The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2085 - California Freedom | Part 2

Episode Date: May 9, 2026

 Dr. Drew expands on his idea that Hollywood will eventually blame AI for rising production costs, while Adam argues AI will be used to replace easily replaceable roles. The conversation turns to minimum wage and first jobs, leading to a broader discussion with the staff. Adam also rants about the dangers of victimhood, and they wrap with a reaction to a photo of Gavin Newsom trying to use a saw.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 the choice. We get them in mandate you get it on. Dr. Drew's board first side sticks. Suspens, blah. Hick a br.

He said lots of discussions as you sat down. It's weird. I just read a quote from some guy, a British guy saying, I've searched all the parks for statues of committees, and so if I haven't found any. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Good line.

So, can I start with, I made a prediction last show that you didn't give me a chance to expound on, which was, I forget where you were talking about, but I said they were going to blame AI for something. We were talking about Conan and Brian. Yeah. No, listen, the problem with you is you jump out ahead and go, I got a prediction, and then I got to tell you, that's not what's happening and that's not where you're going to talk about it. No, no, I knew it wasn't a prediction. No, but you said my prediction is they're going to blame it on AI.

Okay, so let me flesh out what I was saying. But here's what I'm saying, Drew. If that's not what you're talking about, then make yourself clear because we're showing a video, you pause it and you go, my prediction is they're going to blame it on AI. Right. So let me, you're right. People think we're talking about the video. Correct. And let me flesh it out.

So what I was thinking was right now, he's like, what is this? Why do I have to spend two weeks with these dogs? And isn't this silly that they do this? He doesn't think to himself. He doesn't connect the dots, is what I was saying, to understanding that it's the people he elect that create these laws that are making impossible to do business. I'm going to argue behind closed doors with microphones off, possibly.

Possibly. Possibly. But remember, he's throwing parties inviting Rob Reiner. over. So that's who he's running with. Correct. And much the way Karen Bass is still blaming the fires on climate change. Right, right, right. Okay? The new climate change, blame for everything. Oh, yeah. Is going to be AI. Yeah. And so when Conan O'Brien tries to understand why did this puppy think, oh, there's some AI involved. AI must have mandated this or somebody you must have used AI to, I'm just saying. What are you saying?

No, no one knows what you're saying. What I'm saying is AI is going to be the blame for everything. It's going to be the new blame for me. But at least track, Drew. He's not blaming AI for regulations. He's... I don't know. Find a way.

They find a way to... The regulations have been in place for 10 years. Well, not that... Well, maybe, but the... We were just talking the show about how there were new regulations on housing assessment of stuff. Conan O'Brien is going to blame AI for putting its writers out of work. not for regulations with OSHA. So the point I'm making is...

No one knows the point you're making. Here's the point I'm making. So I'm going to make it explicitly. Chuck, do you know the point in Jerusalem? No, of course not. So climate shame has become the blame for everything. Climate shame or change? Climate change.

Okay. And climate change has turned out to be a hoax for the most part. In fact, I was watching something this morning that was saying that, you know, we're just coming out of the latest ice age. And when you come out of an ice age, temperatures go up. but we're likely to go back down again. So you're going to hear more about a new ice age. Well, I'm going to, let's say this way.

I don't know that climate change is a hoax, just like I don't know killer bees from Africa or a hoax in that they exist. Yes. But they're not going to affect any of us. Right. And we're acting, we're walking around in beekeeper outfits because we're worried it's going to affect us, and that's the hoax part. Correct.

And I'm just predicting that the new hoax is going to be AI. that they're going to make it influence everything. Yes, the writer's saying, yes, that's an issue. But it's going to be everywhere. Everything's going to be blamed for AI. Kind of sort of, but they're not going to blame regulation, I don't think. But they will blame. Hollywood is going to blame putting writers out of work, putting script supervisors out of work,

putting, you know, there's a million down-the-line jobs. Look, let me explain something about a production. I'm going to explain it to Chuck. Chuck. When I was up and running doing the man show, we had a big three-story office building, and we probably had 80 people employed by us when we were up in production. That counts. Camermans and script supervisors and cue card girls and an art department.

You know, we had a whole shop, a huge wood shop with 10 guys working and making it, making stupid stuff, you know? Editors and everything. There's 80 people and maybe it's 100. I don't know. Yeah. Okay. We did not need, we needed about seven of those people.

Just like around here. You feel me, Chuck? We didn't need it. Now, it's not that we didn't need someone to go refill the refrigerator. It was that anybody could have done that job. And anybody could have, like, we had editors. I sat in the bay. I sat behind them, and I edited every bit that I did.

