- I wanna begin with the
extraordinary documentary
that you and Dennis Prager put together
called "No Safe Spaces."
We featured it on the show a year ago.
It goes into DVD distribution this fall.
But interestingly Netflix won't run it
and Walmart, you can order
it but they won't stock it
in the stores.
It was the number one
documentary in the entire year.
What is going on?
- We made a movie about
free speech and ironically,
they don't like the message
of our movie about free speech.
They're actually confirming
with all the tenants
of our film.
The reason we made this film,
is for this reason and
they're confirming it.
It's ironic.
- There was a particular
moment in the film
that I wanna just allude to
because I thought it was worth
the price of the film.
Everybody ought to get a
copy and make their children
and grandchildren watch it.
But it's when you talked
about, as a kid growing up,
you rode your bicycle,
you didn't have a helmet.
You didn't have constant supervision.
You made this statement that
I thought was so profound.
You said, "Because we didn't have everyone
hovering over us, we learned how to fall."
I thought that was a powerful observation
about what's happening to kids today,
who don't learn how to fall, i.e fail.
- Well, you know, I've said
it in front of Congress,
which is, when you send astronauts
up into the space station,
they have to do exercises
to simulate gravity because when
you're in a zero gravity environment
you lose muscle mass and bone density,
and it hurts you a lot.
And a lot of these kids are growing up
in a zero gravity environment
and they're losing
their muscles and they're
losing their bone density.
And it's not a physical
thing, but obviously
it's gravity free in our
society in their brains.
- Your brand new book
called, "I'm Your Emotional
Support Animal."
You once again talk about the
fact that there is such a void
of good comedy of people
having the freedom to go
and tell a joke because
too many people are woke.
Help us understand, what is
wrong with a cancel culture.
What's going on and how is that dangerous
to the next generation?
- Well, they want control.
They say they want
apologies, but an apology
forcing someone to apologize to you
is really just you controlling them.
So they're sort of drunk with that power.
They're all narcissists
and they're weak people.
And they're bad people.
They really, instead of going out
and creating their own material,
they're judging everyone else's
and then a mob of them is
deciding you need to apologize
otherwise you're gonna be
removed from their livelihood.
And what they don't understand
is they're gonna turn on
each other as you've seen already.
So, it feels good momentarily,
but it's like eating taffy
before you go to bed.
Tell him, get back to me in five years
and tell me how your
checkup is at the dentist.
- (chuckles) When you talk
about the element of college,
it's with a real sense of contempt.
Contempt for the fact that colleges
have become the hotbed of
censorship, of control.
Should parents think twice
before they write a big,
fat check so their little darlings
can go off to college and get ruined?
- I was just thinking
about this the other day.
I for sure would and I also, I was talking
to Dr. Drew about it, I was saying,
"How can we be
simultaneously becoming more
and more educated and
dumber as a society?"
You know, we're missing
a basic horse sense.
We're missing a clarity.
We're common sense.
The kind of things we used
to hear about growing up.
Now, everyone has a college degree,
but they've lost their
ability to think and reason
and I realized, they're going to college
instead of going to a lumber mill
or the military or a construction site,
and really learning how to
practically use their brain.
- You know, Adam, we're all confronted
with people who are radical leftists,
who yell and they scream at
us and they don't like the way
that we talk or what we believe.
What's your advice of how
to deal with these leftists?
And I know this is one of the
things that you deal with in
your book, but I wanna ask you
to explain to our audience,
how do we deal with these leftists
who think that we just ought to disappear
with our views that are
different than theirs?
- Well, I think the first thing
is you don't apologize
and you don't step back.
And I know it sounds easy to say.
But they are essentially
folks that take hostages
and the more you pay the hostages
and the more you negotiate
with the hostages,
the more they progress.
So they'll need more
as you, as you retreat,
they'll advance.
It's funny I was just
talking to Mark Geragos,
the attorney,
- Yeah.
- And he told me there
was a supermarket chain
and their policy was, if
someone did a slip and fall
in their store they
would just pay them out.
So they would just pay
out when someone slipped
and fell and they thought
it was easier and faster,
except for they got more and more cases
because the word got out
that there were slipping
and falling and there was a
payday from the supermarket.
So, negotiate, it's good in the short run,
but it costs you big picture.
- You know, that kind of
thing is very powerful.
It's what your book is all about.
Your book is a very straightforward, raw.
It's not, you know for the weak of heart.
But living life right now is
not for the weak of heart.
And I hope people will get it and read it
and realize that wherever they are
on the political spectrum,
we need to embrace
Liberty, Free Speech
and the idea of letting
people be who they are.
And, Adam I wanna thank
you for being who you are
and being bold and courageous,
even in the world of comedy.
And I hope you will continue
to be an outspoken advocate
for free speech.
Thank you for joining us.
