The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2075 - The Spectrum of Stupidity | Part 1

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

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All right, I got thoughts, and I have one. I finally have proof of something that I've always said. This is good. Now, I hung around with my mom and my grandma, and I told you a cabillion times, you know, when you corner these mostly women, but oftentimes guys. These days. these days and they go, I love this country, but the trail of tears and slavery and Jim Crow. And it's like, do you really, do you really love?

No, I do. And that's why I fight so hard against the president and fight for rights, you know, and then blah, blah, blah, blah. It's because they love it, right? Yeah, yeah. So everybody, every one of those skanks in the squad would tell you how much. they love this country and then do 40 minutes on what a piece of shit this country is, right? Right. And every, the more progressive, you know, the mayor of Seattle, whatever, they're all the same.

They're all the same women. They would tell you this, the best country in the world, and they love this country, and they got elected because they love this country and to affect change and then tell you what a piece of shit this country is, right? Yes. And, and I grew up with these people. and I was like, I don't think you like this country. I really don't.

I cannot see you saying it about a restaurant or your spouse or your buddy from high school or a bridge or your apartment. I just couldn't imagine you saying you love your apartment and then tell me what a piece of shit your apartment is for 40 minutes. Okay, so hold on. Let's dig into that just for a second because it literally is saying that something is and is not at the same time. time, right? It's actually a logical fallacy. Well, to be fair to them, they're arguing for their apartment's potential of what it could be, what it should be, except for what it is under this manager. Well, and let's get, I want to go back to the bridge. I think the bridge is a perfect analogy. It's like what the bridge could be, but in the meantime, it's a piece of shit and it's always been a

piece of shit, but we one day can make it a good bridge. Well, and, yeah, It has a horrible history as well of not letting black people cross it or something. Okay. So you just kind of go, okay, okay, slavery, okay. Oh, we didn't need to drop that second nuke on Japan. Okay, trail of tears. Okay, Jim Crow. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

But and who would represent this, this group? and I'll cue Andrew here. The Huffpo. The Huffington Post would have a ton of women and some dudes who do the, oh, no, I love that. You know, you go, why don't you just move to Mexico then if you love, oh, no, I love this country. I love this country. But under Trump and his tyrannical regime and all that kind of stuff, right? Yes.

Right. But the Huffe just came out with something that got themselves some attention. and Andrew will let you see it. It's a picture of, well, it looks like the women's hockey team, by the way, celebrating, which is weird for Huffpo. And it says, it says,

if waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, you're not alone. Okay. So here's what. Here's what I'm saying, Drew, and you can take it off now. This is not Trump. This is not policy.

This is not the, you know, I believe we need secure borders, but we can't go putting kids in cage. You know, this isn't a, yeah, but, yeah, yeah, yeah, but slavery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but, yeah, but. No, this is just our hockey team won a gold medal. That should be universally celebrated and palatable for everybody. I guarantee my mom and my grandmother would not be down with this at all. And what I'm saying is these guys hide behind policy all the time. They're always like, no, no, I love this country, but our border, what ICE is doing is inhumane, you know, whatever.

It's always but, you know, but our prison system is is feasting on young black men and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's always but, but, but, but, this is just a hockey team. It's a game that they have no concern with or of. No one at the Huffington Post played hockey. I guarantee you none of them played hockey. It's impossible that they played 10 seconds of fucking hockey because that would take discipline and hard work. You'd have to have coaches.

And you never end up working at the Huffington Post if you play 10 minutes of Junior League hockey. So it's a sport they know nothing of. And all it is is our country beat Canada. and they're pissed. Yeah. Okay. So here's my conclusion.

They don't like this country. Yeah. And you know what's the interesting thought experiment? Your grandmother and your mom were around during the 1980 Miracle Team's performance. Do you remember their reaction to that back then? No, I remember the reaction to Roots, the mini-series. And I remember the morning after or the day after. Remember that one?

Oh, yeah, I remember them, you know, their reaction of when Charlton Heston would present at the Academy Awards or John Waynewood. That was very negative. No, there were no flags straped over shoulders, no honking horns, no bumper stickers. Oh, no, it didn't happen in their world. You know, now, I mean, to be fair to my dad, nothing happened in his world. Right. That's what I was afraid of. No, I can promise you this. If you went to my grandmother's house three days later after 1980 and the American team won the hockey gold and had dinner for two hours, that subject wouldn't have come up.

