The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2066 - Nick Reiner Update, Mamdani Destroys New York, and San Diego Now Sucks

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

Adam and Dr. Drew open by blasting people who don’t practice what they preach, especially politicians who pushed Covid masking rules they didn’t follow themselves. Adam questions why Ponzi schemes are illegal, Dr. Drew shares concerns about New York’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani, and they react to a viral clip of a woman defending socialist property policies. They wrap by discussing the latest on Nick Reiner, L.A.’s drug and homelessness crisis, and why they think San Diego has become such a dump.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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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you got there, Drew? I was just thinking it was like keys in the refrigerator. I want to talk about two things where we were discussing memory and helping things, helping our memories along. two things I want to talk about today. I want to talk about that Nick Reiner thing.

I don't think we talked about it. Did we, you and I talk about that? I don't know. Suicide watch. What? I talked to Gargas about it too. Oh, I'll talk about that. But first, just one quick thing.

I was trying to get to our last life show, and I just thought I'd want to bring this up now, which is there, I think you picked the moment of the peak of the sort of, of maybe it's the woke excesses of getting people to believe realities that were not real. I was standing at Dulles Airport and you said, you call me, you went, oh, my God, congratulations. They now got the Pope to say that men are women and women are men and there's no difference. They've got everybody. Everybody now believes that there's no such thing as a man, no such thing as women. Man, that's pretty big accomplishment, yeah.

No, sorry. I said it's worse because they did not get everyone to believe that. They got everyone to be too scared to say anything differently, which is even a more powerful grip in a weird way. Because the reality is people don't really believe it, but they do believe they're scared enough to say they believe it. That's what we just experienced with COVID. I know people didn't believe it because Gavin Newsom was sitting at crowded restaurants with no mask and 30 people shoulder to shoulder. So he doesn't believe it. I don't think people really can fully digest this.

You know, you couldn't get me to get onto a motorcycle without a helmet. You couldn't get me to do that. But you could get me to leave the house without a mask during COVID quite. easily. Because one I believed in and the other I didn't believe it. And if I gave you long lectures on helmet safety and then you saw me riding around with no helmet or the helmet under my arm or something like that, you would know that I didn't believe it. Yes. And if I said to you, oh, I must have forgot to put my help. No, no, you don't believe it. And I don't think people understood that about COVID, you know, the people with, they'd have the mask around their fucking chin

and shit like that. The greatest was the twist of the strap, which opened a big gap, a big air gap on each side. People did not, I mean, they were, look, there were, the moms that were yelling at people to mask up were going to their garage and underground hair salons because everybody knew somebody who was working out of their garage and working out of their basement, you know, and women who basically will definitely risk

a fatal disease over fucked up hair. Because they prioritize, true. They will, listen, Olga's daughter's a hairdresser. She had an entire underground client thing going on. Well, I mean, Nancy Pelosi went to go, and so did

what's her name from Chicago? lightfoot. So what people need to understand is when Gavin Newsom goes, you know, I got to be more careful, I got to practice what I preach and blah, blah, blah, blah. He didn't believe it is what I'm trying to explain. I'm trying to explain to everyone is he didn't believe it. And he was enforcing laws on people that he knew didn't work and were ineffective and he didn't believe it.

So gross. But I think you picked the day. I think that was the peak that day when you pointed it out and went now even the Pope we're here everybody that's everybody we got them all right

we got everybody to lie well we got them scared enough for lie but it started crumbling like right after that yes it's so interesting to me

like I remember I remember standing there I was out out front of the airport I'm thinking oh my God you're right we are here

we're there how weird yes yeah and then chum well Well, you cannot keep it up. That I, the, the bullshit science and lies are essentially Ponzi schemes.

And the way a Ponzi scheme works, I know you know, but, you know, it's basically, I go, look, you know, everyone in this building give me $1,000 and then I'll have $11,000. And then, Drew, you're next. You get everyone here. You get 11 more people from outside the building. And you get, and it's not even a, you know. You know, to me, a Ponzi scheme would never really, I don't even know why it's illegal. Like, honestly, if somebody said, I would just want to start a pyramid.

I want to get everyone here 10 grand. You want 10 grand? You want 10 grand? You want 10 grand? All right. I'm first. It was my idea. Right. Ten people. Here we go. 10 grand. Okay, Drew, go find 10 people. And then you went and found 10 people. Then you got your 10 grand. And now it's Chuck Stern. You know what I mean?

