Jon Taffer on Running The Troubadour and How Less Drinking Affects Restaurants

Well, in this episode, John Tafer, Bar Rescue, he's back in studio, news with Dawson and we'll do all that right after this. This weekend, Adam Corolla's in Dallas, Texas. Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday, at Hyena's Comedy Club. Get your tickets now at AdamCorolla.com. Thanks for tuning into the Adam Corolla show. You can watch the full show on YouTube, just search Adam Corolla show and hit subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can also get the podcast wherever you like to listen and for extra content, add free episodes and more. You can head over to our substack and sign up today. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Corolla show. Adam's guest today. The creator and host of Bar Rescue, restaurant tour, John Tafer, plus the news with V Mike Dawson and now, Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but get on the mandate. You get it on. John Tafer back in studio, Bar Rescue, of course, season 10 out now and Paramount. Also we got the bar. We have Tafer's Tavern and new locations coming up all over the place of Atlanta or Atlanta. Also the bourbon, brown butter bourbon, delectable by the way, had it myself. Good to see you again, John. Good to be back in Corolla Global Enterprises here. Man, I was thinking about you. The part that people forget about with you is the sort of music background. To start off, sunset, strip, LA, guitar, bannies, because, because, aris, all that are a bannies, beenery. I mean, Roxy. Yeah. Whiskey? Yeah, you know, I, you know, was funny. I was a starwood. Yeah, the starwood. I, I guess you'd have to ask yourself how you felt about stuff, but I found myself and I keep finding myself going back and watching once upon a time in Hollywood, the Tarantino film, because it was like, it was 1968, 1969, LA. And it was like, people are flying on airplanes, drinking out of a martini glass and smoking, you know. I think half the country would go, that's disgusting, but not the half I'm on. No, I'm with you. That's a great time. That sounded like a good time to me. And there was like, misogyny, but it was like the misogyny where the waitress would come by and the guy'd call her beautiful, you know what I mean? Hey, beautiful, sweetie. Why don't you fresh me up this high ball? And everyone in general seemed happier because it didn't have, it wasn't a grievance culture. I completely agree. When I ran a troubuda, we didn't have that defense. We didn't have that defense against each other. Right. We didn't have the gang, we didn't even have the racial pressures then. Right. You know, we didn't have AIDS. I was pre-AIDS. We didn't have the sexual pressure then. It was a much friendlier time. Let me tell you the best time ever. I figured I've distilled it down because, look, there were times you could be born in cholera would take out your entire village, you know what I mean? Or rat infestation could take everyone out because that flees and the bubonic plague. Or you could just literally be turning 18 as World War I was beginning and you could have walked right off of it. We've actually had a pretty mellow time in our lives. Yeah. You could have some bad times. Yep. It's a cosmic wheel of timing. You could have been walking off your campus in England or the United States in, you know, 1918 or something and walked right into a recruiters office and next year, you know, you're just in a trench somewhere filled with sewage water and rats, you know what I mean? You thought you were going to come out? You thought you were going to come out? We've had a great run. Yeah. But here's the best time, you ready? Yep. It is pre-AIDS mid-coke. Coke was not bad for you. That's right. Coke was just fun and there's no such thing as AIDS. That was a party. When I used to run Borne's Bienery that you could smoke back then, it had these little metal ash trays. Yeah. You don't say who, but who was sitting at the end of the bar, we put a pile of cocaine on the ash tray and they pass it down the bar pack then. Just slide it down. The regular side of the bar. It was a very different one. Oh, you had the regular side of the bar. Yes. And we had this sort of tourist side or come off the street side and then there was the regular. And if you sat on the regular side and weren't a regular, you didn't stay there long. Right. You were not supposed to be there. Yeah. Now, it comes out through the lens of like smoking or drinking or padding the stewardess on the ash, but the rally, it was just freedom. It was free. You just, you drove a car if you wanted to wear your seatbelt fine and if you didn't, well, that was your goddamn business. That's right. And that's the way we sort of liked it. I totally. It was a complete freedom. But we didn't have that pressure, that tension between all of us back then. Well, if you think about it, the way to create the tension is to enact a lot of these rules. So the thing about you bring up something like COVID, there wasn't any tension with me during COVID, but there was tension with others because I wasn't wearing a mask and they wanted me to wear a mask. And now there was a rule that said you had to wear a mask. And so if there's a rule that says you have to wear a mask, then it's not, you don't need the governor or the police chief coming up to you. Every middle-aged Karen is a deputy. She's been deputized now because here are the rules. And so she can then come up to me and tell me to get my mask on, even though she doesn't have a badge or a gun or a title. So she's creating a tension, which you didn't have in the first place. The rule created the tension. She is enforcing the rule. And yes, she's dumbed bitch and she should shut the fuck up. But she, because we laid this out, this thing. And so what we have is like a lot of like people offended on other people's behalf, you know, racially or misogynistically or xenophobically. Like you're not going to let them talk to you that way. I'm going to go report that. You know, there's lots of that going on. It's destroying our society. I agree. It's inhibiting our ability to communicate with each other, to say how we feel with each other. We have to be defensive about our own feelings when we meet people, our own political views when we meet people. Yes. I completely concur. And you know, for me, I'm pretty consistent. I just want whatever is logical. And you know, especially when you're running a restaurant first off, there's certain businesses I look at. And I've done carpet cleaning and I've done construction. I've been involved with tons and tons of stuff. But I look at restaurant and I see those margins. And I just see all the potential liability, all the stuff. And I just, I just shake my head. It's like, I go, my business is I fly to your town. I sell out a theater. I get paid. I go home. There is no somebody slipped and fell and I'm on the hook for it. There's no, there's no comedy inspector. The comedy inspector from the city has come down. He's found some violations. He made three too many jujokes. He cited you. You know, now there's a fine. You have to go pull a permit to do your next show. Like there, I just show even, even musicians, as you know, roadies, amps. Trucks, crew. That's still comedian. You just walk out there, talk, leave. You don't have to set up. I was a microphone in a stool. There's no sound check. Your sound check is your first, first joke. But I think about restaurant and I think, man, that's a margin. And there can be no pine the sky when you're running that restaurant. There's no, in my heart, I feel like nobody deserves to not get a good meal. No child should not get a tape, to not get a booth. You know, it's just all nuts and bolts. It is all nuts and it's a challenging time. I'm lucky though, because of my brand is so beverage oriented that in Taffers, Tavern, I run 50% beverage sales. Oh, really? Normal would be 18 to 20%. And that's the most powerful restaurant with a license. A little bit of life. 18 to 20% beverage sales, 8% food. I run 50, 50. Right. So that pumps a lot of profits down to my bottom line. But I'm lucky to be a beverage brand because most brands can't achieve that. Yeah, so let's see if we can break this down. If I go to a comedy club, they will oftentimes give you 80% of the door. Sometimes even 85. Now you go, well, that doesn't seem like a great split for them. Well, they're not in the business to sell in tickets. They're in the restaurant business. And they want you to help them sell the tickets. 10 to 85%. Yeah. So they can get the restaurant filled. Yep. With people, you think it's a comedy club. They think it's a restaurant. That's right. But then within that, you'd rather have more people drink than eat because the margin on the food is tight. And it's a pain in the ass to make. Right. That's a part of it. And it's profitable. Right. Right. I mean, what gets, well, first off, you know, looks, maybe you're making a paper airplane or Moscow, you will or something, but a Michelob light. That's just, you paid $3, you charge $8 and hand it to the person. That's right. That's a business. Right. The numbers. Bottle beer runs a 28% cost. So 28 cents of every dollar's cost. Draft beer's 22%. But that cocktails 14%. Oh. Of twice the price. Right. Right. So for a beer, let's say, say, 28, a bottle. Yep. Right. Sake of argument. I'll round down a little. But you, even when you're doing the $3 beer night, you still only paid 75 cents. That's correct. Right. But the cocktail that cost $18. $22. $22. Right. Let's just call it 20. You're paying $2.80 worth of material, including labor. Much will cost you. Well, labor is very quick. Typically, it's 60 seconds, right? To make a drink. I know, but that does factor in overall to your whatever. And if you can get it on draft, it's 22. That's right. So you want people ordering cocktails. Or do I have to tell you larger sizes? I can pitchers with draft. I can promote more. But I want you to order cocktail for sure. Right. That's what they want. And how much measuring? I can't tell their places like at the airport or certain places where they literally have the thing on the top of the bottle. Oh, the measure. The measure. It'll cut you off. And then there's the jigger guy. And then there's the guy who goes, I know when I'm done pouring, like you do at home. So are there rules, though, or is it just bar to bar? There's no rules. It's bar to bar. The pours that you're talking about are posse pours, they call them. And they click at 7-8s of an ounce or whatever the number is. Right. So there's no over pour. The only way you can pour more is to bring the bottle back down and over again and you manage you would see that. Right. So the jigger, of course, is a simple pour from one ounce from a jigger. Yeah. But a good bartender can pour just as accurately as the jigger. We do free pour tests with our bartenders all the time. It's a three count. One, two, three. That's an out of it. Yeah. Well, you know, if you, a carpenter, like I used to be, and you stare at a tape measure long enough, you know this is three feet. It's not. It's not four feet. That's right. And it's not two and a half feet. That's the same kind of thing. You just, you see it. You know what I mean? Yeah. So almost mechanical ability. You do it again and again and again and you just know it. Yeah. So you would like people to come in and order a cocktail. It's interesting. I'm interested how things go away and come back. You know, I'm interested how gin went away and it came back. I'm interested in how Ryan Bourbon seemed to like go away. Old-fashioned stuff and then come back. Old-fashioned is very popular right now. And also the rise of the tequila. Tequila with just cheap stuff you use to get drunk back in the day and now there's 75 different kinds and there's, they're treating them like they're cigars. Yep. I'll tell you, it's a, the trend, for the trend to go down sets it up to go up. Right now every alcohol was down. Beer was down, wine is down, carbonated, celture is down, everything is down. And I'll share an interesting statistic you'll love this Adam. There are 5400 whiskey SKUs in America. 