Adam Carolla on '90s Music, MTV Meltdowns & Malibu's Mess

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Kennedy Saves the World"

Episode Date: July 1, 2026
Guests: Kennedy (Host), Adam Carolla (Guest)
Main Theme:
A witty, personal, and broad-ranging conversation between Kennedy and Adam Carolla about celebrity attitudes past and present, parenting styles then and now, rebuilding after disaster in LA and Malibu, and frustrations with local government and shifting political tides.

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1. Changing Faces of Celebrity & Band Attitudes

Timestamps: [00:10] – [07:14]

Overview:
The episode kicks off with nostalgia about interviewing ’90s bands and reflects on how musicians' public personas have softened in the age of pervasive social media.

Key Points:

• Adam and Kennedy reminisce about bands they admired—like The Cardigans and Björk—turning out to be mean or unfriendly during interviews.
• Adam notes that earlier, bands (especially punk and metal) acted with a deliberate attitude similar to pro-wrestlers, but now, everyone—musicians and celebrities—feels compelled to be outwardly friendly, mostly due to social media scrutiny.
• Kennedy comments that with social media, “everyone has your phone number,” and interactions with celebrities are less rare and special ([02:34]).

Notable Quotes:

• “She looked like this little angelic, cherubic little… I just wanted to pinch her cheek and go, ‘you’re so sweet.’ And she was a…” – Adam Carolla on The Cardigans’ singer ([00:33])
• “Now, like, everyone's nice. Even celebrities have to be nice. You know, everyone sort of has to Be nice or they get dragged.” – Adam Carolla ([01:58])
• “It's as if everyone has your phone number.” – Kennedy on Twitter’s effects ([02:48])

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2. Old-School Parenting vs. Today’s Approach

Timestamps: [05:04] – [07:14]

Overview:
The hosts compare their experiences as kids—where parents and adults in general were distant or even intimidating—with modern, kid-centered parenting.

Key Points:

• Adam recalls that all adults, including friends' parents, were mean: “Our parents weren’t our friends. But our friends’ parents were our sworn enemies.” ([05:20])
• Kennedy shares a funny childhood story about being kicked out of a friend’s house and being accused of drug use for falling asleep after school ([05:35]).
• Adam draws a parallel: just as bands used to have intimidating personas, so did parents; now, everyone is “super nice,” sometimes excessively so.

Notable Quotes:

• “Excuse you. What are you doing in the pantry?...Put it back, like, I was like…” – Adam Carolla ([05:20])
• “Now everyone's parents are super nice and they bend over backwards to, like, be friendly to the kids.” – Adam Carolla ([06:37])

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3. Being a Media Personality in the ’90s (and Getting in Trouble)

Timestamps: [07:14] – [08:14]

Overview:
Kennedy recounts getting “thrown in time out” at MTV for an irreverent interview question, highlighting how few media outlets existed and how gatekeeping worked pre-social media.

Key Points:

• Kennedy remembers being punished for a bold question to Bob Mould: “Does releasing a good track feel as good as your first morning pee?”
• The lack of outlets meant gatekeepers wielded more power, unlike today.

Notable Quotes:

• “That's it. You are not interviewing anyone for three months.” – MTV executive to Kennedy ([07:54])
• “Thank you. I mean, I think we all know exactly what I was going...” – Kennedy, defending her humor ([07:56])

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4. Rebuilding in Malibu & Palisades: Red Tape and Regulation

Timestamps: [09:07] – [12:15]

Overview:
The discussion shifts to the struggle of rebuilding homes in Malibu and the Palisades after wildfire damage, slowed by bureaucracy and archaic rules.

Key Points:

• Kennedy explains her struggles: homes are toxic and insurance companies are slow, while only one neighbor has made progress.
• Adam explains that Malibu is bogged down by regulation: the Coastal Commission and strict requirements for new septic systems (“the regulations around a septic system inside of the Coastal Commission boundaries… go bananas.”)

Notable Quotes:

• “Malibu is pretty much at a zero.” – Adam Carolla on slow rebuilding ([10:25])
• “Nobody has the money or the time to conform with the new regulation.” – Adam Carolla ([11:17])

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5. Tax Base, “Chick Think,” and Policies That Chase Away Wealth

Timestamps: [11:40] – [14:38]

Overview:
They debate the short- and long-term effects of hostile policies toward the wealthy, the counterproductivity of punishing success, and illogical emotional responses in politics.

