Rest in Peace, Phil

Well, in this episode, we'll start off with some sad news about Philly Cheese Steak, my dog, and we'll do news with Alicia Krause and also wellness expert and kimchi lady. Kim Bright is going to join us, and we'll do that right after this. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from The Adam Carolla Show. Prediction markets talk outcomes. BetOnline puts odds behind them. For decades, bettors have trusted BetOnline for accurate lines, deep prop markets, and real money action across every major sport. Get the latest odds, live props, in-game betting, and expert pricing throughout the season and beyond. And when you're ready for a different kind of thrill, BetOnline Casino delivers nonstop action and premium rewards. Don't guess with the crowd. Bet with the book that's been doing it right for years. Bet online. The game starts here. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Today, we'll discuss the news with Alicia Krause and sit down with BrightCore CEO, Kim Bright. And now, Adam Carolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice. We're going to mandate you get it on now. Lots to get into. Alicia Krause here. She's got a lot of news. I got a lot of stuff to get into. First sad news. Phil, my dog, has left us. Aw. Yeah, he was a good dude. And there's a picture we'll put up at AdamCrowl.com that sort of illustrates Phil. I think, you know, a dog, a person, a life sometimes can be sort of summed up in one shot. And there's this great old picture when me and Dr. Drew were in here some years ago. And Phil was in here hanging out with us because Phil was very social. He liked to be around people. I mean, everyone, you know, heaps praise on their dog, and they should. But Phil never growled, never barked. He never snapped at anybody. He never nipped. He never bit anyone. He would sit there. He was very chillax. There's a vid somewhere in that computer. God knows if it's listed. But I was at my house a long time ago, and we were cutting concrete. We were, like, at a concrete saw or cutting a slab. Phil was outside napping next to the machine that was cutting the concrete. And the guy was going next to Phil, and Phil was just laying there. So he was, like, detuned. He was chillaxed to the max. And the picture we were looking at, which is Phil. So Phil came in here with me and Drew one day, and he was hanging around with me and Drew. And at some point, he got that we were talking to people in the booth. And Phil, and by the way, the window, it's a picture of Phil up on his hind legs. He's got two giant paws sitting on top of the windowsill, and he's looking up. But the window's four feet off the ground. Yeah. And Phil's nature was, he was cool hanging around with us, but he also knew there was something going on in the booth. Yeah, maybe with food. And he wanted to go check out what was going on in the booth. Now, no one was hanging out any jerky treats or even saying his name. He just gleaned, even though he's walking around here, he's only two foot tall when he's walking around. He still knew there was something cooking behind this glass in the booth. and he just wanted to check it out. And whoever was in there was smart enough to just grab a quick shot of him while he was checking out who was in the booth. Because his thing is he just wanted to say hi. Anyone that came around, he wanted to say hi. But there was lots of good stuff about Phil. Phil was big with a big box head. He was like a 110-pound lab. I'm assuming by, I was going to say, black lab. Big black lab. And all I wanted when I was a kid was a big dog. I just wanted a big dog. A decent sandwich and a big dog. You know, I'm going to add that to my list because I tell people all the time I was a dog, a basketball hoop, and a sandwich away from a decent childhood, like a fair to midland childhood. because you get, you know, if I had a basketball hoop, I'd just be in the driveway all day alone, just shooting baskets. Maybe make a friend because they would come over and shoot a hoop with you. I had friends, but I have to go to their house all the time. And if I had my dog and I got to go shoot hoops, and then when I got tired or hungry, I'd come in and eat a sandwich, that's about all I needed. But I was kind of 0 for 3 in that department. So I never, that was another picture of Phil getting up there. Aw. Oh, this is Phil. I took Phil for a walk through the neighborhood, and there were horses. And Phil wanted to say hi to the horse, which is weird because, see, Phil also had no fear. There was a couple dogs in the neighborhood that would go completely insane when Phil walked by. They were growling. There were big dogs. Like, there were big, there was a big, I think it was a Great Dane, a couple. They had these two big Great Danes. And they would go berserk. And Phil would just look at them through the fence. And they'd be teeth showing and growling and stuff. And they'd just keep looking at Phil, growling. Phil would just look at them. He never barked. Maybe he had a good BS meter. Like, he knew that they were literally all bark and no bite. At some, yeah, at some point, Phil would stare at them for a while. And then Phil would take off running along the fence. and then they would run along the fence on the inside of the fence, growling and snarling and swiping. And Phil would just look at them again and run back the other direction. They would run, growling. He kind of thought it was a game. The weirdest thing I ever saw him do is he was standing in front of these Great Danes, these two that were going nuts inside this gate. And Phil looked at them, and he jumped up, and he did a complete barrel roll in the air and just landed back on his feet. And he's like, all right, let's party. Let's party. And these things were like, I'm going to kill you. And so when I was walking Phil, he came upon a horse. He didn't want to say hi to the horse. So he just kind of went through life like a big oaf who was a gentle giant. He wasn't really scared of anything because he thought everyone wanted to make friends and hang out. And he would do, he just did whatever he wanted. Like we'd get a call from the neighbor and the neighbor would be like, oh, this is another great shot of Phil. Phil, when I take him through a walk through the neighborhood, there was a big church and it had a fountain. And Phil would get hot on these walks and decide to take a dip in the fountain. And so Phil would just get up and go sit in the fountain of this church. And then at some point, the guy worked at the church. He came out and he was like, hey, man, you can't have your dog in our fountain. And I was like, well, I wish it was up to me. But he's in that fountain. You tell him that. And I'd go, Phil, come on, let's go. And Phil would just look at me. He's like, my core temp is not down low enough to get out of this fountain. And he would just sit there. And the guy would stand next to me going, would you get your dog out of the fountain? I'd go, I can't get him out of the fountain. You know what? God cares about all of the creatures. Right. Yeah, he would do a move, too. He had lots of weird idiosyncratic behaviors. When I would walk him in the summer, eventually he'd overheat because he was black and huge. And he'd just find a patch of grass that was in the shade on someone's lawn, and he would just fall over. And he would just lay there. And after a few minutes, I'd be like, all right, Phil, come on, let's go. And he's like. No way. No. He was like a phone that overheated on your dashboard of your car. And you can go, all right, turn back on. Yeah, I need you now. I'll turn on when I'm ready to turn on. Not cooled down enough. When I get cooled down enough. So he would do that. He would, the neighbors would call sometimes and go, we got your dog, Phil. And I'd go, oh, should I come over and get him? And they'd go, well, he's in the pool. So he'd go, God, I forgot about all these pictures. Phil would go nap in the pool. I built a Baja deck shelf in one of our pools. He would just go flop out on it. He loved the water. His greatest, I was thinking back on him the other day. I would take these cold plunges like in the morning, and I'd go in the pool. It didn't matter if it was cold or not, but you'd go in the pool, and at some point he'd come around, and he'd look at you while you're in the pool. So you're in the pool on the deep end holding on to the coping, and he just put his nose and his jowls were so big and his forehead was so big. He's just like a giant old man just staring at you. And then his move was he'd drop his toy, his rubber toy, he'd drop it at the deep end, and then he'd just stare at it. He'd just sit outside the pool and just stare, and then you'd go, all right, I'm going to get you. Then you'd go underwater, go to the deep end, get his toy out, and hand it to him, and he'd come right, I'd take it out and I'd throw it, and he'd go run and get it, and then he'd come right back. And do it again. He'd look at you, just drop it right at the pool again. He was like a big, dopey, lovable dog. And he did a lot of moves that, like, a lot of people didn't like. But my son was good with it. So I got Phil. We got Phil when he was a puppy. And he was just the big, you know, he was the brute of the litter. He was just a big old oaf. And his move would, he's hung with my son. He stayed, he slept on his bed a lot. And my son was very sort of gentle and friendly and loved Phil. And Phil's move, Phil had a couple moves. Aw. You're going to make me cry. Sonny hugging Phil. Dogs and daughters, man. They saw them men. Why'd you do that to me, Andrew? I wasn't expecting Phil and Sonny hugging on the bed. But Phil would go in. He'd lay down long ways. Sir. He made me cry. He'd lay down. He'd take up the whole bed. And then at some point in the middle of the night, he'd push Sonny off the edge of the bed. He'd also do a move where he'd go outside at night. He'd take a dip in the pool. Then he'd come back. Yeah. And Olga would be like, Phil, you're not coming in the house wet. And he'd take his big paw and he'd go, like on the door, like boom, boom, boom. Let me in, woman. And Olga would be going, no, no, you can't come in. And I'd eventually hear him. I'd come around. He'd just be standing there all wet. And I'd go, all right, you can come in, Phil. And he'd go in. He'd go right to Sonny's bed and just flop out and soak the entire mattress. And then Sonny had to, like, sleep around Phil, which was funny. But Phil. How's he doing? Oh, Sonny. That's. Yeah. That's hard. Having a having a dog like and being a kid or and like losing. It's like losing a first love. Right. Yeah. It was really Sonny that he was upset. Yeah. So Phil also got trapped under one of my race cars once. He went along the back of the car, which is higher, moved his way toward the front and wedged himself underneath the car. Did you have to, like, crank it up? Yeah, to jack up the car, to get Phil out from under the race car. So, yeah, Phil had a lot of dopey moments, but he was super lovable. And I was like, I didn't care whether he was trained or not. He was big and fun, and he liked to wrestle and, like, play. And the only time Phil ever barked is when I shadowboxed in front of him. Really? He didn't bark if he rang the