The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1800 Achieve the Green

Episode Date: December 6, 2023

Today, Adam shares his thoughts after seeing the new 'Napoleon' movie, his voyage through the PCH, and Gavin's approach to all the tough questions . Then, Dr. Drew reminisces on his battles during the pandemic, they discuss the New York State Governor's denial to reduce power to quarantine, and what's coming next going into an election year. Please Support Our Sponsors: Shopify.com/adamanddrew BetterHelp.com/adamanddrew

Globally, humans are facing massive problems that are widely ignored by governments and the media. Like personal space invaders. I've had it with these couples that sit on the same side of the booth. Yak mouth. Stupid stick figure bumper stickers. Almond milk. You cannot milk an almond. Hi, I'm Jennifer.

And I'm Angie. We call her Pumps, and we're the hosts of I've Had It. Pumps, tell the listener where they can find us. Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts. Nailedinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on the show. Get it on.

Dr. Drew's board first-time assistant, risk assessment, that's barbarous. Yeah, buddy. Yeah, I got thoughts. All right. I got some questions for you, too. Go ahead. I had a couple of things I wanted to connect.

I was inspired because somebody sent me a video. A lot of people tweeted me a video of a guy taking an axe to a no right on red sign, which I thought was funny. There's nothing to it. It's just what it is. Some dude, you know know middle-aged dude swinging an axe at a four by four post that has a sign on says no right on red um and i you know and and i think about that a lot because i think about sort of efficiency and inefficiency like, I'll give you a for instance, a couple for instances that hit me over the weekend. Went and saw a movie, Napoleon.

Oh, I want to see that. Yeah, be curious. Do you like it? Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, I've read a lot about him, so I'm going to be kind of distracted by that. I hear it's not super accurate, but it still looks very visually appealing and accurate enough. And there is a – I'm out in Malibu, and you've got to go to Westlake Village, which is all the way through the canyon, sort of far away. It's a three-hour film, too.

But it's – no, it's only like two and a half, which is short by today's standards. But we don't need to see a picture of Napoleon. I mean, thank you, but we don't need to see a picture of Napoleon. I mean, thank you, but we don't need to. Is that weather, the weather through the whole thing, that kind of cloudy Normandy weather? Yeah. It's weird. It's not France all the time.

But anyway. All right. Go ahead. Anyway. See, you put the stupid picture up, and now you got Drew going off on fucking Napoleon. Just don't do it. All right.

One thing I've learned about this show is whoever the guest is somebody will put the picture one guy in the booth will put a picture of somebody up and then at some point whoever the guest is like paulie sure will go oh that dude's hair's long right in the middle of whatever and i'll go just don't put the picture up now if people could refrain from pointing and commenting at the picture we can do this but they can't yeah they have to talk to the screen i can't i literally just had this conversation with bargain yesterday about paulie shore specifically i was like he's gonna get distracted do not throw anything randomly up there yes he'll you know what it is it's this it's the spicoli the funniest part the truest part of Fast Times at Ridgemont High is when Spicoli is sitting in the classroom, Mr. Hand's classroom.

At some point, like some guy goes – walks in or something. You just hear Spicoli go, I know that, dude. Like that's what people don't have control over themselves. All right. Anyway. Right. All right. Anyway. So on the way back, on the way back from Westlake to Malibu, which, by the way, when the movie's over, the canyon. Yeah. There's nobody around. Yeah. The exit I get off to get back to Malibu from Westlake is the ramp. And the ramp has a sign that says no right on red. There are no cars. It is a ghost town.

It is, it's midnight and it's midnight in a kind of sleepy area. There's nobody behind you. There's nobody going to go. There's nothing. You're just sitting there. And I went through it once and got pulled over. Then the second time now, every other time,

because way says get off on that ramp. Like that's the way you get back to Malibu. It's not like, Oh, just take the next exit. It's not, that's the way you get back to malibu it's not like oh just take the next exit it's not that's not how it works with the canyon so i find myself sitting there um just out of curiosity was the cop at the gas station there's a bunch of gas stations right there right aren't there or convenience stores or something not there is a little bit down, but where this is, I know the cop was waiting.

Wow. Now then, there's that. Then the following day, PCH. PCH, if you head toward Pepperdine. So now you're on the other side. Now you're in Malibu heading. Yeah, the following day. Yeah.

