Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Adam Carolla's Hollywood Walk of Fame star?
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Since the podcast began in 2009, nearly every year we've attempted to do a special best of episode for Memorial Day. A couple years it got lost in the mix, I think 2009 itself because it was such a carryover year. With the podcast starting so quickly after the radio show ended, it's kind of an incomplete year. There was no Ace Awards that year.
Traditionally, we play a full episode with a military guest who's been on the show. Oftentimes, Rob Riggle. He's very convenient. This year is no different. You'll be hearing three pieces from select episodes over the last two years. Coming first, we have an episode from March of 2025 featuring guest Joel Lambert. It's a one-on-one conversation between Adam and Joel. Hope you guys enjoy.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Joel Lambert provide about Navy SEAL training?
I would like to have a piece of cheesecake, but you know what? I'm not going to do it because it's not good for me. Whatever that thing is, we are now trying to deprive, especially young males, of those things because we look at them as hostile or dangerous or somehow, oh, it's dangerous. toxic masculinity. No, it is not. We need it. We're depriving people of it.
We're getting really bad citizens. We're having character issues and we're getting a bunch of fat, lazy, angry people. It's not a good plan. So what you would say, so let's try to square this off for a second. I'm just going to break it down. You would go a Navy SEAL. OK, that has to be the most pragmatic person in the world.
There are jobs that need pragmatists, you know, airline pilot, construction engineer, you know, their jobs. And then they're you know, then then there's the DEI counselor at the college. You know what I mean? She doesn't need to know anything or do anything. There's no there's no gravity. But but Navy SEAL. OK.
Now, per capita, the Navy SEALs have more of the kind of thoughts you're sharing with me than the average superstitious housewife. So you go, well, how are the most pragmatic people in the world sharing ideas that seem, I don't know, tinfoil hattie to a lot of people? And then you go, well, one of the other components of being a Navy SEAL is traveling and seeing things.
And going to parts of the country where this stuff is playing out of what their experience and their expertise is, and then they get to be present when things go down. And then you're right. So you have, you know, whatever on MSNBC, but then you actually have guys who are in the room. when the shit did go down.
And so you have a peek behind the curtain of what goes on as well as a bunch of experience. And I never really, I forgot about the part after the Navy SEALs where you were employed in that business. So what's your take on then, is Trump present a threat to this? Why the crazy derangement syndrome with Trump?
I personally think that Trump is the outlier, and I think that what happened was that they had everything lined out. They had eight years of Obama, and we were going into eight years of Hillary Clinton, and Obama teed it up, and Hillary was going to take us into World War III, eliminate the Constitution. And because, you know, losers of wars, they get to be occupied.
And we would have beenāthere would have been some false flags probably from North Korea. All the bad guys they set up on the TV are not the bad guys. If the TV says they're the bad guys, start questioning that. If they're hammering like Trump, that's just not necessarily the case. I think that the Five Eyes, the intelligence agenciesā
All the areas that the controlling entities of our world operate through, the central bank, the intelligence agencies, the military industrial complex, Eisenhower warned us about, JFK warned us about, all these power controls, Catholic Church, all these structures that develop in the world have been infiltrated and taken over because they've been recognized as power structures.
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Chapter 4: How do resilience and discipline relate to personal development?
I don't know. Did you ever see an AMC series called Turn? No. It was on George Washington, and it was the spy ring he had during the Revolutionary War that actually turned the tide of the war and allowed us to win the Revolutionary War. It's phenomenal. Anyway, I think back starting then, there was...
that these entities that control the city of London, the Vatican, Washington, D.C., those three corporations that control everything through the spiritual, military, and banking arms, I think that they have... Boy, I'm going to get offed. I think that they... they have established these control structures and taken them over and have directed things very effectively.
And now, but also there's still some good guys working behind the scenes that recognize these structures. And I think that Trump and all the people that are working with him and behind him, Trump's just the figurehead.
have been putting things in place to counteract this move that these people have been putting in place for a very, very long time, which was the 16-year plan, the final 16-year plan of Obama and Hillary. Because I personally believe the United States Constitution is the only thing that's really standing in the way of complete total world domination by the globalists.
And so I think that Trump came in and surprised them. I think that they Hillary was never supposed to lose. And I think that probably what happened is when Trump came in, they never thought that he was going to be able to do what he did, like all the other outliers that have tried, Ross Perot and throughout the years. But Everyone's always been controlled.
There's another great book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, which really goes to where this control structure has kind of started. But I think that Trump came in, was the outlier. First, they didn't take him seriously because they're able to mitigate his first term.