Key Points:

• Kennedy asks why local governments push away the rich, leading to an eroded tax base.
• Adam offers an anecdote about President Obama raising corporate taxes for appearance instead of outcome, then labels this logic “chick think”—emotion-driven rather than bottom-line focused.
• Kennedy jokes about the “big tent” of Democrats but notes that chasing wealth has severe ramifications.

Notable Quotes:

• “It's a kind of emotionally based sort of screw these guys versus what is actually good for the bottom line.” – Adam Carolla ([12:47])
• “I love when they get onto a talking point. Everyone. Their diversity of opinions. You know, they hate Jews. They love Nazi prison guards. We have so much room in our tent.” – Adam Carolla, satirizing political inconsistencies ([24:23])

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6. Cars, Growing Up, and Storytelling Advice

Timestamps: [14:42] – [17:13]

Overview:
A humorous, self-deprecating exchange about Kennedy’s teenage cars, including being T-boned (literally) by her drunken female soccer coach, and Adam’s storytelling tips.

Key Points:

• Kennedy’s first cars: a diesel Rabbit, then an ’83 Toyota Corolla (destroyed by her drunk soccer coach), then a ’72 VW Bug ([15:46]-[17:24])
• Adam jokes about proper storytelling structure to avoid salacious misinterpretation.

Notable Quotes:

• “You gotta do the whole car buildup into that story. If you just start with I got T boned by my soccer coach who was really drunk. I was traumatized by it. People are gonna go somewhere else in their head.” – Adam Carolla ([16:30])

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7. The Gas Prank and Family Dynamics

Timestamps: [18:22] – [19:11]

Overview:
A lighter moment with a family anecdote: the “Christmas gas” prank and Adam’s respect for Kennedy’s tough brother.

Key Points:

• Kennedy shares her niece's prank: putting “Christmas gas” (diesel) in her car, confusing her dad.
• Adam describes Kennedy’s brother as a hard-ass but ultimately a Carolla fan ([18:58]).

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8. Live Audiences in Blue Cities, Conservative Fandom

Timestamps: [19:37] – [21:08]

Overview:
Switch to Adam’s touring experiences: finding enthusiastic, underserved conservative crowds in blue cities, including Portland.

Key Points:

• Blue cities harbor “bastions of red people” hungry for content they feel is otherwise missing.
• Adam describes their crowds as “pent up” and super receptive compared to audiences in red cities ([19:49]-[20:49]).

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9. Local LA Politics and Rising Socialism

Timestamps: [21:08] – [24:38]

Overview:
Adam and Kennedy critique current LA city leaders and the leftward shift of big-city politics.

Key Points:

• Adam on LA Mayor Karen Bass: calls her a “dope,” a result of DEI-motivated voters.
• They criticize city council member Nithya Raman’s proposal to make a golf course a homeless encampment, and her blaming of Toyota—not thieves—for catalytic converter thefts ([21:46]-[23:23]).
• Both see similar leftist movements spreading nationwide.

Notable Quotes:

• “She's not official DEI, like what Biden would do all the time. She wasn't appointed. She got elected by a bunch of DEI social warriors who's like, I'm the first black, the first woman of color to ruin the city.” – Adam Carolla on Karen Bass ([21:15])
• “She's talking about making it so easy to steal. And it's like you have to jack the car up, get under it with a sawzall and cut the exhaust out. It's not even a bracket.” – Adam Carolla ([22:58])

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10. Wrap Up & Last Laughs

Timestamps: [24:54] – [25:07]

Overview:
Kennedy closes with a double entendre, and Adam riffs on their earlier running joke about “T-boning” and “small tents.”

Memorable Moment:

• “I will T bone your Toyota any day.” – Adam Carolla ([25:03])

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Overall Tone & Conclusion:

The episode blends nostalgia, sharp humor, and cultural commentary with quick-fire banter. Kennedy and Adam Carolla reminisce about the old days of media, critique the evolution of celebrity and parenting, share their personal misadventures, and vent about the challenges of bureaucracy, regulation, and political shifts in Los Angeles. Their interplay is filled with inside jokes, self-deprecation, and the irreverence fans expect—making the episode both accessible and rich for new and returning listeners alike.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

Foreign.

