The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2034 - California Is Leading the Way

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

On this episode of The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, Adam and Dr. Drew kick things off by breaking down how the left-wing media selectively edits clips and stories to push political narratives. They react to a recent example involving Governor Kristi Noem’s interview on Face the Nation, which was deceptively cut to remove key parts of her statement.The guys then shift gears as Dr. Drew shares a study suggesting women may be more easily hypnotized, sparking a lively discussion. Later, they revisit a 2009 promotional video about California’s proposed high-speed bullet train and highlight the lack of progress in the years since, using it as yet another example of government inefficiency.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Recorded live at Corolla 1 Studios with Adam Carolla and Board Certified Physician and Addiction Medicine Specialist, Dr. Drew Pinski. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on, got to get on, get on, Dr. Board 5'10. Didn't send some specialists. What's you got, Tristan? Did you see that interview with Christy Nome on Face the Nation, I believe it was, where they cut out. her entire explanation of why they were arresting that that Venezuelan gang member, I think he was. Yeah.

Where she was like, you know, he'd beaten his wife, he'd been trying drug trafficking, pornography, he was like... Soliciting teenagers for sex so much so that other gang members on text told him to knock it off. Yeah. That left that all out. Well... He's a Maryland dad. Okay. they have made a grave calculation and they made an error you know and so basically let's just put it to you this way

yeah i say listen i uh i work for the NFL and uh i obviously i don't have a favorite team i work for the NFL. I can't show favoritism, right? I've worked for, I treat all the teams the same unless I work for the NFL and I can't show any favoritism. I go, okay. And then you go, did you hear that incident with Ray Rice? He punched out his girlfriend. Ray Rice for the Ravens? Yeah. Now, that's my team, but I can't say anything. I work for the NFL. I look at all teams equally. but I'm from the Baltimore area. And that's my team. So I go, well, I'm sure it was nothing.

You know what I mean? And then they go, oh, no, he punched her right in the elevator. And then he go, well, look, a lot of allegations are made, you know. And by the way, who made those allegations? Pittsburgh Steelers fans? Come on. I don't believe that. I don't believe that.

And then at some point, footage comes out at him just cold cocking her and knocking her out. And then I got to go, well, you know, things can be deceiving in terms of even the camera sometimes can be deceiving. And it's like, I painted myself into a corner. Yes. Because I said I was equal with every team. But I was pulling hard for the Ravens. And now I painted myself into a fucking corner where now I have to defend my shit because you can't find out I'm a Ravens fan. So now I seem like an insane person.

And you go, I know you're Ravens fan. That's why. No, no. I just said due process. He deserves due process. You saw the film and you tried to defend him. I'm saying I've seen a lot of film. What film? That could be a deep fake or a cheap fake or something with the word fake on the end of it. You know what I mean? It's like you guys fucked yourself up. You hated Trump. Trump trying to deport a guy. You decided in order to make Trump look bad, he has to be a Maryland dad. If he is a pedophobic. and into human trafficking, then that makes Trump look good. So you decided to put all your eggs in the Maryland dad basket. And you have to do it, A, because you hate Trump, but B, you're protecting yourself because now you're protecting the lie that you told four months ago regarding this guy. And it generally puts them in the position of betting on crime.

Yes. And now you've hurt your cause because, you know, it's like somebody tweeted me, I know, it was an article about the L.A., sorry, the New York Times had a problem with RFK Jr. and his CDC, whatever. And I was like, well, this is nice, except for it's coming from the New York Times. So I can't believe any of it because I don't believe anything they say, especially as it pertains the RFK Jr. and the CDC. Considering you guys were lying about COVID for five years. Now, I wish I could read your article and go, wow, there's an issue here except for I can't because I think of you guys as liars or certainly inconsistent and these

Sunday you know CBS ABC whatever they are they have fucked their cause up so badly yeah they can't stop themselves it's weird right yes they see the falling ratings they see the and then the people go we just can't trust it why not well they're bewildered by that Chris Cuomo is sort of the the kind of the bell weather for all this he seems confused by it but he's open to it he's sort of like listening yeah so they didn't like her and this is now they're in a weird they put themselves in a bizarre position the position is you are desperately trying to have the veneer of non-partisanship right you're trying to you're trying to claw it back. You're trying to claw back this thing. Yeah. That doesn't exist. Right.

