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Speaker 1:
[00:00] Well, in this episode, Janiyah Thomas comes in. She was a black media manager for Trump. So she's got a lot of insights about that world. Also, Elisha Krauss has got the news, and we'll do that right after this. Thanks for tuning in to The Adam Carolla Show. You can watch the full show on YouTube. Just search Adam Carolla Show and hit subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can also get the podcast wherever you like to listen and for extra content, ad-free episodes and more, you can head over to our sub stack and sign up today.

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Speaker 3:
[01:20] From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, political commentator, Janiyah Thomas, plus the news with Elisha Krauss, and now, Adam Carolla.

Speaker 1:
[01:34] Yeah, get it on, got to get it on, no choice, but to get on. Mandate, get on. Janiyah Thomas in studio, worked as the black media manager for President Trump. In town, in perfect timing, because the whole Southern Poverty Law Center business, I guess we can get into that. Good to see you.

Speaker 4:
[01:56] Yes, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1:
[01:59] I guess I would have to ask this to all black conservatives or folks that are associated with Trump in any way, shape or form. How are you doing with your family?

Speaker 4:
[02:11] That's a heavy question.

Speaker 1:
[02:12] My family hates me and my politics as well, but it's not as bad, probably, as you.

Speaker 4:
[02:18] Yeah. I mean, starting off, I had a lot of hard conversations with family members. Some don't want to talk to me anymore. Then, I told this story before, but my aunt and I stopped speaking for a couple of months.

Speaker 1:
[02:30] And you were close, previous to that?

Speaker 4:
[02:32] Very close. She ended up having a stroke right before the CNN debate. And then by the time I got home, my dad was like, don't rush home. You're not going to change anything or whatever. By the time I flew to Virginia, she had passed. And that's something I've been dealing with the last two years. But I tell everybody, none of this, whether you're on the right, the left, none of this is worth falling out with family members over. And it's really hard to separate the politics from the person. But I'm like, what about me is a different person? How are my different friends today than I was pre that?

Speaker 1:
[03:06] Well, also, people on, it's that way. It's basically, if you feel the way we feel and you live in Hollywood, you've essentially fallen out with everybody. Because that's where we live. But what I want to say to those people is can you, could you imagine putting yourself in our shoes? Like I know you hate Trump or you love Gavin Newsom or you love Kamala Harris or you love Karen Bass or you love whomever. These are inept, sometimes corrupt, dumb, destructive politicians. Are we not allowed to have opinions about Joe Biden?

Speaker 4:
[03:50] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[03:50] Joe Biden was mentally compromised, son is a grifter drug addict, and did nothing but hurt this country and stoke racial division. Can I have some thoughts about your guy? Who is your guy?

Speaker 4:
[04:05] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[04:06] Kamala Harris is horrible. I would not want her running a small supermarket that my parents owned. I would not. So what are we comparing our guy to?

Speaker 4:
[04:18] Yeah, 100 percent. The president is the polar opposite of that. Sometimes people might not like the way he says things, but it's very direct and I think that's what helped him get elected is because I think people are tighter seeing the like Clintons and like the Obamas, and like establishment type candidate.

Speaker 1:
[04:35] They're like circle talkers.

Speaker 4:
[04:37] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[04:37] I don't even know what they want. They want everyone to stand up and fight for justice. They're not going to rest until everybody has equal justice or something. But then they go back to Martha's Vineyard and that's the end of their work. People love it.

Speaker 4:
[04:51] Exactly. I'm like this is a copy and paste over and over again just different generations.

Speaker 1:
[04:56] Well, I've said this a million times. I don't get why more people of color aren't insulted by these guys talking about not, maybe you can't have access to an ID. I mean, I had Gavin Newsom in here telling me that black people and Hispanic people in California don't have access to checking accounts. You know, like bizarre, insane statements that you would never tolerate with your child. You know, I have 19-year-old twins. If they came up to me and I went, what's going on? I can't go to the airport, why not? I don't have an ID. I'd go, go get a fucking ID. What are you doing? Get a stupid ID. And then they go, well, I can't pay my rent because I don't have a checking. What do you mean you don't have a checking account? Go get a checking account. Do it this afternoon. Would I go, oh, I'm so sorry, you don't have access to a checking account or an ID. I mean, it's the most racist, insulting thing you can say. And Joe Biden, that's all he did. Like, you know, the black entrepreneurs, they're just as smart as white entrepreneurs. They just don't have access to accountants and lawyers. It's like, what do you mean they can't get lawyers and accountants?

Speaker 4:
[06:12] I'm pretty sure the Jay-Z's of the world have lawyers and accountants.

Speaker 1:
[06:15] Yeah, I think she probably has more than one.

Speaker 4:
[06:18] Exactly, so it is very insulting because it's like, why do you think that we're incapable of doing certain things and having certain things?

Speaker 1:
[06:25] Well, here's what I would say. The most racist you can be is to think a group is not capable of doing something. That is the ultimate. Thinking they're something else, you know what I mean? Like you go, black people, they're great dancers. That's not nearly as racist as thinking they can't get a checking account or any. I'll play you 30 seconds of Newsome just because it'll blow your mind. He sat where you're sitting and told me that they don't have access to it. Look down the road six months. Yes, your husband lost his job. That's why you need to sock away some money when he's gainfully employed. Yes, they foreclosed on your home. That's why you need to have a network, a community, friends, family members, money put away.

Speaker 5:
[07:16] But think about Adam, half of African-Americans in the state of California, roughly half of Latino families have no access to a check-in account or an ATM. Things we take for granted. They don't have a check-in account.

Speaker 1:
[07:26] What's wrong with them?

Speaker 5:
[07:27] Well, because they don't have the resources to sock those things away.

Speaker 1:
[07:30] Why do we have them?

Speaker 5:
[07:32] A lot of different reasons, but roughly half those families don't.

Speaker 1:
[07:35] Why do Armenians have them?

Speaker 5:
[07:37] But where they end up is in check cashing places.

Speaker 1:
[07:39] But I want to know why those groups don't have access.

Speaker 5:
[07:43] A lot of it just happens to be that.

Speaker 1:
[07:46] Okay, it just happens to be that way. That's his plan. All right, that's super racist.

Speaker 4:
[07:52] Yes, I think Gavin is a complete idiot.

Speaker 1:
[07:54] Well, he's an idiot, yeah, but that's what I want to say to all my asshole friends in Hollywood. This is your guy. You're making fun of me?

Speaker 4:
[08:01] Yeah, no, I get it. I mean, he's just very, like, to sit there and separate two different communities and say that they're not capable of doing X, Y, and Z. It's also like the White Savior Syndrome like they want you to feel like you need them for help.

Speaker 1:
[08:17] Bigger question. Why aren't more black people insulted by these people? They really should be insulted. I don't hear enough, that I don't hear enough voices of them going, you don't speak for me. Shut up. I'm not a child. I can take care of myself.

Speaker 4:
[08:34] I think we're moving in the right direction. It's getting better than it was before, especially with like the younger generation, I think it's better. But like, you know, there's some people like the baby boomers that are still left, like my grandmother's age, like they're not going to change their mind. Like they have been so mentally programmed to believe and think certain things.

Speaker 1:
[08:52] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[08:52] And like they just don't hear it. I'm like, Joe Biden has literally said stuff like, I don't want my kids growing up in a racial jungle.

Speaker 1:
[08:59] Right.

Speaker 4:
[08:59] And I'm like, but that's okay. But you have a problem with Trump.

Speaker 1:
[09:03] Right. Well, also, here's what I think. And black women are, I don't know, 90% Democrat, or maybe more. I don't know, 91.

Speaker 4:
[09:13] Probably.

Speaker 1:
[09:14] Something like that. Black men are sort of moving a little bit the other direction. It's interesting that the men are easier to move than the women. But also in terms of the black community, how many years of nothing coming out the other end before you start to realize, I don't think this is working. Like, you know, if you had the ne'er-do-well brother-in-law and you lent him five grand and he told you he's going to have that money for you at the end of the week, and 61 years has gone by and you've never seen... When he gets up there and says, next week, I'm going to give you your money back, at what point do you stop believing him?

Speaker 4:
[09:57] I think a lot of... I think especially when you're talking about men and women, like men think with logic and can separate their emotions from logic. Women just happen to move more on emotions. And I would say the thing that the Democrat Party does is very... Like, they harp on emotional things, they harp on identity politics, they harp on the abortion issue. And I think those things like benefit... In most black women's minds, they think these things benefit them. And even like the welfare system, you're more likely to get more money if you're not married and there's no man in the household. Like, that's like a all... It's a design basically to think that you need to be dependent on the system and dependent on these people. Whereas men, I think the Democrat Party has focused so much on like talking about crazy shit like transgenders and, you know, whether your daughter is a cat or a child, like a woman, like weird stuff like that, that like only maybe 10 to 5% of the country like can even relate to. It's irrelevant. So they kind of have isolated black men from the conversation. And I think that's why a lot of black men are more moving towards the president, because it's as simple as like creating, you know, financial stability for your family, like starting businesses, like ownership, owning homes and taking care of your family and being the provider. I think that's why more black men have started to come towards the Republican Party and Trump because they're not thinking about all the emotional crazy issues that Democrats talk about.

Speaker 1:
[11:19] Yeah, I agree. Guys are a little more pragmatic and a little less emotional. It's easier to get them to move off of something if it's not working. Because there's a pragmatism.

Speaker 4:
[11:31] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[11:33] So you, how did you get that job with Trump?

Speaker 4:
[11:38] So before that, I was actually the media relations director on the convention in Milwaukee. So I'd been in Milwaukee for about like three months. Then I just started doing TV, like just for shits and giggles, because nobody else wanted to do it, and I guess they liked that, and then they were like a few days later, can you come to the campaign? I'd already like new people in the campaign from just working in the party in general. Then so yeah, my first day five was going to the Bronx with the president.

Speaker 1:
[12:02] Oh yeah, right.

Speaker 4:
[12:04] That was crazy experience.

Speaker 1:
[12:06] How did you come upon this in your own life? Because your family was not this way.

Speaker 4:
[12:14] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[12:14] Now, my family was very progressive, super progressive as well. I just looked at them and went, whatever this is, it ain't working.

Speaker 4:
[12:25] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[12:25] I'm going in another direction. But I don't know what you did.

Speaker 4:
[12:30] I think for me, I grew up very different than most of my cousins, and even different than my mother did. I grew up in a two-parent household. My parents have been together since they were 19 and 21. Me and my dad are like the type to have constructive conversations about stuff like this. He was the Trump supporter before me. And then he was like, you don't really need to care about what other people think, and I'm also an only child, so I never really have been that dependent on what other people think about anything. So I kind of just came to talk to my dad, having conversations. At the time, I was in a black political thought class in college, and this is like when COVID is going on. And I'm like, we have all these 20 different ideologies, but what? We're still like an oppressed community? I'm like, this makes no sense to me. And then, you know, I just kind of like the Trump way of just being real and being authentic. Like, you may not like the way it comes out, but it's like, he's very straightforward, very direct. And I just kind of had to separate my friends and family, because when I was working for the party in general, or even when I worked for Senator Scott, that wasn't a problem. It was really when I started working for Trump, was when it became a problem. And I'm like, I've been working in the party for years before this, like, why is it now this person? I even had a friend that like, Sunday, election day, we're talking friends. Wednesday, we can't be friends anymore.

