ADAM CAROLLA: Chris, 26, Oklahoma City.



CHRIS, CALLER: Hey guys, how's it going?



CAROLLA: Good, how are you doing?



CHRIS: Hey, I love both of you guys. You guys have really made a difference in my life, kind of inspired me to quit bitching and making excuses and just kind of go at it.



DR. DREW PINSKY: God knows Adam never bitches. Adam never bitches. Way to go, Chris.



CHRIS: Adam never bitches.



DR. DREW: No. God no.



CHRIS: But as far as at least quit bitching about things that I can't control, you know, get it done as they would say.



DR. DREW: Get it on.



CHRIS: Yeah, get it on. Get it on. Hey, anyway, Adam, this question is kind of directed towards you. I've kind of always been a political junkie and I kind of discovered you -- I mean I always knew of you, but I kind of started to look into both your podcasts, the Adam & Drew Show and I went back and looked at a lot of the old Lovelines and all of the kind of stuff. I really kind of discovered you through your Occupy Wall Street rant.



So lately I have been noticing -- I've seen you on a website called RealClearPolitics a lot. I know you did an interview with them a while back. And on the video section they'll kind of do what the pundits are saying. You know, the NBC political analysis, the ABC guy. Almost every week these days, you're on there, your political commentary. I can't imagine 10 years ago, you becoming this kind of perceived political pundit that you have now become. I wanted to know your thoughts on that and how you perceive it yourself.



CAROLLA: Well, you know, I've not changed my tune to any great extent. I think I've become more conservative as I've gotten older, as I've had a family. As people do when they get older and they get older and have a family and pay taxes. You start looking for school systems for their kids that are usable and things like that. There's a move toward a more conservative life in general as you get older. It goes -- many of the principles sort of bode with frankly getting older, having a family, focusing on your children and your family and things like that.



But as far as my talking points go, you know, stop shitting out kids you can't afford. You pay for their school breakfast, not because I want you to pay for their school breakfast but because the kid should know that mom and/or dad are paying for breakfast, making the effort. It's a psychological thing, it's not a matter of I don't want to pay 39 cents a day for your kid. I don't give a fuck about that. The fucking government takes half of money and does whatever the fuck it wants with it anyway. I mean, your kid's breakfast is the least of my worries. I worry about your kid and the message that is being sent to your kid by momma not making a breakfast. That's what I a worry about.



But my talking points have not changed. Get your shit together, get to work, stop shitting out kids, so on and so forth...



CAROLLA: Listen, I know how life works everybody. It's not a political stance; it's a life stance. I understand how life works. You know why? I've done it. And I've seen it. And I've seen it good and I've seen it bad, but I've seen it, and I know what the answers are.



DR. DREW: Right. Empirically. You're an empiricist.



CAROLLA: Empirical. Yeah, I'm an empiricist because I'm fucking right. And I know how it works. And I know that the path to success is a bunch of hard work and that is about it. And we can all get to that or we can call me whatever you want to call me.



It's bizarre and that's what we have turned it into. But also, it's the left turning conservatism into a pejorative, number one. Being conservative didn't used to be a pejorative in any stretch of the imagination. Being a conservative with your money was being prudent. Being conservative as it pertains to work or investments or even at the poker table it was sort of prudent. Conservative meant prudent; it was not a pejorative.



The left has taken over the word conservative and turned it into a pejorative. So it's like, 'Oh, you're a conservative?' They've done a wonderful smear campaign.



'Oh, are you a conservative?'



'Yes, I'm a conservative.'



'Oh, great. You hate women. You hate blacks. You hate all cultures. You love people's money. You hate poor people.'



'No, no. I just want to focus on education. I want to focus on hard work. I want to focus on being motivated and getting ahead in a country that made for that ethic. We are -- this country was put here for that attitude. And the way you flourish in this country, get up, get to work, get educated, get your kids educated, stay together, focus on the family. There you go.'



Now, it's weird that I can be conservative and never talk about religion. Because conservatives are a bunch of Bible-thumping, you know, brainwashed, you know, they believe the earth is 1,000 years old. How come I'm not religious? I'm an atheist. See, they just pick and choose whatever they want. But because I say feed your own kids, because I say don't have kids if you can't afford to have kids. Well then, that makes me that.



PINSKY: Why don't we -- we need a new party. I swear to God.



CAROLLA: But, listen, I think you're on to something here.



PINSKY: You're a libertarian? Let's call it the Liberty Party.



CAROLLA: You people can try to convince me of what I am all day long, it's never going to work. I know exactly who I am.



PINSKY: I think you would find people on the left too, if you sort of created a party of liberty. The Liberty Party, right? You get to have liberty in a country that was founded on liberty.



(Adam & Dr. Drew Show #162, July 20, 2014)