The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1884 Running Wild Out There

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

Today, Dr. Drew coming in from B.C Canada, and Adam shares his recent parting words for his daughter, as the kids take off to explore the world, and he reminisces on his own teenage years.  Then they discuss the new world order of work ethics, and more chick think on nuclear power.   Leave us a voicemail: SpeakPipe.com/AdamandDrDrew OR Click the microphone at top of the homepage, AdamandDrDrew.com

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British-Canadian. Stuff to talk about. I'm kind of curious. I'm curious, I turned the corner a little on a thought and I thought about something negatively for a while and then I didn't. Then I torn, well, I still think about something negatively for a while, and then I didn't. Then I torrent, well, I still think about it negatively, but I turn the corner on it a little bit. All right, tell me.

Well. I'm fascinated. I was sitting around, talking to my kids, as my daughter was preparing to leave for Spain after just returning from Mexico. And she's going to Spain and then. What? For what?

That's a big summit there for. No, no, I mean is she gonna go to. Textile manufacturers. No, is there a school thing over there? I don't know, she's fucking, no, school thing. Okay. Fucking nothing. They have fun, what are you there? School thing. Okay. Fucking nothing. To have fun, what are you talking about?

Okay. Please. She's going to Spain, and then my son is getting ready to go back to Japan. Oh. Been to Japan with school. Now he's going to Japan again. Again, forgive me. Is there a plan? No, there's no, you're going to Japan again. To do, again, forgive me, is there a plan?

No, there's no, he's going to Japan to have fun. By himself? He's consulting with Honda. By himself? They want his engineering expertise. Learn the language a little bit. No, he's not going with himself, he's just going with a friend, or you know.

Dude. Going to have a good time. I want to talk to them about this. To Japan. I got to talk to your kids, okay. I got to find out what's actually in their heads. What's in their heads is that sounds fun, is what's in their heads. Why?

They want to go there. Let's say he moves to Japan because it's fun. No, no, he's going there because it's fun. All right, okay. I've not been to Japan or Spain, but I'm young, so I still got time. But also, I wouldn't go to Japan or Spain because I would think I couldn't afford

to go to Japan or Spain, except for I can pay for them to go to Japan and Spain. Oh, it's true. I would never, I'd be like, I don't have that kind of money. I could go to Japan for two weeks. I mean, maybe if you lined up some work or something, maybe, but I don't have that kind of money. I go to Japan for two weeks I mean, maybe you lined up some work or something maybe but I don't have enough money to just hang out in Japan for two weeks Yeah, I have enough money to pay for everyone else to do it. Okay, it's so weird. It's so true Don't you feel that way? Oh my god a thousand percent, right?

so Then I started thinking, well, you know, I wish they'd earned the money and saved up the money and done it themselves and had one of those life lesson things that everyone talks about when they're older, where they had a paper route from the age 13 on and they saved and they saved.

And then on their 18th birthday, they bought the ticket to Japan. And whatever you get, whatever the life lesson, whatever they never got, whatever no one's ever gonna get. My family got zero because it was basically three against one in my house. And I just, you know, I was out of my house a lot

and working a lot. And so whatever wisdom or life lessons or tough love or anything that I'd ever attempted to impart, I just abandoned all of it and just said, you three just spend money and do whatever the fuck you want. I don't care, I'm going to work because I don't have any control over it. The eggs and the waffles or the French toast

were sort of the last. Yeah, and in California, you know, you can always get divorced and then just steal half the money from whoever and ruin their life. So it was always just kind of like, all right, just do whatever you want. I'm just gonna, I'm going to work. And so that was basically how how they got raised fine

They turned out to be good kids, but they're you know Their Compass is off because they don't live in a natural world. They have no gravity because they don't live in a natural world. They have no gravity. Well, not really. Not seriously, but zero gravity. They're not spoiled brats or anything. They just don't, they just don't,

they don't live in a world where you get a job, save your money, and buy yourself a used pickup truck. You know what I mean? Get around and work a little harder and save a little more and then one day you get a new pickup truck. You know, it's like none of that. But okay, that's how they were raised. Or not really raised, they weren't raised.