Speaker 1:
[13:51] Right, right. Yeah, they have a lot of rules. And the rules are, you agree with them, and their bizarre nonsense that's destructive, otherwise, they cut you out.

Speaker 4:
[14:03] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[14:04] Which is a weird way to sort of maintain a relationship, because whatever it is they believe in is, in my belief, destructive. So why shouldn't I be angry at you?

Speaker 4:
[14:20] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[14:20] You have super destructive thoughts.

Speaker 4:
[14:22] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[14:22] The people you vote for ruin the city I grew up in. So shouldn't I be more angry at you than you are at me? I want Steve Hilton to be the governor. He's not an insane person that's a race hustler.

Speaker 4:
[14:36] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[14:37] But okay. And I would assume his wife is semi-normal, too, compared to Gavin Newsom. Yeah. So this thing that just breaking news, the whole Southern Poverty Law Center stuff, this is something that I have been aware of. And if you're on the right, you would be aware of this organization and how they work. Now, if you're George Clooney, you're cutting them a check for a million dollars because you don't know. Sometimes in an attempt to be kind, whether it's COVID or Southern Poverty Law Center or Joe Biden's mental demise, I think a lot of people just don't know it. Yeah. It's not reported in the news. They don't know what's going on. I happen to work with sometimes and friends with Dennis Prager, PragerU. PragerU got designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, who's now, it turns out, paying people to have racist protests. There's going to be more to come out. You guys have probably heard this story. But I thought I would just play you guys at four and a half minute, PragerU, on the Southern Poverty Law Center. And this is eight years ago. So everyone who says, you know, PragerU, you guys are nuts. You're conspiracy theorists or Adam, you're nuts with COVID or whatever. Go back eight years. This is what, this is what PragerU had to say.

Speaker 6:
[16:13] Shutting down people you don't agree with is about as un-American as you can get. Rigorous debate, honest discussion, open exchange of ideas, that's the American way. But free thinking and speech are threatened today by a group with a sweet sounding name that conceals a nefarious purpose. This group is called the Southern Poverty Law Center or SPLC. Originally founded as a civil rights law firm in 1971, the SPLC reinvented itself in the mid-80s as a political attack group. Every year now, it produces a new list of people and charities it claims are extremists and haters. Aided by glowing coverage from the establishment media, the SPLC's hate list has become a weapon for taking individuals and groups they disagree with and tarring them with ugly associations. The SPLC employs a two-pronged strategy. First, find a handful of crazies with barely any followers, no address and no staff, and blow them up into a dangerous movement. Proof that there are neo-Nazis lurking everywhere. On their notorious hate map, the SPLC lists 917 separate hate groups in the US. No one has even heard of more than a handful of them. The second strategy of the SPLC is to undermine legitimate political voices that they oppose by associating them with extremists like the KKK. Take the charity known as the Alliance Defending Freedom. The SPLC lists them as a hate group. Is that fair? Well, the ADF has a network of 3,000 attorneys from all across the US who have donated more than a million volunteer hours in defense of religious liberty. They have had a role in 49 victories at the US. Supreme Court. Putting the Alliance Defending Freedom on a list with 130 Ku Klux Klan chapters is not only wrong, it's malicious. According to the SPLC, one of the most influential social scientists in the US., Charles Murray, is a, quote, white nationalist. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson for the rights of Muslim women, is to the SPLC a toxic anti-Muslim extremist. Scores of other individuals and charities, active and mainstream conservative or religious causes, have likewise been branded by the Southern Poverty Law Center as threats to society. Mind you, it is entirely fair to disagree with any of those folks, but it is utterly unfair to call them haters or extremists. The largest category listed by the SPLC as extremists, with 623 entries, covers groups like the Tea Party organizations that are wary of centralized government. Last time we checked, favoring smaller government was a mainstream and perfectly honorable American tradition. What is not honorable is the course prescribed by a leader of the SPLC, Mark Potok, who was caught on video proclaiming the organization's true intentions. He told a group of supporters, quote, The press will describe us as monitoring hate groups. I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them. Portraying someone with political views different from your own as a public menace is bullying and it's a dangerous game. Instead of reducing hate and violence, the SPLC's name calling directly incites it. In March 2017, Charles Murray was trying to discuss his acclaimed book, Coming Apart, at Middlebury College when he was violently attacked by protesters inflamed by the SPLC's labeling of him as a racist. A professor escorting Murray ended up in the hospital. In 2012, a gunman attempted mass murder at the Family Research Council and failed only because the first man he shot managed to disarm him. The attacker told the police he acted because the SPLC had listed the Family Research Council as a hate group. It's a vicious irony. While promoting itself as a monitor of hate groups, the SPLC has in practice become a fomentor of hate. Yet the group rolls on, bigger than ever. What keeps them going? For one thing, the establishment media constantly quote them. Scare stories about right-wing storm troopers are a sure way to attract eyeballs and fit nicely with the media's own preconceptions of the dangerous reactionaries lurking out there in middle America. Second, alarmism is a great fundraising technique. Convincing people there are fascists everywhere has turned the SPLC into a cash machine. Last year, the group hustled $50 million out of frightened liberal donors, adding to the $368 million of assets they were already sitting on. So the next time you see the Southern Poverty Law Center quoted in the news, just remember, the masterminds behind the SPLC aren't eliminating hate. They are fueling it. I'm Carl Zinsmeister for Prager University.

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Speaker 1:
[24:17] There's your story. And by the way, the people that are listening to Southern Poverty Law Center are the people want to put together the disinformation and misinformation czar. They want to be in charge of what's true and what's not true. They want to be in charge of that. Really? Color me dubious.

Speaker 4:
[24:39] I mean, I think the thing that works for them is like the media does this on their own.

Speaker 1:
[24:42] The media makes these groups and they come up, it's like they come up with some sort of bullshit thing and then they quote it. It's a perfect scam. They go, oh, you support PragerU? Yeah, well, you know, Southern Poverty Law Center's got them on their list of, it's like, they made a list.

Speaker 4:
[25:01] That's actually insane, because I literally was just there the other day to visit Marissa, and they're the most peaceful, kind people.

Speaker 1:
[25:07] 100%, just the truth.

Speaker 4:
[25:10] And the left is always trying to frame the right as being these violent extremists, and I'm like, you guys are the ones inciting the violence. Antifa is the one inciting the violence. It's not us. I was like, it's always been them.

Speaker 1:
[25:23] It's crazy. I mean, I guess it's all projection, but it is. It's like what they do is they go, we had some organization become some sort of political fact checker, and it's all bullshit and leftist, and then they check your facts, and they go, well, turns out Joe Biden, Hunter Biden's laptop is a Russian hoax. We check with the fact checkers. The fact checkers who do what? Agree with you all the time?

Speaker 4:
[25:51] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[25:52] The Southern Poverty Law Center said, this guy's a hate group or that group's a group group. Yeah, it's the scam.

Speaker 4:
[25:58] It'd be different if they directed some of that attention to people on their side, and it was fair, but it's obviously very clearly directed at conservative organizations.

Speaker 1:
[26:07] I got this funny, I don't know why I mashed it up. But so then Joe Biden runs on hate and discrimination and racial whatever. And Joe Biden, first up, people don't hate him enough because he's such a pompous narcissist. I mean, imagine you go, I was retired. I was just going to sit and enjoy my later days and go for long walks on the beach. But someone had to stop racism. So I stood up and I ran for president so I could end this scourge known as racism. But here's what we're dealing with and I've been yelling about it for a million years. He then runs on it, says white supremacy is the biggest problem this country has, and then unleashes his DOJ and his Justice Department to go find it.

Speaker 4:
[27:01] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[27:02] And that's the problem. That's the scary part. They went and found it everywhere.

Speaker 4:
[27:08] Yeah. I mean, I think obviously people, I know people in our country have a tendency to forget things that people have done and said in the past. But if you look at Biden's history, to then flip-flop to say, I'm trying to end racism, I'm like, you are part of the problem. You're the crime bill, part of the problem. The things you've said about black people, part of the problem. Or the, you ain't black if you don't vote for me. Just feeling like you're entitled to somebody's vote. And it's like, I know we have a short attention span in this country, but I'm like, some of these things cannot be forgotten. And for all the hate to be directed at people on the right, and he has blatantly said things like this, it's just not fair.

Speaker 1:
[27:45] I'll play you the Biden clip, just because he's just, everything, when you look back at Biden, you just realize what a hustler this idiot was. Oh, by the way, this is the guy, the people that won't talk to us, this is your hero, the corrupt hustler, the big guy.

Speaker 9:
[28:09] I made the decision to run for president after Charlottesville. Close your eyes and remember what you saw. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the KKK coming out of the fields with torches lighted, veins bulging, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s. It was hate on the march, in the open, in America.

Speaker 1:
[28:40] He's going to stop it.

Speaker 9:
[28:41] Hate never goes away, it only hides. When it's given oxygen, when it's given an opportunity to spread, when it's treated as normal and acceptable behavior, we've opened a door in this country that we must move quickly to close. As president, that's just what I will do. I will send a clear, un-critical message to the entire nation. There is no place for hate in America.

Speaker 1:
[29:14] Okay, nice job, old man.

Speaker 4:
[29:17] And see, this is the bullshit, because this is the hole, them running on emotions. They're running on, you know, inciting people emotionally, and then people are so sensitive to it that they get trapped into continuing to vote for people like this.

Speaker 1:
[29:30] Yes.

Speaker 4:
[29:31] And I'm like, if you looked at the facts and looked at who he really is and what he's done, which is a problem, I think, educational-wise, voter-wise in this country, because you don't do enough research on candidates in general. But I'm like, if you look at the things he's done, the stuff he's talking about is a polar opposite of the things he's already done. Right.

Speaker 1:
[29:47] Yeah. Integrating black students would turn schools into a jungle, a racial jungle, this is from 1977. And listen, look, your dear departed aunt, if I could go to heaven and speak to her, I would say at a certain point, he's just doing what he's doing. He's just gonna do what he's gonna do. He's a guy selling timeshares. He rips people off. That's what he does. At a certain point, you're gonna have to figure out what they're up to. Because they're not gonna stop. This is what they do. They do all the bullshit. They go to the black churches, they give the talk, and then they go right back to Martha's Vineyard. You never see another black person.

