📄 Extracted Text (13,220 words)
[00:00:00] resurrected [music] like a biblical
[00:00:01] story. They thought [singing] that it
[00:00:03] was the old me, but it ain't the old me,
[00:00:05] it's the bold me. Huh? Yeah, I'm looking
[00:00:07] [music] dangerous [singing] now. Yeah,
[00:00:09] they looking anxious now. Yeah, look at
[00:00:12] they faces now. Yeah, [music] how did
[00:00:14] they make it out? Yeah, I had to break
[00:00:16] it. I'm talking that [music] family
[00:00:18] curse. Everyone said I wouldn't make it.
[00:00:21] Spoiler alert, man. What are you so
[00:00:23] afraid of? [music] Isn't that what life
[00:00:25] is made of? When you think about all you
[00:00:27] gave up. When you think about all the
[00:00:30] language and the [ __ ] that they
[00:00:32] [music] sold you. When the tear drops
[00:00:33] hit your ceiling. Will you see a human
[00:00:36] being? Will you open your eyes? Avoid
[00:00:38] the pain. Cuz why are you so afraid?
[00:00:40] [music]
[00:00:41] And why are you so afraid? And why are
[00:00:44] you so afraid? And why are you [music]
[00:00:46] so afraid? Why are you so afraid? Why
[00:00:50] are you so afraid? And why are you so
[00:00:53] afraid? And why are [music] you so
[00:00:55] afraid?
[00:00:58] >> So what's holding you back? [music]
[00:00:59] Fear. It's irrational. What are we
[00:01:02] actually afraid of? Especially
[00:01:04] Christians. We talk about eternal life
[00:01:06] and they're worried about losing their
[00:01:08] stuff and their money. [music] I don't
[00:01:10] get that at all
[00:01:12] because you don't take any of that stuff
[00:01:14] with when you die. None of it.
[00:01:19] [music]
[00:01:27] This morning [music]
[00:01:28] when I woke I couldn't stop hearing tear
[00:01:31] drops on my ceiling falling from the
[00:01:33] eyes of the beautiful angel I had
[00:01:35] slaughtered. [music]
[00:01:36] Hold me ignoring what you told me only
[00:01:39] for [music] a moment. Everything is fine
[00:01:42] and the beautiful golden path unfolding
[00:01:44] anger in response to my emotion. [music]
[00:01:47] All the trauma left unopen. Door with
[00:01:50] all away and fly inside. Get high. Good
[00:01:52] times. I'm reeling [music] from the
[00:01:54] raindrops on the ceiling. From your
[00:01:56] heart, this is revealing. You want to
[00:01:58] get away. You're bored into my [music]
[00:02:01] afraid of. Isn't that what life is made
[00:02:04] of? When you think about all you gave
[00:02:06] [music] up. When you think about all the
[00:02:08] glamour and the money that they sold
[00:02:10] you. When the raindrops [music] hit your
[00:02:12] ceiling. Will you see a heal with being?
[00:02:15] Will you open your eyes or avoid the
[00:02:17] things this is [music] revealing? I
[00:02:19] survive what they sent to destroy me.
[00:02:21] Resurrected like a biblical story. They
[00:02:23] [music] thought that it was the old me,
[00:02:25] but it ain't the old me, it's the bold
[00:02:27] me. I survive [music] what they sent to
[00:02:29] destroy me. Resurrected like a biblical
[00:02:31] story. They thought that [music] it was
[00:02:33] the old me, but it ain't the old me,
[00:02:35] it's the bold me. Huh? Yeah, I'm [music]
[00:02:37] looking dangerous now. Yeah, they
[00:02:39] looking anxious now. Yeah, look at they
[00:02:42] faces [music] now. Yeah, how did they
[00:02:44] make it out? Yeah, I had to break it.
[00:02:47] I'm talking [music] that family curse.
[00:02:49] Everyone said I wouldn't make it.
[00:02:51] Spoiler alert. Man, what are you so
[00:02:53] afraid [music] of? Isn't that what life
[00:02:55] is made of? When you think about all you
[00:02:57] gave up [music] when you think about all
[00:02:59] the language and the [ __ ] that they
[00:03:01] sold you when the tear drops hit your
[00:03:04] ceiling. [music] Will you see a human
[00:03:06] being? Will you open your eyes avoid the
[00:03:08] pain? Cuz why are you so afraid? And
[00:03:11] what are you [music] so afraid? And why
[00:03:13] are you so afraid? And why are you so
[00:03:16] afraid? [music]
[00:03:18] Why are you so afraid? And what are you
[00:03:20] so afraid? And why [music] are you so
[00:03:23] afraid? And what are you so afraid?
[00:03:26] [music]
[00:03:27] So what's holding you back? Fear. It's
[00:03:30] irrational. What are we actually [music]
[00:03:33] afraid of? Especially Christians, you
[00:03:35] talk about eternal life and they're
[00:03:36] worried about losing their stuff and
[00:03:38] their money. I don't get that at all
[00:03:42] because you [music] don't take any of
[00:03:43] that stuff with you. Welcome back to the
[00:03:45] Price is My Life podcast with James
[00:03:49] O'Keefe. And here today, I'm joined live
[00:03:51] from West Palm Beach, Florida with Adam
[00:03:53] Corolla. Hello, Adam.
[00:03:55] >> Hey, James.
[00:03:55] >> And I don't think I've seen Adam in
[00:03:57] about half a decade. I was on his show
[00:04:00] in Los Angeles in 2021. And um Adam
[00:04:03] Corolla here, uh comedian, author,
[00:04:06] personality. Adam recently focused his
[00:04:09] platform on issues surrounding the
[00:04:10] California Palisades wildfires, which
[00:04:12] we've investigated, and I'll show that
[00:04:14] tape and get his reaction, and
[00:04:15] immigration, bringing cultural
[00:04:17] commentary uh and comedy into the world.
[00:04:21] Hosts Adam Corolla show his work
[00:04:24] frequently addresses topics like ICE,
[00:04:25] government policy, COVID. Recently, he
[00:04:28] was on Joe Rogan. I actually watched
[00:04:30] that one. He's been on Fox News,
[00:04:32] NewsNation. He's a New York Times
[00:04:33] bestselling author and I have a number
[00:04:34] of his books here which I read one or
[00:04:37] two of them. Uh this is the one I
[00:04:39] focused on. Not Taco Bell material. I
[00:04:41] also worked at Taco Bell by the way.
[00:04:43] I've never said that before. My first
[00:04:45] job. Yes. My first job.
[00:04:47] >> Well, I never worked there. I tried to
[00:04:48] work there.
[00:04:49] >> You tried to work there. You didn't get
[00:04:50] the job.
[00:04:51] >> Not Taco Bell material.
[00:04:53] >> Uh also, in 50 years, we'll all be
[00:04:56] chicks. What a They say don't judge a
[00:04:59] book by its cover, but my my staff
[00:05:01] literally laughed out loud on that one
[00:05:02] and this other one. Daddy stopped
[00:05:04] talking. So, um, lot to talk about. We
[00:05:07] don't have a lot of time today. Only
[00:05:08] about an hour. So, I'll just get right
[00:05:10] to it. Um, you lived quite a life.
[00:05:12] You've had quite a lot of experiences
[00:05:14] growing up. And I guess my first
[00:05:15] question for you is, are you who you are
[00:05:18] like I'm talking about as an artist, as
[00:05:20] a comedian, because of all those
[00:05:22] experiences as a young man or despite
[00:05:24] them?
[00:05:27] Well, I I think I bring a certain amount
[00:05:30] of pragmatism to my comedy. Like, I like
[00:05:33] my comedy to make sense and to be sort
[00:05:35] of linear
[00:05:37] and,
[00:05:39] you know, not be confusing and and it's
[00:05:41] not very pie in the sky. It's it's kind
[00:05:43] of nuts and bolts and, you know, I grew
[00:05:45] up sort of wrenching on stuff and was a
[00:05:49] carpenter and was pretty bluecollar. And
[00:05:51] so I I think there's an element of my
[00:05:54] youth that that influenced my comedy and
[00:05:59] that that my I'm not a bluecollar comic,
[00:06:04] but the bluecollar comics are not
[00:06:06] bluecollar comics. They're doing their
[00:06:07] impersonation of a bluecollar comic. I'm
[00:06:10] a bluecollar guy who who found his way
[00:06:13] into comedy. And in building there is a
[00:06:17] kind of a order and a pragmatism and a
[00:06:20] gravity and a reality and and I think
[00:06:24] that does influence my my comedy as
[00:06:27] well. I also grew up sort of playing
[00:06:31] football and everything was hot and
[00:06:33] there was no air conditioning and there
[00:06:35] there wasn't many creature comforts or
[00:06:38] anything like that. I grew up in kind of
[00:06:40] a, you know, uncomfortable environment
[00:06:42] and had to kind of persevere and so I I
[00:06:46] did get a little tenacious and a little
[00:06:48] thick skinned and had some calluses and
[00:06:51] it it's like helped me I think as as and
[00:06:54] and influenced me as a as an adult
[00:06:56] >> hardships of it the perseverance of the
[00:06:59] resilience of I'm not you know sometimes
[00:07:03] I'll be tra you know I'll be you know
[00:07:06] doing comedy they go oh they want to add
[00:07:09] a second show or a third show like you
[00:07:11] sure you're up to working that much and
[00:07:14] I'm like that's not work is roofing you
[00:07:17] know like work like is real work and and
[00:07:21] I've just never ever since I got into
[00:07:23] show business I've never counted it as
[00:07:25] work
[00:07:26] >> I mean I I remember you were on the
[00:07:27] Rogan show and you were talking about
[00:07:28] football and I it was like, whoa, you're
[00:07:30] right. You were in Los Angeles playing
[00:07:31] football, so it was hot. Whereas in in
[00:07:34] uh in the Northeast, it's it's football
[00:07:36] season. It's cold. It's it's a different
[00:07:38] and and you said they didn't let you
[00:07:40] drink water. They wanted you to feel
[00:07:41] pain playing football.
[00:07:43] >> Well, they said that water was bad for
[00:07:46] you and that you would cramp up.
[00:07:47] >> They didn't really believe that. They
[00:07:49] just wanted to could make you feel pain.
[00:07:51] >> You know, it was kind of weird. It's
[00:07:52] like the food pyramid. Did they believe
[00:07:54] it? I don't know. You know what I mean?
[00:07:57] I maybe they did. Maybe some people did,
[00:07:59] others were lying, but they were wrong.
[00:08:02] And in terms of 1970s San Fernando
[00:08:06] Valley football, hot 110°ree degrees
[00:08:10] outside. Did they think water was really
[00:08:12] bad for you? I don't know. I felt I
[00:08:14] always felt like they wanted to
[00:08:16] >> torture you like they wanted to toughen
[00:08:18] you up.
[00:08:18] >> You think that's still true?
[00:08:20] >> No, they they don't allow
[00:08:23] >> toughen agree with the time when when
[00:08:25] this happened. 15. I started playing
[00:08:27] when I was seven and and they they would
[00:08:30] run you into the ground at seven they
[00:08:32] ran you ragged but
[00:08:33] >> you have injuries from from that from
[00:08:34] that sort of physical
[00:08:36] >> yeah some I had I had some
[00:08:39] >> Yeah sure but you know it goes come
[00:08:43] >> this is from your book not Taco Bell
[00:08:45] material uh and this is an interesting
[00:08:47] quote here I guess you were I mean
[00:08:49] you've done so many different things
[00:08:52] I mean you cleaned carpets at one point
[00:08:55] carpet cleaning
[00:08:56] >> I did everything no one else wanted to
[00:08:58] do.
