The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2086 - Let’s Fight Injustice | Part 1

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

Dr. Drew talks about feeling his age catching up to him, while Adam reflects on the days when he could survive on just a few hours of sleep and how much he now values a good night’s rest. The guys also take a trip down memory lane by revisiting slang from their younger days before Dr. Drew breaks down the supposed Hantavirus outbreak and explains why there’s little reason for concern. Adam also gives an update on the frustrating construction process surrounding a house being rebuilt in Malibu and the overregulation involved with building in California.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's show. Yeah, get on, got to get on, Judge, get on, Dr. Drew's board, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Yeah. What's going on? So, um, your event tomorrow, uh, with a special guest, have you announced who the special guest? That was my question. No, but we can.

Okay. Because if you do, I have a great mic story attached to it. Mike August. Yeah. All right. Robert Kennedy Jr. is going to be joining me on stage in Covina. And I will join you as well. At the Laugh Factory.

I'm planning to be there. And Dr. Drew is going to come out as well. So it's going to be a big night. We're doing a live pod. And Kennedy Jr. is going to be there. He was a surprise guest. And I could not mention his name. for security issues, and I don't know how it works, but that's what they've said.

Yeah. 48 hours or something before they show this. Exactly. And so you mentioned it to me, and I was like, wow, that's interesting. Oh, yeah, Mike says you're coming. I'm like, okay. And so I called Mike. I said, yes, Mike said you were coming.

I called Mike, and I go, Mike, I don't know anything about this event. He goes, yeah, well, RFK people mentioned they like to have you there. I go, yeah, that's cool. I don't know anything about this event. Uh-huh. Mike, will there be security? Do I need to know where to go? Yeah, lots of security. All right. Do I need to know where to go to get in? Well, the back door. You go to the back door. Do I park somewhere? Is there anything you can tell me about this thing? I got nothing. I got absolutely zero.

Wait, was your wife involved with this? No. Oh, so it's just Kennedy's people. This is, no, this is just Mike's. No, no, no, no. It's just Kennedy's people saying is Drew get in on this. I think that's what Mike was saying. I'm not even entirely clear. that's in fact what happened. He sort of alluded to Kennedy thought it would be great if kind of thing. I think. He told me Drew wanted in on this

thing, so I don't know what that means. It's so good. I would want in on it, to be fair to him. I would, and I'm going to get down that you'd mentioned originally might be in Orange County. I was like, oh, crap, I can't probably do that. But Covina, I can do it.

I don't even know that Covina is not in Orange County. That's my whole point. Then I'm going to Costa Mesa on Sunday. That's Orange County. That's going to be the whole. But I'm driving Saturday night and driving back from Modesta. Nice. Then I'm going to Coast of Mesa.

So this is another thing. But let me just finish with the Mike stuff. The reason I know Covina well is I hung out with a bunch of guys from high school in Covina, who I met down on Orange County. Most of my way through, at least the early years of high school. and I think you're a little young to remember this, but South Hills had a football dynasty. Did you ever hear of their?

No. Okay. Anyway, they probably had faded by the time you were playing football. So to that point about driving everywhere, I have noticed something that I'm experiencing. I don't know if you're there yet, which is I used to have like unlimited capacity to just add things on to my day and my whatever

or what I'm thinking about and what I need to do. I've noticed in the last six months or so I'm not so prone. I'm feeling a little like when people say they feel overwhelmed. I kind of understand what that is now. And I worry that I'm going to make a mistake or I'm going to miss something or somehow going to not perform where I'll be satisfied. Do you feel anything like that? Well, I mean, you're.

Kind of not really. I mean, here's what I notice. I used to be able to rally off a four-hour sleep or six-hour sleep or to sleep-deprived or whatever. And I do, there's two things. Now, look, you're talking to a guy who's going to be doing a show on Covina Thursday night. By the way, I will work Thursday. It's not like I'm sleeping in. And then Friday I will work, and then I will drive to Vysalia and do a show.

and then Saturday I will drive from Vysalia to Modesto and do a show. And then I will drive home from Modesto and be home at 4 in the morning on Saturday. And then two shows in Costa Mesa on Sunday. And then I'll show. Then Monday's work. So I do that. Now I have a bunch of, you know, I have a fucking ex-wife that I have to pay for. So I'm forced into that.

That's what I was wondering. A lot of bills and stuff like that. Survivor. Survivorship. surviving. But I will cannonball run it from Modesto Saturday night. Are you driver? Is Mike driving?