Because if I left them alone to do a man on the street bit, they would fuck it up. And it wouldn't be funny at all. And no one ever listens to me, but I've never met any editors that made anything funnier. They make shit less funny. And that's why you have to bear it. I would go in there for nine hours at a time and just sit in a dark room and go, cut it there. No, no. Cut it there. Nope, you're not listening. Go back and put that in this order.

We didn't need any. But we did need about four or five people. Really is what we needed. So all AI is going to do is clean out all those fucking people that we never needed in the first place. Now, Hollywood has teamsters sleeping in vans that are running because no one else can move the van. you can't send a PA and go the van's blocking the shot, go, no, no, you got to go get a Teamster. That guy gets $100 an hour. That's the only guy who can drive the van,

and he fucking sleeps in the van with the van running. How long do you think we can keep up that business model? In any business. And let's just say we ran a grocery store. What's that guy? He's in the Muffin Union. What's he do? He guards the Muffin'n's.

He's the Muffin Man. He's the Muffin Man. Well, I need a tray of muffins. You can't touch those muffins. We got to go get him. And by the way, He's got a union representative that are fucking shut this place down if you handle. Why can't I just take the tray of muffins and put them in the shelf?

Go get the muffin man. He's a union guy. What's he getting? Oh, by the way, he's getting golden time because he's putting in a 12-hour day. So he's getting time and a half. How long can that fucking supermarket exist before somebody comes in and goes, we're not going with a muffin man? When there's huge margins and no competition, the way movies have been forever tells you've been forever.

Now there's a business. So listen to me, all you worthless people, all you people that can be replaced tomorrow by fucking anybody, be prepared. That's who's going to get. Conan's not going to get replaced. Right. But everyone else is, I mean, on one hand, here's, I have interesting feelings about this. In one hand, I'm like, well, there was huge margins. I'm glad those people got to participate in those margins and the unions. Yeah, I know.

Because they're fucking ungrateful fuck. Hang on. They are. They got fat and bloated. and they expected to get that for everything. The problem is when, I always used to say, I don't know why they call show business, show business. It's more like show endeavor or something.

There's no business being run. Now it's going to be a business again. And when there's businesses, they're margins, and there are cost overruns, and that's that. It's over. It's just the money and that's that. And they're going to have to change. Well, AI is going to be part of that too.

Because it's going to make it more efficient. Yes. Still, it's nothing to do for a cone, I would say. But yes. All right. So AI is fine. listen the righteous have nothing to fear

but the fucking people that can be replaced you're going to get replaced and that's the way it works but every time there's a technological advance that's what happens yes the flippy the robot

is going to replace me at the grill at McDonald's yeah but if your lot in life is working at grill at McDonald's then you're going to have to make some adjustments that's on you

you know it's the same one where they go that's a good thing though yeah it is it makes people grow and resilient she's a mother of three and she's single and she's in her 40s and she gets minimum wage. She can't live off this minimum wage. You're not supposed to be getting minimum. Drew, when is the last time you got minimum wage? I would like to conduct a survey. I would like to conduct a survey of everyone in this

building. When is the last time you got minimum wage? You go first. You go, Drew, 79. Where'd you work? I was like for a community sweeping streets and moving trash and stuff. Where at? In Laguna. So you got like a city job? No, no. This was the community where I lived. They hired me to do stuff.

Oh, you mean this is like a condo community? Like a homeowners association. Yes, exactly. Oh, okay. Be clear, Drew. But it was, I think that's who I mean. Look, what did I know? Well, no.

I mean, when you say the community I lived, I thought you're out sweeping the streets of, but you're in the condo. association, the homeowners association. Yes. Hired you as like a janitor. Exactly. And they paid minimum wage. $165. That was my first check. But you were in college, right?

At that point I think I was in high school. It was a high school summer job. Okay, hold on. Isn't that what minimum wage supposed to be? You said 1979. Yeah, I was in... Oh, no, I'm sorry. Oh, boy, look out.

I'm sorry, 1974. Well, that's a big difference. Yeah. That's a big difference. Ninety 74. All right. You know what? I have a hard time remembering that I was in college in the 70s.

That's hard. That's a hard pill to swallow. You should just come to me for all the things you need. Yeah, 74. 74 or 75 in there. Yeah, because it, a buck 65. All right. And you were what age?

I'm trying to get back to the age. It might have been $1.69. All right, Drew. Your age is previously asked. I must have been 16, 16, 17. It's a long time ago, you're trying. No, I'm bummed.

Look, I know I was 15. Probably I just turned 16. Yeah. You must have been two and a quarter, though. Well, school, it was like, I was getting like, I looked it up. I don't know it was like 310 or 270, 285 an hour or something like that. I think you're too low at the one. No, no.

