The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1966 Who Would Know This!?!

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

On today’s episode, Adam & Dr. Drew discuss President Trump signing an executive order limiting the number of genders, Adam’s parents failing at Adam-related trivia, and an awkward conversation b...etween Adam & his grandma. Support our sponsors: Shopify.com/adamanddrew Leave us a voicemail: SpeakPipe.com/AdamandDrDrew OR Click the microphone at the top of the homepage, AdamandDrew.com

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Starting point is 00:01:31 for a million different reasons. Somebody said, well, there was agreement that there were two sexes, and now they're going to have to agree on two genders. Wait a minute, we've not been agreeing on anything. People have been denying biology. And I started, I was doing some driving yesterday, I was ruminating about this, I was thinking- How funny are pronouns?
Starting point is 00:01:51 I know. I'm they. Isn't that gonna go away now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But listen, file pronouns under the myriad of stupid shit I never got involved with I was like this is fucking dumb when I saw That the principal from my kid's school whose whose mascot whose team name is Spartans Had his pronouns under his fucking name. I started making fun of him immediately And I'm glad I'm glad I did cuz he's a 44 year old pussy who should have looked And he people go well, what do you want him to do? It's just fucking don't cave. How about don't cave?
Starting point is 00:02:31 How about don't cave to everything all the time pussies? How about that? How about a little spine? How about that? Well, what about his job? I don't know. What about your job? I don't know. What about your dignity, Puzz? I think we need to write a book. What about your dignity? Forget your job for a second. What about your fucking dignity? People don't know what they... I don't think they know what they've just been through. I don't think they quite get it yet. So we got to write some books about this. But I actually think this executive order was a mistake because it is I I'm prepared to have the argument about there being two biological sexes and the people that want to deny that fine let's have a conversation because that's insane I started thinking to
Starting point is 00:03:15 myself well why did a whale penis evolve why did a camel penis why did any mammalian male XY external characteristics develop? Well, evolution doesn't exist. If you made an assumption that evolution exists, why would they have developed things like that? What are we talking about here? So I could have that conversation.
Starting point is 00:03:38 But this whole gender thing is so steeped in subjectivity that I think this is going to be a big old mess having made this executive order. The only part... Well, listen, pardon me. There's certain moments where I'm confused. When everyone was going nuts when they go, I'm vaccinated, but you won't get vaccinated. When you don't get vaccinated, you put me in danger. And I'm like, I thought
Starting point is 00:04:07 you were vaccinated, bitch. Like, I'm now I'm starting to get confused with the theme. Like, what is the theme? How are you? Okay, the vaccination works. Yes. It saves me. Yes. It saves life. You can't get COVID. Yeah. You're vaccinated. Yeah. What do you mean? How can we're not done with this fucking conversation? What do you mean? I'm confused, and here's what I'm saying. When you are a woman or a man, let's just do it with the man,
Starting point is 00:04:37 you're a man and you transition and you become a woman, so I'll just call you a woman and that'll be that. But you were a man and now you're a woman, or you were a man and now you're a woman or you were a woman and now you're man So fine, but I still don't know what we're the third genders Coming in here Okay, you have a mental disorder and you're angry at your stepdad and so you're making shit up I am saying to you you can be a dude and you can be gay, and that's fine. You can be a woman, you can be a lesbian, that's fine. You can go Bruce Jenner,
Starting point is 00:05:11 and you're now Caitlyn Jenner, and I'll call you Caitlyn and you'll wear a dress, and that'll be that. But I don't know why we need, what's the necessity for the third and fourth genders, and all that is is you're angry and you want to correct. By the way, everything's correction, Drew. Yeah. Everything's correction. Z, Zem, whatever the fuck, correction. Pronouns, correction. All correct. It's all so they can correct you and when they correct you then they think they're winning the argument. That's okay. Something your grandma used to do all the time. All blowhards correct.
Starting point is 00:05:47 All super lefty blowhards correct. My grandmother, every time you said something, she would tell you that you're mispronouncing. It's not, it's orderver. Orderver. I don't really think it's orderver. Orderver. You know what else's tons of corrections.
Starting point is 00:06:06 Who? Pangilat. Oh. It's the realm of the atheist blowhard. It's their doctrine. They correct you. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know why? Because guess who's smarter than you are? They are. That's why they're correcting you. Oh no, it's not forte, it's fort.