No, Michael Drive. But if he wasn't, I'd drive. I don't really care. And then get up and do it again on Sunday. Although I do need to get my sleep in. and I just drove home from Vegas last weekend. We did the same thing, two shows Saturday night, pulled in here at four in the morning.

I can do it. I'll tell you what I need now that I never needed or that I want. I used to just, here's how I work. It's hard to tell the difference. I'd like that and I need that. I used to have to be on a construction site at 7 a.m. And those jobs were, yeah, sometimes they're being Silver Lake, sometimes it's being Chatsworth, sometimes they're being Malibu, you know, but they're like 45 minutes away, whatever. I had to be there at 7.

If it was a 45 minute drive, I would set my alarm for like 605. I would give myself 10 minutes from the time the alarm went out to the time I was inside of my truck driving. Yeah. And I would literally get up and just pull the pants on that I wore the day before because it's construction and put the shirt on. I wore the day before and brush my teeth and maybe, you know, grab a cup of coffee. I wouldn't even make coffee. I would just get up, boom, shirt on, pants on, out, walking out the door. And sometimes stop at the 7-Eleven or for a cup of coffee or something like that.

But I gave myself no time, zero time. And now I'm kind of a pus. Like, I like to get in my bathrobe. I like to pour myself a coffee. I like to sit down. Take a dump. I like to look at my phone. I'll tell you, though, the cold water rinse does help.

Yeah. It gets you kind of snapped out of it in the morning. Kind of gets you. But I like a little quiet time in the morning. I'm a total pus that way now. And I used to literally just get it. up and as the alarm would go, I'd be moving. I'd be getting dressed as I was walking toward the door. Like there was a lot of it because I don't know why, but I always just figured the maximum amount of sleep.

I always had this kind of thing with when the alarm goes off, that's when I'm on the clock. You're working, yeah. Because that alarm was only set to get me up to go to work. So I would like as little amount of that time as possible. But, yeah, I, I was, the only thing I can say I've been a sauce with my whole life is sleep. Oh, no, I can't say I've been a sauce. I've been. Why do you call it a sauce?

A sauce. A sauce. A sauce. I don't know. I was just talking to someone about this. Was I talking to you about, I was talking to you about, no, was I talking to Sunny about, about having the football workout thing where. By the way, just saw Sunny. he seems great.

Yeah, he's great good. Every single, yeah, he came in with me today, long story, but I'll tell you. So when I was going from my junior year to my senior year, this is important, though, and I think it's important, and I think there's an issue. But when I was going from my junior year to my senior year, L.A. Valley College, the junior college, which is about four or five miles from where I live, had a, summer Nautilus equipment workout program. I remember when Nautilus was the highest thing.

It was a big deal. And it was like shoulder press and bench press and flies and whatever. Big blue machines. I can barely remember. But they had a smallish room, not a big room. A medium small room had all the equipment in it. And everyone to do like a minute blow whistle, go hit the next. one blow us a go never all right um i this thing started at seven a m on like monday wednesday and

friday we would be up at the moleholl and club drinking beer till like two a m like we'd just be running around like man in summer we're idiots there was no curfew wild animals wild animals i live in the garage you and the coyotes so i live in a garage there's no whatever but man I would be laying there. I'd be laying there, you know, going to bed drunk, you know, three in the morning or something. Chris Hardman would come pulling up in his Corona station wagon, you know, at 645, toot, you know, on the driveway, which faced my garage room of living in. So I would just, I would just get up, you know, pull on my shorts, put my t-shirt on and go staggering out the door. There was, there was like no protein shake, no electrolytes, no nothing.

I'd just go staggering out the door. And you're a little hungover. Oh, I was a mess. I was tired of shit. I never missed one. Yeah. That fucking horn would honk. I don't care.

Boom. Up. Nautilus. Circuit training, blowing the whistle. You know, going to think. So I would do the same kind of stuff. What was wrong with us by by? Well, there's something wrong with everybody else now.

Well, that's the question. The perception of today would be, what the fuck's up with you guys? What was that about? Well, I'll tell you what I was doing. I was making it possible for me to do cannonball runs from Modesto and get home at 4 in the morning and then turn around and go to Costa. I made it possible because that looks like nothing compared to what that was. Okay, that's the part that people miss. Oh, they missed it big time.

Not that it, but they think it's, oh, he must have been trying to get himself disciplined so he could. No, no, no, no, no. We were doing these things because we felt we had to. and doing them were so much harder than what we're talking about now that this all looks like a vacation. Yeah, well, the first thing first, I told somebody come pick me up every morning on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. That guy showed up.

