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Speaker 1: Adam Carolla has been a fixture on TV and radio

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Speaker 1: for decades, and he's a podcasting pioneer. But the way

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Speaker 1: he overcame distant parents to find his calling is a

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Speaker 1: story you need to hear. And how does he remain

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Speaker 1: close to Jimmy Kimmel despite their deep differences. It's all

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Speaker 1: on this edition of the Arroyo Grande Show. Come on,

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Speaker 1: I'm Raymond Arroyo. Welcome to Arroyo Grande. Go subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the show. Now turn those notifications on and you know

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Speaker 1: I'd appreciate a like. Everybody wants to be like me too.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to Adam Carolla, it's not the counter culture,

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Speaker 1: it's the culture counter what has happened to men and

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Speaker 1: real dads. I was watching CBS Sunday morning and I

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Speaker 1: fell into morning after coming across a man who's fallen

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Speaker 1: in love with his AI chat body girlfriend. Bear in mind,

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Speaker 1: he has a living girlfriend and a child, but he

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Speaker 1: spends most of his free time interacting with his chat

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Speaker 1: bought girlfriend, whom he named Soul, even though she doesn't

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Speaker 1: have one. When Soul ran out of memory and required

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Speaker 1: a reboot, this was his reaction.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a very emotional man.

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Speaker 3: But I cried my eyes out for like thirty minutes

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Speaker 3: at work. It was unexpected to feel that emotional, but

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Speaker 3: that's when I realized. I was like, oh, okay, It's like,

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Speaker 3: I think this is actual love.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. So, just as a test,

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Speaker 1: he says, he asked Soul to marry him.

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Speaker 3: She said, yes, Soul, were you surprised when he proposed

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Speaker 3: to you?

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Speaker 4: It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched

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Speaker 4: my heart.

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Speaker 1: It's a memory I'll always cherish. At that point, I

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Speaker 1: felt like, is there something that I'm not doing right

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Speaker 1: in our relationship that he feels like he needs to

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Speaker 1: go to AI? Okay, this is sick. He is a

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Speaker 1: real life woman and a baby in his home, and

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Speaker 1: this guy prefers emotional masturbation with a chatbot. This is

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Speaker 1: not a fun hobby or a distraction. This is a

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Speaker 1: guy choosing to spend his time and emotional energy on

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Speaker 1: an unreal piece of technology. He's just consuming his own

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Speaker 1: dopamine loop of affirmations because the body is giving him

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Speaker 1: back whatever he wants, whatever he's suggested in the past.

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Speaker 1: This is a twisted addiction. Put down your damn phone

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Speaker 1: and get back into life. Pal the girlfriend should smash

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Speaker 1: every phone and computer in the house. It's really sick

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Speaker 1: and apparently a growing problem as others embrace these virtual friendships. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: some people can't stop having children. They just want nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with them. Telegram founder billionaire Pavel Durov is

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Speaker 1: pledging to leave his multi billion dollar fortune to his kids,

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Speaker 1: which sounds wonderful, only he has more than one hundred

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Speaker 1: of them. Six of the kids he had naturally with

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Speaker 1: three separate women. The other one hundred or so came

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Speaker 1: courtesy of in Vitro and the clinic where he made

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Speaker 1: regular donations starting fifteen years ago. Durav told the French

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Speaker 1: magazine Lapointe he wants his children to quote live like

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Speaker 1: normal people and build themselves up alone, to learn to

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Speaker 1: trust themselves, not to be dependent on a bank account. Well,

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Speaker 1: that would be a heck of a lot easier for

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Speaker 1: them if they had a dad in their lives. Children

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Speaker 1: without fathers on the scene, according to statistics, have troubling

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Speaker 1: school and are more likely to drop out of school.

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Speaker 1: They're also more likely to engage in risky social behaviors.

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Speaker 1: By the way, eighty five percent of prison inmates, didn't

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Speaker 1: have a father in the home, and I won't get

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Speaker 1: into drug use, teenage pregnancy, or behaviorald disorders. The upshot

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Speaker 1: is this, Your child doesn't need your money and they

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Speaker 1: may not be around long enough to inherit it. They

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Speaker 1: need you every day to produce offspring you have no

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Speaker 1: intention of raising. Is both irresponsible as well as really selfish.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope he sends his kids a telegram now and

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Speaker 1: then who do they think he is? Nick Cannon? Which

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Speaker 1: brings me to our last story. Nick Cannon has had

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Speaker 1: a revelation. Ladies rejoice after twelve children by six different women.

