The Charlie Kirk Show - Weakness of Wokeness with Adam Carolla

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00:01:43.000 Hey, everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:01:46.000 Super thrilled to be joined by Adam Carolla, who is, of course, a legend and author of I'm Your Emotional Support Animal.

00:01:54.000 So Adam, I want to read one part of your book that just had me laughing.

00:01:58.000 You said, as you wrote this book, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff could find or create something else to impeach him for anything else.

00:02:05.000 And Rudy Giuliani going through their trash looking for something embarrassing to tweet about.

00:02:10.000 My question is, how did you know nine months ago that's exactly where we would be today?

00:02:16.000 Well, you know, first off, disappointers never disappoint.

00:02:20.000 So it's like the people you know who are always late are always late.

00:02:24.000 And Nancy Pelosi, you can basically chart her movement sort of like a satellite.

00:02:32.000 Like you know exactly, you know the answer to everything she's going to give.

00:02:37.000 You know, you know, Schiff, is there anything those guys have ever said that has ever surprised you?

00:02:44.000 Have you ever went, wait a minute, yeah, I kind of agree with that.

00:02:49.000 Or wow, she's being honest or huh, a rare moment of candor.

00:02:54.000 And you know what Giuliani's going to do too.

00:02:57.000 And yeah, hence the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:03:01.000 Yeah, you go through your chapter in your Donald Trump part of it where you say this is the obligatory Trump chapter.

00:03:08.000 And I kind of like it.

00:03:09.000 You predicted Donald Trump becoming president in 2008 and you said it again in 2014.

00:03:14.000 And I do want to walk through this, Adam.

00:03:17.000 You're one of the last comedians, I think, in America where we have someone that actually tells the truth and is unafraid to kind of challenge some of the kind of conventional orthodoxy.

00:03:28.000 Adam, do you think that Donald Trump, because of Hollywood's reaction to him, do you think that he has killed like comedy in America?

00:03:35.000 I mean, I find a lot of these late night hosts, they are clapping.

00:03:39.000 A lot of the audience, they are clapping instead of laughing.

00:03:42.000 It seems as if you're not able to tell jokes anymore.

00:03:46.000 And I know you walk through this in your book.

00:03:49.000 So what is it about President Trump that bothers the community of comedians so much?

00:03:55.000 Well, I have multiple thoughts about that.

00:03:57.000 One is the Hollywood community does not like Trump for a multitude of reasons.

00:04:03.000 But one of the main reasons that no one ever really talks about is style.

00:04:10.000 Those people are attracted to an aesthetic.

00:04:13.000 It's the Hollywood community.

00:04:15.000 You know what I mean?

00:04:15.000 Like that is their living, the visual, because you think about it.

00:04:21.000 Think about how they would wax on about John Kennedy Jr. or the Kennedys or, you know, Camelot.

00:04:29.000 You know, it was always a sort of, oh, and they do this thing.

00:04:33.000 They would do this thing.

00:04:34.000 It's like, look at Michelle Obama.

00:04:35.000 Look at her arms.

00:04:36.000 Look at the grace.

00:04:37.000 Look at the dignity.

00:04:39.000 You know, they love an aesthetic and they love a style.

00:04:45.000 And so Trump reminds them of their husky uncle who's always talking about bowling and arena football.

00:04:54.000 And they're like, ew, get away from me.

00:04:57.000 We want the beautiful people.

00:04:59.000 So one is they don't like him.

00:05:02.000 You know, obviously they don't agree with many of his policies, but it's really a style thing.

00:05:08.000 Like, why elevate Jacqueline Onassis or Jacqueline Kennedy?

00:05:14.000 Or even like you take Jr., you take the son who died in a car wreck.

00:05:18.000 All that guy was was good looking and they loved it.

00:05:21.000 They loved it.

00:05:23.000 But I don't know what he did other than that.

00:05:26.000 You know, he published a sort of magazine about nothing, but he was royalty.

00:05:32.000 And the Kennedys were also, they love the aesthetic and they love that sort of grace.

00:05:38.000 And they hate Trump on that level.

00:05:40.000 The other thing that's going on with comedians, and this is interesting, which is they look at it and have always traditionally looked at it as your job is to push back against society.

00:05:55.000 Your job is to push back against the man.

00:05:58.000 So, you know, Lenny Bruce or Richard Pryor or George Carlin, they were going to push back against the man.