doorbell. Clearly didn't bark at other dogs. He didn't bark at other dogs. He had no bark. It didn't matter. The UPS guy come up the driveway. No barking. If I start shadowboxing, he'd come in and start getting in. Because I think he thought I was fucking around with him. Like he was barking and growling, but it was like, we're having a good time kind of thing, you know. And that's the only time he would do it. But I had, so I had no dogs growing up. And all I wanted was a dog. And I never got a dog. And then I, my dad always said, I think he was just saying this to get me to shut up. He'd go, well, we live in an apartment. But if we ever have a house, then you could get a dog, but we can't have a dog in an apartment. Yeah. And eventually we got a house, but no dog. Then we got another house. And he's like, I bought you a house, aren't you, Abby? Yeah, we never got the dog. And my mom never got a dog. And my grandparents never had a dog, which is kind of unusual when you think about it. They just lived in houses in the valley that all had fences and backyards and stuff. But I think it kind of spoke to them. They didn't want to take care of other creatures. Of another thing. Yes, they didn't have to clean up and feed them and buy food and, like, do stuff. Yeah. And they weren't into stuff. Although, vets ain't cheap. No. But they wouldn't have – I don't think they would have thought about the vet. They would have thought about kibble and, you know, cleanup. Yeah. This is kind of pre – people did not spend thousands of dollars on, like, cancer treatments for their dog. I spent so much money on L.A. vets. Oh, yeah. Well, we later on, so then later on, I remember sitting around. I always wanted a German Shepherd. I said, oh, it's such a beautiful dog, big, beautiful dog, and I could have a dog. And I went through my whole childhood and I never had a dog. And then I got, I don't know, how unusual do you think it is to have three separate homes in the valley and zero dogs? It seemed like one or two, someone in my family should have a dog, but no one had a dog. But again, they didn't want to deal with a dog. And it's kind of weird. It's like, yeah, dog's a pain in the ass, but it brings a lot of joy. And I think their thing was like, yeah, well, what's joy? All we see is kibble and dog shit, you know. So I was later on in life, and I was like living alone, and I'd made it a little bit in show business, and I'd made some money and I bought my own house and I had this house up in the hills and it had a gate all the way around it and stuff like that. And I sat around and I went, you know, you never had a dog your whole life. And then when you got out of high school and, you know, you went to go live on your own, it was a succession of apartments and roommates and renting rooms and people's houses and stuff. There was no place for a dog. probably could have but I was in no position and like I said I always had roommates and stuff I don't know what they would have done and like I said apartments but I found myself sitting in my big house up in the hills and I was like oh god I was like I was like 35 I was like you know you never had a dog and then because it was always an excuse you have an apartment we live in apartments And then it's like, she got a house. It's got a fence. You never had a dog. Probably a four to walker or a sitter at this point. Patrick Dempsey used to walk his Rhodesian Ridgeback up my street. I don't even know what that is. That sounds fancy. Rhodesian Ridgeback is the biggest, craziest dog ever. Really? The fur that runs along their spine runs the opposite direction. Oh, are they like lanky? I don't know. They're big. They were bred to fight tigers in Rhodesia. Holy cow. That's how big. Rhodesia sounds like a fake country. Yeah. Sounds like a fictional country from the Princess Bride. Wakanda is the black place, and Rhodesia is like the Mexican fantasy land. There's churros growing from every tree. There's taco trucks taking the kids to school. And dogs to fight tigers. Dogs to fight tigers, cockfights in every corner. Rhodesia, the howler for Mexicans. So he could have walked it. But I sat there and went, you know what? I need a dog. I was like, I deserve a dog. I've earned a dog. And I found or somebody found a breeder that did puppies. You know you're going to get hate in the comments for that. German Shepherd puppy. and I got a German Shepherd puppy and I named the dog after my dead grandpa Laszlo but it was good because it was a German Shepherd and Laszlo sounds a little European I find people who name pets after humans so fascinating like clearly Laszlo Phil well actually I should amend it everyone called my grandfather Latsy and Latsy was a good name for a German Shepherd puppy So I got this German Shepherd puppy. It was a royal pain in the ass, but I dealt with it. And then at one point, the dog got to like eight months and was time to go to the vet to be neutered. Died. I know. And like. So was it a corrupt breeder or did the vet kill it? You know, the thing about the vets is, does anyone really know like what the hell? Oh, yeah. My husband doesn't trust him. I don't either. Oh, man. You got more pictures of Phil, but it's going to make me sad if you tell me more pictures of Phil. I think the guys are just enjoying you being emotional today. It's Phil. It's my son. He loved Phil so much. He was so broken up, crying on the phone yesterday. I was like, ugh. I just, somehow that. But anyway, my whole montage to Phil. Like I said, there is Phil with a sombrero on. At a job site? That looks like a construction site. Yeah, there is that somewhere in that computer, probably mislabeled, there's Phil laying around a construction site while they're actually building. Oh, there's him with Sonny again. Now, that's Phil taking up the entire bed, essentially, is what Phil did. I think he was in my daughter's room back then. Yeah, he was great. Fun. No training, but, like, good hang. And, like, had a personality. Wasn't dumb. Drew used to come in here and get him sitting, laying down. All he took was one little jerky treat, and Drew, being Drew, going, sit, sit, Phil. He'd sit down, like, lay down. I'm like, oh, I knew he could do it. He just wouldn't do it for you. He never wanted to do it. I bet you he would have gotten out of that fountain for Drew, too. So then what happens is, is Latsy dies. And then I'm like, I guess me and dogs were like never, never in the equation. And so then I went a long time with no dog. And then a family dog on my wife's side showed up as like an adult dog. Labrador, female Lab, Molly, good dog, but like skinny with a little head. Not the big brute that Phil would be. And then Molly died, but we had Molly for a while, and that was fine, and I love Molly. And then Molly passed on, and then it was another dog. And then I was like, you kids need a, you know, kids should have a dog growing up. And for some reason, just from my childhood, I was like, I want a big dog. I want that big dog laying on my son's bed, my son, you know, laying next to her. You want to tell your son to go pick up the shit in the backyard? Yeah. No, they never did that. What? No one did that. No one did everything. Oh, well, now there's Phil laying next to two guys that are taking a stump out of a tree. And by the way, it's not like Phil was there and then they took the stump out. These guys were taking a stump out of the tree in the backyard. Two dudes Phil had never seen before. and he just walked up to wherever they were and just laid down. Next to him, because he preferred to be. He's the foreman. Yeah, next to him. There's something in that same day or whatever, but I was redoing, yes, I was redoing that backyard, and at some point, oh, this was a video. Sorry, Andrew. This is a video of me firing up the wet saw, diamond blade, cutting concrete slab, and Phil just went and laid down next to this machine, which, by the way, is super loud. There's shit spraying all over the place. And he's like, I'm good. So he was a good dude. He was chillaxed. But most of all, I'm happy my kids had a good time. Yeah. Natalia went through a bad phase with Phil because he was smelly and shed and come in and knock stuff over. And she's like, Phil, get out of my room. But Sonny was always like. And then Natalia came around and was able to, oh, do we have the Phil video? Aw. Let's see if I can figure this one out. Yeah. I got to rotate it. Oh, I got to rotate it. We were doing my backyard when I got the house, and there was action out there. And I just walked by the window and saw that these guys were cutting concrete. And I also saw that Phil was laying, I wouldn't say feet away, like sort of inches away while they cut this stuff. But that's how low, that's how detuned he was. He was not yappy. He's like, this is my house. Welcome. I'm going to take a nap right here. I wish he had a thought about it. All right, let's see. That's me walking through the house toward the backyard. These guys are cutting concrete with a diamond blade on a wet saw. One guy has a Hudson sprayer, and he's spraying the diamond blade. Because when you cut with concrete, you have to wet it. So it's called a wet saw. It's a smooth diamond blade. and Phil, who could have easily been in the house laying on a sofa or Sonny's bed or whatever just thought it'd be this is how loud it is when I open the door Phil sees me walking out but he's not interested in the guys cutting the concrete next to him I don't know, are there any other dogs that would just go lay next to a construction site? Do we think that he might have been deaf at this point? Oh, no, because if he was like three rooms over and heard you open a sack of kibble or something, he was moving faster. He was just unfazed by these guys that were operating a diamond blade three feet away from him. That's amazing. That is a wiring right there. All right. So anyway, Phil Shelby missed. He had a good life. I can't complain. I felt really bad for my son, who was really Phil's number one fan. And also a little bit sensitive. He was clearly... My daughter was obviously upset as well, but she's a little more resilient, I guess I would say. A little tougher. Well, he and your son clearly had a special bond. Yeah. I feel like it's like parents aren't supposed to say it, but depending on the time of day, you have a favorite kid. Mm-hmm. Right? And I think that people like pets have a favorite person in the house. And sometimes, like, I have a girlfriend that just got a dog, like just a dog to dog. And she teases her husband that it's his dog. And he's like, well, it was supposed to be, but he likes you more. Right. Like, I remember when my husband and I got engaged and married, we got a little dog. And I was like, Guinness was my dog. And then Guinness liked Eric more. And I was like, well, okay, it's his dog now. I think that pets kind of like pick a person. And they love the whole family, but they have like a person. And it seemed like your son was that with Phil. Yeah. Well, he knew that he wouldn't, he could take a dip in the pool and head into Sonny's room and sleep on his bed with him and not get pushed off or shooed away. Wow. Olga, the nanny, was like a little bit of the enforcer. You know, the thing that was weird is if she was in the kitchen, he