The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1710 Sitting in My Mansion, Counting My Money

Episode Date: April 24, 2023

Adam and Drew recall the time their plane was delayed because of a broken latch on an empty overhead compartment which Adam compares to the COVID response. Next, they hear from a distressed caller who has a major problem with a guest Drew had on his show. Please Support Our Sponsors: SimpliSafe.com/Adam2

Recorded live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and board-certified physician and addiction medicine specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on. Dr. Drew. Give the man his due. That's what I'm talking about what's going on jersey how you feeling good i'm answering a text nice so i saw a interesting uh tweet thread a couple days ago

that i was going to bring up with you earlier and we had many other things to talk about, but people are sort of waking up to this idea that mask wearing, for instance, and other sorts of demands that were made of us, particularly around the pandemic, where the rallying cry was just do it. And you pointed out that that's like saying, you know, yeah, yeah, just walk around the chair three times and sit back down. Just do it. It's no big deal. Don't hurry. Just do it. Walk around the chair. There have been increasing sorts of rhetoric out there using those sorts of analogies, I've noticed.

And people were giving you credit for it on social media. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah i saw some of that yeah which was nice but but it is sort of an uncanny no no one has sort of although there's a growing awareness of it no one has sort of apologized or explained or made this right i feel like there's another stage to this we got to go through where, yes, acknowledging it is one thing, but then we have to be clear you can't do that. We can't let that happen again, right?

Isn't that sort of what we have to do, or is it just the new world order? Well, there's a new world order that's not so new regarding this, this sort of just do it or the nonsensical safety. Twenty-five years ago, you and I were on a flight from Tampa back to L.A. Yeah. You remember it? I remember. I think it was Tampa.

Somewhere in Florida. I remember a Florida flight that tried to take off three different times before it took off. I don't know why you'd reference that one. I'm trying to remember what you're getting at here. Oh. It's a famous story, Drew. Tampa to LA, famous story. Give me

one hint, one more piece of information other than the airline. Well, it's an example of, I wouldn't say just do it, but unnecessary safety. That didn't make sense to me at the time, 25 years ago. Okay. I'll see.

I can't remember. Sorry. It'll of course come right to you. It'll come right to you. It'll come right to you anyway when you bring it up. Go ahead. The baggage compartment above our seats, the latch was broken on it

and the door just raised by itself. It wouldn't latch. They would shut it, let it go. And it would slowly come back up with the pneumatic opener. Yeah. Nothing yet. Well,

I remember the occasion. I remember that they wouldn't take off. Yes. So they could get the thing sort of taped up. I think they finally put like duct tape on it or something. Yeah. They would not take off. I don't remember it being such a big deal, though.

That's the weird. No, it was a it was a big deal because I made a deal out of it because. They wouldn't take off because they couldn't take off until the latch was latched. Yeah, I remember that. OK. off until the latch was latched. Yeah, I remember that. Okay. But I was sitting under it and I said, well, just don't put any luggage in it. Right. And the stewardess that we used to call them at the time said, she said, there is no luggage in it. And I said, well, then let's take off. And she said, you can't take off with the door open. And I said, yeah, well, that's so luggage doesn't fall out and land on anyone's

head. But if it's empty, then who cares? And she said, you can't do it. We can't do it. And I said, well, then just grab a piece of duct tape, pull it down and put a piece of tape over it. And she said, yeah, we can't do that. And then that's the part I remember the irony of that. Then the paperwork started, you know, and the technician and waiting and waiting and waiting. It was an empty overhead storage compartment. And he fiddled with it for half an hour and then at some point came back with the duct tape right and taped it shut and as i was watching him tape it shut smiling uh

the stewardess literally leaned into me and said don't you say a word like she was she was pissed now it's the same it's the same reaction over all these COVID Nazis, which is now we're not supposed to say anything. Also, I was just looking at a tweet that somebody sent me last night, which is a sort of intellectual dishonesty meets, you know, you know, like remember when I was saying, Hey, you got to reopen the schools and the LA unified school district or the union

members were like saying, Oh, Adam wants to sit in his mansion and count his money, you know? And it's like, what's that have to do with me and school? Well, I want to open schools.

