, I assume was better qualified for the job than you were. Now go home and work harder and find another job.
Brian Bishop
And to that end, you never say something's unfair when something good happens to you that maybe shouldn't have.
Adam Carolla
Only bad, right? Yeah, you never look at all those victories. But we've pulled the restrictor plate off of our society. Instead of getting out of the way, we're actually encouraging it now. And now that worst part of all human beings is running wild through every campus in the United States. And we're fanning it. Huffington Post and CNN are fanning it even more.
Vinny Tortorich
Haven't you found that people who are the most successful. In my career, I've worked with only very successful people. And the one trait they have is the antithesis of what you're talking about now. They don't give a shit about anything. It's just, how do we get this done? How does this work, everything else get out of the way? How do we make what I want to work? Work? And this society you're talking about is exactly the opposite of that.
Adam Carolla
Yes, I agree. I don't know what's in it. I do know that. But losers love company. And when you're not getting along and you can blame it on the system, blame it on the dean, blame it on the man, blame it on the speaker. It's a lot easier than finding a fucking mirror and staring down your fat.
Brian Bishop
Face and not just blaming them, having them fired, like, they really go whole hog on that one, right?
Adam Carolla
Which again, doesn't get you any further along in your life. That's just one more person with a golden parachute who gets to stay home and not have to deal with your fucking loud broken ass Monday morning. That's why they're more than happy just to go it. I'm staying home. Hey, Trevor. Yeah. Hammond Tree. That's right. Yeah, man. A little Lord of the Jungle. Do we have some music?
Dawson
Lord, Lord of the Jungle.
Adam Carolla
What did the person buy? Probably while high. You are not one of the ones we have to worry about because you bought yourself some tool bags. I did. Oh. But I don't know. This may be a bad sign. He got occidental leather tool bags, but the inside of the belt is lined with sheepskin.
Gina Grad
He's got a belt liner. A special belt liner.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Brian Bishop
Only the best.
Adam Carolla
Now what do you do for. What do you do for a living? I'm an electrician. And you? Union guy. Oh. Where do you. Where are you working? Wiring a house today. Where are you out of? Do I have it here? Colorado. Oh, Colorado Springs. Yeah.
Gina Grad
Fucking high.
Adam Carolla
I like. What are you guys using more these days? Romex or bx? Romex. Residential. Uh huh. And. All right, so use. Boy. When you see an old house. The old house. I know, but when you take apart an old house, like I've taken apart a few. The. The rigid conduit is thick gauge steel that's threaded. So every bend, every jog, every junction box is threaded.
Gina Grad
Sounds dangerous.
Adam Carolla
No, it sounds long, hard and arduous. It's all threaded. And all Romex is. Is somebody. Somebody did with Romex what they did with plaster, which is. Hold on, I'll tell everybody. Here's a. Okay. Now the fun begins. Plaster used to be nailing up a thousand pieces of lath. Like just little pieces of wood onto the wall with common head nails and then mixing up a bunch of plaster and putting it on there? And then somebody said, instead of nailing up Thousands of strips of wood onto the wall, why don't we just put up one big piece, and we'll call it button board, and it'll have little divots in it, and then we can put the plaster on. And then after 20 years of that, Somebody said, hey, genius, why don't we get rid of the divots in the button board and just call it wallboard drywall? We'll just put that up, and that'll be it. And what they did with romex was instead of pulling and bending tubes and pipes and doing everything all throughout the house and then pulling wires through it, why don't we just put a jacket of insulation around the wires and just make the wire. The whole thing. Just pull that through everything. Now, this is interesting. Thank you. Hu. So it's mostly. Mostly romex. Mostly romex, yeah. Oh, boy. Now, how about my bx? Oh, that's mostly commercial. Okay, that. That's. Yeah, that is bx, right? Not vx. It's bx, right? This is great. They make bx, but mostly we use MC metal clad. It's. Yeah, it's just flex with wiring. I don't know how we're gonna top this. How many amp system you putting in? 200. Got a 200? That's right. All of this almost too exciting to bear. What's 200 for? That'll be good for about 4,000 square foot or so. Yeah, this one's a little bigger. This house is about 65. Now, this is fun. Now, don't you want to step up To a slightly bigger amperage system Just so they got a little room to grow in case they want a second hot tub or something later on?
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah, because houses need two hot tubs, right?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah. No, usually 200. Pretty good. I mean, you can't use two hot tubs at once. Well, if you had a 400amp system, you could. And I got one for my mistress, and I like. Like a garbage disposal in my bedroom and things like that, you know? There is no end to the information that you have provided us today. All right, so, Trevor, who's having to work work outside in Colorado, Angel Reese.
Brian Bishop
McDonald's.
Adam Carolla
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Vinny Tortorich
It's all the things that keep this world turning.
Adam Carolla
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Gina Grad
You got both, I think.
Adam Carolla
Is it both? That's right.
Gina Grad
Look at the very bottom there.
Brian Bishop
Not shipped yet.
Gina Grad
Are bags pricey?
Adam Carolla
That's the pricey set of bags. You know, the thing about the bags is bags didn't change for a million years, just like the tools didn't. And then everything got really ergonomic, like all of a sudden hook and loop, Velcro and back support and all sorts of different materials. It was always just leather and just a double belt buckle, like the double clawed belt buckle. And the occasional fat guy with suspenders was always a nice, nice look as well. I worked with one guy named Mallory. He made a guy named Mallory.
Brian Bishop
I add that to my list.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, don't chuckle about his name in front of him. He's a big bearded man. He could be censored about a lot of things. But Mallory made his own bags out of a Gucci handbag. Nice. Sewed it. Sewed it. The novelty part was there. He made it himself. He's a dude who built a recumbent bike and made the sprockets for it.
Vinny Tortorich
Wait a minute, you need a CNC machine for that?
Adam Carolla
I don't know how he did it this back in the 80s, but he literally made his own sprockets, which just means I fucking hate my own time or something. It's not like, oh, that Schwinn sprocket. I'll never do like for $9. Anyway, we're having a ball out. We are. So, Trevor. Yeah. Where are you living? In Colorado. Colorado Springs. Oh, sounds nice. Is that. Where's the Olympic training facility? Yeah, it's nice. 60 degrees today. Oh, really? Yeah. Boulder. So pretty. It's crunchy, but it's nice. And you staying busy, Trevor? You Working a lot. Real busy. Yeah, two or three lined up.
Gina Grad
Are you coming to our show on March 25th in Denver? I know it's a bit far. It might be, but. How far away is Denver from Colorado Springs?
Adam Carolla
It's about an hour drive.
Brian Bishop
Come on, you got no excuse.
Adam Carolla
Well, not only that, but it's an hour's drive up the side of God's leg. I mean you're staring. Some of the stuff you're looking at, you know we fucking stare at like Mexicans stabbing each other and guys tagging cop horses and stuff. Like fucking hobo shit rolling down the LA River. Like you drive an hour down the 5, you want to fucking kill yourself. But I've made the drive from Denver to Golden and Boulder and everything and now you just stare out the window and go, whoa, this is gorgeous. Like gone from Denver to Golden, took a tour at Coors factory, then went up to Red Rocks and it's like the drive is half the thrill. So no excuses for your hour long scenic drive, Trevor. No, no, not at all. And I'll tell you what, you bring those bags and $10 and I'll sign them for you. Oh, you got it. The electrician bags. A little bit different than the carpenter's bags I imagine.
Gina Grad
Not as many hammers probably.
Adam Carolla
They got the. No, but the bags are laid out.
Gina Grad
Does that mean, does the electrician use a hammer as well?
Adam Carolla
Hell yes, he uses a hammer. Please.
Gina Grad
Sorry, I should have asked Gina before the show.
Adam Carolla
They have little. They have.
Gina Grad
I have more clipping devices and clamping devices.
Brian Bishop
Brian, stop embarrassing yourself.
Adam Carolla
They have, they have a weird chain thing with a little 2 inch metal bar on the end of it for hooking their electrician's tape around it. Right Trevor? That's right. They have the little smaller sort of holstery things for like the screwdrivers and things of that nature. My first bags were not a set of bags, they were just a bag and it was electrician's bag for some reason they're white or lighter in color. That's what I recall.
Brian Bishop
Unless they're sheepskin.
Adam Carolla
That's right. Good on you there, Trevor. And when you're good, you're always in demand. You're always busy. If you're in the trades and you're good. If you're an electrician and you're good, you're just constantly busy. Just. That's it. I got to tell you one thing, I was in the Porta John earlier and I saw a good one. You know the thing you pee in Mexican welding Helmet. Oh, that may have. So let me get this straight. On the outside of the porta potty, it says Mexican space shuttle on the inside. When you get to the weird urinal thing, you don't know. Well, you've probably seen these.
Brian Bishop
I know what you're talking about.
Adam Carolla
It looks like a one gallon milk jug where half the vaccine, it's been inverted and pop riveted to the wall. That's the Mexican welding helmet. Sweet. Oh my God. You then balance that out culturally with the ass gasket, the seat liner that says free cowboy hats, and the arrow going down to that and you got.
Gina Grad
Yourself the full house.
Adam Carolla
You go into that porta potty. You, you head out to take that piss in in one state of mind and return a totally different.
Gina Grad
A gleeful man.
Adam Carolla
That's right. That's refreshing. Nice Mexican welding mask. That's awesome. Yeah, it is. Thanks, Trevor. Yeah.
Dawson
Lord of the jungle.
Adam Carolla
Can't believe the crap they bought.
Dawson
Must be high on pot.
Adam Carolla
We'll send you out some swag, Trevor. You can just hit us at LotJ. Yeah, it's one of these things and it's again, it's like the porta potty. At least the sort of molded plastic porta potty was around for 50 years. And somewhere after the 51st year, somebody decided, you know those things that are in every bathroom in the United States and every airport, gas station and school and supermarket, that thing called a urinal, since it's 90% being used by dudes, why not just put a urinal in the fucking porta potty with just some extruded plastics, like a plastic bucket with a hose bib at the bottom of it. And the hose just goes right into the main hopper. And everyone's like, yeah, we don't have to stare into a mountain of shit and take a piss. We can just piss against this thing into the bucket. But if you show Gary, if you find that thing, and then you guys who may not be as mechanically inclined, if you picture a good welder's mask.
Gina Grad
Although you remember Flashdance, Flop it down. Yeah, that's my point of reference.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, you get the idea. But it still is pretty good. All right, so space shuttle on the outside, welding mask on the inside.
Gina Grad
At this point in your life, how desperate to poop do you have to be to use the porta potty for number two?
Adam Carolla
So desperate.
Gina Grad
I mean, think about the situations you would even find yourself in using a porta Potty.
Adam Carolla
Well, couple things. If you're on the job site, you have no choice Because.
Gina Grad
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. At this point in your life.
Adam Carolla
Well, at this point in my life.
Gina Grad
Because any job site you're on, there's a working toilet for the most part. Right.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Oh, and at this point in Adam Carollis life, the only caveat is the racetrack. Oftentimes.
Gina Grad
Yeah. Only thing within 100 yards.
Adam Carolla
Yes. @ the race track, they set those things up, like in the infield. Yes, yes. It'd be cruel if they put them on the track. Although exhilarating in terms of taking a shit, having been whizzing past, you know.
Dawson
200 miles an hour.
Adam Carolla
Whizzing.
Brian Bishop
There are bathrooms at the racetrack, but.
Gina Grad
For the fans, the spectators, the grandstands, not in the pits.
Adam Carolla
It's a little catch as catch can. Some. Pardon the pun. Some of them are just kind of porta potties lined up and then some. They have nicer facilities and some guys have their trailers. Gary wants to know what we're looking for. Let's see. A welding mask and the urinal and a porta potty that's attached to the.
Gina Grad
Wall of the thing.
Adam Carolla
The welding mask should not be covered in flames or ornate or sparks. Sparks or anything like that.
Brian Bishop
Or attached to Jennifer Beals.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, they're kind of the same shape. All right. Phone calls up there. Vinny's hanging with us. We're talking nutrition. Give us. Always ask this. Give us a good breakfast, a good lunch, and a good dinner first. I'll tell you as far as in Vinnie's world, from a nutrition standpoint, what would you. Well, it does look like a welding mask. What would you put a strap behind.
Gina Grad
That and get yourself a welding mask?
Adam Carolla
Call a good.
Gina Grad
Oh, wow.
Adam Carolla
What would. Very good. We'll put the two pictures up@adamcarroll.com, i'll tease it, but Vinny, workout breakfast, lunch, and dinner for us and then give us a snack as well. Give us something to take with us if we're going on a plane or a road trip or something that we can bring with us that's not gonna make us big and fat. And give us a dessert when we're feeling naughty first. Not safe. With Nikki Glaser. New show on Comedy Central.
Gina Grad
I watch this.
Adam Carolla
Oh, good.
Gina Grad
I loved it.
Adam Carolla
Great.
Gina Grad
It's. They have, like, guests on, like, a panel discussion about, like, sexuality and dating and stuff. And then they. Yeah. Oh, you probably have a whole thing there. See the bit where the lie detectors got the guys in, see if they.
Vinny Tortorich
Want to have sex.
Brian Bishop
Intrigued by that.
Gina Grad
She got a girl in to see if they want to have sex there. It's pretty good.
Adam Carolla
It's good. You can everything from fruit lickers.
Gina Grad
Oh, her feet are messed up.
Adam Carolla
Terrible road handies. I like that. Nikki's got it covered because everyone's got.
Gina Grad
A thing that's a funny show.
Adam Carolla
My thing is making fun of other people's things. Not safe with Nikki Glaser. Tuesdays 10:30 on Comedy Central. You can find it on the app. The Comedy Central app. She likes it when you watch. All right, Vinny, what do we got?
Vinny Tortorich
Breakfast. Pretty boring. Eggs are your best option all the time. And when I say eggs, notice I didn't say egg whites. Worst idea ever. Because you've taken out the most nutritious part of the egg.
Adam Carolla
Egg.
Vinny Tortorich
And throwing it out. So whenever you hear some douchebag in LA at a restaurant saying, just take the egg white Florentine. No, you've gotten rid of the best thing. And the Florentine part, the spinach really didn't do much for you because spinach is almost void of any nutrition.
Brian Bishop
A lot of water in it. Right.
Gina Grad
I thought spinach was, like high in vitamin A. I was always told spinach was really good.
Vinny Tortorich
When we were kids. They told us that it was high in iron. It almost has no iron.
