Adam Carolla joins us to talk about the fires in California, the latest news out of George Floyd, and what was Barack Obama saying at the funeral to Donald Trump. Adam also shares a story about how he became a firefighter.
00:00:00.000Hey everybody, on the Charlie Kirk Show, the legend Adam Carolla joins us about the fires in California, the latest news out of George Floyd, and what was Barack Obama saying at the funeral to Donald Trump?
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00:01:47.000It's right where the fire blew through.
00:01:51.000Everything around where I am is destroyed.
00:01:55.000I was asked to evacuate on Tuesday night.
00:02:00.000I did, and haven't been able to return, obviously, and I'm not really sure with the statuses of my home, although it's not looking good because literally everything around it was destroyed.
00:02:17.000I'm so sorry to hear that, and thank you for taking the time in the midst of all of this unspeakable horror.
00:02:23.000How are you thinking about this, and how can you explain it to somebody who is having difficulty comprehending how the Los Angeles City government in California refuses to do basic things that could prevent such widespread scale of destruction?
00:02:39.000Well, you know, they say actions have consequences, but inactions have even bigger consequences sometimes, meaning doing nothing.
00:02:49.000This is the result of them doing nothing.
00:02:54.000Obviously, they're putting their efforts into DEI hires and environment.
00:03:03.000It's how does this impact the environment, and then the other major concern is DEI. Those are the two things that the fire department, the mayor, and the city council focus on most sharply.
00:03:17.000Later on, if there's some money and some time left over, we can talk about infrastructure.
00:03:22.000Fire hydrants, water pressure, aqueducts, and so on and so forth.
00:03:28.000The real focus is on the environment and DEI, and then this happens.
00:03:34.000And this is no different than announcing your sanctuary city.
00:03:40.000You just announce it, and everyone pats you on the back, and then at some point, a couple of busloads of Hondurans get dropped off on your doorstep, and you yell, what's going on?
00:04:33.000And I went to a construction site and dug ditches and picked up garbage for the next seven years.
00:04:39.000I got a letter in the mail sent to my father's house saying, your time has come to do the written exam for the LA Fire Department.
00:04:47.000I took it, and I was standing in line, and I had a young woman of color standing behind me in line, and I said, just out of curiosity, when did you sign up to become a fireman?
00:04:57.000Because I did it, or a person, seven years ago, and she said, Wednesday.
00:05:02.000That is an example of my white privilege.
00:05:36.000Meritocracy is the best, regardless of gender, sexual properties, skin color, what have you.
00:05:43.000As soon as you start factoring in other factors, whether it's being an airline pilot, or as we found out, Vice President of the United States, as soon as you start factoring in other factors, the product's going to be hurt.
00:06:37.000Taking a bunch of incompetent people, shoving them into positions of power, and expecting a result that we're not going to get because this is what we're doing.
00:06:48.000Adam, do you think, I know this is a speculative question, I know that you're in a lot of pain right now in that it's difficult to think clearly in times like this.
00:06:57.000So again, thank you for taking the time.
00:06:59.000But for some of your friends and neighbors that have been, let's say, more enthusiastically, let's just say, zealots for the worldview that we are talking about here, is this a wake-up call when your entire neighborhood starts to burn down?
00:07:15.000You know, I'll tell you something I was talking about on my podcast yesterday, and there's a clip sort of floating around, going a little bit viral, but it's a serious thing.
00:07:26.000I have been saying, I used to be a builder, so...
00:07:29.000As you heard from my testimony in front of Congress, when I couldn't be a fireman, I end up being a carpenter and a builder and a contractor, and that's how I made my living.
00:07:40.000And I had to deal with the city, and I had to deal with permits, and I had to deal with red tape and bureaucracy my entire career.
00:07:47.000And then later on, when I got into show business, I renovated my homes, built homes, did a lot of work, and it was a constant burden.
00:08:37.000The Coastal Commission is going to get involved.
00:08:40.000And the Coastal Commission is going to tell them no, or going to tell them it's going to take four years to get a permit.
