The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2082 - Zohran Mamdani’s Grocery Stores Will End Horribly | Part 2

Episode Date: April 18, 2026

Adam and Dr. Drew look at New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan for city-run grocery stores with super-cheap prices, and they break down why they think the idea is doomed to fail. Adam shares stories from his childhood wandering the Valley looking for free food because his mom didn’t care to feed him, and they talk about people who are just naturally mean, especially those who go out of their way to be mean to kids. They wrap by reacting to California’s proposed “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” which they see as another example of lawmakers trying to silence accountability.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 Pinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on. Get it on. Dr. Drew's board, fertilized, sexton specialist. In New York City, what's going on there, Drewski? You know, it's warm. It was like 80 degrees.

easier. It's weird. My wife announced, she announced, it's El Nino. And I said, that's a Pacific thing. He makes it the opposite in the east. Okay, you just invented that. It seems to me, but okay, I dare not argue. Oh, New York, when Domney's getting ready to open those free supermarkets, it's going to. That's going to be a good time.

Good, high quality. You know what I love, you know what I love with the. Democrats. I love their artist rendering of everything, you know? See, here's what they're going to do. I saw in his pitch, there's a drawing of a happy farmer giving produce to a happy person that doesn't feel like earning money, and so they

went free food. But that's how it's going to work. It's going to be local farms. Warm embrace of collectivism. Yes, it's going to be local farmers giving good food to the store. and then that food's going to hand it over. Like, you see the artist's rendering of what the bullet train looks like. The greatest is the 7th Street Bridge with all the happy people walking around

and people are playing a guitar and there's an ice cream stand and all that. Except where all there is is Mexicans doing donuts and Dodge Challengers while their buddies pull wiring out of the lights and then spray paint and graffiti everything. That's the reality of it. But what Democrats always have is these artist renderings of everything.

Of life. Artists rendering of people. Right. Right. Yeah. Here's how it's going to work. It's like they two drawings of stuff. Yeah.

Like they should just, they literally just draw stuff how they want it. But that's not. The bullet train rendering is awesome. It really, it looks like you're in the south of France. Except for it's a. shit show that'll never be done. All right, here it is. Grocery prices are out of control.

The cost of eggs and milk has skyrocketed. All right, hold on, pause. I, are eggs sky right? First off, what's eggs? Drew, first off, eggs, you know, let me tell you where I file eggs. You ready? Yeah.

I file eggs under, like, when people go, oh, you, I took a southwest flight to Portland last year. It was $79. This year was $121. I'm like, you got to Portland in 97 minutes. Shut the fuck up. Right.

Eggs, there's 12 of them. They're the best thing you can eat. God knows what it takes to get it from the fucking chicken into the container without breaking any and then into the refrigerated store shelf. And what? It's 379? Or, uh-oh. now it's $4.11.

I'm outraged. Yeah. And by the way, they're back down again. My understanding is, but I don't have any direct confirmation of that, but I believe they're back down. But anyway, whatever. It's under a dollar an egg. There's way, it's under 50 cents an egg. There's no more nutrition.

There's no better you can do. Shut the fuck up. Eggs are too expensive. They're great. Eggs and bread are too expensive. Listen, if eggs are too fucking expensive, you're doing something really wrong in life. Yeah.

All right. But anyway. And by the way, most people down in that part of town are on Snap anyway, right? Oh, they're all eating for free and they're all fucking fat. But here's the other thing, too, because this drives Andrew nuts because it's a Nick Shirley thing, but it's driving me nuts too. Those little battery operated microphones, they have a clip on them. You can clip them on your fucking collar. Put them on.

You're holding it like a boom mic. It's not. It's got a clip. They have, they don't have a handle. They have a little spring loaded clip. Everything I shoot, Andrew goes, here's the mic. And then you can just clip it on your collar. And it's great.

It's perfect, except for the part where Andrew forgets to take it off at the end of the day. And then I get my car and then somebody calls and they ask what I've been doing. And I said, working with that fucking hack Andrew. and then it gets recorded and then he has to see it in the edit bay but that's not the Mike's fault that's not the Mike's fault that's the only

but that's the only downside of the clip on Mike do you understand Drew? Yeah yeah okay but he has to hold it everyone has to fucking hold it like they're smoking a cigarette or something all right anyway let's hear let's hear what's going on with food

the cost of eggs and milk has skyrocketed Some stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day, depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't need to be a way with. What the fuck is he talking about? Does anyone know? First of all, grocery stores are tough businesses.

