December 9, 2025 • 9 mins
Host of The Adam Carolla Show, Adam Carolla, talks about his transition into news commentary, party affiliation and why Americans are so depressed, ahead of his shows in South Florida this weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go to the hotline and bring in the host
of the Adam Carolla Show, which you can listen to,
of course on your iHeartRadio app. Adam Corolla is with us.
He's going to be the Fort Lauderdale Improv on Thursday
night at seven thirty and Sunday at seven thirty, and
he'll be at the Miami Improv Friday at seven thirty
and ten and Saturday night at seven and nine thirty.
(00:20):
You can check out more tickets at adamcarrolla dot com. Adam,
thanks so much for taking a few minutes to come
on the show. And the description of these shows that
everyone can go to is all new material as opposed
to like stuff you've heard before. So that's exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it's a typho should read all nude material.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So what can people expect any topics in particular you
plan on addressing.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, they can expect a good lively stand up just
a night, a Nia labs. You know about Somalia, think
about p Diddy, they think about lots of stuff that's
going on in today's America. And all the opinions shall
(01:11):
be shared with no holds barred.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What's really interesting, So you know, I google you just
to get the information on the showtimes and all that
kind of stuff. And I never really thought about this
in terms of a question for an interview. But when
you google Adam Carolla and it shows like some of
the top questions that people are typing about you, the
top one is is Adam Carolla liberal or conservative? And
(01:39):
you're in one of those spaces. It feels like we're
kind of depends on the issue, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, you know, I mean, here would be my honest assess.
I grew up in California. I grew up in Los Angeles.
I've always thought to myself as liberal in the sense that,
you know, I was pretty liberal with drug laws or
you know, consensual like crimes that were like you got
(02:10):
to prostitute, you got a john. I don't really care.
I'm not that I'm not that caught up. I don't
own a gun, I'm not religious, and I don't really
have any of the precursors of being a Republican or conservative.
But things have gotten so insane with all the transgender
(02:35):
stuff and open border stuff and you know, drag Queen
Story Hour and all the COVID regulations and lockdowns and
lies that when you push against that, then you get
called a conservative.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
We're joined now by Adam Parolla, host of The Adam
Corolla Show, which you can listen to, of course on iHeartRadio.
It's gonna be the Fort Lauderdale Improv Thursday at seven
thirty and Sunday seven thirty and the Miami Improv Friday
at seven thirty and ten and Saturday at seven and
nine thirty. You can learn more and get your tickets
at adamcarrolla dot com. So you know, I grew up
listening to you on Loveline and watching you on The
(03:13):
Man Show with girls on trampolines and all that great stuff,
and now you find yourself talking about stuff that's happening
in the news. Some politics tell us about that career
evolution and how you got to the police you're at today.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I don't really do much politics in my stand up back.
I do sort of state of society or state of mind,
or sort of psychology or or just jukes, you know,
in my stand up back, in my non stand up back.
You know, it's hard when you live in California, and
(03:54):
it's hard when you live in a place, a neighborhood
that was devastated by the fires, and they's like Kat
not to bring things up. You know, it's hard to
be governed by Gavitt Newsome and not have opinions about how.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Horrible he is or the Meyer Care at Bath.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So yeah, I have thought but they're mostly common sense
thoughts that end up being politicized. But it's it's more
common sense, you know, like, you know, we need less
regulation in California so we can build more. Now, maybe
that's a political thought, but I don't really think of
it as a political thought. I think of it from
(04:33):
the perspective of a guy. He used to be a
contractor and that's what I did for is for a living,
and regulations kind of strangling housing. So maybe it's maybe
it's it's political, but I don't really think it's political.
I think it's practical.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And is it just generally harder to stay away from
that stuff these days because of where we're at as
a society. Everybody is posting their hot takes on social
media twenty four to seven. I mean, we're just we're
surrounded and consumed by it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, because I think the left has gone nutty, and
so I never had thoughts about biological men using the ladies'
locker room at the gym or at the spa or
at the YMCA. I never had thoughts about that, because
(05:27):
why would anyone have any thoughts about it, because it's absurd,
and it never came up. But then it came up,
and now I have thoughts about it. But it's political now.
But I don't really think my thoughts are political. My
thoughts are I don't want biological men hanging out the
lady's locker room because I have a nineteen year old
(05:48):
daughter and I'm sort of thinking about her that way,
or anyone's daughter, So I don't really it's weird.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
If they made it sort.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Of politicized, but it didn't really have to be politicized.