[00:08:59] >> I mean, just just to list all the things
[00:09:00] you did, we only have like another 50
[00:09:02] minutes, would consume like half the
[00:09:03] show. Just listing them.
[00:09:05] >> Well, I always makes me laugh when they
[00:09:07] go, who's going to clean your toilets
[00:09:10] and who's going to, you know, like in
[00:09:12] LA, it's always like, if you deport
[00:09:15] these Mexicans, then who's going to like
[00:09:17] poor people? Me and my friends, we all
[00:09:20] work construction. We all clean carpets.
[00:09:22] I cleaned carpets initially [snorts]
[00:09:26] and in cleaning carpets is the lowest of
[00:09:29] the low. Like
[00:09:29] >> why is it the lowest of the low?
[00:09:32] >> Because there's like blue collar and
[00:09:35] then there's a a hierarchy
[00:09:38] of blue collar. There's sort of echelons
[00:09:41] like
[00:09:43] digging ditches,
[00:09:45] grunt labor on a construction site. All
[00:09:48] you're doing is dragging drywall around,
[00:09:50] cleaning up garbage, digging ditches,
[00:09:53] busting out stuckco. That's like at the
[00:09:55] bottom, you know, and then you could get
[00:09:57] up to framing, be a little higher up on
[00:09:59] the framing crew. Then you could be like
[00:10:01] an electrician or a plumber, you know,
[00:10:03] sort of trade a little higher up. Then
[00:10:06] you could be a finished carpenter where
[00:10:08] you're just swinging doors and putting
[00:10:09] up crown molding and and that's a higher
[00:10:13] but like cleaning carpet is real grunt
[00:10:18] work.
[00:10:20] You know that kind of stuff.
[00:10:21] >> Um I knew it was a uh this is a quote
[00:10:23] from from Adam Corolla's if you're just
[00:10:26] tuning in. We're being streamed live to
[00:10:28] millions of people right now. Not Taco
[00:10:30] Bell material. From a dump with a dirt
[00:10:32] lawn a hero will rise. And I want to
[00:10:34] talk about that because I I had some
[00:10:35] experiences similar as a young man
[00:10:38] showing up at 11:00 p.m. and cleaning
[00:10:39] till 4:00 a.m. I knew it was a shitty
[00:10:41] job one day when I was looking forward
[00:10:43] to emptying the steam cleaner catch
[00:10:45] tank. That means you hold a 5gallon
[00:10:48] bucket under a valve on the side of the
[00:10:49] machine, twist the valve, and out comes
[00:10:51] a 4 and 12 gallon I can't even pronounce
[00:10:54] this word. The bouabay of grease.
[00:10:55] >> Booya.
[00:10:56] >> Bulay of grease, barbecue sauce, and
[00:10:58] roach [ __ ] Then you drag a bucket
[00:11:00] filled with this putrid soup as it slops
[00:11:02] in your jeans to the men's room. Dump it
[00:11:04] down the toilet. I know it sounds
[00:11:06] disgusting, but it's still easier than
[00:11:08] being bent over scrubbing the steam
[00:11:09] cleaning wand on the almost black carpet
[00:11:11] in front of the kitchen. Carpet wand is
[00:11:13] one of those things that sounds better
[00:11:14] than it is. I was busting my back
[00:11:16] pushing around a wand with a guy named
[00:11:18] Juan. The only perk was the food. You
[00:11:21] know, I worked at a pet store when I was
[00:11:24] 18 after Taco Bell, which you didn't get
[00:11:26] a job at Taco Bell. you try. Why didn't
[00:11:28] you get a job at Taco Bell?
[00:11:29] >> I put an application in and it was such
[00:11:31] a mess. I would imagine that they
[00:11:33] thought that I was a serial killer or
[00:11:35] something. I didn't have good skills,
[00:11:38] writing, spelling, penmanship. It was
[00:11:40] all very haphazard for me.
[00:11:42] >> But eventually you you got better at
[00:11:44] that. You learned or not really.
[00:11:46] >> Uh no, I not not really. I mean, a
[00:11:49] little bit better at spelling, better at
[00:11:51] reading for sure. uh penship a little
[00:11:54] bit better, but I just hover over
[00:11:56] someone who types when I write a book
[00:11:58] and you bark at that.
[00:11:59] >> You you have the creative vision and
[00:12:01] someone else does the actual
[00:12:03] >> Yes. I cannot type and I'm not not much
[00:12:05] of a speller. So, I imagine that when I
[00:12:08] was 16, my application for Taco Bell
[00:12:11] would have been pretty messy. Well, I I
[00:12:15] did work at Taco Bell and then I worked
[00:12:16] for Petland, a Petland store and I was
[00:12:18] putting crickets in a bag and I remember
[00:12:21] and this reminded me of my anecdote,
[00:12:23] which I don't think I've ever talked
[00:12:24] about before. And I'm putting crickets
[00:12:26] in a bag to someone that has a snake and
[00:12:28] they eat the crickets and I was just
[00:12:30] about to enter college and the guy
[00:12:32] looked at me and he said, "I'm so sorry
[00:12:34] for you. This is I guess this is what
[00:12:36] happens when you flunk out of high
[00:12:37] school." He had no idea that I was going
[00:12:39] to college. And I I'm sure you had these
[00:12:41] these moments that were humbling, if you
[00:12:44] will. It humbles you.
[00:12:46] >> Well, cleaning carpets in general is is
[00:12:49] humbling.
[00:12:50] >> Uh cleaning anyone's anything is kind of
[00:12:54] humbling. Um we cleaned restaurants with
[00:12:58] steam cleaners. You know, we'd have to
[00:13:00] show up after the restaurant closed. So,
[00:13:03] you'd have to show up at like 11 yard
[00:13:05] shift.
[00:13:06] >> Yeah. They will like the restaurant
[00:13:09] maybe it was a barbecue joint but they
[00:13:12] were done by 10:30 or 11. Everyone was
[00:13:15] cleaned out and then you'd show up and
[00:13:17] you'd clean the barbecue sauce out of
[00:13:19] their carpet till like 4 in the morning
[00:13:22] and then you'd get out of there for six
[00:13:24] or seven bucks an hour. But it was it
[00:13:27] was real sweaty, loud, hard
[00:13:30] [clears throat] work. you know, you just
[00:13:31] leaned over the carpet the whole time
[00:13:34] spraying hot water with this solution in
[00:13:36] it. And so that kind of sucked. But I
[00:13:39] went from that to construction labor.
[00:13:42] But I I the point is all all my jobs,
[00:13:44] they were all horrible.
[00:13:45] >> Was that the worst one? The carpet
[00:13:46] cleaning.
[00:13:48] >> Carpet cleaning was I I've had a couple
[00:13:51] construction jobs that were bad and
[00:13:53] tough. like earthquake rehab work was
[00:13:56] real dirty and a little dangerous and
[00:13:58] kind of tough. But I'd say poundforpound
[00:14:01] cleaning carpets, not running a floor
[00:14:05] shampooer, not a carpet shampooer in the
[00:14:07] lobby of a nice hotel, but cleaning like
[00:14:10] greasy spoons like Denny's carpets at 3
[00:14:13] in the morning. Yeah, that was bad.
[00:14:15] >> And what's the difference between you
[00:14:17] said earlier like a you're a blueco
[00:14:19] collar guy who is a comedian versus a
[00:14:20] bluecollar comedian again? What's that
[00:14:22] distinction? There's a Tim Allen version
[00:14:26] where he's doing his tool time guy and
[00:14:28] it's like
[00:14:30] routers but or the get her done you know
[00:14:34] Larry the cable guy like there's those
[00:14:36] guys
[00:14:37] >> but they're kind of a caricature of a
[00:14:40] bluecollar guy like like
[00:14:42] >> there's a sitcom version of the
[00:14:44] bluecollar guy and then they're guys who
[00:14:46] actually know the tools, know the work,
[00:14:49] know the terminology, know the trade and
[00:14:51] they're not really those eyes. That is a
[00:14:54] Hollywood version of those.
[00:14:57] >> What What makes What made you so
[00:14:59] artistic? Was that something that God
[00:15:01] gave to you? Is it something your
[00:15:02] parents gave to you? Is it something you
[00:15:03] picked up from your environment?
[00:15:06] >> Um I don't I I'll rule out my parents.
[00:15:10] Uh I'll I'll I'll put a question mark by
[00:15:12] God and I'll also rule out my
[00:15:16] environment. So maybe God. Um I had a
[00:15:19] sense of humor. I always had a sense of
[00:15:21] humor. I just liked it, you know. I I I
[00:15:24] was like
[00:15:25] >> I had a sense of humor like people have
[00:15:27] a green thumb or a musical ear like they
[00:15:30] just go, you know, nine-year-old, he's
[00:15:32] banging on pots and pans. So you get him
[00:15:34] a drum kit and he likes drumming. You
[00:15:36] know, he just like why? I don't know.
[00:15:38] That's what he does. He likes it, you
[00:15:40] know. He likes pets. The young girls,
[00:15:42] they love Oh, they love being around
[00:15:44] animals. They love animals. They become
[00:15:46] a veterinarian one day or whatever.
[00:15:47] whatever it is, comedy and um
[00:15:52] being a wrencher and being kind of
[00:15:54] mechanical were just
[00:15:56] >> that's what I liked. I just I I liked I
[00:15:58] wanted tools. I wanted to fix up stuff.
[00:16:01] I wanted to build stuff. I wanted to
[00:16:02] take stuff apart and and I wanted to be
[00:16:05] funny. It was just what I did. But uh
[00:16:08] but there was no place to be funny. And
[00:16:11] it wasn't it, you know, it seemed like
[00:16:12] kind of a long shot for a living to be
[00:16:16] funny. I didn't really know anybody who
[00:16:18] was in the business and so I drifted
[00:16:22] toward the the mechanical world and the
[00:16:25] bluecollar world. Um and so I did that
[00:16:28] for you know a good period of time but
[00:16:31] it it sort of I was always I I've always
[00:16:33] been pragmatic I guess and it kind of
[00:16:36] dawned on me that
[00:16:40] I I knew the bluecollar world was going
[00:16:42] to be hard. I knew it was it was a hard
[00:16:44] living. Like it, you know, there's a lot
[00:16:46] of like for me
[00:16:48] there was a lot of like saying, "Do you
[00:16:51] want to be doing this when you're 50? Do
[00:16:53] you want to be doing this when you're
[00:16:54] 50?" And I and I was saying that when I
[00:16:57] was 22, you know, but I knew there was a
[00:17:00] version of this where it's you're 50 and
[00:17:02] you're still getting up on the roof kind
[00:17:04] of thing and you're driving a pickup
[00:17:06] truck, you know? Like I love cars and I
[00:17:10] love racing cars and I love sports cars.
[00:17:13] So I I'm confined to this pickup truck
[00:17:17] with a lumber rack and a bed box and I
[00:17:19] have to drive a pickup truck cuz I don't
[00:17:22] have enough money for a sports car, but
[00:17:24] I can't own a sports car cuz I need a
[00:17:26] lumber rack and a bed box and a bed, you
[00:17:29] know. So, I was, you know, going, "Well,
[00:17:33] I don't want to
[00:17:35] I'd like to get out of this, but how do
[00:17:38] we get out of this? That's all you do,
[00:17:40] and you don't have any other education
[00:17:42] or skill." So, I I figured, well, I'm
[00:17:46] I'm going to be doing it for a while.
[00:17:48] I'll get used to that, but I'll start
[00:17:50] training in comedy and maybe I could
[00:17:53] make my way out of it.
[00:17:54] >> What was the first part of your life
[00:17:55] where you go, you know what? I think I I
[00:17:57] think I'm have a comedian way about me.
[00:17:59] Were you a teenager? Were you younger
[00:18:01] than that?