They were not raised. They were just sort of there, you know. And I just underwrote everything, and fine. So then, you know, I played a part in it too, because I could have just said, I'm not gonna underwrite any of this stuff, but then that would have been more grief and more aggravation and more difficulties

than was already a lot of grief and aggravation and difficulties. But I didn't impart any of what I knew about life or anything I've learned about life or any experiences I've ever had in my life that have been helpful to me in terms of having success. So I started thinking about everyone globetrotting and not paying for any of it

and how that's not a great life lesson. But then I started to think about it in other terms, which is there is something very powerful about being able to do something. You mean like like not knowing how to... No, not knowing how. Okay. Not knowing how to do something. Not knowing how. And. Not knowing how to do something. Not knowing how. And not the skills of buying airline tickets online. Although there's- Which is a thing, you know what I mean?

Knowing how to travel. Yeah, no, I get it, but those, you know, believe me, those two have been on Amazon enough and, you know, but, you know, Natalia could pick up her phone and get Taco Bell, Del Taco, and Taco King to all drop off the same burrito within 30 seconds on a Sunday at midnight at the front door. She's handy enough with her phone.

You know what I mean? That's not really the part where they learn something. Yeah, understood. Although, like I said, there is a part where you book a hotel and you book a car service or you, you know, whatever, travel. Get to point A, point B. All right, I get it.

Now, what I'm talking about is the possibility of doing something, which is when I was their age 18 Leaving you know had graduated high school a few weeks earlier. I'd you know retreated to my dad's garage with no air conditioning in this this weather here and And just sort of languished out in the garage, you know, and I started thinking about getting jobs as a box boy to supermarket or working at a liquor store or

picking up garbage somewhere in a construction site or something. I just sort of sat around, you know, and thought about maybe going up to the Mulholland Club and getting a 12 pack of beer and sitting up there with my buddies, you know, and skinny dipping in the pool. Now, if you said to me, how about going to Japan? I would have been like, what does that even mean? Who knows?

First off, how would you go to Japan? Right. How would you even do this? Do you? Would you go to the airport and buy a ticket? Well, then how would I get to the airport? Who's gonna take me to the airport and then What money for the ticket and then a passport? I don't have a passport. How do you get a passport? I don't know anyone with it. I mean my Grandparents't have a passport. How do you get a passport? I don't know anyone with it I mean my grandparents probably had a passport Who where would you get a passport?

Where would you do? How would you do any of this stuff? And so the answer for me would have just been no I'm I have to stay in this garage and sweat You know until I can get a job digging ditches And ride my motorcycle with the bald tire on the back. So even though what I'm saying is, even though my kids didn't earn any of it and may not deserve any of it, they have in their mind, they can do what they want. Like they want to go to, I want to go to Japan, okay? Three months later, you're going to Japan. Now it's because I pay for everything, but you still thought

here's what I want to do, I'm going to do it. If you would have said to me, forget about go to Japan, how about work at a radio station? I'd go, I'd love to work at a radio station. I don't know anyone in radio. I've never heard of it. I don't know where one is. I don't know anybody. It's never gonna happen. Do you think you'd be good at a radio station? I'd be like, I would be great at a radio station if I could ever go to a radio station.

Who's gonna let me go into a radio station? I don't even know where one is. So on one hand, it opens up the vistas of possibilities, right? You're just, you're open to things that you and I would not even been open to because it just isn't on the table. It wasn't even in the lexicon of what we understood could and couldn't be done. You more so than me. Well, I mean, it'd be like, you know, I was was gonna say early man, but not early man, would have been like a guy

settling the West in 1871, like sitting around a campfire one night just looking up at the moon and going, one day man's gonna walk on the moon. And you'd go, what? How? Never, I mean, how would you even do that? You're gonna walk on the moon and he'd go, what? How? What? Never. I mean, how would you even do that?

You're gonna walk on the moon. Like, what? I have a horse in a blanket. You know? I have a horse. How's my horse gonna take you to the moon? How's my horse gonna get me to the moon? Pegasus?

Yeah, so I would have looked at Japan or like working in radio is that. But it's also the flip side of it is what you kind of complain about with younger people is that they do stuff and they go take vacations and they, you know what I mean? They, it sort of influences how they do their free time and what their relationship with work is. It bleeds into a lot of areas when you have these huge vistas

and you can do it even without working that hard. Yeah, oh you can now, yeah. Yeah, so that's the downside, right? Well, I mean, I'm trying to think of what the down you know I mean there's always a kind of a complaint about well you complain about there's always a downside but what I'm what I'm saying is is my kids are one of them's in Spain and the other one's heading to Japan in a couple of weeks and when they come back and

you know Sonny says I'd like to work in sports and I'd like to work in sports broadcasting and I'd like to Maybe get a show, you know your buddy Scott works for Dan Lebatard or whoever, you know, I'm, I'll talk to him and then he can get me an intern job over there or a job doing something over there, you know, it's, it's all on the table. Yeah. Right.

