The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1981 Autism Training

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

Adam and Dr. Drew talk about checklists. Forgetfulness. Dr. Drew talks about “borrowing” a joke from Adam for Gutfeld and they watch the clip for a ruling. Later on they talk about Autism and a special flight from emirates with an Autism room.

Recording live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on, got to get it on. The children are going to be waiting for the one doctor's board first five six addiction herbalist specialist. It's going on from New York City, Dr. Drew. Hanging out, dude. Did Gutfeld a couple days ago when I used your F me phrase and it got such a big laugh.

I don't know, I'm not sure people heard me say, my friend Adam Corolla says. Oh, did you say, you probably muttered that. No, no, I didn't. I didn't, but it got such a big laugh. I thought, oh shit, they moved on. I was like, fuck. Whispered under your breath, the credit.

All right. Well, to be fair, to be fair, I didn't go back around to go, excuse me, I could have done that, I didn't. Okay, well, we might look for that clip What night was that on? Monday night Monday night on Gutfeld at what point in the show would you say it was on it was We did an Elon Musk thing and Michelle Tafoya said something about him having fuck you money and I said be fair

It's fuck me money is my friend Anna parole would say Well it is fuck me money, that's what Elon has. All right, I'm at this point gonna announce, we probably should get a list, a checklist for stuff for the show, you know? Start the clock, clear the screen off. Wait a minute, a checklist, how would that work? Well you get a list of stuff you did before we started the show.

Like a pilot. And we do that, start the clock and clear the screen, these are things I'd put on that list. Or you could remember to do it all and then you wouldn't need a list. But you can't do both, gotta be one or the other. Yes? All right, so.

Yeah. Checklist, good to have. It's good in general. I don't know, maybe there's an issue, Drew. Maybe you come from a place where you always have like a pad or something that you're writing. I find a lot of doing that, and maybe today's generation, it's all on the phone.

You know? Well, that's exactly right. And I've noticed that when people are younger the way our memory systems work you can remember everything a lot easier it goes away slowly you don't realize it's happening. Number one weed does a powerful powerful job on that stuff so it's affecting a lot of young people and though I've noticed your notepad sitting around in front of our television, I always wonder what's on that pad.

I didn't have the, I didn't feel, I felt intrusive picking it up and looking through it, but kind of noticed you keep. I got a pad in front of me right now. That says, taxes, OAC, sorry, AOC clip, sleep number, bed, ad, Mira SV. It says it's got stuff, car insurance, Mark Garagas, something with his guest house. Books, send books to St. Louis. I just write stuff down because I forget things.

But it's not like you're seeing stuff on TV and go, oh, that's an interesting topic. I want to look into that more. No, I do. I do. I write down sleep number bet because I saw a sleep number commercial on TV that I want to get into. I will say this for all the all the people listening. because I saw a sleep number commercial on TV that I wanted to get into. I will say this for all the people listening.

If someone repeatedly tells you to write stuff down, that means you forget stuff. Yeah. Because I never say it to people that don't. I never say, have I ever said write that down to you, Drew? No, but I do write a lot of stuff down to you Drew no I say to my ex-wife every 30 seconds because she would because a lot of stuff fell through the cracks this is what I'm saying but yeah yeah people don't say it because they're in the habit of saying it they say it to those they have assumed need to do it some experience some existing it by the way it's experience fair to the people

you're saying it to, it may be the number of things that need to be checked off that list. I agree. It's a weird technique. It's a strange relationship we have with things now, which is different than the ones we grew up with, I think, which is, it's mostly, I think everything is sort of shaming now, but it's meant to be constructive.

Yeah. Which is how we sort of grew up. But anyway, all right. Again, you and I though used to differentiate people that played high school football who were used to constructive input that came with volume and consequences too. Yeah, yeah, it comes from football

and also comes from the military. And it comes from wrestling. It comes from football and also comes from the military. And it comes from wrestling. It comes from like real discipline kind of stuff. But also, I don't know if you're like me, but when I hear about somebody and they go, oh yeah, she speaks fluent Japanese. I go, oh, she probably doesn't need to write stuff down. Like it's a disciplined person.

Or they could say I play the cello in a sort of high level. You know, I'd go, oh, okay, that person's good. Whatever, or I'm a pilot. You know what I hear? Like that kind of stuff, I go, oh, okay, that person. They're not gonna. But pilots have checklists like crazy though, to be fair.

But have you ever gone to a restaurant? Pilots are into redundancy. Yes. And that's why they have checklists. Okay. Because they know all the stuff and they're still gonna do it because it's like redundancy.

