Erica Rhodes Explains the Difference Between Stalkers and Fans for Men vs Women

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Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 And now, Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got you. Get on. No, George. Get on the mandate. You get it on. Eric Roads is back in studio. Always good to see Erica.

0:11 A good to see you, too. A very good standup comedian. Has dates all over the place. You can go to Punch Up Live and that'll have all of Erica's dates. Right. So, you're a road dog. I mean, you tour, right?

0:24 I am. Nonstop. People Well, I don't know people, but everyone talks. First off, everyone talks about how hard it is to do this and be a woman. Everything's like you can't be a woman. But um I don't know. I figure like in these modern times it's not too bad. I But I don't know. I don't know about you and travel and being a woman.

0:44 Yeah, it's not too bad. I mean, there's a lot of weird I guess I do have to take a lot of rides with strangers.

0:51 That's kind of the most annoying part is meeting all these random people. Club owner guy picks you up from the airport. lot of that. Lot of Uber like and doing the radio thing in the morning. They're gonna send the intern from the station over to get you.

1:05 Yeah, but I have Yeah, I haven't encountered any creeps yet for a while. It's been a minute.

1:11 Okay. So, that's good. Yeah, cuz I could see you attracting that type. Yeah, they're more in the audience, I think.

1:17 Mhm. Yeah. I mean, you do you do there is a you do forget what it's like just being a dude and just sort of going doing whatever. Yeah.

1:28 All the time. I have had some stalkers situations. You have? Yeah. Yeah. Where these guys have followed me to different states.

1:37 Really? Yeah. What happened? Um, they had to A couple of them were asked to leave eventually because they were just coming.

1:45 The state or the club? The club. They went to too many shows. Yeah, they were. Well, when they're starting to cross state lines, it's that's weird.

1:54 Uh-huh. Oh, you know, but maybe you call that a super fan. Do you have that? Yeah, I do.

2:00 Really? The ones that travel the different Yeah. Really? Oh, okay. Yeah. I was raped by one the other night.

2:07 Yeah. Congratulations. Wow. No, I see that's the difference. I'm a dude. So, I'm like, "Hey, thanks."

2:13 Yeah. To you it's a fan. To me, it's a stalker. Yeah. No, Addie has come to her. She informed me in Las Vegas, Nevada. She informed me that this was her hundth show.

2:25 Wow. She'd been to Yeah. And and in different states all in her living room. I did them all right for her. Yeah. In Nevada and then in other places. Yeah. She travel.

2:38 Okay. So maybe I just have a couple super fans that I thought were stalkers. Well, one man's super fan is another woman's stalker.

2:45 Well, that's the difference. But that that is the difference. I'm just a big dude who played football in high school, so I don't care. You don't feel you don't feel threatened by someone following you around.

2:56 No, I feel I feel flattered. Okay. Yeah. To me, it's a little bit scary, but also I'm super funny. So, maybe she's motivated by more than the looks. You know,

3:05 that's what a man would tell himself. That's right. You little gals, you're cute and everything with your little jokes, but this is actual comedy I'm doing.

3:15 So, I will say the fans from this show have been very respectful. Almost too respectful. They come up and they go, "I love you on Adam Corola." And then they they run away.

3:24 They run away. I know. Yeah. They're a little shy. I know. There is There's It is funny. Sometimes you're like at an airport and you're like sitting alone at a bar and your flight's delayed and like some guy comes up and he goes, "I don't want to bother you, man. I just want you. I'm a huge fan. I've been listening for 20 years. I don't want to bother you." And they start leaving and I'm like, "Come back."

3:42 Yeah. Come back. Keep telling me nice things. Buy me a beer and tell me nice things. One time a guy said he was a fan and then he was like sitting right near me and he's like, I just I don't want to bother you. I just want to say I'm a big fan. And then he put his headphones on and sat there and I then I felt kind of like just really self-conscious cuz he's sitting there and I'm thinking I have to kind of be cool,

4:02 right? I have all my stuff. I feel like the airport's not a glamorous place to run into people. No, but I do start to realize that starlets and men and celebrities when they land at LAX, they know TMZ's going to be there and they could find them walking out to the curb. And I noticed they put themselves together a little better

4:29 because if you know TMZ is hanging out right now, I just, you know, I'm going to Bend, Oregon this weekend. TMZ is not going to be hanging around in the Ben, Oregon um municipal airport, but if you're coming to LAX and you're so and so from uh Beverly Hills 90210 or something, you might want to put yourself together

4:53 because they may be there. I got recognized by the TSA woman at um in Chicago and that felt more flattering for some reason because she's supposed to be official and she looked at she goes, "I know who you are.

5:08 You are on WGN. Wow. You're a comedian." And then I felt that was the coolest I think I felt.

5:14 Your viral clip. Yeah. Yeah. We had uh Mike and I got got crushed at the Burbank airport by the lady who worked behind the counter at United Airlines. So, there's a phenomenon that I've been talking about for a long time, which is basically taking middle-aged black women, agitating the [ __ ] out of them, and then putting them at the lead, like at the counter places. And then,

5:42 here's the problem. I think there's a phenomenon and I I'll try not to do it as a porative, but we'll try to get this solved. Okay,

5:49 I do believe women are more symbolically wired than men. I have, and I've I've said this a million times, the women that have Trump derangement syndrome mostly hate their dads. And the women who rever their dads and love their dads

6:09 could have Trump derangement syndrome, but they mainly might just not like him. But you have to really hate your dad to really get this syndrome because he's triggering,

6:18 right? He's your bad dad. What about the men who hate him? Mommy issues. No, not not as not as much. And I don't even know if you broke it down if more women would have Trump derangement syndrome than than men.

6:32 I think more men honestly have it. Mostly it's good to hate your dad. You have a higher percentage of having Trump derangement syndrome for hating your dad.

6:42 Okay. But it doesn't mean it. But I Women are more symbolic than men, which is you're a boyfriend who does something that reminds the girl of her dad that she hated her dad that she hated back then. She's more apt to take it out on the boyfriend. Right?

7:00 Is is what I'm saying. So, you take middle-aged women and might have dad issues.

7:08 Also, you know, whatever it is, it didn't really work out cuz you're 57 and you're working at the Burbank airport all day. You know what I mean? So, that thing, whatever. The prince never swept you away.

7:19 You're probably going to hate your dad there. Maybe you don't know your dad. Okay. There's some of that in that community as well.

7:26 Your dad's also working with you, I think. Yes. He's handling the baggage. Yeah. And then you feed them a steady diet of racist white America, systemic racism rich whitey heterosexual whatever. And then me comes pulling up in a first with a first class ticket. And I represent more than just a a a patron. I'm a dad now with a first class ticket and white. I'm part of the problem essentially.

7:54 And uh Mike and I both had a first class ticket to uh Denver. and um we wanted to check a bag and she was like, "Can I say this for anyone who works anywhere? Either do the [ __ ] thing and shut up or just go sorry if anything under an hour can't be checked. We'll have to send an online flight."

8:17 Don't do the I'll do it, but next time, you know, I don't want it with the [ __ ] lecture. I I got my first class ticket. I'm an adult. I don't need the lecture part about how you're so put off. You know the people like I'll let you through this time but next shut up. Just let me through or sorry I can't let you through.

8:38 Right? If you once you say I'll let you through then we're done. I don't need the parable from the Bible about the man who got through but but didn't appreciate it enough. I don't give a [ __ ] Stop the lecture.

8:52 Yeah. So she goes, she's starting to dig into me and Mike. She's like, uh, you know, it's 1 hour. And we're there like 50 minutes before the flight, but it's Burbank. It's small and we have a first class ticket and the plane's like right there right?

9:04 And she goes, now it's 1 hour. She starts like yelling at us. And I go, "Okay, we're sorry. Can we get the bag?" And then I go, "Now I said, we have a first class ticket." And the reason I said we have a first class ticket is not to try to pull rank. It's cuz they had the first class check-in line.

9:27 Mhm. But nobody at the window. So we had to stand with eight people in front of us and burn time because priority check-in, you didn't put a person at priority check-in. So I said when she was yelling at me, we're running late. And I said to her, I go, "Well, we had a first class ticket, but" and she goes, "I don't care if you have a first class ticket. It's an hour." And she was like beating the [ __ ] out of me and Mike. Now,

9:53 now what Mike and I have to do is sit there and take it in the ass because if you start piping up, then your bag's not getting on. Oh yeah.

9:59 And she experiences this weird false power all day where she gets to [ __ ] be rude and do whatever the [ __ ] she wants to anyone and no one will say anything back to her because they want to get their [ __ ] bag on it. So, she's just browbeating us the whole time. and Mike. Mike who rarely remains silent. Me and Mike just staring at the ground just okay [ __ ] just get it out of your system. By the way, I don't know. You work at a place that checks in bags,

10:24 right? You have flights that take off all day every day. Mhm. You don't encounter people coming in 5 10 minutes under the cutoff for checking the bag,

10:35 right? Is isn't that what you do all [ __ ] day every day? Yes. Like what is the

10:41 what's with the fresh annoyance? You know what I mean? Like, oh boy, I've never seen this before. Like that's all you see is this,

10:49 right? It's just people and also it's kind of a weird rule with the 1 hour before bag check because it's a little confusing because people check in online. They get checked in. They don't have to get to the airport if they're checked in online and can get on the plane, but the bag needs to get there

11:09 before. And don't they want you to check the bag? Like then they then they always try to convince you to check your bag. So

11:16 it's a weird message. You're right. Yeah. It's like, do you want me to or do you not want me to?

11:21 So she's she's all she wanted to do is have a sanctioned brow beating of two middle-aged white guys who couldn't say [ __ ] back to her, right? Because in the past, if you were anywhere else, you'd go, "Hey, shut up, [ __ ] I didn't ask for a lecture." But she is the gatekeeper to whether your bag's getting on or off. And you fire back one snide remark.

11:43 Mhm. And that bag ain't getting on, right? And you know it, and she knows it, too. So, she just sits there and pummeles you and sees how much you're willing to sit and take, and you're sitting and taking it.

11:54 Yeah. And you can't say anything because people will take their phones out if you say anything.

11:57 It'll be a racial attack. Yeah. That happened to me once with the consolidation of the bags, you know, cuz sometimes I'll try to get away with having like two small carry-on bags, and this one woman, I was like really early in the line, and she she's like, "You need to put those bags together."