Speaker 4:
[30:33] And there's a big black church in Northern Virginia and Alexandria, but every candidate has gone through there. The Obamas, the Clintons, the Spamburger, that crazy lady in Virginia has to go through here. And I'm like, this is such performative bullshit. Who cares?

Speaker 1:
[30:50] Well, here's the thing. There is nothing they can do for you, black, white, whatever, male, female, lesbian. There's really nothing they can do for you. They can make good policy that makes it better for you and easier for you to get jobs and to save more and taxes and things of that nature. There's some policy stuff, but they really can't do anything for the black community or the Hispanic community. They're going to have to figure out a way to do it for themselves. Just like I can't really do anything for my family, but the real white privilege is never expecting them to do it and never being fooled into thinking they can do it. My white privilege is just knowing these guys are idiots and they're not going to do anything. And I'll have to do whatever I'm going to do. It'll all be the man in the mirror. There's a joke behind it. I mean, literally Obama, when Obama got elected, there was this black woman that's like, she wanted her cell phone bill paid for or something like Obama. It literally thinks he's going to take care of her cell phone bill. They're doing nothing for you now. But the good news is, it's a free country and the best in the world, and you can get a lot done on your own.

Speaker 4:
[32:10] Exactly. But I think their version of doing stuff is making people dependent on the government and less independent. And I think it's where, on our side of the aisle, the right side of the aisle, we focus more on independence and doing things for yourself. I know when people hate, when you say, pick yourself up by your bootstraps, but our country is founded on capitalism. Like, get out there, get in the field, play your part. You can't sit there and have this victim mindset and you need a handout and people to help you. Like, that's not beneficial to any culture, black, white, Hispanic, anyone.

Speaker 1:
[32:40] Also, do we not have enough stories of success in this country, of Oprah-type stories, you know, grew up poor, worked hard, so on and so forth? I mean, this country is littered with those stories. It's littered with success stories of women, men, black, Asian, Jewish, whatever, grew up poor, never met a dad, in and out of juvenile hall or something. And now, look, most of those stories, most of the successful people have, it wasn't born rich and got something from daddy. Most of these stories are just stories. And by the way, they were able to achieve it in this country 50 years ago.

Speaker 4:
[33:27] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[33:28] Which is much different than it is now. So I'd say if Oprah could make her way up during that period in this country, there is no excuse.

Speaker 4:
[33:38] No excuse. Not at all. Because according to them, it was harder back then. So there is no excuse.

Speaker 1:
[33:44] It was technically hard. If you were black, if you were gay, it was harder back then. But that was back then. And I don't know why they just want to live in that past all the time, you know what I mean? So it's like Jim Crow, blah, blah, blah, Jeff Jess, but no one alive is affected by that.

Speaker 4:
[34:01] Exactly. And I think that messaging is starting to not resonate with people as much because there's not many people alive that even experienced it, even my grandmother is at the tail end of it. So it's like, why are we still talking about this? Why are we still living in the past? We need to move on in things that are current to the future.

Speaker 1:
[34:19] I don't know why, but I saw Kamala Harris was doing the same story when she was debating with Trump, I think.

Speaker 4:
[34:26] Oh boy.

Speaker 1:
[34:27] And then I'll play it, but then I got to mash up, sorry.

Speaker 10:
[34:31] Let's remember Charlottesville.

Speaker 1:
[34:33] Oh man, Charlottesville.

Speaker 10:
[34:34] Where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches. Spewing anti-Semitic hate. And what did the president then at the time say? There were fine people on each side.

Speaker 1:
[34:49] I don't know why. Now, Charlottesville is one of the cases where SPLC may have been given people money to go down there. So, but then they use Charlottesville. I mean, all right, let me, I told Andrew to mash it up just because I thought it made me, it made me laugh. So go ahead, Andrew.

Speaker 9:
[35:11] I made the decision to run for president after Charlottesville. Close your eyes.

Speaker 10:
[35:17] Remember Charlottesville.

Speaker 9:
[35:18] Remember what you saw.

Speaker 10:
[35:19] Where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches. Spewing anti-Semitic hate.

Speaker 9:
[35:26] With torches lighted.

Speaker 10:
[35:27] And what did the president then at the time say?

Speaker 9:
[35:30] Chanting the same anti-Semitic vile heard across Europe in the 30s.

Speaker 1:
[35:35] All right. This is all, if you want to know, here's the campaign, what they get done, this is it. Oh, and his son ripped off the Ukrainian energy company. There you go. You want four more years of that?

Speaker 4:
[35:48] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[35:49] Jesus Christ.

Speaker 4:
[35:49] It's terrible. One thing that, especially people on the left, and I noticed he said this in this clip, that whole connotation of white supremacy, like in the way they use it on the left, I'm like, if you actually break down the word, that means you're believing that somebody is supreme to you. Psychologically, that's fucked up to keep saying and reiterate the names of black people. I was like, I don't like that term because why I don't believe in it? I said, because if I believe in it, then I believe that somebody else is superior to me. I was like, but the more that you keep telling young kids this, like you're screwing up their brain.

Speaker 1:
[36:20] Poisoning the brain. It's literally, they're doing, basically, here's their plan. Poison all the young black kids' brains, trying to convince them that they're growing up in a place that's systemically racist. Now it's systemically, which is, it's like radon. It's just a gas. It's in the air. You know what I mean? So black kids, you guys be poisoned by this. Grow up angry. And by the way, who cares? Why even try? It's a racist society, so you guys are all poisoned. Young white kids, climate change. So you two, the black kids, the police hate you, everyone, the president hates you, and everyone in authority hates you, and good luck trying to get along. White kids, we got about another 12 years before this whole place is under water. And what are you, nine? All right. So you're not going to get to drinking age, but, so are you, is everyone miserable and angry now? Is everyone want to lash out now? Is everyone want to fight cops or destroy stuff at the museum? Everybody's angry? Everyone's agitated? Good, I'm going to Martha's Vineyard. That's their message. That's their message.

Speaker 4:
[37:29] It is, and you know, I can say this.

Speaker 1:
[37:31] Oh, hold on, Hispanic kids, ice. Ice trying to get you, round you up, and put you in a gulag. So everyone's angry now? Good. Oh, and then women and gays, they're all coming after you too. So, anyway, I'm going to Martha's Vineyard. Okay.

Speaker 4:
[37:48] I will say, especially because I grew up in South Carolina, and I grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood. And I told my parents, I guess I've gotten older, the more you keep telling children at that young age, especially black kids, that your history starts with slavery. You don't talk about the good, the positive. It's almost like everything they want you to know in the education system is reiterating this narrative of, you're the inferior, you should be mad, you should be upset. And it's like you grow up your whole life thinking that, and then once you get at an adult age, you can, at least for most of us, because I know for me, I came to that conclusion that this is a bunch of bullshit, but I was like, I hate the way that they tell kids that at such a young age, and it's really hard to undo that. So when I say when black people continue to vote Democrat and continue to vote for crazy people, it's because they start that programming at such a young age.

Speaker 1:
[38:40] Yes, and it's really, in a weird way, it is, well, not a weird way, it's child abuse. Like, I am old, and I remember going through the first OPEC oil crisis in the 70s. I was very young, but I remember that. And I remember my hippie mom basically saying, we're gonna be out of gas in like five years or something, like the world, you know, they tried all the climate change stuff back then too. Yeah, it was called ecology. They essentially move terms around, but it's all the same nut jobs. Jane Fonda has been alive for a long time. So she was wrong about a bunch of shit in the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, she's generationally wrong. But my mom bought into that stuff. And I remember waiting in long lines at the gas station and stuff like that as a little kid. And I was into cars, man, and I was into engines. And I wanted that stuff. And I dreamt of having a sports car and a race car and all that kind of stuff. And I remember being really bummed out, like, oh man, no gas. Man, I'm gonna get myself a Corvette and there'll be no gas? That sucks. And it made me depressed. And my mom would talk about, you're gonna have to live underground because of the global warming and all this kind of, well, ice age was gonna kick in and then it became global warming and the ozone was gonna be shot and the sun rays were gonna kill, we were gonna fry everyone on the planet. And I remember being nine going, shit. That doesn't sound very good. I wanted a life of clean water and Corvettes and abundant fuel. So it's really kind of abuse.

Speaker 4:
[40:30] Absolutely. It's so funny because I know people in California, like they love to talk about stuff like that. Like growing up in the South, like no one is thinking about that.

Speaker 1:
[40:38] You're so lucky.

Speaker 4:
[40:40] That's not even a topic of conversation.

Speaker 1:
[40:44] When California, by the way, I'm going back 50 years we were talking about this shit. None of it ever comes to fruition. But my question is for white people, the same thing about black people, when are you gonna give it up? When are you gonna realize this ain't happening?

Speaker 4:
[41:03] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[41:04] They're used to always talk about killer, Africanized killer bees coming to California from Mexico or Texas. And first 10 times they brought it up, I was concerned. Yeah. I don't listen to them anymore.

Speaker 4:
[41:19] I think it's a fear-mongering tactic.

Speaker 1:
[41:21] Yes, but how long are you gonna listen?

Speaker 4:
[41:23] I think people are just getting to the point that they're fed up with the bullshit.

Speaker 1:
[41:26] You think we're getting there?

Speaker 4:
[41:27] I think we're slowly getting there. But I think it's happening over time. I think because a lot of people, why do you keep wanting everybody to be scared or worried about something? That's not a tactic I think that should work, especially with younger people. I think, especially in our generation, people that are around my age, we've seen COVID, 9-11, we've seen a lot in our time. And it's like, at this point, we're like, well, how much worse can it get? So I think that fear-mongering tactic doesn't work on us. It's like, we've been here through all of these things.

Speaker 1:
[41:57] You know? There's one, my favorite all-time race-hustling Joe Biden clip is one that I've never seen anywhere else. I only played, it's only been played on this show. It's him talking about transportation. And it just shows how reflexive he is to weave race into everything, because he's not talking about a black church being shot up. He's talking about airlines and airlines gouging the public. Now, I'm a guy who flies every single weekend just about. And every single week, I have a conversation with my assistant about how much, what's first class, how much extra, coach plus, what do you get, a little knee room and a bag above your head, by the way. It's all an equation where you go, do they have business? Business is almost as much as first class. All right, well, what's the difference between coach and business? You know, I have these conversations all the time, because I fly all the time. And sometimes I go, hey, man, I want to be in first class. That's a long flight. I'll pay for it. And then sometimes I go, it's Phoenix. Let's I just flew to Southwest. Yeah, we did Southwest Phoenix. Why not? It's an hour and a half. I don't care. This is a treasure of Joe Biden. And again, once again, things that black people should be upset about. Here we go.

Speaker 9:
[43:28] Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money. But you don't know it until you purchase your ticket. Look, folks, these are junk fees. They're unfair and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low-income folks and people of color.

