The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1738 Never, Never, Never, Never

Episode Date: June 28, 2023

Adam and Drew touch base with French Stewart and talk about how to be a good citizen. Next, they revisit the time Adam farted up the studio during a Loveline taping on Drew's birthday and analyze a recent Biden speech. Please Support Our Sponsors: Angi.com

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Something for you guys to look for that made me laugh. Biden the other week was given a gun control speech. It's fine. Usual stuff. There's this new thing, though. It's gun violence. It's not violence. It's the gun.

It's not the person with the gun, which is essentially like blaming the car for drunk drivers. It's not the car. You're not supposed to drive it this way, right? I don't know. Is there a difference? They're both things that could kill other people if not used correctly. So we don't blame the car for drunk driving deaths.

We blame the driver. Why not blame the guy holding the gun? But this is just gun violence. It's not violence. It's gun violence. It's not violence. It's gun violence. And so with that in mind, we should, A, get rid of the guns, and B, we should get rid of the cars. Well, if they're going to be involved with drunk driving. Yeah.

Same logic. It's the exact same logic, right? Yep. Right. So the gun violence is caused because there are guns and the homeless problem is caused because there's no homes. So and one problem is caused because there is something. And the other thing is caused because there isn't something. There's no homes, but there's guns yeah so there's violence because there are guns and there's people's rotting in the street because they don't have homes yes interesting it's the same brain i mean it's the same logic which is utterly flawed and could never lead to a decrease in gun violence

or homeless and yet if you really believe that everything about the human being, everything was caused by the environment, well, the kind of, you got to go that way. You'd got to be persuaded by that, wouldn't you? But he gave this speech. I don't know, Amy. Ben can find it. But this funny thing where he like reeled off at the end when he was talking about all the shootings. You know what I mean?

But it's always schools. It's never South Side of Chicago. It's just school shootings. He peeled them off. He peeled off like five of them, like Vivaldi and whatever town and whatever. He just rattled them off. town and whatever he just he just rattled him off and then he explained that he'll never forget any of those things and he you know thinks about it every night before he goes to bed and that kind of stuff but i was like clearly all those names were in a prompter of course there's no

possible way biden could have got through the whole thing well the whole thing but i'm saying you couldn't rattle off five mass school shootings from the last eight years if it wasn't loaded up in a prompter. But the next thing that was in the prompter was he'll never forget, which I thought was kind of ironic because they wouldn't have put it in the prompter. He'll never forget except he wouldn't have any recollection at all. Yeah. We're not in the prompter. Yeah, they'll find it. It made me laugh. I just wrote it down

ironically. French Stewart's back. French? French Stewart? Can you hear us? How are you? I can. Can you hear me? So you moved to Atlanta. What happened?

I did 40 years in LA and that was good for me. And I just during the pandemic, I figured out that I could I could live anywhere. And so I went cheaper where there's rain and I like it. I love it here. Oh, yeah. Where are you in Atlanta? Are you outside Atlanta? Are you in Atlanta? Are you outside Atlanta? Yeah, I'm just inside. Like, I'm, well, I mean, I'm not going to give you an address. So a crazy person with a gun that you love so much can come to my home.

He loves guns. How'd you know, French? Yeah, I got you. But we should reset this. So he called last show. Adam did a bunch of thumping to make sure and verify this is, in fact, French. And we did such. We verified.

And it certainly sounds like French. And I was saying that I was thinking about him lately, weirdly, and I wonder what happened to him. Everything okay? Are you good? Oh, I'm great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did like a three-show spin on a new show on ABC, Will Trent. I always kind of plop along.

But, you know, next year I'm turning 60, so I'm kind of like, you know, I'm winding down and enjoying my life and my kid and just doing, you know, just a little bit less and kind of picking my shots. I'm going to do a movie next month. I did a movie last week, and so I just kind of take it as it comes. I'm glad because he's so talented. I was like, so what happened? Oh, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Thank you. It's always been a pleasure to talk to both of you. I really, uh, I loved the old days over at K-Rock where, you know,

we could like, uh, answer calls for teenagers. And then, uh, you know, you go out there and like Rodney is standing there with his imperceptible radio voice. And you're just like, oh, it's Rodney on the rock. What's going on? It was Kevin and Bean. It was really, they were lovely days. And you guys did some, I think you guys did some heavy lifting for some teenagers with problems, really. teenagers with problems, really. Yeah, it was a very interesting time in space and radio and city and, you know, obviously

none of us appreciated it like we should have during the time, but looking back on it, it was a really interesting time. I mean, I interviewed Frazier Smith the other day. Oh, Frazier, yeah. And I'm like, I forgot he started on K-Rock. Oh, very early, yeah. And I'm like, I forgot he started on K-Rock.

