Adam Carolla GOES OFF on LA’s Heat Wave & Tennessee’s BOTCHED DEI Execution! w/ Mike Dawson

Adam Carolla Show

The hosts dissect a series of cultural and political missteps, starting with complaints about Los Angeles heat wave freeway signs that offer useless platitudes instead of actionable traffic advice. The conversation shifts to capital

Key takeaways

• Adam Carolla argues that mandatory lane-change signaling could reduce freeway accidents by 25%, criticizing current signs for offering only useless platitudes like 'keep cool.'
• Mike Dawson and Andrew Carolla conclude hanging is a more reliable, cost-effective execution method than lethal injection, which they view as politicized and botched.

Main topics

• LA heat wave and freeway signage
• Capital punishment methods (hanging vs lethal injection)

Notable quotes

"If we lived in a world where everyone judiciously signaled... I bet we would cut down on freeway accidents like 25%."

Conclusion

The episode serves as a satirical critique of modern political posturing,

Transcript preview

Speaker 8 (0:00) So in this episode, I'm going to clean out my junk drawer, all the stuff I wanted to talk about for the last few weeks. Finally going to get a chance to talk about Dawson's going to be in here and Dawson's going to do news as well right after this. BetOnline. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. The next big football moments, well, they're waiting for you at BetOnline. Back your team on a Sunday or ride. with a primetime underdog, build a same-game parlay, chase a player prop, or jump on live odds while the drive is still moving. From the biggest NFL matchups to college football Saturdays, every angle is covered at BetOnline. And when the final whistle blows, hundreds of slots, table games, and live dealers keep the night going. Enjoy the freedom of online gaming where the action moves with you and... Every moment is yours. Visit BetOnline today and discover where the action never stops. Speaker 7 (1:00) In this life, you can't win. When the world gets you down. No! Escape to Pluto TV. This is objectively fantastic. Relax into the movies and shows you already know and love all for free. Swing! Even our news is uplifting. Speaker 2 (1:13) You stay classy, San Diego. Speaker 7 (1:15) Watch School of Rock, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The X-Files, Wayne's World, and so much more. We're not! The best things on TV really are free. You just have to know where to look. Escape to Pluto TV. Stream now. Pay never. Speaker 3 (1:37) From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Today, we'll do the news with me, Mike Dawson. And now... Speaker 3 (1:49) Adam Speaker 2 (1:49) Carolla. All Speaker 1 (1:51) right. Speaker 2 (1:51) Well, back by popular Speaker 8 (1:52) demand. Awesome Dawson is in the studio. Now, we got a lot of stuff. Every once in a while, we're just going to hit my list of stuff that builds up and stuff I want to complain about and get into. And today's one of those days. It's an extensive list, ever-growing. It grows, and I don't get to all of it a lot of the time. So now I'll get to it. First. It's very hot here in Los Angeles, which is fine. I hate it. It also makes me realize. Speaker 8 (2:27) I say all the time, there is no car and no civilization that lives Speaker 1 (2:32) near the equator that manufactures an automobile. That can't be a coincidence. Germany, even in L.A. or sorry, even in the United States, we pick Dearborn, Michigan, coldest place around to build, to put huge factories and build cars. You keep in the heat. People don't get shit done. So I'm starting to realize. You find me a car that is built near the equator. You cannot do it. They're all away from the equator. I checked it out once. I can't think of one. Now, Speaker 5 (3:04) we Speaker 1 (3:05) will outsource our shit Speaker 5 (3:07) to places like Mexico and tell them to build our cars or Volkswagen will, but they don't build their own car. There's nothing. There's no rocket program. There's no jets made. There's no Sahara Motor Company. Nope. There probably is, but that's probably out of Flint. All Speaker 8 (3:22) right. But the point is, even like the Duesenbergs and stuff, the guys who were like in Indiana, I think Duesenberg was. Anyway, so Speaker 1 (3:32) it's hot. But I have to, now I can see the freeway sign. And by the way, when I say hot, it's 