After Party with Emily Jashinsky - Shocking NEW Pretti Video and Hollywood Hypocrisy, with Adam Carolla, PLUS Nicki Minaj Teams Up with Trump

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

Emily Jashinsky opens up the show with a look at the 2026 midterm cycle and explains that while it may feel like Democrats are gaining momentum, the data shows their advantage is far smaller than it was in 2018. She explains what this all means and if Democrats could underperform. Then Emily is joined by Adam Carolla, host of “The Adam Carolla Show,” to discuss the newly surfaced footage that shows Alex Pretti confronting agents days before his death. They also discuss how elites like Ellen DeGeneres, Stephen Colbert, and politicians add fuel to the fire instead of helping to calm matters, and the Ilhan Omar town hall scare. Then the conversation turns to Neil Young’s peace offering to Greenland, Spencer Pratt’s mayoral bid and if Adam would support him, and that Sydney Sweeney lingerie stunt.  Emily wraps up the show with a fun look at the blossoming friendship between President Trump and his self-proclaimed number one fan, Nicki Minaj. Lovebirds Food: Take back your breakfast with Lovebird Cereal. Visit https://lovebirdfoods.com/AFTERPARTY and use code AFTERPARTY for 25% off your first order VanMan: Discover VanMan’s Pearl Eye Cream—real, nutrient-rich ingredients for skin and eye health; visit https://vanman.shop/afterparty and use code AFTERPARTY for 15% off your first order. Cardiff: Get fast business funding without bank delays—apply in minutes with Cardiff and access up to $500,000 in same‑day funding at https://Cardiff.co/EMILY Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to After Party, everyone, the show that you watch when you just can't get enough of these awful news cycles. Please make sure to subscribe, by the way, so you never miss great guests. Like tonight, Adam Carolla, the one and only Adam Carolla. I had a chance to chat with them just a couple of hours ago, which means we pre-taped. So I will be in the chat. One of the benefits of watching live is I get to give my commentary on the interview with all of you on the YouTube live chat. So head on over there if you want to participate in all of the fun. It was a very big news day to have Adam on the show.

Actually, just before we went to air, new video came out of Alex Prattie from January 13th, so about 10 days before he was killed in the streets of Minneapolis. And you're going to want to stick around to see it in just one moment. We also went over some of the celebrity meltdowns in the last couple of weeks, really the last couple of days, over what they see as a, what's the right way to put it? Who used the word? Well, we have Stephen Colbert drawing Nazi comparisons. We have Jimmy Kimmel crying.

You know Adam's thoughts on that. And of course, Ellen, the one and only Ellen DeGeneres. We get Adam, who I tell during the interview, the number one video of all time of this show, since we launched back in June, is Adam Carolla talking about Ellen DeGeneres? It's probably not what you would guess for the top video, the top performing video on YouTube of this show. but it is and I think it's probably one of the top performing videos because it's just so hilarious to hear out of Corolla, spill some tea about what went on behind the scenes at Ellen's talk show. This time around we got him to weigh in on Ellen's bizarre Instagram post about the Predy case. So all that

more coming up in just a moment. I'm also going to go through some great clips of Donald Trump and Nikki Minaj today. That happened. So there's a lot of Lots to get to. I want to start first, though, with a look at where Democrats stand politically amidst all of this, because right now it feels like we are in 2018. We have very short memories in political commentary and as voters, honestly, people are busy. But what we feel like right now where you can sense Democrats momentum building. I was watching Donald Trump's rally in Iowa yesterday, and he was already clearly setting the stage for a midterm, loss. He said, listen, the party empowered historically doesn't do well in midterm elections. He was

all but begging the audience to remember what he was pitching as the economic benefits and successes of the Trump administration as he was saying, you know, part of the reason I'm here in Iowa is so that you remember what happened with the tax cuts and with the John Deere Excavator Factory that's going up in North Carolina that he was trumpeting when you vote in the midterm election. come November. So obviously Republicans are already worried about it. That's why he's doing this economic tour swing through some critical states because they want to pitch what's been happening economically. He talked a lot about Biden last night in Iowa, by the way. I'm not sure that's exactly the right way to go, though it is always entertaining to hear him talk about Crooked Joe,

who he also calls Sleepy Joe. And he talked a little bit about using both crooked and sleepy last night, just it was typical, entertaining all the way through. But entirely focused on the economic message, not quite. Unclear to me if Susie Wiles was super stoked about that rally speech, because all of the news cycle, this isn't all Trump's fault either, but it was completely focused on immigration. And you may forget that back in 2018, it was health care and immigration. the media was focused on, Democrats were focused on, and the issues were going very, very well for Democrats. But right now, while things feel like they're shifting towards Democrats, they're actually not shifting as much as they did. So I'm going to pull up some numbers here from Real Clear Politics.