00:08:45.000You're going to have a bunch of blue liberal people who would like to rebuild their homes in Malibu and Santa Monica and the Palisade, and they're going to have to go through the permit process.
00:08:58.000And when they do, they're going to be converted to Donald Trump fans.
00:09:10.000Adam, we are anticipating a lot of refugees after this because there's just not a lot of – there's not going to be a lot of homestanding.
00:09:18.000Adam, in closing here, I know that you might not have anticipated this question.
00:09:22.000Feel free to answer it however you'd like.
00:09:24.000Last night I spoke to Sue Prager, wife of Dennis Prager.
00:09:27.000Dennis is still in a very serious medical condition.
00:09:31.000Is there anything you want to share about Dennis, your friendship with him, as Dennis still is in a very precarious situation?
00:09:37.000I went and saw him recently Recently, Dennis, obviously, as you know, has paralysis and is dealing with a lot of different stuff.
00:09:48.000In his eyes and in his facial expression, it's still Dennis, you know, as you know.
00:09:55.000And, you know, he's sort of a national treasure.
00:09:59.000And it's funny, everyone's reaction to Dennis, our first reaction, it's almost selfish.
00:10:37.000I told him, you know, I said to him, Dennis, you know, he used to tell me all the time, he used to talk about Charles Krauthammer all the time.
00:10:45.000And he would say, even though the guy was confined to a wheelchair, that didn't stop him.
00:11:24.000Adam, thank you so much, and we'll continue to pray for Dennis and for the people of the Palisades and Los Angeles.
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00:19:08.000She filed this defamation suit back in October against us, saying we did not depict her testimony correctly in the fall of Minneapolis.
00:19:16.000And also, she took issue with some wording we used in their lying, the media, the left, and the death of George Floyd.
00:19:23.000That is the book that I first put out that led to the documentary.
00:19:26.000So as part of this motion to dismiss...
00:19:29.000That we filed in this case earlier this week.
00:19:32.000We have 34 current and former police officers who filed sworn declarations to say that this knee-on-neck restraint that she testified about in Derek Chauvin's trial was in fact a part of police training.
00:19:46.00014 of these officers go so far as to say that she perjured herself, that she lied on the stand in Derek Chauvin's criminal trial back in 2021.
00:19:55.000So really some bombshell court filings that have taken place.
00:19:59.000She brought this fight to us, not liking how she was depicted in the fall of Minneapolis, but this was our response to that lawsuit.
00:20:08.000It's a 113-page brief in all that was filed in Hennepin County court earlier this week.
00:20:16.000And you had the movie Fall of Minneapolis.
00:20:18.000Of all of the protocol that wasn't fallen in the criminal prosecution of Derek Chauvin.
00:20:23.000Yeah, we spent quite a bit of time in the documentary itself dedicated to what jurors saw.
00:20:31.000But I think really what they did not see, and that was a huge part of this, the MRT, the maximal restraint technique, which you can hear Thomas Lane actually talk about in the body camera footage.
00:20:43.000Again, the body camera footage, that's kept from the public for months in this case.
00:20:48.000But MRT is not allowed in Derek Chauvin's trial back in 2021. Judge Peter Cahill at the time said there was no proof that Chauvin signed his name in the last time MRT was taught.
00:21:03.000So in his ruling this is why he decided that that would not be allowed in Chauvin's trial.
00:21:10.000So this is a big part, and then you have Katie Blackwell take the stand, who says under oath that she does not recognize the technique that Derek Chauvin is using.
00:21:18.000And this is a clip that they continue to use in the trial again and again, a specific exhibit where you can see Derek Chauvin's knee near the neck of George Floyd.
00:21:28.000She says on the stand that this is not a part of training.
00:21:32.000However, these officers have now come forward to say that they took issue with her testimony.
00:21:37.000That the depiction was completely correct in what we used in the fall of Minneapolis, or 30 seconds that we used in the documentary itself.
00:21:47.000And they now want to go on the record and say that she lied, that she committed perjury in Derek Chauvin's trial.
00:21:56.000So if you win this case, is there any hope of reopening the Chauvin case itself?