They're essentially real estate plays. They don't make a lot of money. That's incredible if he would think that. Well, listen, Gavin Newsom thinks Chevron is gouging California for the price of gas. Right. first off, has anyone ever experienced dynamic pricing where you're being gouged at the supermarket

where I pick up a can of SpaghettiOs and I go, oh, it's $1.29 and some guy rushes in and goes, no, no, it's $189 now. I'm dynamically pricing it. It's just, here's the whole thing about supermarkets. You just go in and the fucking price is the price. And once in a while,

we went into a Gelson's that was in La Cagnada. And we walked out. My girlfriend was like, God, that was like twice as much as the Ralph's. And I was like, yeah, it's expensive. And then she goes, well, I'm not going back there. And that's how it works. Yes.

You see? That's right. Okay. But anyway, go back a couple of those. So eggs are super expensive and milk is super expensive. And also these supermarkets are. like riding in new prices after people get there already for stuff to make it super expensive. How much for those two hamburger patties? $1,800. Well, I guess I got to pay it. Right, Drew?

I'm looking at the price of an egg. It's roughly 19 to 30 cents per egg, depending where you're buying them. Yeah, but if it gets the 32 cents. An egg, I'm going to have a meltdown, Drew. Because that means my three-egg omelet would almost be a dollar worth of eggs. Okay? You understand? Yeah. Okay, here we go.

Hors are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't need to be this way. I'm Zahran Mandani, and as mayor, I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores. It's like a public option. For produce. We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets. The city-owned grocery stores. His mission is lower prices, not price gouging.

These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent and will pass on those savings to you. Did you catch that part? All right. No property taxes or rent. Of course, that's the major overhead fees for a supermarket.

Gouging, gouging, Drew, is the most... That's a costly part. I really, I honestly don't know. There's stuff where you kind of go like, well, maybe. And then there's, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I've been to 1,000 Trader Joe's 10,000 times. I've never experienced gouging. I don't know what it means.

Do you know what it means? No, milk's about two bucks a quart. That's milk. Okay. Is that the gouge price or the regular price or the one where you don't have to pay rent or your employees or taxes or anything? No, the employees are going to get extra fees. They're going to get an extra high salary.

All right. I was like that they have a music bed underneath these things. So anyway, here's how pretty soon the happy farmer's going to show up with the happy lady and then they'll give them some good food and then you'll get it, right? No, I don't see it. Supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent and will pass on those savings to you they'll partner with small

businesses and nearby farms and sell at wholesale prices look out that's so good my i keep playing it's the farmer and the lady she's nice she's wearing like gouchos and he's a he's got a lot of pride yeah and we got a drawing of a farmer so you know it's going to work drew I like the way they have to put a little dirt on his knee. Do you see that? Yeah, there was a little, well, he's picking, he's picking lettuce. There was a George Carlin joke from a million years ago that it always made me laugh, which is, he said, he goes on the back of the advertising for the Acme cream or whatever,

the act, I should say acne cream, the blemish cream. He goes, and, and the advertising. like in the magazine or whatever, he goes, and you know it works because there's a drawing of a woman with like dots on her face and then another drawing of the same one with no dots. That's how you know it works. It's like it sounds ridiculous, but isn't that kind of this? But that's how gullible humans are.

But I want you, I'm dying to have you put on your crystal brain and tell me what these super, when he opens them, what are they going to look like in a year? It's going to be like this. It's going to be a shit show. it's poor dumb people who are greedy who are just going to go in there and do whatever they got to do it's not so they're going to bring boxes and walk out with stuff listen listen this fucking pipe dream of sort of poor but proud maybe 150 years ago that ain't it today now it's poor fat dumb and grift that's all it is there's nobody there's nobody poor and proud anymore

there's there's a bunch of people and a bunch of bullshit assistants who are fat, who are sort of arguing that they have food insecurity, except for they're morbidly obese. And there's no more of this dust bowl pride bullshit. It doesn't exist. These are people who don't want to work, who abuse the fucking system, who take free shit and have turned to mush and are greedy and fucked up. And these stores are going to be a shit show. They have to be. There's no other possible.