Right. I believe that. Now, my question would be to your grandmother, how does she feel when the French wave their flag or Kazakhstan wears their flag? How does you respond to all that? They love, they're all four, they love when Mexicans come here and hang and show and proudly show the Mexican flag. Yes, they're all. To me, that's the most bizarre part about this. It's like they want other countries to have some pride in their country.

Yes. We're not allowed to. Well, because of our history. Now, and also, but here's what it is. And by the way, they hate their dads. hate their dad. That's the conclusion. They cannot celebrate hockey. And by the way, I think the Americans, and I'm looking at Andrew and, sorry, the American men and women both beat Canada. Yes. Yes. So that's, you know, they love Canada. Right. Right. So that's the problem, too.

But how about the fact that, I mean, look, people, Mexico is a very mixed race population. There's a lot of Germans and French and Spanish a lot. And those that aren't strictly that are mixed in with the indigenous genetics. How do they reconcile all that in Mexico? Why was that okay? The conquistadors that stayed behind, the French when Maximilian came in, it's all good? They don't do a whole lot of thinking on this stuff. But I am here to tell you that we finally have.

have a sample and a test that they failed because all the other ones get corrupted. It's always, you know, they love this country, something about the border, they love this country, but Trump, they love this country, but, you know, we're out of the EU or some, some nonsense, climate change or something. The American teams winning at hockey literally have nothing to do with any policy or anything other than if you celebrate it, you're pro-America, and if you don't celebrate it, you're against America, essentially. It's real easy.

It's a nice distillation of this whole issue. Yeah, I'm surprised, though, that the picture, I didn't really, it was on my phone. That's a women's hockey? Yeah, it is women's hockey, which is a weird one for Huff Po. But to be fair to Huff Po, they may not know the difference between men's hockey and women's hockey

or this thing could be old or something? I bet you they posted that right after the women won before the men. And I bet that happened just after the women's win. You know what I'm saying? Well, hold on. Hold on. Is this thing four days old? Is that what you're saying, Drew?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Oh, okay. I'm wondering. I don't know. You're not wondering. Well, you're wondering. This is not old. No, it's from this Olympics, but they reposted it right after the U.S. hockey team won.

women no US hockey men's team men's team right you should have known it was men when he said US hockey Drew okay now you should have everyone speaks everyone's not precise

all right now here's the thing you said they reposted it so they had already posted it with the women then before so made Drew's correct everybody is that correct no they posted it at the start

of the Olympics and that's when the article was written and posted. Hold on. Wait, the women won the gold at the start of the Olympic? No. When there's marching. When they were just marching, is that one of? That's, yeah, that's the athletes entering the. Oh. Oh. Oh. Interesting. So was it all women or my? No, there were there men in there. Oh, oh. So they posted it at the top before either one won. Yeah. And then when the men won. Yeah. They reposted it. Right. But they didn't. repost it when the women. No.

Okay, that straightens things out with me and Huffo. And I'm sorry about that picture, but I thought it was pertained to the hockey. So I thought it would be a picture of the hockey team. And in that picture, it looked like a bunch of women standing there. They're all bundled up. So it was like, let me see that picture again. See my brain's going insane. They're so bundled up.

I guess it's hard to discern. And so what was the reaction? I'm just curious, what kinds of response? They got lots of shit and rightfully so. But that is weird. You see, when things aren't right, they're usually not right. I don't mean to sound redundant, but what I'm saying is, is, am I going insane? Or is that just like all women standing there?

Well, maybe I can't see it. Well, I try to blow it up. I'm not going nuts, right? That's just women, I think. I mean, there are a lot of women's sports in, you know, I know, but Danvers screwed me up again. Is that all women or am I going insane? Now, is there two dudes and an 18 women? Like, it's mostly women, right?

I'm not, or is it dudes with long hair? We'll figure it out. I got to, you know, anyway, sorry, my mind plays tricks on it. I had a curiosity. But hold on. There's two guys. There's two, there's two, there's two guys and 17 women. Is that correct?