would stop right at the border of the hallway in the kitchen. He'd never go into the kitchen. He knew better. If I was in the kitchen, he'd come trotting into the kitchen. If Sonny was in the kitchen, he'd come trotting in. He wanted to know what food was going on. If Olga was in there, he didn't get to get in that kitchen. Because also, you know, with the Latins, dogs aren't your best friend. They're there to, like, protect the house and chase rats away and coyotes and stuff. They have a purpose. It ain't hanging out in the kitchen. It's not snuggling in bed with you. No, they don't even like the notion of the dog laying on top of you on the bed. It's like a weird thing. By the way, Middle Eastern people, the biggest insult is he lays down with dogs. That's their thing. It's like, yeah, thanks. Thanks, Abdul. Like, no, no, this is an insult. Yeah, it's with my dog. Yeah, he lays down with dogs. He's a dog. Like they do that thing. to us Western cultures. Like, yeah, they're insulting you by saying, this guy lays down with dogs, and we're building stairs that we're buying off the QVC that are fully carpeted, so we can get our dog up under our bed so we can lay down with our dogs. All right so Phil shall be missed Yeah RIP to Phil But like I said he had a good run He had a good time with him I have a kind of money dog question for you So when Mr. Guinness died, I called up a girlfriend of mine who's a farmer outside of Denver, and I was like, yo, I have a pretty big lot. I have a spot I can bury Mr. Guinness. I grew up in the country. Like, you bury dogs. She told me how to do it, watched me through it. My husband, of course, is out of town. How do you do it? I wet the soil. You wet the soil. Husband was out of town, waited for the kids to go to bed. She's like, leave the hose on drip for a while. And we have pretty good soil because we have an old farmhouse. Soak the soil. Soak the soil. I had to wrap him in an old towel. That's when I broke down and cried because he was all rigged and it was sad. But he was like a little Brussels Griffins. He was like 12 pounds. And so I wrapped him in an old towel. And then I had an Amazon box because you want to put them in cardboard. And then she told me how deep to dig because you want it to be deep enough that like raccoons and possums and stuff aren't going to dig them up. Right. And then I like had to dig like, I think two feet or more. That was a lot of work. I got a workout. Yeah. Got some calluses. And then there was something else I had to do anyway. And then put the dirt back on. And I think I did put like bricks on it for a little bit just to prevent animals. And then I found out that it's illegal to do that in L.A. Well, everything's illegal. So everything you want to do on your property is illegal in L.A. And that's where my libertarian came out. I was like, bullshit, my house, my dog, my front yard, totally fine. Your labor. My labor, everything. Like, my neighbors didn't know. They didn't care. They were paying attention. They'd be like, why is he leashed out there with a headlamp at 9 o'clock at night? But it wasn't big enough to bury a body. But so you know that you're supposed to technically, like, use a service. Because he died of natural causes in our driveway, like in his favorite nap spot. Oh, that's a good way to go. But when you put an animal down, part of the services is they put the animal down, and then they, like, dispose of the body or they cremate it and give you the ashes. But there are, like, services, and it was, like, $2,000 to have somebody come to my house and pick up a 13-pound dog and dispose of the body. Right. And I was like, no. I will bury my own dog. Did that include, like, a little paw print in clay and a box? because Molly got a little box, a little urn, and a paw print, and clay. I think to cremate, I would get the little jar. And then the other thing, that was the other weird thing, is I'm like, what do you guys do with the body? Like, what do you do with the body then? Why does the city of L.A. let you do something with the body? Yes, listen, the city, first off, I just got back from Texas where you could just do what you wanted all the time. You could shoot a dog. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy when you get back to California. You're like, God, all the rules. I know. Speaking of California, the Actors Awards were the other night on Netflix. And I just decided, I go, it was on Netflix. I was like, I should check out the first 10 minutes just to see how repugnant this is. And the very first thing they did, they'd already lost me. Okay. So I haven't watched it yet. 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So the thing about actors and Academy Awards and Emmys and Grammys and stuff is they basically have lost their audience because they've lost America because they're into crazy shit. And they got to wear their fuck ice badges everywhere. They support Time's Up or whatever. Yeah, Hamas Pins. And everyone keeps saying, would you guys reel it in a little bit? Like you're losing the country, you know. But it's for themselves at this point. It's always for themselves. But you'd still think there'd be like a course correction. And so the very beginning of the awards, before any monologues or anything, it just lights up cold open. It was actors talking about being an actor. Didn't they do this last year, too? I felt like I've seen this bit before. I did not see it last year. But it starts with Kristen Wiig. and it's a self-important, self-congratulatory. The reason everyone hates actors is they're cold open, which I'm always surprised no producer raises their hand and just goes, let's not do this. Let's just get some funny comedian to come out and roast the ass. Like bring back Ricky Gervais. Everyone loved it when Ricky Gervais made fun of us instead of us giving ourselves handies. but all right here it is starts with christian way oh hello i was just reading the script the first time i was ever on set i was a background actor in a movie called tumbleweeds they put me so far down the beach i couldn't hear them call action or cut until someone waved to me and told me when it was lunch i also got sunburned stung by a bee and had to go to the hospital This is true. The next time was on the show Judging Amy. I was in the courthouse, and I was a figure that walked behind wavy glass. So between those two jobs, if you look really close, you won't see me. But just so you know, I was very happy to be there, and I am so happy to be here tonight and say, I'm Kristen Wiig, and I'm an actor. I'm an actor. All right. Now we'll go from... I'm not a seven-year-old... This is Tiana Taylor. I think. I cried when Rose let Jack sink to the bottom. All right. Pause it for a second. First things first. How do we live in a society? Like, again, if I'm in the writer's room, I'm like, who are we going to start with? Well, she's nominated for the Leo DiCaprio movie, right? The lady from that one? She is. Yeah, yeah. She is. But I'm like, why don't we do this? We'll start with the lady, then we'll do a guy. Oh. And then we'll do another lady after that. Yeah. But it's like, no, we're just going with the ladies. Or we start with the person like what Kristen Wiig is known, but like. What's she been in this year? You know what I mean? Like, start with the start with the A-list person. Exactly. Give me Brad Pitt. Sorry. Probably not there, but go ahead. Good and well, he could have fit his ass on that goddamn door. But you know what? I made a promise that if I ever got the chance to work with Leonardo DiCaprio, that I wouldn't let him drown. Instead, I run off, rob a bank and left him with a whole damn baby. I am Tiana Taylor and I'm an actor. so the grand irony of all right delroy linda now look again now we got a dude we got a black dude fine but in the world of like optics like don't we like someone go all right let's do the white chick then we'll do the black chick but then we should do ethan hawk i honestly thought one i did it up a little bit? I did not recognize Kirsten Wig. I was like, holy crap. She's, yeah. Looks totally different. Two, I thought they'd start with Jason Bateman. Right. Except for, in a weird way, there's a weird thing that, I don't want to get too tinfoil-y hat about this, but she starts off and goes, hold my beer. Like, she hands her strip to, the guy's a bigger star than her, and goes, hey, jump, hold this. The ladies are talking. And he's like, I don't know what to do with this. So it's already kind of setting the table for this. Delroy Linda, I know him from Gone in 60 Seconds. That's about it. But he's done other things. My adherent of wide acknowledgement and relative success is that it's causing me to think about the times in my career when things weren't going so well. Being able to look back from a place of this current success, times that were more challenging for me, is a testament, yes, to my own self-belief and my ability to hang in. So, courageous. Hopefully, it's also an encouraging example to all actors out there who may currently be facing their own challenges. Their own challenges of auditioning. I know I'm an actor and never forget, all you aspiring thespians, you are too. This is, by the way, this is the whole opening of the show. It's just, hey, we're actors, how great are we? And look what we've had to overcome. Out of the eighth percentile? That's like if the NFL awards don't start with this, right? Like, I don't even know what the NFL awards are called. We want self-deprecating, poking fun at us. Or just comedy. Realist. Or you can have Billy Crystal come out on a horse and do a big number. All right, so now we've got two chicks and a brother. And we keep going here. And we go to what I think is going to be Ethan Hawke. Yeah, not Ethan Hawke. It's not. I used to get in trouble for daydream. We've got Kate Hudson. I was accused of being disruptive, irreverent, dramatic. All right, you can pause it. I'm just saying, look, when you're in the room, don't you go, don't we got to get, like, one straight white dude, like, in there? Our whole thing is diversity, right? Do you think, so, like, some of the others I understand, because, like, Oscar-nominated films or nominated films, do you think that, like, they went to her because she's on a Netflix show? Like, is it Netflix, like, trying to keep it in the family, so that's why they didn't go to Ethan Hawke? Who's the bigger name? You know, these things all may be a factor, but I still think. She looks amazing. Good work done. I'm just saying. Good work or good genes. If I'm in the room and I'm going, okay, listen, we go to this white dude, then we switch it over to Tom Hanks, and then we go over to Brian Cranston. Someone raised their hand and go, you just did three dudes in a row. We need to get some females in there, someone of color. We need some representation. But no, they're still going this way. So Ethan is just sitting there. With his whiskey? With his whiskey. Good for him. Keep it going. My makeup choices were too distracting. I was boy crazy and too loud when I walked in a room. Too opinionated in my ideas. She was too opinionated. She's too good. Well, to my great relief, it turns out these are all very marketable skills. My name is Kate Hudson, and I am Matt. I am