The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2004 He's a Business Man

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

In today’s episode, Adam and Drew open up by talking about the White House Press Room and the changes in the questions taken. Then, they discuss the rise of Homeless Street Vendors and the policies that led to this, revisiting one of Adam’s favorite moments of his Podcast.Thank You for Supporting Our Sponsors:ADS is sponsored by BetterHelpBetterHelp.com/ADAMANDDREWSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 on. What's going on there, Drusky? It's what I'm talking about. Hey, did you see? Did you notice what they've done in the press room at the White House?

I was there. We talked about the fact that I was out there last week. Not really. No, no. Go ahead. And not last week. I was out there recently. Yeah. And and one thing I learned is that they they open up a whole row of seats in the front on the press pool. So the press pool is this room where you used to see Corinne Jean-Pierre, now you see Carolyn Lovett in front of that podium with the round White House emblem behind them.

And that actually used to be a swimming pool. And they essentially laid a big piece of plywood on top of it. That's the swimming pool where a lot of JFK shenanigans went down. Laid a big piece of plywood on top of it. You sound like a chick. Well my understanding is that they can lift the floor up and you can see the pool. Oh yeah. They're still under there. Yeah they would put, let me tell you how they would do it. They would do like scaffolding.

There'd be kickers going down to the ground, down to the bottom of the pool, with probably some red, probably some piece of rubber or something on it so as not to mar it or damage it. But yeah, I get what you're saying. They built like a scaffolding and then lined it with plywood.

Yeah. That's right. And people, the press, the traditional press, were all upset because of what Carolyn Levin did. By the way, they call these things, these call these press full meetings, apparently just randomly. They just, we'll just go, okay, we're gonna do a meeting

and tomorrow morning, meet us there. Yeah. And in that, they've opened the first road to sort of non-traditional media. I don't know if you saw Tim Poole was in there. Yeah, I did. I think I saw that, Yeah. And he sort of, he sort of launched into you given that everyone else in this room has been

unreliable for what date years and lied about, and he lists all the different things they lied about. What can I do to be a more healthy source of information when you're reporting here from the process? Well, you know, the thing that's, the thing that I find funny about, you know, sort of the, the of the guard, so to speak, whether it be Gavin Newsom or whether it be the press pool of your whatever that is, they're basically people that, let's say they're professional baseball players

that hit a buck 25 for their entire major league career. Now I'm not saying anyone hits 800, I'm just saying they hit a buck 25. They're well under what they should be. They're underperforming. And then they get up and they give these speeches, these sort of grandiose speeches about what it's like to play in Major League Baseball and the years of training they did. And it's like, yeah, I've seen you. You're bad. You're

not good. You're wrong about everything. So you're giving me a sanctimonious speech. It's like it's upside down world, you know, where they go, I'm a journalist. I, me and my colleagues are journalists. You got some podcaster comes walking in here, half bake, spewing out stuff. Okay, let's check your batting average. Let's see how you did with COVID or a hundred binds laptop or a hundred bind bean.

Exactly. And by the way, we always talk about competition, right? And so an interesting way it's just adding a layer of competition to improve their performance, which has been shit But also professional athlete thing going again true. Let me ask you a hypothetical and I think this is going to Clear it all up. All right, all right clear ready clear it up for her. I'm gonna clear this up you listen Daphne Is everyone listening to me? Okay, one's a journalist and the other is just some podcaster just talking. Okay Would you rather have?

Let's just say your son your teenage son is pitching in a high school game. Okay? And he's going to start as a pitcher. Would you rather have a professional umpire with many years experience and training who's pulling for the other team or just a guy who's not an umpire, but he's just gonna stand behind the plate, he knows something about baseball and he'll just call balls and strikes.

He has no thoughts about who he wants to win. Just a guy. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Right. Because the guy who's the professional trained umpire, the guy who went to Harvard to go to umpire school and the guys that advanced degree in and the guy who covered the world series in 97. He's pulling for the other team super hard.

Yep. So you're not going to get a good game and we're not going to get balls and strikes. And that's what these fucking idiots don't realize. I'm a journalist. Yeah, you're a journalist who's rooting for the other team so now we don't believe you and it's affected your journalism. Whereas a podcast guy, that's just a podcast guy. And he's like, wait a minute,

there's a lab in Wuhan that works on these kinds of viruses? Yeah. Right, right. And then there's another place that sells donkey meat nearby. I think it would come. Okay, he's not a virologist. He's not a professional.

