The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2019 - The Business of Resistance

Episode Date: July 10, 2025

On this episode of The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, Adam and Drew dive into the flawed ways people choose their political battles, with Adam arguing that the left has made “resistance” its entire brand. Dr. Drew highlights how detached many political leaders have become, often pandering to extreme ideologies. Adam explores the mindset of people who double down on bad ideas, especially when challenged—suggesting it’s usually rooted in a lack of intelligence. The conversation shifts as Dr. Drew draws a link between support for communism and a growing belief among young people that homeownership is unattainable, which leads to a discussion about the emerging trend of people choosing to live permanently on cruise ships.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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What's going on? Drusky knew New York City. Wow. Can't even do that anymore. Uh, Not much. I saw your post from about now nine hours ago where our good mayor was standing at the podium talking about how there weren't any riots and ICE needs to pull up stakes and you had a pretty visceral reaction that I actually agreed with. So here she is still unable to do her job.

I don't remember what I said, but I'm sure it wasn't flattering. He said, it was, I believe the words were something of the order of she's a complete shit bag. Oh yeah. Well, I mean, none of these people are disappointing at all, are they? I mean, is anybody, I mean, let's put it to you this way.

Everybody's doing exactly what you figured they would do and it's kind of why you didn't want them in these positions, you know? She, I mean, I'll- I agree with you. Yeah. But even so, you'd imagine in an emergency when it's obvious what she should be doing,

that she might be able to stand aside or something. Well, I think, let's see if we can break down the game film here. All right. I think there's a fundamental problem, right? And the fundamental problem goes like this and it's probably how we sort of land where we land on these subjects, right?

All right. Okay, so the right, the Republicans have positioned themselves right the Republicans have positioned themselves and in their positions are things like well we'd like the lower taxes or we'd like less regulation let's say or we're supporters we want more cops we want more cops and we want the streets cleaned up and, you know, we wanna stout border. We wanna border, we don't want people coming across the border and we want them vetted and if they do come across the border

and they're somewhere in the interior, we're gonna find them and give them back, put them back. And if it turns out they're criminals, then we're gonna find them, we're gonna incarcerate. Okay, so that's where they come across. Now there are these kind of fringy things like abortion, and that's just a thing, it's a kind of political football,

but it doesn't really affect most folk, but there's arguments about that. And then there's groups within the Republican Party who want zero abortion, others that want abortion with certain timelines attached to it, and there's a whole bunch of different versions of that. But we'll take that one off the table for now. So you go, well, here's the stuff we're fighting for,

here's the stuff we're looking for, and we want a school choice, and we don't want big public sector unions. We don't want the school union to be able to dictate a policy for the state when it comes to COVID and things of that nature, right? Okay. So those are all things that I listen to and I go, yeah, okay, I like that.

And when COVID comes along, I don't want you locking down the beaches or shutting down private businesses and I don't wanna be forced to get vaccinated and things of that nature. That's what- Get things like this. Social distancing, six foot.

Yeah, where'd you get that sign? This- Hold on Drew, and please explain your signs please. Do not make me have to do that hard work. I'm holding up the floor circles that say social distancing stand here. How big is it? And it's about a foot and a half across.

Am I getting that right? Is that good? No, it's about 14. It's about 16. Yeah, it's about 16 inches across. Yeah. OK. And it shows six feet between and amongst people

and it's something we're all used to seeing on the floor of every goddamn retailer in the world. And it was completely made up. This is what you get when you centralize authority and you give them fiat authority, especially. I mean, really what you're talking about, Adam, is you don't want unelected officials making decisions and you don't want centralized authority for things that don't need to be. Right, okay, that's what I don't want. That's what you don't want unelected officials making decisions and you don't want centralized authority, right?

Okay, that's what I don't want. That's what I don't want now somehow the Democratic Party has positioned themselves in some sort of fashion where They really are just going against whatever it is, Trump and Republicans and whatever it is I want,

they just want the opposite of whatever it is I want. Gavin Newsom just wants the opposite of what I want. So now they're in a weird- All the time. Yeah, so they're in a weird, I would like cheaper gas, he wants more regulation and thus more expensive gas. You know, whatever it is, I want a border that is secure in $3 gas.

