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Adam Carolla GOES OFF on LA’s Heat Wave & Tennessee’s BOTCHED DEI Execution! w/ Mike Dawson artwork

Adam Carolla GOES OFF on LA’s Heat Wave & Tennessee’s BOTCHED DEI Execution! w/ Mike Dawson

Adam Carolla Show

October 6, 2026

Mike Dawson is a longtime producer, audio engineer, and announcer for The Adam Carolla Show, where he has worked with Carolla since the mid-2000s and is best known for introducing and closing the show.

Speakers Adam Carolla, Mike Dawson, Rudy, Chuck, Andrew

TopicsComedy

Adam Carolla (0:00)

So in this episode, I'm gonna clean out my junk drawer, all the stuff I wanted to talk about for the last few weeks. Finally gonna get a chance to talk about, Dawson's gonna be in here, and Dawson's gonna do news as well right after this. Bet on line. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from The Adam Carolla Show.

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Mike Dawson (2:20)

From Carolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Today, we'll do the news with me, Mike Dawson and now, Adam Carolla.

Adam Carolla (2:33)

All right. Well, back by popular demand. Awesome Dawson is in the studio. Now, we got a lot of stuff. Every once in a while, we're just going to hit my list of stuff that builds up and stuff I want to complain about and get into. And today is one of those days.

Mike Dawson (2:49)

It's an extensive list ever growing.

Adam Carolla (2:51)

You know, it grows and I don't get to all of it a lot of the time. So now I'll get to it.

First, it's very hot here in Los Angeles, which is fine. I hate it.

It also makes me realize I say all the time, there is no car and no civilization that lives near the equator that manufactures an automobile. That can't be a coincidence. Germany, even in LA, or sorry, even in the United States, we pick Dearborn, Michigan, coldest place around to put huge factories and build cars. You can't, in the heat, people don't get shit done. So I'm starting to realize, you find me a car that is built near the equator, you cannot do it. They're all away from the equator. I checked it out.

Mike Dawson (3:45)

I can't think of one.

Adam Carolla (3:46)

Now, we will outsource our shit to places like Mexico and tell them to build our cars or Volkswagen will, but they don't build their own car. There's nothing. There's no rocket program. There's no jets made.

Mike Dawson (3:59)

There's no Sahara Motor Company.

Adam Carolla (4:01)

No, there probably is, but that's probably out of Flint. So, all right, but the point is, even like the Duesenbergs and stuff, the guys who were like in Indiana, I think Duesenberg was. Anyway, so it's hot, but I have to, now I can see the freeway sign. And by the way, when I say hot, it's 95 to 100 degrees, which is hot, but it's where we live. You're used to it. You live here.

Again, a slight depression always comes over me because of growing up in a garage and on a service porch and no air conditioning ever and just sweltering in the heat. And just think about all the nights that I just went, I literally tossing and turning, like all night just fluffing the pillow and trying and trying, never getting cool.

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