It's just there's a lab that makes this shit nearby in the same town. So guess what? Lay person is gonna arrive over here now What's trained journalists gonna arrive at didn't come from the lab came from a wet market? Why because you're rooting for the other team? So you're worse than untrained Let's keep this metaphor going right? Yes, so let's say the expert umpire doesn't metaphor going right yes so let's say the expert umpire doesn't he has a by he loves the other team yes he played for the other team but he convinces himself he's an unbiased umpire yes what do we do with because that's the way they are yeah what do we do with those

assholes they push them push them to the back of the press room. They don't. They don't. Competition. Competition would clear them up, right? Well, I'll put it to you this way. In boxing, they have judges, okay? Yeah. And in the judge, the judge, the way the judging works, it's subjective, right? So how do we tell? How do we tell if the guy's corrupt,

or he's a bad judge or what? Have you and it's like alright. Well in the first Sugar Ray Leonard Roberto Duran fight these guys had it, you know seven rounds to five for Sugar Ray The other guy had it seven rounds to five for Sugar Ray, and you had all 12 rounds going to Roberto Duran. It's like, all right, well then something's wrong. You're not seeing something right. You know what I'm saying?

You're either, hold on, you're either being paid by Roberto Duran or there's something wrong. So you're making long-winded arguments that Hunter Biden's laptop had all the earmarks of Russian collusion. Okay, you're either in it or you're horrible at what you do, but we need to push you out. We need to push you out. And so they're being pushed out. I mean, I saw... It's competition. It's competition.

It's competition, but it's also your... I saw a headline from Rolling Stone the other day, two-year-old deported with cancer. I'm like, oh, okay, Rolling Stone, thank you. Yeah. Well, what about the time people were dying in emergency clinics from gunshot wounds because people were ODing on ivermectin,

and then you showed a picture from July, but everyone was wearing parkas and scarves and ski beanies. Is that you? Oh, okay. So guess what? Don't believe you, not gonna read the article, not interested. You did it to yourself.

You pushed yourself out, Rolling Stone. That's what you did. So they pushed themselves out, Drew, and now they're all wanting to know what happened. What happened is you pushed yourself out. Yeah, well, and they're gonna be outcompeted, but let's stay with, I wanna stay with kind of human nature stuff,

because you and I always talk about how everyone else is in Democrats' left, particularly in denial, but human nature. You always train me that when it comes time to take bids for a job, you get the high and the low, you pick the middle. Why is there such a high, why does some people always, you know, some people just high or maybe ridiculously high. And is that in the human nature where they think I'm worth this, even though they're not and they just get out competed where they're they're required then to bring their price down kind of thing Is that the same phenomenon?

You mean the guy the guy says that analogy? Medium bad week, but you've done worse. You've done a lot worse. I know I'm sure I'm sure on a daily basis You'll probably do worse later in the show. Probably will. I mean, you look, you get a bid for a roof and it's one guy wants 50 grand and the other guy says he's gonna do it for 18 grand and other guy says 31 grand and you just gotta figure the guy who said 18 is just not gonna be able to pull it off for 18, and you usually go about the middle. Now, the guy who's at the top,

I don't know what his experience is, and I don't know how it's working for him. And so, but this is not that. This is, you are experiencing competition, you've had your way for a long time. You got to be the Rolling Stone magazine, you know what I mean? Like you got to say whatever you wanted for,

you had a good 40 year run of people believing you, and then you screwed with your own credibility, and now I don't believe you. And, but that was your doing. I didn't do that. Yeah. And that's that's where at the foot the thing that's part that the part that I find entertaining about is when they get indignant about it You know Tim Poole. He's not a journalist. I'm a journalist. I went you know, I went to the Wharton school

You know, I learned journalism, you know, I didn't know you didn't or you did but you're compromised I learned journalism, you know, I didn't know you didn't or you did but you're compromised Well, I remember talking to a Columbia journalist students and she she was always telling me she graduated and she kept saying that They're hammering us to find the story. Where's the story and that rings in my head that literally was probably 12 years ago I had that interaction with this intern and I thought yeah, that's where narratives come from the Cram shit into a story and stories are artificially Constructed narratives. They should be staying with the facts and not the story Yeah, I mean look again

You guys all know the story from just sort of Looking around, you guys all know the story from just sort of looking around. They'll tell you the face of homeless is a mother too, works a full-time job. You've never seen it. You've never seen it. But that's them finding a story. A story. No, I don't even know if it's a story.