I know whether schools are open or not has nothing to do with me sitting in my multi million dollar mansion, you know, rolling in money. It's really it's total weak sauce. Like intellectually, I said, open the schools. You need to send me the study out of the Netherlands of when they did open schools. And it was a super spreader event. And three teachers and a janitor were lost. Not come back with.

I want to sit in my mansion. Right. By the way, assholes, they think that's how I get paid. I just sit in my sit in in my mansion i count my money all day these are educators drew and also i'm also kind of interested in would you really think that would work you know what i mean like i would go oh my goodness they're on to me yeah i just go fuck you you fucking idiots get back to work yeah what do you mean i'm you're accusing me of you know by the way i've had a flight booked that day to do you know five shows

and you know nantucket you know what i mean like i'm sitting in my mansion counting my money oh by the way i'm sitting in my mansion okay that my dad bought when I was a teenager. You know what I mean? Like suck my dick. You don't even know what you're talking about. I mean, they do know what they're talking about, but there's like, it's, it's so bankrupt intellectually. It's, it's sad to me. It's cartoon talk.

That's how they do it. That's how they do it. I know. But what, you know, open the schools. Oh, you're a racist. Really? That's your debating style? Yeah.

You're an adult. Anyway, so somebody sent me a video. It was like a three-year anniversary or something of the skate park down at the beach and the bulldozer, you know, bulldozing all, filling it up with sand, right? Yes. Sure, that cost $100,000, right? Yes. And then I wrote a tweet that said, like, you know, don't forget these people.

Oh, they deleted the tweet they sent me? Fucking coward. Oh, there it is. they deleted the tweet they sent me fucking coward oh there it is um so what did i write emmy about the uh about the bulldozer um about the bulldozer being uh is my tweets deleted no i think it's a broken link since they took his tweet down. Oh, okay. Yeah. So I write, you know, basically, well, let me read his tweet. I write, let's not forget about this and let these people off the hook. You know what I mean?

Which is what I always write. I don't know. It's like, I don't know why that makes me an agitator or provocateur. You had people that got way out of their lane and way over their skis with locking down and shutting parks and welding bars and over basketball hoops and that kind of and fucking up lots of kids. Yeah, this isn't. I wrote another one. So they filled the skate parks up with sand. These are the people in charge of California.

Yes. I would like these people, if not punished, at least let's establish some record. Of being reckless and wrong so then that's the next thing i'm looking for that's the the thing right you know what i mean i feel like that's the next day or something like that some acknowledgement uh some general consensus that this was way out yeah so i sort of said never forget what these people did. And then somebody tweeted back to me that said, Adam Carolla will never forget that they took skate parks away from him temporarily. And then I wrote back, I don't skate and I don't go to school and i don't use the parks but other people do right isn't that their big concern is other people and caring for others well again it's

just like intellectual dishonesty like i've ever fucking taken my board down to venice beach and you know that hit the coping at a skate park. It's like, I don't know why everyone has to do this. It's intellectually retarded. I don't use all the things that I wanted to stay open. 86% of them were things I do not use. Right. I don't use nail salons. I don't go. Right. I don't use nail salons.

I don't go to church. I don't hang out at the park. I don't go to skate parks. I don't play on jungle gyms. I don't use any of it. I simply said a lot of other people do, and they shouldn't have been closed. What's that make me?

And by the way, if the goal is health that is a health concern that they were keeping people out of the fresh air and yes but but they always do this intellectual bullshit where they go oh so adam can't use you know blah blah blah fuck off you idiots and also don't argue with people that are smarter than you please everybody please you have to stop that and whether it's me or even elon musk um well yeah funny and then what what and then what is it what okay, so let's just get granular here. All right. You like government overreach? Is that what you're saying?

Or you're defending that? Or it was a good thing to bulldoze the skate parks? Like, where are you coming down on this? I think it's a bad idea to fill up skate skate parks at the beach with sand that's my stance i'm very clear about it i was clear about it from day one what is your position but you know where they'll go dude they'll go back to those times and go we didn't know you know it's that all that defense we didn't know wish we'd understood well yeah it looked like a good idea in retrospect but you know and and how do you argue with that except to say, how did Adam know?

