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All In Interview - Adam Carolla - Recap and Notes - January 12 2026

January 12 2026

  • First ever ad read - Paypal Open by Friedberg
  • Palisades fire recap
    • 1 year ago
    • 6837 structures destroyed - ~5000 homes
    • As of Nov 2025 only 1 home has been rebuilt
    • Carolla lives in Malibu - saw the fire breakout as it happened - evacuated later that night
    • Early life in construction - familiar with the issue
    • Has encountered a lot of bureaucracy over the years
      • California Coastal Commission and other departments make it hard to build - permitting process is insane
  • Diagnosis
    • Blames what he calls Gyno fascism - safetyism and environmentalism
    • They hide behind the shield of safety and don’t think about the second order effects of making everything “safer”
    • Blames Barbara Ferrer for shutdown
    • Shows how teachers unions are very powerful
      • Rochelle Walensky had to walk back her covid shutdown comments
      • Why are they allowed to elect politicians?
    • Shows how absurd it is that the LA Times would endorse a political candidate - then how can you trust their reporting on either candidate?
    • Blames women and their mindset in general for safety-ism and leftist media takes - casting a wide net
    • See how a year later houses haven’t been built - episode a year ago of Trump and Bass joint conference showing contrast between their view points
    • Explains how he has seen examples of favoring minorities that hurt the majority group
  • Safe spaces vs Octagon
    • Safe spaces don’t work - free food, free money, needles and drugs have all not worked
    • Octagon approach is better - survival of the fittest
  • CA
    • $18B budget deficit in CA 26-27 cycle
    • $600B pension obligations for CA public sector employees
    • Orange County is well run so even in CA there is a safe haven
    • Billionaire tax act proposal
    • $50M net worth tax act proposal
    • 53% for highest tax bracket
    • Taking more than half your money is ultimate government overreach
    • Homelessness out of control
    • Woke elites having to confront the realities of their vote - so maybe their minds are changing
  • Anti tech sentiment
    • A lot of it is society needing a convenient villain
  • Mid terms could go any way if Trump’s policies don’t kick in

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