But you're trying to claw it back because we don't list, the public stop listening because you seem to be very partisan. Yes. Which you are, but, but anyway. So, and you got so sort of high in your own supply and over your skis and stuff that it's like when Trump was talking to Leslie Stahl about Russia and whatever. And she's like, sir, sir, you can't, go look at the laptop. I mean, sir, you can't prove that. I mean, she's literally combating. She got to the point where he's saying, you're 60 minutes, go investigate this. And she's screaming, no, we're not. We can't. You can't even say it. Right. So, nothing to investigate. Okay. So, and by the way, you know my theory, women can be drawn into those things very easily.

it's all hypnosis it's all persuasion at that moment leslie stall was not a reporter she was a woman and she was arguing and didn't really realize the camera was going and that she sounded like a fucking partisan idiot you know what i mean yeah so here's my point they then they have an issue so what they have to do is now trump and his administration are in charge right so you are a Sunday morning news show on a network, and you're not partisan. At least that's what you want your viewers to think. And by the way. But how many times can you have Amy Klobuchar on to talk about what a douche Trump is?

At some point, you're going to have to have people from his administration on because that's who's in charge. And by the way, you're nonpartisan. You should be happy to have J.D. Vance on. Okay. But all these Trump people have figured out, okay, you want us to come on your nonpartisan ABC? We're going to get spit out a bunch of stuff that you're going to hate. And they're like, all right, well, then we'll edit that part out. Right. All right. So here, here's what she actually said. And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn't walk free in the United States of America. This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife-beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors.

And even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off. He was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children. So he needs to never be in the United States of America, and our administration is making sure we're doing all that we can to bring him to justice. That was all cut out. Yeah, yeah. that can't help it. It's really weird. I was thinking about that.

I was thinking about that with Brandon Johnson of Chicago at a 6% approval rating. He is not altering course, right? Because he's, look, here's what I'm saying. He's on a mission from God, you know, except for he's a fucking atheist. It doesn't, would not be happy with God. But what I'm saying is, he doesn't care if everyone in the room is telling him he's wrong. He's doing this thing. You know what I mean?

He gets up there and proselytizes, you know, and such yelling about staying in front of and stuff. And you sit, you kind of watch it and you go, at what point do you go, hey, man, I'm below 10% approval? Maybe I'm not. People voted you in to do a job. They would like you to do this stuff. And you're saying, damn, the torpedoes, I'm doing what's right. Yeah, I'm a great leader. Yeah, right.

But you're Joan of Arc in your fucking brain. But that's not what's happening. And so you go, well, what's going on over there at ABC News? And they go, we're fucking doing what we're doing, bro. And it's like, yeah, but you're rating. I don't. But listen, to be fair, that's all I did during COVID. Every person around me was like, shut up and do what they tell you to do.

And I was like, fuck that. I'm going back to Twitter to call them all pussies. And they're like, you're ruining your life and your career and your family. And I'm like, don't care. So am I that different than Brandon Johnson? And the answer is the only thing that's different is he's wrong about everything he's doing. And I'm correct about everything I'm doing. But at the time, you'd go, how do you know that?

Right. Right. So he thinks he's doing something that he's not. Jeez. You know, I just looked up, are women more easily hypnotizable? And every study says yes, but there's something going on. Because every single study, it's like, well, it's older research. And but, and but, and but, it must be overwhelming.

It must be like, like, yes, right away more easily. But, bud, bud, bud, bud, but. Well, I mean, they're overwhelmingly seek the advice of psychics, right, which suggests a certain vulnerability to ideas that are not mechanical or tangible, wouldn't you say? Women are significantly more susceptible, but although, okay, all right. Yeah, they are. Yeah, so there it is. Well, look, everybody, it's probably what makes them. better moms.

Yes. They have a thing. They're tuned. Yeah, they're tuned and they're sort of more whatever. And they also tuned to other women in terms of sort of collective, cultural, you know, the cultural collective. They maintain the cultural collective. Right.

And cultural norms, too. It's not good for engineering feats. You know what I mean? Not by itself. No, not, it's just not in general. It's not a good, it's not, it's like, look, this, this, this, this. type, you know, there's, look, there's, there's dogs. There's this type of dog and there's that type of dog. And, you know, some are sort of made to do a better job. But I know a dog.

