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Sam Tripoli on Free Speech, Culture Wars & Why He Gets Called a “Fascist”
28 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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And now, Adam Corolla.
Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but to get it on. Sam Tripoli back in the studio. Good to be back, buddy. Good to be back. And I'm so happy this show is crushing it. I see it at the top of the podcast list all the time. Great to see that. Great to see you. My friend Rudy Povich is going to be doing the news, hanging out with us as well. Sam's got dates, sold Joel's.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the 'trans-indigenous' concept in the conversation?
And we want Bovino to deport all of you guys. We love ICE. Trans natives love ice. We love you, ice.
What nation are you from?
We love ice. The trans nation. Trans nation is just as valid as cis nation. You're not trans native phobic, are you?
No, but I'm not familiar with that term. Okay, I'm just checking. You're a cis American. I'm trans indigenous.
You really need to check your privilege because you're talking to a beautiful trans indigenous person of color right now. I believe who I am. All right, we get it. That's funny. Maybe their slot machines pay out. That would be nice.
Oh, man. So now we're just living in crazy world. Yes. And women have gone completely insane. They're nuts. I have said it a million times. People go, oh, what about men? I go, we've always been nuts. But now there's 50% more nuts in society. We're not made for that. It's sort of like saying...
You know, you go, okay, let's just say you ran a prison and you go, we got, you know, half these guys are fighters and they'll shank you and they'll fucking go after you, half of them. But the other half are pretty docile and they'll stay in their cell. And then all of a sudden one day it goes from half to 100% who fucking stab you with a shank. And you're like, oh, I guess it's on now.
So we had dudes. who went out and fought and protested and did all that shit. And we had women who stayed at home. And now all the women have been weaponized and they're out on the street and the dudes are at work and the chicks are out there and they have no idea what they're dealing with because they didn't do the rough and tumble play.
They didn't have a buddy named Ray who had them in a headlock most of their childhood. So they go up to... to the ICE officer, and they spit in their face, and they go, you want some? You found some. And then they knock them over, and then they yell, what's going on? And they wake up in a different reality. Yes. You ever see them? They're like, talk shit.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of tribalism in American politics?
Barron would be dead. Melania, you'd be dead, and I'd be dead. That's how fast Joe Rogan would be dead. That's how fast they'd fucking do it if you gave one of them a fucking magic wand, like one of these crazy protesters out there. Tom Holman would be dead. There'd be a pile of bodies. I mean, look what they did with Me Too. That's exactly what they did.
Me Too just got rid of everybody that hands brushed against somebody's ass, and they labeled that sexual assault, and they destroyed everything. They destroyed it all. It's shocking to me. You know, the thing about how we looked at men and women a lot, and some people didn't have the greatest moms, but we tend to look at women through a lens. How dare you barge into my studio and...
Such sacrilege over Chris Carolla. God rest her soul. God rest her soul. She's in heaven not cooking someone an omelet right now. But we looked at women through the—we basically transferred our views of our mothers onto women, that they're the kinder, gentler sex.
Chapter 4: How does gender influence perceptions of corruption in politics?
And now, because of social media, we've allowed to see how they really are. And these are third-world dictators who want to destroy everybody because they've never been punched in the face. Sure, but— I'll tell you real quick what I basically have learned in the last 10 minutes. I used to think women weren't corrupt.
Guys were corrupt, like guys with pinky rings, you know, the bad guys in like Elvis movies and stuff. I found out in the last 10 minutes that women may be more corrupt and that black women or women of color could even take it to a next corruption level. Left and right. And I was always told we need a woman of color so we could end all this shit that you guys are doing. And they're smart.
The dude corruption is land grabs from indigenous people and drilling rights. They just go right to the kids. They go, do all the kid shit and you'll be fucking left alone. Start trying to throw tribesmen off their land and pulling oil rigs in and stuff. There's going to be protests. Martin Sheen's going to chain himself to a bulldozer. CNN's going to be down there.
We'll just do the whole kid thing and we'll be fucking left alone.
Chapter 5: What role does identity play in political accountability?
And we'll make more money that way.
Yeah, 100%. And even the video that came out the other day of the lady screaming at the Ice Age and calling him a race traitor. I think we watched that video.
We watched it at my condo, I think. Maybe, yeah. She was so agitated and angry. And then when she yelled out, you have the reading ability of a fucking eighth grader. And I looked it up. There's some pretty goddamn good books. To Kill a Mockingbird. There's some really good books at eighth grade reading level.
They yell shit and don't even know what is coming out of their mouths because they're so aggravated. Yeah, it's – well – They live in a bubble. Absolutely. Also, but I'll tell you there's a problem. And it's a big – so here's the biggest problem we're sort of facing, which is this sort of tribalism, right?
So if you say as a Somali-American or Ilhan Omar or whatever, I'm a Somali first and like American second, then you're essentially saying –
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Chapter 6: How does Sam Tripoli's personal experience relate to societal issues?
I'm going to circle the wagons and protect all Somalis, right? And then you go, what about if they're guilty of embezzlement? I go, I don't know. Are they Somali? Yeah. Okay. Then I'm going to protect Somalis, you know? And, like, that exists. Like, Mark Gergas is Armenian, and he fucking protects Armenians. That's the way he goes about it. Israelis do, too. Yes. People...
do that and they have a tribe you know and and now it's like as a woman as a black woman as a member of the black gay community you know whatever it is and everyone just picks their fucking tribe up and it's kind of same thing you see when you see a fan of green bay or the raiders or whatever your team is you see the guy wearing the jersey and like somebody fucks with them you go hey leave that fucking guy he's a good dude you know there's a certain obligation he's a
You don't even know who he is, but you sort of feel that way. And so if you feel like you run on being Somali-American or this person or indigenous or Middle Eastern or Muslim or whatever... then you look at it as your fucking job to protect. Your job is not to figure out what people's ethnicity is, what tribe they come from, or what religion they are. Your job, you're a DA.
You just prosecute people. You don't fucking check and see what their background is. You just fucking prosecute people. And they're sort of doing this thing. Now, it used to be done where it was like, that guy's my brother-in-law and I'm the mayor, so he's not getting a DUI. But now it's like this guy's Somali and, And he's in the club and he's not getting it. You don't even know him.
You don't even fucking know him and not getting a DUI. And then the bigger problem, and you can find, Andrew, that clip of the mayor of Seattle. Oh, my God. Who did she run against? Who lost to that little thing? I don't know. I mean, that... What campaign did you run that you couldn't beat the weirdo who lived with her parents still?
That's like you lost the bathing suit competition to Danny DeVito. Like, wow. He was holding a sub while he was in his speedo. Now, she has declared war against Trump. And because she's a woman and she has an enemy in Trump, she doesn't look at her job as the mayor of Seattle to root out crime and welfare fraud and daycare fraud. That's not her job. Her job is to fight Trump. That's so crazy.
And I told you guys, and you can find it too if you don't believe me, but I've told everybody... The thing – the difference between men and women is I can be a man and a DA, but I can be a DA first or a mayor first and then sort of a man second. Women – I don't care if they're mayor, they're DA, or they're college, or they're president of Harvard. They're a woman first in that.
And if you find that Stefanik thing badgering the black chick that ran Harvard... she fucking goes, fuck you, bitch. Like she's in front of Congress, but you're badgering a black woman, not the president of Harvard. And then so she says a bunch of dumb shit because she's like, fuck you, bitch. And then she gets fired because she can't stop herself.
And they don't realize they're saying this shit on camera because they're a woman first and she hates Trump. So we'll just play the clip, but it's kind of funny.
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