By the way, they try it. They tried it in like Kansas City. The fucking stores closed down. Right. Doesn't work. It can't work. It can't. But how about the guys that are paying taxes and rent nearby that are trying to run their stores?

What about those guys? They got to pay their employees more, Drew. Oh, those guys, those guys are doing the gouging. Right. They're gouging. And so we've got to get rid of, which they will do. That's what will happen. People will close up and then there be no brokerage.

loan those stores. It'll be better. Let's just play it to the end. Sorry. Happy farmer. Wholesale prices. The job of city government isn't to tinker around the edges while one in four children across our city go hungry. One in four going hungry. You understand that there are 25% of

kids in New York are going hungry? Wow. What does that mean? You think it's stunting their growth, Drew? I've never seen. Have you seen a hungry kid walking around New York? No. I've seen it in Mexico.

I've seen it down there. You know it when you see it. There's a whole different thing. Does anyone ever look malnourished? Well. Huh? Well. No?

Are you saying the word no? Or you're just going to? No. No, you're saying? No, I'm not seeing it. Not seeing it. Okay. No.

I walked on a bit last night yesterday. I didn't see it. You didn't see any malnourished kids? No? All right. Well, according to him, 25%, 1 and 4. Did you know? Right.

Yeah. So that's a big deal. That's a lot of kids. Jesus Christ. I mean, New York's pretty big. Got a lot of kids. 25% going hungry. They use numbers the way they use those drawings.

Yes, I know. I know. So 25% of kids are going hungry, but 67% of kids are more. morbidly obese. Right. So how does that work out? That seems pretty extreme. And by the way, here's the thing about hungry kids.

They start looking for food. Like you're like you, going to your neighbor's child. You were one of those kids. I was. And I just went and found food at other people's houses. They would be in the trash cans. They would be outside the restaurants. They would be all over the place because that becomes the

priority, find food. They have huge calorie demands when they're growing. Oh, I, my food finding was the valley had a lot of like apricot and plum trees and stuff and I would just climb up that tree and I'd pick 15 apricots. I just eat them on the ground, you know, and I would tell them though when you would get to the, when you were babysitting at the neighbors and you would get to open the closet and go at it, what what you would concoct. I would open. a can of pie filling, dump it in a bowl, put some like mini marshmallows on top of it, like toll house morsels. When I babysat, it's all I did was eat everything they had. I think you said one time you put couch chocula on top of the pie filling. I ate,

I would do, I would eat a lot of tree stuff. I'll go to my friend's house and eat all the time. and I would also go down to Henry's tacos and get the broken taco shells, which are essentially just corn chips at that point. You know what I mean? The soft taco had not really been invented yet. They were all hard shell tacos. As a matter of fact, Henry's tacos is kind of the forerunner of the soft taco. Like they made a soft taco.

It was kind of a taco burrito or something. But the point is, is back then you had to have hard taco shells. And I would reckon about one out of every 10 or 15 would break. And it was useless to them. And they would have to throw it out. So I would just get the bro. You go in the trash can to get it? No, I would go up to the window.

And I would go, do you have any broken taco shells? And half the time they'd go, yeah, there's a couple broken ones in the tray or whatever. I'd go, could I have the broken taco shells? And they'd give me the broken taco shells. And then I'd go, could I have a packet of hot sauce? And they go, yeah. And I go, could I get a cup of water? And they go, yeah, I was a great customer.

And they'd just give me this shit. And I would just sit on their patio table and dip the fucking broken taco shell into the thing. because I didn't have any money and there was no food. But it was mostly that my parents didn't have an interest in people being fed, you know? They didn't. We just, I would leave the house at 9 in the morning with zero money and zero food and just be gone the whole day. And nobody ever said, like, hey, what are you going to eat? How are you going to pay for food?

Do you need to buy lunch at some point? Like, it wasn't a discussion. which I find very weird now as a parent, you know. I'm about water. Water. I had a hose in Henry's tacos and I had fruit trees. And this was like summertime. And I was good.