They somehow had a wide open border in $7 gas in Los Angeles at least. So I just want something other than what they want. So at a certain point, they've just become, they've just put themselves in the resistance business. I don't even know what their, I don't know what Karen Bass's policies are toward illegals living in her city. It's unclear. From what I can tell, there are no policies. It's just you live here, you sell your wares or your food or your alcohol or your flowers or whatever on the streets, and you do what you want. And maybe someone could

go that's maybe that's its own policy. I don't really think that's a policy. I just think it's like, you're saying, my policy when it comes to raising my teenage son is he does whatever the fuck he wants all the time. It's not really a policy. That's just you not parenting. You know what I'm saying? Right, yes.

And so I feel like someone who lives in the neighborhood who says, listen, your son is stealing from me and I caught him in my garage taking beers out of my fridge and he tagged the neighbor's fence and I'd like you to regulate your son a little bit. And you're going, my policy is no policy. He does what he wants to do. And so then Trump calls in a counselor to come in and say,

no, we are gonna regulate your son because your son is just running around this neighborhood fucking with the businesses and the neighbors. And then I argue with the counselor who shows up because I want him out. Now, I don't want him out and then I'm going to discipline my son my own way. because I want him out. Now, I don't want him out, and then I'm going to discipline my son my own way, I just want him out.

Right, right. So most of it sounds like arguing for the sake of arguing. Now, I don't know why they didn't really learn their lesson, which is people would like to hear what your policy is toward your son who's causing all this damage not no policy and no interventions well your son has had to live with all kinds of social stressors he was colonized by you and your wife oh that's right we colonized him that right. And so as a white colonizer of your son, of maybe mixed ethnicities even,

you have no business talking about borders. You shouldn't even have a border. That's right. Well, they don't really come out and say anything like no border. say anything like no border. Well, sorry, the extreme factions. Yes, no, but the people in power smart enough to know, they just act like no border and know whatever. So basically then what we do is we live in a place where we're like, look, it's been the-month anniversary since the fire took half the place down. Can we have a little chat about? Expediting permits and things of that nature and it's like no we cannot I'm busy fighting with Trump and ice

I mean, I'm well, honestly and ICE. I mean, well, honestly, how many press conferences or tweets or meetings or pressers have I seen with Karen Bass talking about the fires versus fighting Trump? She went down to MacArthur Park to fight with the ICE. She hasn't been down to Malibu to fight with the ice. He hasn't been down to Malibu to see what's going on, check the progress on the rebuild.

Right, never been to MacArthur Park or the Skid Row to check on the homeless either. It's only for ice. But anyway, but it is an interesting thing here, which is how insulated from reality must she be by the city council, by the extremists. These are the people they listen to who nobody should fucking listen to that she is surrounded by and listens to.

You know, when you go to a city council meeting or a board, a board, county board, there's only extremists there. They listen to them, which is not in the service of the community at all. Well, the community's at work during the noontime city council meeting on a Wednesday. Yes. I know it's really, it's a really weird and warped system. And then you end up saying, It's a really weird and warped system. And then you end up saying, wait a minute, and you're right in that you go, well, our policy

is that if you're illegal and you're incarcerated for a crime and you'd like to undergo a sexual reassignment surgery, then the state should pay for that. And everyone in their circle, in their chambers, in the city council meeting goes, hizzah! And then they go outside of the chambers and they try to float that shit with people who are at work when they're having retarded meetings paying taxes. And they go, are you fucking nuts? No, we're not down with

that. Then they go, what's going on? And then they lose an election. Well, you hope so. I don't know. I don't trust the voters in California anymore. Oh, well, I'm talking about nationally, but yeah. What I'm saying is Kamala Harris had to walk back major planks in her platform. She had to walk back stuff she said, not stuff when she was a young bright-eyed college student, stuff she said in her 50s. She had to walk it all back. Now why did she have to walk it back? What I'm saying is, is Trump said, I want to lower taxes and I I wanna beef up the border. He didn't have to walk any of it back, is what I'm saying.