We all could have just been normal and been like, well,
you want a closed border and you don't want guys
hanging around in the lakes locker room, and then it
wouldn't be political because we'd all agree.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
We're joined now by Adam Carolla, who's going to be
the Fort Lauderdale Improv on Thursday and Sunday and the
Miami Improv on Friday and Saturday. You can learn more
get your tickets at adamcarrolla dot com. I want to
ask you about some comments that you recently made, and
you were kind of diving into our culture and how
depressed we are, and you mentioned little House on the
(06:37):
Prairie and how life was like back then compared to
how it is now. Can you explain that for everyone,
because I thought the whole thing was really interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah. I just sort of came up spontaneously. It's not
one of my go tos, but I toggle and live.
I'm probably one of the few people who live in
the blue collar world, like very deep in the blue
collar world. I'm on my way right now to a
chop side on a house I'm remodeling.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I work with those guys.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm in and out of the hardware store, the home depot,
and the lumber store, and.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I know those guys well.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And then I'm also in the world of thoughts and
ideas and jokes and air conditioning and you know, being.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Sort of sedentary. Everyone's sitting in air and snacking. And
I started to.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Realize that the folks that were up on their feet,
they're breaking a sweat, they're working with tools, they're working
with blades, and they're working with fits and drills and
dangerous things seemed a lot more centered. They seem you know,
COVID did not break them out.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
They were fine with COVID.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
They understood the risk, but they also understood they had
to go to work, and they worked it out, and
they it was a much differ relationship with danger and COVID.
And I realized that we've taken so many people and
we pull them off the farms, and we pull them
out of the mills, and we put them in cubicles
with air conditioning, and they lost their relationship with risk
(08:14):
and danger and work and sweat and putting things together
in reality and logic and making things work. You know,
when you're on a farm, you can't have a lot
of pine the sky philosophies. You have to put things
together and make things work, otherwise you'll freeze or you'll start.
(08:37):
And so it struck me that these guys weren't necessarily happy.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
They just didn't have anxiety all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And of course, if you're dealing with a little anxiety,
a little stress, little depression, Adam Carolla show the perfect
cure for it. Go see him at the Fort Lauderdale
improv Thursday at seven thirty Sunday at seven thirty, or
the Miami Improv Friday thirty and ten Saturday at seven
and nine thirty. You can get more information and your
tickets at adamcarrolla dot com. Adam, really great to talk
(09:08):
to you this morning, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thanks for having me to The Ryan Gorman Show five
to nine every weekday morning on news radio te w
u FLA
Let's go to the hotline and bring in the host
of the Adam Carolla Show, which you can listen to,
of course on your iHeartRadio app. Adam Corolla is with us.
He's going to be the Fort Lauderdale Improv on Thursday
night at seven thirty and Sunday at seven thirty, and
he'll be at the Miami Improv Friday at seven thirty
and ten and Saturday night at seven and nine thirty.
(00:20):
You can check out more tickets at adamcarrolla dot com. Adam,
thanks so much for taking a few minutes to come
on the show. And the description of these shows that
everyone can go to is all new material as opposed
to like stuff you've heard before. So that's exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it's a typho should read all nude material.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So what can people expect any topics in particular you
plan on addressing.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, they can expect a good lively stand up just
a night, a Nia labs. You know about Somalia, think
about p Diddy, they think about lots of stuff that's
going on in today's America. And all the opinions shall
(01:11):
be shared with no holds barred.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What's really interesting, So you know, I google you just
to get the information on the showtimes and all that
kind of stuff. And I never really thought about this
in terms of a question for an interview. But when
you google Adam Carolla and it shows like some of
the top questions that people are typing about you, the
top one is is Adam Carolla liberal or conservative? And
(01:39):
you're in one of those spaces. It feels like we're
kind of depends on the issue, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, you know, I mean, here would be my honest assess.
I grew up in California. I grew up in Los Angeles.
I've always thought to myself as liberal in the sense that,
you know, I was pretty liberal with drug laws or
you know, consensual like crimes that were like you got
(02:10):
to prostitute, you got a john. I don't really care.
I'm not that I'm not that caught up. I don't
own a gun, I'm not religious, and I don't really
have any of the precursors of being a Republican or conservative.
But things have gotten so insane with all the transgender
(02:35):
stuff and open border stuff and you know, drag Queen
Story Hour and all the COVID regulations and lockdowns and
lies that when you push against that, then you get
called a conservative.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
We're joined now by Adam Parolla, host of The Adam
Corolla Show, which you can listen to, of course on iHeartRadio.