00:06:05.000 But here's what happened.

00:06:09.000 You and they, sorry, not you, but comedians constantly attack Donald Trump as if they're pushing back against the man.

00:06:17.000 Donald Trump is not the man.

00:06:19.000 The man are people like Gavin Newsom who are shutting down their states and telling everyone to stay in their house and giving them protocols for Thanksgiving.

00:06:31.000 That's the man. 0.70

00:06:33.000 And the comedians are cowards because they won't push back against the real man. 0.99

00:06:37.000 Trump is not the man. 0.99

00:06:39.000 Trump's a big, easy target.

00:06:42.000 And you'll get nothing but kudos in Hollywood if you slam Trump, Trump.

00:06:46.000 And that's why they do it constantly.

00:06:49.000 The man is really your governor who shut down this state, your mayor who shut down this city.

00:06:59.000 You want to push back?

00:07:00.000 The man, CNN is the man.

00:07:03.000 Trump isn't the man.

00:07:04.000 Fox isn't the man.

00:07:05.000 CNN is the man.

00:07:07.000 You don't think they're the man?

00:07:08.000 What station is on in every single airport in the country?

00:07:12.000 You don't think that's enough sets?

00:07:15.000 CNN is, as we speak, is literally on 500 monitors in any airport around the country right now times 2,000 airports.

00:07:25.000 You don't think they're the man? 0.93

00:07:27.000 So cowardly comedians, you're going to push back against the man. 0.98

00:07:31.000 Trump, that's easy. 1.00

00:07:34.000 You push back against Gavin.

00:07:36.000 Let's talk about the lockdowns.

00:07:38.000 Let's talk about COVID.

00:07:39.000 The man is COVID.

00:07:41.000 The man are lockdowns. 0.99

00:07:43.000 Okay, cowards, push back against them. 0.97

00:07:46.000 Never do. 0.99

00:07:47.000 No one will say a word about that.

00:07:49.000 Well, and we have seen throughout the last couple years, especially how the comedians have almost considered themselves to be part of the communication arm of the Democrat Party.

00:08:00.000 And Adam, you're exactly right.

00:08:01.000 If comedy is supposed to be contrarian, it's supposed to be provocative.

00:08:05.000 It's supposed to call out truths that we all see, but we're afraid to say.

00:08:10.000 And it was really easy to be a comedian when George W. Bush was president.

00:08:14.000 That was when every single comic was pushing back against George Bush's accent or his, you know, his way of going about governance.

00:08:23.000 And you kind of saw under Obama, there were still plenty of people that, you know, challenged conservatives and Republicans, but it kind of made this transitional phase from comedy being a place where it was an equal opportunity offender to that now comedy being almost agreeable with the culture.

00:08:39.000 You talk about this in your book, and I want to make sure we continue to mention it.

00:08:43.000 I'm Your Emotional Support Animal.

00:08:45.000 I'm working my way through it.

00:08:46.000 Adam, I was just reading it about an hour before this interview.

00:08:48.000 I couldn't stop laughing through parts of it.

00:08:50.000 My favorite part is how we're now going to classify airplane crashes and how many support animals are on board. 0.93

00:08:56.000 And as you put it, the white chicks will be more upset with the dogs that are lost in the crash than the human beings that are lost. 0.88

00:09:06.000 And I love the pictures you included with the woman that had two emotional support animals. 0.84

00:09:10.000 And you asked the question, does she have double the anxiety?

00:09:14.000 And it's just, again, you're not the reason I love this book is you're saying things you're not allowed to say, which is exactly what comedy is supposed to be.

00:09:21.000 Let's just take a bigger picture question about your book, Adam.

00:09:25.000 Why did you write it?

00:09:27.000 And what is the bigger points you're trying to make?

00:09:30.000 What I derive from it is you think we're too fragile, we're too soft.

00:09:34.000 And comedy is actually, the way comedy has gone is actually partly to blame for that.

00:09:39.000 Yes.

00:09:40.000 What I was saying in the book is the next time there's a major commercial airline crash, we're going to get the number of passengers.

00:09:48.000 You know, it's going to be 173 passengers, 11 crew members, and 26 dogs.

00:09:54.000 That's that's basically you.

00:09:57.000 You think I'm making a joke?

00:09:59.000 I'm not.

00:09:59.000 There are going to have to have a category if eight dogs are on that plane and die.

00:10:04.000 We're going to have to know about it.