It's amazing you didn't get something called quash your core, which is protein malnutrition. How did you get protein? I went to Chris Bowms' house when they were doing pork chops that night. Okay. There you go. That's what I would be. doing is hanging around and at some point mom would fire up the skillet and I'd smell those pork chops and I'd be like, hey, maybe I'd just hang for dinner, you know? And people were like always

kind of like, yeah. Other people's moms were much more invested in me eating than my mom was. Fascinating indictment. My mom's famous words were I said to my mom, there is nothing in. this house to eat. And she said, if you're hungry, you'll eat. Yeah, well, she was right. She was right. I'd just do it at Chris Array's house.

And that was awesome. Anyway, she's got to be missed. She's got to be missed. Neighbor had pie filling always on hand. Didn't that seem odd? Or is that just an occasional thing you came across? I don't know, Drew. Pie, people have cupboards and they have cans in the cupboards.

I didn't know. Pie feeling. How many people are making cherry pies? that they did their pipe filling. People. That they didn't miss it. Like it wasn't Thanksgiving or something. Oh,

well, I don't know what they missed. They did, they did warn me a couple times about eating everything. Oh, that's funny. That was kind of humiliating, but what did you say?

They told, you said Thanksgiving. One time they had a turkey in the, in the refrigerator, and they just said, hey, man, you cannot devour that turkey. It's like a cartoon.

I was so, I was embarrassed, but I was like, all right. Like, they had to tell me where the no-fly zones were because I would, you know, I only got a dollar an hour, but I ate like 80 bucks worth of food when I would go to. So they knew, they had to fucking know my mom. They had to know what my house was like because we were next door, you know. So they kind of got that fucking garbage house I lived in and stuff. So they must have known that I was ravenous when I showed up at their house.

Just out of curiosity, were you like clothes clean? Did you have showers? You know, was there also telltale sound? No, we didn't have a shower. We had a tub. Right. And no, I was not, I wore just the same thing I wore the day before kind of kind of thing. I had, you know, it was very limited the stuff I wore.

I would say, no, I was not well kept. But I mean, would people look at you and think, boy. It wasn't Dickensian, I guess, if that's what we're saying. But it was pretty clear that I was pretty shabby. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, I looked. I was not put together, but the shoes were fucking old and fucked up.

The shoes were beat to shit and, you know, hair was always a massive. And you never really described who these neighbors were. They said, I don't remember. Did they have a normal house? Or is that? I'll tell you what, take a quick break and then I'll tell you the family that live next door right after this.

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And like a lot of, there were issues. There were a lot of issues with that family. So the moral is don't feed your kids? I think so. I mean, there was something to glean from this. They moved out. And then the mom, Dorothy, was super mean.

It's just a mean. There's not that many people I take. Hiplify is just what I would call mean. You know what I mean? She was mean. She got nice later on in life, but she was very mean back that. It was super mean to me. I mean, she caught me picking plums from her tree in her front yard and was angry.

You know what I mean? Like, it was like I couldn't just show up and start picking people's apricots of plums. I had to see where they were, you know, I don't want them walking down the, coming out of the house, I'm up the tree, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. And her plum tree was pretty close to the street, so it was pretty good. But she caught me and started yelling at me. I don't know.

She probably could have just realized he had a fucking desperate kid live next door and trying to get food. You know what I mean? But she was angry. Everybody's, Chris's mom's friend, Louise, used to police Chris's mom's mom's kitchen. So I would like sleep over. And I said the whole thing about sleeping over is I would get up in the middle of the night and go to the kitchen. And I was there was a box and nil a wayfers in that fucking pantry.

You know what I mean? I was going to get some. But I was Louise caught me in the kitchen a few times. You know what I mean? She started yelling at me. They spent the night there, Louise? That was a that was a sort of afternoon type heist. She was over.

I was making my way into the kitchen. And she caught me in the pantry and she started yelling at me, which is, again, I could, I could only imagine going over to draft. Take it out of here. I couldn't imagine going to your house and having some friend of your son, like, eating in the kitchen and me walking in. Excuse you. Did you pay for those nilla wafers? Well, then you march yourself, right? I mean, I don't know what the fuck was going on with all the enforcement.

You know what I mean? These were adults, man. They were adults. They came out of the depression on the second world war. And you were a fucking kid. And Louise was, and they were all fucking poor and dumb. They all lived in apartments as adults. They were all like kind of divorced or going through it.

They were all fuck up dumb adults. And they were fucking weird and like angry and poor. And so helping yourself to some of their food was a big fucking deal for them. Ray's mom cooked a lot. and she'd made just big, and Ray was a huge eater, and that's why I like going there, because I always ate more than the kid ate, and I didn't like the optics.