But I would argue some of that is yes. And that's good. And I'm glad that young people think that way, but it's a little fantastic. And, and you do have to be realistic and assess your own abilities and understand. And I guess the way you do that is go out and try, you have to accept the, the reality hands you back. And I don't think that necessarily that teacher is as effective as she used to be.

that teacher is as effective as she used to be. Yeah, but maybe as the old guard dies off, meaning you and me and others who require that people work or that there's some pecking order or hierarchy or just people not be high as a kite at work or old standards, old standards. Ancient ideas. Ancient ideas, but as we die off, they're going to be replaced by some sort of new model of soft, weird, baked, fucked up whomever who may be much more

open-minded about the new world order as it pertains to work, you know. Well, maybe the robots will be doing the work. Oh, well, that's the other thing. I mean, maybe it's all just going to be universal income and robots and God knows what. But yeah, it just struck me that the biggest disconnect in chasm that I had regarding work or career success, thriving, and it's also a thing that I bring up periodically that I do not think the average person understands when you're talking about the inner city black youth or the poor downtrodden Appalachian kid or something.

They can't imagine success. they can't imagine success. They can't imagine it. They don't know what it looks like. What they say is they, we gotta get this kid and we gotta expose him to the arts and the symphonies and the museums. It's not that. They don't know anyone who's successful.

There's nobody they know. You know what I mean? And nobody does what they wanna do. And I would just sort of sit around, Ray and Chris were my two best friends. Both their parents lived in apartments in their 40s and 50s, you know what I mean? When these guys were seniors in high school,

their parents lived in small apartments in North Hollywood and my mom lived in a fucking flop house that her mom let her, a shack that her mom let her live in. You know what I mean? Like I didn't know any of it. Yeah, I could turn on the TV and see Falcon Crest or Dynasty or something, but I never really saw anybody around me.

There was no, and the subject always immediately shifts to how much you get an hour. It's never about career, it's never about thriving, it's never about being the best you. It's never about fulfillment, or has that job fulfill you, or is it just a job? You know, like, it's just a job. Well, this is a perfect way to segue, if you don't mind,

into what I'm seeing up here in Canada. Yeah. Okay. So it's very different up here. I recommend you spend a day up here because it's immediately obvious that this is a different way of living. It's sort of, you're not allowed to stand out, service is like, we'll get to you when we can.

There's no drive, there's no thrive. All the stuff you just were talking about, that is a no-no. And then you have, or it's almost seen like sort of crass or somehow, I don't know, there's a naiveness about Canadians that I'm seeing and a lack of desire. It's almost like they're sort of beaten down, but everybody walks at the same pace.

Everyone talks at the same pace. And it's all much slower. Lovely, nice, everybody's super nice, too nice. Nice to the point that they don't want anybody unhappy about anything. And I was talking to, but by the same token it's you know you have Trudeau there who sort of from Adam's perspective represents Chickthink but there are manly men here all over the place I mean this is I'm up in logging

territory this lumberjacks this is the fishermen this is crabbing this this is and everyone's into it everyone's into into it. So what is going on, I've discovered, is some other something that you and I never talk about. And a Canadian was explaining to us yesterday that they're raised with the notion that labor is king. And you just gotta get a job and work your life for the labor, with the labor union taking care of you, and they'll get you happy, with the labor union taking care of you and they'll get you happy and they'll get you the benefits and they'll get the retirement and you just you work your whole life for the for the labor union essentially or for the job but but protected by the labor party in the labor union. And I thought, oh, that's a completely different version of what we're is I don't think that really is what we're dealing with.

Is it United States? Do you think Adam? I was thinking about it. It's different. It's not the chick thing you've been. No, no, it's, it's different. Yeah. And it's long standing.

It's long standing. Yeah. I don't like unions, but, but by the same token, they've also, that whole attitude has then bled into the government and they have decided that they can provide everything. Well, union is a substitute for the government or a version of the government.