Gina Grad
Interesting.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah.
Brian Bishop
It comes with a can.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah. You know, Popeye ate it and, you know, we were supposed to believe. Oh, my God. Yeah. That's where we get most of our nutritional information from, is watching cartoons. Pretty much. So the whole egg, you're saying being.
Gina Grad
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs is no good?
Vinny Tortorich
No, that's okay. You can have that.
Gina Grad
Okay.
Vinny Tortorich
So eggs to go along with that. You know, people always ask the kids, especially amino acids. That's the big term. You hear amino acids. Gina, do you know what an amino acid is?
Brian Bishop
No idea.
Vinny Tortorich
Okay. It's a breakdown of a protein. It's a protein. And almost every amino acid that a human being needs happens to be in an egg. So why not have eggs? If you can get some good cured bacon to go with that, it kind of spruces it up. But that's all you need for breakfast. Lunch. Anything for lunch. Fish, chicken. But not just lean chicken. Have the skin on it. Have the dark meat. That kind of.
Adam Carolla
See what I'm saying? See, we've been punishing ourselves.
Vinny Tortorich
Why eat the crappy piece of dried out white meat? Take the skin off.
Brian Bishop
I've been beaten into submission of thinking I like it now for so many years because that's all we're allowed to.
Vinny Tortorich
Have, you know, What? After we go to Red Lobster.
Adam Carolla
Oh, I'm listening.
Vinny Tortorich
After that meal.
Brian Bishop
Roscoe's.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah, Roscoe's. Chicken and biscuits. But we won't have no biscuits. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Just chicken. Yeah.
Brian Bishop
If he me good, I'd take his ass to Red Lobster.
Vinny Tortorich
God, you're hot.
Adam Carolla
You were saying?
Vinny Tortorich
You're so hot. Can you tell me that again?
Dawson
Come on.
Adam Carolla
I'll just take it.
Brian Bishop
If he fuck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Vinny Tortorich
Let me tell you something.
Brian Bishop
Just kind of the way I roll.
Vinny Tortorich
Gina, if you were gravy and I was a biscuit, I'd sop you up.
Brian Bishop
Oh, I need a mom. If he fuck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster.
Adam Carolla
So, meat, chicken, anything. And what on the side?
Vinny Tortorich
Salad is good. Or if you want to have vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables are better. Broccoli. Yeah, you see? You know that part.
Brian Bishop
Yeah, I've heard of that.
Vinny Tortorich
You've probably dabbled in veganism at some point, right? I'm guessing.
Brian Bishop
That's not really my thing, but I know a little bit about that.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah, that's the best is the bang for your buck type of veggies you want to get those in. But a salad. And when you have the salad, this is the most important part of your lunch. Don't use any commercial dressing out there, period. Put olive oil on it, use salt, use pepper. And I like white vinegar. People say, well, why white vinegar? It's because I grew up in a poor Italian home. That's what we have. That's what I'm used to. That's what I still love. So white vinegar, if you have balsamic or whatever you want to have, but don't name a dressing, you could go to Whole Foods and get their most expensive crappy dressing, the goddess dressing that still has corn starch in it. And that's going to make you fat. It's going to cause the spike. You don't want dinner pretty close to lunch, except whatever you had for lunch, have the opposite for dinner.
Adam Carolla
So if you had beef for lunch, have chicken. If you had chicken, have beef or fish.
Vinny Tortorich
You have pork and fish and whatever. You can just switch it up. Or, you know, avocados, great. You know, people say, what about fruit? Avocado is a fruit. That's your best fruit, period.
Adam Carolla
What about a dessert or a snack or something we can take with us?
Vinny Tortorich
Snacks first. Raw nuts, walnuts, cashews.
Gina Grad
They're not as good as the roasted ones.
Vinny Tortorich
They're never as good as the roasted ones. Never go with, you know, the overly processed, barbecue flavored, yada, yada. Anything you get out of a vending machine, you could pretty much guess that it's been processed. And by the way, that's a bigger factor for heart disease than any kind of meat.
Brian Bishop
Really?
Vinny Tortorich
Absolutely. No one has ever died. You know what's in your heart? You know what causes your heart to stop?
Adam Carolla
What?
Vinny Tortorich
Not your heart.
Brian Bishop
Okay, what causes it?
Vinny Tortorich
Plaque. And you don't get plaque from cholesterol. You get plaque from everything else. Trans fats. You'll get it from, you know, just causing cortisol constantly running in your body that. So stress is a bigger factor to heart disease than any kind of meat you can eat.
Brian Bishop
Interesting.
Vinny Tortorich
But as far as snacks, nuts are great. This is a little tougher, but olives, great snack. Cheese, high fat cheese, great snack. Avocados again, great snack. You know, anything like that. I know it sounds boring.
Adam Carolla
No, it sounds pretty good. The cheese, olives. You can have, like, salami, stuff like that.
Vinny Tortorich
Absolutely. Look, I mean, a lot of times for lunch, I'm working right through lunch doing my own podcast. I have anchovies or sardines mixed with olives mixed with cheese mixed with whatever else I can find, and I'll just drizzle it and eat it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And the dessert, when you want to cheat. I think I know this one. It's ice cream over cake, right?
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah, pretty much. You can look. Dessert is dessert.
Adam Carolla
And.
Vinny Tortorich
And as I always say, put life into living. I don't want to live in a world that doesn't have chocolate molted, yada, yada cake. I don't want to live in that world.
Adam Carolla
But if you said, like, well, I like cake, but also, like an ice cream sundae, equally, which one should I get? You'd say get the ice cream. Right.
Vinny Tortorich
If the ice cream is just plain ice cream, and it's good ice cream, it's not crappy ice cream. You know, Haagen Dazs is a good ice cream, right? Ben and Jerry's vanilla. You know, whenever you start getting into Ben and Jerry's with, you know, raw cookie dough and, you know, the kitchen sink thrown in, now you have a problem. But just plain ice cream is nothing wrong with it.
Brian Bishop
Or the low sugar, slow churned air, whipped chemical surprise.
Vinny Tortorich
That stuff doesn't even taste like ice cream. I've had it. It's dryers or Breyers or. Yeah, someone brought that along once, and I literally almost slapped him. It's this crap.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So ice cream, which is the real deal, real cream and as far as you go, the only bad thing in there is really sugar. Unless you started adding a bunch of Reese's Pieces and shit like that, right?
Vinny Tortorich
Or the chocolate. A lot of times that stuff is full of. If it was just chocolate drizzled on top, you're good. But it's not. It's a bunch of high fructose corn syrup. And that's kind of how we got fat in this country.
Adam Carolla
Well, can you go to a Ben and Jerry's or you tell me the Stone Cold Coldstone. Cold Stone Steve Austin Brewery and just go give me a scoop of vanilla and put some chocolate sauce on it. Is that okay?
Vinny Tortorich
Well, again, the chocolate sauce has high fructose corn syrup. But look, if you're going to Cold Stone, you're going there for a treat. You're going to probably have your kids in tow. Have a great time. Don't think about it. I don't tell people to live some kind of spartan lifestyle, right? I wouldn't live like that. Howie would never live. No one would live like that. It's crazy. It's crazy talk.
Brian Bishop
But you haven't mentioned the one thing that Angelenos mentioned more than anything. And I know Adam, you can relate to this with Natalia.
Gina Grad
What about it's never too late to get baby corn.
Brian Bishop
A try frozen yogurt versus ice cream. Because there's a Pinkberry, a fro gerd, whatever on every corner.
Vinny Tortorich
Pinkberry is probably the healthiest of all of the fro yos, but most froyo is non fat. So you're back to the non fat milk.
Brian Bishop
Gotcha.
Vinny Tortorich
And again, a lot of the cheaper places, and you're right, it's la. There's a frozen yogurt place in every street corner. Some of the cheapest places, I dare you to take. If you got three different flavors from any of these cheap shops, okay? And took a bite from each and then closed your eyes and had someone give you a bite of each. You could not tell which flavor you're eating. You go numb on it. Think about the third bite of Vinny Froyo. It's chemical shitstorms. You don't want it.
Gina Grad
I think we have our next bit. Vinny, you have your assignment for next week.
Vinny Tortorich
Okay, Gary, get some music going on that and I'll bring some froyo.
Adam Carolla
All right, Let me just blast through. Some people have been hold for an hour and then we'll. We'll play the game. Let's see. Jonathan, 32, Connecticut. Adam. How you doing, buddy? Oh, hey, Jonathan. How are you? Good, man. How you doing?
Vinny Tortorich
I'm doing great.
Adam Carolla
So here's the deal. I'm a little hopped up on your Mangria still here out in Los Angeles, but my job is complete and I got two weeks of vacation. And I want your. I want your advice on some things I can do to have some fucking fun in Los Angeles.
Vinny Tortorich
Yes.
Adam Carolla
Got two weeks.
Gina Grad
Two weeks.
Adam Carolla
All right.
Brian Bishop
Nice chunk of time you definitely want to.
Adam Carolla
I would want to go up and down the coast. I would want to get on PCH and head towards Santa Barbara. And he's drunk right now.
Vinny Tortorich
Don't tell him to go up the coast.
Adam Carolla
Wait 20 minutes and then go up and down the coast. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Sleep it off and then head up and down the coast. You can do that. You can keep going if you like. You don't have to stop in Santa.
Brian Bishop
Barbara, all those places.
Adam Carolla
Hey, hey, Adam, what you got to remember is I was the one that got hit by the drunk driver. Yeah, I do remember that. You crashed into yourself.
Gina Grad
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I crashed into myself.
Adam Carolla
I'm not driving somebody else to drive. All right, we'll get someone to drive you up and down.
Gina Grad
Are you dead set on doing touristy type stuff? You know, Hollywood and Highlands and Disneyland and all that stuff?
Adam Carolla
Not really, no. I'm not big in the crowd and stuff. Like, how about the nastiest strip bar?
Brian Bishop
Oh, now you're talking.
Adam Carolla
Los Angeles.
Gina Grad
Well, I like the way he asked that.
Adam Carolla
I'm gonna. I haven't been there in a long time. I think. I think Bob. You could go to Bob's. Classy lady in Van Nuys. That place is scary. I don't know. Gary can tell us if it's still there. Oh, yeah, it is still there. It's terrifying.
Gina Grad
There's also some quality. I don't know names off the top of my head, but there's some quality in North Hollywood.
Brian Bishop
Decent stab wounds.
Adam Carolla
And, yeah, there's some good places on Lankershim and also on, I believe, Victory. Yeah.
Brian Bishop
Ironically.
Adam Carolla
But anytime you're handing somebody doesn't know.
Gina Grad
I think it's a victory. I'm not gonna have to double check that.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, that's. That's good. I'm also going to recommend going to Laurie's and getting some prime rib. Oh, yeah, Everyone should try that one.
Gina Grad
LA institutions are the way to go.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Laurie's prime rib. And the next night, you can go up the street to Fogo de Chao.
Gina Grad
And don't even leave La Cienega. Yeah, you don't have to the stinking rose. You see the whole thing?
Adam Carolla
Yep. Let's see. Sam, 39, Seattle. Sam, yeah. Hey, good to talk to you. Going on. And Lady Gina. Thank you. I want to say, Dawson, you're my hero. Like you're like your stuff and keep on keeping on.
Dawson
Thanks.
Adam Carolla
So, yeah, Adam, I got. I gave you a flashlight a couple years ago at a bottle signing here in Seattle. Little titanium number. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I hope I got get put to good use. So my question is, let's say you leave the podcast today. You're cruising down the foothill and an ex con in a garbage truck turns left on red and turns you into. Into a pulp. What do you think would happen to the pirate ship and. And etc. Or do you even care at that point? Davy Jones locker, the briny deep well, take it on water. Asking whether I care at that point is. It's unanswerable because I probably wouldn't care at that point because I'd be dead. And I don't believe I go on loving, caring, or doing almost anything after I'm dead. But that's just the school I come from.
Gina Grad
We'd have to change a lot of the signage around here.
Adam Carolla
Yes, in memoriam. Well, you know, if they could convince Joe Rogan to come over here and keep. Now, I don't know, I imagine there'd be a drop off in terms of listenership.
Gina Grad
Wtf? Adam? Where the fuck is Adam?
Adam Carolla
I think we'd have good ratings on the first show. I was gone, but I'd like to think that people would continue. The fridge would be a fucking mess. The fridge would be a fucking disaster. And so would the sink. The whole place would be covered with cobwebs, coffee mugs, pile holes and coffee mugs everywhere. Because I'm the only one who looks at the fridge and goes, what's going on here?
Vinny Tortorich
Passing up the obvious though, this guy was very specific as to how you're gonna die after the show today.
Brian Bishop
That's a very good point. Yeah, I'd be careful.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah, you're going down foothill and let's just say, I don't know, garbage truck.
Adam Carolla
I do actually go down cross foothill to get home, so. Well, yeah, I'm nothing if not a good listener. Adam, you do say be specific. So I'm. Yeah, no, I appreciate that. Feels good.
Gina Grad
Maybe Sam could take over the show.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, Sam, you could take over the show. I'd give it a whack. I'm a car guy. I'm an electrician, so I Like the builder's angle and all that stuff. All right.
Gina Grad
We'd not be going in a new direction.
Adam Carolla
Thanks, Sam. Hey, we'll see you in Seattle. We'll see you at the Moore Theater. Yes, I'd love to. That is on the 23rd of April. And last but not least, Dave. Line for Dave. Oh, Boulder, 40, Adam, bald Gary, even Dawson. Man, you guys are the best. I look forward to your show every day. Thank you. Thank you for what you do. So, hey, I saw the Hammer. It was a. It was awesome. And it really. I've heard you talking about Breaking Away and I thought it was really like if on your Netflix when they tell you recommended three movies after you saw Breaking Away, it should tell you to watch the Hammer because there's a lot of. I mean, they're not. The plot line isn't similar, but it's got that same vibe to it. And I really, really loved it. Well, I saw Breaking Away, enjoyed it a lot, and when I went decided to make a movie, I sort of had it in my head of I like this style of movie a lot. And it wasn't a movie that was replicated very often or that anyone. It was a forgotten about movie.
Gina Grad
Yeah, for sure.
Adam Carolla
So I like the tone of it. So I intentionally set out to make a movie that had that tone. I saw that movie when I was in the ninth grade, I think. But I'd always stuck with me if I looked at the tone. Yes.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah, yeah.
