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Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. It's happy hour. It's mocktail happy hour. Because once again, we have a sober person, because now no one drinks. Adam Carolla is here, host of the Adam Carolla podcast, the Adam Carolla Show. Adam Carolla Enterprises. Adam Carolla Racing. Big BMW guy, right? Adam?
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I don't race any BMWs, but I do love myself a BMW.
A
Me too. Big fan.
B
Yeah, yeah, they're great. I mean, other cars have kind of caught up to them, I guess. I don't know. But BMW is a great driver's car.
A
Yeah.
B
And they always were. And now I guess other cars have sort of bridged the gap. I don't know. I don't do a lot of sports spirited driving on the road, on the street anymore.
A
It's all sort of too many tickets.
B
I. No, I think it's like after you do. After you race for a little bit, once you race for a while, then it just seems sort of anticlimactic to go fast on the street. It just doesn't. It feels sort of boring. It feels like a letdown.
A
Yeah.
B
It's just it racing is so much fun. That. That it. Why bother? Kind of. Kind of thing.
A
What is your favorite motorsport like to watch? Professional. Is it F1? Is it NASCAR? Is it?
B
I don't think it's NASCAR unless they go to the road courses like Sonoma and stuff like that. I don't. I don't like most oval stuff.
A
What about the Roval?
B
I don't know what the Roval is.
A
It's a combination road course, oval.
B
Oh. I've driven on quite a few of those, but I never heard it called the Roval. But yeah, well, most place. I don't know about most places, many places like Daytona, like Indianapolis, like Fontana, they have a big oval. And the Roval is you go down the front straight, you go around the bank, you come around the back straight, but instead of going around in an oval, you drop into the infield and do the track and the infield and then. And then it spits you back out at the end of the straight and you go back on the straight. So you get sort of the experience of the bank and the high speed and all that. And you also get the road course part of it, which is. Yeah, fun.
A
Cheers. By the way, this is BlackBerry Howls, sparkling water and grenadine.
B
Thank you.
A
It looks a lot fancier than it is.
B
Yeah.
A
Mm.
B
Mm. Oh, man, I miss that booze.
A
I have a cabinet full of spirits if you Want a little something in there?
B
Yeah, you want some vodka? A little vodka in there.
A
All right, hold on.
B
Mr. Wonderful's tequila. I love Mr. Wonderful.
A
Yeah, he's great.
B
Yeah, it's good. Dude.
A
It's actually a very smooth tequila.
B
Okay. All right. Yeah. So where were we? Road racing. Yeah, it's good.
A
Do you like F1?
B
Yeah, I like F1. Yeah. I like F1. The cars, I mean, stuff got a little sterilized or something. You know, the F1 cars of yore used to be more interesting. Very dangerous. And dangerous stuff that's dangerous is more interesting sort of inherently.
A
I mean, isn't that why we watch high speed stuff to begin with?
B
I think there's elements certainly of. Certainly, yeah. And now things are very safe, and the car design sort of reflects that a little bit. And I like the vintage racing. I like the old school stuff because it just has an aesthetic that's a little cooler. So I do that.
A
Is it fun to drive those cars, the old cars? Yeah.
B
Yeah. There's a much more visceral sensation to driving an old car because it's a lot more tactile and there's a lot less the car does for you. And. And even I was having this thought the other day where I have old late 60s, early 70s dots in 510 sedans. They're like little boxes that have been kind of hollowed out, and they have drum brakes in the rear, and there's no power or anything. And the brakes are small, and there's a lot. There's no technology in them, you know, and they're not high powered, and they're not really big, powerful race cars. They're just kind of fun, fast, go karty kind of momentum cars, they would call them. But I did have a chance to do professional a couple of times. A professional Trans Am race in a Trans Am car, which is not a Trans Am, but it was a Corvette in a Trans Am series. And this car had sequential shifting, which is, you know, it's like, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4. You just keep pulling.
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Okay.
B
The gears and you don't have to find, like a pattern. Yeah, yeah. And it's not an H, as they say. And you didn't have to rev, match it. Like when you downshifted, you just pull it into the gear and it would just go into the gear and you just pull it. You didn't have to.
A
That was like my Honda 50. I had a little Honda 50. Yeah. And then you just tap it. And that's how you change the gear.