They picked up some sort of weird narrative and I don't know. Well, that's a story. Yeah, I guess the narrative's a story. I don't even know if it's a story. They picked up some sort of weird narrative and I don't know. Well, that's a story. Yeah, I guess the narrative's a story. I don't know. These guys look like illegal gang bangers who do some human trafficking to me and beat their wives. But to you, these are just Maryland men

who are out trying to keep their family going. Maryland dads. Maryland dads. We can, I had a clip. I'll ask Andrew to respond to it, but it is funny. Somebody sent me a clip of people in Skid Row setting up little bodegas now, like shops. Oh yeah.

Which, look, yeah, which look Everybody let me let me sort of explain life I was doing one of my vlogs and I was driving through the Palisades and As I was traveling through the Palisades, I saw Two or three lunch trucks just pulling up. You know what I mean? Hmm now why are there two or three lunch trucks pulling up up, you know what I mean? Now, why are there two or three lunch trucks

pulling up on Sunset in the Palisades? Well, the answer is there's a bunch of dudes working there now, you know what I mean? Like, the mess hall follows the army, you know what I mean? There's no such thing, it's just tons of people wandering around the streets and somebody not setting up a place where they can buy food Right how the railroad was made it is to bring them

And then by the way, what came with that gambling prostitution, right? Right, right that follows that always follows. So yeah now down and the Well, I got to stop you know what they called those they called those organizations hell on wheels Is that where it came from? Yeah. Yeah, it's also Paul McCartney song Yeah, yeah, so they they now down at skid Row

They have a store and you could buy food or you can buy drugs or I will play a 50 second clip of it. Okay. It's literally a tent set up and you just go in and do business. They got food, they got accoutrements, they got probably could buy some some drugs if you wanted to. So one interesting thing about Skid Row is there's all these tents that are these makeshift stores selling basically anything. And while there's normal things like candy

and pens and stuff like that, there's a lot of drug paraphernalia. In one specific tent, the first question she asked is, are you looking for a girl? I was like, nope. She says, you're looking for a boy? I'm like, nope. So that was her first question she asked is, are you looking for a girl? I was like, nope. She says, you're looking for a boy? I'm like, nope. So that was her first question.

And she kind of showed me around and there was a bunch of tin foil, a lot of candy, a lot of canned goods. Basically just these weird pop-up stores on Skid Row, which seems to be very, very common. Very interesting. Yeah, right in the middle of downtown LA. But where do you think they get their inventory from?

They get homeless people to steal it. Oh, oh, use their EBT stuff too, yeah. They do that, but the gangs do it, but also they just, they're do-gooders that bring stuff to the streets and they grab it and they take it to the store and sell it. Oh, take it to the store and sell it. Oh take it to the store and sell it. Yeah.

Or you say take it to the store and sell it. Yeah no so these so let's say I'm a do-good organization I'll bring a wagon of grapefruits they don't eat the grapefruits they take them to the store and sell them. But not but we're also doing a story about a skid row store. That's what I'm talking about. Okay well don't say the store then say the skid row Yeah, there are other stores. Yeah, yeah, I can't ask you the same question over and over again. No, sorry Yeah, that I missed see you told me what happened I say they take the store and sell them you mean they take them to these tents and skid row

I got a store we were talking about these crazy make. Yeah, I just I just wouldn't take them to these tents and skid raw. I got it. The store we were talking about, these crazy makeshift stores. Yeah, I just wouldn't label them the store. I wouldn't label them something. That's it. Okay. All right, now I had, and Andrew's got the clip somewhere too, but I had,

maybe we'll take a break first, I'll give Andrew a second, but I had Gavin Newsom in here 12 years ago, and I was basically saying to him, hey man, all this street sale stuff, no bueno. It's not regulated, it's not taxed, it's not, it's illegal. Like what are we doing about this? There's guys selling flowers up and down.

He liked it, he down. He liked it. He was a fan of it. All right, so we'll, uh, Andrew will have that clip. And then we'll take a quick break. Be right back after this. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. It's important to have good mental health these days.