I did not, in my mind, have an option of going out to the drive and going, I'm feeling sick today, right? Well, let's think about that. That's a weird kind of cultural thing that today would be like, oh, yeah, man, you take care of yourself. Back then, he would have busted your balls from then to next month. there would have been some of that. The main part is...

The point is he would not have endorsed you're not showing up. He would have gotten over it. I made a commitment to do this thing, and I told him to come get me. And I don't feel great, but I'm not getting out of it.

So is that the low esteem, high esteem diathesis? I never thought... Because we didn't want to put people out. We made a commitment to him. I wanted to drive here, me not show up. Plus, you'll think I'm an asshole. There's a lot of that.

Yeah, yeah. I didn't think it was an option to tell somebody you could do something and then tell somebody you can't do something. So what is that? Why is that so different than what seems like the case now? I can relate to that very strongly. That I don't know where that exactly came from, but I could relate to that. Like, you make commitment, man, that's a commitment.

Yes. Or you'd have somebody come pick you up. In fact, in fact, I would have thought to myself, I'm having him come pick me up so that I make sure I show up at the Nautilus every, you know, three days a week. And once you decide you're going to do it, you do it. Yeah. A lot of it was... What is that? Why is it so different now?

Because we told everybody that sort of everything was optional. And... But to be fair, it always was, you know? Yes, yes. But we wouldn't do that. Well, there's a couple things. I did not want people to think I was a pussy. That's the part I'm talking about the guy busts the balls.

And guys don't care if other people think they're pussies now, which was a big deal. If I was 23 or 19 or 17 or 27, guys thinking I was a sauce. Where'd you get the sauce? I don't think you've ever used that word with me. Where did that come from? Sauce is pretty, you got to look up a guy being a sauce, but a sauce was just weak. You know, just kind of, it was, it was soft. I get it.

And I didn't want anyone to think, I didn't want anyone to think I was soft or a pussy. Right. So we, there was a lot of value put in that way. So now guys brag about being a pussy. And so they don't do stuff they show. So we'll give me an example. I'll give me an example. Guys, if a car was broken down back in the day, then somebody would say, pop the hood.

Like the guy would go, let me have a look, you know. Even if the guy didn't know what he was looking at, he still felt compelled as the dude, like especially there was two chicks in the car or something to go, pop the hood, you know. I talked to guys, I started noticing it when I started getting into riders rooms and stuff. guys bragging they couldn't change attire are you kidding i can't boil water no way could i no way

would i even like they're they're they're they're go proud i'm insanely incompetent in inert and now i'm bragging about it which is weird because you wouldn't brag you would go the other way if you were you'd be quiet about it weak sauce weak sauce no just sauce guys were just the sauce

weak sauce is new Okay. Sauce, slang primarily refers to swagger style. Oh, this is the rap version of sauce. Seventies version. We need 70s, 60s. Slang sauce. Seriously meant alcohol.

Yeah. Seventies? Is there a 70s version? Hit the sauce. Everybody in my Pop Warner football team, if a guy said he had a cramp and he couldn't run laps, they'd call him a sauce. Maybe that was a local thing. We had a lot of words for pussy back then.

Yes. Oh, yes. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Which is in itself telling. Mm-hmm. Right? Now you can't even say pussy.

Okay. Maybe it was an East Valley Trojans. Local. Thing. Everyone knew what a sauce was when I was growing up on a football field. But it just meant weak. Yeah, I get it. There were a lot of words for that.

That's the point. and we cared about how we appeared relative to our male peers. Yes. And a lot of it was built around sports and performance and pecking orders and, you know, hierarchies, frankly, right? Hierarchies established through essentially what is rough and tumble play, which is what mammals have always done. Yes, yes.

So is this all toxic masculinity? Is that we've still? I don't know. I, when I ran, when I started hanging around with the high. Hollywood types, and I ran into a lot of sauces. I was very surprised that they were advertising. Like, you know, with COVID, no, I'm not coming outside. Why?

I'm not going to risk that. You know, I'd be like, oh, you're telling me you're a pussy. Yeah. It's weird. It's weird. I was confused right. That was another point where that whole phenomenon was glaringly apparent and hard to process. Well, if you'll notice, Drew, during the COVID phenomenon, I called people

pussies. Yeah. several hundred times. I did it intentionally. And you said, why are you doing that? I said, it's very intentional. As usual, crystal brain. Mm-hmm.