These are very, very interesting. There are three pieces I'm going to go through before we bring Adam in. But I want to start just looking at where the numbers are here. RCP has its generic congressional ballot overtime up right now. And you can see the spread as of today, January, so you can get it, go to January 27. So as of yesterday, Democrats are up 4.7 in RCP's aggregate of generic congressional ballots. This is always a good way to check the overall midterm mood because you have complicated races around the country. So you can kind of track. It's not perfect. It's not the perfect picture, but over time, it's generally a pretty accurate sense of the mood that you're going to get when you start counting returns actually on election night. And of course, in 2018, Democrats had a very, very, very big night. So let's go ahead and pull up where they were at this time in the 2018 midterm cycle. I love on RCP how you can go back. So I'll scroll to January here. And so remember they're at four point average right now. This exact day, January 28th, 2018, Dems had an almost double margin of advantage in the generic congressional ballot. 7.9% January 28th, 2018. That's very significant. And that means people who are saying Democrats could overplay their hands are probably wise right now to caution the party. The other reason this feels like the similar cycle to 2018 is that it's a media story, right?

That the legacy media, which is less powerful now than it was in 2018, though it is still very powerful, focused. And we all remember the disproportionate focus when you juxtaposed. It wasn't a perfect apples to apples, but when you juxtapose kids in cages, family separation under the Obama administration with Trump administration policies, that was a narrative that created basically a political wave. And it's not to discount voters for what they were seeing and say that they were insincere. It's just to say that media coverage and the choices that these legacy outlets make absolutely affect what gets talked about.

And there's manipulation going on behind the scenes. Like you've all seen Veep and West Wing to try and spin the media and to push the media to cover X, Y, and Z. and they're much more receptive to those efforts when they're coming from Democrats. And you're seeing tons and tons of immigration coverage. Part of that is because the Trump administration is obviously focused on immigration and is also trying to push the media to cover immigration. But Democrats took that.

Got to find this article because the headline says, the headline speaks volumes. This is the New York Times in the middle of the 2020 Democratic Democratic. primary. The headline here is Democrats veer left on immigration at debates, pleasing base, parentheses, and Trump. Interesting. We all remember that, too. This is June 29th, 2019, as the debates were happening. And this is what pushed almost every, Joe Biden was the moderate, like, quote unquote, moderate on the debate stage in 2020. And yes, it did please Donald Trump, who ultimately did not prevail over Joe Biden. But Democrats sprinted left, sprinted left on this issue in the 2020 primary cycle. Joe Biden gets into office and fearful of alienating the base and hubristic, confident

about what they can get away with policy-wise just completely reverses, completely reverses stringent immigration restrictions that have been put in place during the Trump administration so that they could go out and say, listen, we have achieved victory over Trumpism. It's not just about the base. They thought that this would play well with the broader public. And, of course, anybody who followed immigration closely could have told you that they were creating a massive magnet system for people to start trekking up through Central America and into Mexico and then finally across the United States border.

It was very obvious. People were on WhatsApp chat saying, we got in, we got in, because the Biden administration, again, fearful and fearful of being decried by the base and eager to take a win over Trumpism, to rebuke Trumpism, was not detaining people who were making asylum claims. They got rid of Remain in Mexico, and they were letting people into the country before their asylum, hearings before the claims were processed. And in some cases, as the numbers of folks who were coming in, stacked up, up, but, they were getting asylum appointments years in the future. Now, the asylum backlog has lessened over the last year since Donald Trump has come back into office. But all of

this is to say that it is worth pausing and taking a look at why Democrats lead their advantage from 2018, January 27th, January 28th, so 27th of, as we looked at, 2026 versus January 28th of 2020, I'm sorry, 2018. Why has their advantage been cut in half? What's going on with that? Well, Roy Tchahera, who has a great, great subset called the Liberal Patriot, wrote a piece that you should check out. It was called Democrats and the Sirene call. of culture denialism. He published this last week and he just pointed out an article from Axios that I meant to call attention to on this show. We ran out of time last week, but he points out that this article polled 20 Democrats who could potentially be, quote, contenders for the

2028 presidential nomination on the following questions. Should transgender girls be able to participate in girls sports? Do you believe transgender youths under age 18, should be able to be placed on puberty blockers and hormones. What is your response to the question, can a man become a woman? Of the 20 contenders, 17 declined to provide answers to Axios. Of the three that did, Josh Shapiro, Pete Buttigieg and Rom Emmanuel, only Emmanuel provided unhedged answers. And even here to only two of the questions, can a man become a woman? No.

And should transgender girls be able to participate in girls sports? No. Roy goes on to say, interestingly, Gavin Newsom, who refused to provide. answers here did attempt one in another context on his own podcast as guest ben jpropos pointed out the question that you're not wanting the answers whether boys can become girls newsome replied quote yeah i just well i think uh for the grace of god absolutely nailed it um smooth operator that gavin newsome but roy is trying to he's he's been attempting to raise the red flag on these issues for years and just pointing out the democratic

are being led by their base to get wildly out of touch with the voters. So the grassroots base is leading them down this primrose path to 2024-style-wokeness, where you get your Democratic presidential candidate having signed that ACLU pledge that was featured in the quote, Kamala is for they, them, ads that have in studies proven devastating to her swing state margins and critical in delivering the election to Donald Trump. That is exactly how you get a candidate who can't escape the stench of just checking a box on an ACLU petition. The sort of centrist them is like to talk about the, quote, groups, the nonprofits that are disproportionately, as we talk about here all the time, Charles Murray pointed out in 2012's coming apart,