I will always remember it. I remember the hat sign. You always remember you. You're in college thinking you're in Laguna Beach sweeping for 10. Okay. Let's ask, you know, AI. Okay. Listen, Andrew, look up the minimum wage in California.

Okay. So. 1974. Here's the Dillio, Drew. Yes. School, my birthday is at the end of May and school lets out at the early June. And I just school let out. I worked at McDonald's.

So I just turned 16. And then I worked at McDonald's for several months during the summer. And after that, that was my last minimum wage job. All right, California minimum wage, 1974. $2. How about $19.73? It's increased. From 165.

Okay. All right. There it is. But you thought you were in 79 at the beginning. Yeah, I know. All right. So now I was doing this in 80, in 1980. And in 1980, the minimum wage in California was what?

I always thought it was like $2.45, but it's like $3.10. I'll say it's $3.10. All right, don't argue with me, Drew. Yeah. Three. I said big money. You're doing that Gavin Newsom. Hey, your state's turning shit, yeah.

You have the worst crime in the world. Uh-huh, yeah. And we've got a bullet train to nowhere. Yeah, I paid for that bullet judge. I like when he goes, I like when he leans into it. It's like she's your wife going. You cheat, uh-huh, and you gamble. That's right.

I gamble that money away. Kids college fund. Right out of my pocket. And you have no hygiene. That's right. I haven't showered a month. Like, oh, I. I know you're doing a jujitsu where you're leaning into instead of fighting.

See, Karen Bass fights. You know, we've done this. We've done. Newsom kind of leans into all the failures. Yeah. Which is weird. Yeah. Anyway.

So, listen. Okay. My last minimum wage job, I was in the 10th grade. I was going into the 11th grade. I was barely 16. And that was the last. After that, I worked at the flat. Licker, and then I work cleaning carpets, and then I work construction, labor.

And, you know, by the way, that, and that, listen in the early 70s at least, I tried to get a job McDonald's. You couldn't get it. Remember, jobs were very scarce, too, in addition, they're being driven away. Jobs were all, jobs were tough, but you could always get a job at McDonald's. I could not get a job at Taco Bell, which proves your point. So, here's the point. Did we figure out you were 16? Yeah. Okay, you were 16 and I was 16. After that, for me, it was like, well, minimum wage was three, 10 an hour, but maybe I got five bucks at an hour, six bucks an hour for working at the flask liquor, and then maybe I got six bucks an hour for cleaning carpet. Then I got seven bucks an hour for dick and ditches. And then after that, the minimum wage was far in the

rearview mirror. By the time I was on a construction site, it was three years, maybe three and a half years later, and I was getting twice what minimum wage was as a labor. Okay, so that's the way minimum wage is supposed to work, by the way. I didn't start a family. Chuck, your last minimum wage job, if you ever had one? Two years ago, Universal Studios and Harry Potterland. Two years ago, and they pay just straight minimum wage at Universal Studios. Yeah, it was like six. It was six. 1775. Wow. See, now you've got to realize we're old, but that sounds insane.

It sounds insane. When you come from a $2 or buck 65 or $3.10, but everything else is more expensive. Yeah. I would argue that I think minimum wage is, I know gas is expensive and it's California and everything's fucking expensive. but when I was working for minimum wage, couldn't really live off of minimum wage. No. Not really.

No. You couldn't pay rent and gas and food. No. I think if you had roommates and so forth, you might be able to do it today. So minimum wage a little more. So two years ago. Andrew. 2013.

T.J. Max. T.J. Max. Yeah. Taking it to the max for the minimum. How old were you? I was 28, was 725 an hour, but I only worked in the mornings because I waited tables at night. I just needed more money. Funny, these fellas went well beyond, which may be the trend.

You know what I mean? So when Drew and I were coming up, you didn't meet anyone who was 23 making minimum wage. It didn't exist unless that person was like, a waiter or waitress who was making some sort of base minimum, whatever, but was taking home 300 bucks and tips, right? Right. Right. But this is an interesting thing, which is we were heavily dissuaded from the minimum wage.

Like, the minimum wage was you got $3 an hour. They took taxes out of it. And you'd be, you know, I'd do. 30-hour week at McDonald's and I'd walk out of there with $89 or something. You know, I remember the conceit of that back then was essentially to teach young people how to work, how to pay taxes, how to save a little money. It wasn't. It wasn't to make a living wage.

No, no, no. There was nothing to do with a living wage. It was the minimum you can pay someone who was totally unskilled. Without, like, ruining them. And probably in high school. That's typically high school. So Drew, it's, so then it's not a coincidence that Drew's minimum wage was 16 and my minimum wage was 16. And Drew comes from a father who's a physician, and he comes from the little Lord Fontleroy School for albino hemophiliacs.