But I think now they're starting to really realize that this is going to be, probably going to be, the destruction of their entire global system that they've been working on really, in the United States. They've been working on it since we started.
But since 1913, and the Federal Reserve coming in and taking us off the gold standard and putting us on this fiat currency that we pay interest to borrow, that's not backed by anything. It's not real. They just print pieces of paper. And then we pay interest to borrow those pieces of paper. It's insanity. But it's starting to get exposed. And I think The exposure is going to take it down.
So I think Trump is the good guys. I think we're in the middle of a most amazing psychological operation. It's World War III. It's a fifth-generational war, which means it's a war of narratives played out by non-state actors. It's an information war. And I think that Trump...
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Chapter 5: What experiences shaped the comedian's confidence in stand-up?
Eight weeks. The guy hated teaching. He was over it. He was like, three jokes per minute. Set up punch, set up punch. I was like, but Eddie Murphy tells stories, and that's not three jokes per minute. He's like, you're not Eddie Murphy. So I hated it. I hated it. I got up and did five minutes of garbage.
Right.
But going through the UCB, it gave me so much more confidence. Then when I got on The Daily Show, John Oliver, I shared an office with him. He was a pure stand-up. Very talented stand-up. Does he do stand-up anymore? I think ā yeah. Oh, yeah. I think he does. I don't know the volume that he does it, but he's one of those guys who ā he can do it without even trying.
Chapter 6: How did the comedian's journey lead to creating a 50-minute set?
Like he can do a whole set of just talking to the crowd. I'm trying to think.
I don't ā I can't see. I'm picturing him doing stand-up and I'm not picturing it. I don't know where it ends up.
He ā I just remember he was prolific because he was a working man when it came to stand-up.
Mm-hmm.
And he would do the work every night. And so I used to say, well, come down to UCB and do monologues for the ASCAP show. And he would because he can ā somebody can give him a suggestion. He can tell a funny story. He knows his way around. But then he was like, all right, you got to come do stand-up with me. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know if I want to go back to that.
I'm not any good at it. I don't have any ā I don't have anything. And then he was gracious with me. He said, all right, look, because New York's great. New York is great. You can get in five mics a night without even batting an eye.
I don't know gay slang, but keep going.
Five microphones, five microphones.
Oh, microphone. We were talking about Mike August earlier. I understand.
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Chapter 7: What insights are shared about handling personal loss and funerals?
That would be good. Right, because you're working it out.
Yeah, because he was gracious with me. He would say ā because I didn't ā I wasn't ā I didn't have a skill set and that world kind of bothered me. So I was a little agitated when we'd go to do these things. And I'd kind of get an attitude and I'd get all pissy and fussy about it. And so he'd say, all right, look, Jesus Christ, calm down. He goes, do you have a funny story at all?
I was like, yeah, I got a funny story. He goes, just tell me the story. Just tell me your story. Get up on stage and tell the story. I go, it'll take two minutes. He goes, great, that's it. Tell the story. So I got up and I told the story. Well, as I told the story, I embellished. You know, I heightened things. I exaggerate things like we do in comedy. Turns into a three-minute story, right?
At the end of it, we got in the cab, headed to the next place. He's like, man, they were laughing hard at this. Big silence here. They love this part. Have you ever thought about maybe explaining what that looked like? Oh, yeah, so we get to the next place. And I would explain more in detail, maybe embellish that and talk about and find new things to fill out the story.
And by the end of the night, I felt like I had a chunk of material. And all I had to do was ā so then the next time we'd go out, I'd try a new chunk or a new story or a new thing and just work it that night. And, I mean, I was able to build a 50-minute set
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Chapter 8: How do cultural differences influence perspectives on death?
probably in, you know, three to six months, which is pretty good.
No, it's real good. But that's a real commitment, like working all day and then going out and blowing five guys named Mike. Doing the five ā I mean, I know, like ā You know, I talk to comedians who do that all the time. It just feels like so much. It is. So much work.
Well, that's why I had the one set.
Right.
And I toured it. And I did a half of it on a Comedy Central special, and I toured it for a long time. And then it was time to build a new set.
Right.
And then I got Fox NFL, and that was it. Then I was like, well, the money I make there is the money I'd make out killing myself on the road.
Right.
So we're good. So I just stopped. So I haven't done it forever, but it always nags at me because I do think about ā I kind of would like to build a set because they're part of me that likes to, I do, there's nothing better than, and I'm sure you're experiencing it now when you get out there and you're having a great night, the audience is great, you're having fun, they're having fun.
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