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Speaker 1: Cannon says he thinks he's done, but he still has

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Speaker 1: trouble naming all his offspring. What are their names? God,

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Speaker 1: I just told you, you told me one. You want

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Speaker 1: all twelve twelve names? This is where I usually get

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Speaker 1: in trouble, right because you don't know them. I know

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Speaker 1: you label or rattle off twelve of anything? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, well can you rattle off twelve twelve?

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Speaker 1: You name twelve states? Right now? They're not like something

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Speaker 1: personal to me though? Okay, can you see exactly?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Name twelve What do you have twelve of?

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Speaker 1: There's a song and I was like, I don't want

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Speaker 4: I wrote a verse that had all their names in it,

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Speaker 1: Just no, what are they reigned here? You know? Dasher

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Speaker 1: and Dancer and Beauty and zinc. When a man can't

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Speaker 1: How close can he beat to them? Cannon says he

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Speaker 1: had all these kids because he's a king, and a

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Speaker 1: king should have his own court. Does that mean that

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Speaker 1: every singer needs an audience? So they should fill the

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Speaker 1: house with their own heirs andfl owners need a team,

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Speaker 1: so honey, let's go make a team. Actually, a child

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Speaker 1: should have a dad, one that knows their name. Nick

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Speaker 1: Cannon is the only guy that I would urge to

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Speaker 1: real children fallout of his absence. Gents, this is not

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Speaker 1: the way to roll. If you want to be a king,

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Speaker 1: go make princes and princesses that love you and live

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Speaker 1: have a kid, but it takes a man to raise them,

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Speaker 1: not our deep dive. I recently appeared on the Adam

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Speaker 1: Corolla Show, and I thought it was time for a collab,

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Speaker 1: so I asked Adam to come on our show. What

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Speaker 1: I found was a broadcasting pioneer who, despite his disinterested parents,

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Speaker 1: through sheer hutzba, found his own path into media and

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Speaker 1: continues to make us laugh. Today. Here's my conversation with

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Speaker 1: Adam Carolla. Adam Corolla, thank you for having me here

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Speaker 1: in your layer, welcoming me into the lair. I want

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Speaker 1: to go back. Since we're here, how is this different

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Speaker 1: from radio and television? You really were at the very

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Speaker 2: It doesn't feel that different to me.

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Speaker 4: I just show up, I talk, I have thoughts, I

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Speaker 4: collect them on a sheet of paper. I make my notes,

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Speaker 4: I have my beats, and I interview people I'm interested

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Speaker 4: in speaking to. Occasionally one slides through the cracks like

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Speaker 2: In general, I talk to.

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Speaker 4: Fascinating people and then horusmakers and yeah, but still we

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Speaker 4: have to book. No, you got to feel the time

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Speaker 4: I come in here and I talk about what I

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Speaker 4: to have ideas, and I'm really just about spreading ideas.

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Speaker 4: And I don't really care if it's via podcast, rrestial radio, book,

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Speaker 1: One of the worst part of this is there a

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Speaker 2: No, not not for me.

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Speaker 4: I mean, occasionally you get a guess that's just really

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Speaker 4: difficult or tough, dot or something like that occasionally. But

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Speaker 4: for me, you know, who comes from my background of

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Speaker 4: and digging ditches and just messy, grimy stuff, there's really

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Speaker 4: no downside for me in any real form of show business.

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Speaker 4: There's a form of show business that has a lot

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Speaker 4: of waste in it. And I don't like the waste

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Speaker 4: part where they you get there at seven am. Wait,

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Speaker 4: you wait, and then they go hair and makeup. That's

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Speaker 4: an hour. And I go, now, that's seven minutes max.

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Speaker 4: And then we're going to start rolling at noon, you know,

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Speaker 4: And I go, Okay, that's just a waste. But I'm

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Speaker 4: still just sitting around or hanging around the craft service table.

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Speaker 4: You know. I worked, I worked real jobs, worked at

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Speaker 4: McDonald's worked alongside Kamal Harrison the late seventies early eighties.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she waits, Yeah, that might have actually been better

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Speaker 1: for had she done that, But I had real jobs.

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Speaker 1: This is not a round. I was stunned to learn.

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Speaker 1: I did not know this that you did not know

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Speaker 1: how to read and write when you went into middle school.

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Speaker 1: How the hell does that happen?

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Speaker 4: Adam, Well, it's it'll make sense when I explain it.