Adam Carolla
I always like the tone of that movie. Yeah. So it was definitely intentional. And bald, I would even challenge you. It did win an Oscar. Off the top of your head. You know which one it was?
Gina Grad
Oh, wow. Off top of my head. I say the screenplay or score?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah. Steve Tesich, best screenplay. That is 79, I believe it was. But so that got me into bike racing big time. And I live in Boulder and there's a huge cycling community here. Really deep, deep racing roots. It goes back to this race called the Red singer in the 70s and they made that now. American Flyers was in no way of breaking away with the Kevin Costner one with the kid in San Francisco. And. And remember that was kind of a. Kind of a breaking away too, in a way. But anyways, it got me into racing. And I know obviously, I mean, listening to you, your passion for auto racing is really what I like to think mine is for bike racing. And Patrick Dempsey is a guy like, I saw him in your Newman documentary and he's a guy that comes to the Tour of California and it's a. It's the biggest bike race in America right now. It happens in May. And to have you guys come or whatever we could do to reach out and I mean, to be honest, Adam, you really inspired me and, you know, I announced the race and really want to grow. Vinny has done. Vinny's done a lot of extreme endurance challenge stuff, like 100 mile races or things like that.
Vinny Tortorich
Well, no race across America is 3000. Usually I go 500 miles non stop in my races, but the Red Zinger race, I don't know if you know this, but it goes over. If I'm not mistaken, it goes over Independence Pass on its way.
Adam Carolla
In some years it has.
Vinny Tortorich
And the great Bernard Hanaud, the great Tour de France champion of the early 80s, came here and discounted the race, thought, oh, it's America. America. And literally got his ass kicked.
Adam Carolla
Wow.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
So, all right, hold on. How does, how does one do a 500 mile race, Vinnie?
Vinny Tortorich
You start pedaling and you keep paddling. And the biggest question everyone always has is, when do you go to the bathroom? And it's like, well, whenever you feel the urge to go to the bathroom, you get off of the bike. But literally to train for one of those things takes got 15, 16, 17,000 miles per year on a bike. And when you think about that in car terms, that's more than the average that anyone puts on a car.
Adam Carolla
Well, what do you. But you've done extreme stuff on foot too, right?
Vinny Tortorich
Not as much as I'm trying to save my knees, as much as possible. My better half does. She's getting up to the 100 mile mark on foot. She's gone as far as 100k. But yeah, I like getting out. It's. It's how I keep my, my head straight.
Brian Bishop
How long does that take?
Vinny Tortorich
The 500 miles non stop for me, usually somewhere between 32 and 38 hours.
Gina Grad
Wow.
Adam Carolla
That's insane. That's crazy.
Vinny Tortorich
So you're riding through a day, all the way through the night, literally falling asleep sometimes while you're pedaling, and then the next day you're still pedaling and so on and so forth. It just never ends.
Adam Carolla
Wow. It's crazy. I did 100 miles once. It was, you know, took, I don't know, felt like eight, nine hours. And that was the most I thought humanly possible.
Brian Bishop
Can't be done.
Dawson
Yes.
Adam Carolla
500 miles in 32 hours. It's insane. All right.
Vinny Tortorich
17.5 miles an hour, in case you're wondering.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, your brain, that's a good. That's just a good clip.
Gina Grad
All right, that's adam Kroll show 1756 with the great Vinny Tortorich. Hilarious dude.
Adam Carolla
He's been on this show.
Gina Grad
Corolla Classics. Vinny still has the second most appearances on the Adam Carolla show. He fit in seamlessly with the cast. He's always great when he comes back. Love watching the dude's updates on social media. I believe he's still a listener. Love that dude.
Adam Carolla
All right, coming up next, we have.
Gina Grad
Adam Cooler Show 1781 featuring Steve O, Anant Agarwal, Gina Grant and Brian Bishop from 2016.
Dawson
Check it out.
Adam Carolla
Steve O. Here, everybody's got a Showtime special, Guilty As Charged. It premieres on Friday, 10 o'clock on Showtime. I've been seeing very funny spots on it on Showtime. And then I thought, Steve O. Not a history in stand up, but there's a whole new kind of world opening up to stand up because it's not all stand there and tell jokes anymore. I know for myself that's what going on.
Steve-O
I mean, I've been at it for five and a half years now.
Adam Carolla
Is. It is. I mean, it's like guys I always think of like Joel McHale. Joel McHale's not a standup. Joel McHale's a funny guy who tells funny stories who could have been a standup. He just ended up hosting this. So you end up getting a name. People know Joel McHale or Adam Carolla or Steve O. And they go, we want you to do stand up. And you go, well, I don't do stand up, but then I do what I do and then next thing you know, you are doing stand up.
Steve-O
I think that's totally accurate, man. Like, I tell wild stories and they're funny and people laugh, man.
Adam Carolla
And it's a good time for this because traditionally was we sort of put a suit on, stand here and tell jokes that maybe you bought from a guy. I don't know. But I'm guessing Steve couldn't have bought any of these joys.
Steve-O
I've tried, man. I've tried to sit down with writers and never gotten anything out of it.
Adam Carolla
Oh, really?
Dawson
I have.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. What? So like, like what would that. And I have to. Not for stand up, but like, you just, you just sort of find out when you're doing a sitcom and stuff. There's just not that many people that can. Especially your voice. Literally and figuratively. But sure.
Steve-O
And everything is so based on my experience, I kind of have to write it. This special, though. It's. I took all My material and put it in chronological order. So it's like a one man show. I'm telling my story. And then on like, story points, I do, like, real heavy stunts throughout the special.
Adam Carolla
Oh, you do?
Steve-O
Yeah. So like, I started, you know, I come out with this crazy, violent entrance. And then three minutes into the standup, I got a UFC fighter choking me unconscious and dropping me on. On my head.
Adam Carolla
I did see that in the commercial.
Steve-O
Yeah, my head bounced like a basketball off the stage, man. And then there I am right at the beginning of my special. You know, you wake up from that. You don't know where you are. And then it kind of all comes to me and like, oh, yeah, okay, let's do this. And I don't think a comedy special's ever started.
Adam Carolla
Mort Saul once famously said, wait till the end of the set to have the life choked out of.
Gina Grad
You speak all Hollywood axiom.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, but Steve, right. I put it at the top because what you. What you're looking for out of a comedian is disoriented. First. Funny. Funny's number two. But you're really looking for disoriented.
Brian Bishop
A little afraid.
Adam Carolla
Where am I anyway?
Gina Grad
Anyone can be funny.
Steve-O
Yeah, but, you know, it all came back quick, man, and I pulled it.
Adam Carolla
Well, that is guilty as charged. And if you're tired of just watching stand up specials where they literally just stand up and talk, you can find one where he actually gets put down. And tell us a few more of the stunts because, yes, I do. I remember seeing the commercials now and seeing the spots for it and seeing what's going on with kind of a big tease or something at the end.
Steve-O
Oh, man, the end. The end's crazy. I got shot with a taser guy. You know, it shoots out the darts with the wires connected and 50,000 volts goes through it. When the cops hit you with one, it goes for five seconds, but the civilian version goes for a full 30 seconds because. So you can like, shoot your assailant and then drop it. It gives you 30 seconds to run for your life.
Adam Carolla
Nice. Yeah.
Steve-O
So we did a 50,000 volt 30 second Q&A where I got interviewed while being tasered. And. Yeah, that's never happened before. Man, I was sweating that one too.
Adam Carolla
I never really thought of this. But do you consider yourself, I mean, stand up. But do you also, you consider yourself a stuntman?
Steve-O
Yeah, stuntman. Daredevil mostly. Like if we're gonna really boil it down to what it is, I'm an attention whore.
Adam Carolla
Ah, never thought about that. Live Dates for the Attention Whore Cops Comedy Club, San Francisco. The place is correct. Great. March 18th through the 20th punchline in Sacramento. And that's March 23rd through the 26th in Funny Bone, Liberty Township, Ohio. Coming up April 14th through the 17th. How now do we have another Jackass movie? Bruin.
Steve-O
You know, I was in Tampa with Mike Calta on the radio, and he said to me when he went to go see Jackass3d, he was scared that it would have reached a point where it was sad. It becomes sad to watch us do that kind of thing. And he said he was relieved to find that we were still getting away with it. And now, like, six years later, I kind of feel like getting. Getting everybody back together doing a Jackass form. It might have gotten to the point where it's sad to watch us, you know? With that said, I don't give a crap, because I've been. I've kept doing crazy, crazy, you know, I just haven't stopped at all.
Adam Carolla
But, I mean, it's a good payday, right?
Steve-O
It's a great payday. Yeah. And I got sick of waiting for it, man. At this point, some of the guys aren't in the best of health. Some of the guys are too busy. Some of the guys are kind of lazy. I just don't see it happening. So I got sick of waiting, and I wrote my own movie. And I'm, like, really kind of. I feel like I'm getting some traction to make it happen and that.
Adam Carolla
You're trying to get funding for your own movie, right?
Steve-O
Huh?
Adam Carolla
And what's the theme of that?
Steve-O
Well, it'd be like what Johnny Knoxville did with Bad Grandpa, where, you know, like, heavy stunts and pranks shot with hidden camera rolled into a film with a narrative. And the idea is, you know, for, like, sort of a lovable, endearing reasons, I get in a lot of trouble, and I'm running from the law. It's kind of like Thelma and Louise, where everywhere I go in public, I have to adopt a. A disguise to evade capture because I'm sort of an overnight celebrity for being, like, such a. Such a total idiot with my crimes.
Adam Carolla
But you've been. I mean, the real Steve O. Has been sober now for how long?
Steve-O
Just celebrated eight years.
Adam Carolla
Wow. And, Abel, I. You know, I guess we should. You know, they always say this to musicians, like, well, you find you're able to write songs now that you're off heroin, know, Eric Clapton or whoever. The real question is, can you put a fish hook through your ball sack and jump into the ocean sober. That's the real question. Writing fucking songs? No. Who cares? That's easy, right? Are you able to do the same crazy shit? Evidently you are.
Steve-O
Yeah, I haven't slowed down a bit, man. And I never really did stunts because I was under the influence. If anything, I did them despite the fact that I was under the influence. You know, I did it all because I'm an attention whore. And you know, take away the drugs and booze got a sober attention whore.
Adam Carolla
So the special, once again, guilty as charged, premieres this Friday, 10:00 on Showtime. I'm gonna be watching. We're gonna do some news and Steve O's gonna hang out. Crack wise. Let's do it. Gina Brad News with Gino Grad show.
Dawson
Biz come Congress Tech news, Sports news, World news. Give me news with Gina Grad.
Adam Carolla
Weird shit out of Florida Sex servants.
Dawson
Obama meet News with Gina.
Adam Carolla
Gina the news with Gina Grad.
Brian Bishop
Well, animal rights activists are celebrating a big victory in their fight against Sea World.
Steve-O
That's right.
Brian Bishop
Yep. The marine themed amusement park has announced that it will phase out its killer whale shows and end its orca breeding program immediately. The killer whales that are currently living at the parks will be their last. As SeaWorld says it will turn its attention to, quote, new inspiring natural orca encounters.
Adam Carolla
That sounds boring, but all right. If I was an orca whale and I was hanging around with another orca whale that was like super upbeat, I'd be like, you gotta let your dorsal fin flop, dude. The only way we're gonna get out of here is if you feel you're fucking walking around at full, full staff, full mass all the time, like super happy. Go. Lucky you got sickly.
Gina Grad
You never any protesters on your side.
Adam Carolla
That way you keep humming that Katrina and the wave song, Walking on sunshine. No, man, let it, let it flop. Let it flop. Oh, yes. Steve O with the. The orca whale. I forgot.
Steve-O
That's right, man. I.
Adam Carolla
You got arrested twice, right?
Steve-O
No, I only got arrested once. I got fined another time.
Adam Carolla
Okay, Right.
Steve-O
I got sentenced to 30 days in jail. Of course, I only did eight hours of it.
Adam Carolla
What was. Were you doing something with the sign?
Brian Bishop
You were like up on a cherry picker.
Steve-O
Right, right. Well, the first one, there was a highway sign down near San Diego where they've got a road called SeaWorld Drive. And you know the highway sign says how far away the next exit is. And I just printed out a huge thing that says sucks and taped it over Drive. So the highway sign said seaworld sucks, which Was kind of clever and cool. I got away with that for just $239. Fine.
Brian Bishop
A bargain at any price.
Steve-O
And then I decided to follow it up with a really dumb one where I went to a random construction site nowhere near SeaWorld at all. I climbed up this 150 foot tall crane with an inflatable toy whale.
Brian Bishop
It was right next to my building, actually. So I remember this very well.
Steve-O
Yeah, you know, by the time I got done with that one, there were 80 firefighters, 18 cops, a helicopter, and a SWAT team to draw.
Adam Carolla
Drawing. I mean, besides being attention whore you care about. Well, I could see the judge going, Mr. O, I would be sympathetic to your cause if I didn't see an episode of Jackass where you actually fucked a blowhole, almost suffocated the poor orca. So is this a publicity stunt or do you actually care about these majestic aquatic creatures?
Steve-O
I'm super sensitive to animal rights, man. I've been vegan for ages. Like, I, you know, I definitely thought it was cool to, you know, get some news, what are the headlines? But yeah, absolutely.
Adam Carolla
I care about are they going to let, what do they say? Displays or whatever, Are they going to let these things go or they're not? I don't think anyone will be satisfied until they're set free.
Brian Bishop
It doesn't sound like they're letting them go. It sounds like this is the last generation that they're going to breed in captivity. Whether they're going to pull some out of the free ocean and put them in the show, that's to be.
Steve-O
It's a complicated question of whether the ones that they have at the parks can now survive in the wild. So I don't think they ever get set free.
Adam Carolla
But no, that's not going to work because they're going to be like, hey, look at that boat with all those friendly Japanese guys on it. Let's go check that out.
Gina Grad
Let's give them a splash. Watch out, front row.
Adam Carolla
Maybe one of them wants to do the Roman walk or get two of us. There's some move where I think it's called the Roman. Something like they do with the dolphin.
Gina Grad
Like Aquaman?
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah, like Aquaman. Ryan. I see like super friendly Japanese fishermen over there. Let's go hang out. Maybe there's some nice chum in the water or something. We can have tuna. Yeah, we'll be extra safe because they have that huge cannon with the harpoon to stave off any big net to.