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Do you have any questions about that? No, I don't care. Well, here's the company. Let me give you some interesting things. You shouldn't care. Good for you. We should stop right there, but some interesting things that are comical. Turns out the word hanta is a Hebrew slang that Israelis use for chump, sucker. Sauce.

Yeah, if you're being sauce, you're hanta. And it is, God works in mysterious ways, right? In that people are getting suckered by this one again. It does not transmit human to human. Could it transmit? If it changes and it starts to become a human-to-human transfer, that's because they've been doing gain of function. Mark my words right now. It's the only way that happens.

It's not going to happen. It's not a respiratory virus. They wouldn't select this one to do that with, not this way. All right. I got a couple of tweets for Andrew to look up, but it's part of the problem. There are ones I liked, I think, earlier today. But it's part of the problem. And this is something I don't think people think much about.

But I put a, I sent a tweet out about this foundation of this house I've been following, which now has a Rebar in it. Yeah, and it's going nuts, right? Yeah, yeah. And it's insane. Overkill. And my son, here's the video of it, Drew. as you look up and you see the slab. Now they're getting ready for the concrete to be poured a 13-inch slab.

It's a lot of rebar. Yeah. It's way too much. And my son just asked me, and we're driving in, going down the coast. There's nothing being built. I said, yeah, that's right. There's nothing being built. He goes, why not?

And I try to tell people all the time, they go, is it about pulling permits? It's not about pulling permits. It's not about pulling permits. It's about engineering. Who's going to build this? No one can, no one can, no one has deep enough pockets and enough time to build this. There's one being built. That's one.

And a year and a half, there will be no building. It's the over-engineering of it. And it's stifling. And he said, I said, the government regulation makes it unable for these people to rebuild. But also, they can't build anything. They can't build a bullet train because of their own. regulation. That's right. And then they blame high prices on everything except their regulation. And then there's a lack of housing. There's a lack of affordable housing. There's no homeless.

Yes, you've overregulated to the point where we can't build and you can't build. And we'll never have a bullet train because you've overregulated yourselves as well. And we'll have no rebuild on PCH because you coastal commissions overregulated. I went to a conference that Schwartz-Ticker put on six years ago, maybe seven years ago. And it was about housing affordability and amongst other things. And the USC head of urban planning, one of the professors got up and went, we've created this problem. So certainly we can uncreate this problem.

Too much regulation is the reason, period, and full stop. Right. And that was seven years ago. Yes, that's. It's gotten worse. Well, chick think. Now. Safety.

Safety. Safety. Somebody. So somebody, like, tweeted back to me and they go, after reading the comments, I feel it's necessary to remind people that California has earthquakes, and hence earthquake building codes. Right. Okay. Yeah.

Thank you, Professor Dipshit. Yeah. I'm aware we have earthquakes. We need a picture of the Nimitz Freeway. Right. It collapsed. Freeway built in the 50s, 40s? Yeah.

Okay. Here's the point. The earthquakes don't affect any houses along the coast, hence, ever. They've all been there from the 40s. So fuck you. Number one. Number two, I am not saying don't build it with codes. I'm saying you got to a point where it is unrealistic.

Number four rebar, 24 inches on center is what we used to do. And the slab was four inches thick, maybe six inches thick. That's fine. Now you have number five rebar, one foot on center, and a 13 inch slab. And that's overkill. and now we can't afford to do it. And that's how it works. We're not saying build a free homeless house.

I'm just saying a house in Texas for a homeless person is $289,000 a unit. Here it's $926. It's not that they get free houses. It's that they don't have to pay as much because of regulation. It's not like rebar, concrete, plywood. even labor. It's all about the same. It's the regulation part.

My wife had family members that own property in Seal Beach, which is Orange County near Huntington Beach. And she has this old video of her grandfather just building a house on the beach. Yeah, yeah. He got his friends together. They just put up a house. Yeah, yeah. No regulators. No, nothing.

The house is still there. The house is, by the way. So who's this tweeter, by the way? I can tell them to suck my dick. They're stupid. Yeah, I get it, dumb shit. Click on it. Who's this dick shit?

Dip shit. Grue grunt host? Grunt host. 14. Grunt host 14. Fuck off. We know there's regulations. We get it.

Earthquake country. Remember Drew all the time I told us? We're living in earthquake country. That's their excuse. Fucking sauce possees like you, listening to people like you, scared about earthquakes. Is their excuse for over-regulatory? By the way, how many tens of thousands of houses were lost to fire? Shouldn't we have, should we make it resistant to all fire at all time?