00:10:06.000 All right.

00:10:06.000 You're right.

00:10:06.000 That's why it's funny.

00:10:07.000 I'm just repeating my own joke.

00:10:10.000 So when I wrote, first off, I wrote the book because someone paid me to write the book.

00:10:15.000 I tell that to people all the time.

00:10:17.000 Like someone comes up to me and goes, You want to write a book?

00:10:19.000 And I go, Yes.

00:10:20.000 And then they pay me and I write the book, but I never mail it in.

00:10:24.000 I always want to write a killer book.

00:10:26.000 I go to Amazon, I look at the reviews.

00:10:29.000 If it's not, you know, five-star or 80% five-star, I'm bummed out.

00:10:34.000 So I always have a lot of ideas in my head.

00:10:38.000 And when you do a podcast or you do stand-up, you don't fully sort those ideas many times, as you know.

00:10:47.000 You know, just kind of you're talking, you're waxing poetic, you're going off the things are on the tip of your tongue.

00:10:54.000 And they're not fully, they're not necessarily fully realized the ideas.

00:11:00.000 But when it comes to stand-up, they're realized, but there's a lot of jokes in there because there's an audience.

00:11:06.000 You're at a nightclub.

00:11:07.000 You know, you can't just stand up there and pontificate for seven minutes without a joke.

00:11:12.000 The book allows me to take the ideas, really drill down on them and explore them.

00:11:20.000 And the book format is one because you're not in person, you know what I mean?

00:11:27.000 Like when it's your physically your voice, you're impeded a little bit.

00:11:32.000 You can't just say every single thing you're thinking of when you're standing on stage and there's 300 people in the room.

00:11:39.000 You just don't.

00:11:40.000 You just don't.

00:11:41.000 It's like, it's basically like when you go to a remember when you used to be able to go indoors and eat at a diner?

00:11:48.000 You know that thing where it's like you and your friend, and you're eating at a diner and you partied pretty good the night before, and all of a sudden some elderly couple pulls up in the booth right behind yours, and all of a sudden the conversation changes, right?

00:12:01.000 You're not quite as freewheeling with it because elderly couples within earshot.

00:12:07.000 That's kind of what a lot of stand-up is and a lot of other stuff is.

00:12:11.000 But the book, that's you in a diner booth in the middle of the Mojave Desert with a bullhorn.

00:12:18.000 And that's the way I wrote it.

00:12:19.000 And my editors would say on numerous occasions, like, are you sure you want to say this?

00:12:29.000 Or they don't think you should say this, or you should take it out.

00:12:32.000 And I just tell them, leave it in.

00:12:33.000 It's in.

00:12:34.000 As a matter of fact, if you've told me to take it out, now it's really, it's really in.

00:12:38.000 And that's exactly what I think is so hilarious about it.

00:12:42.000 And I think that comedy really is saying things that are deeply true that people know to be true, this people are afraid to say it.

00:12:48.000 And that's why it's the kind of, as Tucker endorsed your book, as the revolution hits its most humorless and radical phase, the people that are saying things that are true are all of a sudden considered to be more funny than it would have been even 20 or 30 years ago.

00:13:03.000 Right.

00:13:04.000 Yeah, well, look, you know, I talk to people about this all the time.

00:13:09.000 I did not get into comedy to parse or mince words.

00:13:14.000 I want to say exactly.

00:13:16.000 I mean, look, I don't work at UPS and I don't work at Starbucks or the Apple Store.

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00:13:25.000 Why should I be thinking about what I'm saying?

00:13:28.000 That's up to the audience.

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00:14:42.000 And so one of the funniest things I've seen you do, Adam, is when you were testifying in front of Congress.

00:14:48.000 There's a whole part of your book about this.

00:14:49.000 Mr. Corolla goes to Washington and you hold up the notepad and you say, Can I keep this?

00:14:55.000 Because if I can, that's a pretty big deal.

00:14:57.000 And so you're talking about free speech and what's happening on college campuses.

00:15:01.000 And I want to build this out with you.

00:15:02.000 That's a lot of the outreach that we do on university campuses.

00:15:05.000 And I don't think that what we're saying is, albeit that controversial, but the goalposts have moved so much, the Overton window has changed that students feel the need to get to safe spaces and they need trigger warnings.

00:15:17.000 You have trigger warnings throughout this entire book, by the way, which I think is perfect.