5400 whiskey's. 5400 brands of whiskey in America. The average bar has no more than 40. Of that 40, only 17 cell. Of the 17 that sell over 70% of the revenue comes from three. Wow. So 5400 brands becomes three within a bar. All of these brands are going to go away the next couple years. We're going to see a whole bunch of brands. Jim Beam stopped production for a year. Yeah. Which is incredible. Whiskey, distilleries are following bankruptcy, they're going broke. So there's going to be a bit of a shake out and all these brands that don't mean anything are going to go away. It's kind of interesting and maybe self-serving but it's a lot like podcasting. There's over 2 million podcasts. 5400 shake out. There's a handful that make money and there's a handful you've heard of but there is, there are out there and the only difference is you can do your podcast from your garage with your stepdad as long as you want. It's not a distillery. That's right. You don't have the best in millions of dollars. A product. Yeah. I keep hearing people are drinking less. They are. I'm trying to make up for it and drink a little bit. I actually decided to see if I could fill that void a little bit. We appreciate that. Yeah. People are drinking less and I keep hearing that that's something that's going on and it's affecting the business. It's affecting the business. It's affecting liquor stores. It's affecting every aspect of the business. And I'm trying to think, you know, I don't know if it's a pandemic or a good war. I don't know what gets people back on the sauce. Also strikes me. A lot of people are eating edibles and you know, doing this plays a part for sure. Doing that, right? Sure. Also cannabis gets you to stay home. Oh, yeah. You point yourself on a couch. You don't go out as often. It's not as social, right? It's more of a home-based. But we're seeing the impact of it for sure. Soon we're going to see cannabis bars. Oh, yeah. We're going to see how cannabis in a bar. We'll see how that works out. I'm still not sure the cannabis is the socialization tool that drinking is. Yeah. I mean, look, everything affects the human brain in different ways. There's things that make you tired and things that make you peppy and things that make you conversational and things that make you introspective, introverted and stuff like that. That's all the same. Yeah. And they call booze a social lubricant for a reason. It kind of gets people talking. Yeah. Every time I try a nice trubotor store, I got a great story for him. Tell me. I'm running a trubotor. This is 1979. We're talking about music. What bands are rolling through there when you're running a trubotor? Okay. We had Black Flag, Adam and all of those bands. So you get... So there was the doors version, Mommas and the Poppas, Crossbeast Hills and Nash. I mean, there was that version of the trubotor. And now it's kind of like that movie Boogie Nights. It is. Now, there was the old school porn and now it's on video and all of a sudden it's punk rock in New Wave. New wave. Right. So it was punk rock and remember the neck? Sure. The rubber city rebels, all those bands were that. I don't remember the rubber city rebels. I remember the neck being bigger and bigger and anything. Yep. So I'm running a trubotor. This is a Tuesday night in Douglas, in the owner of the trubotor, gave the club to the Native Americans for a fundraiser. This is before Indian gaming when their communities were in such trouble. So does Indian dancers, Indian drummers, Indian... American Indians. Indian archers. All of us is going on Native Americans. I walk, I'm sitting at the front bar having a ginger ale. This was the day to Washington Redskins lost the football game in a less 30 seconds against the Cowboys. Oh, the age of 79. And Agent walks you the front door, screams at the top of his lungs, those fucking Redskins in a room with 600 Indians. Great trubotor moment. Wow. So they jumped them, but everything worked out. Now I'm guessing, and this is an interesting thing. And I've talked about before, I know the guy, I spent a lot of time talking to the guy who runs crypto. And he would explain to me, you have the Hispanic, Mariachi big band coming here, you have to stock this kind of booze and more of this and less of that. Then you got the girl bands coming in and then you got Leonard Skinner coming in, you need another kind of thing. I'm guessing the bar was busy at the American Indian night at the trubotor because I feel like those people can drink. Like Andrick, a year ago I opened Mystic Lake Casino in Minneapolis as a consultant. Big, the biggest casino out of Vegas at the time. And we're creating a food and beverage and we're going to open the casino and the tribal council is saying, listen, we shouldn't have alcohol. Our community is not good with alcohol. We don't want to have an embarrassing event. And this is what the tribal council is telling me. But the governor was coming to Senator was coming, so we set up a little champagne bar. It was a nightmare. Really? The tribal council got too drunk and they set it themselves. So it's just an issue with them. Well, look, I've talked about it with Dr. Drew many times. There are certain communities. Not everyone is wired. The same. Exactly the same. You heard it was Kennedy. It was Robert Kennedy Jr. who was doing a hearing. And you know what you're going to look for, Dawson. It was kind of interesting. It was about a year old, maybe a little less. And Kennedy is just a mouth of babes kind of guy. He was just like, hey, too many people are too fat. We got to lose weight because too fat. People are like, you can't speak that way. You can't fat shame. He's like, I'm just telling you what's healthy. He was given a thing in front of Congress. He basically just went, hey, not all vaccines are needed by all people. There's African Americans don't need this vaccine. And of course, the black Congress guy was like, what's your talk about Willis? But it's like, it doesn't affect your community. So why would you get this vaccination in the body? You would not need a sickle cell. Right. That's not a hate crime. It's just a wiring. It's just what is. It's a biology. You know, and there are groups on this planet that alcohol affects differently. No question. And some, the tribal elders probably had the right idea with the champagne line. And we'll see if we can find that. I don't know. It's Kennedy, Congress, sort of black, black scene. Ooh, that's a good name. Black scene? Yeah, it's like black and a vaccine put together. Black scene. Well, yeah. Speaking of American Indians, I was, and we're talking about pot. I was having a laugh on the way here because I was thinking about the arc. And you're talking about stuff, get popular, like gin, and then it's not popular for a long time. And now then it gets popular again and kind of goes away. Oh, when you're queued up, you can tell me if you feel, feel good about it. Okay. Or you said the following. And I quote, we should not be giving black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to whites because their immune system is better than ours. Can you please explain what you meant? Oh, there's a series of studies, I think most of them, I pull and I'm that show that. I'll pause it for a second. By the way, this is a black woman giving him a gotcha question. By the way, saying your immune system is better or your dick is bigger is not exactly slapping the face to a community. I would like someone to explain that Adam's immunity is much stronger than all of yours and his dick is wider as well. I'll take both. I'll take both. I will not. There'll be no lawsuits filed. I'm not going to get glory all read on your ass. All right. So here it is. There's a series of studies, I think most of them by pulling that show that the particular antigens that blacks have a much stronger reaction. There's differences in reaction to different products by different races. So I have 17 seconds. Let me just ask you then. So what different vaccine schedule would you say I should have received? That's always about me. What different vaccine schedule should I receive? I mean, the poll in articles suggests that blacks need fewer antigens. And this is so dangerous. And the result of actually with all due respect that is so dangerous. Your voice would be a voice that parents. I was dangerous if they wouldn't take the vaccine, but taking the vaccine has no danger attached to it. Right. I love all black leftist Democrat women are constantly on the verge of being insulted all the time. Yeah. First off, it's the truth. But secondly, telling you don't take something you don't need if you don't need it, which could have a negative consequence on you. Well, listen, I'll put it to you this way. It's what I basically said with COVID-vax and my kids when 14-year-old twins at the time. I just said, look, I don't know that the vaccine is going to hurt them long term, but I do know COVID isn't because they're perfectly healthy and they're young and they have no preexisting conditions. So one is, if I'm not saying these are going to injure you, I'm saying I don't need, you know, when you go to Africa or you go to, I don't know, Thailand or something, you have to get a series of vaccinations before you leave. But not if you're going to Glendale. Then I would say somebody said, don't you want to get the typhoid thing before you go to Glendale? I'd go, no. And they'd go, why not? How could it hurt? And I'd go, I don't know. I don't need it. All right. Well, put something into your body that you don't know. We'll continue with this. Just go back 10 seconds. Does that do like that she's insulted? And it's dangerous. Should I go see? I mean, the Paul and articles suggest that blacks need fewer antigens. And this is so dangerous. And these will exist. Mr. Kennedy, with all due respect, that is so dangerous. Your voice would be a voice that parents would listen to. That is so dangerous. I will be voting against your nomination because your views are dangerous to our state and to our