Heading toward Ventura County, toward Pepperdine. There's a signal and there's a big shopping mall with restaurants and stores and whatever. And there's a signal and there's a red arrow there. Right. But PCH goes straight and then it goes all the way uphill to Pepperdine. So not only can you see, it's like saying, not only can you see for three miles, but because it bends up, you can really see. It's straight, and it goes uphill. And you just sit there.

And you sit there. Now, I don't sit there, but if the person in front of me. And you sit there and now I don't sit there, but if the person in front of me, but the other day, some dude who's looking very dicey, who's I would describe him as a 25 year old guy who looks a little dicey, with a pole or a sword or a stick of some kind. Machete? No, it wasn't a machete. The usual gear of that dude. Is doing kind of a ninja dance with it, like hop down, you're swinging around and then planning it down and whole, hey, kind of thing, like a ninja would do with the shot. He's on the other side of the thing, the intersection. I'm sitting at this intersection that won't change because the red arrow stays red while

the light is green, And then it fully cycles. It stays red. And then you have to go through the cycle again. I'm just sitting there and I'm looking at this guy with his ninja pole, you know, and he's swinging around, but he's moving. He's making his way toward me, sitting in my car with a car behind me and a car in front of me. And he's crossing the crosswalk and he's swinging the pole.

And I'm like, is this guy going to bash my windshield in with this thing? I would like to go. There are no cars coming. But yet we sit here. By the way, what could be more dangerous than sitting in the middle of PCH? You know, it's cars going by. It's 60 miles an hour from behind cars coming at you at 60 miles an hour. And you just sit in the middle of PCH.

I'm guessing. Why doesn't that signal blink red? Why? My guess, it has something to do with pedestrians. Thus, if you were to have gone before that pedestrian with the stick had his foot on the pavement off the crosswalk, you would have been cited for some sort of endangerment. You know what I mean? It's so different about that intersection and pedestrians than all other intersections with no arrow. Okay.

It's just the policy is just bad. Oh, yeah. it's just the policy is just bad and the signals need to be fixed or the word needs to get out there so hold on so all I see is the

freeway signs now they don't say click it or tick it anymore they go think about your family buckle up which is I undid my seatbelt on the 405 the other day. As I was passing under one of those signs telling me to buckle up, I thought, I don't know, what would happen if I just unbuckled right now?

And I unbuckled and the dash started blinking and the noise, the chime and everything. It's just, it makes no sense that they're alerting you to do something that your car is already alerting you to do. It makes no sense. I have no idea why we put up with it. There's so many things that could be put on that. I want to have, I want to sit down with the people who are in charge of those signs. I've been saying it for 25 years. They won't do it. What's their budget? I don't know who they are, what they do. We don't have a traffic czar.

But here's what I want to say to you. Are we interested in traffic or not? And here's the argument I'm going to present. Okay. First off, remember 10 years ago when Gavin Newsom was sitting where you're sitting, I got into it with him on traffic. What are we doing? I'm going to play you guys that clip just because it's precious.

Called precious. Hold on. This is his approach to solving one of the biggest problems that plagues the city of Los Angeles. And always has. Here we go. I saw a billboard out on the 405 that says you're not stuck in traffic. And you're thinking, what does that mean? It says you are traffic, which I kind of like.

He likes it. Thought that was good. That solves the problem, doesn't it? Homeless. The true face of homeless is the mom with the three kids i did it's patently insane it's insane but you know what's underneath it is you shouldn't be driving we're going to make sure you don't drive yeah well here but here's an interesting point and here's what i tell you how to live right man here's here's what i want to offer up

here's what i want to very sick of that's what I want to offer up. Very sick of that stuff. Remember when the homeless encampment burnt down and fucked up the 10 freeway, right? Yep. He had press conferences, multiple press conferences, patting himself on the back about getting that very vital corridor reopened in record time, right?

Okay. So why are you having a press conference about reopening the 10 if traffic isn't a thing or an issue? Meaning you are speaking, your approach to the 10 being closed, if you're being consistent, Gavin Newsom, is, I don't know, it's closed for a day, it's closed for a year, it's closed for 10 years. What do I care? Stop being traffic. Stop being traffic. Why are you having press conferences telling us how quickly you opened it up? Well, you're saying then traffic is a thing. It is an issue. It is something we care about it, right? You're having a

press conference patting yourself on the back. So then you do care about it, right? You're having a press conference, patting yourself on the back. So then you do care about traffic, yes? But then what about the clicker tickets? Or what about the right turn, the red arrows? Or what about any of the other things that impact traffic? Then what about those? What about the road diets? He's just flirting word salad bullshit.

