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Adam Carolla Show
01:13:01 4/30/2022

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Thanks for listening to the Adam Carolla show on PodcastOne. Hello and welcome to cruel classics for Saturday, April 30th, 2022, we're going to play some highlights of the Adam Carolla show over this lovely weekend for you. So thank you so much for tuning in. Sit back. I've got some great clips lined up. My name is Chris Lakshmana. I'm the executive producer of the Adam Carolla Show. And with me, as always, Carol, archivist, superfan, Giovanni. Everybody. Happy Saturday. Happy Saturday to you ! Before we get going to the clips, I want remind everybody if you want to submit a clip request. Real easy to get a hold of us. Just email us classics at Adam Carolla decomp or find us on Instagram, at Giovanni Georgio or at Chris Lux Amano one. Let us know what you want to hear on this show. And let's kick this one off with an unusual clip for us to play. Typically, we play clips from the Adam Cole Show, but this time we're going to play something from good sports. For the newer listeners, it was a sports segment that we would put at the end of the Adam Cole Show was hosted by Adam Carolla and Dave Damasak. What is the history between those two? Well, sometimes you'll be in between segments. It was, yeah, we eventually moved it in between as well so as a show within a show recorded outside of the show. Very bizarre, but also awesome. And for people who didn't ever hear it, it's a great way for them to catch up. And the history is that Dave Dameshek worked on the mantra. It's one of the guys that Adam kind of gave a cold shoulder for a year. Make sure it was actually stick around. He did. And then he became the co-host sports guy on the 2006 Adam Carolla show. Taxes fans called the Adam Carolla show with which we don't use on the new show. And the first year 2006, he was on basically every episode, and they changed formats with Bonaduce in 2007. No longer had a sports guy. And then he became a regular guest on the Cool podcast and recorded the first basic cable commentary with Adam Just long, deep history with Adam and Adam's broadcast career since 2006. Yeah, love Dave Dameshek and definitely check out any projects he's working on because it's very hilarious and informative as well. All right, so let's get going with a clip from Good Sport from 2018. It's Adam Carolla Show twenty three point fifty two Rob Schneider, Jena Grad, Brian Bishop. None of them in this portion. This is the good sports that aired in between both segments of the show. It's a duo of teens, Chris said. They're talking about football movies that go over their favorites, and they go in-depth on the program. Check it out. Let's get on some good sports. Essentially, let's do. The broadcast one sports network presents good sports. Hi. Hello, sports fans, welcome to a brand new episode of Good Sports here on PodcastOne. Sports Dave Dameshek here. Adam Corral over there. Ace where we left off yesterday, you took us down a fascinating rabbit hole or a c**kroach or c**kroach, all about the song La Cucaracha. Just as we are about to jump in on a on a little something that sports that people on social media are doing. They are naming their personal favorite movies by sport. Do you want to do it that way, or should we draft movies? Let's go by sport. OK, go ahead. Start us off with football. What's your favorite football movie, Adam Carolla? I know everyone wants to say Rudy. And me, I'm trying to think of many of the football movies, but on any given Sunday, don't say that, not because it was a great film, but the aforementioned few episodes ago, L.T. was actually good, legitimately good. Yeah, I mean, really good is an act as as a dramatic actor in that role, Pacino was a weird choice, but and then James Woods is always great whenever whenever Woods is on screen, you know, not not is not as good as the professional, but still he say it because he plays smarmy. You know, it was it was a little bit of a mess. I'm going to go north Dallas, forty. Oh, that was that was a hard right turn right at the end there. I'm going to go with, I think you're going to be sorry that you skipped this one. All the right moves. Hmm. I mean, listen here. The hard tale of a western p.a. kid and pi pie that was just on the other day, by the way. You know, it's a weird thing about that is that the guy broadcasts at the high school game Walnut Heights, where they're playing, which is, I believe, supposed to be North Hills and Pittsburgh, the the high school powerhouse perennially there. But Walnut Heights. The guy broadcast the whole game for the attending audience, which is a weird rap result. All the right moves. I'll be fast because I've definitely expressed it before. It's a fine movie, and the basically the turning point of the whole movie was he's an undersized cornerback. He's white and he's slow. And in practice, he closes the window on a guy doing an out pattern and he gets there too early and the coach screams at him, That's a flag. If you do that in a game, that's a flag and it is a flag. If you do that activity in that game and then they play the game, and then he does the exact same activity and then he stands up in protest. But when you watch it, he got there before the ball got there. It is a flag point not made by producers, writers and directors because I'm not rooting for Tom Cruise at this point. He he shut the window too fast at practice. The coach told him, You do that in a game, that's a flag, and then he did it in the game and it was a flag. Why am I feeling sorry for are rooting for our hero? They needed to have a flag drawn when he got there and got his arm around him and swatted away the ball, but didn't make contact with him. They needed to do a version of it that made Cruz in the right. Yes, he was. He was wrong by the official, not by his inability to pay attention to his coaches coaching. Right. He's a bad cornerback because he screwed up in practice was told not to do that and then did it in the big game. And he did get there too early. Gary, you got to find that clip. The real hero. In other words, is the middle linebacker Sean Penn's brother, the late Chris Penn, who is he rises up and he he says, we're going to get we're going to stop him anyway. He tells the guy, You know, Steph is out of sorts. Easiest committed the cardinal sin. He did get the pick six that put him into the lead. But still, he he's the one. Bye bye. But by Chris Penn rallies the troops to rise up for a for a dramatic goal line. I imagine a scenario where young Tom Cruise is talking to the director and they're doing like a table read, and he says then in the third quarter, there's an out. Your character slides in, picks the ball up and takes it to the house. And Cruz says, Where do I get the motorcycle? And the director says, you go on foot. And he says, how far of 40 50 yards? Oh, definitely would be on a motorcycle. And then he says, Why don't we just shoot one where I'm on a motorcycle? If it's good, we'll keep it because that's the way I travel. I can make movies that take place two thousand years in the future. I'm still on a motorcycle. Or what's crazy are motorcycle on the gridiron or motorcycle two thousand years in the future. I would argue with Thousand. If we can do it 20 years in the future, then we can do it on the gridiron. I need to be on a motorcycle. Check the contract. Yeah, that was. Yeah, he. All the right moves is the bottom line is that's my vote. Any football movie, especially high school where they have the locker room pout scene after the the loss, where all the guys feel that they have to have like cuts and bruises on their faces, which I always love. I play 10 years of organized football. Never anything ever happen to my face. Now that ever happens to your face. It happens to your ankles, your knees, your joints and everything else. But your face is never Scott mud smeared on it. You know you got blood on your forehead. Like, there's that and then everyone way over the top sobbing and pouting and all of that. I mean, I lost at least half the football games. I played it. We weren't happy about it, but we weren't like pouting and punching the locker. I love that we didn't weep in the locker room after games now and seem to care. Shock. Shocking basketball. Hmm. Well, you know, by the way, let me just throw this caveat out, so you don't forget it. We have to remove documentaries, I think because your dreams as there is in the. Top five best movies of all time. So I'm removing that. Yeah, I may revise my football story to the U. Or whatever that one was, where James Caan was the coach. Oh, people love that picture. I love any movie where the quarterback slides under the center and a sold out, you know, University of Georgia Stadium with 70000 plus in it. And as he's idealizing and yelling Omaha, he looks to his left and spots the empty seat that his dad would have been sitting. That's my favorite part. I. That is a skilled quarterback. You go under center. You got guys going in motion. You have people on the sideline. You got the cheerleaders and you're able to look and spot the empty seat. That, by the way, some fat guy just be sitting in with a beer. If I know college football and you spot the empty seat. I don't even know how you know what. No, see, you got your dad where it would line up. Maybe you got a schematic of the stadium before the game. They don't show that scene, but they spot the empty seat where his dad would be. Maybe his dad was there, cheering him on ferociously and had to get up and take a layup. Yeah, that's all. Sorry, the program, the program, the program in that I like, is it Omar Epps? Is that one? Yeah, is it is. The plays take roughly about three and a half minutes apiece, and Omar Epps, while he's running routes, he just runs a loop de loops for about talks for about 90 seconds before the basket surround him. And he just talks the casually to the defensive backs are alike by now, see? Yeah, so like that, he narrates before he does the move, like, I'm going to stop and then go up and out. Like if I'm the DB, I'm like this the greatest gift ever. He's explaining to me what route he's running before he runs it, a program that is a day in the air. You know what? Before you reveal your basketball basketball? Yeah. Well, you know what? We've done a lot of good work on on football movies here today. So let's take a break now, shall we? That's it for today's good sports for Adam Carolla Dave Dameshek Podcast on Sports Out. Good for. Today's episode is brought to you by blinds galore dot com, baby, huge sale starting this week, everything up to 50 percent off. It's a great time to buy new blinds or shades and blinds galore. Dotcom believes you deserve high quality custom blinds, shades, shutters and drapes. Everything blinds galore creates is 100 percent custom, so nothing gets made until you order it. Designer products without the designer price don't bother with a store. Do everything right from home. Plus, their expert team is happy to help every step of the way online or over the phone. Blinds global even help you set up with free samples and free shipping. On top of the free expertise, you got to check the service out. I've seen I've seen blinds galore at Adam Carollas House, at Dr. Drew's house, and their windows look fine. Family owned and run over 20 years of experience and we get a great deal for you. Tell him about it. You well, their name. More privacy to sleep in or just fix up a room blends or has just what you're looking for or fifteen free samples today to get started. Blinds Billboard.com and let them know. We say let's blinds Gawker.com. That was good sports from June of 2018 featuring Mr. Dave Damasak hanging in with Adam. All right, let's get on with our second clip of the day and we're going to play a bit that is a totally crowd favorite. Everybody loves who the F sells this, as it's a bet that they've been doing since the radio show days. And we love doing it because it gets added to talk to callers that aren't necessarily fans, but it's always a weird sell whenever we have to get these people on the line. So typically we'd search Craigslist or online marketplaces for unusual items that we would that we would find online and we would call these people up and just let them know, Hey, we, we are interested in your item. Not necessarily to buy it, but we want to talk about it and we want you to talk to Adam. Cruel about it. We'd have the kind of privacy where we find it very interesting and not we think you're insane and anyone insult them wouldn't insult them every time. But you'd be surprised how many people actually say yes. Some people are even really excited. We do get a lot of no's too, but it's a very difficult bit, especially these days, to pull off because people are just a lot more private. So back in 2014, we were actually able to pull this one off and get some people to talk to Adam about the weird stuff that they're selling online. Speaking of that ball, Brian still has a drop of one of the original who the f sells this as people. Sarah and her daughter, they were kind of like math out and they revealed this. Eventually, it became regular callers. I don't know. The Old Lady would say Adam's in the fame ball. Brian has that draw, but that's what it comes from. And so sometimes what actually the podcast or be callers you repeat, talked to, but not not as often, but that was like the original like, Oh, this is with the gold mine of who we have sells this as this old lady and her daughter like hooked on drugs, and they became a regular part of the show. But this is a much later. This is Adam Crucial 13. 