00:15:21.000 You did a whole documentary with Dennis Prager on this, No Safe Spaces.

00:15:25.000 And you talked about in the book here where your opinion of the death of free speech, not just the death of free speech, but the need for people to have playrooms and listening sessions really is not just a troubling trend for a civilization, but it's also just made us less likely to explore new ideas.

00:15:48.000 Can you talk a little bit about the documentary and how you how you kind of weaved it into your this book of in the chapter academia nuts of where you think the status of higher education is in our country and how it has changed so much in even the last couple of years?

00:16:04.000 The joke lands better if you say academia nuts.

00:16:08.000 Oh, I like that.

00:16:09.000 That's very funny.

00:16:10.000 I totally miss that.

00:16:12.000 That's all right.

00:16:12.000 That's why I'm here.

00:16:14.000 That's why I'm here.

00:16:17.000 Well, what I said in front of Congress was in one's life, one needs resistance to push against.

00:16:29.000 And, you know, you think of ourselves as a biological creature.

00:16:34.000 Your body gets stronger when you do a bench press with some weights on it, not using a mop handle, right?

00:16:42.000 So you want to build up your body.

00:16:44.000 You go, all right, throw those 35-pound or 45-pound slabs on there and let's knock out a few reps, right? 0.79

00:16:52.000 So resistance, like pushback.

00:16:54.000 It's good.

00:16:55.000 It's how you get strong.

00:16:56.000 You know, it's why, you know, it's why young bucks wrestle and go at it and, you know, all this.

00:17:02.000 You see it in nature all the time.

00:17:04.000 And you're also, I was kind of thinking about this.

00:17:08.000 Your body needs it too.

00:17:10.000 Like all the Purel and all the sanitizer.

00:17:13.000 Those kids end up with all these allergies and skin conditions and stuff like that. 1.00

00:17:17.000 Meanwhile, the Amish kids are fine because they're outside rolling around with animals and running around all day. 1.00

00:17:22.000 And their immune system, they're like flora and fauna has something to fight against. 1.00

00:17:27.000 So your whole body needs something to push against.

00:17:32.000 It needs something to fight against.

00:17:34.000 And in order to get stronger, it needs resistance.

00:17:38.000 I say in the book, the reason, you know, when they take astronauts and they send them to the space station for a year, they get atrophied.

00:17:47.000 They lose muscle and bone density.

00:17:51.000 So why do you want to create this zero gravity environment for your kids?

00:17:55.000 They hear ideas they don't like, and instead of strengthening themselves emotionally by pushing back, they shout the guy off stage or they go into the room with their huggy bookie and listen to a nursery rhyme.

00:18:09.000 How could you possibly?

00:18:11.000 Why?

00:18:12.000 What's so different about you emotionally than physically than your flora and fauna in your gut?

00:18:18.000 Why is that separate?

00:18:20.000 You need, everyone needs something to push against to strengthen themselves.

00:18:25.000 You put in the book here where campuses really get absurd is with safe spaces.

00:18:28.000 For those of you unfamiliar with this term, congratulations.

00:18:31.000 A so-called safe space is an area for students to escape with stuffed animals, counselors, coloring books, and support animals for when Jordan Peterson or some other monster comes to campus.

00:18:41.000 And think romper room, except instead of four-year-olds, it's for 19-year-olds who think like they are four-year-olds.

00:18:47.000 And just for all the listeners, and I have to continue to tell older audiences, this is not exaggerated.

00:18:53.000 This is on campuses all across the country.

00:18:56.000 And you're exactly right.

00:18:57.000 I just wrote down the zero gravity example.

00:19:00.000 I'm going to use that and I'll reference you sometimes with that because it is phenomenal that when I remember to, because there is no muscle mass being built with young people in higher education or in academia at all whatsoever.

00:19:15.000 And when they go to these university campuses, college should be a place where they get tougher, they get more, they get stronger to be able to encounter a difficult world when the exact opposite is happening.

00:19:28.000 They're actually becoming weaker and less likely to be able to endure the inevitable suffering that is life.

00:19:36.000 And so, so, Adam, what do you attribute a lot of this to?

00:19:39.000 Everyone has their own theory.

00:19:40.000 Jordan Peterson has a highly intellectual theory.

00:19:43.000 What warning signs do you think we ignored 10 or 20 years ago that led us to the place where we now send our kids to university campuses where they have to be around play-doh dolls or nursery rhymes?