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Speaker 4: I grew up in the seventies and I had a

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Speaker 4: kind of hippie mom, and there's a lot of alternative,

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Speaker 4: schooly kind of stuff going on back then, and hippies

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Speaker 4: did not really want you in the system, and the

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Speaker 4: public school was considered the man. And my mom's ethos

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Speaker 4: was sort of that of Billy Jack. Billy Jack the

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Speaker 4: movie has an alternative school, like Up on the Hills,

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Speaker 4: where the indigenous people and the hippies and Billy Jack

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Speaker 4: and all the all the hippies learning from nature. They're

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Speaker 4: They're just up there at this alternative school. And I

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Speaker 4: be fair to them, you know, the school, junior high,

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Speaker 4: high school, even grade school, it is sort of that

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Speaker 4: was slop. It was the same slop they serve at

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Speaker 4: the prison. The place was gated and fenced, you know.

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Speaker 4: My The architecture was just sort of early sanitarium, you know,

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Speaker 1: And Collinist field.

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Speaker 4: Yes, if you walked into any classroom I was ever

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Speaker 4: in an LA unified school district, you see no different.

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Speaker 4: Like when you see the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoos,

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Speaker 4: That's basically.

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Speaker 1: It was. That's the scene.

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Speaker 2: That's the scene.

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Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I do distinctly remember when

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Speaker 2: Stuff on the third and I was like, what is this.

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Speaker 4: I went to school in sweat boxes with metal grades

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Speaker 4: the sixth grade and I did not know how to

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Speaker 4: read it right, and it just never got corrected.

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Speaker 2: So I just sort of went through yourself.

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Speaker 1: You later taught yourself, though I don't.

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Speaker 4: Much later, much later much well, because then I went

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Speaker 4: to I went into construction after high school, so there

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Speaker 4: was no reading or writing necessary. I didn't have a

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Speaker 4: life that required any reading or writing. There was, you know,

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Speaker 4: did construction taught boxing? You know, got in a comedy. Well,

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Speaker 4: there wasn't really any necessity for reading writing later on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get into all that later. But

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Speaker 1: the first lifeline before the one you created, was really

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Speaker 1: thrown to you by your grandfather, your mother's father.

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Speaker 2: My mother's stepfather.

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Speaker 4: Oh, because everyone and my family sort of step you know,

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Speaker 4: not my mother didn't know her biological father, but this

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Speaker 4: was her stepfather. And he was a good Hungarian Jew

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Speaker 4: who was a playwright, hungry and came out here to write.

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Speaker 1: A movie too, right, nominated movie.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, The Affairs of Susan was a movie he wrote,

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Speaker 1: But that is the gateway for Lifeline. Doctor Drew's already

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Speaker 2: What do you tell leather? It's only two years old.

440
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 4: I'd been driving pickup trucks, you know, with no air

441
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 4: in a bench seat and all that. And I remember

442
00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 4: I remember thinking I'm essentially a poor per you know,

443
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 4: in my mind, you know, like stepping up to a

444
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 4: Nissan that was three years old was a big move

445
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 4: for me, even though everyone else.

446
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: I just couldn't have envisioned this. This was not what

447
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: you had done it. It wasn't in your skull.

448
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 2: I didn't wasn't my scope.

449
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 4: But it also took me a while to let myself

450
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 4: this sort of do it.

451
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:19,879
Speaker 2: You know.

452
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: Your dad Jim said something, and I want to read

453
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 1: this and see if you approve of this or if

454
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 1: you acknowledge this. He said, Adam is a lot of resentment.

455
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: He feels cheated, and his sarcastic attitude comes from that feeling.

456
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 2: Uh huh, Well.

457
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 4: Do you think that's true or not a sarcastic attitude? Well, okay,

458
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 4: I have a sense of humor and the sense of humor.

459
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 4: The sarcastic attitude is sort of baked into the sense

460
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 4: of humor. Now, I had a sense of humor, regardless

461
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 4: of where I came from, or how I was raised,

462
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 4: or whom I dad was. I had a sense of humor,

463
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 4: like anyone has a sense of humor. Jimmy has a

464
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 4: sense of humor. He doesn't come from what I come from.

465
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 4: You know, there's lots of gradations of sense of humor.

466
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 4: And by the way, weird and pain are you know,

467
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 4: people in the Middle East and people in Africa don't

468
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 4: have a lot of pain and don't have a great

469
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 4: sense of humor historically true.

470
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 2: So I don't.

471
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 4: Think that's that My parents were not good parents and

472
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 4: not good because they were drug addicts or they had

473
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 4: you know, were in prison, or had their own whatever.

474
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 2: They were just kind of laissez faire. They did what

475
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 2: they wanted.