Brian Bishop
Keep the bad stuff away.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, all right. So good for them.
Brian Bishop
Yeah, we'll see.
Adam Carolla
Well, that's what you get. That's what happens. Somebody comes out with a documentary. Steve O. Climbs. Gary, you can find a picture of me modifying one of those green California billboards as well. There's a picture in our archives somewhere. I think it was in one of my books. At least that has me desecrating one of the signs as well.
Gina Grad
You're an activist as well.
Adam Carolla
You. Let's see. Mexico one now. Now, this one is Knott's Berry Farm. It's not the SeaWorld. It's a. It's a picture of the green sign. I think it was in one of my books. I got to figure out which one it was. Gary, you can. You can look around, but I. What I'm saying to you, brother, is I know what it's like to climb up onto a California green sign and desecrate it.
Gina Grad
Thank you for the cause.
Adam Carolla
Did it in high school. I was way, way ahead of you, and there wasn't really much of a cause here, but it was. The cause was called. Used to be called Shits and giggles. Just a good time. All right.
Brian Bishop
Well, TMZ reports that Madonna was ridiculously late for her concert in Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday night. So a bunch of fans were left stranded because they missed the last train home. Well, the show was set for 9pm But Madonna didn't take the stage till 11:22pm she's been habitually late and made a variety of excuses, but this one was pretty bad. Fans booed her, demanded, and got refunds. And Live Nation is throwing their hands up in the air, warning people she just might be starting late. She was very flip about her tardiness at this particular show, telling the crowd, quote, it's you people that get here early that's the problem. Stay home, do your hair, do your makeup, have a tequila, roll yourself a fat one. The concert itself was shaky. I have a little bit of video here as Madonna stumbles around on stage as she admonishes the crowd, then sings Like a Virgin. All right, come late, and then I won't have to come early. Who wants to come early? Nobody wants to come early.
Adam Carolla
Marvin Hank's coming early, dry humping the stage. I think she's drinking. I saw something on TMZ where it's like she's riding around on a trike and there's a bottle of booze, and she was like, drinking, going, I'm drinking, I'm drinking. And she's crossed over into some world where I think alcohol has taken hold.
Steve-O
It's Reached a point where it's kind of sad to watch her do that.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah.
Brian Bishop
And I think what might be going on is some. What's the word? I can't think of the word. But Rocco, her son. There's maybe a custody thing between her and Gwynne.
Adam Carolla
It's a domestic situation.
Vinny Tortorich
Yes.
Adam Carolla
I think she's distraught over this custody thing where Guy Ritchie and Rocco and he said, I want to live with dad.
Steve-O
So she's going to impress the judge with this behavior.
Adam Carolla
It's going to be a weird. It's going to be a weird conversation where it's like, dude, you don't wanna live with your mom. Your mom's Madonna. My dad's Guy Ritchie, bitch.
Gina Grad
Oh, that changes.
Adam Carolla
That sounds even funner. Go do that then.
Brian Bishop
Yeah, it made me think too. When you talk about burning out your pleasure centers and being desensitized. She's on a stage in front of hundreds of thousands. Of thousands of people, and she's just, like, over it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So I think there's some substance here. Also, there's this point I see it happen a lot with celebrities when they get to a certain level where they just think they can go off and talk for 12 minutes, like in between stuff about nothing or whatever. Because people are so crazy enamored with them. It's a sort of like super smoking hot blonde at a frat party syndrome. Like, you can just stand there and hold court about hydrogen peroxide and how it whitens your teeth, and everyone's just gonna be getting you a beer and nodding their head.
Brian Bishop
Do you guys do oil pulling? You know, you put the coconut oil in your mouth, it's supposed to be.
Adam Carolla
Really good for you. It just clears my mouth. Yeah.
Steve-O
No.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, yeah. No, Absolutely no. Genius. Absolutely.
Brian Bishop
It makes my teeth feel whiter, feel much stronger. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
No, smart. Genius. That's awesome. You want another Michelob?
Brian Bishop
Mm.
Adam Carolla
Okay. Okay. I'll get all the. Okay. I'll get the Michelob. You get seven layer dip. I'll get seven layers.
Brian Bishop
The extra virgin cooking oil.
Adam Carolla
Oh, yeah, I got the. We got this. Do we have any seven layer dip?
Gina Grad
I'll fucking run for it right now.
Adam Carolla
Go.
Gina Grad
I'm gonna run for it right now.
Adam Carolla
Make a dry Joe's. Right.
Brian Bishop
Shiny. And it's good for your Kim.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. So she. You'll see these celebrities where they just get up there and they just start yammering for long periods of time. Or they'll do little things. Like they'll go, these two want to get engaged, but we want to. But they don't make anything out of it. It's not funny or anything. It's just. The point is it's them. When you cross over into that place where we're no longer there to see the product. Product, it's you. Certain people get into that. And then there are guys. I mean, listen, I'll give the devil his due. Bruce Springsteen is Bruce Springsteen. That's his product. Every single time. He just gets out there and burns a million calories and slides all the way to Alabama on his knees and never stops. But that's what people want. That's what people get. But there's. I feel like Cher flows into that. Flowed into that space at some point.
Steve-O
Kanye.
Adam Carolla
Kanye, yeah. Where Kanye gets up there. You're just watching Kanye. You want to hear him do something. But he's getting political and talking about his kids and pointing and. All right, Gary, you know, Mike lynch will know where that picture is. He's probably working. But there's definitely in our files somewhere. Me up on a green. I'm not saying I texted him and.
Gina Grad
I'm looking through the file he gave me.
Adam Carolla
Don't look for a picture of me. Look for a picture of the sign.
Gina Grad
No, I understand. I'm not looking. I'm not looking on the Internet through Lynch's internal files.
Adam Carolla
Okay, here we go.
Brian Bishop
Well, SF Gate reports that Adam LaRoche decided to quit baseball because the White Sox management asked him to stop bringing his 14 year old son Drake to the clubhouse every day. White Sox president said he'd ask Adam to dial it back because it was compromising the focus of the team. Drake laroche, the son who attended his hometown school in Kansas during the off season, takes multiple weeks worth of homework with him on the road the rest of the year to be with dad. He's a near constant presence in the White Sox clubhouse and sometimes, you know, just goes everywhere with him. They said, can you stop bringing your kid? He said, absolutely not. Walked away from a $13 million contract.
Steve-O
Wow, that's some Dave Chappelle shit.
Adam Carolla
All I do is get more mad at my dad whenever I hear about these stories.
Brian Bishop
Can you imagine?
Adam Carolla
We went to a Rams preseason game. That was our only sporting event, preseason. Got free tickets from someone probably playing like the Oilers or some crappy team. And we went to stupid Coliseum. There were like 11 people there. It was a preseason game for the Rams. Not even regular season preseason. Everybody. And I know someone gave him tickets at work. This guy's the greatest dad in the world, right?
Brian Bishop
Well, I was gonna Ask you best dad ever or egotistical blowhard. Well, I mean, there's other people trying to work.
Adam Carolla
Egotistical. Look, I like work to be work. My dog just took a piss in the studio. So maybe I'm the wrong guy to ask, but my kids come. Here's the way I do it personally, because some people will be like, oh, your kids. Or get your kids off the mic. Or more Sonny on the mic, or whatever it is. For me, it should be like, organic, which is. I go to work every day and I leave my dog and I leave my kids at home. But now we're tearing apart my kitchen. It's a war zone in my house. My wife's at the dentist all day. Thus Philly Cheesesteak is gonna come with daddy today and take a whiz on the carpet. The other time Sonny was here and on Mike is. I had to pick him up from school. I got a call from school at like 10:30 in the morning. He's sick. Come get him. I don't have a choice. My wife's out of town. I'm going to work. I gotta have. Now he can. He can sweat it out in the car, that's fine. Or he can come in. And when he. When he comes in and we start talking about something, he actually had an opinion on it. I put him on the mic. So I think the answer is when it's appropriate. You know what I mean? Like, there's a time and a place. Like, yeah, you're doing a home game, or it's father, son, whatever, or it's. It's, you know, it's free Pepsi night, or whatever the hell it is. Bring them. But not all the time. Not everywhere, not everything. That's. That's the thing. Yes.
Gina Grad
Gary, you may like this guy because a different article I read said that part of the primary motivation for this insistence on him going everywhere with the team is that the guy doesn't want his kid in school. He doesn't value school. He believes he'll learn more in the clubhouse. Oh, well, I do bark up the Corolla tree.
Adam Carolla
I am a big fan of them being exposed, especially just every one of those guys, by the way, are on that team because they stayed after practice and hit 100 bucket of ball. A bucket of balls with 100. Their dad threw them 100 curveballs in a row.
Gina Grad
Best player in his county, probably, you know, a little kid in high school like, he. Yeah, he worked his ass off.
Adam Carolla
And baseball more so than other sports, I would say, because it doesn't require the insane physicality that football requires. You got to go at it over.
Gina Grad
And over yourself to be a great baseball player.
Brian Bishop
You know, I definitely didn't do my due diligence on this one because it would have been probably easy to find out. Gary, maybe, you know, is he divorced? Is he a single father?
Adam Carolla
No.
Brian Bishop
Huh.
Gina Grad
I guess the wife wanted the kid. According to what I read, the wife wants a kid in school. And he kind of said no. Apparently the wife came around. He. In the interview he gave, he said, we don't put a lot of importance on school. We believe that he'll learn a lot more in the clubhouse.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. All right. Maybe if he'd use the word emphasis.
Steve-O
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
It help his case. Do you have the. This is a picture. When I was 18, there was a picture. There was a campaign that was out, and it was on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, I think above the Oz or whatever they had back then. Ventura Boulevard. And it's said, for family fun, go.
Gina Grad
Go to.
Adam Carolla
Sorry, go to Colon. And then it said, one, Knott's Berry Farm.
Steve-O
Two.
Adam Carolla
Disneyland, three, the Beach. And then we wrote two, Jerk off. And we made vinyl letters. They weren't bold enough, now that I look back at it, but this is on top of a roof of a building. So we had to go through the back of the building. Pretty good, climb up one of those ladders. It's got the flap on it with the lock. Shimmy up there, get up and then climb up and walk across the thing. Ventura Boulevard is. There's a cop party going on on Ventura Boulevard all day, every day. If you. If you know, when people come to town, I tell them certain places, stay away or don't speed. Ventura Boulevard, tons of cops. So we knew at night we had a limited window. We also knew if the cops pulled up under us, we weren't really going to be able to get down because it took a lot to get off this building. You couldn't just jump off the front.
Gina Grad
Did you paint that or is that.
Adam Carolla
Those were vinyl letters that were white vinyl letters. We'll put it up@adamcarolla.com White vinyl letters that we prefabbed to peel and stick. It was probably shelving paper or something like that. Like that plastic shelfing stuff. We did this for free. There was no financial gain in this.
Brian Bishop
Passion projects.
Adam Carolla
Well, no, it wasn't like the beats.
Gina Grad
Didn'T pay you to do that.
Adam Carolla
No, but what I'm saying is, is it wasn't on a dare or bet, you know, it wasn't There wasn't anything like that. It was literally pure boredom. It was like just 19 year olds, rudderless, floating around North Hollywood. Nowhere to go, nowhere to be, nothing to do. We passed that sign like way too many times and eventually I looked up and just went, we gotta modify this thing. This is too much.
Brian Bishop
Steve, are you like. That's a good start. Okay, you're getting your feet wet.
Steve-O
Doesn't look boring to me.
Adam Carolla
Now let's. To be fair with this circa 1983 grandfather, this baby in led the way.
Brian Bishop
Well, Jason Mayhem Miller, an MMA fighter and former TV host, is in trouble with the law again.
Adam Carolla
Jason Miller, is he the one who.
Gina Grad
Beat up the girl?
Adam Carolla
This cannot go well.
Steve-O
Beat up the girl? He was the one who had the MTV show Bully beat down or recently.
Gina Grad
Had a standoff with the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Brian Bishop
Yeah, yeah, he was at Irvine show at one point.
Adam Carolla
He's a. He's a really. He was a really cool guy, but it seems like something has taken him over. There's some possession going on. It could be fueled by substance. It could be fueled by right. There's some thing going on in his head that is taken control over what was a really cool, funny guest and everything else. Something is going on with him.
Steve-O
What was the episode before? Trying to remember. I remember there was an episode.
Adam Carolla
Oh, well, yeah, it was in like Orange county and it's like the cops called and his girlfriend and yeah, he.
Gina Grad
Was supposed to be tutoring some kid, but the mom said he was holding him hostage and he was live tweeting it and on office.
Brian Bishop
There's a SWAT standoff. Yeah, there's.
Adam Carolla
There's a. There's an intervention that needs to be taken place.
Brian Bishop
So this time he was arrested in connection with vandalizing a Lake Forest tattoo shop. The Orange County Sheriff's Department said Miller was stopped in his vehicle and arrested in Mission Viejo on Tuesday while out of the Octagon. Miller has had a slew of run ins in the law enforcement community, including several arrests in recent years on charges that range from domestic violence to assaulting cops. The 35 year old last fought in 2012 in which he was banned from the UFC. His next fight is scheduled for May 21st in Italy for an event called Venator FC.
Adam Carolla
All right. Oh, it's not. Is it Bellator or Venator V E.
Brian Bishop
N a T O R. All right.
Adam Carolla
Either way, sad. And let's hope friends and family can intervene because he, he's a good guy when he's good.
Gina Grad
Yeah, I think I Confused him with War Machine, the one I saw in sports.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, that was crazy.
Gina Grad
That was pretty crazy.
Brian Bishop
I think Nick might have some insight on this.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, War Machine was the guy beat up his girlfriend. And when I say beat up, I mean one full mma. Yeah, she was right. It's Venator fc. It's an Italian promotion. It's a really small thing because his career is essentially over. But there was this big thing yesterday because the. The Dana White of that promotion, he.
Gina Grad
Dana Blanco.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I know. His. His. His opponent's gonna be his inner demons. It's gonna be the ultimate cage fight.
Gina Grad
His ultimate.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Gina Grad
But he retweeted.
Adam Carolla
What? No one knew this at the time, but it was like an onion type thing for mma. It's called Cage Potato. And he retweeted this without any preamble, so everybody thought it was him. And it says, quote in my eyes. Spray painting a tattoo shop does not.
Brian Bishop
Make you a criminal.