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Download Pluto TV on all your favorite devices and start streaming now. All right, true chose grapefruit. This is what they're bringing to the store. Well, you know, I did that. I think the man for grapefruit down. It's no, because that's the point. I chose that because I've seen them doing it with oranges and I would pick something with even lesser demand to the point. It is these aren't eating these things

They're the handing it they're grabbing them and hoarding them and sending over to the store people Yeah, but the store people can't sell grapefruit. It's true. No, I understand. I understand. That's why I was a bad analogy bad And I told you you do worse That's what I said. I got it. Now. I didn't disappoint you. It did not disappoint All right, Andrew that clip that we had, and by the way, if a clip's ready, just put it on the screen and then we'll know it's ready. All right, so this is me 12 years ago

talking to Newsome about, by the way, I grew up in Los Angeles. There was no street vendors. Street vendors did not exist because it was illegal and it undercut. You couldn't have a guy selling tacos on the street because there was a Mexican restaurant 30 feet away that was paying insurance and OSHA premiums and coverage

and everything else and taxes and everything else. So here it is. Every time I drive home, I drive home down Forest Lawn Boulevard or Forest Lawn Drive, there's illegals selling flowers. There's a big mess, a big pile. There's this whole underground culture. Everyone's selling. There's a pile of garbage, by the way. Those are all the flower boxes they use. And then I can show you a picture of the guys selling the flowers illegally. By the way, it's not going into the tax money, it's not going in the coffers of the state. They just sell illegally. And then I can show you a picture of a highway patrolman, a California

highway patrolman, giving out a chicken shit ticket for rolling through a right, rolling there. Oh, there he is. Now just beyond him is all the illegals doing their illegal business but what are we focusing on Gavin? We're focusing on the guy who didn't come to a complete stop I have a CHP officer with me you should bring him in we could bring him in look that poor poor guy at the corner selling something that people apparently want. All right hold on. Those flowers. I mean, I'm sorry Always be ready to pause Who's doing the pausing? Sorry. All right

You got to make yourself visible during these things or stand up or something because I'm I'll tell you to pause because I'll Look at you. I had my finger on the button Right, but I don't know you have your finger on the button because I cannot see you, but there's a window. I'll put them there. All right, just when we do this, Dawson does the same thing. Dawson hits play and then turns his back and starts working on something. And then I tell him, Dawson, stand over the button,

would you? And he goes, oh, okay. And then he plays play again and then he turns his back and I can't see him. But Byron, a lot of it's visual. I'll be like looking at you going pause or whatever. Okay, now, sounds like Newsom's a fan of the poor guy who's selling the flowers right about now,

because that's what he started to say. So he's a fan of the guy who's illegally conducting a business on the streets and not paying taxes or being regulated at all Okay, I thought he liked Wait a minute. I thought he was all about regulation and taxes and stuff. But okay, right? All right So I'm sorry carry on with the plane Look that poor poor guy in the corner selling something that people apparently want that those flowers

I mean, you know little sympathetic to that. You know who doesn't want it? The guy who owns the flower store a mile away who's being mad. Well there's competition, so you know, making those flower stores more aggressive. You sell wine over here, but we gotta make sure to make sure. Alright, pause it. The fuck is he talking about? It makes, oh it's gonna make it more competitive for the... Well, he's selling stuff people want well people like prostitution and they like drugs and they like booze you know what I mean they're like they like they like

three-card Monte they like lots of stuff and and it's gonna force to look like flower shop to be more competitive mmm exactly all, Drew's done with this. It's going to force him out of business. Drew's done with this show. No, I'm listening to you. I said it's going to force him out of business. How can you be more competitive with a Mexican who's standing on the street, price-wise? You can't compete because he has no overhead. That's the point. And he does not, he's not cooperating with the law. Okay, where's gav

Why is Gavin Newsom taking the side of the illegal? Who's engaged in illegal behavior and not the citizen is paying taxes Because he likes that he likes the narrative the poor guy The poor guy showing a little initiative selling some just scraping together some flowers and selling them on the corner. Adam, what's the big deal? There's a little, just starting a business. Well, listen through. Our store, a mile away, who's being undercut. Well, there's competition.

