WEBVTT - On Not Growing Up w/ Adam Carolla | Sunday Fireside Chat 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:03.600 Life Audio. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.240 Hey there, this is Marissa strit I am the CEO 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.400 of Preger You, and you are about to listen to 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.440 a special edition of fireside Chat with Dennis Praguer. Those 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.760 of us here at preger You are continuing to do 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.279 the very important work that we've been doing with him 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.800 for over ten years. We are educating millions of young 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.560 people online, we have state partnerships to bring our content 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.480 into schools, and so much more. You can head over 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.920 to peger you dot com to see the progress that 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.640 we've been making. 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I take your questions. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.320 I offer you some thoughts on very rare occasions, and 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.640 you can count them truly on the fingers of one hand. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.880 I have had guests, and they have to be pretty special. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:24.080 I have had Abraham, Lincoln, Aristotle, Moses. I mean, it's 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.160 a very special crowd. And now, Adam Carolla, how do 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:32.320 you feel being in the company of Lincoln, Aristotle and 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:33.280 the like. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.759 I don't think I'm at the top of that list. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.360 I'm certainly in the middle, right, And well, I don't 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.399 want to bring up who I'm in the middle of, 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:47.800 because many of them, especially Aristotle, as family members. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.320 Not nice, still very thoughtful of you. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.880 Yes, it's going to embarrass him, so you should like 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.160 close your ears. I think the world of this man. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.080 He is a very special human being on every level, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.880 and extremely bright. But that's not enough. There are a 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.480 lot of bright people, but he has. He has a 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.560 conscience and a mind that go with his brightness. He's 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:17.679 unbelievably funny, his very fertile mind. We are really blessed 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.200 to have each other in each other's lives, which is, 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.760 of course a sort of self aggrandizing statement on my part. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.320 I'm assuming he thinks that, but I'll risk it. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.600 We really do, We really do feel that we were 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:37.000 blessed to to somehow come together, and we have actually 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.440 made a movie together which will be out this fall, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:45.919 No Safe Spaces, and I know you will love it. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.800 It already won an award at one festival that it 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.240 was at. It's really about it's a movie, not just 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.920 a documentary. It's about freedom in America. Any thoughts on it. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.760 I'm excited for its release. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.799 You know, it's been a long process and it's been 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.320 shot over a number of I guess years now, and 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.040 you know, it's It's funny because when we initially we're 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.560 having discussions about it, you could it was in the air, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.480 but it wasn't in your face. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.840 You know, the. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:24.040 Speech, campus speech, free speech, hate speech, you know, all 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.840 this kind of stuff. It was like these were notions 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.040 that were sort of floating around. But now they're really 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:37.640 they're really congealing, and so I think the timing is 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.560 going to be perfect for the film. Unfortunately, unfortunately, yeah, 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.240 that might be. By the way, I did not mention that. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.200 And this this is verified by the Guinness Book of Records. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.400 He is the is the most widely listened to a 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.840 podcast outside of Communist China. I just have to assume 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.000 that you know, some official spoke but of the government 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.120 may have more downloads in China than you do outside 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.320 of China, so only on that basis. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.560 But they have to listen to me. People who listen 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:15.240 to you do so voluntarily. That's right. You no longer 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.360 force people to listen to you, now, I wish I could. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.400 Yeah, I've been doing a podcast for over ten years now, 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.599 daily podcast, So it's really been quite quite a while. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.560 I got out of terrestrial radio in about two thousand 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.640 and eleven, sorry, two thousand and nine, and then I 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.280 immediately just started up with podcasts. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.200 And it's really worked. What is it, Adam Carolla dot 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.040 com Adam Carola dot com. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.600 Well, it's absolutely worth people's visiting you. I'm very honored 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.520 by the fact you listened to my radio show and 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.880 I'm very touched by that. And you were mentioning to 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.200 me it is amazing to you to hear people call 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.720 in differ with me, which is fine, and that's why 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.920 I take their calls. But when there is a complete 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:08.080 absence of logic, For example, you gave the example, well, Dennis, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.680 why are you complaining about Praeger? You being placed on 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.599 the restricted list by Google, Hey, they do that to 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.839 the young Turks. And then I would say, well, yes, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.680 but the young Turks use profanity, right, It's not an 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.880 ideological issue with young Turks. It's a profanity issue with us. