Adam Carolla Show

@adamcarollashow · Podcast

Latest segments

• United hijack-text arrest, 2026-10-29
  Reports arrest over hijack-threat text
  Reports the arrest of a 25-year-old trainee welder who allegedly texted a hijack threat to a friend aboard a Las Vegas-to-Newark United flight, forcing the plane back to Vegas while he slept. The reaction is that it was a joke and the flight should have continued.
• South Korea straw study, 2026-10-29
  Cites study ranking plastic straws over paper
  Reports a South Korean study finding plastic straws beat paper in 10 of 16 categories, then pivots to a broader rant: a Nevada solar plant shutting down early, recycling not working, and the catalytic converter as the lone environmental success.
• Gates runs for California AG, 2026-10-29
  Adds Gates claim Bonta covered for fraud
  Long stretch of the Gates interview on California's leadership failures: process people, one-party rule, the LAX people mover, Skid Row. Adds Gates's on-the-record claim that Bonta covered for $425 billion in fraud and abuse rather than investigate it.
• Gates runs for California AG, 2026-10-29
  Interviews Gates on his AG campaign pitch
  Long interview with Gates about his attorney general bid: his Huntington Beach record, a claimed 60 percent overnight drop in homelessness, Spanish-language outreach, and pledges to end Bonta's suits over hospital transition surgeries and school sports. Mostly campaign pitch and opinion.
• Waltz suspends Cuba meeting, 2026-10-28
  Pivots from Waltz clash to UN tile
  Plays the Waltz exchange at the UN, then pivots to a long riff on the building's jade tile and Britney Spears's grout lines. The diplomatic clash is reported in passing; the tile is the segment.
• Trump's Maher post, 2026-10-27
  Guesses at the trigger behind Trump's Maher post
  Works through the Truth Social post and TMZ's account of it, then spends most of the segment guessing at the trigger - Maher's monologue jokes, the Caroline Leavitt interview - and riffing on Trump's toggle-switch style. The catalyst stays a question.
• Irish consent ad backlash, 2026-10-26
  Plays and mocks the Irish consent ad
  Plays the Irish We-Consent.ie ad and mocks it, arguing consent PSAs never reach the people who need them. No detail on who funded or runs the campaign.
• Modern Times drops prices, 2026-10-21
  Reports the no-price restaurant closing
  Reports that Dylan Elverson's no-price Minneapolis restaurant is closing and argues the location made paying customers unlikely, then drifts into a long digression on the lack of German, Polish and Hungarian food in Los Angeles.
• Jay-Z Super Bowl report, 2026-10-21
  Reports Jay-Z reportedly picking himself
  Rudy Pavich reports that Jay-Z, the key decision maker on the halftime act, has reportedly picked himself for the 2027 show. Adam argues the pick reflects a narrow in-group and pitches an all-star rock band playing other people's songs.
• Six Flags coaster death, 2026-10-21
  Riffs on the coaster death and predicts a lawsuit
  Turns a fatal roller coaster fall at Six Flags Over Georgia into riffs on the victim's name, airport security and burdensome baby names. The only substance is a guess that rider error caused the fall and a prediction that the family will sue the park.
• Gillis SNL monologue backlash, 2026-10-21
  Adds Miller's call to Gillis after the firing
  TJ Miller's Reynolds and Lively anecdotes drift into a long Armenian-BMW riff, then return to the Gillis backlash as evidence of an internet appetite for control. Miller says he talked to Gillis right after he lost the job; no new development in the SNL story.
• Gillis SNL monologue backlash, 2026-10-21
  Debates comics critiquing each other's material
  TJ Miller and the hosts take up the Gillis monologue backlash and stay inside the reaction: comics shouldn't critique each other's material, the complainers are attention seekers, and the word 'whore' is what set people off. Miller's Maron and Flappers anecdotes are asides.
• Bucks County lynching display, 2026-10-20
  Picks up a local Fox report on the display
  Picks up a local Fox report on a Pennsylvania Halloween display: an NAACP chapter calls the hanging corpse racist, the homeowner says it is a creepy graveyard built from an online corpse kit, and the borough inspector's visit ended with him refusing to take it down. Mostly jokes about costumes and the First Amendment.
• Talarico's CNN townhall, 2026-10-19
  Plays the townhall clip and rebuttal
  Plays the Talarico clip and the professor's Ten Commandments rebuttal, then pivots to his drag queen answer and a riff that Democrats like him and El-Sayed moved the party's goalposts. The exchange itself is only recapped.
• Peter King's The Game, 2026-10-19
  Walks through the book's officiating chapter
  King walks through the 2013 chapter of The Game, built on a day with back judge Dino Paganelli in Wyoming, Michigan: a widowed single father and social studies teacher who does about three hours of game homework at night. Uses it to argue fans should accept officiating imperfection.
• Peter King's The Game, 2026-10-19
  Reads the Super Bowl chapter aloud
  King reads from the book's Super Bowl chapter: how Foles and Pederson put 41 points on Belichick and Brady, framed by Mike Shanahan's line that there is a way to win every game. It is a taste of the book's contents, not a new development about it.
• Peter King's The Game, 2026-10-19
  Introduces the book and its word count
  Introduces Peter King and his book The Game: 550-something pages, 192,000 words after a 30,000-word cut, and an audiobook he recorded himself over nine days. Mostly banter about children's books and King's voice.