Adam Carolla
If it did, then Banksy would basically be Hitler. Everyone knows that there are only two real crimes in this world, Rape and murder. Jason Miller is not a saint, but he hasn't committed either of those yet. So I see no reason why he shouldn't be allowed to fight. In fact, we here at Venator FC are fully prepared to pay Miller's legal fees and think that all of you MMA media pussies should just shut the.
Gina Grad
Fuck up already and quit your bitchin.
Adam Carolla
Suck my dick, Frank Miranda.
Steve-O
Wow.
Adam Carolla
Wow. All right, well, drop the mic, Nick. I'll tell you this. The insane. I always find it insane when people don't let people work because of something else. Especially when cage fighting is their work. Like, oh, you desecrated a tattoo parlor. Now you're not fit to attempt to gouge someone's eyeballs out.
Brian Bishop
Come on, choir boy.
Adam Carolla
I would say this is perfect behavior for a guy during his. On his off hours. I expect nothing less. Giving out hams to inner city kids is what that would confuse me. And because we're concerned, maybe he's lost his edge. You see what I'm saying? Either way, he's a good per. Inside the crazy veneer lies a good person that somebody needs to extricate, reach out to you. It may mean spending some time in Malibu at one of those places. Lifelock, baby got the tax refund. It's coming, baby. Lifelock. I'll tell you, you file online, that's great. Saves a ton of time. But Social Security, date of birth, and the thieves are off and running. They take that money, they put it right into their account, and that'll be that. And by the way, oh, I don't get any refunds. I just pay in. So I wouldn't know what that's like, but I could only imagine somebody stealing your refund. Good luck getting the IRS to just cut me a second check. Would you help here? Yeah, we're closed.
Gina Grad
I can see you in there. There's definitely people inside.
Adam Carolla
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Dawson
Whatever.
Adam Carolla
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Adam Carolla
All right, let's do one more.
Brian Bishop
All right. Oh, I'm going with this one.
Adam Carolla
All right.
Brian Bishop
So some employers are now offering workers bereavement time for the loss of a pet. Companies such as Maxwell health software company VMware and pet insurance company Trupanion are offering pet bereavement days so that employees could have some time to mourn the loss of the pet and pull themselves together before returning to work.
Adam Carolla
You know, there's gonna be. Well, we talk about unintended consequences, right?
Gina Grad
Yeah. Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Mm. Sorry, Fido, but there's a four day bachelor party I want to go to and I gotta put you down. Yeah, I used up all my sick days.
Brian Bishop
He just really loves that pillow over his face.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, he. Yeah, he got hold of a pillow and he just. I don't know if there is such a thing as puppy suicide. Canine A side KSI. Why can't dogs be depressed and kill themselves?
Gina Grad
You like greenies, huh? Have all the greenies in the world.
Adam Carolla
Someone's gonna kill their dog so they can go to Burning Man. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
Gina Grad
Slippery slope.
Brian Bishop
But Steve O. Something tells me because you love animals, that you. If you were a boss, you might be like, you know what? Take a day or two. You need it.
Steve-O
I don't know. I have two rescue dogs and two rescue cats, so my house is pretty full of animals. I think if you lose a pet, the worst thing to do is to have idle time on your hands.
Brian Bishop
Okay, now we're back in.
Steve-O
You know, I say, like, just get Your mind off it.
Gina Grad
Go to.
Steve-O
Go to work.
Adam Carolla
Maybe this is one of my ploy ideas. Like the things where. You know, the roundup ideas, like where they went. My, you know, free cockfights for Raiders fans at the Coliseum at noon. And then we just round up all the deadbeat dads who show up. Up, Right. Okay, so maybe I do a thing, and maybe businesses do this thing where you go like, hey, we have a bereavement thing, which is if your pet dies, you can take two days off. And then the first person that comes in your office and goes, listen, my cat. My cat was 26, but died.
Gina Grad
That's very important to me.
Adam Carolla
Found dead. I mean, good take. As a matter of fact, take the rest of your life off. Your ass is fired. I don't want to work with pussies. How about that? You love pussies.
Gina Grad
I do. I love them so much, I have to take two days off.
Adam Carolla
I hate them. I hate working with pussies. This thing, this whatever, the safe space or the bereavement. Whatever. Whatever we're talking about. Since when did going over here and sobbing solve any problems or reverse any problems? Like, there's the part where I need time off because my kid's sick. I gotta take care of my kids. I got to go to my. I have to go get a root canal or whatever it is. The specialist is only. Oh, I can only fit me in on Monday at 11am like, okay, I got to go do this. The. Oh, the mean person came to my college and spoke and said words I disagreed with. Now I have to go over here. Where's over here? Where's over here? Go to work, commiserate with people, tell them what happened. Get lost in something, some project that you're working on, and do it while you're unhappy about the passing of your cat, dog, loved one, or whomever. Like, I don't get. Since there is no practical application. There's no. There's nothing that can reverse it.
Brian Bishop
We can't reanimate it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Be all about it. Well, if I took a week off, the cat would live for another year. Like, okay, do that.
Vinny Tortorich
Sure.
Adam Carolla
But I'm just gonna sit around and watch the Price is Right and crack a cold one and look at a little Internet porn. That's the way Fluffy would have wanted it. It like, what. What does that do?
Brian Bishop
Yeah, it doesn't help.
Adam Carolla
You know, my whole feeling is, is I will give you a day off if you go to a church or synagogue or whatever and sit in some cat, bereavement circle or something and go do something. You want to just hang out at your house? You can just hang out here doing the data entry. I'm paying you for it.
Gina Grad
Yeah, well, like Steve O alluded to, the cliche is, wherever you go, there you are. Your emotions, you have more time alone with you, which is probably worse if you're home off work.
Steve-O
Grief is not action.
Adam Carolla
Wow. You can't go out on a heavier note than that. Grief is not action.
Brian Bishop
Like that.
Adam Carolla
I like it. All right, let's bring it home.
Brian Bishop
You got it. I'm Gina Grad, and that's the news.
Adam Carolla
That's why I called the ace man got the gold.
Dawson
That was the news with Gina Grad.
Adam Carolla
Roundup max. Max control 365. Weeds are. Nature's a little boomerang, man. They just keep coming back. Yes.
Gina Grad
I gotta get my hands on some of this. You know, the rainy season's kind of ended now in my backyard. The brick in the backyard, all the weeds are popping up between the bricks.
Adam Carolla
Well, they grow like weeds, them weeds. That's why they say it grows like weeds. But it is sad like that. The stuff you're trying to really cultivate, the Roma tomatoes or whatever, just kind of sitting there, and the weeds just go taunting you. Yep. Right to the sky. All right, so where do I draw the line? Bereavement days for your cat? Here's my thing. Here's the thing. Your pet must weigh over 80 pounds. And I'll give you half a day. I'll let you cut out at noon by the weight. I go by weight. I go by weight. Same way I would make my seating chart if I was a teacher.
Gina Grad
Sure.
Adam Carolla
Fat kids in the center. I don't go alphabetically. That doesn't serve me.
Steve-O
That'll bite you in the ass, though, man.
Adam Carolla
Fat kids in the middle, spindly kids on the outside. I don't want fat kids blocking the emergency exits if the worst should happen.
Steve-O
The bigger the dog, the shorter the life, man.
Adam Carolla
Well, that's why I'm only giving them a half day. But now I'm including ponies and horses and things like that. Yes, patios are for cooking and hanging back and chillaxing on roundup. Max Control365 works 365 days a year, baby formulated to be safe around humans and pets and even Philly cheesesteaks. So let's go grab some max control 365 roundup. All right. Us. Denver. Coming up, Paramount Theater guest Willie B. Is going to be there. St. Louis that's on the 26th. We will be there at the Pageant Theatre. Live shows everywhere. Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Pasadena, all the good stuff. And be doing the Mangria signings and Denver and St. Louis as well. Argonaut liquor.
Gina Grad
Yes, Denver, St. Louis in a week. I didn't realize it was coming.
Adam Carolla
It's coming around. Yeah, coming around. Get down, baby. Anyway, go to AdamCroll.com for all the information. Steve O Showtime special Guilty as charged premieres this Friday 10pm on Showtime. I shall be watching in live dates all over the place. Go to steveo.com steveo.com so thank you, my brother.
Steve-O
Yeah, dude, man. Thanks for having me, guys.
Adam Carolla
Until next time, Adam Corolla for Steve O. Gina Grad and bald Brian Sayith. Mahalo. I knew there was a reason I hated you and I couldn't put my finger on it and now I can, you ass wipe.
Dawson
All right, that's Adam Cooler Show 1781.
Gina Grad
Coming up next, we have Adam Krilla Show 1802 featuring Chris Bell, Mark Bell, Gina grad, Brian bishop, also from 2016.
Adam Carolla
Back with the Chris Bell and Mark Bell brothers, the movie Prescription Thugs. Very, very, very interesting stuff. And, and there's a twist and a twist inside of a twist inside this thing. I like Chris Bell movies. I, I Mark, we have not met before. Chris and I have met on a few occasions. Is this a you guys co op this thing together? I mean, did you work on it together or. Because Mark's in it, but I don't know if Mark made it.
Dawson
No, no, I don't have anything to do with the film in that regard. But we're working on the aftermath of the result of addiction.
Adam Carolla
So the Bell brothers, there was a third who passed away from addiction. It is crazy because the parents are the sanest, most nurturing, lovingest, sort of slice of Americana on the planet. Like every time I see your mom, she's hugging you, wanting to know if she can make you some break ziti. And your dad is just sitting there nodding his head, going, well, addiction can be a very difficult problem, but I'm there every step of the way. How did this come from these two parents?
Dawson
We have awesome parents. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, our parents have always been supportive of us, but I thought when I came to them with an addiction problem that they were just going to lose it. So a big reason why I didn't tell them that I had a problem, I had a double hip replacement surgery and I got addicted to pills for about five or six Years. And it was a mess. And the reason I couldn't tell them is because Mad Dog died. So we lost Mad Dog in 2008 shortly after. Bigger, Stronger, Faster. He was mainly. Pills were his downfall. Alcohol, you know, everything mixed together. Just ended his life basically at 37 years old. And I didn't know how to tell my parents. So in the process of making this movie, I was like, I'm going to tell my parents that I had this problem. And I say had because I had the problem. And then the problem came back because I never treated it correctly.
Adam Carolla
I mean, you were always, pardon me, Mark, but maybe you were the good son, you know.
Dawson
Yeah, probably.
Adam Carolla
So it's weird when the good son has to go there. The one, the son who they talked to about the other son's addiction.
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Has to now say, I'm. That's. That's gotta be weird for you, right?
Dawson
Yeah, sure. And Bigger, Stronger, Faster. It was like, well, they didn't know Mark was taking steroids and they didn't know anything about that. And they were, when they found out, they were, you know, completely shocked. And it's not even in the movie, but, you know, after the movie, obviously they saw it and they're like, oh my God, he's on steroids. And they had to learn to accept that. And he's got kids. And they were all worried about that, even though we spell out in the movie what the side effects are and what the realistic side effects are of it. But yeah, it was difficult because I always think my mom looked at me as like, he's the good kid, he's the kind hearted kid. And I was always hiding that secret of addiction that I've had actually with alcohol stemming all the way back to when I went to college. Know, super smart and creative, went to USC film school and stuff. And so I think you hit the nail on the head with what you said. But, you know, our parents have always been super kind and super nurturing of everything that we've done, very supportive of everything that we've ever done. So seeing both my brothers kind of go down this path was really hard. And that, that was another reason why he didn't want to come to me because I have my. I have my own life going on. I got my kids and my wife. So he didn't want to come to me with it either. Even though he and I are super close. We talk every day.
Adam Carolla
Well, you know, I've said this because we always do this thing from a female perspective where they go, well, they're changing the Barbie dolls to make them a little frumpier now because it's unfair to young girls to have this body image, this blah, blah, blah. This is a two way street. Because you guys grew up watching professional wrestling. Look what Spider man, you know, by the way he. Man, I was funny because I saw a Ninja Turtle poster or something the other day. They're now shredded. Yeah, Ninja Turtles used to be shaped like turtles made on styrofoam. They were jacked, and now everyone is jacked.
Dawson
Have you been to a like sports authority or sports chalet and seen the mannequins? The mannequins are gigantic. They have like huge biceps and they're all veiny. I'm not gonna look like that when I put on that Under Armour shirt.
Adam Carolla
Young boys grow up with this issue as well. Like, you guys are kind of a victim of that. Growing up bigger, stronger, faster. We saw it in that documentary of seeing Hulk Hogan and guys like that and going, what's wrong with me? I want to be like that. Everyone treats us as an exclusive sort of female club, but it's a male and female image problem. Look at the guns and the triceps on the Ninja Turtles. I just want to see the old Ninja Turtles. I just want to see the old ones before now. Right. So what kind of weird message is this to every boy on the planet too?
Dawson
You gotta get jacked.
Adam Carolla
So the documentary is about. And this is something I think you should probably get on with me and Dr. Drew. And Dr. Drew as well. And talk about this, because Dr. Drew has been on this for a long time. Sure.
Dawson
Yeah. I actually did Loveline a couple months ago with Drew. We didn't get a long time to talk, but. But it was good, you know, he actually turned me on to some things I didn't even know about. Oh, yeah, there you go.
Adam Carolla
Well, first off, the old turtles were jovial, smiling. Now everyone's a badass. And they had muscles, but not like they have them. Not like they have.
Dawson
Now I want to see puffy muscles.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Yes.
Dawson
They were more innocent muscle.
Adam Carolla
They had innocent, innocent, puffy muscle. And now everyone's scary. And that's. It's back to my thing where it's like.
Gina Grad
It's like the Beatles and Lincoln Park. Yeah, they got real angry over the last two decades.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, I don't know what happened. Why everyone's gotta have a fucking attitude. Styrofoam turtles. Knock it off. So let's just talk. Throw out a couple statistics that'll just kind of blow everyone's mind when it comes to the prescription drugs.
Dawson
Well, it's pretty simple. I mean, as a country, we represent 5% of the entire world's population, and we consume about 75% of the world's prescription drugs. So right there, it just shows you that. And if you look even further into it, we are ranked number 50 according to life expectancy. So it's not extending our life. It's not helping us be healthier. There's a lot of other countries that aren't using these drugs that are actually healthier because these drugs are actually killing us.