[00:18:02] >> Well, there's kind of two phases.
[00:18:05] I always knew I was funny.
[00:18:09] >> Always.
[00:18:10] >> Yeah. I knew it, but but no one around
[00:18:12] me knew it or cared. My family never
[00:18:16] cared. And no one ever said, "Write that
[00:18:18] down." Or, "That's funny, son." Or,
[00:18:19] "You're one day you'll be a comedian."
[00:18:22] >> You know, you're funnier than that guy
[00:18:23] on TV. you know, my family was just
[00:18:26] flatliners. Like they [snorts] didn't
[00:18:27] say anything. They didn't do anything.
[00:18:29] They didn't encourage anybody. Uh
[00:18:32] especially me. So I never got that from
[00:18:35] my family, my friends, my environment.
[00:18:37] No, there was no one ever told me I
[00:18:39] should do comedy, but I knew I was
[00:18:41] funny. Uh I it was just like, well, I
[00:18:44] know I'm funny. You don't You're not
[00:18:46] laughing mom and dad, but you're weird
[00:18:48] and depressed.
[00:18:48] >> That's a lot of self-awareness for a
[00:18:50] young man, I think. Hey, I mean in a in
[00:18:52] a in a in a way like you know here's the
[00:18:56] thing. If you grew up how I grew up, you
[00:18:59] grew up very very realistically like
[00:19:03] let's do do not be delusional. You you
[00:19:06] cannot be delusional because um that is
[00:19:11] a luxury belief being delusional. You
[00:19:14] cannot you you you grow up in a very
[00:19:18] nuts andbolts world. And so I was never
[00:19:22] delusional,
[00:19:23] good or or
[00:19:26] bad. I was just like, let's be
[00:19:28] realistic. What do you do?
[00:19:29] >> Hyper pragmatic.
[00:19:30] >> Hyper pragmatic. And I go, what do you
[00:19:32] do? And I go, well, you're not going to
[00:19:35] be a lawyer. You're not going to be a
[00:19:36] doctor. You're not going to work in a
[00:19:38] white collar world. You can't spell. You
[00:19:40] can barely read. You're not going to
[00:19:41] pass any tests. You're not going to do
[00:19:43] that. So, should I go to college? No,
[00:19:45] you shouldn't. You're not going to do
[00:19:46] any of that. Would you like to be a
[00:19:48] doctor or a lawyer? Yeah, I would I'd
[00:19:50] like to do that, but I'm not going to do
[00:19:52] it. I can't do it. Well, what do you do?
[00:19:54] Well, you're good with your hands. Or
[00:19:56] what else do you do? You have a sense of
[00:19:57] humor. Okay. Well, maybe you could get
[00:20:01] paid for your sense of humor. If you
[00:20:03] worked at it, and no one's going to just
[00:20:05] pay you now, but maybe if you got good
[00:20:07] at something and you worked hard at it
[00:20:09] and you learned about it,
[00:20:11] >> did you believe that you could? You're
[00:20:12] like, "Oh, I think I might be able to
[00:20:14] make a living." Or did it seem like a
[00:20:15] pie in the sky fantasy?
[00:20:18] It I did not. It It seemed pie in the
[00:20:21] sky. I It Here's what it seemed like to
[00:20:24] me. I would drive my truck into the job
[00:20:28] site
[00:20:29] early in the mornings and and I loved
[00:20:32] radio and I was the perfect demo for
[00:20:37] morning radio because
[00:20:40] morning radio is 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
[00:20:43] and I would often times get into my
[00:20:47] truck at about 6:20 6:15 because
[00:20:51] construction was always 7:00 a.m. to
[00:20:54] 3:30. Those are construction hours.
[00:20:56] >> Why is that?
[00:20:58] >> I don't know. It's not 9 to5. It's 7 to
[00:21:01] 3:30. The 3:30 is a half hour for lunch,
[00:21:04] >> which you don't get paid for, but you
[00:21:07] know, that's that's it. It's 8 hours.
[00:21:09] And it starts early. Um, probably cuz
[00:21:12] it's hot outside sometimes and they want
[00:21:14] to start a little earlier, maybe. I I I
[00:21:18] have no idea why, but it's always 7 to
[00:21:22] 3:30 and and it's a little early for me,
[00:21:25] but uh that's the schedule. So, I would
[00:21:28] be working
[00:21:30] sometimes in Silver Lake, sometimes in
[00:21:33] Seami Valley, sometimes in Malibu,
[00:21:35] sometimes in Santa Monica cuz I didn't
[00:21:37] wherever the job was, Chadzsworth,
[00:21:40] that's where I would be. So I would like
[00:21:42] oftentimes be in my truck in LA at 6:10,
[00:21:46] 6:15 in the morning. Immediately on goes
[00:21:49] the FM radio and I would listen to the
[00:21:52] morning team the whole time I was
[00:21:54] driving to work and then when you got to
[00:21:56] the job site, you'd always turn on the
[00:21:59] the rock station that had the morning
[00:22:02] team on it and I would listen to it and
[00:22:04] I would go, I'm funnier than these guys.
[00:22:07] Uh,
[00:22:08] >> but which I knew,
[00:22:11] but I'm never going to have a chance to
[00:22:13] do what they're doing.
[00:22:14] >> You knew the truth, but you didn't think
[00:22:16] it was pragmat going to happen.
[00:22:18] >> Yeah.
[00:22:19] >> Well, because I was like, well,
[00:22:23] Mark and Brian have been on KO for 13
[00:22:26] years and Kevin and Bean have been on
[00:22:29] KRock for 10 years, and Rick De's has
[00:22:32] been on Kiss for 25 years. So, where's
[00:22:35] the opening? Like when when are you
[00:22:36] gonna get what are you gonna do? You're
[00:22:38] gonna replace them. They go on for years
[00:22:41] and years and years. What how would you
[00:22:44] get on this radio station if they never
[00:22:47] leave?
[00:22:49] Um maybe a good segue. We have two clips
[00:22:52] for the audience. I'm I'm I kind of grew
[00:22:56] up in the 90s, so I remember this. I was
[00:22:58] in high school when this happened. This
[00:23:00] is this is the ven diagram between Adam
[00:23:02] Croll of being a a a guy who who knows a
[00:23:06] lot about working with his hands and
[00:23:08] comedy. This is Mr. Hardware. This bit.
[00:23:11] Play this bit. Andrew.
[00:23:12] >> Oh, from the man. Mr. Hardware.
[00:23:15] >> You're doing plumbing. What's the drop
[00:23:17] per inch per fall?
[00:23:18] >> Uh, come on.
[00:23:20] >> For drainage.
[00:23:21] >> Yeah, for drainage.
[00:23:22] >> We're talking three or 4 inch drain
[00:23:23] pipe.
[00:23:24] >> Yeah. If I'm laying a 4 in sewer line,
[00:23:26] what's my drop per foot per inch?
[00:23:28] >> Per foot. Wow. an inch.
[00:23:30] >> Yeah. Per inch
[00:23:33] in quarter inch per foot. Want to see if
[00:23:35] you knew that.
[00:23:36] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right,
[00:23:38] buddy.
[00:23:39] >> What's the number of a mowing faucet
[00:23:40] with a hose off the side of the faucet?
[00:23:42] >> I answered your question about smart
[00:23:45] guy. Let me ask you a let me ask you a
[00:23:46] woodworking question. What are the studs
[00:23:49] laid out when you do some framing?
[00:23:51] Framing a wall.
[00:23:51] >> What you framing? You framing a 10ft
[00:23:53] wall or you framing an 8ft wall? 8ft
[00:23:55] wall?
[00:23:55] >> 8 foot wall. 2x4 16 in on center with a
[00:23:59] header at the bottom and at the top.
[00:24:00] >> Header header at the bottom.
[00:24:02] >> A greener green header at the bottom.
[00:24:05] >> That ain't That ain't a header. That's a
[00:24:07] bottom plate.
[00:24:08] >> That's treated bottom plate and a double
[00:24:10] top plate. Header goes above the window.
[00:24:13] >> And what do they use for lagging down to
[00:24:15] a concrete floor when it's a slab floor?
[00:24:17] >> Well, use Jbolts. You could use red
[00:24:20] heads.
[00:24:20] >> What kind of Jbolt should you be using?
[00:24:22] >> Depends what the spec sheet calls for.
[00:24:24] Half inch half inch or 58.
[00:24:26] >> I think
[00:24:28] you put them [cheering] in there.
[00:24:29] >> Yeah. When I first saw this, I was
[00:24:30] trying to think, who's are you are you
[00:24:32] working the stores? He work the store.
[00:24:34] You have [laughter] the
[00:24:34] >> He worked at the store.
[00:24:35] >> The apron, the the hat, the pre I
[00:24:38] appreciate the pre-production of these
[00:24:39] bits. Some thought went into it. Some
[00:24:42] planning went into it.
[00:24:43] >> No, no, that was all improvised.
[00:24:45] [laughter] But yeah.
[00:24:47] >> Uh and I mean this is this is you you
[00:24:49] learned all this by doing it. By doing
[00:24:51] it as a young man.
[00:24:52] >> Yeah. I mean, people I I I don't think
[00:24:54] people fully really get it. Like, people
[00:24:57] go, "Oh, yeah, my dad's real handy, you
[00:25:01] know, or you're a handyman or something
[00:25:03] like that." And I would say, "Look, I
[00:25:07] know the nailing schedule on Shearwall
[00:25:10] like," and people go, "What?" I go, "But
[00:25:12] you don't know that cuz you're handy."
[00:25:14] Like, do you know what a 10 penny ring
[00:25:16] shank nail is? Cuz you're
[00:25:18] >> handy. Do you know what a 16 penny
[00:25:21] sinker is? Do you know what A35s are? A
[00:25:24] Tiko clips? You know what Walmanized
[00:25:27] lumber is? Do you do you know what a
[00:25:30] glue lamp beam is versus a paralam
[00:25:33] versus a web lamp versus a web joist?
[00:25:36] Like do you know what OSB stands for?
[00:25:38] Oriented strand board? Do you know what
[00:25:40] halfin struck one CDX good one side ply
[00:25:43] is or the nailing schedule for it? Like
[00:25:46] you don't know any of this stuff if
[00:25:48] you're handy. You have to do it for a
[00:25:50] living. And if you do it for a living,
[00:25:54] then you learn all the codes.
[00:25:56] You know, he was talking about a
[00:25:58] drainage code for for drain pipe for 4
[00:26:01] in drain pipe. He want to know how much
[00:26:03] the drain pipe by code was supposed to
[00:26:05] fall per foot to to drain stuff. I was
[00:26:09] asking him about framing walls. He said
[00:26:12] there was a header on the floor. There's
[00:26:14] no header on the floor. There's a bottom
[00:26:16] plate on the floor. And he was saying it
[00:26:18] was made out of something green. It's
[00:26:20] made out of treated wood because the
[00:26:23] because the wood's on the concrete and
[00:26:25] it'll rot. Yeah. So, the bottom
[00:26:28] >> plate needs to be pressuretreated lumber
[00:26:31] or it could be redwood which is doesn't
[00:26:34] rot out but it's too expensive and no
[00:26:36] one does it.
[00:26:36] >> Yeah. But where did you learn all this?
[00:26:37] You learned
[00:26:38] >> I worked on a job site for over a decade
[00:26:40] and that's all we did. But it but it' be
[00:26:43] like if you work in a mechanics bay at
[00:26:45] Toyota for 10 years, you know what all
[00:26:48] the stuff is. Um, there's a there's a
[00:26:51] another clip. Well, actually, before we
[00:26:52] get to the the women's suffrage thing,
[00:26:54] which is one of my staff's favorites,
[00:26:56] um, I I did this as a child, too, but
[00:26:59] for some reason, I didn't take to it.