65 The Simpsons, Alison Rose and Brian Bishop in that basement? No guest just in the studio. This one's from July of 2014. It's the show opening in the fall. Who the f sell this segment? Check it out. Good, see, Alison Rosen, oh, Adam Carolla ball, Brian. Oh, Joe, Sweeting says please use that top drop as much as possible on Twitter. I was thinking about that in the car on the way over and I was thinking how I hope that'll be the top drop. It's like my brain tweeted, Really? You named the other guy? Yeah, I like it now. All right. I I have this problem, which is I'm always it's it's the reason why I have to drive myself places and cannot be driven places because I can't drive in that middle lane and have cars blasting past this on the freeway all the time. It drives me nuts and when I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go and it's always hurry. Hurry, hurry. Had this, somebody else explained to old people that young people are in a hurry and you should be two, by the way, because you think the clock's ticking for me, grandpa, limited time, it's gone double time for you. That metronome. I had this and I didn't know what to do with it, but last night. After we finished the show, we we meaning me and Mike August and his parents. Oh yes. Heidi, Augie and Harriet. Yes. Headed out to super convenient Pepperdine University in Malibu, up in the hills, which if you I think if you put my house on a map and you wanted to go the opposite direction from where we are here, Pepperdine would be from a longitudinal lad. Latitudinal standpoint would be the exact epicenter of the opposite direction of where I live. But not only that, but on the coast, only one road in one road out, right? So I picked up Mike and Pops and Pops did a lot of football coaching, so we had nice national talk about that and went out to Pepperdine and saw my friend Ben Shapiro over there and a great group and a good time and did a little talk and a little Q&A. And then when we were done, spent about a half hour or 45 minutes taking pictures with everyone who was there. Very good group, very nice time. And then summer schools. This is the worst students. This is a group that meets there that I don't think there are many students in this group. They're just using the facility. By the way, Pepperdine needs to close down as a university and start selling and timeshare. Essentially, it's just cliffs above Malibu. All that big lawn. I've just picnic there before. It's a place. It's unbelievable. And as you drive into the bowels of the place, you see the deer running through there and the hills, and it's really never been there. I feel like I should go the f**king magical, and I don't know why you would let your kid go there, because unless you move to Maui to work in a cotton candy factory, everything else would just be a f**king freefall from that place. It's it's so weird because we've talked about it like, you want your kid. Like, I've been all over the country. I've been to almost every college. You go to the University of DeKalb and Northern Illinois. You can't wait to graduate and get the f**k out of there. This place, you never want to leave. So I did my thing. I signed a couple of books, took a bunch of pictures, and now it is 10:00 at night and I left my house at 8:45 in the morning and starting to catch a contractor over the weekend. It's Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I'm ready to get home. I'm ready to go home. And Mike and family have been enjoying the festivities, the show, the lecture, the talk and then hanging out, having maybe all too much iced tea while waiting for me to finish signing autographs and taking pictures. Tea a euphemism? Yes. OK, now they had too much iced tea I'm leading into. We were leaving and now we're doing that thing where, OK, here we go because I got the I got a 45 minute drive ahead of me. If the wind is at my tail and best case scenario, I want to get the f**k out of here and a man. I want to get the f**k home, see if I can catch a kids where they go to bed. Blah blah blah. But I've been home in a while and we do that move where we pile out to the car and momma does the I got to use the bathroom and I'm like, I yell at the car, head in the car. Now it's a very nice facility. It has a nice bathroom, but it's the kind of thing that could have been hit somewhere in the last 45 minutes while I was taking pictures with everyone and signing everything. And you were hanging. You know that thing of, Oh, now we're leaving. OK, so now like, go hit it. Opportunity? Yeah. Then it was so long that Mike's dad had to actually get out of the car. I do like the part of life. It's sort of the part of life. Experience it at the elevator where you push the button more than once or at the crosswalk when you push the button more than once. There's really nothing going on here. There's nothing that could happen here. There's nothing mathematically or physically possible other than I must do something. His dad got out of the car and went, Let me go, check on it, but it's not like he's going to kick in the door. The ladies room and do a shoulder roll and come up with a pump shotgun, right? Inaction is going to do nothing wrong. He's going to get out of the car. He's going to go stand in the lobby and wait next to the door, and it's going to take that much longer than when they both come back to the car. But I was just sitting there with the car running, going on that moment where it's like, Wow, this, we're starting to get into the nine to 12 minute range here where I just turned Americans went crawling into my skin, my come crawling out of my skin. I want to f**king go so badly. I started thinking about I'm. He noticed I started to think about like, how rude would it be if I just f**king took off and call the Uber cab or something like, I don't know. I don't know what to do. But then there's that part of me that's always pretty rude. I know what it's like in the bathroom. You can see the line where there's three more people left to take the picture with the. That was what was Mike's reaction might. Well, Mike does what Mike does like say. Yeah, old people. Thanks a long time. You gone, coming and going. You didn't notice they were gone. He said they were moving. He said just like kids takes a long time to get out of house and long gone. Yes. Yes, it does. Well, he has a 12 day old baby. Suddenly, he knows. Yes, it does. Then he did some super euphemistic math where it was like it was. I don't know. You know, 11 minutes to 10. And he went, I will be home by five after 10:00. That's like we're way up in the hills of Pepperdine. Same for people out of the area. That's insane. It was Mike doing his, you know, I'm going to I'm going to lessen this burden by doing some very convenient math. Look, it could have been 17 minutes to 10, but either way, we weren't going to be back by five, after which I immediately corrected him on. Anyway, it was a good night, and the people commenting at the live shows, I thought my colleagues to be fat just for how much we talk about a year, the stone pelican and all that stuff. My God, it's in pretty good shape. People are surprised by that. Well, we don't realize that his dad was an ex football player and he still got still packing a lot of muscle on him, Auggie. And he's just old school. I mean, the guy was a 30 year college coach. I mean, he f**kin it's just crazy. Telling the stories go into the projects in the 60s and the 70s, recruiting players and things like that go into like the inner city of Chicago and just go in and recruiting players. What did he coach? What are the small highlights? He was a University of Colorado. I think for a while and then somewhere in like Lafayette, Louisiana, and just everywhere, but nothing. Some ran with all the big dudes back in the day. 30 years you got to know what you're doing. Yeah, I like you. Interesting, interesting conversation that I never thought of. He said. You know, when he started, all the dudes who played for him were like military guys and stuff. All it was. Everyone had a buzz cut and clean shaven, and they had rules like football used to be like the military. There's a lot of jumping jacks. Yes, sir. No, sir, sounding off everyone's last name, your coach is sort of the general. It's very much run its militaristic. And he said at a certain point, they got into the 60s and 70s, and all of a sudden guys didn't want to cut their hair. They wanted facial hair and all that kind of stuff. And he said policy, no facial hair was the policy, and it was always kind of a policy back then. And he said the brothers wanted to wear a mustache and they said, no, no facial hair and the brother's on the team kind of got together and they were going to like, boycott. Wow. And he got the brothers together. And he said, Why do you guys need a mustache? I mean, what's what's with the facial hair? No, I was already afraid of you. Right? We're scared enough. The Black Mirror is enough. And he said. And they said, I never thought of this. The brother said we got a big upper lip and it makes it look better. And that's what our dads got. And that's what our uncles have. And we want man to f**king racist. And they went and I sort of thought, OK, you got a big upper lip and the mustache, you know, knocked it down a little bit and was like, OK. And so he went. OK. Like, all right, that's that's a reason I get it. But then then the white man always ripping off the brothers like Elvis. We have these thin lips. They don't look good. Yeah, must mustache that soon. As the white guys saw the brothers with the stash and the goatee want that we went to stash in a goatee, too. And then it was on with the pork chop sideburns and the sash and and and they got in and the rest. And the rule against facial hair was just because that's how it was done. It was disciplined. It was. It was a discipline. You know what it you know what it was and I and it is, and it should be. And I, I really think or believe I really miss this, which is the freak flag in the closet. Yes, it's team. It's all team at sacrifice for the team. It is a team. We all wear the same uniform. You don't go and do your own thing. It's all this. It is. It is. Eight literally and figuratively a uniform. Yeah. And we come out in uniform in unison and we are the same. You still see versions of that today, like the No. Facial hair thing is ridiculous. I would never pa*s. But like when teams travel in the Gulf, the boss most worn suits, usually they're wearing a suit, or at least the same thing. But a lot of teams make the players wear suits and they travel on planes or on buses or whatever. And then I'm completely fine with it because it's not mandatory that you join the team. And if you do join the team, I guess it's like a restaurant or a club or something that says you got to wear a jacket, you know, that's fine. That's their that's their rules for their club. If you don't want to wear a jacket, you don't have to go to the club. If you want to go put on the jacket like, I'm completely fine with that. I sort of miss those days when everyone was wearing the Kansas City Chiefs blazer and the thin tie, and they're all getting off the bus, and they all had the buzz cut in the cream. Like it was just sort of a simpler time. Yeah. Yeah. And now everyone's got their headphones on and they're kind of in their own