Adam Carolla Show Paget Brewster on Hollywood’s Changes, Rude Culture & Adam’s DEI Rant
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Mar 26, 2026 Paget Brewster, actress known for Criminal Minds and Friends, talks about her career and new film Touch Me. She and Adam riff on how streaming revived sitcoms, changing public manners and airline fights, deescalation from her bartending days, and debates over DEI trainings and workplace speech rules. Light, candid, and often funny conversation.
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Behavior Spreads Once One Person Breaks A Taboo
- Adam explains social behaviors spread by example: once someone breaks a perceived limit, others replicate it quickly.
- He cites Bannister's four-minute mile and Tony Hawk's skate tricks as parallels to viral bad behavior like airport fights.
Small Groups Cause Outsize Crime Problems
- Adam's wallet experiment showed widespread honesty: wallets with a phone number were returned across neighborhoods.
- He uses this to argue most people are decent and crimes are driven by a small repeat-offender subset.
Sit Through Compliance Training Quietly To Avoid Wasted Time
- Adam criticizes mandatory diversity and harassment trainings as legal shields that waste time, advising minimal engagement to avoid prolonging sessions.
- He recounts telling his show not to ask questions so training wouldn't overrun.