Yeah, I know. Okay. You know a dog. You know a, uh, what was Rex? Australian Shepherd. Australia, yes. I know a super lazy Australian Shepherd. But, but I know one of those super lazy. He likes to hang around all day and does nothing. You know what I mean? Well, that's not their breed. But anyway, you know one. Okay. I don't even know if you know them, but okay, you know one. Yeah. So look, if you get enough AOCs and Dana Bash is in the same room together,

you're going to end up with a lot more of this. And if you get enough Trump and Elon Musk in a room together, you'll end up with that, Pete Hagseth. You'll end up with something different. Yep. This is all I've been trying to say. In L.A., we did a little experiment where he thought, let's get a lot of AOC and Dana Bash's in the room.

And we ended up with shit policy. We ended up with let's blame Toyota for catalytic converter theft. That's what the city burned down. Yeah, that's chick. That's sane chick think. All right, we have the bullet train thing. Wait, before you put that up, you mentioned shaming people on the internet. I saw you put out a great response to Jason Bateman, who was talking about you.

You need to have a do a talking to, go to dinner and have a talking to all of your. family members who voted for Trump. And I'm a huge Jason Bateman fan, by the way. And you said... I said Thanksgiving's going to be real uncomfortable at Justine's this year or some version of that. You left out the Justine, but it was implied. No, no, it said Justine.

Did you? Okay. I heard... Turned down to Ever. Don't know. What do you? Do you think you have a memory? I thought I read the Justine into it, but it's all right.

No, it says Justine. Okay. I believe you. Well, how else would I say it? it's going to be tough at Thanksgiving in the Bateman family this year except for I would assume all his family agrees with him

except for Justin correct I thought it would see I in my head that was implied in what you said you didn't make it explicit I would never execute a joke where Justine was the only one that

I get you I hear you now we got to find the clip by the way if I said Justine then it's Justine? Yeah. That's it.

All right. Now we have the, all right, here we go. All right, you want to read what I, read what he wrote. There it is. Jason Bateman says Democrats should start going after the people who elected Trump and give them a talking to you because they need to be held personally responsible for the current situation. And Adam said, Thanksgiving is going to be, is going to suck this year at Justine's. And I read it as the Bateman.

So he's remembered it as the Bateman. The Bateman's wouldn't work because his mom and his mom. dad and his other sister agree with him. Yeah, yeah. Thank you, Drew. All right. Sad that we have to go back. Yeah.

But you know what I like? Hmm. My life in the past would be somebody, not you, but somebody going, dude, you didn't say Justine. And I'd go, yes, I did. And I'd go, I'm 1,000% sure you did not say Justine. And I'd go. I know.

I go, and then I would go, I wish there was a camera in the room that go, dude, you did not say Justine. And then we'd have to, that's where the argument would end. Yeah. Now we get to pull it up. You get to see me write the word Justine. But you know, what's interesting is that I did remember it as the Batemans in my head, but I know how fucking flawed memory is. And I'm not going to say I have 1,000% know that's what you said. And you wrote jokes.

You know better than me. That's right. Okay. Now, the bullet train. Somebody sent me this and it made me, it made me laugh. It just made me laugh. It's two minutes of here's where we're going for California. With the passage of Proposition 1A in November 2008, California established itself as the leader

for building America's first world-class, environmentally friendly transportation alternative for the 21st century. That's what killed it. A truly high-speed system, rivaling the best-known systems already on. operating in 11 countries around the world. Traveling at speeds up to 220 miles per hour, over an 800-mile route, it will whisk riders from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in just over two and a half hours.

California's high-speed train system will be the largest public works project undertaken in the state in 50 years. Building this state-of-the-art network will create more than 600,000 construction jobs. and another 450,000 permanent jobs. I wonder how many construction jobs have you actually got to the construction sites. With trains carrying up to 1,000 passengers

departing as frequently as every five minutes every five minutes. High-speed trains will carry as many as 100 million passengers per year by 2030. Because that's how many people could go back and forth to San Francisco. Are expected to begin in earnest by 2012. Hmm.

As construction continues, California's first high-speed train will begin running on a designated test section engineers will fine tune the many complex systems that make high-speed train travel the safest in the world without rail by 2020 passenger service will begin on the anaheim los angeles to san francisco backbone of the system a route of roughly 500 miles the merced to sacramento and los angeles to san diego sections will then come into service several years later completing the entire 800-mile system I look so good. California is on track to the future.

