Greg Gutfeld | The Adam Carolla Show 08/15/2022

all right greg gutfeld with me we're uh at home at the fox station gutfeld name of the show of course weeknights fox 11 p.m i see it at 8 00 p.m i think where i am on the west coast and podcast the one with greg gutfeld as well so congratulations um i use you and your success as a sort of um tale and metaphor of what this country's been needing for a long time i've said for the longest time when people were telling me to shut up and not give my opinions on x y and z and sponsors aren't going to like it and blah blah blah it's like there's a million mexican food restaurants someone's got to open an italian food joint and then they would get a lot of business yeah and everyone's like well no just open another mexican food joint but you guys opened an italian food joint and zoomed right to number one yeah it was uh it's kind of like a tinier uh version of what fox did cause like uh before fox news there was just all italian restaurants all mexican restaurants right and then ale said well let's open up a let's open up a mexi i forgot the metaphor the mexican restaurant you know the italian restaurant and it was zoomed to number one so this was just almost like a repeat of that but on a smaller scale with with the uh late night a late night comedy show you know i guess the question is like what took so long like we've we've known like just within late night the the networks started sort of leaning left and then turning left and then going hard left and it's been that way for a number of years now and so the question would have been where's the alternative in late night and even though it's been a little over a year yeah right but why hasn't it been a little over three years it's a good question because when we started red eye i i mean remember i was a magazine editor i'm not a comedian so i got the job hosting redeye coming out of like print so i wasn't adept i wasn't competent uh i was you know and the first thing somebody did was they wrote is this the next daily show which it was just absolutely absurd because you couldn't compare the two you know that was daily show highly highly produced great host uh me incompetent kind of sweaty panicked dude trying to steer this like jack wagon whatever so it i think it took time for me personally i had to keep doing this thing over and over and over again until i got somewhat better at it and the five helped and and that and so then it became ripe and i it and then we talked about it probably eight or nine years ago and we started doing it as a weekly six or seven years ago on saturday nights and i think it was just more of a time commitment for me but i also think that there was a belief that or a fear that maybe the critics were right it's like maybe we're not supposed to do this you know it's kind of like you know you know conservatives are aren't supposed to be in culture they're supposed to be on wall street they're in med school right now they're not an art school and and the thing is i've always rebelled against that because i've always been uh on on the pop culture cultural side but conservative libertarian i know i could do it but it's hard to find other people to do that it's not it's a really tough thing and i think it's like i'd rather not be known for that and do it anyway you know and i think that's what happened it kind of surprised people yeah you know well it's also becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because like i've done some work and i'm doing some work with the daily wire and then you go all right we got to get some riders and it's like these people don't want to work for the daily wire not because they're against the daily wire but they don't want to be blackballed in hollywood my problem and so there's some guy he's a big fan of the show but he can't come on because he watches it like you know like a murano like a a jew pretending to be a non-jew and you know this spain in 1941 because they didn't want to be rounded up and it's like could you blame them i can't tell you how many examples i have of this of i love your show can't do it that's right or something comes up and also there's the interference that's run by the team like the publicists who are uh you know it's like somebody could be totally into it and you know he's and then this person will go no you can't do it you can't do it and it's always the publicist and they're just we're just looking out for you you know you do this it's i'm thinking so who's gonna who's who's running the mob on this one is it like other hosts who's is or is it some kind of phantom you know the publicists are the worst people on the planet just in general right there's like certain jobs that attract horrible people yes like you know like sort of when you go i could never be a meter maid i'm ruining people's days all day long you know but it's like oh there's certain people that don't mind and or are attracted to that so it attracts a horrible person they're probably amongst the most progressive people because they have to navigate hollywood in a way that's even more intricate than a host or an actor because they have so many clients with so many crazy beliefs that would fire them in a heartbeat yes they found out x y or z and then they're also they have that thing that network lawyers have which is you go you got to check it with them make sure and they just go no like the answer is no because they'll never get fired if the answer is no they will get fired if the answer is yes and something goes wrong yeah so all risk is is dis it's incentivized disincentivized right do it right and uh and uh i just i remember this when i was uh when i was editor of men's health and uh trying to get celebrities on the cover that didn't really happen until after i left because they had to change all the the editorial but they were like no this is i mean this was too gay they thought the magazine was too gay all right and then you know i get to stuff magazine i'm editor of that no it's too raunchy too right it's nothing but it's nothing but hot chicks so you go from ab dudes to hot chicks and then i go to maximum in london and it was but they always have this thing where what the people like what the people enjoy the publicists don't they're always trying to do what are the advertisers what are the advertisers going to like right you know and advertisers want their ad next