world, and it's sort of that feeling of like he's listening to his thing and he's listening to his thing and everyone's kind of doing their own thing. When we travel as a podcast, we should all wear a uniform, we should have jumpsuits and these headphones and the jumpsuits I'm not shouldn't be exactly like, but at least modeled after loosely, the Harlem Globetrotters. Oh, tearaway pants, guys. So when he wants to stage that much quicker? Yes, I like it. So that was that was a lovely evening talk and talk and football with Auggie, Auggie Tamala, which is Mike's real name. Also, I had a interesting thing. I was, well, I was going to ask you. How is your medical stuff going? I heard you went in. You got yourself some radiation or treatment. Hmm. A couple of days ago, the radiation is over. Thank goodness that was a one time thing for six weeks. Back when I first started, the chemo is ongoing, the chemo I started off getting the Avastin. I started off getting every two weeks and I've improved to the point now where they have me on every eight weeks. And Monday, a week ago Monday, I went in for treatment and I got my infusion and I still see the bruise right there. It's been a while, but you know, part of the one of the side effects, it takes longer for the, you know, things to heal, bruise a longer so. But in terms of side effect, that's pretty minor ones. That's a side effect of the Avastin. Yes. So they feed you your chemo and little treats like we give Maui far from it. That's a little giblet cups. It's an I.V. Oh man. Fortunately, it's an I.V. and but it works. I'm not one to complain when something's working and s**t. Yeah, yeah. All right. I was just curious. Yeah, just somebody brought up that you were undergoing some treatment. I don't know. A couple of days ago I forgot to ask about it. Yeah, we're all good on the doctors. I go for a checkup every few months and I'm like my progress. And they even talked about an upcoming year, dropped me to every 12 weeks for infusions, which is obviously a really good thing. So fingers crossed. Thanks for asking. My pleasure. All right. So we're going to do a little. Who the f sells the s**t or who they ask? Sells Assaf or whatever the f**k it's called who the f sells this s. That's what we call it. Doing some pick up and doing a pickup tonight for road hard figured out the ending for the movie. Love it. I love a good idea. It was a dream. Yeah, well, it's mine, of course. But when you when when idea's good, the good thing about a good idea is everybody. You tell it to it. There's no. There's no. Acclimation to it, they just go, Oh, yes, that's right, perfect. That's oh yes, that's a great idea. Like, they don't go, Oh, OK, so what if? OK, let me think about that. They just went up. There you go. Like, so anyone who worked on the movie, I said, I got to figure I got this bridge at the end that needs to be put in here, and I know what that scene is, and here's what that scene is. And they have all went, That's it. It made sense. It made sense. Like Jane Moore was saying something. It's almost like math. Like, there's an internal logic to these things, I think. Yeah. And that's why it always pisses me off. When people do the well, that's just your opinion. And then that's just your opinion. Now, when something creatively, even when it's invisible makes sense, everyone immediately gets it. And it's not about, well, this guy is super smart. He gets it. No, everybody I talked to about it who worked on the movie went, Oh yes, that's perfect. So dag, it's going to be helping us out with that. The thing that drives me nuts and got me on this thing is we were setting up the shot for the night is I've been trying to look out for when I'm editing the movie all day as I wear these black Nike's and I took a Sharpie and a Sharpie out the Nike Swoosh, and I just have referee issues. Yeah, they just I just blacked it out. And then the wardrobe check would always come up to me and put gaffers tape over my blacked out Nike Swoosh. And I would say, stop it with the gaffer tape. And she would say, you can still see the swoosh. And I'd say, Yeah, but I blacked it out with a Sharpie, so barely reads and she'd go, Yeah, but it's still kind of reads and I'd say, Yeah, but there's going to be a lot of shots where I'm sitting around an airport with gaffer's tape on my shoe. Way more distracting way I want to track and there and I'm like, What do we do with the gaffers tape? And she's like, Well, we can't see the swoosh. And I'd go, Yeah, but now my character is walking around with gaffer tape and they're like, Yeah, to block out this swoosh. And you're like, I know. But do you know anybody in real life who and what would happen is that they'd stick it on? And then before the scene, I would unstick it, bawl it up and throw it. And then, like as we were getting ready to shoot, they'd run in with a little piece of tape and I'd go, Listen to me. You can't just take a square piece of tape and put it over everything you don't like in the movie because it shows like if you have a refrigerator and it says Sub-Zero, you can't just put a big black piece of f**king tape on it, because if that was my house, I wouldn't have a big black piece of gaffers tape over the part that said Sub-Zero. Is it to avoid giving free advertising to Nike, or is it because of some kind of potential conflict with other sponsors? Let me scream here. Nobody knows. No party. No, it's just like dungeon. Just what's done? Nobody. No, that's ridiculous. Nobody knows. Nike is not going to sue us. It's not like, Well, I have a lucrative deal with a lady here that's gay or, I guess, L.A. girls. I don't have a big deal with Converse or Adidas. There's nothing. I don't have anything with anybody. No, we're not going to get serious. Yeah. Secondly, it's it's it's a black Nike that has a silver miniature, the mini swoosh, not the big one, the mini one. And I took a Sharpie to it. And yes, when the light hits it right, you can see a black swoosh. But that's about as far as it goes. I don't know if there's going to be a lawsuit, but I do know that on a big screen in high def when I'm sitting in an airport, it's a tight shot. You can see gaffer's tape on my shoes, which is wildly more distracting than seeing the Nike thing. It's a it's a very good, it's a character thing that goes unaddressed in that case, if you have tape on your shoes. But it's also one of these things where this is how everyone is wired. I don't want you to have recognizable symbols or logos on you, so I will cover them up with gaffer tape. And then you go, Well, it's not going to f**k up our movie. And then they go, I'm not interested in that part of the equation. My part is cover up these things. And when you watch TV, especially reality shows, you have to see tape all over everything. But when you're making a feature, you're you don't want to see the gaffer, don't want the person to be distracted and pulled out of anything. The audience right? And why would he have to first team point and Falcon shoes? All right. So anyway, they were giving me the well. We can put the gaffers tape over the logo on the microphone. I'm like, No, I don't want gaffers tape on everything. It's look, here's what it looks like exactly like what it is, which is you've taken a logo and you've covered it with tape and now it's distracting. All right. Do we have any who the f sells this as Gary? We are getting on the line right now. All right. When you're not trolling for prostitutes on Craigslist, you'll notice some crazy stuff for sale. Nice block. Perfect condition, but no knives. One dollar cash only. So it's time to answer the question Who the f**k sells this s**t? I'm assuming most this stuff is just gay hookup stuff. But my mom did buy a spade a miniature trowel, gardening trowel. Little mini scoop. Yeah. Mini gardening trowel. She did buy one from off the penny saver for like 99 cents once, so I realized this is within the realm of the ultra cheap but straight human being. I was a big lots today, looking for something for a few little kids. Well, friend's little kid birthday party. But in the day of Big Lots and trowels are probably a dollar 25. Why does Craigslist exist like this? I think there's a certain. First off, my mother does not want to lose her title as queen of the downtrodden. You know, she holds the strap. Yes, for years running. She's not willing to give it up now without a fight. So there's this element of we don't want that neutral smell around here because everything has a smell of death and cheapness. Some people will think that you're a success and they'll come calling for stuff for items. Yeah. Is that neutral? Mardi Gras is the Queen of England neutral queen barely any rust on that baby? You've changed that. Yes. So I guess the old trial wasn't good enough to plant those bulbs. I guess you got to go get a shiny new one. I the next thing I know I have a claw and then the games on. Well, I guess we'll see you in the south of France. On peated is yosh, but that travel? What are you planting Faberge eggs? Shall we eat some caviar out of that new trial of yours called the butler? Yeah, I know it's a buck. Twenty nine new, but it's 99. Yeah, used. I don't get it. And oh, no sales tax. I guess I'm all right on Craigslist one. Well, not one big one could argue that there's a sort of environmental not buying another piece of s**t from China argument, which I I'm down with that. But that is not the motivation for my mind. No, that's convenient. I wish. I wish it was. I have a gardening question. Hmm. Slight tangent as we wait for the calls. OK, so I was looking at Instagram yesterday and someone I know posted a gigantic cucumber and I thought that was from her garden, by the way. And I. And she's been posting a lot of gardening shots, and it's clear that she's super into gardening. And she said that in La, La is like gardening on steroids because she was comparing gardening with someone from the East Coast. A lot of fun stuff. Anyway, I thought to myself, should I get into gardening? It's a thought I've never, ever had before. Is it does anyone grow their own anything around here? Yes. OK. Listen, you should have. Everybody needs a dwarf lemon tree. You f**king have lemons all the time. Oh, not lemons or limes. They make trees. They make sure they have trees that get the dwarf one. The deal is, can I grow it in my house? Wharf, is it? You could. Yeah, I think you could have like a balcony or a small, like little but porch. Yeah. If anybody has any sunlight and any open space at all. Put a dwarf, whatever train, because it's not. Here's what it's not about the 18 cents it costs for a lemon. It's that you made fish and f**king it needs lemon and you open that produce drawer and it's f**king empty. And then you do the. I thought we had lemon. Then I you said, now you put it in the iced tea and then it's like, Are we going to the market to get this lemon? And the answer's no. And now you just eat your fish without the lemon and it f**king blows a*s. But you have the lemon tree or the lime tree, it's just always there. Well, the convenience that and the the limes for c**ktails, I mean, that's usually more of a in a pinch kind of thing. Yes, you need those limes. Yeah, you need the dwarf lemon dwarf lime and Roma tomatoes go sick in this climate, and there's no reason not to just grow them yourself because they'll just grow like weeds and they'll always just be there. And I've had this conversation with numbers of people in my family on many occasions. But. I just thought, well, I'll be the one who does the five TV shows and writes eight books, and then maybe someone else will step up in the lemon department. I'm writing this down. The answer is yes. Chardonnay f**king lutely now. Don't go. Don't go stupid. Dwarf lemon. I don't think I would dwarf lime Roma tomatoes and some sort of herb herb if you like plants and a little basil, if you like. And that's about it now. Later on, when you move into a house, you get shelf like an apricot tree and a peach tree or whatever. And that's kind of cool during the summer, when that sugar plum tree, that s**t starts going off and lemon lime trees aren't that expensive to know. All right, well, let's well, let's do a little cot here. Tree that was stopping me. All right, Eric from line one. All right, Eric. Yeah, I'm here. What do you sell in, Eric? Oh, I'm feeling, well, it's a vampire snake. Uh huh.. It's wooden. Yes. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be vampire snake. Yeah, it's true. How am I the only thing that's not in there? I couldn't afford it, but the silver, the silver that belongs on the vampires. I think that's the only thing that completes it. Right? So if I'm attacked by a vampire, I'll have to explain that to him or be with silver, it's unloaded. Yeah. So where did you get the vampire stake? Well, actually, I made it. He made it. And what? He asking for it? Five bucks. It's funny because I was out shopping for vampire steaks earlier in the week and there one I was eyeballing and it was only three dollars and it was pretty sweet. Does he think Eric Max's prices? Well, this one, this one had the silver. I don't want to cut you off, Eric, but this one had the silver was three fifty and it was sweet. Yeah, you don't have to send me a picture that I might be able to match it. Well, it's not guaranteed to kill vampires and I'm looking at yours. Where was yours made, though, Adam? Well, I'm going to be giving our dollars overseas for vampires that we're killing domestically. It wasn't in Transylvania, but it was not. It was in a neighboring community. Yeah, it does count. OK, so how big is your vampire stake? 12 inches. Now I'm looking at it now it looks like a paint stick stirrer that you put a sharp edge on and then painted with some Wite-Out and a Sharpie when you're high. Well, I honestly, no, it was. It was a latter that I took apart and the ladder that I took apart. I was building of building a wall of weaponry and a wall of weaponry. I was thinking about the mythological weapons that I can kind of put together. So I thought about the werewolf stakes I thought about, you know, a little bit of things that I looked up online and then the vampires, they just fell in my lap pretty much. And then I did a little work, you know? Mm hmm. Let's call again the bright red. And that was pretty much it. Mm hmm. And $5, is it really? Are you really looking to turn a profit on this or is this, as I always suspect, a gay hook up ploy? No, no. It's not a gay hookup. It's just, well, it's yeah, it's for turning a profit. What is going on or what has not been going on, which is a better question in your life. Eric, how old are you? Oh, I'm 29, 29. What do you do for a living? Well, I work at Central Valley sales. Uh huh.. And are they not paying you enough so that during your leisure time, you don't have to make things that kill vampires? Well, it's more of a hobby and being that it's a hobby and making no money is a hobby of yours. A passion. My dad shares your passion. Maybe circuits get together at a place that didn't charge anything and discuss your passion. Yeah. Well, I honestly, like I said, I've been, you know, I buy and sell a little bit of stuff on Craigslist. And, you know, I've had a lot of lot of sales doing pretty well on the Craigslist. So I just thought I'd throw something out on there. So what else do you sell like molten lead, trebuchet and things like that? Silver bullets are like necklaces. A lot of electronics, weapons, cell phones, computers, video games. Anything I can make a buck on. Hey, hold on a second. Are you married? Yes, sir. Really, oh, the twist. What the what is what, what is she entail? Well, she works at a casino. Uh huh.. Mm hmm. What she did at the casino? She's a banker. Cashier. No banker. She work in the cage. I'm not too sure, but I just know she's a banker. She's a main banker for the casino. Mm hmm. So your wife, I suppose if she works behind the scenes in the money counting rooms, yeah, your wife has a decent job. Yes, sir. Your job is decent. I feel like you're missing some kids. Well, not really, because they're in the room right now, are they? How old are they? I've got three kids of my own. They're seven, four, seven, six and one. Mm hmm. Can I talk to the seven year old? Yeah, yeah. Give me just a second. The boy or girl girl? You them. Let me talk to Elvira, either. You know it myself close enough. Right? The lies. All right. Everybody gets it wrong. That's just just playing a hunch. Eliza. Well, you this is Adam Carolla, I'm world famous. Hi. Hi. Do you know who I am and Chuck, but I mean, I never had it. Have a seat. Hmm. Why is? I want you to run run as fast as you can in any direction. Go run. All right, Eric. Yes, sir. I feel like you need a team to follow or something. What's wrong with a good, healthy obsession with internet porn? Well, the reality of me having kids in my life? OK, yeah, I can dig it. You need more square footage. So how would this work? You want to meet somewhere. Where's the drop, so to speak? You don't want people coming to your house there. Well, it depends. I try not to interfere with you. Then you have nothing to fear. You should have nothing to fear with me. Well, Eric, you're the one with the vampire stake in the wall of weapons. Mm hmm. Oh yeah, certainly of interest in it. I mean, you're going to you're you're most likely going to be somebody who's like a weapon enthusiast who, you know, was just use it as a prop or to some collection that you already have. Well, like I said, I've been looking at some other vampire steak, steak knives or just steaks, and you know, you're in the running. It's a crowded market, Eric. Yeah, you're in the mix. I'm not going to. You're not you're not at the top of my leaderboard, but they're here in the top 15, but not the top 10 of vampire steaks. Yeah, but from from from me, you get an Adam Carolla discount, which I'll throw on there for free is all right as you pick it up. Well, listen, Eric, I got your number. OK? We got a lot of stuff coming up in Fresno later in the year, and we could be worth it just to swing by. Not that this thing's going to last the weekend. I this baby's hot. All right, buddy. All right, you have a good day. Enjoy. All right. Silver lining is decorated. He broke up a ladder, something he didn't spend any money to make it. I mean, silver lining could be worse. He's willing to make an Adam Crowe a discount, which has helped knock the price down from $5 to zero. If Adam comes to Fresno. But it's a loss leader. How stupid are you going to feel when you sell your your vampire stake? And then the dark count shows up that night at your front door and you're like, Oh, f**k, where's Justine? And your wife's like, Where's the? And you're like, I just sold it to the rescue. Techs are going, Oh Henry story. Ted got some golf balls. These are interesting cats, Ted, how are you? Good. Ted, where did you get the golf balls? Oh, there's a lot of people around here that they spend their relaxation time out searching for them to service man and them. Yeah, my therapist told me to go, take off my shoes, pull my jeans up past my knees and going after golf balls and alligator infested swamps over and over again. But I wouldn't listen. Now I wanted to talk. That was my problem. Yeah, yeah, it's very therapeutic. Yeah. I'll tell you what. If you really want some therapy, why don't you just take your car keys and chuck them into a fence covered with Ivy? And then you could thrash about looking for it for, like, the next two days? I mean, if you're getting up there? Oh, I see the point. Here you go after golf. Also, he's got you there. So where do you get him around a driving range somewhere? No local golf courses. The people walk around them, and when they're playing or just casually out walking, we'll bring them to me and trade him for product. Is a bartering system the recycle thing? hUh.. And so what do you have in trade for the golf balls? A lot of golf clubs. Oh, golf clubs. Wow. Where do you get the golf clubs? I've been in that business for a very long time. The golf club business. I'm retired. So it's my my, my part time, part time job, part time therapy thing. More of a hobby now than anything else. Yeah, it's not the super, you know, critical livelihood it was 10 years ago. International use golf, traveling the world, of course. Well, if we're going to go fifty dollars in a store for him and they, you know, the problem with that use golf ball business is you don't have the ladies love you for you or, you know, golf balls. I got a gold digger. Yeah, on our hands, we had a white tiger. Well, they get used to the lifestyle. You know, it's hard to wean them off that lifestyle once they get used to it. You know, I took a drug test. Yeah. So your business has always been the golf game. Well, about 40 years. Wow, it's pretty good. How old are you now? Not the game, but the equipment end of it. Right? I'm I'm in my late 70s. Yeah. Do you play yourself? I hit some balls and I try to play. It's awful tough now, but I still go out and try. Mm hmm. So where did you work for all those years with the golf club? Well, I had a driving range of Monterey in the 70s, I had a couple of had a little golf course out of Fresno here in the 80s and I had a golf shop here in Fresno for a long. Pretty, pretty popular in the Fresno area. You're running a driving range in Monterey. Feels pretty relaxing to me. Sounds nice. Well, you know, it's it all. The glitters isn't gold. It's not all that was made up. To be sure we jumped in or thinking, you know, it would be a piece of cake, but it was tough. It was, oh, it was a you had a cult to commission to deal with. You have a lot of unusual things you don't normally get in a city like Fresno. But it was an experience because I had a lot of the during play touring pros come out there and hit balls, and I did work for a lot of them and it was enjoyable right there because the good part of my past, I'm real proud of it, right? All right. So how much we charge him for the balls here, Eric? Oh, I'm so sorry. I sound five bucks a dozen and I sell the quality ones for like 12 or 15 a dozen, depending now, huh? They're the cheaper ones. Are more of the range balls, right? Well, yeah, a lot of players don't care today about the quality golf ball. They just want something to swing a club and damn kids. Oh, they can come in and pick out whatever they want. And I really don't care. I just give them a bag and say, Take what you want and they pay me five bucks and out the door they go, How's your wife? Is she still around? You're sitting right next to me. We're just having dinner. So and he puts up our stuff. Yeah. And we guys have arguments like your title is, man, she's a Wilson gal. Agree to disagree. She's not too concerned about the golf thing anymore. She gave that up a long time ago. She has to handle that. Mm hmm. What's her thing? She does do the badness, tennis balls, utility balls. What's her? That's her. That's her back. Yeah, yeah. We're she just gardens down there. The money. Yeah, sure, I make it. She spends it a big job. Does she have to be a banker at a casino? Because, if so, her? All right. Well, good luck to you. God bless you and Riley one of these days. Thank you. Doing the Lord's work. That's my prime demo right there, man. My railway demo presidents. No golf ball collectors in the 70s. It's right for the big bucks. Oh man, the money demo. I want to get to that point. My relationship one. I just don't give a s**t. You know what I mean? Where the wife doesn't care and I don't care what to get there? Yeah, you well, you know what I'm saying someday it just goes out and he does what he does, and she goes out and does what she does, and neither one of them gives a s**t. They're done trying to change each other. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I do. Oh, there's still some thrashing about now, like a festival to the ball. There's that thing where it's like, Wait, where where are you all day? I was collecting golf balls. Hey, what the f**k the kids are? But you know where it's just, you just go. I was out doing this and you want em out there and then let's eat. Or you didn't even notice you were gone. Better yet, see, sometimes because I'm so freshly married, but sometimes I have these moments where I feel like I am completely like, we are so comfortable in our relationship with each other that we'd both be fine if either of us went away for three weeks or something like that. And then I think, is that good or is that like, we don't depend on each other in any sort of needy way which is so good? Or is that bad? I can tell you this. I feel like there's. I used to have this thing, I used to say it on Loveline, and I I have never I haven't said it in a million years, but there's a sort of a hmm jet engines, they don't go by mileage or trips or anything like that. They just literally go by hours. They just go, How many hours is this jet engine been on? And after a thousand hours, it's time to rebuild the jet engine. So makes sense because they just want to know how long this thing has been turning, not where's it gone or how far it's gone. And I do kind of have this feeling that relationships are good for X amount of hours, years, decades, whatever they are. Yeah, I feel like some people use them all up at the beginning. I spread them out a little bit like, let's say, if this is going to end up comforting me or not, you'll be depressed when I'm done. But. But I will have learned something you will have learned something all right now. You know, like you get it you Tori Spelling, and she gets together with the Dean van der Sloot over there whenever his name is right. Yeah. And they're all up in each other's grill constantly. You know, it's the tattoos with each other's names on Armani and Vandersloot. Yeah, they're all up in each other's face, and they can never stop. And every, you know, they're one of the things they go out to dinner. They sit on the same side of the final table. I can't stand that. You can't see the person. You're f**king banging elbows with them the whole time. And then there's all things in. There are constantly holding each other's hands when they get interviewed on Entertainment Tonight. It's like she's my best friend and I love her and blah blah. And then every once in a while, they start talking about sex and it gets a little weird and all that kind of stuff. And then you fast forward three and a half years and you found out he gets accused of cheating, and now she wants above a blonde there in counseling to burn out fast. That's you never shedding that jet engine off. It's got X amount of hours on it. You know what I mean? Spread it out a little bit. Appreciate it. Don't put so many hours on the bearings. Them up, think I know what you mean? Yeah, so then I should feel good, I should feel good that we're in to say, make it five weeks. Spread it out right around. Spread it around. It's like relationships, like a it's like a bowl of hummus. That's not put it all on one chip. Mm hmm. So just cause the chip is thick and give it a lot of guacamole because I mean, if you take the whole thing. Yeah. Who's the chip here? I don't know, but I'm hungry. I'm starving. No, I'm saying whenever you see those relationships where it's like, Oh my God, we can't be a part of something, I always think there's something fishy in that hummus. They they legitimately feel that way. But check back, everyone legitimately feels that way for a week at the beginning. Yeah, but these guys are in year number two with it, and they're still on it. And then I always say, talk to me when you're ear for and let's see and then ear for someone's cheated on the other person. Ah, Drew and Susan that way? Um. Drew Drew is Drew's needy, Drew needs her kind of f**ked up key to his bent roller skate. And I mean that with great respect and love. You know, that comes through because they're both dear friends. No, I've said Andrew, Drew and and Susan, they both know as much. I I've said, you know, she's crazy. And he said, I know I like it. Which is an interesting way to be, which some guys are that way. I'm not that way. Linette is very sane. It's what what I love about her. I love her, just sort of normal ness. But there are people that like that sort of like, they're drawn to that. Yeah, it's it's it's literally it's an attraction. It works both ways. There's many different versions of it, but there is a little bit of an insanity that attracts people. It's kind of what attraction is because if you think about attraction, you kind of look at somebody and go when that person is not that attractive yet, but the person is nuts about that person. It's like, why they nuts about that person? It's like, What is it? That's something we don't really understand that for us, it transcends just an aesthetic or a visual. So Drew's very much that way. And I'm not. I'm just sort of now here's how I'm wired. I'm wired. I don't want to go to a movie alone. I don't want to go out to eat alone. I want my wife with me going out to eat on a movie. But if I'm going to go do a gig, I just want to go do the gig, turn around, come home because it just feels like work. And I don't feel I don't even want anyone I know going to the gig because I don't want that part where I'm going to my car against it. So and so get in that they get in. Did you put them on the list? Are they having a good time? Where are they? Did they make it like, I just want to go, Do it, boom, turn around, come home. That's that's where I'm at. And then there's playing. People are like, I want that person waiting for me in the hotel room. When I come back from that, when I come back from the gig, I want the TV waiting for me. That's all I want. And one of the medium sized towns, that's all. Well, the TV holding a towel. Are you want them just a medium sized town? OK, that's all. Not a that's a medium size style. How you dry your body with the TV in a medium sized mouth? That's all. I went to the ground. No questions. That's all I want waiting for me. But then there's Tori and Dean vanishingly, and all I'm saying is, is that thing that's jet engine needs to be shut, shut down or cooled off heat cycle that every once in a while going to turn a bearing baby got to turn a berry. Oh, righty, one more. Let's talk to Kevin on the line. Five. Kevin Hi. Where are you calling from Kevin? I'm calling from the San Fernando Valley out in L.A.. Mm whereabouts? Oh, the Sherman Oaks area? Four or five? All right. A. Ban area grew up around there, myself. Yeah, but what do you got to sell? Well, I'm selling a book about job hunting. I'm getting hired and finding the hidden job market. Aha. What year did it come out? It was a while ago I bought this book, I believe 2000 five, 2006. I don't remember precisely one from another loser online. Or you buy it now. I bought it new, I couldn't find a loser online. I'm sorry to hear that. And now you're selling the book. That is correct. And are you gainfully employed now? No, I actually just lost a job. I'm sort of enjoying some time off this. Yeah, just kind of doing the unemployment thing right now. Perhaps you should hang on to the book until you're gainfully employed again. Well, you know, I was I worked for four years, four or five years without any vacation. I wanted to take some time off and kind of just do my own thing. And, you know, and I'm enjoying it. You know, I get to really have all the time. I want to do whatever I want. I can help my girlfriend with her business. So, you know, I'm not completely stranded here. Hmm. She worked for Ciaran Clark dot com there. They rehabilitate dogs that are aggressive towards humans and other dogs. Mm hmm. No free plugs, Kevin. No interesting, by the way. Usually, when people want to take some time off, it's the travel or sail or or take some time for me. Maybe maybe go in a baseball stadium with a tour with their son and see every baseball stadium selling s**t on Craigslist for $4. Never at the top of anyone's. I need to just take a little time off and find myself. But Kevin? Yeah. Now what do they do with these dogs that that are aggressive with people where they do? Well, it's a lot of desensitization, getting them to be comfortable in environments that they're not, you know, where there were the scared of and everything around them and which is what makes them kind of aggressive. I mean, I'd love to give you the details, but perhaps you'd be the one to be, does your girlfriend go to work one of those big padded suits with a hockey helmet on you? She's actually been in one. She has been in the padded suit before. Just. With with another friend of hers who actually did a tax, which is nothing close to what she got to be weird in the middle and can I say this, The Hurt Locker? It's got to be weird for the dog who attacks the guy or the girl in the big, padded suit going man. This dude's got a lot of foam rubber on him, like they don't really have a contact toy to it. You know what I mean? Like, I normally taste flesh and blood, but now I'm just getting a bunch of fabric and foam. Do you think that's why those dogs attacked those people so aggressively? Because they're like, Oh, delicious, this guy's fat and juicy. I don't know what taste as good as flesh. I've never thought, Oh no, it's pat until you get there. And then why isn't this person writhing in pain and how come they seem to be fine when I'm done? It has to be for mind. f**k for the dog. Yeah. For those of my ads of cruelty, for their self-esteem, it's got to be a lot like casino when Paci couldn't knock the guy out. Remember, at the end he was getting too high with his crew and everything, and he f**king kept slugging the guy in the face and like, Wow, boss, you really lost your pop. And honestly, he was too f**king coked up to even knock the guy out anymore. I wonder the dog just goes home and really, you know, does some soul searching just like, f**k man, I used to bite a mailman. Blood would go flying everywhere. He goes, screaming for his life. Now I got some chick just standing there. Now she or she just took her head off and she's talking to somebody smoking. What's the big deal? You have to ask the other dogs in the neighborhood, like, how do I seem different? The teeth look sharp. Yeah, I'm scary, right? People still scared of me. I'm scared of flesh and bone. Yeah. Oh, sorry, Kevin. Yeah, your wife. Your girlfriend is freaking out at all these dogs out there, she says. I'll bring that up with her. I'll bring that up with this. It's a big problem. Well, look, obviously, I don't want to see her get injured. But if she could feign a little pain when the dog attacked her forearm and started, you know, pulling on and she was like, Oh my God, the humanity. Oh oh, the multiple surgeries. Oh, they're going to be grafting skin off my inner thigh. Oh, you know, in front of the dog, at least the dog stops like, you're faking it. Aren't, you know? Oh, I'm in pain, I'm them writhing over. Totally. Yeah, yeah, that's what I sound like. So, Kevin, how much for the book about getting hired fast? Five dollars or five dollars? What do you pay for it? Twenty two. I think it was closer to 10, $15 at the time. Hmm. Double your money. If I went on Amazon right now, I wanted to get a used version of this book. Where do you think it set me back? I think you can find it almost free off of Amazon. Mm-Hmm. But, you know, then you have to deal with the condition. I don't know. I didn't. This isn't something that I'm not doing this for. You know, obviously this isn't a day job or anything I'm just trying to trying to clear some space in the house. Yeah, I do that all the time. I just give it away to people who need it. Yeah. Well, if someone comes in and they need it and they'd like to pay five bucks and you go out to do, that's right. That's how most things work. That's why that's a lot like donating eggs, $20000. You can have some eggs. All right. I must be saying the wrong thing. Yeah. All right. When are you looking to get back to work and what field are in? I'm in real estate, I'll. Well, actually, I used to work in advertising, buying and planning ad space. That's the job that I love and I'm going to be getting into real estate in about couple of weeks. My hand is broken right now due to a car accident. So that's the other reason I'm just kind of taking it easy until this is filled up. OK. What are you watching on TV these days? I'm a what they call a cord cutter. I'm watching very little TV. Hmm. I've been watching some of the final episode lately. Burn through, I binge watched Breaking Bad. I finished that environment. Uh-Huh. But you don't you don't have you don't have cable. Nope. Or satellite? Not at all. No satellite. All right. I'm sorry this conversation. So I would have started off the promised nothing else to talk about. Well, it was insulting of him, to be so honest. Mm-Hmm. If somebody said to me, Well, what do I do? I put cigarette butts out on my kid. I'd be like, All right, I'm listening. Were they asking foreign or something about this that I don't know, I mean, I'll hear you out loud for an explanation. Yeah, but no cable, no satellite, no mass, no dice. Yeah, no moss. All right. Shall we take a quick break? Then there's some news that's still an outright sell this s**t. Today's episode is brought to you by Geico, because GEICO asks, how would you love a chance to save some money on insurance? And we all know the answer, of course you would. 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1131: Hangover Cures | Skeptical Sunday