country. By the way, what happened to making a fucking point? I listen to so many politicians, especially women, especially on the left. I don't know what their point is other than their pissed off, but you have to show some receipts at some point. He's just explaining that's the science. And you just keep saying it's dangerous to the science. What you need to do is show up with something. And she did not. You need a chart that talks about androgens and talk about the African-American community or something. You can't just keep yelling at a guy. You think something's dangerous. And the resistance of the other side is at a level of subservient. How about last night in the state of the union, they said, stand up for American sentences versus a legal one. And nobody would stand up. I mean, that's mind-boggling to me. Well, he does. I'll tell you what Trump does. I'll tell you what Trump does. I'll tell you what Trump does. It makes me laugh and it does. And it's got to find it again. I want to tell you about my friends at Cardiff. If you're a small business owner and you've tried the big bank run around, you need Cardiff. All businesses are the backbone of this economy. And you've been treated like an afterthought. If you need capital, but you don't want to deal with the big banks who always screw you over and it's always a long line and there's so many hoops to jump through. Our friends at Cardiff actually want to say yes, over 12 billion funded for small businesses since 2004. They offer bank rates with same day funding and zero personal credit impact to apply. Don't let big banks stole your growth. Go to Cardiff.co-slash-addom. That's Cardiff.co-slash-adam. I know they can help you. Cardiff. Barrow better. I'm going to get a little bit of money. I'm going to get a little bit of money. I'm going to get a little bit of money. I'm going to get a little bit of money. I'm going to get a little bit of money. I'm going to get a little bit of money. I'm going to get a little bit of money. I'm going to get a little bit of money. Duk culme finie. and Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny are standing there and they're explaining it's duck hunting season and then he's saying it's rabbit hunting season and then he's saying, no, no, it's duck hunting season. And at some point, Bugs Bunny repeats, starts repeating what Daffy Duck says and insists that ElmrFud shoot him now, which is what Trump does to Democrats. He puts him in a horrible place. He says stand up. By the way, if Trump says stand up, they're going to sit out. If Trump says turn right, they're going to turn left. If that's the sad part. Right. That's the sad part because the way it's supposed to be is you go, all right, let's just say you're in a relationship and you go, okay, I'm the man. This is my wife. The way it's supposed to be is you go, I like to keep the front door locked at night. Good. Your wife goes, yeah, me too. And I like to shut the garage door when I come in at night. Good. And I like to shut the refrigerator door after I pull food out so it doesn't just burn calories. Yeah, okay. And then I go, and I like to keep the toilet seat up. And then she goes, hold on. I think we want the toilet seat down. Okay. So we agreed on the stuff, lock in the door, shut in the garage, shut in the fridge door. And then we got to a thing with the toilet seat and you wanted to do it one way and maybe I did it the other way. And now we can have a discussion about it. But where Trump is with the wife and these women and these Democrats are like, I would like to remove criminal illegals who are violent from the country. Fuck you. Okay. I would like to stand for veterans. Fuck you. I would like you stand and he forces them to go to the other side and then it's really because then when it comes time for the election, they go, who do we want to run in the house, the guy of the girl? And I go, this bitch want to leave the front door open at night and everyone goes, we don't want that. We're living in the house too. Well, that's their plan. And they go, now they have to get around it. They have to go, well, I said it, but I didn't mean it or whatever. No, no, you got, you got played. You got game into it. All right, let's see if we can find Elmer Fud and Bugs might hear it. And this is what Trump, Trump, the Democrats would be a daffy duck, I think in this equation. Here we go. Daffy duck. No, we can duck hunting season. That's third is an investigation for abracation. It's one of the season. Duck season. One of the season. Duck season. One of the season. Duck season. One of the season. Duck season. Where did season? Duck season. Where did season? I say it's ducks season and I say fire. That's what Trump does to Democrats. He tells them stand up and they're not going to stand up and they fall into it every time. They fall. We have the clip, I think, somewhere, Andrew. Yeah. And then it just becomes a commercial for the Republicans because you become the people who won't stand for this. Now, if you're smart, whether you're a wife or a Democrat, you parse it out. You go, yeah, I'm for locking the front door, but I am going to argue with you about the toilet seat. And then you see something. Then you seem reasonable. Absolutely. All right, sir. We'll play it. Here we go. So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. Wow. That's powerful. That's powerful. That's powerful. He tricked them. It's duck hunting season. That's what it is. We'll look at his face. It's great. You knew just what happened, too? Oh, yeah. Now he gestures to the Democrats or ones stand up and looks a little incredulous and entertained to be fair. Here comes the best of all, right? Yeah, that's great. He got him with the hockey team, too. They wouldn't stand for the hockey team. Unbelievable. You didn't stand for a hockey team. Well, they're all full of sexists. And misogynists. I forgot how long he's. By the way, pause it for a second. To be fair, to trump when they go, the speech was too long. If you back out all the clapping, it's under an hour. Right. Because we're sitting here. Good point. We had 30 seconds of dialogue and three minutes of clapping. If you're just keeping a tally like you do those, you know, you do TV. You go, we got to do 30 minutes or we got to do 60 minutes of TV. No, you have to do 42 minutes of TV. It's like, I thought it was this hour show. Yeah, but you got to back out the commercials. Right. I said, keep it going, so. Yeah, he shouldn't be on the clock for this. I agree. And there was a lot of it last night. Oh, yeah. Look at them sitting there. They're sitting there. Look at angry. That's good. You think one of them is. I thought there was a, I thought he said something on this one. He did. Yeah, he sort of said, I can't believe it or whatever. Okay, good for you. These guys. But now all we have is mommy and daddy fighting and we're the kids. And we live in the house too. And we just want a house with a locked front door and refrigerator door shut and a porch light that works. Right. But no, that's a great way to put it. And it's a sad scenario that you just laid out. Yeah, I don't, it's such a, it's, it's an interesting phenomenon. And I think, I think it's connected because in the past, it didn't go this way because everyone agreed on a stout border, but people argued about Vietnam and our involvement. And so there was kind of legitimate discussions about things, but we agreed on other things. It was a different time, though, because we all watched the same news shows. We all got the same information today. It's also segregated, right? Liberal receives their data. We receive our information. We don't hear their side. They don't hear our side because we're watching news channels that lean one way or another. So we're not all evaluating the same information. I'm not sure the other side knows arguments from our side, and vice versa. Because people aren't exposed to it. Here's what I think. I don't think it's quite, I don't think that's, I don't think it's quite that way because I tell people, you know, when, and it's, it's a true statement to degree where they have their side, they have their side, and they only hear what they hear. But I tell people all the time, CNN is on in every airport. I know what they're saying. I know their argument because their argument gets made by our side. They go, here's what they want, and here's why it's not going to work or here's why it's bogus. I feel like their argument is pretty ubiquitous. It was sort of like COVID. They all had their argument. The people I listened to or the people got deplatformed, and I don't think they knew what the great bar, you know, what's the great bar, and declaration was or whatever it was. They didn't know, they did not know the other side. Are you going to want to know the other side? They want to know. I've sat around and I've listened to Tim Walls and whomever and all the Democrat and all the ladies on the Democrat, and they're like, these ice guys are kicking open doors, grabbing people, look different than them, taking them to gulags and disappearing them. It's like, and none of that, not, do you think that's what they're, do you actually think that's what they're doing? They, but when you see like there's, there's instances where like the Karen, the middle age, Ponchi woman from Minneapolis is like yelling at the ice guys and the ice guys are like, hey, we're going after a pedophile and a rapist and she's like, you don't go after any criminals, you just take citizens and it's like, what? Where does she getting, but that's what she thinks. She thinks they're walking around. If you think they're Americans that are doing it. Snatching this people up. Yeah. They're our neighbors that are ice agents and these are Americans. Why would they do such a thing? That's absurd. Well, I have, I have a theory and I, and I used it. We're talking about the USA hockey team and the male hockey team and this Huff Poe stamp that basically talked about not celebrating the American hockey team. I have a theory and it's up there now. I mean, we can blow it up a little bit, but it's the Huff Poe thing I think I talked about before. It says, if waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, you're not alone. And okay. So that's Huff Poe. Now, here's my theory and I want to know what you think, John. Okay. I grew up with these people. My mom and my grandma were Huff Poe before Huff Poe was Huff Poe. They thought this way, right? And they would, and Huff Poe and MSNBC and Don Lemon, any of them you disagree with. But here's what they would say. I don't know. You'd talk to them all the time. And if you talk to my mom, you talk to my grandma, they would say, there we go. I love this country. But you got to understand slavery, trail of tears, two nukes on Japan, Jim Crow, what we did with the Japanese in term, and it's like after 20 minutes, you go, do you love this country? Because all I hear is you talking shit about this country. And then they go, no, I love this country. I know how much better we can do, right? So then you, it's the same thing with the left all