00:19:56.000 What was it that led us to this point?

00:19:59.000 Was it really us sacrificing the terrain of higher education to radicals?

00:20:03.000 Was it political correctness, which you touch on in this book, which you're obviously criticizing a lot of the political correct culture?

00:20:10.000 How did we get here?

00:20:12.000 Well, think about the evolution.

00:20:16.000 I would look at college as a business, you know, and you have to constantly cater to your clientele.

00:20:25.000 And your clientele is more and more growing up in the self-esteem movement, right?

00:20:31.000 Being told they're number one, the participation trophy, which it's everyone gets a trophy group.

00:20:39.000 And participation trophy, I never liked that as an example because I played seven years of pop warner football and I got a participation trophy every time.

00:20:48.000 That wasn't the thing.

00:20:49.000 It didn't mean anything to me.

00:20:50.000 It's like I wanted most valuable player, best defensive lineman.

00:20:54.000 But the clientele are the, I mean, think about, think about what the politicians are doing now, promising this, promising, you know, free, free education, free healthcare, free this, you know, rent control.

00:21:08.000 All they're doing is trying to tell their clients what they want, right?

00:21:14.000 So if you have a whole bunch of pampered kids who grew up in the self-esteem movement and they're coming onto your college campus, well, that's your business.

00:21:25.000 And it's look, have you any?

00:21:29.000 I have been to a very high-end casino in London, a very private, very private, high-end casino. 1.00

00:21:39.000 And the folks that come there and play these multi-million dollar hands of Blackjack or Texas Hold'em or whatever, they're all Chinese. 1.00

00:21:48.000 So guess what? 1.00

00:21:50.000 The inside of that place, it's all catered to Chinese. 1.00

00:21:54.000 Like they face things this way because it's considered good luck or they don't do that. 1.00

00:21:59.000 Well, that's their clientele.

00:22:01.000 So why wouldn't that casino go, who's coming through the door? 1.00

00:22:05.000 And they go, well, it's the high rollers, the big whales are coming in here are Chinese. 1.00

00:22:10.000 And they go, all right, well, we're still going to, we're still going to face the slot machines that way, right? 1.00

00:22:15.000 It's like, no, they don't like that direction.

00:22:18.000 You got to change it.

00:22:19.000 And they're in the business of attracting clients.

00:22:22.000 So why wouldn't the college campuses just go along with this sort of directive or the way the prevailing winds were blowing?

00:22:31.000 Yeah.

00:22:31.000 So your theory is that it's really an issue of what happens, not just before college, but also just to look at it as a business.

00:22:38.000 And also, I think it's pandering to the loudest voices and the most radical voices.

00:22:42.000 I think it's very weak college administrators, just as if you mentioned, you know, the very cowardly comedians that are afraid to, you know, push the boundary.

00:22:50.000 The same could be said for these administrators that basically their negotiating position is, I'll give you everything you want. 0.98

00:22:56.000 Just stop yelling at me to the 5% of the college radicals that are at a university campus, where 20 or 30 years ago, they would have said, no, you're nuts.

00:23:06.000 We're not going to give you a trigger warrant.

00:23:08.000 You're not going to give you trigger warning safe spaces.

00:23:10.000 And you even mentioned in the book at the University of Kansas, there is the Angry White Man Studies, and you recommend that this book should be the textbook.

00:23:17.000 I completely agree, which I find to be hilarious.

00:23:21.000 And the things that are actually taught at these university campuses outside of just the culture and the curriculum is creating a country where young people have very little understanding of the world they're about to enter into.

00:23:36.000 And also I think the depth and the complexity of our country and everything they learn is our country is awful.

00:23:45.000 It must be torn down.

00:23:46.000 It must be disintegrated at all costs.

00:23:48.000 So, Adam, you also talk about in the book a little bit about your story and where you came from.

00:23:53.000 I think it's a great story because it is a story where you just decided to apply yourself and you have achieved an enormous amount of success.

00:24:01.000 And I think we're losing that a lot in our country.

00:24:04.000 Can you talk about how you think that with all these different contributing cultural factors, whether it be the political correctness movement or the zero gravity movement, it almost has created young people to be more fragile, less likely to take risks and more likely to just try to look to other people?

00:24:22.000 And you have a whole chapter on this where you say, I'm trying to pull it up, but it's around victimhood, where it seems as if there's a competition to try the highest level of become a victim at all costs, almost the oppression Olympics.