Feeling rough after drinks? On Skeptical Sunday, Jessica Wynn reveals why hangovers hurt, why "cures" fail, and why dark liquors might be your worst enemy.

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by Jessica Wynn!

On This Week's Skeptical Sunday, We Discuss:

  • Hangovers aren't just about dehydration — they're your body's complex response to processing alcohol as a toxin. When your liver breaks down alcohol, it produces acetaldehyde, a nasty chemical that causes inflammation throughout your body. Meanwhile, your blood sugar goes haywire, your sleep quality plummets, and your entire system essentially stages a biochemical rebellion.
  • Despite a $2 billion (and growing) hangover remedy industry, there's no scientifically proven cure for hangovers. All those miracle pills, electrolyte drinks, and bizarre remedies — from pickle juice to rabbit dung tea — are essentially sophisticated placebos. Your body needs time to process and eliminate alcohol's toxic byproducts, and no amount of coconut water can accelerate that biological reality.
  • Drinking more alcohol to cure a hangover merely postpones the inevitable crash when your blood alcohol returns to zero. Similarly, the concept of "healthy moderation" has been debunked by research showing that no amount of alcohol consumption is actually safe — many studies suggesting otherwise were funded by the alcohol industry and used flawed methodologies.
  • Darker alcohols like whiskey and bourbon contain higher levels of congeners (byproducts of fermentation) than clear spirits, potentially leading to worse hangovers. These compounds, along with other additives and ingredients in alcoholic beverages, contribute significantly to hangover severity beyond just the alcohol content.
  • When dealing with a hangover, embrace the basics: hydration, rest, bland foods to stabilize blood sugar, and perhaps some mild pain relief (though be cautious with acetaminophen). While not glamorous, these approaches support your body's natural recovery processes. Understanding why hangovers happen empowers you to make more informed choices about drinking habits — whether that means switching to clearer spirits, drinking water between alcoholic beverages, or simply accepting that sometimes the most profound wisdom lies in listening to what your body is telling you about that third cocktail.
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on Skeptical Sunday, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!
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1130: Giving Wife a Hand When Dreams Are Too Grand | Feedback Friday

Your wife's dreams soar beyond the stratosphere, but you can't even pay for the launch pad. Can you ground her without crushing her? It's Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

  • You're struggling to support your disabled wife who dreams impossibly big — chief of medicine, political crusader, famous artist—all at once. When you ask practical questions about these grandiose ambitions, she shuts down. How can you support her dreams without reinforcing potential delusions?
  • Your Indian wedding plans are being hijacked by family drama over your cousin's boyfriend from a different ethnic background. Your grandparents and relatives are threatening to make scenes or leave early if you invite him. How do you protect your special day without burning family bridges?
  • At 24, you've hidden your porn consumption from your wife throughout your marriage. She separated from you, then moved back with one condition: no more lies. Now you've "acted out" multiple times, and she's left again, wanting you to file for divorce. What should your next move be?
  • As an esthetician, your industry is imploding — unlicensed social media hustlers, changing regulations, and economic pressures have slashed your income by $20,000. You're working unpaid hours and making less than minimum wage. Do you stick with your passion in hopes of weathering the storm or pivot to something stable?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Hand towels in the bathroom.
  • At 41, you and your husband are frozen in indecision about having children. You've secured embryos but lack the unquestioning desire for parenthood that others seem to have. He fears regret over not having kids; you fear resenting them. How can you push past this life-altering stalemate?
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1129: Russ Swain | The Good Mormon Who Made Bad Money

From postage stamps to diamond-dusted $20s: Former counterfeiter Russ Swain takes us inside the addictive world of artistic forgery and its moral reckoning.