Like airplanes and things like that are about redundancy. Which is you can hit a switch that puts the landing gear down, but if the switch doesn't work, you can go crank, hand crank them down. Yes. Because they need redundancy built into everything. That's right. That's right. Sorry, go ahead.

Well, I was going to say, I just an observation that I had three or four experiences over the last like five years where it's always been a woman comes up and takes an order at a restaurant, sometimes a complicated order and does not write it down. I've experienced this with men and women by the way. Okay, I'm sure it's both. It's just maybe just my random chance.

But the first couple of times it happened, I thought, do you need, you gonna remember that they're like yeah no problem no yes of course and it was you know long like four people multiple different you know salad dress and and just came exactly as ordered I thought wow that's kind of I think I think certain quality in that person too I could I could I could probably that pick that person out of a group without knowing what their memory stuff was. There's a certain kind of clarity.

Okay, so you tell me this, I don't know. I'll look at the people in the booth for this. I was in Provo a few nights ago, Utah, and I went across the street with Mike August before the show I was doing to get a coffee. And we walked up to, we walked up to the place and there was like a dude, you know, behind the, you know, 26 year old dude, you know?

Yeah. That had a little spicoli in him, you know, 26 year old dude, you know? Yeah. That had a little spicole in him, you know what I mean? Like it definitely seemed like he hit the reefer a little bit, you know? Okay. And so I just pull up and I go, and tell me if this isn't something that wasn't a part of your youth

or didn't even seem to be around 20 years ago, but it's around now. So the guy looks at me and he goes, yeah, what'd you like? And I go, give me a large coffee with cream in it. And he goes, okay, what size? And I go large. And he goes, you want anything in that? I go, yeah, cream.

And then he goes, all right. And then Mike goes, do you have hot chocolate? Because Mike's a pussy, you know. And he goes, yeah, we got hot chocolate. And he goes, okay, I'll have a hot chocolate. And so the guy goes, okay, so you want the large coffee with cream. And then he looks at Mike, he goes, what are you having? Oh, boy. And Mike goes hot chocolate and I go I think this is pot. I think it's pot. Yeah.

I don't know what this is. It didn't exist. Now this didn't exist when you were 20, when you were 25, did it? Yeah. Is this pot? If somebody, if somebody did that. Wait a minute, hold on. Is it pot or is it like cell phones and pot?

He wasn't looking at his cell phone, but he's just... People are so drawn out. Yeah. They're also so not used to using their memory system, right? Because the phone offloads everything. So there is something to that. I feel like most people are still sort of have to engage their memory to some extent.

If I'd run into this 20 years ago, I would have thought, oh, this kid's got a brain tumor. Something's wrong. Let me tell you something, Drew. Let me tell you. You. Drew. Yeah. Let me tell you. You. Bartenders who are no longer bartenders are just people who they're just adults that are unemployable that have to stand there at this point. They're not real bartenders. Look, okay. Let me. All right. Don't make a face. I just don't know

what you're talking about. No. Okay. I'll tell you what I'm talking about. All right. Bartender used to be a job. Yes. It was a dude. Like a professional. And you could order a slow gin fizz. Yeah.

And he'd make it, or a Harvey Wallbanger. You go to the airport, you see the 23-year-old Latina chick behind the, she's not a bartender, she's standing there, and you tell her what to do and she does it and she charges you, but I would, it's not a bartender. Got it. You know what I'm saying? Yes, I do.

Now there are bartenders. I mean, you go to a high-end New York steakhouse and there's some 54 year old guy with salt and pepper in his beard and that guy's a fucking bartender. Yes, I get it. Or woman, it doesn't matter. But the line chair of the people,

and now there's people standing there behind the bar, they're not bartenders, okay. They can no longer discern between a lemon and a lime. I've yelled this a million years. I've yelled it a million times. I've yelled it a million times. They don't know the difference. They can't, at least the last time I went to a bar, I just said, give me vodka, soda, water, and lemon.

And she said, okay, vodka, soda, water, and then looked at me and said, lemon or lime. Now, at least she asked. Normally, they just grab the lime now. Yeah, yeah. OK, it was a full 57 seconds after I told her. Couldn't do it. They don't do it.

They bring you the thing with the lime instead of a lemon. There's something going on. It's a dumbing down. And it's not all pot, but it's some pot. Maybe there's some environmental shit. Maybe, you know, 2% of your brain's got plastic in it now. Maybe that's fucking it up. Maybe it's way too much screen time. Maybe it's way too much Dungeons and Dragons or whatever. First Call of Duty, first shooter stuff. Like maybe it's too much fantasy stuff, I don't know,

but there is a lack of concentration. The fact that this guy had to stand behind the counter and go, yeah, large coffee, little cream in there, all right. What size? Uh-huh, and what do you want in there? I just said it. That's just all you do. All day, you stand there and that's it.