[Kennedy]

Hello, and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. Adam Carolla is here. I'm so happy to have you. I'm always happy to talk to you.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I'm happy to be here.

[Kennedy]

Reminds me of the good old days.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

Listening to the Cardigans and just around.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Boy, I thought the Cardigans were going to be great until I interviewed them. And they were mean.

[Kennedy]

Yeah, they were mean. They were like a bunch of Swedish.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Kennedy]

That's really funny you say that.

[Adam Carolla]

She looked like this little angelic, cherubic little. I just wanted to pinch her cheek and go, you're so sweet. And she was a. Yeah.

[Kennedy]

And if she was nice, they would have been, like, bigger than abba.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Kennedy]

But no. And you know who else is like that? Glad you brought it up. Bjork.

[Adam Carolla]

Bjork was mean.

[Kennedy]

Real dick. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Kennedy]

And I was so excited to meet her.

[Adam Carolla]

I know.

[Kennedy]

I loved her since junior high because she was in the Sugar Cubes when she was, like, 11.

[Adam Carolla]

I. You know what? It's so funny because I remember the bands I hated versus the nice bands. Like, and especially when you thought, oh, I'm excited to meet this band. This is going to be cool. I'm going to get to hang with the Cowboy Junkies. And they're mean. It's weird when bands are mean.

[Kennedy]

Why is that now? Is it. Were they going on Loveline and they were nervous that you guys were gonna ask them about sex and they were, like, really private? Or are there some musicians who are just jerks?

[Adam Carolla]

All right, here's what I've been ruminating on Kennedy. Bands used to have Personas. Like, if you had to interview a punk rock band, it's like, oh, Mr. Punk. Especially, like, English punk rock.

[Kennedy]

Johnny Rotten walked out on me twice. The second time, because he felt he had to, because he did the first time.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, that was on you for going on the second date.

[Kennedy]

You should have learned 30 years in between. The.

[Adam Carolla]

The whole point is they brought a lot of attitude because they thought there was a little bit of a pro wrestler vibe to being a punk band or being whatever. And now you get penalized if you're like, people film it, they memorize, they know it, they push it out on the Internet. And now all of a sudden, bands are, like, friendly and nice and be. If you were a metal band or punk rock band or UK band you had, you'd show up with a ton of attitude. And now, like, everyone's nice. Even celebrities have to be nice. You know, everyone sort of has to Be nice or they get dragged.

[Kennedy]

That's really funny. So. So, yes, I. I remember, like you would be so nervous to meet someone because it was like one shot. And then Whitney Cummings, when Twitter came out, she was like, it's as if everyone has your phone number.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Kennedy]

And now everyone has access to famous people and it's no longer special.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. And also you're going to end up like Jerry Lewis. Like you do. You have a 65 year career and then you give a really bad interview and then you die. And that's what people remember. That's what they point to.

[Kennedy]

Yeah, that's really funny. Who were some of the other jerk bands on Loveline? Because I remember. You're absolutely right. Like Glenn Danzig. I was scared of Glenn Danzig.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. They showed up with attitude. Like my very first interview. So interviewing is the scariest part. Like for me, talking, joking, cracking wise, talking to the callers or whatever wasn't a thing. But interviewing was scary. And I literally. The very first show, I did the show with Ricky Rackman and Dr. Drew and finally Ricky Rackman left. And then the very first night, I was kind of hoping for like, no guest, so me and Drew could just talk or whatever. Or sometimes you get Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray and it's fun. Or, you know, you get Dickie from the Boston.

[Kennedy]

I love Dickie.

[Adam Carolla]

Dick. Great. There are plenty of bands where the lead singers can't sing that well, but they're super, super nice and they overcompensate and they have a great sense of humor. Like, Dickie's really funny, Mark's really funny, and they're easy. I got Psycho Michael from Social Distortion or whatever the first night. And he just sat there like that the whole time. And I remember going, God, it's already hard. It's so hard. But now you're making it so much harder.

[Kennedy]

Why commit to like a two hour radio show? Why commit to that when you know, if you don't want to talk and you don't want to share personal things about your life and that's fine. Like you're not selling records if you're on Wet Sandals.

[Adam Carolla]

Are you saying I don't have to be here? That's what I'm hearing. So I can just leave?

[Kennedy]

Yeah, you could. Yeah. Be just like a nine point broker.