Like, I didn't even know why that's inherently illegal. Now, someone's going to get stiff at some point, but if you do it right, a lot of people are going to get $10 grand. I think it's the fact that they're not doing what they're alleged they're doing, which is investing and getting a return on it. I'm not claiming anything. I want $10,000. You want a Ponzi. You want to do a Ponzi. Listen, I have.

But listen. Listen, I don't think it's terribly different than, and people do this once in a while. And I know maybe it sounds semi-retarded, but every once. in a while, people who don't have a lot of money will go, there's this house. It's up on top of molehole and it's 10,000 square feet. And, you know, they went 12 grand a month. But if I can get eight people to all go in, we'll just all live there. And we'll live in this big house. But everybody will, or whatever it. And that's kind of your business. Like, all right, if you want to live with eight roommates and luxury versus a small apartment, you know, somewhere, whatever. And I'm like, I

I think it's your business. If I can get everyone here to give me $1,000, I'll take $10. You're next, Drew. You go get everyone to get $10,000. I actually think this whole thing, we started with the woke ideology, is more of a closer fit to me as tulips in Holland in the 17th century, which is that they just started driving the price up, just one, just I kept going going. And it was a hysteria, a price hysteria.

Right. This was a word hysteria, a concept. Well, what I'll circle back to as I got lost in my own analogy, which is males can be females, females can be males, all things COVID. You know, let, you know, pay, no one's illegal, pay the, give them welfare, give them, you know, Somali. It's a Ponzi scheme in that it will work and it can work and it shall work for a period of time, but it always comes undone. Yes, yes, yes. It always, all the great, I'm getting investments and I'm investing, but I'm really just taking the money and in order to pay you back. I take money from this other guy.

And I give it to you, Michael Milken or whoever did all that stuff. At a certain point, and you could have a run. And that run can be years. But at certain point, you get to the end. And it's my East Valley Trojans chocolate box where there's two chocolate bars, there's $2. and we're missing $9. You know what I mean? I can't make, I can't connect the dots.

Yeah. And eventually with bullshit ideas, with lies, you know, like the border's closed, you know, or men can be women or whatever something, whatever they lied to you about COVID or something. It just has a way of percolating up. Reality is a way of asserting itself. Yes, yes, yes. And by the way, I'm thinking we, you and I had a quick conversation about mom, Donnie. before we came in here.

The stuff he's doing, I was in the city until yesterday, and the stuff he's doing, first all, it's not all that different from Los Angeles. Certainly not a lot different than Santa Monica. Okay. So they're kind of catching up with us, but it's not going to work in a city like that. And, I mean, it's going to really have problems. And I just thought to myself, boy, if they wanted to put, to show how bad this could be, they're doing it.

They're going to just show just how terrible these ideas are. and what the consequences are going to be. Yeah, we should hear a clip, Andrew, of the female housing, whatever. The problem... Which will parse you so much stuff. Yeah. The problem is, is you're dealing with kind of fascism now, and it's lots of dumb chicks,

and they're not really swayed by results. No, she wants her will impressed on everybody. Right. I see a lot of African-American men out there going, Nobody knows my plight better than a white woman. Liberal white woman. Right. Like it, yep.

But we'll make it fun. Oh, here's one. My hair clip there. Oh, geez. Okay. Democratic-controlled public housing is really important. And that's why when Raquel is talking about the communities and that she's describing, that, you know, that's a self as a creative community where the people who are living there are, like,

setting the agenda. And so, you know, people like home ownership because they like control. and that's been perverted by like deep racism and deep classism in our society. So like we have to not have a racist and class of society. And so that's like something we need to think about like deeply. But you know, we it's about to me it's about control. First off, I don't, you know, maybe there's too many 10 cent heads to recognize the other 10 cent heads. But a lot of these people have 10 cent heads.

They're not. They're not in reality. They're not in the world. So the Toyota PRISM car is in reality making a bit more easier to steal the cattle at a converter. And then that's making it more easier for them to get. And then when we have to pay for it. We need to think deeply about that. I was like, okay, bitch, you're having trouble thinking.