He went to a private school. And so his trajectory was toward college and toward a professional life. my trajectory was like toward going to the docks and lighting a trash can to stay warm, you know, and singing doo-op songs. Longshoreman made big money back. Okay. But just saying. Anyway, thanks for that. So, yeah, just saying.

Thanks for that. So the point is, is we both knew at 16 this was in the rear view mirror. And that I would go on to get paid $7 an hour digging ditches, but it would never be minimum weight. Now, I want to know. I want to know who else in this building. I want to know everyone's last minimum wage. What's your prediction? I want to know how old.

Now listen, do not. I'm curious. Go figure this out. Yeah. Oh, bye. I want. Bring a piece of paper with you. Please bring a piece of paper with you.

You must write this stuff down. Okay. I don't need a long dissertation. Your age, your last age, you worked. minimum wage. You got, I don't know, 23, Chuck, you got 23. We got like a couple, Andrew, you or what, 20, we got 28, 28, 28 and 23. That's it. Quick lap. Well, so the older guys like Nate and Adam Scher back there will be skew younger like we did, and then the younger people are going to skew older. It's interesting. Well, it's why I never, I don't want them to keep

raising the minimum wage. Because you want to discourage people from, staying at minimum wage. I don't want it to be a living wage. Right. I don't want you to get paid the least amount possible for almost zero skill and live often. Right. That's what I don't want. Right.

But you were talking about red and blue cities the last couple days. And is that another chasm? Yes. Where they want to give everybody everything. And regardless of the effect on human behavior. Oh, they don't know human behavior. As a matter of fact, not only they don't know human behavior, They think the opposite.

It's one thing to go, I don't know. Like I always say, it's one thing to be not like you go to me, are you an interior decorator? I'm like, I'm not an interior decorator, but I'm not a bad interior director. I don't have horrible ideas. Yeah. So it's one thing to do damage. Yes. They're bad.

Like they not only don't understand human nature, they understand it in a twisted, retarded way that actually causes people to do. do harm. To be fair, they come from a place where human behavior, human nature doesn't exist. Where is that? It's implanted. The left. It's implanted. Right.

All right. Quick break. Back with our answer. I don't know. Drew, let's say. Average age. We're 16. I'm going to skew up.

And I'm going to say, I'm going more like 22. Yeah. Although Nate and Adam will drag it down a little bit. Shit. Is for the whole building that's going on, including us? or why don't we take us out as out of the equation i'm going to go i'm going to go 19 that no i'm going to go 20 what do you got i think it's going to be a good bit older than that okay well yeah i forgot i forgot i think 22 maxing and relaxing at 28 oh man your winner brother must have just been

yeah well he was he was proud of me because it wasn't my only job it was just my a m job i just need more money when he said he was proud of you did he pat you on the head yeah then i asked to talk about the rabbits. Did he ask you want a little snack? You need a snack? Okay. His parents and his parents are winners. I know his mom toasted his bread for his sandwiches.

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There's an inverse relationship between staying on minimum wage and having your mom build a sandwich for you. Good sandwich, mom. All right. Well, Chuck shall return with these numbers sooner than later. What else you want to get into? I had a big fight with Michael Malice about the benefit of low self-esteem. Which one is Michael Mous?

Mike Mounce is a writer. He's a... I know his name. I'm not... He was formerly... He lives in his... Pitchering him. Liza Nuttfeldt felt a lot.

He was in Soviet Union as a child. He speaks multiple languages. Interesting guy. And he wrote a book about... Oh, wait. I know Michael Mouss. Wrote a book about the Hall of Dom Morris stuff. Yeah.

I know Michael Mouss. But he was arguing that low self-esteem can only be bad. I thought... No, no. It's good. It's good. It's good.

No, it's great. It's great. I love low self-esteem people. High self-esteem people are intolerable to me. He was saying, though, that the issue was not. Hold on one sec. Sorry. Yeah.

Here's what they do. You know, you know, these fucking low self-esteem are these high self-esteem fucking fucking carpet bagger, fucking snake oil salesman? You know what they pedal? I go, listen, I know low self-esteem and I fucking love it. It's so fucking easy to get along with. These people are so easy. It's just easy.