to something really innocuous and that looks like an ad that looks like just like their ad and so it's like you're dealing with people that actually don't like your customer mm-hmm you know yeah and you know you kind of go well look uh your publicist your client has a book or an album or tv show and you draw this kind of audience so why not just put them in front of the biggest audience they can they can draw or confine but they don't so there's probably a bunch of closeted conservatives or true libertarians or just sort of open-minded folks who go that guy's gun opinion that guy's got an opinion i'm happy to go on either show and share my opinion who you just may not be getting and so what you're up against is while the other shows got george clooney you got scott baio and kevin sorba right and then you go okay but then how much of it is the guest versus the host versus the format and then you go oh we can't get the guys who wrote on conan to come into the writer's room because they're scared of being blackballed it drives me insane that they never stop complaining about mccarthyism and they're more than happy to blackball anybody who crosses the line no they're they're they're the new mccarthyites especially in this woke culture but it's funny it's like so i i'm i'm counting on this show succeeding without names right and oh and creating at least and i know this sounds like a cop-out but of like creating our own celebrities which actually is a what happens at fox everybody suddenly has a fan base of three million people if they're watching this [ __ ] constantly you know and and uh and then i i mean every now and then i'll put somebody on that is big and it never really does anything and the interviews are usually so safe and and awkward because i ca you know it's hey i don't want to piss anybody off and i just say how's your book or how's your how's your movie and or else you end up in one of those things where the person is in a um what are those those uh press things where they're like junkets and they're just sitting there and i actually you know i think we've done maybe two or three of those and they're just like why am i doing this this is not fun for me it's not fun for them the the viewers have probably turned the channel so i vow never to do not to chase this stuff anymore because none of these big stars are going to have a strong opinion they might be funny like it'd be great to get like a paul rudd you know he's like now he's a good guest right you know or like you know uh you know but crackpots and weirdos that howard stern does and letterman got weird people that's kind of more interesting to me or just unusual people you know might might be better what is the process because i see you sit down to host the show you have a clipboard and a pile of papers i can see that you've written longhand on many of those papers it looks like a sharpie yes it is and i think yeah it feels very nutty professor asked uh i was talking to dr drew about it and he was saying i don't think he has writers i think he just has a pile of papers he goes up there with but the monologues are nicely formed and they're cogent and they've got a theme and they're they're strong monologues and so are you putting those together during the day do you have some help yeah i mean i would so what happens is i get up at 8 30 coffee and i start and i the hardest part is picking the story and there's nothing worse than being like a third of the way through something and going no this is not good and but uh like tonight we're gonna do something on prince harry at the u.n and that came last night and that makes me happy because then i don't sit wake up in the middle of the night and go [ __ ] i don't have something so i'll i so i write that out i send it to i have uh doing nick apollo yeah yeah so he's he's he works on my monologue so he'll write i'll send like a like five minute monologue and then he'll like write he'll he'll like punch it up with stuff that is either great or so offensive that's unusable yeah but he's really funny yeah and he could get i mean he i like people that will cross the line so i can get as close to the line as possible so he'll he'll do something that it's like that'll get me fired but if i just replace that one word then i have look then it's a joke it's still it's not maybe it's not as shockingly funny but then we have i have uh you know joe mackey who's great comedian and joe devito they're on staff so like we'll they'll they'll one of them will get a stab at the monologue and then also put lines into other segments but most of the time i write i'll write and edit all the segments and then they put in the jokes and then i'll edit it down trying to get it as tight as possible and then all this [ __ ] i the reason why i have all these notes is because i find that writing longhand while thinking uh uh it uses more parts of your brain and i do this when i work out i used to do it on the on a stair climber and then now i just do it um um sometimes i'll do it on a bike you know a peloton but i like i like right if i'm writing it down there's a weird thing where like if you if you don't have a thought but you start a sentence the thought will just con the thought will complete the sentence you just need to kind of like stick a stick a pen in the brain and kick it along and i'll just go like the problem with prince harry and i don't even have an answer it's like then it happens right so that and so and and then my i try not to look at it too much but i end up looking at it i do look like a crazy person that is for sure when i do that especially on the five so because the five will have a you can see every more of me on the five and you can see my notes and scribblings and i am a little weird well you know i wonder if your literary background was a a better base for hosting i'm thinking of i don't know piers morgan you know he's a very good host interviewer he had that sort of literary background i wonder if it ends up being like martial arts where he had this great college wrestling career or something and you use it as a base yeah yeah yeah i think so you know the uh the i i always tell people when they call me a comedian that i'm not i did i've never done stand-up and so i can't take that stolen valor i always say that and and but what i did was i ran meetings editorial meetings uh frequently maybe three times a week