Starting point is 00:06:29 Did you know that? It's not forte. Didn't you have a big conversation with Clitoris? With your grandmother? I had a large, huge conversation about Clitoris. Joe doesn't even know this one. You don't know this story? My grandmother was like, oh Oh my grandmother was like
Starting point is 00:06:47 My grandmother was like I don't know. She said she Knew what a rim job was if she would have corrected you on that I didn't know what a no, I told her I didn't know what a rim job was. My grandma was like ruth gordon I don't know joe's that reference you get the ruth gordon reference byron byron ruth g Ruth Gordon no Ruth Gordon Claude my okay, that's right My grandmother comes up to me circa 2000 likes to correct right and then she goes I
Starting point is 00:07:22 Don't know she heard love like I can't imagine that she heard love line I Really? I don't remember that part of the conversation. So I would remember that I think she heard Loveline, I really can't... I don't remember that part of the conversation. So I would remember that, I think. She heard our... I also don't remember it being 2020. I would have said it was like... No, no, 2000. 2000. Sorry, if I said 2020, I don't mean it.
Starting point is 00:07:35 I meant 2000. No, 2020, she'd be dead for nine years or 10 years. All right, you know, Hank Gale was listening to Loveline. She wouldn't have No one in my family Would ever hop to listening to anything I've ever done they would focus somebody else Family would ever go I was listening to your show last night son ever that would never Never has ever happened ever they didn't know I don't think they knew
Starting point is 00:08:07 I Mean the greatest clip Circle back is when my mom Was asked We knew my mom wasn't a fan, right of my morning radio show Dave Damashek had a doting mom. That's why he's the way he is. Guys with doting moms are bad roommates, but anyway.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Dave Damishek's mom lived in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The radio show was not syndicated in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. She lived thousands of miles away. We were up and down the West Coast, Seattle, San Francisco, but no Beaver Falls. Her son was the sidekick sports guy, wasn't the Dave Damishek show, it was the Adam Carolla show. My mom lived in North Hollywood, California, and my mom got up, my mom was one of those people, no one ever listened to Loveline because it started
Starting point is 00:09:20 10 p.m. and no one would ever stay up till 10 p.m. in my family. I don't believe it. If they did, they would not listen to Loveline. To the best of my knowledge, they've never listened to Loveline. But my mom was one of those go to bed at 8.30 and get up at 6 people. She'd be up all day. And my mom listened to a lot of radio. She'd turn the radio on around the house, listened to talk radio. AM talk radio? Like, like, back in the day, David Viscotte, you know, that that's line that yeah, yeah, NPR and stuff like that. Okay. I said, I'll bet if we have a competition between my mom and Dave Damishek's mom as to who knows more about this radio show. One year in, Dave Damishek's mom is going to mop up the floor with my mom. For sure. Because she's listening on her computer on the off chance her
Starting point is 00:10:13 son speaks. Yeah. While Adam interviews Ted Nugent. My mom, who lives here and has the radio in her car and beyond and it was up we'll never listen to the show and so the competition was on and Brian used to play the drops all the time because They'd go what is the name of? The black intern who works on the show. And my mom would go, this is a really interesting insight. She'd go, how would I possibly know that? And then Dave's mom would go, Geron.
Starting point is 00:10:56 And then they'd go ding ding ding. And then they'd go, what is the nickname for producer? She's hearing both? She's hearing Dave's mom answer also? Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was a very interesting insight because my mom A, was getting annoyed,
Starting point is 00:11:15 but B, we're going, producer Angie also has a nickname. What would the nickname be? And my mom would go, how would I possibly, who, how would I possibly, it was like you were asking her what went on on a loading dock in Recita, you know? Rick's name, Rick has a, Rick, guy drives a forklift, Rick has also answers to a nickname, what is it? And you'd go, I don't work at a loading dock with the guy.
Starting point is 00:11:46 Who the fuck would I know? That was her thing. Her was a weird conceit. She was getting angry or agitated or annoyed, but her thing was always like, how would I, why would I know her nickname? I didn't go to high school there. And then Dave Damage's ex-mom would jump in and go, Tootsie.