How did I know? Okay, well, look, you didn't know who was going to win the Super Bowl before you placed your bet or the Kentucky Derby. But you were wrong. And now you're out 500 bucks. And I'm up 500 bucks. And you're angry. But why are you angry? You were wrong.

Well, this is, again, this is the granular stuff I wanted to get into because isn't that what we should be having public conversation about right now? Exactly that. Like, how did you get it wrong? How do you feel about getting wrong? What was the feeling that guided you that made you so wrong? Because obviously somebody was right. Why couldn't you have been right it's all attack the people that were right that you know that's when you get right down to it that's the problem with all this it's all shame shame and anger it's all shame well but it was shame they weren't shame back then no no they were narcissistic rage yeah now

they're shamed they're still angry yeah the it does not the shame does not create an apology the shame creates more of whatever whatever it is now yeah that's all it's uh. It's a character issue, Drew. Yeah, it is a character issue, and it sort of needs to be addressed because it's on a global scale. And if we all have characters with these kinds of liabilities, we need to get kind of honest about it. Oh, I was at the beach club the other day. Oh, you said your day at the beach club. That is my skateboard. And I was looking at the swing set.

You know, they have this, you know, one of those jungle gym swing set slides, whatever. With the police. I was hearkening back to when it had police tape wrapped around it. Yeah. And I thought, Jesus fucking Christ, which sounds ridiculous now. But this was ridiculous to us then. We used to talk. Of course, it was ridiculous then.

I was crowing about it constantly back then. Yes. Look, here's the thing. All right. Here we go. The reason people need to be, we need, look, we need to keep a scorecard. The reason we need to keep a scorecard is for accountability. And the reason we need accountability is for the next whatever that blows into town. We need to know who was right and who was wrong. Yeah. I mean, let's just fantasize for a second, Drew.

I'll tease it, but let's just do a little thought experiment, right? Okay. Okay. Let's just do a little thought experiment, right? Okay. Amy, I wonder if we can find any of those old tweets that the L.A. Unified School District sent me. Oh, they sent you. I tagged you.

Oh, yeah. Wow. Don't they tell me about that? I didn't realize they were the ones that were. I thought it was just sort of the general nonsense out there. I didn't realize it was the school district saying you I thought it was just sort of the general nonsense out there. I didn't realize the school district saying you were, or it was the press or something, you know,

I know district saying shit like that. It's crazy. I know they're so busy educating the kids. I got time. I told you, you remember I was there the night they closed it. They had no, no explanation for why. All right. So here's my thought experiment. You ready?

All right. Something else comes around in five years. Could be some pandemic or something, right? We are trying to figure out what's going on. All right. You and I. You have on one side, you have Governor DeSantis and on the other side you have gavin newsom and on one side you have alex berenson and on the other side you have rochelle walensky

okay and on one side you have barbara ferrer from the la city whatever and jay badacharya yeah who are you listening to oh right okay not even close right not even close yeah okay why and by the way i could expand that list of who i'm listening to right but how did we get how sorry who joe latipo the surgeon general over at florida all right so how do we get here? Yeah. At most. But why? Are you not interested in accurate information? Right.

Why would I not be? I am only interested in accurate information. So why aren't you listening to Barbara Fryer or Gavin Newsom? Because she was a million miles off the whole way. Okay. So now we know. How about our mayor? I brought up lately his use of shelter in place every afternoon. He did these five o'clock news conferences.

Yes. And he used the term, he repeated it. He needed shelter in place. I can't say strongly enough. I can't say strongly enough. That is a phrase you use when there's a nuclear missile heading your way or some sort of extreme violent attack. What are we going to say, by the way,

when the, when something really emergent does happen, but imagine you're an adolescent and you're hearing that over and over again. It literally was like, it's like air raid sirens going off every night. Yeah. I mean, are we,

I was talking to someone about anxiety and depression and adolescents and young adults are we shocked are we surprised i remember i kept saying it i actually said it live on news i kept saying stop it stop using that for you are going to hurt people with it no concern these are the people that are so concerned that's the part that is so frustrating you're doing the the mask ritual because you're so concerned, but no concern on certain fronts. All right. I'll get to my tweets in a second. We have a pressing call online to Scott 46, San Francisco. Hey, how you doing? Good. What's your question or your statement? Well, here's my question or statement on my problem. So my son passed away on February 10th from leukemia.