12:12 So, now I'm holding up the line by trying to get my stuff in the other bag. And I'm like, "Can't you just let me have two small bags? Like, you're holding up the whole line now."

12:21 Bag [ __ ] And they love it. And it's perfect. It's perfect because women love telling people what to do. That's what that's what that's why Starbucks is so popular.

12:33 It's my theory. Yeah. My theory is no woman first off, women didn't drink that much coffee like historically.

12:42 Really? No. How did they get through motherhood without coffee? Women made coffee, but they didn't they didn't consume as much as men. Is this a fact?

12:54 This is a fact. I Wait. No. They they, you know, they'd make a thermos of coffee for their construction working husband who left morning at 6:00 and drove in his truck or whatever it is. They made coffee. The secretaries made coffee and then the secretaries brought the coffee in for the meeting that Mr. How had with the bank manager, but they didn't sit there and grab a cup of coffee.

13:17 Really? Yeah. Well, I'm not saying I'm not saying women didn't drink coffee. I'm saying historically probably like drinking probably like alcohol or beer consumption or something like that. Men consumed more scotch than women did,

13:38 but women drank scotch. Right. Right. Uh but now Starbucks, every time I pull into Starbucks, seems to be about 65 70% women in there. There seem to be more women more concerned with Starbucks and making or orders and going on runs. Like I'm much more, you know, make a pot of coffee. But a woman will go, "No, we're going to Starbucks." Like it's a thing.

13:59 They want their well, they want the fancy coffee. Whereas men, I think they're fine with just a black coffee.

14:05 Oh, all right. Well, here's these are the here's Google. Yes. Now, okay. Now, what is this? Google something. Uh

14:15 I'm drinking a lot right now. Yes, women drink significantly more coffee now compared to earlier in history due to a massive social what's that say? Societal shift. Okay. Blah blah blah. All right, Erica, you owe me an apology.

14:32 I'm sorry for doubting your intelligence. I'm not not granted. I'm not I'm not accepting your apology.

14:38 Oh, no. So, women drink a lot more coffee than they used to. And they're in the Starbucks right?

14:46 Yeah. But you know what? What do they drink coffee? Or do they drink Well, weird. When I'm at the Starbucks, I don't get behind three women go, "Just give me a large coffee."

15:01 No, it's a weird drink. It's a thing. It's a It's a whole thing. It's not like they're just drinking coffee.

15:07 I'm at the Starbucks, I just go, "Give me a large coffee, put a little cream in it, and we're done." This is a whole thing. Do you have oat milk?

15:15 Yeah. Oh, I like when they're disappointed. Do you have oat milk? No, we're out of oat milk.

15:22 Oh, cuz they need a feeling. They need you to feel something. You know what I mean? Like I heard you say, "We're out of oat milk." You don't You need to register a feeling.

15:34 Yeah. Ask me for uh Ask me for a large latte with oat milk. Can I get a Can I get a grande latte with oat milk?

15:41 Oh, I'm sorry. Ara oat milk. Was that good? NOW, YES, CUZ I feel emotionally tattered now. I'm destroyed now. Now try to do one with coconut milk.

15:55 Um, do you have coconut milk? We had coconut milk, but we're out. Felt that one.

16:06 Right. I was getting I'm really in character. I'm going to go if I'm working at that as at that barista. I'm going to kill myself.

16:12 I think I've played that part before actually. Yes, you do. Because women need to make you feel something. The point is is the [ __ ] couldn't check the bag. She had to make us feel bad.

16:21 Yeah. For getting FOR OWNING A FIRST CLASS TICKET on her airline that she worked for

16:25 telling her you had a first class and for asking could we get these bags on. She had to make us feel something about. So women I've realized like by and large like telling people what to do more than men which you might not think is true but I I'll tell you men like telling people to do stuff like building [ __ ] like hey you're stacking those cinder blocks wrong like that's it but women like telling sort of

16:55 emotional things are just like take the one bag and put it in the other bag and you're like huh that doesn't make do it you know what I They're more manipulative.

17:02 It's like, "Dance for me, bitch." You know? Yes. Um, yeah. The the advent this the only thing that can explain the growth of Starbucks from zero to mega corporation is women get to go in there and tell the [ __ ] behind the counter what they want.

17:22 And so they get to go, I want a grande latte with oat milk and light foam and not too hot. So, it's like you're literally having to sit and listen. You listen. I'm talking. Hey, I'm not going to check these bags. I'll check these bags in a minute, but first I'm going to make you feel a bunch of stuff right?

17:43 I'm going to tell you a bunch of [ __ ] you don't [ __ ] need to hear, and I'm going to make you feel a certain way, and that'll make me feel a certain way, and then we can see about the back.

17:52 Yeah. Yeah, I can see that. They They're relishing the power position more. Maybe

17:58 women. I've seen women go in and spend 10 minutes with a Starbucks order and there's something they're enjoying about there's something they're getting out of this poor person having to memorize all your [ __ ] with a possible disappointment. You know, like I asked for light foam. Okay, we're out of

18:18 But why did they make the order so complicated? Do you think because of that they because people want it that complicated or

18:25 I feel like it's getting really complicated. I think look I know. Okay, I'll put I'll give you the dude version of this.

18:33 Yeah. I I have a couple of jack off Hollywood buddies, right? And they're all [ __ ] dudes and they're jack offs, you know? And you go out to [ __ ] eat with them and they're like, I want uh there you go. I'll have a martini. Gray Goose martini, not bruised. Uh, a a little on the dry, just a touch of vermouth. Just put a little vermouth in the glass and and it's like you [ __ ] just [ __ ] drink your booze. What? You You can't tell the difference,

19:01 right? You can't tell the difference between the gray goose and the Titos. You don't know. I literally I was with the air I was at airport with this guy. I got tired of him eventually with this 20-minute drink order, you know. And I just I said, "Danny, you can't tell the [ __ ] difference between any of these vodkas. Don't give me this [ __ ] with Gray Goose and everything." He goes, "I can tell the difference." I go, "Okay, we're going to buy three shots right now. We're going to do Titos. We'll do Grey Goose. We'll do Smeirnoff. I'll have the bar." I I got about halfway into it. He goes, "Okay, I can't tell."

19:28 Really? Well, he knew he wasn't going to tell when he took a shot of the Titos versus the Smeirnoff versus the Grey Goose versus the Kettle One. But when these guys order Oh, it's like James Bond blew into town. And that's their version of it. But it just so you think they know something. And also it make it always makes you think,

19:47 well, they know that I don't know, right? Like I I don't think I can taste the difference between Smeirnoff and Gray Goose. But evidently this Debonire fell with this super refined pallet. He's so much better than I am.

20:00 Yeah. I guess I'm a little like that with white wine because I like it dry and nobody ever knows what dry means.

20:07 And so I'll say, "Can I have a dry white wine?" And then they bring it and it's really fruity or sweet and I hate sweet.

20:14 And so yeah, I remember one time I opened for Bill Burr and we had dinner after like they closed the restaurant down just so we could have dinner after the show in Vegas and I ordered the white wine and then I returned it and he looked at me like he had seen an alien. He was like,

20:31 "I've never returned anything." Well, you're right. You're you're right in that people don't know terminology like dry

20:40 or they pretend they do. I've had a bunch of I've had waitresses and stewartesses on the plane where I go, "Could I have a light beer?" And they go, "Oh, you mean like flat tire ale or something?" And I go, "No, like a light beer."

20:56 Yeah. Well, that's a Belgian ale. That's pretty light. I go, "No, no, Miller Lightite beer." And they go, "Oh, okay." And I'm like, you don't you hand out beers all day and you don't know this terminology.

21:06 Yeah, it's got [ __ ] Coors light and Miller lights and the title didn't know what the [ __ ] I was talking about. And uh I think dries that way.

21:13 Yeah. Okay. Thank you. That makes me feel better because I was feeling like a Karen about that.

21:18 No. No. And also, as they say, they have a window. The window they can say, you go, I'll have a white wine, like a a dry white wine. They can go, I don't know what the [ __ ] dry means. Right. That's their window. But they can't just nod their head and then go get you a bunch of

21:36 sweet wine. Sweet wine. That's right. Or they could say, "You want to try something?" Really nice restaurants usually go, "Do you want to try something?" And then they'll bring you a taste of something before they,

21:46 you know, fill a whole glass. But, all right. Other things. Yes. to get to. I'd uh I don't know how you feel about this, but I'd found out keep seeing this tweet that Daniel Stern, who's the actor from Home Alone,

22:03 which I know what he looked like. I know him initially from the movie Breaking Away, which is a great indie film and he's great in it, and it's kind of his first big role, Dennis Quay and a bunch of other people. But Daniel Stern got busted for soliciting a prostitute in like Ventura County or something like that. But now it's got to be weird if you're Daniel Stern because he's a very recognizable guy, you know.

22:34 Yeah. And he was on movies that are generational like Home Alone. Oh, yeah. This guy. Yeah. I always forget that that's his name. So when I say it's like I can solicit prostitutes but but

22:48 this I haven't been on the man show for 25 years and she never saw the man show cuz she's 23. See? But

22:54 but it's not like families watched the man show every year at Christmas. Right. So even if you're a 25year-old prostitute and you're born in 2000 and Home Alone was made in '92, you will see it when you're 10 cuz your dad Well, maybe your dad's not around.

23:15 Your uncle who's molesting you will say, "You've not seen Home Alone. You got to see Home Alone." And they watch it. So

23:22 everyone will see Home Alone. When Daniel Stern gets a prostitute, then that's got to be difficult, right?

23:29 Yeah. Oh, he was the narrator on Wonder Years. I forgot about that. Oh, has he worked recently?

23:35 He's an incredible sculptor. Oh, really? A 10-year-old me loved watching him in Breaking Away, and he delivers that line. Well, we're a little disturbed by the developments in the Middle East.

23:47 Great movie, very funny. And he's super funny in it. But now the poor man tries to solicit a prostitute, which is like, you know, give the guy a break. He's paid enough in taxes.

23:58 I mean, who hasn't at this point? And he gets a I think I don't know what's the story, Andrew. Did he call into Was it a

24:07 Oh, he's an older man, too. Look at him. He's probably lonely. He's lonely. He got busted in a sting operation.