95 to 100 degrees, which is hot, but it's where we live. You're Speaker 8 (3:42) used Speaker 1 (3:42) to it. Speaker 8 (3:43) You're used to it. Speaker 1 (3:43) You live here. Again, a slight depression always comes over me because of growing Speaker 8 (3:49) up in a garage and on a service porch and no air conditioning ever and just sweltering in the heat. And just think about all the nights that I just went. I Speaker 5 (3:59) literally tossing and turning like all night, just fluffing the pillow and trying and trying, never Speaker 3 (4:06) getting cool. And what makes it worse is we had a stretch of like 10 days Speaker 2 (4:10) where the weather was low 70s. Oh, I Speaker 8 (4:13) was out Speaker 2 (4:13) of town. But yes. Speaker 8 (4:14) All right. So, but then I see the Speaker 5 (4:17) freeway sign and the freeway sign says excessive heat, stay cool, stay safe. And it's like, okay, first off. Speaker 1 (4:26) You don't need to tell dogs when it's hot. Dogs will go find some shade or find some grass. Like when I used to walk Phil, Phil's a big black beast. And he also walked like Speaker 5 (4:37) like people wakeboard, you know, like he'd pull, you know, he was always he was never just Speaker 1 (4:42) walking along the side of you. He was working like that. That move. Where you do a water ski jump and you pull in right at the end and do that move. That's how you would walk Phil. He pulls diagonally and then at some point he would come up to a patch of grass in the shade and wet and he'd just go and he'd just lay Speaker 8 (5:04) down. And then you stood next to him watching him breathe and then at some point you'd be like, all right, Phil, let's go. And he's like, no, I'm not doing anything. I got to get my core down, bro. And whatever that is, whatever that Speaker 1 (5:17) time is, like if you ever leave your car and you leave your phone on the dash of your car and it overheats, and then at some point you take the phone and you go, oh, it's overheated. It's not going to open. And then someone will go, when can you open the phone? Speaker 5 (5:32) And the answer is, I don't know. When the phone's done being hot. I don't know what that time period is. That's when Phil will move. That's Speaker 1 (5:38) in Speaker 5 (5:38) dog years. Speaker 2 (5:39) Phil will Speaker 5 (5:39) move again when Phil feels like Phil's core is down sufficiently and then we can walk. You can pull on the leash and do whatever you want. Good luck. Good luck. Drag a 100-pound dead sack. And then at some point, he'd just get to an intersection and he'd just stop. And he'd go, Speaker 8 (5:57) now we're done. And you'd go, come on, let's just go through to Darius' house or something. I'm going to turn around. Speaker 1 (6:05) So, cool down is what they put on the sign. You know, it's hot outside. Cool down. Also, excessive heat Speaker 3 (6:12) is an excessive term. Speaker 1 (6:14) Yes, yes, it is. It's Speaker 3 (6:16) not Speaker 1 (6:16) excessive Speaker 3 (6:16) heat. Speaker 1 (6:16) It is. Everything's danger. But here's what I'm saying, and I've yelled about these signs. Again, I just got back from Colorado. In Colorado, they put stuff on the sign, like stuff you can use. They don't put anything you can use, but what they do, and it's what fucking makes me angry. Again, hmm, here's something to Speaker 8 (6:35) look for, Andrew. Speaker 8 (6:38) What, hypothetically, what amount of Speaker 1 (6:42) freeway accidents, freeway accidents to me are rear ends and lane changes. Those pretty much the only, it's only rear ending and lane changing. Okay. Rear ending, you have two taillights and then as mandated by DOT, a third upper taillight because they figured out. In like 1986, that if you took a third red light and you moved it higher than 36 inches off the ground or whatever, you moved it up, it cut down. It just cut down rear endings like 44%. Right. Just being up high enough. You could see the other ones, but something about being up high. Some of those lights flash Speaker 3 (7:27) as well. Yeah, they strobe. They strobe. Speaker 1 (7:29) So we are working on the rear ending, the strobing lights and big. Big rear lights now. And cars, you know, making noises. Well, whatever. Speaker 1 (7:43) We do nothing for For changing lanes. We have nobody, nobody signals, nobody signals. And you could just put it on the sign and then people could signal. And then