Mike Binder: The Academy Kept Me Out Because of Politics + Times Square Stabbing ENDS IN CHAOS!

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From Carolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, actor, comedian, filmmaker Mike Binder plus the news with Elisha Krauss. And now, Adam Carolla.

**Adam Carolla** (2:04)
Yeah, get it on.

**Dawson** (2:05)
Got to get it on.

**Adam Carolla** (2:06)
No choice but to get it on. Mandate, you get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for coming, friend. Love that about you. Mike Binder. Guy's been doing comedy for a long time. Stand up acting, directing movies and stand up specials. And oh man, it just keeps going.
Say, I saw you with the Robert Kennedy Jr. Fundraiser, Night of Laughs. That was a good night. That was a fun night.

**Mike Binder** (2:32)
We took those around the country. That was fun. Yeah. Yeah, we had a good time and I love that guy. We've been friends over 40 years.

**Adam Carolla** (2:41)
Really?

**Mike Binder** (2:42)
Yeah.

**Adam Carolla** (2:42)
I love that guy too.

**Mike Binder** (2:45)
The funny thing about him, cause we're such good friends and I've known him so long, I remember when everybody in this town jammed in living rooms to listen, hang on every word for his speech, you know, and he would talk in every, all these movie stars living rooms, right? They loved him.

**Adam Carolla** (3:05)
Yeah.

**Mike Binder** (3:06)
And then I watched them slowly destroy this guy.

**Adam Carolla** (3:10)
Yeah.

**Mike Binder** (3:10)
Slowly turn him into, he's a freak.

**Dawson** (3:13)
He's a moron.

**Adam Carolla** (3:14)
Yeah. It's so, it's so insidious. Mike Binder, you've done something special. You've split two coasters with your coffee mug.
Most people forget the coaster, but they don't split the two coasters between. There's only so much real estate in between those two coasters. I get it. I get it. So, yes. So, I find it sort of insidious, and it's also reprehensible. Like, here's what it is.
First off, you love this guy, just like you loved Elon Musk. So, what's wrong with you? Yes. Is there something wrong with you? Now, you loved Michael Avenatti too. How'd that work out? So, you love this guy, but let's first say, what does this say about you, average celebrity? You worship at this guy's altar, and you worship at the altar of Elon, and now they're both insane, destructive people. So, what's wrong with you and your radar dish, that you would worship at the altar of these people, and it turned out to be evil?

**Mike Binder** (4:15)
Absolutely.
And it was so interesting for me to see the shift, month by month, happen. And I will tell you, I'm not going to tell you who, but a very famous comedian friend of mine, when I got him to meet Bobby, and Bobby took him sailing in Hyannisport, and he was, oh my god, I went sailing with a Kennedy.

**Adam Carolla** (4:34)
Bill Burr.

**Mike Binder** (4:37)
How'd you know that?

**Adam Carolla** (4:39)
I know everything.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:40)
Okay, so anyway.

**Adam Carolla** (4:41)
No, I didn't know anything. I'm a very educated guesser, but yes.

**Mike Binder** (4:45)
But if maybe it was Bill Burr, I don't know. But the point is, it went from, I love this guy, and we'd go to dinner at his house, to what, he's a freak, he's a moron, he's killing people.