Maybe you shouldn't be talking so much. But all right. Let's listen. But, you know, we, it's about, to me, it's about control. And why rent control is really important is because rent control alters the dynamic, the power dynamic between renters and who owns the building. Hold on a second. She did owns in quotes.

Yeah. Like there's, like she does not believe in property. I have she says that out loud owns the building so so and when it comes to this warehouse then I would own this warehouse in quotes but the government I guess the government really owns it right

or she owns it she says we're New York City and if we want it we'll take it okay so she owns it or New York City owns it New York City all right so Glendale may own this I just pay yeah okay well let's watch her sorry I want to keep it up there's more of her

That's awesome. By the way, we let women do this. It's our fault. We didn't tell them to shut up enough early on. I think the reality is that for centuries, we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to,

and transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently and it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have. Adam, your relationship with your property is going to be different. Well, that's good.

I can stop paying taxes on it, maybe. You think that's what she's talking about? It could be. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, she just goes on and on and on. See a weaver. Yeah.

But, you know, have you seen the series Pluribus? No, I have not. It's very good. You guys seen it? Anybody? Yeah. It explores the, the logic, the final, like, taking the logical extreme of collectivism and the logical stream of individualism at the same time.

Well, let me just lay this on you with my misogynistic. dig leanings we have a lot of graft and corruption amongst the Somalians in Minnesota because there are people that are sort of lean that way in general and then people go are you saying every Somali and I go no no but if if the culture kind of leans that way then you're going to have more of that. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

And so if men lean a little closer to the logic department and women lean a little further from the logic department and then you take a lot of women and you put them in positions of power, then you're going to get a little further away from logic. And then people can go, well, what about Hermit Dillon? I go, she is very logical, right? But I'm still just talking about a percentage thing. A tendency. A tendency.

And again, it's just like, is every Somali a crook who's starting a date? No, no. But if the culture leans that way, then you'll find more of that in this group. Okay? And if you take these city councils and we make the head of the everything, female, female, then you're going to get more of this and Nithia Raman's and things like that and less of what you would get if I was in that position. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. So that's what we're experiencing right now. Yeah. And people think that's like a misogynistic, but I don't really think it is. There's great differences between you and your wife, and there's great differences between me and my ex-wife. And there would be a great difference if we were in charge of a city or a municipality. There would just be a difference. Now, you can decide, now, that difference is bad, but let's pretend I didn't say that.

We are just experiencing the difference of having a majority male city council, mayor. You know, I mean, you look at it this way. What was Los Angeles? Okay. you can go back to, okay, you go back to 1990, 1995, 2000, right? And you go, how was Los Angeles? And I'd go, it was pretty good. I just seemed fine.

This was not much, you know. You wouldn't even notice it. It was just running. It just ran. It wasn't a lot of homeless or garbage or whatever. It was kind of okay. There was governance. Yeah, it was a little bit of traffic.

And they go, okay, so what do we have, what do you have 30 years ago? Well, which has male mayor, male governor, male city, majority male city council. I mean, it must have been, you know, the fire chief was male, the cop, you know, head top cop was male. Like, DA, you know, it was probably, if you went back to 1995, it was majority male everything, right? Okay, with a different mentality. Well, now you got the lady fire chief. and the lady mayor and the majority lady. We have almost exclusively female positions here, right?

Every time I marvel, even at Brown, I'm looking at you, Andrew, when they brought the president of the college, I'll tell you where it gets, I'll tell you where it gets, I don't want to say the word jarring, but it becomes sort of obvious, something goes down in this town, in this, you know, Chicago, had a mass shooting or whatever. Now we're going to get the police chief and the mayor and the city council. And there's three women standing there, right?

And then you go, a fire in L.A. Okay, we got to get the police chiefs. Oh, it's a female police fire chief, you know. And then when they go, we're going to pull all these presidents of these Ivy League institutions up in front of Congress. You're like, there's three women sitting. Where's the guys? You know what I mean? I'm not saying it's 100%.

But then, you know, Brown University. that's a shooting around. Well, we have the president of Brown. Now, you and I are old. So we would treat the president of a college, like you'd say, an airplane pilot. Like if somebody said, if you're in school and you're in the fifth grade and it was career day, and they said, coming up next, an airline pilot is going to talk us about how to fly a 747. You'd sit there.