we'd cut down. I bet you. Speaker 1 (7:58) If we lived in a world where everyone judiciously signaled, also signaling signals you. It's like, oh, I'm changing lanes and I can see this person's changing lanes. I bet we would cut down on freeway accidents like 25 % if everyone just used their fucking signal. It'd be impactful. It'd be huge. It would be a huge, impactful thing. And they'll never put on a sign and nobody will fucking do it. And nobody will say a word about it. But we'll have to slow for the cone zone or we got to keep cool, keep safe. It's always like keep safe, keep cool. We know it's children to them. We don't know it's Speaker 2 (8:37) hot. Speaker 1 (8:38) We don't know to seek shade. Right. Speaker 2 (8:40) But here's the thing. I was talking to Speaker 8 (8:42) Dr. Drew and I said, what if you were in charge of these signs? all of these freeway signs, and somebody said, look, here's your mission, because this is Speaker 1 (8:52) what it sounds like. Speaker 8 (8:53) It Speaker 1 (8:53) sounds like this is what they're doing. You cannot. You cannot put forth any useful information that anybody in Speaker 8 (9:02) this society or this public or this city is going to use. Speaker 1 (9:04) You can't do it. That's the rule. On the other hand, I know what you're thinking. I'll just keep them blank. No, no, you can't do that. We have to use. Here are the rules. You have to use the sign. You have to use it. You can't just go blank. If you go blank, people go like, hey, what's going on with the sign? How come we're not using these multimillion dollar signs? You must. Not let it go black. It can't be blank. You have to put something on it every day, but it cannot be useful in any way, shape, or form. It cannot save a life. It cannot help anybody. It cannot speed traffic along. It can't inform. It's nothing but this. That's what you would do. You would go, it's hot outside. Like you'd wake up in the morning and go, I got a good useful, non-useful thing that's not going to get us busted. You want to put something on the side? Put it. It's warm. Oh, no, it's hot. No, it's extreme. Okay, write that down. Write extreme heat and then slow and safe. Safe, something safe. Okay, good. Done. And that's it. And that's all they do. Slow down in a traffic with the worst traffic, city with the worst traffic in the world, and then keep cool. Speaker 2 (10:12) Yeah, keep it cool. What if they did something, I mean, since they're not really doing anything to give you traffic Speaker 3 (10:17) tips anyway, what if they did something totally... out of the box and said, retire well, start a SEP Speaker 1 (10:25) IRA. Anything. I joke about it sometimes in my Santa pack. What if they just wrote floss? Yeah, right. You just floss. Seriously. People Speaker 2 (10:33) could Speaker 1 (10:33) floss. They'd have fucking floss. Thanks Speaker 2 (10:35) for the reminder. Speaker 1 (10:36) Yes. Speaker 8 (10:37) All right. So there's that. There's also approximately nine to 10 of all motor vehicle accidents nationwide are caused by unsafe, improper. Lane change is right. But I'm betting. Speaker 2 (10:50) So 9 % to 10%. So the other 90 % is probably rear-ending. No. No. Hold on, Dawson. First off, Speaker 8 (10:57) he's saying nationwide. So that does not mean California-packed freeways. It means highways and shit like that. So it's going to be a lot fucking higher for traffic to LA-405. 10 freeways than the national 9 to 10%. I'll Speaker 5 (11:15) agree with that. Speaker 8 (11:15) Right. Now, Speaker 5 (11:16) even if it's just 10%, that's so fucking Speaker 8 (11:19) impactful. It says it's less. No. Official state traffic data does not isolate a signal. Precise statewide percentage, specifically California freeway, accidentally caused by changing lanes. But national and regional studies estimate. that improper, unsafe changes cause roughly 7 % to 10 % or 9 % motor vehicle crashes. Well, isn't that what you just told us? Speaker 3 (11:47) This is AI Speaker 2 (11:47) disagreeing with itself. No, Speaker 5 (11:48) there's Speaker 8 (11:49) no Speaker 5 (11:49) study for California. Why would there be? Right. Where would Speaker 2 (11:53) there be? Speaker 5 (11:53) We Speaker 8 (11:53) have the worst traffic in the world. Speaker 2 (11:54) But Speaker 8 (11:55) anyway, I'm going to say. 15 to 20 % easily of accidents are caused because people don't signal and