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Speaker 3: Hi, everybody, Welcome to my home. I'm Dennis Prager, and
Speaker 3: as I always remind you, this is my real home,
Speaker 3: my real fire, my real dog, and I'm really me.
Speaker 3: This is the fireside chat I have with you every week,
Speaker 3: and it's completely unrehearsed, not scripted, spontaneous. I take your questions.
Speaker 3: I offer you some thoughts on very rare occasions, and
Speaker 3: you can count them truly on the fingers of one hand.
Speaker 3: I have had guests, and they have to be pretty special.
Speaker 3: I have had Abraham, Lincoln, Aristotle, Moses. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a very special crowd. And now, Adam Carolla, how do
Speaker 3: you feel being in the company of Lincoln, Aristotle and
Speaker 3: the like.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm at the top of that list.
Speaker 4: I'm certainly in the middle, right, And well, I don't
Speaker 4: want to bring up who I'm in the middle of,
Speaker 4: because many of them, especially Aristotle, as family members.
Speaker 1: Not nice, still very thoughtful of you.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's going to embarrass him, so you should like
Speaker 3: close your ears. I think the world of this man.
Speaker 3: He is a very special human being on every level,
Speaker 3: and extremely bright. But that's not enough. There are a
Speaker 3: lot of bright people, but he has. He has a
Speaker 3: conscience and a mind that go with his brightness. He's
Speaker 3: unbelievably funny, his very fertile mind. We are really blessed
Speaker 3: to have each other in each other's lives, which is,
Speaker 3: of course a sort of self aggrandizing statement on my part.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming he thinks that, but I'll risk it.
Speaker 3: We really do, We really do feel that we were
Speaker 3: blessed to to somehow come together, and we have actually
Speaker 3: made a movie together which will be out this fall,
Speaker 3: No Safe Spaces, and I know you will love it.
Speaker 3: It already won an award at one festival that it
Speaker 3: was at. It's really about it's a movie, not just
Speaker 3: a documentary. It's about freedom in America. Any thoughts on it.
Speaker 3: I'm excited for its release.
Speaker 4: You know, it's been a long process and it's been
Speaker 4: shot over a number of I guess years now, and
Speaker 4: you know, it's It's funny because when we initially we're
Speaker 4: having discussions about it, you could it was in the air,
Speaker 4: but it wasn't in your face.
Speaker 1: You know, the.
Speaker 4: Speech, campus speech, free speech, hate speech, you know, all
Speaker 4: this kind of stuff. It was like these were notions
Speaker 4: that were sort of floating around. But now they're really
Speaker 4: they're really congealing, and so I think the timing is
Speaker 4: going to be perfect for the film. Unfortunately, unfortunately, yeah,
Speaker 4: that might be. By the way, I did not mention that.
Speaker 4: And this this is verified by the Guinness Book of Records.
Speaker 4: He is the is the most widely listened to a
Speaker 4: podcast outside of Communist China. I just have to assume
Speaker 4: that you know, some official spoke but of the government
Speaker 4: may have more downloads in China than you do outside
Speaker 4: of China, so only on that basis.
Speaker 1: But they have to listen to me. People who listen
Speaker 1: to you do so voluntarily. That's right. You no longer
Speaker 1: force people to listen to you, now, I wish I could.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been doing a podcast for over ten years now,
Speaker 4: daily podcast, So it's really been quite quite a while.
Speaker 4: I got out of terrestrial radio in about two thousand
Speaker 4: and eleven, sorry, two thousand and nine, and then I
Speaker 4: immediately just started up with podcasts.
Speaker 1: And it's really worked. What is it, Adam Carolla dot
Speaker 1: com Adam Carola dot com.
Speaker 3: Well, it's absolutely worth people's visiting you. I'm very honored
Speaker 3: by the fact you listened to my radio show and
Speaker 3: I'm very touched by that. And you were mentioning to
Speaker 3: me it is amazing to you to hear people call
Speaker 3: in differ with me, which is fine, and that's why
Speaker 3: I take their calls. But when there is a complete
Speaker 3: absence of logic, For example, you gave the example, well, Dennis,
Speaker 3: why are you complaining about Praeger? You being placed on
Speaker 3: the restricted list by Google, Hey, they do that to
Speaker 3: the young Turks. And then I would say, well, yes,
Speaker 3: but the young Turks use profanity, right, It's not an
Speaker 3: ideological issue with young Turks. It's a profanity issue with us.