sit down either with art staff or ideas for whatever it's an easy job doing a magazine because you put out one product i didn't realize that until i got to tv right it's amazing that you have one deadline and i was like worried about that it's crazy yeah so but i would just sit and and then we'd so you you'd find stories and what's in the stories are like jokes and i they're like ideas for jokes and then you're sitting around talking to people and i have to almost be a host to them and ask them what they think about things and i think that's what kind of uh that's what i do basically i'm doing a story pitch meeting as a show in a weird way like what do you think what do you think you know is this you know and i we will even comment on whether we should even be doing this story because it's so stupid or it doesn't make any sense you know which is you know you know nobody does on on any other show here anyway it's like you don't you don't suddenly question your own value well you know all right so first off as far as stand-up goes when you have a really nice platform like you have a platform like bill maher has a platform you know and there's no doubt that real time is a nice platform to sell tickets for live live events and in today's world stand-up takes a lot of different shapes you know it's more of an evening with gutfeld yeah you know what i'm saying and the phone must be ringing a little bit with guys i mean i know how the business works they'll call and go hey you want to play the whatever theater in seattle you know we can set you up for that and you're also a guy who sort of likes a challenge and likes to evolve and go just because i didn't do this doesn't mean i can't yeah do that i'm doing i'm doing live shows now we are yeah but i'm doing it live i still don't feel like it's stand-up it's yeah it's exactly i've probably done like maybe 100 of them now but there is exactly what you said evening with so what i do and i have crutches on this because just walking out i've never done the walk out stand up and just start talking about the world instead the first crutch is i've they bought tickets to see me so it's like 90 percent done right they love fox right they love it so it's like there's gonna be i don't have to worry about a heckler or somebody some drunk [ __ ] that's gonna make my life hell these are people that have been looking forward to this so that's that's that already takes a lot of pressure off then i have a a screen in which i go through slides of things about things that are weird or bizarre or unusual about fox right and then so it's like i throw tucker up there huge applause i'll do an impression of tucker i'll do an impression of uh dana perrino i do the and then and these are all would not work if i were in a i took a company that's a club they'd be like what this did i enter some kind of weird cult meeting because everybody know everybody where i'm at knows what i'm talking about but then we do that we do that for like 20 minutes and then we go into um issues so we could throw up there like the the border patrol guy with the whip right rain and we could riff on that for whatever and i'm with tom chalu tom is a comedian and he's hosting he's also on the on uh contributor to fox so he will like ask me questions and we'll just talk about all sorts of stuff it's like two hours and then we have q a so there's i would say there's a as many laughs as you would at a comedy show but it doesn't have the performance level of like a comedian going out there and going i've got you know i've got an hour of just bulletproof material that no i'm walking out from outer space and get it i'm gonna change your life so i just had this conversation with uh bossam youssef i think i'm looking at my producer but i wait i did it for a take a knee pod i believe it was like a subscription pod so i'll i'll share it on this is my acs pod but so there's a couple things because i've been through your your arc and and the first thing and he said the same thing now bossum is from uh egypt and he was sort of the jon stewart of egypt and then he got run out he had this huge following in egypt and they got run out of town and he came here and he thought i'm a host but he kept saying his mantra was i'm not a stand-up comedian i'm not a stand-up comedian and and he said i would get up there and i would have like a slide show and i would tell stories and things but i'm not a stand-up and i started out the same way i was i'm not a stand-up i got a slide thing i got stories but but but it's a crutch right now and i looked at it as a crutch and he said he looked at it as a crutch and and we did it for we both did our crutch sort of related slideshow presentations for you know a year over a year two years three years or whatever and then we both had a moment and his moment came when he was it's in some small club and some podunk town he was getting ready to do his thing and he looked out and there were 14 people in the crowd and nobody was at the club and he just said why am i doing the whole you know uh cat dog and pony show with the slides and everything with nobody in the crowd i'm just gonna talk right it's not even worth it and he talked and he said it was great and my story was i was doing a couple shows at a big club in phoenix and sarah silverman called me you know at five o'clock and and and she said you know what i want you to do this this event this charity and i said yeah i said well i'm on the road right now but i'll be back and she said what are you doing on the road i said i'm doing she said you're doing stand-up and i said no no not not stand-up it's weird you become very protective right yeah stolen valor yeah right no no not stand up not sound i'm standing on a stage for an hour and a half making people laugh but it is not stand up so she's like he sounds like you're doing stand-up i said no no you're doing stand-up yes i'm on stage doing like uh um mark twain yeah mark twain yes yeah i i'm doing a powerpoint presentation and she's like that sounds like stabs like not stand up not stamp go to the club both shows sold out do the first show goes great got the projector and all the slides and everything six minutes before the late show sold out again guy just comes back goes bulbs burnt out on the projector and i'm like so what do we got it's like we got nothing we just got you and a microphone and a sold out venue