Adam Carolla on Free Speech, Cancel Culture, AOC and Covid Hysteria. — Transcript

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1. 0:00Will you please kill yourself?
2. 0:01Adam Carolla says controversial things
3. 0:04Please kill yourself!
4. 0:05You’re infecting my life!
5. 0:06[Applause]
6. 0:09Lots of people like that.
7. 0:10His podcasts, right from the start,
8. 0:12were among America’s most popular.
9. 0:15He's hosted TV shows that became hits,
10. 0:17like Loveline and The Man Show
11. 0:20that he did with Jimmy Kimmel.
12. 0:22Girls jumping on trampolines.
13. 0:25The Man Show was criticized for its sexism.
14. 0:28Today, it’s Carolla’s opinions
15. 0:30that make people mad.
16. 0:31You said “If AOC were
17. 0:34fat and in her sixties,
18. 0:36no one would listen to her.”
19. 0:37Well, that's true.
20. 0:39That's 100% true.
21. 0:41Who are you to judge political
22. 0:43issues you don’t know
23. 0:45anything.
24. 0:46His comment about AOC
25. 0:48drove leftists crazy.
26. 0:50It's very predatory and creepy.
27. 0:52He projects his sexism onto others.
28. 0:55He thinks the only reason I would care
29. 0:58is because she's hot.
30. 0:59These talk show hosts saying,
31. 1:00that's so sexist,
32. 1:02but it's just true.
33. 1:04Yes.
34. 1:05If she was in her sixties and husky,
35. 1:09nobody would listen to a word she ever said,
36. 1:11because she sounds like an idiot.
37. 1:13Most people don’t even know what socialism is.
38. 1:16One thing he won’t say is
39. 1:18“I’m sorry.”
40. 1:19He makes that clear on the
41. 1:20cover of his new book.
42. 1:22No apologies.
43. 1:23Why is that important?
44. 1:25Apologizing just leads
45. 1:27to more apologizing.
46. 1:28When critics demand apologies, he says,
47. 1:31they really want power.
48. 1:33They want you to apologize
49. 1:34because they want dominion over you.
50. 1:36And once you apologize,
51. 1:38they just keep coming back.
52. 1:39And when they come after you,
53. 1:41you say you don't care
54. 1:44and you really don't care?
55. 1:46No. I just happen to be
56. 1:48wired not to care,
57. 1:50as long as I'm right.
58. 1:51He says he was right
59. 1:52about COVID.
60. 1:53He was skeptical about the government’s announcements.
61. 1:56Turns out the people dying from Covid
62. 1:58are old or sick or both.
63. 2:01How many of you “bleeps” got played
64. 2:03and who’s going to get played next time?”
65. 2:06What exactly were you trying to say there?
66. 2:08Exactly what I said.
67. 2:10They didn't give the ages of the
68. 2:11people who died at the very beginning.
69. 2:14They never gave the ages.
70. 2:15And I immediately got suspicious
71. 2:17because it was a bunch of 90 year olds.
72. 2:19And for saying this,
73. 2:20you get trashed by people
74. 2:22who've been your friends.
75. 2:24He's making fun of people
76. 2:25for taking COVID seriously.
77. 2:26Adam doesn't believe in shampoo or soap.
78. 2:29Yes, it's disturbing.
79. 2:31Jimmy Kimmel and Howard Stern
80. 2:32attack his views,
81. 2:34but they are still his friends.
82. 2:36Others have turned on him completely.
83. 2:38Adam and I were quite close.
84. 2:39Adam Carolla.
85. 2:40Not anymore.
86. 2:41What happened?
87. 2:42Well, he's a right-wing troll now.
88. 2:44Yeah. Well, David Allen Grier's nuts.
89. 2:46I don't think people know that
90. 2:48about David Allen Grier.
91. 2:49Fortunately, most celebrities on the left
92. 2:51are not as intolerant as Grier.
93. 2:53Carolla does shows with Sarah Silverman.
94. 2:56Bill Maher and he debate.
95. 2:58Absolutely not.
96. 2:59I’m with you.
97. 3:00Well I’m not with you.
98. 3:01But conversations like that
99. 3:03are rare these days.
100. 3:05It is a new thing in the media,
101. 3:07not to talk to the other side.
102. 3:09I could not disagree with you more!
103. 3:11All my career, we had arguments
104. 3:14and we'd learn from that.
105. 3:15When you're going to a bar,
106. 3:18you wanna sit next to a guy
107. 3:20who's a Steelers fan,
108. 3:21if you're a Steelers fan.
109. 3:23That's why they have Steelers bars
110. 3:26and Patriots bars.
111. 3:27But occasionally,
112. 3:28and it's part of your job.
113. 3:30You have to invite somebody over from the
114. 3:33Patriots bar.
115. 3:34And you can have a
116. 3:36robust debate on who's the better team.
117. 3:39Free speech is protected.
118. 3:40Hate speech is not protected!
119. 3:42But now the “don’t even let them speak”
120. 3:44movement tries to silence “robust debate.”
121. 3:47There’s no free speech for fascists.
122. 3:50I first encountered it years ago,
123. 3:52working for 20/20.
124. 3:53I was assigned a story at
125. 3:55Brown University where a kid had been
126. 3:57suspended for sexual misconduct.
127. 4:00He’d had sex with a woman
128. 4:01who was drunk
129. 4:02and weeks later,
130. 4:03she accused him of rape.
131. 4:05The protesters offered me their microphone to
132. 4:08ask a question, so I asked,
133. 4:10what’s the new definition of rape?
134. 4:12Get off this campus,
135. 4:13we don’t want you here.
136. 4:14Rape is not TV hype!
137. 4:17They were screaming,
138. 4:19rape is not TV hype.
139. 4:21Rape is not TV hype!
140. 4:23And I couldn't even ask people
141. 4:25over the noise.
142. 4:26Can I ask you why you’re screaming that?
143. 4:28Come on everybody, louder!
144. 4:30And it was this new culture
145. 4:32that the other side should not be
146. 4:33allowed to speak.
147. 4:35I believe
148. 4:37that they would let the other side speak
149. 4:40if they thought they could
150. 4:42beat them in a debate.
151. 4:44Um, they don't.
152. 4:45Carolla wants to debate,
153. 4:47partly because he’s confident about his ideas.
154. 4:51And I think if you're intellectually honest
155. 4:53or I gave you two beers,
156. 4:54you would agree with me.
157. 4:56Agreeing isn’t the point.
158. 4:57If his ideas are bad, they’ll go away.
159. 5:00But it’s important
160. 5:02that people are free to speak.
161. 5:04Performers feel pressure.
162. 5:06There’s a creepy
163. 5:08PC thing out there
164. 5:09that really bothers me.
165. 5:10So let’s celebrate those
166. 5:12who push right back.
167. 5:14The only way these people are
168. 5:15gonna go away is if everyone
169. 5:16just sort of collectively and universally
170. 5:19tells them to f*** off.
171. 5:20[Woo!]
172. 5:21I don't really have
173. 5:23a choice as to what I say.
174. 5:26It has to be the truth all, all the time.
175. 5:29I'm a comedian.
176. 5:31It's a sacred oath I took.
177. 5:33It's what I do.
178. 5:34Thank you.
179. 5:35You guys have been wonderful.
180. 5:37Thank you so much.
181. 5:39[Applause]
182. 5:40[Swoosh]
183. 5:42In a few weeks, I'll post a longer video with Adam Carolla.
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