America’s Got Talent’s Erica Rhodes + Raj M. Shah & Christopher Kirchhoff

Adam Carolla Show

PodcastOne / Carolla Digital

Comedy, Talk Radio

4.5 • 36.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Adam welcomes comedian Erica Rhodes back to the show and they open by talking about her recent successes on “America’s Got Talent” & “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and her recent failure with a French bartender. Then they discuss Adam’s unrequited love with Barry Bostwick’s wife in the early-90s and the struggles of dating while sleeping on a futon. Next, Jason “Mayhem” Miller reads the news including stories about Jennifer Garner’s training for “Deadpool & Wolverine”, Kamala Harris choosing her VP, Tom Hanks’ home getting burglarized, Jeff Bezos losing $23 billion during the stock market free fall and the Chinese-made humanoid robots that are about to hit the market. Then, Adam is joined by Raj M. Shah & Christopher Kirchhoff to talk about their book “Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War”, which countries we as Americans should be most afraid of and if recent UFO videos look like any technology that they’ve worked with. For more with Erica Rhodes: ● INSTAGRAM: @ericarhodes ● WEBSITE: http://www.ericarhodescomedy.com For more with Raj M. Shah & Christopher Kirchhoff: ● Buy their book “Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War” available on Amazon and more. Thank you for supporting our sponsors: ● http://SimpliSafe.com/Adam ● http://HomeChef.com/ADAM ● http://OReillyAuto.com/Adam

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0:00.0	Well, in this episode. Very funny, comedian Erica Rhodes back in studio. Also,
0:05.8	tech war experts going to tell us all about drones and the battlefields of the future.
0:11.2	Christopher Kirkoff is here and also Raj M Shaw and
0:16.4	Jason Mayhem Miller back by popular demand on news. We'll do all that right
0:21.3	after this. Despite the modern myth, the ancient Olympics were far from being a pure expression of untainted
0:29.6	athleticism.
0:30.7	But that doesn't mean they weren't badass. So allow me to take you on a little
0:37.2	tour through the ancient Olympics. But I'll warn you, ancient Olympian tour guides were notorious for being liars and propagators of historical myths.
0:48.0	One Roman era sightseer named Lucian once quipped, quote,
0:54.6	abolish lies from Greece and all the tour guides would die of starvation,
1:00.6	since no visitor wants to hear the truth even for free."
1:05.0	If Lucian can be trusted, then even in ancient times the history of the Olympics was riddled with mythology and fake history.
1:15.0	So I think the only way to get a sense of those games is to dive right in to the mythology.
1:23.7	Let's do it.
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