Speaker 1:
[43:48] People of color. Now, try to break this down. Do you have any idea what this guy is saying? No. And how would it hit people of color? He says marginalized folks and low-income folks, and then people of color. He's got three groups. I guess marginalized is gay, low-income. I can do the math on that.

Speaker 4:
[44:11] I know a lot of wealthy gay people.

Speaker 1:
[44:14] All the, first off, all things that cost money hit low-income people the most. Your gas in California being six bucks a gallon hits the low-income people the most.

Speaker 4:
[44:27] It's affecting everybody, actually.

Speaker 1:
[44:29] But it hits them the most. Because we make $10 million a year, it's not a big deal if it goes up a buck 50. But also, it hits black people harder. Do you have any idea? Let's just say, well, watch it one more time. You defend Joe Biden.

Speaker 4:
[44:46] Defend?

Speaker 1:
[44:47] Defend. Explain to me what he is saying.

Speaker 4:
[44:51] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[44:52] All right.

Speaker 9:
[44:53] Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money. All right, hold on a second.

Speaker 1:
[45:00] Okay, that's all airlines. All airlines. All, not some.

Speaker 3:
[45:05] Some, all of them.

Speaker 1:
[45:06] But you don't know it until you get to the airport? I don't.

Speaker 4:
[45:11] I believe you have the option to choose.

Speaker 1:
[45:13] You have an option. Well, not if you're black or marginalized.

Speaker 4:
[45:17] I'm pretty sure the internet works the same for everybody.

Speaker 1:
[45:19] Who's marginalized in 2024 or whatever this is? All right, one more time. It makes me laugh. It doesn't make the rounds. It's him and his most insane. And then what he does, because he's such a race hustler, he has to toss a little race hustle on the very end, even though he's talking about airlines.

Speaker 9:
[45:37] Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money. But you don't know it until you purchase your ticket. Look, folks, these are junk fees. They're unfair. And the hit marginalized Americans, the hardest, especially low income folks and people of color.

Speaker 1:
[45:56] Okay. What do you think?

Speaker 4:
[45:59] It's really hard to defend that because why, how do all three of these groups get to be looped together? I think what affects one affects all. And that means people with more income. I think it affects everyone.

Speaker 1:
[46:10] Well, first off, what does he even say?

Speaker 4:
[46:12] I mean, I think he's bullshitting because this makes no sense in the first place. The whole, like, you don't know what the ticket price costs before. Like, you have the option to choose your seat when you buy a ticket.

Speaker 1:
[46:24] How does the computer know your race?

Speaker 4:
[46:26] Exactly. It does it.

Speaker 1:
[46:30] I don't think people understand the man is an insane race hustler and nobody knew it. But anyway, everyone who doesn't like me in Hollywood, that's your guy. That's your guy. And I should have no opinions about that.

Speaker 4:
[46:41] Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 1:
[46:42] That is fascinating. You got a lot of opinions about my guy, but I can't have any opinions about this insane person. And by the way, Joe Biden just talked about nothing for four years. This is a perfect example of what he's talking about. This is zero. And much like Gavin Newsom, with the check cashing and the access to a checking account. OK, Joe, what's the plan? What's your plan? This is this is old. What have you done?

Speaker 4:
[47:09] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[47:10] Last time I checked, airlines were still charging extra for Neero.

Speaker 4:
[47:14] Exactly. And I think it's always been that way.

Speaker 1:
[47:16] I think it's always been that way. Well, all first class is, is even more Neero.

Speaker 4:
[47:21] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[47:22] I mean, that's all you're basically you're just paying for a little more room.

Speaker 4:
[47:25] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[47:26] Essentially.

Speaker 4:
[47:26] Yeah. But I think everybody with common sense knows that. And this message is not relatable to anyone because it doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 4:
[51:24] I mean, I think they're just doing the same thing they've done for years. Like, I mean, I think this has been going on since Johnson. And I think they're just playing the race card over and over and over again. And now it's like kind of transitioned from like less on black people, now it's the Hispanic community.

Speaker 1:
[51:39] Well, they'll, yes, they'll toggle. They'll do black, they'll do race for a long time. And then they'll slide over to gay and the trans community. They'll do that for a while. And then they'll get bored with that. And then they'll go on to income and wealth inequality. So they'll focus on billionaires. So they kind of slide around a little. And right now, yeah, black is taking a backseat to Hispanic. So they're fighting hard for the Hispanics now.

Speaker 4:
[52:07] Exactly. And like, I think, you know, I hear a lot of people like on the internet, on TikTok, like people that are like illegal saying, you know, you guys are next, like to black people. They do not realize the racism in that, in your own, like of saying we're next. I say, how can we be next when we were first? I said, we've been here. I said, we're going to send us back to Mississippi, to Chicago, and where are we going?

Speaker 1:
[52:27] With all his plans of, you know, putting trans people and gay people in cages and stuff. He's been on the job for five years now. He's the clock's ticket. He's got to get to this. We can wrap up this war and start putting trans people in cages and rounding up blacks and Hispanics, you know, because that's what he ran on. I love when they go, that's what he ran on.

Speaker 4:
[52:49] Like he did not, he said locking up and sending illegal people back. You can go by choice or you can go by force. Either way, you're going back to where you came from.

Speaker 1:
[52:57] I don't know why that's such an exotic and offensive thought.

Speaker 4:
[53:00] It's even more offensive to the people that came here legally and had to go through paperwork in the process to do it. I feel like, especially my friends on the Hispanic community, in that community that have done it legally, they're like, this is not fair because we had to do all this and then now you want to just hand over all these things to people that don't deserve it, because they came here legally?

Speaker 1:
[53:20] On a racial equality front, in the progress report I experienced this morning, here's a good question for you. I live amongst the ruins in Malibu, and there are crews all over the place, all crews, and every crew is Hispanic, they're 100 percent Hispanic. Now, this is an interesting subject for you, and I'll circle back to what I was going to say, but I'll circle back to this, but I was on the job site, I go there a couple days a week, check the progress, foremen happen to be there, and it's basically a white guy, and he's in charge of 25 Hispanic people who are working, and they're doing all the work. And I was talking to them today, by the way, they're getting ready to pour the slab, there's gonna be 3000 yards of concrete in this foundation, I'm not gonna bore you, but the slab's gonna be 300 yards, and that's coming soon, and it's totally insane what the Coastal Commission is forcing them to build, to put a single-family residence on PCH in Malibu, and I'll give you guys more on that. But I'm standing there with the guy, and it's 100% Hispanic, 100%. And I see one guy pop up, and he's got blonde hair, and he's a tall, white dude with blonde hair. And I've never seen it on this job site, or just about any, working with all the Hispanics. And I say to the foreman, I go, who's that guy? Is that the boss's son? And he goes, that's my nephew. And I said, that would explain the blonde guy on the job site. By the way, good for him, man. Learning a skill, 17 years old, likes to work, making a good hourly rate, nothing wrong with that. College isn't for everybody. But here's a question for you, because of where you grew up and where I grew up. When I travel the country, I see black crew members, trades, guys construction, masonry, road crews, I see black everything. LA doesn't exist. It's all Hispanic, 100% Hispanic. You could call 1,000 gardeners and 1,000 plumbers and 1,000 electricians and you drive through Malibu, go through the Palisades, 25 houses being framed simultaneously, not one black person on that job site holding the tool. I don't know what's different about Los Angeles and I keep telling everyone all the time, go down to the inner city, go find these troubled teens and give them a skill. I said to the guy, what's everyone getting paid? He said, the lowest anyone's getting paid is 22 bucks an hour, that's unskilled pushing a shovel around. The guys with some skill, 35, 40 bucks an hour. I said, why not, what are we doing? And never got a clean answer, never got a clear answer. What do you think?

Speaker 4:
[56:29] That's tough, because I feel like in South Carolina where I grew up, there's a lot of development, like it's a newer area. And I do see Hispanic people doing that, but I also would say that when you're, black people obviously, none of us are focused on trade skills. Everyone kind of pushes the whole, you have to go to school, go to college, and which I also think is not for everybody, and sometimes it's a setup and a trap. But I think that we don't see as many, because California is just so different. Honestly, there's probably not as many black people in California as there is on the East Coast anyway. So I feel like that's why over here you see more of that. But in our, if you're in Chicago, here in New York or something like that, then you do see probably more black people doing trade work.

Speaker 1:
[57:10] Well, yeah, but it's not like, so if you go, well, in a place that's 20% black, you would see more black tradespeople. So you go, okay, you see 20% black and you might see 5% in the trades or something like that. Here, it's like six or 8% black or something, and you got zero in the trade. So there's no representation. So there's something off, like something's weird.

Speaker 4:
[57:39] A lot of us have kind of like gone past that, and I think that like for some black people, they don't want to do that.

Speaker 1:
[57:44] Not going back to the fields.

Speaker 4:
[57:46] Exactly, like they don't want to do that.

Speaker 1:
[57:47] Yes, I get it.

Speaker 4:
[57:48] So I think that like, you know, we're more so focused on office jobs and like we're elevating as a community.

Speaker 1:
[57:53] I get it, but it still doesn't explain the rest of the country where you go to Atlanta and you'd see it a lot. And here, 100% Hispanic and white, zero Asian.

Speaker 4:
[58:06] Well, I also think the cause of living out here is crazy. So I think that's probably kind of pushed a lot of people.

Speaker 1:
[58:12] Yeah, but a lot of black people are just working at the airport.

Speaker 4:
[58:16] Yeah. Oh, really?

Speaker 1:
[58:16] Like, oh yeah, LAX is TSA, lots of black faces.

Speaker 4:
[58:21] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[58:22] So there's some jobs that they just gravitate toward.

Speaker 4:
[58:29] But I think it has a lot to do with that feeling doing the construction work probably, like, for some people it resonates with, like, going back to a different time.

Speaker 1:
[58:37] Yeah, labor in the sun.

Speaker 4:
[58:39] Yes, not wanting to do that.

Speaker 1:
[58:40] One big white guy standing over them watching.

Speaker 4:
[58:43] Yeah, and, like, also, like, the welfare system has, like, screwed us over time and time again. And, like, I, like, feel like for some of us, we're complacent with, like, being dependent on the system and not wanting to do the hard work anymore.

Speaker 1:
[58:54] Well, you have no idea how destructive that can be. And I'll give you the white guy version of the welfare system. The welfare system does the same thing. My mom was on welfare, and I said to her, why don't you get a job? And she said, I'll lose my welfare.

Speaker 4:
[59:10] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[59:11] So, okay. So no job for Chris Corolla, and no cool car for me, you know? So I get it. But I had a friend who was in the trades, and he was an electrician, and he was a union electrician, and he did okay for himself financially. But somehow, he got an apartment on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica, and he got rent control. And he got this little one bedroom apartment, but it's right on Ocean Prime Real Estate, and he's paying way under current value for this place, right? He's paying, you know, for the sake argument, if that thing was on the open market, it could get three grand a month, and he's paying 700 bucks a month.