What We Discuss with Russ Swain:

  • Russ Swain's counterfeiting career began with painting a postage stamp for a job application. This minor forgery later evolved into currency counterfeiting when financial troubles hit, demonstrating how small ethical compromises can cascade into major criminal activity.
  • Russ became physiologically addicted to the fear and risk of passing counterfeit bills. The constant state of alertness produced adrenaline rushes that became compelling enough to override moral concerns.
  • Russ' operation showcased remarkable ingenuity: diamond dust for texture authenticity, printed textile fibers, and UV-inhibiting suntan lotion in the ink. This demonstrated how artistic talents can be repurposed for illicit endeavors.
  • Despite financial gains, Russ paid heavily with his conscience, describing it as a "ghost" that constantly questioned his new identity. The ultimate price included divorce, church excommunication, and having to explain his crimes to his children.
  • A full-circle moment with Russ' former high school principal shows how our talents can be redirected toward positive ends when we
  • . We all have skills that can serve either harm or healing — the application remains our choice.
  • And much more...

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1128: Sextortion | Skeptical Sunday

Getting blackmailed over nonexistent nudes? On Skeptical Sunday, Nick Pell untangles the dark web of sextortion and why kids face the greatest danger.

On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:

  • The basic sextortion scam is just sophisticated phishing. Those alarming emails claiming to have compromising footage of you? Pure fiction. These scammers cast wide nets, sending millions of messages hoping a tiny percentage will bite. They typically have basic information (your name, email, maybe your address) purchased from dark web data brokers, but nothing actually incriminating. The golden rule: if they don't show you the evidence, it doesn't exist.
  • Children face genuine sextortion risks online. While adults receive empty threats, children encounter a far more dangerous reality. Predators create fake profiles mimicking peers, establish trust, and eventually manipulate children into sharing compromising images. Once obtained, these images become leverage for extorting money, demanding more explicit content, or worse — attempting to arrange in-person meetings. It's a digital trap baited with false friendship.
  • Modern kids are safer outside but more vulnerable online. We've bubble-wrapped the physical world for children with public awareness campaigns, enhanced security measures, and helicopter parenting. Yet ironically, we hand these same protected children devices that connect them directly to potential predators. The statistics are alarming: 40% of surveyed kids reported someone attempting to groom them online, and 6% of children aged 9-12 have sent self-generated sexual content.
  • Victims often remain silent due to shame and fear. The humiliation of falling for scams creates a powerful silencing effect. As Nick candidly shared about his own experience with cryptocurrency scammers: "It's not about the money. Losing the money sucks, don't get me wrong. But it's so humiliating." This shame multiplies exponentially with sexual content, especially for adolescents already navigating identity and social acceptance. A staggering 82% of young victims report being too scared to seek help.
  • Open communication creates crucial safety nets. The most powerful protection isn't restrictive software or monitoring apps — it's creating an environment where kids know they can come to you without judgment if they make mistakes online. Make it crystal clear: "If you ever get into trouble online, I'm here for you, I'll support you, and you won't be punished because someone manipulated or tricked you." This simple assurance can be the emergency exit that leads vulnerable young people to seek help rather than spiraling deeper into exploitation. Having this conversation today could save your child from becoming a statistic tomorrow.
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on Skeptical Sunday, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!

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1127: Chaotic Kin Has You Rethinking Children | Feedback Friday

Can kids you plan to have ever be safe around an uncle who chased a trans child with a chainsaw and put your fiancé on a kill list? It's Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:

  • Your fiancé's uncle is dangerously unstable, lives with his grandparents, abuses his dog, threatens neighbors, attempted to attack a trans child with a chainsaw, and put your fiancé on a literal "hit list." Would raising children anywhere near this ticking time bomb of a human being be an irresponsible dereliction of parental responsibility?
  • Your 27-year-old daughter has a master's degree but refuses to leave home, has no interest in dating, shows hoarding behaviors, and sits on your bed every night to "emote" about her life. The lack of alone time is driving a wedge between you and your spouse. How do you push her out without breaking her?
  • The couple you've grown close to over two years has just revealed their relationship began online when he was 23 and she was 14 — a situation serious enough to trigger a deportation. Now they're 30 and 21, leaving you torn between your moral concerns and the meaningful connection you've built. Can you reconcile your ethical unease with the value you place on these long-standing friendships?
  • Your mature 15-year-old daughter doesn't want to spend her court-ordered 75 days a year with her controlling father who restricts her freedom and communication. She'd rather pursue summer school, work, and volunteering. You support her wishes but can't afford a lawyer, and ignoring the custody agreement means contempt of court. What happens when the system fails the very child it's meant to safeguard?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Instruments of a Beating Heart
  • The cold, uncaring machinery of the workplace demands your undivided attention despite the sudden death of your best friend. Surrounded by painful reminders and well-meaning but clueless colleagues, how do you honor grief and survive the 9-to-5 grind when your emotional support system is the very person you've lost?
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
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1126: Richard Reeves | Rethinking the Purpose of Modern Masculinity

Of Boys and Men author Richard Reeves explains how we can address men's modern struggles without undermining women's gains.

What We Discuss with Richard Reeves:

  • Men are falling behind in multiple areas — education (60/40 female/male college ratio), mental health (40,000 male suicides annually), and economically (wages for men without college degrees have remained flat since 1979).
  • Society often overlooks men's struggles due to fears that addressing them might diminish focus on women's issues, creating a false "either/or" narrative when we need an "and" approach.
  • Traditional male roles as breadwinners have diminished without being replaced by expanded roles, leaving many men feeling lost and vulnerable to extremist ideologies.
  • Increasing social isolation affects men disproportionately, with 15% of men under 30 reporting they don't have a single friend, contributing to mental health challenges.
  • Men can overcome these challenges by connecting with other men, developing meaningful friendships, pursuing their own authentic path, and recognizing there's nothing wrong with being male. Building supportive male relationships and communities is essential for well-being and can counteract isolation while providing positive models of masculinity.
  • And much more...

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1125: Bananas | Skeptical Sunday

Bananas: nutritious treat or geopolitical nightmare? Jessica Wynn unpeels the shocking truth behind our favorite fruit on this week's Skeptical Sunday!

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by Jessica Wynn!

On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:

  • The United Fruit Company (later Chiquita) wielded extraordinary power in the early and mid-20th century, orchestrating military coups in Honduras and Guatemala, and influencing US foreign policy to protect its interests. This corporate empire even played a role in events leading to the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • In 1928, Colombian banana workers protesting for basic rights like real currency payment and decent housing were surrounded by military forces and massacred. While the government claimed 47 deaths, other accounts put the toll at around 3,000 — a stark example of the violence underpinning the industry.
  • Even today, banana workers face inhumane conditions including chemical exposure, poverty-level wages, and suppression of union activities. The industry has been linked to child labor, sexual exploitation, and human rights abuses across Latin America.
  • The banana industry uses more agrochemicals than almost any other crop sector, with about 85% missing their target and contaminating workers, communities, and ecosystems. Monoculture farming depletes soil, threatens biodiversity, and pollutes water systems, even damaging coral reefs.
  • Despite this troubling history, consumers can make positive choices by seeking out bananas from ethical producers like Equal Exchange, Coliman, Earth University, and Organics Unlimited/GROW. These brands prioritize sustainable practices and fair treatment of workers, allowing us to enjoy this nutritious fruit while supporting systems that benefit both people and our planet.
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on Skeptical Sunday, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!
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1124: Your Aunt's 105 ? But Is She Dead or Alive? | Feedback Friday

Your 105-year-old aunt has vanished into the elder care system while a relative keeps her whereabouts a secret. Can you find her? It's Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:

  • Your 105-year-old great-aunt Giulia has vanished after her son (your point of contact) passed away. His daughter refuses to tell anyone where she placed Giulia and won't respond to your family's desperate attempts to connect. To what lengths should you go to find an elderly relative who might not even know you're looking for her? [Thanks to attorney Corbin Payne for helping us answer this one!]
  • Your cousin's ex-wife unexpectedly reached out to "apologize" about your childhood molestation by her ex-husband (your cousin). While you've worked hard to heal through therapy and build a wonderful life, her message feels oddly timed and potentially self-serving. How do you respond to someone dredging up painful memories for unclear motives?
  • You work at a credit union where your micromanaging boss is actively preventing your career advancement. She's furious you applied for an internal position without her permission and seems determined to keep you under her control despite your excellent performance. How do you maneuver your way through corporate politics when your superior is playing a power game?
  • Your older brother has autism and still lives with your parents at 27. They've provided minimal support for his independence, and your mother has been emotionally pressuring you since you were 16 to take full responsibility for him when they can't anymore. How do you balance caring for your brother while prioritizing your own new family?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Crystal "rock" deodorant
  • Your roofing company fired you right before paying your five-figure commission and claimed you had no employment contract (and therefore no non-compete clause). What happens when you decide to call all your clients, explain the situation, and bring them to your former employer's biggest competitor?
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
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1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

David Eagleman explains why counterfeiting works, how our empathy fails, why mind reading remains elusive, and if we'll ever upload our minds to computers.