Matt. And they all applaud for each other. finally an a-lister we get michael j fox but we get the disability guy no it's a box but like i would have i would have started with him i would have too we do get a white guy who is heterosexual but he has a disability that's that's what i'm saying this is that's what this is about and i don't think they know it anyway it's like when i watch commercials now for you know detergent or cars or whatever, whatever disease du jour, I like look and I go, Asian guy, black guy, lesbian chick over there. Like it's a, they just do it. A systemic indigent. They just do it all now. They don't, they're the white guy, the white straight guy without the disability is an endangered species over there. But anyway, he gives his speech. I got, by the way, I have nothing against any of these people. I'm just saying, optically. Look what Hollywood is serving up. Well, here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying. Somebody told them, like, five years ago, reel this shit in a little bit. People are tired of this. Like, they want something different than this, and they won't do it. That's kind of what I'm speaking of. I don't know. We can hear Michael J. I left school. I left school and moved from Canada to L.A. to try and make it as an actor. A teacher of mine told me, Fox, you're not going to be cute forever. I don't know what to say to that, so I said, maybe it's long enough, sir. After a few years of dumpster diving in L.A., I ended up on Family Tide, where I received the biggest gift of my career. I met my wife, the actor Tracy Fallon, who played Ellen, my girlfriend. And she gave me four gifts. Our kids, Skyler. All right, all right. Now you've got to fucking talk about how much you love your fucking kids. All right, let's see. See, I liked that one, though, because it seemed the most real. The other ones are like, ew, look at me. I don't buy it. No. You don't buy the Michael J. Fox? Like, I'm an actor. Like, this is how it changed my life. Every Democratic politician, like the Republican politicians, when you go to their page, you know, it's like ex-Navy SEAL, Republican, House leader, whatever, husband, father. You go to like Gavin Newsom, it's like first partner to Joanna with three wonderful kids. Like, shut the fuck. I don't fucking care. Everyone's got kids. Everyone's got a wife. No one gives a fuck. I want to hear some titles. You haven't seen my Instagram profile then? No. Well, you're a chick. Wife, mom. That's right. But you're not the president. You're the governor. All right. Let's get some news going, shall we? Let's get some news going. Keeping it on trend with this Hollywood topic that we've been talking about. So there's been this rumor kind of floating around about Jim Carrey being unrecognizable at a French film festival recently where he was honored and gave a whole speech about it. People were saying like all week long, people have been saying that the conspiracy theorists are wrong because conspiracies were that he either had a ton of plastic surgery done or he actually sent out a clone or a lookalike on the carpet for the photos after he was honored. Multiple sources say that this conspiracy is wrong and that actor Jim Carrey accepted his own award in France last week. And some believe, of course, he had a lookalike in his place. Carrey's representative has finally come out and said that the general delegate of the award show both say that the person on stage was himself, Jim Carrey. The Cesar Award general delegate, Gregory Collier, made his assertion in a statement to Variety, picked up by TMZ and others. and many fans took to social media to say that they think that Carey looked way different than usual and that he was acting weird. His new look has prompted discussion about whether or not he's had more plastic surgery or whether the person at the event was even him. Well, the thing about, here's where the clues are. Yeah, he's a weird guy and he's getting weirder as the years wear on. And so I think that's the real weird Jim Carrey. But if you think about it, if you're just a logical person and someone goes, look, there's a mandatory sensitivity training. We have to do a seminar. And everyone who works at this radio station or this TV station has to do like a mandatory thing. And I've been to those before. You've been to those before. And you're like, it's the fucking worst two hours of my life. And I'm never going to get that back. And the on-air people have to sit there longer. You have to sit there. And then you have some fat black chick with big beads explain to you about what it's like to be a fat black chick. And then you have to sit there and nod the whole time. And then they want to know, is it okay to say this? Is it okay? And that's the biggest waste of your time there ever is. And then there's a sexual harassment side of that, too. That's another big fat fucking waste of time. But if you had a doppelganger, that's where you'd send them. Not to a red carpet. Not for a free plane ticket to France to get a Lifetime Achievement Award. Like if somebody said, Adam, we need to take a deposition for you over that vehicular manslaughter situation, I'd go, okay, doppelganger, do your job. And when you're done, then you can go to the sensitivity training over at the radio station. But if you're sending a first-class ticket for me to go to Paris and pick up a Lifetime Achievement Award, not using the doppelganger for that. That's like someone goes, oh, this supermodel wants to give you a blowjob. Where's the doppelganger? No, no. I'll do my own stunt work on that we'll use the doppelganger for the homeowners association mandatory meeting that we do once a year to hear about fucking gutter cleaning or something send the doppelganger to that yes so why would you send your stunt double to Paris to pick up on a lifetime achievement award I think that often though the conspiracy theorists don't have that level of thinking it's just when there are so many conspiracies that turn out to be true I feel like we've talked about this before. It's kind of deja vu. Like when there's so many conspiracies or parts of conspiracies that end up being true, that now everything might potentially be a conspiracy. So therefore, and I mean like the Joe Biden clone, like Gavin Newsom clone, like the cloning of like celebrities and politicians is not a new Internet phenomenon. And I think that maybe that's where it comes from. Instead of just being like, whoa, I got way too much plastic surgery and filler. Yeah. They're like, must be a clone. He's going to end up Mickey Rourke nuts in a few years. I thought you meant like looking like Mickey Rourke. Well, it's all part of it. Yeah. And also, he got really into that Andy Kaufman stuff with Man on the Moon. Oh. And Andy Kaufman's whole thing was showing up as different people. and then sending different people different places. So people are getting caught up in the Tony Clifton part of it, which is a guy who Andy invented. And then there was a real Tony Clifton. And if people thought it was Andy, like it got crazy. And his Jim Carrey becoming Andy Kaufman is what's laid the foundation for that conspiracy. Yes. Okay. On top of all the other conspiracies that sometimes end up being true. All righty. Next up, we have Donald Trump sharing apocalyptic footage of San Francisco. This comes from our friends over at the California Post. Of course, he shared it to True Social. President Trump shared the damning before and now footage of San Francisco contrasting its purported golden past with its current apocalyptic present. The short clip featured the split screen display of city street life. It doesn't list when it was, but I mean, if you look at this, it totally looks like mid-century vibes. Right? Like late 50s, early 60s. Yeah, it's not quite big enough for me to catch everyone's attire. But, yeah, people wore hats. I mean, the ladies are in pencil skirts and heels. Yeah, right. That wasn't when you or I were. Right. It got ruined by Democrats, basically. I mean. It's actually depressing. It is. How do you, for the people that say that the right has no heart, I don't understand how the left has no empathy for, like, people literally shooting up and dying on the streets, It's like half naked on the streets. Also, what I never really understand is like with Cuba or Russia, and you have all these democratic socialists and, you know, your Bernie Sanders type. And the argument they make, which is always crazy to me, is the argument they make is they go, we're not going to do it like Cuba. We're not going to do it like Venezuela. We're not going to do it like Russia. Joe, we're going to do a version of it. It's not going to quite be that. It'll be a better, different version of that. And I'm like, how about we do nothing close to that? How about we do the opposite of that? Hold on. And so it's sort of like what I want to say to people is San Francisco represents the progressive movement at its purest form. This is when they get to do everything they want, that's San Francisco. And so I'm not even going to make a judgment call. I'm just going to say take a bunch of Americans, show them San Francisco then, show them San Francisco now, and go, this is the result of them doing everything they want. And then their argument is like we don't want that in Chicago and in L.A. We just want some of that. And it's like why do you want any of that? This is them when there's no challenges and no hurdles and they get to do whatever they want. They ruin the city they're in. Would you like to bring some of that into your city? And the answer is you shouldn't want a version of that because this is their utopia. I was just in a small town in Texas. It's like that's the right. And it was people fucking enjoying themselves, leaving their doors open at night. We went and took a Lamborghini Diablo out for a ride, and we, like, went to a dark road at night, paved and everything. And we're like, this guy's like, let's get it on. And I'm like, what about the cops? 