Clean, electrically powered high-speed trains are the best minds for meeting California's mobility demand in the 21st century and will put Californians at the forefront of the emerging green economy. Oh, green economy is leading the way into America's future. We're going to lead the way. We're leading. The future begins now. So multiple contractors went to other countries to build trains in the meantime.

If I'm running against Gavin Newsom, I just show this is my campaign ad, and then I just show some stretch of abandoned cement with the two tracks on it in the middle of Merced and the price tag and go, here's where we're at. This is what they said. It's that process person again. It's $90 billion they've sent, right? Got nothing. They have nothing. They love it. They love clean.

They love this weird. world where this is what is, except for they can only do it on a computer because they can't physically do any of it. But they love, you know, this is what is so different about this

wonderful graphic we just saw of pristine tracks and high speed bullet trains and 220 miles an hour leaving Anaheim. So I'm just going to, I'm going to be at Disneyland and go, you know what? why don't we have lunch at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco?

Which doesn't really exist anymore. And we'll be back. Lickety split because I'm in the mood for some chowder in a bowl made of bread, Drew. So let's just hop on that rail. When's the next one coming? Well, the maximum would be five minutes, Drew. But one could be pulling up anywhere. Maximum five minutes.

Could be an average two and a half minutes from when you just asked. So here we go. now. And I would just, what is the difference between this? Here's what I'm saying. Why don't you guys get together and get with some computer graphics firm and draw out a two-minute sizzle reel of no child being left behind and everyone having a seat at the table and world-class health care for everyone and world-class education. Just draw it out. Just make a, make a real. rendering of it and then let us see it and then that's that'll be that then we're done well there it is that's what you want okay or we can just go out and see squalor and crime but we have this graphic drew

yeah don't you see yeah we feel good about that and it's clean it's clean except for it doesn't exist and it's not going to exist yeah so would you like to live in some world where stuff happened or some world where we just made graphic illustrations of stuff. In a weird way, it's a corollary of the truth not mattering. Right. Because there's no truth. Who cares? The funniest picture is, you know, Andrew, there's a great rendition of a, I don't know,

7th Street Bridge. You know that bridge where they pulled all the copper out of the wiring for the lights and they're doing the street takeovers and no one can use it anymore? Yeah, yeah. Sixth Street. Have you seen the rendition of what that was supposed to look like? No. Oh, it's awesome. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful artist. People strolling hand in hand, folks selling ice cream cones. Not gangbangers pulling wire out of the lights and then guys doing street takeovers and donuts. That wasn't part of the rendition.

but it kind of reminds me and I keep doubling back to the chick think like listen I know this is what's going on in your head but that's not what's going on out there you know what I'm saying well that was weird you'll find the rendition

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It was really funny because it's comical when you see their version. Where do they go, but don't you want this? You know, and you go, I do want that, but we're not capable of achieving that. Not under their supervision. Because your supervision is so fucked up. and your priorities are so bad that, no, I'd like a bullet train. I would like to get, I love, I should say, loved San Francisco. I would be happy to jump on a bullet train and go there in two hours.

I'd be fine with that, except for we can't do it because you don't, you won't. You need to reimagine travel. He won't let that happen, but it's clean. And by the way, I'll tell you what they love. They love Europe. They love the future. and they love clean. It's going to be clean.

And you know what they like? Yeah, they like to imagine, like John Lennon. And they know what else they love? We lead the way. We lead the way. There's always that thing in California. Like, we're leading the way. Like, we are a cautionary tale of how not to govern.

We're leading in nothing. Yes. Well, we're leading in the, look, an NFL team can lead in rushing. It can lead in passing. It can lead in scoring. or can lead in fumbles lost and penalties. You know what I mean? Like there's a lot of,

there's a lot of categories. Yes. We don't lead in the good categories is what I'm saying. Education, it's weird. It's also weird. The thing I always never stopped complaining about California, it's weird how dirty it is because it's California. You know, you always picture that postcard.

Yeah. And it's dirty. It used to be. It used to be clean. Yeah. It's really dirty. which is another thing that happens in these horribly run cities. It's a broken window story, you know.

Right. But my argument is the train is 250 years old. And if you cannot build a train in modern times, it's not true. When you are administering some cognitive. test for a senior, you don't say, well, let's go conduct the Philharmonic or let's go take on a chess champion. You give them a couple of simple trinkets or something and you go, put these in order. You know what I mean?

