Adam Carolla Show
Why Cats Are Superior, Why Bidets Rule & Fixing Colleges | Liz Miele + Christopher Rufo
02 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
In this episode, funny comedian Liz Mele joins us. Christopher Rufo, conservative activist, interesting guy, joins us. Rudy Povich is back. He's doing the news, and we'll do all that right after this. Adam Carolla returns to New York City Thursday, October 9th at Rodney Dangerfield's Comedy Club with Kat Timp and Matt Friend. Two shows, October 9th.
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Buy this year's Christmas presents and save up to 50% on presents. Make Christmas more Christmas-friendly at Sinful.fi. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, comedian Liz Mealy and conservative activist Christopher Ruffo. Plus the news and trending topics with Rudy Povich.
And now, really worried the government shutdown will affect progress on California's high-speed rail. Adam Carolla. Yeah, I got to get to Merced this weekend. I already bought my ticket, so I hope it's not going to be a situation. Liz is back. She was in here a couple, about three years ago. Got a special out available at Punch-Up.
live and that's kind of interesting slash liz and i'll spell it out m-i-e-l-e how's that new format working out it's good it's it's kind of an experiment for me i've put almost all my specials out on youtube with like pretty good success but um i my last special i called my cat can i curse go ahead call my cat uh-huh and i got um penalized for hate speech On YouTube? On YouTube. No context.
Even though if you met my cat, I'm correct. And so they took away my ads, which also took away my reach. And so this time going forward, because I got it back eventually, but it took months. So going forward now, I'm selling it for pay what you want on Punch-Up. And Punch-Up is super supportive of comics.
Think of it like MailChimp meets YouTube meets like your website with all your tour dates and stuff. Yeah, and they tell people their audience when people are coming to town or their community, when they're comedians they like or maybe coming out. I mean, it's good. It's necessary. I'm a huge supporter of it. I know the owner, the guy that started it, and I asked for Pay What You Want.
I was like, can you code this? He was like, well, just ask for a price. I was like, this is hard times, and I think I'm going from free to money now. And I think I have and honestly, I've been very lucky. My fans, there's people that are paying way more than the five dollar suggestion. And yes, there's people paying a dollar.
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Chapter 2: How does Liz Miele's approach to comedy differ from traditional platforms?
You start backing up and the Roomba slides in and blocks you. They're talking back and forth. All the time on the road, they got to know each other. Now they got a plan. Yeah, no. And then they lock in. Oh, yeah. Who's the asshole now? That's right. They've read my book. It's on my bookshelf. You've been shitting in my mouth for a fortnight. Now it's payback, bitch. I do tend to put googly eyes.
I have a robot vacuum that I named Vac Kilmer and it has googly eyes. I do tend to name everything and put googly eyes. And I do think when that shift happens, I'm going to be like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I did this. I made you human-like. Yeah, you're going to be one of the good ones. I hope so. I mean, I really do try to keep my robot clean. Yeah. So you got the Roomba, too?
Yeah, I have everything that's robotic. Like, I don't want to do anything. Like, I've really learned. I can't imagine what's in the nightstand as long as we're going down this route. I can only picture the arsenal. That's what we call Val Killer. I'm a lazy person, and I stand by that. But I think at the end of the day, like anything that can be replaced and done better than I would ever do it.
Like I because I have two cats, I set my little vacuum cleaner for once a day. And I that, you know, when people are just like, oh, cats are gross. I was like, not my place. Like I have a robot that does all that. I bought I used to do this bit, which is awesome. I bought one of those things, you know, like 10 years ago. Those were like $1,400, like the good one. And I had the dog and the thing.
And I would come home, like after about a month, and there'd be dog hair everywhere. And I would say to my ex-wife, I'd go, what?
is going on like i spent 1400 bucks why why isn't this thing making the rounds and doing whatever and she said uh well it turns out you got to recharge it and you have to empty the pan in it too and you're like what is the point i said are you telling me we're too lazy to own a robot
Because I'm hearing we are so fucking lazy that we've been defeated by a robot because we actually have to do something to maintain this robot. And that's basically what happened. It never panned out. Pardon the pun. We're a few years away from Rosie the robot from the Jetsons. So until then, we still have a little bit of work we have to do. Yes.