24:13 In the sting operation. It was a sting operation. Mhm. He's trying to bring an escort into a hotel. Camaro.

24:20 Oh, it doesn't seem that bad. I mean, don't actors do this all the time? Probably.

24:26 Yeah, we do. I mean, some do. I don't know. Why are you asking? Yeah, he I'm surprised.

24:36 It's got to It's got to suck, too. Now, but what do they do, though? Do they arrest you? I mean, look, what do they First off, isn't everything legal these days? I mean, isn't potent prostitution isn't all [ __ ] legal now? I thought you're not even allowed to call it prostitution. I thought you had to call it sex workers.

24:52 Oh, they're sex workers, right? Yeah, they're part of the sex. Nobody says prostitution.

24:55 They're part of the sexworking community. Yeah, they're noble. I mean, they're just trying to make a living wage.

25:04 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're part of the sexworking community. So, what's the big deal? Why are you busting up?

25:08 And why a sting oper is a sting operation necessary? That's the other thing is the sting was at the hotel as far as I understand it. And I don't know if he went there with intent to get a prostitute or he was approached by

25:22 I think he called over I I think according to Andrew I didn't read the whole article but I think he tried to get a call girl to come over.

25:32 Basically the same thing Charlie sorry where was this again you just said uh I don't know Ventura accident where was it? Oh, it was in California.

25:40 Camaro. Don't they have more important things to bust? But it says it's according to Yahoo.

25:47 Mhm. Um he was charged with one count of soliciting prostitution. He uh here it is after he after he was cited for allegedly trying to hire an escort at a hotel in Camaro. So

26:06 Oh. So we don't we don't and if it's a sting that implies that there are the sting ladies there.

26:12 Well, so is that Oh, because they can put a I guess the sting could put a phone number up call for company or something. I have no idea. The point is is do they are they out of crime in Camaro? Well, maybe they are actually. They don't have a lot of crime there.

26:26 The point is is the man's old Lee Malone. I thought this this is part of the of our noble sexworking community. Leave Malone. Come on.

26:37 But do you rec see he's going to probably get recognized is the problem. It's tough for him in prostitutes, you know.

26:45 Yeah. But I mean, these guys like hire escorts all the time. The other thing that people didn't know about him is he's a magnificent sculptor now,

26:56 right? If they had known that. Yeah. If they knew they're going to get a likeness of them in bronze, that might have been a different Maybe that's how he pays them.

27:03 Yeah. He should have made that his alibi. Like he was just trying to make a sculpture the whole

27:07 Yeah. He needed a He needed a nude model. Yeah. Look at him. He does he does exquisite

27:15 Wow. These are bronze sculptor sculpt sculpting. Exquisite statues like with exquisite detail.

27:22 Wow. He's probably like a hermit. He probably doesn't get out much. He lives on a on an orange orchard.

27:28 Yeah. And like a cattle whatever. And he makes crazy beautiful bronze and clay sculptures.

27:35 Wow, that's so cool. When actors turn into artists like that, that is so cool. The one with doing the splits. That is so cool.

27:43 He's really Yeah, that's Wow, he's really talented. Yeah. Like, so let's just make sure we know what art Let's this so we know what art is. When you see one of Hunter Biden's paintings, you're like, "All right, well, if I got really high, I guess I could [ __ ] one of those out, too." But when you see Daniel Stern's sculptures, you don't go, "I could do that."

28:05 No, those are really unique. They're really cool. I know Hunter was explaining he's in the hole like 13 million bucks, but he only has to sell 26 paintings to get that money back. Like, Dawson, why isn't Hunter B just selling more art? I don't I don't get it. Why did the market dry up?

28:22 No idea. No idea. Have you seen Adrien Brody's art? No. He I mean I'm just curious if you would like it. It

28:31 And he sells it for a lot because it's Adrian Bro. I don't like anything I could do.

28:36 Right. Me neither. I I I immediately his art is a little like you can do it. I'll sit around I can sit around and watch people do anything and go, "Oh my god, that guy plays the accordion like no one's business." But if I see someone ride the unicycle, I go, "I can ride the unicycle." So it must not be worth anything,

28:54 right? So I don't know what Adrien Brody's art looks like. So it look like Hunter Biden's

28:59 art. Big I don't love it. You don't love it. So he's got like a tree, but he sells.

29:06 This is Hunter. This is Hunter B. I was like that doesn't look like Adrien Brody's.

29:10 I'd like to see Adrien Brody. Adrien Brody is like into I don't know if it's like oil painting that.

29:16 Oh, okay. It's a mess. That's not really anything. I mean, but he sells it for a lot, I think.

29:24 I I'll tell you, Adrien Brody likes himself. I know. He He bothers He bothers me a little with Andro. But I know where Can I tell you where it all came from?

29:37 I know it. The piano. The pianist. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, the very first the very first year. I'm going to say the first year, but maybe it's the second year. I cannot recall. You have to picture this.

29:54 Okay. The second year or the first year that I did the Toyota Celebrity Grand Prix in Long Beach, Adrien Brody participated in it as well.

30:07 Um, this seemed like a nice enough guy. some guys you click with a little better than others, but he he was fine. There was a group of like Tony Hawk and and um guys, God, I I'll think of I'll think of some of the other guys, but some cool some cool UFC fighters and stuff like that and um Josh Brolan and guys like that. It's fun. So, when you do the Toyota Grand Prix, you have to do X amount of days of driving school in the desert at a car racing school essentially.

30:41 And then you have to do X amount of practice on the track actually at Long Beach and qualifying. And there's like there's a bunch of stuff that goes along with it. It's not just, yeah, sign me up. What day is the race? Like it's it's it's some work, right? And um and one of the things you need to do is visit the Long Beach Children's Hospital.

31:02 H now it sounds good except for the kids are six so they don't [ __ ] they don't go hey man show like they don't know [ __ ] I am and they don't know Adrian bro I love the penis. like they don't know anybody cuz they're seven, you know? You're better off just hiring a drifter to get in like a Spongebob outfit and walk through the [ __ ] thing. But

31:25 I'm not excited. Doesn't know who Josh Brolan is. Right. Right. The mom knows who Josh Brolan is.

31:32 Yeah. Which is fine cuz sometimes the mom's there, but the seven-year-old has no [ __ ] idea who any of these

31:39 people are, right? The seven-year-old's LIKE, "HEY, IT'S WANDA SYKES. THEY IT'S BRODY JENNER. Like they don't know any of us. But to, like I said, to be fair, the the parents will will go like, "Oh, the dad's there. He's man show guy, whatever." So,

32:03 everybody shows up. So, they go, "You got to show up to the hospital at show up at the track at 10:00 in the morning. We'll get in the van. We'll go to the hospital."

32:12 Mhm. and we will um you know go downstairs, get a little orientation, put a mask on or something. Then you can go upstairs and visit the rooms and go to the little art room and you know color with them and take pictures and blah blah blah blah blah.

32:27 Don't do this. Don't ask that. You know, blah blah blah. You know, what are you in for? You know, brain cancer terminal, you know, like, okay,

32:34 well, you won't be seeing the fourth grade. Awesome. Oh my god. No, I mean little etiquette things. They know what you do, you know.

32:41 Yeah, of course. So now just to So we show up at this race at this for the van. We go to the hospital and it's all the celebrities and that's about it. It's the celebrities. They didn't bring no one brought their wife or their girlfriend or anything. It was like 10 10 in the morning on a Wednesday. Had to do it, you know.

33:03 Yeah. Uh Adrien Brody's got two people with him. His parents. Oh wow. and his parents I think were in from New York but I'm not even sure I got to be an only child and they brought a big camera and everywhere Adrian every time Adrien went to reach out to a kid the mom was like ching ching ching ching ching ching ching and then come on Adrian and they'd get another shot and was like they were just

33:28 so weird I know but I think it's why he feels good about himself because his parents are too

33:36 Chris Corolla didn't own a [ __ ] camera I'll give you I'll give you A little I'll give you a little juiposition between Adrienne's parents I think in from New York may have come in for the week for the race.

33:49 A little juosition between Adrienne's parents and Jim and Chris Corolla. Okay. Jim and Chris Corolla live in LA

34:00 and don't and live about 35 minutes from the Long Beach Grand Prix. I've done it five times. won it twice.

34:10 Whoa. And my mom and dad were zero in the attendance department even though the thing was held on a Saturday and they didn't have jobs.

34:18 Oh my god. Yeah. Did you invite them? Um they don't know that they're that you wanted them there. Maybe

34:27 that would have been embarrassing for you. You would have to hear them say that it's an extra crucial day or extra critical day.

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36:42 Pluto TV stream now, pay never. You're welcome. I would say things. I would like bring it up,

36:51 you know? So my mom would go, "Well, maybe we can go visit Dorothy Gravich next Saturday." And I'd go, "Well, that's the day of the Grand Prix. I have to do the Celebrity Grand Prix." And they'd go, "Oh, well then maybe the following Saturday." Like that's how they that's how they would do it, right?

37:10 Yeah. But at some point, so weird. It's so Everyone in my family's weird. At some point,

37:20 I started to feel bad for my stepdad, John, because I was lumping him in with these losers right?

37:28 And he really was just along for the ride and he kind of liked cars and he was kind of normal,

37:34 right? Not that normal, you know, cuz he was, you know, in the family, but but he was like so normal. And I I I got a little older and I got a little more mature and I thought, you know, John likes cars and always talks to me about cars and like races and stuff like that.

37:51 I should invite him. I was doing it for like my fourth time or something like that. I said I said,

37:57 "Why is John being punished? It's Saturday. It's Long Beach. It's in town. It's a great event. 50,000 people show up. You're on the jumbotron. It's cra It's crazy. It's a crazy event." So I said, you know, I'm just going to invite uh I'm invite John and he and my mom can go and uh I said, you know what? So I reached out to him. Very rare for me.

38:19 And uh invite him, said fine, thanks. All stuff and then um the night before I just got like a sort of a cryptic message from him saying, "Ah, we're not going to make it." Like he didn't say, "I'm sick or we had an ankle turn or anything." He just said, "We won't be there." and and it was like I think my mom talked him out of it I guess cuz he he does like doing things and seeing car raises and stuff like that.

38:44 So he just kind of gave like a he didn't go sorry for the last minute. We got a situation here with a relative who's sick. It wasn't anything. No excuse.