I didn't like the optics of going for my third pork shop when the kid had won. You had some sense of demeanor, decorum. I was totally, I had a total sense of it. I did not want to outdo the kid, ever. So, but Ray ate like a fucking Viking, and his mom cooked, you know, big, you know, German food and stuff.

I go there and fucking gosh down. And she kind of, she liked it. She was old school German. It was like, yeah, eat. You know, eat up. My family didn't, the only people, my grandfather cooked. And so when I went to his house and he made like goulash and I'd get a bowl of goulash, it had fucking beef in it.

It had like chunks of beef in it. And so I would devour. the bowl of goulash. And then I would immediately be going, I need seconds. I need a second bowl of goulash. And my grandmother would always explain my grandmother would go, I haven't started on my goulash yet. Okay?

So you can wait. Like, they're all super shitty about food and their kids and weird. And, like, also just kind of overtly mean about it, like, sort of un-needed. necessarily mean like my grant like we're almost a weirdly abusive like you know yeah like if they had a stick you felt like you get hit with it you know they they they don't but they and it's weird you know we went the other way our generation adam we've we did not like that and we pushed we did a little different kind of parenting and i'm not sure that was right either no it wasn't right i didn't have a

choice because my ex-wife she did whatever she wanted just spent my money but uh i would have like to police it a little bit, but I cannot police it. This whole story about food reminds me of the sandwich conversation we had. And so, you know, you know, my, let me just tell you something. They're weird little traits where you know someone is mean. Yeah. They go out of their way to be mean about stuff, weird stuff. Like my grandma would do little things because she was a mean person.

Yeah. She would like, I'll give you an exam. example, if you called her and she was sort of in the middle of something, which we've all experienced, she wouldn't go, hey, sweetie, I'm working on something. Let me call you back in five minutes. You'd pick up the, she'd go, hello, and then you'd go, oh, hey, grandma. She'd go, I can't talk now. I'm in the middle of something. And it's like, okay. Just say, I'm watching my show or I'm doing something. I'll just call you back in a minute.

But she'd get really like intense about it and make you go like, oh, okay, sorry, sorry. Hang on. I'm going to give you an observation that I think will be accurate for you because I remember it when I was a kid. Some of these people, not all, but some like your grandmother, would go out of their way to be mean to kids. Yes. And they'd be extra saccharine with adults. Like you'd see it. You'd see the difference.

you go, what the, do you know who that bitch is? Why the adults are sort of feeding into it. And they go, they go way out of their way to be shitty to kids. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. They would. And not only their kids, any kid, other kids.

Yeah. Doesn't matter. Yeah. But then the adults, oh, no, no, no. This is like your mom with the, you know, your grandma rather with the. My grandma, she wasn't, she didn't, she didn't really have two modes. She was kind of mean. I mean, she's sort of that way.

Like she didn't, she didn't do an Ellen Rosie version of herself for the adult. She was shitty to adults too. I mean, she had her stupid friends who she worship, you know, she, she only used her friends to kind of demote you. You know what I mean? She would do a lot of. Emery Kinerick is a professor at UCLA, okay? Meaning, and you're fucking stupid and you don't think.

anything. You know what I mean? It was like a kind of her thing. And it was mostly to promote herself. Right. Of course. He's a friend. He's a good friend. You know, they do a lot of this guy's a big deal. And he's coming over for potluck dinner, you know, and the potluck. By the mind, my grandma through dinner parties where everyone else brought the food. Lots of discussions. And by the way, discussions and mistrust about like a casserole bowl. You know what I mean? Like it was like, Helen,

I forgot my cassero ball. Latsy, do you know, yeah, I'd like to drive here to recede it from receded to pick up my cassero ball. It was sort of vaguely, I don't trust me with my cassero bowl. I don't need it.

I don't want you to disappear my cassero bowl. It was, my grandmother, if my grandfather tried to give me goulash to take home, and a piece of Tupperware that was 28 years old, she would fucking slap it out of his hands. He's like, no, no, no, no, no Tupperware. Give him the jar.