And then he looks at Mike, what do you want? He just said hot chocolate. Oh, I'm telling you he wants hot chocolate because I'm standing next to Mike when he told you hot chocolate. This is new. It's not good, but it's a thing. It definitely has a pharmacological flavor to it for me.

And there are certain pharmacological agents, like even like Wellbutrin and things can make short-term memory really impaired. Oh, I wonder, yeah, well, go. Okay, so no one was formally on anything in the day. And now almost everyone under 40 is on something. Yeah. So maybe there's some correlation.

Could be. Well, look, can we say this? Maybe it's some pot, maybe it's some pharmacological, maybe it's some concentration, screen time, you know, whatever, or maybe it's all of the above. But it's presenting as a lack of concentration, is what I'm saying. And memory, both. Well that's kind of what I mean.

Yeah, I mean that. We both hit, which is crazy. When you hit both systems, it's hard to get things done. And by the way, the last bartender lady I spoke to was 60. It's not like, you know, it's not young kids these days. I mean, it's just a thing. People are having difficulty.

It actually makes me wonder if limes are cheaper or something, that's all they keep on hand or something. There is something going on with limes. Don't get me wrong. There's big lime. I don't wanna get into that. Big lime? Big lime lobby.

I'm just saying there's a focus factor that's going on that's weird. Okay. All right. So Daphne. Ooh, autism. I'm curious about a couple, a couple of these things. I think we'll take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll get into this autism thing right after this.

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I know it didn't get through to my satisfaction, but let's see. All right, let's see. Here we go. Now, wait, if anybody has F-you money, it's Elon Musk. Well, Greg, it's actually F-me money. Yeah. It's Adam Corolla. It's like, so.

Yes, that is true. That is true. Hell, I'd let him inseminate me. Yeah. It's impossible. That's it. You heard me say, as Adam Corolla would say. Is it?

I'm a doctor. I have a doctor here. I may have missed that part. I said it as Adam Corolla would say. Let's watch again. Yeah. Yes, that is true. That is true. Hell, I'd let him inseminate me. Well, I'd say let's watch it again.

It's impossible. If anybody has'd say let's watch it again. No, if anybody has F you money, it's Elon Musk. Well, Greg, it's actually F me money. Oh, Drew, that, yeah, you're laughing. That is true. Not a good job. I told you it wasn't. It was not to my satisfaction. And they moved on fast and I was like, oh. Why give Adam credit for something I can take credit for?

I got it. No, no, no, I said it. It just wasn't, it just didn't get through. Yeah, just nobody could hear it. I know. Don't ever get a job at a stadium. And now coming up to bat. Rrrr.

That touchdown was by her. Yeah. Now you, it was a matter. Okay. All right. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'm just busting her chops. But I too was, I'm with you.

It was not to the satisfaction of either of us. I love that I got such a big pop, my FME money. I know. You've got a great pop, my FME money. I know, you got a great pop, so. Well, but it is. So much to round out your name. It's true that Elon Musk doesn't have FU money. He has, I will fuck up, I will take Tesla stock and drop it by 62% because I don't give a fuck.

Yes. Right. Which is, by the way, the only, let's break this down. The only true truth tellers in our society are people that are insanely virtuous, and I don't know who those people are, or they're F me money people. And example, Trump is in his second term.

There is no running for reelection. So he has a sort of version of FME money. He physically has FME money, but he also, there's no, he's not having to cuddle up with the teachers unions because he's gonna make a run in, you know, 2029. You know, this is it, right? There's an FME political position as well as an initial position. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, the often mentioned Gavin Newsom doesn't have either. He's always running for something. So I don't know what he really feels or agrees with. And he's certainly not going to say what he thinks of the teachers unions or whoever. And neither is anyone else throughout. No one on CNN is going to say anything, because they don't have F me money. If Dr. Sanjay Gupta had F me money, then he wouldn't have gone

along with the whole horse-pacing and made a fool of himself on television because he's relying on CNN for a check. So most of this stuff we see on either side of the aisle and or whoever's in whatever position. You know, when LeBron James and Steve Kerr talk about, I don't know what's going on in China, they're scared. Cause they don't have me money. They have a lot of money, but they don't have, I'll never get paid again and I don't care money or I'll go invent something.