I'm trying to teach my cats to empty the litter bin. That's the real goal. Yeah, I used to... do this bit too, where I was saying like the, we're getting into like the sex robots. Yeah. They're back there. And, uh, and they're getting good. I mean, there should have been a class action lawsuit, uh,
that was brought on by the purchasers of the old school sex doll, because the old school sex doll on the box had a picture like Marilyn Monroe. And then inside was a raft with essentially a hole in the mouth. Like it was a lipstick around a hole at one end. And it was just literally an inflatable thing. It's just an inflatable, I don't even call it a woman.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Liz share about her cat's behavior?
Oh. You know what I mean? Like how everybody's fixing e-bikes in New York. Yeah, absolutely. That's the real job. That's the new thing, yeah. All right. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. You get someone from... And then you have to call somebody when somebody has an iPhone that breaks and be like, what was it? And it's just like, we found extra hair in there. Is that yours? Yeah.
What's said of us, dishwasher safe. I couldn't fit the bitch in. Then you need a robot to clean your robot. See, it's getting complicated. Roomba. Sex. A sex Roomba. Doll. Cleaner. Where it's just all a combo. I think we're talking about a maid. Yeah. Well, I have... I know. The thing about the maids is... They're still humans and they still judge.
Maybe it's in a different language, but there's judgment going on. Yeah. And I would feel weird about my maid at one of the many places. I just mean in my world of sex doll ownership, even if it's in the closet, at some point the maid is putting the towels away and has to get around the sex doll and it's in its robot. And then it's weird. We may not discuss it.
It's just I have to pass her in the hallway at some point. I just feel from what I know about gross men, this is the least thing that anybody would judge them for. Like if they're already cleaning your toilets. But don't you think they're going to be guys who are affluent and get the $10,000 sex doll, sort of like they would have the cold dunk tank and the high-end sauna and stuff.
Like they will spend money on themselves. Yeah. I think what I think what's interesting about that is like, who do you complain to? Like who's writing the review that was like, I got this ten thousand dollar sex doll and it broke immediately. Well, my my theory or my plan to overcome this issue is it's a it's an automated look. It can suck a dick. It'll do doggy. You know, it's good.
Why can't it mow a lawn? sure why can't it do tasks skim the pool you know if you can take some dick you can skim a pool that's actually what it says on the packaging yeah the whole point is is then when the maid comes over it's like oh no it's not a yeah it's a hot pool chick but that that's a robot i got to clean the pool and nothing else are you are you banging the pool robot is what i hear uh
You know, no. I have plausible deniability. You don't know what goes on after the pool's been skimmed. That's why I dressed it up in your clothes with a name tag with your name. Yeah. Yeah. I put her in a negligee because it's hot out. All right. Yeah. And I get it. Stiletto heels aren't exactly the greatest shoe to skim a pool in. But let's stop the judgment here.
I honestly think we've solved a lot of problems. You're just going to have to give us plausible deniability by having something else that this woman does. That's all. Yeah. All right. We'll put it on the packaging. Yeah. Well, first we need whoever's in the Chinese lab to get to work. I think they're on it. You think they're on it?
Truthfully, because they've already been talking about it for years. I think just like anything, like, you know, the flat screen TVs came out and they were like thousands of dollars. We just need to get it down to 22, obviously. Sex dolls, according to my screen, the demand ramped up after World War II. So I guess all those young guys coming home from the European theater in Asia.
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Chapter 4: What issues arise from leaving dogs unchecked in neighborhoods?
It was filled. Yeah. And his Mustang was on my hoist, and I never got to use my hoist. He put it on the hoist. He lifted it up like three feet. He took it apart, and it just sat on my hoist. And after like two years, I said, hey, Donnie, do you think you'd get your car off my hoist so I could use my hoist?
And by the way, I can't get around in my own warehouse because it's filled with your shit and your cousin's shit. And he goes, you got your car back here. I had a Lamborghini that had... In your warehouse? How dare you? I had a Lamborghini with the bumpers taken off of it. And he goes, you got your car back here all taken apart. Okay.