And by the way, you talk about the potluck as though everyone knows what that is. That was a big deal in the 70s. Everyone had potlucks. Those really, I haven't seen that in a couple decades. Right, because if I said to my girlfriend, we're throwing a Super Bowl party and I'm going to have everyone else bring the food, She'd go, are you fucking nuts? We're not going to do that.

You don't throw a Super Bowl party and tell everyone to bring the food. Yeah. You know what I mean? They do it. That's how they, that's how they would do it. My mom, even like toward the end would be like, you know, Thanksgiving. You're coming over. Yes.

Can you go buy DuPars and pick up at pecan pie? And I'm like, bitch, you don't have a job. and you live next to DuPars. Why don't you fucking get, and you're having Thanksgiving. Why don't you bring a, go get a pie? Why don't I have to bring a pie?

I live in Hollywood. DuPars is in Studio City. You live in Studio City. Go fucking get to pie. I work all day. You don't have, you don't work. It's a weird, my mom didn't want to pay for the pie.

Right. What's the whole, the whole thing? Yeah, but she would ask me, at the end of her life. She was like, you know, John and I found a new restaurant. Could you, she basically, could you pay for me and John to go out to the restaurant? Because I have money. And she has money too.

And so does John. But I have more money. Well, they don't want to spend their money. You need to pay your fair share. Right. That's a good woman to be raised by. But if you like food, you're going to be in trouble. So I want to go back to your crystal brain.

And I want to pay that out. And the everyone's guilty comment. Okay, those are the two things I want to talk about. Let's start with everyone's guilty. What did you, you said that last show? What did you mean by that? You have all, first off, you have, first off, you have all the people who just feign outrage who are into this, you know,

Gavin Newsom's going to make a comment. I mean, you know what his wife was into with Harvey Weinstein? You know what I mean? Yes. So don't be outraged by it. And by the way, it's ubiquitous. Don't be outraged by shit that goes on all day every day. I know your policy is zero rape.

Yeah, your policy is zero rape. Okay. Half the people that walked here in these fucking migrant caravans were raped along the way that you guys created. Is that okay? And then there's trafficking. And then there's human trafficking. And then there's kids. and there's cartels.

That's all stuff that you guys facilitate. So spare me. You know what I mean? Is that? And then there's the news part of it that first covers for him by saying there's nothing there and now it's going to act outrage by it. And then there's all the lawyers that are going to get paid by it. You know what I mean?

I see. And then there's all all the women in Congress who's going to explain this is not acceptable and it's never acceptable. and then we'll be here. So they're guilty of not having, either having defended this guy or not having exposed him sooner or just participating in the pandering.

They all knew what he was up to. They just use him until it's not politically expedient for them to say anything at a certain time and now it is. So now it makes sense. How about Pelosi, man? She's like, she's the one that protects him. And now is like, I have no idea.

Who knew? Really? No access to that. information. Lots of access to stock information, Drew. Lots. But not this information. Right. You understand? Yeah.

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it's the wife of Rob Bonta, the DA, I think, or whoever the attorney. His wife wants the, we've jumped the shark now, Drew. Here's the whole thing. Listen, Democrats, I know you hate it

because it's your constituency that's ripping off the taxpayers, and you want everyone to pay more. But you have to pretend like you care. You know what I mean? You have to fake it. Like you're doing with Swalwell now, right? You're all disgusted by his activities

that you've known about. Right? You've got to pretend. All right. Here's Nick Shirley. All right. Check this out. This is a bit crazy.

California Democrats advance Stop Nick Shirley Act to criminalize investigative journalism. So after I expose widespread spread fraud all across America and quite frankly, states like Minnesota and California are just the worst at letting fraud take place, especially inside of immigrant communities. For instance, the Somalians in Minnesota and then the Armenians in California. And so now they're trying to silence anybody who exposes fraud inside of California.

For instance, if this bill is passed, the Quality Learing Center that was in Minnesota would be protected from being exposed. That is absolutely crazy. And the crazy thing about this is the person who is proposing this bill. Her name is Mia Bonta. Her husband is the Attorney General of California. And so let's say you expose fraud. This is what could happen to you inside the state of California. You could get a misdemeanor, a $10,000 fine, imprisonment, and your content forced to be deleted. That is absolutely crazy. It is time for people to either stand up or we face mass. mass oppression from those that rule us. The other thing they're doing is right.