38:54 He just went we're not we're not coming. But they're both like retired and just sitting at home in Valley Village, you know.

39:01 Weird. Not for them. I mean not for my family. But maybe it's like he didn't want to go. Maybe he didn't want to go alone and your mom didn't want to go. So he felt weird going alone. Maybe even though he wanted to go.

39:12 My mom would control My mom didn't want you doing stuff she didn't want to do or talking about stuff she didn't want to talk about. So he would mainly just remain silent the entire time.

39:22 But John would have liked to go to the Grand Prix, I I would assume. And then the uh following weekend then I I saw him and then John said, "How'd the Grand Prix go?" And then I said, "Uh, I won in the pro division." And then my mom changed the subject. And that was the last time we ever talked about it. So,

39:45 oh my god. A little different than the Brody experience. My mom would have been a bad Brody.

39:53 That's Yeah. Wow. Wow. And that's why you're not throwing your girlfriend gum at the Academy Awards when you

40:00 That's right. That's right. I have I have good healthy That's where That's where he lost me when he threw his gum

40:07 at his girlfriend. No, I don't I'm not confident enough to do modern art because I would look at it and go, "It looks like a [ __ ] monkey took a [ __ ] on this thing. Anyone could do that."

40:17 But he has his mom's voice in his head being like, "You're brilliant, honey. This is brilliant." Well, look better that than what I got because he grew up feeling good about himself.

40:31 But that but he's not funny. Oh, that's right. You have to you need a little pain.

40:37 Yeah, you need pain for the funny. I think my mom didn't My mom never visited me in LA. Like she's never visited me here. And when I asked her like, "Are you ever going to come like if I do like a special or something?" She's like And then she said, "I'll come when you do something big. And then she goes, "Like a play."

40:55 Like a play. Yeah. That's what she would be proud of is if I was in a play. Yeah.

41:02 Now my dad I don't even My dad's the craziest dad in the world in that his son drove in the Long Beach Grand Prix five years.

41:10 Five times. And he lives he lives in the neighbor. It's a 45minute drive. Wow. For him. But could it have got set up with, you know, parking passes and laminates and been in the paddock with the big screen and the whole thing? No. They don't even know what it is.

41:27 You tried to figure it out why. Have you ever asked them? They don't. They're They don't know. They don't care.

41:34 Weird. Are they just Are they in their bubble? Some people are just in their bubble of their life and it's hard for them to

41:40 get out of their own little bubble. I'm sorry. Were you talking, honey? See, I got a sense of humor.

41:50 I SEE WHERE YOU GOT IT FROM. All right. So, Daniel Stern got a prostitute. Okay, that was a long

41:58 That was fine. Mhm. Um I was drilling down and you can help on on this. Um Okay.

42:06 I I discovered something when I was talking to Dr. Drew today, which is now what's going on is women are going nuts and they're all in the streets and they're like spitting on there's a there's a clip DS you can probably find it woman heavy set like she she spat on a cop and then the cop the ICE guy took her down and then pushed her up against the car and then there's a lot of like what's going on like like they listen

42:34 so here's the thing about guys we grew up with rough and tumble play beating the [ __ ] out of each other but kind of finding the limits. But

42:42 yeah, I would never spit in the face of a cop and then when the cop tackled me be confused,

42:47 right? Like what's going on? Yeah, you spit in the face of a cop. But it's kind of it's kind of funny. We'll watch it.

42:59 Oh my god. Oh my god. Step back. And I like that guy should try to help. Like who the [ __ ] are you fat guy?

43:05 So many men don't Stop touching me. Oh my gosh. Oh my god. All right. So, she's confused, but she spit in a cop's face. So, now she got tackled. And then she says, "Stop touching me." But that's not going to work cuz you spit in a guy's face. But I see women trying to stop vans like they're superheroes, you know, just running in front of vans, like pushing them like they have some sort of strength or something, yelling to the ICE agents, shoot me, shoot me, you know, and like screaming at everyone. And I realized, oh, they don't they didn't have rough and tumble play. They don't know distances. They don't know what reactions. Like, there's tons of

43:50 tons of women slapping guys and the guy just decks her. You know what I mean? But how much of it do you think is it that they want some kind of viral attention, you know?

43:59 Well, there's there's all of there's all of that, but I I realize they're they're all none of them particip If I slap a guy, I assume I'm getting hit. And if I spit on a cop, I assume I'm going to get arrested. And if I stand in front of a jeep and try to stop it, I assume I might get run over.

44:19 Right? But that's women. And women don't do the rough and tumble play, so they don't know limits, but it historically didn't make a difference because they stayed the [ __ ] at home and they didn't get out and fight with cops, so who cares, right?

44:33 Yeah. Guys, now I realize, so you go, well, how does that explain the guys? Cuz the guys are out there doing stupid [ __ ] too,

44:42 right? What are they doing? And then I realized, oh, they're 26-y old dudes who were told wrestling and rough and tumble play was toxic masculinity.

44:52 So, they didn't grow up playing football. They outlawed tackle football. Their moms didn't let them. When you play tackle football, organized tackle football, you learn super quick like who the [ __ ] tough guys are, who to avoid, when to make a business decision, like get out of bounds versus like put your head down and see if you can go for an extra two yards, like when to go airborne. Like

45:19 you learn a lot about limits, right? And these [ __ ] [ __ ] never did any of this because their mom raised them in bubble wrap in Pel. So now we got a bunch of dudes that don't know rough and tumble play.

45:33 Yeah. Today's the 7-year anniversary of the worst [ __ ] [ __ ] campaign I've ever seen in my life. And it's so [ __ ] It's the Gillette toxic masculinity commercial cuz they understood. Now Gillette doesn't care about toxic masculinity or any of this [ __ ] They just want to sell razors. But they do want to kiss up

45:53 and somebody told them this was a cool subject seven years ago. And when they're talking about this commercial and this commercial, well, let's just watch it. It's a the the best part about all these commercials when they're doing these commercials, they have So, here's the problem. You have to have a mixture of white and black and everything. Now, you can't just have a bunch of white dudes, right? But then the problem is is you're going to need some of these dudes doing bad things. So then you go, "Well, we can't have the black guy." So there's that great part where there's like some white guy and some chick comes walking down the street and he's like, "Hey, good-looking." And the black guy's like, "Hey, not cool, brother." And it's like, "Oh, that seems a little different. I'm not seeing that." It's good. Enjoy. But watch half of it is just

46:44 there's a point where there's seven-year-old boys at a barbecue in the backyard just like wrestling and they're going not cool. No, you [ __ ] That's what they need to do,

46:53 right? Sorry. Go ahead. Bullying. The me too movement against sexuality. Masculinity.

47:00 Is this the best a man can get? Is it all white guys chasing a white guy? We can't hide from it.

47:11 Sexual harassment is taking over. It's been going on far too long. We can't laugh it off.

47:21 Oh, it's a white guy going with a black chick. I actually think she's trying to say

47:26 making the same old excuses. Boys will be boys. Boys will be boys. Boys will be boys.

47:31 But something finally changed. Allegations regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment.

47:37 But she says Wow. It seems like there will be no going back. It does. Now 7 years is how we got [ __ ]

47:45 We believe in the best in men. Men need to hold other men accountable. Smile, sweetie.

47:52 Come on. To say the right Indian guy. Come on, man. I like this one. The right way.

47:57 Bro, not cool. Not cool. Look at how good all the black people are. Oh my god. So, it's weird. You can only have white people doing the wrong thing in the commercial.

48:08 It seems like a sketch. It's so ridiculous. Right. You've not There's not one black guy's done the wrong thing so far.

48:17 Is that how we treat each other? Okay. Yeah. We just go suck each other's dicks in the corner and cry.

48:25 We'll be the men of tomorrow. Yeah. The men who are [ __ ] [ __ ] now and they they [ __ ] scream at cops and they don't know what is.

48:33 What does it have to do with razors? But the great now if you don't believe me, I was thinking about this. I was going, "So what happened?" So there's young dudes, they don't know limits and they play too many [ __ ] video games and they eat too many edibles and they don't get danger.

48:49 You're Yeah. Kyle Writtenhouse Dawson. Kyle Writtenhouse is sitting around with an M16.

48:59 He literally has a weapon of war. is an M16 and some 23y old white dude is like, "I'm going to get that guy with my skateboard." It's like, "He's holding an M16. You want to bumrush him with your skateboard?" And then you get shot and THEN YOU'RE LIKE, "WHAT THE [ __ ] HAPPENING?" IT'S LIKE, "WELL, there's a guy with an M16. You have no flack jacket. You have no pistol. You don't have your own M16." And you're chasing him. And at some point you knock him over and he turns around and he blows you away.

49:35 Yeah. Because you don't have a gun. He does. BUT YOU SHOULD LEARN LIMITS. I I KNOW Gillette's not a fan of the limits, but he literally

49:45 you got a guy with an M16. You think it's a good idea to chase him because you got to [ __ ] skateboard.

49:50 Oh my god. You know, it's goes back to no kids playing football growing up because once you put on those pads when you're a kid, you realize, oh, I'm going to get hit and it's might hurt a lot. And then when it happens,

50:04 you at least know what it is, but you also go, I'm not going to put those pads on anymore cuz I don't want to get hit like that. This person had no backing of that whatsoever and thinks that

50:18 Yeah. No, I I I I can't skateboard a machine. I can't tell you all the dudes. Crazy.

50:24 Every dude, not every half the dudes I talked to just went, "Well, I tried out for the football team. I went out for practice first day. I got lit up and I said, "Fuck this."

50:34 Right. I was the same way except for once I got lit up, I was like, "Well, I got nothing else to do. I don't have Adrien Brody's mom taking pictures of me." I just said, "Well, I got lit up, but I might as well come back. I Where else am I going? I got nowhere. I didn't go I'm going to go to space camp. I just went I'm [ __ ] coming back and I'll see if I can light somebody else up. But you get [ __ ] up

50:56 and you learn like what going on like to not get [ __ ] up and also you know the dudes and what everyone's kind of capable of,

51:08 right? And you more importantly know what you're capable of and you don't have an inflated or distorted sense of self,

51:15 right? So, well, I wonder if that explains why there's an increase in gun violence because men aren't getting that aggression out in sports or in real life.