they don't know what's going on and they bang into whatever. Anyway, we could do it. We could just put it on the sign. We could just put it on the sign. Speaker 5 (12:09) What you Speaker 3 (12:10) have to do in LA is you have to turn your signal on five, six seconds before I do this. Oh, yeah. Before I change lanes so that everybody around me has enough time to see that I'm moving in. Speaker 8 (12:21) Right. Now, also, we'll get into it in the news, but... The woman who survived her two attempts at death, the inmate. I got a couple thoughts. One is. I'm looking for her on the list. Speaker 8 (12:42) One is this, and it's not my point. It's Dennis Prager's point, but it's true. Speaker 8 (12:50) Next time someone makes an argument with you about capital punishment, you know, like how it's about, oh, it's not right to kill these people or whatever it is. It's fine to kill these people, but it's not right to kill these people. These people oftentimes, Speaker 1 (13:04) because they have life with no parole and then they're insane, kill other prisoners. Sure. So this bitch tried to kill another prisoner. Five years after she got put in jail. If you just fucking kill her, then the other person that's in there for tax evasion doesn't try. Imagine if you're just in prison, by the way, they go, here's your new roommate. She's a chick who killed a teenage girl and busted off a piece of her skull and likes to show it around and carved a pentagram in her chest with a penknife. That's my new roommate. I was in here for Martha Stewart's lawyer. This is the guy I'm using. That's my roommate? I mean, it's got to be pretty, I mean, you go, all right, you don't feel sorry for people in prison, but there are people in there for drug, you know, lower level drug things and tax evasion. You know, Wesley Snipes was in prison. He didn't pay his taxes. Now, I'm sure he's in his own whatever. But the point is, is you want fucking stone cold killers, like homicidal maniacs? There's no chance of ever getting seen. Why not just kill again is what I'm saying. Like, what's the... What, are you going to get more Speaker 2 (14:15) prison? Most of the people who are totally against the death penalty would be Speaker 3 (14:19) 100 % for it if something like this happened to a member of their family. So it's another removal Speaker 1 (14:26) kind of thing. Speaker 2 (14:26) Probably, probably. But Speaker 8 (14:28) you never know with these pussies. They sometimes apologize to them, whatever. Person that killed their whatever. It's a person of color, you know. But so I was up on stage in Colorado and I started. This was just kind of on my mind. So we tried to inject her twice and it didn't work. Right. And so we tried two attempts at lethal injection. Now, I went and looked it up, first off. The lethal injection thing, it's a Speaker 5 (14:57) big fucking issue. It's politicized. Doctors won't ship the stuff. Speaker 1 (15:02) Pharmacies won't. The manufacturer doesn't want to. It all got politicized, right? And it doesn't work, as we see some of the times. And it's real complicated, and people fuck it up. You know what Speaker 5 (15:14) always works 1,000 % of the time? Hanging. We used to hang people, and it always worked. If you do it right, yes. Yeah, well, even if you do it wrong, you just fucking let them expire. Speaker 3 (15:29) They did it wrong for a long time until they could figure out the exact trajectory, the length you have to draw. All right, hanging works every time, Dawson. Thank you for providing that thing where it didn't work. Just shitting on the point. Go ahead. Thank you. Go ahead. All Speaker 2 (15:41) right. Okay, have Speaker 1 (15:44) you Speaker 2 (15:44) ever met someone like Speaker 1 (15:45) this? Well, I Speaker 2 (15:45) mean, if you said firing squad, I wouldn't have anything to say. And yes, hanging works every time now. Speaker 1 (15:52) 500 Speaker 2 (15:53) years ago? All right. Moving Speaker 1 (15:54) on. Speaker 5 (15:55) Moving on. I'm saying even if hanging doesn't work, you can let the person just hang there until a fucking crow eats them or they expire. Maybe they didn't die instantly. Better yet. That's Speaker 3 (16:06) true. They're not going anywhere. As a fan of Dan Carlin's hardcore history, he does a whole thing on capital punishment and the death sentence and how it's infotainment back in the day. And hanging was done wrong. How