The other thing they're doing, Drew, which is something I keep warning everyone about is they're letting these fraudsters off with a slap on the wrist. Because... Really? Well, let's put it... Wow. Well, let's put it to you this way, Drew.

And think about... Well, let's think about the courts, right? you are that is your constituency the Somalians they're the proudest hardest working people they built Minnesota I don't know if you heard and that's your constituency and so what you do is you look the other way while they defraud the government while they vote for you and then you pander to them okay but at some point Nick Shirley shows up and it makes headline news and now you got to do something so you got to do something about this so you have to prosecute

otherwise you're going to be prosecuted for not prosecuting these people. So you prosecute. But who's the judge? It's a lefty Democrat who lives in Minneapolis who feels like you do. So what do we do when the person rips off the government? Do we throw the book at them? No, we give them the minimum sentence and we let them go. And that way, it seems like the fraud isn't as great as it is because you don't have a bunch of people in jail.

bunch of indictments and things like that. Now, what do you do conversely when we're talking about January 6th? Oh, that's different. Now, you got some veteran who wandered onto the grounds and was just walking around while he's being guided by Capitol Police. That guy's got to do hard time because we need to make a point because we need to pad this. We need to talk about how horrible it is and how many Like you got Joe Biden. There's a clip of Joe Biden that Andrew can find maybe where he's up there and he's going, there's been over 11,000 years combined of court, you know, confinement with these. Oh, I get it.

You're padding. You like that. So you're taking guys who are taxpayers who wandered into the rotunda and then turned around and left. And that guy's doing four years. You got the Somali guy who's ripped off people to the tune of $10 million and they get six months. Oh, well, what are we doing here? We're making our point. You know what I mean?

Like, listen, if you're an American and you're involved with January 6th and you get pulled up in front of that D.C. You know, Biden elected or appointed judge, you are fucked. Yeah. You are fucked. But conversely, if you happen to be a Somalian who ripped off everyone for a decade and you got the bleeding heart female, you know, Obama appointed judge, then you're fucking great. Is that how you want the system to work? Pretty wild, right? Okay, Drew.

Yeah, it's a clip. No, I mean, it's discouraging. I was just watching Nick Shirley talk about those that rule us and these these oppressors and the oppression of the state government of California. It's just so depressing. It's all depressing to me because you feel helpless. By the way, You know what a lot of this is true? This is chick think.

Because chicks, a guy would go, listen, all this fucking fraud. It's making us look like shit. I wish it would go away and then someone to go how about I introduce a bill that says we can't uncover fraud and then someone go you can't fucking do it you're going to look like an asshole you're going to look like you're for the fraudsters

you fucking idiot we have to pretend like we're against the fraudsters yeah those those fraudsters vote for me I know but we can't come out and say it chicks don't have that fucking governor on them they'll say right Every chick I've been with will say anything at any time. To me or anybody else doesn't matter.

You could be on a ladder with a circular saw above your head working, and they could be laying on a bed eating chocolate bonbons. And if they got mad, they'll go, I do everything around here. That's every woman I've ever met. So it's possible. They're capable of, they don't have, quite the self-scrutiny, I guess it would it would be. They're easily annoyed at them.

Yes, I know. So the optics of Rob Bonta's wife pushing this legislation forward is insane. Yeah. Yeah. How about the fact that it could happen? That's the thing that... Well, they're going to vote for it. Yeah. California does stuff like that. That's why, it's such a mess. All the stupid regulation, you can probably pull up 50 bills like that

that are equally as dumb as it pertains to building a train or building a house or, you know, who knows? They just are so nutty cuckoo with this, their ideas. It's the opposite of what humans need. I've got more and more libertarian as I've got along here. It's just more and more back to leave everybody alone. Leave everybody alone.

You're at. You're in New York. You're going to go down to the free grocery store and load up? Sure. I'm going to take a big box with me. You can't afford those eggs, right? Eggs. And I'm going to spray paint something on the wall of thanks.

Thanks. Oh, yeah? You're going to graffiti the place? How fucking big a shit show are those free supermarket is going to be? Listen, listen, hold on, everyone. Let me explain something. the people here's can i can i just say the the thought let me just give you guys the flaw the concept is fine the concept here's the concept drew i'm going out of town and i'm going to be away

during Halloween so i'm just going to take myself a big plastic pumpkin and i'm going to fill it with chocolate bars and i'll put on my porch and i'll say limit limit please limit yourself to one. Mm-hmm. And that's a fine concept. Is it not? It is not. And the warm embrace of collectivism.