Speaker 3: There's no profanity, right.
Speaker 4: And then they go back and say, but they're on
Speaker 4: the no fly zone as well. You know, they they
Speaker 4: essentially make their point a second time, which wasn't a
Speaker 4: point the first time. But there's also something I've noticed
Speaker 4: as well listening, which is folks on the right who
Speaker 4: call in and who on occasion take umbrage or disagree
Speaker 4: with something you said, something to do with the Bible. Sometimes,
Speaker 4: you know, they try to they want to correct you
Speaker 4: give them, give you their.
Speaker 1: Version of it.
Speaker 4: The folks that are right leaning, if you say, all right,
Speaker 4: well let me explain that, they stop. The folks that
Speaker 4: are left leaning just bulldoze every time, and you go,
Speaker 4: excuse me, you can talk, Just let me answer.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, you can talk, and they just bulldoze. They
Speaker 1: fill a us and you.
Speaker 4: You're saying, I'm going to hang up on you if
Speaker 4: you don't let me answer this question. You know, you're
Speaker 4: not allowed to ask three questions in a row. I
Speaker 4: get to answer your first question. The folks on the right,
Speaker 4: they're still arguing with you. They're capable of stopping and
Speaker 4: listening to what your rebuttal is to their assertion.
Speaker 1: The folks on the left just plow right.
Speaker 4: Through to the point where I don't know if they
Speaker 4: don't hear what you're saying, or I don't know.
Speaker 1: If they don't want to hear what they're gonna say.
Speaker 3: They don't, You're right, I think they don't and they
Speaker 3: don't want to hear it. Look, you know I would
Speaker 3: have any I hear. I publicly announced I would have
Speaker 3: any New York Times columnists on my show, but they
Speaker 3: won't come on. And you know I treat people respectfully,
Speaker 3: but they won't come on. I would go there, but
Speaker 3: they don't. As I often say, they don't hear us.
Speaker 3: They don't study under us, they don't watch us, they
Speaker 3: don't see our movies, they don't nothing they We see
Speaker 3: their movies, we watch them on television, we hear them
Speaker 3: on podcasts or radio. We studied under them in school,
Speaker 3: but there is no equivalent on their side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was watching Bill Maher saying to Adam Shift
Speaker 4: super naively, like I wish you'd just go on that
Speaker 4: Sean Hannity show and settle that guy's hash right, And
Speaker 4: Adam Shift went, I've been invited quite a few times,
Speaker 4: and Bill was going, well, good, then just go and
Speaker 4: straight him out. And Adam Schiff was in this really
Speaker 4: bad position.
Speaker 1: Is that interesting? It was sort of from the mouth
Speaker 1: of Bills or the mouth of babes.
Speaker 4: Bill was like, you got invited to go on Sean
Speaker 4: Hannity and you didn't go, Why not just go and
Speaker 4: make a fool out of him? Adam Shift is thinking, no,
Speaker 4: I don't want to go because I don't want to
Speaker 4: I don't want to get beat in the argument. That's correct,
Speaker 4: obviously if you were talking prize fighters before we went on.
Speaker 4: But if you think you can win the fight, you
Speaker 4: get in the ring. That's right if you're a prize fighter,
Speaker 4: if that's your profession, and essentially, if your profession is
Speaker 4: to argue with people or to give your opinion or
Speaker 4: to do what Adam Shift does. If you think you're
Speaker 4: going to make short work of this guy, then you
Speaker 4: can't get on the show fast enough. If you think
Speaker 4: you're gonna get bullied and bloodied and maybe not get
Speaker 4: out of there.
Speaker 1: With a win.
Speaker 4: Then you don't now. What Bill Maher was saying was
Speaker 4: is I don't get it. Why are you taking him
Speaker 4: up on us?