If a woman walked out in a uniform, you'd be like, what, what, what? It would jar you. You wouldn't necessarily think it was bad. It would just be like, wow, that's different. It's women everywhere now. Every press conference, every head of, every president of the college or whatever. Oh, there she is. Right.

Now, we just got done hauling the people in front of Congress, and that was all women. So what's going on? And then you have to ask yourself, what's going on on the college campuses? What's going on in L.A.? and do you like it? And I would argue now. It's not as good as it was. So maybe there's a connection.

Well, that and can you see a difference between Tulsi Gabbard and our mayor? You know what I mean? Always. Listen. Tulsi Gabbard. Hermit, of course. For sure. And by the way, there's a big fucking difference between me and that big puss Gavin Newsome. Right.

Two, we both have cock and balls. he's fucking pussy. And he's retarded. But the point is, is, yes, no. You sure is, cockamol's? I don't know. The way he sits, you know, look, it would be completely unfair to lump in Karen Bass with Hermit Dillon or Tulsi Gabbard.

And it would be unfair to me to lump in that big fucking pussy Gavin with me. Yeah. So I, so you can bring that up to your blue in the face, which everyone does, because I think they're making a point, but they're not really making a point because it's still a percentage day. There's a larger percentage of women who think like Karen Bass and who think like Nithia Rahman. One quick thing. Then there are, I don't know. You know, when you meet a- tendency, again, tendency. When you meet a woman who thinks like Hermit Dillon, you go, oh, whoa, where are you been? Yeah. You know what I mean? Because you're used to something else.

Well, yeah. I mean, people should be assessed not by their chromosomes. That's the whole point. They shouldn't be assessed by their chromosomes, but if you've decided that you're going to make a concerted effort to get more women in positions of power, you're going to have this. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. One quick thing before the break, I was listening to a French general talk before we started today, and he was saying, look, what do you people think? He goes, we talk in this country.

We talk, we talk, we talk, we don't do anything. You talk all you want, nothing's going to happen. He goes, military is about doing stuff. You have to do things. And if you don't do it, you're weak and it's over. That's it. And I thought, well, yeah, there we go. But that's a very male perspective.

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Nick Reiner. So horrible, horrible mess. But I blame the state of California for it. I really do. Because I don't know what happened. I don't have details. But I know how families struggle in California to get people who are very sick treatment. You can't.

You can't do it. it. No matter how sick they are, you can't get them care. Did you see that kid that... What do you mean can't get them care? Let me give you an example. That child star that they put into an apartment, remember the kid who's strung out? And then they got... He's an adult now, but yes. He's an adult now. They found him on the street. He was completely a mess. We just got, we're going to put him in an apartment. It's all going to be good now. And they're like, oh, okay, well, it's not so good. We're going to get him treatment. And I announced he won't make it two days. He will not make it two days.

Because when you're on meth, you don't want to stay in treatment. He smoked meth during his psychiatric evaluation on day one and bolted out to the streets again, where he remains. Right. And you can't, you're not allowed to. Tyler Chase, I'm told his name is. You're not allowed to take that kid and go, hey, dude, I'm going to put you in this room for two weeks to your head clears. Let's do this. You're not allowed.

Right. And literally, who was I talking to yesterday? Somebody said that they were, oh, a physician friend in my. Dr. Bruce was talking to, oh, he made, I hope this is not going to out anybody or hurt him, but he was talking to somebody about this issue. And he was making the point that he goes, they kept saying, oh, they wanted drugs, did them do it, who are you to say, that kind of bullshit? And he goes, what if they're running down the street naked and completely psychotic and dangerously aggressive?

She literally said, well, they're happier if they're psychotic. Really? I went, oh, my God, we are there. Yeah, we are there. So, okay. So here's the thing. It's about rules. It's about enforcement.

There can be no more sit back and live and let live or whatever, free to be you and me. It's just rules and its consequence. And this is why there's so many criminals and junkies just sleeping on street. People dying. It should be unthinkable. It is manslaughter. Right. If this were a dog that ran around on the freeway and then was biting people, what do you just, oh, a dog's happier that way.