and Charles was kind enough to come on the show back in December, but these educated elites just live different lives and are no longer even able to recognize the thickness of the wall from within the bubble, right? They don't even understand how thick the wall is that keeps them from the rest of the public. And it seems like the 2016 election and the 2024 elections have still not woken anybody up to that other than Roy Tachara, some people like Matt Iglesias, Noah Smith, who are trying to come up with answers to this. I'm sure behind closed doors, Democrats admit that this is a significant problem, transgender issues, immigration issues. But, I mean, as Noah Smith says here, Bill Clinton had no problem differentiating between legal and illegal immigration in 1995 and declaring

that America had a right to kick out people who come illegally. I have seen no equivalent expression of principle during the second Trump presidency. Every Democrat and progressive thinker can articulate a principle opposition to the brutality and excesses of ICE into the racism that animates Trump's immigration policy, Smith says. But when it comes to the question of whether illegal immigration itself should be punished with deportation, Democrats and progressives alike, laps into an uncomfortable silence. And this is where I think it is so interesting to take a look at what Taibi, so Matt Taibi, I said there were going to be three pieces. One is liberal patriot, one is in Rackett, and it was written by Taibi and the others in the New York Times. So let's move on

to Matt Taibi's piece. He looks here at a Gallup poll that we looked at on this show recently. as well. U.S. political party identification 1998 through 2025. Republican and Democrat tied at 27, 27% of the public. 27% both, identification with both has

declined overall. It looks like there's one low for Republicans that even comes close right before 2015. So that would have been in the Tea Party wave when a lot of conservatives didn't want to consider themselves Republicans, so that kind of makes sense. But 2014, and that's interesting, too, because 2014 was a great year electorally for Republicans. But anyway, all that is to say

is these are lows in recent history for both parties. And 45%, meanwhile, since the end of the Bush administration, that's where independents are. You've seen a skyrocketing from around 35% to 45%, so a 10% double-digit increase in Americans who consider themselves independent, unparalleled, in modern history. It was somewhere around 40 towards the end of the Bush administration as well. But very, very interesting, right? And this goes to Democrats incorrectly reading the mood of, or not even being able to correctly read the mood of the public because they're in such a bubble, right? And I think that's a serious problem. I think it's obviously a serious problem for the midterms. I would expect Trump to be proven correct, party in power.

doesn't do great in the midterm election cycle. But a couple of things could happen. I think it's likely Democrats don't do as well, unless there's some major pivot between now in November or some Black Swan type of event that they did in 2018. And I think it's also possible they fall into the exact same cycle of, as Noah Smith pointed out, in the piece Roy was pointing to,

the exact same cycle of saying, we now have a mandate to go full balls to the wall progressive on our immigration policy and eschew everything that even progressive politicians said about immigration, legal versus illegal immigration, what Bernie Sanders said for years, what many old school leftists said for years about labor and immigration, we're just going to throw that all out the window because the ideologues who no longer believe in borders, which again, It's a perfectly fine position to have if you're honest about it. I don't agree with it, but at least be honest about it. I have some friends who are perfectly honest about it. Fine.

We can have that conversation. But Joe Biden was just utterly incompetent and had people in the administration that were ideologically pulling the strings without him being conscious enough to even recognize what was happening or competent enough to deal with it. Finally, the New York Times points out as well that this is a problem for Democrats because their own morale is sinking. So this is Tom Edsel who points out, a peer research study showed that in late September, 67% of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated.

Asked why the dominant pre-shutdown response of frustrated Democrats is that the party is not pushed back hard enough against the Trump administration. Okay. Pushing back against the Trump administration, as Noah Smith noted, and then having a reasonable, proactive policy agenda, a policy offensive to replace the Trump administration is a very different thing. So if Democrats read staunch opposition to the Trump administration as an invitation for them to repeat Biden-era immigration policies because now it's becoming mainstream for Democrats

say they want to abolish ICE, if they come into office and show voters what abolishing ICE would actually look like. Just as some voters right now are realizing they don't love the mass deportations of the Trump administration in practice, that Democrats are in trouble. Because it looks like the public, I always say about the trans issue, it does matter, even though the country sort of feels like it's come up with a good answer to that. It's kind of trying to turn the page, 80-20 issue, all of that. Sure. But it's also a litmus test. And Democrats are on record for a decade now. going hard in the paint on transgender ideology. And if you can't give an honest, authentic explanation for why that happened and also come down on the right side of the issue, I think it's just a trust litmus test.

So the more Republicans bring it up, the more it's harmful for Democrats because they have to talk about it and they don't have great responses to it. Now, obviously didn't work in the Virginia election. We've covered that too. I don't think you can just talk about culture. But if you can make the dumb candidate look untrustworthy because they just can't give a good answer to that question, it makes them trust the Republican candidate more on other things too. And also have Democrats take that as an invitation, as they did after 2018 in the 2020 primary, to just go hard in the paint and court the base and totally get rid of norms that dominated Democratic Party. well, I shouldn't even say that, but totally run away from positions that most Democratic voters are not with the activist and elite class on. Then you have a real problem. So I think some of that

explains why we're seeing what we're seeing here. Again, just to put RCP up on the screen before I wrap, you see Trump's unfavorability. He's 10 points underwater in favorability. Direction of country, right direction, 38% of people. He's at a 42.8% approval rating. Democratic Party favorability, and this is a very critical point, is negative 20, Republican Party favorability is negative 13. So while you hear the pundit class right now, looking at these numbers on immigration for Democrats and saying, as I've said several times, that the Trump administration has a political problem on its hands with ICE and with Minneapolis, what that doesn't mean is Democrats have a solution or have an advantage because clearly it's not true that this is