Like they're just gonna take care of you, they're gonna protect you. We're not really, you may be doing twice the work as the other guy in your union, but you're being paid the same, so then you're sort of a sucker for doing twice the work. It just, it doesn't breed, you know, everything in life is a sort of a,

well, what are we looking for? Like, what do we wanna get out of these people? You know, like what, you know, when you hear about, it's, I don't know why I keep going back to it. You know, California, I heard someone mention, we passed our high-speed rail bond initiative in 08. You know, that was 08. That was more than 15 years ago. We passed it. And funded it with to the tune of a hundred billion dollars. A hundred billion dollars later, we

don't have anything. Nothing. And we sit around and we talk about Japan's the crown jewel that they have bullet trains and California should be, you know, but we can't because there's too many unions, too much bureaucracy, not enough. You know, somebody needs to privatize everything and motivate everyone. And we don't otherwise.

By the way, the company that was the engineering company was hired by the state of California, went to, I think it was Nigeria, and built a high-speed rail in like six months. Right, right. They were so frustrated, they just went to another country and built it, and that was that. Right, so we sort of, we can't do anything anymore.

And unions are part of that, but with unions come bureaucracy and with bureaucracy comes the red tape and then that becomes stifling and then nothing gets done and then you get a hundred billion into a rail that no one's ever seen or used in 15 years. And by the way, here's the thing Drew, are we ever to use this? Is it ever going to be a thing? Are we just a hundred billion dollars into a high speed rail that's not a high speed rail that goes from point A to point B that no one goes to or

lives in? I don't even know what it is. And we just, that's the new fate, but yet you pull out and there's potholes everywhere and garbage everywhere. And there's potholes everywhere and garbage everywhere. So maybe I'm- There's nothing that, I was thinking about this. There's nothing the government does better than private sector. And by the way, again, we have problems with corporate overreach and regulatory capture also. I very well aware of that, but there's nothing that government

does better because they have no competition and they have no accountability, except one thing. And one thing they have a monopoly on and they do better than everybody else, and that's violence. That they do well. Isn't that interesting?

That they have a monopoly on violence and they seem to be able to do that. Not efficiently. Are you talking about war? Are you talking about war? What are you talking about? War and policing and warning and yeah, that's all, that's what government does.

They have a monopoly. That is what government is. An organization has a monopoly on violence. And I thought, well, when you think back through human history, back into feudal times and stuff, even Roman times, government had violence. That's about all they did. That's what government was, a violent overseer

to get everybody to cooperate. That's it. Yeah. So not a lot of confidence in unions and big everything and more government. Well, you'll also appreciate, I had some very in-depth conversation with Canadians up here and again, lovely people.

And I could see what's attractive about living up here. It's magnificent. But everybody agreed. What was the most significant representation of the excesses and the insufficiencies building and safety? Yeah, building and safety. That's what they're really frustrated by. Try to build a fence in the backyard. Couldn't do it.

Well, I mean, we talk about a lot. I talk about a lot. It's very stifling. and, you know, well, I'll circle back to this subject, something I brought up to you, off the air, I think, but I think it'll mesh, dovetail well with what you were just talking about. So nobody likes chick think, or likes when I bring up Chick Think.

But there was a study that basically said who's for nuclear energy and who's against nuclear energy. And Emmy confined it, but it was basically, the reason we don't build nuclear power plants is because women don't like it. It's not popular. They're afraid of it plants is because women don't like it. That's right. It's not popular. They're afraid of it.

Well, they're afraid of it. And they don't like it. It's kind of both. But, and it's hard to tell, because it's, they're fearful, but not, it's not so much fear. They're sort of fearful like they're scared of sharks. You know what I mean?

Like, are they really scared of sharks? Like, are they really scared of sharks? You know what I mean? Like, are they really scared of sharks? Are they really scared of sharks? You know what I mean? Or- I just remember when they closed San Onofre. Do you remember all the demonstrators down there? They all reminded me of your mom. Yeah.

And they were fearful and they were depressed. And this was going on. Yeah, yeah, I know. But I mean, they don't really, sorry. They're not fear, they don't really fear, like they don't really fear climate change like they don't really fear climate change or they wouldn't buy places in Malibu on the ocean. Right, right, right.

You know what I mean? They don't fear, you know, Barbara Streisand talks a lot about climate change. They shouldn't really fear it. You know what I mean? Yes, yes, agreed. There's the study. But they were also the first to complain

when the electricity prices went skyrocketing because they got rid of their source of energy. Yes, yes, okay. So I don't know why we put it and then removed it, but anyway, but we'll figure it out. He's on Zoom. Oh, he's on Zoom. Okay, so it's basically 70% of men support nuclear power

So it's basically 70% of men support nuclear power, maybe 71%, I don't know. And for women, it's 38% supported. And then the ones who oppose it, for men, it's, I don't know, 23, 24%. And for women, it's 42, 43% oppose it. And the don't know, for some reason, for men, it's about 8%, and for women it's about 20% who don't know. I like that category too, that's kind of interesting.

