and joining me now is adam carolla got
the best podcast in the country
he's got a new book i'm your emotional
support animal navigating all uh
all uh our all woke no joke culture
and he's also part of a special hosted
by dan bongino canceled in the usa
and you got his podcast he's a busy guy
uh and he's a self-made man
adam carolla welcome back thanks for
handing me back brad
adam right right away we talked about
you this morning on which you put up on
your feed
on your twitter feed and that is in
california
this is true if you steal shoplift under
a thousand dollars you can't be
prosecuted
you put video online that looks like
we're in a third world nation
people just walking and stealing stuff
and walking out
yeah i mean but you have to ask yourself
like what do we expect
like if we tell people here's what we're
gonna do
in advance whether it's in san francisco
or it's
los angeles and it has to do with the
you know a target
or a walmart or at the border if we just
go
here's what we're gonna do here's what
we're gonna enforce here's what we're
not gonna enforce
why wouldn't people just exploit that
i mean isn't that a lesson we've learned
if we tell people
we're gonna you know the cops are gonna
pull back well then
if you're a bad guy wouldn't you move
forward i i
i don't think any of this should be
surprising to
anybody it's how humans work it's how
pets work it's how kids work
you know if you said your kid
the uh you know the curfew was 10
o'clock at night but i'm never going to
enforce that
i'm going to bed at 9 30. would you
wouldn't you expect
a percentage of kids just to come back
after curfew
but it doesn't make your video that you
posted less shocking
it it's just because i can't believe
this is happening in this country
where uh criminals are being rewarded or
ignored
and uh people are basically fending for
themselves
so adam uh you know your your book comes
out and you talk about being fearless
you're basically in your own business
you're not really depending on people
just listeners and viewers
and and people to pay tickets and watch
you do stand up
are you uncancelable um
i don't know if anyone is un you can
always be canceled with your own
audience you know if you started saying
things
that were insane to your audience then
you could cancel yourself with your
audience
but in terms of how we classically think
of
being cancelled we think of a parent
corporation a
network or a studio pulling the plug
in from that regard i'm on cancel ball
and
i saw this stuff coming 10 years ago so
i started
diverse diversifying my portfolio
because i had this feeling
that this is the way the wind was
blowing especially in hollywood
right uh where people really
corporations can't stand by you or they
choose not to stand by you so you said
i'm gonna do this thing called
podcasting now everyone feels as though
they're capable of doing something and
and you were the first to break out and
you still remain on top
so why did you pursue why was it
important or okay with you to
participate in this special on
on fox nation
well anytime someone wants me to
you know raise my voice about cancel
culture i'm
more than happy to do it because it's
something that's near and dear to my
heart it's like
i work in hollywood i've seen it happen
to a lot of
people i've worked with uh you know i
know all the stories you know but if you
live
and work in hollywood you live in the
epicenter of cancer culture that the
people
that make the most noise about
mccarthyism are practicing a
latter-day version of mccarthyism as we
speak
i'm still going to know why you're there
i haven't pulled the joe rogan and
pulled up
stakes uh but adam i i got to bring up
to a cut from that special
gilbert godfrey you know him you do
stand up as well he has done for years
listen
to him when i hear about another person
getting in trouble now i always think oh
thank god them and not me because i've
been through it a few times
gilbert godfrey the voice of aladdin's
irritating bird
iago has made a career out of offending
his audience
for years he voiced the screechy aflac
duck
in the immediate aftermath of a tsunami
gilbert took to twitter to share his
usual
offensive comedy japan is really
advanced
they don't go to the beach the beach
comes to them after that godfrey became
he claims one of the first entertainers
to feel the speed and force of an online
cancellation mop so that's a typical
edgy comedian comment they thought
insensitive he was canceled lost a bunch
of gigs it's scary right
i did the yes and you know gilbert's a
an equal opportunity offender i did the
hugh hefner roast on comedy central with
gilbert
literally 10 days after 9 11
in new york city and he was making 9 11
jokes now you can say
that doesn't sit well with me or i don't
like the taste that leaves in my mouth