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They said, just don't fuck it up. And they left. And I'm like, well, that's now if you want that and I do, and I think most people do. San Francisco is basically the most bluest, most, this is what you get when you have a majority and you go unchallenged and decades go by and you get to enact all of your policies. This is what you end up with. People dying in the street in a shit show. It's really sad. It is sad, but it should be more instructive. Like, nobody who leaves San Francisco because, you know, they got their car broken into for a third time or they had some crazy junkie on their lawn or something. When you go to fucking Texas, stop voting how you vote. You already ruined your city. Don't go other places and ruin it. And don't stick to this bullshit. Eat a dick. Go learn what your people do and what they turn cities into and fucking learn something and move on. Would you please? It's applicable right now, too, because there's a very contested Senate race in Texas right now. And it's like TBD what's going to happen. Right. We talked about the whole Colbert thing. He liked Tallarico. And then Jasmine Crockett has been upping in the polls. I mean, that was probably huge for her fundraising dollars now. And that woman is cray-cray. And I can say that as a woman. And by the way, so is he with his fake Christian BS. Right. But you have that opportunity in Texas because partly the demographic change there, I would argue, a failure of conservatives there to advocate and run government better. And then because of those people that have fled the Bay Area and L.A. and they're like, we're going to Texas. Yes. Who's like, what is it saying? Polymarket? They going to they saying it Tallarico right now Yeah Look that Polymarket though recent like polls from within the state They have them up a little bit Yeah But the point is this Why don't you just see what your policies turn cities into and then stop voting that way? Because that was what a smart person would do. This is what happens when they get their way for an extended period of time. you get an unusable city that people who pay taxes and are law-abiding have to leave. So I have no idea why that pitch, it's such a bizarre sales pitch to make anywhere. Everyone should see that, agree it's a shit show, one avoided at all costs, and go, whatever that is, we're going to vote the opposite of that. Yeah. The other thing that liberal friends will say, though, they're like, well, we'll make it like Finland. And I'm like, ha-ha, you know what Finland does? bans abortion after 14 weeks, has some of the tightest immigration policy in the entire world. Like you have to learn their language within two years of being there and marry a Finn or have a Finnish baby. It's a population of 5 million people, and they still have an insane tax rate of over 60 percent, and nobody owns a home. Like, does that sound great to you either, and that is your best example of it? Have at it, guys. Have at it. I think at this point, we'd rather San Francisco look like Finland than the current. All right. Other California news that actually went all the way to the Supreme Court. So the Supreme Court this week barred California from enforcing state rules, which are just ridiculous and unconstitutional, that restrict when schools can notify parents about students who come out as transgender and requires teachers to use children's preferred pronouns. The court, of course, on a six to three vote along ideological lines, the usual liberal justices, Sonia Sonia Mayor, Elena Kagan and Kentonji Brown Jackson dissented, of course. Yeah, I hate to say this, but it's not it's not so much that we disagree with them, although we do. They're kind of dumb. Oh, like when you can't define what a woman is. Yeah, I mean, their arguments are spurious. They're sort of dumb. They're just not as well. They don't feel Supreme Court-y to me. Like when I read Amy Coney Barrett or Justice Roberts or, heck, Samuel Alito, right? When you read their decisions, I'm like got Webster's Dictionary next to me and just in awe of the arguments that they're making, right? And it used to be that when the liberal justices would write that stuff, like Breyer or even Ginsburg, she didn't dumb shit down. Like the woman was smart, even though I disagreed with her. Right. And when you read their stuff, it reads like an op-ed for MS Now. Yeah. And it also, it doesn't, it's sort of like when you hear Jasmine Crockett talk or you hear AOC talk, it's not that you disagree, although you do disagree, but they also sound stupid. Yeah. And it's, they sound stupid because they're trying to make an argument that's stupid, but they still sound stupid. There are people you disagree with that are sharp and articulate and have a, you know, big vocabulary. And, you know, when Bill Maher makes an argument against something that I'm for, he does a good job of it. They don't do a very good job. You know, it's an interesting stat. I don't know if you saw this one. Andrew, I don't know where it is. It was floating around about a month and a half ago. But there was a breakdown of who's done the most talking in the Supreme Court. Did you ever see that? No. It was interesting because my, you know, my chick think theorem. Yes. Lots of talk, but not a lot of action. Yes. I think Kataji Brown had by far the most talking, but she makes the least sense. She loves to hear the sound of her own voice. Talking and the guys. But the thing that was funny about the breakdown, and I think it was talking, I think, or was it, there's a graphic that sort of has the most versus the least. And I keep saying talking, but I don't know if it was actual words said. Well, because they can engage and ask the people, the lawyers presenting the cases, questions and stuff. So sometimes there will be some back and forth between the justices. There was a breakdown of who talked the most. And the first three were women and the dudes were all at the bottom. because they did the least. Maybe it's because the women are asking really good questions and the dude didn't have any follow-ups. You're probably right. People forgot about Sotomayor. Oh, my goodness. Sotomayor. Who asked the least? Oh, of course. It's Clarence Thomas. Asked the least. All right. So we're sorry. I can't see the whole thing. But the most was Ketanji. Brown Jackson followed by Elena. No, that's Sotomayor. Sotomayor. No, no, no. That's Kagan. Kagan, then Sotomayor. Uh-huh. Yep. And that's a close call. Now. It's all the liberal justices, by the way. Like, there was a man up there, too. Talk, talk, talk, talk. All talk, no action. About nothing, nothing, nothing. People forgot Sotomayor was the one who was pushing for mandatory vaccines. Yes. Citing thousands of kids on ventilators. Like, she's just screwing up numbers, pulling them out of her ass, essentially lying. and a Supreme Court justice explaining that you should get your kid an experimental vaccine. That's unnecessary. So I don't know if I call that a brilliant mind. You know what? Good job, Amy Coney Barrett. She's up there here. She's down there with Thomas. Right. Yeah. She talked less than all the other people. That's right. Good job, Clarence. All right. But Ketanji, like, really knocked it out of the ballpark. Oh, jeez. He's got almost 23,000 words. That's five times Clarence Thomas. More. More than? Yeah. Maths. Well, no, it's real close. It's five and a half or something. Yeah, it represents the number of words spoken by each Supreme Court justice in the 2024 term. the average I guess if you looked at this you'd say the average is about 11 and a half thousand words or whatever maybe 12,000 she's essentially doubled the average and she's the dopiest one on there so good luck everybody I kind of blame so I have a girlfriend who's a Republican pollster Kristen Sulte Sanderson she's great and she has long said that this all kind of started when C-SPAN was available like there's some beauty to transparency but also you and I both know that sometimes people just go and filibuster or pontificate and then they take that clip we've talked about this from the committee hearing and they use it for their campaign ad I think that this has now unfortunately seeped into SCOTUS where they're just like with Jasmine Crockett and AOC and Elhan Omar it's like the sass for the clickbait on social media and so even though Justice Jackson is going to be there for life and she isn't running for office. She kind of presents herself like she is running for office and it's just like filling void trying to look for the TikTok clip. Yeah, there's a Jasmine Crockett one that's out where she's talking about ICE coming into people's houses. Oh, putting them in detention centers and killing people and stuff. You can find that one where she just talks and talks and talks. Lots of passion. No information. Mostly lies. No data. and just all emotion. Yep. Also, I think we need to outlaw the big swinging ponytail. Why? I like a pony. Because they start talking and it just starts flying around and they start getting enamored with this giant rope swinging around. Like, you know, the dudes have the long hair, flip the thing. Make your fucking point. Get off the stage. Stop with the hair. So you're not a fan of Fabio? He rides dirt bikes. That's different. Yeah. Yeah. It's allowed. We'll find. find that clip. I think I liked it, but it's her. Yeah. Who were we just talking about? Brown Jackson? No, before her. Sorry. I just said a brain fart. Like Jim Carrey? There she is. Yeah, but this isn't her. Oh, Jasmine Crockett. Isn't also Jasmine Crockett the one that made a comment about Governor Abbott being Hot Wheels and then fully denied it, and then there's literally video of her talking about it. This tape is brand new. This is just her with a big rope. Rope. I don't know if it's real rope or clip-on rope. It looks like anchor rope clipped on her head. It's just from yesterday or something. I think. I just saw it today or whatever on X. You can do your next one. He'll find it. She's talking about ICE being murderers, essentially. Well, I do think that this is an important win for parental rights. The SCOTUS focused on parents' claim that their rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution's First Amendment were violated, and the court said that they have valid parental rights claims also under the Constitution's 14th Amendment. So now California has another stupid law in the book that the Supreme Court is saying is unconstitutional. Hooray, California. Yeah, that's all we do. All we do is have really insane ideas that are just counter to whatever this country is and whatever sane societies would want. And then we sue everyone who disagrees with our horrible ideas that are destructive. All right, where is this clip? I don't get it. So this is Jasmine Crockett. I saw it on Twitter today. it's her talking about ice being murders and she's got a giant rope of hair and i you don't have to look on mine just look on the computer i think you don't have to look on my twitter feed uh someone it was in the feed i don't know if someone sent it to me i i don't i just saw it on my phone but it means it's new and it exists and it's sort of nuts i don't put in uh jasmine Crockett Ice Murders and see what Google comes up. Not coming up. I wonder if they scrub stuff. Good point. They scrub stupid stuff. And I may have liked it, but I may have just thought about it. It's actually really hard and annoying on social media, specifically X and Instagram, to find things that you've liked or to find something you're like, oh, I think Ben Shapiro posted this thing. And then you search for it and you cannot find the thing it's it's a weird world because this computer is insane and and it's you know i'll sit there and i'll be watching the in memoriam or something and i'll go oh when did he and you just put the person's name in and five pages comes up yeah it takes three seconds for you to know everything you need to know about this actor this person who died in 2025 whatever it is it's insane And then other days I wake up in the morning and I'm just looking at my phone and this clip of Jasmine Crockett comes up screaming about. And I look at it a couple of times and that was five hours ago. Yeah. And I go, wow, this is crazy. And then I'll say to Andrew, hey, that clip of whatever. Can't find it. I hate how I have to know somebody's specific handle, like social media handle, in order to find them in the search bar. It's super annoying. This ain't