So, you know, it's making those flower stores more aggressive. You sell wine over here, but we got a Mexican who makes his own wine, he's gonna stand down the street from your wine store. I admire the small business person, the entrepreneur, gets up, tries to sell a thing or two, and wants to make a difference No, he feed their family. He doesn't want it. At least those guys are out there working hard. Oh, listen

Here's Joe. Hold on pause. He's not a small business owner He's an illegal who's it? That's right. Who's it who's engaged in illegal activity on a city street? Yeah, what kind of small business owners this guy? That's right. Doesn't pay insurance. He he doesn't pay taxes it doesn't have employees he stands on the fucking street like Tijuana fucking idiot and by the way you're the government okay yeah all right but but if you live in Sherman Oaks and you pay taxes you do not get a treehouse That they're interested in not this guy, right? All right, so he calls the guy a small business owner. He likes the competition

Okay All right What if I just built my own car with no airbags or crumple zones or something would that be good? You like that competition good get get forward to lower their prices Well Ford can't lower the prices because you mandated that they have airbags and crumple zones How fucking dumb is this guy Or what? All right, I got a little more. I got a little more. This is the liar part Yeah, liar liar all right there

We go gets up tries to sell a thing or two and wants to make a difference No, keep feed their family. That's a no hard. At least those guys are out there working hard. Oh, here's Joe from the Working hard. He's working hard. Here's a here's a living breathing member of the California Highway Patrol first off bigger criminal illegal alien or somebody rolls through a Bigger criminal, illegal alien or somebody rolls through a four-way stop sign in a soccer van. Be careful, Joe, you're representing the good people of the CHP. He won't answer. That's a good answer.

That's a horrible interview. It's a good answer. You have illegals selling, engaging in illegal activity, and then you have people rolling through stop signs. Okay. Listen, here's the deal. I have, here's what I have. Joe is being shrewd here.

I have a radar detector. Yes sir. But I've renamed it. It's a rape detector because I'm tired of getting raped by the CHP and by the state for going 72 miles an hour on the grave. No, they're not keeping me safe. They're not interested in safety.

I mean, Joe is. Joe is one of the major. Maybe Joe is. He cares deeply about these things. Let me explain, let me safe. They're not they're not interested in safety. I mean Joe is Joe Carefully about let me explain. It's like I got into this business. I get hit I get pinged by radar when that when the CHPs come Well, you should be going 75 and all right. All right. Now he's into safety He's not in the safety with people selling food on the streets Yeah, not if there's a guy with a machete cutting up a pineapple and a papaya and serving it to you on a wet nap is that But me going 72 in a car that's capable of 165 Yeah, safety. Yeah, right What was his argument? What was this old argument for the guy selling shit on the street illegally?

That they're hard-working and he's supporting his family. this is the this is the mother of three or homeless same same story right same kind of thing he's a businessman same bullshit he's trying to do his best yeah okay you notice the answer should have been where's this going on tell me because this is wrong and I'm gonna get down there and check it out by the way this is 12 years ago They made it legal since then it used to just be contained to guys selling flowers on Forest Lawn Drive Yeah now Modellos in front of SoFi Stadium. It is tequila shots in front of SoFi Stadium. It is hot dogs That's right on on

Crypto arenas stairs. Yep. It is ubiquitous. It is it's on crypto arena stairs. It is ubiquitous. It is tense, filled with sundries and drugs and prostitution on Skid Row. It is now everywhere. It's a complete and utter cluster fuck because these people who turned their back on their fiduciary duty did nothing about it

over a decade ago when I was yelling at them to do something about it. By the way, in that conversation, you would think I was in government and he was some fucking hippie who hitchhiked here from San Luis Obispo. Well, listen, we now, like you said, they run the experiment it

rolls downhill and it ain't pretty it goes to a very bad place and the only next thing that will happen is all the actual businesses all of them will close then you'll only have this shit on the street well how would you compete if you're that San Francisco your Toluca Lake flower shop. How the fuck you gonna compete you can't Yeah, well Newsom says lower your prices Yes Fucking guys have some sort of weird 10 cent head like in their world in their world Toluca Lake

Florist should lower their prices and Minimum wage should be 50 bucks an hour. Right. That's right. And then- And they should hire more people. And then hire more people. Well, they don't really do that. They just go give them 50 bucks an hour

and lower your prices. Yeah. All right. How's that math work for the owner of Toluca Lake Flower Shop? It's insane. It's so crazy. It's so crazy. It's so crazy. Well, it's the same thing as giving $3 trillion

out during COVID. It's not a lot different. What do you imagine happens? Right, so now Gavin Newsom would like to take that 10 cent head of his and run the nation. That's awesome. Right on. It will be awesome.

All right, Drew, you're thoroughly depressed? Well, you're in Florida. Yeah. You've escaped it. I'm in Florida, so I won't be depressed for long because people here are happy. Yeah, all right, you can go to AdamCrawl.com for all the live shows.

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