51:24 It's it's it's like pent up. It's Kyle Writtenhouse has an M16 and you're walking toward him yelling, "Come on, bring it, bro." And it's like, "Okay, he's got an M16. You should be scared."

51:37 Yeah. Be scared. Yeah. And well, also if you're in the virtual world, you're just not used to real life. You're like video games. It's edibles and it's lack of rough and tumble play. And so women have none of rough and tumble. So they just fat chicks show up and they're like, "You got to go through me." And it's like, "Okay, this is knock them on the ground like an Oompa Loompa." You know what I mean? Like they have some thing like they think they possess some kind of superpower or something. Like they don't

52:06 and they're getting [ __ ] up because of it. Yeah. Yeah. I would never go to anywhere like that where there was crowds of people angry crowds of people

52:16 get hit with a brick. Yeah. Oh my god, I'm with you. Yeah. Uh all right. The uh other thing I wanted to God that that toxic masculine that thing's only seven years old.

52:28 I mean that seems like a like an SNL spoof. It's so ridiculous. Like it's so over the top.

52:33 I just love when they have to thread the needle. They're like we need like 70 dudes in this commercial. Okay. 30 of them better be black. Okay. But what about the group chasing the white kid? Uh, that's all white kids chasing them. But there's But you said you wanted diversity and there's six white kids chasing a white Yeah. Well, what if we put a black kid? No, no, no. You're not getting it. We need black guys doing good stuff. What about when the guy's hanging out in front of the dime store and the hot chick walks by? We'll have the black guy intervene.

53:06 Okay, that's not cool, bro. Not cool, bro. white guys. Like, why why not a little raping before Noon? No, bro.

53:14 And all the little boys that are white are also evil. Yes. And they're just they're like six years old. It's like you're already bad cuz you're wrestling each other.

53:23 I don't know. Um where you guys come down on this, but and and you know, I don't want to go too MAGA on everyone's ass, but we Mike and I on the way back now we're going from Denver to Burbank.

53:37 Yeah. We got dropped off in front and there was another little cutting it a little close for the bag check. Little anxiety. Cutting it a little close for the bag check.

53:49 But they had the curb check. Yeah. Right. So we get dropped off and we go good curb check. Go in there,

53:58 start weighing the bag, you know, put on the thing talking to the bell captain guy. This guy is from like deep Ethiopia or something and he's 60 but I can't

54:11 I look I'm from LA. Everyone's got an accent and I can usually work my way through it.

54:16 Mhm. But I have no idea what this person is saying, right? And this guy's saying, you know, show me the boarding thing. And Mike's pulling his phone out and he's like, no, this no email though. Email number need number. And and Mike's like, "This is what I got. This is the thing, the app, the pass, you know, this is what they gave me." Yeah. To board the This will get me on the plane. Can I check this bag? No, it's just no. Just no. You nothing. And I'm like sitting like time's going by, you know, and everything. And I'm I'm going

54:50 Mike, what's going on? And he's going, he's not taking the bag. And I'm like, but but I don't get we have a first class ticket. We just check it here. Says we can't. He's like, no, but where does email? where his email and and I'm like, I don't know what's happening. Do you know what's happening, Mike? And and after like 10 minutes, he just goes, "No, it's not it's not No, it's not good." And and so M now Mike and I are like, "Oh, [ __ ] We got to get in there and check this [ __ ] cuz we're we're going to get locked out again."

55:15 Yeah. And I said to Mike at least seven times that day, I said, "What happened? What was that?" He goes, "I have no idea. I have no idea." I go, I I know, but

55:28 what we had the the thing on the phone. I had mine. You had yours. We had our ID out and we have first class ticket. We were checked into the flight. He goes,

55:38 I have no idea what that guy was saying. I have no idea what he was saying. And I was like,

55:43 I couldn't tell what he was saying. He just kept like pointing at the phone going, "No, this is good." And I thought,

55:49 is it too much to ask to have that guy handle English? You know what I mean? Like I get it. English isn't your thing. So, we can get you with the dining service and you can prepare the meals in the kitchen or you you can do one of a million things. Yeah.

56:05 But not be the tip of the spear like inter interface. Yeah. We had no idea what he was. We're in a airport in Denver talking to a guy didn't didn't speak any English and we didn't have no way to communicate with him about why our bags couldn't be checked onto a onto a flight that we were checked into with a first class ticket. Yeah, that happens to me a lot with lift rides in different cities where like they don't speak any English and I'll say, "Is this one time I said, "Is this a safe neighborhood?" And he's like, "What?"

56:36 And I'm like, "Is this a safe neighborhood?" Because I'm I don't I'm not from here. And he couldn't answer.

56:41 I now see even a basic question. I kind of get what I get what you're saying, but on the other hand, you got to make a living.

56:49 Yeah. American Airline does not need to hire a guy who speaks zero English. That's true.

56:55 And put them on the curb. So that every single day, all day, people just come up from Louisiana and Indiana. And he's like, or yes. I don't know. I don't know what he's saying.

57:07 Yeah. He's like, we're going Mike's like, can you print out our boarding pass? He's like, no. No. Like, I don't I cannot say to him, traditionally, we get our boarding passes printed out curbside. Are you not capable of that? Like he would there'd be no there's no nothing.

57:26 Yeah. We after 10 minutes of confusion we left, right? And I have no idea why he has he runs the bag check at United Airlines at the Denver airport and I cannot check my bag there,

57:38 right? I don't know what happened. I I there isn't even someone helping him. So like he could have someone with him. No, there's nobody working as a translator. But I'm just saying, look, again, I don't want to sound like a clansman, but if you cannot

57:52 speak English, you really shouldn't be right there on the curb. Yeah. Go inside and handle the baggage. Like, find another job that doesn't involve us trying to glean information off of you and you cannot speak English. Yeah.

58:06 I have no idea what it was. Yeah. His name His name was Muhammad Dad. like he had like it was like Muhammad wasn't a deep enough ethnic for him. He was like Muhammad Da dot Muhammad.

58:20 I'm just reading this thing and I and he was like 60. Oh, he's like 65 and I was like

58:25 I I don't understand a word. Yeah. And I was pointing at something and I'm like but I get it but we're not in a foreign land. Like we're in Denver. You can find people.

58:36 Yeah. And then they could speak English. You just put them in that position. Right. So, we don't have this like all day every day.

58:42 Yeah. No, it doesn't make sense. But you you you hire the guy, right? Like you have to have an interview session with the guy when you're hiring. Hey, where are you from?

58:51 Right. I guess they just don't think it matters for that job. Usually, he just takes the money and puts the bag on the thing. I I feel like that job is a job where there's lots of questions about on times and delays and the part where it's an extra 20 bucks cuz you got a second bag. You got to marry your bag, [ __ ] You got to move stuff along, too. Keep people off the sidewalk. Keep them moving. Get them going.

59:20 Yeah. Yeah. I know. Mohamad Dodd. That sounds like lyrics to a Red Hot Chili Pepper song.

59:26 Mohamad Dod. It just Mike who speaks, you know, fluent gibberish cuz he speaks, you know, he thinks in gibberish. We had no idea what I kept saying, but what happened? What did he say? I don't get We had the app. We had the phone.

59:40 We had the thing on our phone. We had the thing. The thing that gets you on the flight where you scan it, just scan it like, "No, not happening."

59:47 Weird. It was weird. But it's also just don't hire people that can't speak English and put them in these positions. By the way, it's no fun for him either.

59:59 And don't enough English speaking people probably need a job too right now? Like they

1:00:03 I would I would just go, look, I'm all for diversity and hiring everyone. And I don't care where you're from. If you speak English, you're upfront. Yeah.

1:00:12 But if you don't speak English, we can't have you interface with the public because we don't know. They cannot communicate with you. Yeah. And then we're going to have questions.

1:00:24 All right. Uh, let's see. So, that was that guy. Oh, by the way, I didn't tell you the uh what ended up happening at uh Burbank with aunt Esther who's angry at me and Mike.

1:00:39 She ended up on our merch bag on one of our bags. She put a heavy tag on it and it got sent to San Francisco.

1:00:46 Are you kidding? Do you think she did that on purpose? Probably. I I I mean, I would argue

1:00:54 yes. You weigh it and if it makes the weight then it makes the weight. She didn't have for someone who didn't like

1:00:59 working heavy. It has to be really heavy. Well, it can't be that heavy cuz it made the 50 lb limit,

1:01:05 right? So, it can't be they weigh it. It can't be over 50 lbs. So, it's under 50 lbs. But she put the heavy tag on it. Probably told one of her guys in the back, have it go to San Francisco and then it'll show up at there. So, of course, it showed up a day late. We had to go back to the airport like blah blah blah.

1:01:24 That's so frustrating. I know. That's why I'm always nice to the whoever's taking

1:01:28 Oh, we tried but she was angry. She was angry because we showed up 11 minutes past the cutoff with a first class ticket in a relatively empty airport.

1:01:39 Yeah. But and you were white and we need to be punished as basically how it worked. Except for I'm arguing this is the insidious part of her sitting around watching CNN all night and hearing about systemic racism. I think it I think it manifests itself in this kind of behavior.

1:01:58 I think so, too. All right. Uh, one other one other thing. There's a clip. Oh, this is Bruce. So, you know my theory. This is a Bruce Springsteen thing that I saw today. M

1:02:14 um my theory has always been and it goes way back to love line. I always said I suspect that Robert Dairo and Bruce Springsteen's are secretly idiots.

1:02:30 I thought you were going to say secretly lovers. No, but I'd watch that. And and and that they they never talk. See, Robert Dairo, I never knew what that guy was thinking up until like six years ago, right?

1:02:43 He never talked. Yeah. And Bruce Springsteen didn't talk. Yeah. And they were both genius level performers at what they did.

1:02:52 And they both looked smart and deep, you know, so everyone would go, "That guy is a genius. Daener's a genius." And then

1:02:59 and they'd go, "Spring's a genius." And then in the last 15 minutes, they started talking a lot. And now Dairo acts looks like an idiot when he goes on the view.

1:03:08 Right. So, um, somebody sent me Bruce. This is why, this is, by the way, Bruce at a concert. This is Bruce at a concert and he's reading off a teleprompter. So, this is what a narcissistic douche he's turned into be.