it, but what is, when is this from, I guess is the question. I mean, you've got to hand it to her. She's full of it. Hold on. Judge McCockett. This kind of looks like it. Is this, did I like this one? Oh, okay. But you found it. Now, how did you, I don't know why you're going past the one you wanted. Oh, but she's talking about how this administration is a killer. Oh, well, she does. You're frustrated and don't believe in politicians. Sorry, put it to the front. You can start to be here. Let me tell you something. I am here because this is truly life. Well, hold on. Here's my giant rope hair thing, I think. Now, there's other ones, but that's pause enough to slow down. All right, go ahead. Administration that is not only killing people, but is a dream killer right now. That is not the best of America. We are here because we care. I know so many people are frustrated and don't believe in politicians. But let me tell you that it takes real courage in this moment to stand up. And that is why we stand with and behind your mayor, because she knows what it is to be under attack by this administration. We understand that to be elected nowadays isn't just about service. It literally is life or death if you decide that you want to do what is right. So let me tell you, we are standing with your elected leaders because they are protecting the people from their own federal government that is dishing out death. And when I say that, I don't say it lightly. I say it because the numbers bear it out. I say it because we have a record number of people that have passed away in ICE custody. Well, I'm going with me on this one. I know someone promised that they would make America great. I am telling you that they are doing just the opposite. I am telling you that we are a land of immigrants. It is time to do immigration right. It is time to make sure that we live up to the promise of this country. The idea that someone ran and said that I will get rid of the bad guys, yet we know more than 50% of the people that are currently being detained in custody have no criminal records at all. Zero. All right, you can pause it. That's actually the most coherent she's ever sounded. But also, all right, 50% of the people don't have a criminal record, but they're here illegally. But the other 50% do have a criminal record, which is a fair number of people to be walking around with criminal records who are here illegally. She looks like she's, I don't know, I'm a millennial. So in the early 2000s, mid-aughts, it was a thing of things to wear to the office that then you can wear out later at night. That's right. That's like the vibe she has going on. She's going to the club after the hill. 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So I didn't actually go and study nutrition in college because it didn't provide what I was searching for and looking for. It was very limited. So I don't like to use that name behind because I've studied so many different things. So I've been helping people get well and stay well for 50 years. Yeah, you know, before COVID, maybe I tended to listen to the experts and the people with all the degrees on the walls and all the heads of this group and that group. And after COVID, I'm like, I'm now officially suspicious that anyone who went through the system, went through the training. And by the way, it's kind of back when Harvard meant Harvard. Like when I was young, if you went to Harvard, oh, my goodness, you went to Harvard. Now I'm like literally suspicious that you've been compromised, I guess I would say. But Kim, we were talking off the air about this discovery, this ice cave that's so old, 5,000-year-old. They found bacteria that's resistant to modern antibiotics. And I'm interested in your take on this because I avoided antibiotics my whole life because I was poor and my family was poor and we didn't have insurance. And I never had insurance and I just rode stuff out. I'd get strep throat. I'd just ride it out. I'd get anything I got. I just rode it out. I never took antibiotics. and now I'm the only person I know who doesn't have a bunch of gut problems and a bunch of allergic to everything and skin things. Everyone seems to have a whole bunch of things that I don't have and the only thing I can think of is that I never took antibiotics. But let's talk about this ice cave. Well, it's interesting because they found this bacteria there and you're lucky. Thank goodness your family didn't have the money to do that because you fought it off because you had good bacteria in your gut. But this cave, they found this bacteria that's 5,000 years old. And this particular strain resists all the commonly used antibiotics today. There's 10 of them that are being used to treat serious infections. So now they don't act against the serious infections. And this isn't the only thing that our current antibiotics aren't working on, Adam. I mean, there's something called antimicrobial resistance now, AMR. And they're calling this the next pandemic, with estimates ranging from 30 to 100 million deaths, they're saying, by 2050. Now, what happens is the antimicrobial resistance happens when germs like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and even parasites evolve to resist the medicines used to treat them, like this has done in this cave. But, you know, let me read you some of the article titles. I study so many articles and research all day long. But I found this very interesting, these article titles that have come out just in the past week. This one is directly from the World Health Organization. And the next pandemic is already here. Antimicrobial resistance is upending centuries of achievements in global health. Hospital sewage fueling antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Super bug warning as doctors fear common infections could kill more people than cancer and low risk antibiotics led to an almost unbeatable super bug. I mean, that's pretty crazy, right? I mean, infections are going to soon kill more people than cancer. Well, I mean, make it the second leading cause of death after heart disease. Look, all nature is doing is trying to exist, whether it's a cockroach being, you know, they talk about pesticides. They go, we've got to kill these pests. But then future generations are not affected by the poison because they bred it out, you know. And that's just nature. You know, cockroaches aren't good or bad. They're just nature being nature. And, you know, nature is sort of like ivy. It just grows on the side of houses. And if you come back in a year, there'll be more of it. And you come back in five years, it's going to keep going. It just keeps going. So bacteria is trying to defeat whatever. It's trying to exist. And whatever we throw at it, it'll continue to try to figure out. And it always wins. It's just kind of the slow game. You know, it always figures out a way to outsmart us. And as Dr. Drew would always say, there's no free lunches in nature. It just keeps going. And I've been noticing that all our sort of Western attempts at putting everything in a syringe and synthesizing everything and manufacturing everything, it's just making people fatter, more miserable, and less healthy. Well, when you put everything in a syringe, you're approaching the whole thing from symptoms. rather than getting at the cause. I mean, you know, there's this guy that his name was Chris Bond. Let me give you the example of this poor guy. He was just 19 when he had a severe infection that totally changed his life. This is how important that we get ourselves in good shape so we can fight infections. But he was 19 years old. He was fit and healthy. And then all of a sudden, out of the blue, he got sick and he had to go to the hospital. And they put him in an induced coma. and then he woke up to the devastating news that the antibiotics that they were using, they failed to stop his infection, and the doctors were forced to amputate both his legs, his left hand, and most of his fingers on his right hand. And, you know, Chris, he's just one of a growing number of victims of this antimicrobial resistance, and doctors are basically running out of effective treatment options. And, you know, it might sound strange to call him lucky, but I think he is actually lucky to have survived this. And he actually went on to become a Paralympic gold medalist. Oh, really? That's great, right? I wonder what event he did, because I just got done seeing the Olympics, and I see they're playing hockey in the Paralympics. They're doing the downhill skiing thing. If I was in the Paralympics, I'd definitely be in the winter. That one seems a lot better than trying to play beach volleyball with no legs. Oh, played wheelchair rugby. God, there was a really popular movie called like Smashball or something about guys who played wheelchair basketball or something. Oh, who cares? Let me tell you that the health experts, the so-called health experts, are predicting that by a certain time that we are going to have so many deaths from this antimicrobial resistance. It's unbelievable how much it's going to be. I mean, it's just unbelievable. By 2050, they're saying 10 million people are going to die every year from this antimicrobial resistance. Well, is it cancer? Yes, sir. Are those who took the most antibiotics probably going to be the most susceptible to this? Yes, yes, yes. And do you know in Australia, there's more people already dying, Adam, from the AMR than are in car accidents. I mean, they're slightly ahead of the curve, but the threat's growing rapidly worldwide. What are some of the countries that, I mean, I'm guessing Western countries used antibiotics the most. and then certain other countries probably use them the least. Well, yeah, you're more developed countries, you know, because they had the money for that. But they introduced antibiotics, I think, back in 1940s. And, of course, they were touted as miracle drugs back then because they were saving millions of lives. But their success, what had happened was they were using them widespread and unnecessarily. They were used in both humans and agriculture. So they're actually reducing because antibiotic means against life. So they kill off the good guys, too. They kill the bad guys. But if you keep killing the good guys, you're going to end up with a very severely impaired immune system because bacteria evolved so rapidly. And, you know, the more antibiotics they're exposed to, the more opportunities they're going to have to develop the resistance we're talking about. And I think by 1960s, the resistance strains were already emerging. So over the decades, you can see how this has accelerated. And then, of course, you talk about the pharmaceutical companies, which the most important thing to pharmaceutical companies is not keeping us healthy. It their bottom line And so their incentives actually shifted because antibiotics they usually short course treatments and they intentionally supposed to be used sparingly to slow the resistance. And that's less profitability for long term drugs for chronic conditions. So as a result, the pharmaceutical companies, they either reduced or abandoned their antibiotic research and development in favor of more profitable drug ventures like vaccines, because they're more profitable than