Starting point is 00:12:07 But my mom never really got the fact that this other woman who lives in Beaver Falls is getting all of it because she listens to the show. Did she understand she was coming from another part of the country? Yes. She would like something that visited the studio or something. We also were asking the studio or something. We also were asking trivia questions like you would say, Gilligan's Island, what was the name of the professor's wife? And I'd go, Lovey. But I wouldn't go, what, how would I, how would any, no, it's a trivia thing. You could know.
Starting point is 00:12:45 You know what I mean? Mom's thing was, she was like angry and was, her angle was who would, why are you asking me? Which is like a weird, so there's a kind of, it's kind of stupidity there. I mean, I think her anger sort of would supersede sort of everything, you know, I mean, so she wasn't logically going, well, why is Dave Tamaszczyk's mom know all of this stuff?
Starting point is 00:13:15 It's sort of defensiveness. Yes, defensiveness. And it's protecting her against shame. Like, I'd be ashamed if I really came to terms with what's going on here. So I'm defensive. Yeah. You know, my dad did win some money off of you, Drew. Off of me?
Starting point is 00:13:32 Off of you. What happened? First show, first show we did on the morning show, I brought my dad in. I said, Dad, I brought my checkbook I will give you ten thousand dollars if you can name The show I was on and the call letters for yep. No the radio station. I've been on for a decade Here in Los Angeles ten thousand dollars if you name the call letters and the frequency you have to say 106.7 k-rock or or K rock 106.7 if you get that I will give you $10,000 good 10 years I've been on in this in this
Starting point is 00:14:16 market because did not know K rock did not know 106.7 I said alright we're gonna move down now I think $5,000 if you can name the name of the puppet show that I produced and starred in for Comedy Central for five seasons. Jimmy was there that day and randomly was wearing a Crank Anchor's T-shirt. T-shirt. He was walking around in a Crank Anchor's T-shirt. I was like, oh,, he's gonna, something is subliminally or something. Couldn't do it. I said, okay, we're off the $5,000.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Now we're down to $2,500. I got my checkbook. My dad needs money. You have to name the last name, the last name of my my partner who I've been partnered up for over a decade with doing a love line what is dr. Drew's last name and he said Pinsky Wow and I said how the fuck did you know that and he said your stepmom needed a referral in Pasadena like two days ago And we reached out to somebody that got some referral from like you or your office And then they both had a conversation
Starting point is 00:15:35 Pinsky huh, that's his last name I never there so they got a fucking referral from your office or somebody because they lived in Pasadena Altadena done the test a week before he wouldn't have done it. Oh yeah, no no. They were literally discussing your last name from a referral from some document or something that had to have your full thing on it and he knew it. 2500. I mean that's why you got to play the game My grandmother Who never listened anything but she just said, you know Gail Hank Gail said you keep saying Clitoris when it's clitoris or whatever it is around. Yeah, It doesn't matter. Well, the reason I'm confused is,
Starting point is 00:16:25 so I'm saying. Clitoris. Clitoris, and she's saying it's clitoris. This is great. So I go, I go, well, Dr. Drew pronounces it. Clitoris. And she goes, well, Emory Kenrick is a doctor and he says clitoris. And I said,
Starting point is 00:16:49 yeah, I know. Dr. Drew is a doctor too. And he says it my way. Emory Kenrick is a doctor. It was always like her fucking jack-off buddies who went to UCLA and were somehow something, you know, were always like, oh, and you, you know, you, Dr. Drew, you were, you would get demoted like I would get demoted. You'd be a friend of mine. You got Jon Stewarted basically. Fuck that guy, and now fuck him. So I said, okay, so this is how Drew pronounces it.
Starting point is 00:17:22 So what do you want me to do? And she goes, well, we're gonna go look it up and I'm gonna prove you wrong. So we went to my grandfather's oversized dictionary. Webster, the giant Webster. The giant Webster with like huge block letters because you couldn't see. Oh.
Starting point is 00:17:40 I went to collect doors. And it says, you can pronounce it either way. Yeah. That's and it says, you can pronounce it either way. That's what it says. So then I looked at my grandma, it's like, okay, are we done or we have to keep going here with the fucking corrections? What'd she say?
Starting point is 00:17:56 No satisfaction, no. Solenoid, she corrected me on hors d'oeuvre. She loved to, but it is a mark of the blowhard. Usually left leaning blowhard, mostly kind of atheist left leaning blowhard, they're just going to correct you all the time and then get you on your heels a little bit and then they win the argument. It's a thing. It's why black people give their kids crazy names.