the rising tide that lifts the Democratic boat or that as the Trump tide goes down, the Democratic boat goes up. I'm mixing all kinds of metaphors here and making very little sense. But I think it's really worth pausing on that. What both parties want is honesty and authenticity. That's what voters want. They want to feel like Democrats, even if they don't agree with them on some of those cultural issues, kind of get it and are honest people. And it's going to be hard to do that if you aren't saying what you really believe in about the Biden immigration policy or the Trump immigration policy or the trans policy, any of those things. It just you have to bridge the Trump gap. And I think that's where these media cycles are probably partially why the gap for Democrats has

a bit. Legacy media isn't as popular as it is. They can't totally coast off of that. Nick Shirley obviously proved as much in December. So something to keep in mind here, Dems are less favorable in the RCP aggregate than Republicans and by a significant number, about seven points, a little under six points. Or I'm sorry, a little over six points. All right. Enough of me. You're here for Adam Carolla and I know it. Obviously, why wouldn't you be here for Adam Carolla? Have lots of good stuff to get to with him. I am, of course, going to jump into the chat. But first, let's take a quick break here. I want to talk a little bit. Let me find it here. Make sure that I get it all right. Here we go. There we are. All right. I want to talk a little bit about what I had for dinner.

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That's right. The Trump Kennedy Center. All right, Adam. The most watched video in the history of this show is you talking about Ellen DeGeneres. So we're going to get to her in just one moment because I want to recreate that magic, see if we can. But first, I know, I know. But first, there's actually breaking news. The BBC obtained video from January 13th.

So what, like a week before Alex Prattie's death of a man who looks just like Alex Prattie in Minneapolis. This time kicking a car. It looks like they think this car is law enforcement. This video just came in as we're sitting here talking. Let's take a look at it and I want to get your reaction. This is a moment. the news movement filmed on January 13th in Minneapolis, showing a man who appears to be Alex Prattie interacting with federal immigration agents 11 days before Border Patrol shot and killed him.

Our footage was analyzed by the BBC, whose facial recognition technology confirmed his identity to a 97% degree of accuracy. During the altercation, agents fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd. They continued to hold the man down before they retreat, and he walks away. The man in our footage is wearing a similar outfit to what Preddy was wearing on the day he was killed. What appears to be a gun is also visible above his waistband. So CNN reported just yesterday, Preddy had injured a rib in a prior scuffle during whatever whatever we want to call what's happening in that video.

And his parents reportedly also told him to be careful before he went out protesting. This makes a little bit more sense. That context all makes a little bit more sense seeing this Adam. You know, it's funny with the left and all their heroes like Michael Brown or George Floyd or whatever. It always, it never works out. It's just never works out. Like, it's never who they want that person to be. You know what I mean? And I don't want to be insensitive and say anybody deserves to die, whether it's George Floyd or Michael Brown or any of these people. It's just their narrative always gets screwed up. It's always the gentle, giant and the dad and the guy you know the guy's just going out for a pack of cigarettes and all

the sudden and it always gets screwed up somehow you know and you know you're still going to have to look at the footage of the shooting and we're still going to figure out whether it was good or bad in terms of you know when officers talk they goes at a good good shooting or bad shooting or whatever and it still looks pretty bad and so on and so forth but they're guys you know the gentle nurse who like the outdoors and mountain bike riding it just never works out in terms of the left's themes and in this video you also just get a flavor of what ice in the area cbp i mean obviously it was cbp who shot him but you see what the streets of minnesota have been like minneapolis have been like for several weeks 10 days leading up to what happened last saturday

and uh you know just it's been like that i mean we're we're only watching this now because it looks like it's pretty but this has been going on every single day. Well, he spit on the car as well and it wasn't just sort of like kick the side of the door. He took the tail light out like with a very violent roundhouse kick. So now it kind of makes sense that he's on the radar and he's considered violent because he's moving in a violent way. And he obviously spits on the car there and then throws multiple kicks and ends up knocking the, the tail light out. Like, look, I will say this. Nobody deserves to be shot, but some people deserve to be shot more than others. It's a spectrum. It's a spectrum. Like, if you're sitting at home and you're

reading the Bible, you don't deserve to be shot. And if you're out on the streets, tussling and grappling and fighting with ice guys and spitting on their cars and kicking their SUVs and cursing at them. You don't deserve to be shot either, but you deserve to be shot more than someone who never left the house. Now, Hollywood is reacting predictably. Ethan Hawke has talked about how he feels like he's in a country he doesn't recognize. It's very hard for him to speak out now. I think we have Ellen. Let's put this up on the screen. Ellen, who I mentioned earlier, posted on Instagram,

quote, it's a tough day to feel like celebrating a birthday. This was on Saturday. I'm holding space for what's happening in our world and holding close what I'm grateful for. Like my wife and cookies. There she is with Portia. And let's also roll, this is Kimmel. Let's roll S3 here.