00:24:34.000 Can you talk about how dangerous you think this is for our country where everyone wants to be a victim at all costs?

00:24:40.000 Well, all you have to do, if you want to sort of know what works, like you go from the macro to the micro.

00:24:50.000 So if you're just talking about diet and exercise, you know, you go, well, I have a, I have a teenage son and you'd go, okay, well, let's see.

00:25:00.000 Let's get him on some low carbs and some high protein and get him working out and blah, blah, blah.

00:25:05.000 Okay.

00:25:06.000 Well, that would be universal.

00:25:08.000 Then if everyone ate more vegetables and less fast food and exercised more, it's not like, well, that would work for your boy or his boy or her boy, but it wouldn't work for the culture.

00:25:20.000 Of course it would work.

00:25:21.000 So diet and exercise, let's say, would work for the culture, right?

00:25:27.000 Okay, universal.

00:25:29.000 So anybody who has a child with a handicap, like confined to a wheelchair or dwarfism or some handicap, spina bifida or something, right?

00:25:43.000 Well, you would be the worst parent in the world if you were convincing that kid every day that they were handicapped and less than others in their class.

00:25:52.000 You would be a horrible parent. 0.88

00:25:54.000 What would a good parent do?

00:25:55.000 Good parent would be, well, you're confined to a wheelchair, but that doesn't make you a victim and that doesn't make anyone any better than you.

00:26:03.000 And yeah, you're going to have to outwork some of these people, but let's do it.

00:26:07.000 So if you had someone with a handicap, a kid with a handicap, then that's all you would tell them.

00:26:11.000 And you'd be a good parent to tell them that. 0.99

00:26:14.000 So then why is it somehow noble when a politician explains to an entire group like the black community, you have a target on your back. 0.99

00:26:23.000 You're not wanted in this society. 0.99

00:26:27.000 You won't be able to get ahead as long as we have the structures in place.

00:26:31.000 I mean, that's got to be the worst parenting ever, right?

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00:27:18.000 I completely agree.

00:27:19.000 And you can see that in how many people have, not many people, how the population has refused to push back against a lot of these lockdowns.

00:27:29.000 And they have almost willingly asked their leaders to take care of them instead of saying, wait, why is it?

00:27:37.000 Are we still locked down after nine months and we're trying to slow the spread of the virus or stop the spread?

00:27:43.000 And it just seems as if there is one failed promise and almost like I want to be taken care of at all costs, no matter like I want to be the victim.

00:27:54.000 And it's that, as you know, said before, and Greg Gutfeld and Dave Rubin have said this, it's almost like it is the oppression Olympics.

00:28:01.000 The book is I'm Your Emotional Support Animal.

00:28:05.000 You also have a chapter here on commercial grade.

00:28:09.000 Can you build out this chapter a little bit, Adam?

00:28:10.000 I found it to be very interesting, kind of the examples that you use throughout the entire chapter.

00:28:16.000 It says, made with love makes me hate.

00:28:19.000 What exactly do you mean by that?

00:28:21.000 Well, obviously, Madison Avenue has to stay on top of the shifting winds of society.

00:28:29.000 And think about the commercials you see now.

00:28:33.000 So when I was growing up, if there was a commercial for a truck, they talked about torque and towing capacity, and they would always talk about warranties and fuel mileage and, you know, best fuel mileage in its class, best warranty, you know, 100,000 miles on the powertrain, you know, 100,000 rust-through on the body with Bondarized steel.

00:28:56.000 You know, now a Subaru is made with love.

00:29:00.000 You watch a Subaru commercial.

00:29:02.000 They don't even, they don't even show, they don't even talk about the car at all. 0.97

00:29:07.000 They just show the nice couple driving, the mixed race couple driving into the woods.

00:29:13.000 And in the book, I explain, you know what else Subaru makes?

00:29:17.000 Subaru Subaru makes attack helicopters for the Japanese military.

00:29:22.000 So do you think they make those with love as well? 0.99

00:29:26.000 You think Subaru loves you or Subaru thinks you're soft and weak and dumb and they pander to you? 0.98

00:29:32.000 Look at all the good vibe commercials that are out there. 0.98

00:29:36.000 When I was growing up, there were no good vibe commercials.

00:29:39.000 The commercial was the product.

00:29:42.000 And you have seen almost this increasing demand through, as you mentioned, commercials and communication, not to actually, you know, sell the best thing, as you say, but instead want to win over the audience in some emotive argument.