I don't see any guys. No, there's one guy. Well, there is. And possibly a second guy. And eight and 23 women. Is that what that is? Yeah, I see two dudes. Okay.

That's the athletes. Two dudes and 23 women. But okay. Yeah. All right. All right. But listen, Chuck, when I go, huh? And this looks like a women's team to me.

The guy could be a coach, for Christ's sake. But anyway, this looks like the women's something team. Anyway, what is it? It doesn't matter. I don't know. But all right, listen. But I'm not going to listen to you guys anymore. No, there's guys in there.

There's a picture of a women's team with a dude with one of their husbands standing in there. Well, unless, all right, anyway, this is a women's something team. Yeah. All right. But they did not repost it. it, they did not repost it after the women won, which I thought would be crazy. I thought it was crazy that they showed the picture of the women's whatever team. And I thought it was the hockey team.

That's not consistent with Huffo material. So they should be supporting the women's hockey league. And you would think the fact that you know a bigger part. Yes. A bigger part. Well, yeah. And the fact that people became excited about the women's. win should have been a Huff Po banner, should have been something they, they championed.

Yes. And I will stand by my assertion that this is a women's hockey team or women's something team. And there's two coaches or two dads or husbands standing there. It looks a little bit like the cross country and the speed skating squad. That's a women's whatever. But that's also kind of weird that they showed the women's whatever in Huffington Post, just whatever. Yeah, yeah. Because they love the ladies. Anyway, so the Huff Poe.

They love the ladies. Do you remember what Huffington Post started as? Do you remember how Ariana Huffington got going? Yeah, what was there a lawsuit or something? She was married to. Some rich guy died. She was married to. Oh, he had an affair.

He was gay. Oh, he was gay. Well, I guess that's still the same. It was gay. And she was way conservative, way right ring. and she had this out of big response and she was an immigrant with a heavy accent from hungry or something or Poland and and then it sort of drifted it's the oddest thing how it went well they you start hiring people out of college and and you know let's just picture let's do this as an

experiment you're ready drew yeah you'd go like remember in the 70s you'd go to Huff Po and they had a carving station for lunch and they had that open bar and the fridge. You open the fridge and it had martini glasses chilling in there and stuff. And now you go in there and it's all oat milk and soy shit and they got rid of the carving station and there's no more three martini lunches and stuff. And you go, what happened? What happened? Well, you hired people out of college and you hire mostly women.

out of college and things change at the workplace. I think that is the workplace change, but I think you get kind of audience captured too. Yeah. They had success with that audience, so they kept going with it. And how much oat milk is in their fridge now versus how much oat milk was in the fridge when they started.

You know what I mean? And so you get a different group in there. And by the way, ACLU, L.A. Times, they all get captured. They hire young people out of college, and then they hire lots of young women out of college, and they show up, and they open the proverbial fridge and go, oh, no, no, no, no, no, we're not doing this. No, no. Let's get that oatmeal going. And then 10 years goes by, and what happens?

You've got your change. Yeah. So it doesn't take 10 years. Yeah. In 10 years, it's in Scots. You're not changing it back. No way. Right.

Right. So Huffpo doesn't like this country. And that's what I've said. And it's not that they believe in the potential of this country because whatever you think about Trump and whatever you think about policy, you should be celebrating this win, but they're not because their beloved Canada got beat. And they don't like this country. But my mom and my grandmother would have never celebrated this win either. And by the way, they didn't like any kind of. celebration with a flag. I mean, Mexico, yeah. Yeah. Cinco de Mayo, no problemo. But us, they don't like it. Isn't that interesting? Well, because they don't like this country, but it's, but they don't like their dad. And that's it. All right. Ultimately. We'll, we'll take a, we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back after this. Hey, this is Adam Corolla from the Adam Carolla show. Prediction markets talk outcomes. Bet Online puts odds behind them. For decades, bettors have trusted Betonline for accurate lines, deep prop markets, and real money action across every major sport.