the time. It's like, listen, I ran for this office because I love this country and I'm patriotic and everything else, but take that flag down from the back of your truck and we're putting kids in cages at the border and torturing them and tearing kids away from their parents and throwing them in gulags. It's like, all you do, Ilhan Omar and the squad, Rashida Tulee, but all you do is talk a never ending stream of shit about this country 24-7. You love this country, right? So I don't believe you. And you never give a suggestion on how to make it better. Right. I don't believe you. So Huff Poe would say, oh no, we love this country, but we have so many things we need to fix. Right. Okay. I say they hate this country because the hockey team, winning the gold first time in 46 years has nothing to do with the border. It has nothing to do with Ukraine. It has nothing to do with Israel, Gaza, because what they do with Israel, Gaza, border, whatever, they fight against everything and then say they love this country. And then you can kind of, you get a little confused. You go, hmm, maybe they love this country and they just don't like Israel bombing whatever, Hamas or something. But the list goes on. The list goes on, but this has nothing attached to it. It's hockey. It's pure. It's just a game. Right. And if you love this country, then you will be screaming and celebrating and waving the American flag for the hockey team taking the gold home. If you love this country, but if you hate this country and you love Canada, then you're going to be a bitch about it. And Huff Poe, you do not love this country because we are giving you an opportunity to love this country that has no political baggage attached to it whatsoever. You can just enjoy the win for the country you love, but you got to beef. And you don't like this country. So shut up. And by the way, we're right for thinking you don't love this country. Well, they prove it again and again. I'm just being happy for the guys. What an accomplishment for them. Right. I can't just be happy for the young men that won this. Yes. But they can't find joy in any of these things. It's said, it's said that you live your life that way that you can't find joy in the simplest things to be joyful about. Well, my thing has always been people oftentimes when they treat other people in an unfriendly manner or they're tough on them, a rude or whatever. Sometimes people pull them side. This actually happened with me and somebody and Letterman. And I just went, Letterman's kind of a rude douche, you know? And they went, he's really miserable. He's really miserable. The excuse is they're miserable. But go home and kill yourself. Don't make me miserable. The whole thing with these people is they're all fucking miserable, which is true. Go home and eat hogging dots out of the one gallon container in a bathrobe in binge watch, Edgerton and cry. But leave me the fuck alone. My wife calls them party poopers. Yes. I mean, they don't want us to have fun with this hockey game. Right. So they're going to destroy this party for us. These highlights, they don't like them. They don't like when we're having fun. They're party poopers. Right. They say they love this country yet they want Spanish spoken at halftime for the Super Bowl. They say they love this country, but they poke holes in any kind of victory or any kind of opportunity. If we drop a bunker buster down an exhaust pipe and blow up a nuclear program for Iran, they're pissed off about that. Listen, 50 years we dealt with that issue. And it was ended, but that was a mistake. It's insane. Right. There are reasons to celebrate this country and then their disagreements, which is fine. But if you're just going to get pissed off at everything all the time, then I don't think you love this country. I'm not sure you love yourself. Oh. You know, my theory is they hate their dad. No, that could be. That could be. But you know, a lot of these people, I don't think they're proud of themselves. Yes. They connect that to our country too. It's a sad scenario when they can't be happy again with the joy around them. Yeah, well, they don't have, oh, OK, Nick's going to bring in a little of your buttered bourbon. So we can try that out. Cool. Let's start speaking our minds. Yes. Yes. My theory is they don't have a skill and trade and there it is. Yeah, that's good stuff. Yeah, they do not have. Hey, Nick, see the 2800 posters they're sitting in front of me? Yes, sir. You probably utilize one of the 17. They're all over the place here. I want to get in frame by the back. OK, well, you're staying out of the frame. We haven't had a drink together in a few years. No, I know. I have to do that. Give it a little notice before you drink it. All right. Nice, man. Cheers. Cheers, John. This is good stuff. All right, let's get in this Epstein file here. Oh, what, how about the cannibalistic angle? Did you hear that? That was unbelievable. Did you read that? I am. Are you being in testons or something? It is so insane. And I had no, here's a problem with me in life. You can only see things through your lens. And I'll give you my perspective this way. I love barbecue. When I run into someone who doesn't like barbecue, I go, no, no. Something's wrong. You like barbecue. I don't care for it. Deplaced. Let me take you to Franklin to get you some fresh. I'm a real good boy. I've been there. I don't like it. I go, no, bloodsauce. Right. Uh oh. The whole point is is I can't imagine a world where this guy doesn't like, but he doesn't like it. Okay. Then you flip the script and you go to eating babies. I go, oh, no. Who could do that? I mean, the reason. The reason. It's incomprehensible. The reason that twin towers are down, I always say, in New York, they're taken out because someone went, look, I fly an airplane and go, who would do that? And then you go, well, they're going to someone could do it and you go, if you flew an airplane into the twin tower and you're in the cockpit, you're the first guy to hit the tower. No one's going to do that. Well, they did. They did. So the, the kind of things that people do, I mean, even incest or molestation or something like that, just go, when you have kids, they go, yeah, how about having sex with your son? He's nine. You just go, are you, what? What the fuck? What the fuck? But also, if you said to me, who would do that? I'd go, nobody. Nobody would do that. Somebody was. But somebody will. And more than, more than you'd think or that we should be comfortable with. Yeah. I read an article a few weeks ago. You could probably pull it up. These guys from Texas Hunters go to an island in a Caribbean with their natives and they set up an elevated shooting station and they shoot the natives running by. Really hunting humans. Wow. And it was a group from Texas. The article's out there somewhere. Again, who would do that? But somebody did. Ted Nugent, but no one else I can think of. And I just said that because he's going to be on this show in a few days. And I think he's bringing his guitar too, by the way. Look at it. He wants to lay some blitz down. He doesn't bring his bow and arrow. I don't know. I do feel like he can shoot arrows from his guitar. I think when he brings his guitar, that's a weapon right there. I think he plays the lick from stranglehold and then he fires an arrow into a caribou. That would be cool. He's still playing the song. Somebody should invent that guitar out of him. I want to know, you know, I always, it always makes me laugh because there used to be all those 80s and 90s movies where they do it. Like the whole theme of the movie is they would, they'd lure like ice cube to an island or something and next thing, you know. He thought he was there to entertain the hunters or whatever, but he was the prey. Yeah, right. But I always say this, these to be a lot of those movies from the 70s and the A's and they go, the ultimate prey. Man. Yeah. And I'd go, no, no, I think it's a bangled tiger. I'd say so. Great way to show it because here's the deal. And everyone of those movies, they'd give the guy 20 minute head start. You don't have to give a great white ahead start and you don't have to give a Kodiak pair ahead start. You fucking rock. So there's no way anything is the ultimate prey with a head start. You don't do that. If you encountered a Kodiak bear, you wouldn't go, good news, bear. I'm going to give you 20 minutes. I'll give you 20 minutes. He'd eat you in 10, right? Where's this article? This is crazy. And by the way, these guys are not going to be popular when they get back to Texas, right? No, this is a few months ago. You can't even shoot Cecil the lion. People get angry. Oh, how about punched that little monkey? Did you see that little monkey on social media? Mm-hmm. See, this little monkey on social media that's mother's abandoned it. So it needs to be the hell out of it. So it's got this little teddy bear and it's running around the monkey bin and all the other monkeys are beating it up and scratching it and hurting it. And the little guy is really sad. It's tear jerking. It's punched a monkey. Punched a monkey. I thought it was a euphemism for masturbation. No, it could be. All right. If this article exists, can't find it, what would you type in? Let's see. Texas hunting human. Tribe. Hmm. All right. We'll find it and I'll tell you what, Dawson, when you find it, maybe we can bring it up in the news. Because we're going to bid a due to John. Always great to talk to, my friend. Same thing, buddy. What happened to the car that was in the lobby here? Bar rescue. I got all, oh, you know, I'm glad you brought that up. All my Newman cars, all the race cars are in Santa Ana right now and then you can go check it out. Oh, so on display. Yeah, it's on display. Oh, nice. Yeah, you can go down Carl the Cone for that, but they all got moved from Reno out here and they're in a big new, big new display and we're doing a big event there March 22nd, by the way, if you want to come on out. John Taffer, bar rescue and 10th season, paramount. And you can just go to, if you want to know, just go to john taffer.com for all the info. Good to see you, my friends. Good to see you back with the news right after this. True work, anyone who works outside knows that winter job sites don't mess around. Yeah, turn on the news. That's why true work builds performance, work where like it matters because it does. He was founded by a real trade professional, not some pans in a boardroom. So he knows what it takes. Design with moisture, wicking, wind resistant and insulated fabrics that keep you comfortable and mobile all day. Every piece is tested on real job sites with trade pros before it goes to market and the reviews are in. They have over 50,000 five star reviews from electricians, plumbers and contractors, all the guys who use this stuff. I might be a comedian, but the construction worker and me never quits. I'm outside working on things all the time. And I can say the T2 work pant is the best pair of pants I've ever worn. Am I right Dawson? Don't let cheap gear slow you down this winter. Upgrade your day with