Speaker 3: All you'll explained why you said he was naive? Well,
Speaker 3: Bill Moore was naive. Well, but Bill Maher was saying,
Speaker 3: was we here on the left, we talk in a
Speaker 3: circle to each other. What we need is to go
Speaker 3: onto the other side of the aisle and explain to
Speaker 3: them what we're doing, what our points are.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: So his naivete was Adam shifp go ahead, but I
Speaker 4: bet you Hannity wouldn't invite you on. When he found
Speaker 4: out Hannity had invited him multiple times, then he went
Speaker 4: from naive to confused, which is, well, why don't you
Speaker 4: go on there? The answer is he's scared, of course,
Speaker 4: and he's not gonna win the fight.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Let me announce one one in another way. I will
Speaker 3: happily go on any MSNBC show that would like to
Speaker 3: invite me, but it won't happen. And there's a good
Speaker 3: reason it won't happen. You see, here is a fact,
Speaker 3: not an opinion. On the right, we are reason based.
Speaker 3: On the left, they are emotion based. It's as simple
Speaker 3: as that that's why they How do you feel? How
Speaker 3: do you feel? How do you feel about it? How
Speaker 3: do you feel about it? Oh? When biological men are
Speaker 3: running against girls in girls' races in high schools in Connecticut, Oh,
Speaker 3: that's totally fair because they consider themselves women.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, Look, obviously, if you.
Speaker 4: Say I felt threatened, or I know what I know,
Speaker 4: or in my heart of hearts, it's really hard to
Speaker 4: argue that away. Who are you to say to someone No,
Speaker 4: you didn't feel threatened. Who are you to say to
Speaker 4: someone in my heart of hearts? Now, if you want
Speaker 4: to pull out a spreadsheet and give me a ballpoint pen,
Speaker 4: we can probably find out where your math was incorrect.
Speaker 1: But if you felt threatened, there's that.
Speaker 3: Well ironic, because the name of our movie is no
Speaker 3: safe Spaces. Safe Spaces is exactly where kids who think
Speaker 3: they're threatened if a conservative speaker comes to college.
Speaker 1: But but.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter that you feel threatened, there's something wrong
Speaker 3: with you if you feel threatened by a conservative speaker.
Speaker 3: I don't feel threatened by a left wing speaker. Why
Speaker 3: do you feel threatened by a right wing speaker?
Speaker 1: What is so different about it? Like? What I don't
Speaker 1: understand is I hate world music. It bothers me. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's a cop out.
Speaker 4: It's like reggae with more people, and I just don't
Speaker 4: like it. So if I was attending a college and
Speaker 4: they were going to have a world music festival, right,
Speaker 4: I would simply not leave my dorm that day, or.
Speaker 1: I would go to the park and study.
Speaker 4: But I wouldn't really feel threatened, and I wouldn't try
Speaker 4: to shut down the concert. I would just announce that
Speaker 4: I will not be attending because I don't agree and
Speaker 4: don't enjoy.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: But but the analogy isn't isn't entirely perfect because they
Speaker 3: should go anyway. Your thing is an aesthetic dislike. There's
Speaker 3: no reason to force yourself. I wouldn't go to a
Speaker 3: rap concert. I just don't enjoy rap.
Speaker 4: Fine, but that's such a good point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part. I might think you're in the band.
Speaker 1: That's such a good point.
Speaker 4: That's someone inevitably well, that's what microfi. That is why
Speaker 4: I wouldn't go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. You'd be forced. It wouldn't be right,
Speaker 1: and I would show them up. It's just it's not right.
Speaker 1: Right they should go.
Speaker 4: I've heard world music I don't enjoy it, but maybe
Speaker 4: you should go here with Ben Shapiro has to say
Speaker 4: that's right.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: And I always tell people make a trade you your
Speaker 3: kid doesn't you know, want to listen to you, or
Speaker 3: what doesn't want to to me, or anyone like us.
Speaker 3: Make a trade you'll listen to twice as much of
Speaker 3: their favorites.
Speaker 4: Well, I believe you have to have a certain insecurity
Speaker 4: with your ideas if you don't want them tested. If
Speaker 4: you have a very strong sense in relationship.
Speaker 1: With your ideas or whatever that is.
Speaker 4: If you're doing a math equation and you've done it
Speaker 4: all out in long form, you'll happily hand it to somebody.
Speaker 4: If you feel confident, you'll hand it to a professor
Speaker 4: and go scrutinize away.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: I feel I know I've gotten all my numbers in line.