Speaker 4:
[60:00] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[60:02] He never bought a house, because he wasn't motivated, because he would have had to, the house he could afford would be in North Hollywood, over the hill, no more living in front of the ocean, no more getting something at a quarter of the price anyone else is going to pay for it. And he stayed put. And he never saved up, and he never bought a house because he wasn't incentivized to do it.

Speaker 4:
[60:24] It keeps you stagnant.

Speaker 1:
[60:25] It kept him stagnant. So he's never been an owner because the government intervened, forced low-cost housing and rent control, and made it unrealistic for people to move away from that. Once they got in, there's stories like that.

Speaker 4:
[60:41] You know, littered all over the place.

Speaker 1:
[60:43] Yes, all the major cities, yes.

Speaker 4:
[60:46] And it keeps you stagnant mentally, so you don't want to like, it's not motivating you to do more, you know.

Speaker 1:
[60:51] Also, I don't know, is it the government's job to tell people who own homes what they can charge for their unit? I mean, don't you think that'll sort its way out?

Speaker 4:
[61:03] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[61:03] I've said it a million times. You know, they want a living wage, or minimum wage, or whatever it is. Literally down the street from here is a Home Depot. There's a bunch of day laborers waiting outside in the parking lot. The government doesn't need to get involved with how much those guys get an hour. That's them and you. They're not doing it for 10 bucks an hour, and you're not doing it for 40 bucks an hour. So you guys can figure it out. Why does the government need to decide what that price is? That guy, you go, the government goes, well, why? Because you want to pay that guy five bucks an hour. It's like, yeah, I do, but he ain't doing it. He's not getting in my truck for that money. We are figuring it out. And it's going to be a number that's about right. You know what I mean?

Speaker 4:
[61:53] It's going to sting. It's between the employer and the employee. Like it doesn't need to be a government intervention type of thing.

Speaker 1:
[61:58] Well, first off, no one needs to work at McDonald's. They work there for slave wages. Who works at McDonald's? Who doesn't want to work at McDonald's? Don't work at McDonald's. If you don't want to work at McDonald's, you don't have to. If McDonald's was forcing you to work at McDonald's, then I would have an issue.

Speaker 4:
[62:15] Yeah, that's just not the reality at all.

Speaker 1:
[62:19] I don't get the people that keep cheering on the bigger government, too. You want more?

Speaker 4:
[62:25] That's the worst thing that can happen to us, to be honest, in my opinion. I think the government plays a role in controlling certain things, but when it comes to... I feel like people forget that there is state government, there is local government, and real change happens at the state and local level, and it's not coming from the executive branch all the time. He has a job to lead in a certain way, but at the end of the day, a lot of these problems are focused on local issues. You're like city council members, the mayor is in these cities, the governor is in these cities, but most average people that are voting aren't paying attention to those things. They just direct their problem at who the news tells them to direct their problem at. It's not Gavin Newsom, it's Donald Trump's fault.

Speaker 1:
[63:05] I told people all through COVID, we're like Trump's a dictator. I was like Trump didn't shut the beaches. No, that was Newsom that shut the beaches. Trump's a dictator. Trump didn't shut your kid's school down either. That's Gavin Newsom. Your guys, obviously.

Speaker 4:
[63:23] I grew up in the South, so we had Republican governors. By the week two or three of COVID, we're open. Businesses are open. You may have to wear a mask, but businesses are open. That's the choice. Georgia did the same thing. I'm like, that's not an executive level issue. That is up to the state to decide that.

Speaker 1:
[63:41] It's the weirdest thing ever to live in a state that's completely shut down. I have friends whose small restaurant was destroyed by the government, shut down. They're out of business, family-owned for 50 years, out of business. That's all your guys that are doing that. We had Garcetti or Karen Bass. We had Garcetti, progressive mayor and a progressive governor, shutting down your businesses and trying to force VAX mandates and doing all the things a tyrannical dictator would do.

Speaker 4:
[64:15] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[64:16] By the way, you take the Supreme Court. Who wanted to force a VAX mandate? Who wanted? It was the left of the Supreme Court. It was Sotomayor, who's a dope, who was lying. But the progressive side of the Supreme Court is the one that wanted to force you to take an experimental vaccination. So who is really the dictator here?

Speaker 4:
[64:45] Exactly. And even on that front, during that time, they were forcing government employees. And sometimes a lot of those people that work in government buildings that are like careers are minority communities, minority people in DC. But a lot of people were willing to quit their jobs or either quit or take the shot. And I'm like, but these are the people you pretend to care so much about. These are the people you pretend to advocate so much for. It's so contradictory.

Speaker 1:
[65:08] I completely agree. I don't know, find Sotomayor giving her speech. By the way, someone should play this to her and go, hey, whatever it is we're talking about now, remember when you were wrong about this other thing and we didn't listen to you and we're all better for it now, so whatever it is you're talking about this time, let's review the tape of the last time you're talking about something. Weird to be wrong that much and have a horrible, horrible batting average. And also making up stuff, kids sick on ventilators and stuff like that. She wanted everybody in this nation to get this experimental vaccine. She wanted the government to mandate that.

Speaker 4:
[65:51] And we are much better off without doing it. Where we had freedom to not do it.

Speaker 5:
[65:56] Oh my god.

Speaker 1:
[65:57] Yeah, I mean, look, if you want to do it, you could do it. If you did it for your kids, you were an idiot. But okay, that's your decision to make.

Speaker 4:
[66:05] And even athletes, are they forced to do it? Like college athletes, are they forced to do it?

Speaker 1:
[66:09] I love when they wouldn't let the tennis player in to play like the US Open because he wasn't vaccinated. Did they realize how stupid they sound though? I mean, they're insane. And then everyone's making fun of Aaron Rodgers because he didn't want to do it. Aaron Rodgers is the last person in the world that needed to be vaccinated, everybody. He is the last guy who needed to be vaccinated. And you guys tried to shame him, didn't you? And every athlete, athletes had no business being vaccinated. All right, if we can find that, I'll watch it. If we can't, I'll bring it on home. But it's insane when you go back and look at some of this. And thank God people are putting together compilations of these people, because that's the funnest watch ever.

Speaker 4:
[66:56] Especially with the internet now, you can bring back stuff easier than in old times.

Speaker 1:
[67:02] It's weird that they just soldier on, though. You can have Obama going, there's no place for gerrymandering in this society. It's an evil that creeps up upon us and destroys the nation. Then five minutes later, it's like, that's a good thing.

Speaker 4:
[67:18] I want to know who their idiot advisors are that encourage them to do stuff like this.

Speaker 1:
[67:24] I don't know. I don't know why people don't go, hey boss, there's a whole bunch of tape. Are you saying the opposite of this thing?

Speaker 4:
[67:33] I guess they're just hoping people don't remember.

Speaker 1:
[67:36] Jake Tapper wants an award for discovering that Biden was not all there mentally, but there's hours of tape of him yelling at people who said he's lost his fastball and he's got a stutter. Like Jake Tapper, you don't know all this tape exists?

Speaker 4:
[67:52] Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[67:53] It's such a weird way to go through life. I guess they're, weirdly, they're sort of like, it's like ring doorbell. There's a ring doorbell on every house. All right, I'm going to go up and steal that package. Like, all right, they're going to film you stealing that package. Exactly. I don't care, I don't care. The nanny cam, the dog doesn't really care that there's a nanny cam, and the dog's just going to lick his balls in the living room, and he doesn't really care who's watching, because he doesn't care. All right, well, if we can't find Soda, which we found before, but, oh, maybe.

Speaker 3:
[68:27] There's lots of stuff, we're sifting through it.

Speaker 1:
[68:30] Oh, this is the famous one about kids.

Speaker 3:
[68:33] We got that, we got that, we're getting it right now.

Speaker 1:
[68:36] Oh, that's all I wanted.

Speaker 8:
[68:39] We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators.

Speaker 1:
[68:49] No healthy kid died in COVID. All right, and funny, Brett Baer's talking to Rochelle Walensky, who's also lied all the way through COVID as well.

Speaker 3:
[68:56] Remember?

Speaker 1:
[68:58] Oh, God. What are we doing here? Janiyah, let's see, where should I send people to go look you up? Instagram and X as well?

Speaker 4:
[69:07] Instagram and X, yeah. Janiyah R. Thomas.

Speaker 1:
[69:09] Spell it out just so they got it.

Speaker 4:
[69:11] J-A-N-I-Y-A-H-R-T-H-O-M-A-S.

Speaker 1:
[69:15] Well, it was nice meeting you.

Speaker 4:
[69:16] Thanks, you too.

Speaker 1:
[69:17] We'll talk again soon, I hope.

Speaker 4:
[69:20] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
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Speaker 11:
[72:04] Adam Carolla, Sarah Collins from Oregon, not downtown Portland, which sucks. Anyway, I'd say Carolla from Mayor, California, the love that you have for that state, and you haven't left yet, that's true passion. You can fix it, you can do it. And I love you, and I love every podcast from you, and keep it up, keep going on. Bye, brother. Love you.

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Speaker 1:
[72:39] Love you.

Speaker 12:
[72:40] Yeah, I think it was said a few times.

Speaker 1:
[72:41] The mayor of California, I like that.

Speaker 12:
[72:45] We'll just create like a new dictatorial role for you.

Speaker 1:
[72:49] Well, it's like they have the Jani Grant, who can't be alive anymore. Do you remember that name? No. Jani Grant was the mayor of Hollywood, but I don't really think he was the mayor.

Speaker 12:
[73:03] That's what he called himself.

Speaker 1:
[73:04] Of Hollywood. He was like, it was like an unofficial title.

Speaker 12:
[73:08] You know, that's what, Will Rogers did that too. Before there was a mayor of Beverly Hills, Will Rogers, one of my favorite Okies, would tell people he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. And people would believe him.

Speaker 1:
[73:19] Right, yep. Johnny Grant always presided over the Hollywood Walk of Fame events.

Speaker 12:
[73:27] Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 1:
[73:29] He was always there. Made it to, I don't know, 85 years old, not too shabby.

Speaker 12:
[73:37] I feel like I should know that name, though, since I'm like a radio junkie.

Speaker 1:
[73:42] Yeah, Johnny Grant, I don't know all his background. He died at age 84, he was an American radio personality, television producer who also served as a honorary mayor of Hollywood. And again, it's an honorary mayor. Yeah, he wasn't the mayor. I remember when he died, I remember when he died, Jimmy's uncle Frank, who was kind of crazy, wanted Jimmy to be the mayor of Hollywood. But Jimmy didn't want to be the mayor of Hollywood. And then Frank kept trying to convince everybody to tell Jimmy to be the mayor of Hollywood, except for Jimmy didn't want to be the mayor of Hollywood.

Speaker 12:
[74:21] And it's still, it's a part of the city of Los Angeles. So unfortunately, Karen Bass is their mayor.