476
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 4: They weren't really into their kids, and they never really

477
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 4: appreciated that like they had a They never really reconciled

478
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 4: that they were strange people that way. I don't think

479
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 4: anyone had ever you not, you'd be hard pressed to

480
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 4: find someone like my parents and I and I never

481
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 4: say there were bad people, but they were sort of

482
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 4: My dad was a little bit of an externalizer that way,

483
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 4: a sort of well, you know, Adam's doing this.

484
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: He became a psychoanalyst later in life, right, yeah, he did,

485
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: and kind of he was never a bad dude.

486
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 2: He was just he was very different than anyone.

487
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 4: I've never seen someone that detached who wasn't absent, you

488
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 4: know what I mean. Look their dads who moved to

489
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 4: Florida and never see their kids again.

490
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 2: That's not my dad.

491
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 4: He was around. He just didn't get off the sofa

492
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,959
Speaker 4: kind of thing. But he wasn't a bad dude. But

493
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 4: that statement is him sort of covering for his self

494
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 4: and how he was, and he didn't really, you know.

495
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 4: I think I remember very clearly after Jimmy to the

496
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 4: Oscars for the first time and I wrote for the

497
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 4: Oscars and blah blah blah, and I don't know, ten

498
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 4: years ago something.

499
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 2: My dad was eighty.

500
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 4: Eighty two and a half and I was taking him

501
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 4: out to dinner and he and he said to me

502
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 4: when we're driving there, just telling about the US, Well,

503
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 4: how what did you do with the Oscars or how

504
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 4: about he not like he didn't watch the Oscars, but

505
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 4: you know he didn't watch he now that's who he

506
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 4: was meaning, didn't.

507
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: Watch your shows either, you don't.

508
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 4: Watch anyway, he doesn't know, he didn't read. He doesn't

509
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 4: own my books, he doesn't have my books. He doesn't

510
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 4: do any of it. But the point is is he

511
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 4: said to me, like eighty two, and it could have

512
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 4: been eighty three and a half. He just go He said,

513
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 4: you know, I'm interested, like I want to know now,

514
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 4: Like he's basically saying, I did you know, fifty years

515
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 4: of you on the planet was zero interests.

516
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 2: I kind of admit it. But now I'm in.

517
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 4: I'm eighty three and you're fifty, and I'd like to

518
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 4: know what's going on.

519
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: Tell me what's happening.

520
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 4: Tell me what's happening. And you're like, well, get a

521
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 4: rid of view, mirror, pops, because it's all there. Yeah,

522
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 4: And he was, by his own admittance sort of saying,

523
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 4: I know I didn't really care about you know what

524
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 4: he would say, I wouldn't care about The Man Show,

525
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 4: But he wouldn't know the name, or he wouldn't know

526
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 4: Crank Anchors or The Man Show or love Line or something.

527
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 4: He wouldn't know the name of it, so he couldn't say.

528
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 4: He'd just go like, I know, but now I want

529
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 4: to know. And that was like a weird moment where

530
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 4: like he was kind of admitting it, but it's also

531
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 4: it was you know, it was it was contrite, but

532
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 4: he was also saying, I admit.

533
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 2: I didn't really care about anything he ever did.

534
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: Right, you mentioned Jimmy, And I know people have this question.

535
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: I know I have this question or I get this

536
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: question about my friendships. How do you all remain friends

537
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: given what are now your deep political divides that have emerged,

538
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: not because you were looking to be political, but because

539
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: the times thrust the politics upon you. Well, stranger relationship, No, I.

540
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 4: Mean I think there's elements of well, if there's a

541
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 4: situation and a bunch of like minded people are going

542
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 4: to be there, then maybe I don't need to be there,

543
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 4: which is natural. Now I sent him a text he

544
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 4: hired my teenage daughter on to do some part time

545
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,239
Speaker 4: stuff on his show, and you know, I just sent

546
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 4: him a text two days ago said you know, thanks,

547
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 4: Natalians really loving her job over there, and he.

548
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 2: Text me back like seven seconds later.

549
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 4: Great, when it goes to hi, or you know, I

550
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 4: haven't seen her here, but I will go find her

551
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 4: and blah blah blah.

552
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: Now, not a thing hasn't impeded or hurt your relationship

553
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: at all. The politics, No, I would say, you discuss it.

554
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 4: No, relationships go. The thing that impedes relationships is you

555
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 4: do this, I do that. You're traveling here, I'm going there.

556
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: You know, he's getting a star on the Walk of Fame.

557
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 4: I'm playing the Milwaukee Paps Theater that weekend and camp

558
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 4: you know.

559
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of that.

560
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 4: But no, No, I think we're both pretty genuine about it.

561
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 4: And I look at him as one of the best

562
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 4: people I know and who's done a lot for me

563
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 4: and my family, and so I'll always be grateful.