work wear built like it matters. Get 15% off your first order at truework.com with code ACS. That's TRUEWERK.com. Gusto I got admit I've always hated doing admin work, doing payroll, HR tasks. They eat up the whole day and they're boring. So if you're a busy person like me, it helps to have the right tools in place. This where Gusto comes in. So you don't have to spend your evenings guessing at tax forms. Gusto is online payroll and benefits software built for small businesses. It's all in one remote friendly and incredibly easy to use. So you can pay higher on board and support your team from anywhere. They have unlimited payroll runs for one monthly price. No hidden fees, no surprises. Save some time this year. You deserve it. Am I right Dawson? Try Gusto today at gusto.com slash Adam and get three months free when you run your first payroll. That's three months of free payroll at gusto.com slash Adam one more time. Gusto.com slash Adam. It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Hey man, Adam from Delaware here. It's one of the little state of the union. This week I beasted you for breakfast. I don't own any bracelets at all. I bought the beef on discount because it was going bad and I ate it directly out of a pot. I'm going to make a bowl of dirty. Get it on. You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744. Okay, one of the what I would consider innocuous tweets that I put out that seemed to anger dudes the most is I just announced in the middle of COVID more dudes where bracelets now than each stew and that made dudes angry. But it was a better time when men ate more stew and more less bracelets. It should be a bumper sticker, more stew, less bracelets. It's an indicator of what you know it's people go what's who cares about stew and who cares about bracelets. I don't know. You find me a chick with a septum ring and I'll find you someone I hate. And then you go, what's that have to do? What are you against, Jory? No. I know. I'll just know who I'm dealing with. It's like it's a sign. I don't know how the septum ring became such an empowering thing. It's what you put on a beast of burden deleted around. Why they chose that I don't get. The septum ring is the female deep leg cross. So when they have a crush on you. They're crushing their own nuts. Right. It doesn't look good and it's painful and it's not comfortable. And an infection could set in. But it's important that you signal to people who you are. So when you see the dude with the deep leg cross, then he's signaling. And when you see the chick with the septum piercing, she's signaling it well. It's the version because they can't do the leg cross because they already crossed their legs that way. The thing that's funny is the agreement that the interviewer guy has because everyone who interviews knew some does the deep leg cross to sort of present. You know what I mean? It's like in the animal world. Yes. Well, I will let you know that this is a hospitable zone for you by doing a deep leg cross. Right. All right. I don't know what I'm hearing. It's a weird. It's a weird. By the way, I'll tell you what it is. I said it. I'll tell you what it is. I said it because I stopped moving. These are necklaces under my t-shirt. That's what I thought I was hearing. Yes, they are. That's what that is. I apologize. I'll just put a bracelet on. But I eat more stew than bracelets. Oh yeah. Yeah. I got one bracelet from the 2018. You're like three stews to one bracelet. My stew to bracelet ratio is really amazing. It's about the ratio to me. All right. And I thought it was coming from you. But the very second I said it stopped. That's because I stopped moving. All right. Yes. That's me. I'll be aware of that. Should be a shit up a little. Yes. Okay. All right. about. I was thinking about the fact that the indigenous people, the Indians go, well, this is our land, sorry, this is our land. And then Mexico is like, well, we, Southwest, that's all us. That should be all us. We wish Arizona, Nevada, that's California, that should be all us. Okay. Which you can make an argument for, but understand this indigenous people who wants Arizona and Nevada back, there would be no Hoover Dam. There'd just be dirt. Sure. You understand there'd be no Las Vegas. There'd be no sphere. There'd just be fucking dirt. Because you guys would be a desert. Right. You guys want us to build a Golden Gate bridge in a Hoover Dam and then you guys move back in. That's not how it works. If this was your land all the way through, there wouldn't be shit here. Mexico. It's just be more fucked up. Mexico. Yes. So you see what we build and then you go, hey, the Bon Adventure Hotel, not too shabby. The Disney music hall, not too shabby. Signified to the Griff, they, the Griff of the Berservatory. Right. They're you in have any of that because you're not capable of any of it. Yeah. So understand that all of the land was gotten through either war treaties or purchases. None of it was stolen. But here's the comedy. I've driven the whole Baja Peninsula or at least a lot of it. There's nothing there. Right. Mexico, if you want a Hoover Dam or Golden Gate bridge, go sick. You got plenty of room to build shit on your land, but you can't fucking pull it off because you're Mexico and the indigenous people, holy shit. You guys just have, you'd be nothing. That wouldn't be anything higher in two stories. So fuck off. Number one, number two, I was thinking to myself, the American Indian, we did, we had the same cycle with the American Indian as we did with pot and ringo and carrot top and ringo. Okay. Remember to weave this all together. Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. We started off as the American Indian was just, there were evil and there were savages in every western from the 50s. It's just a bloodthirsty savages. Really? It was making sense now. I hear it. We made, we hated ringo. They were the enemy. Yeah. And then we hated on them for so long that at some point, we decided they're noble and all of sudden this new version of an Indian came up about lean and mean and sober and noble and you know, it's here. Yeah. Single tier. The steward of the land and all that, all that kind of stuff. So we swung it. We swung so far negative that we swung back positive. Too hard. I would argue. We did it with pot. Pot was refurbanness. You'll go insane. You know, you should be locked up for having a half a joint, everything like that. We turned it into some sort of medicine later on. Now fucking kids are smoking pot and their fucking brains are fucked up. And parents not carrying their children or children are still developing. Oh, they're just getting high all the time. Every woman in San Monica would rather their kids smoke pot than cigarettes. Yes. Okay. So we went, we we villainized it and then we went, we swung too hard back. The ringo star in my lifetime, he went from a joke. If you're the shortest guy in the basketball team who never scored, you were the ringo of the team. Two top five drummers of all time. It gets mentioned now. When they bring up the bring up drummers, they bring up ringo star in place right time. They only way they bring them, they bring us a name up. Yes, they do. And now, Karatop, funniest guy in the world. Karatop was a joke. He was a prop comic. He was a butt of many other comedians, comedians, comedians now. Now he's a comedian's comedian. So absolutely. Karatop, hey, John, everybody's going to Karatop show 41 years from now. You're going to have you're going to have a renaissance. Oh, yeah. I'm already working on my props right now. Nice. Yeah. You will be seen through a different light. Yeah. Yeah. But the point is you're universally hated. That's what it's saying. It's going to be a different, it's going to be a different life for you in your 60s. That's all I'm saying. No, it's coming. All right. You'll be you'll get there. You'll enjoy your golden years being heralded. It's a genius. Heralded heralded. Yeah. I thought I already was a genius. No, no, we're going. No, we're doing. Did I explain the whole ringo Karatop thing? Yeah. That's kind of where you did bring it around. I'm proud. It's coming around. It's coming around. Yeah. All right. It's going to, but not this weekend. It's going to be it's going to be a minute. I did. I had to front sell a lot of times like with a little help from my friends. The Beatles. Hey, they let ringo sing one. So even in radio, yes, ringo was always the joke. And now ringo can do no wrong. I know. And he and Joe Walls were married to sisters. By the way, you know that black twin. No, no, no, yeah. The twins. I thought about for a second. I was like, oh, that's a problem with sisters. I don't think the twins. I'm like a lot of women are somebody sister. So they're married to their living good. They're sisters. They're they're all totally sober. Didn't care of themselves. So ringo's got longevity. We're not done hearing about him. Yeah, no. Plenty of praise to be heaped. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he didn't help him. He doesn't help himself when he does songs outside of the Beatles, right inside the Beatles. All right. So all right. See what do we got? Marjorie and Barbara Bob. Oh, Barbara Bach is Barbara Bach is ringo's guy girl and Marjorie must be Joe Walls. Right. Yeah. And you can see if you see Barbara Bach, you'll see a pretty good gene pool going on over there. She start read the cast. I'm going to blow your mind, Andrew, because you think of yourself as a film guy. The movie caveman. You ever see the movie caveman, Andrew? No. Okay, you should. The cast Dawson caveman. No, never. And I'm going to ask you. I'll ask you when when we Harold E. O'Sa Genius. I'll get the cast of caveman read me from 1981. Read me the cast. Well, or IMDB. Yeah, okay. Ringo star Dennis quay Barbara Bach. She's long. Okay. John Batuzak, y'all. John fucking Batuzak. Oh, shit. Yeah. That guy was every Schreiber of Burns and Trierer. You know, the Doritos guy from back in the day. Okay. And Jack Gilford, Jack Gifford, you know, you know that guy anywhere. It's been a million movies with the weird voice. John Batuzak was Raider's defensive. Right. Right. He was a huge. He was a huge dude. He played Tonda. Yeah, he's like a big party, party animal. Slaw from the Goonies is in this bad boy. Keep, keep scrolling. Wow. Scrolling down. Let's see. I love you, chunk. Let's see. Richard Moll, night court. I don't know who Cronk Robert is. Taco. Let's see. This is a crazy film from 1981 that had a bunch of people in it. Half a morning, even active. But Dennis quayt. So I remember this because Barbara Bach acted with her husband, Ringo. Okay. And in caveman from 1981. All right. There's one. All right. What do we got, Dawson? We do got some news stories. But I want to see if you want to go over any other special moments in the state of the Union last night. I especially enjoyed the Somali Pirates moment. Yeah, that was fun. We'll maybe we'll take a look at it. That was funny. The Somali Pirates to Rentsack. It's pirates. Remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption and lawlessness are the norm. Look at the lady next to Ilhan. Yeah. She's going to hold her hand in a second. Immigration and open borders. There's fake tears coming. There's problems right here to the USA. And it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent taxes and perhaps most importantly crime. We will take care of this problem. We're going to take care of this problem. We are not playing games. I did say later on in this speech too, he said, if we got rid of all the fraud, I could we would have a balanced budget or we'd have zero debt. Rashida Tulli had the fuck ice bottom on smart. I'm telling the women are going insane. That's work's burning thing. Kind of fast. There's too many in there. I get them. In there. I get them. Yeah. They hate America. Yes. But the people who say, I love them. Those, that's the craziness. I just don't get it. I agree. I totally, I totally agree. I feel that way about like most everything. I don't, you take like, you know, you take like man eater. I don't hate man eater. I hate to people who think they like man eater. You know what I'm saying? Because without them, we wouldn't have anything. I hate people who like that pin your coladas on. Yes. Yeah. Oh, although that's enough of a not once something crosses into novelty. To me, like it goes deep into like right-said Fred. I'm too sexy for my shirt, you know, whatever it is. What's something goes way deep novel? It's that way with all art with me. I can watch a great movie and I can watch a good movie or I can watch a really bad movie like caveman. Yeah. It's and you're going to appreciate it. I want to go so south. I will, I will enjoy it from a ironic standpoint. Yes. I will I will say this. I don't like people who like stranger things that show on Netflix. I'll go with that. Okay. Right. Mars man getting older sucks as a dude. It's harder to keep the weight off and always crashing around to needing myself a power nap. Turns out that low T is the reason a lot of guys slow down. TRT is available but I don't think most guys want to spend three grand a year and shut down natural production. One of my buddies found the solution though. Mars man just real natural ingredients that support healthy T levels stamina and recovery. He was doing so much better that everyone started trying it themselves because we saw how good he was doing. It's made in the USA. Third party tested and has a 90 day money back guarantee. It's Mars man, right Dawson? For a limited time, our listeners get 60% off for life and three free gifts when you use Adam at men go to Mars dot com. That's men go to Mars dot com and use code Adam to check out after you purchase. They'll ask you where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them our show sent you. Pluto TV has thousands of free movies and TV shows. You swear from mine I'm done. This is the mindset. Free. This is the mindset. Free. This is the with movies like Interstellar, Dreamgirls and Gladiator. Are you not entertained? And TV shows like Survivor, SpongeBob SquarePants, the fairly odd parent and ghost. Pluto TV is always free. So, Pluto TV stream now. Payne ever. Yes, I look, I don't hate DJ Khaled. I hate people who like DJ Khaled. Sure, he's got a grift. He's doing a great job. Good on you. I'm on his own. It's not we I share with how he is. Yeah, without all these idiots, right? Just be collied. He would just be collied, bro. Right. We got Gavin Newsom because of idiots. Not because of Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom's a dime. It doesn't. Right. All right. So we got the pirate one. We got the. That was good. He did say at one point, he talked about a bill that would disallow, you know, senators and congressmen from purchasing stocks. And then he said, do you think Pelosi stood for that one? I think we have. I think I think it's good. It's just so damn refreshing to have a normal. I mean, and I agree. I I'm 1000% agree. He's saying what all of us are thinking. I'll say, you know, the weird and it's a weird part of life, but I sit there and I listen to him talk and, you know, he hits the border or he hits jobs or his economy or he hits insider trading or he hits Somalis. Basically saying what I've said my whole life, you can't take a group who does a lot of this. Somalis are involved with a lot of corruption. It's fine. Mexico is involved with a lot of street sales, but whatever it is, you can't just bring them all in and not expect them to recreate whatever it is they do. I would be surprised if they didn't. Sure. There's no how else would this go? Right. And by the way, you can, let me give you a quick example. When I was young, if you went around in September and drove around from any park, you might find X amount of pop-order football teams practicing. So I played for the East Valley Trojans and we practiced at Beeman Park. Now I think they call it. We'd go to North Hollywood Park and then later on, the Sun Valley Falcons and that was a polyhine, Sun Valley, whatever. But you could drive around the San Fernando Valley on a Tuesday, five in the afternoon and just see pop-order football. Okay. That's how I grew up. That was years ago. Now you drive around now. You see Mexicans kicking a soccer ball around. Right. Okay. What happened? Well, we brought a lot of Mexicans in and guess what? They play soccer. Okay. Is it good? Is it bad? It's just what they do. So now you drive around on a Saturday and instead of a bunch of pop-order football games being played, you see a bunch of soccer being played because adults and kids and everything. A lot of kids, but honestly, around my house in North Hollywood, it's adult. Your house. All over the place. It has an extended strip of grass that has 11 soccer fields set up on it and your house in that area, that's where I played my little league baseball. Okay. And so back in the day, we would have been playing little league baseball there, but we're not, but now we're playing soccer. Okay. So what happens? Well, you brought in a lot of Mexicans and they're playing soccer. Why wouldn't they? That's what they do. You bring in a lot of Somalians and they're going to, they're going to grift and you bring in a lot of Germans and you're going to get a lot of pretzels. So that's just a way you're going to drink from a lot of boots. That's just a way it's going to go. That's how this is going to work. So why would it? Why is anyone surprised? I don't get it. And then it becomes racist, but it's not really, it is because we don't like the behavior they're engaging in, but the rally is they're doing what they do. And by the way, they're not doing what all of them do, just like all Mexicans don't play soccer. It's a higher percentage of them who play soccer. So you get more soccer and you get more graft in corruption from Somalians. Thank you. Go ahead. All right. We got this clip. And all Americans can profit from a rising stock market. Let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information. Lots of Democrats standing. Democrats, third. Elizabeth Warren on her feet. And they're great at that. The guy looks like break fit Simmons is standing. Right. They stood up for that. I can't believe it. Didn't Nancy Pelosi stand up or she's counted. Pass the stop insider trading act without delay. You know, be good. You know, you know what I would do? Show from that beginning where they stand up one more time because I'm telling that JD Vance money on the table here issue with up to $1,000 each year as we ensure that all Americans can profit from a rising stock market. Let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information. All right. He just stands up and just get a full size shot of his crash. If JD Vance were smart, he'd go in full spinal tap. Like it's getting large cucumber and just like duck a bit to the inside of his leg. And forever more. For ever more. It was just like everybody. It would be all over. You would blow up the internet. All you'd have to do is take like a medium size zucchini or you know, medium to large cucumber. The New York Postman of the headline JD's pants. That's right. JD's pants and you just just tape it to your inner right side. And you never say word. It's just a huge out one. I have this like massive hawk. And by the way, that'd be it forever more. You'd be dead for thousand years and people still be talking to JD pants, right? Yeah. There was another part of the speech. I don't want you to find it. But obviously Trump embellishes. And he says things that you're like, okay, that's not true. But he said, you know, he got shot in the leg. And the legs, that's the most important part of flying a helicopter. Anybody will tell you, everybody will tell you. And I was like, I'm sure it's, I'm sure you need your legs. But I don't think it's the most important part. Then he said, I was listening. There's maybe you can find it. I mean, I, there's a lot of peddling going on with, yes, there are helicopters. Yeah. And I think that's what he's saying. I'm sorry. I got major freaking hay fever. Never having to move forward all of a sudden. Get hit with allergies. Really? Yeah. Weird. Weird. All right. We got the hockey team here. I think which is good. That's another Democrats won't stand for the hockey team, which is funny. People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country until you came along. We're just always losing. But now we're winning too much. And I say, no, no, no, you're going to win again. You're going to win big. You're going to win bigger than ever. And to prove that point, to prove that point here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud. The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team come on in. Let me tell you something. You can pause it for a second. All the Democrats are sitting and then they do that passive aggressive. I'm going to stare at my phone thing. Even the ones that are so close and on camera, I'm telling you, if I'm running for anything, I'm standing up. If I'm a Democrat, I don't want footage of me fucking staring at my phone when the men's hockey team walks past me. I don't want that shit thrown on my face in the next election. Maybe it makes you unpopular amongst Democrats, but I'm going to be like, fuck you. They won the gold. I'm standing up, douche. All right. Sorry, play. There's the men's hockey team at the gold medals. Look at the sweaters on Democrats hate it. But as as previously stated, it's not like they hate hockey. They just hate America. They hate. Well, I'll tell you one thing. I'll pause for a second. Like I said, I see everything through the lens of my mom and my grandma. They hated any kind of patriotism. They hated any kind of were number one. And if it was USA number one, they fucking hated it. It drove them insane. It's a weird, it's a weird enzyme they have. But USA chance and hockey teams and gold. And remember, they beat their beloved Canada. They fucking love Canada. They wish Trudeau could be the president of the United States. So the Democrats love Canada. They're in love with Canada because during COVID, he locked people down even harder than we did. They love that shit. There's