Oh, very early, yeah. Very early. And with... Like 76. Yes. To like 80. Like, it's crazy. Yeah, when it was below a church and things across the street from where it is now, yeah. Where it was for a minute.

Yeah, but there wasn't like one place that you would go to that... Like, I would go to the Ice House in Pasadena and Frazier Smith. He's like hosting the Ice House. And then you go to some other, like, the improv, there's Frasier Smith. He's, like, in a sharkskin suit. You know? But, you know, like, yeah, that was lovely. It was, like, him and, oh, gosh, who else was there? I mean, Kevin and Bean, clearly. But this is the thing that people didn't appreciate, can't appreciate now, is Radio was a very powerful medium in the 60s,

70s, 80s, 90s. I mean, it's how you defined yourself, was what radio station you listened to and that kind of thing. I remember going into, like, do Kevin and Bean and Jimmy Kimmel was bringing me coffee. That's right.

That seems insane. He would do a sports update and then he would come, he would give me coffee. Yeah, that's right. Like that seems, that seems insane. Like he would, he would do a sports update and then he would come, he would give me coffee like that should ever happen again. Well, you know, one of the keys to Jimmy's success and I run into it a lot, there's a lot of people that are like, that's not my job. You know what I mean? I had people quit here because I told them to clean their office. And they're like, that's not my job. You know what I mean? And it's like Jimmy never looked at anything as not his job. When he was done doing the sports, then he would run down and get the guest a coffee if a guest wanted a coffee.

And he could have went, I am the sports guy. I don't get coffee. But he looked at everything as potentially being his job. There's nothing beneath it. That makes perfect sense to me. And it's, you know, it's like when we were kids, they used to, I think you and I are roughly the same age. But I think that when we were kids, they actually like taught citizenship.

think that when uh when we were kids they actually like taught citizenship and so you would like you would have a class on citizenship and how to be a good citizen and sometimes it wasn't about yeah it was about like you know keeping your front porch clean so that other people didn't have to look at your nonsense and if you took care of your space then you know everybody's space was a little bit better it It's called the golden rule. Nobody knows what it is anymore. The golden rule and the tragedy of the commons. Those are the two things. What's the tragedy of the commons?

It's essentially where you have a common, just what French is referring to, where you have common space and somebody just takes advantage of it because they can. That's where we're at. French, good catching up with you, and I will have you on my program whenever you're live. Absolutely. I saw you guys on and my heart warmed because I just remembered chatting with you in the old

days and chatting with you a little more recently, but I love you dearly and have a fantastic day. Thanks, French. Great talk. Leave your number with the screener here so we can get back in touch with you. Yeah. All right, man. Oops, sorry.

But French's dad also had a bunch of guns after he died. Really? Yeah. That sounds like Central Valley, California. Is that where they were? I've talked to a few people, actors or whatever, whose dads were kind of grifters because it doesn't make sense to us. You know what I mean? Like kind of grifters.

Yeah. French's dad was a grifter. He just skipped by with whatever scam he could come up with. He had a couple lady friends and did what he had to do, but it was never work. You know what I mean? Sociopath. Yeah. We have the Biden clip.

Also, Emmy, I sent you another clip, emailed you. Emmy, I sent you an email of something I want to talk about in a minute. Go ahead. Is that right? Is there still the deal? Uh-uh. That's the truth. Now, don't make a lie.

that's the truth now don't make a lie as that that scene in the john wayne movie don't make me a dog-faced lion pony soldier what all right well i tell you what um here's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna ask the white house photographer to come up and all i'm gonna do is i'm gonna stand i can't i usually shake everybody's hand hold on on a second. But I'm going to stand in front of each section. No, I really mean it. Hold on. What does this have to do with the part I was asking about? It doesn't? Well, sorry for not being clear, but I don't want to watch.

The whole speech is 40 minutes. That was a pretty wild video, by the way. What do you mean? Just his slurring and confusion. I've sort of accepted him as that now. It doesn't even... He's a little Parkinsonian now. He's slow movement and stuff.

