Adam Carolla on California's Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
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Adam, great to meet you. Thanks for being here Yeah. The All This is awesome for me. I'm a big fan. I grew up in LA. I listened to Loveline on K Rock as a teenager pre internet, like before the internet really took off. So the content you and doctor Drew put out on Loveline on drugs, sex, human psychology, this was stuff that didn't exist in our everyday lives and the discourse that you guys had. It was really kind of expansive for folks, at least in my cohort growing up in LA. We learnt a lot. So I wanna thank you for that. I think you've pioneered an important corner of the world of content
Yeah. Whole life.
And so, you know, we thought this would be a great conversation to have on the one year anniversary of the Palisades fire because we know that you've been a outspoken voice on the actions and the reactions to the Palisades fire. And while we're talking, we can also talk broadly about LA, about California, about The US, and where things are headed. I'm going all the way. Every business has an ambition. PayPal Open is the platform designed to help you grow into yours with access to business loans so you can expand and reach hundreds of millions of PayPal customers worldwide. And your customers c
Well, I'm uniquely qualified to address this subject because I live in Malibu and I was physically there on sunset the morning the fire started. I literally walked out of the Equinox gym and I looked up Sunset Boulevard up into the mountains and I saw smoke. It was 09:45 in the morning so I was like, lived there, was evacuated that night. But also have a background in construction, building, permitting the city, regulation, that kind of stuff. So it's a subject that I'm pretty passionate about. And I I think it leads into a bigger conversation about Los Angeles and California and how come ther
Can you just help diagnose the source of the problem? Is it cronyism, corruption by some sort of, you know, union or labor group or contractors that are trying to up the cost of things? Is it an incompetency or is there a good motivation to save the planet and save the environment and slow things down? I mean, what is what is behind the overregulation and the red tape, which is not just inherent in LA? It's obviously a California problem and across The United States. I've got my view on this. I'd love to hear your view on where this is coming from. What's the origin of this?
I don't think any of it is connected to unions or builders or contractors or engineers or any of that. I don't think they want any of it. I've I've lived in that world. I talk to these people. They roll their eyes. They hate it, it makes their job that much harder. I don't think it's a sort of New York mafia, we'll handle the garbage kind of situation. This is, what I'm starting to learn is basically what people are calling gyno fascism, which is way too many women in positions of power with an eye on safety. And it's safety uber alis and the second thing is environment uber alis. And everythi
Scarcetti, yep.
When they, they hide behind the shield of safety because it makes them sound noble, but it's essentially like saying, look, wouldn't your car be safer if it had a full NASCAR style roll cage in it? And you go, I guess. And what about a fire suppression system? Okay. And then how about a fuel cell with a bladder in it that had ballistic material in it versus a gas tank? Don't you think that'd be safe? Yeah. But the Prius is gonna be a $150,000 and no one can afford one now. Yeah. But it'd be So they hide behind this safety b s. It's mostly women who buy into it just like we scared
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