It's not. I said that's a fine concept. Is it not? Yeah. Yeah. Is it? Yes. Yes.

It's a good concept. Now what happens? A bunch of fucking dumb shit animal kids fucking take the whole thing. And that's the way it works. Right. You guys, right. You guys are working under the concept that these fucking people that are

sitting around and eating off the government or noble, hardworking people that may be a little down on their luck or something, they're mostly fucking animals. And they're going to go in there and they're going to fucking destroy that place. That's who's doing this. That's why it can't work. You don't fucking know who you're dealing with. You think these people, oh, let's give them a, let's give them clean needle exchanges and judgment-free zones. Yeah, you're dealing with junkie animals. You understand? Why don't you understand who these people are? I grew up around poor people. They're not good. They're not good at all. They have, first off, they're much more dishonest. They do a lot more fucking stealing and bullshit. There's a lot more substance abuse and smoking and

like all the shit you don't like or society doesn't like. They do a lot more of it. They're not noble. They're not really into fucking raising their kids. They're not into education. They're fucked up and they're shitty people and they'll fucking steal whatever they can steal as fast as they can steal it. So those stores are going to be a shitbox. Now, when you go to the Whole Foods in Beverly Hills, no, it's a different place. Why is that? Well, you don't have a bunch of those fucking animals roaming around. That's what it is. There's not this weird, noble, poor, it proud. It doesn't exist. I've lived in it. I've lived with these people. They're not that, they're not that way at all. And you're giving them more free shit just makes them fatter and angrier

and more on the grift. I don't know what this fantasy is like the Somalians. They built this place. 80% of them on fucking welfare. What do you mean they built this place? What is this fantasy you guys have about poor people? Well, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's dovetails into the American dream, right? People will just, you know, to give them opportunity, they'll find their way out, which I still adhere to completely, but it, not everyone can do that, right? No, well, they can't, yes, everyone can do it. They just don't choose to do it. Right.

Everybody, you can work on weekends if you want. I never met anyone who worked no one I none of the poor people I grew up with worked a weekend and Adam they had no they had no opportunity to work on the weekends every fucking fireman I know is also a carpenter because they do like three days on and four days off and they have four days to not do anything and they all become contractors right you can fucking work if you want to work

you can do anything you fucking want But my, no one in my family and nobody I knew ever worked a Saturday, ever. I work almost every Saturday. You can do it if you want. They never did. Did you do it when you were doing horrible jobs? Yes. I worked, I worked Saturdays all the time, all the time.

I work my little weird side jobs, you know, while I was. working, you know, my regular construction. I would always have a little side bullshit. Yeah, all the time. I mean, not Saturday and Sunday like I do now every weekend. It's, you know, this comedy is kind of a weekend sport, you know what I mean? So it's not a coincidence. But yeah.

And no, my dad, my mom, my grandparents, no one ever worked a Saturday, ever. They just took their shitty job and that was it. And by the way, my friends, parents and their shitty apartments and their shitty jobs, no one ever. No. They didn't have any hustle. You can do whatever you want. You just don't want to do it.

And we're making you soft by giving you free shit. And now you're fucked because you're atrophying and you can't do it because you're fat. Okay. Other than that, let's all have a good day. Tonight, Phoenix, Desert Ridge. Jim, right. That's right. Weekend shows, Drew, five, including Sunday. Bring your crystal brain with you to the shows. I'm bringing them. Early shows sold out on Friday. And then another weekend, Las Vegas, Friday, Saturday in May, Kimmel's Club. Just going to Covina.

That'll be on a Thursday. See, Drew, I don't have to work every weekend. You go to the, you go, that'll be Thursday night. You go to, yeah. A last. a couple, last weekend, I flew home from Utah on a Sunday and then got my car and drove to San Diego to do two shows on Sunday now. Because I'm not, because I work, Drew. You can do it. All right. Drew, what do you got? I asked Dr. Drew Tuesday at Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific, Wednesday at 4 p.m. sign up at Dr.doo. So until next time, I'm Adam Crowell for Dr. Drew saying, Mahala. Pluto TV has thousands of free movies and TV shows. We're coming at you at!

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