What We Discuss with David Eagleman:

  • Dr. David Eagleman worked with the European Central Bank on anti-counterfeiting measures, and his research revealed that most people don't notice security features on bills. His key recommendation was to use faces rather than buildings for watermarks since our brains have specialized neural real estate for recognizing faces, making counterfeit detection easier.
  • Research shows our brains have less empathy for people we consider part of our "outgroup." FMRI studies demonstrated that even simple one-word labels (like religious affiliations) can trigger this differential response in the brain's pain matrix when witnessing someone experiencing pain.
  • True mind reading via brain scanning is likely impossible in our lifetime. While we can decode basic sensory input (like visual or auditory cortex activity), actual thoughts involve complex personal experiences, memories, and creative combinations that would be impossible to capture without knowing someone's entire life history.
  • Uploading a human brain to digital form presents enormous technical challenges and philosophical questions. The computational requirements exceed our current global capacity, and questions about identity (is the upload "you" if your physical body dies?) remain unresolved. Brain plasticity would also need to be captured for the upload to remain dynamic.
  • Understanding our brain's natural tendency toward ingroup/outgroup thinking gives us the opportunity to consciously overcome these biases. By recognizing our shared humanity and finding common interests with those different from us, we can build bridges across divides and develop greater empathy for all people. This awareness can help us make more compassionate choices in our daily interactions.
  • And much more...

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1132: Scott Payne | Infiltrating America's Extremist Underworld

How do ordinary people become dangerous extremists? Former FBI agent Scott Payne infiltrated America's most violent hate groups and reveals their playbook.

What We Discuss with Scott Payne:

  • Scott Payne worked as an undercover FBI agent infiltrating various extremist organizations, including white supremacists like the KKK and accelerationists such as The Base, which aimed to trigger societal collapse and establish a white ethnostate.
  • Accelerationist groups differ from traditional white supremacist organizations in that they don't believe in political solutions, but train for violence and "Boogaloo" (race war), preparing with tactical gear and weapons while planning attacks on infrastructure and targeted individuals.
  • During his undercover work, Scott encountered disturbing rituals and behaviors, including a goat sacrifice during which members drank blood and took LSD as part of a neo-pagan ceremony associated with white supremacist ideology.
  • White supremacist recruitment often targets vulnerable individuals from broken homes who are seeking belonging and connection, with online platforms like Telegram and Gab serving as recruitment grounds where extremist content can radicalize disaffected youth.
  • Deescalation and communication skills proved to be Scott's most valuable tools throughout his career. His experience shows that even in hostile environments, the ability to talk through situations and remain calm under pressure is often more effective than physical confrontation — a skill anyone can develop and apply to their own difficult interactions.
  • And much more...

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1131: Hangover Cures | Skeptical Sunday

Feeling rough after drinks? On Skeptical Sunday, Jessica Wynn reveals why hangovers hurt, why "cures" fail, and why dark liquors might be your worst enemy.

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by Jessica Wynn!

On This Week's Skeptical Sunday, We Discuss:

  • Hangovers aren't just about dehydration — they're your body's complex response to processing alcohol as a toxin. When your liver breaks down alcohol, it produces acetaldehyde, a nasty chemical that causes inflammation throughout your body. Meanwhile, your blood sugar goes haywire, your sleep quality plummets, and your entire system essentially stages a biochemical rebellion.
  • Despite a $2 billion (and growing) hangover remedy industry, there's no scientifically proven cure for hangovers. All those miracle pills, electrolyte drinks, and bizarre remedies — from pickle juice to rabbit dung tea — are essentially sophisticated placebos. Your body needs time to process and eliminate alcohol's toxic byproducts, and no amount of coconut water can accelerate that biological reality.
  • Drinking more alcohol to cure a hangover merely postpones the inevitable crash when your blood alcohol returns to zero. Similarly, the concept of "healthy moderation" has been debunked by research showing that no amount of alcohol consumption is actually safe — many studies suggesting otherwise were funded by the alcohol industry and used flawed methodologies.
  • Darker alcohols like whiskey and bourbon contain higher levels of congeners (byproducts of fermentation) than clear spirits, potentially leading to worse hangovers. These compounds, along with other additives and ingredients in alcoholic beverages, contribute significantly to hangover severity beyond just the alcohol content.
  • When dealing with a hangover, embrace the basics: hydration, rest, bland foods to stabilize blood sugar, and perhaps some mild pain relief (though be cautious with acetaminophen). While not glamorous, these approaches support your body's natural recovery processes. Understanding why hangovers happen empowers you to make more informed choices about drinking habits — whether that means switching to clearer spirits, drinking water between alcoholic beverages, or simply accepting that sometimes the most profound wisdom lies in listening to what your body is telling you about that third cocktail.
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1130: Giving Wife a Hand When Dreams Are Too Grand | Feedback Friday

Your wife's dreams soar beyond the stratosphere, but you can't even pay for the launch pad. Can you ground her without crushing her? It's Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

On This Week's Feedback Friday:

  • You're struggling to support your disabled wife who dreams impossibly big — chief of medicine, political crusader, famous artist—all at once. When you ask practical questions about these grandiose ambitions, she shuts down. How can you support her dreams without reinforcing potential delusions?
  • Your Indian wedding plans are being hijacked by family drama over your cousin's boyfriend from a different ethnic background. Your grandparents and relatives are threatening to make scenes or leave early if you invite him. How do you protect your special day without burning family bridges?
  • At 24, you've hidden your porn consumption from your wife throughout your marriage. She separated from you, then moved back with one condition: no more lies. Now you've "acted out" multiple times, and she's left again, wanting you to file for divorce. What should your next move be?
  • As an esthetician, your industry is imploding — unlicensed social media hustlers, changing regulations, and economic pressures have slashed your income by $20,000. You're working unpaid hours and making less than minimum wage. Do you stick with your passion in hopes of weathering the storm or pivot to something stable?
  • Recommendation of the Week: Hand towels in the bathroom.
  • At 41, you and your husband are frozen in indecision about having children. You've secured embryos but lack the unquestioning desire for parenthood that others seem to have. He fears regret over not having kids; you fear resenting them. How can you push past this life-altering stalemate?
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
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1129: Russ Swain | The Good Mormon Who Made Bad Money

From postage stamps to diamond-dusted $20s: Former counterfeiter Russ Swain takes us inside the addictive world of artistic forgery and its moral reckoning.

What We Discuss with Russ Swain:

  • Russ Swain's counterfeiting career began with painting a postage stamp for a job application. This minor forgery later evolved into currency counterfeiting when financial troubles hit, demonstrating how small ethical compromises can cascade into major criminal activity.
  • Russ became physiologically addicted to the fear and risk of passing counterfeit bills. The constant state of alertness produced adrenaline rushes that became compelling enough to override moral concerns.
  • Russ' operation showcased remarkable ingenuity: diamond dust for texture authenticity, printed textile fibers, and UV-inhibiting suntan lotion in the ink. This demonstrated how artistic talents can be repurposed for illicit endeavors.
  • Despite financial gains, Russ paid heavily with his conscience, describing it as a "ghost" that constantly questioned his new identity. The ultimate price included divorce, church excommunication, and having to explain his crimes to his children.
  • A full-circle moment with Russ' former high school principal shows how our talents can be redirected toward positive ends when we
  • . We all have skills that can serve either harm or healing — the application remains our choice.
  • And much more...

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1128: Sextortion | Skeptical Sunday

Getting blackmailed over nonexistent nudes? On Skeptical Sunday, Nick Pell untangles the dark web of sextortion and why kids face the greatest danger.

On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:

  • The basic sextortion scam is just sophisticated phishing. Those alarming emails claiming to have compromising footage of you? Pure fiction. These scammers cast wide nets, sending millions of messages hoping a tiny percentage will bite. They typically have basic information (your name, email, maybe your address) purchased from dark web data brokers, but nothing actually incriminating. The golden rule: if they don't show you the evidence, it doesn't exist.
  • Children face genuine sextortion risks online. While adults receive empty threats, children encounter a far more dangerous reality. Predators create fake profiles mimicking peers, establish trust, and eventually manipulate children into sharing compromising images. Once obtained, these images become leverage for extorting money, demanding more explicit content, or worse — attempting to arrange in-person meetings. It's a digital trap baited with false friendship.
  • Modern kids are safer outside but more vulnerable online. We've bubble-wrapped the physical world for children with public awareness campaigns, enhanced security measures, and helicopter parenting. Yet ironically, we hand these same protected children devices that connect them directly to potential predators. The statistics are alarming: 40% of surveyed kids reported someone attempting to groom them online, and 6% of children aged 9-12 have sent self-generated sexual content.
  • Victims often remain silent due to shame and fear. The humiliation of falling for scams creates a powerful silencing effect. As Nick candidly shared about his own experience with cryptocurrency scammers: "It's not about the money. Losing the money sucks, don't get me wrong. But it's so humiliating." This shame multiplies exponentially with sexual content, especially for adolescents already navigating identity and social acceptance. A staggering 82% of young victims report being too scared to seek help.
  • Open communication creates crucial safety nets. The most powerful protection isn't restrictive software or monitoring apps — it's creating an environment where kids know they can come to you without judgment if they make mistakes online. Make it crystal clear: "If you ever get into trouble online, I'm here for you, I'll support you, and you won't be punished because someone manipulated or tricked you." This simple assurance can be the emergency exit that leads vulnerable young people to seek help rather than spiraling deeper into exploitation. Having this conversation today could save your child from becoming a statistic tomorrow.
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on Skeptical Sunday, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!

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