And he's not used to having people call him on it. He's not used to it. You see how reporters are these days. Oh yeah. A lot of head nodding, like a big Oprah audience. Oh, you know, you're genius. You know, it's weird. The most jarring part of old clips. Sometimes people tweet me like this is Gavin Newsom 12 years ago when, uh, you know, WCDD from the Bay Area confronted him. It's like, oh, there's a reporter reporting? No, I've never seen this before. Isn't that weird?

Somebody is asking a Democrat like a real question? Alex Michelson started to ask him stuff of him. He started. Listen. Sorry, Alex. But starting isn't a thing anymore. It's finishing. Okay.

You have to keep going. And when these guys filibust and never stop talking, you need to interrupt them and get back to the fucking question. Ask me a tough question about having multiple affairs while I was married. Oh, Adam, you say that your marriage was an excellent marriage, and yet I understand that you've had multiple affairs during the course of the marriage. Yeah, affairs are something that I don't approve of. It's something I don't condone. Did you have affairs? I don't wish it upon my children.

I don't wish it upon my neighbor. I understand that. And there's affairs of the heart. And then there's, it's a song, as a matter of fact. So I respect my wife. I respect her dearly. I want to create an environment that's zero tolerance for affairs, and I'm going to do it in an affair-free zone.

That would be my home. I have the deepest respect for my partner, who isn't my wife. And next question. You just tire them out, essentially. Yeah. Bulldoze. They just go and then you get tired and then we move on to

President Biden celebrating a birthday coming up. That's all they do. So Alex Michelson, yes, good that you asked the question, but you need to fucking cut these people off and ask another question. Ask the same question again. There's got to be a lot of that these days. Again, that is what's called for right now by everybody. But you need to fucking cut these people off and ask another question. Ask the same question again.

There's got to be a lot of that these days. Again, that is what's called for right now by everybody. Because the reporters aren't necessarily going to do it. So the public has to, if they have opportunities to ask questions, they have to go at it with these guys. Let me remind everyone that this show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Not every family or community does gifts this time of year. So whether you're not, your family is gift giving during the holidays, give yourself

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just doing it because he thought it was the right thing to do. Right. And, and I, so I had a nightly show on Fox 11 here locally. It's sort of think Simpson or family guy was sort of preceded those shows. It was not Fox news. And Alex Michelson was my cohost with that.

And we did about nine months of sort of updating people. It was going with COVID, but I would like to put together a montage of some of the moments that i was a little prouder of than others uh one was the school board thing but another was i kept going at um what's the lady with the white hair barbara ferrer particularly about these remember the red yellow and green they look you know talking about that russ simpson guy on about that Russ Simpson guy on Monday reminded me of this, which is that they had these red, yellow, and green statuses we had to achieve. By the way, the calling card of the bullshit artist is you put together some totally random bullshit color-coded safety system built on nothing and then it's basically like here's what it becomes yeah uh my kids would like me to take

them to disneyland yeah i don't want to take them to disneyland so i create a color-coded system and then they go uh hey dad can we go to can we go to Disneyland this Saturday? And I go, let me check. Are we green yet? No, we're still magenta, sweetheart. Sorry. I'll tell you when we get to green, which will be never. 100% what it was. And then dumb sheep fall in. We're like,

well, we'd like to reopen the schools, but until we can get to less than one illness in $22 billion, we can't open the schools because we're still in the red zone. Yep. And then we go, oh, oh, okay. Yeah.

Yeah. There's footage of me going, there's no world where we achieve the green. It's just not possible. So that's a fantasy goal. We wouldn't be in it now. Right. Think about that. Yes. It had to be zero it now. Think about that. It had to be zero COVID, essentially.

Oh my God. And they were just championing this. Oh, we're going to get to the grand... We're just... We're in red still. Or orange. Oh my God. Think about how unimpressive these people are. Oh, please. His headphones hit the ground. There's no such thing as Drew doing

a show where the microphone just sits in front of it. No. It's got to grab it. Aren't you used to that by now? I am. Okay, good. But it's always unsatisfying.