And we're going through a really hard time right now, my wife and I. And we all know my wife's a lawyer. We have a law firm we shut down to mourn his death. It was a four-day battle with leukemia. Well, the GoFundMe, this Dr. Maccas guy, M-A-C-C-A-S, out of Canada, stole my son's information and then wrote an article that he died from the COVID vaccine. And it's not true. Dr. Drew had him on his show, and he promotes this whole turbo cancer thing. Well, what happens is he went and put this fake article on the Internet, and then Twitter picked it up. And this ice skater who was a gold medal,

picked it up and tweeted all this stuff out about my son dying from a COVID vaccine. That's not true. There's no scientific evidence. If he did die, trust me, I would want people to know, right? But it's completely fake news. So what happens now is when you Google my son's name, it comes up that he dies from the COVID vaccine. And so this is how fake news spreads. And folks don't understand, when you put something out like that, it leaves a trail of fire.

Because my wife is getting nasty messages of why we let him get the vaccine. Okay? My son made his own decision to get the Johnson & Johnson four years ago to go to college. Four years ago to go to college. Four years ago? Or at the very beginning when colleges needed it. I'm sorry. But he got to Johnson and Johnson to go to college. That's the only shot he ever got.

So then he got into Cal Law School. So now we're getting nasty messages. Good one left liberal lawyer on this earth. You know, you Californians all died from the vaccine. People calling my wife terrible names, saying that they spoke to our oncologist and stuff like that. There's no responsibility from anybody or anybody ever retracts anything. How this quack doctor gets on there and is completely false. Why do people do that?

gets on there and is completely false. Why do people do that? Why do people put, like Dr. Drew, why do you put fake people on your show to spew stuff? It's a completely fake article. We have no idea who this doctor is. Nor do I until I talk to him. But A, I feel terrible for your son. I'm so sorry to go through all that.

No, Dr. Mackett. No, I understand. I didn't know who he was. I don't book the guy. I run the the hosting i don't this was dr kelly victory's booking and he didn't say dr mackis didn't say much that i was sort of you know you'll notice i didn't do much of the interview because he seemed kind of over his skis and i didn't really buy much what he was saying um but i have no explanation for why he does what he does. None. But I just feel terrible. Your son had such an insane run with leukemia. That usually is a manageable illness.

That's just awful. Well, what happened was his gums were bleeding. He called me because we thought his wisdom teeth were coming in. I said, go to the dentist and maybe clean it up and we'll get the wisdom teeth out. Earlier, they sent him to the ER. I said, hey, it up and we'll get the wisdom teeth out earlier. They sent him to the ER. I said, hey, whatever happens, we'll get this going. You may have to do school later. And he stroked out that night. We took him off. Oh, my God.

It's awful. It's this weird AML leukemia. We're getting nasty messages from all over the place about this. And it's just fake. This is how fake news is so terrifying. Isn't it also how awful social media is, right? I mean, it's never the truth. It's always what people say is the truth that becomes the viral element and does all the

damage and creates all the outrage. And it's just, it's just a, it's particularly Twitter's accessible. This is awful. It is. And they don't use their name. They don't use real names. It's all this fake. No one ever puts their real name out there. You know what I mean? So they can just be nasty, but I just needed to get that out of my chest because. No, I'm glad you called. I'm glad you called. I actually, I saw your tweets and I, and I sent it over to the people that produce that thing.

I said, let's talk to it. Scott, right. Let's talk to Scott. You need to tell the story. My, my thing is I just want to get my,

this is not germane to what you're calling about, but my thing is just sunshine. Let's all talk. Let's get it out there. Just put it out and be, be, be collegial, be civil.