1:03:22 Yeah. But here's what I'm saying. And Dawson, you'll help me on this. I want you to listen to what he's saying and realize how much of it could be applied to CO and what his side was trying to do 10 minutes ago. It's all that. All right, here it is.

1:03:39 There's some very weird, strange, and dangerous [ __ ] going on out there right now.

1:03:50 Yeah. In America. Oh, few. They are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent.

1:04:00 Oh, pause. America. So, just like what you guys just got done doing with co just like that.

1:04:07 Just like when you're deplatforming everyone and firing them from their jobs and Bruce, you were cheering that on. Is that what you're talking about, Bruce?

1:04:14 This happened 10 minutes ago and it was all done by your side, Bruce. Yeah. But this is different.

1:04:22 This is such a speech. Oh my god. This is This would be the the most of all beer runs ever. I would make it the biggest beer run ever. Okay, Bruce is sitting down and talking politics. [ __ ] B blow hard. Here we go.

1:04:36 Free speech and voicing their descent. Oh yeah. In America, none of that. The richest men are taking satisfaction and abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death.

1:04:50 Yeah, this is happening now. right now. Right now in my country, they're taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on loyal American workers.

1:05:03 Let's pause it for a second. I'll tell you what's going. By the way, loyal American workers, you guys wanted to force an experimental vaccine on all the loyal American workers and the military.

1:05:12 The military guys got got kicked out for not taking that's what you wanted. But let me explain what the phenomenon is. I I stumbled upon it today yelling at Drew.

1:05:23 They live in a fairy tale world where you are sadistic because the rich rich Trump hates kids cuz he's sadistic, right? So that makes him a cartoon character.

1:05:36 That makes him a comic book character cuz he's evil. It's not just he has policies that are going to affect. No, he's evil. But guess what? In every comic book, you need a hero.

1:05:46 So that's where Bruce comes in. Yeah. So, you understand once you paint these people as comic book evil, then you're

1:05:53 you get to be the hero. You play the role of the hero. And Bruce, who makes uh $275,000 a night at a concert, is going to waste four minutes of our time.

1:06:04 And instead of talking about rich people, Rosalita, he's going to give us a lecture about rich people and hating the government. Okay, go ahead, Bruce.

1:06:12 Pleasure in the pain that they inflict on loyal American workers. He hates workers that Trump.

1:06:18 They're rolling back historic civil rights legislation, although none come to mind.

1:06:23 That led to a more just and plural. Look out, black people. They're abandoning our great allies.

1:06:32 Yeah. And siding with dictators. I thought we just collected one and put them in prison, but all right. All right.

1:06:41 Against those struggling for their freedom. By the way, defund Yeah. Obama gave dictators money. We're [ __ ]

1:06:49 Also, Do you think he wrote this or did someone write it for him? I'd say his wife wrote it.

1:06:53 Yeah. And the piano player's got to be miserable. Chris, can't you just kind of go smoke a cigarette?

1:07:00 Can you just like say something light? Or how about you just sing? Yeah. People are here to escape this stuff. They're not They don't want to get lectured.

1:07:10 Yeah. God, this is biopic bombed. Good. Sorry. Keep playing. It's good. for their freedom. They're defunding American universities that won't bow down to their ideological demand.

1:07:23 Listen, first off, won't bow down to their American universities have endowments for billions of [ __ ] dollars and rip off all their students. I mean, I had some dad telling me,

1:07:35 who was I talking to sent his daughter? Oh, it was Dave Kekner, I think, sent us. It's 70. He said it's 75,000 bucks a year all in for my daughter to go to

1:07:43 to go to school. It's [ __ ] rich. It's ridiculous. So I So [ __ ] you universities. Why be lower your [ __ ] prices, all your endowments? And no,

1:07:53 yes, we don't want pro- Hamas leadership running around the campus at Harvard. Okay, so we'll cut your money off if you're out and you're you're protesting and you're pro Hamas nicks out there. Fine, Bruce. [ __ ] [ __ ]

1:08:12 This is the longest residents off American streets and without due process of law are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons.

1:08:26 Yeah, that's what we're doing. This is all happening now. A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government.

1:08:45 All right, hold on. Everything about that was wrong. Well, by the way, Biden was

1:08:49 he was totally fit. Biden was completely unfit and the government was doing whatever the [ __ ] it wanted

1:08:55 and people convicted of rape, murder, sexual assault of children. Uh, they're getting kicked out. They're not American citizens.

1:09:05 It's got to be weird living in that weird bubble where you just fart in it all day and breathe in your own gas.

1:09:12 All right, one more. Sorry. They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American.

1:09:19 Deeply. The America that I've sung to you. It's him. Oh, it's about him. 50 years is real.

1:09:28 Hold on. I'd like to be in the front row going, "Hey, uh, Bruce, sprink singing."

1:09:32 Yeah. Speaking of, you could have been three minutes into The Fever by now. You have a song called I am a Old Blowhard. Is this part is this the ramp up to that one?

1:09:42 Yeah. All those songs. Go ahead. Get back to them. Two, three, four. And regardless of its faults, it's a great country with a great people. So, we'll survive this moment. I have hope.

1:10:01 Good to know. Because I believe he's preaching to just a bunch of rich white people. Number one. Number two, I think I know what's going on.

1:10:10 What what's going on is Bruce's claim to fame was always the three-hour concert.

1:10:17 Yeah. He's out of and now he's 80 years old and he's like, "My [ __ ] hip hurts. I can't go I can't slide across the stage with a guitar for three hours." But people come, they expect a threehour performance.

1:10:30 So if I fill it up with some filibustering, blowhard [ __ ] nonsense in between with a guy playing a piano, I'm going to be on the clock. You know, it's like when you were a shitty student, you had to write a book report and you have like the cover page and then the next page would just have your name on it. The next page would just have the author's name on it. Like I'm trying to fill up some pages here because I'm a [ __ ] student.

1:10:54 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, can't he say all this in a song? Can't he like write a song?

1:11:01 Yes. And say something in the song. Mhm. That's what Bob Dylan does. He That's right.

1:11:08 And the great Jim Croachi had a bunch of stuff he couldn't say and he wrote about it in a song. And he wrote a song about. So I had say I love you

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1:14:00 Yeah, Adam Yenzer in studio. Adam's got dates. He's got his Dry Bar special which is very good. Um he's got an Emmy Award writing for Ellen all those years and uh doing standup everywhere. Got a YouTube show, The Cancelled News.

1:14:19 Yep. Uh, now he has the news. What do you got? Well, speaking of Emmy awards, uh, Bill Maher has the news. Bill Maher says he'll never win an Emmy because of woke Hollywood.

1:14:29 Oh, yeah. Liberal comedian Bill Maher took a swipe at his woke peers in Hollywood who refused to give him trophies at awards shows.

1:14:37 Well, you know, I think I will say this. Um, as a guy who's worked in late night and and written for late night and and sort of watched everything, um, Bill is quite consistently good and sort of gets over the target a lot like like whatever side of the aisle you're on, you can watch one of his clips from New Rules or something and go, "Yeah, yeah, that guy's bringing it."

1:15:06 He's not beholden to one side or the other. He says his his mind. Yeah. and he does a he does a a a nice job. And the fact that he's been doing it for 30 years basically, he's never going to win an Emmy, which is such a weird it's a weird it's I don't know what they know. Like I don't know how much of this is intentional and how much of it is just reflexive or something, but it's like at a certain point, okay, let's just put it to you. I'll put it to you this way. John Stewart ostensibly does the same thing Bill Maher does. They they're they're

1:15:43 middle older middle-aged comedians who have been knocking around for years and years and years. They're both skilled standups. They both have a strong sort of like editorial mind and they both essentially do the same thing. It's just that John Stewart attacks the right and Bill Maher sort of attacks everyone, which means he's gotten off the reservation if you're on the left. Um, you can look it up, but I would go ahead and assume that John Stewart has 151 Emmys.

1:16:22 Oh, he and and he's got zero. Bill Maher's got zero. So, if you were trying to try to explain this phenomenon to somebody, it'd have to be the politics.

1:16:34 Yeah. And it also seems the odds don't add up because here's his quote. He said, "Sweetheart, I've been nominated for 33 Emmys and they would never give it to me." Uh, that's not a gag number. That's a real number. It's crazy. So, they sort of pay lip service to nominating him. Yes.

1:16:47 But you get 33 nominations for all the years he's been on Late Night and never get a win. She is uh John Stewart has won 23. Um and I don't know what he's you know he's probably 23 out of 34 or something like that but Bill Maher's O for 33. Um what was that soap box uh soap box actress Christina Reichi or whatever her name was or whatever

1:17:17 said you really like me. No. Well sort of. She was Susan Luchi or something. Susan Luchi got nominated. Susan Luchi got nominated like 21 times for That's my life or something and then never won and then won or whatever.

1:17:29 Now, did she attack the right on her on her soap opera? Bill Maher has won once out of a total of 41. Okay.

1:17:39 Yeah. So, he won for uh he's had dozens of Emmy nominations for Real Time and his previous late night show, Politically Incorrect, as well as his various stand-up specials. He did win an Emmy as executive producer of HBO's documentary series Vice.

1:17:53 So, he was like a producer. That's not a win. That's like how I cheated my way in with Ellen. It's like I was writing for her. So, when the show wins, then I I get one. But they're daytime Emmys.

1:18:02 Yeah. All right. So, that's not him winning once. That's if you're a producer on a show, whatever. So look, Bill is very skilled and John Stewart is very skilled, but John Stewart stays very consistently against the right, against the Republicans. And Bill says stuff that angers the left. Y

1:18:21 because it's truthful and they don't like that men being women and women and men and that kind of stuff. So he gets screwed and that's why. And he shall never win one because he'll run. But listen, I uh I have always known this. I've I've done a bunch of high quality documentaries and never gotten into Sundance. So they and they told me they pretty much just went I that guy's a douche. I don't I don't like that guy.