By the way, that's been my adult life, arguing with people about stuff. Yeah, in my warehouse amongst all your shit. So... Whenever someone tries to include you, it's always all their shit. And the left calls the right Nazis. And then at some point, a young person acts out. The old people, as I've explained, the Nancy Pelosi's, Chuck Schumer, all these people, they don't think anyone's a Nazi.
They know what they're talking about. They just say it. Hillary Clinton. First off. What does Hillary Clinton think? She cooked up the Steele dossier and invented Russian collusion. So she called Tulsi Gabbard, you know, catspaw of Putin and Russia. Does she think that? And the answer is no. She doesn't think any of it.
But a 19-year-old kid who's on Prozac and playing too many first shooter video games might believe her. Yeah. That's where we're at. So shut the fuck up. Yeah. Even the stuff, like, you know, talk about, like, I saw a clip with your favorite, Leslie Jones, and she was complaining about... Wash your ass! She was complaining about Jillian Michaels. This happened on The Daily Show the other night.
She was talking about Jillian Michaels, and she was like... How does this bitch who told me how to get abs in 60 days, how is she the foremost voice on slavery? And I was like, well, who the fuck are you? Who are you to talk about this stuff? Well, she's the 128th funniest person from SNL, Rudy. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How do societal expectations impact personal responsibility?
If in fact, obviously, yes. Yeah. There's only been 127 on SNL. Yes. So, yeah. Yes. So anyway. Yeah. Good times. All right. So YouTube to pay twenty four point five million to settle Trump's lawsuit over the twenty twenty one account suspension. Oh, ace man, you got your dancing shoes out. OK, because YouTube has agreed to pay it.
And with that money, Trump is going to take it and put it toward the construction of the new White House ballroom. Trump sued the Alphabet-owned video sharing platform in July of 2021, alleging that YouTube unlawfully silenced conservative viewpoints after the company suspended his account in the wake of January 6th.
The trust for the National Mall, the nonprofit group raising private donations to build the $200 million ballroom on the White House grounds, It will be paid $22 million by the tech company as part of the settlement.
Now, someone should put a ballroom clock versus Gavin Newsom's bullet train clock because I'll guarantee that ballroom is going to be done in nine months and that fucking bullet train will never be done. And it's not because of the difference between a ballroom and a bullet train. It's because of the difference between Trump and Newsom.
Newsom, he's a process guy, wants to talk about it, but it'll never happen. Yeah, and I lived in Minneapolis when the 35W bridge fell, and that was such a big deal. And one of the things that they did is they really said, hey, we've got to get some private companies in here because that is a major artery into the city, and we need to get this built.
I mean, it was literally within 18 months they had that bridge up and running again. I was just in Baltimore doing shows, and a friend of mine who lives there, we were talking about the bridge that fell there, and he was like, dude, they're cooking on this thing. Because they've got to get it done. So there's no government red tape.
The sad part, and maybe Andrew can find you the clip of Temescal Canyon that will be in the upcoming vlog. Because I've got a big doozy of a vlog coming your way, kids. But the part that makes it sad is sort of like... When you see somebody and then you realize, oh, they can do shit they need to do, but they're just shit with your stuff. You know what I mean? And...
And everyone's got a little element of that. But the sad part is like here we had like MacArthur Park or whatever. It's like junkies and needles and hobos and fentanyl and stuff. And like at some point, you know, Karen Bass is like, we can't, you know, these are unhoused neighbors and we can't. And at some point someone goes, clean this fucking shit up. Like the Olympics are coming to town.
And two days later, the place looks brand new. Oh, yeah. San Francisco for sure. Right. There's go. There's go pow.
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Chapter 6: What role do hobbies play in personal fulfillment?
Like it's clean now. And you see it all the time. If they want to do it, they do it, or they just talk about a bullet train for 300 years, which it pisses me off more. It's like...
If you have a partner or you have an employee or something, and they're totally fucking incompetent all the time, but at some point it has to do with them going online and buying tickets to fish who's in town, and then they book an Airbnb and they book the flights. It's like, oh, you're good at this stuff, but it's because you want to go to see a concert.