And then I go, I do know how. self-esteem people and they're fucking pain in the ass and they think they know everything and they're constantly getting involved with shit that's none of their business and trying to command stuff and then you know what they say you know what michael mouse says they don't really have high self-esteem they really have low self-esteem and they're over and i go i what it call whatever the fuck you want they keep telling me how much they know about everything and they don't know anything and they're constantly getting involved so the person that was stopping me on the horse trail and telling me to put a mask on is that that you're saying that's a

that's a low self-esteem person who's just masquerading as a high self-serve? I don't know. Then we're going to have trouble labeling. Yeah. I'm going to label that person as a high self-esteem person and I don't fucking like them. Yeah. So to be fair to Michael, what he was saying was really the important issue is internal versus external locus of control. Like when you're low self-esteem, you take responsibility for everything.

It's because of me. Well, external is I'm a victim. Mm-hmm. And he had a point. I mean, that is a more pertinent issue to our president. moment, people have external locus of control. It's just, ugh, they can never change. Right. It's all happening out there.

Right, right, right. And the victimhood thing that I've been fucking screaming about is being insanely damaging to people and hurting the black community and hurting insane, creating, but turning victim first, fell and second. You know, because eventually

you've got to fight back. You know what I mean? I have to wildly destructive. This whole sort of victim thing and DEI thing and this thing. I've been screaming at people. This is damage. You're getting people killed. It's fucking hugely destructive.

And everyone looks at me and goes, what's wrong with you? You're a racist. Or whatever. Well, I want to show you a video of a guy that has an external locus of control who was on the cruise ship recently where there was a little viral outbreak. A couple of people died. I pretty much guarantee you they were over age of 75. This guy, I think, is a travel blogger or something. but he's on the ship where the viral outbreak occurred.

And I want to talk about this. So here he is. I normally wouldn't make a video like this, but I feel like I need to say something. So I wrote a few things down. I am currently on board the MV Hondias. And what's happening right now is very real for all of us here. We're not just a story.

We're not just headlines. You're laughing at people. Hold on a second. With families. Pause. Is it, is it not a good reflection on me that I don't laugh? I don't laugh very easily, but when I see dudes crying over nothing, or women, I laugh. It makes me laugh.

You know what I mean? Which is sad. And that makes me laugh. It does make me laugh. All right, so he's crying. It's not saying the best. It's not bringing out the best in you, Adam. Okay.

Just saying. All of us here. We're not just a story. We're not just headlines. We're people. People with families, with lives, with people waiting for us at home. Right, that's how people work.

There's a lot of uncertainty, and that's the hardest part. All we want right now is to feel safe. All right, it's enough. I mean, you get the picture. Safety. Safety, Uber Alas. Safety, safety, safety, safety, safety.

God, this guy's so posy. Yeah. I don't know, but the hanta virus is what it does. Haanta virus is a rat, urine, and feces mediated viral infection that can make old people very sick. You can even kill people. Old people get sick from everything. Yeah, like COVID. Yeah.

Like COVID. And you get it by stirring up the feces. Like you, it kind of becomes airborne a little bit or the fluid and you touch your eye or something. It's not easy to catch. It's not a, it is not a respiratory aerosolized, all this BS. But when I see this more than anything, I just think, oh, we can do this again. Really? It's so, it's so compelling to this guy to be in this shape.

Yeah. I guarantee you he was in the same shape during COVID. I do love it. By the way, anyone out there who starts their video, I've never started a video where I went, look, I don't normally do these videos, but I felt compelled. Shut the fuck up. and smash your camera right then. The first time when you, I go, I'm doing a video because I got shit to say.

But if I, if you start your video with this, with I don't normally do videos, but I must speak out, shut the, jump off the shift. Jump off the fucking ship. I just watch Molly Ringwald make an ass of herself for six minutes because she doesn't normally do these videos. Right. But here it comes. Here it comes.

All right. I don't get where, is Chuck left the building or where? measuring the people's ages. I understand that part. Each exchange with each person should be well under 30 seconds. I don't normally make these sort of interjections during Adam and Dr. Drew,

but I have no idea where he is. Hold on. Let me go find him. No, no, no, no, no, just just a case we need some one. No, just go ask. Listen, Drew, how old were you? Well, Drew took 20 minutes. Me, 16, 16, 28, 20, 23. Good. There's our number. There's four people done in 10 seconds.

Chuck, what is the delay on the numbers? Running in with the numbers. All right. Chuck's got all the numbers here. Oh, he has the dates, too. All right, so I just told you. That's why I was trying to do this just what age, one thing, but we got the dates. All right, and how much the minimum wage do, which again, it's all good, except for, it's going to add to it.

All right. So, Daphne never had made minimum wage. Good for her. Nick worked at Jamba Juice when he was 26. Mm. It made $18 an hour. Geesh. Yeah, it's a problem.