the traditional antibiotics. Well, I don't think there's any question that we've figured out that the big pharmas in the business of making money the same way big tobacco was in the business of making money, and it behooved them to have their own scientific data on the effects of cigarette smoke, just like now Big Pharma has their data because they're in the business of making money. So just a side question for someone who's been there and done that for you, not to do with antibiotics, but all of this weight loss stuff, all this Ozempic business, it worries me. And I don't know what you think about it. I would assume you're not for it, but I've heard good things about it as well. So I'm not sure. What is your take on the latest craze from the pharmaceutical companies? Well, I think they stand to make a lot of money off of it, and I'm not for it, because you can lose weight by doing natural things. You don't have to use a drug that's going to alter your gut in a way that is not good. and also people are losing their eyesight. There's all kinds of side effects. You know the long list of side effects when you see a commercial on TV for any drug, right, Adam? I mean, some of them even cause death. I'm not saying Ozempic does that, but it's crazy. I mean, you know, there's people out there that they just want an immediate solution. I think in some cases maybe, you know, they were used for diabetics originally, But for the most part, I think it's just a fast fix for a lot of people. And I think they're going to be surprised in the end what's happened to their body. Yeah, it falls under the heading of no free lunches. Like, sorry, it's diet, it's exercise. It's all the stuff your grandpa knew and the founding fathers knew. And it's a way of life. And the shot part to fool your body into thinking it's not hungry. It might work temporarily, but big picture, I don't think. Here's what I would say about most of this stuff, whether it was the COVID vaccination, whether it's antibiotics or whether it's being on COVID. I don't think you'll be happy with that decision 10 years from now. I'll bet you wish you didn't. Yeah, remember, big pharma is about making money, bottom line. The cured patient's no longer going to be a customer. They want to keep you sick. That's their intention. They keep making money off of you that way. And, you know, there's even vaccinologists that are saying they want to solve the problem of AMR with yet another experimental mRNA vaccine. I don't want another mRNA vaccine. I don't think you do either, Adam. I mean, there's so much evidence coming out about the damaging effects of these vaccines. And what most people don't know is how many harmful effects antibiotics can have. Oh, we're figuring it out. now. But anything, the stuff you got to keep an eye on, people, is the stuff that seems too good to be true. If it's just, you know, it's like when they go, oh, Weight Watchers has a dietetic fudge now that tastes just like regular. It's like, okay, it's too good. Don't buy it. Just don't eat fudge. And then when you do eat fudge, have good fudge, but don't do it that often. And then go for a walk afterward and nature will take care of you. Exactly. Marty McCary, So these guys all turned out to be correct all through COVID, even though they were being attacked, right? Oh, yeah, they were all right. They were all correct. But I know there's a clip of Marty McCary we wanted to look at. The agency, and this is common of regulatory agencies, tend to fall behind and not be able to keep up with the times. I agree. The microbiome is the biggest frontier of medicine that we are not talking about that we need to talk about. We know things mess up the microbiome and directly result in diseases. One of the biggest studies in modern medicine that has been ignored, and I think one of the most important studies, has been a recent study out of the Mayo Clinic that looked at kids who got antibiotics in the first two years of life and then track them as to what diseases they developed later. Now, why would antibiotics potentially cause disease? Well, the theory is that we know antibiotics alter the microbiome. It's almost like carpet bombing parts of the microbiome. And you get bacterial overgrowth. We don't know what to do with it. We know overgrowth is associated with inflammation. And so I just wrote down some of these study results. The kids that got antibiotics in the first two years of life, 20% higher rate of obesity, 21% higher rate of learning disabilities, 32% higher risk of developing attention deficit disorder, 90% higher rate of asthma. 90% higher rates of asthma in kids that were given multiple antibiotic dosages. Any antibiotic exposure in the first two years of life. And there was what we call a dose-dependent relationship. The more courses of antibiotics a kid got, the greater the risk of obesity, learning disabilities, ADHD, asthma. Celiac had a 200, nearly 300% higher risk if a kid took antibiotics. Wow. Crohn's disease, nearly 300. All these diseases are going up. Yeah. If you just use your kind of horse sense, old-fashioned mind, you'll get a lot of answers, which is I have said repeatedly, how come Crohn's disease didn't exist when I was younger? How come no one was allergic to peanut butter? How come no one was allergic to wheat? No one was allergic. First off, when I grew up, nobody was allergic to anything. It was very rare. There was a couple, you know, maybe a couple of hay fever nerds or something around. But I never knew. I hung out. All I did was hang out with other kids. That's all I did. My whole childhood was just me and a whole group of neighborhood guys, and I ran around. There was no dietary restrictions. There was no allergies. There was no nothing. And Crohn's didn't exist. and neither did all this other hyper deficit disorder and all these disorders. I sit around and see commercials for fixing everyone's stomach. Everyone's got Crohn's. Everyone's got some reflux. Everyone has everything. And I'm like, how is it possible that none of this existed and now it all existed? And don't tell me this is how we evolved. Something, there's some corollary. Something caused this, and I think we're finding out what it is. Yeah, and let me just read you a few of the endless amounts of study titles that measure the damage of antibiotics. You heard Dr. Marty McCary there. I mean, I found this amazing, and this is only a few of what I found, but antibiotic therapies associated with an increased incident of cancer. Antibiotic use associated with a multitude of chronic diseases. Higher antibiotic exposure is linked to increased risk of Parkinson's disease. We know that's on a huge rise. Antibiotic exposure linked to increased colon cancer. Antibiotic use and risk of cause-specific mortality. Antibiotics can cause harm to flu patients. Antibiotics in childhood have been linked to increased risk of mental illness. Antibiotics after breast cancer link to lower survival rates. Antibiotics in older women may increase heart disease risk. And antibiotic use link to greater risk of heart disease and stroke. That's just a few of the list that I compiled from the use of antibiotics. and, you know, goes on and on. What all these studies, though, have in common, Adam, is the damage to the gut microbiome. Our gut microbiomes directly leaked our longevity, our healthy aging, and the risk of chronic disease. Yeah, it's just the amount of people I see now who explain to me what they can't eat versus those people when I was a kid, nonexistent. You go to a restaurant with three or four people, there's going to be three or four people telling you what they can't eat when the waitress is coming by. I know, it's upsetting. I agree. I don't like to go out with people for that reason. I mean, I like to cook at my house and my organic and everything I make. But, you know, I had this story that I just read about a woman named Maria Morea, and she lived to be 117 years old. She was born in 1907. She lived through two world wars, the Spanish Civil War and the rise of the Internet. And when she passed away in 2024 at 117, she was the world's oldest verified living person, Adam. I don't think she was, you know, having these problems that we're all talking about right now. But obviously, her life wasn't easy. As a child, she crossed the Atlantic during wartime. She lost hearing in one of her ears after a fall. She lost her father to tuberculosis. And then she later married, raised three children, worked as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War. And, of course, through all this, she's experienced a tremendous amount of grief and stress and history firsthand. But yet she still stayed engaged with life. And she actually played the piano until she was 108, and she adapted to the new technology despite her hearing loss. But after her death, this gets very interesting here, researchers decided to examine her gut microbiome. And remarkably, it looked unusually youthful. It was balanced, it was resilient, and it was rich in microbial diversity. And, of course, she ate a very healthy diet and regularly consumed fermented foods, nothing complicated. but she had these steady habits over decades. And then, you know, when scientists look at other centenarians, the people that live to be over 100, they found a similar pattern. They found greater microbial diversity and more balanced gut ecosystems. And that diversity is linked to better immune function, metabolic health, and even brain support. So, you know, Maria's story suggests something very powerful here, That aging may not just be about genes or that you're lucky, but it's actually protecting the ecosystem that's inside of us all. I also think, and this kind of dovetails into this, I think we're way too clean now. I think we're sterilizing everything and wiping everything down with Purell. That kills all the good guys, yeah. Just everything is about wiping everything down with alcohol and cleaning everything to the point where there's no exposure. There's nothing for your immune system to work out against, push on. You know, they always do those studies of the Amish people who have the outdoor dogs who come indoors and out. Those kids have no allergies. The ones that live in the Manhattan apartments with the windows closed all day have all the allergies. But the moral of the story is you need to kind of expose yourself to stuff and not try to kill every germ that's either on a counter or in your gut. I was, I can't remember, I think I was watching Ron Johnson, maybe. Senator Ron Johnson, I think. I'm bringing this up to you, Andrew. He did a whole thing of having to take Pepsid and all this stuff with acid reflux or whatever. And it's the same thing. You get sort of perpetually married to these pills that you have to take before every dinner and eventually it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And he ended up curing it through some old-fashioned measure. But it's basically you have to take this pill because you have acid reflux, and at a certain point you have acid reflux because of the pill, and next thing you know, they've sold you a million dollars worth of pills and you're on it your entire life. That's right. And longevity, too, isn't just about adding years. It's maintaining the quality of