1:18:46 That's what your rejection letter says. It's like what I get it says, "Sorry, we reviewed your submission. You're

1:18:52 Well, let's put it I'll put it to you this way. If you take the average Rotten Tomato score

1:19:00 of a comedy that gets into Sundance, it's in the low 50s. I submitted something that would have been in the 80s and 90s with the people and the report back was the guy wasn't a fan, which is code for Adam's a douchebag and we don't want him crashing our party. So whatever doc I made or whatever feature I made would not would get submitted to Sundance and then rejected. And then you go look at the average score on Sundance and stuff's in the 30s and the 40s and the 50s and my stuff's in the 80s and 90s

1:19:36 but it shall not be brought in and that's the business. It's always a thing on Rotten Tomatoes where the audience score is like in the 90s or and the critics is low and then it's vice versa depending on the

1:19:46 right now this movie The Hammer that I made predated the sort of fiddling with the critics. So this one was

1:19:55 I don't know 81 or 82 with the critics and like 90 or 92 with the thing. That's back when you could do that. Now, if I made a movie, it would be 12 with the critics and 9 to5 with the with the people cuz they don't they don't go for that.

1:20:10 Yeah. Yeah. So, he's right. And and all it does is ruin your franchise. It ruins Emmys or Golden Globes, Oscars. Everyone just kind of go, "Yeah, all right. What's the thing that where they hated Trump the most? Okay, give it to them." You know, I mean, like this stupid um what film what film I had it written in front of me. one thing, one bad thing after another. Something it's a crappy film. It's really It's well shot, but it's not it's not good. It's it's

1:20:40 it's a fever dream for leftist. It's it's comical. It's insane. And Sean Penn's characters comically nuts and the whole thing's a mess, but it's going to win because it's like tough, you know, women of proud women of color standing up to blah blah blah white guys, you know, like it's it's a joke.

1:20:57 It's not well it's not a well-written movie. It's not a well-written movie. Uh DiCaprio is good and the soundtrack's good and it's shot well, but one battle after another is going to win everything because it's got the right theme and and when you do that, you hurt your franchise.

1:21:15 Yeah. It already won at the Golden Globes, I think. And that's it feels like all of these award shows are losing relevance because of that. Because mainstream America, they're not seeing the movies that they appreciate win. Well, did you know the thing that I always say is mainstream America wants a meritocracy. It's got the word America right in it. And you guys, nobody touches the Super Bowl.

1:21:39 Mhm. And there's no questions. It's like, I don't know, we got the playoffs coming up. We're in the playoffs. you know, this team has a white quarterback, that team has a black quarterback, but we just assume that's the best they could do. Not that they're trying to do some sort of EEOC, affirmative action job. So, it's all meritocracy. And and look, there's you could have a Super Bowl where the whole defensive side of the ball was black.

1:22:07 Uhhuh. And we just go, "Good." Yeah. Because I want them to win. You know what I mean? Y

1:22:13 well when you start handing out best Oscar for best film to like Moonlight and stuff like semi crappy movies that nobody wants to see. And by the way, don't take my word for it. They never show up on cable. No one ever watches them again.

1:22:26 You didn't watch Moonlight after your Super Bowl party. I watch it during the Super Bowl. Sorry. No, they have when a film typically wins best picture, you know, of On the Waterfront or Gone with the Wind or something or, you know, Wizard of Oz. They have a life beyond that date, right?

1:22:46 Y Moonlight got best picture. No one's ever No one's ever said, "Oh, what are you doing? I was going to watch Moonlight." Like, it doesn't exist. It's a kind of shitty, depressing film.

1:22:55 It's not the most rewatchable movie. No. No. So, yes, they [ __ ] up their own franchise. Bill is right. Yeah. Uh, some sad news. Dilbert creator Scott Adams died at 68. Uh, President Donald Trump just paid tribute to Scott Adams sharing a photo of them together in the Oval Office. Uh, he referred to the late cartoonist as a fantastic guy who supported him when it wasn't popular to do so. And um, Adam's first wife uh, ex-wife Shelley revealed the news during a live stream on Real Coffee with Scott Adams. So, we have her comments here reading a letter from him.

1:23:30 I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had. If I got any benefits from my work, I'm asking that you pay it forward as best as you can. That the legacy I want. That's the legacy I want. Be useful. And please know I loved you all to the very end. Scott Adams.

1:24:06 Scott was a good dude. And mainly he was he was a he was a he was thoughtprovoking. Like he'd go, "Oh, yeah. Oh, I hadn't thought about that."

1:24:17 I wouldn't call us friends, but I really appreciated his work. Drew was Dr. Drew was a good friend. Um him and him and Gutfeld actually went to go visit Scott a couple of weeks ago.

1:24:28 Uh and Scott, I guess, kind of knew was coming for sure had some some steps in the in the right direction maybe six months ago and then it just kind of fell off. But he's just a guy who was super logical and super pragmatic and that's really we are missing that. He didn't have any of that like in my heart. I know. I feel like I dream of a world where all children have world class health. Okay. You dream of that world. That's awesome.

1:24:58 Yeah. Very rational. Yes. He he very pragmatic, very smart, very interested in the human condition. Thoughtful, interesting, and uh will be missed because that's a guy whose voice we'll need. Like we don't need

1:25:16 Sophia Vagara. We could get rid of some of the voices. She Well, I'm not saying die, but at least shut up for a minute. just don't talk.

1:25:23 You're not telling me anything. Yeah. But he he had a voice. Yes. And in his uh letter, this kind of speaks to his his rational mindset that you were talking about. In the letter dated January 1st, 2026, he reveals uh he's still of sound mind and that he's converting to Christianity in his final days because of the riskreward calculation. So he kind of talked about how the the risk or reward of accepting Jesus or not, right,

1:25:46 on his deathbed before he passed. All right. Well, like I said, um there are plenty of people I don't miss, but he he will be missed.

1:25:54 He will. Yeah. Uh California news. California's voter ID law hits 1 million signatures uh as Elon Musk blasts the only reason to pose it is to commit fraud. A

1:26:08 I I you know, I'm listening to the Supreme Court. They're arguing over men participating in women's sports. And then there's another talk about voter ID. And

1:26:20 I feel like we sort of argue over nothing. Oh yeah. And and we also argue over a bunch of sort of no duh or no [ __ ] kind of stuff. Like look,

1:26:31 I get I I felt this way. I felt this way about many relationships I've been in. Like I don't even know what we're arguing about. I'm I'm trying to make sure this is good or help or stop this from happening. It's not like

1:26:42 you caught me cheating. I'm trying to do something for you or whatever it is. And like we're arguing about it, which I think is very sort of gynofascistic, which I'm now starting to really start thinking about. Like everything in Cal California is just all run by Chick Think and we just argue about everything. Listen,

1:27:01 your ID I mean once in a while somebody will do one of those insane memes where they go, "Here's what you need your ID for." It's 200,000 things except for vote in California. Look, I think if if we've established, okay, let's see if we can break it down beyond politics. We have established you need your ID because things are important or not important, but important such as I just got back from doing shows in Denver. It's ID, ID, ID, ID. I If I'm Mike and I are behind the counter in Burbank and Aunt Esther's asking us for our ID to give us our boarding passes and I don't say mind your own beeswax [ __ ] cuz I will not get on that plane.

1:27:52 You didn't say this is racist. How would that person have an ID right now? Right. Then then I said that then if I said to someone, I don't get it. Why do I have to show an ID? They go because we need to know who you are because it's important. And I'd go, okay. And when you buy beer and you're 23, they want to see your ID because they don't want to sell it to an underage thing, whatever. And when you check into the hotel, it's more ID. And if you do any venue or anything and the answer is sort of like, well, it's important. Now, you don't need an ID to walk onto the beach and lay down, but that's not really important, you know, and you couldn't you may not affect things or hurt anybody else. But I would argue that the same people are talking about how voting is the most important thing a citizen can do. Well, then is it more important than getting on an airplane or buying a pack of cigarettes or checking into a

1:28:46 hotel? And if it is, then why shouldn't we show our ID? Which is the weirdest thing. But I have a bigger broader one, Adam. And I I [ __ ] mean it. And and listen, [ __ ] everyone with your with your voting [ __ ] It is 2026. If you do not possess an ID, you do not participate in our system whatsoever. You are not participating. You're not paying taxes. You're not traveling. You're not doing any I I don't even know how it is you would say that you're a member of our society with no ID.

1:29:23 Yeah. You can't do anything with no ID. So, I don't even want you to vote because why are you making policy? I'm the one paying all the [ __ ] taxes and you're the one with no [ __ ] ID. So, if you don't have an ID, you do not exist in this society. And the only possible reason you could want someone to vote without an ID is for election fraud. There's no other reason. And the fact that these guys can do it with a straight face Oh, yeah.

1:29:50 is insane in 2026. And it makes me more and more suspicious because I've always been somebody who's I know that there is voter fraud and I think we should be doing everything to stop it. I was never like a big stop the steel person,

1:30:02 but then it's the more and more that the Democrats push against. No, we don't want ID. No, it's like you're trying to why are you doing this? Why are you trying to have it insecure?

1:30:10 Remember, see this is this is that thing. It's oh now they can never say what they want.

1:30:17 So they have to come up with some other [ __ ] excuse. So look at it this way and then you tell me. Um Biden leaves the [ __ ] border wide open. He come he he commisss Kamala dumbshit Harris to be the borders are who won't go to the border and there's tons of footage of oodles throngs of people just streaming across it. Right. They're going into Texas. Okay. The governor of Texas says, "You know what? If you're not going to [ __ ] do anything at the border, I'm going to pile up shipping containers at the edge of the Rio Grand and try to prevent you from coming over. And the Biden administration sues them to take them down. So, are they in

1:31:02 are what do they want? Yeah, it's now they want Well, you go, "What do you want, Joe Biden? I want a secure border." Okay. Why are you suing Texas to get them to

1:31:12 pull the shipping containers out if you want security and having remove barbwire

1:31:17 and remove barb wire? They don't want they don't want any of it. They want [ __ ] borders. They want illegals and they want them to vote. And if you would have said to me that 5 years ago, I would have went, "Oh, come on. Get the hell out of here." It I don't know what other conclusions we can draw anymore. Shopify, do not wait too long. 2026 is the year that you're going to get after it. Man, most people have something special to offer, but are unsure where to start. With Shopify, this is going to be your year to take matters into your own hands. Shopify gives you everything you need to sell online and in person.

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1:33:16 Pluto TV. Stream now, pay never. You're welcome. Well, here's the excuse they have. Uh Steven Richer, the former Maricopa County recorder in Arizona who was in charge of voter registration said he is concerned that vote by mail ID provisions, so in this provision, the main change would be you have to put the last four digits of your ID number in the mailin ballot. And they say it could discourage some people from sending ballots because uh they'll be nervous about putting sensitive information in the mail.