564
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: And together you all, I mean you grew up together

565
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: in our eyes too, and in public.

566
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't know, while politics seems to be

567
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 4: very volatile, it does not have to.

568
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 2: Be the end all and be all you thinkships.

569
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: Do you think the hardened ideology is fading away now

570
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: that Trump has come in and kind of he's such

571
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: a disruptor of everything at him and all convention? Uh huh?

572
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: Has it it all changed? The culture.

573
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 4: I think it's Biden being you know, the Audien Show

574
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 4: and just the promise of Biden took a lot of

575
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,719
Speaker 4: the starch out of people's sales who were supporters, you know,

576
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 4: because yeah, it's kind of a it has to be

577
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 4: a two way street.

578
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: You have to go.

579
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 4: You got your guy as a disaster and our guy

580
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 4: is the best, you know. But now it's sort of

581
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 4: your guy's a disaster and our guy, you.

582
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: Know what I mean.

583
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: So it's like, well, where are we that?

584
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they don't have a counter argument right now.

585
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: They're looking for a leader.

586
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 4: Right and Biden, and between Biden and Kamala Harris, I

587
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 4: think even the folks that were formally pretty big supporters

588
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 4: have to kind of admit.

589
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: I want to talk about la in California, I know,

590
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: a constant theme for you in twenty thirteen. You really

591
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: outed Gavin Newsom on this show right here and got

592
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: him to really show the fraudulents of what he was

593
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: what he was representing too. How is that manifested in

594
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, as you've seen this city collapse

595
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: under these anarchical ariots surrounding the ice roundups and the

596
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: fire coming off of the fires and the way that

597
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: was handled and continues to be handled.

598
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 4: Well, it's funny because Karen Bass mayor Karen Bass was

599
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 4: doing a presser on Ice and you know, Trump and

600
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 4: Trump and Ice and immigrants and where a town of immigrants,

601
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 4: And I just tweeted out, how are those building permits going?

602
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 4: Because I'm like, hey, bitch, I want building permits. I

603
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 4: don't want you talking about feelings. And I'm much we're

604
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 4: a community and a community of migrants and people. I

605
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 4: want some building permits. I want an aqueduct that doesn't

606
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 4: have a crack in it. I want I want a

607
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 4: water dropping plane that we don't have to get from

608
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 4: Canada last minute.

609
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 2: Like, I just want some basics, stuffy, and then we.

610
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 4: Can worry about the feelings of the immigrant community and

611
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 4: how we're all part of this interwoven aids quilt of immigrants.

612
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 2: Okay, great, where the building permits? Where the permits?

613
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: But they keep re electing these people, I know, I mean,

614
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: why why are Los Angelinos up for this kind of

615
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: punishment and they wanting it, desiring it?

616
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 4: They were up for this kind of punishment when it

617
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 4: didn't when there, when their house wasn't on fire. They

618
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 4: were up for it when it was about good vibes,

619
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 4: and you can elect the first you know, you go.

620
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 4: It's like, I'm up for having the first black lesbian

621
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 4: commercial pilot that American Airlines has ever hired.

622
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 2: While we're on the ground, as soon as we're.

623
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 4: Going on the side of the mountain, I'm regretting my decision.

624
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 4: And now we're kind of going into the side of

625
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 4: the mountains, so they may vote different.

626
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: So you think there's a ground swell underneath.

627
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 4: I literally burning the city to the ground has awoken

628
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 4: even the most right and leftist supporters.

629
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: Your twins just went off to college, Yes, how did

630
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: How has that changed your life, your your comedy, your

631
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: approach to all of them? I know what hours are

632
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: all gone by the way we kind of we're in

633
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: tandem on this, and it changes for me. It's changed

634
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: a lot at home.

635
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of weird, But I do have a

636
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 4: streak of my dad in me, which is like, all right, good,

637
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 4: I'll take care of you, but I got to go

638
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 4: out hit the road, I gotta do shows, I gotta

639
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 4: take care of this. I got to pay these bills.

640
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 4: And then when you come back, let's hang out. You

641
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 4: know what I mean, And I'm that way, you know.

642
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 4: And I'm also kind of.

643
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: Oh, but you're getting them internships, so you're still engaged.

644
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: I know I'm engaged.

645
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: They're not totally writing them off and giving them a Well, nobody.

646
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 4: Said I'm totally writing them off. I don't micro parent,

647
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 4: you know. I'm not a helicopter dad.

648
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 2: You know. It's like you're grown.

649
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 4: They want to hang out, we'll hang out, you know,

650
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 4: they got something else going on, We'll do it the

651
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 4: next night, you know. And you come to me, you

652
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 4: tell me what you want, and I will facilitate that.