Speaker 1:
[74:25] Yeah, your mayor is Karen Bass. Now, Jani Grant, I just found out where my star in the Walk of Fame is going to be.

Speaker 12:
[74:34] That's exciting.

Speaker 1:
[74:36] Yeah, it's basically Hollywood and Highland. It's right in the thick of things there.

Speaker 12:
[74:42] So that's a great spot.

Speaker 1:
[74:44] Here's a joke that you may possibly not get, Elisha Krauss.

Speaker 12:
[74:49] Is it because you think I'm dumb or because I'm too young?

Speaker 1:
[74:52] No, it's just, I don't know. You know, it's like, you know, certain car stuff I don't expect ladies to get, let's say, for instance. Now, so Jimmy sent me a text over the weekend and he says, we got your place to your star. And then Jimmy is going to tape his show at a different time so he can be at the thing.

Speaker 12:
[75:17] That's nice of him.

Speaker 1:
[75:18] That's nice. And then he said, would it be okay if I said some words? And I said, I wrote him back. I said, yeah, I'll put you on after Rogan and before Stan Hope. Which is funny if you're a Man Show follower. And Jimmy got a laugh out of it. Universal Studios also has an honorary mayor. Past mayors include Ernest Borgnein, Tippi Hedren, and Scott Baio.

Speaker 12:
[75:50] The only name I knew was Scott Baio.

Speaker 1:
[75:52] Wow.

Speaker 12:
[75:54] Should I know those other names?

Speaker 1:
[75:56] I think, well, none of those other names have ever been in Zapped, which was a great movie from Scott Baio's day. Ernest Borgnein was a huge actor.

Speaker 12:
[76:08] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[76:09] And...

Speaker 12:
[76:10] Like what I know is face in my song.

Speaker 1:
[76:12] Oh, yeah. You would know Ernest Borgnein's face.

Speaker 12:
[76:16] This is when I need to bring my phone in here so I can Google these kinds of things when he drops these culture things.

Speaker 1:
[76:21] Poseidon Adventure's probably the biggest, I don't know, Wild Bunch. But then...

Speaker 12:
[76:27] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[76:28] You know Ernest Borgnein's face, right?

Speaker 12:
[76:30] I mean, he deserved to be the honorary mayor of Hollywood.

Speaker 1:
[76:33] I know.

Speaker 12:
[76:33] He was in so many movies.

Speaker 1:
[76:34] Tippi Hedren was... Birds? Was she... Yes, yeah. So she is Alfred Hitchcock. I don't know, probably a couple of Alfred Hitchcocks, but certainly Birds.

Speaker 12:
[76:46] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[76:47] And a beautiful blonde like yourself.

Speaker 12:
[76:49] So Hollywood starlet. But like the old Hollywood, like Lois Swanson vibes.

Speaker 1:
[76:55] Yeah. All right. So, Elisha came out and watched us do Stand Up in Phoenix.

Speaker 12:
[77:01] It was a lot of fun. Brought some friends, brought my husband.

Speaker 1:
[77:04] Yeah.

Speaker 12:
[77:05] I feel like a comedy show, previously we had talked about how mini-golf is a really great first date option. I feel like a comedy show is a good like, within first three dates you should do it. Because you have to be able to laugh with your partner. And it's okay if you don't laugh at the same things, but it's also an intro into what they think is funny.

Speaker 1:
[77:29] Yeah, I agree. I usually, I can see the audience, but I didn't spot you guys, so you must have been further back.

Speaker 12:
[77:37] Yeah, we were like the second, there was the first row of tables, we were the second row of tables, like the high boys.

Speaker 1:
[77:43] Well, it would have made me nervous if I knew you were there.

Speaker 12:
[77:45] Really? That's funny.

Speaker 1:
[77:47] No, but I do, sometimes when someone says, I'm coming to the show, you do think about that person being in the audience.

Speaker 12:
[77:54] I get that, I'm more anxious, I think, when I give a speech and my mom's in the audience. I'm like, am I gonna say something a little edgy that makes the Gen Zers laugh, but my mom's gonna be back there.

Speaker 1:
[78:07] I'll tell you, the greatest gift my parents ever gave me was never listening to anything I've ever done. So I was free to say whatever I wanted all the time.

Speaker 12:
[78:16] Yeah, I think you kinda have to put yourself in the mindset of, so when you go on cable news, or I go on cable news, I feel like without fail, there will be an executive producer or an anchor that off air is like, oh, you know, we heard the president was watching earlier or something like that. And I'm like, I mean, no disrespect to the president, but a part of me has to go to, I don't care that the president is watching.

Speaker 1:
[78:37] That's right.

Speaker 12:
[78:38] Because I don't want to just be catering to what I think the president wants to hear. I want to be true to what I want to say and think needs to be said.

Speaker 1:
[78:44] You're like Fetterman.

Speaker 12:
[78:45] Yeah, I love that guy. Sure, that's a compliment.

Speaker 1:
[78:48] All right, let's go into the news here.

Speaker 12:
[78:50] You heard about this one, I'm sure. But bring it to the audience right now. The DOJ has said that the Southern Poverty Law Center funneled over $3 million to white supremacists and extremist groups like the KKK and those Unite the Right guys that showed up in Charlottesville that Biden loved to talk about. Yeah. Those guys. A grand jury in the middle, I'm sorry, a grand jury in the middle district of Alabama returned an 11-count indictment charge against the SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, a lot of different bank accounts. And they allege that between 2014 and 2023, so even under the Obama administration, they were funneling money, secretly funneling money to at least eight individuals associated with these violent extremist groups. And the Southern Poverty Law Center, I mean, if you're not familiar with what they do, they are often recorded by the New York Times, MS Now, CNN, etc. And they're cited and interviewed and featured.

Speaker 1:
[79:51] They're one of these bullshit groups. Okay, so this scheme that they run, the scam that they run, is not that much different than the hospice or the daycare center. First, they give a euphemistic title, Southern Poverty Law Center. So the place that's running the grift, it's the hospice, is called Caring Angels, you know, or whatever it is. And then the one that's running the youth bullshit is always first steps forward, you know? So you start with a super, like, nice, fluffy, euphemistic title. It's also the same scam, and I'm trying to think, you can look it up. They just got sued, and Shapiro's Daily Wire sued them. These companies that monitor content and then tell potential advertisers. Like a media matters. Yeah, they tell potential. They're bullshit scams. So then they go to Procter and Gamble, and they go, here's our hate list of people you shouldn't advertise with. You essentially are making a bullshit list, getting paid and hurting people, and the media loves you, and so does George Clooney.

Speaker 12:
[81:10] And now we know that they were doing that. Some of the people that were on the Southern Poverty Law Center's racist list of places that should be targeted by them, racist that they were fighting were a lot of former employers of mine, actually. David Horowitz Freedom Center, PragerU, Turning Point USA. Apparently Charlie Kirk was a racist, Ben Shapiro was a racist. But what they were doing, and the grift here, was that they were literally paying people to infiltrate these organizations, stir things, stir up racism and racist events, while then going around and making tens of millions of dollars from radical leftists that think that these organizations are vibrant and need to be stopped.

Speaker 1:
[81:52] Right. I mean, they essentially just did what Black Lives Matter does. You give a good title, get a whole shitload of money, and don't fix anything, and then you have to kind of create the problem. Look, the guy who has a job picking up litter in the park, once there's no more litter, he's going to take a trash can and turn it upside down and make some litter, because that's what he's doing.

Speaker 12:
[82:17] If it's a park in LA, unfortunately, I think he'll never run out of litter.

Speaker 1:
[82:20] That's a good point.

Speaker 12:
[82:21] Here's Cash Patel, FBI Director and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch, talking about this sweeping investigation.

Speaker 13:
[82:29] We're here today is to announce what the general just told you. The Southern Poverty Law Center in a massive sweeping indictment has been charged with allegations of fraud and using the banking system to perpetrate that fraud. I just want to talk about a couple of brief things here. The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertise to raise money to dismantle violent extremist groups for a period of at least a decade. They use their donor network to raise money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, use the money they raise from their donor network to actually pay the leadership of these very groups. I just want to say that again. They use the fraudulently raised money by lying to their donor network, thousands of Americans to go ahead and actually pay the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups.

Speaker 1:
[83:29] All right, by the way, if you're George Clooney and you gave him a million bucks.

Speaker 12:
[83:33] I'd want it back.

Speaker 1:
[83:34] I'd want it back, but if-

Speaker 12:
[83:35] You're George Soros, you should demand it back.

Speaker 1:
[83:37] Everybody. If you're Nike and you gave Black Lives Matters a million bucks, wouldn't you want some of that back? I mean, okay, first off, you guys are idiots for giving these people money, but secondly, this is, I mean, Obama started this, but it's all Biden talked about and he created, listen, you create something that doesn't really fully exist in white supremacy and the Klan and, you know, Biden said 10,000 times white supremacy was the most dangerous thing in this country.

Speaker 12:
[84:09] That's why he decided to run, right?

Speaker 1:
[84:11] Right, right. So you say that, then you have to take your FBI director and tell him to go find it. And then he can't find enough of it at all. So we have to manufacture it. And that's when it starts getting dangerous. Yep. So you have to take the old lady who is 20 feet in front of the abortion center, protesting or saying a prayer, and then go arrest her because you need to pad the numbers of your white supremacy list, because you don't have enough. And your Southern, if you're Jussie Smollett, you got to create it. And there's a noose hanging in the NASCAR garage. And the list just goes on and on and on. I don't know, I feel like the last 10 major racist stories have all been hoaxes. Hands up, don't shoot.

Speaker 12:
[85:05] And were apparently allegedly funded by the SPLC.

Speaker 1:
[85:07] Right, so good people on both sides. Jesus Christ. And then there's January 6th, which is essentially this.

Speaker 12:
[85:15] I kind of wanted to know, because obviously there's been conspiracies left, right, and center about January 6th. My first thought when that happened was, were there any paid employees of the SPLC that showed up at the Capitol that day and scaled some walls?

Speaker 1:
[85:28] AOC was this close to being raped and murdered, even though she wasn't in the building.

Speaker 12:
[85:33] They also, interestingly enough, as we pointed out, this started in 2014, but they think that they've been doing this stuff for years, like maybe potentially decades since their founding back in the 70s. And so it happened under the Obama administration. The DOJ under Biden actually opened up an investigation into this, and it was very quickly closed.

Speaker 1:
[85:52] Yes, wonder why. But by the way, I love all the lawfare stuff. Like they opened up, it was closed. By the way, Daily Wire, alongside other plaintiffs, sued US. Department, State Department, for allegedly funding and promoting censorship technology such as NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index. So your hero, Joe Biden, and his administration were trying to get people silenced and shut down and put out of business and vaxxed.

Speaker 12:
[86:23] The First Amendment only matters to the left if it's what their people are saying, that they want them to say all the time.