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the pitcher's taken from the opening ceremony of the Olympics. I didn't say it wasn't taken from the opening ceremony of Olympics. I'm saying they have groups that marched, though, still. They have the women's cross-country ski team or the hockey team. I mean, naturally they would kind of stay together. Those are the people they train with and, you know, they're competing with. I don't know if there's a policy about an order, but I would sort of say that when they're,

the women are all kind of piled together, you would assume that they're from, you know, a certain sport that they share. Yeah. That's what I think I saw a figure skater up front there. So maybe that's what that is. By the way, this is, I do love our country so racist. The only black person in the Winter Olympics on the United States is the flag bear who's walking in front of everyone. All the white people fall in. It's so impressive.

Well, but so, so far, winter Olympics. are so white. I was thinking about that. These are white people sports. Yeah. And black people could excel at that. And the speed skater is no example. It's a good example of that. Yeah. If you can get people interested in it. Oh, listen, you get black people interested in any sport and they will dominate in short time there. That's for sure. You just can't get them into curling and cross-country skiing. Well, cost-grine scheme they would kill that. I think they'd be great at that.

Well, it'd have to be the Kenyans. They'd have to get the Kenyans into the cross-country scheme. But no, they wouldn't because at a certain point, you need snow. You know, you're just going to need snow. Are you living in the United States? You put developing this United States Olympic team should be developing that. I mean, you talk about your plan for developing the trades for African-Americans. there should be a plan for Olympic development as well.

Yeah, that would lift them out of poverty, long distance skiing. I mean... Come on, Drew. Use your head. I'm just saying. I'm talking about the flag bear was... Was she the speeds skater? Aaron Johnson's speed skater. Yeah, there's one black female speed skater as far as I can go.

And she dominates. She dominates. Yeah. All right, Drew, sounding racist. That's what I'm saying. I look, look, no, it is not racist to say that there are performance differences between men and women, amongst different ethnic backgrounds, amongst different sizes and shapes and whatever. I mean, that's just the way. Oh, okay.

What about SAT scores, bro? Well, there is that. Well, intelligence does have some genetic component to it. Exactly what that is. I know a black guy who's a dot. Dr. Right, right. Did you see Newson's comp?

Bill Cosby played Dr. Huxstable on a sitcom. Hey, okay. Listen, because genetics, you figure into intelligence doesn't mean it's a black, white issue. There's tons of other genetic heritages for which intelligence can go up and down. That just is.

So. And did you see Newsom's comments? I will, but in your world, you wanted Dr. Huxable to be a garbage man. Is that what you're saying? because he couldn't cut it? I want to go to Newsom's comedy because it was exactly to this point.

It was exactly this. Well, you must have seen it. I've seen it. It's great. Yeah. But it's, okay,

so here's the thing. I mean, there's, there's kind of two sides to it. The, the Democrat, we're now to Newsom now. Uh,

to the general Democrat approach to blacks. Oh, this is the, different than what we're talking about. So go ahead. No, it isn't. I know. Well, no, because I okay, go ahead. Maybe you'll get there. Okay, I get it. Well, we can show the clip. I know what you're talking about. I'm saying there's two sides. Why do you think this is different? Because to me, the story is about Newsom and what an idiot he is. Right, but I said it's Democrats approach to blacks. Okay. Okay. All right. Newsom's a Democrat and he's approached us about. Let me hear you out.

Dude, don't stop here. Why are you saying this is a different story? What do you think I'm talking about? sake. I apologize. May I, is there a way I can make things right? No. Just, okay. Your impulse is weird. Let's move on. He's a Democrat. He's talking to black people.

My statement was there's two. I've never heard of anybody say shit like this. Are you kidding? We just played the tape of Kathy Hochel saying they don't know what computers are 10 minutes ago. Were you there for that? That I always thought they were tilting it money and, you know, sort of access and like that. I didn't I didn't I never interpreted that as an intelligence comment. Joe Biden said black said like black people are just as smart as poor people or something like that. He said his horrible

thing. Kathy Holkle said they don't know what they don't know what computers are. Yeah. That was a two years ago. They say the shit all the time. Joe Biden said black people are you know small business owners are just as capable as white ones. They just don't have access to lawyers and accountants. Right. And stuff. They say this shit every 10 minutes. Yeah.