Nate, bartender. Yeah, the problem with $2,000. No, no, no, no. Bartends could you get all the tips? You walk with 600 bucks and tips. Bartending's not minimum wage. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

So he's never. I know. But so you got to... Let's put him as never. Well, no. No, because he could have had a job at McDonald's. Why do we... Why are we putting Nate as never if he could have had a job at a McDonald's?

He said PAing before that a few years. P.A. Minimum wage? Yeah. All right. Hold on a second. Adam P.A. Yeah, PA.

to 2001, except I don't know how old Adam is. Now, listen, let's try this again. Joey worked at Universal Harry Potter. There's 12 bucks an hour. All right, but there's no wage. It's 2007. Okay, Chuck. Okay.

Their age, the last time they worked minimum wage. The last time. That is all. Joey Universal Studios, Harry Potter, 2017. How old was Joey in 2017 drew quick? Listen, Chuck, please. Just, I'll give you exactly what it is. Your age, the last time you worked minimum wage.

I was a bartender. That's not minimum. That's you getting paid minimum wage. And then another 35 bucks an hour worth of tips. All right, here we go. You got to do it again. I get real specific. I just go age last time.

Because we did say we're just going to average the ages. Right, I know, but it's not nothing is. Nothing is one and done. There is nothing that is one and done instructions, but it's because of young people don't do instructions anymore. It's never one and done. It's never what you want. Not the first time.

You shouldn't be frustrated then. You should be accepting. I'm not frustrating for me. I'm frustrated for them. You want them to do your best. Because they have to live their life with them. I'll leave. They're still going to be with them.

It's a simple question. If it takes more than 15 seconds a person, you're doing something wrong. I did not ask where. I did not ask the dates. And I did not ask the amount. I just said the last age you were at minimum wage. But it's an interesting experiment because no one ever knows what you're going. They don't know what you want, even if you say what it is.

Interesting. And most of the time, but it'll fall on a heading of, I tell you all the time. I go, the only go, there's a flight leaving LAX at 703 a.m. And that's $189.56. And then I go, just say there's a 7 o'clock flight that's $200.

Yeah. Just round. Just round. Okay. It lands in Houston at 6.53.5. And the return flight is $799.99.99. Oh, here we go. Look how fast that was.

Just add this. Good job. Good job, Joe. All right. Joey was 20. Okay. I'm presuming here. When he made his last minimum wage job.

And Adam was 23. Okay. When he had his last minimum wage job. And Nate was 33. That's back to bartender. Oh, yeah. Oh, maybe we haven't discussed this. we're not using bartender or waiter or stripper or any job where you'd be heavily compensated by with tips.

Okay, so he said previously to that it would have been PAing three years ago. Three years ago? Yeah. Okay. So three years before his minimum wage. So 27. No, no. 30.

Oh, he's 33? Okay. Hold on. I'm going to go talk to Nate. So Nate never had a minimum wage job until he was... No, no. The last minimum wage job was age 30. Oh, he probably did PA for 60 years or something.

Maybe he did it for a long time. Okay. All right. All right. So the age has gone up quite a bit from me at 16. Yeah. The average there is more like 24, 25. Yeah.

I'm also, I'd have to, you know, to be fair, Drew. Now you've got to go back with Nate one more time because I got my daughter, like a PA, whatever job at Kimmel. But I don't really count that as a minimum wage job. That's like you learning. But that's what the minimum wage was supposed to be. Yeah, I know. But the, you know, you know, you're. talking about picking up garbage, I'm talking about flipping hamburgers.

Getting like a minimum wage and like it's almost interning like like as an at an outfit, you know, like a law office or something like that. Like that's not really what I'm talking about. That's because it's almost a luxury thing. Like my daughter, my son will take those jobs, but it's because we have money. It's not because they need. It's not for them to make money so much. is it them to sort of be introduced to the right people and all that kind of stuff. So I need, I need Nate's last, go get Nate's last before P.A. Because I'm going to count, you know, the guy, well, I had dinner. We had dinner. I had dinner with Jimmy and stuff.

And our PA, the guy who was RPA at the man show and he was a PA at my late night show. Rob, he runs the entire reality division for ABC. He literally runs an entire floor of a huge network. Right. So he was getting minimum wage working with us at the man show and work with me at my show. But what he was doing is making his way toward running ABC, not paying rent. Yes, yes. So, all right, Nate's last.

There's more of an apprenticeship than a minimum wage job. All right. We need to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. But it's interesting that apprenticeships don't really, we don't think of them as existing anymore, but they do. I mean, my residency was an apprenticeship. Yeah, I was, my whole carpentry world was an apprentice ship where you got paid,

not that much, but you got to learn stuff. And then the whole point is, it's like, I'd see dudes making 15 bucks an hour when I was making seven or eight bucks an hour. I've got to learn that shit. Get my 15 bucks an hour. Right. It seemed like an ungodly amount of money. That motivates apprenticeships.