B
Yeah, it was like, no clutch. It's sequential. Motorcycles are that way. Motorcycles are, like, one day down, five up, or whatever. Whatever the shift pattern is, but you're not. It's just this way. And. And it had, like, power steering, and even though it had 950 horsepower and it was, like a real beast, it felt like I was driving kind of a streetcar when I was doing this race, which was a very fast race, and the car's a brutal car, but I was immediately comfortable in it, and it felt sort of domesticated or something. Whereas the old vintage race cars are just all over the place. And. And they don't have a. They don't have a domesticated kind of feel to them. They have a very, like, sort of raggedy feel to them, but. But it's visceral. It makes for more fun.
A
Would you have been a professional race car driver in another era of your life?
B
I. I mean, I. I probably had some talent for it, so maybe if I grew up karting, you know, when I was 8, but that would have. That'd mean Jim Carolla would have to make a buy a go card for young Adam, and that never was gonna happen.
A
What if you grew up in Temecula?
B
If I grew up in Temecula and Jim Carolla got me a go kart, then maybe. But I had some natural ability for. But I don't know if I'd be. There's a lot of fast guys. Like, once you get to a certain level, you realize there are, like.
A
Kyle Larson is impressive to me because he races literally everything. I mean, I think he would race a little red wagon against kids in a park if it was available to him.
B
Well, you know, back in the day, F1 guys would race at Le Mans, and there'd be guys like Dan Gurney, who did Indy and he did stock cars and he did road course, you know, cars can AM and stuff like that, and would do Le Mans as well, and F1, you know, so there's precedent for guys back in the day who just drove, just loved to race.
A
They didn't give a. What they drove. They just loved to race.
B
There were, like, race car drivers who. There wasn't all the contracts and all the money and all the. Probably all the advertisers where you were locked into driving for this manufacturer and you couldn't hop a ride and do the 24 hours of Daytona because that was another kind of car manufacturer. You know, like, everything, it gets real specific. It gets fine granular or something. Yeah, you do what you Do. I mean, just like, guys used to play different sports, like this sport here. And that's a really good point. Now it's just like, here's your sport. You start playing all year.
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Yeah.
B
We'll take you to camp in Arizona when you're 10, and you'll work with a coach, you know, and all this stuff. And then it just. I don't know. It's the opposite of varieties, of spice of life. It would be the opposite.
A
Do you love Katie Porter as much as I do?
B
I am so in love with Katie Porter.
A
Isn't she amazing?
B
She's great. You know, I was making fun of her until she yelled at her staff, and then I was like, there's my kind. You single? My kind of lady. Yeah.
A
Get out of my shot.
B
I would never. I love. I never blame anyone for yelling at their staff. I'll tell you the two things I don't blame anyone for. Like. Like the Bill O'Reilly, you know, just do it. Live.
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Do a. Live.
B
Right.
A
It. I'll write it myself.
B
You could put together 2000 hours of me doing that. Because it's like you go, I don't. Don't do this. I don't. And then at some point it happens, and you just snap.
A
Yeah.
B
And I get that. My beef with Katie Porter was. Is years old. There was a thing that I stumbled onto, and it was an advertisement from. It was either Washington Mutual or B of A or something, some big banking company. And I'll. I'll paraphrase it, but it's what made me hate her, probably going back about six years, because I didn't know who she was.
A
Yeah.
B
And so there was a kerfuffle because a large banking institution, and I don't know which one, but one of them, they did this ad campaign, and the ad campaign was basically you talking to your savings account. Right. And it's like you say to the savings account, you know, how come there's no money in it? And then your savings account says, instead of paying $7 for a cup of coffee, why don't you make coffee at home? You know? And then you go, savings account. I have no money. And then the savings account goes, instead of hiring an Uber, why don't you just walk to the restaurant and get some exercise, you know? And it's a lot of, like, why you. Eating out every night? Make meals at home and save money. And it was basically a cute little thing that Washington Mutual was doing. Like, hey, save. You know, make your. Make. Make. Make food at home and save money. And get some exercise and don't buy seven dollar coffee. Oh, I'm sorry. And then Katie Porter, along with Liz Warren, had to light into that. Of course, it was like, hey, B of A, why don't you pay your, you know, Washington Mutual, why don't you pay your employees a living wage instead of beating up on the unfortunate? And it's like, I was like, first off, you insane cow, lady, this is what your grandfather would have told you if you said, grandpa, I don't have any money. He'd say, you have enough to pay $7 for Starbucks every day, but you don't have enough for your car insurance. How about you make a pot of coffee at home? You know, this is all just sort of frontier wisdom.
