William Shatner spoke to Adam Carolla about his “frightening” and “extraordinary” trip to outer space as the two got into a heated debated about government’s role in saving the earth, origins of “Let’s Go Brandon” and so much more.
During the latest episode of “Adam Carolla’s Truth Yeller” on the Daily Wire, Carolla praised DW for “stepping up and standing behind free speech” as he shared that more and more tech companies like Twitter are participating in the cancel culture.
“And Neil Young can kiss my ass,” the host of the show said, referencing how the singer had issued a threat to pull his music from Spotify unless they removed Joe Rogan from platform. However, despite pulling a number of older episodes from the platform, Spotify did nothing to sever ties with Rogan.
Adam then introduced Shatner, the 90-year-old legendary actor, who he said was the oldest man to ever travel to space as he cracked a joke about how his father, who’s the same age as the superstar, wouldn’t be leaving this planet any time soon.
The “Star Trek” star said the “worst thing about going into space” was having to go “up the 11 flights” of stairs to get onboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket. It starts at the 20:37 minute mark.
“So, space what was that like?” the former TV host asked the sci-fi actor.
“It was frightening,” Shatner admitted of being on board the trip to outer space. “Truly it was an extraordinary experience.”
“All I saw was blackness and death,” he added, about what he saw in front of him as he left earth. “And I looked back and that was life [earth]. And one other thing I saw the beginning of the circumference of the earth… I could continue that circle and I’m looking at the rock. I’m looking at everything we live on.”
The actor said after he touched down back on earth he tried to figure out why the experience had been so emotional. He said it was then two things hit him. The first was the “truth of the unity of nature” and our belonging to earth “which is our only home and the way that we’re destroying it.”
And second, he said was about “how small the earth” is and “how small we are” on this small earth.
“And then upon further reflection … but how awesome it is that we can reflect on how little we are on this little rock,” William explained. “We can look at the majesty of nature and that’s a human gift.”
The “Boston Legal” star then found himself in hot water with the audience when he said people are “destroying” the earth and that we need “government to fix the problem” of getting “carbon and methane out of the air.”
Shatner said it’s Bezos dream to get “polluting industries up into space.”
The former host of “The Man Show” came back with his thoughts that he’s not “relying on the government to do” it and called on people like Elon Musk and Bezos to. The comments drew cheers from the crowd.
Shatner said Bezos and Musk are doing it but that we “have to rely on government” and got booed by crowd.
“But only the government has the power … the enormity … in combination with you as an articulate spokesperson for the people,” Shatner argued through the booing.
“Bill, let me give you a tip, if you ever get in trouble with the crowd just yell ‘Let’s Go Brandon,” Carolla replied, as the two discussed the origin of the saying.
“You know the origin of that right,” Shatner replied. “It’s f*** you Biden,” Shatner replied. “Have I endeared myself …?”
Later in the show, Carolla gave credit to the reporter covering the NASCAR race who he said was quick on her feet when the crowd was chanting “f*** Joe Biden” in the background and she said they were saying “let’s go Brandon” for driver Brandon Brown instead.
Near the end of the show during the Truth Yelling segment, Carolla let loose on what he called so-called “homeless advocates” who he said are doing “jack squat.”
“Have they helped the homeless?” the former host of “Loveline” asked the audience, as he compared the so-called advocates to what Al Sharpton does for the black community.
“How can you solve a problem if you don’t understand the problem,” Carolla explained, noting the advocates aren’t honest about the face of homeless being “a junky insane person” not a single mom out of work as he said they claim.
“Homelessness I think about, it’s the title,” he added. “We got to start thinking about. It does not have to do with not having a home. It’s like gun violence…that has to do with violent people not guns. Gun violence is the same as homeless. The problems isn’t the homes, the problem isn’t the guns.”
“It’s what people do with the guns and what people do on the street,” Carolla concluded. “It’s not the houses’ fault. It’s not the guns’ fault. The only answer for the gun violence and the homelessness problem, it’s intact families.”
“Truth Yeller” is filmed before a live studio audience. The episode starring Shatner will be available on DailyWire.com on Tuesday, March 22.
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