Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Coming up first, we have Adam Kulishow, 25-35, Patrick Dempsey, Neil deGrasse Tyson, R.J. Bell, not in this portion, Gina Grad and Brian Bishop from 2019.
Good day, Gina Grad. Good day to you. Handball, Brian. Come on, guy. You don't need to do that. Yeah, we talked to Neil, and it's weird. There's a weird confluence of energy around energy, which is... I know things work that way, but I was talking to ā I was a little surprised, and I'll share this with you guys in a second. Excited to see Dempsey in here. It's been a while.
MedMen, go to MedMen.com, LifeLock, LifeLock.com, enter Adam. BetDSI, BetDSI.com, and Castro. So I was chatting with Neil deGrasse and he's a very liberal minded guy. And I sort of. Drew and I, before he hopped on the line, were sort of discussing Green New Deal and nuclear energy and blah, blah, blah.
And Drew is very much for nuclear energy, as am I, because every time I interview a guy who's super smart, he goes, yeah, that's fine. It works. That's what Europe does. It's good. It's a good thing. And... But then it always seems to be off the table when you discuss it with someone.
So I sort of almost a little sheepishly brought it up with Neil deGrasse Tyson because I thought he was going to go, well, you know, slow your roll. And he was like, yeah, nothing wrong with that. That works good. We're not doing it, but it's good. It works good. And so we have this problem in that we have this solution here.
to a large part of our energy problems that everyone with an advanced degree thinks is a great idea, but everyone else thinks it's a bad idea.
Well, it doesn't sound good, and we have bumper stickers to prove it.
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Chapter 2: How does Adam Carolla view nuclear energy?
It's small, but it's worth it because you need to get places.
But this is even ā there's two sides of it. One is it's ā we've assumed the risk in driving and decided it's worth it. The other is people have elevated the risk of flying higher, pardon the pun, than an automobile. So we're going to choose to drive to Phoenix because we don't want the risk of flying. Even though that's what's dangerous. Right.
So what we need to do is literally look at the numbers and then just move forward. Coal versus nuclear, natural gas or whatever. What do we have? And then people can go. Well, but what about solar?
And as I was watching this TED Talk that someone sent me today, like, okay, but think about all the heavy metals and everything that are in solar panels and think about when those things outlive their life and think about where they're going to end up. They're going to end up at some shore in some African nation.
Barefoot kids are going to be picking them apart to get the heavy metals out of them and they're going to be polluting the sea. First off, this notion of We make a mistake. One thing is like we look at one thing is completely free, like solar, wind, free. It's dangerous. Right. And the reality is, is whether it's an electric car, it's still got batteries and it still needs to be charged.
And it's not free. It's not one isn't free. And the other is making Indians cry. There's many other possibilities to factor in.
Well, and this is just like your blind puppy tennis ball employer. It's the same thing. We love the idea of wind and we love the idea of the sun. So what's to argue about? Well, there's plenty to still discuss.
But I think and I don't know if you guys have thought about this. It's been floated a little. I think because everything has been politicized. every direction, that we can no longer trust politicians to make informed decisions. If you are for the Green New Deal and for ecology and for the ozone and for everything else, you must be against nuclear.
When the reality is you should embrace it for those same reasons. A more nuanced take would be preferable. Yes. And you may, but you can't come out and say that someone's going to throw a shoe at you. So now you have to go here and here's not going to work. And so now we don't get any of the benefits that were or very little the benefits we're looking for. We have a.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Neil deGrasse Tyson provide on energy?
In 1973, my mom and Martin Sheen and Happy and Sunshine and Axis and Zorbach took a hit off a doobie and pronounced no nukes. So there's your counter argument. And that's why we cannot have.
They understand.
Yeah, I do. I've presented both sides of the coin very even-handedly.
It's very 50-50. I came into this neutral, but I've been convinced by your mom's argument.
Zorbak and the doobie. Zorbak, the original zigzag man, says no nukes. And this guy was, he attended multiple junior colleges before.
Not just one, like a jump.
Yeah, before the hydroponics bust from 1979. So he knows what he's talking about. Okay. So here we are. Yes, I get this guy, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and let him figure it out.
So is there going to be, or maybe there is now, a PR group that is trying to turn around what people think of nuclear? They did it for the avocado.