00:22:01.000Yes, so Charlie, I've already been in touch quite a bit with Derek Chauvin's new attorney.
00:22:06.000Greg Joseph is his name, and he released a statement to Alpha News on Tuesday calling this a very significant development, and he says it will have direct impact on our approach for post-conviction relief.
00:22:18.000Just to remind your viewers, Chauvin has a state and a federal appeal ongoing at the moment, and he now plans to use what we've uncovered and put forth to the court in his post-conviction relief that is ongoing at this point. and he now plans to use what we've uncovered and I mean, you would just look at the civilizational importance consistently.
00:22:39.000Can you speak to how this was not just a single act?
00:22:42.000This particular incident was extrapolated to be like the greatest injustice since, I mean, I can't even think of, since the assassination of Martin Luther King, right?
00:22:57.000And yet there's so much mystery around it still.
00:23:01.000What questions do we still have remaining regarding the events that day that we still haven't been able to get an answer?
00:23:05.000Well, I think what's interesting here is we took these questions again back to the mayor of Minneapolis.
00:23:12.000We've been asking now for years, you know, what did you mean by this, that this technique was not trained?
00:23:17.000Also, now, what do you think that your assistant police chief...
00:23:20.000Is being accused of perjury, probably in the largest criminal case in Minnesota history.
00:23:27.000The current police chief, Brian O'Hara, has issued a statement since these filings came out to say basically that he stands by his assistant chief, calls her a person of moral character and courage.
00:25:01.000I think in 2019, there were about 46 homicides in the city of Minneapolis.
00:25:06.000That's up to in the 70s and 80s ever since.
00:25:10.000The murder rate in Minnesota alone has gone up by 50% since 2019. And remember, we were told that we'd be living on the right side of history after all of this.
00:25:21.000This was the mantra back then that we were fed by the mayor of Minneapolis, by our governor.
00:25:50.000I mean, we've seen in certain parts of the country, as it goes peak woke, there's a little bit of a retreat.
00:25:55.000Is there any sign of that in Minneapolis?
00:25:58.000I always come on here, Charlie, and wish that I always had better news for you.
00:26:03.000But there's some things that took place just voting-wise this November.
00:26:09.000I'll point out that Governor Walz did not actually even carry his home county in Minnesota.
00:26:14.000That went to Trump this time around, and that's been a...
00:26:18.000Predominantly blue area for many years.
00:26:21.000So that seemed to be, it's a more rural area of Minnesota.
00:26:25.000That seemed to be a bit of a bright spot from the election.
00:26:28.000The current city council in Minneapolis is up for re-election this year, this new year in 2025. And there's already a lot of movement there to try to find more moderate candidates.
00:26:37.000You have a city council that is primarily filled with socialists.
00:26:43.000Self-proclaimed socialists, DSA candidates in Minneapolis.
00:26:48.000And there's dozens of homeless encampments that have been allowed in the city since this.
00:26:54.000They never used to even track carjackings in Minneapolis.
00:30:18.000There was a pretty amazing moment that happened today at Jimmy Carter's funeral where you had...
00:30:24.000Everything wrong with American politics surrounding the solution.
00:30:29.000You had in one shot, I don't know if we'll see this again, you had Barack Hussein Obama, you had Al Gore, you had President Trump surrounded in every possible direction.
00:30:39.000You had George Bush, you had Bill Clinton, you had Hillary Clinton.
00:32:20.000I was born in 1993. Every single person who has been president since 1993 is pictured here.
00:32:27.000So you got Bill Clinton, you got Hillary Clinton, you got George Bush, you got Barack Obama, and it was supposed to be Hillary Clinton again, but Donald Trump disrupted it all.
00:32:35.000He will go down in the legend books, in the history books, for just that.
00:32:41.000All of these other maniacs have overseen the destruction of our country, one by one, both parties.
00:33:35.000They didn't believe any of the nonsense that they were trying to tell the American people.
00:33:39.000Look, I would actually have respect if they were like, we're not going to Carter's funeral because Donald Trump is the greatest thing ever.
00:33:45.000And if 2017 was marked by the resistance, 2025 is the acquiescence.