The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1715 We Make it Easy on You

Episode Date: May 5, 2023

Adam shows Drew the ultimate example of Chick Think with a Los Angeles councilwoman blaming Toyota for catalytic converter thefts. Please Support Our Sponsors: Simplisafe.com/ADAM2 TrustAdamDrew.com or call 844-790-9191

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 it on, got to get it on, got to get it on, got to get it on. Dr. Drew's board vertebrae. Prototype. Hey, man. Yeah, Dr. Drizbor, vertebrae. Prototype. Hey, man.

Yeah, man. I was telling you on the phone the other day that there's a new leader in the clubhouse of ChickThink. Oh, and it's not Trudeau or Newsom. I like to give extra points to dudes who do Chick-Tink because I feel like it's like winning – be like Bruce Jenner winning a bikini competition or something. Well, he has a deficit because he's got a cock and balls. But still, he's able to bend himself into a pretzel of Chick-Tink. And so Trudeau and Gavin Newsom are way up there. It's the Black Hills, the Mount Rushmore of chick think.

All right. But and Ben can find it. I don't know where Emmy went, but we had that Los Angeles state legislator or whatever woman, city councilwoman. Oh, yeah. And she was angry at Toyota. Oh, yeah. And it is – and I was trying to explain it to you over the phone, but I can't do it justice. You have to hear her speak. Now, there's a couple things.

there's a couple things a um she's blaming the manufacturer of the car for the stealing of the part on the car that is colossal chick think and she's also doing another thing that that uh is it part of the chick think yeah, which is, you know, Toyota makes it super easy to steal these things. They don't make it super easy to steal them. They're welded into the bottom of the car. A hood ornament might be easy to steal. It might, even though, look, I don't care if the catalytic converter is Velcroed to the hood of the car with one piece of tape. Yeah.

It's still your catalytic converter. You're still stealing it. Someone is stealing it. We need to figure out who's stealing it and what to do about that. Hear colossal chick think and that not only she blamed Toyota, but sort of how she describes the ease of which you could get a reciprocating saw and a can of WD-40 and crawl under a car after you jack it up. Boy, I can't hear her. I'm sorry. We always do that. Instead of responding to it with work, with urgency, with focus on actually addressing the issue, we say, oh, we'll just ban it. We'll just ban it, and that will be the end of it.

Instead of actually thinking about what is going to address this issue in a very real way. In this case, I think one of the things that really infuriates me is that we have a company, you know, the Prius, whatever, Toyota, who makes the Prius, that essentially has a device on their cars, which is super easy to remove. It's basically the value of a MacBook, right, that is put in a place that is incredibly easy to access in your car. All right. Hold on. All right.

So first off, she's angry. Furiated. Yes. And what she's, she's angry at this big multinational company in Japan. Whatever company. Yeah. She said. That makes it super easy.

So if you left a MacBook on your passenger seat. That's on you. That's on you. Right. It's too easy to steal. This is super easy. Just shut up, Matt Damon. Isn't this what we're talking about here?

Yeah. It's an inability to think. By the way, these people are making, you know, as I explain to people all the time, Drew. Her policy's not just confined to catalytic converters. She's going to weigh in on school choice and regulation as well. But as you always say, Drew, Arnold Schwarzenegger told me, these people have 10 cent heads. I mean, they're dumb.

This is dumb. Yeah. You can call it whatever it is. You can call it, you you know kind of woke or progressive or left-leaning or something but at its base you're dealing with dumb yeah but uh sorry we'll we'll play a little more oh no it's basically the value of a macbook right that is put in a place that is incredibly easy to access in your car and then the vets related to this issue have essentially all the costs of that are given to us to bear instead of them having to

manufacture a car that actually is not so easy to be stolen the other part too is they have trouble articulating. To manufacture a car that's not so easy to be stolen. Are you talking about stealing the car? Are we talking about stealing the part on the car? They can't even get out the full sentence. By the way, this is the chick thing. It's like I have so many fucking emotions running through my brain, I can't make a point.

You know what I'm talking about? Yes. Yes. She belongs on Matt Rushmore. She's in there. That's his chick. Think he is. She's angry at Toyota and.

Furiated. Does this thing where it's like makes it super easy to steal. Like. First off. It's neither here nor there, whether it's difficult or easy to steal a part off of your car. Yeah. That is no never mind. And by the way, I don't think the law factors in how difficult it is to steal an item.

Right. But you're 100% wrong about the item just for the sake of addressing your retarded argument. It's welded on the middle of the car, tucked under the car. Super easy to get to. Super easy to get to. It's bizarre. It's bizarre. And by the way, this is what L.A. does.