and i was like uh [ __ ] i started like frantically making notes like oh yeah what do i talk about what do i does this work without the picture i think i could describe the picture and i'll make it work and i went out and crushed it that night and he said as as was me but i i sort of weaned myself off it he said that's the last time i did i just went out and did it and i feel like you need that bulb burning out moment you can easily do it it's a weird thing you just you start memorizing the stuff you start but it's more living it it's more like i am a stand-up versus i'm this placeholder for a stand-up with a slide projector you could start that trajectory you could be there in a short period of time and you could just travel start working clubs like you can do it it's it's hard when you're selling out when the fans are there when it's comfortable you also got that vibe of like well what if i just walk into caroline's on a wednesday night that's not my crowd they will be your crowd like you will overcome that like you can do it so you just have to think of your bold burnout moment or your no one's in the crowd moment to start that transition yeah it's like when your parents take off the training wheels without telling you that's right yeah just ghost ride you're right into the neighbor shrub exactly so this is for you and and you know you think about the economics of it like what it costs to do a network late night show which i've been involved with and just looking around at the multiple buildings the writers room there's 13 riders they're all making six figures they're all getting free lunch i mean yeah just the writers alone and the staff i mean i don't know what your full staffing i think it's something like 12 total right and we're talking about into the 80s yeah on these shows so i mean the economics of it has to be amazing yeah but that doesn't mean you're getting paid no yeah does that include when you say like 80 because we've talked about this a lot does that include like the floor director and stuff like that because we share that stuff too oh really yeah we share that like for you know our floor director will do our show and then do maybe tucker so it's like it's you know it's not like you have your own dedicated person as well but um yeah no it's uh it's like we don't have a writer's room right you know and i think everybody's respon like our writers if we have or the people that we're gonna bring their their tupperware lunches right that's that's so you know it's not six figures it seems like when it comes time to renegotiate the contract you could probably be in for a pretty good payday yeah i know that i think they know that too you know but uh yeah no and it but so does everybody else don't you think i mean it's like it's gonna be a it's gonna be well the real question i guess for someone in your position is you know the way these things work is somebody on some other network or platform goes hey we'll pay more than that once the contract's up but then the question is is how does this work on tnt or what whatever or maybe it's a network like you know and and and if we evolved enough or we come far enough that other networks are sort of going maybe we can cherry-pick some guys off of fox yeah well i think that's happening with uh there's uh is it uh what's his name um what's his name charlemagne he's got he's i think he's putting out something on comedy central at another late night show oh yeah so there and i just the reason why i know that is because i know people that he's contacted right uh but um i mean i i shouldn't say this but but i'm i'd i can't because if i'm going into a contract this is the worst thing that you could say but i'm happy here like i don't like it it's you know you look at like what happened to conan like where he went was that tnt i think so and then there's like megan kelly yeah yeah there's stories yeah people leaving the nest yeah and then you know bigger and brighter and shinier objects yes and then you never hear from them again yes yes well i think conan just signed a 150 billion dollar deal with like that's serious xm that's right i'd like to have that kind of obscurity in my life me too and i know megan's probably doing just fine yeah she she is but there is that thing of you know is it the host is it the platform is it the audience you know i used to be on mtv mtv was like it's all about us not really about carson daly or adam corolla it's about being on mtv you know and then you have to also think well with success there's going to be imitation i mean somebody's there's got to be other places going hey look what gutfeld's doing over there we got to do our version of that yeah yeah but we're that might not be on the networks i don't think that would be no no it would definitely be daily wire right you know uh um what else that's about the only one i can wait use max max something like that yeah yeah yeah yeah but uh it's i mean i don't know i mean they're i mean i'm trying to think of people that would be doing would be good at doing that and you're already doing it you were like first so how for you and you know i i've talked about this with my uh manager i guess we'll call him mike august that he's like gutfeld is a huge story this is a huge story that nobody wants to talk about essentially like they hate your story when i say they i mean like mainstream media hates it because they don't like acknowledging that someone is doing something that's different than than what they're doing and that they're having success and what i've found through my experience with mainstream media which is they either attack you or they completely leave you alone it's just dead air if you are having success as if you it's as if you didn't exist so in a way the biggest tip of the cap you can get from them is nothing because it means you're succeeding or they would be attacking you this is that's so funny it's like i'm i'm conducting an experiment where the only attention that i receive from any well like mainstream media in general is on the 5. so if i do something on the five it's like if let's say if i say something it's like oh but but on my show nothing but we get we'll get so i'll get positive press about the ratings all the time and it'll it'll sneak into like forbes or or uh you know hollywood reporters yeah yeah something like that but in terms of like anything else would the