[00:27:01] Um, if you want to throw some images on
[00:27:03] the screen of me working with my dad,
[00:27:06] and what I you know, I think I feel like
[00:27:08] you took to it. This is um up on the big
[00:27:11] screen. Let's throw it on the That was a
[00:27:12] house that This is in the late '80s that
[00:27:15] we lived in and my father and my
[00:27:17] grandfather and I lived together and we
[00:27:19] renovated these homes and I watched them
[00:27:21] do all this stuff.
[00:27:22] >> Wow.
[00:27:22] >> Um this was this was 10 5 degrees off
[00:27:24] the perpendicular. This old carriage
[00:27:26] house from 1886
[00:27:28] was the year they had carriage house.
[00:27:30] >> Off the perpendicular.
[00:27:32] >> Yeah. Like uh you know
[00:27:33] >> Yeah. Know you know we would call that
[00:27:34] plum.
[00:27:35] >> Plum. So I see I don't even know the
[00:27:37] terminology.
[00:27:38] >> Off the perpendicular.
[00:27:39] That's what my grandfather called it.
[00:27:41] >> Well, you know, I I must say, no
[00:27:43] disrespect to your grandfather,
[00:27:45] >> but like
[00:27:47] >> that's a picture of him. Put put my
[00:27:48] grand in and uh
[00:27:52] >> he was a little off the perpendicular,
[00:27:53] but he may have been drinking that day.
[00:27:56] >> Who's an Irishman?
[00:27:57] >> Well, there you go. He's always off the
[00:27:59] perpendicular. No, here's what I'm
[00:28:02] saying in deference to your grandfather.
[00:28:05] There are some regional things like a
[00:28:11] there's a king stud. The king stud's
[00:28:13] just a main stud in the wall. Runs the
[00:28:15] floor of the ceiling. But underneath the
[00:28:18] header, the guy brought up in a doorway
[00:28:22] is what we call a trimmer, but on the
[00:28:25] east coast they call a jack stud. So,
[00:28:27] >> I didn't know that
[00:28:28] >> there are
[00:28:30] things that are like a little different
[00:28:33] regionally, east coast, west coast.
[00:28:36] There's
[00:28:36] >> cuz I guess in their world, this is a
[00:28:39] king stud and this is a jack stud, which
[00:28:42] makes sense. It's like a lower, shorter
[00:28:45] stud, which makes sense. Um, but for
[00:28:48] some reason, we called them trimmers.
[00:28:50] Now, I don't know why, but off the
[00:28:52] perpendicular versus plum,
[00:28:55] >> maybe that's what we maybe that's what
[00:28:56] we did. called it off the perpendic.
[00:28:59] >> It seems like a lot of verbiage.
[00:29:01] >> It's a lot of syllables or put it up on
[00:29:04] the screen for the audience.
[00:29:05] >> And by the way, level is right to left.
[00:29:07] >> This is my dad and I. I had a mullet.
[00:29:09] This is 1989.
[00:29:11] >> Wow.
[00:29:11] >> Um, and go to the next photo.
[00:29:13] >> Pencil behind the ear.
[00:29:14] >> Yep. You get the pencil on the ear. This
[00:29:16] is me at 10 years old. So, I did all
[00:29:18] this stuff. Not not to the extent you
[00:29:20] did, but I was exposed to it. But for
[00:29:22] some reason, I did not take to it. And
[00:29:24] my father was concerned about me. He's
[00:29:26] like, "What's wrong with you?" You know,
[00:29:27] you know, he was very driven. And my
[00:29:29] grandfather, who was perhaps older in
[00:29:31] life, later in life, kind of thinking
[00:29:33] existentially about life and the world.
[00:29:35] And he said, "You know what? You're
[00:29:36] going to do something with your head.
[00:29:37] You're going to do something." He didn't
[00:29:38] think it was journalism or he just said,
[00:29:40] "You're going to do something creative."
[00:29:41] My This is my grandfather talking, but I
[00:29:44] was exposed to this as a young man. And
[00:29:45] I I the only thing that I enjoyed doing
[00:29:48] was landscaping
[00:29:50] >> really. I liked the mowing of the lawn
[00:29:52] and the trimming because I felt like I,
[00:29:54] you know, it was immediate
[00:29:56] gratification. The other stuff, handing
[00:29:58] them tools, the carpentry, I didn't take
[00:30:00] to it. Was there something of all the
[00:30:02] construction work you did, was there a
[00:30:04] part of it that you really enjoyed that
[00:30:06] brought you fulfillment?
[00:30:07] >> Yeah, I I liked finish work.
[00:30:10] >> Finish work.
[00:30:11] >> Yeah. I I worked at cabinet shops and
[00:30:15] >> woodworking.
[00:30:16] >> Yeah. Yeah. And so at a certain point I
[00:30:20] I realized again in the hierarchy
[00:30:25] that you wanted to get out inside the
[00:30:28] house. It was really like being it's it
[00:30:32] it wasn't all that much different than
[00:30:34] being a slave in days of yore. You
[00:30:36] wanted to get out of the field and into
[00:30:39] some shade. And it all sucked and it was
[00:30:42] all hard work. But it was worse outside
[00:30:45] than it was inside. I see.
[00:30:47] >> And I realized that
[00:30:51] finish work was inside. That's where the
[00:30:53] door hanging. That's where the base in
[00:30:56] the case. That's where the finesse was.
[00:31:00] Like it was very finicky, fidious work.
[00:31:04] It tinkering work almost in some cases,
[00:31:07] >> you know. I it it was a little bit
[00:31:11] exacting like like I would I could you
[00:31:14] know when you hung a door and shut the
[00:31:18] door there would be a shadow line or a
[00:31:21] reveal and I could tell you if the top
[00:31:24] was 332 and the bottom was a quarter
[00:31:27] inch it didn't look right you know like
[00:31:29] I wanted to see an eighth all the way
[00:31:32] like around that. Yeah, it was it was
[00:31:35] precise and you know and I I liked it. I
[00:31:39] had a kind of eye for details and I was
[00:31:43] in the house and I was working with
[00:31:46] tools and I wasn't out in the yard with
[00:31:48] a shovel. Right.
[00:31:49] >> Right. And I made it I made it in there
[00:31:51] and and I liked working in cabinet shop.
[00:31:54] I mean I didn't like it.
[00:31:56] >> I wanted to do comedy but you know I was
[00:32:00] realistic. I was like, "Look, you're not
[00:32:03] going to just quit this and become a
[00:32:05] comedian. That'll that's never going to
[00:32:07] work."
[00:32:07] >> But you knew you you if given the
[00:32:10] opportunity, you'd be successful. But it
[00:32:12] was hard. Where do you find the
[00:32:13] opportunity? Where do you find that in
[00:32:14] the new
[00:32:14] >> I didn't know that it was going to
[00:32:16] happen and you know the adage of keep
[00:32:19] your day job was sort of in the back of
[00:32:21] my head and I didn't have any money and
[00:32:24] I didn't have any money source. I didn't
[00:32:25] have any family money or inheritance or
[00:32:28] anything like that. So I had to work
[00:32:31] like every
[00:32:32] >> very pragmatic. Go back to the image of
[00:32:34] the house, the green house with the
[00:32:36] shutters.
[00:32:37] >> I just wanted couple more things about
[00:32:38] this. So this is I don't know you I'm
[00:32:41] I'm assuming you've painted homes.
[00:32:44] >> Scraped this was like lead paint and I
[00:32:46] and we I didn't this is stupid. This is
[00:32:49] by the way you probably should wear a
[00:32:50] mask for this type of work. Scraping off
[00:32:52] the lead paint and then putting a primer
[00:32:55] coat and then putting a you know a
[00:32:57] finishing coat. We we I was scraping
[00:32:59] this house. I'm assuming you've done
[00:33:01] that. Scraping. Oh, this is
[00:33:02] >> I've done I painted. I've done whatever
[00:33:04] it is. I've done it all.
[00:33:06] >> That's 1989. Go back to that photo.
[00:33:08] >> The worst. All the worst.
[00:33:10] >> Sod putting sod down.
[00:33:11] >> Oh, the rolled sod.
[00:33:13] >> Old. This is again 1990 maybe.
[00:33:15] >> Wow.
[00:33:16] >> Rolling sod on there. It's me and my dad
[00:33:18] and my grandfather.
[00:33:19] >> Wow. You had sod back then.
[00:33:20] >> I didn't take to this. I I I just just
[00:33:23] speaking personally.
[00:33:24] >> I didn't take to it either. I just
[00:33:26] realized I had to do it.
[00:33:28] >> You seem like you you you're very
[00:33:30] talented at it, though. Like you you
[00:33:32] >> Well, I mean, I don't know the word
[00:33:33] tech. I I wasn't Nobody's a carpenter
[00:33:37] naturally, but you have to learn
[00:33:41] all of what I didn't know,
[00:33:44] you know, a router has a Roman o OG bit
[00:33:49] in it. It's a kind of shape and it's a
[00:33:51] round over bit or it's a chamfer bit,
[00:33:52] it's a bearing, it's a trimmer bit. like
[00:33:54] a who would know
[00:33:57] naturally that stuff? You'd have to
[00:33:58] learn all of that. And I I learned it
[00:34:01] all, but I didn't know what to I I I I
[00:34:04] knew I had to learn all of this stuff
[00:34:07] cuz I had no choice. Um let's go to one
[00:34:11] more clip from We're kind of going back
[00:34:14] and forth between the media and the
[00:34:16] comedy and the construction. Back to the
[00:34:18] man show. This is my staff. My staff's
[00:34:21] favorite bit after watching all these
[00:34:23] clips of of you and the man show. This
[00:34:26] is from the women's suffrage bit.
[00:34:28] >> After all their struggle and sacrifice,
[00:34:30] how many women today even know what the
[00:34:33] word suffrage means? We hit the streets
[00:34:35] to find out.
[00:34:37] >> How long is this going to go on?
[00:34:39] >> Ladies, unite against suffrage. Enid the
[00:34:42] suffraging now.
[00:34:44] >> We're trying to stop the suffrage um and
[00:34:46] the suffrage [music] of women in this
[00:34:48] country.
[00:34:48] >> Sir,
[00:34:48] >> I would be happy to sign. Thank you very
[00:34:50] much.
[00:34:51] >> You saved the dolphins. Now, let's stop
[00:34:54] the suffrage.
[00:34:55] >> I do this for personal reasons. My
[00:34:56] mother, um, two of my aunts and [music]
[00:34:58] my sister all suffrage last year.
[00:35:00] >> Tell me what the 19th amendment is.
[00:35:02] >> The 19th amendment is very unjust.
[00:35:04] >> Men are going to help us stop.
[00:35:06] >> Men and women are stop.
[00:35:07] >> I'm not sure about this guy.
[00:35:09] >> What about male [music] suffrage?
[00:35:11] >> No, we're that's okay.
[00:35:13] >> The ignorance is really the big problem
[00:35:15] with this country.
[00:35:16] >> Ignorance is bliss. [music]
[00:35:17] >> What am I signing? Three American flags
[00:35:20] here. Collect them and trade them.
[00:35:23] >> So, one of the things I get asked, I do
[00:35:25] we do I do kind of a similar I don't
[00:35:27] know what to call it dead pan
[00:35:28] improvisational like I tried banning
[00:35:30] Lucky Charm cereal. People always say
[00:35:33] this to me and I never understood the
[00:35:34] question is how do you keep a straight
[00:35:36] face? And for me it's like well you're
[00:35:38] in character. You're you're you're
[00:35:39] you're in it. But do you ever get have
[00:35:42] you ever gotten asked that question?