Oh, yeah. It's bizarre. And by the way, this is what L.A. does. Oh, yeah. We elect these shrews who then make policy, and then we go, what's going on with the catalytic converter stealing? Or what's going on with all the prostitution out in the streets? Or what's going on with the homeless situation? You have nutbags. What's going on with the lane diets, the road diets?

Right. You have these people. Yeah. They're making policy. Can't get emergency equipment through because this traffic is so awful. Yeah. Well, anyway. Yeah.

You won't die of CO2. That's it. Now. Ride a bike. She's insane, right? Is that insane? Yes. I think for her next go at it, she should actually show us how easy it is to do it herself.

Yeah. She should go do it. And get under the car and show us everything. How do you jack the car up? Yeah. She should go do it. And get under the car and show us everything. How do you jack the car up? Yeah.

I don't think, by the way, I'm pretty sure, and Emmy can check on the Prius. I've not examined it. But I'm pretty sure that the Prius is welded in place to the exhaust because people are going at it with Sawzalls. Do you ever handle Sawzall, Drew? No. I've handled thousands.

I'm sure. Revolutionary tool. But people are going at it with the Sawzall. They would call it reciprocating saw. Sometimes they call them a bayonet saw. Sawzall's the brand name, but it's sort of like Q-tip. Yeah. But actually, I just had a thought.

She should be angry at the manufacturer of the Sawzall. Yes, they make it easy. Toyota doesn't make it easy. They make it easy. Because without the Sawzall, well, you can look into it. Is it welded on one side and bracketed on the other? All right. You know, something just jumped into my head.

So a little work for Amy and Ben on the other side of the glass. Did she say Toyota makes it super easy or they make it super easy? Was that her terminology? Yeah, I think that's what she said. Incredibly easy, I think she said. I have to hear that because they had an entire ad campaign 20 years ago. Toyota did saying we make it easy on you. Yeah, yeah.

Somebody, we got to mash up, we got to mash up that crazy shrew, saying they make it easy, super easy. Yeah. And the Toyota ad campaign. Hysterical. Number one. So is it bracketed on one side, Emmy, and welded on the other? Because I guess when I see pictures of it, I see one side's cut and the other side looks like it has a flange on it or some version of that.

But that's the way it's looking to me. We're going to throw a picture out for you right now. Right. So you have to get up there and cut it. Oh, yeah. Cut one of them, and then the other side has a bracket. Either way, you have to get under the car

with a bayonet saw and cut through steel pipe. I would say that is the definite... Things being welded to the vehicle, I would say, would be the opposite of super easy. Do you think anybody gave this women some feedback? Did anybody dare? You know what I mean? What I never learned if people don't. You never learn if people don't go after you. Well, what I would say and what I was saying is I frequently run things up people's flagpoles a lot.

You know, like here's what I'm thinking. I'm going to work this angle or what do you think of this or that. She should have run her blame Toyota who, first off, there's a whole bunch of manufacturers' automobiles that are getting the catalytic converter stolen. It's exclusive to Toyota, so it's a bizarre argument. But should have run it up one of her Democratic Congress friends and city council friends, and they should have told her, that's fucking retarded.

You're going to sound like an idiot. Don't do it. So now we're looking at the prius or whatever and it looks like it's welded on on both sides i guess anyway we got it you can do that mashup work on that mashup let's see if we can make that work that'd be funny uh so if you want to know why la is failing then look no further than her. Is she city council? I think she's city council. Yeah.

Yeah, it's awesome, right? Bizarre. Isn't it bizarre? Well. It's confusing. I wish it were bizarre. Yeah, it's not bizarre. It's dangerous.

I guess I would have thought it was bizarre 10 years ago. But now it's just. All right, so Drew. Yeah. Safe spaces and octagons. You're going to live in la she's in charge you know what i'm saying yes and um yes you're right more people need to go but now she's a woman of some color or something so if So if you took umbrage with what she was saying, then you'd be called racist or sexist or something. Or both. Right.

So that's what they hide behind. But I was trying to. How about just a basic concept where I went like, look, I have a whole bunch of nonsensical, horrible ideas, but I'm Italian. So no one's going to mess with me. What a bizarre. And by the way, that would just lead to more no one's going to mess with me. What a bizarre. And by the way, that would just lead to more horrible ideas. Of course. Of course.

All right. What were you saying? Well, it's back to my notion about character, and I'm trying to figure out a model for what is going on here in this country, or in these parts of this country at least where you can't trust anybody because they don't have character. So how can you trust someone? It's almost like a dysfunctional relationship where somebody is just either sick or not a good person or doesn't care about that person anymore and they just act accordingly. They just do whatever.