zeitgeist or whatever you want to call it's not there but like the five is like the that that's because it's not different enough i guess or it's like they can't it's been around it's it's it's not me it's not their format yeah and late night is their format yeah and the five isn't their format yeah so you didn't infiltrate yes their format you're just doing your format or the format or a format or even fox's format with the five but it's interesting that you have a kind of control group and that yeah you know reminds me of a story greg it it is interesting because not many guys have two shows and you're right it's interesting five is okay they can report on it they can say good or bad or whatever but late night now it's personal and now you're infringing on their territory i remember speaking to conan years ago in new york a little bit after 9 11 jimmy and i were both out here for the hugh hefner roast and we're hanging around and and conan was out of new york and they couldn't get anyone to fly into new york because the buildings were still like smoldering you know and just he couldn't get gas but they found out jimmy and i were in town uh but i'd done conan and maybe alienated the crowd let's say when i was on the show i thought it was a good a good spirited uh set but uh i was i i was on the couch i was getting into it with the crowd i thought it was fun i think conan freaked out a little bit and so now they called jimmy i remember we're just walking through manhattan like real last minute like hey can you do conan tonight and he was kind of walking with me and he kind of looked at me and he said yeah i can do it with adam only if you if me and adam do it i'll do it i don't want to do it alone and they said to him we don't do partners we only do single gas and i said that's interesting because i was on conan with my partner dr drew a couple of years earlier so they picked the only guy who had another partner who was a guest on their show and that's kind of like what you're talking about yes with the five yeah yeah yeah yeah so they hate this story because and i i don't know why the left and the mainstream media have declared themselves this sort of you know guard or custodian of media or all the themes or the hunter biden laptop or the border patrol with the whips you know it's like why why the themes why so strong with the themes why not just report [ __ ] i you know there's i mean there's like a complex explanation about it but then there's like just like i how wrong i was about uh that the things that were on college campuses were gonna stay there i remember thinking like we would always make this joke how is a gender studies grad ever gonna find a job they did right they did work for the new york times they were yeah and so it's it's like i i totally misjudged the staying power of that stuff because it's in every company it's in every human resources department uh you get emails constantly about diversity inclusion whatever die i can't remember the other one inclusion equity right which isn't even real right and and uh and so you get all the it i think that has just spread out now we're in like one the media is almost like a campus now so there's some people that are allowed to speak some people aren't uh if you know and and i'm basically an uninvited guest guest on the campus that you would call the media and then they can choose to amp what i was when i talk about the hunter thing and even the border patrol thing they can choose to amplify a theme or erase a theme it's like that's not good and like like this show or 100 it's like that thing doesn't exist but this thing does and it's it and they do it all in unison because they're all from cut from the same cloth they're all the same people they ignore it they ignore so many it's weird like there's so many bad crimes going on and maybe i'm indulging in it too much by looking at it but it's nowhere else it's like you know the the there's you know the guy has a heart is you said tape of the guy having a heart attack and they looted his yeah why isn't that i don't know that to me is i'm we're having a thousand bernie gets mo moments right or uh that utah remember that utah kid who was killed in new york in like the 90s that changed that i think it was during dinkins it was during dinkins he was a an 18 year old kid from utah gets stabbed on the subway changed everything in new york from i guess look reading about it they say that but like you can have these things where you know a wall street banker gets gets murdered on a sunday morning on a train or an olympic athlete gets uh bastard or a race car driver stabbed to death one of these stories itself used to be enough and everybody go okay this stuff's gone far enough we have to put the victims first because we flipped it now the victimizers are the victims but maybe it's because of social media everything's too fast but we do not pay attention or allow things to change us anymore it drives me crazy you know well they laughed and sort of the mainstream media has created a weird they have painted themselves into a bizarre corner and you know you talk first about stuff they built up or stuff they dismiss versus stuff they ignore and and it's like look no further than hunter biden's laptop that's both stories that's a total dismissal of it then a total denial of a dismissal and just a non-story yeah and you know i was talking to dr drew about that and he he was saying why are they protecting hunter biden or why are they protecting joe biden and i said they're protecting themselves they got it wrong yeah they lied they knew they got it wrong they knew they were lying otherwise there's zero journalism in them at all they knew what they were doing so they go build it up and then leave it alone yeah and when it comes to crime they've laid out a narrative and the narrative is white cops shoot unarmed black teens males and in the back when their hands are up and they're yelling don't shoot and so they they laid that narrative out and the problem is and the homeless the face of homelessness is a mother of three who lost her job and is forced to move out of her apartment it's a vietnam vet rattling a can because he doesn't have his use of his legs and all this stuff and and or asian bashing yeah you know what i mean like oh you know the we if we call it the the chinese flu they're gonna get it's so what they've done is they