Yeesh. All right. So why did we think that was it? Because that's the timestamp that your quote's on under the transcript. For some reason, it played it somewhere else. But that's the exact timestamp. And it's word for word what you had something. Well, we'll see if we can find it.

Now, what were you going to say, Drew? Well, you know, I have French talking about the good old days. I sent you a video of a birthday gift you gave me from Loveline in the 90s. It was pretty funny. And I don't want to send these guys on another hunt for a video but uh

it'd be funny to play a couple minutes of that wouldn't it yeah it was really it was me farting up the studio and that was your birthday i know which uh giovanni found thank you giovanni i left out of you. I laughed out loud. I found myself listening to it in a casino in Vegas. I was going up the elevator. I was laughing going up the elevator. I went down to the treadmill, the gym, and I was laughing to myself. It's impossible not to laugh at it. Yeah, but why is it? Is it because I'm laughing so hard? I guess. I laugh that way. I was thinking to myself, I laugh that way at Howard Stern sometimes. He'll laugh a lot along with something, and it makes me laugh.

But our – and sort of my reaction on my dismay. Yes. I remember – I didn't hear this on the video, but I remember at the time – I don't remember if I told you that night or it was something that came up later as we were sort of analyzing what happened. I actually became frightened. It was so intense. Frightened for in what way? I don't know.

It was scary. It was actually so intense it evoked fear. I think we – Fear and awe. Now do we have the Biden clip or are we able to suss that one out, Emmy? Sorry. We're still trying to figure out how much of a difference there is we're typing in the keywords that are coming up in the captions it's about four to five minutes off of the actual video so we're trying to link it uh sync it all right sync it and link it yeah i had gas the likes of which i've never had and

emmy i've sent you that video We want to listen about four minutes in. About four in. Yeah. Yeah, and I was in this very small studio with Drew. I would say windowless, but it had a viewing window, but it was windowless. Yeah. There was no ventilation outside of the air conditioning, I guess, which seemed to be on the fritz all the time. Remember that?

The air conditioning- Would guess, which seemed to be on the fritz all the time. Remember that? The air conditioning- Would freeze up. Right. So it would get super broiling hot in the studio. And then I would say, and this is, we've talked about this a lot in life, but more recently too. I would say we have to fix the air conditioning. It is so unbelievably hot. I could feel like balls of sweat just dripping down my forehead. And they would say, yeah, when we turn the air on, it freezes up. And I would go, yes, it's something, something.

Something needs to be fixed. Something is happening, but we need to fix it. And then a month later, we turn it on again and i go yeah well we turned it on but it would freeze up and i would go yeah we have to fix it like i remember those conversations i remember you then jumped up on the console and kicked the thermostat off the wall well because it was a little bit different yeah no the thermostat had one of those plastic boxes around it so you couldn't tamper with it but i give it a boot and fixed it because they wouldn't set it low enough so that it would get cool

in the studio let's hear it's a little bit of our hilarity right. Our fun together. Oh, boy. That's what we want to hear. We want to hear well into it. Four minutes into it. Four minutes? You got a time stamp? Well, that's what you said. All right.

Let's just skip four minutes ahead. Why don't you do your spot, and then we'll listen to this. Yeah, we'll listen. We'll come back after we hear from our friends at Angie. Homeowners, you know how much work it takes to maintain that home, whether it's everyday maintenance or repairs or just taking on a dream project in addition to your home. It can be hard to even know where to start. All you need is Angie, your home for everything home. Find a skilled local pro who will deliver quality and expertise.

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Again, that is Angie, A-N-G-I.com. All right. So you jump in four minutes into this. Buddy. Come on. Well, you probably go back about 30 seconds because I must have just farted

at four minutes. Stop that sound, Anderson. I'll turn my headphones down. Jesus Christ. I got the one engineer in North America who don't like farting. Drew, get in here. Buddy. Come on.

Makes me laugh, too. Drew left the studio. Drew, are you dry? That's funny. Are you dry heaving over there? Come on, get in here, buddy. Jeremy? Yeah? It's Drew's birthday.

Really? Yeah. He's 57 years young. All right, you're 16. Yeah. Now, Drew, are you trying to get back? Yeah, whatever. All right, Jeremy, go ahead.

Drew is gagging over there. Drew, did you have a dry heave? My eyes are watering. Did you retch? Yeah, but it's not abnormal. No, no, no. Answer first, please. All right.

All right. All right. All right. Please, no, no, no, no. Is that? Oh, man. oh man drew get back in here buddy is that coming out of me or is that anderson i don't know Oh, my God. Drew is a doctor. Make a diagnosis on that. Wow.