Starting point is 00:18:24 So you just fuck it up all the time and then they tell you you're fucking up and then you go, oh, sorry, I didn't know what I was, and it doesn't help, no one gets anywhere. You tend to just get away from these people. You go like, I didn't wanna talk to my grandmother because who the fuck wants to be corrected? You would be scared to talk
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Starting point is 00:20:27 It was the great, that tape is magical of her going, how would I possibly know that it's angry with pot. It showed, it was great because it showed, A, she was not fun at all. She was on the radio. Yeah. You know, like she wasn't making jokes. No, no. She She was on the radio. Yeah. You know, like she wasn't making jokes. No, no. She was annoyed on the radio, number one.
Starting point is 00:20:49 It showed that. It also showed she did not listen ever. And it showed her kind of baseline stupidity of another woman is answering every question about Gilligan's Island. And you're going, who would know this? It's like, well, the person who watched Gilligan's Island and you're going, who would know this? It's like, well, the person who watched Gilligan's Island would fucking know about the robots and the
Starting point is 00:21:09 Harlem Globetrotter. It was a baseline kind of stupidity, which by the way, bleeds into everything. Why can't everybody just have enough money to, it's the same kind of baseline stupidity, some weird fantastical thinking. Well, it's self-reflective, right? From my perspective, things should be this way. This is, I don't know why you would sign up for a trivia contest about a show you've never seen, which is number one.
Starting point is 00:21:44 You know what I mean? Like if someone said, oh, Drew, you watch a lot of Mad Men. I'm the only person who's never seen Mad Men. People are like, you wanna go against Drew in a competition about Mad Men? I'd still probably beat you, but I'd be like, I've never seen Mad Men. Like, I'm gonna make a fool of myself.
Starting point is 00:22:00 I'm not. You should see that. I heard, but I'm not gonna go on the radio and have a competition with druig about madman because I've never seen an episode of madman or if you knew you were coming in you'd at least do a little something to prep for it. I mean you wonder if she even listened. What is the name of the lead character in the show? Yeah I would prep myself a little. I to be fair she would never do that but also also, I don't know, she would have to
Starting point is 00:22:26 listen to the show. That's what I'm saying. How many days ahead did she know she was coming on the radio? I'm sure it was days. She would have to listen. It would never work. It was just so interesting. But contrary, a move in a different direction, and I still to this day cannot really wrap my head around, is the first time you and I were on Conan O'Brien back when he was a late night show host. We were in New York, we were in the Johnny Carson studio from those days, and we were the last guests or whatever.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Everyone stands up at the end, I'm looking, there's your mom, what's going on here? That's your mom. You're like just tapping, what's going on here? That's your mom. You're like, yeah, yeah, she's here. I could not, that was shocking to me. She was weirdly with my stepdad in New York. Did she like Conan O'Brien? Was that why she was there? I'm sure, I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:23:22 No, my mom was sort of, now my dad was all out all the time, everything all the time. No, you know, man show tapings, no tonight show tapings, no Conan O'Brien, 100% zero all day, every day. No, he wouldn't have known where the Man Show was, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:23:48 He wouldn't have known where Loveline was. He was all out on everything always. My mom was a little like... Normal people would sort of seep into their life a little bit, like your stepdad's brother Lives in Austin or Waco or something is coming in with his wife And they want to know if they could see a taping of the man show because he wants to she go with no But I mean there was there was this seed planted that there were like sort of normal people.
Starting point is 00:24:26 Somebody might be interested in this. There are humans who could be interested. Yeah, my step mom's daughters, my step mom's daughters will come out to a show. If I'm doing a show in San Diego, they're in the San Diego area, they're in Oregon or whatever, they come to the show because they're sort of normal. They're like, they're in the San Diego area, they're Oregon or whatever, they come to the show because they're sort of normal. They're like, they're sort of normal. You know what I mean? No, I met them at your wedding and I was sort of like, whoa. They would do what normal people would do.
Starting point is 00:24:56 They seem very normal. And so my mom, my stepdad's family is semi-normal and they're sort of regular. And so if they knew somebody who was involved with a successful TV show and they were coming to LA, then they would inquire. They would go, oh, we think we could watch a film taping of something, something.