Speaker 1:
[86:27] Yes, all I want to say to all my friends on the left, can we give ourselves, how about a nice 10-minute break on all your righteous indignation about everything all the time? How about you just take a break? How about you realize Joe Biden is the big guy and he was a corrupt and a piece of shit? All the things you love so near and dear, the New York Times, the LA Times, Southern Poverty Law Center, they're all corrupted, they're all a mess. I don't know, just give it a break.

Speaker 12:
[86:57] It also-

Speaker 1:
[86:58] Take a day off of preaching.

Speaker 12:
[87:00] If I were one of my friends that have experienced, thankfully, rare but real racist incidents in their lives, I would be so offended at those stories not being able to be heard or those stories now being downplayed because of the stupidity and radicalism of leftist groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Speaker 1:
[87:21] I agree.

Speaker 12:
[87:22] You are undermining, it's like women who make up sexual assault allegations or blow them up. It's like you are undermining actual victims and you're not doing anything to better them and help them move forward. True. That's what pisses me off.

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Speaker 1:
[89:10] What's next?

Speaker 12:
[89:11] All right. Ilhan Omar.

Speaker 1:
[89:13] She's such a light.

Speaker 12:
[89:14] I mean, so far we've named it like three of your favorite ladies today. Karen Bass, AOC and Ilhan Omar.

Speaker 1:
[89:21] Ilhan Omar seems exceptionally angry all the time.

Speaker 12:
[89:25] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[89:25] Some people did some things.

Speaker 12:
[89:28] Well, when you hate where you live and you're forced to represent the place where you live.

Speaker 1:
[89:34] In the United States, you mean?

Speaker 12:
[89:35] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[89:36] She hates the United States.

Speaker 12:
[89:37] She hates the United States as she serves as a representative of the United States and for her people in DC. It's like you must, if you're just like, ugh, all the time about where you are. I could see being a little bitter about it.

Speaker 1:
[89:50] I don't know who this woman is who's annoying Ilhan Omar, but I've said many times, and it's the Elise Stefanik thing she did with the presidents of Harvard and the Ivy League schools. You got to get a woman, and the woman, if it's an attractive woman, it's even better, because women, they can't take it. If it's a dude, it'll be different.

Speaker 12:
[90:16] This was a Lindell TV reporter, so she-

Speaker 1:
[90:19] She does a lot of this stuff, and Ilhan, this isn't their first dust up. Oh, really? That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 12:
[90:25] She's done this before?

Speaker 1:
[90:26] Right.

Speaker 12:
[90:27] So she went to ask Ilhan Omar about how she was tied to this $250 million voter fraud. Right. Million dollar fraud, it wasn't voter fraud, it was like, it was the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee that was reaching out to ask about how she had introduced a bill that expanded the eligibility of food distributors, so they weren't just the federally funded child nutrition program, it was non-school entities, and that led to a ton of fraud. And then, of course, on top of that, they wanted to talk to her about how she and her husband have some discrepancies in their financial disclosure filing.

Speaker 1:
[91:01] That's what this clip is.

Speaker 12:
[91:03] So, and then that's what this clip is, and she does not like it.

Speaker 1:
[91:07] Not happy.

Speaker 14:
[91:09] The last time I spoke to you, you said that I was stupid for asking you about your financial disclosure, but there's some discrepancies on there.

Speaker 15:
[91:16] Would you like to explain that, how do you make such a big mistake on like saluting yourself before asking me anything? I am?

Speaker 14:
[91:22] Well, what about the American people who are wondering how you make such a big mistake?

Speaker 15:
[91:25] I have explained to the American people. What's the explanation?

Speaker 16:
[91:28] I have given them the explanation.

Speaker 14:
[91:29] Do you want to tell our viewers because they're-

Speaker 15:
[91:31] I don't want to tell you jack shit.

Speaker 12:
[91:33] How about that?

Speaker 16:
[91:34] Okay.

Speaker 12:
[91:34] Okay.

Speaker 15:
[91:35] Have a good day. Thank you, Carolla.

Speaker 12:
[91:37] I mean, it's kind of creepy how she's just like kicking a fake smile on her face the whole time.

Speaker 1:
[91:43] It's also weird.

Speaker 12:
[91:45] Also that girl's grin at the end.

Speaker 1:
[91:47] I'm laughing because I just watched 10 minutes of Nick Shirley chasing elected officials up and down sidewalks, and they're like, I'm not talking. It's like, why don't you talk to people who have questions? You know what I mean? It's kind of part of your job. You're making rules. People want to know and nobody would even stop and really talk to Nick Shirley, which is a weird thing because-

Speaker 12:
[92:15] That's what elected officials are supposed to do?

Speaker 1:
[92:17] I agree with that. And also this thing where you explained it or there's a reasonable, like any time I've ever gotten to an argument with a woman, I have then gone, no, that's not what happened. Let me explain why you thought of this as that. I will mansplain to it and it'll be a reasonable explanation because that's what happened. But that's if you have a good argument. If you just get caught cheating, you just get caught cheating. But if you actually have an argument or a reason, then go ahead and lay it on us.

Speaker 12:
[92:53] But I think that part of the reason I love the Nick Shirley chasing around Democrats and the super majority up in Sacramento is because they for so long have kept reporters and influencers and social media people from that building and asking them questions because they don't have an answer to the questions. Even if it was from their own friendly side, I think that they're in such a bubble and so used to getting away with whatever they want to get away with that they don't have any answers to any questions, whether they're easy or tough.

Speaker 1:
[93:21] The reporters, Alison Steinberg from Lindell TV. Well, there's another clip of her bugging the shit out of Ilhan Omar, which is longer as well. By the way, it should all be women, they should all be attractive, and they should only talk to female congresspeople and they get under their skin a little and then that's it. The claws come out, they can't stop.

Speaker 12:
[93:45] Also, this goes back to the horrible Karen Bass clip when she was in Africa and they were like, why didn't you come back or why did you go when there was a risk of fires, right?

Speaker 1:
[93:53] She was at the airport in LA and she got back from Africa, right, and she wouldn't talk.

Speaker 12:
[94:00] And she wouldn't talk and I'm like, you...

Speaker 1:
[94:01] By the way, again, you're not allowed to be angered by people when they ask you questions that are relevant to your job.

Speaker 12:
[94:09] And so I think that even if Ilhan Omar in that clip, he's like, I already told the American people. And I'm like, then repeat it. If you already have a talking point, then please repeat the talking point.

Speaker 1:
[94:17] By the way, I live in America. I don't know what her excuse was from going from, you know, 30 million to a hundred and thousand or whatever it was.

Speaker 12:
[94:28] It was like a hundred thousand to, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[94:30] She said it was an accounting error, but that's not really an explanation.

Speaker 12:
[94:34] It's a lot of zeros.

Speaker 1:
[94:36] Yeah. Oh, we got another, have her again. She, by the way, like I said, she should only bother women because women can't stand other women coming at them.

Speaker 14:
[94:45] Hi, Congresswoman Omar. You were just talking about how Trump's economy has failed the American people, but I think the American people really want to know how you went from a negative 65,000 before coming into Congress to over 30 million dollars in just seven years.

Speaker 16:
[94:59] My disclosure is public enough.

Speaker 14:
[95:01] Yeah, it is. So a lot of people now are looking into that and finding S.Crew Winery, a winery that doesn't actually seem to exist. Is that a real winery?

Speaker 16:
[95:09] Do you all actually look at and read things or do you just ask silly questions?

Speaker 14:
[95:14] Well, it's listed in the financial disclosure, so can you explain it? Because we have a lot of questions about it and things just aren't adding up. There's no real phone number. There's no real location.

Speaker 16:
[95:24] Why?

Speaker 15:
[95:24] Did you want to buy some more?

Speaker 14:
[95:26] Probably not for you, to be honest. Recently stated that the American people should be afraid of the white man. They should be fearful of the white man.

Speaker 16:
[95:35] I never said that.

Speaker 15:
[95:36] You're on video saying it.

Speaker 16:
[95:37] Our country should be more fearful of white man across our country because they are actually crossing most of the deaths within this country.

Speaker 15:
[95:50] Like our husband?

Speaker 1:
[95:52] Our husband, sorry, go back Thursdays because it's funny. She goes, I never said that. People act like there's not video. All right, that's fine, here we go. That's why she hates this woman so much.

Speaker 14:
[96:04] The American people should be afraid of the white man. They should be fearful of the white man.

Speaker 10:
[96:09] I never said that.

Speaker 15:
[96:10] Yeah, you're on video saying it.

Speaker 16:
[96:12] Our country should be more fearful of white man across our country, because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country. No, I did not.

Speaker 14:
[96:25] Yes, you.

Speaker 16:
[96:27] Again, this is like what I said. You need to prepare yourself, because you can't continue embarrassing yourself like this.

Speaker 14:
[96:35] So I'm just a liar.

Speaker 16:
[96:37] What I was quoting was an actual study done by the FBI.

Speaker 1:
[96:42] Ah, study.

Speaker 14:
[96:43] Thank you.

Speaker 15:
[96:43] Just prepare.

Speaker 1:
[96:45] All right.

Speaker 14:
[96:45] Thank you.

Speaker 12:
[96:46] Prepare.

Speaker 1:
[96:47] Prepare. All right. She was quoting an actual study that Joe Biden said to do so he could find more racism, so he could be right.

Speaker 12:
[96:55] Sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Speaker 1:
[96:58] Yeah, they have a study.

Speaker 12:
[96:59] Should we make some T-shirts?

Speaker 1:
[97:00] Yes. Sponsored by.

Speaker 12:
[97:01] This race is sponsored by.

Speaker 1:
[97:03] Yeah.

Speaker 12:
[97:03] Southern Poverty Law Center.

Speaker 1:
[97:04] There's a study. They put together a study and they found what Joe told them to find. Guess what? The tobacco companies put together a study in the 80s that said nicotine is not addictive. They put a study together. By the way, every single expert witness that Mark Erigas hires on a trial, they're experts. They say exactly what Mark tells them to say. They're extra ballistic experts, they're blood spatter experts, they're all experts. And they say exactly what Mark wants them to say. And then on the other side of the aisle, they have an expert for the other side, and they say the exact same thing their lawyer wants them to say. So that's how the studies work, everybody, and the experts, that's how they work.

Speaker 12:
[97:54] You gotta look at the data. Like the who paid for this thing that says that two glasses of red wine a night is good for your iron level.

Speaker 1:
[98:02] Yeah, well, I'm happy about that study. But no, I'll tell you what you really need to do. You need to do your own study. Like I did my own study on COVID. This is not killing any healthy kids. My friends, my kids have tons of friends. I haven't heard one story. I have tons of friends who have kids that haven't heard one story. I'm looking around. Turn on the news. You wanna turn on the news, you'll see tons of footage of young black men punching Asian women in San Francisco. You don't see clan rallies. God, they wish they had them, but just look around. Just look around. How many people got shot in Chicago last year? And you think that was the clan? So anyway, they just fudge whatever all the time. And then also, you will be an expert at everything if you just kind of use common sense and eyeballs.