those years through a diverse, resilient gut. That's the strongest indicator of how well you're truly aging. And if you've got to take that kind of stuff, your gut is not in balance. It has dysbiosis. It's got more bad guys than good guys because your gut, Adam, is made up of microbes, both good and bad, from the time you're born. And this collection of the microbes collectively make up the gut microbiome. And when you take antibiotics or you take all those things you just mentioned, you're killing off all the good microbes and you're creating a state of dysbiosis in your gut. And dysbiosis is the cause of every health issue. And the microbial diversity will automatically decrease as we age, regardless of antibiotic use or other influences. But the presence of the good bacteria in our gut is what helps prevent harmful microbials from taking over. And the best way to prevent and treat that dysbiosis and the multitude of accompanying health consequences is actually to consume a centuries-old food called kimchi, because it's the only fermented food that contains over 900 unique strains of beneficial bacteria. Yeah, well, I took mine this morning. It's, you know, cooking up kimchi or heating up kimchi. It's, you know, if you live in a small apartment, it can fill the air with the scent. It's an acquired taste for most folk. But in the pill form, it's pretty easy. I just take them with whatever other vitamins I'm taking that morning. Oh, by the way, Senator Ron Johnson reveals he cured his acid reflux by hydrochloric acid after years of Zantac, Priosec, and Nexium. Yeah, well, this grandpa knew right. Grandma, they knew what they were doing. That's right. And you know, too, I wanted to say that kimchi helps your body fight off viruses like the flu, so you don't need flu shots like that. You know, one recent study found that it could actually slow down the growth of the H1N1 flu virus. And a big reason for that is because it supports your immune system. 70 to 80 percent of our immunity is housed in our gut. And, you know, kimchi, you know, got to think of it. It helps your immune system stays balanced and it strengthens your important immune cells that kind of act like scouts where they go out and they spot the viruses early at them. And at the same time, it's going to regulate your body's response so it doesn't overreact and create all of this incredible amount of inflammation that it doesn't need because of some serious infection. It's not just the virus that causes the damage. It's the body going into the overdrive with too much inflammation. And kimchi has actually been shown to significantly reduce that inflammation and oxidative stress. Well, I think last time I talked to you, we were talking about RFK Jr. talking about how much he loved the kimchi and the fermented stuff. Let me ask you a question that may not be answerable. Kimchi is sort of the gold standard for the fermented stuff, but there's like sauerkraut. I love sauerkraut. It's interesting. You can't find sauerkraut at a restaurant anywhere in L.A., And really, we're not – L.A. has 5,000 Indian restaurants and 5,000 sushi places, but no German or Hungarian places. That's a battle for a different day. But in the fermented department, kimchi is sort of the heavyweight champ. How far down is like – Yeah, the king. Where's sauerkraut and where are like pickles or something? Like is kimchi twice as good as sauerkraut or 10 times as good as sauerkraut? You have to guess it. 900 plus beneficial bacterial strains in kimchi and 28 strains of beneficial bacteria in sauerkraut. Oh, really? Eat your sauerkraut if you like it, but you're only getting 28 strains. So, you know, there's your answer. And, you know, during the early days of COVID-19, Adam, South Korea had a much lower death rate compared to any other country. And that's where kimchi started. And I know researchers have pointed out that Korea's high daily intake of kimchi, because they eat it every day, some of them even eat it at every meal, that it played a role in that. And it's so packed with bioactive compounds and probiotics that make it harder for viruses to even enter into our cells. And even back in 2003, I think, when the SARS outbreak happened, South Korea reported zero deaths. And there were so many deaths all over the world from that. And again, researchers are looking at kimchi's antiviral and probiotic properties as a determining factor. So kimchi's got powerful what they call antifungal properties, and that's because it's rich in the beneficial bacteria like Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus sacchiae. And as kimchi ferments, these bacteria naturally are producing compounds that make it really hard for molds and yeast and parasites to grow. And in lab studies, certain strains found in kimchi have reduced the growth of harmful molds and something like aspergillus. Now get this by up to 97%. That's amazing. And then they basically create an acidic, unfriendly environment for the pathogens to grow in. So kimchi is so amazing with those 900-plus beneficial bacteria. It goes far beyond any other fermented food out there, but all fermented foods are good to eat, keep your body healthier. But you want the king of foods when you're really trying to deal with these heavy-duty pathogens, especially if you've been on a lot of antibiotics. Yeah, well, most people, I would say, growing up in the United States, probably anyone listening under the age of 50, maybe under the age of 40, certainly under the age of 30, has just showered their gut with antibiotics all through your life. And so we're going to have to try to right that ship. And like I said, you can buy kimchi, but it can be a little bit tough to do up in the pan. and sometimes getting your kids to eat it, for instance, might be difficult. But the pill form works pretty well. And like I said, you can tell there's kimchi in it for just a second before it goes down. But I will say this. I do take the product, and I do not belch it up or burp it up or have that. You know, sometimes when you take a fish oil and you go about your day and at some point you hiccup later in the day, it tastes like someone put a cod in your mouth or something like that. Well, it does. I mean, that's what certain vitamins do. But Kimchi One does not have that. I take it every morning and I never – it's potent, but I cannot feel the effects of it. You wouldn't know it burping up or later on on the toilet. It doesn't come with that baggage, I guess, is what I'm saying. Well, I'm glad to hear that. And, you know, in simple terms, the kimchi helps crowd your body, you know, crowds out the fungus and the bacteria and even parasites while it strengthens your natural defenses. So it's great that it doesn't come back up on you. And, you know, everything that has been mentioned about the harmful effects of antibiotics also can, you know, it can change when you put the right strains in, like in kimchi. And it's the prime cornerstone of your overall health is your gut microbiome. So you definitely want to, you know, encourage that by taking it every day. And if you don't want to eat it, then the way to take it is, you know, take it as kimchi one. But, you know, I want to also say something about there are a lot of people that think they're going to fix their gut with just taking the probiotic supplements that are out there that have, you know, maybe one or two strains. But they're showing that they have this huge amount of CFUs out there. And they're usually most of them are one note solutions, whereas kimchi, you can think of it like this. It provides a complex microbial symphony, if you will. It's wrapped in a protective fiber delivery system, and it ensures the good guys are actually going to get down into your gut alive. And, you know, it's really a full ecosystem package. And along with the live microbes, it's naturally bringing prebiotics, which is the fiber, the plant fibers that are in the compounds of the cabbage, garlic, and onions, and they're going to feed that beneficial bacteria because that's what they need to eat to live. And then the post-photics are the helpful compounds that the bacteria actually produce during fermentation. And so that combination matters because the probiotics, they really do struggle to colonize or even survive in your gut if your gut's not supporting them. So kimchi helps create that supportive environment and delivers the ready-made microbial byproducts that can interact with your gut lining and immune system right away. So, you know, in practice, that means kimchi can offer more reliable multi-pathway benefits than a typical probiotic pill. So that's another good point. Let's give you a plug then. Let's figure out, let's tell everyone how to get Kimchi 1 and set them up. Well, you know, because we made Kimchi 1 because there's so many beneficial effects, like you've heard, of all these things. I mean, and again, people, whether they like it or not, it's hard for them to take it every day. So we made it in capsules using a cold process drying method to retain all the live probiotics enzymes and the fiber of the fresh kimchi. Also, people that are on sodium restricted diets, this is great for them because unlike store bought or homemade, this is very low in sodium, 100 percent made in the United States, non GMO and all natural. So if you've had problems with your digestion, irregularity, immune system, we have people writing us telling us they don't go sick anymore. Their gas and bloating is gone. They're regular. People who couldn't lose weight, their waistlines have changed, suffering from a variety of symptoms since especially 2020. They couldn't identify the cause. Those things are all gone now using Kim Chi One. So the special that we can offer for your viewers today is they can get 25% off their order of kimchi by going to brightcore.com forward slash Adam and use the code Adam. Or you can get up to 50% off with your order and free shipping when you call 888-418-0915. And, you know, I started this company 29 years ago. It's a small family-owned business. So we're not a fly-by-night. We've been here for a long time. And we love having people call in so we can talk to you, answer your questions, and make sure that you know this product's right for you. And so we're going to incentivize you even further to call by giving the first 100 callers a free bottle of our Thrive with their order. And our Thrive is a curcumin-tumerc complex that we combine with ginger and black pepper extract, And that helps combat inflammation, boost brain function, and even promotes good liver health. So you want the best discounts and you want that free bottle of Thrive, then you need to call 888-418-0915, Adam. Thanks, Kim. I take it every day. So far, so good. Not as much as the sniffles. Kim Bright, thanks for joining us today. Appreciate you. Thank you. Appreciate you. Thanks so much. All right. I'm going to be in Santa Ana doing a Newman dock there. We're doing a live, sorry, pod there. That'll be the Jordan Family Classic Cars. That'll be March 22nd, Santa Ana, California. All the Newman race cars are there, so come by and say hi. And I'll be in Nebraska on March 27th, 28th. Just go to Adam. The merch store is open, by the way. 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