Starting point is 00:25:19 So it was a little of that. And my mom had a little bit of that. She wouldn't tell you it was good or ask to see it or anything, but if she was there in New York and found out that you were gonna be on Conan O'Brien, she would ask for a pass or a ticket or something. Did she ask you?
Starting point is 00:25:39 Is that how that happened? I think she did. I think she did. I knew she was gonna be there and so and I think she Liked that a little bit and maybe it was my stepdad that was kind of it was you know I guess I don't know not only was it sort of stunningly out of character Well, I think it was I think it was a lot of You know when you you know when someone goes, like you go,
Starting point is 00:26:07 oh, you're gonna be in Boca Raton on the whatever? Well, I'm gonna be in Boca Raton. Now I live with you at this point. I had coffee with you in my pajamas this morning. But we're sort of now compelled to go out to dinner in Boca Raton. Yeah, yeah. Because you're there and I'm there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:27 You know what I mean? Even though we're gonna leave the same house. But that was the part that surprised me about them being in New York. First of all, that they were there, I couldn't get my head around, but that we didn't spend any time with them at all. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:38 They walked out with the audience and bye bye. Yeah, they didn't come to our stage or anything. But yeah, you and I are gonna have to hook up and poke a raton for no good reason, but it's only because what are the chances? You know what I mean? So I think there was a, that wouldn't have happened in LA. It was you're gonna be in New York,
Starting point is 00:26:56 we're gonna be in New York, oh, we must act upon this. That's what it was. Serendipity. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it's not... My mom wasn't a zero. My dad was a zero. My mom was a one out of ten, but the one brought a little baggage. You know, there was also some opinions and, you know, I'm not a fan of Jon Stewart now, you know, my dad would never walked in with a Jon Stewart tape ever.
Starting point is 00:27:33 But if he did, and I said, I know Jon Stewart, he would have went, oh, okay. You know, he would have went, oh, he's no good now. Oh, I see. You see what I'm saying? Yes. So he was a zero, meaning he'd never walk, he'd never inquire, walk in or ask what Jimmy, he just never, you know, one time,
Starting point is 00:27:50 one time, I was always doing this little snippets, like my friend Ray had a friend who I didn't know or met him once or twice, his name was Drew Drew and then one time I Was talking to my dad and I was like well Drew and I are going over here And I got to meet Drew at the airport and Drew and I or whatever and he was like okay race friend I was like no my radio partner for now eight years There's about race friend like I you think I'm talking about the guy I don't know versus my partner? But that's how, but it's crazy how little. Yeah. Well, if you're, if you're at zero, it'd almost be confusing. Right. Why would he know you, my radio? I, anyway, that's who my dad was. My mom was a one, but it came with a little baggage to
Starting point is 00:28:47 it. So somehow we got here from this gender thing I wanted to talk about. Gender. And we're, you know, I just, I don't know what's going to happen with all this, but it feels like they're asking for trouble by doing this. Even though I understand it's just for purposes of like applications and sort of procedural bureaucratic things, people can still be declare whatever they want. I don't. Right?
Starting point is 00:29:12 Well, listen, we have identification and on the identification on my license, it says 62195 or something on there. And I don't know, I don't know why that's necessary. Well, it's necessary because someone's looking at it, going are you that person who now comes into this airport or bank or whatever it is. I don't, you know, we have eye color and hair color and date of birth and height.
Starting point is 00:29:43 I mean, it's pretty granular. We'd like to know if you fit the description of this thing. Of a she or a he. Yeah, so I don't know. But it doesn't preclude transgender. You can still be a she and have ex-wife. My license doesn't have the male or female designation on it. They got rid of it in California, probably.
Starting point is 00:30:02 No, I got rid of it. I got the third X or whatever Yeah, I don't know Byron go get my give me my phone. It's sitting over there. I got you put you for a goof Yeah for a goof Wasn't my idea I was I was I was And at in Monterey Thanks Thank you Brian. I was trying to get my license renewed, right?