He reacted on Monday. If our leaders are intentionally creating, and encouraging violence and fear, then I hope you will also agree we need new leaders, because these are not leaders. And to the people of Minneapolis, to the Freddie family and the good family, and these people who were looking out for their neighbors, we want you to know that we are with you and you are not alone. I just get frustrated with this, Adam, because during the Biden administration,

to call what was happening on the border, a humanitarian catastrophe, almost understated it. And I don't remember many of these people reacting to what was happening there every single day with tears or holding space, as Ellen said. Well, Ellen, it's easier for me to talk crap about Ellen because they're just like Ellen. But based on experience, obviously. I'm not making it up out of a whole cloth. But the problem getting back to the narrative is these guys are our neighbors that are our neighbors that are out in the streets protecting our neighbors when they're spitting on SUVs and throwing roundhouse kicks at them. It's not exactly the portrait that gets painted. Now, it always, you know,

obviously Jimmy said that. Jimmy, by the way, people make fun of him crying. He cried on the last episode of The Man Show. That's awesome. He's a crier. What can I say? You know, people make fun of them, but I don't know. I feel like, I don't know. That's a point. A poetic way to end the man show in tears. Well, he wasn't saying, he wasn't saying that it was sad that the man show is over. He was referring to me as his best buddy. And he got choked up. And it means something to me.

He is a passionate, a passionate guy. Now, again, the themes end up taking a beating because all this stuff ends up coming out later about Brady or whom. whomever. But obviously there is something going on where people are looking at everything through the wrong or another lens. Because when Jimmy says, you know, our leaders are causing this, I'm like, yeah, Tim Walz is causing this and Fry is causing this. And Gavin Newsman is agitating Ilhan Omar and all these people, our leaders are agitating these people and they're going out in the street and wrestling with ice. So I think of it the same way he thinks of it. I'm just thinking of different leaders. Well, here's why people are doing it. It's because folks like Stephen Colbert are

saying things like this. Let's roll S2. Bevino went on complaining. Look, Dana, they're trying to portray border patrol agents and ICE agents as Gestapo, Nazi, and many other words. Yes, do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison. Harrison, the Nazis were willing to show their faces. Okay, Adam, I have to think that type of thing is contributing to people getting out and, you know, like that video that appears to be pretty, kicking out the taillights of ice cars and spitting on them. Look, if you constantly refer to the other side as Nazis, then it's going to be real easy to assassinate somebody because that's what any good citizen would do to fight against a Nazi. or Hitlerian type. It's a kind of a math.

You cannot constantly call somebody a Nazi or Hitler and not expect someone to take a shot at them because that's what a true patriot would do. The French underground were heroes because they fought Nazis. And in a world where we really don't like killing and deceit and trickery and sabotage, we were all about that with the French resistance.

They were the underground and they're heroes now because of it and heroes then because of it. So if they were fighting Nazis, so if you're going to keep calling one side Nazis, then you're going to get this and more of it and more assassination attempts. Now, to be fair to Stephen Colbert or to Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or any of these Chuck Schumer or any of these crackpots, They're old, rich people who in no way, shape, or form believe Donald Trump is a Nazi. 100%. They don't believe it. They'll take his money for their next campaign. They'll get on a phone call with him, and they'll get on a Merlago and have gazpacho

with the guy who runs the Gestapo. They have no problems with that. They don't believe it. Colbert knows it. They all know it. They're not dumb. They're educated people, and they're not foolish. But the 19-year-old who's on all the serotonin reuptake inhibitors and is looking at his furry videos 24-7 and steals his dad's hunting rifle, he believes them.

And that's the problem. There's no way Chuck Schumer believes any of this stuff. He's a professional politician, Nancy Pelosi. These people have been around the block a million times. I've probably been to Trump's wedding, for Christ's sake. They don't believe it for a second, and neither is Gavin Newsom, neither is Kamala Harris. None of them believe it. It's just rhetoric to them, except for to the 19-year-old who's on the meds.

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And Omar has, dare I say, a fairly impressive response. Let's roll S-1 here. And DHS Secretary Kristy Noem must resign or face impeachment. Oh, go. I don't know. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I need a napkin to know nothing.

I need a napkin to know nothing. No, no. You need to go here chicken. We will continue. These fucking assholes are not going to get away. We're going to keep talking. Just give me 10 minutes. Just give me 10 minutes.

I beg you. Please don't let them have the show. Please don't let them have the show. Here is the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand. We are Minnesota strong and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw in us. they might throw in us. I don't know, Adam.

I don't know if that's Minnesota Strong or like Kenyan refugee camp strong, which is where, of course, she went after Smiley. That was pretty impressive. Yeah, she's a, it shows she's a real honey badger this one. She's mean, too, because she charged at the guy, whereas most people would have been completely freaked out and gone the other direction. She, she walked with purpose, Adam.

And Zoe, it's also poetic that she was right in the middle of impeaching Chrissy Nome when it did it. And I don't know why I'm obsessed with her going up an octave on everything. You know, she goes, we must impeach Christine Nome? Huh? Everything's like, uh, uh, is that all Somalis? Or is that just her? Like, why did she? Oh, that's Minnesota.

Hmm. I've been ice fish in a time or two, and I don't remember that. Really? But all right. She is really one of the people I hate the most on the planet. I hate her because I don't mind people that hate this country, even though I don't like them. But I do hate people that claim to love this country, but evidently hate this country. But I hate ingrates.