It's gonna be the Fort Lauderdale Improv Thursday at seven
thirty and Sunday seven thirty and the Miami Improv Friday
at seven thirty and ten and Saturday at seven and
nine thirty. You can learn more and get your tickets
at adamcarrolla dot com. So you know, I grew up
listening to you on Loveline and watching you on The
(03:13):
Man Show with girls on trampolines and all that great stuff,
and now you find yourself talking about stuff that's happening
in the news. Some politics tell us about that career
evolution and how you got to the police you're at today.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I don't really do much politics in my stand up back.
I do sort of state of society or state of mind,
or sort of psychology or or just jukes, you know,
in my stand up back, in my non stand up back.
You know, it's hard when you live in California, and
(03:54):
it's hard when you live in a place, a neighborhood
that was devastated by the fires, and they's like Kat
not to bring things up. You know, it's hard to
be governed by Gavitt Newsome and not have opinions about how.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Horrible he is or the Meyer Care at Bath.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So yeah, I have thought but they're mostly common sense
thoughts that end up being politicized. But it's it's more
common sense, you know, like, you know, we need less
regulation in California so we can build more. Now, maybe
that's a political thought, but I don't really think of
it as a political thought. I think of it from
(04:33):
the perspective of a guy. He used to be a
contractor and that's what I did for is for a living,
and regulations kind of strangling housing. So maybe it's maybe
it's it's political, but I don't really think it's political.
I think it's practical.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And is it just generally harder to stay away from
that stuff these days because of where we're at as
a society. Everybody is posting their hot takes on social
media twenty four to seven. I mean, we're just we're
surrounded and consumed by it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, because I think the left has gone nutty, and
so I never had thoughts about biological men using the ladies'
locker room at the gym or at the spa or
at the YMCA. I never had thoughts about that, because
(05:27):
why would anyone have any thoughts about it, because it's absurd,
and it never came up. But then it came up,
and now I have thoughts about it. But it's political now.
But I don't really think my thoughts are political. My
thoughts are I don't want biological men hanging out the
lady's locker room because I have a nineteen year old
(05:48):
daughter and I'm sort of thinking about her that way,
or anyone's daughter, So I don't really it's weird.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
If they made it sort.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Of politicized, but it didn't really have to be politicized.
We all could have just been normal and been like, well,
you want a closed border and you don't want guys
hanging around in the lakes locker room, and then it
wouldn't be political because we'd all agree.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
We're joined now by Adam Carolla, who's going to be
the Fort Lauderdale Improv on Thursday and Sunday and the
Miami Improv on Friday and Saturday. You can learn more
get your tickets at adamcarrolla dot com. I want to
ask you about some comments that you recently made, and
you were kind of diving into our culture and how
depressed we are, and you mentioned little House on the
(06:37):
Prairie and how life was like back then compared to
how it is now. Can you explain that for everyone,
because I thought the whole thing was really interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah. I just sort of came up spontaneously. It's not
one of my go tos, but I toggle and live.
I'm probably one of the few people who live in
the blue collar world, like very deep in the blue
collar world. I'm on my way right now to a
chop side on a house I'm remodeling.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I work with those guys.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm in and out of the hardware store, the home depot,
and the lumber store, and.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I know those guys well.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And then I'm also in the world of thoughts and
ideas and jokes and air conditioning and you know, being.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Sort of sedentary. Everyone's sitting in air and snacking. And
I started to.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Realize that the folks that were up on their feet,
they're breaking a sweat, they're working with tools, they're working
with blades, and they're working with fits and drills and
dangerous things seemed a lot more centered. They seem you know,
COVID did not break them out.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
They were fine with COVID.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
They understood the risk, but they also understood they had
to go to work, and they worked it out, and
they it was a much differ relationship with danger and COVID.
And I realized that we've taken so many people and
we pull them off the farms, and we pull them
out of the mills, and we put them in cubicles
with air conditioning, and they lost their relationship with risk
(08:14):
and danger and work and sweat and putting things together
in reality and logic and making things work. You know,
when you're on a farm, you can't have a lot
of pine the sky philosophies. You have to put things
together and make things work, otherwise you'll freeze or you'll start.
(08:37):
And so it struck me that these guys weren't necessarily happy.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
They just didn't have anxiety all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And of course, if you're dealing with a little anxiety,
a little stress, little depression, Adam Carolla show the perfect
cure for it. Go see him at the Fort Lauderdale
improv Thursday at seven thirty Sunday at seven thirty, or
the Miami Improv Friday thirty and ten Saturday at seven
and nine thirty. You can get more information and your
tickets at adamcarrolla dot com. Adam, really great to talk
(09:08):
to you this morning, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thanks for having me to The Ryan Gorman Show five
to nine every weekday morning on news radio te w
u FLA
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