Speaker 4: If you're feeling a little iffy, then you sort of
Speaker 4: put your arm around and you go get don't don't
Speaker 4: look at what I'm doing. I don't want it scrutinized.
Speaker 4: I think I think there's a notion of we have
Speaker 4: these feelings, we have these ideas, they don't don't really
Speaker 4: hold up to scrutiny, But As long as we can
Speaker 4: get enough people together who think or like minded, we'll
Speaker 4: never have to offer them up to scrutiny. And there's
Speaker 4: something that feels insecure, because I think when you feel
Speaker 4: very comfortable with information, the things you know, the things
Speaker 4: I know, I have a I have an expertise in building.
Speaker 1: If anybody ever.
Speaker 4: Says, oh, I I'm a world class builder. I know
Speaker 4: everything about building, I go come over here and tell
Speaker 4: me all about it, right, and let's see what you know.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what I know.
Speaker 3: I don't go, oh, someone's found found right, and it's
Speaker 3: probably part of you. Maybe he's got a better idea. Yes,
Speaker 3: that that's what I react. Oh, you differ with me.
Speaker 3: You may be right, right, I'm totally open to that.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, you should be because it makes you a
Speaker 4: better builder.
Speaker 1: That's the point, right, that's right. By the way, talking
Speaker 1: to Adam Carolla. For those of you, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's no such thing as just touting in that. Are
Speaker 1: there people who clicking on the middle? Okay? If so, it's.
Speaker 3: Adam Carolla, whose podcast is well worth your time.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 3: What I do is take questions. The second half of
Speaker 3: my half hour time with people. So I'd like you
Speaker 3: to respond to some if you feel comfortable. Okay, so
Speaker 3: this is a fun part. I love this actually because
Speaker 3: you never know who's going to ask from anywhere in
Speaker 3: the world. All right, read nineteen New York Prager Force Adam.
Speaker 1: This is for Adam.
Speaker 3: Have you performed on a college campus recently? Why have
Speaker 3: comedians turned away from college campuses in recent years?
Speaker 1: Well, I think for obvious reasons. No.
Speaker 4: I used to perform in the late nineties and early
Speaker 4: two thousands quite off, and I literally toured with Doctor
Speaker 4: Drew and played big venues and did it frequently hundreds
Speaker 4: of colleges. There is obviously for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: Uh, whatever you say about.
Speaker 4: Comedians, you know, this guy's bold, and he's a risk tech.
Speaker 4: He's a risk taker and a truth teller. Nobody likes
Speaker 4: that feeling of being up on stage and saying something
Speaker 4: and feeling the audience seeing sort of the air come
Speaker 4: out of the room a little bit. I do remember
Speaker 4: once when Doctor Drew and I were playing Syracuse many
Speaker 4: years ago, and somebody asked a question about getting into broadcasting,
Speaker 4: and Drew said, it's not worth it to go to school.
Speaker 1: It's not worth it. To take classes. It's not worth
Speaker 1: it to study you in turn at a radio station.
Speaker 1: That's what I did, That's what Adam did.
Speaker 4: That's how you get and you're talking to entire communications
Speaker 4: television and radio, and I could feel it. You could
Speaker 4: feel it come out because everyone they're paying thousands of
Speaker 4: dollars to do what Drew said will never work and
Speaker 4: was worthless. The degree is worthless, and they're all there
Speaker 4: trying to earn that degree, and you can feel it.
Speaker 1: Oh God, and Drew is right. Drew is right. But
Speaker 1: it was still uncomfortable. No.
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is is when you're up on
Speaker 4: stage and you start into a joke and you can
Speaker 4: feel the people lean back and kind of go uh oh,
Speaker 4: it's not a good feeling. And there's nothing that makes
Speaker 4: you say, oh, I want to come back. I mean
Speaker 4: the thing about comedians, they'll say all the time, Carolines
Speaker 4: or the laugh Factory or the comedy store, the improv
Speaker 4: or the comedy seller. It has a certain vibe that
Speaker 4: this is what the odd you know. It's it's almost
Speaker 4: like it's like it's like an old bar something it
Speaker 4: has an allure to it, or a crowd or a
Speaker 4: vibe or.
Speaker 1: Something like that.