And, and I, and I appreciate you calling in. So Scott, you should know that it happens from time to time. Like, people do this quite a bit. Like, why did you put this person on? And it's sort of like, I don't book and Dr. Drew doesn't book. I don't book and Dr. Drew doesn't book.

That doesn't mean if somebody booked a neo-Nazi to come in and spread propaganda that we wouldn't be responsible for that. You know, but I do understand. But you get somebody books it and then you say, who is this person? And then they'll say, oh, he's fixing to jump the Grand Canyon on a on a scooter, you know, and you go, oh, that sounds interesting. And then later on, somebody tells you that guy's a liar. He's a charlatan. He doesn't even have a scooter, you know, but you're sort of, it's kind of a good faith thing.

Like, okay, this guy's got a story. What's the story and 99 99 of the time it's it's pretty straight stuff it is a a person that was wounded in battle or shot bin laden or something something like that now but but once in a while it isn't but we're kind of on the honor system with it it's a It's a look. It's a nefarious landscape talking to people that have differing opinions and stuff. I understand that. But I mean, here's my thing.

If you notice, Scott, when I did come in and talk to that guy, the only thing I said to him was, hey, dude, you lost your license. And couldn't somebody say that this is all just you resentful and picking at people and sort of sniping at people because you're angry about having lost your license? His retort to me was, no, it's because I lost my license that I can say anything I want to say. I thought, all right, whatever. Yeah, no, I hear you. You know what?

Actually, I'm glad I had this conversation. It does make me feel better because basically the guy just searches GoFundMe for people who die quickly of cancer and then just claims the vaccine on it. You know what I mean? So I just wanted to get that out there that people are just rotten to the core. You know what I mean? And so if you don't want to take the vaccine, don't take the vaccine, but don't use my side of propaganda unless it was true. Come to me and say, hey, we're doing a study, yada, yada, yada. Science-filled reference.

100%. We'll get to the, you know, we'll see where it goes. But just to write an article without our permission or speaking to us and pretend he's his patient, that's not cool. Yeah. No, you're right to be outraged. Scott, thanks for calling. Thank you, guys. Take care. All right. Scott, thanks for calling. Thank you, guys. Take care.

Sorry about that. I mean, sorry. Remember when Michael Avenatti was just everywhere all the time? How did you jump from Scott to Avenatti? No, I'm saying, did anyone vet

Avenatti? Oh, I see. Avenatti was on The View and they were swooning. He was on CNN every other day and everyone was just fawning over him. Right? Yeah. It's the... Did anyone vet that guy?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? Yes. And look, when I used to do HLN, I talked to all kinds of people that was like, oh, boy, some of them were like, OK, and some not. And but that's the nature of talk.

But but that's a different issue from whether or not it's a good or a bad idea to bring things out into the light. People that are out there creating silos on social media, bringing them over and interviewing them, to me, seems right from the standpoint of how you manage people's paranoia paranoia having worked in a hospital psychiatric hospital for 35 years paranoia you just give all the information you withhold nothing and you can't even give them the sense that something's being withheld or they will spin down the the rabbit hole of a silo one or another so i i don't know people that I, Scott's a whole different story, but usually when people come at me about this stuff, it's because they, you shouldn't put them on the, on the radio, but that, okay,

we disagree not on whether they should be on a podcast. We disagree on whether it's a good or a bad idea to bring this stuff out to the open. And I think we've been through this phase. It really was what we've been talking about thus far, Adam, where you can't handle the truth and just do it have been the cries, the call of the day. All right. If you'd like to see me live, you can see me in Vegas at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club.

That'll be coming up May 11th. And Oklahoma City, New York City, Sony Hall, May 26th and 27th. Let's go to adamcrowler.com for all the live shows all over the place. What do you got, Drew? Dr. Drew.com for the After Dark and the Dr. Drew podcast and what Scott was talking about is

the streaming show we do on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 3 o'clock generally. Check Dr. Drew.tv for exact times. Sometimes we move it around a little bit. But we have some interesting conversations there, and we try to bring everything to light. So until next time, Adam Kroll for Dr. Drew saying mahalo.