Money, you know what I mean? So we're living in a place with a lot of lying going on because they don't have F me money, which you see with Elon is F me money. He just says whatever he wants. Yeah. Now you can dislike him, but he means it. Yeah.

That's what I'm saying. Yeah, one of the Musk highlights for me is when he told Bob Iger to go fuck himself. Go fuck yourself. Right, because he doesn't need his commercial buys on X. Right. Because he's got F me money. But that's how it works.

We just got destroyed by COVID because no one had F me money. CNN had to take money from drug companies. So they're not going to do anything. They're not going to say anything. Of course they're going to attack ivermectin because Pfizer doesn't make it. So there we go. Or they don't profit off it. It's a big problem.

Now, you can either have F me money, or you can have something called character. But that's gone. And now it's just F me money. So now it's follow the money, right? That's how you can figure out what's true and what's not. Yeah, all right, so autism, Daphne. Yes, so there's this story I saw about the Emirates airline

has become the first autism certified airline. So like all their staff has undergone special training on how to deal with like neurodivergent people. So they're the first autism certified airline. Mm, that's good. I'm sure they're gonna put those placards up. It's awesome. Undergone training.

By the way, undergoing training on, let's say, all the workplace training on racism or sexism or whatever, what training are we talking about, really? Like, what are we really? Well, it's not all that, what has it done? Well, like what do we really? Like- What is it done? No, nothing. All the more lawsuits.

Right. All that's ever done. But like undergoing training on how to work in defibrillators is one thing. Undergoing training on how to do outreach to the homeless community and the black community and the whatever the LGBT community, that doesn't mean shit.

You made that shit up in the last 10 minutes. That doesn't exist. And I'm wondering how deep the autism training actually goes. I mean, to talk about neurodivergence, autism goes to some pretty intense places with violence and all kinds of stuff. Are they gonna work with that on the plane too?

Is that their plan? Nah, they're just trying to get that a boy. So how's Bill Gates getting into this? What is that all about? Well, so Bill Gates has publicly said that he thinks if he were a child today, he would be diagnosed with autism. Well, no, what he said is, is everybody's on the spectrum.

What he said was the spectrum is so wide that he would fall into it. Well, he's making a case against vaccines causing autism. He's saying it's overdiagnosed because that's what that's all about, right? I don't know if it's Bill Gates covering his tracks or not. And I still don't know if the guy's evil or what the hell's going on with Bill Gates. Although Bill Gates to me is following the Fauci trajectory,

which is if you would have asked me about Bill Gates five years ago, I would have given the same answer I gave Fauci. I don't know, Good guy. Smart guy. Seems to want to help, you know. And then the last five years, I would tell you something different, which is I don't trust that guy and I don't know what he was up to. And I'm not saying he needs to be put in prison. But as I've said a million times, as it pertains to Fauci,

we put Martha Stewart in prison. So Martha Stewart didn't ruin tens of thousands of lives and lie to Congress. So she did a little insider trading to the tune of 60 grand that didn't affect any of us. And she had to go into prison. Fauci lied, manipulated, and tried to destroy our society.

So yeah, he could go to prison. In a world where Martha Stewart goes to prison, yeah, she didn't, Martha Stewart didn't have a negative impact on my kid's life. Let's, let's put it to you that way. I strangely were talking about this. I've been trying to figure out Bill Gates lately. I mean, he, he had this horrible conflict with his dad that would set him up for sort of antisocial kinds of impulses, certainly. Then he has this long history of being an asshole as a businessman and as a manager. Now he's gone out into the biological space

where he has really no training and particularly no clinical experience. And so he's trying to derive all these sort of funds of knowledge without the really necessary judgment. So, and then people push back on him and then maybe that anti-psychological thing kicks in. It's like, oh, now you're going to listen to me. You know what I mean? It feels like that kind of thing is afoot here. He was a strange kid, you know, as a genius,

as many of us geniuses are, you know. And did he ride a unicycle? No, never rode a unicycle. Wasn't smart enough. Not that wasn't. Did he ride a unicycle? No, never rode a unicycle, wasn't smart enough. Not that. Wasn't smart enough to ride a unicycle. No, he had his issues, and so yes, he said he would be considered on the spectrum now, which is accurate, but I think I would be on the spectrum.