Starting point is 00:30:27 Oh, yeah, and and of course like LA such a piece of shit that it's like Oh, it's gonna take nothing's available for ten months or something. Whatever it is. It's I don't know What is it with LA that? Nothing can work. Oh, but that's my question. I don't know. I don't know so then That's my question. I don't know. I don't know so then My assistant at the time had the notion that well, you're doing a race in Monterey, California This weekend or next weekend. There is a DMV like a quiet DMV in Monterey could make you an appointment Just go there and get your license renewed. So I went there You know like in between the races that
Starting point is 00:31:05 are qualifying or whatever it was, and I had my son with me as I often do. I'm looking down now to try to find out where my, where it is. And let's see, Uh-huh date of birth. I don't know where the designation is brown weight Hair Yeah And I don't know where that you can look at yours. I don't know where the designation is But there's some sex M right there. But next up same line as hair But there's some sex M right there. But next up same line as hair. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:31:46 So it's in the bottom. Oh, yeah. Sex. Yeah. Mine says sex X on it because Sonny thought it was funny. And so he was just standing there and I was filling out this form and he's like,
Starting point is 00:32:00 Hey, once you hit X, okay. That sounds good. By the the way because none of the shit matters anyway you know what I mean like who gives a fuck I've had I used to have my assistant sign almost everything that came to my house like just you sign I'm taking a nap yeah none of by those ooh the reams of paperwork and all the shit and everything it's just who gives a fuck of paperwork and all the shit and everything. It's just I know so who gives a fuck. So yes, your says am mine says X
Starting point is 00:32:32 cuz who gives a fuck and My son's got a sense of humor. Yeah, and it was a while. It was probably 14, you know Yeah, all right, you're being a good showing a good example for him I'd say I would argue that you're a... It acts. And I was like, yeah, all right. You're being a good... Showing a good example for him, I'd say. Yeah, my example is these fucking...
Starting point is 00:32:49 These people are all fucking idiots and they're all going to be dead soon and who gives a fuck? And so are we. Yeah, bureaucracy is the enemy. Do whatever you want. I don't give a fuck. People don't know that the enemy is bureaucracy. That is just the enemy of good.
Starting point is 00:33:02 Not because there's necessarily all bad people in bureaucracy, it's just that bureaucracies always are inhuman. They're not... No, and the reason I couldn't do it, and it would be the last example, but you know the story, but I was down in Van Nuys trying to pull a permit on something many years ago, and the guy behind the counter was like, yeah, well, your plot marker has an X on it, which is for historical designation. So now you gotta go down to downtown
Starting point is 00:33:31 where they deal with the historical designations. And I was like, it's a big block granite, Mulholland wall in front. It's not my property. The property's not historic, but the wall, retaining wall. It is your wall. That's part of the community or something? Yeah, they have these mall home walls are called.
Starting point is 00:33:48 I said, but it's a wall. I'm trying to get a, pull a permit for a bathroom inside the house, and he's like, you gotta go down and, from Van Nuys. I go, it's the wall, it's got nothing to do with what I'm pulling the permit for, and I go, well, the historical whatever's on the 11th floor in downtown LA. You know what I go? I go, well, the historical whatever is on the 11th floor in downtown LA.
Starting point is 00:34:05 You know what I go? I go, how about we call the guy and he'll just tell you. Yeah, we don't do that. I go, I don't get it, just pick up the phone, call the designation guy, he'll tell you it's the wall that's designated as historical, not the house, and then you'll okay my permit Now you gotta go down there wait line
Starting point is 00:34:29 You gotta get the guy to sign off on it and then you bring it back to here and then I'll give you the permit for whatever Okay, get my car to sit in traffic for an hour Fucking find a place to park up there whatever go up up the thing, guy pulls up the schematic or whatever. He looks, he goes, well this is on the wall. I go, yeah, I know. I know, but the guy in Van Nuys, he didn't know that the axe was for just the wall.
Starting point is 00:34:55 And he goes, why didn't he call me? Because he doesn't give a fuck. Because he doesn't give a fuck, that's why. Now I could never do his job, because I'd be looking at beleaguered me going, sorry, get in your car and go downtown. And then that guy would say to me, could you call the guy?
Starting point is 00:35:18 And I'd go, yeah, I guess I could call. You know what, let me try. Maybe, we'll see. You'd never survive. I couldn't do that. I couldn't do the job. I couldn't just tell the guy just to leave. But they can. And I don't know if they like it, but I couldn't work TSA. You're right. I don't know if they like it necessarily, but they have to be at least insensitive to it. Yes. Or be a meter made or copper yeah whatever. All right go to Amcro.com for all the live shows the signals out so I don't have all the
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