Okay. All right, so listen. Yeah. Los Angeles. I mean, really, the biggest... I'm not going to say the biggest city in the world, but one of the most important cities in the world with all that it brings. I mean, culturally for sure. I mean, you you're in Los Angeles, like every celebrity in the world lives in Los Angeles, all the, all the, you know,

the tastemakers, everyone, everyone. Um, the two people that have run Los Angeles has been, uh, Um, the two people that have run Los Angeles has been, uh, has been Viragosa, whose name is Tony Villar, who changed his name to Antonio Viragosa. So he courted the Hispanic vote. By the way, that's, he failed the bar four times and he didn't pass the fifth time. Then he changed his name from Tony Villar and I didn't do it in junior high. He was in college to Antonio Viragosa. That should have been cause for dismissal right there. Not that he didn't do it in junior high. He was in college to Antonio Villaraigosa. That should have been cause for dismissal right there.

Every sane person would have went, that guy's a fucking sociopath. Fuck that. Okay. He runs it for eight years. And then Eric Garcetti runs it. Both of them are doing nothing. Nothing. Villaraigosa looks good compared to Garcetti.

Garcetti's zero. He's beyond zero. We'll never hear from these people again. They're so unimpressive. Yeah. You think they're running their own business or doing, they're not doing anything. They're trying to get some other government appointed something job. That's how unimpressive the people we choose. I know now our current mayor, Karen Bass, we can lump her in with that in how unimpressive the people we choose. I know now our current mayor, Karen Bass,

we can lump her in with that in the unimpressive hamper as well. That's scary to me. And then Barbara Ferrer, all of them, the least impressive people ever running the biggest city in the world. It's scary to me that an electorate does that. So that's what I have a problem with right now. I don't trust the voting public. No, Los Angeles, we get, here's what we get in Los Angeles and California. We get Gavin Newsom. We get Karen Bass. We get Antonio Villaraigosa.

And we get Eric Garcetti. That's what we get. We voted them in. Yeah. The least impressive, narcissistic, just, I mean, to be fair to Garcetti, he's just feckless. He's worthless, you know. And on the other end, we get crazed narcissist Gavin Newsom.

But Garcetti is full of good vibes. I felt good vibes. Good vibes. As he screamed shelter in place like a weird. Retarded pussy. The good news is they're going nowhere. At least they don't go anywhere. But these, you know what I mean?

But we elect them. That's what bothers me. I know this is what, like when I hear Elon Musk is going here or he's talking about that, I go, oh, good. Let's listen. Yes. Probably got a point. Reading his biography now. It's kind of interesting.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's really a well – I'm not a super Walter Isaacson fan. He's written – I've read a number of his biographies, but this is a good one. And Musk is different than I thought. He's a little different. What do you mean? I thought he was a super little different. What do you mean?

I thought he was a super genius that could just do anything. And that's not quite who he is. He's obviously a very bright guy, but he has a certain set of talents that are just specific to these things he's done and he's been obsessing about electric cars space travel and uh and through when he had paypal that whole that whole sort of thing that he wanted to turn it into a essentially what he's doing with x uh-huh and uh and he's been obsessing with that since he was nine years old yeah those things yeah and he turned out you know had an exquisite ability to like work through anything and pick good people, not the usual good people, just sort of the right people. And they weren't sort of the usual pedigrees and things.

It's very interesting. I'm still, I'm enjoying reading it. Anyway. All right. Let me tell you about Shopify. Yeah. Drew and I, well, we make a good team. The perfect duo.

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Listen, listen to me, everybody. This this because I have been saying all the time where you go, well, this person did that and that person did that. I. Democratic females in charge have an unyielding desire to be more in charge. It's a theme. Sorry, everyone. It's a theme. You can point out, oh, Nancy McDougal in North Carolina didn't want.

OK, she's an outlier. of the aisle who are put in charge, whether they're mayors or governors, fight for more power for them and less freedom for you. I would even refine it. And they always hide behind safety. It goes to Australian stuff. I mean, the prime minister lays, like, unless you hear it from the government, then it's not true. You know, like, you hear it from the government then it's not true you know like you what first that what they fight back is any challenges on their authority

they're not looking for more power if you challenge it then they insist upon it yes that is that is it i i don't like like you just go well there's this over here and there's that over there. No, no. There's a clear and distinct theme. The Democrats want more power or they want you to have less power. Or however you want to describe it. They don't want challenges to their power. That's for sure. Yes. And they all went nuts when Elon bought Twitter.

Why? Challenges. Because they used Twitter to do their bidding. And now they don't have control over Twitter anymore. Fascistic control. Yes. But they have to. They can't couch it that way.