And I hate someone this country does something for and then hates this country. this the guy from Kentucky who was born and bred here who hates his country i don't like him but i don't hate him nearly as much as somebody who this country rescued hating this country now she would never say she hates this country but i've never heard her say anything good about this country right it's it's constantly negative and i wanted to ask people are suspecting this is set up it doesn't look set up to me at all, Adam. I mean, that looked, that looked real. This band has been arrested. He seems like kind of a strange dude. I don't like to see this type of thing in town hall, no matter who's speaking, obviously. But did you get the sense that there was anything set up there?

No, I did not. And those thoughts didn't enter my virgin brain. But people did say it looked cooked, or maybe it was cooked. And as I've said on my podcast, look, I didn't want to go here, but so many things, especially around race, have been hoaxes over the last several years that you can't say never.

You have to go, well, okay, because every single thing that has to do with a progressive Democrat, and especially if there's race involved at all, has turned out to be a lie over the last 10 years. And so now you kind of have to, you have to treat it as if you had a spouse that cheated. And then you go, oh, he said he was going out to the movies the other night,

but he didn't get home until 2 in the morning. And you go, do you think he's cheating? And it's like, I don't think he's cheating, but cannot rule it out because of his past. Well, I do have some good news. And this involves Neil Young, of course. We can throw this up on the screen. Big, big announcement for the good people of Greenland, courtesy of the one and only

Neil Young, who announced that he was making his catalog free in Greenland to compensate for what Donald Trump has put the country through recently. So he posted basically saying, I'm honored to give a free years access to neel Young Archives.com to all of our friends in Greenland. I hope my music and music films will ease some of the. unwarranted stress and threats you're experiencing from our own popular and hopefully temporary government. Whenever, yeah, whenever I'm feeling blue and down and like I've been bullied by president, I love hearing Neil go, for dead in Ohio, for dead in Ohio, for y'all, boy, now I'm dancing.

I feel so much better. I forgot about all my worries. It almost makes a Greenland winter feel like in Minnesota summer. It's a cockle warmer is what it is. I also like that it's only 365 days, so you hit day 366. It is done. No more free Neil Young. I guess they're all narcissists at the end of the day, right?

Like I always just, every road leads to narcissism when you're like, what is propelling all these people or all these women talking into their cell phones, making proclamations about fighting ice and standing up or shaving their head or what have you. If you're a man and you want to date me, but you voted for it's all narcissism. That's what I'm realizing. Religion is gone. It left.

It left a vacuum. Narcissism came in and filled it. And here we are. Well, something you're familiar with in California is narcissism. So I wanted to get your take on Spencer Pratt appearance on Fox and Friends. Pratt is obviously running for mayor of Los Angeles, and the city has just, I mean, you know this much better than I do, been utterly destroyed by deep blue leadership. And Pratt is trying to fix things. He was obviously a victim of the horrific policy fire a year ago. And that seems to have motivated him to get into politics. The narcissism and egoism of Karen Bass makes her particularly vulnerable.

Let's take a listen here to Spencer on Fox and Friends just this morning. Yeah, one thing people, you know, that I'll read on the internet, they're like, oh, he just cares about the palisades. Well, what everyone in Los Angeles should be concerned about is if these city leaders are fine with letting people burn alive, covering it up, 7,000 structures, that's the first red flag. What are they doing in South Central or other parts of Los Angeles that don't have me going deep in and exposing it? So, I mean, anybody that drives around the streets of L.A., it's where in the darkest times ever. the homelessness crisis is insane. The drugs, I mean, I now am working with animal rescue people on Skid Row. They're torturing and mutilating dogs daily just on the side of the street.

These people are not even getting because people are on drug, like, just these are mentally ill drug-related crazy people. And they're just letting it happen. What do you make the Pratt candidacy, Adam? Listen, I'm from here and I'm all for anything. If somebody said, look, we would like to elect one of those plastic owls people put on the roof to stop seagulls from crapping on their shingles, I'd go, let's do it. Over Karen Bass? I mean, sure. I mean, you really have to think about it.

Literally, nobody is better than somebody if somebody's horrible. Karen Bass is not, you know, she's inept, but her policies are. destructive. It's not, you know, she's, she's not neutral and she's not, you know, just sort of like, you know, a five out of ten. She has really bad ideas and they cause problems. And that's what we're dealing with in California. The same with with Newsom. They're not inert. They actually caused damage. So you can go, what qualifications does Spencer Pratt have and who decided and you really think this or he's a reality. Anything would be better than Karen Bass.

She's an imbecile. And I don't know that she even wants to rebuild L.A. But she certainly has no skills. She'd rather be in Ghana or in Cuba than in Los Angeles. So good. Get her out. She's dumb and she's destructive. And we only voted for it.

It was a DEI thing. We love the idea of the first female. first black female. So we got the first black female and she's a dope and she's ruined the city. Okay. Now you guys satisfied. Now let's get anybody else. And by the way, if you're choosing from the cast of the hill, Spencer Pratt isn't the worst way to go. So Adam, final on this point, final question, is it viable? I mean, do you think people are ready enough for something new? They're fed up enough with Bass who is running for re-election. I mean, what a terrible candidate if you're a Democrat. Is there something like, can he actually break through in this one?

