Speaking during a Wednesday, June 19, interview on “The Sage Steele Show,” famous comedian and podcast host Adam Carolla said that he is joining the throngs of people fleeing California over its horrible policies and generally unliveable quality of life, which comes mainly due to out of control crime and sky-high tax rates.
Taking a few parting shots at California Governor Gavin Newsom, to whom he referred as “sociopathic” and as a “buffoon,” Mr. Carolla said, speaking to Sage Steele on her “The Sage Steele Show,” that he simply couldn’t live in his former, longtime home since childhood of Los Angeles anymore because “it’s horrible.” That is a major change for him, as he grew up in LA and kickstarted his comedy career there. Regardless, he said it is “time to move.”
Speaking to Steele about how he had to stay in California as his children finished high school, but will be leaving ASAP now that their senior year is wrapping up. He said, “I have twins, and they’re in their senior year of high school and I couldn’t- I didn’t want to pick up and, you know, tear up their roots, you know? So people always go, ‘When are you leaving?’ And I go, I will be attending their high school graduation in a U-Haul.”
He continued, commenting on what his desire to leave shows about California and its disastrous current state, saying, “That’s a sad testimonial about California and sort of recent downturn in L.A. as well, because growing up out here, nobody left. You’d be a fool to leave, you know. And the notion of moving out of L.A. and going to like one of the Carolinas or Nashville…”
He continued, speaking about how the mass exodus from California is shocking given that it used to be the place where everyone wanted to live, saying, “You watch the beginning of ‘The Beverly Hillbillies,’ they lived over here and then they came to where we are, and I was already there. Moving to a place like Wyoming or something would have been unfathomable, unheard of.”
But leaving he is. He said that he’s considered moving to 15 different, better states including Texas, Florida, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. He said, “And that’s sad because I don’t even have a place that I need to go. There’s a difference between going ‘I want to live out my retirement years in Maui’ or ‘I got to move to Arizona because I have bronchitis’ or something.”
Continuing, and explaining why his move is purely because California has become unliveable and he can’t be there anymore, saying, “This ain’t that. This is just I have to leave. I don’t even know where I’m going. This isn’t me cheating on you for another woman. This is ‘I hate you so much. I’m moving into a motel room and not dating for six years.'”
Then, speaking about California getting worse and worse with no end in sight, Newsom said, “I say to a lot of people like, when’s it end? When do we change course? And the number one answer is, ‘We haven’t bottomed out yet. We’re getting near it. We haven’t totally bottomed out.’ And then I say, ‘Why is it necessary to bottom out?’”
Continuing, he said, “It’s like saying, you know, I was looking for some stuff in my son’s room and I found some syringes and a baggie of heroin. But he hasn’t flatlined yet, okay? I have not walked in and seen foam coming out of his mouth or him convulsing. And you go, ‘Yeah, I know, but why don’t you get him in some treatment now?’ And you go ‘Because his heart hasn’t stopped yet.’ And it’s like, ‘Yeah, I know, but why do we have to bottom out?’ We know where we’re going. Let’s reverse course. California and Los Angeles can’t do it.”
He then sounded off on Governor Newsom, telling Steele, “We get what we deserve, and we deserve it,” Carolla told Steele. “I mean, my mom right before she died, I was like, ‘Listen, I’d rather let Larry Elder be the governor than Newsom. And she’s like, ‘I don’t know about’ – what’s funny about her- super progressive White lady, but Larry Elder being Black doesn’t mean anything to her because he’s on the wrong side, right?… So she goes, ‘I don’t know who Larry Elder is, but I know Gavin Newsom’s a Democrat.’ And I’m like, that’s how we vote. Like Dumbo moms. It’s like ride or die with Gavin Newsom. And it’s like, can you just admit you made a mistake and try something else? And it’s like, no, we cannot.”
Further ridiculing the far-left governor, he said, “He says nothing. He says nothing,” Carolla said. “He’s a sociopathic, narcissistic, empty bag. And we vote for this guy. He says nothing.” Shortly later, he added, “He’s a buffoon. He’s an idiot. I said to him what’s going on with traffic? We have such horrible traffic in L.A., especially, the worst in the world. Like, why aren’t we doing something about it. Why isn’t there a plan? Where’s our traffic czar? What’s going on? He goes, ‘I saw this billboard. I kind of liked it. It said, ’You’re not in traffic. You are traffic.’ It doesn’t mean anything. The point is, that’s how he talks.”
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