So they have to say, oh, the neo-Nazis are going to use it. Weird that they call somebody else a fascist now. Here we go. That's how they do it. You're not allowing our fascist union of government and corporate. You guys used big tech to do your bidding and a plank

of your big tech platform was taken away from you. And now you don't like that. So now you don't like the guy who you used to love because he made electric cars, but he's now opened up this platform that you used to control. And now you're angry at him.

But all he wants is freedom. But that's what you say you want. But you don't. You want control. And by the way, I don't trust any of these people at all anymore for anything involving we would like, you know, in California, New York, we want to change the curriculum at the school so kids better understand when they can spot missing disinformation. Oh, really?

Really? And who's in charge of what's missed and disinformation? Oh, you are. I'm saying it all the time now. What's mis- and disinformation? Oh, you are. I'm saying it all the time now. In the sweep of history, the most exquisite example of misinformation, dangerous dis- and misinformation was Galileo. a dangerous informant, according to the Catholic Church and the Spanish Inquisition.

And they silenced him. And they put him in exile for daring to say that the earth went around the sun. That's what you do. That's misinformation. That's how the scientific process works, by challenging ideas. And you silence those ideas. It's never the good guys but that do that but let me say this about kathy hokal or whoever these crack bots are she was one that was yelling at everyone to get vaccinated 10 minutes ago look um if you're kathy hokal if you're soda mayor uh if you're gavin Newsom, there's no more goodwill.

You've run, you've used all your chips. You've run out of goodwill. I no longer believe you. Even if you're right, I don't believe you. And when you want to enact something, I'm going to assume it's a bad idea because of your track record of being wrong. Oh, that's interesting. And lying.

Yeah. So you've lied and you're wrong. So whoever you are, Kathy Hochul, Gretchen Whitmore, whoever you are, no longer listening. Yeah. You did it to yourself. If you were measured and you were normal and you treated your constituency like adults, then I would be listening. But you didn't.

And now I don't listen. And so whatever her idea is, I'm against it. I think that's a reasonable approach. I looked at it and went, well, we've always used quarantine and we have to have some quarantining ability. But you're right. It's probably something excessive. It's probably a sore that she can wield. And you're right, just based on her track record. And look, who knows? We're heading into an election year. If Trump has a lead, which he will, going into the election year, you don't think these people are going to trot out some new virus or some reason why you have to vote by phone and you can't go in? You don't think something's coming? It's coming.

That's how they – there's no such thing as them just losing an election. It's not going to happen. Something is going to happen. Something will come. That's the way it's going to work. I don't know – Some people, they're claiming democracy is a threat. Well, the other thing is like, look – It's tolerance, the name of intolerance, the name of tolerance. Democracy is in threat unless we screw with democracy.

Well, let's look at it. Oh, my goodness. You had eight years of Obama. Yeah. Right. And then you had four years of Trump. Then you have four years of Biden. So it's 12 to 4 right now.

But unless it's 16 to 4 in your favor, Democrats, you're going to riot. You're going to burn the cities down. So that's the rule. The rule is – Why would they stop at 16? Right. Oh, sure. You're right.

We need 16 years to your four years of rule. And things are demonstrably worse, by the way. Like, I don't know what happened in that time period. And Nazis and a threat to democracy. Right. Most people are just like, I like the border tightened up. I like gas cheaper and steak is too expensive. That's what most people, that's how most people work.

But something, something's going to happen. So it's coming. And no, I don't trust any of these people. And I certainly, especially do not trust women on the left in power. I had enough Barbara Ferrer, Gretchen Whitmers, and Hochulz. I've had enough of them. Lori Lightfoot, I've seen it. I got a front row seat to the women in power on the left,

and they ain't your friend, not if you're a citizen, unless there's something I'm missing. I don't know. unless there's something I'm missing. I don't know. Is London Breed doing a magnificent job in San Francisco? Did Lori Lightfoot? They just did what they wanted.

All right. All right. All right. Vegas, Jimmy's Club coming up this Thursday. Then Rancho Mirage, Agua Caliente Casino. That'll be doing stand-up there. Second show added. First show's sold out. That's December 16th.

Solana Beach coming up. Just go to mcroll.com for all the live shows. What do you got, Drew? Dr. Drew.com for the pods and.tv. Go to lswit.com, the streaming show. Check it out. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 3 o'clock Pacific. So, until next time, I'm Adam Kroll for Dr. Drew saying, mahalo.

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