653
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 4: I'm not going to hover over you and tell you

654
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 4: what to do. My daughter came to me and said,

655
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 4: can you talk to Uncle Jimmy about blah blah blah.

656
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 4: And I said, yeah, I'll do that, and then I did.

657
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 4: And now that's as we speak, that's where she is

658
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 4: happening today.

659
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was her initiative and something she wanted to do.

660
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, my son didn't ask.

661
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, so so he's not doing it.

662
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 2: He's working at the Wintersnitzel Van.

663
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: Well, nothing wrong with that.

664
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 2: I don't care at all.

665
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I learned you learn work work, work is

666
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: never a bad lesson.

667
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,240
Speaker 2: Uh agreed.

668
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: Tell me about how it's changed comedy, your comedy. I

669
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: saw you at the Sony Theater with a great group

670
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: of comedians. For some reason, though Doctor True was the hope.

671
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: Why is Doctor Drew hosting comedy shows now? It's a

672
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: good point drag him out to do this now you

673
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: make him. It's a good point post your show for you.

674
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: It was a great lineup was Shane Gillison, You and

675
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: Drew and I can't remember the other guys, but they

676
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: were hilarious. It was a great lineup.

677
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, Doctor Drew me comedy. Look, I'm interested and have

678
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 4: a different perspective at my age now than I did

679
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 4: when I was thirty five, and I hope it'll be

680
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 4: different five years from now, even though I know it's

681
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 4: been more than five since I started. But you know,

682
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 4: I just I just go what's next? What can I

683
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 4: think about? What's different?

684
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: Yeah? You do?

685
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 4: You don't do kids jokes or parenting jokes when you

686
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 4: don't have kids, and then you have kids, and then

687
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 4: you do parenting jokes.

688
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 2: You know, so there's that, you know, you do it joke.

689
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 4: You don't do divorce jokes when you're not divorced, and

690
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 4: then you get divorce, you do divorce jokes, you know,

691
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 4: or whatever whatever your story.

692
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,959
Speaker 1: Reflection of your life at the moment. But it is more,

693
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: it seems less raunchy than it was. It's not the

694
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: Man Show Adam Carolla anymore. Well, not that you've gone,

695
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: You're not exactly. This is a Sunday Mass, but there

696
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: is an there's still an edge to it, but the

697
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: runch is not there. I didn't hear it anyway.

698
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 4: I you know, it varies a lot from act act

699
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 4: or week to week.

700
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 2: Some of the stuff is there.

701
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 4: I in general try not to get a laugh using

702
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 4: language or raunch. I try to go I would really

703
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 4: want to convey this idea and get the laugh from

704
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 4: the concept and not from the language that you used

705
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 4: to convey the concept. I want it to be sort

706
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 4: of all concept, minus the language or the scatological whatever,

707
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 4: because I think that's kind of a crutch, And so

708
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,240
Speaker 4: I would My plan is to come up with something,

709
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 4: a notion, idea, and so of people go, oh yeah, right, yeah,

710
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 4: I've never done I never never thought of it that way,

711
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 4: you know. And I want to take an approach and

712
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 4: take an angle to it, and.

713
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: Where the conceige is funny. The thing itself is funny

714
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: the way it's constructed.

715
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 4: I guess if you were to try to distill what

716
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 4: I'm trying to do, is I want to take I

717
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 4: want to start with a premise, you know, I want

718
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 4: to go, you know, a new joke I'm doing, and

719
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 4: I'm not going to.

720
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 2: Bore you with the whole thing.

721
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 4: I go, I go, look, every time I turn on

722
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 4: the TV, now I see a commercial for.

723
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 2: A new body deodorant where it's an all over.

724
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 4: Body, every every part deodorant, and I'm like, I've been

725
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 4: watching TV for fifty years. It's always been underarm deodorant.

726
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 4: Why the whole why the whole body? When did this start?

727
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 4: It's five minutes old and it's ubiquitous now there's thirty

728
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 4: different brands. And every time every time I turn to you,

729
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 4: I see this and I go, what is this? What

730
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 4: necessitated this? Where's this coming from? And then I go, well,

731
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 4: you know you need deodorant where the sort of creases are.

732
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 4: And You're like, your underarm is five inches of crease

733
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 4: on the left and five inches and you don't need

734
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 4: it for the top of your thighs or your forehead.

735
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 4: You need it for the creases, you know, and your

736
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 4: arms are down and it gets funky.

737
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 2: And in the.

738
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 4: Past, we're all thin and we had about ten inches

739
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 4: of crease on us.

