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Dave Rubin Returns To California: “IT’S GOTTEN WORSE” + Xavier Becerra’s EMBARRASSING Interview
14 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, Dave Rubin. Plus the news with Alicia Krauss. And now, Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on the church in a minute. You get it on. And thanks for tuning in. Thanks for tuning in. Tell the friend to tune in. Dave Rubin is in the studio. Good to see you, my friend.
Adam, it is good to see you. I'm very happy to be here in a secure studio with you amongst your security guards and armed people because I have spent the last 24 hours in your fair city.
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Chapter 2: What are the key issues facing California according to Dave Rubin?
Lordy, lordy. You know what I'm going to say. Something is rotten in stink town here and it's the urine and the poop and everything else. This place is going to high hell. I agree. Anyway, nice to see you. And the thing that's always fun is – I probably want to tighten that up. Yeah, maybe.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think you just twist the stand, by the way. It's been bothering me, but yeah, there you go. Oh, there we go. There we go. All right. So the thing that's funny is Karen Bass is running on stay the course, which is the weirdest argument ever. Yeah. She should be running on I had a brain aneurysm, but now I'm better, or I found Jesus Christ two weeks ago. But anything but...
stay the course, which is an insane angle to run on. If you live in this city and you are thinking that everything is fine and you're going to elect or reelect the lady who got, well, it's not that it's, you can't even blame her for this because it was Garcia or Garcetti before her. And it was just, it's been going on for a long time.
But I got to tell you, like I, in a weird way, I don't even mean this jokingly. You know, my feelings about Florida and Cali and flea in this place and everything else. It was worse. I mean, it's worse in the 24 hours that I've been here than I have been here in about a year. 24 hours in West Hollywood, it's bad. And Hollywood, obviously. I believe you because if you want to figure out
if someone has gained weight, don't see them for a year. If you see them every day, if you see them every day, they put on nine ounces a day and you don't notice it at all. Go away for a year, come back, you go, dude, you got fat. In this case, they're losing weight and walking slowly with a hunch. So it's slightly different, but same theoretical point.
Yeah, so it's... Now, Andrew, we already broke down that commercial on this show though, right? So, but yeah, it was a funny stay the course commercial from... Well, you know what it is, is they have this, they have sort of two angles. They have the, I'm just getting started, but I got more work to do. Right, they always have work to do, these people. And it's basically...
It's basically, you know, Dave's doing a world-class remod of his bathroom. Wait till you see this. I'm going to show you some pictures. I'm not leaving once I get in there. You were pretty impressed. You saw it mid and we did some stuff. But if you'd walked in in the middle, this is my I'm just getting started argument, which is sort of the Karen Bass.
It's the Democrat argument in California and Los Angeles. But if you walked in in the middle of the tile setting and And the guy was just doing a freakishly bad job setting the tiles and the margins were all fucked up and everything was cattywampus and he wasn't using spacers. And then you went, hey, man, this doesn't look right. And he went, I'm just getting started. Like you'd go, no, stop.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Karen Bass's campaign message?
And I don't think people do that enough with, like, the politicians. Like, the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf or whatever her name was – this is going back some years, maybe five, six years – She was the mayor of Oakland. This is before the A's left and before the Warriors left and before In-N-Out left. We decided – by the way, we decided in our infinite wisdom we could fix all this.
We just had a bunch of women in charge, and we'd just fix every city with compassion. Well, because the future is female. The future is female. It does not matter if you're qualified. Right. So – There was a story. Now, you have to think about how this woman's brain works, and then you would apply it to everything.
But just like the guy with the trashed car, I would apply that to their life globally. This clip is from when, Andrew, she's given a presser. Because, and you may remember this story, Dave. 2023. Okay. A guy, a black man, who seemed a little crazy, but a black man, set up a workout sort of jungle gym at the park. He hung rope hoops from the tree so he could pull himself and do chin-ups.