[Adam Carolla]

I just know when I was growing up, all of my friends, dads were mean to us.

[Kennedy]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

And the moms weren't that nice either. Like all parents, all adults were mean. And my friend's parents were mean to us. And that's how I grew up. Scared of Mr. Vending.

[Kennedy]

We didn't have friends. Our parents were not our friends.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, no, no. Our parents weren't our friends. But our friends. Parents were our sworn enemies. Like, it was a lot of. Excuse you. What are you doing in the pantry? I was gonna. I ate one nil away from. We'll put it back. Put it back. Like, it was like, I was like.

[Kennedy]

My friend Robin had. The first time I was on a waterbed. She had a waterbed with a down comforter. I had never felt a down comforter in my life. So after school, I fell asleep on her bed. Cause it was literally like touching a heavenly cloud. Like, I know how the angels sleep. And her mom kicked me out of her house because she said I was on drugs. She said, 15 year olds do not fall asleep after school. And I was like, when they're up watching Letterman, they do.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, we were. I mean, I was hit by two parents. Wow. Hit wow by two. Two separate man and a woman.

[Kennedy]

I never hit anyone.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, here's the whole point. When we were coming up, grownups were scary. And friends. Parents were scary. But any adult. I mean, if you're walking down the street and you threw a gum wrapper on the ground, any adult could have just went, hey, pick it up. And you would have went, sorry. Yeah, okay. And then when we got older and had to interview bands, bands were. And scary. And again, punk rock, UK metal, attitude, bravado, whatever. And now everyone's parents are super nice and they bend over backwards to, like, be friendly to the kids. Like, oh, do you need some more marshmallow squares? I do the Rice Krispie treats. You good for that. Like, they go nuts.

[Kennedy]

I make my own marshmallows just for you guys.

[Adam Carolla]

So there's that. And then the bands are all super nice and they, like, have a sense of humor about themselves and they're like, kind of gregarious. And there's no weird attitude. Like, there should be a lot of, like, attitude.

[Kennedy]

Yeah. And they could get you in trouble. You know why? There were so few outlets that if you ran afoul of a band. I got thrown in Time out on MTV all the time. Because I'll never forget this one executive at MTV got so mad because I asked Bob Mold, when he's the guy from I'm gonna Get the Whooskerdoo, and he released a band with his. A record with his new band Sugar. And I asked him if releasing a good track felt as good as your first morning pee and he knew exactly what I meant. And she was like, that's it. You are not interviewing anyone for three months.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Kennedy]

Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

That was a great metaphor.

[Kennedy]

Thank you. I mean, I think we all know exactly what I was going.

[Adam Carolla]

The morning pee.

[Kennedy]

It's very refreshing.

[Adam Carolla]

It's satisfying.

[Kennedy]

Yes. But, you know, I. I was always worried because it was like MTV was all there was in terms. There was no social media.

[Adam Carolla]

Where is Husker do? Is it Husker Do? You said Husker Do.

[Kennedy]

It's not Husker Do.

[Adam Carolla]

I think it's Husker Do.

[Kennedy]

Is it? Don't they have like a bunch of umlauts?

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, maybe. Listen, I went to North Hollywood High, home of the Huskies, not home of the Huskers. And I was a proud football playing husky.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But I don't know. Well, we got to figure out. How do you spell. It's H, U, S. Yeah.

[Kennedy]

K, E, R, D, U. Oh, but are they.

[Adam Carolla]

Are they Swedish or something?

[Kennedy]

They just put, um, I think like Montreu.

[Adam Carolla]

Just throwing um on everything. You know what? You can't abuse umlots that way like that. Also.

[Kennedy]

Maybe that's why the Cardigans were mad.

[Adam Carolla]

That's cultural appropriation. They're like, you took our umlauts. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

[Kennedy]

We're going to give you attitude and I see you out. Enjoy.

[Adam Carolla]

They were so mean.

[Kennedy]

So let's talk a little bit about Malibu and the Palisades.

[Adam Carolla]

All right.

[Kennedy]

Because I have. I haven't been to the Palisades recently because when I go in my house, I always get sick because it is just disgusting. Did more and more testing. Insurance companies suck lead. Arsenic off the charts. Awful. One neighbor has ripped their home down to the studs of the surviving homes. One neighbor, that's it. No one else can get the insurance companies to move. You can't get SBA money until you have exhausted your insurance money. Rightly so. Those are not free loans. You still have to pay them back and you still have to make a monthly mortgage payment on the SBA loans. But I have one neighbor. What is it like for you?