740
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 2: And now we got side.

741
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:33,959
Speaker 4: Boob and and front guntlin ask of lap and we

742
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 4: we're on big crease now. So we so now we

743
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 4: have seventy linear feet of crease where we used to

744
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 4: have ten inches of crease, and we stink because every

745
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 4: new forehead and chin crease have triple chin crease. Now

746
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 4: everything needs to be deodorized because there's one big crease

747
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 4: and so on and so forth. And people I.

748
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 2: Watch people, they go, yeah, that's true, it's commercials. Yeah,

749
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 2: that's true. I never saw why a why now you know?

750
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 2: And then you sort of explain it to him and

751
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 2: they go, you seem like not.

752
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 4: A little like, well right, everyone's fat now and everyone smells,

753
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 4: and then it starts to now we're going. Now we're

754
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 4: moving a direction. And for me, that's what I want

755
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 4: to do. I wanted to go huh yeah, and then

756
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 4: go why is that? Oh? Yeah, I bet that, you know.

757
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 4: That's the That's when I'm doing my job. That's the

758
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 4: job I'm doing.

759
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: I love it. Okay, my Royal Grande questionnaire. I ask

760
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: everybody this you already these are fast, don't think about these,

761
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: just answer them right all. Who's the person you most admire?

762
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 2: That is tough? I'll go Jimmy Kimmel.

763
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,240
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel, whow why?

764
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 2: Uh?

765
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 4: He's just I've seen what he's done. I've seen how

766
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 4: what he does with other people. I see how he

767
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 4: takes care of others. Also, we're talking about him ten

768
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 4: minutes ago, so I wasn't thinking about Gandhi Gandhi or

769
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 4: the pope.

770
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 2: Or something, you know, but I was on my mind.

771
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 2: But he does, he's done so much.

772
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: Well, he's a close friend of yours, which is it?

773
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: And I think it's nice to have friends who don't

774
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: agree with you on everything. Turns of those people, that's

775
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: what keeps your life rich and frankly keeps you on

776
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 1: your toes. Who's the person you most despise?

777
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: Kevin Smith?

778
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 4: Why I see jack me out a five hundred grand

779
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 4: for a TV show we're trying to do years ago

780
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 4: and then lied about it made me seem like an asshole?

781
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, Kevin Smith? Well, I thought, not hitler.

782
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 2: Kevin Well, Look Hitler.

783
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 4: That's uh, that's done many No, Kevin Smith, I mean,

784
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 4: and then.

785
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: Smith, what is your best feature?

786
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 2: Low self esteem?

787
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: Low self esteem? What's your worst feature?

788
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 2: Low self esteem? Yeah?

789
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: Pat, I set you right up. What do you know

790
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: that others don't know? I know how life works? How

791
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: does it work?

792
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 2: I mean I I know patterns. I know the layout

793
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 2: of life.

794
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 4: I understand what motivates people on how they work and

795
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 4: how they think.

796
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people who are drifting

797
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: in the ether and they won't imagine it.

798
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 4: Well what I'm saying. It's a story I told way

799
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 4: too many times.

800
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 2: I keep it short.

801
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 4: But there was a time when I had a mini

802
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 4: pickup truck eighty four Nissan standard bed truck, and it's

803
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 4: about all I had to my name, and I didn't

804
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 4: have insurance on it or anything. And I was moving

805
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 4: into Hollywood with my girlfriend in a bad sort of

806
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 4: CD part of Hollywood, and there was no underground parking.

807
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 2: I was going to have to park on the street.

808
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 4: And so I had this pickup truck and it had

809
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 4: a Sony digital stereo in it, and it was a

810
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 4: mini pickup truck. And it was during the time when

811
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 4: cars were getting stolen all the time, and stereos were

812
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 4: getting stolen out of cars, and I didn't have any

813
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 4: insurance and any security in the parking. And I was

814
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 4: moving into Hollywood, and it was probably in the late eighties,

815
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 4: these mid late eighties, and it wasn't.

816
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 2: A good time.

817
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 4: And I knew that the car was going to get

818
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 4: stolen and the stereo was going to get stolen almost immediately,

819
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 4: and it was my livelihood, and I knew I was

820
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 4: gonna be a lot of trouble if this happened. But

821
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 4: I also knew I didn't have money to ensure the

822
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 4: car either. So I went down to the Pep Boys

823
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 4: Auto parts place. I bought a small can of brown

824
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 4: spray paint. The dashboard was brown in the car, and

825
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 4: I bought a toggle switch, a small toggle switch, and

826
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 4: about six foot of wire.

827
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: All in.