That's the way they think of. Hillary Clinton pulls out her hot sauce from her purse. You know, she does her black church. I don't nose, nose waves. I've comes too long to turns back. You know, they do that. The landscape is littered with Democrats doing this bullshit to black people. The real question is what's up with black people that they never fucking say anything.

They just eat it up. Start complaining black people. By the way, this is on black people. This is not on Gavin Newsom. But we'll play the clip. All right. I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you.

I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. Deep leg crossed. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. But literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot, you've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in.

I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to. Is he drunk? Is he drunk? No one of this? It seems high or drunk or something? Like something's wrong. I don't know. Look, there's a thing.

We're thinking he wants to run for president of the United Effing States. And he's saying, I'm substandard intelligence. Well, you have to understand, Drew. This follows in the vein of, right, every third celebrity you talk to now claims they slept in their car when they moved out to LA, right? Is it possible that? And only Mayhem did that. Only Mayhem actually did that.

Him and Jewel. Is it possible that 33% of all white celebrities slept in their car? They were so destitute. Right. They all slept in their car. They all had poor parents. Right? Now, dumb is the new poor.

Oh, interesting. So they explain how uneducated, right? So then they go, I dropped out a junior college before, you know, ended up starting a huge business or whatever. They love that story, right? Yeah, yeah. So the Democrats look at their constituency as poor people and dumb people, essentially. That's their, that's who votes for them.

and then ultra-rich. So their constituency is super mega-rich, billionaire class, but there's not too many of them. And then the rest is going to be brown, black, poor, and dumb. That's what they go. But not white, dumb, black, dumb, brown dumb, chick dumb. That's their group, right? So then what they do is they want to appeal to those people

by explaining that they're sort of the same as them. Now, they think of them as dumb. So when they start saying, I'm like you, they go, oh, I grew up eating mac and cheese. And I grew up, you know, being suspended. And I grew up in a, you know, gang infested, you know, they love because they just assume that's how they grew up. They don't picture black people growing up and having a healthy balanced diet.

They picture them eating mac and cheese all day. Right. Right. So that's where they, that's why they do it. Now, they're not wrong in that probably more black people grew up eating mac and cheese than Irish or Japanese or Armenian. So the real dumb part is they're there basically going, because I ate mac and cheese and you ate mac and cheese, you should vote for me. Right. Which is insane, even though you have shit policies, and the policies don't do anything to help your community, but you think I'm going to do something to help your community because I played basketball and you like basketball.

No one else is alarmed that he got 980 SAT and must be president of the United States. That's cool with everybody? Well, first off, it was only out of 2000 back then, true. Yeah, it was out of 2000. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Chuck, you couldn't have cracked a thousand. Actually, Adam, I scored a respectable 1230.

That is respectable back then. After they raised it to 3,000. No, no. No, they're back to 2000 now. Are they back to 2000? I think. When you did your 1280, was that out of 2000? 1230.

Sorry. That's right. to round up. And yes. Added 2000. Yeah. Check the dates. Okay.

Well, color me impressed. Andrew, I know got a high score because he's an underachiever. So, wow. All right. Drew, you got a 14 something, right? I remember I got a really high in math at close to 800, but I gagged in English. Got like a 600. Well, because you've got a high, high,

high in mass score, you know, that's 1400. It was like 13 something. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know, of course, they say the great Huey Lewis got a perfect score. Mm. They say.

I did not take the test, so it's, you know, it's hard for me to judge. But being stupid and being poor and being dyslexic and not being educated or whatever that is, is the new I was poor thing. It's a bragging. They're bragging to dumb people vote for me because I'm like you. And dumb people like familiar. See, like dogs eat the same food every single day, twice a day for their entire life and are super enthusiastic about it.

Dumb likes going to the same fast food restaurant every day. You know, like if you get, once you get to retarded, well, hold on, hold on. When you get to retarded people, right? Yeah. You get to a retarded adult, like a 38-year-old guy's retarded, right? Yeah. Talk to their caregiver or their mom or whatever.

And it's like every day he eats cup of noodles. Right, right. At lunch with a fruit cup, but it has to be a jello style fruit cup with a berry fruit cup, with a berry fruit cup, and then he has a hostess thing, one hostess thing. go every day, right? You know why? He's retarded. Yeah. Right.