[Adam Carolla]

So the one neighbor took the house down to the studs.

[Kennedy]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And is doing some remediation stuff. And then it's going to rebuild back up. Well, so my experience is I have seen a fair bit, but not a lot of building in the Palisades. I went and sort of looked it up the other day. The. The Altadena is building back faster. Palisades is building back at a slow clip. But at least there's progress. And Malibu is pretty much at a zero.

[Kennedy]

Is that because of the Coastal Commission?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, it's a Coastal commission has slowed things up. And also it's kind of interesting. There's a lot of. It is Malibu is on septic. And septic is one of these things where if the house was built in 1957, and it would have the same septic system from 1957. But if you're gonna rebuild now, we want a new septic system. And that new septic system's like. I mean, you could only imagine the regulations around a septic system inside of the Coastal Commission boundaries, right? So that's where they just kind of go bananas and nobody has the money or the time to conform with the new regulation. So it's sort of like, what do you do?

[Kennedy]

Do you put a trailer on like Spencer Pratt did?

[Adam Carolla]

Like, do you put, I'm sure might be legal to put a trailer on there? Or you certainly have to pull some kind of permit. In Malibu, there is exactly zero. There's one property that's being rebuilt that I've chronicling.

[Kennedy]

What is the point of that? Because I can't imagine that they're getting the property taxes that they were before the fire. So don't they look at that like, this is the thing that always confuses me about, like, socialists is they demonize billionaires. And billionaires, like, fine, we'll leave. Like, we've got private jets and U Hauls. Like, we will just go ahead and go, no problem. See it? And they go, bye. But then they don't have a tax base. So people cannot rebuild, they cannot improve the value of their burnt down home. So therefore, the county cannot reassess it and they're not making money.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I'll say this, Kennedy, I have thoughts. One is many years ago, someone said to Obama, why are you raising the corporate tax? You know, it's been proven that when you lower the corporate tax, there's more corporations and you actually bring in more money. So why not lower the corporate tax instead of raise the corporate tax so you can take in more tax revenue? And he goes, I don't like the optics of it. So it's just like he liked the idea of raising the corporate tax to stick it to the man, and he didn't care whether he got more money out of it or not. So there is a lot of that going on. There's also a lot of what I like to call chick think, not you, but there's a lot of, like, you know, you Know, all the women, like, politicians were like, elon Musk, screw you. Get out. Leave. We don't want you. You know, like. Like, he's a dumbass. He doesn't do anything and he should leave. It's like, okay, he will. And that's. It's a kind of a emotionally based sort of screw these guys versus what is actually good for the bottom line. And let's be. Let's not declare war on the guys paying the taxes and creating the jobs. But they don't care. Because in that impulse again, the woman who's running Seattle's like, bye, bye, rich guys. And then later on she's like, you know, we value Starbucks because. Yeah, somebody got hold of you. Yeah, because someone asked her like, well,

[Kennedy]

what happens when these companies leave as they are starting to. And she goes, bye.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

Right.

[Adam Carolla]

But that was the chick think part. And later on, somebody got hold of

[Kennedy]

her and she was like, bro, look at these tax receipts. Like, right, we're running out of money. Like, we're gonna have to start cutting programs and everything. You promised, like, every little giveaway you won on, like, that's first to go, right?

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. I learned this from my ex wife when she used to announce a lot. I don't even care about money. I don't even want any of this big houses and stuff like that. And I'd go, we're looking for cars. I told you you should get the Genesis. But you didn't want it. You wanted the audi, which is 20 grand more. Yeah, I think you do care. It's convenient to go, I don't care because all you do is waste my money. But you actually have thoughts about this.

[Kennedy]

When it comes to when the rubber meets the road, there's a lot more caring.

[Adam Carolla]

That's where it met the road. The Audi versus the Genesis.

[Kennedy]

Oh, boy. I don't know. I've never test driven the Genesis.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I'm going back 10 years. So Genesis was sort of. Genesis is the Hyundai what Lexus is to Toyota.

[Kennedy]

Okay, so it's like the higher end, like.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, but that Genesis is pretty cool now. But 10 years ago, it was a glorified Hyundai and she wanted an Audi, which was another, like $23,000.