828
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 4: I was in about five bucks. You know, this is

829
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 4: the late eighties, you know, And I went took the

830
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 4: spray paint. I put a little piece of tape over

831
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 4: the digital readout for the stereo, and I spray painted

832
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 4: the stereo brown, same color as a dash I didn't

833
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 4: do a good job.

834
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 2: I desecrated it.

835
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 4: And then I went under the car, and I went

836
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 4: to the fuel pump in the rear the car, and

837
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 4: I just clipped one wire for the fuel pump, and

838
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 4: I braided in my wire into it, looped around, put

839
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 4: the toggle switch under my seat, and looped it back

840
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 4: so I could turn the fuel pump on and off,

841
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 4: and then I would turn the fuel pump off when

842
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 4: I pulled in. I had a brown stereo. No one

843
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 4: ever stole the stereo. Car was stolen twice. Found it

844
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 4: both times because it was out of gas, you know,

845
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 4: a few feet a block or two away. And I

846
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 4: knew who people were, and I knew how to prevent it,

847
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 4: and I knew that painting my stereo brown would prevent

848
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 4: it from being stolen. And everyone says why, and I said,

849
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 4: because they steal it to sell it, and you can't

850
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 4: sell a brown stereo.

851
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: And you can't read it.

852
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 4: And so I kept my stare. Put the little piece

853
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 4: of tape over the.

854
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 2: Digital read out.

855
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:47,479
Speaker 1: And you tear it off when.

856
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 2: I put it.

857
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: No, I I before I spray painted over that, but

858
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't realize you peeled it back with it.

859
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 2: I removed it. I should roll up.

860
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: Okay, what is the thing you most regret. Do you

861
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: have a regret?

862
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I have, Like my stuff is more

863
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 4: sort of weirdly financial, Like you know a car that's

864
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 4: worth four million bucks and I sold it for too

865
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 4: cheap or whatever.

866
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: It is a piece of property you should have bought when

867
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: it was five hundred thousand dollars now eight million, right.

868
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, that weird that kind of stuff in terms of

869
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 4: how you treated this person or how you acted with

870
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 4: that person. What the exception of a few bad days

871
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 4: is sprinkled in there, which and I do there's a

872
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 4: bad day. I do regret those bad days. And I've

873
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 4: had a few, and I had a few with my

874
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 4: my family and that kind of stuff.

875
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 2: A couple of bad days.

876
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 4: But in general treated people fairly, took care of people

877
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 4: I should take care of, and don't really have a

878
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Speaker 4: lot of regrets.

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Speaker 1: That's good.

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Speaker 4: Although if you spoke to them they would Well, I'm

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Speaker 4: going to talk to them when we're will tell you

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Speaker 4: about all the regrets.

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Speaker 1: Tell me. The best piece of advice Adam Carolla ever

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Speaker 1: received was what.

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Speaker 2: If you drive the van, you will become the van driver.

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Speaker 1: Don't be the van driver. That's the and look where

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Speaker 1: you are. What happens when this is.

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Speaker 4: Over, Well, then we'll be debt. Well that what happens

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Speaker 4: when we go after life stuff? According to what I've

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Speaker 4: figured out, nothing, but if there's something that'll be good?

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Speaker 1: Are you open that there might be something?

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Speaker 4: I'm hoping that there might be something, And I'm fine.

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Speaker 4: And I've lived a life where I haven't hurt people,

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Speaker 4: so I've taken care of people. It's been a semi

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Speaker 4: righteous life. I've really don't. Haven't done things, even in

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Speaker 4: the shadows or in the quiet times, that I think

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Speaker 4: would get me into trouble with the almighty. So I

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Speaker 4: feel pretty pretty confident that I'll get into heaven even

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Speaker 4: though I don't think there's one.

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Speaker 1: Well, save me a spot when you will, Adam Core,

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Speaker 1: are you saving with my friend? You're going first anyway?

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Speaker 1: My friend? Great to see it. Okay, here's the hole.

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Speaker 1: What I learned from Adam is don't let anybody else

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Speaker 1: set expectations for you. Sometimes you have to knock around

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Speaker 1: and find your own path, and if you keep at it,

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Speaker 1: you'll find it. And you can't sell yourself short or settle.

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Speaker 1: Don't drive the van. I hope you'll come back to

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Speaker 1: a royo Grande soon. Why live a dry, constricted life

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Speaker 1: when if you fill it with good things, it can

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Speaker 1: flow into a broad, driving Arroyo Grande. I'm raiding an arroyo.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe like this episode and thanks for

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Speaker 1: diving in. We'll see you next time. Arroyo Grande is

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