Everyone would be on the spectrum. That's why they created a spectrum. You know, they create, what they do is they create a spectrum, everyone falls within that spectrum, and then at some point a business pops up. Drew, no human being, no, no motherfucking human being we grew up with or knew or ourselves No human being, no, no motherfucking human being

we grew up with or knew or ourselves or your children or anybody we knew needed a corrective helmet for their infant did not exist. Did not exist. Did not exist was not a thing. Then at some point it became a thing. My son was prescribed a four thousand dollar corrective helmet. Joel McHale's son had a helmet. Half the people I spoke to, by the way, rich people, white people,

not black kids don't need helmets. They don't have money. We have money. So all of a sudden there's an issue with the formation and shape of kids skulls. Now I'm not a biologist, but these things often take decades to come about, Drew, not like four year periods, right? Where the physiology of the human skull changes from 1978 to 1985.

No. No, if you say it would take longer or shorter? I'm just saying. Longer? Longer. All right, so these fuckers made a business up. They made up a business where they take your money for something that doesn't exist

because they've decided you're on the spectrum. You understand? My son looked fine to me, but if you're going to make the spectrum broad enough, then we're all going to land somewhere in it. And then I'm going to have to write you a check for $4,000 so he can get a fucking useless hockey helmet that he's not going to fucking wear and never did. And he's now 19 and he's fine Yeah, but there was a problem now

If I went back and found the cranial specialist and I would like to write this down I would like to find this witch and I would present her with my 18 and a half year old son and and I would say, you said his sunglasses may sit funny on his head. So then you scared, what do you do, Drew? Who do we scare? Who do we scare? The mom.

Scare the mom! She's cutting the checks. I was going, this fucking bitch is a charlatan. This doesn't exist. He's fine. There's no fucking way everyone needs this, but no, no, scare the moms. Scare the moms, just like you did with COVID. This bitch is a charlatan. This doesn't exist. He's fine. There's no fucking way everyone needs this, but no, no, scare the moms.

Scare the moms, just like you did with COVID. Scare the moms. They'll go out and buy all your fucking products, Procter and Gamble. They'll slaughter the kid and all your bullshit that's bad for them. They'll do it because they're weak and they're scared. And you've scared them into thinking

they may be a bad mom if they didn't get the cranial helmet for the kid. So I'll pay $4,000 and yeah, it was developed in the late 1990s by pediatrician orthodontist and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it became a cottage industry. Now my son is perfectly fine. He looks, he's handsome. There's nothing wrong with his head and his sunglasses sit fine on his head. So bitch, stupid

or liar, we're playing stupid or liar now. Yeah, you're cranial specialist, you look my son, you said there was a problem. Did you think? Did you think there was a problem? Or are you lying? So you got two choices, you're either lying, trying to make money, or you're fucking bad at your job. Those are your two choices. So which is it? Stupid or liar? We had to pay $4,000 for a helmet he wore for one hour, and then we took it off. Every other person I know who has an infant had to wear a helmet.

It's a fucking lie. This spectrum bullshit is a fucking lie. All of this stuff is a lie and it's all to get money from you. So wake up, whitey. Fucking idiots and start pushing back, would you? Jesus Christ. I'm tired of being the bad guy because I know they're lying. But I'm the bad parent because, oh, you want to save 4,000? No, I don't want to save money. I don't want to be grifted by a fucking charlatan liar.

That's what I don't want. Other than that, no thoughts. They have distorted motivation. Yeah, they're distorted, they want money motivation. And there's a cult-like quality to the thinking in medicine many times, and it's really not good. And it's how COVID got out of hand too.

The cult, the leaders of the cult told them what to do, and they stopped thinking. All right, sheeple, knock it off. They want money, and they don't know what the fuck they're doing. And if they were experts, they're not anymore because they sold their soul. Okay?

When Mark Garrago's attorney hires ballistic experts, they're no longer experts. They're guys who get paid by Mark Garagos to say what he fucking wants them to say. That's how it works. So you go on CNN and start talking about Ivor Mekton, you're no longer an expert. You're a shill, and we're not listening.

All right, other than that we're good San Luis Obispo don't stand up tonight It's Fremont theater, I think that show is gonna be sold out but Monterey the Golden State theater there are tickets That's tomorrow on the Napa Phoenix. You gotta have curl that come for all the live shows. What do you got Drew? Napa Phoenix you got a crow that come for all the life shows. What do you got Drew? I've direct home. It's all dr. Com It's all there. Stop. Oh man rich man poor man next. I got it in front of me You got me so fired up dry missed it the next the next one. We're gonna do it right it down Daphne All right, Daphne put it on this down the on the the last topics that laminated list Yeah, all right next time I'm Corolla saying, Mahalo. and Hey fans of freedom and open discussion, I'm heading over to Substack and there's an ad-free

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