turned black teen boys into victims and then they've said white supremacy is the biggest problem this country has well then when you look at the story and you look at the perp and you look at the victim and now what can you do completely [ __ ] up their narrative yeah so when your narrative is completely [ __ ] up much like your late night narrative of succeeding late night the answer is just walk away yeah exactly i you know they they pan you know i did a film with dennis prager called no safe spaces and you know they completely attacked that film the next film i did was called uppity it was about the first black race car driver to race at indy it was a human rights civil rights story about a black man who triumphed in a sport that didn't you know no reviews of course no reviews it was on netflix for three years it had zero reviews on rotten tomatoes because that's them going oh he told a good uh no no comment on that they can't give it up so what you're dealing with the news is we'll wait around and tell a white cop shoot someone darker than him and we'll be all over it and then if the black teen stabs a bodega owner or vice versa or or the race car driver whatever it is we'll just keep keep walking yeah exactly we'll give it the the couple of hours of coverage but there's going to be something coming along that we'll be able to attach ourselves to and right and that's what they'll do meanwhile it is like a weird user interface for the left if you look at any like if you want to you can actually there are enough white cops or any cops shooting unarmed people cases that not enough there is a an amount that you can actually study because there's not a lot of them right so when you look at it then you find out all these things that that actually it's minority cops that are more likely to shoot than white cops and all this other stuff but they will not they cannot go beneath that little layer they have to just deal with the icons it's like a computer screen right it's like we can only have the white cop the black victim but you can't but if you go what if we just what if i click how do you get there you can't do that it's just that those uh symbols and it's but it's really the opposite of journalism yeah you know what i mean like hunter biden's laptop gets dropped off at some computer repair place if you're cnn and someone says is it real is it authentic is it russian propaganda you should go i don't know we're gonna put six guys on it and find out yeah not the 50 intel the letter that's the thing if the republic is the craziest part if the republicans win the house they got to do an investigation on these 50 or 49 intel experts 51 51 yeah because it's uh it's uh they the new york post did a good thing where they actually they called each one of them up right and they wouldn't answer i think one or two people answered it and somebody had the balls to say i stick by it but nobody had nobody admitted they were wrong it's it is pretty fantastic now i i get the sense that the spigot is opening a little bit yeah because they want to get rid of joe so now you're seeing more hundred biden stuff and uh and and i think that's going to be maybe their way of pushing joe out if joe does yeah my game with the intel guys are i like to play a game called stupid or liar and this is a liar yeah because you don't work your way up to the head of the fbi by being stupid yeah you know the combined experience of those 51 guys was 2 000 years of vetting things and they all decided and signed off that it was russian propaganda which is insane and kind of disturbing mm-hmm what else i get donna brazile right you know i mean that's what she does yeah but it's it kind of makes you think that like all the people you laughed at as conspiracy yes are actually turned out to be more right than you ever were and and now you can't trust anything it's it's uh yeah it's like uh okay maybe so and so the tinfoil hat was uh an insult was uh just a fight yeah you know uh we'll take a quick break we'll be right back with gutfeld right after this all right back with greg gutfeld gutfeld's the show weeknights on fox 11 p.m and uh on the west coast it'll air at uh 8 p.m yeah it's a it's an interesting time we're living in and you know i i've never thought of myself as conservative i just got kind of shoved into that stall because i thought biden was an idiot and and every time someone talked about trump i was just like i i don't care what his personality is i just want to focus on policy his policy is good if anyone's policy is good i'm i'm with them yeah you know we got in in la we have a horrible mayor rick caruso's running for mayor he's a democrat he's a democrat who's every single one of his policies mirrors a republican's policy so i got no problems and i would not vote for any republican who's mirrored every democratic policy and it's not even democratic republican policy it's like effective policy versus nothing sanity if you want to do something about homelessness you got my vote you want to hang around and have a commission and and and conduct another study on it and have another discussion about it while some other olympia is getting bashed in the head with a pipe or some nascar drivers getting shipped at a shell station then i'm then i'm out i don't care what side you're on yeah but i don't know when and and it's also like when did the left go so hard like is that all just it all got off the campus yeah i think you know when i was doing um i mean i feel like it was always there and and its job is to always push itself further that's why they call themselves progressives or always progressively i guess worse i don't know but uh well i always say it's got the word progressive and then movement in it like what part of that says pump the break exactly exactly there's no sedentary no there's no statue yeah and it's just move progressively and and that's why you can't say racism has been solved and so what we're doing now is we're running out of we're running out of oppressors so and we you know the the there's a delight that we have in watching the left eat itself so they're turning on and then you're watching leftists leave uh really smart people are going like my guy and then they're people are coming like mad taibi you know he i i used to make fun of him in the mid-2000s and now i feel bad because maybe it was me you know because now i'm looking at