Adam Carolla Show

Get his new book, Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations, available now!

Ron, of course Panera, we talked about starting that Iconic chain and then a bond pain. I forgot about that back in the day as well. It's a huge industry now and runs here to talk.

I think you're ready to run a restaurant.

Let me give the book a plug, Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations.

The book, I'm basically an atheist, not Jewish. Had a step-grandfather who was a Hungarian Jew who fled during World War II because his family was being exterminated. And I learned a lot from him, and I've always just been a fan of the Jews without any attachment to them. Spiritual attachment, but not religious attachment. But I've always been like, the Jews aren't the problem. Wherever they are, they're not the problem, and that's just my bird's eye view of the Jews, and I've never wavered from it, and it's even stronger today. I can't figure out why so many people don't share that opinion.

I'm a fan of a lot of Jews. I'm also an enemy of a lot of Jews. I'm an enemy of Norman Finkelstein, who was a Jewish anti-Semite. Gertrude Stein, who supported Adolf Hitler and nominated him for the Peace Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize. So there are good Jews and there are bad Jews, and there are religious Jews and there are secular Jews like me, but the one thing that unites all Jews is that so many people hate us without understanding, without any good reason. They just hate Jews. Sometimes it comes from the right, sometimes it comes from the left. Today it even comes from the center, and people forget that the attack on Jews didn't start when Israel went into Gaza. It started the day after the horrible barbarism of October 7th, when women were raped and children beheaded and burned. That's when the attack on Jews began.

I think people don't realize that in any war, there's a ratio of civilians to combatants. And I know maybe Iraq, it was three or four to one with America, three or four civilians per soldier. I think Israel's got it down to two to one, which is statistically low, which is all stuff that nutty emotional people don't want to hear, but it actually makes a difference when you're talking about this.

The book is called War Against the Jews, How to End Hamas Barbarism, and also you should check out War on the Woke as well because Alan is, I don't know, I find you fascinating, I admire your energy, I admire your stamina, 85 years young, still a flamethrower, still bringing it. I'll tell Mark Geragos you said hi when we wrap it up here. Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa to everybody.

The same thing is true in universities today. There's nobody there to stand for principle. Everybody is part of a group. Today, when you go to college, you specialize in black studies or in women's studies or in gay studies. You don't specialize in learning. You don't specialize in learning how to think.

His new book, Moonshot, is available now!

Adam's guest today, Greg Fitzsimmons and the author of Moonshot, former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino.

I got the rights to a Gene Wilder book called "My French Whore", I'm calling it "My French Amour", which is a World War one spoof, a comedy, a bittersweet comedy set against world...

This is a Gene Wilder book. Yep, a novel. He wrote. I didn't know he wrote novels. Well, he did.

And he wrote books, great baseball books on Willie made fireside book of baseball.

My friend, Steve Emerson, who has been studying that for even longer than I do, especially in America, he wrote a book called Jihad in America, knew about it also.

Meredith Wilson the great composer of Music Man took him seven years to write that amazing wonderful musical Music Man right Meredith Wilson and There's it was an old fable that he used to

Tell people and that was the king was so pleased with the music of his horn and cornet players he said bring me your horns and Your instruments your brass instruments, and I will fill them with gold And Meredith Wilson said the the musician in the story

Turned and looked away and said and there I stood with my piccolo You can't put You might be able to roll up a dollar Hookers G string or something. Yeah, but yeah, they're no room for change in a piccolo

And, and Dawson, Dawson has it now. I'd forgotten about it, but somebody tweeted this to me.

I wrote this in one of my books called President Me.

Teddy and Booker T.: How the two American icons blazed a path for racial equity.

He's got Mike Rowe on the back of the book. I go, Mike, he's all about blue collar jobs. Be ready for a white collar job, but be prepared to do a blue collar job. You're never going to be out of work.

And I just thought when this guy makes his life, when he was born a slave, literally no shoes until he was 10 years old, slept on the floor. I don't think we have any excuses.

And get this, Adam, he loved the country.

Let me give you a plug, Brian Kilmeade, Teddy and Booker T.: How to American icons blazed a path for racial equality. There you go.

I do have another book though. I did that you know the kind of Atypical the jokes that I've written along the way and the stories I've lives I've lived as a young comedian, you know that kind of book.

Yeah called a grown-ass man.

It would have meant nothing as opposed to my favorite trophy, although it later broke when I was using it as a kicking tee in front of my dad's house playing football alone once again reading some Leo Buscaglia books Scott Whitman

Mine cup, Mine cup, yeah, that's Ed FunnyBrad on Twitter.

It was like when when if Paltrow and Chris Martin right when they broke up it was a Conscious Uncoupling like right No one cares. I

Are We There Yet? My journey from a messed up to oh sorry my journey from mess it should say a messed up to meaningful life.

Oh, a messed up to meaningful life. Sorry, I screwed that. I wanted Are We There Yet? If we lived here, we'd be home now. But the publisher, they always get involved, don't they?

No, it's available wherever you find a finer books.

We're going to say that if you can get through the first six chapters without killing yourself, it's actually an uplifting tale. I watched a video last night. It's very inspiring.

The book. Are We There Yet? My journey from a messed up to a meaningful life.

Yeah, I started a blog called Exploding My Brain.

I wrote my innermost thoughts.

It's about being pregnant.

It's a humor book about pregnancy.

You know what? That is an amazing idea.

Although Adam didn't follow his stuff like post like 1990s and there's a great 2005 album called master of disaster.

I've tried to get Adam to listen to like 10 times on the road.

He's like, is this John Hyatt?

And then he always has to talk about something, turn it down.

Yeah his movie's good. Yeah it's uh 'Always the Road Dog' I think it's called.