[00:35:44] Uh, it not as frequently as many
[00:35:47] questions. Uh, because I've always been
[00:35:50] pretty good at keeping it together and
[00:35:53] keeping the dead pan. I agree with you.
[00:35:55] It's a job.
[00:35:56] >> Yeah.
[00:35:56] >> You got You can't be laughing in the
[00:35:58] middle of
[00:35:59] >> You're in the moment. You're You're
[00:36:01] >> I don't like I don't even like standups
[00:36:02] who laugh at their own jokes. Like I I
[00:36:04] never like that. I just never I don't
[00:36:06] like the breaking of the character. I I
[00:36:09] never done it. I've never will do it. I
[00:36:11] don't like it. And uh I don't know why I
[00:36:14] care, but uh no, never.
[00:36:16] >> It seems like that's challenging for
[00:36:17] people who are from the outside looking
[00:36:19] in at at an an artist like like you like
[00:36:21] they can't understand that that
[00:36:23] psychology, but that was just something
[00:36:24] I observed about improvisational comedy.
[00:36:27] >> I Yeah, I did a ton of improvisational
[00:36:30] comedy and I I never was a breaker.
[00:36:33] >> But then they're like the Jimmy Fallon
[00:36:35] of the world who are always breaking.
[00:36:37] Yes.
[00:36:38] >> And I don't know. I It's just them.
[00:36:41] maybe they're happier than we are.
[00:36:44] >> Um, re recently I I I did watch you on
[00:36:47] Rogan and and some other interviews you
[00:36:49] did and I I thought your comment about
[00:36:52] fear and calibration. I think you used
[00:36:56] the word calibration related to to was
[00:36:58] it COVID or the pandemic which you made
[00:37:02] an interesting correlary between like
[00:37:04] for example working on a job site or
[00:37:05] construction like you got to build a
[00:37:06] house. It's dangerous. there's a saw you
[00:37:08] might cut your finger off, but you got
[00:37:10] to get it done versus COVID. Um, and and
[00:37:13] fear and safety and and you you talked
[00:37:15] about this uh this fear in society. It
[00:37:19] does seem to me and this is this this is
[00:37:20] a show called The Price is My Life and
[00:37:22] one of the common themes is fear and I
[00:37:25] just wanted to get your thoughts on
[00:37:26] this. From my perspective, fear is a
[00:37:28] huge problem in this in this society.
[00:37:30] Fear and greed. Um, and that's something
[00:37:33] I try to get people to overcome. Um,
[00:37:35] what are your thoughts on is that the
[00:37:37] main problem we face in America right
[00:37:39] now?
[00:37:40] >> It's it's a big problem
[00:37:44] that we don't know is a problem. So that
[00:37:48] makes it a bigger problem. So when
[00:37:51] there's a problem and you go, we have a
[00:37:55] problem with too many rats in New York
[00:37:58] City. Well, go hire a rat wrangler and
[00:38:01] try to get rid of the rats. You know,
[00:38:03] but
[00:38:06] we don't do that with fear. So like what
[00:38:08] I'm saying or safety. So it' be like if
[00:38:11] you go, "Oh, there's too many rats in
[00:38:14] New York City." And everyone else went,
[00:38:15] "What do you mean too many?" I say, "Not
[00:38:18] enough. We need more." And now it's a
[00:38:21] bigger problem because it's not a
[00:38:24] problem that people are trying to solve.
[00:38:26] You know, if you go, "We have a problem
[00:38:28] at the border." And everyone goes, "All
[00:38:30] right, there's a problem." then we can
[00:38:32] put funds toward it and resources toward
[00:38:34] it and then we can eradicate it or stop
[00:38:37] it or slow it down or whatever which we
[00:38:39] have done because we recognize it as a
[00:38:41] problem. But if it's not a problem and
[00:38:44] we don't recognize there's a problem,
[00:38:45] then we're not going to attempt to
[00:38:48] remedy the problem and safety,
[00:38:52] uber and that ilk that we're dealing
[00:38:56] with now is a big problem that nobody
[00:39:00] >> wants to talk about. Yeah. Like people
[00:39:03] >> people have started saying like, you
[00:39:05] know, you go uh you know, have a good
[00:39:07] day, have a safe Thanksgiving, have a
[00:39:09] safe, you know, everything is like safe.
[00:39:10] Like if you listen,
[00:39:13] you know, the official speech or
[00:39:17] whatever Gavin Newsome laid out, you
[00:39:20] know, happy Thanksgiving or have a safe
[00:39:23] Thanksgiving is what he was saying.
[00:39:25] >> Is that right what he said?
[00:39:26] >> Yeah. Have a safe Thanksgiving. And they
[00:39:28] say have a safe, by the way, have safe
[00:39:30] day. Safe everything is safe. You don't
[00:39:32] really realize it anymore. Everyone's
[00:39:34] telling you, "I don't need to have a
[00:39:36] safe Thanksgiving. I don't. I want to
[00:39:38] get drunk and watch football." like I'm
[00:39:40] not going to have a safe Thanksgiving.
[00:39:42] >> No, it's true. It's true.
[00:39:44] >> So, safety is real damaging.
[00:39:47] >> What What Why did that happen? How?
[00:39:49] Because that wasn't really the true in
[00:39:50] the 70s and 80s.
[00:39:52] >> Now, what happened?
[00:39:53] >> Um, it was there was a thing called
[00:39:56] gynofascism, which is basically women
[00:39:58] are sort of taking over and women are
[00:40:01] safety oriented and so if they're safety
[00:40:04] oriented and now the city council's all
[00:40:07] women in Los Angeles. So then and Gavin
[00:40:10] Newsome is basically a chick and we have
[00:40:13] Karen Bass who's our mayor, right? And
[00:40:17] then the head Yeah. 50 years all be
[00:40:22] promot and and the head of the whatever.
[00:40:24] Okay. The woman we have a woman in
[00:40:27] charge of of COVID protocol. We have a
[00:40:30] female. We have a female in Los Angeles
[00:40:33] and whatever the nutty witch cow was who
[00:40:37] was in charge who had by the way had no
[00:40:39] medical degree but she was in charge of
[00:40:41] the protocol for CO and all basically
[00:40:45] female city council and then CO comes
[00:40:49] along. All right. So what are we going
[00:40:50] to do with CO? Shut the schools. Lock it
[00:40:53] down. Okay. If I'm in charge I go, you
[00:40:57] can't shut down schools and you can't
[00:40:58] lock it down. And they go, uh-uh.
[00:41:00] safety, safety, safety. And I go, "Okay,
[00:41:04] your safety
[00:41:07] screwed up a lot of kids and your safety
[00:41:09] screwed up a lot of marriages and your
[00:41:11] safety led to a lot of alcoholism and
[00:41:13] your safety led to a lot of depression."
[00:41:15] But your safetyoriented
[00:41:17] so
[00:41:18] >> knock it off and that's what they do.
[00:41:21] That's why I thought your calibration
[00:41:22] metaphor was so brilliant because like
[00:41:24] well if one person So Andrew Cuomo if
[00:41:26] one person dies then this is where that
[00:41:29] that doesn't make any sense.
[00:41:31] utilitarian that that's
[00:41:32] >> No, it makes no sense at all. But that
[00:41:35] but that that's how they but by by the
[00:41:36] way he says that stuff out loud because
[00:41:38] he thinks it makes him sound like a
[00:41:39] hero. If one person dies Yeah. Listen,
[00:41:43] [ __ ] A bunch of people are going to
[00:41:44] die of CO. So run your goddamn city and
[00:41:47] shut up.
[00:41:48] >> But one of but one of the reasons you
[00:41:49] said this happened is the is the you
[00:41:50] know this is this book. It's called uh
[00:41:52] in 50 years we'll all be chicks. Um, I
[00:41:55] have a question about testosterone for
[00:41:56] you and because I I go undercover in DC
[00:42:00] and um, I'm not exaggerating. It seems
[00:42:03] as though about half of the people in
[00:42:05] Washington are gay
[00:42:07] >> or or they're secretly gay. They're
[00:42:09] married to a woman and and I and I'm not
[00:42:11] a you know biologist, but what is your
[00:42:14] what is your theory on on why there is
[00:42:16] this fe is it is it is it is it
[00:42:18] something in the water? Is it something
[00:42:20] in the food? Many people are saying that
[00:42:22] the testosterone levels going down
[00:42:24] >> microlastics and then yeah there's a
[00:42:28] biological component and then there's
[00:42:30] kind of a psychological component.
[00:42:32] >> What percentage of each do you think it
[00:42:34] is?
[00:42:36] >> You know it's hard because they have to
[00:42:38] kind of work in in unison. Like it's
[00:42:40] hard to do one without the other. You
[00:42:42] kind of need a a biological mandate and
[00:42:47] uh a psychological mandate, you know.
[00:42:49] Well, first off, it has to be
[00:42:52] environmental. And then also,
[00:42:55] guys don't work in mills or in quaries
[00:42:57] or on farms anymore. They all moved
[00:43:00] indoors, got air conditioning, and
[00:43:02] started getting super soft and weak and
[00:43:05] and yeah. So, what just to be clear,
[00:43:08] here's what I'm saying. Um, you got us
[00:43:12] you got lettering up on your brick
[00:43:16] facade here and it's, you know, 6 and
[00:43:20] 1/2 ft off the ground. And if somebody
[00:43:24] said, "Hey, we got to put this lettering
[00:43:26] up." I'd say, "All right, well, I think
[00:43:29] I can reach it and I can mount it from
[00:43:31] here." And then someone might say,
[00:43:33] "Well, why don't you get a step stool?"
[00:43:35] And then someone I go, "Well, that takes
[00:43:37] a minute, but all right, I'll get a step
[00:43:39] stool." And then someone might go,
[00:43:41] "Well, why not get a 6ft A-frame ladder?
[00:43:44] Wouldn't that be safer?" And I'd go,
[00:43:45] "Well, yeah, but we don't have one."
[00:43:47] "Well, you can rent one down the
[00:43:49] street." And then someone would go, "How
[00:43:51] about you get some Perry scaffolding?
[00:43:52] Some small scaffolding. We'll set up the
[00:43:54] scaffolding. Wouldn't that be safer to
[00:43:56] put the lettering up?" And I'd go,
[00:43:59] >> "Yes, but it's going to take longer.
[00:44:02] It's going to cost more money. We don't
[00:44:04] own scaffolding. It's going to it's
[00:44:06] going to take a while." and they're
[00:44:08] going, "Well, why not just be safe?" And
[00:44:11] I go, "Okay, but it's going to slow
[00:44:14] things down and it's going to take a
[00:44:16] long time." Now, my world is I want
[00:44:19] those things put up as fast as we can
[00:44:23] and it'd be nice if it was safe, too,
[00:44:26] but let's get those letters up. And
[00:44:28] their thing is, slow it down. Let's rent
[00:44:30] some scaffolding. And I'm like, and put
[00:44:33] a helmet on. And I'm like, I don't need
[00:44:35] a helmet, but it's safer, isn't it?
[00:44:38] Okay, but now it's more money and I have
[00:44:40] to rent a helmet. So, they want to slow
[00:44:44] it down and make everything safe and
[00:44:46] grind it to a hole.
[00:44:47] >> Sounds like you're describing the
[00:44:48] allegory of Southern California. Just
[00:44:50] >> just they have no relationship with risk
[00:44:53] >> because they never work with tools.
[00:44:55] >> No relationship with risk.
[00:44:57] >> Okay. If you said, if I said, "Well, we
[00:45:02] got to cut all these 2x4s." And I'd go,
[00:45:05] "Okay, use that highport saw." And
[00:45:07] they'd go, "Whoa, whoa, that's got a
[00:45:09] spinning 7 and 1/4 in carbide blade on
[00:45:11] it."