Draw this clock. You know, what things go together? There's this thing, this sign, that sign, and this sign. It's a pretty simple thing. Now, if the person can't do that, you don't go, well, maybe he could, sell in many like advanced calculus or something. You go, no, this is a pretty simple. If you can't build a train, it means your society's fucked up. It's not like, well, we can't build a train, but we can build schools and airports and infrastructure and everything works nicely. It's clean

and crime-free. No, no. If you cannot build the train, you can't do anything. It's indicative of you being not being able to achieve anything speaking of leading the way the chinese now what a 600 mile an hour train they built they threw it up in a couple of years no problem right all right andrew the weird thing is about that graphic and that bridge is i just can't believe it's not sitting on the internet somewhere because it's so i'm looking at the la website i'm looking i'm googling it i'm looking for it right now la the six street viadog remodel project i'm looking for the initial rendition. Now, I'm assuming any L.A. website's taking it off because it's embarrassing.

No, it's been wiped. Yeah, yeah. You're going to have to find some version of it that somebody put up on the Internet. But it's funny. It's like kids with balloons, couples holding hands, greenery, everything, not gangs, donuts. And, oh, oh, here we go, Drew. There it is. These are some of the renditions.

You see any graffiti? You see any Dodge Challenger's doing donuts or anything? Wow. Are they pulling the copper out of the street? At some point, somebody's going to have to just go, look, we're going to have to do something about our society because we can't have stuff. You know what I mean? Like you go, look, don't go out there wearing your role. Rolex watches. Ladies, do not go out. Even if you think you're in a safe part of town, you do not bring your Gucci. At a certain point, we have to go, okay, I get it. Don't wear the Rolex. I'm going to ask a bigger question. What happened? What happened that you're warning people not to wear, you're going to out to eat in Beverly Hills and you're telling the guy to leave his watch at home? Why? What has happened that we can't have? Income inequality, man. Housing prices. We can't have a bridge.

Well, what's interesting to me is, and I've said this forever, in New York City, where the tax structure is very similar, when they do a rendition like this, that's what they build, and then they protect the shit out of it, and then people use it sanely. Right. We built it, but we won't protect it. Right. And so what we do is the cops step back. Last I checked, there are no lights on the bridge because we're not putting the copper wire back. because we can't protect it from being stolen. Right. But it's nice to see the pictures where all the kids playing and the mixed race couples hanging out, right? Yeah, it's beautiful.

I don't know. Are there any actual pictures of this bridge? How it ended up. And what's under it? Yeah, because I don't think this is it. But, you know, folks go to the park and they play backgammon and enjoy the music. And the guys with this stroll.

pulling, the guy's playing the mandolin, that's the guy selling soft swirl ice cream. It's weird. And also, Trump is the only one who goes, what the fuck is going on? Yeah. What is going on? And they go, wow, we haven't completely sunken into utter chaos. And it's like, yeah, I don't want any of it. Yeah.

Like, well, not that many people are getting shot. It's like, yeah, but why are people getting shot? Oh, have you seen the homeowners meetings in Encino? I sent you a video. Oh, I couldn't open it. Oh, it's so good. They're all, they've got the police chief, the mayor, the fire chief up there. There have been 250 fires at the homeless encampments in a month.

Right. Oh, by the way, here's your bridge with the Mexicans and their mini bikes taking out burnouts in their money. Look at that. That's a mini bike street takeover. It's such a sort of fucking ridiculous. I mean, it's sad, but it's funny, but it's also sad, but it's also like how much incompetence? And by the way, is there any sign Andrew of a park in green area and anything underneath it? There's nothing.

It's just fucking asphalt and graffiti and trash. It's a fucking mess. So, but I'd want to finish the story. It's just a mess. The reason I said to the Encino thing was they had a homeless worker there and he goes, we offer them. And the police chief goes, mayor goes, you have to talk to the police chief. The chief goes, you have to talk to the mayor. Then finally the law officer goes, well, we're not allowed to take them in.

So homeless advocate. What are you doing to get them out of that homeless encampment? Don't you have housing for them? Oh, yeah, we have housing. We offer to them. We have to keep offering it to them. We can't make them go. Right.

Okay. There it is. Fires in the meantime. Soon we'll have another Palisade situation. Oh, yeah. Can't wait. All right. We go to amcrawl.com for all live shows.

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