him i go well actually him and i are kind of similar same thing with glenn greenwald i used to make when him and i were writing at the huffington post i would just you know jab him all the time and maybe he but i don't think he remembers it but uh uh but then i i read him and i go this guy is like brilliant and and also i think there's there's the issue is that they've got caught up in this kind on the the machine that it just can't stop it's it's a thing now that like okay they're still if we say racism has been defeated then do we shut the machine down it's kind of like a good a good uh maybe as andrew sullivan was talking about gay rights and saying like i'm talking about pride month and it was like oh do we really like is this necessary anymore right do we need do we need to have parades to celebrate you know blah blah or or a whole like in new york a whole month right you know and and i i think it was him who said and only he can say that because he's gay you know saying like this haven't we you know come on like but you can't say that because then the the the uh it's almost like maybe it's like telling a capitalist that they've made enough money you know right you can't do that telling a leftist that you can't you can no longer fight for social justice uh then they just they they don't know what else to do and they also don't work this is the other thing unless or they work in organizations that grift money but they really don't have other jobs right yeah so here's a theory um and i tell my son he's 16 he's kind of a chip off the old block he's not down with any of the woke [ __ ] and everything else and i keep telling him you're free to say whatever you want do whatever you want i don't care i'm i'm happy you don't want to wear a mask in the cafeteria but you have to get [ __ ] good at something otherwise you're going to be [ __ ] yeah now it can be welding and you could write for sub stack but you better get good right because you really it's hard to cancel you like if you're an nba player in their prime you'll always find a team yeah no matter what and if you've lost a step and you're not really draining the three you will get cut if you say something then it becomes about a sort of popularity contest and i'm wondering if these people you're speaking of glenn greenwald guys like that i was like well those guys are good yeah and when you're good and somebody tells you say this and you go but that's not true and they go say it you go [ __ ] you yeah i'm good it's if you're good at welding if you're a good fabricator and you know your boss walks in and goes i want you to weld me a swastika you go i don't care how prestigious the parade is i'm out if you're a shitty welder you have to kind of stay behind exactly i can't get another job so maybe the wheat from the chaff is happening like maybe the smarter yes that's people with more integrity but just who are better who just go i'm leaving and someone goes well where are you going to get another job and you go i'm i'm taking my brain i'm good yeah i get to go other places and be good yeah and i'm wondering if it's a sort of weak soft middle that is just so pliable and scared shitless for their jobs you know elon musk doesn't give two [ __ ] what we think of him or being de-platformed he builds platforms you know yeah but if you're somewhere in the middle you got to be careful have you shared this theory because i could steal it tonight brand new it i will bequeath it to you it's trademarked obviously so we'll have to run a ghost that makes total sense because it's weird it's like i've never had this concept it's just you kept bringing up people and i've run into a lot of these people and it's like oh you're really smart and you crossed over from here to there and it's like oh because you're good yeah and in any job where you're good you're [ __ ] good yeah yeah but you're not looking over your shoulder all the time the middle is compliant where are they going to go right exactly where they can yeah that's true and i see that in i think the if you the most mediocrity you're going to find is in journalism and i said like i was talking about doing a magazine uh magazines have really big staffs to put out something once a month that's what we did you could get you could get lost you could do that for 30 years and and gain some kind of prestige and win awards right and still be shitty and have terrible belief systems like they all do in in in magazine publishing in new york they're all i mean look what's happening it's funny look at look what's happening to the magazine that you probably worshipped sports illustrated i remember that going to the barber shop this is the thing it was iconic you can't look at it now it's right i mean it's just strange the bikini the bikini i mean that swimsuit issue was not it was a st i mean you know it's a big it's not a big deal but what it is now yeah is so strange and this is now happening another great example is teen vogue which is a basically a mark it's a marxist pamphlet i mean i don't even know what why is it called teen yeah you could count the number of teens that actually have ever picked up i am like this close to canceling my subscription after 26 years not teen vogue s.i no no good job i'm talking about team yes you said it's not even for young people i'm telling i'm not young but i like to keep up yes it's a write-off because of what i do yeah it's like a shed it's like i learned in teen vogue earlier today no it's crazy what they've turned into and you kind of wonder like is it disease is there any warden in this bridge there's no adults there's no adult and the in the uh it's this uh this virus or whatever it's like what's his name gad sad calls it a mind virus right it's like it just goes unchecked and i think to your point the only people that aren't catching it leave so it's like you kind of look you go oh it's like zombies we can't no he's been bit you got to go right like the si has been bitten and it's it can't you can't unbite it and you're right in that it's sort of self-selecting because if all the people uh that we're speaking of and i'm thinking of uh oh is it james mcmurray what's with murray's first name um i know you're talking about great guy uh he just wrote um yeah madness of crowds uh murray he was just on my show he's on my show a lot he works at fox but i can never remember his first name i know