Right, right. Well, as I've been saying to you, all the stuff we're dealing with, it doesn't work. It's now just strict enforcement. It's basically, look, it's what it's always been. You can talk to Iran about enriching their nuclear whatever and ask them to please stop and we'll do sanctions and then we'll do inspections. and we'll do some more sanctions and some more inspections, we'll have some more conversations, we'll drop up some money,

or we can get a couple bunker busters and we'll drop it up the chimney, and that'll be that. And that's basically where I'm at with just about everything. Well, it kind of scares me that Trump is sort of gaining experience with this, and he likes it. I agree. I like it too.

It concerns me a little bit. You can go too far. No, I know, but what I'm saying is, if you're sleeping on the street, you don't have any business on that street. This is illegal. You can go somewhere. But if you can't go somewhere and you're on the street,

then we're going to collect and we'll put you somewhere. For your own good. And by the way, you'll believe, look, why did I work in this for 30 years? Because guess what? People are much happier when they're not psychotic or they're not strung out. For the store owner's piece of mind, too.

You're picking a piss in front of the guy's store. You're scaring people away. You know, the whole homeless thing, it's a yardstick for me. to measure any city. Yeah. If you got a problem, I mean, I told you, I was menaced by a guy in San Diego, like literally younger, well-built, good-sized black guy, me and my girlfriend trying to walk to go get

something to eat a couple months ago. Guy, like, spot me, crossed the street, like ran up to me, got my face, started talking about, you know, did I touch him? Did I touch something? And I was like, oh, this is going down. Like, it was a situation. I mean, there was a couple of people that were walking. We didn't know him, but they were scared shitless.

This guy ran across the street towards, it was like a whole, San Diego's a shit show, by the way. San Diego, whoever's running San Diego, how about you get your fucking shit together? The place used to be nice. Now it's a shit box. I tried to walk from the hotel to the place, you know, where the breakfast was or whatever. I couldn't do it. I had to fucking turn around.

I got menaced, turned the next corner. It's a whole village out there. I don't know what the fuck's on the street. If you have a homeless problem, you do not run your town correctly. You can talk to me all you want about test scores, schools, elderly, walkability, whatever, rent. Talk to me about anything you want. If you got a bunch of fucking people living on your street, You're a shit mayor, shit city council, and you're not doing it right.

You're not running your town right. And this state, they make it very hard for the mayors to do it right, though. The state make it almost impossible, but I agree with you. Right. But so what happened with this whole event? This, this, I started to, you know, I, maybe just because I boxed a lot, I start to slowly get into whatever this position I think I need to be in. You know, I don't know.

There's too many fucking people. You know, people do all the thing. You see it on the internet all the time. They go, come on, bro, come on, bro. And the guy just knocks them out. You know what I mean? Like, no, no, you got to get a little bit of space. And you can start getting your one foot behind your other.

Like, don't be square. Get a little, get that stance going. So for me, I always just kind of drift into the stance a little bit. I don't really move suddenly. But I understand what's potentially going to happen here. and he he just went he said something like you like it when i touch you you want to touch me or some shit like that i was just like okay and he just kind of stood there and it's like everyone's fucking scared out of their mind it's saturday at noon you know and then he went back but i couldn't

use san diego todd gloria mayor of san diego oh democrat what serving since 2020 it's a piece of shit city todd you fucked your city up sad used to be nice used to be beautiful People used to want to go to your city. And then Todd, Gloria, mayor of San Diego, you fucked it up. Oh, he's the first person of color. First openly gay. Oh, that's why he's doing such a wonderful job. Okay.

He's the first to everything. All right, Todd, you suck at your job. But I'm glad you got in there as a DEI hire. Now you can fuck the city up a little bit more. And then when you're done fucking it up, we can get rid of the DEI hires and get back to someone who's competent. Should we do that, Drew? I want to get back to reality.

He's openly gay. He can be gay. Does that make you an expert at homelessness? Or maybe it does? I wish it did. I hope it does. Sucking cock doesn't make you good at things other than sucking cock. Not necessarily.

May not even be good at that. That's true. And being black doesn't make you good at things either. So those should be carved out. I'd like to know if you're an effective person. So that's why San Diego is such a piece of shit. They did a D-E-I black, gay. They did the, we got the first.

Well, good. L.A.'s a piece of shit. We got a first female black. Okay, good, piece of shit. People are going to get to this D-E-I thing and start. It's so awful. By the way, you hurt the movement when you fuck up your city because you're setting the movement back because now we don't think a gay guy can run San Diego.

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