[00:45:12] >> Wouldn't it be safer just to use a hand
[00:45:14] saw? Like, it would be safer, but it
[00:45:17] would take so much longer.
[00:45:20] >> And they go, "But we're here for maximum
[00:45:22] safety." And I'm like, I would like you
[00:45:26] to use this dangerous saw to cut this
[00:45:29] wood, but I would like you to know how
[00:45:30] to use this saw, and then I'd like to
[00:45:33] move along and get this place franked.
[00:45:36] >> And they want safety at all cost, which
[00:45:39] means slow it down or no building. What
[00:45:42] I interpret what you're saying here is
[00:45:44] part of the reason why there's the
[00:45:46] decline in this masculine perhaps even
[00:45:49] high testosterone world is that you're
[00:45:51] taking something away from men's uh uh
[00:45:54] adolescence and upbringing.
[00:45:56] >> Yes.
[00:45:57] >> Not just it's something in the food.
[00:45:58] There could be something in the food in
[00:45:59] the water but it's also this the lack of
[00:46:02] experiences cuz these mayor Bass and I
[00:46:04] don't remember the other bureaucrats but
[00:46:06] they didn't operate one of these saws.
[00:46:08] I'm assuming they have never operated
[00:46:09] one of them.
[00:46:10] >> Yeah. They're not windup saws, but I get
[00:46:11] what you're saying.
[00:46:12] >> They're not [laughter]
[00:46:13] >> Yeah. When you
[00:46:14] >> a table saw and it's also very loud. I
[00:46:17] remember being a child was definitely
[00:46:18] loud to
[00:46:19] >> Yeah. Everything is a little bit scary.
[00:46:21] >> A little bit.
[00:46:22] >> Yeah. But but then you learn like and
[00:46:25] and by the way, there are plenty of
[00:46:28] decisions where you're like, I don't
[00:46:31] think I should hang off the side of this
[00:46:33] building. I think we should put
[00:46:35] scaffolding up. Like there's times
[00:46:38] >> ladders. I I I don't know how my dad and
[00:46:40] grandfather never fell off those things.
[00:46:41] Those are those are actually pretty
[00:46:42] dangerous, I think. The ladders.
[00:46:44] >> Well, what what ends up happening is
[00:46:48] you can get certain things with a
[00:46:50] ladder. The thing about safety is it
[00:46:53] takes time.
[00:46:55] >> It just takes time to properly do
[00:46:58] things. And [snorts]
[00:47:01] if you can get it with the ladder, it's
[00:47:03] a lot faster than setting scaffolding up
[00:47:06] all around the house. Right. Well, I
[00:47:09] mean, I I I uh I remember those days and
[00:47:12] uh and I remember I I don't know if I
[00:47:15] would be doing what I'm doing today
[00:47:16] without without that. I don't know if it
[00:47:18] was ingrained in me or if it was like
[00:47:21] being a being, you know, the masonry
[00:47:23] work was just gritty. I remember the
[00:47:25] hands covered and that that, you know,
[00:47:27] cement. Again, I didn't take to it.
[00:47:29] >> Type sim mortar. Keep going.
[00:47:31] >> I don't I don't again I don't have the
[00:47:32] nomenclature down. I I never took to it.
[00:47:35] But I wonder if I be certainly in the
[00:47:39] work that we do here, people constantly
[00:47:41] ask me every day, good people, Christian
[00:47:43] people, conservative people, aren't you
[00:47:45] afraid? Aren't you scared? And the way I
[00:47:48] see it is there's two outcome. We're all
[00:47:51] going to die. I don't I don't know if
[00:47:52] people know know that. I don't know if
[00:47:54] people are aware of their own mortality.
[00:47:56] It's important that you remind them
[00:47:57] constantly.
[00:47:58] >> I the the outcome is the same. It I
[00:48:02] might gain a few more decades if I'm
[00:48:03] incredibly safe. Maybe I'll gain a few
[00:48:06] decades, but it's kind of like that
[00:48:08] brave heart lying in your bed many years
[00:48:10] from now. What would you give to go back
[00:48:12] and the shame that I would feel if I
[00:48:14] didn't do it? But I I do find that
[00:48:15] everyone everyone even people that agree
[00:48:18] with you tend to project their fear on
[00:48:21] onto onto the other guy. Well, look,
[00:48:25] it's it's femininely driven, right? So,
[00:48:28] it's not a it should come as no big
[00:48:32] surprise. So, if you go your average
[00:48:35] home, right? The father says to the
[00:48:40] 10-year-old, "I'm going to get you a
[00:48:41] dirt bike." You know, I'm going to get
[00:48:43] you a Yamaha YZ80 or Honda XR75. We're
[00:48:48] going to go out dirt bike ride. And then
[00:48:50] the mom says, "No, no, no. that's too
[00:48:53] dangerous. Like, don't do it. And then
[00:48:55] the dad goes, "We'll get him a helmet
[00:48:57] and some boots and we'll go out in the
[00:48:58] desert." And then the kid comes home and
[00:49:00] his arms skinned up and the mom is
[00:49:02] pissed, you know? And so if the mom had
[00:49:06] it her way, he would never get the dirt
[00:49:09] bike,
[00:49:11] >> right?
[00:49:11] >> If the dad had it his way, he'd probably
[00:49:14] ride the dirt bike minus the helmet, you
[00:49:17] know, or who cares? And so then there's
[00:49:19] a balance, right? and and we used to
[00:49:22] have that balance, but what if we got
[00:49:24] rid of the dads and just had moms run
[00:49:27] the show? Well, then there'd be no dirt
[00:49:29] bikes and then CO would come around and
[00:49:32] we'd all lock down. Now, if we had a
[00:49:34] whole bunch of guys like me running LA
[00:49:36] County when CO came around, then we
[00:49:38] wouldn't have that. But we had a bunch
[00:49:40] of Yenta cows who were scared and they
[00:49:43] ran LA and we got locked down. The
[00:49:46] beaches were shut, the trails were shut,
[00:49:49] the schools were shut, the churches were
[00:49:51] shut because they're scared women. And
[00:49:54] people go, "Why are you talking smack
[00:49:57] about women?" And I'm saying it's a
[00:50:00] different mentality.
[00:50:02] I'm not saying a dirt bike is good or
[00:50:04] dirt bike is bad or dirt bike is safe or
[00:50:07] dirt bike is dangerous. I'm saying if
[00:50:10] there's a dad in the house, the kids got
[00:50:12] a shot at the dirt bike. If there's
[00:50:14] nothing but moms running the house, no
[00:50:17] dirt bike.
[00:50:18] >> It's a ying and a yang. You need both.
[00:50:21] You need do you need that, but you also
[00:50:23] need the other one, right?
[00:50:24] >> Right. But we decided that a more
[00:50:26] evolved culture was to get rid of the
[00:50:28] dirt bike and that it would be better
[00:50:33] everywhere.
[00:50:33] >> You project this will be in 50 years
[00:50:36] chicks. You project that, you know, it's
[00:50:38] going to get worse. Well, that book's 15
[00:50:40] years old and we're we're going we're
[00:50:44] heading we're we're ahead of schedule.
[00:50:46] >> We have a clip here. We'll play play the
[00:50:48] clip. Uh
[00:50:49] >> they told them to wear masks when it
[00:50:51] didn't make any sense when there was no
[00:50:53] studies whatsoever that masks did any
[00:50:54] good. In fact, not only that, but
[00:50:56] there's some real indicators that masks
[00:50:58] like carrying on a dirty [ __ ] mask
[00:51:00] and breathing into it all day probably
[00:51:02] increases the amount of bacteria you're
[00:51:03] taking in.
[00:51:04] >> Oh, yeah.
[00:51:05] >> It's It's terrible. I I well, first off,
[00:51:07] I I want you to know I told my son who
[00:51:09] was in high school at the time, if you
[00:51:11] come back from school and tell me that
[00:51:13] no one told you to put a mask up at
[00:51:15] least 15 times, I will disown you. I
[00:51:18] want [laughter] that [ __ ] mask around
[00:51:19] your nut sack like the entire time. I
[00:51:21] want it to be a constant correction
[00:51:23] where put the mask I when they're done
[00:51:25] telling you to put the mask up and they
[00:51:27] walk away, put it back down again.
[00:51:29] >> So stupid.
[00:51:29] >> I will be so proud of you if you get
[00:51:31] suspended for this.
[00:51:33] >> Did that you actually did that? Oh, I
[00:51:35] told I literally just said I will disown
[00:51:39] you if you're not all day every day.
[00:51:42] >> It's like fine. I got it. I was like I
[00:51:45] that's all I want you to do. I all first
[00:51:47] off this COVID thing that happened
[00:51:52] when the history books are written. I'm
[00:51:55] not going to be in with you guys. You
[00:51:58] scared coward [ __ ] I'm not going to
[00:52:01] be with you. I will be remembered as
[00:52:04] someone who knew what was going on and
[00:52:07] fought against it. So I made sure that I
[00:52:10] was on record the entire time saying
[00:52:13] this is a waste of time and I called
[00:52:15] almost everyone cowards. And my greatest
[00:52:19] co achievement
[00:52:23] probably
[00:52:25] besides sending a tweet out 6 months in
[00:52:27] that basically said uh this is killing
[00:52:30] old people and fat people and the rest
[00:52:34] of you [ __ ] got played and who's
[00:52:36] getting played next time because I was
[00:52:38] like there'll be another version of this
[00:52:40] that comes around and they need you dumb
[00:52:42] lemmings you sheep to go along with it
[00:52:45] because they can't do it without scared
[00:52:48] cowards and men especially disgusted by
[00:52:52] how so many men turned out with this co.
[00:52:55] But my my greatest COVID achievement was
[00:52:59] I was walking in my neighborhood and
[00:53:02] there's a horse trail in my neighborhood
[00:53:04] and they put police tape in front of the
[00:53:07] horse trail because they didn't want you
[00:53:11] hiking in the it was 100° outside, you
[00:53:14] know, on a horse trail during nature,
[00:53:17] you know, vitamin D, exercise, sunshine.
[00:53:21] Oh no, they put the police tape and I
[00:53:23] was just walking around the police tape.
[00:53:25] I just went about my horse trail hikes.
[00:53:28] I never stayed home. I never cared that
[00:53:30] there were no hiking on the horse trails
[00:53:32] like f yourself. I'm hiking. So I was
[00:53:34] hiking in a city official type. I don't
[00:53:38] know where he was from, but pulled over
[00:53:41] in his car and he was in charge of
[00:53:43] putting the tape in front of the horse
[00:53:45] trail. And he got out of his car and
[00:53:47] he's like, "Hey, where are you going?"
[00:53:50] I said, he knew I was walking down the
[00:53:52] horse trail and I said, "Where's your
[00:53:54] mask?" And he went, "What?" I go,
[00:53:57] "Where's your mask?" And he goes, "It's
[00:53:59] in the car." And I go, "Go get it." And
[00:54:01] he goes, "What are you doing?" I go,
[00:54:03] "What are you doing?" And he goes, "You
[00:54:06] walking on that horse trail?" I go, "You
[00:54:07] talking to me without a mask?"
[00:54:10] He goes, "It's in the car." I go, "Go
[00:54:11] get it."
[00:54:12] >> [laughter]
[00:54:13] >> goes, "What?" He was like 30 feet away
[00:54:16] from me, like standing between me and
[00:54:17] the car, and he kept going, "You're not
[00:54:19] supposed to be on those horse rides." I
[00:54:21] go, "You're not supposed to not have a
[00:54:22] mask, so go get your mask." And he was
[00:54:24] like, "Uh uh." I was talking to Dr. Drew
[00:54:26] on the phone at the time. And Dr. Drew
[00:54:28] was going nuts. He loved it.