[Kennedy]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I don't like Audis. Not a fan.

[Adam Carolla]

You're an innie.

[Kennedy]

I'm an innie now I'm a BMW person.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, it's a great driving car.

[Kennedy]

It really is.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Although everything is kind of good now. Like, everything works.

[Kennedy]

But that's the nice thing. Like you're kind of in the same age rage age range boat I am with kids is, you know, the youngest is 17. New York City kids don't drive. Like. No, I've not really been. All of the let someday buy a car talk is very theoretical.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Kennedy]

It's not going to happen anytime soon. Which is fine. I'm okay with that.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

But it's like now there are so many safe options that are so much cheaper. Even if you get a car that's like five, seven years old. Like, I just remember when I drove, I had my mom's diesel Rabbit, little four speed.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh man.

[Kennedy]

And I thought I was hell on wheels in that thing. And then that the, the radiator went out and my mom and stepdad weren't going to pay to fix it. So I inherited my brother's 83 Toyota Corolla, which was a box. Got T boned by my soccer coach who was drunk.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Kennedy]

Yeah. And had to get rid of that. And I didn't want her to dislike me, so I couldn't tell my dad that she was really drunk. Cause my dad the lawyer would have sued her.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, dad the lawyer. Yeah. So let me just give you a couple of tips on storytelling. You gotta do the whole car buildup into that story. Cause if you just start with I got T boned by my soccer coach who was really drunk. I was traumatized by it. People are gonna go somewhere else in their head, you know, because they think it might be a man and he may have acted inappropriately.

[Kennedy]

No, it was. She was drunk driving another vehicle and she happened to run into.

[Adam Carolla]

I got contacts. I'm saying if you just pick it up in the middle, it takes a turn for the sexual is what I'm saying.

[Kennedy]

No, I wasn't that lucky to get T boned by my soccer coach and

[Adam Carolla]

that guy who was drunk. Yeah. So wouldn't it be sad?

[Kennedy]

Like I was such an unattractive teenager. Like my horny soccer coach had to

[Adam Carolla]

get drunk in order to make a move. Yeah. So cars were dangerous back then.

[Kennedy]

Yeah. But then I got a 1972 Bug, which I loved. I loved that car.

[Adam Carolla]

You did. So you didn't put the money into doing the radiator on the Rabbit, but you just went with the Toyota Corolla.

[Kennedy]

I inherited it from my brother.

[Adam Carolla]

Or Celica.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And inherited from a brother. And then you went and got a VW Bug, but you didn't take the insurance money, put it back into the Rabbit Diesel Rabbit. Is super slow car diesel in general. Just. It's the experiment that didn't really work out.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But thanks, Germany. Wait for the globe plugs to heat up and all that kind of stuff. Yeah.

[Kennedy]

You had to prime it. You had to prime it because if you started it without priming it, you would blow the engine.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Kennedy]

And you could never let it get empty. So I always carried change in the ashtray. So I go to the gas station, get like, 83 cents worth of diesel,

[Adam Carolla]

and diesel used to be cheaper than regular fuel. Yeah. Now it's more.

[Kennedy]

Yeah. Have you seen the Christmas gas prank that kids do around Christmas? They call their dad and they have their dad on speaker. My niece did this. It's very funny. And was like, I put the Christmas gas in my car and now it won't start. And my brother's like, what is Christmas gas? She goes, you know, the green pump, the Christmas gas.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, I didn't know that one. Huh. I don't know. I don't find that to be hysterical.

[Kennedy]

And my brother said, call a tow truck.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Kennedy]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Your brother's a hard ass.

[Kennedy]

Yeah. You met him in Portland.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's right. He came out to the show. Yeah, I like that guy. He came out to the show. Oh, he.

[Kennedy]

He is an Adam Carolla fan. He will give me the Adam Carolla run. He will play the hits for me.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Kennedy]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we had a good show in Portland, as I recall, so I'm glad he could be there. Yeah. Mm.

[Kennedy]

Don't go anywhere more. Kennedy saves the world right after this.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Kennedy]

So people would assume that a Portland crowd is very liberal and judgmental with a lot of colored hair and angry people ready to prove a point. Is that what the crowd was like?