Yes. Right? I open my own shop one day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we are really weird and lacking with the sort of passing down of wisdom, knowledge, trades, tricks. You know what I mean? It's funny when I was watching Gavin Newsome,

to his photo op with his circular saw. I was watching him. And I was like, oh, he's left-handed. He was holding on to the saw with his left hand. Now, it's a big heavy saw. And people said to me, they tweeted me. They go, look at him with his pretending to work, whatever. Because now we're at the phase where Gavin Newsom has to pretend to rebuild palisades.

And Karen Bass got to pretend to fill in pottle. So this is him. We have a picture of him. Now, he's holding the saw with his left hand. It's a right-handed saw. Oh, boy. Because the blade is on the left side. And as much as you guys might not be able to figure this out.

So somebody wrote me, somebody wrote, I go, he's using his, he's using a, pretending to use a skill saw. And I wrote back, it's not a skill saw. It's what people call the skill saw generically. All right, Chuck. Age. Nate, before PA, manual labor. Nate wonders what the hell's going on. They're coming out.

Never made minimum wage. He never made minimum wage. He worked like I had a carpet cleaning job or something like that. Okay. But that was debasing enough to get him out of that. But the whole point is, is Nate went from. above, sorry, Nate went, Nate produces all our documentaries. Nate went from making more than minimum wage when he was 17, to agreeing to make less than minimum wage when he was 25.

Right. To be a PA, to learn the skill of filmmaking. Yes. That's what I'm talking about. It beats the hell out of spending $300,000 a year going to college. I don't know who spends $300,000 a year. I mean, for four years of college. about your pardon.

Okay. Remember, I'm just going to respond to what you say. All right, so Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom, the thing about the pictures coming and going is a weird thing here. Since we're talking about Gavin Newsom, you don't have to get rid of the Gavin Newsom picture. I kind of need to see it because I can't picture what you're going to try. I kind of like people doing stuff, but I'm not sure why we're removing that. So Gavin Newsome is holding.

a saw. The saw. He's standing strangely too. Well, he's never operated a saw. Okay. Now, Gavin Newsom is using a Makita saw. I can tell from the color of the base on the plastic, where it's a kind of off green blue, it's a blue green, and that's the Makita color. So I now know it's a Makita saw, even though I don't see anything that says Makita. How much can you blow up on that? But I know it's a Makita. Okay. And the next thing I know is that it's not a skill. Skills a brand name.

Skill. Now, people use skill like they use Q-tip. Yeah, yeah. It's not a cotton swab. Tissue. Or Kleenex, rather. Cleenex. Right.

So this is, this is not a skill saw. This is a McKeta saw. And it's not a circular saw. It's a hypoid saw or a worm drive saw. Hypoid is a kind of a gearing. The motor does not face the direction of the blade. it faces forward and it hits a gear drive system and then turns it makes a right angle it's like a differential in a car interesting that the propeller shaft or the drive shafts going front to back

but that hits the rear axle turns makes a 90 right these are called hypoid saws okay and uh and and and andrew at some point can look up high the word hypoid but it's it's a type of case so you'll see Nice job, Andrew. You can see that distinctive McKita green, blue green. That is the color. Now, he's holding it with his left hand. Yeah. And if you hold it...

The right is sort of the guide. Is that how that works? He's holding the handle on the right, and he's operating the trigger on the left. But that means he cannot see the blade properly. Right. It's a right-handed soul. So you must use your right hand. When I am left-handed, Drew, I will tell you that that...

saw, especially the skill saw version that everyone used to use, is very torquey. When you fire it up, the motor pulse. Like torque stairs. It's got pop pulse. It's not going the direction of the blade. It's going the other direction. So it creates a thing. And also, they didn't have progressive triggers back then.

Their triggers were on or off. They didn't have a dimmer. They figured out now that it's a lot safer to have the stuff ramp up instead of pow. And when you say it pulled, like it torques, yeah. It wanted to roll. It wanted to roll your hand. Yeah, understood. And there I was using a skill solve with my left hand because who would want to use your bad hand on this monster with the 40-tooth carbide blade, 7 and a quarter spinning at 10,000 RPM.

And you would always have to take the blade the safety and peel it back. You'd have to take it, pull it back, plug it with a nail to hold it back. That's what you could see. The way the safeties work on these saws is if you're cutting in a straight line, they'll work. If you try to go to angle, they bind. They bind and they're fucking dangerous. And then what happens is you have to manually move the safety out while you're using it. You cannot use the fucking safety if you're cutting in a direction except other than straight.