did they do Speaker 8 (16:23) it Speaker 3 (16:23) wrong? Either the guy didn't drop far enough, so it didn't crack his neck. You just hang there and suffocate. Yeah. Yes. Okay. So it works. Speaker 5 (16:35) Well, you die. This person's alive. It's supposed to be an immediate death is what I'm saying. I know, but we have decided as a society to kill somebody. We've already crossed a Rubicon into... whatever, cruel and unusual. Speaker 2 (16:51) Which Speaker 5 (16:51) goes back to the chick Speaker 3 (16:52) who is now two doses of a lethal death injection down and still not dead. She's Speaker 8 (16:58) on a ventilator that we're paying for and getting round-the-clock service that we're paying for in an ICU. All right. Hanging Speaker 5 (17:04) works. I can go to the Home Depot and for under $150 get enough shit to hang your ass. Rope included. I'll do a platform. And by the way, I'm not even going to make it out of four by. What if it breaks? Oh, you're injured? I'll do it out of two by fours. I'll do it out of three quarter Speaker 2 (17:24) CX. What are you going to use? Are you going to use lag bolts? What are you going to do in the ceiling? Speaker 5 (17:28) I'm going to make a freestanding hanging stand. I'm not going to the ceiling. I'm going to put a four by post over the top and loop it over the top. I mean, I have to look online and figure it out. Speaker 5 (17:43) I think we need, you know, the amount of fall is something I got to figure out. But I'll do the hatch. I'll do the whole thing for under $200, labor included. So it works. So you never see anyone walking around like going, what happened? Did you cut yourself shaving? No, no, they tried to hang me. Except for that Clint Eastwood movie, Hang a Pie. Only in Hollywood. Speaker 5 (18:08) Then I was thinking about Speaker 1 (18:10) it, and I thought, you know, hanging works so well that it even works on guys that are just trying to beat off. All Chuck wanted to Speaker 5 (18:24) do was beat off. And God rest his soul. All right, don't put info in the middle of the punchline. But anyway, yes, yes, it works so well that. The guy from In Excess hung himself and all he was trying to do was rub one out. Speaker 2 (18:42) Building a functional full scale. That's a guillotine. Guillotine. That slices the head off. That also works 100 % of the time. Yeah, that works well. Speaker 8 (18:52) It's a little traumatizing to the kids, I guess. But yeah, guillotine. I don't know where you get the guillotine blade, but I could work all this out. The point is, is hanging. works 100 % of the time and it's cheap and we used to do it and I have no fucking idea why we're getting into this. But I also realize... It's kind of a metaphor, which is to say... For society. Okay. So we used to have a society and shit worked. Like it was like grandpa knew what he was doing. You know what I mean? Like grandma, they knew no one was fat. No one was miserable. No one was on the spectrum. No one was whatever. My dad could do anything. No one was transitioning. Everyone wasn't Speaker 1 (19:39) fucking nuts and on some sort of pharmaceuticals. Like things work. And so. We wanted to kill someone. We hung them. It worked. And then we saw, no, it's too inhumane. It's not working. You're not being fair. And we ended up fucking it up. It doesn't work. It's not efficient. It costs a shitload more. And the person we're trying to help, we're not really helping those people because they're telling all these fucking horror stories about it. So I don't know. We should just hang people, turn the page, move the fuck on, and we need to get back with that. Here's what I'm saying. The lethal injection. Speaker 1 (20:19) If you followed it from what we used to do, hanging or firing squads or whatever, it'd be basically the same thing that happened to our educational system. Like it used to just be schoolhouse discipline. One woman stood there and fucking you were mouthing off. She'd smack your fingers with a ruler. And everyone fucking read the letters these guys wrote during the Civil War. They sounded like. poets. They were educated, Speaker 5 (20:47) yes. They were educated except for there were 17. Speaker 1 (20:50) Exactly. Right, alright. So that, the same thing that we did with the, now we got the fucking pride flag in there and the kids are out marching for Hamas and none of the black kids in Chicago read at grade