I don't know what I ate tonight, but I got to write that down. You need to go to the doctor. That is huge. Oh, my God. It's mammoth. Oh, I wish Jimmy was here. You're so proud of yourself. That's funny. I wish Jimmy was here.

You know how people win the Oscar and cry because they wish their dead father was there to see them? Whenever I break a good fart, I wish Jimmy or his cousin Sal was with me. This is like something that's not normal. Yeah, that ain't normal, is it? That's not normal at all. Imagine what my car was like on the way over. Oh, man. We got a carpool.

What can he do about his bent penis? Take some vitamin E? Drew's not on the mic. He's gagging in the corner. Where are you going? Drew, don't abandon your post. How dare you?

How dare you leave your post? I went in the control room. Drew went in the control room. That's pretty smart. Oh, okay. That's what happened. Yeah. Oh, God.

Yeah, that was hellacious gas. Oh, my God. It's so funny. Did we put that up somewhere? Is that, I guess, the classic love line for Giovanni? Look up those links. That was a big night for me. Probably the biggest ever.

Yeah. No, you've never revisited quite that level of performance. No, I can basically blow gas with impunity, even in rooms or airplanes or something, because I never have smelly gas. That was just, that was it. This was frightening. Scary. All right, so here's Biden.

Here's Biden. Never going to forget. Yeah. All kidding aside, a lot of people are frustrated. My mother, God love her, all five foot one, Captain Eugene and Finney, she'd look at me and say, Joey, never bow, never bend, never yield, never kneel. We never will on this issue. Never, never, never, never, never.

See the words. Very irrational policy. Folks. Also, just hold on. Just that phrase there was like, no. My mom, remember, said to me, never, never, never, never, never. Like, first off, people who speak don't speak that way, especially politicians. You know, like, it's always weird. I find it very weird when people go, I would never, ever, ever, ever.

And I said, yeah, that's what we have. A nine year old sound like that. You had to cover with never. Yeah, we're covered. Yeah, you would never do this. Americans, you know, Americans do a lot of exclaiming. Other countries don't do that so much. It's kind of one of our little quirks.

People get mad at me because I'll cut them off. They'll start doing the women especially. They'll do like a third round of something. I'll go, we got it. They'll go like, what the fuck? And I'll be like, you've already said this. You said it. Now, that's different than you can tell me a story for a third time, just not in a row.

You know, you could tell me about some story with some coworker or something from last year and then tell it to me again this year. But that's not never, ever, never. Like, I want to listen to that one more time i'll say it always seems sort of weirdly unhinged or something too like there's something wrong with him i mean there is something wrong with him he's very old right by the way his mom's name was katherine eugenia finnegan okay boy poor guy We never will on this issue. Never, never, never, never, never. They're a rational policy. Folks.

Are we ever going to make progress we need to make? I'm here to tell you we cannot give up. We will not get there. I still remember the people I met with in Newtown and Orlando and Las Vegas and Pittsburgh and Charleston, Parkland, El Paso, Duvalde, Buffalo, Monterey Park, and so many other places that never make the headlines. I've never forgotten them. They're loaded into a prompter. You see him staring at the prompter. I'll never stop fighting for them, I promise you.

He went to Monterey Park. I believe this is true. I don't believe that's true. Everyone in this room, you'll never stop fighting for them as well. We will ban assault weapons in this country. We will ban multi-round magazines. We will hold gun makers liable. We will beat the gun industry.

We will beat big money that sits behind them. And the politicians refuse to stand up and act. It won't be easy. I have no illusions how fiercely they'll fight back. But I also have no illusions about the people in this room. Look at what you've already done here in Connecticut and around the country. Look at the movement you've built. Look at the people you've helped elect. Look at the progress you've built look at the people you've helped elect look at the progress you've made listen i i actually admire the the anybody that's attacking aspects of

government that are captured by money so i will give him that i like that so yeah i will uh too but guns aren't the gun violence is with guns, but somebody is holding the guns. And it's not all white supremacists. That's all I'm saying. And it's weird. If that's what it's going to take to be able to have the conversation about violence, you have to get rid of assault weapons. Just do it so we can have the conversation about real violence or about the problem with violence.

All right. Let's talk to Mike 53, St. Louis. Mike? Hey, guy. Hi, guy. Hi, guy. Good to talk to you guys. Thank you for taking my call.