It's the basics of what people need to have trust just aren't here. Yeah. No, I agree. And how do things function without trust? Character was a thing. It was the thing. It was discussed constantly. It was about building character and a young man through sports and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And it's funny. Oh, well, maybe I'll bring it back to my point. You said something as the mic was cooling off the other day that if you're expressing character, expressing character living with character you're a chump well yeah you're not you ever go through a divorce or getting sued or or anything and you just want to live with character then you're just a chump the system will roll roll you up and spit you out that's number one number two, here's the point I wanted to make. Character, but you feel free to disagree. I don't know. When I grew up and before I was a young man in this country, character was stressed for young men. Citizenship and character.

Two words you never hear anymore. But character was on the male side of the aisle. They didn't talk about nine-year-old girls having character. They talked about them, you know, mining their manners and sort of acting ladylike and things that were unbecoming. minding their manners and sort of acting ladylike and things that were unbecoming. And, you know, they had their own things to be responsible for. Yes.

But we did not speak about teaching women character. We taught it to men almost exclusively. And is that because men have horrible horrible aggressive impulses and they had to learn to control i think there was some of that there was also like an element of well how the women even going to factor in you know they're not going to be going to war they're not going to be deciding whether to bomb the village or not or running big companies and doing the right thing you know there's like they weren't going to be in the positions of power they're not going to be in the cockpit they're going to be on the plane but by the way character was also an important element in being a follower too it wasn't just the leaders that had characters the people

that were in the line oh yeah every everybody every male yeah needed was a lot of character building going on. Not a female trait. Not something we focused on. And honestly, not something we even kind of talked about. Like, that woman had a lot of character. We didn't really get into it. It was like the dude who was able to stand up and blow the whistle on his own company for polluting the river. It was like, that guy's got character.

Whatever. So it was a male attribute and something we were trying to develop in men. But we left the women out of the character department. We didn't really demand it of them.

And then a lot of men started drifting over to the female chick thinks. And we sort of gave up on character because we didn't teach it to women or dudes who thought like women anymore. And now it's just kind of, you know, a vestige of the past. You know what I mean? And we're kind of done with it and people don't realize that the fucking characters like vitamin d like you got to get in the sunlight you know what i mean you hey you needs to be part of your daily equation and we just sort of went character schmanker or whatever kind of kind of done with that. And here we are.

It required forthrightness, like declaring yourself, like being fully transparent, you know, having courage. And... Oh, sorry. Character

is also the opposite of the self-esteem movement. So character got bumped by the self-esteem movement. I think that's right. Character was taught for time and memoriam, and then we bumped it, and we put self-esteem in there. And we started saying, look, we've got to raise the self-esteem of these people. What they don't really realize is character is what builds the

self-esteem. But they got rid of the character part and started trying to graft on the self-esteem, which is the problem for exactly where we are now. I'm going to explain that to you in a second.

Amy, you working on a mashup? I love this job. I've been telling you for quite some time about the danger of sort of grafting things on, you know, of going,

well, jaywalking disproportionately affects black and brown people. What's our answer? No jaywalking. No jaywalking. See, black people have difficulty getting IDs to vote. No ID to vote. No ID to vote.

But they're struggling in uh math test scores so what should we do about that i don't know maybe no test or just no math okay all right so these are very dangerous solutions because they're not solutions obviously to problems self-esteem movement was let's just graft it onto him. Yeah, yeah. He didn't have to be the captain of the football team or win the spelling bee. We'll just convince him that he's the coolest. And we'll just graft it onto him. Yeah. So we got rid of trying to pound character into them.

And we moved toward we're just going to. We'll just tell you. We'll say you're special. Yeah. And that you're sort of unique in this world. And there's no one else like you. But you're the best. You're the best.

You're the coolest. Everyone will know it. And by the way, don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. Don't let anybody ever tell you you're not this thing. That's about as effective as getting rid of the math scores or just saying no more jaywalking tickets. It's to prevent black people from getting run over at night. It just saying no more jaywalking tickets it's prevent black people from getting run over at night it's just no more jaywalking tickets or whatever the insane it's it's all part of a greater movement of a bizarre reverse engineering

that it's just i i don't it's literally like saying, oh, my God, I just looked at the clock, and I'm supposed to be at work at noon, and it's five minutes to noon, and it's 20 minutes away. Oh, my God, I'm going to be late again. Well, go change the clock. Set the clock back. Set the clock back an hour. Set it back two hours.