She had to walk back fracking, she had to walk back sexual reassignment surgery, she had to walk back border talk, you know. Okay, why is she having to walk back stuff she said in her 50s? Well, people don't agree with it. Yeah. Right. And I don't understand why they don't understand that. And I think what you're talking about is

sort of petulance. It's like, it's like, I mean, we've all had those relationships where it's like, hey, look, honey, I'm just trying to smooth things out. Oh, oh, you're doubling down now. Like now you're gonna double down. I've dealt with that with men, probably more with women, but men and women my whole life. Like, oh man, you're doubling down on a bad idea because I'm telling you it's a bad idea,

or you're feeling some sort of push, so you're gonna push back. Right, right, and that's all this is. I feel like we used to talk a lot more about that, you and I. Yeah. About when somebody pushes, everyone has to push back, and I think we're getting back into that mode again.

Well, it's a chick mode and it's a progressive mode. And it's also a dumb mode. You know, like Karen Bass is a dumb person. At her core, she's dumb. At her core, Hakeem Jeffries is dumb. Like at their core, a lot of these people are dumb. Gavin Newsom is dumb at his core. These are dumb people.

Dumb people sort of are willing to say dumb things. Write that down. Now what I mean is they do, you know, Tim Walz is a dumb guy at his core. You know what I mean? Like you know, they do, you know, Tim Walz is a dumb guy at his core. You know what I mean? Like you know, they go, you know, when he does that thing where they go, he goes,

you guys just swoop in these vans unmarked, jump out, throw them in the back of the van, and drop citizens off in some torture hut in Honduras. Like you just go, I'm not gonna, it's a little more nuanced than that. They don't just swoop in and grab citizens and throw them in a torture hut in Honduras. Like you have to be dumb to say that.

You just, you have to. I really do think, I think there's a real connection. Yeah, you're gonna, there's a real connection. Yeah, it's a modern day gazpacho soup. You have to be a kind of dumb to use hyperbole. It's a kind of dumb. Oh, that's interesting. Especially, like how many times has your wife used hyperbole to your face when you were there?

You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, you go, you're coming, running out of the shower, screaming at me, throwing your arms around, then you run outside, you start screaming at the Grubhub guy, and it's like, no, no, I asked you to pay the Grubhub guy and then before I took the shower and then I got in the shower and the guy kept ringing the doorbell

and you didn't answer it and I told you to take it, but no, this is not what happened, but here's how you know this isn't what happened. I was there. I was- There's also, there's another overlay these days, which is, but that's what it felt like. Well I know, but what I'm saying,

when Karen Bass, Hakeem Jeffries, or Tim Walz, or any of these guys, Gavin Newsom, start giving you their version of things, there's a kind of core stupidity there that you don't hear Ray and Paul doing. And you don't hear Jim Jordan doing it. You don't hear that kind, it's more of an accuracy. You don't hear Ben Shapiro do it.

You know what I'm saying? But you turn on MSNBC and that's all you hear. Right? you turn on MSNBC and that's all you hear. Right? Which means there's like an intellectual firewall that keeps us from engaging in hyperbole. How many times a day do you find yourself, like you're sitting next to someone and you go, this guy comes in here, he's an hour late, and you go,

he was like 35 minutes late. Yeah, okay, well, he's late. And he comes in here and he wants 500 bucks, and I'm like, he wanted $375. That's all I do all day. Because I'm like, I wanna be accurate. I just wanna be accurate. I just want to be accurate. People aren't swooping in in unmarked vans

and grabbing citizens and shipping them that torture cells in Honduras, Tim. And you know that, but you have an intellectual. But being accurate now has, not being accurate, let's say has liability attached to it. Because then they just start building off everything's inaccurate, everything's feelings, and they don't pay any attention to accuracy. And I always thought that was sort of Dunning Kruger kind of writ large. But I but that's just another version of dumb, I guess Dunning Kruger. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. back after this. This is an ad by BetterHelp, and of course this show is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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Bring the action with you and stream for free from all your favorite devices. Pluto TV, stream now, pay never. All right, Drew, yes. Yeah, so the movement towards acquiring the means of production and socialism and communism and stuff, I kind of believe that some of that, at least, is the feeling of being unable to afford housing. That that must be it. That for young people, that phenomenon has got to feel bad. I just have a new story in front of me where older folk also

unable to afford housing and not even old people like middle-aged people and just going on these cruise, these getting on these cruise ships. And apparently you can do that for as much as about $3,000 a month. That's a lot better. Well, okay. Owning a home is a big deal because you need to feel like you're participating in society. Well, you have a community though. No, it's not a community.