such a fan of that authoritarian bullshit that they fucking love Trudeau. Such a douche. Insanity on display. Yes. It's very, very eye opening. It was a good watch. I enjoyed it. There's a clip, which is a bunch of women doing a podcast or like mocking the veterans. Got the bronze star, the service star, whatever it is. But it's a funny thing. But I realized, also it struck me too. Women are so much meaner than men in a weird way. Cruel, not cruel like waterboarding, cruel, but like cruel in their attitude. All right. So we will, it's the helicopter pilot. Got his legs shot out. This is from a, from the podcast. This is, I guess ladies of color, even though I'm not exactly sure what that is anymore, because it's that Susan Rice thing where Rose Ames, like I didn't know the bitch was black. It's true. If you see Susan Rice, she looks like a tan woman with straight hair. You don't, you know, then people are like, you should have known this person was black. Well, they were talking about Valerie Garrett. I'm sorry, Valerie Garrett. Yeah. Yeah. Let's say Susan Rice. Sorry. I screwed that up. No, I'm not, I know I can't say for certain if someone is black. I don't exactly know. They're, you can't tell by the hair and you can't tell by the skin anymore. So certain people know, you don't, you don't know. Sorry. Well, listen. I was there. I was there and it was as horrific as I thought it would be. Did you leave early? Absolutely. It was, it was like an it's a fucking woman. This representative, Yvette D. What's that say? Clark, Clark, representative from New York District. So she's going to talk about being there, but leaving earlier. Or if it is, I thought it would be. Did you leave early? Absolutely. It was like an award show. You get a medal. You get a medal. You get a medal. That's literally Mojita said you get a car. You get a car. Y'all are on the same page. That's a talking point, by the way. She's not the only one to call it an award show. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, giving, you know, the combat battle star to someone who got their legs shot out 20 minutes ago. Right. So recognizing, knowing, yeah, and self-saggified. It's an award show. Yeah, I don't think that, I think it's a chick problem. It's that sort of what's Elon Musk know? Nothing. He's a dumbest billionaire. I know. When you get the fuck out of here to Elon, you don't know anything. And what do you do? You don't do shit. Okay. So what? This guy flew a stupid fellow thing into place. So what? It's like, Hey, bitch, you fucking do it. And by the way, I know you don't appreciate anything that all the white dudes built or any of the wars ever won, but you fucking use them every day. So once you shut the fuck up. All right. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. All right. Give me the story. You got the snowball story. I do got the snowball story. I got thoughts on that. All right. A New York City mayor, Zilran Mom Donnie on Tuesday, yesterday, downplayed Monday, snow throwing attack on New York City Police Department officers calling the Washington Square Park incident a snowball fight. Despite multiple hospitalizations for facial lasirations, several end by when my PD officers are struck in the head with snowballs, responding to a call about a large disorderly group at the park. Yeah. Following the assault NYPD Commission, your release of statement saying the paper was disgraceful and criminal. But Zilran said it looked like kids having a snowball fight. It's such a weird thing. Now, it's a political thing to the extent that you have your side and their side. And you take a situation like the nut job, chick in the minivan. And she's running at the ice guy and she gets shot at the head. Right. And so you go, all right. Well, that's a that's a subject. And you go, okay, the are pretty. The guys kicking the shit out of the back of the suburban, spitting on the guys. Then he gets wrestled later on and another incident. There's a gun and then he gets shot. And so you take those two incidents, right. And you go, there's the CNN perspective. And the CNN perspective goes, mom, just dropped her kid off at daycare, trying to make her way back home and an ice guy blocks her way. And next thing you know, she's dead. That's her thing. And you go, well, that's not quite what happened, right. And then there's the rights version, which is this guy, this woman turned this car into a weapon. And it was trying to run over an officer and he tried to protect himself. And that's not exactly the version of it either, but they're both doing their version of it. Because that's what their side wants, right. Right. The thing that's weird to me, the part that's weird to me is when it's just the cops and you're the mayor. You know what I mean? It's like the part that's something that's always stuck in my head when they did that whole whipping Haitians at the border, border horseback, shades of Jim Crow, whatever. And Biden, who's a retarded race hustler, was just out there stirring things up. And I said to Bald Brian, who's progressive, I go, I don't, I don't get why, why would Biden throw his border patrol? Order patrol under the under the bus. That way that's his border patrol. And Brian said, low hanging fruit, easy, he scores some points. And I'm like, why are you scoring points? It's the president throwing. And then it's like, oh, you retards are so far gone. That does score points for you. Right. But he went, it's a good opportunity to throw your border patrol under the bus. And I'm like, yeah, okay, the progressive left loves that. But it's like, why is the president doing that? That's his border patrol. By the way, no one of the fucking border was wide open. That you guys didn't miss an opportunity to attack the border patrol. Mandami, that's his PD. That's his police department. That's his city. Right. Why are you not missing an opportunity? Now, look, first off, it's not a snowball fight. It's you being pelted with snowballs. It's a yes. When you're a referee, when you're an umpire at a game, a baseball game in the 60s, and you make a bad call and you get pelted with beer bottles, that's not a beer bottle fight. That's you getting hit with beer bottles. This is cops being hit with snowballs. Some have rocks in them. Some are ice. And what have you? Quote, nothing worse than missing a business opportunity because of poor communication in 2026. Your team needs communication that actually works. And that's why today's episode is brought to you by Quo spelled QUO, the smarter way to run your business communications. Quo is the number one rated business phone system on G2. Quo works where you are on your phone, on your computer, where you are. Your entire team can handle calls and text from one shared number. It's a smart system. Quo's AI automatically logs calls, generates, summaries, and highlights next steps. So nothing gets lost. It's Quo, right Dawson? Make this the year where no opportunity and no customer slips away. Try Quo for free. Plus get 20% off your first six months when you go to Quo.com slash Adam. That's QUO.com slash Adam. Quo, no missed calls, no missed customer. Oh Riley auto parts. Oh Riley auto parts is in the business of keeping your car on the road. They offer friendly, helpful service. And the knowledge you need. If I can't figure something out, that is the first place I go. Now, I don't do a lot of wrenching on the modern car, but the race cars. Yeah, you gotta keep up with those. They've got thousands of parts in stock that can test your battery for free. Need wipers, a breakline, or quick fix. They'll get you the right part right away. Everyone who works there is knowledgeable. They're friendly. I can test it at the hell. They held the door for me last time. It's there. They're professional parts people. They're at O'Reilly and it's your one stop shop for DIY stuff. And you can shop in store or online at O'Reilly. Am I right, Dawson? Stop by O'Reilly auto parts today or visit us at O'Reilly Auto.com slash Adam. That's O'Reilly Auto.com slash Adam. All right. We'll play. We'll play him in. By the way, the all right, Dawson gotta give him a clean X, but that's fine. All right. We'll play the clip. Go ahead. I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight. It should be treated accordingly. It was one the God out of hand, but that's what it was. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So some Samar are you willing to revise your statement regarding the snowball fight? Given that, this was not exactly a friendly back and forth snowball fight. The police that were there were not throwing any snowballs. They were gaining a little bit. I posit. Somebody asked a normal question, which is it's not a snowball fight. It's you getting hit with snowballs. A snowball fight is you throw snowballs at them and they throw snowballs. So snowball fight makes it seem playful. Yes. That was not what that was. By the way, he did that thing where he goes, I'm not going to outlaw snowball fights. I love when they do that. It sort of reminds me of the, I think it was that John Kerry or Edwards one were. He's like in Davos and is like, why are you flying privately? You want me to sail here? Yeah. An old time scooter. You're a fucking retard. No, take Delta. You fucking asshole. We'd have a smaller carbon footprint. I love when they change, there is and you're going to have to find it. Andrew, I think, but there is the one where he does the beginning clip where he's like, I'm not going to outlaw snowball fights. Yeah. That's not what we're talking about. And you fucking know it. But go ahead, sorry. The person asked, run it back 10 seconds. The person asked a normal question. I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight. It should be treated accordingly. It was one the God out of hand, but that's what it was. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So, so Mr. Mayor, are you willing to revise your statement regarding the snowball fight? Given that, this was not exactly a friendly back and forth snowball fight. The police that were there were not throwing any snowballs. They were getting pelted themselves. And number two, have you considered or would you consider banning these crowdsourcing events because they can and sometimes do get out of hand? So I'm not going to be banning snowball fights or organized snowball fights. She didn't ask you to ban snowball fights. And she said, why are you keep calling a snowball fight when these guys were being pelted with snowballs and not throwing them back? He said, fucking liar. But by the way, why does he have to throw the cops under the bus? Like, why the fuck did Biden have to throw the board of patrol under the bus? And why does he have to and by the, okay, okay. You know, it's probably the same thing that mom Donnie is doing now. Yes. Joe Biden needed to, uh, it's score points with your face. Make the board of patrol seem evil. Right. Because they wanted to allow everyone into the country. I maybe mom Donnie wants to paint the police's evil so that he can defund them. Yeah. See, paint some as racist before. I'm just saying it's all scoring points with your pace. But who's your fucking base? A bunch of radical jihadists. Unfortunately, yeah, it seems that way. I will play you. Oh, god. Who's this Heather, Heather McDonald, Heather McDonald? Here's the Ferguson effect. So here's what happens. You throw, you, you villainize your, you feel you villainize your cops. Uh, they stop doing their job. They stop signing up. They stop, they stop doing, they stop getting out of the patrol car. Who the fuck wants to get pelted with snowballs and then get thrown under the bus by their mayor? So fuck it. At a certain point, you just go, I'm not getting out of my car. Blue flu. And then you get the Ferguson effect. Here it is. You could get rid of all police shootings of civilians tomorrow. And it would have virtually no effect on the black death by homicide rate. Blacks between the ages of 10 and 25 die of gun homicide at 25 times the rate of whites in that age category. And they're not being killed by the cops. They're being killed by other blacks. And nobody wants to talk about it. We're supposed to believe that we're all racist. It's the media that's racist. They don't give a damn about black lives. They don't give a damn about the dozens of blacks who are killed by homicide every single day. That's more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined even though as we said, blacks are 13% of the population. None virtually none of those black homicide victims gets covered. We are not saying their names because they're killed by other blacks and we don't want to talk about that. So the Ferguson effect says when you demonize the cops, the cops back off and guess what happens when the cops stop making stops when they stop looking at hot spots where shootings have happened and they back off criminals get emboldened and more black lives are taken. That's what happened after the Ferguson riots, after the George Floyd race riots in 2020, we had an even greater meltdown. We had every single American elite institution declaring it was racist to the core and the cops were of course as usual. The one of the main targets of this, 2020 saw the largest one year increase in homicide in this nation's history, 29% and thousands more black lives were taken. That's what happens when you demonize the cops. Well there you go black people. There you go. All right, good time. Listen, but this part of me that sort of is going to watch and enjoy New York just sort of bottoming out because you fucking retards. There are people around the country who love watching California bought them out. I know because they go, we have the first African American female mayor. They have the first man of color. Islam is the mayor. Okay, with all your first, you have the first retards are going to run the city into the fucking ground. Enjoy it. I'll also play this oldie but goodie which is the beginning. It was the whole Trump LAPD response, the whole Trump star thing which is listen, if you assholes who are in law enforcement and I shouldn't say the beat cop but I just mean the DA's and the mayors and the governors and the folks at the higher echelons of the LAPD's and the New York PD's. If you guys, the executive class, if you guys are going to make jokes about these guys enforcing the law, there's a reason why LA has street takeovers. It's because we tolerate enforcement because we tolerate it and there's a scene, a mob of criminals that are throwing ice balls at cops and the mayor comes out and defends them and not the cops. And so you will get more of this. I remember very clearly and I remember showing you Dawson about eight or ten years ago, there was like some cops and he went to a black neighborhood or whatever. Literally like a six year old boy like threw a bucket of water at the cop and I was like, this is a six year old boy with a bucket of water chucking it at the cops. This is not what we're looking for and society needs to take the cop size but this is how many years ago is this and I've showed it before but they went to the LAPD union captain or whatever. He wasn't the captain of the cops. He was like the union captain or whatever they'll say it on there and this is a good eight or ten years ago and people were walking up and down Hollywood Boulevard with a pickaxe smashing Donald Trump's star and somebody caught this guy in front of a good restaurant and asked him what he thought about it. Yeah. This is long. I'm at the end of what what do you think about the ongoing defacing of Donald Trump's star of fame? I'm in favor of it. You're in favor of it. It's a police commissioner. They should just reminiscate the star as it's becoming above the obviously his favorite game. I'm going to drink his Ian right there. I'm going to drive drunk but he's got this. He's got the badge on his wall. He's not getting a DUI. All right. Now the answer is it's disgusting and anyone involved that's going to get arrested and the answer from Joe Biden at the border is I looked at the photos carefully and I actually talked to the photographer and they were not beating any Haitian migrants. These are patriots are doing their job enforcing the border. Even the photographers said that. Yes. That should be Biden's answer. Then Mamdami should be it's never all right to pelt NYPD cop with a with a snowball or anything else. Well, we will be prosecuting these people to follow us. That's the fucking answer you ask us when you that's the only answer or you get more. When you blatantly distort the facts for an answer like that, you have another motive. Yes. It goes back to the stupider liar. Yeah. Mamdami doesn't like cops. He already called them racist elements and there's going to be less signing up and more doing early retirement and there's got more crimes. It's got more fucked up city. Good fucking luck to you. Yeah. And by the way, why don't you look around see what's happening in San Francisco or any other blue city Chicago and get your shit together because your plan's not working. It can't work. It'll never work. Check out Skinro the six tree bridge. Any number of places in the Los Angeles area. All right. What else you got? Let's go local LA now. Former Los Angeles Fire Department chief. Kristen Crowley. Remember her? First woman who fought a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles heavily, heavily criticizing Mayor Karen Bass and her handling of the Palisades fire. If I was Kristen Crowley, I'd walk into court and say exhibit a your honor. She hired me. That's right. Gabbled down case clothes give her three million dollars. That's right. That's right. We love the first woman in whatever positions. Listen, I've told you guys a million times we had Tom Bradley. He was the mayor and he was black and he was the mayor of Los Angeles starting like 68 or something. We've had a black guy. He was good and nobody said a word and nobody cared. So we don't need this thing where we're breaking down these barriers in Los Angeles. First woman or someone of color. Important black man. It's like we had a guy. Tom Bradley. 68. I mean, we are talking about six coming on to 60 years ago. We broke it down and nobody cared. That's fine. He did a good job. Yeah. We'll have to pay her when her lawsuit comes around. But yes, Karen Bass is a dope. Maybe a communist. I don't know. She's not fit to run anything. Why should she be? She's never done anything. Well, the lawsuit says that Bass sought to avoid accountability by shifting blame and lying and including falsely claiming that she was not aware of the nationally anticipated weather event. Falsely claiming that the L.A.F.D.s budget was not cut and falsely claiming that the L.A.F.D. resources would have supported an additional 1,000 firefighters to fight the blaze contradicted by public school, by public records and Bass's own prior statements. Yeah. Well, the fact that she claims she never accessed the information like Rick Caruso had a fire or deleted text messages, deleted voicemails. There is a message. There is Karen Bass on tape explaining to one of her subordinates that it will all become clear why I took off. It will all become clear. Why she took off? Yeah. Why did she go? Why she didn't? Yeah. I love the chicken on Chick-Crim. I love the cackle. I love the chicken fight. Yeah. I'm not sure who to root for in this one. You have one person fired from a job she wasn't qualified for in the first place. Well, the other one elected to a job she wasn't qualified for. To be fair to all the DEI hires, we just assume you weren't qualified because you're a chick and they're going to throw in an allegedly there. No, what I'm saying is that here's the skirt. It's not good for you. Yes. No, here's the scourge of the DEI and affirmative actions we used to call it. By the way, affirmative action is the DEI what ecology is to climate change or something. We had different words for it back then, but it's the same thing. If you are a young black man walking through the quad at Harvard, other people will see you and assume that your SAT scores weren't as high as the Asian kid who's walking the other direction or that maybe it's the color your skin that got you there versus other academic achievements. Now that may be true, but it also may not be true. You may have gotten a perfect 2000 like Gavin Newsom on the SATs. We don't know, but the real scourge is we just assume you got pushed to the front of the line because of DEI. She may be unqualified and I assume now not unqualified to be an administrator in the fire department or be a fire person or to be the fire chief of Los Angeles. We assume we did that because we're Los Angeles and we like the idea of a female in that role. She didn't get fired from the department by the way. She is now the assistant chief of the Valley Bureau. So she we have a clip. We have a clip of her. It's period. Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your department and our city? It's my job to stand up as a chief and exactly say justifiably what the fire department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community. Did they fail you? That is our job and I tell you that's why I'm here. So let's get us what we need so our firefighters can do their jobs. Did they fail you? Yes. Good for her. That was pre-fire or post. Was that pre-fire or post fire? I think I was post, but she's like get us the firefighters we need or I know. I know. All right, 2020. All right, Dawson, the yeoman's jobs are for the chains of coffin, but now it's all right. Bar Rescue season 10 out now on Paramount. Me Friday Saturday, Dallas, Texas, Hyenas Comedy Club, two shows, each night go to Amcrow.com for all that. Till next time. Amcrow for John Tafer and Dawson. Say it. Mahala. Leaving us a voicemail at 888-634-1744. Join us on March 22nd at Jordan Family Classic Cars in Santa Ana. First special event with the Ace Man's Paul Newman Race Car Collection. Get information on this and tickets to Dallas this weekend at AdamCrow at dot com. Gladiator. And TV shows like Survivor, Splendid Bob Square Pan, the fairly odd parents and ghosts. Pluto TV is always free. Pluto TV. Stream now, pain ever.