1:33:46 Okay. Well, then don't vote, dumb [ __ ] You got to flash that ID every 10 ft in this society. All right. You don't want to know. You like mail and ballots. You want election day to be a month. You love all the [ __ ] that corrupts elections.

1:34:00 Yeah. So why? And it is like you were saying when you compared it to relationship fights is you have to find a negative a negative motive to assign to the other person. So everybody supports voter ID overwhelmingly. I think it's 80% of the country. It's even 53% of Democrats, but they have to say, "No, you're doing this because you're you want to disenfranchise people. You have to come up with a negative."

1:34:23 They play the racist card to get you to shut when they when they don't have any stats, statistics, or reason. Then they play the race card to shut you up, which used to work.

1:34:33 That doesn't work. And by the way, they never tell us their plan for getting these disenfranchised black potential voters an ID. Just give me the What's the plan then? They don't have IDs. Well, what are we doing here?

1:34:45 Well, yeah, they should have gotten to the root causes. Get to the root causes. Yeah, get to the roots causes.

1:34:51 Yeah. Um, in other California news, California has lost a mind-boggling one trillion dollars in wealth in the past month alone over fears of a billionaire tax. Uh, California has lost a trillion dollars over fears of this proposed billionaire tax. According to one of the state's wealthiest residents, the underfire measure, which even leftist Gavin Newsome opposes, would slap a one time 5% tax on residents worth more than a billion dollars. Well, obviously there is, okay, there's a situation. Okay, if you go, we have a home and it's winter and the heating bill is through the roof. We need to do something about this heating bill. It's too expensive. And then I would say, "Well, every sliding glass door and window in this [ __ ] house is wide open. Why don't you shut it?" And then you'd go, "Shut up. We need a bigger furnace." And then I'd go, "Well, I'll tell you what. I think you could have a better furnace and close the

1:35:59 windows." And then I go, "Why don't we close all these windows?" And they go, "We're gonna go burn down a Tesla dealership." if you keep talking that way. So, my thing is is there is a math where you just ring every penny out of everybody who pays taxes and you could keep up with your spending. But I'm arguing an approach where you stop spending so much and wasting so much and giving so much away and fraud.

1:36:25 Yeah. Uh and then you wouldn't have to go milk the guys that are already keeping the lights on by paying all the [ __ ] taxes in your shitty state. So, they have a mode that is never closed the window mode. It's always what's going on with the furnace and why isn't the furnace paying its fair share. And I'm like, shut all the windows. I don't know. Look, it's real simple. You spend more money than comes in. So, there's two solutions.

1:36:54 There's get more money, but these guys are already at about 50%. So, I would argue that's already high. So why not shut a window, which they won't do because that's their constituents.

1:37:07 It's the very angry dad solution. It's close the windows and turn the lights off before you leave.

1:37:11 Yes. Close the They b they waste billions of dollars and they argue with I mean 10 seconds ago Doge just came around and went like, "Hey, I think we're wasting too much money." And you guys all freaked out and started attacking them. Well, and do you also feel I feel like because this is the billionaire tax, there's a thing on the left whenever they want to come up solutions to this problem, it's always everyone richer than me should pay more money. Bernie Sanders

1:37:34 and everyone lower than me. Oh yeah. They should give it to them, but whatever I make is fine.

1:37:38 Bernie Sanders for the first 81 years of his life complained about millionaires. And then somebody tapped him on his shoulder and said, "Hey, old [ __ ] guess who else is a millionaire with three houses?" And he went, "What?" And he went, "You're a millionaire." And he went, "Fine, make it billions." Yeah. And so now he complains about billions. He switched like two years ago from millions to billions because someone had explained to him that he was a billionaire

1:38:01 too. So yeah, it's real simple. But also dumb people don't go for this. No. And it's a dumb strategy because the problem here that they're talking about in this article is that they plan to tax these billionaires and now the billionaires are just leaving California. So we're losing revenue in all these businesses. Uh the co-founder of Google, Larry Page, moved a lot of his businesses out. I I think I here's what I haven't said this in a while, but young young Adam with fresh ears will listen. Listen to me. Listen to me.

1:38:29 Government people, you are in government mainly because you're stupid and can't run your own business. you are choosing not to be in the private sector because you would not do well in the private sector because you're not smart enough and you're not hardworking enough, you're not anything enough.

1:38:53 So, you've entered the government. Now, you have a plan where you're going to play chess with people that are much smarter than you who are private sector billionaires. And the reason that guy's a billionaire is not because he gives away his money to [ __ ] to waste it. He's smarter than you are. So you come up with a plan and then he counters with another plan. And you get checkmated and that's all this ever is. They go, "We're going to do a thing where we charge 5% or 10% and a house is over." And they go, "All right, I'm going to sell my h what's the cut off? $7 million. I'm gonna sell my house for $699.99 and then I'll save 5% then they'll kick back on whatever they'll do what they have to do because you think about our government. I mean you think about how you got to outwit Maxine Waters everybody.

1:39:46 The bar is set very high. The bar set very high. You better be a master chess champion. A grand champion

1:39:51 and you have to look at her just grimacing frowning face staring at you. Have you seen how dumb a lot of these [ __ ] people are? And it's, you know, Gloria Sanchez Esquea from the city council is going to out. You think she's, you think Elon Musk is not going to be able to get one over?

1:40:06 I don't even know if that was a real name or a fake name. It It sounded totally credible.

1:40:10 I made up a name. Whenever they have three, this always makes him dumb. And she's the first Latina. And she's trying to argue with Elon and Elon's going to pick it all up and move it to Texas. And you idiots are going to be left with nothing because they're in the business of making money. You're in the business of wasting money. So, you're fine.

1:40:30 Yeah. You're always will have business. These people have to make these decisions. They have stockholders.

1:40:37 And Elon's the perfect example you're talking about where they try to they're trying to outsmart people that are way smarter than them because they hate Elon now. And there's even I see people on social media comment that they think he's unintelligent or he's they they try to talk down on him. And it's like he's built billions of different

1:40:52 corporations. Now we're getting into like major chick think where chick with hero studies major from the junior college

1:41:01 that's what she majored in what has Elon Musk ever done nothing like okay he thinks he's smart he not smart he's dumb all right all right keep talking I now you sound a little dumb where was there was a woman there really was a city council woman in San Diego that about five years ago she was just like, "Fuck Elon Musk. Get the hell out." Like, "Just get just leave." And he's like, "All right, I'll take I'll take me and my 17,000 jobs.

1:41:33 I'll leave in a rocket and then catch it in Texas." Yeah. Catch it. Yeah. Right. Right. And you you invented a recipe for g I was going to say gaspachio, but ever since Tim Wall said gpacho instead of gestapo, now I get confused. Uh yeah, I got to find that clip. It is a great It's a great clip. It's San Diego's councilwoman telling Elon to go [ __ ] off, basically is what it what it was. Uh yeah, the person who famously tweeted, "Fuck Elon Musk is Lorena Gonzalez."

1:42:12 That's almost the name you just made up. Esquea Sanchez, who at the time was a California State Assembly member, not a San Diego city council woman. She resigned from the assembly in January 2022 to lead the California Labor Federation. See, now we have jokes. We have someone who tells Elon Musk to [ __ ] off running a labor organization. The tweet uh posted in 2020 was in response to Elon Musk's actions and comments regarding the closure of the Tesla Fremont factory. Right. So he's he's moving on. Oh, over over CO 19. Okay. So she's

1:42:52 always comes back. Uh yeah. So she was a prominent San Diego area politician, later member of the uh San Diego County Board of Supervisors. Ah, she was a state level official

1:43:04 when she tweeted, "All right, so we got a bunch of dumb chicks [ __ ] up everything and we got to fix we're going to have to fix that."

1:43:10 Well, and smart chicks are gets this, too. It says, uh, "Of the billionaires that are leaving In-N-Out, Aerys, Lindsay Snider has relocated to Tennessee and established a new in-n-out corporate office there over this

1:43:21 California." They're scaring everybody away. You chased out In-N-Out Burger. You chased out the original California 1940s. You chased out In-N-Out, which is gut check time for California. If you get In-N-Out Burger to leave, that means anyone will leave.

1:43:39 Do you ever do you think this will be the final straw? I always feel like as a Californian, there's all these things that happen. First, it was the COVID lockdowns, then it was like the homeless tent camps everywhere, then it was the fires. Maybe it will be forcing in and out to leave. Like, I always think, what is the last straw that Californians will finally be like, "Ah, I'm not a Republican, but let's try something different." They have a unique ability to kind of stay the course regardless of of anything. I I mean I I grew up with these people. So they don't they're not in the business of ever admitting they're wrong.

1:44:13 Yeah. I mean they literally with a straight face will go like Joe Biden was one of the best presidents this country's ever had. Meanwhile Trump's got some kind of mental disorder. It's like wow you are you really ride this one out, can't you? So that disappers always no my saying is disappers never disappoint meaning all the stupid idiots who make all the horrible decisions and do all the bad voting never learn

1:44:41 from any from from anything that goes wrong now will the people kind of swell up a little and sort of at a certain point go I live in the Palisades and you know I vote Democrat but I've been trying to get a permit for six years and I'm I kind of like my permits. I was going to vote for another guy.

1:45:00 There might be some of that. I think there will be. All right, Adam. Good job. Thank you.

1:45:06 By the way, with that uh that news, very strong. Uh I'm going to be in Oregon Friday and Saturday. Grants Pass at the Rogue Theater and then off Saturday to Ben, Oregon at Midtown Ballroom and then New York. Rodney's that'll be the 29th. But lots of shows coming up in New York and DC and I think RFK Jr. is going to come out to U

1:45:29 Kennedy Center. Enjoy it. I know Trump put his name in front of his family's name at the Kenny Center.

1:45:37 He called and wanted to come out. I don't know. That's awesome. That's funny. Adam, you got dates. So, yeah.

1:45:43 Uh yeah, March uh 4th and 5th I will be at Snappers in uh Fort Myers, Florida with uh Yakov Shmeirnoff. Oh, we love Yakov and Erica Rhodess. You can go to Punchup Live. They have all her dates.

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