Speaker 4: College campuses would be the opposite of all the stuff
Speaker 4: that comedians like. It'd be sterile and angry. You know,
Speaker 4: they wouldn't understand you.
Speaker 3: You put in my mind just now what has happened,
Speaker 3: and that is at a college campus. Kids are sitting
Speaker 3: there and they what they're thinking is do I have permission.
Speaker 1: To laugh at that joke? Yes?
Speaker 3: Has the left granted me permission? Or is it offending anybody?
Speaker 1: Right? You know?
Speaker 3: I did my last Happiness Hour on one of the
Speaker 3: hours of my broadcast week since nineteen ninety nine is
Speaker 3: on happiness, and it was about people who were easily offended,
Speaker 3: and it wasn't political.
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do with politics.
Speaker 3: And it is a guaranteur of not being happy in
Speaker 3: life if you are easily offended.
Speaker 1: You know my favorite story, right, Yeah, this was just
Speaker 1: a subject from me. Yes, it was the last Yeah,
Speaker 1: the last the last week. Yes, why would you.
Speaker 4: It'd be like willing brittle bone disease on yourself? Why
Speaker 4: would you want that?
Speaker 1: Why would you run a paris? Why would you want that?
Speaker 3: Ted Cruz opened up his setate session. I should say
Speaker 3: I started speaking, this is the US Senate and I
Speaker 3: didn't turn the bike on it, He goes, mister Prager.
Speaker 3: You know, for someone in radio as long as you you,
Speaker 3: one would have thought you would have known to turn
Speaker 3: the microphone on. So not only was I not offended,
Speaker 3: I thought that was it's a hilarious moment. And I said,
Speaker 3: that's exactly right. Your point is extremely well taken. One
Speaker 3: would think I would have known to turn the button pod.
Speaker 3: But I could imagine people who would have been mortified
Speaker 3: at being humiliated.
Speaker 1: But you're not humiliated, that's the point.
Speaker 4: Well, you're not humiliated, And well, no, here's here's what
Speaker 4: you are. You are embarrassed to some degree because you
Speaker 4: screwed the pooch a little bit. Right, You were instructed
Speaker 4: turn your mic on. I wasn't instructed. No, So in fact,
Speaker 4: you did tell you to do No, they did not
Speaker 4: tell me. But well then that's on them.
Speaker 3: You're right. But I wasn't going to say that. I
Speaker 3: might say, Senator, I just want to say nobody told
Speaker 3: me to do It.
Speaker 1: Would not look good, right.
Speaker 3: Well, I looked a lot better going point well taken.
Speaker 4: But I think so here's what I think, and I
Speaker 4: have I have a bunch of thoughts on this.
Speaker 1: It's okay to be embarrassed.
Speaker 4: And we've all misspoke, misschild, missed, whatever, I missed everything.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean you were humiliated, that's right. That just
Speaker 4: means you made a mistake, and everyone makes mistakes and
Speaker 4: you can move on. Now if somebody points out your mistake,
Speaker 4: it still doesn't mean you're humilion.
Speaker 1: That's right. It's it's a part of life.
Speaker 4: Also, there's a new thing going on where we've lost
Speaker 4: sight of the meaning of things and we're simply focusing
Speaker 4: on certain buzzwords that mayend. And so when so when
Speaker 4: you know, two years ago, when Matt Damon says, look, uh,
Speaker 4: let's not confuse Al Franken for Harvey Weinstein?
Speaker 1: What what Al Franken did not? And everyone when what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Shut up there, you don't know that.
Speaker 4: That's well, that's a completely accurate state. Just because you
Speaker 4: heard the name Weinstein and you heard Franken and you
Speaker 4: heard let's not mistake.
Speaker 1: What he did with that.
Speaker 4: Just because there was this stew of words, it doesn't
Speaker 4: mean it's goulash.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Look, the perfect example is there is the recent thing
Speaker 3: with Baltimore, and you you have the president says, you know,
Speaker 3: there are rats in rodents in Baltimore. And I played
Speaker 3: on my show the Mayor of Baltimore, black female mayor
Speaker 3: of Baltimore last year on television saying, you know, I've
Speaker 3: got a lot of rats here. He didn't say people
Speaker 3: were rats, he said the rodent called rats. Unfortunately, there
Speaker 3: were too many of them in Baltimore. That's either true
Speaker 3: or not true, but it isn't racist. It's either true
Speaker 3: or false.
