Adam Carolla on California's Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Adam, great to meet you.
What lessons were learned from the Palisades Fire one year later?
Thanks for being here on the All In podcast. This was stuff that didn't exist in our everyday lives and the discourse that you guys had. It was really kind of expansive for folks, at least in my cohort growing up in LA. We learned a lot. So I want to thank you for that. I think you've pioneered an important corner of the world of content and media for a long time.
How does 'gyno-fascism' influence safety culture?
So thanks for that. Yeah, you've you've lived in L.A. for a long time, right? Yeah, whole life. And so, you know, we thought this would be a great conversation to have on the one year anniversary of the Palisades fire, because we know that you've been an outspoken voice on the actions and the reactions to the Palisades fire. And while we're talking, we can also talk broadly about L.A., about California, about the U.S. and where things are headed. Every business has an ambition.
What role does media bias play in gender dynamics?
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And why have all of the promises that were made in the days and weeks after the fire forgotten about.
Well, I'm uniquely qualified to address this subject because I live in Malibu and I was physically there on sunset the morning the fire started. I literally walked out of the Equinox gym and I looked up Sunset Boulevard up in the mountains and I saw smoke.
How is Hollywood transforming under DEI initiatives?
It was nine forty five in the morning. So I was like, live there was evacuated that night. but also have a background in construction, building, permitting the city regulation, that kind of stuff. So it's a subject that I'm pretty passionate about. And I think it leads into a bigger conversation about Los Angeles and California and how come there's no affordable housing and how come when they build homeless units that are 400 square feet, they're $900,000 a unit and so on and so forth. So it would be nice to use this as sort of a stepping stone to that conversation. I've lived in California my whole life and I was in construction my whole life.
Are we experiencing the 'hard times make strong men' cycle in America?
Then when I got into show business later, all I did was use the show business money to fund more building projects. So I never got away from being on a job site. It just happened to be my own home versus other people's homes. And of course, as an owner builder was always having to deal with permits in the city and so forth. Um, I always knew it was super cumbersome and super expensive and actually did more harm than good it dissuaded a lot of people from building a lot of people went i don't want to deal with the city i don't want to you know when you talk to fast food franchises they'll go i'll open a store in any city but i'm not going to do los angeles it's too much and and it it becomes too much work and so then either people bootleg things or they don't start their project at all because if you go through the normal channels which is engineering and then plan check and permitting and approvals and all that it's not only really expensive but it's super time consuming and it basically convinces you to scrub the project I
was friends with Suzanne Summers and her husband, Alan Hamill. And they live, I mean, I'm still friends with Alan. Obviously, Susan passed recently. And they're a great couple and they love Malibu. And they used to come out and stay at the Malibu Inn and go out to dinner with me. And, uh, I, they live in Palm Springs.
Who should be the next governor of California?
And I said, uh, well, you love Malibu so much. I don't get why you don't live in Malibu.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:01
2
What lessons were learned from the Palisades Fire one year later?
0:01–0:38
3
How does 'gyno-fascism' influence safety culture?
0:38–1:05
4
What role does media bias play in gender dynamics?
1:05–2:18
5
How is Hollywood transforming under DEI initiatives?
2:18–3:08
6
Are we experiencing the 'hard times make strong men' cycle in America?
3:08–4:47
7
Who should be the next governor of California?
4:47–5:15
8
How will Big Tech and AI impact the 2028 election?
5:15–1:09:45
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