You're not good with my travel shit, right? That you fuck up all the time. I'll show you Temescal.
canyon a kind of a kind of before and after and we'll we'll put it up at adamcarolla.com and mescal canyon now i took a tour of this with colonel saucer and it was set up to be a corridor of work and ingenuity they had pulverizers concrete pulverizers everything was set up and i went back a month later and it was pristine and new all right pause it there whoa
When I went there, it was covered with dirt. The asphalt was beat to shit because it's not made for that much heavy machinery. They had whole recycling centers, like mobile units set up, stuff with conveyor belts on it, dump trucks backing up, pulverizers busting up the concrete, loaders. And the other day... I don't drive up and down Temescal Canyon. I use another canyon.
But the other day, Waze just said, take Temescal instead of Sunset or whatever it was. And I found myself turning down Temescal Canyon, looking around. Grass grown, asphalt down, freshly painted, brand new. No holes in the ground where they had to anchor stuff down. There is no trace that this place was completely set up.
It essentially looked like one of those roads in Gaza after a good Israeli bombing. Like just rubble everywhere, trucks everywhere, dirty, dusty mess. It's brand new. They pulled up and left three months ago. Brand new. Doable is what I'm saying. Or not. Or not. That's what I'm saying. Especially painted, and you couldn't even tell they were there. And my point is, we are capable of doing this.
This is what we can do if we set our mind to it. Now, Karen Bass isn't going to get this done, and Gavin Newsom's not going to get it done, but we can get this done. Temescal Canyon...
was damnation alley it was more rebar more scrap more busted up concrete more building materials tractors and hoes and cherry pickers and huge pieces of equipment by the way conveyor belts and concrete pulverizers and everything major heavy equipment
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Chapter 7: How do societal changes affect discipline and community ties?
I think when Minneapolis redid like the entire 35W corridor, this is after the bridge had fallen and kind of down by like around the airport at the Crosstown. They basically told the company that was doing it, hey, you guys show up early. For every week you are early, you get X amount of dollars. And they basically had that thing done within three and a half months in front of schedule.
You can look it up, Andrew or Dawson, but the big chunk of the 10 freeway that was damaged in the 94 earthquake, they said to that contractor... Something to the effect of, we'll give you a million bucks for every week or month you come in under time. And he was like, oh, fucking done and done. And he had his cruise working Sunday at midnight. But that shit got open three months earlier.
That guy pocketed three million bucks. By the way, that's how life works, Democrats. You can't just telling people to do the right thing doesn't work. They need incentives, good and bad. Stocks. And bonds. Yeah. Oh, man. That's your company name right there. And bonds. Stocks or bonds. 30 years. So you can check that story out. I don't think that's the 10 freeway, but maybe it is the 10 freeway.
I don't know. But they did it lickety split. And I remember living here during the time going, they incentivize those crews. And by the way, The guy who owns the construction outfit, he doesn't go, look, I'm going to put an extra million bucks in my pocket for every month we come in under calendar time. So I'm going to need all you assholes to work for free.
He goes, we're going to be working Sundays. You're going to be making double time and we're going to get this shit done. Yeah. So anyway, you can figure out that story. I don't need pictures of it. I just need – I understand what it is. I'm asking for the story of it. All right.
You know, when they're doing this ballroom, wouldn't it be just a power move for Trump to just hang a couple of like Saddam chandeliers in there from, you know what I mean, from back in the day? Stuff he stole from the palace. Yeah, how awesome would that be? Well, speaking of trolling, I mean, him and these Hakeem Jeffries videos and him and Chuck Schumervitz, they're the best. Yeah.
I don't know why. I don't know why. The Chuck Schumer one made me laugh my ass off. And this is all you can do, by the way. I've told everyone this. I remember where I was when Tucker Carlson was interviewing me 10 years ago, and he said, when does it end? And I go, you have to make fun of them. So when they call you a racist... You don't go, oh, no, no, no, I have black friends.
You go, fuck you, and you laugh. All right, so they did this. It's great. Let's just listen to AI Chuck Schumer. There's no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullshit. Not even black people want to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So we need new voters.
And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can't even speak English. So they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of shit, you know, at least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us, too. Right. So it's awesome. And then.
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