WEBVTT - Is Comedy Dead? An Interview with Adam Carolla 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.080 So how can comedy exist in a society where everyone 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.680 is so offended? And why is the left so offended 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.520 by speech. We're gonna get into some of these questions 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.600 with Adam Carola. You know him. The guy is hilarious. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.280 He's done a billion different things in his life. He 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.959 had The Man Show back in the day, which a 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.440 lot of you guys know on Comedy Central. He's been 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.000 in movies, he said, radio shows, television. He's written best 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.040 selling books as well. He's got his own podcast, which 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.800 was in the Guinness World Book of Records at one point. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.519 I don't know if they still are, but they were 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.080 a holder for the most downloaded podcast. I think it's 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.440 currently the number one daily downloaded podcast in the world. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.959 He's got a new book out Everything reminds Me of 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.400 something as well. He's got a show on the Daily 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.440 Wire called The truth Yeller as well. So the guys 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.239 all over the place doing a ton of things, and 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.880 he's doing the Lord's work because he doesn't back down 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.440 to all these crazy people in our society. He still 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.000 maintains a sense of humor. He doesn't treat them with 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.160 kid gloves, and he just tells the truth. And that's 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.240 the whole point of the show. And isn't that what 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.000 we need more of in this country? And the comedians 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.399 are supposed to push boundaries, that's the point, you know, 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.200 So what does it say as a society that we 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.080 don't even allow for humor anymore? And then I don't 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.559 know if you guys noticed, but after someone literally tried 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.360 to kill Dave Chappelle for his Netflix special, which was 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.520 hilarious and my favorite joke, and that one was someone 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.560 was telling him that they are after him because you know, 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.000 he has been making a lot of jokes about transgender people, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.880 and they said they are after you, and he said 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.080 many days or singular day. So I thought that was hilarious. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.560 But but after someone literally tried to kill Dave Chappelle, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.360 the media did an interview with the attacker where the 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.200 attacker was like, oh, I'm bisexual. I was triggered at 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.640 Dave Chappelle's fault. He needs to be more sensitive. So 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.000 how far away are we from someone literally killing someone? 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.120 And then the media and the left are like, oh, well, 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.040 that the the individual shouldn't offended this person, right, like 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:00.200 giving victim hood to the person who was offended, when 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.480 in reality, the person who's so easily offended is the 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.600 problem with their society. So anyways, a lot issues to 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.960 get into, a lot to talk about with none other 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.000 than Adam Corolla. So I hope you enjoyed this episode. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.880 He was in his car so some you know, hopefully 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:26.519 everything's clear. So Adam Carolla, here you go. So, Adam, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.080 I was reading that your parents did not give you 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.320 a middle name, so when you filled out your driver's 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.880 license application, you listed your middle name as Lakers as 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:39.440 a joke. Do you still go by Adam Lakers Corolla? Yeah, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:45.200 It's on all my documentation, every piece of official paperwork 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.280 I have, and it will probably be on my tombstone. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.520 Not that I'm even the biggest Lakers fan. I just 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.679 I didn't have a middle name. I got tired of 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.120 looking at that blank spot, and at some point I 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.120 just wrote the Lakers, and because they were on to 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.040 their playoff runs against the Celtics or something, I guess 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.200 it was on my mind, so I just wrote it in. Well, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.640 that's like sometimes when parents I can't come up with 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.320 a name for their kid and they'll just you know, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.840 a Coca Cola or something. It's like, you hear this 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.600 stuff happening. Uh, well, that's pretty Did you think you 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.920 would be able to get away with it? Or really 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.760 like they're surely going to be like, you can't do this. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.720 I didn't give it much thought. I just wrote it 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.359 in And it wasn't my first driver's license. My my 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.360 first driver's license I just left blank because I have 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.280 no middle name. Um. But it must have been when 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.640 I was renewing it when I was in my early 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.119 twenties that I that I wrote it in, so uh 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.040 and then they never questioned it. And it's now on 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.680 Like I said, every mortgage indeed, and you know, certificate 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.480 of authenticity everything I owned just says a Lakers stuff. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.559 That's awesome when you look at comedy today and you're 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.160 coming up with jokes, isn't society the punch line? Like, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.600 isn't it all a joke? Today? It feels like we're 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.960 living in a clown world. Yeah. I had that that 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:17.080 moment this morning. I was actually listening to Nancy Pelosi 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:22.680 explained to the participants from Drag Race that they were 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:30.440 essentially American heroes. And it was funny because earlier in 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:35.400 the morning I turned on the TV and every single 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.520 channel was just running the Capital hearings, and it was 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.359 all just the same boring stuff. And I was just 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:47.359 scrolling around and I found an episode of Lucy not 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.479 I love Lucy, but her second she did a second 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.320 sitcom like in the sixties. Just watched it for half 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.840 an hour and saw however one acted and how they 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.039 dressed it, how they behaved. And then I heard Nancy 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:07.320 Pelosi calling all the drag queens American heroes, and I thought, wow, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.240 we've really jumped the shark. We really have. And it's like, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.400 it's what's weird with the kids stuff, because it's like, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.479 you know whatever, if you're an adult, you know whatever. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.920 But like, just the the pushing of this on children 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.640 is just super creepy and weird, and like all the 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.920 parents taking their kids to drag shows and like like 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.839 would you take your kids to a strip club? Like 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.080 I just it's almost like I just I don't even 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.720 understand what's going on. It feels like we're not even 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:37.960 living in reality. I think the deal is once you 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.480 get the kids coached up, then it becomes reality. So 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:48.440 I was sort of saying, you know, especially living in California, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:57.040 it's hard to justify shutting down a state small businesses, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.320 you know, restaurants and beaches. If the school is they're 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.400 still open. So what you do is you shut the 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.520 schools down, and then you go, hey, we have an emergency. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.880 The schools are shut down, and now you have to 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.560 shut down your business and your nail salt and your restaurants. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.640 So I think there's a thing about almost vetting it 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.840 through kids. You know, it's almost like when they say, oh, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.800 this asperin is safe for kids to take, Like once 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.280 it's okay for kids, then it just kind of is. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.800 And I think this is part of it. The other 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.400 part of it is what I like to call crate training, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.200 Like they need to get the kids, create training, like 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:42.800 you create train a dog. You can't create dog or 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.040 an old dog. You have to get them when they're 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.640 puppies and then you create train them. And that that's 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.400 a that's so people talk about indoctrination. I really just 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.080 look at his great training. You just you have to 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.800 get the puppies and you've got to create train them 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.159 so they're obedient. And then once they're obedient, then they're 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.839 your subject, you know, for the next lockdown or the 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.520 next whatever it is we tell them to do. There 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.360 are ours well, and like they did that with the 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.960 vaccine stuff too. I think recently that oh it's safe 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.080 for five and under, but they have like nearly like 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:20.040 a hundred percent chance of survival gets COVID. So it's just, uh, 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.960 it's just ridiculous. But simultaneously, even though we live in 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.000 this cloud world and we're all sort of part of 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.680 this joke that's going on, we have seemed to as 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.880 society of lost or sense of humor. Why do you 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.720 think that happened? And when do you think that happened? Well, 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:42.920 there's you know, we're taking people and we're making them agreed. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.640 You know, they all have a grievance now, so we 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:52.520 took everyone, broke them off into groups. So I used 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:57.840 to do stand up for comedy or TV shows for 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:02.040 an audience and the audience just the audience, And now 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.600 the audience is broken up. You have the African Americans, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.280 we have the Latinos with the Latina acts, we have 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.320 the Latinas, we have the gay and lesbian, we have 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.760 the transit. So now within your audience is no longer 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:24.320 just a audience. It's fourteen sub culture audiences. And you 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.360 try to tell a joke that's not going to piss 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.240 one of them off. Well, it is that that the 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.200 whole point of you know, what leftists try to do 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.680 is they want us to be divided. They want everyone 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.960 to feel like they're in their individual group as opposed 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.240 to you know, a country with you know, common values 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.120 and things that align us as Americans, all sharing the 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.600 same patriotism and love for country. I mean, isn't isn't 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.080 that the whole point is to have this scenario that 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.520 you just laid out. Yeah, that's why. That's all they 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.960 do is break everyone off into groups. It's non it's 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.600 non stop. And yes, they can't do it from the 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.880 out side, you have to do it from the inside. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:07.559 So once you've sectioned off a group, you then explain 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.760 how you're a fan of that group and what you're 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.480 gonna do for that group, and then you go about 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.000 to make promises to that group that are unfulfillable. So, 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.000 you know, when you look at that, in the environment 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.679 that we operate in today, can comedy continue to exist 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:29.520 in our society? Yeah, comedy don't exist. There's gonna be 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.200 a whole subculture that just pushes back against that, and 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.760 then you're gonna end up with a different kind of comedy. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:42.040 I mean, the Daily Wire exists, and and and Tucker 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.360 Carlson exists because they've been trying to shove this crap 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.240 down everyone's throat for long enough that they've created an 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:54.400 alternative space for people with alternative views who will flourish 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.400 because we're tired. Most of America's tired of being force 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.959 vent all the crap, and that'll be the same way 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.200 with comedy. Well, and I totally agree with you in 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.000 the sense of, you know, I think Americans are tired 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.200 of this being shoved down or throats. And then there's 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.360 also you know, I think the majority of Americans realized 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.880 the hypocrisy and it you know when like Ricky Gervais, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.160 he was able to say it to people's face in 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.400 Hollywood during the Golden Globes when he said, you know, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.360 if I us have started a streaming service, you would 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.400 call your agent. I mean, so, I think that's where 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.920 a lot of this frustration comes from. People wanting to 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.920 push it back about this because we know that the 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.559 people that are shoving this down our throats are just hypocrites. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.840 You know. I was kind of thinking about it earlier today, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:41.480 and basically basically what it is is there's only say 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.720 that if dr drew, but there's only diet and exercise. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.320 It's really, if you want to lose weight, just eat less, 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.800 crap in exercise, right, and and that's about it. That's 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.800 the rule, that's the law. There doesn't need to be 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:01.640 another book written on dieting. It's exercent I had. But 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.120 there are all these books, and there's all the you know, 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.600 weight Watchers, low cost fun you know, low calorie fudge 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.839 and and all this stuff. But it really just kind 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.000 of keeps getting back to diet. It's about hard work. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.440 It's about you know, it's not showing up early and 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.600 leaving late and not pointing fingers and not blaming. That's 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.839 half of them, And then the other half thinks it's 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.600 about government subsidies and racism and we need to tax 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.280 billionaires more. People need to pay their fair share, and 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.920 we need equity and schools, and we need to lower 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.640 the map test scores and affirmative action on that. It 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.520 doesn't work, it never works. But it does work for 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.000 the people who run weight Watchers, and that that's Nancy 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.400 Pelosi like. It does work for the small group of 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.840 people who are in charge of the policies, they get rich, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.680 it doesn't work for anyone else. Well, and that's basically 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.319 what COVID was about, right, I mean, you had all 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.400 the small you had all the small busins. This is 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.280 getting crushed, all the working people getting crushed. And then 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.679 yet well you know, Walmart and Target and all the 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.720 big stores were able to stay open. Yeah, in effect 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:17.000 and affect any anybody work for government. It didn't affect 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.960 anybody in a in a white collar position who could 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.599 work from home. And it affected all the people that 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.120 work in the kitchen of those restaurants that were closed down. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.680 You know, I think, you know, we look at speech 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.360 just being one of the main targets. Well, guns too 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.600 right now, but speech probably primarily, you know, and like 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.320 comedians are supposed to be able to push boundaries. That's 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.560 the whole point. That's where in humor lies. But like, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.040 what does it say about our country right now where 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:47.040 there's just this concentrated effort to stifle the speech of comedians, 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.000 whether it's you know you've had this happened to you, 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.200 and recently with people trying to cancel and Netflix specials 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.559 for people like Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais if you 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:00.800 control the speech, then you can control the narrative than 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:06.040 you control the policy, and they want to control policies. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.600 In order to control the policies, you have to control 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:15.199 the speech, and that's why they become speech police. It's 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:21.679 been going on for longer than people think. But um, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.200 Ricky Gervaises and that that Dave Chappelle's have also felt 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.480 that pressure, and what you're seeing is them pushing back 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.520 against something that's being pushed on them. It's not a 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.240 coincidence that both of them and their specials are making 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.319 fun of transgenders. They're pushing on it because they feel 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:48.240 like it's being voiced on them. So um, you know, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.920 I think I think what the speech police will understand 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:56.840 is they have no real actual power. Their only power 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:02.280 is scared people around them caving. And the less those 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:08.280 people cave in on an individual level or corporate level, uh, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.480 less power than the wheel. I mean, you take a 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:16.160 look at Black Lives Matter. Two years ago would have 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.880 been a death sentence to come out against Black Lives 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.840 Matter and any any capacity. Now it's no big deal. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.880 That's that's how this stuff works. It turns around pretty fast, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:31.080 especially whatever it is they're talking about is untrue. I 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.040 think this is sort of like the problem that we 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.640 have as a country is it's like everyone waits until 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.960 things are safe to say what needs to be said. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.360 You know, like even like during COVID, like everyone was 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.760 afraid to say lockdowns are bullshit. With the vaccines, everyone 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.200 was afraid to question them even though we had no 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.440 long term data. It's like it's like or even like 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.760 with police shootings, everyone was afraid to just say the 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.240 truth and say, the numbers don't stack up with this 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.120 narrative that police are just indiscriminately gunning down black men 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.120 in America, Like it just doesn't hold up right, And 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.800 so like we allow these narratives to take fold and 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.720 so like, isn't the time to speak out at the beginning, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.520 to to try to challenge these narratives head on to 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.960 stop them from from taking so much power? One one 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:14.680 thousand percent. You know everyone's against the holocaust. Now where 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.760 were you in ninety nine? You know, like that's the 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:23.000 time you need to hype up. I totally agree. Um. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.840 I was vocal and against lockdowns and all the COVID 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.800 crap early and often, and I took up feeding for it. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.800 But I never cared and this is not provisionist history. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.280 You can listen to my podcast, you can read my tweets. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:46.680 I said early, Uh, I sent a tweet out that trended, 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.400 which is, uh, COVID is killing old people and it 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.120 is killing sick people, and the rest of you post 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.480 he's got played and who's getting played next time? And 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.280 everyone went nuts, and some substantial people in Hollywood like, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.640 call me and tell me to delete that tweet, and 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.200 I said, uh, now, and I just left it up 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.640 and it's just bill up. I was never on with it. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.360 I was never about it. I felt it early. They 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.640 didn't give us the ages of the people who were 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.080 dying early, and that's when I knew something was up, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.000 because they always give me the ages when somebody dies, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.680 and I wasn't getting any ages, and I knew. I 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.360 knew the fix was in early. I talked about it 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.200 all the time, and I became essentially a pariah. Quick 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.040 commercial break more with Adam Carolla on the other side. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:43.720 So when we looked at the fact that you know, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.680 Chappelle literally someone tried to kill him on a stage recently, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.640 what was so interesting to me is the New York Post, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.960 which is normally pretty good about stuff. But they did 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.080 an interview with this guy where they give him like 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.680 the heat where he's talking about how he's bisexual, how 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.520 he was triggered, And it's really Dave Chappelle's fault because 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.040 Dave Chappelle is the one who needs to be more sensitive, 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.600 and clearly the guy wielding a knife to try to 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.200 kill him is you know, obviously not at fault because 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.480 words hurt and words are violent. How far away are 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.600 we from someone like actually maybe getting killed and the 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.639 media and left are like, oh, well, he or she 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.760 just shouldn't have been so offensive. Well, the media has 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:26.080 to figure out the optics of everything really quickly, you know, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.639 and figure out like what color was the cop, what 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.800 color was the assailant, what color was the comedian, what 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.280 color was the attack, or you know, what was the 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:39.199 subject of the attack. You know, they have to figure 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.400 it all out fast and then sort of decide how 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.520 outrage they are. You know, So if someone wants to 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:53.440 like firebombs some Christian you know, abortion alternative center, they don't. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:58.119 You're not interested in that media wise, Or if you know, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.359 a black cop shoots a white woman in the face 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:07.000 at the capital, uh, not not so much interest in 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.840 those things, So they have to figure out what the 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:13.639 narrative is, to decide how much interest to show and 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.159 whatever the subject is, which is a weird way to 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.600 do news if you think about it, you know, like 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.840 what fits the theme and what doesn't fit the theme 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.359 in terms of your interest in covering the stories. But yeah, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:33.240 something will happen at some point, and uh, certain sides 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.760 will be more outrage and certain sides will be less outrage. 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:42.320 But you know, what are the choices I've been telling people. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.760 People have been telling me to shut up for a 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.560 while when it comes to my opinions on a lot 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.840 of the directions we're going as a country, And I 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.360 just tell him, I'm a comedian. I have to give 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.320 my opinions. That's it. I can't water them down and 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:03.080 I can't curtail them. So if they're more popular, that's 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.840 my job. And if I stopped doing that, then I'll 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.480 go back to swinging a hammer. But I am a carpenter, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.840 so I do at least have a trade. Well, I'm 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:13.879 sure it's probably good to have a hobby too. You know. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.000 It's like, uh, the world's a stressful, like a reprief 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.240 from it all. Oh absolutely, man, people have to get 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.199 down to the garage. Hand's dirty. You know, why do 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.600 you think it definitely seems like it's the left that 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.080 are constantly offended by words and speech. Why do you 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.560 think speech offends them so much? You know, it's a 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:43.359 crazy turnaround because when I started in radio in the 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:47.160 mid nineties, if you've got a complaint, if the program 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.840 director came in and said, we got a complaint or 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.639 we're getting complaints, got complaints, it would always be the 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:59.119 right to be some Christian fundamentalist group that was complaining 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:06.040 of out literally the language. So they you said tits 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.520 or something and they got offended and they didn't like 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.560 the language you're using. Right, So it was all from 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.639 the religious right. About twenty five years ago, there was 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:21.360 no such thing as the left or the progressive left complaining. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.800 And the progressive left, which does all the complaining now, 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.320 doesn't complain about the language. They don't. You can swear 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.200 your ass off. They they applaud that. They complain about 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.560 the ideas. They don't like your ideas, and they want 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.880 to police your ideas, and that's much more insidious than 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.800 policing the language. You know, we say language. Yeah, you 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.359 have to police the language is don't say the S 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:54.760 word or F word or whatever on broadcast television. They 0:20:54.840 --> 0:21:00.800 want the ideas police. That's a much scarier profess issue. Well, 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.520 and if that happens, which is the you know way 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.520 we're trending. I mean, there is pushback, which is comforting, 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.399 But if that's what happens, we sort of cease to 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:14.000 live in a free society. I agree. Uh, the real 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:18.120 I'll pay the real problem of where we're at right now. 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.880 The left us to police the language and the thoughts 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:28.440 and and and to do all that stuff. Um, the 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:32.320 folks that voted for them are sitting around silently while 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:36.720 they're running amok. But it's the right disagrees, but has 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.840 always disagreed with the left. What we need is people 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:45.800 who are democrats, who are on the left, we're progressive, 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:52.479 who have some clarity and some dignity to pipe up 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:56.000 and say, even though this is my side pushing this, 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.720 I disagree with it and I'm not going to support it. 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:05.719 We need that. We don't have enough of that people saying, 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.879 you know, I work with I do a podcast with 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:13.159 the attorney Mark Grigs. Attorney Mark Gerris been a Democrat 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:17.040 for his entire life. But he's intellectually honest and he 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.720 doesn't like what's going on out there, and he says 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.320 it and he knows it's his side doing it, and 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:26.880 he's vocal about it. Fine, we need more of that. 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:29.920 So well, you know, I guess Bill Maher is like 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:32.159 kind of But again, so these people are always so 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.760 late to things, and that's just the sort. And Republicans 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:36.800 do this all the time. They're late to everything. And 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:38.480 then they're like, oh yeah, I oppose lockdowns, and I 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.720 know you were there before, but a lot of these 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:43.320 people weren't, and it's like infuriating to see them on 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:45.280 TV and they're like, oh yeah, lockdown and it's like we're, well, 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.280 where are you? Where you when people like you and 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.119 me were taking bullets, you know, because we were speaking 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:52.720 up against the grain and against the group think. And 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:54.280 then they try to, you know, come to it late 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:57.320 when it's the damage has already done right, People already 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.480 out of business, people's lives have been taken, livelihoods or 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.640 lives right, like all the suicides and overdoses and all 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:07.480 those things that happened as well. But you know, should 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:11.560 people fear being canceled. What you have to do is 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:17.160 you have to position yourself. Um now, so it's it's 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.680 no no longer. Can you just hit yourself a job 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:25.960 with a fortune five company and uh or even a 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:29.399 college and expect to be able to speak your mind 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:34.520 and not be canceled. That's gonna happen. Um. But if 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:39.960 you position yourself. Uh. You know, I've been saying whatever 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:42.840 I want to say for the last years, but it's 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:47.399 because I positioned myself to be sort of independent and 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.440 have a sixteen year old son who thinks like me, 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:56.520