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.279 There's no profanity, right. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.320 And then they go back and say, but they're on 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.480 the no fly zone as well. You know, they they 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.640 essentially make their point a second time, which wasn't a 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.799 point the first time. But there's also something I've noticed 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:51.680 as well listening, which is folks on the right who 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:57.440 call in and who on occasion take umbrage or disagree 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.960 with something you said, something to do with the Bible. Sometimes, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:02.720 you know, they try to they want to correct you 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:04.880 give them, give you their. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:06.320 Version of it. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:12.040 The folks that are right leaning, if you say, all right, 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.400 well let me explain that, they stop. The folks that 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.040 are left leaning just bulldoze every time, and you go, 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.560 excuse me, you can talk, Just let me answer. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.400 Excuse me, you can talk, and they just bulldoze. They 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.000 fill a us and you. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.599 You're saying, I'm going to hang up on you if 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.880 you don't let me answer this question. You know, you're 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.080 not allowed to ask three questions in a row. I 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.520 get to answer your first question. The folks on the right, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.960 they're still arguing with you. They're capable of stopping and 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.520 listening to what your rebuttal is to their assertion. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.440 The folks on the left just plow right. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.720 Through to the point where I don't know if they 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.279 don't hear what you're saying, or I don't know. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.679 If they don't want to hear what they're gonna say. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.159 They don't, You're right, I think they don't and they 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.120 don't want to hear it. Look, you know I would 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.839 have any I hear. I publicly announced I would have 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.640 any New York Times columnists on my show, but they 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.200 won't come on. And you know I treat people respectfully, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.880 but they won't come on. I would go there, but 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.160 they don't. As I often say, they don't hear us. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.480 They don't study under us, they don't watch us, they 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.800 don't see our movies, they don't nothing they We see 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.920 their movies, we watch them on television, we hear them 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.640 on podcasts or radio. We studied under them in school, 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.960 but there is no equivalent on their side. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:44.520 Yeah, I was watching Bill Maher saying to Adam Shift 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.640 super naively, like I wish you'd just go on that 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.640 Sean Hannity show and settle that guy's hash right, And 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.640 Adam Shift went, I've been invited quite a few times, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.640 and Bill was going, well, good, then just go and 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.679 straight him out. And Adam Schiff was in this really 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:03.560 bad position. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.760 Is that interesting? It was sort of from the mouth 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.720 of Bills or the mouth of babes. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.800 Bill was like, you got invited to go on Sean 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.920 Hannity and you didn't go, Why not just go and 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.200 make a fool out of him? Adam Shift is thinking, no, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.720 I don't want to go because I don't want to 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.280 I don't want to get beat in the argument. That's correct, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:33.199 obviously if you were talking prize fighters before we went on. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.720 But if you think you can win the fight, you 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.439 get in the ring. That's right if you're a prize fighter, 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.880 if that's your profession, and essentially, if your profession is 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.520 to argue with people or to give your opinion or 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.160 to do what Adam Shift does. If you think you're 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.439 going to make short work of this guy, then you 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.560 can't get on the show fast enough. If you think 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.160 you're gonna get bullied and bloodied and maybe not get 0:08:59.160 --> 0:08:59.559 out of there. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:08:59.920 With a win. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.000 Then you don't now. What Bill Maher was saying was 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.880 is I don't get it. Why are you taking him 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:07.360 up on us? 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.680 All you'll explained why you said he was naive? Well, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.960 Bill Moore was naive. Well, but Bill Maher was saying, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:20.520 was we here on the left, we talk in a 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.520 circle to each other. What we need is to go 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.520 onto the other side of the aisle and explain to 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.760 them what we're doing, what our points are. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:30.080 Right. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.640 So his naivete was Adam shifp go ahead, but I 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.240 bet you Hannity wouldn't invite you on. When he found 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.000 out Hannity had invited him multiple times, then he went 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.920 from naive to confused, which is, well, why don't you 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.880 go on there? The answer is he's scared, of course, 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.160 and he's not gonna win the fight. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:49.400 Right. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.200 Let me announce one one in another way. I will 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.560 happily go on any MSNBC show that would like to 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:01.160 invite me, but it won't happen. And there's a good 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.640 reason it won't happen. You see, here is a fact, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:09.080 not an opinion. On the right, we are reason based. 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.600 On the left, they are emotion based. It's as simple 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.920 as that that's why they How do you feel? How 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.760 do you feel? How do you feel about it? How 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.640 do you feel about it? Oh? When biological men are 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.920 running against girls in girls' races in high schools in Connecticut, Oh, 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.840 that's totally fair because they consider themselves women. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.280 Right. Well, Look, obviously, if you. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.800 Say I felt threatened, or I know what I know, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.440 or in my heart of hearts, it's really hard to 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.959 argue that away. Who are you to say to someone No, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.600 you didn't feel threatened. Who are you to say to 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.520 someone in my heart of hearts? Now, if you want 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.120 to pull out a spreadsheet and give me a ballpoint pen, 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.000 we can probably find out where your math was incorrect. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.760 But if you felt threatened, there's that. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.560 Well ironic, because the name of our movie is no 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.320 safe Spaces. Safe Spaces is exactly where kids who think 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.959 they're threatened if a conservative speaker comes to college. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:11.040 But but. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:17.960 It doesn't matter that you feel threatened, there's something wrong 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.240 with you if you feel threatened by a conservative speaker. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.120 I don't feel threatened by a left wing speaker. Why 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.520 do you feel threatened by a right wing speaker? 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:32.480 What is so different about it? Like? What I don't 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:39.360 understand is I hate world music. It bothers me. I 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:40.840 feel like it's a cop out. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:46.640 It's like reggae with more people, and I just don't 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.440 like it. So if I was attending a college and 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.120 they were going to have a world music festival, right, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.120 I would simply not leave my dorm that day, or. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.560 I would go to the park and study. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.480 But I wouldn't really feel threatened, and I wouldn't try 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.040 to shut down the concert. I would just announce that 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.880 I will not be attending because I don't agree and 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:08.720 don't enjoy. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:09.360 Right. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:14.520 But but the analogy isn't isn't entirely perfect because they 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.440 should go anyway. Your thing is an aesthetic dislike. There's 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.640 no reason to force yourself. I wouldn't go to a 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.480 rap concert. I just don't enjoy rap. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.400 Fine, but that's such a good point. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.000 Yeah, that's part. I might think you're in the band. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.000 That's such a good point. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:36.000 That's someone inevitably well, that's what microfi. That is why 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:36.719 I wouldn't go. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.920 Yeah, that's right. You'd be forced. It wouldn't be right, 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.839 and I would show them up. It's just it's not right. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:46.760 Right they should go. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.679 I've heard world music I don't enjoy it, but maybe 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.160 you should go here with Ben Shapiro has to say 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:52.679 that's right. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:53.040 Yes. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.040 And I always tell people make a trade you your 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.319 kid doesn't you know, want to listen to you, or 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.720 what doesn't want to to me, or anyone like us. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.959 Make a trade you'll listen to twice as much of 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:05.880 their favorites. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:13.199 Well, I believe you have to have a certain insecurity 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:18.080 with your ideas if you don't want them tested. If 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:24.839 you have a very strong sense in relationship. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.200 With your ideas or whatever that is. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:30.160 If you're doing a math equation and you've done it 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.680 all out in long form, you'll happily hand it to somebody. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.920 If you feel confident, you'll hand it to a professor 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.520 and go scrutinize away. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:39.000 Right. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.560 I feel I know I've gotten all my numbers in line. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.360 If you're feeling a little iffy, then you sort of 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.920 put your arm around and you go get don't don't 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.559 look at what I'm doing. I don't want it scrutinized. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.880 I think I think there's a notion of we have 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.520 these feelings, we have these ideas, they don't don't really 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.080 hold up to scrutiny, But As long as we can 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:07.600 get enough people together who think or like minded, we'll 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.680 never have to offer them up to scrutiny. And there's 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:17.760 something that feels insecure, because I think when you feel 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:22.240 very comfortable with information, the things you know, the things 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.760 I know, I have a I have an expertise in building. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:28.800 If anybody ever. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.480 Says, oh, I I'm a world class builder. I know 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.360 everything about building, I go come over here and tell 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.880 me all about it, right, and let's see what you know. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.000 And I'll tell you what I know. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.760 I don't go, oh, someone's found found right, and it's 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.120 probably part of you. Maybe he's got a better idea. Yes, 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.400 that that's what I react. Oh, you differ with me. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.640 You may be right, right, I'm totally open to that. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.200 Right, Well, you should be because it makes you a 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:57.960 better builder. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.360 That's the point, right, that's right. By the way, talking 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.800 to Adam Carolla. For those of you, I don't know, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.480 there's no such thing as just touting in that. Are 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:13.280 there people who clicking on the middle? Okay? If so, it's. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.680 Adam Carolla, whose podcast is well worth your time. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:17.240 Listen. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.640 What I do is take questions. The second half of 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.000 my half hour time with people. So I'd like you 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:29.120 to respond to some if you feel comfortable. Okay, so 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.880 this is a fun part. I love this actually because 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.880 you never know who's going to ask from anywhere in 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:40.200 the world. All right, read nineteen New York Prager Force Adam. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:41.200 This is for Adam. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.640 Have you performed on a college campus recently? Why have 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.160 comedians turned away from college campuses in recent years? 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.200 Well, I think for obvious reasons. No. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:55.640 I used to perform in the late nineties and early 0:15:55.680 --> 0:16:00.680 two thousands quite off, and I literally toured with Doctor 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:06.400 Drew and played big venues and did it frequently hundreds 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:12.440 of colleges. There is obviously for obvious reasons. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.680 Uh, whatever you say about. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.680 Comedians, you know, this guy's bold, and he's a risk tech. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.720 He's a risk taker and a truth teller. Nobody likes 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.520 that feeling of being up on stage and saying something 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.400 and feeling the audience seeing sort of the air come 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.400 out of the room a little bit. I do remember 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:36.720 once when Doctor Drew and I were playing Syracuse many 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:41.280 years ago, and somebody asked a question about getting into broadcasting, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.280 and Drew said, it's not worth it to go to school. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.320 It's not worth it. To take classes. It's not worth 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.640 it to study you in turn at a radio station. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.280 That's what I did, That's what Adam did. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.360 That's how you get and you're talking to entire communications 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.600 television and radio, and I could feel it. You could 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.000 feel it come out because everyone they're paying thousands of 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.840 dollars to do what Drew said will never work and 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.080 was worthless. The degree is worthless, and they're all there 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.640 trying to earn that degree, and you can feel it. 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.359 Oh God, and Drew is right. Drew is right. But 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:14.840 it was still uncomfortable. No. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.080 But what I'm saying is is when you're up on 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:22.600 stage and you start into a joke and you can 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:28.600 feel the people lean back and kind of go uh oh, 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:34.040 it's not a good feeling. And there's nothing that makes 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.840 you say, oh, I want to come back. I mean 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:42.760 the thing about comedians, they'll say all the time, Carolines 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.480 or the laugh Factory or the comedy store, the improv 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.160 or the comedy seller. It has a certain vibe that 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.359 this is what the odd you know. It's it's almost 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.119 like it's like it's like an old bar something it 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.919 has an allure to it, or a crowd or a 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:58.439 vibe or. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:17:59.160 Something like that. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.639 College campuses would be the opposite of all the stuff 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.840 that comedians like. It'd be sterile and angry. You know, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.760 they wouldn't understand you. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.560 You put in my mind just now what has happened, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:20.600 and that is at a college campus. Kids are sitting 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:25.359 there and they what they're thinking is do I have permission. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.760 To laugh at that joke? Yes? 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:33.080 Has the left granted me permission? Or is it offending anybody? 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:34.359 Right? You know? 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.040 I did my last Happiness Hour on one of the 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.119 hours of my broadcast week since nineteen ninety nine is 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:45.160 on happiness, and it was about people who were easily offended, 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:46.080 and it wasn't political. 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:47.400 I had nothing to do with politics. 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.560 And it is a guaranteur of not being happy in 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.520 life if you are easily offended. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.679 You know my favorite story, right, Yeah, this was just 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.080 a subject from me. Yes, it was the last Yeah, 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.560 the last the last week. Yes, why would you. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:07.600 It'd be like willing brittle bone disease on yourself? Why 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.520 would you want that? 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.200 Why would you run a paris? Why would you want that? 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.240 Ted Cruz opened up his setate session. I should say 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.560 I started speaking, this is the US Senate and I 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.199 didn't turn the bike on it, He goes, mister Prager. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.159 You know, for someone in radio as long as you you, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.160 one would have thought you would have known to turn 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.600 the microphone on. So not only was I not offended, 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.359 I thought that was it's a hilarious moment. And I said, 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.680 that's exactly right. Your point is extremely well taken. One 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.760 would think I would have known to turn the button pod. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.400 But I could imagine people who would have been mortified 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.679 at being humiliated. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.720 But you're not humiliated, that's the point. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:58.760 Well, you're not humiliated, And well, no, here's here's what 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:04.760 you are. You are embarrassed to some degree because you 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:09.280 screwed the pooch a little bit. Right, You were instructed 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:14.800 turn your mic on. I wasn't instructed. No, So in fact, 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.879 you did tell you to do No, they did not 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:18.800 tell me. But well then that's on them. 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:21.359 You're right. But I wasn't going to say that. I 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.359 might say, Senator, I just want to say nobody told 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:25.200 me to do It. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.280 Would not look good, right. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.719 Well, I looked a lot better going point well taken. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.640 But I think so here's what I think, and I 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.639 have I have a bunch of thoughts on this. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.120 It's okay to be embarrassed. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:45.440 And we've all misspoke, misschild, missed, whatever, I missed everything. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.080 That doesn't mean you were humiliated, that's right. That just 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.399 means you made a mistake, and everyone makes mistakes and 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.400 you can move on. Now if somebody points out your mistake, 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.480 it still doesn't mean you're humilion. 0:20:57.720 --> 0:20:59.880 That's right. It's it's a part of life. 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:04.520 Also, there's a new thing going on where we've lost 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:12.400 sight of the meaning of things and we're simply focusing 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:19.120 on certain buzzwords that mayend. And so when so when 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:24.439 you know, two years ago, when Matt Damon says, look, uh, 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:30.160 let's not confuse Al Franken for Harvey Weinstein? 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:34.800 What what Al Franken did not? And everyone when what 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.560 are you talking about? Shut up there, you don't know that. 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:43.119 That's well, that's a completely accurate state. Just because you 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.840 heard the name Weinstein and you heard Franken and you 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:48.639 heard let's not mistake. 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:49.440 What he did with that. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.920 Just because there was this stew of words, it doesn't 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:54.320 mean it's goulash. 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:54.680 Well. 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.040 Look, the perfect example is there is the recent thing 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:01.440 with Baltimore, and you you have the president says, you know, 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.760 there are rats in rodents in Baltimore. And I played 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:09.320 on my show the Mayor of Baltimore, black female mayor 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.720 of Baltimore last year on television saying, you know, I've 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.439 got a lot of rats here. He didn't say people 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:20.520 were rats, he said the rodent called rats. Unfortunately, there 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.560 were too many of them in Baltimore. That's either true 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.240 or not true, but it isn't racist. It's either true 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:27.919 or false. 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.439 Well, here's what I've I wrote a book called in 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:36.040 fifty Years wellby Chicks, and it happened fast. And I'll 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:39.199 tell you there's a kind of a thinking which is, 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:43.879