Give yourself a little time to luxuriate, take a bath. Yeah. Okay. I don't know what it does to alleviate the problem which is which i've been saying for a million years i i don't know what this approach is it's you know hey there's a lot of people um shooting drugs oh good we'll give them a clean drug tents to uh shoot up in and then that'll that'll stop that you know what i mean like yeah nothing none of the weird it's it's a it's a movement i would almost say in the in a sort of retarded reverse engineering

of problems that could never be fixed and never be fixed through their modalities yeah right it's it's it's not fixing it look oh there's too many asians getting into ucla well pull some asians out of there and put in some black i'm surprised that uh city council chick didn't just say just why they stopped putting catalytic converters on these cars well she likes clean air that's a obviously a perfect example there's a problem the problem are there's too many young people with too many sawzalls who don't have good jobs so that's something to look into but you're angry toyota which is okay by the way first off toyota's not going to weld cages to the bottom of their car secondly if they do put in skid plates at the bottom of your car like they're running the

baja 5000 or 500 i should say or you're gonna pay for that it's just pass that along to whoever's buying the prius and now you want more priuses sold but you've just added 400 bucks to the sticker price i They have no... No understanding of human motivation. They have no understanding of almost anything, I would say. But yes, yes. Human motivation is exactly it.

Emmy, how are you doing in your mashup? Ben? We got together. How you doing? Back to character. You see Walensky's changed her tune on vaccine safety and vaccine efficacy. Science has changed. She says. Science has changed.

Oh, I did not hear that. Yeah. That's not what you call character. Character would be, I'm deeply, deeply embarrassed. I'm humiliated. I'm humiliated. I should never have taken such a hubristic stance. I was wrong.

She should resign. Right. That would be character. But we don't have character. Right. So you'd be a chump to do that. Right. Right?

Right. All right. Do we have our mashup or are we just getting it done? We can't hear you, Ben. You've got to turn that. You've got to pot yourself up two more minutes okay yeah and also people i am telling you the democrats are smart and that they constantly put women with some ethnic background in these positions because then you cannot attack them because that then becomes a racial attack or

something sexist which is always funny because like i was listening to dennis prager the other day and he has larry elder on there and he's running for president and he's talking about regulation and lowering taxes and more business friendlyfriendly climate and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Yeah. And then I hear Vivek Ramaswamy come on. Okay. And he's talking about running for president. And he's talking about lowering regulations and taxes and school choice and blah, blah, blah.

And then Biden. And then Biden comes in. Biden starts talking about – he starts talking about Klansmen, right? But, well, no, he wants to build up from the bottom up and the middle out. Okay. And he's angry at airlines. Okay. I am hearing Larry Elder and Vivek Ramaswamy, who I just want to be the president because he fucking ran a business

and he's smart and he has ideas. And I always think of you as well because I'm like, not interesting, not interested at all. Like, you know, Vivek Ramaswamy, he's a flamethrower of stats and data and ideas and policies. And I realized my mom heard any of this she'd just be like i i want justin trudeau to come here you know what i mean like she would vote for gavin newsom who will say nothing other than you're free to love

and fighting for your freedom right or something i want to hear we don't talk about taxes burdensome taxes or regulations or whatever but it's nothing but i'm sitting there i got larry elder on one side i got vivek ramaswamy on the other side and i thought to myself jesus christ i'd be so happy if either one of these guys was in charge of anything and i thought oh but wait they don't look like me so you can't possibly be interested you must be scared of them no i'm scared because the background it's like it's all ideas that's all there is i don't even think of them as indian or black or anything else so insane yeah scared of those who look different all right i think we

have the clip ready i think one of the things that really infuriates me is that we have a company, you know, the Prius, whatever, Toyota, who makes the Prius, that essentially has a device on their cars, which is super easy to remove. We make it easy. Toyota. That is put in a place that is incredibly easy to access in your car. We make it easy. Toyota. All of the costs of that are given to us to bear instead of them having to manufacture a car that actually is not so easy to be stolen. We make it easy.

Toyota. That's good. I don't know if I take a little head off it, but we'll refine it. But yeah, they make it easy. So they're made again. I always like this one too. It's like, why shouldn't Toyota pay for this instead of dumping the cost on us? Yeah.

That's a classic. That's a classic. But what about iPhones that are easy to steal? Should Apple pay for that or dump the cost on us? What do you mean dump the cost on us? You're running a city. It's plagued with a bunch of crime because you're not running it effectively. So you've got to get your shit together. Jesus Christ. I never thought adults i never thought adults would be this stupid i've told you that it's gonna be the name of my next

book i just never thought adults would be this stupid did you um not positions of power not like this you know i've been dealing with, maybe not positions of power, but I've been dealing with public for so many decades. It's worse than you imagine. All right. You can go to amcroll.com for all the live shows. Vegas, Oklahoma City, New York City. It's my birthday.

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