And he made a... system of hoops to hang. I can tell this is going to end well. Yeah. And, and he, and he just used it in the park. He didn't seem like he had enough for an Equinox membership, but he got his kind of prison workout at the park in Oakland, which is fine. And then some white chicks spotted the rope and of course had to say something to somebody. Uh,
And then there was a big kerfuffle, sort of like every race hoax there is. Bubba Watson, this noose in the paddock to the racetrack or whatever. Wallace? Is it Bubba Wallace? Watson? Anyway, the point is Bubba. We'll do the Bubba math. So the point is they had to report it. Then they had to make a big deal out of it. And then the black dude who hung the rope went, I did that.
I used it to work out. That's it. End of story. But they were like, no. No, no, no, no. We're not done. We're not done.
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Chapter 4: How does Dave Rubin compare California to Florida?
Remember, our theme is our society is horribly racist. So this is an opportunity. Is the implication that he was trying to lynch himself or he set it up? He was setting up his own lynching one day. Well, she gives the presser. And she basically says, look, I'm going to get the DOJ involved. We're going to look at this as a hate crime.
And then some woman in the audience goes, well, I think we already have context because that guy who came on before you, the black guy, said he did it. So what are we doing here? And she's like – Doesn't matter what the context is. And then I thought, oh my God, that is chick think. That is insane chick think. But it's also, you can't govern with that kind of thinking.
That's Nithya Raman blaming Toyota for catalytic convert. Like, baby, your brain is broken and we can't have you making decisions, anything critical because you've shown your inability to think. What have any of these people done that is good? That's the interesting thing. To me, if I was Spencer Pratt's doing a hell of a job, obviously, I have no idea.
I mean, do you think there's any chance he can win just numbers wise? Probably doesn't happen. Right. Like it seems to me he's getting national coverage. That's great. And we all kind of love what's going on here. And those videos are amazing. I just don't know enough about the L.A. electorate anymore. And if there's enough sane people here anymore. But if I was him, I would just turn to her.
He's doing a great job. But if I had one little piece of advice, it would turn to her and say, what what are you good at? Yeah. Oh, well, she organizes communities. I'm a people person. I'm a caring person. I'm a mother. I get communities, marginalized communities, and I bring them together and I give them a seat at the table so that we can all have justice and we can all have pride.
And that's nice to hear. You know, that's nice. But that would be the point. Like, is anyone's life better? Is anything safer? Is anything cleaner? Are the schools better? Are the streets safer? Like you could go through the laundry list. Are businesses coming here? Which way are people going? And we all know they're going out. Right.
You know, last night, you know me, I like to, when I come to town, I like to have dinner with all my old friends and do things. And I always ask people where they are and what's going on. I was literally last night, it's about four o'clock. I'm like, what am I doing for dinner tonight? None of my friends are here anymore. Yeah, they've all cleared out. Everyone's gone. Everyone's gone.
You, Drew, Larry Elder, David Zucker. That's it. David Zucker. All right, so here it is. The audio's a little weird, but first off— I like this guy already. The black guy who put the rings up just gets done saying, I put the rings up. And now Libby, the mayor of Oakland, which is now destroyed—this is three years ago—has to give her rationale.
With that, if you have any questions. On several lists, I know I've been out to the park and interviewed a gentleman, an African-American gentleman, who said intentions don't matter. He said the intentions were strictly to create this rope system. He showed us another one that's still in the tree. He showed us videos of them using it in that manner.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Dave Rubin share about representation in politics?
Hey, Luigi. Hey, look at that.
Hey.
Hey, you said the chicken parmesan. I'm not trying to jump. What if I just start it? You go, Adam's a fucking dick and he's insane. I'd like that, actually, because that was fun. Well, I could do that for the next hour. Look at this guy. We just whacked Justin Pearson together first, and we've all seen Jasmine Crockett and everyone else do this. I don't know why they're not humiliated.
It's as if there's no videotape exists of them. Right, like look at him, young, sharp, good-looking guy, well-dressed. Short haircut, clean, articulate. Come on. All right, here's the first version. It's a nice Italian suit. President of BSG, there are a few reasons that we're running this campaign this year.
One has to do with representation. How can we represent all voices in a conversation? I want to do this by partnering with organizations from the Boone Democrats to the Boone Republicans.
That's his. All right. That was him. And now this is this is him now. You chose the wrong tape, Andrew. I got news for you. Look at this. You chose the wrong tape.