Okay. What, are you not a community. Okay. What are you, gay? No. Don't anger me. It's not a community. When you say participate in society, I'm trying to understand what that means. No, no, no.

You can go out and run out to the 110 freeway and chuck bricks at passing cop cars if you got nothing. If you got nothing, you know what I mean? You got nothing. You got a fucking futon and three roommates, right? And you owe the IRS five grand and whatever. You and I can't do it because we think, well, what are the implications here?

You know what I mean? I could lose my business. It's not even a social standing thing. It's like a monetary thing, you know what I mean? I could lose my business, you know? Well, you know, it's not even a social standing thing. It's like a monetary thing, you know what I mean? Oh my God. There's something to lose. There's something to lose. The cop is brain injured and I get sued in a civil suit,

you know, and I'm bankrupt, you know what I mean? Like, whatever, right? I mean, it's just skin in the game. It just, I got something to lose here, you know what I mean? Yeah. Los Angeles filled with illegals driving cars with no insurance because what the fuck, I'm an empty bag, what are you gonna do?

Everyone I know in Los Angeles been rear-ended or got in an accident, what happened? Eh, illegal, what happened? He didn't have insurance, what happened? I had to fight with my insurance to pay my, fix my car. What about him? Pfft. You know what I mean?

It's like, yeah, all right. Well then that guy'd be an idiot to pay auto insurance. He would be. He'd be a fool to pay 300 bucks a month or whatever it was to insure his work truck, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay, but if that guy has a house, now what? Yeah, I agree.

That kind of skin in the game, I agree. Everybody needs, oh, by the way, it goes all the way down to sort of gangbangers. Like, yeah, 18-year-old, who the fuck cares? It hit the streets, shooting guns over your head, you know, hiding behind a car. You go, what the fuck cares? You hit the streets, shooting guns over your head, you know, hiding behind a car. You go, what the fuck are you doing? It's like, well, who cares?

Is the answer. Do you know what I mean? Well, what if you get hit by a bullet? Well, who cares? Well, what if you just hit some other kid with a bullet? Well, who cares again? Well, what if you go to prison? I don't know, who cares?

By the way, my house in South Central has already got bars in the windows. Yeah. Drew, no, who cares? By the way, my house in South Central has already got bars in the windows. Yeah. Drew, what are you doing? Fall asleep or just like, ah? No, I'm not watching a sniff. You talk for a while. Well, it's just that, I mean, we're building the case

that there is this movement towards being taken care of by the state because no one understands the experience of self-sufficiency. Nobody understands the feeling of freedom because they're so encumbered by the circumstances economically of the day that it doesn't feel like freedom. And the data is always 100% clear on this. Giving people money does essentially nothing. It sends them to either buying luxury goods or it adds to inflation or it gets sort of dissipated

in some way that doesn't add to participation. While if you encourage people and teach them how to build that participation, then they go and measure wellbeing measurements on people that have done that kind of stuff. It's always way up the scale as compared to when you just hand the money. Right.

And so the data's clear. It's not like there's something mysterious. The data's clear on fucking diet and exercise, but everyone's one so zempic, you know what I mean? Right, right, right. I mean, it's a discipline thing. I don't, I've told everyone, that's all I do is tell people, here's what you do,

here's what you do, here's what you do. And listen, we've gotten into that place where, and I can't remember if it was, you know, George Washington or one of the founding fathers, but they go, when we get to that place where people think they can vote themselves stuff, we're done as a republic. You know, we're done, we're at that place. Yeah.

Right, and people can just vote themselves free shit. So the question, so here we are, and so the question is, what do we do? It's Trump punch in the mouth shit. It's not tried to negotiate with people that don't have any intention of negotiating. It's basically Israel, Hamas. We talk, we talk, we talk. At a certain point, it becomes evident that this is not something you want. Nobody says it. I mean, you can feel, you have it in your own relationships.