[Adam Carolla]

No, because every blue city has this little bastion of red people that feel like they're being screwed and not heard. And there's sort of a pent up rage for all the. All the directions that they're going in the blue cities. So you can find pockets of really hungry. You know, they feel like they're being unheard and underserved and, you know, and all that kind of stuff. So when somebody like me arrives into one of those places, there's always an appetite for. For it because they're. And they're more enthusiastic than a city that might be considered a sort of red city where it's almost commonplace that they get the kind of entertainment that they want. The kind of. It's more a pent up demand kind of thing.

[Kennedy]

That's great because that's a receptive audience, I would assume.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, Your brother was very receptive.

[Kennedy]

Yeah. Good kisser, huh?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, he's a passionate man. He T boned me. I smelled alcohol on him. He was coming home from practice.

[Kennedy]

One last question. What are we left with in terms of elections and how the city's gonna be run going forward?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we have Karen Bass, who's just basically a dope and sort of a DEI hire. And I don't mean hire. I just mean she's not official dei, like, what Biden would do all the time. She wasn't appointed. She got elected by a bunch of DEI social warriors who's like, I'm the first black, the first woman of color to ruin the city. That would be so awesome. You know, So I think there was a lot of that with her. And then Nithya Raman is just a socialist and, you know, she wants to

[Kennedy]

turn Brentwood country course into a homeless camp. Like, those are her big ideas. I'm not. That is not an exaggeration. That's not like, ha, ha ha. Isn't this funny? That is one of her policy proposals.

[Adam Carolla]

She is one of the dumbest people on the planet because there is a tape of her in front of the city council and she's doing whatever, addressing the homeowners association or something. And she wants to address the problem of catalytic converters being stolen. And she blames Toyota for making them so easy to steal and doesn't have anything to say about the people that are stealing the catalytic converters. And it's a perfect socialist mindset. You are angry at the corporation who sells Priuses, but you're not angry at the gangbangers that are underneath them. And by the way, she's stupid because in this thing, and you guys can watch it on the Internet, she's talking about making it so easy to steal. And it's like you have to jack the car up, get under it with a sawzall and cut the exhaust out. It's not even a bracket or a hose clamp. Like, you literally have to saw. It's welded in place and that's. And it's in the center of the car. And it's tucked up underneath it like it is the hardest thing on a car to steal. And then she makes this example. She's like, it's as much as a MacBook Pro. And it's like, hey, if I put my MacBook Pro on the passenger seat and leave, you still don't get to steal it. Yes, you're stealing your thief. Go after the thieves. She's going after Toyota, who, by the way, is not going to do anything.

[Kennedy]

And also not the only car manufacturer selling vehicles in Southern California with catalytic

[Adam Carolla]

converters, which is all of them since 1976. So it's like, I don't know what your point is. She's dumb, but mostly scary dumb, because this is how her brain works.

[Kennedy]

Yes. And will she be the next mayor of Los Angeles?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I would have said no. And Karen Bass has the lead now, but with all the Democratic socialists and all the momentum and it's happening all over the country now. Like, we used to go like, oh, Seattle, come on, or New York, come on, but now it's like Colorado, and it's spreading everywhere.

[Kennedy]

But that's what Democrats have been saying. Like, oh, you don't have to worry about this. Like, you. Yeah, a few primaries and dark blue New York City, like, the most liberal jurisdictions in the country. Of course they're gonna run there. And it's like, no, bro. Like, they're. They're coming for you. Like, all the Democrats are like, we just. We have a big tent and it's coming.

[Adam Carolla]

They got a big tent. I know, I know. I love. I love when they get onto a talking point. You know what I mean? Everyone. Their diversity of opinions. You know, they hate Jews. They love Nazi prison guards. You know, we have so much room in our tent, by the way. Unless you don't want to get vaccinated during COVID then no more room in this tent for you. Very small tent. When it comes to not getting behind Black Lives Matters or whatever BS they've been spouting over the last five years.

[Kennedy]

Well, thank you for coming inside my small tent. I shouldn't have phrased it like that. Thank you for appearing inside of my small tent. I appreciate it very much.

[Adam Carolla]

I will T bone your Toyota any day.

[Kennedy]

This has been Kennedy Saves the World, along with Adam Carolla. I'm Kennedy. Listen, ad free with the Fox News podcast. Plus subscription on Apple podcasts and Amazon prime. Members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the FOX News podcast Network.

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