[00:54:30] >> You should have filmed that. That'd be a
[00:54:31] great
[00:54:32] >> I should have filmed I don't know how to
[00:54:33] work my phone good. I was talking to
[00:54:34] Drew. I was like, I think I have to hang
[00:54:36] up if I film this. But I was not down
[00:54:39] with any of this. But I'm not a [ __ ]
[00:54:41] So, and I'm not a sheep and I'm not a
[00:54:42] coward.
[00:54:43] >> Experiences in your life that I don't I
[00:54:45] mean I I read your book about your
[00:54:46] upbringing. I was like, damn. I just all
[00:54:48] the things you did Tijana
[00:54:51] doing these jobs, dirty jobs, moving I
[00:54:54] mean construction. I mean, I don't I
[00:54:56] don't I don't know that this generation
[00:54:58] is ever going to be able to experience
[00:54:59] that type of stuff.
[00:55:01] >> I would hope not. But, you know, it it's
[00:55:04] it's great if you can come out of the
[00:55:07] other end of it and then use those life
[00:55:10] lessons and apply them to a a different
[00:55:14] field and become successful, which for
[00:55:17] me, I was able to use it, but it's not,
[00:55:21] look, uh, it'd be nice to have a
[00:55:25] Congressional Medal of Honor, but it
[00:55:27] would also suck to get killed on a
[00:55:29] battlefield. You know what I mean? But
[00:55:30] if you can get through it to the part
[00:55:33] where you get the metal, that's pretty
[00:55:35] good. But do you want to chance the part
[00:55:37] where you get through it? You know what
[00:55:38] I mean?
[00:55:39] >> And what what and and you know, being um
[00:55:42] in the 1990s and and doing these shows
[00:55:44] and doing these bits and then seeing how
[00:55:46] media and journalism has changed, like
[00:55:49] for example, this is this is live,
[00:55:50] although this is a a a podcast, but even
[00:55:53] the journalism pieces. I had Laura Logan
[00:55:55] on this program and she worked for 60
[00:55:57] minutes and she said she used to watch
[00:55:59] her 60 minutes a hundred times. Every
[00:56:02] frame, every edit was carefully done and
[00:56:05] now it's all just kind of live and
[00:56:09] journalism has changed. Uh, and the way
[00:56:11] people consume information has changed
[00:56:13] and what's your what's your comment on
[00:56:14] that? What what are your thoughts on
[00:56:15] that? You know, back in the day
[00:56:16] everything was sort of pre-done and
[00:56:18] pre-produced and edited and now it's
[00:56:19] just kind of like blleh. We just throw
[00:56:21] it out there and react to things because
[00:56:23] you've you've been doing this for 30
[00:56:25] years.
[00:56:26] >> Yeah. And I used to sit in the edit bay
[00:56:29] at the man show and comb over everything
[00:56:32] and do sharp tight edits and you know
[00:56:35] real timing cuz comedy is so much
[00:56:38] timing. And so I've I've done the sit in
[00:56:42] the edit bay endlessly and yeah, you
[00:56:44] know, and made movies sat in the edit
[00:56:47] bay and got cut it there. you know,
[00:56:48] bring it, put a little head on it, a
[00:56:50] little tail on it, whatever. I've done
[00:56:52] that. Then I've done the kind of, you
[00:56:54] know, free flowing conversation
[00:56:57] podcasts, you know, n unscripted and and
[00:57:00] all that kind of stuff. Um,
[00:57:03] and first off, there's a place for all
[00:57:05] of it. Like there's a version. There's a
[00:57:08] long form conversational art. There's a
[00:57:11] short commercial parody funny 60 seconds
[00:57:15] like version tick tocky and all that
[00:57:18] kind of stuff. Um
[00:57:20] it's sort of like music now. Like
[00:57:22] there's funk and there's classical and
[00:57:25] there's jazz and there's R&B and there's
[00:57:27] like I I don't know that one is right,
[00:57:29] one is wrong, one's better, one's worse.
[00:57:32] It's just it's just about your taste and
[00:57:35] it's always going to move. It's always
[00:57:37] going to evolve. You know, when you
[00:57:40] watch movies from the 40s, the guy's
[00:57:42] like, "Listen to me, Tots." Now, look,
[00:57:44] here's the you're my dame and here's the
[00:57:47] score. Okay. And you're going, "Who
[00:57:48] talks like that?" Well, that's how they
[00:57:50] were making movies. That's how they
[00:57:51] talked in movies. And then all of a
[00:57:53] sudden, they got all conversational and
[00:57:55] they slowed it down and now it's a
[00:57:57] Tarantino.
[00:57:58] >> Do you enjoy it more? Do you enjoy more
[00:58:00] being in the edit bay and and carefully
[00:58:03] constructing something.
[00:58:04] I think
[00:58:07] for me
[00:58:09] the variety is always something I've
[00:58:12] enjoyed and I you know well people would
[00:58:17] say do you like writing a book or do you
[00:58:20] like doing standup cuz standup is the
[00:58:24] opposite of a book right like
[00:58:26] >> how so
[00:58:27] >> well
[00:58:29] the book takes six months you know
[00:58:33] standup is an hour and it's there and
[00:58:36] there's no editor and there's no send it
[00:58:38] to New York and get notes and get it
[00:58:41] back and there's no collaboration. It's
[00:58:44] just you alone holding the mic real time
[00:58:48] versus, you know, sitting and oh, I got
[00:58:52] 18 pages done this weekend. Maybe we'll
[00:58:55] do 10 more pages tomorrow. You know,
[00:58:57] it's it's it's quiet. it. There's a lot
[00:59:00] of solitude to writing a book as you
[00:59:03] know. You don't write a book in front of
[00:59:05] a crowd that's drinking. You know what I
[00:59:08] mean? Like like I'll be doing standup
[00:59:10] tonight and it'll be completely
[00:59:13] different than uh I'm doing at the uh
[00:59:16] Miami improv.
[00:59:17] >> It'll be the exact opposite of writing
[00:59:20] that book.
[00:59:20] >> But when you write, do you write in a
[00:59:22] linear fashion? Do you go back and edit
[00:59:24] and I mean like rearrange it at
[00:59:26] sentences or do you just flow? I I have
[00:59:28] found for me and and I would suggest
[00:59:32] this to a lot of people are like young
[00:59:34] writers. I write all my I write it all
[00:59:38] out of writing a book. I'll have
[00:59:40] somebody basically here's how I do it. I
[00:59:42] would go James, you can type, right? You
[00:59:45] go, good. All right, let me tell you a
[00:59:47] story about Tijana. Now, here goes. And
[00:59:49] I'd just be pontificating. You'd be
[00:59:51] typing, typing, typing. And then we get
[00:59:53] to the bottom of the page and I would
[00:59:55] turn my back on you and I would close my
[00:59:58] eyes. I would go, "Read it back to me. I
[01:00:00] just want to hear it." And I would close
[01:00:01] my eyes. I don't want to see you. I
[01:00:03] don't want to see anything. Just read
[01:00:05] it. Let me listen. And then you'd read
[01:00:07] it to me. And if it's if it flowed and
[01:00:10] if it was funny and it was kind of
[01:00:12] conversational, I would go, "Okay." But
[01:00:14] when I hear it, I would know and I would
[01:00:18] change I would change things along the
[01:00:20] way. But all I'm saying is is this.
[01:00:23] Whether you're doing the man show and
[01:00:26] you're doing sketches or commercial
[01:00:28] parodies or you're making a feature film
[01:00:31] or you're making a doc documentary or
[01:00:34] you're writing a book or you're doing a
[01:00:36] podcast or you're doing standup, the
[01:00:38] answer is I prefer the thing
[01:00:42] I'm going to do next. And the and and
[01:00:45] the thing that I did the most of is the
[01:00:47] thing I I don't want to do. So, if I
[01:00:50] just wrote a book, I don't want to write
[01:00:52] another book. I want to go do standup.
[01:00:56] >> Uh, but after a couple years of not
[01:00:59] writing a book, I want to go, well, now
[01:01:01] >> I would like to write a book, you know?
[01:01:03] And so, I I always sort of look at it or
[01:01:05] sort of say it this way, and I I think
[01:01:08] people get the context of it this way
[01:01:10] where they go,
[01:01:12] "What is your favorite food?" And then I
[01:01:15] go, "Well, I love barbecue." And they
[01:01:18] go, "Okay, so barbecue." And I go, "I
[01:01:21] like sushi. Sushi's pretty good." Okay.
[01:01:24] Okay. But I do like going to a
[01:01:26] steakhouse. That's great. Going to And
[01:01:28] then you realize, do you have a favorite
[01:01:30] food or is your favorite food what you
[01:01:34] haven't eaten in a while? Cuz you I love
[01:01:37] barbecue, but three nights of eating
[01:01:40] barbecue, let's get some sushi going or
[01:01:43] some Chinese food or some Indian food.
[01:01:45] So then the question is is what do you
[01:01:47] like? And the answer is I like it all. I
[01:01:50] just don't want it all to be the same.
[01:01:53] >> A kind of a jack of all trades. I mean,
[01:01:56] I find that to be true. Like I do
[01:01:58] musical theater, but I don't want to do
[01:01:59] it full-time. I DJ once in a while. I I
[01:02:02] I hear you. The variety, not doing the
[01:02:04] same thing over and over. We do We only
[01:02:06] have about five minutes left because I I
[01:02:08] know you have to go. We have a caller
[01:02:10] here that wants to ask about what's
[01:02:13] name?
[01:02:14] Bo. Bill.
[01:02:17] Bill. Okay. Hey, Bill is on the line.
[01:02:19] He's gonna ask you about a movie that
[01:02:21] you made. So, caller, are you there?
[01:02:24] >> Hey.
[01:02:24] >> Hey, Bill.
[01:02:25] >> Hey, Stroy Bill from Twitter here.
[01:02:27] >> Hey, Bill.
[01:02:27] >> Hey, Adam. Are you gonna make that ped
[01:02:30] uh Yeah, this is Bill. Strokey Bill from
[01:02:32] Twitter.
[01:02:33] >> Hi, Bill from Twitter. What's your
[01:02:34] question?
[01:02:35] >> Adam.
[01:02:37] Adam, are you gonna make the pedophile
[01:02:38] island movie you were talking about
[01:02:40] making?
[01:02:41] >> I don't know. I feel like that's coming
[01:02:43] to fruition. I yeah I I I used to do
[01:02:45] madeup movies and uh pedophile was a
[01:02:50] movie I came up with which is it was the
[01:02:52] future
[01:02:54] you know 20 years in the future and all
[01:02:56] the pedophiles have been dropped off on
[01:02:59] an island like we never knew what to do
[01:03:01] with them historically we had like
[01:03:04] French Guyana and places like that
[01:03:06] Devil's Island you know France would
[01:03:09] take their prisoners and go we don't
[01:03:10] want them living amongst us even if
[01:03:13] They're in prison. Let's just drop them
[01:03:15] off in French Guyana and they can just
[01:03:17] live on an island and they'll never come
[01:03:19] here. And I thought, you know, cuz it
[01:03:23] was a lot of that with pedophiles. Like
[01:03:24] I was like, what do you do with them? Do
[01:03:26] you castrate them? Do you chemically
[01:03:28] castrate them? Well, you can't let them
[01:03:30] back into society. On the other hand, if
[01:03:33] you don't kill anybody, can you go to
[01:03:34] prison for the rest of your life? Like,
[01:03:36] how do we do this? And then I realized
[01:03:38] just drop them off on an island. So the
[01:03:41] madeup movie was pedophile and it was an
[01:03:45] island of pedophiles and then the
[01:03:47] islands and on the island that kind of
[01:03:49] broke off into groups sort of like you
[01:03:52] know uh gangs of New York or something.