I had it with my divorce. Like you go, wait a minute, I thought the plan was to work this out like if that's not the plan But they don't tell you that's not the plan so you go as If you know what I mean, you waste a lot of time. I don't even know the plan, huh? They don't know it's not the plan. They don't even know I You're right in that well, they know it's not the plan But they don't really admit it to themselves

because that would make them a bad person. It's why the punch in the mouth becomes necessary. Yeah. Because you can't reason, they're not aware of it. Yeah, well, I would argue that Hamas is aware of it. But there's many situations where they're not. They're just going along. And it's like, I don't know.

Trump shut the border. I don't know if they thought the border was, I mean, every time Mayorkas got pulled in front of Congress, he just went to border secure. I don't know what he was saying. I don't know if he knew what he was saying. Kamala Harris said the border secure. Well, to be fair, she said the border's secure

in that countries all want their borders to be secure. By the way, Drew, there's not enough disqualifying comments. Right. Do you know what I mean? Oh yeah. When people are saying, you're the border czar, what about the borders? The border's secure?

The border is secure and so is that all countries want their border secure. People should want, oh, she doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about, next. You know what I mean? When Fauci's in front of Congress explaining, I don't understand what you're asking about Black Lives Matter, I'm marching, I don't understand what you're asking about Black Lives Matter, I am marching.

I don't know, what are you asking? Disqualified, next? Do you know what I'm saying? I think we were more trusting. Yes, we were more trusting. No, they're not more trusting, they're stupid. We were. Not me.

We were more, yes, stupid, we were stupid. They're stupid, you were stupid, Drew. Like, no, you were trusting, other people were stupid. People. Like, you would know. You were trusting other people were stupid. People didn't know he was compromised. The second he said that, I was like, that guy's compromised. Is there anything that's changed for the good for him in the four years since I yelled he was compromised? Not only you yelled he's compromised, you kept saying this is only going one direction and it's not good He literally had to be pardoned by the president of the United States. That's how fucking bad it is Okay, or by the auto pen or by the auto pen

I wonder if they had an auto quill back in the day Yield auto quill. Subscribe. Yeah. Subscribe. That is scribe. Yeah, it's crazy. Now, you were talking about cruising.

Listen, I concur. I mean, look, maybe if you live in Muncie, Indiana, maybe not, but a retired school teacher in California with the rent. Yeah. And look, I don't, you know, the thing, the thing that kind of drives me nuts about all the problems is, you know, they sit around and they go, rent's too high.

It's just everything, here's the problem. The problem with the Democrats is they do a retarded reverse engineering on everything. Everything is a retarded reverse engineering, which is rent's too high. Okay, get landlords to lower the rent. That's not the answer. More inventory, cheaper building, less regulation.

You want more regulation. Now you wanna pass a bill that says, landlords can't charge more. It's like, no, no, no, no. No more bills. Less regulation, more building, more incentives to build. That's it. And they're doing this 3D building now. It's crazy. The

technology is there. It can be done. It can be done quickly. It can be done cheaply. They would never streamline it. They would never let you do it. They would never let you do it. But you could. It's there. Now. There's a lot of innovation and modular stuff, 3D stuff, like could you imagine Karen Bass just taking a 10 minute break from talking about Trump and ICE and standing with our neighbors in fear, people living in fear and just go, look, we need, shit's way too expensive in this town

and rent's too much, it's just too much. All we do is talk about it, we never do anything. I'm gonna cut a bunch of red tape, I'm gonna streamline stuff, I wanna get some innovation here, this guy builds 3D houses, he can do a whole house in nine days, you know what I mean?

And I'm gonna permit this, I'm gonna make sure we can do it and knock this stuff out, and we're gonna start building. Like, something, anything. I'm gonna make sure we can do it and knock this stuff out and we're gonna start building like like something anything Yeah Yeah, I completely agree, but no, all right, it'll it'll not be all right tomorrow Uh, i'm gonna be uh, oh, sorry today tonight irvine. Yeah

Doing a live show with jay more he kicks ass on stage and so do I may say so myself also Covina Laugh Factory two shows Friday two shows Saturday. That's coming up. So we got Thursday Friday Saturday Oh then Zanies and Rosemont, Illinois. That'll be July 16th and then yeah, just go to amcroll.com for all the live shows What do you got true? Just go to dr.com for everything. So shows. What do you got, Drew? Just go to Dr. Com for everything so till next time I'm Adam Crow for Dr. Sann. Mahala. This summer

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