Yeah, so men support it kind of overwhelmingly, at least 70% in women. By the way, the don't know are people that are not ideologically bent and could be persuaded to understand the safety spectrum of nuclear energy and could come on over to the support category. People should be working on that.

Yeah, but so here's what I'm saying about safety and Chick think. I have interviewed scientists on nuclear power Here's what I'm saying about safety and Chick Think. I have interviewed scientists on nuclear power, and I just remember one very clearly several years ago just going, look, it's cleaner, it's safer, it's better for the environment, it's just better. And I'm like, well then let's just build them. And he's like, it's not popular.

It's not popular. And we can't. And I kept saying, well, so what? Screw those people. You know what I mean? And he's like, Adam, if it's not popular, then we can't do it. But what I'm saying is, is this is unpopular by women. In the meanwhile, we're polluting the environment, we're digging more coal mines, and we're killing birds with windmills. Like, women, you are causing real palpable damage here, not to mention just all the outages

and the grid and the whole thing. So at a certain point, when you're physically causing damage, when do we get to say something? Or is it all just safety first and you're entitled to your feelings? Because at a certain point, you're causing death. One death is too many, Adam.

Yes. One death, too many. Okay, all right. Lock the schools, lock the lockdown. Right, at a certain point, when you lock down all the schools and kids commit suicide Is that at what point do we get to hold you? Accountable is what I'm saying or do we all just have to back off and go no no

That's how they think give him a break like it's not all safety You're getting fucking people killed and you're ruining the environment. When do we get to say something? Mm-hmm. We could have had a network of nuclear power plants. Instead, we have a busted down infrastructure and we can't charge a fucking electric car in California because dumb women who are scared won't go for it. So that's it. So do we get to say something or should we all just languish under your horrible scared policy?

Well, shut down more schools. Is that what, because you're scared and we're not allowed to say anything, because you're scared. What if I'm scared, we don't have power? Is that something or is this gotta be no nukes? And we have to listen to Jane Fonda, because she said no nukes in 1972.

And now she took two words that started with the same letter and she put them together. And she's a fucking dingbat with an eating disorder. And they all worship her, which is always crazy, right? They love Jane Fonda. She has such a 10 cent head. It's crazy. And by the way, everything she does is just motivated by her being

angry at her dad, Henry. That's all. And we all become the recipients of it. But yet we must worship at the altar of this nut job. Weird, right? It's a lot of things weird right now. That's one of the many. All right. We got to get women back in barn drew. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what's going on They're fucking running wild out there and their policies are fucking destroying, California They literally are it's someone's got to say something and everyone's such a fucking pussy. They're like, I don't My wife will get mad They shouldn't, Chick Think is, every state, the deeper the Chick Think, the more fucked up the state is.

That's it. I mean, look, the pinnacle of Chick Think is San Francisco. That's what it is. And in California in general. So there we are. All right. So we don't get nuclear power, not because it's unsafe and not because it's not good for the environment

and not because it's a great alternative to coal and gas and natural gas and all the other alternatives, not because of any of that, because women are scared of it unduly because they're wired for fear. And we need to listen to them even though it hurts our society. Okay, everyone got the rules?

There we go. Okay, so we need more of this now? Okay, so that we can defund the police and open the border, right? There you go. Okay, good. It's good for society. Everyone keep following along and listen, pussies, you don't want to get yelled at like me, so I get it.

Everyone puts their fucking tail between their legs and shuts the fuck up. But someone's gonna have to start saying something. It can't just be me and Scott Adams. And Jason Whitlock, by the way. Interesting. Oh, there's something going on. When me and Scott Adams start tapping into stuff early

It's it's it's on the way. Yeah. No you guys see patterns as they emerge both you guys. Yep Yeah, all right, and we get punished for it Levittown New York governors, that's right I'm gonna be doing stamp there tomorrow on Saturday go to amcrow.com for all the live shows Coming up in Oregon coming up in Washington. Go to Amcrow.com, get some live show tickets. What do you got, Drew? Go to Dr. Drew.com, all the pods are there and also DrDrew.tv as well as check out the Rumble channel, Ask Dr. Drew. Subscribe there. And as I mentioned the last show, Susan Pinsky's show comes out today. She's relaunching the old Calling Out show, so do check that out if you're interested

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