They all got lost to a fire. None of them got lost to an earthquake. And we've been in earthquake country the whole time and nothing's ever happened to those houses. And shouldn't you be allowed to take a certain amount of risk? Shouldn't the government not be a part of that conversation? Listen, I was reading up when I was taking a deep dive into this place. there used to be guys whose job it was when those houses were built in the 40s and the 50s, they were like, they were kind of like pile driver whispers.

Like they'd go, like a guy come out, they have all those telephone poles. Yeah. And they had a pile driver and they just bang it into the sand until it stopped, basically. So they got some bedrock maybe or something or something. Tell it stopped. It just stopped. I don't know how they're just. I don't know how the bedrock situation is on the beach,

but they just pile them in. And there'd be a dude standing there, probably smoking, going, all right, put one more, put one more here, and then put another one there, and then put another one there. And then he'd go,

all right, I'm an expert. We're good. Now, tie them all together and start building the house. Yeah. That's what they would do. All those houses. All of them,

and they're all still there. Yeah. And then there's this. 3,000 yards of concrete, which is 300 concrete trucks. 300. How much would that cost? 3 million dollars.

Just to do this semester. Just the foundation. So let me ask you this. Hold on. There's one more like tweet for Andrew to go look up, which is part of the problem. So guys like this idiot with the earthquake country, he's the problem.

But these are the same people they're in. panic about viruses because they don't understand. They don't know these things. They don't know anything. And then somebody tweeted about George Floyd and basically on the, on the roast, on the Netflix roast, somebody made a Charlie Kirk joke and somebody made a George Floyd joke. And then, of course, the George Floyd family is upset. They should just hang back and spend the money he earned them, but they're upset because they made a joke about their beloved hero's son. And so this guy wrote back, or he sure wrote, comedy's dead, unfortunately, but you can't be mad at the one, you know, they made the one about, you can't be mad about the one about Charlie Kirk,

no double standard and not be mad at the one of George Floyd. Okay. Okay. Charlie Kirk was a taxpaying religious family man who brought good to the world. George Floyd was a drug addict career criminal who was passing a bad check

and fighting with cops and OD'd. So yes, there is a huge difference. There, fucker. Stop it. This is why we have a problem. There's a huge difference between Charlie Kirk and George Floyd. You understand? One of them.

By the way, who the fuck knows when George Floyd was going to die? Maybe the next armed robbery. I don't know. Or maybe he would have just OD'd two nights later. But there is a big difference between that and that. And so fuck off. And you can't go. There's no double standard.

There's no different. It's both in bad taste. No, there are some people who I don't say anyone deserves to die, but there is a big difference between those two. And part of the undoing of our society, Drew, is not seeing that difference. Well, the couple of- Just shut up, Matt Damon. Yeah, Matt Damon is Weinstein, you fucking dumb bitch.

Fucking wake up. There is a difference. There's a huge difference. Yeah. So wake the fuck. up. Nobody wants to talk about it. But this is the same as earthquake country. Yeah. You guys have lost your ability to think.

So, you I would say... If you bring up George Floyd, it'll get Drew to stop talking about it. No, no, no. I want to say, what I want to want comedy to be restrained by any of this. I want comedy to just go do whatever. I know. I agree. Let the chips fall what I make. This guy's the retire.

Yeah, I agree. But I sent you a video of a woman explaining where this this sort of similar or leveling of the playing field comes from. Yeah. Where she was explaining that colonializers, which anyone who has any heritage with anybody that ever was involved in colonialism of any type, and again, you have to be white and European primarily because you can't have been a colonializing Comanche and be a problem.

You have to be the white people that came next. Okay. If you're a colonelizer, you'll only back. Right. And if you have been colonialized, mind you, my people were, trust me, there are white people who are colonialized a lot, they're their only good. And so anything bad they do is because of the colonialism, not because they're only good. And that's where this sort of leveling comes from. I got, I agree, I got some good, apparently some new Gavin News. B, blah, but Burt Reynolds.

Burr Reynolds. I was reading Gavin is. Oh, I almost don't want to. Do you have more than one? Can we put it out over a couple of shows? Like, I want to tease this. We have two Burnt Reynolds. That's what I'm told.