Adam Carolla
Well, and as I was watching the documentary Prescription Thugs, I was thinking to myself, yeah, wait a minute. Why can they run all these goddamn commercials for all this stuff with the crazy side effects? And they can't advert cigarettes.
Dawson
Ronald Reagan, that's why. Ronald Reagan was a guy in the beginning who said, let's open this up. Let's allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise. But the thing is that they spend $5 billion advertising to us, the consumer. They spend $25 billion advertising to doctors. So. And the way that they do that.
Brian Bishop
On golf trips in Maui.
Dawson
Yeah, it's all sorts of different ways to cleverly disguise that, you know, And a lot of it's spent on. I was just looking up some stuff on how much. They've already spent $10 million on this year's election in 2012. They spent $51 million to persuade, you know, different people to be in office so that they do different things according to the way they want. And the sad thing is that it's a business of, you know, it used to be about medicine, it used to be about health, and it used to be about us being healthy. And the drug companies used to be run by scientists, and it used to be run by doctors. And they were happy if they made a 10%, you know, profit margin. And now that's just completely unacceptable. And it's not about health, it's about profit margin. And we see what that's doing. You know, a company like Purdue Pharmaceuticals, you know, they had to pay $256 million. And when I first heard that, I'm like, that's just excessive. I mean, they're going to go out of business, aren't they? But then you realize they made $35 billion on OxyContin, you know, over the past 15 years or whatever. So.
Adam Carolla
Well, a few things. One is, it always drives me nuts because you're like. Like, this is not. That's not a democracy. When you're Able to pay millions and millions of dollars to people that we elected to get them to do your bidding for you. It's not a democracy. It drives me nuts where it's like, yeah, I got the billions of dollars or the millions of dollars of campaign contribution, but don't worry, that's not gonna sway me. But believe me, I'll tell you two things about. I say this about companies all the time. Do the right thing. Have a. They don't have a heart. They have a bottom line. Do the right thing. They don't know the right thing from the wrong thing. They don't care. Toyota is leaving California and going to Texas to save a nickel, and they'll do it to save a penny. It doesn't matter. Hey, do the right thing. You're asking the wrong people to do the right thing. It's like asking a fucking Rubik's Cube to do the right thing. It's not even a thing. It can't do the right thing. So here's how companies work. If giving away millions of dollars to senators and elections and lobbyists did nothing, they would never, ever do it again, ever. Because all they want is to serve themselves. And if they give away 5 million, they need to get 15 million back. And the day they stop breaking even or start losing money will be the day they stop. It's the same thing I yell at my friends on the left when they go. Fences never stopped. And why is there a fence around everything? A fence has never stopped anything. Of course fence has stopped. There's a fence around every person. They're quite effective. So, yes, here's how you know things. When they stop doing them is when the influence stops.
Dawson
I think it's interesting, in this year's election, you have people like Bernie Sanders saying, he's not taking money from people. You have Donald Trump. He's not taking from money from people. And that's the biggest problem in this country, I think, is with everything is the special interest paying money in order to influence the politicians, in order to influence the laws that are hurting us as Americans, not for the people.
Adam Carolla
The stat that was staggering was the amount of lobbyists per congresspeople. Spit a few of those out.
Dawson
Yeah, there's like. I think. I can't even remember the number. There's like 1400. There's basically like three lobbyists per congressperson. So they have somebody in their ear all day long.
Adam Carolla
Three. Three per.
Dawson
Yeah, and lobbyists just show up. I mean, what they do is they show up to the. You know, they show up and they meet with the congressman and they talk to them about what's going on and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right. So that's a lot of. A lot of influence. It's just constant, like, pestering, you know?
Adam Carolla
Well, the thing. And you tell me a couple things. We also live in the. Again, are we smart or are we dumb? Like when you. I always think about the space shuttle. The space shuttle weighs as much as like, 75 loaded Denalis filled with fuel and black folk. And I say black folk because it's a Denali.
Vinny Tortorich
Got a custom rim.
Gina Grad
Hold on.
Dawson
Thank God he didn't say escalator.
Adam Carolla
These are big dudes.
Gina Grad
Okay?
Adam Carolla
These are big dudes. Bouncers. Sure. Ex outside linebackers.
Gina Grad
I mean, these are big dudes.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. No, maybe middle. Maybe some run stoppers in there. That's what the space shutters shuttle ways. And it glides from outer space and lands on the point of a pin in the middle of the Mojave Desert with no power. It comes back. It comes back over, like, Ecuador or something when it enters the atmosphere. And they steer it to a little patch of desert out here, 90 miles away from here. And it just lands on its own. No power, no second tries, no nothing. We are that smart. And then. And then you have to see Chris go talk to his congressman in California. And he says, are you aware that they're selling Vicodin and oxycodone and all this stuff on Craigslist? And he's like, that's not right, is it? And it's like, yeah, you should check. And he's like, they're not allowed to do that. Are they allowed to do that? And he's like, no, it should be wrong right now. And he goes, hold on. And he, like, opens up his tablet and they go in. He's looking at me, what do you want, some Percocet? What do you want, some Vicodin? And he's like, this shouldn't be happening.
Gina Grad
This is all wrong.
Adam Carolla
Well, I'll play the. You can play the clip and then later on you can type in, like.
Dawson
OxyContin and get it.
Vinny Tortorich
Cuz I did not know that until you told me.
Dawson
It's Suboxone.
Adam Carolla
Minimum 10.
Dawson
Must have addressed discreet delivery.
Adam Carolla
That's just illegal. That's amazing. It's amazing. All right. Our work is done. Mind blown. Yep. Time to get back to banging my secretary. Hello. The only things. When you start running things, the only.
Dawson
Real way to know about this stuff is to have experience in it. And that's what he Did. The reason why I knew about it is the research I did for this movie was uncanny. I mean, I was actually bought drugs on Craigslist. Yeah. I mean, I really sacrificed myself.
Adam Carolla
It was crazy. It was getting high. It was. It was like, pardon the connection, but it's like I'm doing a thing researching pedophilia or something. Raping your nephew. All right, we'll make it my nephew. Just even it out. But the point is, you're engaged in the behavior you're doing the documentary on, and you're interviewing guys in rehab clinics that you should literally be in, not interviewing.
Dawson
What happened was I had this addiction problem with prescription painkillers. And I thought I got over. I was on Suboxone. I was on that for eight months. Months. That's a drug. That sort of. It's a drug to get off the drugs. It's one of the most terrible drugs out there because you're only supposed to be on it for, like, five days. I saw people at rehab in Cliffside, malibu, withdraw from 50 bags of heroin a day that they say. They say they're taking, which is a lot. And I saw them go through, like, seven days of detox with, you know, with the doctor's assistance. And they were off the Suboxone. They were off everything. They looked completely different than when they came in. They looked like a zombie. So, I mean, II've seen a lot of crazy stuff happen with these drugs and know that, like, wow, my doctor had me on that for eight months. My doctor is a really shitty doctor, and that doctor should get prosecuted. However, the problem is that they. Thethe laws are set up inin the way that the drug companies convince people that they need to be on Suboxone for the rest of their life. And it is a terrible, terrible drug. Drug. It's a great drug for what it's for, but it's a terrible drug to be on. To have to be on any drug for the rest of your life is terrible. So after I got off the Suboxone, I ended up in the emergency room twice trying to get off the Suboxone. It was way more addictive than the original drug I was on, which was Percocet. And I worked my way up from Percocet. I went to oxycontin. I went to fentanyl patches. And then my drug dealer blew his brains out because he couldn't get any more pills. And that's when I decided I had to stop. So that was a good friend, too, of somebody that was a friend of mine. And then my neighbor across the street the week after that blew his brains out because he was on prescription drugs. And it was just like one of those crazy periods of time. I lost my brother, I lost two friends, and I lost my supply. So I was like, this has to stop.
Adam Carolla
You know, it's insane to me because we, again, we declared war on smokers a long time ago. And non stop psas about smoke and secondhand smoke and how it affects your secondhand smoke, affects your fucking cats and shit like that. Stupid retarded nothing. We never. There's people dying left and right from this. I don't care if your cat dies of secondhand smoke, but it doesn't die of secondhand smoke. But that's all we've done. It's a weird. We're weird in that we pick a focus of nothing and just beat the shit out of it. I'd much rather my son smoke than get involved with prescription drugs. Absolutely.
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
One, One will kill him on his 69th birthday, the other will kill him in 18 months.
Dawson
The thing that I was, I was completely, completely convinced of by the pharmaceutical industry, my doctors, whoever was, I was in pain and I needed to get out of pain. And what gets you out of pain? Pain better than Vicodin, Percocet, or these opiate painkillers. And that's what I was given, that's what I was prescribed. And then actually went, you know, went through a lot of stuff trying to figure out how to get out of pain. And it wasn't until like two months ago when I was on Loveline with your buddy Dr. Drew, where he said, it's not an effective cure for chronic pain. And I said, well, what is? And he said, there's a combo of Tylenol and Advil that you take and you take that together. They work in different ways. And it's actually, actually more effective than the opiate painkillers for chronic pain. You know, not for acute pain if you break your leg, but for long lasting pain, which I have arthritis, so that was a good thing. So ever since I've tried that, I was like, how did I not know about this? How did, how is Dr. Drew the only person along the way that was able to tell me that? When I was trying to. I interviewed so many people, nobody once even said that to me.
Adam Carolla
It's. It's weird. I mean, again, it's. It's like, it's in studies.
Dawson
It's not, it's not like I went and read research.
Adam Carolla
It's like Your congressman not knowing that these guys are selling drugs on Craigslist. And then you get to this point. That's Dr. Drew. Then you get to this point where, like, they go, ah, it shouldn't happen. And then they contact Craigslist. And Craigslist, like, yeah, we're into it, so no more of that. And then at certain point, Chris goes, well, how about nationally? How about we decide that this shouldn't. Not only in California, but what about Nevada and Oregon? He said, congressman's like, yeah, I don't think that's happening.
Brian Bishop
And it's, like, out of my jurisdiction.
Adam Carolla
Why not? We. You can't do prostitution. We do understand. No prostitution on Craigslist. Like, they will. You do anything that involves smoking or. And it's gone, daddy, gone. But for some other things. We're like, we have an infinite amount of time and no resources for it, but we have an ultimate amount of resources and time. Got to do with you consensually having sex with another human being that you meet on Craigslist and exchange money for and. Or smoking a cigarette in a fucking parking lot of a Costco that we got a massive problem with. But this.
Gina Grad
Nothing but time for that.
Adam Carolla
Not so much. I'm gonna float a question. I'm gonna tease it. I'm gonna tease it to you. Don't answer. Cause I'm gonna tell you a happy thing about on it. It's gonna make you feel better. MCT Oil. I love that stuff. But here's my teaser. I would say to Drew all the time, a million years ago, when he would tell me, I've treated people that have 199, 100 Vicodin a day addiction. And you just go, like, not 100. Come on. You're talking about 30. And they know 100. And you go 140. And you go, no, hundred. 100 a day. 100 Vicodin a day. The human. Human body can absorb it, can do it. And by the way, they needed 100 to go to their job at the bank to get going, to get going. So 100 a day. And I would say to Drew all the time, don't answer. I would say to him all the time, I would say, listen, of course, the drug companies love one person taking 100 of their product. And he'd always say, no, they do not. No, they do not. And I said, well, wait a minute. If you're in the business of selling Vicodin and you got one ex wrestler who's consuming 100 a day power user. I've had seven Vicodin in my life, you know, two after root canal. I'm not. They're. They're not making any money off of me, but 100 a day, every day. Not too shabby. And they're always go, no, they don't want it.
Gina Grad
Did he get rid of his reasoning?
Adam Carolla
No, he never would. Other than him being an asshole.
Gina Grad
No, that was implicit. He never explicitly.
Adam Carolla
It's not, you know, it's not good publicity for the drug company. Whatever. And I'd go, 100 units is 100 units, I would say, but I want to know what Chris and Mark's answer is first. On it. By the way, this is what you guys should be doing. The warrior bar. Buffalo meat. 14 grams of protein, 140 calories. MSG oil. Drew loves this stuff. Pour it in the coffee.
Dawson
Mct.
Adam Carolla
Oh, sorry. Chinese food.
Brian Bishop
You're always hungry.
Adam Carolla
I saw msg. I was thinking of the oil. Yeah, msg. The warrior bar has no msg, soy, or lactose. But the MCT oil is just dripping with MCT oil. It's bursting at the seams with MCT oil. Yeah, Drew loves that. He actually dumps a little in his coffee every morning. I do a little too. It just kind of suppresses the appetite a little. Satiates you a little. Alpha brain. Enhances focus and mental drive, memory. It's all good, and it's all at onit. And you can try that and try more. I got my jump rope from them. Go to onnit.comadamsave10%. That is onnit.comadamsave 10% so drug companies in the abuse. Yeah, it's gonna be a major part of their business.
Dawson
You know, I think it is. I mean, it's definitely, you know, the big part of their business is also selling us drugs that we don't need, you know, figuring out, okay, restless leg syndrome. Let's develop that. Like, you know, they came out with metabolic syndrome. Well, what is metabolic syndrome? It'syou're fat, Dr. Evan. So you're overweight. And theythey've developed ways to give you drugs that are, like diabetes drugs that will help you with your blood sugar and all these things that, like, you can just fix with your diet and exercise. A lot of the stuff that we're sold, you know, we can fix with our diet and exercise. Dr. Yeah, diet. Exercise are hard to monetize. How do you monetize? You know, hey, go work out. You know, hey, go for a walk.
Adam Carolla
You can.
Dawson
I mean, through gyms and various. Various forms, but it's not an easy thing to monetize. You can't turn it into, like, a pill.
Adam Carolla
It's insane that there. Two million diet books.
Dawson
Yeah, right.
Adam Carolla
How many diet books do you need? Don't eat. Eat the carrot and take a walk.
Dawson
To go to the addiction thing. There is actually. You can look it up online. There's an article about how the Sackler family, they're the 14th richest family in America right now. They're the ones that started OxyContin back in the day. I think the only remaining living member of the family that started it, he's like, 94 years old. They're worth billions and billions of dollars. And what they did was they came out with this drug, OxyContin, and they said to everybody, hey, guess what? It's not addictive. And the doctors were prescribing it since 1995, like crazy for, like, 10 years. And then they kept telling people, it's not addictive, it's not addictive, it's not addictive. And that's when they had to pay the $256 million for lying about it. But after they've gotten. Yeah, the damage is done, and the cat's out of the bag and everybody's on it. And then because of that success rate with, you know, how much. How much of the drug they sold and how many people that got hooked on it, they started making more power, powerful drugs like Opana. They started making drugs like. There's a new one called, like, Zihydro or something. It's like they're more powerful than the drugs that are even out now.