I would say in years past, no, because we just went with a Democrat no matter what. But the bottoming out, which was the fire, it may be possible to get new blood. So what we do is, as I say, when are we going to get some change? And then someone goes, we haven't bottomed out yet. And I go, why do we have to bottom out to get some change? Why don't we just see which way we're going and change directions? Like, well, we haven't bottomed out. So I don't know why, but now the fire may mean we bottomed out.

Well, there are icons that dot the landscape of Los Angeles, and an icon in Sydney Sweeney went all the way up to the Hollywood sign, and she exerted so much energy. She put some bras up on the Hollywood sign. We can roll an S-5 on the screen right now. Incredible, incredible business move as she's launching a new lingerie line. Maybe she should be mayor of Los Angeles, actually, but this is how she did it. Here or there.

She put some bras on the Hollywood sign. Apparently it's in dispute whether she had the proper, the most California thing ever, the proper like permit and permission to go to the Hollywood side and put the bras on it. Oh, yeah. I mean, what do you make of this, Adam? This was a good move. It's how you sell your lingerie, suppose, is there's Sidney. I totally agree.

I used to live under the Hollywood sign. Hollywood sign used to be lit up with like 10,000 light bulbs, by the way. I don't know if you guys are aware of that, but initially when it was, I'll give you guys a little history of the Hollywood sign. Hollywood sign used to read Hollywood Land. Probably turn it down a little bit. Yeah, we can cut the video, guys. We see the bras.

The Hollywood Sign used to read Hollywood Land, and it was put up there by a developer who developed the residential neighborhood in the 20s, underneath the Hollywood sign. And Hollywood Land was just the name of the development. It wasn't supposed to have any symbolism other than this place called Hollywood Land, which is directly under the sign. It didn't mean Hollywood. And then at some point, the land part fell off.

And then the sign got in total disrepair. And at some point, a group led by Hugh Hefner from Playboy raised enough money privately to restore it to just say Hollywood. And now, of course, it's a landmark, but it was really just an advertisement for a residential neighborhood. And you thought you were clicking on this video to get some pictures of Sidney Sweeney and her bras,

but actually you've got a great, rich Hollywood history lesson from Adam Carole. Thank you. That's beautiful. Oh, my goodness. Well, Adam Carolla is on tour this week. Adamcora.com slash tour. dates. He's going to be in New York City tomorrow. Two shows, Scaramucci and Kyle Donagan, and then

the great Craig Robinson, also in Chester, New York with the great Megan Kelly, and then here in Washington, D.C. for two shows at the Kennedy Center on Saturday. Adam, can't thank you enough for stopping by again. Really appreciate it. Thanks, Emily. Hey, everyone. That was fun. Welcome back to the show. It was such pleasure to have Adam on. Back on, I should say, after party during a very busy news cycle and a great news cycle for Adam, by the way, because Hollywood has really gone, paddled to the medal in the last couple of weeks, on returning to the culture war. It's award season, so that probably has something to do with it.

They're getting microphones shoved in their face at Sundance and are eager to, you know, weigh in. But there was a little bit of a cooling down period last year, at least. But sort of what we talked about earlier in the show. I mean, we're getting back into 2017-2018, America with 12 months of Trump 2.0. in the rear of your mirror. And, you know, it's interesting because on the one hand, you have, like, Tim Cook coming to the White House to screen Melania. And I think like Mike Tyson was at the screening too. You have a lot of really big business leaders who didn't want to touch Trump with a 10-foot pole back in 2016, 2017, 2018. They just didn't want to. And now, at least some

of them are willing to bite the bullet because they think they can be good for their business. So it's a little bit different, but at the same time, it's funny to watch the left fall into these patterns where, I mean, do I think people are going to like stop watching Ethan Hawk movies or Molly Ringwald en masse? Of course not. I think everybody knows they're sort of goofy lips, but it's not making their products. I mean, Colbert is a good example. Obviously, he's not going to have a future at CBS as of right now. But you're trying to sell products in a different media market now. And it's not preparing these companies to do well off-linear in the digital space. They're just, we talked about this in reference to CBS on Monday show. You can go check that out. But it's just a total muddle right now.

And nobody has a real sense of direction or a sense of moral clarity, unfortunately, though not surprisingly. All right. I have, speaking of celebrities, some videos of Nikki Minaj from Washington, D.C., right after this quick break. Want to start, though, by saying small businesses are the backbone of the American economy, but getting funding from traditional banks. It is an uphill battle, if you've ever done it. Of the 36 million small businesses in the U.S., over 70 percent report needing additional capital every year, while revenue is at an all-time high, big banks are tightening standards and approving fewer loans than ever, leaving owners stuck. with mountains of paperwork. But if you want bank rates without the bank delays, check out Cardiff.co, so cardiff.co, so cardiff.co slash Emily, for up to $500,000 in same-day funding.

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goes into an index fund, actually managed by the government. When you turn 18 years old, you get access to those funds, which I've heard some criticism of. Who knows what an 18-year-old with all of the compound interest that comes from $1,000, you know, adds up to. And whatever that adds up to over the course of 18 years, who knows what, the 18-year-olds of, what, 2043? Did I do math?

