“They’re Stealing From Us!” Adam Carolla Exposes Who’s REALLY Destroying The Middle Class

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**Adam Carolla** (0:52)
The people that pay taxes, go to work every day, create, build, have employees.
We want freedom, we want to be left alone. But the people who want what we have, they want control, but they do it under the umbrella of safety. It starts foundationally with public safety. Where we're heading as a nation is safe spaces and octagons.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:17)
So the new rules are aimed at making roads and communities safer.

**Graham Stephan** (1:20)
Who's responsible?

**Adam Carolla** (1:21)
All politicians do is kind of lick their finger and just sort of put it in the air.

**Zoran Mamdani** (1:25)
When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich.

**Adam Carolla** (1:28)
They keep coming up with ways to extract more money from people that are ten times smarter than they are, and the people that are ten times smarter than they are figure out a way to not give it to them, or they just move.

**Jack Selby** (1:43)
What do you think is going to happen?

**Adam Carolla** (1:44)
If you don't own property, you're not really completely invested in America. You're just kind of floating around. It's impossible that you ever own a home. I don't know how that's sustainable.

**Graham Stephan** (2:01)
Adam Carolla, thank you so much for coming on The Iced Coffee Hour.

**Adam Carolla** (2:04)
My pleasure.

**Graham Stephan** (2:05)
So I want to get your take on this. Ray Dalio just warned that the US is entering years of turbulence driven by large deficits, widening wealth gaps, political divisions, and AI disruption.
You're known for being the practical guy. What does this mean for the average person?

**Adam Carolla** (2:22)
I think what I told Dr. Drew many years ago, and not many, but 10 years ago, and Dr. Drew has always come to me and said, what's next? Where are we heading? What's going on? Because I've always predicted things with him.
I said, where we're heading as a nation is safe spaces and octagons. They said, what does that mean? I said, there's a group of people that are interested in safety and they're interested in the government, and they're interested in all the social programs and the safety nets, and 10 months off paid vacations for childbirth, and all this kind of nonsense, and they're going to live in the safe spaces. And then there's the other group that likes mixed martial arts and doesn't want to drive an electric car and likes owning a gun, and doesn't want to be taxed, and doesn't like big government, and those are going to be the octagon people. And so we're going to just segregate, or it's going to naturally happen, which it's already sort of happening now. People who live in California go, I don't like any of this crap, I'm moving to Texas. And they just go to Texas, and then they get to Texas, and they go, I like it here because I like driving my truck, and I wanted to build something, the permitting process was easy, and so on and so forth. So they like the freedom. The people that are producers like freedom, like the people that pay taxes, go to work every day, create, build, have employees, we want freedom, we want to be left alone.
But the people who want what we have don't want freedom. They want the government to get involved and give us, give them what we're earning essentially. So we're going to just self-segregate into safe spaces and octagons. And then at some point, the safe spaces are going to start falling apart, and they're going to have to go to the octagons and go, we need your protection or we need your money. It's basically like Hokel. Hokel is going to drive everyone out of New York, and then they're going to go to Miami, and then she's going to go, hey, come back and help support all our generous systems that you don't benefit from.