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Yes.
B
Basic stuff. Stuff you would tell your child if your child was off at college, didn't have any money, you'd say, well, I'm getting the receipts for your credit card. You're eating out. You eat sushi two nights. Make some food at home. It was like homespun, kind of cute. Basic what this country used to be about advice and Katie Porter and of course Liz were they just dug into the bank about paying a living wage to their employees. It's just a bunch of sort of harpies. Yes, yes. Grandstanding. And so at the time I was like, I don't know who Katie Porter is, but she's a dumb cow.
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A
Do you think she's going to be governor of California?
B
Oh, my God. It's weird because you, you like I, I, I have you put nothing past California because their voters are so stupid or so ideological or, or willing to cut off their nose despite their face. Yeah, they don't care. But that would be really unfortunate. But that would be a, that would be, let's see, who's Chicago? Brandon Marshall.
A
Brandon Johnson is the mayor of Chicago. J.B. pritzker is the right, Right.
B
But they got Lori Lightfoot to Brandon Johnson. Right. And so it's like, oh, you idiots didn't learn your lesson from this dope named Lori Lightfoot. And you decide to go further in the, you want to go further down that road. And so this would be a newsome Lightfoot, Brandon Johnson, Lori. That Katie Porter would be like, can always get worse.
A
That's what people don't realize.
B
Like, yes, California. You don't think Newsom has ruined the state? Because we can. We only burn parts of it. We could burn it all.
A
I was. I was at my house on Tuesday. It's. It's tragic, I know. And then hearing. What did you make of the guy they arrested who set the fire? Did he seem like an antifa guy? Like, it's really difficult to wrap your head around someone that angry and ordinary who caused $150 billion in damage and burned the place that I love to the ground. Like, I. I have such a hard time even processing that.
B
I saw a great meme, because of course Newsom blamed man made climate change, you know, and they just showed a picture of him and they said, here's your man made climate change, idiot. Oh, God, it's so bad. I don't know. I mean, look, these guys are out there. They're gonna be out there, and there's nothing we can do about it other than get the part of it that we can control together, which is reservoirs and police stations.
A
The reservoir is still not full.
B
Yeah, don't make all the DEI hires over there either, when it comes to the fire department. Fix some of the fire trucks or any of that. Why don't we just do all that? Yes.
A
And yes, they have enough tax money.
B
It seems like they do.
A
Like they're. They're not. I mean, trust me, they. That they've got the highest taxation rates in the country.
B
Well, I mean, the gas is the most expensive and the roads are the worst. So you tell me how that if there's some sort of correlation, it's always.
A
Like, I would like you to run for governor. If nothing else, it would be very entertaining to see you on the debate stage.
B
Yeah, that would be fun. Me and Katie Porter.
A
You'd flirt with her the whole time.
B
First off, she just sounds like a horrible person. But again, yelling at her staff, that's really the only.
A
What about her husband? What about dumping the hot mashed potatoes on his head and burning his scalp? And then he had to file a restraining order against her.
B
Well, you know, it's an interesting thing, which is I had a kind of hippie, progressive, free to be you and me kind of mom. And I always said to everybody, although they didn't really listen, but I feel like they're listening now. The image of the progressive is taking a flower and putting it into the barrel of the National Guardsmen. Right? So that's like their image is, you know, you're the guy with the gun, but we're gonna give you a daisy and solve this problem. And I would tell everyone, oh, no, no. I was raised by one of these people. They're angry and they're rageful.
A
Oh, yeah.
B
And you think it's all peace and love and good vibes. That is a veneer. Remember Ellen? She used to love to dance.
A
Same with Rosie. She's a fun one. What a great talk show.
B
Cutie patootie, Chub club, Right? They're evil shrews. Why are they dancing, by the way? The two people dance on tv. Bill Cosby. Everyone watch the beginning of the Bill Cosby Show. And here's your challenge. If someone just put a camera on you and said, I'm gonna put a camera on you for 20 seconds, there's no sound, there's no microphone. You just do anything you want to do to convince America you're not a rapist. Go. You would do. That's what you do, right? You do his dance.
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Yeah.
B
That's the dance you would do if someone just said, you got 20 sex eventually, you're not rapist. I would just go, but you look.
A
Like a rapist when you do that. Like, I hate.