Adam Carolla
The. Yes, Janet.
Brian Bishop
There's also. I'm seeing this billboard, and I think there's been commercials, too. Not only are they not trying to stop it, there's a commercial that says, are you on opioids and are now constipated. Well, now there's a drug for that.
Dawson
Yeah.
Brian Bishop
So they're definitely trying to continue this train move in.
Adam Carolla
Sure. It's incredible. So they've created a drug for the side effects of the other drugs. And it's just.
Dawson
We also have to say that this isn't a show talking about people not taking drugs that actually need them. This is like a ridiculous amount of over prescription.
Adam Carolla
And back to Dr. Drew. The two things I've always remembered with that guy is just reality on reality's terms and no free lunches in nature. If a pill is not gonna cure whatever's going on with you, it can't, because there are no free lunches in Nature, you want to lose weight, you got to sweat. That's sort of. Just always remember, no free lunch is in nature and reality on reality's terms. And you will have a pretty realistic life expectation for sure. I want to do some news. I do want. I did find the definition of pharmaceutical. I believe it was. That was. Yeah.
Dawson
It means cure on one hand and poison on the other. So it comes from the Greek word pharmacon and pharma meaning I think cure and con meaning prone.
Adam Carolla
Con, I guess. Yeah, yeah.
Dawson
It's like, you know, one hand, it kills you. One handed. One hand is poison. One handed cures you.
Adam Carolla
But it is very interesting that, you know, way back when when it was christened pharmaceutical, it came with a warning which is it's just gonna help you, but it could also, it could hurt you as well.
Dawson
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Find that very poetic. All right, let's do a little news. Gina Grah.
Brian Bishop
You got it.
Adam Carolla
Give you the news with Gr. With Gina Grad. Show bids Congress tech news. Sports news, world news. Give me news with Gina Grad. Weird shit out of Florida Sex surveys.
Dawson
Obama need.
Adam Carolla
News with Gina Gina. The news with Gina Grad.
Brian Bishop
Well, supporters of Bernie Sanders showered cash on Hillary Clinton's motorcade Saturday as it passed en route to a high dollar fundraiser at actor George Clooney's Los Angeles home. They threw dollar bills in the air. That was according to NBC News. Attend the event with. Clinton gave around $33,000 a person while Sanders rally next door cost $27 a person because that's his average donation. Clooney said in an interview with Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd that he agreed with Sanders criticism of such fundraisers as obscene. But he said the money is necessary to get Democrats elected.
Adam Carolla
Okay, we were just trying to talking about this, right? It's not. I mean, whether it's this or the irs, we gotta do some overhauling. Isn't it the sort of overhaul time like it's that point the media now.
Dawson
The amount of media for this election is at an all time high, right? Yeah. And so now we're actually seeing it.
Adam Carolla
Right.
Dawson
Like I've never really saw it before. And I'm saying the same thing you are. This is bullshit. Like what is going on out there, you know?
Adam Carolla
Well, I think in any, any civilization, it's kind of like a boat's life, you know, you build it, it's new for a while, you sail around the world, it's great. But at a certain point, it's time to pull it out of the water and scrape the hull, you know what I mean? Barnacles off in the cycle of anything. I mean, historically, you've seen many different cultures and countries and civilizations. They've gone through it, some have not made it through it, and some have done a little course correction like Germany, little things like that. Italy as well, you know, little things like that. Room for improvement.
Brian Bishop
Sure.
Adam Carolla
Let's see if we could cut back on the decimating of Jews by, I don't know, 20%.
Brian Bishop
A couple of tweaks.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, let's see if we can just tweak this a little.
Gina Grad
Dial back.
Adam Carolla
Dial back. Exterminating of a race, let's say. All right, 25, 30%. Yeah, that's right.
Gina Grad
Just wiping off the place of the earth is not gonna work.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, so let's just say ethnic cleansing was an amplifier and yours was at 10. Could we just turn it down to like 7? Yeah. So maybe this country, we're new, you know, relatively, but maybe we're getting to a crossroads where it's like, all right, we're knocking on 250 years here.
Gina Grad
Maybe it's our midlife crisis.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, I'd be fine. Like, you know, you talk to any couple, that means me, but any good couple, and they'll go like, up to.
Gina Grad
Or respect.
Adam Carolla
I've talked to certain. I mean, anecdotally, I don't talk to other couples. But the point is about their success. I complain about mine, but the point is this. They do a thing where they'll go. Like I've had people go. Like every three months, me and my wife go out just alone. We'll even go to a hotel or something. Like, even in town. We'll spend two days in a. Not talking about the kids, you know, whatever. We'll go into accounts. Every two months, we'll just go sit down with a counsel even. We're getting along fine. We'll just every. Whatever. Yeah, it's maintenance. It's like a tune up thing. All right, how about every 250 years that's coming up right now. 10 years. Right. About every 250 years, we stop and we kind of get a little checklist going. Let's see, what do we got here? IRS and prescription drugs. The whole democracy in general about. We got motorcades going to Clooney's place. He's selling plates for 30 grand. Let's tweak that. Yeah, let's tweak that.
Brian Bishop
That's pretty good.
Gina Grad
Okay, Footnote to this. Wouldn't it be great if all of our enemies or supporters of people who were against us, just threw money at us where they could protest.
Dawson
That'd be great.
Gina Grad
I like someone who's against you. Money.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Dawson
Here's a dollar.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Brian Bishop
Well, after all the rumors, speculations, and sightings, it has been confirmed that Axl Rose will be the singer in AC DC for the European dates in May and June. The band released a statement that says, AC DC band members would like to thank Brian Johnson for his contributions and dedication to the band throughout the years. Followed it up by saying, we are dedicated to fulfilling the remainder of our touring commitments to everyone that has supported us over the years and are fortunate that Axl Rose has kindly offered. Offered his support to help us fulfill this commitment. So the tour starts up again May 7th in Lisbon, Portugal. The 10 postponed US shows will be rescheduled. Also with Axel, Brian Johnson, who left the tour early this month on his doctor's advice because he. Who could permanently damage his ears, whose hearing was really bad. He has not commented on these latest developments. And I know. I don't know if any of you have been following Coachella, but they played on Gunther Roses did. Yep. Saturday night.
Dawson
Were they any good?
Brian Bishop
Yeah, I saw a bunch of footage. I think the people that were there were just really excited to be there. So all the comments are. They're amazing, but they were just really excited to see them. So I'm not joking.
Dawson
I didn't know he's still alive.
Adam Carolla
Is Axel still in the Dave Grohl rock throne?
Gina Grad
That's what I heard.
Adam Carolla
Yeah.
Brian Bishop
He broke his foot. So he's literally in the same throne that Dave Grohl had built.
Adam Carolla
That'd be a good little cottage industry.
Brian Bishop
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Well, the problem is the body starts to go past 50, the mind is still rocking pretty hard, but the bones are getting a little feeble. And when you get up there, these guys are doing stuff they did in their 20s, but the bones are in their 50s, and things are bound to break a lot of. And these guys are staying on the road. You know, they got the who, the Rolling Stones on it. You make a pretty good living making rock thrones.
Gina Grad
You think Axel is making up for lost time? Axl was crazy for a good six or seven years and then kind of went away for a couple decades. I think he's making up for a lot of time. Like you people thought Mike Tyson was crazy. I was away for a while. The throne is mine again. He's, like, reaching back for the.
Adam Carolla
I don't know, but I don't know. Like, if You're Brian Johnson. Are you pissed about this?
Gina Grad
The no comment itself, out of the bed?
Brian Bishop
Yeah.
Adam Carolla
Well, wait. His doctor said you can't perform.
Gina Grad
That's what I mean.
Brian Bishop
You can perform all you want, but you're gonna go deaf.
Adam Carolla
No, but I think there's a difference between you going, hey, I'm hanging it up. You guys have fun over there. And you. This is sort of doctor's order. So his doctor says, you cannot no longer go out and rock. And then the band goes, all right, we'll just get Axl Rose. But he shouldn't be pissed because they have tour dates. And then what about the money they cut him in? He's gotta be cut in on that. If he was responsible for any of those songs, Dawson, if he has writing.
Dawson
Credits on any of the songs, he will get paid when they perform them. But other than that, I don't think so.
Brian Bishop
Yeah, it's interesting when I found out that in bands, not everyone is an equal member. Some people that have been with the band forever are just employees of the band. So they get a salary. They don't get a cut of anything.
Adam Carolla
I think you gotta do the right thing. Like they would say in Goodfellas and kick something down to the boss. And I think they need to do that. Show me. Find his car collection. I want to see if he has a Ferrari GTO in there.
Gina Grad
Brian Johnson.
Brian Bishop
That also is blamed for the hearing impairment, by the way.
Adam Carolla
He does a lot of vintage racing. Some of those guys. Brian or Axel? No, Brian the guy. It'd always be whoever we're talking about last. That's what I always say. There's a couple of guys, I think it's like, shit, the Dire Straits guy.
Gina Grad
Mark Knoppo.
Adam Carolla
Mark Knopfler. Yeah. A couple of these guys are crazy car guys, live in Europe and bought a couple of Ferraris when their bands were making a ton of money, like in the 80s. And if they bought said Ferrari at the time, it was $2.5 million and it's now $42 million. So they're kind of set for life with one car purchase that they bought in the 80s. But we'll figure it out.
Brian Bishop
Fantastic.
Adam Carolla
Sorry.
Brian Bishop
Well, you might want to get on this rock throne now, because I have news that is going to support this and time is a waste.
Adam Carolla
You're cranking out these Rock Thrones quickly.
Brian Bishop
Because word of what will be one of the biggest classic rock concerts in history has leaked, as the LA Times is reporting that Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, the who, Roger Waters and Neil Young will join forces for a three day festival at the Empire Polo Field in India, where Coachella festival takes place October 7th, 8th and 9th. That's the site of Coachella. Like I said, this will be the first time since 2012's Concert for Sandy Relief 1212 12, that McCartney, the Stones, Waters and the who will have been on the same bill, albeit they were on different nights. The official announcement is expected in early May.
Adam Carolla
So what's Dylan gonna do? Because he has. Everyone else is like an actual musician and coherent and stuff. Like, is he gonna have the wall of banjos behind it? What's he gonna do? Like, he can't just go out and talk.
Gina Grad
The side stage, the acoustic stage, he's.
Adam Carolla
Gotta go out with other human beings.
Gina Grad
I imagine there'll be a lot of jamming, right? Or not jamming, but a lot of people jumping on stage and doing the stuff.
Brian Bishop
Traveling Wilbury's effect.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, he ain't. Yeah. Cause he's gonna have difficulty if the who goes out there and then Bob Dylan comes up. Everyone's just gonna empty out to take a leak, Right?
Brian Bishop
Maybe they futz with the order a little. Bob going a little early.
Dawson
Maybe he's first.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. And the good thing about Bob's. You can tell him he's headlining Cinnamon out at night, Noon. That doesn't matter. I don't think he knows where he is. I'm not sure that he knows where he is or cares. He's got. He's fucking horrible. He's horrible. Horrible. All right, I don't need the pictures, but if you can find out whether he has one of those, I can tell you.
Gina Grad
Here's the Ferraris that he owns are all modern. The older car is the one. The most vintage car that he owns is the blue one you see in this picture.
Adam Carolla
That's a Can Am Lola. Yes.
Brian Bishop
That's beautiful.
Adam Carolla
Thank you. Wow. What year did you go different? 67. 69.
Brian Bishop
No muffler.
Gina Grad
69, I believe.
Adam Carolla
69. Boy, you made a mistake by bringing up mufflers to me. The vintage races, some of them have noise restrictions. Why aren't we doing the news? Because the people who live in the super expensive houses around Laguna Seca in Northern California don't want to hear guys with wide open. But he's driving a Can Am car, which essentially is a big V8 with a bunch of downdraft webers on it and headers that just come up and out, just wide open. Like if you stand behind it and fire it up, it'll Scare the holy shit out of you.
Brian Bishop
So if he was gonna tell the doctor, like, all right, I will give up this car. Can I still tour? That might actually be something to consider. Cause this car is seriously fucking him up.
Adam Carolla
I'm surprised. It's very loud when you're standing behind the car. But when you're in the, you should have ear protection and your helmet and your hood on and everything. And it's kind of behind you. But this particular car, if you see a picture of him and he's driving his can am car, his engine and stacks for his engine are about 4 inches behind his head. So it's not get the injury special at McDonald's. Now let's break it down.
Gina Grad
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Adam Carolla
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Adam Carolla
And it's wide open, so it's kind of, kind of in the proximity.
Dawson
Does it make the car faster? I don't know anything about cars.
Adam Carolla
The if you look at the picture, you can see the lump. The engine behind him is open and 10 inches behind the guy's head. Just what, opens?
Dawson
Well, just being that loud. Does it have to be that loud to be that fast? What's the point?
Adam Carolla
The point is sounds cool. The point is with mufflers is A, they weigh something, so why would we want them on the car because they weigh something. And then B, there is some restriction, some back pressure. We want it to. We want to fly straight up so.
Dawson
It is faster without it.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. Well, here's how you know it's faster without it. They go without it. Anything they do is without it. I tell people all the time and they go, how fast you going? I go, I don't know. I go, why not? I go, no, no speedometer. And they go, the dashboard's got 15 gauges on it. Yeah, why no speedometer? Doesn't make you go faster. And it weighs 6 ounces.
Dawson
So it's hot.
Adam Carolla
It's like, yeah, but how fast are you on. It's like.
Dawson
I don't know.
Adam Carolla
It doesn't matter. What. You want to look at the speedometer.
Dawson
It's looking at the road, right.
Adam Carolla
It's just gone. You look at the tach and you look at your oil pressure, and that's about it. Like, after that, it's out of there because it weighs something and it doesn't make you go faster. That's how everything. If you look in a race car, every single thing will just be. Either makes you go faster or it's safer or something.
Brian Bishop
Or it's hollowed out.
Adam Carolla
There's nothing. Everything has holes drilled in it. And it's stripped down. There's nothing in it.