Speaker 4: Well, here's what I've I wrote a book called in
Speaker 4: fifty Years wellby Chicks, and it happened fast. And I'll
Speaker 4: tell you there's a kind of a thinking which is,
Speaker 4: if you it's a little more feminine than masculine. But
Speaker 4: more men are thinking in a feminine way, and that's
Speaker 4: what's causing a lot of this.
Speaker 1: If you.
Speaker 4: Talk to a woman who has, let's say, a bad
Speaker 4: relationship with her stepdad and they have a hit history,
Speaker 4: and basically that's what Trump is. He's everyone's bad stepdad,
Speaker 4: and or he's half the country's bad stepdad.
Speaker 1: And if you if that stepdad says to.
Speaker 4: The daughter, Uh, Hey, we're gonna go out to uh
Speaker 4: dinner tonight, and I hope you're hungry, because the portions
Speaker 4: are big at this place. She walks into the next
Speaker 4: room and said, he called me fat. That's right, because
Speaker 4: that's what she heard through her process. Now you're sitting
Speaker 4: in the room, that's not what you heard because you
Speaker 4: don't have her wiring, and you don't you're not reacting
Speaker 4: and you're not being triggered, and you don't have the history.
Speaker 4: So you simply just hear the tweet or hear the statement,
Speaker 4: or hear what it was. Everyone else is reacting, like
Speaker 4: the stepdaughter who has the bad relationship, and they're hearing that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it also sells newspapers bright.
Speaker 3: But the task of life is to rise above that,
Speaker 3: is to hear what is actually said, not what my
Speaker 3: heart hears. That's cold growing up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's your task, and that's your way. That's the
Speaker 4: transition from adolescence, from childhood to adulthood. We've interrupted that progression,
Speaker 4: and we're now living in this sort of circling the
Speaker 4: air adolescent airport well into our sixties. And the thing
Speaker 4: that cracks me up the most is when I hear
Speaker 4: these seventy year old guys on MSNBC saying this kind
Speaker 4: of stuff in hysterical right terms.
Speaker 1: Weren't you supposed to grow up by now?
Speaker 4: Or maybe you were grown up when you're fifty two,
Speaker 4: but now you're sliding back in adolescence.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I will say this to tell you a quick story,
Speaker 4: to put a cap on that in terms of when
Speaker 4: people just hear words and react.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: So I was sitting at a table at Pebble Beach
Speaker 4: I go to do my car race every year, and
Speaker 4: I was sitting at a table at one of these
Speaker 4: sort of swanky outdoor fares.
Speaker 1: It was in between the car race.
Speaker 4: And the thing, and it was a bunch of gentry type,
Speaker 4: just five white people eating grapes and caviar. And they
Speaker 4: were and the one guy, you know, I was wearing
Speaker 4: loafers with no socks, and their orange swayed and they
Speaker 4: got buckles on them and this, and he said, you know,
Speaker 4: he said like, well, I had the Dusenberg dropped top
Speaker 4: for a while, but.
Speaker 1: I sold that.
Speaker 4: And the other guy said I had the Maserati fifty
Speaker 4: three hundred whatever.
Speaker 1: And at a certain point the.
Speaker 4: Guy was talking about caviar and dues and bergs and stuff,
Speaker 4: and I leaned in and I said, you know.
Speaker 1: What we're talking about? On what we're doing here.
Speaker 4: I think this is what black America thinks White America does.
Speaker 1: All day and talk about their burg.
Speaker 4: And the woman went, oh, no, no, no, no, don't
Speaker 4: don't go there, don't go there.
Speaker 1: And I said, no, no, I'm making a joke. You know.
Speaker 4: Okay, we've heard enough, we've we've heard enough. And I
Speaker 4: said no, no, no, you're hilarious making a joke. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 4: that's enough. That's enough of that. And so she was
Speaker 4: triggered another word.
Speaker 1: That's what.
Speaker 4: I made a joke about a race, even though we
Speaker 4: were the doesn't matter joke, and she kept jumping in,
Speaker 4: going and I was saying, no, no, I'm making it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that's enough.