Oh, my God. I know. Everyone's eating avocado. I got the hat on. It reminded me. Christy, we got a new opportunity for you. This will speak right to you. She rolls up her sleeves. I don't know. Listening to a bunch of dumb people explain they don't feel good about something. Is that really? That's enough for policy.
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Chapter 4: What humorous story does Adam share about his kielbasa experience?
All right, we'll get lost.
To take a hike A telephone he did slam in her ear He made her shrill voice disappear She's a right-wing shrew And Ace doesn't have time to Deal with the rants of Mr. Ann Coulter
Wow.
God. Rich Banks, everybody. The range. The range. I have a thing. I have this visceral reaction to sing-songy.
Oh, do you?
Yes, I do.
After getting it from you.
But I really did.
I am tight on time.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts discuss the implications of celebrity and the legal system?
Up for the day.
She's the principal of the school. Hold on a second. It's a sweet setup. She's got a full-time gig. Yeah. You get to roust her in the middle of the night, essentially, to make you lunch and breakfast and stuff. And then she can either go back to bed for an hour and a half or just go into school. Or maybe she can do some yard work or something.
there but go to carnauba on the jetta whatever she didn't have to go back to bed i was like how does that work what a life what a life hey speaking of that can i show you a picture from this morning that i woke up to no i woke up to a breakfast in bed happy thursday i guess who's that bitch How dare you?
This is my boyfriend who wanted to surprise me with breakfast in bed early this morning.
Yeah, I don't like that.
I love it. I'm not a fan.
All right.
How dare you?
What'd he make?
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Chapter 6: What insights do they provide on the nature of energy and nuclear power?
Oh, sweet. With coffee, cholula, and a crossword puzzle.
Oh, my God.
That's a good one.
Just because he's a dick? Yes! He didn't let me finish. Sorry.
Sorry, you were saying.
Next up, more action in the lackey conference. And it might be one of the tourney's toughest matches. Starting with a song about one lackey who now has to hope his kid never hears it. Oh, Gary, right?
The best. The best.
Long, long way from home We'll be right back.
Yeah, we were talking about beating off on a plane and how that was kind of tough because you'd have to be sort of locked in the bathroom for a while. And Gary's like, you don't have to use the bathroom. First class pods. Pods. Pods. where are you going in a pod at 19 and a half? I didn't even know what that was.
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Chapter 7: What does Tucker Carlson say about his upbringing and family dynamics?
And like when the squirrel comes up, like, oh, he's curious. He wants to know. He wants to be friends. He wants to be friends with the dog or whatever it is. He's melancholy because sex in the city is off the air. He's pensive.
He's contemplative.
Look at him. Thinking about the world. Oh, man. I blame my parents, too.
He's in an existential crisis.
Right. No, he's not. All right. She's pretty bummed out about the whole Trump administration thing.
I get it. I'm blind. I've never found an acorn.
Yeah.
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Chapter 8: How does Tucker Carlson view the impact of his mother's absence?
No, he doesn't know he's a dumb little thing who wants to eat or fuck or something or bite or whatever it is. Stop doing that with the pets. Stop doing it with people. Stop grafting, you know, good and bad. They're just not. They're just not. I mean, you know, it happens all the time. We're like, Phil will look at you certain ways. Like he'll just look at you like, come on now or whatever.
And you'll look at him and your eyes are locked and you go, oh, he's thinking he understands where I'm coming from. Whatever. It's like, no, he doesn't. He's just looking. He's just looking. I'm grafting that onto him.
Big glistening eyes. You're like, he sees into my soul. I know.
You want something, but I'm holding... Emmy brought a third uncooked kielbasa over to the house that night, and Phil wants a shot at it, you know? Sorry. Yeah, just don't graft. Stop grafting, everybody.
Yeah, and then you'll stay alive. Well, Demi Moore is ready to tell all about her relationships with her former husbands, Bruce Willis, Ashton Kutcher. The actress is going to publish a memoir titled Inside Out. It's described as deeply candid and insightful.
We're all right. So last week we're sitting here and we're kind of talking about the Robert Kraft pud pulling sex tape. And we're like, I don't I don't I don't want to go into that side of the pool. Like I think it's an invasion of privacy. I was saying this 20 years ago. Brian may remember when we were talking about Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson and stuff like that. I was like, I'm not.
That's their tape.
That's not for me.
I was too busy watching the tape. Right. But I'm not interested. I feel like I am kind of part of the problem if I go indulge myself in that.
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