i just said douglas douglas douglas murray douglas murray yeah got both names i know and i and he's i'm going to play this tape back to him douglas murray all right the guy's brilliant yeah so he goes [ __ ] it i'll go write about what i want to write about i'll do what i want to do but it's like you're gay you can't say yeah like i'll say what i want to say and so now the people that are left at teen vogue are essentially the people that were bright and self-assured and understood that there's other options for them so they didn't have to parrot these insane lies right they all left now it's a group where you know it used to be 15 baltimore ravens fans and four pittsburgh steelers fans well the steelers fans just cleared out yeah and now it's nothing but ravens fans and now we're going to decide on how to report on baltimore ravens exactly and big ben doesn't stand a chance yeah and that's that's essentially whether it's the times la times new york times or where these sane adults who have you know who have some intellectual honesty and capacity are going uh no i don't think gay pride month should be spread into gay pride year uh i'm not down with that yeah and and they're leaving so now it's really getting concentrated right yeah there's two examples that are where there's feels like there's an attempt but i think it's gonna cnn is is trying to but i haven't seen actual real examples except their their biden criticisms right but i've also noticed newsweek which went woke is now feeling like it's like it's it's kind of tapping the brakes and hiring people i've read like a couple of things out of newsweek and i'm going to is this actually newsweek i'm wondering if it is possible to to save a zombie but i don't i i don't know it's like for all it purposes newsweek might already be dead you know well i you know you're thinking this but you won't articulate it i give you some credit for turning the ship not around [Laughter] slightly but but beering yeah you know it's it's a collective effort yeah you know maybe joe rogan gets a little credit maybe all the aforementioned intellectually honest folks who went to sub stack you know maybe everyone breaks off a little piece of credit but you are out invisible and nightly and the ratings are there and if you're running cnn or you're running newsweek or teen vogue you have to kind of be saying how far how fast do we want to run down this path with a cliff at the end of it maybe we should slow it down to a brisk walk yeah which feels like it's i feel like the sprint toward the the the dead end left it's turning into let's sort of a vigorous walk maybe they won't notice if we just start walking backwards right we just start backing away look move our arms forward everyone turn your fanny packs around yes we're going backwards we're going backwards i would be i but the thing is the other the great thing about our side if there's a sign there is is that uh is that we'll forgive like i generally will forgive anybody unless they're real pricks but uh uh if somebody who was ex woke generally the ex-wokers oftentimes get to be kind of interesting people i mean look at russell brand right russell brand was pretty hardcore left when i was living in london and i was listening to his shows there he was big brother's big mouth now he's i swear to god that guy sounds like a hipper well not hipper he sounds like a more interesting version of me i mean he's like he's like you know he's got he looks like a he looks like a [ __ ] guru right you know he's just like you know he's had his he's had his fill of hedonism right you know that's his thing it's like it's all behind me mate right it's all behind me now i'm just gonna and but everything he talks about is like holy crap he's on every side the right side it's strange that's new it's it's new it's it it's it's shocking in rogue in the same way i mean but you know i have to share the compliment then with you were before me i mean i think you were starting where did you start your podcast well it's about 13 and a half years so that was around it read i started at you know in 2007. so but that's because that's kind of where we met i think i'm pretty sure because you even i think you did like a a blurb for my second book or something i'm pretty sure you did i yeah i mean i'm sure i gave it to my assistant but whatever it was still very generous yes yeah i uh yeah no i'm with you those people who have gone through it and come out the other side are more nuanced more interesting and in a way pure and more focused right and the and the person that has been right-wing all their lives i don't even have them on my show yeah they're because they're boring they're one-dimensional they're one-dimensional and you can get it anywhere it's like that it's like penn jillette i think i even said this to you once before because it sounds like i'm repeating it that uh like if you if you if i get two political beliefs out of you i don't want to be able to predict a third right there's a lot of people where you just you can you can mouth their words as they're saying them and and that's you know i i don't have them on the show because i i feel like that it gets it's good red meat to have them on once in a while but it also just makes everybody you die a little bit inside it's like i'm not this is not what i got into i didn't other people can do this i can't do this you know well i'll tell you what he can do gut fell week nights on fox 11 p.m eastern time and again eight i watch uh out on the uh west coast the the monologues are fantastic thank you it's really you see when the when the comedy you know tucker's monologues are great he's infusing more comedy into him but when their comedy with the message they just land with so much more clarity the one with greg gutfeld as well also the five of course and uh greg uh thank you for being generous with your time because i know you have such a busy day yeah i'm gonna go put on makeup and do the five i will see you on set my friend yes yes thank you brother i did a film with dennis prager called no safe spaces and you know they completely attacked that film the next film i did was called uppity it was about the first black race car driver to race at indy it was a human rights civil rights story about a black man who triumphed in a sport that didn't you know no reviews

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