Speaker 3: That's where we're at. That's a perfect story. That's where
Speaker 3: we're at now. Good by the way, he just for
Speaker 3: the record, he does have caviare at every meal, and uh,
Speaker 3: why don't you?
Speaker 1: Did you bring your Dusenberg over to night?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm having to have it because I opened it
Speaker 4: up and caviar just came spilling.
Speaker 1: Is that what happened? Staying in the Connolly leather hides that.
Speaker 3: Which reminds me his background, which is a feature of
Speaker 3: our film. Did you know what caviar was growing up?
Speaker 3: If somebody would have said, hey, I would you like
Speaker 3: some caviar? Adam, I knew you.
Speaker 4: Could use fish eggs for fishing, like as bait, but I.
Speaker 1: Could eat and that they pull a lot of money. No, No,
Speaker 1: look we didn't. The Sizzler was a big deal. I say.
Speaker 3: We part of the charm of all of this, Adam,
Speaker 3: does this really well? Is if you would have thrown
Speaker 3: darts at a dart board, of the three hundred million Americans,
Speaker 3: of the two most opposite upbringings, we would probably have
Speaker 3: been the two darts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, we always have We say we
Speaker 4: have common sense and that right exactly, there's a fly
Speaker 4: that's buzzing around my head.
Speaker 1: But also we have that a little to it.
Speaker 4: But I will say this, I think our parents didn't
Speaker 4: dote on us, that's correct, and they sort of left
Speaker 4: us a.
Speaker 3: Less correct and we got to compliment by the decade,
Speaker 3: right yeah, right, So I mean that I really believe
Speaker 3: I was complimented twice in my first twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah I might. Yeah, I remember too.
Speaker 4: One is Dennis is really doing well in his musical studies.
Speaker 4: My parents actually complimented you. I didn't even know who
Speaker 4: you were at the point, so there was no context
Speaker 4: at all. So uh, no compliments and not a lot
Speaker 4: of encouragement.
Speaker 3: Thus there's a certain and a fair number of insults. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: my father had a statement about me. It resonates in
Speaker 3: my brain. He thought I was the laziest human being
Speaker 3: that was outside of a hospital, and it was if
Speaker 3: what was it? He would look at me and go,
Speaker 3: you know, if you could sit? No, Dennis's motto is
Speaker 3: if I could sit, why stand? If I could stand,
Speaker 3: why walk? If I could walk, why run? And he
Speaker 3: forgot if I could lie down? Why sit? That was
Speaker 3: always absent. Now I remember him saying that it was
Speaker 3: not nice. I wasn't crushed, but I certainly didn't grow
Speaker 3: up thinking I was the essence of the world. My
Speaker 3: parents did not take the self esteem course for their children.
Speaker 3: I watch parents today. I mean, this is we could
Speaker 3: do a routine on this. Maybe the next time we
Speaker 3: do a show together. I see parents going, wow, you
Speaker 3: really really made a great poop.
Speaker 4: And I'm the kids twenty six point. It really crosses boundaries.
Speaker 4: But I do know, I do remember.
Speaker 3: That exactly what is our time frame? And the kid
Speaker 3: is twenty six at home. That was perfect. That was perfect.
Speaker 3: I don't think you should spend your time insulting your kids.
Speaker 3: That is not my point at all. However, those of
Speaker 3: us who grew up in a somewhat tougher I don't mean,
Speaker 3: I don't mean abused, but a somewhat tougher environment I
Speaker 3: think did better in terms of happiness in life than
Speaker 3: those who were constantly told how terrific they are by
Speaker 3: their parents. That's that's my theory. I mean, there are
Speaker 3: two examples that are sitting here.
Speaker 4: Well, why would you want that grafted onto you? Isn't
Speaker 4: it impossible to graft that onto somebody? I mean, you
Speaker 4: have to discover your worth and the world will quickly
Speaker 4: tell you that's your worth. It'll tell you if people
Speaker 4: want to listen to your podcast, it'll it'll When I
Speaker 4: was a carpenter, my work was all referral people. I
Speaker 4: would do a job, and then I would go back
Speaker 4: to the same house and do another job.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't matter what anyone said.
Speaker 4: It was does the person want you to come back
Speaker 4: and do more of what you already did?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's light. Life will judge me. That is exactly right.