Yeah. Dr. Drew, you said in the past about the six-foot rule just being made up bullshit. I had a question about soap. They said you needed to wash your hands for like 20 seconds is that made up too or is there anything to that not that i'm worried no there is stuff to that that that's all there's a lot of data on that kind of thing uh it's really started i don't know if it started there but surgeons have a lot of conversations, a lot of data on how long to wash their hands and how to wash their hands to decrease any exposure to a surgical field of anything infectious. And so this is that sort of, I'm sure a lot of it is sort of

loosey-goosey in terms of 20 seconds. You know, is it really 20 seconds or is it really twice, you know, through happy birthday or is it 12 seconds or is it really twice, you know, through a happy birthday or is it 12 seconds or is it 50? Yeah, there's certainly some room in there, but they are trying to actually come up with data on that. The six foot thing was just absolutely categorically out of nowhere, nowhere. In fact, the concept of social distancing had just been invented as well. So it's, it's, you know, the very different kind of thing.

Yeah. been invented as well so it's it's you know a very different kind of thing yeah so another question about soap um i'm sorry to be fixed on it but if so is it is the purpose of it to kill germs on your hand or is it the purpose to slough it off of your hand because why is it always slick it depends right we use we have bactericidalaps, and that's back in the surgical thing again. That's what they use. But it's really to saponify them and to remove them more than destroy them, I would say. Yeah, they're good for you, though. Right, I was going to say, but you're not a surgeon, so what are we talking about here? So really then we're talking about viruses, which is a totally different story, right?

Can we really get viruses off our skin? And that's actually a debatable point because viruses bind tightly. They're micro-microscopic, so they're well below the size of a bacteria, and so they aren't as likely to be saponified, are they? But they also do wash off and things like that. So, you know, how to get a virus off is a whole different matter. Thanks, Mike. Okay.

All right. Thanks for your time. You bet. Yeah. So the problem Biden and the Democrats have with gun violence is sort of the problem they have with a lot of stuff, which is they do this thing where they go, guns are the problem and white supremacy is the biggest problem. And then you go, well, statistically then who's doing most of the shooting and it's young black people. So then they go,

well, let's not get into that. Let's focus on this. And so when you focus on this, now we're sort of like the problem with the homeless is there's not enough housing. It's like you need to focus on other aspects of this. If in fact, you'd like to put a dent in the homeless population or gun fatalities, for instance, but if you won't recognize this aspect of it, which statistically equates to a lot of it, but you want to focus on white cops shooting black men, which is fine,

but it's not going, it's the same as you focusing on the mother of three with the full-time minimum wage job who just got divorced. And you can, but it's not going to statistically do anything since she doesn't really represent anybody. So you can focus on bad cops shooting unarmed black men, and we can then take 18 gun deaths off the 70,000 bucks or whatever it is a year. But that'll be good for 18. And then we can do white supremacy. That'll be good for 26. we still got 77 000 and you can remove the mother of three from the the streets with the kids and the full

time job and stuff but you're not going to statistically tell anything happen and that's their problem so to give speeches could be homeless or could be gun violence to give speeches and not discuss that aspect of it just means you're not interested in solving the problem if you're if you've been tasked with solving the problem i don't know ben how many oh and a lot of them are the other thing too is most of them are suicides, which they never really get into. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, yeah, they count suicide as gun violence, which pads the shit out of their numbers. Especially these days, right now. Because I think most, I don't know if it's, I mean, there's more people killed by knives and hammers than there are with guns.

So it's a, there's, it's bizarre. I mean, fists, you know what I mean? Statistically. Is that right? I didn't know that either. I think, well, we'll save it for the next show. I'll let Ben look it up. But people killed by fists or knives versus guns and then guns used in suicide.

Those are important numbers. I would love to know that. I think it's 40% or more of the gun fatalities are self-inflicted, and or there's more knives. There's more people killed by fists, hammers knives you know blunt force you know whatever then uh then there are amazing there are guns all right uh we'll have that for the next show but it would be interesting for drew to is the reason you don't know any of this is because they don't want you to know any of this if they wanted you to know it i mean then you would have

known that anyone under 19 doesn't die of COVID if they wanted you to know it, but they don't want you to know it. You would have known about Hunter Biden's laptop two years ago if they'd wanted you to know it, but they don't want you to know it. I hope everybody learned that lesson from COVID. It's the only good thing about it. They sure as fuck better

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