[01:03:55] It's like you had these pedophiles over
[01:03:57] here and you had those ones over here.
[01:03:59] >> Where was the island going to be in your
[01:04:00] fictional uh movie?
[01:04:01] >> Pedophile
[01:04:02] >> just like French Gana like where
[01:04:06] in movies you get to make up islands.
[01:04:08] >> I see. Like they did they did it they
[01:04:10] did it in Gilligan's Island. He goes
[01:04:13] >> they go on a boat off of like Marina del
[01:04:17] Rey and two hours later they're on an
[01:04:20] island that's never been discovered
[01:04:21] before which but we can do it.
[01:04:23] >> And this was like a screenplay for for a
[01:04:25] >> it was a madeup movie. I just made it
[01:04:29] up. and and the and and there was a
[01:04:32] plane
[01:04:34] filled with Cub Scouts who were coming
[01:04:37] home from a Cub Scout jamboree
[01:04:42] that was like in Jamaica or something
[01:04:45] and the plane went down and it was on
[01:04:48] ped pedophile
[01:04:50] >> Cub Scouts
[01:04:51] >> Cub Scouts
[01:04:52] >> the plane
[01:04:54] >> crash landing
[01:04:54] >> crashed on a pedophile island
[01:04:56] >> on the way back from a chamber
[01:04:58] >> horrifying I That's why you got to make
[01:05:00] the movie.
[01:05:01] >> That's That's brutal.
[01:05:02] >> It's br Well, it could be. Yeah.
[01:05:05] >> In In this movie, is it like is it like
[01:05:07] a live action movie? Is it like prank
[01:05:09] anchors? Is it puppets? Is it Is it Is
[01:05:11] it
[01:05:11] >> It's live action
[01:05:13] >> like Okay.
[01:05:13] >> And there's lessons to be learned, you
[01:05:16] know.
[01:05:16] >> Would you show graphic scenes or in your
[01:05:20] vision?
[01:05:20] >> You
[01:05:22] cut to the canopy and birds flying.
[01:05:24] Okay. You know that kind. Don't think
[01:05:26] don't don't think of it that way. You're
[01:05:29] you're you're you're getting
[01:05:30] >> my mind goes too literal. You're too
[01:05:32] literal.
[01:05:33] >> I'm a cinem of verit.
[01:05:34] >> They land on this island and they got
[01:05:37] Well, look at Jurassic Park. You know,
[01:05:39] you got to stay one step ahead of the
[01:05:41] dinosaurs. You see what I'm saying?
[01:05:44] Where do you I mean, one question I have
[01:05:46] and we're running out of time here, but
[01:05:48] do you come up with your ideas? Like I
[01:05:50] work out or I take a jog and and then my
[01:05:53] mind it gets creative. Where where are
[01:05:55] you at your most creative?
[01:05:57] >> Um when you're working out actually
[01:06:01] >> I'm sitting and watching TV, but when
[01:06:03] you're working out, that's when I get
[01:06:05] creative.
[01:06:06] >> When I when I
[01:06:07] >> You not only inspire yourself,
[01:06:10] you inspire me as well.
[01:06:11] >> I inspire you. I I f here's how I do
[01:06:15] here's what I do. I I find myself like
[01:06:18] sitting around looking at stuff and and
[01:06:22] often times I'll be watching TV and
[01:06:27] little things will jump out at me like
[01:06:30] but things I've seen a million times
[01:06:32] like I was watching football. I'll watch
[01:06:35] a lot of football and and I'll get a lot
[01:06:38] of stuff out of like commercials and
[01:06:40] stuff and just watching commercials, but
[01:06:42] like I was watching football and
[01:06:47] they were down. It was third and two or
[01:06:49] whatever and it was like a hard count
[01:06:51] and somebody jumped off sides, right?
[01:06:54] One of the linemen jumped off sides and
[01:06:56] the other team was going nuts like
[01:06:58] pointing and and like what you know like
[01:07:00] going nuts pointing at the guy and I
[01:07:03] thought why is this such a big deal?
[01:07:05] It's five yards. You've seen it a mill
[01:07:07] if you play football you've seen someone
[01:07:10] offsides a hundred times and these guys
[01:07:14] are 300 lb guys. They've been concussed
[01:07:16] a thousand times. Like it would make
[01:07:18] sense that they would screw up the count
[01:07:21] and go off sides.
[01:07:22] Why the big celebration? Why so
[01:07:25] emphatic? Why is this such a big deal to
[01:07:27] you? And I've never really thought about
[01:07:29] the 300 lb guy jumping up and down and
[01:07:32] everyone pointing at the guy who lurched
[01:07:34] forward, but it's not that big a deal.
[01:07:36] It happens all the time. And why are you
[01:07:39] celebrating and going so insane and now
[01:07:42] they're kicking a field goal or whatever
[01:07:44] it is and it's only five yards. And I
[01:07:47] was just sort of watching it and I
[01:07:48] realized
[01:07:50] I have seen that 200,000 times in my
[01:07:53] life, but I never thought
[01:07:56] why it's kind of weird,
[01:07:58] >> you know, like why
[01:08:01] >> why it seems something seems interesting
[01:08:04] about it now to me even though I've seen
[01:08:07] it
[01:08:09] >> so many times. And and and then what
[01:08:12] I'll do is I'll go maybe there's
[01:08:15] something there. Like maybe there's
[01:08:17] something to talk about. Maybe there's
[01:08:19] something interesting.
[01:08:21] >> Yeah. Like an irony or an absurdity.
[01:08:23] Like like like first off,
[01:08:25] >> this guy who jumped off sides was the
[01:08:28] dumbest guy in your high school, right?
[01:08:31] He's 300 lb. He's 6'6.
[01:08:35] He's been hit in the head a million
[01:08:36] times. He's tired. The quarterback is up
[01:08:40] THERE YELLING LIKE, "OMAHA, GO GO GO."
[01:08:43] YOU KNOW, THIS GUY falls forward and
[01:08:44] you're like, [laughter]
[01:08:45] "LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HIM. HE screwed
[01:08:47] up." And it's like, "Get over it.
[01:08:50] >> It's it and and it's going to happen
[01:08:52] again and it's going to never stop
[01:08:54] happening. What's with the celebration?"
[01:08:57] I get it. You got five yards in in your
[01:08:59] direction, but why is this so pleasing?
[01:09:02] Why are you jumping up and down? And
[01:09:04] wouldn't you expect this to happen? And
[01:09:08] it's not even like I'm not like I'm not
[01:09:10] going like oh this is going to be a real
[01:09:12] funny standup bit or anything like that.
[01:09:15] I just kind of go it is something to
[01:09:18] think about and it's like something to
[01:09:22] give some thought to and to see if you
[01:09:25] can craft it into something to you the
[01:09:28] 20th the 200th time watching this thing.
[01:09:31] It just comes to your brain.
[01:09:32] >> I played football. I never really
[01:09:34] thought about it. I've watched more
[01:09:36] football than anybody and I never really
[01:09:38] thought about it. And then one night I'm
[01:09:40] just sitting around watching Monday
[01:09:41] Night Football and I'm watching everyone
[01:09:43] jump up and down and point
[01:09:44] >> and I thought,
[01:09:46] >> "Huh, never thought about that before."
[01:09:50] But I mean, I I do a lot of never
[01:09:54] thought about that before, but now I'm
[01:09:56] thinking about it. And that's my
[01:09:59] process. But my process
[01:10:01] is mainly
[01:10:04] sort of walking around and just looking
[01:10:06] at stuff and going why why do we do this
[01:10:13] and and how come we do this and and is
[01:10:18] it that doesn't make sense.
[01:10:21] >> Most people don't do that. Most people
[01:10:22] don't behave that way. No, I I I I sort
[01:10:26] of break everything down and you know,
[01:10:29] I'll be
[01:10:31] listening to a song and and really
[01:10:33] thinking about the lyrics of it and like
[01:10:36] what it means and most people are just
[01:10:38] like, you know,
[01:10:40] one bit that people always enjoyed was
[01:10:43] me and Nor McDonald breaking down Kenny
[01:10:46] Rogers songs. And like people are they
[01:10:49] love it, but it's only because they
[01:10:51] never realize how insane a lot of his
[01:10:54] songs are like um Ruby Don't Take Your
[01:10:58] Love to Town and Coward of the County.
[01:11:02] They're they're they're we won't do it
[01:11:05] now, but go look up the lyrics to Coward
[01:11:08] of the County and Ruby, don't bring your
[01:11:11] love to town. I I had like 10 more pages
[01:11:14] of things to talk to you about, but your
[01:11:16] manager is giving me the signal and um
[01:11:18] maybe I'll have you back one day, Adam.
[01:11:20] This is fascinating. And from one
[01:11:21] creative to another, I have to say I
[01:11:23] have some some you know, I understand.
[01:11:26] But uh it's great to talk to you and uh
[01:11:29] um fascinating life you've lived.
[01:11:32] >> Well, I wish I had more time too, James.
[01:11:34] >> We'll talk again soon.
[01:11:35] >> I hope so. And you can come on my
[01:11:37] podcast as well
[01:11:38] >> in California. Well, we can zoom you in
[01:11:41] or you can sail over.
[01:11:42] >> Sail a sailboat. I got to all go to the
[01:11:44] uh the Panama Canal to get over over
[01:11:46] there. Um you going to stay in
[01:11:48] California, you think?
[01:11:49] >> I don't think so.
[01:11:51] >> Do you know where you might go one day?
[01:11:54] >> Somewhere that's not California, which
[01:11:57] is Let me just say this. I've lived in
[01:12:00] California my whole life. No one ever
[01:12:03] leaves California. And if they do leave
[01:12:06] California, it's for something like they
[01:12:09] go, "I'm gonna retire. I'm going to
[01:12:10] Maui." They go, "Okay, that sounds
[01:12:12] pretty nice." Now, I talk to people and
[01:12:15] they go, "I'm leaving California." And I
[01:12:17] go, "Where are you going?" And they go,
[01:12:19] "I don't know, but I'm leaving."
[01:12:22] >> Which is much different than your job is
[01:12:25] transferring you to Nashville. This is
[01:12:28] I'm just leaving.
[01:12:29] >> Just going. See, it's usually Texas,
[01:12:31] Nevada, Tennessee, or Florida,
[01:12:34] >> which is Yeah. Yeah. It's one of those.
[01:12:36] It It'll be one of those. But what I'm
[01:12:38] saying is is it's not a good sign
[01:12:41] >> when you're in a state and people are
[01:12:43] just saying, "I'm leaving."
[01:12:45] >> Yeah.
[01:12:45] >> People only left like anyone I ever knew
[01:12:49] who left California is like, "Well, my
[01:12:50] dad's law firm moved to Denver and he's
[01:12:53] moving. I got to go with him." You know,
[01:12:55] that's there was never I'm getting the
[01:12:57] hell out of here.
[01:12:58] >> It's the people of California that are
[01:13:00] so screwed up. I moved to Florida. I
[01:13:01] love it here because people are happy
[01:13:02] and vibrant. And if the top three things
[01:13:05] about your state are weather, weather,
[01:13:06] weather, weather, like if all anyone can
[01:13:08] say great about California is the
[01:13:09] weather.
[01:13:10] >> Yeah, I mean that's bad.
[01:13:11] >> But hey, it was great having you on. I'm
[01:13:13] I'm running out of time. I know you got
[01:13:14] to go. Thank you very much. Have you
[01:13:16] back on one day
ℹ️ Document Details
SHA-256
yt_zjv9C4Ajn9w
Dataset
youtube
Comments 0