And then everybody who just eats at the Taco Bell every single day is dumb, but they're not retarded. They're just dumb. And then the people that want all the variety. Okay. So he's talking to dumb people. And the very challenged, they get overwhelmed by choice and they like familiarity and structure and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

You're right. Right. So what is a dumb person? Well, a dumb person is just in between a retarded person and me. See where you guys are? Retard down here. Me up here and you somewhere in that middle gray area. I don't know.

The fact that he can't read a speech, how's this going to work? He's bragging about, first of up, he's bragging about. He's right. Listen, when he said I haven't read a speech, I thought about his, his, his, his, uh, telecast when he locked everything down. He was speaking like, we should look that up again one day because he's like, okay, guys, we're going to do this and it's going to be cool and everything to be fine.

Don't you worry? I think it was extemporaneously. He was, he was not reading. Yeah, he was all extemporaneous. And if there were a time to read a speech, it would have been then. I'll give me my dyslexic black people joke, right? after this. Pluto TV has thousands

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And I've said it a few times, but nobody, nobody's, I don't know, Andrew, Chuck is a comedian. You guys could figure this stuff out living in that gray zone between full retard and me fluctuating, sometimes up, sometimes down. Closer to tartarma. Don't worry, guys. He puts me in there too. It's fine. Closer to tartiform on the ground, up in the heavens with me. Tartofirma.

Tartopferma at the ground, at the base, soaring with eagles, up with me, always fluctuating like a stock. So here it is, Drew. Yeah. I was, you can keep your note on the screen, Andrew. I was, I was, I never learned how to read. I'm a quite, I'm a fairly competent reader now. I could not read before because I never learned to read and I never practiced. And so thus I didn't know how to read.

As you described it to me, you threw dirt clogs instead. Yeah, made stuff out of clay. People look at reading as some sort of God-given right or something. No, you learn it or you don't learn. If you don't learn it, you don't know how to read. I mean, you've got to think about all the people in the past, you know, all the people that settled this nation and came west. and all these guys couldn't read.

They didn't have any formal training. They dropped out of the third grade, you know? If there wasn't, there wasn't a third grade, you know? No, there was a schoolhouse that they didn't go to. They didn't go to it. They were working. Okay, so they don't know how to read. So I didn't know how to read.

But Drew, because I was white and because I'm intelligent, people kept telling, well, no, I didn't have privilege, but I'm just white and I'm intelligent. people assumed I was dyslexic. So they would tell me you have to get tested for dyslexia. You're dyslexic, they would say. I remember that. I remember that whole. Did you ever test or did you?

No, you remember me telling you this from years ago. But I got tested before I met you. But not that long before I met you, probably about four, probably about three, four years before. About four, four, five years. Anyway, but I told you about it. Yeah. So, yes, I got tested. And as it turns out, I'm not dyslexic.

At least the test said, no. And I kept telling everyone, I am not dyslexic. I never learned how to read. So I don't know how to read. I've learned along the way in these little dribs and drabs and I can kind of get through it at that stage. but no, I didn't learn to read and then I went to a construction site and I stayed there for 10 years

where you don't read anything on it. You don't read anything. So then I got a job later on where I turned out I had to learn how to read and so I basically learned how to read. But. So hold on. But go ahead.

The joke and kind of the joke and kind of the and kind of the truism of it is when there is a white guy, they always go, oh, you're dyslexic. When it's a black guy, they go, oh, he fell through the cracks. The system let him down.

He went to a school that never emphasized. It's like, why can't the black guy be dyslexic? Why can't you have fallen through the cracks? Why can't I have fallen through the cracks? Right, because they figure he's a white guy. He's dyslexic. He's a black guy. He grew up in the, you know, a sharecropper in the South and never learned to read.

It's a stupid thing, but it's an assumption. And so when that's racist. Right. So Newsom is the only dyslexic in the room. The rest of you were let down by the system. Well, here is. Also dyslexia sounds like a black name. You think about it.