So everybody immediately First day They take their safety They peel it back And they pin it back Now you just have the blade exposed And Who the hell do want to hold on

To that thing with their bad hand Right But as I realized I was trying to cut I couldn't see The line With your left hand And I of course had a couple guys

named Mike stand over And go what the fuck are you doing That looks like Snake River Cannon Dude You know And I They'd yell at me, your right-handed... It's an right-handed saw.

Yeah. So he doesn't know what he's doing. Well, obviously he doesn't know what he's doing. Karen Bass doesn't know what she's doing. But what I'm saying is, is I had to learn to use this saw with my right hand. Yeah. Fast forward several years, and I was actually better with my right hand because I worked at it. Sure.

And that was the hand I used to use the high point. It's like if you learn to play tennis with you. right hand or something. You'd get good at it eventually if you couldn't use your left. If you were left-handed. This is high point. We're looking at a definition of high-point-processing such automatic panel saws, rip-saws. Hmm. See, this is how it works, isn't it true? It's a worm drive saw or a hypoid saw, and it refers to the gearing on the saw. But this says high-point saw, which is going to be something different. Industrial machinery from High Point machinery incorporated.

But this is a skill saw, but you got to use the word poid, which is not a word people are familiar with. What's the word? Poid. What does that mean? High poid is a style of gearing, like ring and pinion or something. Got it. Or some version of that. Interesting.

poid saw, the McKita 7-0.5.5.5 saw, notably, yeah, a durable, high-tork. Yeah, but I want to know the definition of high point. Not the... I swear to God, I heard high point, too, by the way. Well, no, no, no, no. Let me explain what you two rank amateurs did. What do we do? And by the way, Andrew likes to lump himself in with you when he does retarded things. He's like, well, me and Drew, you know, we suffer from, we have two big frontal cortex, you know, and we don't have room in our skull, so sometimes there's blank spots. Listen, you two eggheads, here's what you did. It's high poised saw.

You can check the thing, but poyed doesn't mean anything. Right. It's a made-up word. So you do a spell check correction, and you go, did you mean high point? No, no, our brain does. No, no, I'm sorry. You hear high point. The word that makes sense since poied is, you're both been on the planet for a combined 95 years, and poid doesn't, it's not a word.

Correct. Right. It wasn't until you said until you spelled it out. I'm like, whoa, I misheard that completely. So now you have to look up high poid because I'm not looking to purchase a McKita high poid saw. I want the definition of what hypoid means. And you can. gear.

It's a type of spiral bevel gear where the pinion drive gear is offset from the center of the ring gear allowing a drive shaft to be lower. It looks kind of like a differential sort of appearance. It's a gearing. It's a type of gearing that's in a saw versus a straight circular saw, like just the cheap ones you would buy. Like Andrew, you know, your next saw? It's not going to be a high point saw.

That's too much saw for you, bro. It's just going to be a circular saw. A circular saw where the blade is literally just on the armature of the motor. That, to me, sound, I always assumed that's how saws were made. Right. Yeah. But not these, which are for framing and like cutting beams and heavy duty. If it's heavy duty must need a bigger motor.

I don't know why, but like a beam. It's hard speed too. Maybe they go to what? A beam saw is a saw. The beam saws do not do the hypoid. I'm wrong. Takes a big man. Show me a beam saw and I will show you a saw where the motor goes to the same direction as the blade.

So why do you need a beam saw? I don't know. Why do we need an audience? We lost them. Yeah, that's what I was assuming. Motor goes the same way and a beam saw. off. It takes a big, big man.

But what do they do with the safeties on the beam saw? They got to pin them. They got to pull them back, pin them back. All right. So what did we figure out? Well, the high poit saw with a D. Andrew and I don't listen quite properly. We inject.

No, no. You understand the word high, but the word poy doesn't exist. So you make it into point, which is what a, person does when this is why when people say they go what's your name steven stephen yeah Stephen you said Stephen no you made because you made up a word that I don't know so I but I do know Stephen went to high school with a lot of them so I'm going to modify it without knowing yeah because that's the way your brain is by the way it's good that's way your brain works what's weird though is I heard N-T

when you pronounced high point. I like my memory put down N-T. Well, now we got to listen to the tape. No, no, no. I'm not saying you did that. I'm just saying that's how weird.

No, that's what people do. Yeah, that's what's... Chuck doesn't do it because he's checked out not because he's smart. He's not listening. He doesn't know what we're talking about. He's high.

But the smart people misinterpret. Thank you for giving us that. Okay. Tonight, tomorrow night, Las Vegas, everyone. Kimmel's Comedy Club. That's four shows. So come on out.

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