May 12, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| You know, I find this word very difficult, Adam. | |
| Star. | |
| I can't tell you how I don't think of myself as a star. | |
| But is there a better verb for what you and I are in no safe spaces? | |
| I think we're... | |
| Guides. | |
| We're the... | |
| The guides. | |
| We guide you through this movie and through this journey. | |
| And don't worry about being labeled star. | |
| Most of America wouldn't argue with you. | |
| That's very sweet. | |
| Okay. | |
| Anyway, we co-star in this movie, but of course, Adam Carolla is the most downloaded podcast. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| The Guinness Book of World Records. | |
| Still in the Guinness Book. | |
| For good reason. | |
| I hear your voice. | |
| My stepson is one of your billions of fans. | |
| Not billions. | |
| Hundreds of millions. | |
| And so I hear you a lot. | |
| I come home. | |
| I hear you. | |
| We all love you at the Prager family. | |
| Adam Carolla is one of the great, if not the greatest. | |
| Do you like the term comedian? | |
| Yeah, I'm fine with it. | |
| You know, my... | |
| We always talk about this on and off the air, probably. | |
| People say, what do you like? | |
| You like podcasting? | |
| You like stand-up? | |
| You like writing books? | |
| You like making movies? | |
| And I say, I like putting my ideas into your head. | |
| That's all I want to do. | |
| God, are we kindred spirits? | |
| And I sort of like the anonymous part of it. | |
| Or not the anonymous part, but I never really liked the scripted TV version of putting my ideas in your head because it's more difficult. | |
| There's makeup and there's lighting and there's everything else. | |
| The intimacy of someone physically now wearing earbuds or headset and listening to our voices, literally putting the voice into their head. | |
| You know, when I used to do terrestrial radio and people would listen to it in their cars or on their nightstand or wherever the radio was, it was being projected via speaker. | |
| But now, in this modern ear where you're putting the buds in your ears, there's literally no... | |
| Space between your voice and their brain. | |
| Right. | |
| That's fascinating. | |
| That's true. | |
| So, by the way, during this quarantine, we've been watching some movies, and we watched another one. | |
| I've watched three of your films. | |
| The Carr film. | |
| What is the name of that? | |
| Well, I have three films. | |
| No, there's one I haven't seen. | |
| Well, I'll just... | |
| Shoot them down here. | |
| Shoot them out. | |
| On Netflix, we have the Paul Newman Racing Doc. | |
| It's a movie about Paul Newman. | |
| It was great. | |
| There's the 24-hour war, which is the story of Le Mans, the 24 hours of Le Mans, Ford v. | |
| Ferrari. | |
| That one's a good one. | |
| There's Carroll Shelby. | |
| The thing that I think you would find interesting about the Carroll Shelby story, legendary racer, won Le Mans, made the Cobra, came back with Ford. | |
| If you see Ford v. | |
| Ferrari, Matt Damon is Carroll Shelby. | |
| Think about this concept. | |
| Carroll Shelby started his shop, his first shop in like 1965, Venice Beach, California. | |
| Carroll Shelby is from Texas. | |
| He hails from Texas. | |
| He came to Los Angeles. | |
| to have the freedom to do his thing. | |
| Can you imagine a time where you start in Texas? | |
| I mean, he's a Texan. | |
| And go to California for freedom. | |
| And he wanted to go to Venice Beach, California, so he could do his own thing, so he could open a shop and build cars. | |
| Could you imagine going to Venice Beach, California, and attempting to open a shop to build cars, where you have to paint the cars and all the transmission fluids and oils and all? | |
| Could you imagine how difficult that would be today? | |
| Yes. | |
| I don't have to imagine. | |
| So that is... | |
| Look... | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I got on a tangent. | |
| No, no. | |
| Let me just go on that tangent for one moment. | |
| Young people today, not even young, I would say even under 40, do not know what America was like when it was truly free. | |
| I have a... | |
| Even I have... | |
| It's an early memory, but I remember it. | |
| And there was a lightness. | |
| That's what it is. | |
| There was a lightness to American life. | |
| Today it is heavy. | |
| Yeah, I put a tweet out, I think about a day ago, that's gotten, I don't know, 1.4 million looks on... | |
| It was a tweet. | |
| It said, somebody's told me, Gavin Newsom says California won't... | |
| Get back to normal until we find a vaccine. | |
| And I wrote, California hasn't been normal in 20 years. | |
| That's right. | |
| And it's more than 20. But, I mean, it was relatively normal 20 years ago. | |
| It is not. | |
| This notion of we're going to get back, get back to what? | |
| That's right, the control. | |
| More of your movies. | |
| So, The 24-Hour War, The Newman Doc, Carroll Shelby, Shelby American. | |
| Is what it's called. | |
| Uppity, first black race driver at Indianapolis. | |
| That's my next one. | |
| Yeah, that's my next one. | |
| That one is being, people are giving some nice notices for that one. | |
| I made a movie called The Hammer. | |
| It's about a boxer. | |
| And I made a movie called Road Hard. | |
| That's what we just saw, Road Hard. | |
| Why do you make movies like The Hammer and Road Hard in which you're somewhat of a loser? | |
| It's easier to be likable and it's easier to be funny, I think, if you're coming from that world. | |
| Oh, interesting. | |
| And I do see, when I look in the mirror, I do see the loser. | |
| I don't see the winner. | |
| I've always been that way. | |
| I had a feeling that it was more than it's a good way to get good lines out. | |
| For example, in Road Hard, Your character gives up comedy to live with a woman you fall in love with in a rural area. | |
| Was it Tennessee? | |
| I think it was like Vermont or some area. | |
| You're right, it was. | |
| It was Vermont or New Hampshire, right. | |
| Your kid went to school in New Hampshire. | |
| Something like that. | |
| Is there a part of you in that at all? | |
| You know, maybe I'd just be happier without the limelight. | |
| Yeah, I don't really look at myself as in the limelight, but I do look at myself as someone who has to go out and generate every day. | |
| And there's a part of me that thinks sometimes, hey, just sell all Paul Newman's race cars in a couple of your warehouses and just go somewhere to Texas and put your feet up and learn to fish. | |
| And I am going to Texas, by the way, to do stand-up. | |
| I'm actually going to be... | |
| Probably the first comedian to travel. | |
| That's going to be the 21st, I think. | |
| Of what? | |
| May. | |
| It's coming a week from Thursday. | |
| So they will allow people into the theater? | |
| They are opening the clubs. | |
| They're going to open them to like 50% capacity. | |
| Right. | |
| And they're going to do whatever the safe distancing and whatever the regulations are. | |
| But I'm going to go out there. | |
| I'm going to do a bunch of shows at the Houston Improv. | |
| I'm going to bring Dan Crenshaw up on stage with me and do a live podcast. | |
| So we'll be doing live podcasts and stand-up. | |
| And I'm just going to donate all the money to the Houston Food Bank. | |
| But I'm still traveling for selfish reasons because I'm going to get a haircut and a steak when I go to Houston. | |
| I may even do it at the same time. | |
| I'm that committed. | |
| That's an image. | |
| I think you should, by the way, and put it up on your website. | |
| I'm definitely looking. | |
| Of you having a steak and getting a haircut at the same time. | |
| I cannot wait. | |
| That is such a great point. | |
| Well, when we get back, we're going to talk about the lockdown and so on and how you react to it. | |
| Oh, I have thoughts. | |
| Yes, I know you do. |
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