B
Yeah, that's my problem. That's why it wouldn't work. But she. Yeah, okay, so. So who are they? Are they people who love to dance? Are they. People are hiding something that's bubbling just under the surface. So obviously the democratic sort of, especially the peace and love. By the way, as soon as you poke these people just a bit, just a millimeter underneath this veneer of I want to feed all the children and everyone deserves a seat at the table. They're all horrible, angry shrews. Oh, yeah, and the guys are bad too, but the women are even worse. Like, God forbid someone ask him a follow up question.
A
The guys are eunuchs.
B
Yes, the guys are eunuchs.
A
The women, I. I agree with you. They're nuts.
B
Hold on. You reminded me I'm not crossing my legs properly. I got to do the Obama gaffing Newsom. Do you have a thighmaster here that I could get a little Obama and Newsom like, like they sit the whole. It's like, really, dude? Where's your balls? Unique boy. Like, how deep, by the way, you cannot convince me they're not signaling. They're signaling. There's no way. It can't be a coincidence that every progressive male crosses his legs like he's Dinah Shore on a talk show in the 70s wearing a short miniskirt. Like, by the way, he sits on stage for 90 minutes. I can't do it for 30 seconds. I now have a torsion of my testicles.
A
And Democrats wonder why they're having a hard time with men. It's because men don't want to signal like that. They don't want to be signaled to like that.
B
The funny thing, Justin Trudeau used to do the. Like, there should be a competition. Yeah.
A
It's like a pretzel, where they're like.
B
But there's another thing, too. They do. Trudeau would do this. They go, here's what I'm going to do. I do the super deep leg cross. And that only signals. It signals people that I'm a eunuch and I have no ball sack. But it'll hike up my pant leg, exposing my colorful socks.
A
Oh, yes.
B
And then once you see my colorful socks and my deep leg cross, you'll know LGBT community where I stand.
A
Did you believe that Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry were on a date?
B
I did, yeah. Yeah.
A
I thought that was odd.
B
I'm glad you brought up Katy Perry and Katie Porter.
A
Yeah.
B
Cause I have a challenge. I know you have a strong male following to the podcast.
A
That's absolutely right, Adam.
B
This is the Wheel of Destiny.
A
Okay, very good.
B
One side is Katie Porter. The other side is Katy Perry. Whatever side it lands on, that's who you take home tonight. Do you spin that wheel? Gentlemen, you can shake your head all you want, but you're not gonna get another shot at Katy Perry. No, that's not without the wheel.
A
Not without the wheel.
B
And I cut a one time deal with her and her people. So this is it. You spin that wheel or not. And then later on, we'll do Avril Lavigne.
A
Yeah.
B
And Admiral Levine, the he, she cross dresser from the Biden administration. We'll see if we spin that wheel. Come on, gentlemen, step up.
A
The gentlemen have to step up. Like, if they're gonna stand up against the matriarchy, they have to spin the wheel of justice.
B
I tweeted that out there in the greatest indictment of Katie Porter's. Everyone just gone. I'm sorry. I'm a big Katy Perry fan, but I am not. I'm not going near that wheel. I'm not gonna go near the wheel. The hypothetical. They won't engage in the hypothetical.
A
It's like the modern day Ernest Hemingway. You know, it's like I've summited Everest. I've wrestled lions.
B
But Have I spun the wheel of Destiny? I can't do that. No, Sorry. Not enough, man. That's right. I caught a marlin with my bare hands. But I will not spin that wheel.
A
Thank you for that. I needed that so desperately.
B
Picture that wheel.
A
Yeah.
B
Yeah.
A
I could see it clear as day. And if you find a taker, there's.
B
Some guys that, you know, they start bargaining, like, how much can I drink? Or that kind of stuff, you know?
A
Yeah.
B
And, you know, I'm open to negotiation.
A
I want to meet those guys.
B
The guys who'll spin that wheel. Yeah. Those are the first responders. Those are the first guys in that building, the last guys out. You know what I mean?
A
Oh, Adam, thank you so much. I have to go, but cheers to you and your brain.
B
Cheers to you in your brain.
A
Thank you. This has been Kennedy Saves the World happy hour. Along with Adam Carolla. I'm Kennedy. Listen. Ad free with a 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.