Speaker 12:
[99:04] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[99:05] You could learn everything you need to learn about COVID just by common sense.

Speaker 12:
[99:10] Just sort of meant a little bit, too? Like going, your gut instinct, or?

Speaker 1:
[99:13] Half the people that told me to put a mask on had the strap on their mask twisted, so it made a figure eight and made a seven eighths gap on the side of their mask where I can see their face and nose. So maybe the mask isn't as effective as they think it is. All right, what else you got?

Speaker 12:
[99:36] Speaking of fudging things, a top MAGA influencer has been revealed to be completely AI. It was created by a guy in India who made a mint of money off of lonely men. So this guy named Sam, in quotation marks, was a 22 year old orthopedic surgeon in training, and he told Wired that he got the idea to sell AI-generated images of a young woman in a bikini while scrounging for money in school and trying to save up enough to immigrate to the US after graduation. So I guess he decided to dupe men in the US about using AI about this MAGA gal. And the profile in one post showed her firing a rifle with the caption, quote, if you want a reason to unfollow, Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported. And POV, you were assigned intelligent at birth, but you identify as liberal. He said, he told Wired magazine, quote, every day I'd write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration. And the account blew up. Emily Hart had 10,000 followers within a month, and every reel that he posted garnered millions of views and earned him even more followers. He thinks that he spent about 30 to 50 minutes of the day, and he apparently was making pretty decent money on this scheme.

Speaker 1:
[100:52] So this beautiful blonde we're looking at is fake. Completely generated.

Speaker 12:
[100:57] Completely AI generated by a 22-year-old kid in India.

Speaker 1:
[101:01] Mm. You know what actually works? In the bikini shot, they're holding the camera up, so it's like a selfie shot, which is kind of diabolical, because for some reason, that part of it would fool me. I would go, if this was just generated, why are they taking a picture of themselves?

Speaker 12:
[101:20] Yeah, I mean, her fingers look a little weird.

Speaker 1:
[101:22] Little weird.

Speaker 12:
[101:23] I think, and her face looks more real in the bikini shot. So does the hair. Like even like, you know, being a blonde, I'm, lighting is my downfall. Usually in black shirts on camera are not great, because it's like you can just see all the like, wispies and stuff. And like, there are wispies. It looks like there's natural light behind her. You know, it's kind of crazy. The one on the right, like the drop the American flag emoji, if you agree, she looks a little too like filtered there, that I think I'd take a second glance. But I mean, I talk to Gen Z gals in my life all the time. They're like, oh my God, I had to unfollow an account. I figured out that it was AI and I was so embarrassed in myself for not knowing any better.

Speaker 1:
[102:02] Well, I mean, I don't know if the next generation is even gonna care. For me, it's kind of, you know, it's kind of an interesting thing. Like, so you go, this is a Beyond Burger, whatever it is. It's not a real steak. It's a simulated steak. Or that's not real pornography. That's AI pornography. Or that wasn't an actual stunt man. That was all computer generated with the car going off the bridge, you know? And I think we're of the age where that kind of stuff ruins it for us. Like, I go, nah, that didn't really happen. Okay.

Speaker 12:
[102:43] It takes a little bit of the magic away, I think.

Speaker 1:
[102:46] Yeah, like, people, you know, like, look, sorry to go into the realm of porn, but people go, I love, you know, Jennifer Aniston. And you go, oh, there's a topless picture of Jennifer, Jennifer Aniston. And you go, oh, I want to see that. And then you go, oh, that's not really Jennifer Aniston. And all of a sudden, all right, now look, it's still basically Jennifer Aniston naked, you know what I mean? But it's not really her. And I don't know if future generations are going to care. And you know, we used to, there used to be simulated wood, not talking about porn, talking about actual wood grain. And stuff that was like simulated wood grain looked like shit, like countertops made out of Formica that were supposed to look like wood or vinyl floor tiles.

Speaker 12:
[103:40] Or quartz versus quartzite, like how it's gotten better.

Speaker 1:
[103:44] Yeah, yeah, well, I don't know. I know you're talking about like countertops.

Speaker 12:
[103:49] Yeah, yeah, like the one that's made to look like.

Speaker 1:
[103:51] No, stuff looks, good point. Stuff looks good now, is what I'm saying. So if you took a car, let's say, let's say a Mustang II Dawson, Mustang II, like from the 70s. It had like a fake wood steering wheel and a fake wood stick shift knob, and it looked shitty. Now, you can get porcelain tile floors that look like oak, and it looks good. Now, like stuff is, the simulation kind of works now. Has shifted. Now, then the kind of question is, is, yeah, but I still like the vibe of an actual wood floor, like when I'm walking around with my shoes off in the morning. So now, you get into that. But I don't know whether it's flooring or Jennifer Aniston's titties. I don't know if people are going to care the next group. They're going to just grow up watching it.

Speaker 12:
[104:47] Yeah. But I think that there is an interesting, when I go to college campuses or interact with the next generation, there is something about, they are so digital in a lot of ways, but they also really enjoy real life experiences and see the need to touch grass.

Speaker 1:
[105:03] Yeah.

Speaker 12:
[105:04] So broadly speaking, and so I'm just like, and unfortunately we've seen, I mean, look at some of these Asian nations that the men aren't dating because they're having sex with robots and just watching anime porn.

Speaker 1:
[105:16] Hold on, let me yell at Andrew. Andrew, did you think I was looking for a distant shot of the outside of a Mustang 2? Because I know what a Mustang 2 looks like. No, I'm saying the steering wheel.

Speaker 3:
[105:27] My bad, that's on me. We'll get the interior pictures.

Speaker 1:
[105:29] The steering wheel and the stick shift knob. I'm not asking what a Mustang 2 is. Yep. Okay. It happens a lot.

Speaker 12:
[105:36] But to your point, I think that that can lead to the continual downfall of society when everything is so fake that people don't want to have real human interaction and do real things. Like drive an old car.

Speaker 1:
[105:46] Like look at a Mustang 2 from a distance.

Speaker 12:
[105:49] Or drive that Mustang 2 with the fake, you know, wood knob that you're talking about.

Speaker 1:
[105:54] Stick shift knob, I think, and the steering wheel. And the thing that was funny is that is not it. But, well, that's a custom steering wheel, I think. Well, we can go in a little tighter and see if that is it or not. That could be it. Could be the Mustang 2 interior, which you gotta pull in. I don't, I feel like-

Speaker 12:
[106:16] I love how he's highlighting, this is the Mustang 2 interior.

Speaker 1:
[106:19] I know.

Speaker 12:
[106:20] I don't know if it's it.

Speaker 1:
[106:21] That is an aftermarket steering wheel, I think. So now you gotta find another-

Speaker 12:
[106:25] What about the dash? Like, that looks like a faux wood.

Speaker 1:
[106:27] The dash is fake wood, too. Yeah.

Speaker 12:
[106:29] It has that, like, not to knock my friends and family that have grown up or live in trailer parks, but you know, like, some of those trailers from, like, the 80s and the 90s that had, like, the side, like, the interior faux siding? That's what that dash would look to me.

Speaker 1:
[106:46] The sad part is, is that a real Mustang 2 interior or is that an aftermarket wheel?

Speaker 7:
[106:51] That says Ford Mustang 2.

Speaker 6:
[106:54] That's the image I keep getting.

Speaker 1:
[106:56] Oh, and the steering wheel is the same on all of them?

Speaker 8:
[106:58] Yeah.

Speaker 12:
[107:01] It looked better than you thought it did.

Speaker 1:
[107:02] No, no, that's the center part that looked like aftermarket to me.

Speaker 12:
[107:06] Gotcha.

Speaker 1:
[107:07] The thing that was funny is, I still think that was an aftermarket steering wheel. The funny part is, is where you held it, like 10 and two, eventually the grain would wear off and it'd just be like weird beige base plastic color there, like you could wear the fake grain.

Speaker 12:
[107:26] It was like painted on? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[107:30] Well, it's not, it's plastic, so there is no actual grain, you know, uh-uh. We got an update. That's what a steering wheel on a Mustang 2 looks like, not the stupid aftermarket one that you have. I don't know, that's off a dune buggy. Because I know everything, because I know everything.

Speaker 7:
[107:51] Yeah, but a lot of people change their steering wheels. That's all that's left.

Speaker 1:
[107:55] Listen, let me ask you this. Why is it every time I tell someone to look up a car on the internet, the first one comes on with aftermarket rims and exhaust and shit like that? Why is that?

Speaker 12:
[108:06] Because all these cars are 50 years old and people fuck with them.

Speaker 14:
[108:10] These original stuff, it's not out there now.

Speaker 1:
[108:12] You should have known that first picture was not of a standard Mustang steering wheel.

Speaker 12:
[108:17] This reminds me of the interior of my grandmother's two-door Lincoln Continental from the late 80s.

Speaker 1:
[108:23] Burnt orange, baby.

Speaker 12:
[108:24] Oh my gosh, hers was burgundy.

Speaker 1:
[108:27] I remember that Mustang 2 ad campaign. Shall I sing it? Sure. I didn't get it my whole life.

Speaker 3:
[108:37] They're keeping score.

Speaker 1:
[108:40] I was 11. I was like, I don't know what that means. You have zero score.

Speaker 3:
[108:42] Coca modeled that one, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[108:44] But by the way, 2-0 is not exactly a landslide. You know what I mean? Every NBA game starts off as 2-0. It's...

Speaker 3:
[109:02] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[109:07] White people in commercials. Yeah.

Speaker 5:
[109:14] Hardtop, 2 Plus 2, Stallion, and Cobra 2.

Speaker 3:
[109:17] Cobra.

Speaker 2:
[109:18] Exciting Mustang 2s for 76 at your Ford dealer.

Speaker 3:
[109:24] More white people!

Speaker 1:
[109:26] It's all white people. Even the singers are white. All right, I'm gonna be in Vegas. Coming up, that'll be May 9th and 10th. Doing stand up. Oh yeah, Kimmel's Club, four shows. And then Covina, Laugh Factory. Oh, special, big guest.

Speaker 3:
[109:45] Big, special guest.

Speaker 12:
[109:46] Can you tell me off air?

Speaker 1:
[109:47] Yeah, I'll tell you off air. I can't for certain reasons, but big guest for that. And then Visalia, Fox Theater. And that'll be 15th of May. 16th, Modesto, State Theater. Go to amcro.com for all the live stuff. We've got lots of merch at the merch store, too. What do you got, Elisha Krauss?

Speaker 12:
[110:06] Oh, you know, read my stuff over at The Daily Wire. Check me out at Instagram.

Speaker 1:
[110:11] Mm-hmm. So, and till next time, Adam Carolla, Fortune, I, Thomas, and Alicia Krauss saying, mahalo.

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