I can't do math. It's nobody fact-checked me. It's funnier if we don't. If 18-year-olds are getting access to the funding, who knows how that ends up going. But let us first start with a meme because why not? Incredible post on X here. IDK had to explain it, but this is how it feels when me and my 23-year-old co-worker are typing in the same Google talk. And it's an up-close image of Donald Trump's.

Let's say wrinkled hand. He's got the makeup over the bruising, clutching. clutching Nikki Minaj's hand with Nikki Minaj's nails. Just a, I think, a touching heart-woming photo that we can all appreciate. But Trump had some thoughts on the nails, actually. That probably doesn't surprise anyone. Here's what he said. She's been such a great supporter and a great supporter of Trump accounts.

And I said, I am going to let my nails grow because I love those nails. I'm going to let those nails grow. She's so good. She's been MAGA. What can I say? She's been with us all the way, right, Alex? She's been with us all the way. Just want to thank her.

Nikki, come on up. I mean, he paused for like a full 10 seconds. He loves her. All right. Now let's hear a little bit from Nikki Minaj. I think we have this sot ready to go. Nikki Minaj talking about how she believes herself to be the biggest Trump fan. This is S6.

I am probably the president's number one fan, and that's not going to change. And the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more. and it's going to motivate all of us to support him more. We're not going to let them get away with bullying him and, you know, the smear campaigns. It's not going to work. Okay? He has a lot of force behind him and God is protecting him.

Amen. Okay, so Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, has entered the Bees in the Trap, TikTok, trends. this one's going pretty viral right now. Here it is. Listening audience, you got Katie Miller and a pink pantsuit. Who's going to do the rap? Oh, it's Nicky Minaj. You know, Katie Miller worked for Mike Pence.

I wonder if she ever saw herself here. It's a question worth asking. I know the Republican Party didn't see themselves here, but it was always just a wish and a prayer that someday a major celebrity who wasn't named John Voight would embrace the GOP and come fully onto or into, I should say, the conservative movement. Nikki Minaj obviously was on stage with Erica Kirk as a surprise guest at Amfest. And she's really been fully embraced by the right. She had some interesting opinions. We covered this back in December when she was at Amherst.

But she, you take a look back. her evolution has been in plain sight. She had some interesting opinions during COVID. Going full, MAGA, some people say it's to get a pardon for, I think it's her brother. I have no idea what's going on with Nikki Benage, whether it's sincere or not. I think if people are going to embrace her as like a faith leader and a wonderful, all-around asset to American people. popular culture. We may need to see some changes. This is just, I know it's a bold take, but as a,

as a, you know, sort of lame conservative, you may need to see some, I should, I have to say, I'm duty-bound to say, you may need to see some changes in lyrics and wardrobe going forward, but I love Nikki Vonnage. I think Niki Vinaj is like one of the most famous people in the world for a reason. She's like incredibly entertaining. She knows how to work celebrity news, news cycles. She's completely in touch with pop culture. And it is a very interesting thing to have her aligned with the right in Trump 2.0, especially as, you know, she's in that clip she just mentioned with Donald Trump. She said, you know, I think the haters, I think that's how she phrased it. She were like, the haters are just making me like him more. That is abundantly clear. I was

scrolling through her X feed since she came out full MAGA. And she is digging her heels in. She is all for it. And it's clear that there's, what's interesting to me about that is this culture of conformity in Hollywood, actually that we were talking about with Adam, where everybody has the most trite, banal opinions on politics that they believe are actually nonconformist and brave and subversive. it created an opening for somebody to actually, and for people who have like artistic personalities and inclinations, as soon as they were comfortable kind of looking around and being like, okay, this is bullshit, right? Like everybody is singing from the same hymnal and saying things that don't make sense. California is in the state of ruin. You're saying boys can become girls. If you're artistically inclined, you want to challenge power. And it was clear that, you know, in the early Trump years, the left had,

become an entrenched dominant power in every single institution. I mean, you could even look at the military's embrace of DEI and say somehow the cultural left head sees our most, you quote unquote, conservative institution from Wall Street to Hollywood to lobbying groups, it was total monotony just across the board. everyone was anti-Trump, anti-Maga, anti-right populism, and still hadn't realized that doesn't make you like a cool, angry at the Bible Belt, hip person who left Missouri and made it in Hollywood. It's not what this is. Mark Ruffalo. He's actually from Wisconsin. But anyway, all that is to say, when the dominant power became the left, the dominant cultural institutional power became the left. And Trump has changed that a bit, of course. You've seen bending of the knee from Wall Street to Hollywood in some quarters, not everywhere.

It's mixed. It's modeled right now. That took people in different directions, like who have artistic inclinations. So you're going to get your Ethan Hawks, but now you're going to get your Nicki Minajus too. So that at least makes things much more interesting. And for that, we can be grateful. All right, everyone. I'm so bad about telling you to please subscribe if you haven't yet. Subscribe on the YouTube channel. It's a great way to help us. Tell your friends, like, comments, subscribe wherever you get your podcast. That's where I drop our happy hour episodes. They're audio only. They are on Fridays. If you have questions, I already have a bunch that have come up over the course of the last week. But I'm Emily at doublemaicaremedia.com. I need to email up on the

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Then did AM update. And now we're wrapping of after party for the evening. So I'm going to go to bed. Have a great night, everyone.