Speaker 4: By the way, when you're not going to get a
Speaker 4: second date. When you go out on a first date
Speaker 4: and the woman has no intention of going out on
Speaker 4: the second date, she will talk more positively. I believe
Speaker 4: about the first date. So go that was fantastic. Next
Speaker 4: week is not good. But that was a fantastic rate.
Speaker 4: You're a fantastic individual. You should be proud of. I
Speaker 4: love your frames right, and I can't wait again. March
Speaker 4: not a good month for me, but this was a
Speaker 4: fantastic outing. People do that, it's not going to get
Speaker 4: you the second date. As a matter of fact, people
Speaker 4: tend to do that when you have a bad job.
Speaker 4: When you have a bad job. If you say to
Speaker 4: somebody what everyone at home, try this next time you're
Speaker 4: at a cocktail party and somebody says, and what do
Speaker 4: you do for a living? You say, I work at
Speaker 4: a sewage treatment facility. They'll go, oh, that sounds interesting.
Speaker 4: There must be a strong union or perks or something.
Speaker 4: They'll overcompensate other words, yes. Or you can say to
Speaker 4: someone I'm a brain surgeon and they'll go, well, that's
Speaker 4: this good. Huh, that's good. I'm gonna go I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get more gaspacho. You want more gaspacho like but you if.
Speaker 1: You tell them you're garbage man, they'll go fresh air.
Speaker 4: You get to write outside the truck. It's a noble profession.
Speaker 4: You'll find some connection. My I had a neighbor when
Speaker 4: I uh when oh Man, back when when we were
Speaker 4: in uh monominally Wisconsin, had a neighbor.
Speaker 1: It was a garbage man, great guy. Exactly right.
Speaker 3: It's very it's falt that they are totally astute. The
Speaker 3: point that we're both making is and I we haven't
Speaker 3: rehearsed this, but I I know for me, and I'm
Speaker 3: certain I'm certain for you that everything that as a
Speaker 3: result of our upbringings, everything that everything good that happened,
Speaker 3: is a source of incredible gratitude on our part. I
Speaker 3: know I've worked and you have worked very hard to
Speaker 3: get where we are. But we also believe, and we're
Speaker 3: right how the good fortune we've had in life. So
Speaker 3: we walk around grateful. The kid who's given everything, told
Speaker 3: how terrific they are, has had to or nothing is
Speaker 3: deprived of the happiness that you and I derive on
Speaker 3: a daily basis.
Speaker 4: Yes, also it's confusing to us because nobody I don't
Speaker 4: say nobody did anything, but things were not done for us. Yes,
Speaker 4: so it is very surprising to us that when things
Speaker 4: are done, how ingratitude that they have.
Speaker 1: That's confusing to us.
Speaker 4: You think, my god, this person did so much for
Speaker 4: you and is so generous with you and took time
Speaker 4: to whatever. How can your attitude possibly be this way
Speaker 4: toward this person or this entity that did so much
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 3: When you grow up with get your own coffee and
Speaker 3: then your wife actually brings you coffee, you think that
Speaker 3: she is an angel.
Speaker 1: Right, and it's almost a little confusing. That's exactly right.
Speaker 4: And beginning you do tend to ward it off. Your
Speaker 4: wife will say, can I bring you some coffee? You go, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I'll just I got it. I'm gonna go in the
Speaker 4: kitchen anyway. I'll just get myself up. It's it's it's
Speaker 4: it's a.
Speaker 1: Little alien and disconcerting. It correct. You don't know how
Speaker 1: to process. It's right. So there you go. I I always.
Speaker 3: Hate the ending any of our time together. Adam Crole
Speaker 3: and I have this movie No Safe Spaces. You will
Speaker 3: love it. Uh, It's we're very proud of it and
Speaker 3: it'll be in theaters across the country. Adam, this was
Speaker 3: a total joy. I to put you in the middle
Speaker 3: there with Aristotle and Lincoln. Thank you, But I won't
Speaker 3: say which way because I don't want to hurt their feelings.
Speaker 1: Yes, well he married Jackie on Nassis.
Speaker 3: Right, Aristotle on Nassas did, Yes, I was thinking of Aristotles.
Speaker 4: He's a shipping guy, the Greek. All right, everybody's a
Speaker 4: great man. Okay.
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