00:29:55.000 Chapter seven, you say, sick of hashtag Me Too, Me Too.

00:29:59.000 You really go after this here, Adam.

00:30:01.000 And I'm glad you do because of the double standard and almost the creation of a culture where we are telling young women to go out of their way to try to find ways that they have been offended or ways that they have been wronged by men.

00:30:15.000 Can you walk us through this chapter?

00:30:17.000 You use many different examples here.

00:30:19.000 You talk about the perps.

00:30:20.000 You talk about Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and you have a lot of nuance, by the way, when you go through all of them.

00:30:25.000 You talk about Louis C.K. What is the bigger point you're trying to make in the chapter with Me Too that you think our audience should be made aware of?

00:30:34.000 Well, it sort of dovetails into let's not, you know, first off, stop convincing everyone they were victims.

00:30:41.000 There's plenty of women I know where somebody grabbed their bun cheek or something and they just shoot the guy's hand away and they moved on with their life, you know.

00:30:52.000 There's versions of that that happen, happen to men as well.

00:30:56.000 Let's, you know, I probably said in there since they started all of these seminars in the workplace about sexual harassment, I will bet you that sexual harassment lawsuits have gone up 2,000 fold.

00:31:14.000 So how's that possible?

00:31:15.000 You bring in these experts, they tell you what to do and what not to do, and now sexual harassment lawsuits are at an all-time high.

00:31:24.000 Well, all you're doing is sort of giving a roadmap to people who want to be victimized.

00:31:30.000 Everyone has to now think back.

00:31:31.000 Oh, wait a minute.

00:31:32.000 Was I victimized?

00:31:33.000 Yes, I was.

00:31:35.000 We've all been victimized in one way, shape, or form or another by those standards.

00:31:42.000 By those standards.

00:31:43.000 You can't just say, you can't just say, if somebody puts their hand on your thigh, that's not sexual assault.

00:31:50.000 You can't just, you can't just, you can't say you were assaulted by that.

00:31:54.000 You're ruining the definition of the word.

00:31:58.000 And you create almost an entire population of people that they get to the seminar on and they say, oh, wait, maybe I was wrong by that.

00:32:03.000 It's created almost a cottage industry of lawyers and law firms that represent people exactly in that arena and sector.

00:32:10.000 The book is I'm Your Emotional Support Animal.

00:32:13.000 Adam, in closing, what is your message to young people?

00:32:17.000 You talked about it in No Safe Spaces, but there's a lot of young people that come to me.

00:32:21.000 They say, Charlie, I just can't succeed.

00:32:22.000 I can't get ahead.

00:32:23.000 No matter how hard I work, I feel as if I'm just barely treading water.

00:32:29.000 This book is pretty blunt, where it says, apply yourself correctly.

00:32:34.000 Stop blaming other people for your problems and try to have a little fun along the way because the world is not as serious as some people try to make it seem.

00:32:42.000 I think your message is pretty inspiring to students and to young people, which is stop being a victim.

00:32:49.000 Stop pointing to the external world.

00:32:51.000 And again, I love your story where you decided to apply yourself.

00:32:55.000 And I don't know if you went to college or not.

00:32:58.000 It doesn't matter to me.

00:32:59.000 I just misremembering.

00:33:00.000 I didn't.

00:33:01.000 And so what is your message to students and young people out there?

00:33:04.000 We have a lot of young people that listen to this podcast.

00:33:06.000 Well, the good news is your contemporaries are so weak and soft. 0.91

00:33:14.000 They're so soft. 0.67

00:33:15.000 They have no idea how to be employees.

00:33:17.000 They have no idea what grit or hard work or intestinal fortitude is.

00:33:22.000 That all you have to do, you don't have to be the best.

00:33:26.000 You don't have to be the brightest.

00:33:27.000 You don't have to be the top of your class.

00:33:29.000 Just show up hungry and have a kick-ass attitude about work and you'll stand out immediately amongst these super soft, woke contemporaries.

00:33:43.000 That's well said.

00:33:44.000 So the book is I'm Your Emotional Support Animal and also hosted the Adam Corolla Show podcast.

00:33:49.000 Adam, thanks so much for joining us and hope to see you soon.

00:33:52.000 Appreciate it.

00:33:53.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:33:54.000 See you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 30, 2020

Weakness of Wokeness with Adam Carolla

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