Brian Bishop
I've never seen a car like the one you just showed us where the rear view mirrors are, basically where the headlights are.
Adam Carolla
Yeah. The problem. There's some pretty crazy stuff. The problem is you can't see when you're in the car. Cause you're down so low and your helmet's on and whatever it is. And I have to come up with pretty tricky places and ways to have visibility or for you to see behind you. Because the thing's vibrating like a mother. And the thing. That's actually interesting. If. Gabriel, Gary, just for shits and giggles, if you pull up a Ferrari 512 periscope, you'll actually see that they have a periscope with a bunch of mirrors on the roof. Because the guy's in a space pod and he's at Le mans. He's going 245 miles an hour down the Mulsanne straight, and there is no mirror he can't see behind him. And they literally work that out. What is a. More than one mirror reflecting into another mirror? And they made a little periscope and they put on top so you could.
Gina Grad
Genius.
Adam Carolla
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Brian Bishop
All right. Oh, real fast.
Gina Grad
There wasn't a lot of great.
Adam Carolla
Well, I can't hear you, Gary.
Gina Grad
There wasn't a lot of great pictures, but this is the only one that I was able to find so far.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, that's good. Yeah, you can give us a wider shot. That's the roof of the car.
Brian Bishop
That's crazy.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, the guy's looking through a periscope in the car. Crazy.
Dawson
It's a DEA agent. Dangerous.
Adam Carolla
All right.
Brian Bishop
Well, Yahoo News reports that Starbucks has apologized to a Florida man who says he ordered a white chocolate mocha and received an unwelcome message printed on the cup's label that read, diabetes, here I come. The customer who received the message was taken aback and immediately thought about his two sisters who suffer from type 1 diabetes. The store apologized, and the customer who didn't want to be identified wanted to make sure this didn't happen to anyone else.
Adam Carolla
How do we know about this? What do you mean? My whole thing is, everyone shut the fuck up and go home, would you? Somebody wrote something on my cup.
Brian Bishop
It's very hurtful and.
Adam Carolla
I don't know. It's like most this shit, I don't even know why we know it. I have a thousand things a day that happen to me that nobody knows because I don't burden you with them. Because who gives a fuck? I mean, I get on the show and I complain about it, but this thing was. It's like, well, they received a letter from an angry parent. Like, what letter? Who's writing this shit? I cannot figure this out for the life of me. How life works. What could you do to me, to Starbucks that would provoke Gina reading it in the news?
Brian Bishop
Yeah, I can give you the stats, by the way. Maybe a reason why they made this particular. A 16 ounce white chocolate mocha has 470 calories and 59 grams of sugar.
Adam Carolla
Well, here's the thing. First off, I have family members who. What? Fill in the blank. Look at that fucking Ferrari. That is such a badass machine. But the thing is, you can see the mirror on the roof. This thing of, like, I have family members. So what? Who gives a shit about you and your fucking shitty family members are just fat asses.
Vinny Tortorich
Yeah.
Gina Grad
Do you think the barista, whoever it was, like, meant to insult, hurt your feelings?
Dawson
Well, they say they're type one diabetics, which is completely different. That means they're born when they don't make insulin. Type 2 diabetic is what they're talking about.
Brian Bishop
Come by. Honestly?
Dawson
Yeah, they're completely different.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, again, it's just. It's just this thing where everybody has to circle back and settle everyone's hash is a weird thing, because my feeling is, is it's like. People are like, well, why don't you do that, Adam? And it's like, because I'm a narcissistic douchebag. And it's like, well, wouldn't that make you do it? No, I'm too fucking busy. You don't exist to me. I don't have time to circle back and straighten you out or explain to you that my sister has typed something with type something, something, or what my fucking dad died of. I don't have time for you. You don't exist. You're the guy who stands behind the counter and hands me shit. I hand you $4, you hand me shit. That's our relationship. I don't need to be healed, fixed, or made whole by you. And there's nothing you can do to me because you're the guy who hands me shit. I hand you $4, you hand me shit. I have a million of you in my life. You have you at the gas station. I have you at the hot dog stand. I have you everywhere. Sonny, are you listening? Include my boy in this. Point is 96% of people in your life are. You hand them something and they either let you on an airplane or they hand you a coffee, or they give you a sticky bun, or they let you go with a warning or whatever it is, that's your entire relationship. Why are we going back and trying to fix that person for when? The next time you see him, the next life, the next time they start delving into your family structure, what do we give a fuck for? I don't even get. What are we even talking about?
Brian Bishop
No, this made national news.
Adam Carolla
It's a million things.
Dawson
But why didn't the person just deal with it right then and there with the person that's. Did it say, hey, that's. You know, hey, who the fuck did this? I don't think it's funny.
Adam Carolla
Yeah, well, no, I gotta. I gotta take a picture of it. I gotta put it on social media. I gotta let everyone know what's going on. Like, I cannot tell you how much junk in your life is simply junk. It is nothing. It has no value to it. It is a waste of your breath. It's a waste of your time. It's a waste of your money. It's even it's mostly a waste of your attention. What are you doing? You shouldn't even slow down enough to see what's on the cup. Your hand should grab the cup, obscure whatever he wrote or she wrote on the cup, and you should just be drinking and rolling phone calls while you're driving in your Mercedes. That's how life is supposed to work. Not you standing around asking where the manager is. The manager, by the way, is the same version of that guy six months ago. He's making an extra buck at an hour. What the fuck you want to talk to that dope for?
Dawson
I think the reason it's happening is because the average person checks their phone like 110 times a day. So we're now obsessed with what everybody's doing. Even if it's something fucking small like that. People got a comment and they got a, you know, like or dislike or whatever, you know.
Brian Bishop
And all those comments are supposed to be given the same weight.
Dawson
Yeah, right, Right. Everyone. Everyone's got something to say.
Adam Carolla
We're going through life like we're all born with a billion dollars and gonna live to 500 years of age. Here's the deal. We're all born poor and we're gon in our 70s, so get going. Doubling back and settling people's hash about your mocha is not going to get you rich and ain't going to get you paid, and it's not going to get you another six months on the planet. As a matter of fact, you just lost whatever time that exchange was about your family and their diabetic issues and blah, blah. It's all out the fucking window now. The sands through the hourglass have just passed and you can lay on your fucking deathbed. And I hope that's the last thing this guy pictures. I hope when he's laying in his hospital bed.
Dawson
I shouldn't have wasted my time with.
Adam Carolla
His kids around him. I hope he's thinking about the exchange he had with the idiot over at Starbucks.
Brian Bishop
This was his achievement day for sure.
Adam Carolla
That's what I hope. All right, let's bring it home.
Brian Bishop
You got it. I'm Gina Grad, and that's the news.
Adam Carolla
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Gina Grad
Yes, actually so.
Adam Carolla
But not on stage with the drunken people.
Brian Bishop
This will be my first time.
Adam Carolla
There are going to be some shots coming your way. All right, so that's going to be some sloppy sex up there. Seattle, Saturday, the Moore Theater. Joel McHale and his robot are going to be up on stage. I'll explain that later. Go to AdamCroll.com if you want to find out anything about us doing live shows anywhere. Let's see. Available now on Netflix. Prescriptions Thugs. I recommend it highly. Also available on DVD and on video demand. Chris makes great films and they're very like, I like them. They're unplugged. I like that they're not overproduced, but boy, they really get a message across and they're very personal as well. Prescription thugs.com is where you go for any information on the documentary. Oh, Podcast one premium. Yeah. If you like that, you get access to this biggest interviews and it's all commercial free and you do it@podcast1.com premium. All access to the archives. Taking these 10,000 episodes. Podcast there, all that. All right, so Chris, Mark, God bless you, man.
Dawson
Yeah, thank you.
Adam Carolla
Doing the Lord's work. So until next time, Sandal Pearl, Chris, Mark and Gina and bald saying mahalo. I'm a narcissistic douchebag.
Dawson
All right, that's it for today's pillow classics.
Gina Grad
Hope you enjoyed all the clips until.
Adam Carolla
Tomorrow and get it on.
Podcast Summary: The Adam Carolla Show – “Vinnie Tortorich + Chris and Mark Bell (Carolla Classics)”
Episode Information:
Carolla Classics is a companion podcast to The Adam Carolla Show, featuring the best moments, highlights, and fan-selected clips from over 16 years of Adam Carolla’s original episodes. This particular episode revisits memorable conversations with fitness guru Vinnie Tortorich, the Bell brothers (Chris and Mark), and includes a special appearance by comedian and stunt performer Steve-O.
Nutrition and Fitness Insights:
Adam Carolla engages in a candid conversation with Vinnie Tortorich about modern nutrition myths and effective fitness strategies. Vinnie challenges conventional dietary guidelines, emphasizing the importance of natural fats and whole foods.
Whole Eggs vs. Egg Whites:
Vinnie Tortorich [45:45]: "Almost every amino acid that a human being needs happens to be in an egg. So why not have eggs?"
Adam highlights the shift away from whole foods to processed alternatives:
Adam Carolla [05:43]: "It's so fucking weird that everything has a big fat zero on it. And you're like, just give me the yogurt."
Butter Over Margarine: Vinnie advocates for using real butter instead of margarine, debunking the myth that all fats are harmful.
Vinnie Tortorich [04:20]: "Because they cut everything out and leave the lactose. And lactose is sugar. So you're having a glass of sugar when you have coffee with skim milk. It's basically, that's what your liver sees."
Carbs and Portion Control: The discussion delves into the impact of high-carb diets on hunger hormones and portion control.
Vinnie Tortorich [06:00]: "Portion control is a problem when you're eating high carbs... you can't stop."
Cholesterol Myths: Vinnie references Dr. Drew Pinsky's stance on cholesterol, reinforcing that dietary cholesterol doesn't directly affect serum levels.
Vinnie Tortorich [11:24]: "And Dr. Drew... agrees that eating cholesterol does not cause you to have higher cholesterol."
Critique of Diet Fads: Both Adam and Vinnie express skepticism towards diet programs and cleanses, labeling them unsustainable and ineffective.
Adam Carolla [15:02]: "The benefit of a cleanse, to me, it shouldn't be called a cleanse. It should be called a flogging."
Takeaways:
Caller Ari’s Vacation Plans:
Ari seeks advice on maximizing fun during his two-week vacation in Los Angeles. The hosts recommend a mix of scenic drives along the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH), visits to local hotspots like Red Rock Canyon, and indulging in classic LA eateries.
Recommendations:
Brian Bishop [55:12]: "Nice chunk of time you definitely want to... go up and down the coast."
Adam Carolla [56:08]: "I'm gonna recommend going to Laurie's and getting some prime rib."
Caller Sam’s Hypothetical Accident:
Sam poses a hypothetical scenario where Adam is involved in a severe accident. Adam humorously contemplates the aftermath, highlighting the show's resilience and the importance of maintaining the podcast's continuity.
Adam Carolla [58:25]: "I probably wouldn't care at that point because I'd be dead."
Caller Dave’s Appreciation:
Dave from Boulder praises the show, sharing a personal anecdote about gifting Adam a flashlight during a bottle signing. His heartfelt thanks underscore the podcast's positive impact on listeners.
Dave [101:09]: "I gave you a flashlight a couple years ago... thank you."
Steve-O’s Showtime Special “Guilty as Charged”:
Steve-O discusses his upcoming Showtime special, blending stand-up comedy with live stunts—hallmarks of his Jackass fame.
Unique Format:
Steve-O [65:55]: "It's a one man show. I'm telling my story. And then on like, story points, I do real heavy stunts throughout the special."
Autobiographical Elements: Steve-O shares insights into his sobriety journey and how it has influenced his performances.
Steve-O [69:10]: "I've kept doing crazy, crazy shit. And I never I haven't slowed down a bit."
Activism and Arrests: Reflecting on his anti-SeaWorld protests, Steve-O recounts his arrests and the motivations behind his activism.
Steve-O [75:36]: "I got arrested twice... I was holding him hostage...smeared fake blood."
Takeaways:
SeaWorld’s Shift in Orca Practices:
The hosts discuss SeaWorld’s announcement to phase out killer whale shows and end their orca breeding program.
Brian Bishop [72:57]: "The killer whales that are currently living at the parks will be their last..."
Madonna’s Tardiness at Brisbane Concert:
Madonna faces backlash for her delayed performance, leading to fan dissatisfaction and refunds.
Adam Carolla [78:05]: "Madonna didn’t take the stage till 11:22pm... she said, 'It's you people that get here early that's the problem.'"
Axl Rose Joining AC/DC:
A surprising development where Axl Rose is set to replace Brian Johnson as the lead vocalist for AC/DC’s European tour dates.
Brian Bishop [131:12]: "Axl Rose will be the singer in AC/DC for the European dates in May and June."
Pharmaceutical Industry Critique:
Dawson provides a deep dive into the over-prescription of painkillers, highlighting the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis.
Dawson [117:46]: "We represent 5% of the world's population, and we consume about 75% of the world's prescription drugs."
Lobbying and Political Influence:
The conversation shifts to the pervasive influence of lobbyists in Congress, emphasizing how special interests shape legislation.
Adam Carolla [122:10]: "They spend $25 billion advertising to doctors...when the drugs can't make you go faster, they're out of there."
Bereavement Days for Pets:
A controversial topic where companies offer bereavement days for the loss of a pet, sparking debates on workplace policies and emotional support.
Brian Bishop [95:07]: "Some employers are now offering workers bereavement time for the loss of a pet."
Starbucks Cup Incident:
A Florida man experiences an unwelcome message on his Starbucks cup, leading to public backlash and the company's apology.
Brian Bishop [143:42]: "Starbucks has apologized to a Florida man who says he ordered a white chocolate mocha and received an unwelcome message..."
Throughout the episode, Adam Carolla and his guests provide critical perspectives on contemporary issues ranging from nutrition and fitness to corporate malpractices and celebrity behavior. The discussions encourage listeners to question societal norms, advocate for personal well-being, and remain vigilant against manipulative industries.
Key Takeaways:
Notable Quotes:
This episode of Carolla Classics serves as a testament to the enduring relevance of the discussions on The Adam Carolla Show. By revisiting pivotal moments and engaging with thought leaders like Vinnie Tortorich and Steve-O, the podcast continues to enlighten and entertain its vast listener base. Whether dissecting the intricacies of nutrition or critiquing the pharmaceutical industry's excesses, Adam Carolla remains a steadfast voice advocating for truth and rational thinking.
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