Host: Kennedy
Guest: Adam Carolla
This lively, irreverent happy hour episode features Kennedy in conversation with comedian, podcaster, and car aficionado Adam Carolla. The two blend mocktails (and joke about spiking them), swap stories on racing and cars, and take delight in dissecting modern motorsports, California politics, and public personalities. Their chat is peppered with quick wit, sarcasm, and a mix of affectionate and biting cultural commentary.
BMWs & Car Affinity
Street vs. Track Thrills
"After you race for a while... it just seems sort of anticlimactic to go fast on the street. It just doesn't. It feels sort of boring. It feels like a letdown." (01:00)
Motorsports Favorites
"The Roval is you go down the front straight... drop into the infield and do the track there, then spit back out...so you get the experience of both—high speed and road course. Which is fun." (01:45)
Modern F1's Sterility
“Stuff got a little sterilized...the F1 cars of yore used to be more interesting. Very dangerous. And dangerous stuff—that’s more interesting, sort of inherently.” (03:06)
The Raw Feel of Vintage Cars
“There’s a much more visceral sensation...a lot less the car does for you...no technology in them...momentum cars...fun, fast, go karty.” (03:54)
Could Adam Have Gone Pro?
“I probably had some talent for it, so maybe if I grew up karting, you know, when I was 8 ... That’d mean Jim Carolla would have to buy a go kart for young Adam, and that never was gonna happen.” (06:37)
Old-School Racing Legends
“There’s precedent for guys back in the day who just drove—just loved to race.” (07:22)
Katie Porter Riffs
“I am so in love with Katie Porter...I was making fun of her until she yelled at her staff, and then I was like, there’s my kind...My kind of lady.” (08:47)
“First off, you insane cow, lady, this is what your grandfather would have told you...This is all just sort of frontier wisdom.” (10:03, 11:42)
“It was like homespun, kind of cute...basic what this country used to be about advice, and Katie Porter and of course Liz were...just a bunch of sort of harpies. Yes, yes. Grandstanding.” (11:42)
California Governorship & Progressive Archetypes
“Can always get worse.” (13:43)
On Katie Porter’s Personal Life
Kennedy (14:44): “What about dumping the hot mashed potatoes on his head and burning his scalp?”
Adam: “I had a kind of hippie, progressive, free to be you and me kind of mom...The image of the progressive is taking a flower and putting it into the barrel of the National Guardsman, right?...They’re angry and they’re rageful.” (15:53, 16:39)
Peace, Love, and Public Meltdowns
“Remember Ellen? She used to love to dance...Cutie patootie, Chub club, right? They’re evil shrews. Why are they dancing, by the way?” (16:48, 16:51)
Hypocrisy and ‘Signaling’ in Progressivism
“You cannot convince me they’re not signaling...every progressive male crosses his legs like he’s Dinah Shore on a talk show in the 70s ... I now have a torsion of my testicles.” (18:30, 19:21)
“Once you see my colorful socks and my deep leg cross, you’ll know LGBT community where I stand.” (19:56)
“This is the Wheel of Destiny. One side is Katie Porter. The other side is Katy Perry. Whatever side it lands on, that’s who you take home tonight. Do you spin that wheel?” (20:21, 20:26)
On Modern Race Cars
“It felt like I was driving kind of a streetcar when I was doing this race...immediately comfortable in it, and it felt sort of domesticated...vintage race cars...have a very, like, sort of raggedy feel...But it's visceral. It makes for more fun.”
— Adam Carolla, 05:42–06:19
On Katie Porter
“First off, you insane cow, lady, this is what your grandfather would have told you...This country used to be about advice...it's just a bunch of sort of harpies...grandstanding.”
— Adam Carolla, 10:03–11:42
On Progressive Rage
“I was raised by one of these people. They’re angry and they’re rageful. And you think it’s all peace and love and good vibes. That is a veneer.”
— Adam Carolla, 16:39
On “Signaling”
“Every progressive male crosses his legs like he’s Dinah Shore on a talk show in the 70s wearing a short miniskirt...I now have a torsion of my testicles.”
— Adam Carolla, 19:21
Wheel of Destiny
“One side is Katie Porter. The other side is Katy Perry. Whatever side it lands on, that's who you take home tonight. Do you spin that wheel?”
— Adam Carolla, 20:26
The episode’s atmosphere is playful, sardonic, and satirical, with Adam Carolla’s acerbic humor meshing smoothly with Kennedy’s cheeky provocations. While laced with exaggeration and parody, the conversation frequently pivots to pointed critiques of cultural and political trends with a distinct libertarian undercurrent.