Back to soaring with the Eagles. Imagine. So, you know, I watched you dedicate, you know, apply yourself to learn. to read because you had to read cue cards and shit like that and you applied yourself and you learned to read now imagine you're going to be president of the United States uh don't you think i don't care if you're dyslexic or fell through the crack you're you're going to take some action to learn how to read no but this asshole doesn't uh he knows how to read he he's full of shit listen let let me explain as if you are a white okay so here's what gavin newsom is right

He's white. He's six foot three. He's good looking. He has all his hair. He's not fat. And he's rich. Okay. He runs in a grievance party.

He runs in a party of as a black woman, I know what it's like firsthand. As a gay man. As a whoever confined to a wheelchair. As a whatever the fuck they say, they all have a grief. and they all have a disability, right? Well, he's a tall, white, good-looking, rich guy running on an aggrievance party.

So he needs a fake disease. You understand? Yeah, he needs a disability. Well, he should throw in like Crohn's as well if he's going to, you know, go ahead, toss it in. You know what I mean? And they'll do it. They'll do it with like clinical depression or they'll tell you, but they suffer from anxiety.

They're in a grievance party, and they're in a grievance party with a, I'm a, you know, I'm lesbian and a black one, you know, whatever it is. He's running with nothing. You go, now, he's trying to pretend he's poor because his party doesn't like rich people. So he has to pretend he grew up poor,

even though his dad was lead counsel for the Getty. oil corporate. He hung out with the Gettys. There's no more rich you can be. I hung out with the old Hoffers of Glendale. In their apartment in their apartment in Glendale. Listen, not only did I hang out with the old Hoffers in their apartment in North Hollywood, I would go into their apartment and look at it as a vast upgrade from the place, the house we were living in, which is a weird thing to live in a house and to go into an apartment and go sweet you guys got wall-to-wall carpet it was how many rooms with that apartment you always talking about his mom you know beat you know whipping him with a spoon right and stuff and a german lady i know i know well had it was a a complex

but i probably had 40 units you know had a decent size living room with a little dining room and a little kitchen off of that. Then it was Ray's room, middle bedroom. It was a three bedroom. The parents' room was at the end. It was probably 1,200 square feet. It was like a decent size three bedroom apartment. Ray's mom usually would manage the apartment to get the kind of break on the rent, you know.

And what does dad do? I forget. The story was a little sketchy with Gunter. Gunter was not here in this country, I think, legally. Oh, geez. And he made prosthetics for tooth. You know, he made teeth, I think. That's a big skill.

That's a crazy skill. Yeah, I mean, back when he was sitting there with a little Dremel, you know, like making teeth in some sort of lab. But it was always kind of. explained that it was sort of under the table. You know, it wasn't really here taxes. And then Ray had a sibling? He had Richie and Ronnie.

They survived Ray and what are they doing these days? Do we know? Ron was older, so he kind of survived. But Rich was younger, so he had a much more difficult time. So Rich was, so Rich's childhood, who's probably like three years younger than Ray, and Ray would just torture him. We would go, we would, like I'll give you a perfect Rich Ray story. We would go into the kitchen, you know, on Saturday, Sunday morning, you know, 10 in the morning.

And Ray would walk in there. And Rich would be sitting in the little breakfast nook with a pile of pancakes. his mom cooked his mom's a German woman who worked and cooked and like took care of business you know I like going over there right big upgrade man so I so we would go in there and Ray would go mom pancakes me and Adam and then she she would go because she started cooking at eight in the morning you know and now it's 10 and then she would turn and look at Ray and go god damn Ray, the kitchen is closed. The kitchen is closed.

You go get your own breakfast. You want to sleep in until noon. You go, I'm not your maid. So she would yell, the kitchen is closed. Richie. Richie. And then Ray would take Rich's pile of pancakes that he was about to eat, and he would slide it over in front of him, and he'd spit all over it.

And then Rich would start crying. How was Rich? It was about like I said. It was about three years, three or four years younger. Rich would start screaming and then look at his mom and go, mom, and then she'd start making more pancakes and go, God, damn. And she'd start making pancakes. And Ray got his pancakes. Wow.