level. It's all fucking union. It's all one big soft fucked up mess. And it's really the Speaker 1 (21:09) The injection, the humane injection, lethal injections, it's really kind of the same thing metaphorically. It's us trying. This is progress. It's not progress. Sit in the fucking class, learn to read, get smacked with a ruler if you start mouthing off. It wasn't broken. Hanging wasn't broken. I agree. Speaker 3 (21:28) We didn't need Speaker 1 (21:28) to fix it. Speaker 3 (21:28) It's the same in another way, too, with the Department of Education and the death penalty is it used to cost nothing. Now the amount of money and out ratios, you know, it's the cost reward is way out of whack. And it makes me curious. Were the people who were anti-death penalty or the people for a more humane death lobbyists for the pharmaceutical company? Because how much money does those do those Speaker 2 (21:57) doses cost? Well, I'm sure they ain't free, but they use them. you know, once every blue moon. Yeah, that's true. They need truckers Speaker 8 (22:07) strung out on pain meds. That's what keeps the lights on over there. I've often said. Speaker 8 (22:14) You should be able, like, you know, my mom donated her body to Speaker 5 (22:17) UCLA. So you didn't go Neptune? No, this is free. Neptune was 80 bucks. Are you kidding? The Neptune Society ain't free. It costs something. Right, Speaker 2 (22:29) okay. Speaker 5 (22:30) Now, but you got to get in early like my grandparents did. It was like probably 30 bucks for them. What is the Neptune Society charge now? But you donate your body. You know, I told you this Dawson, because it's a joke that makes Speaker 8 (22:45) the audience very sad. When I would say my mom donated her body to UCLA medical. And then it was my stepdad that told me that I didn't, I didn't know where she was. Cause we didn't do anything, you know, she's gone, you know? So then. The joke is she donated her body, which she did. And then I said, what were they studying? Mothers never loved their sons. And then the audience goes, oh, I feel bad. But it's Speaker 2 (23:12) funny to me. Do you have any idea what they did with her body? Is there any way to find out? I mean, you obviously, they're not going to reach out to you. They're going to reach out to the stepdad. But does he Speaker 5 (23:22) know? Speaker 5 (23:24) Cut your body up and study, whatever. I mean, you know, when you're Speaker 8 (23:28) a Speaker 5 (23:28) medical student, you get an average Speaker 8 (23:31) assigned to Speaker 5 (23:32) you. Speaker 8 (23:32) Yeah, okay. I guess. God help the one who got my mom assigned to him. Between $1,500 and $3,500 is the base plan for the Neptune Society. Yeah, my grandparents did it for like $50 back in the day. Now, my Speaker 5 (23:47) dad, I don't know what his... story was. I don't know if he was in the Neptune Society. Whatever's cheapest, I think we'll go for. But what do you think about this? What about... Speaker 5 (24:00) donating your body, but getting paid in advance after you die for stunt work. Speaker 1 (24:07) Like, you know, when you watch The Fugitive and you see Harrison Ford's like, I'm going to Speaker 5 (24:14) jump off of this dam and you see the thing falling, it's clearly just a dummy. Speaker 3 (24:20) It looks so fake. They could take cadavers, even if they're well expired. put a bunch of makeup on him, fill him with some fake blood, throw him off the thing. Yeah, I keep him fresh. I get him fresh, man. Permount collects the body. What if they don't get it on the first take? Speaker 5 (24:37) We've got to do some reshoots. You know what? First off, for $1,700, you get what you get. If you can't get it in the first take, you know, if you can't get that guy, falls into the helicopter blades or whatever it is and you want it to look really realistic, you know? Or again, you don't know how many shitty 70s movies I've seen where the guy's supposed to jump off a bridge and it's clearly just a dummy. Right. You can tell it's a dummy. Yes, Speaker 3 (25:03) absolutely. Speaker 5 (25:04) I wonder, Speaker 3 (25:05) we should take a look. Speaker 5 (25:06) And by the way, Speaker 1 (25:06) or if it's a human, if it's a stuntman. The guy's falling and then always somehow disappears behind a pile of boxes or something. He's hitting an air mattress. Let him hit the ground. Yes. Let's watch him hit the ground. I'm Speaker