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Chapter 6: How does Dave Rubin critique the handling of the homeless crisis?
No, that's him. No, it's him, but it's just him dancing. He's not saying anything. This is the better one.
Go back.
Go back. Sorry. Go ahead. Go back a little. That's good. That's him, too. Just go back 10 seconds.
I want to hear it.
Just go back 10 seconds. Our togetherness has been reshaped. and reformed by this global pandemic. To the well, I believe, I believe in a division of people who've been ostracized. Nothing to the well. I see white folk and black folk. I see queer folk and straight folk.
I see rich folk and poor folk.
Nothing to the well about.
We need justice right now. Not tomorrow, but right now.
right now that's gonna change this country it's this movement in this moment in time they're gonna change the country and i'm so glad oh i'm so glad yes i'm glad
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of DEI policies according to Rubin?
By the way, I need black people behind me because every time I go, here's what I want to do, three white people go, I don't think that's going to work. You can't gin up white people.
No.
You just can't. But you know what he's doing? Remember coming to America? He's doing Arsenio Hall as the preacher. Can you guys play some of that, or is that copyrighted or something?
Can you get five seconds of that?
Hold on, play five seconds of this. Remember, this is him. This is the old version of him.
...to the Boone Republicans. I want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices, voices that may be more liberal or more conservative, in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle where conversation and dialogue happens... I'll tell you what we can play if Dawson can find it.
Remember, we don't label things properly, but... In, I'm going to say, the best of, we play the year-end best of day on Corolla Show. Had to be eight or ten years ago, but Arsenio Hall came in here, and I did a commercial.
for like a website and arsenio backed me up oh as a black preacher and we did now dos remember the been to the mountain thing with arsenio arsenio did do that on this show and it was you know what it was dawson it was like best live read like best live commercial or something most of all those folders are all at my home studio but let me see what i can find All right.
You let your people take things out of here? I thought this place was like a vault. Well, I'm like Mitt Romney. I keep my ladies in binders, but I keep my comedy in folders. In folders in someone else's house. By the way, the whole binders thing, that's the craziest part of CNN or whatever. He said he put women in binders. Do you guys even know what you're talking about?
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Chapter 8: How does the discussion shift to the challenges of the Biden administration?
That was awesome. They did it? Now. I've been to the mountains. They got HD faces up there. They'll go to meetings. Not go to conference. Not go to group chatting. Not go to a hall with a bunch of strangers. Or the mountains. It's called a meeting. Go to the meeting. Go to the meeting. I've been to the meeting. Yes. Try to go to a meeting free. Preach at them. 30 days. Preach, Adam. Not 29.
How long, Adam? Not 31. How long, Adam? 30 days. On the mountain. You know how many hours that is?
Lord God.
I don't fucking know. I'm not a goddamn calculator. Sorry for using the Lord's name in vain. Now, only if you use promo code Adam. Ah. That ain't Alan.
Ah.
That ain't Anton. Oh, Laura. That's Adam. Oh, happy day. Visit gotomeeting.com. All right. So you got some Arsenio. That's it. I mean, that's the character. But like, what are these people doing? Who's falling for? But again, it's all connected. All this stuff is always connected. Well, it's all the same people.
Who buy the same crazy shit, and that's how I know they're lying because if they were being intellectually honest, then you'd go – What do you think about Joe Biden? You go, OK, I voted for Joe Biden. And then you'd go, what about Hunter Biden's laptop? And they go, oh, well, that's real. And then you go, oh, what about COVID? They go, well, I believe COVID's real. What about mask?
You don't need to wear a mask. What's a paper mask going to do? Like you'd find some back and some forth like Republicans do. They argue about Israel and they fight about tariffs and they don't. You go, who's right, who's wrong? Well, at least they're being intellectually honest because they're having an argument.
You guys, the guys on the left, were all lockstep on everything COVID, and nobody ever raised their hand and went, well, she probably came from a lab, right? No, no. They're all lockstep on Biden's cognitive abilities. They're all lockstep on Hunter Biden. All the stuff, they're all locked in on, and they're— That means they're lying because they would be saying, no, I don't.
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