That's a perfect example of how he got through life. It's perfect, right? Yeah, yeah. It's perfect. It's perfect. He literally would go through life. That's how he went through life. Now, he didn't get up early and get his mom's pancakes, and he didn't make his own

pancakes, but he did figure out a way to get pancakes. Yeah. And it was pretty resourceful because, you know, his mom said no more pancakes. It's resourceful, and it's outside of normal behavior. You know what I mean? Like, anything was on the table to get his way. Oh, yeah, yeah. He would just go.

He was when we were, you know, we used to have to register for classes. I remember you told this story many times. Go ahead. I never knew how anything worked. I would just stand in line. And Ray showed up and realized he didn't want to stand in line. So he just walked to the front of the line and just sort of cut in front of everybody. and just he did what he did with the pancakes.

Yeah. And then Mr. Smith, who was kind of a counselor, not his counselor, but kind of a douche, but a football coach, was my football coach on the B team. He was like, Old Aubur, I see you instead. Get the hell. Go to the back of the line. Go to the back of the line. And Ray just looked at him and went, I'm not going to the back of the line.

He goes, go to the back of the line. No cuts. And he goes, I'm going to the beach. And then Mr. Smith goes, you go to the beach, you're not going to get any of your classes. Because all the good classes would fill up. And if you're at the back of line, you got the shit classes with me. You know, it's why it was a ceramics major. So Ray just goes, I'm going to the beach.

And Smith goes, you're not getting any of your classes then. And then he just goes, we'll see. And he left. And then the next day, Ray's counselor was, I think, gay and maybe liked him or something. But Ray knew he could bully him. You know what I mean? And he just walked right into his counselor's office. He's like, I need this class. I need that class. And the counselor would go like, those classes are full, Ray. They're full. Yeah, well, throw somebody out and put me in or just add one. Come on, do it. And the guy just do it. And that's how it worked.

That's right. That's pancake theory. Pancake theory. Now, It's good at the beginning for getting pancakes and classes, but it's bad later on. It's bad to reinforce that behavior. Yes. It doesn't pay great dividends. No. The consequence, he was able to skate out of consequences so well that consequences wouldn't actually affect him.

He wouldn't, he wouldn't, like, care about them. Yeah. but but there is a there is a version of life like you know as I said my my mom my dad they never you know didn't work too hard and they didn't really take care of anybody and they didn't have like life insurance and they didn't clean their gutters or anything and they both just made it to 90 and then died that it wasn't like it wasn't it wasn't like there was a consequence filled life for them yeah you know what I mean like there's a There's a way, you know, people.

Now we have consequence free and gravity free. We can do both. Right. There's this thing where people do this all the time where they go, oh, you know, kids, you know, orthodontia, the money, the schooling, saving for college, the expense. And I go, or nothing. Or not. You can just do nothing. Right.

Nobody in my neighborhood's parents did anything. They just fucking, they just let their kids run around and they made them pancakes once and a lot. And that was about it. It didn't cost them anything. Yeah. I don't know if you know this, but there's a breaking news, which is Nick Reiner pleads not guilty to killing his parents. By reasons of insanity? That would be interesting.

To see if I can find it. Andrew did not. That info may not be out there or Andrew did not include that on the screen. I'm not in front of the news. He definitely was insane when he did. I guarantee you. I guarantee it. Oh, you'd have to go insanity.

You couldn't go a homeless guy broke into the house. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Right. So it's got to be insanity, right? Yeah. Yeah. Now?

Andrew says they just say not guilty. But by the way, the news could just say not guilty is a headline. But I think it's insanity. Yeah. It would be insanity not to go for insanity. And I don't know who is who his representation is, but they would insist. I would assume,

although insanity, I guess in California is different than other municipalities. It's really a hard one. It's a hard one. You have to, if you do anything that suggests you knew you were doing something wrong,

it's over. You can't do it, no matter how wildly crazy you are. It's sort of impossible to be pure insanity because everybody who does something, no matter how insane, look, obviously killing both

your parents with a knife is insane. But at some point, you try to hide the knife, and now you're not insane. You could be unconscious or barely conscious, and your brain would still make you do something like that. You know what I mean? You wouldn't remember it. There's all kinds of layers to this, but that's the way California is. All right.

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