but that's what he does
yep he takes tragedy and he makes
jokes about it and traditionally that's
what comedians do
uh i don't get why we're trying to go
after comedians i mean
you know school principals and airline
pilots
maybe uh but
comedians comedians make jokes
and they make people uncomfortable and
sometimes when you're uncomfortable
you do the most thinking so i think
comedians
are supposed to make you uncomfortable
and that's where the thinking and the
conversation
takes place you were able to do
something else but and
and besides going on stage have you
noticed comedians uh checking themselves
on stage
when you talk to these guys and the
women that do stand up when you guys
before you go on are you
you saying i'm getting rid of this i
have to get rid of this material i can't
afford to be canceled i can't get a club
owner tell me i can't book you anymore
yeah yeah i had uh it it's true
uh i've seen it happen i i think it's
the
it's the death of creativity whether
you're telling a joke
writing a song or or painting a painting
you don't want the artist to stop and
think what are people gonna think of
this painting when i'm done
or what are they going to think of this
song when i'm done or this joke like how
am i going to be
judged for this so the worst place you
can be creatively
is up in your head you know what i mean
like
just imagine you're at a dinner party
and you have something to say maybe it's
something funny or witty or interesting
and
right before you say it you think how's
this gonna go over
am i gonna be asked to leave this dinner
party is this is this going to be good
will i be able to finish my entree and
at a certain point you think screw it
i'm not even going to say what i was
going to say which
is kind of the point we're getting to
now which
of course just stifles creativity and it
stifles conversation yeah the one guy
that doesn't get stifled much as you and
lastly i know i'm putting an odd spot
because
every late night host is a friend of
yours but there was a column in the new
york times who broke stephen colbert
after jon stewart went out
and said the wuhan lab of course it came
from the wuhan lab
stephen colbert got so upset he actually
tried to stop
according to the writer and what i saw i
agree
jon stewart from going forward and we
know they're best friends
so i want you to hear he wrote who broke
stephen colbert and who really broke
late night tv they're not laughing
anymore they're now
clapping what happened to the equal
opportunity offender late night host
here's what the writer said mainstream
comedy has evolved
but especially when it comes to public
affairs from becoming
liberal to becoming party line
do you find do you agree with that when
you watch late night television is it
party line
yeah well i'll tell you what's going on
if you
if you host a late night show you're
involved with the late
night show the biggest important subject
you have is
bookings are you going to get george
clooney on your show
or you're going to get scott baio on
your show it's all about
bookings right so think about the
politics
of some of the biggest actors and
biggest stars you know you want hillary
clinton
you want the the royal family what
prince harry you know you want
you yeah you were an athlete you went
barbra streisand
well if you want those people and you
imagine just getting up there and going
i voted for donald trump i like his
policies
you would never book another one of
those celebrities ever again
i agree with everything you said i'm
just saying that for though that was the
case forever i
thought what carson would not worry
about it he
reagan was his friend he'd insult him he
made fun of
jimmy carter and he still got the best
bookings and he was going against joey
bishop and he was going against merv
griffin for a while and dick cavett
and they still were able to exist and be
funny
right well obviously that was
pre you know that's back when everyone
was an american
first and a politician second
you know i mean that's where you were an
american first and then
democrat second or an american person
republican
second and now everyone's political
affiliation
is first and the american may not be in
the top five
so now that things have shifted and
again you're trying to book
a-list talent why would you even take
the chance
of going down that road if it could
impact your bookings to
even 10 percent it's hard you kind of
sold your comedy soul to get that show i
guess
adam carolla has not he's the host of
the adam corolla podcast he's going to
be on canceled in the usa with
dan bongino and adam carla's uh book is
i'm your emotional support animal
navigating our all woke no joke culture
adam always great to talk to you thanks
brian appreciate it all right go get him
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