High praise, whoever put this together. But let me ask one thing before we get there. I think I'm going to eat up time before the commercial break. I was looking at my insurance because we had a flood in our house. pipe broke and we had to repair a bunch of stuff. I started looking at insurance I had for if the house is destroyed. And one of the sort of categories was $10,000 for building and safety, for what do you call it when you get the permits? Plan checks. Not permit, just, yeah, permits. What is that spent on? What is that, why is it $10,000 to go to building and safety and hand them

your plans. Well, I mean, you know, every, I mean, the city wants money at all terms. So you're paying for the privilege of having them hold up your shit? You,

you don't even know. I've explained you about this. I used to yell about it on the Loveline. Building and safety has inspectors. Yeah. Right. But they're so. regulated now that they've invented a category called deputy inspector and a deputy inspector's

inspector that you pay for the homeowner do you have to do that or is that the only way to get through the process no you have to do you have to do it so so here's what i'm saying here's what i'm this building over here that i'm i was showing you has multiple deputy inspectors have you talk to them? Yeah. Do you give them shit? No, they, they, that's just, that's just it. Why, what shit am I giving them?

Like, to me, it's outrageous. You know, it's going, hey, should we, do you, do you, do you, do you, are you committed to this level of scrutiny or do you think you're doing too much? The deputy inspector? Yeah. Well, what do you mean? The deputy inspector is just, he, he is. I think you've, you've been boiled like a frog.

So somebody like me, that sounds outrageous. The job of the. But what should I say to them? Just, you know, does this job have to exist? Just curious, does this job have to exist? You're doing a good job, sir, but does this job serving? I'll ask them if their job has to exist next time, and then they'll go yes, and then that'll be the end of that. Well, I don't know.

Nobody knows what you're talking about, Drew, but here's what I'm talking about. The concrete pour is going to last all day with 30 trucks. One day, all day. it's going to happen on a Saturday. The city is not taking an inspector and having them stand there on a Saturday for nine hours. They're not doing that. You must hire a deputy inspector. The guys who are going to do the welding on the new house, somebody needs to inspect but monitor their welding.

You have to sit there and watch the person weld for eight hours to make sure they're welding correctly. Later on, we're going to do a hypersonic whatever thing on it, and we're going to actually check the welds, which I'm like, why do we need both? Why do we have a guy inspecting? And then we also do magnetometer thing to check if the welds are good. But yes, that's what they require. So you have to pay deputy inspectors who are probably guys who were either in the trades or former city building inspectors who may have even retired now, who have become deputy inspectors. and they just stand there and during certain parts of the job, not all day, every day, not the entire thing.

They'll stand there and watch to pour, watch to weld, fill out their paperwork. You pay them. You get the paperwork from them. You turn that back into the city. It's crazy. So you're going to need a lot of money for that. When I think of the threats to my own home, fire much greater than earthquake, tree collapsed. I've got trees big.

tree is looming over my home. It gets windy. They haven't gotten to that yet. Are they going to outlaw all that too? I don't know. You know what I mean? They're going to outlaw. Whatever they can outlaw.

All right. Take a break. Hold on. Got some Bert Reynolds. All right. I'm very happy. After this. This is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla show.

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What are you doing? How can we do this more effectively officially? What do you mean? This is how we're going to do it. You're going to pay me and you don't have to call the city to come. The city's not coming. The city's going to put me on a waiting list. I'm reminded of when I was on Anderson Cooper about eight years ago, and I dropped the term physician extenders.

And they were like, whoa, my God. Anna Navarro practically had a stroke. Physicianing. I would talk about nurse practitioners, physician assistants. I said, yes, that's all you're going to see in the future. And we're there now. And it's similar to your thing. To me, it's matter of fact, in medicine, so I don't have a reaction to it.

You can't keep making rules and codes and expect the city. to provide all of the inspectors. I mean, according to them, by the way, listen, here's how it works. You used to be able to get out of a paying for a ticket and moving violation by going to traffic school. And then at some point, they said,

hmm, I got an idea. Why don't we have you pay the violation and go to traffic school? because you're not getting out of it. Oh, and we should charge for traffic school. Yeah. So now I used to go to traffic school just because I didn't have 80 bucks for a speeding ticket. Right. I had 20 bucks for traffic school, and I would kill a Saturday to save 60 bucks.

Yeah. And then they started charging. That's the only way this goes. That's the only way regulation goes. That's the only way they just keep piling on. And somebody has to peel it back. Yeah. But no one will, I mean, Spencer Pratt will run on it.

Well, but then the fraud, the guy goes, comes along with that. Well, of course. Yeah. Once you bake all this in. Yeah. Listen, I did a job. I had a deputy inspector. The guy didn't get out of his truck.

What do he do? Well, he's supposed to be witnessing and overseeing the welding for eight hours. But wouldn't it be easier if he just sat in his truck? I didn't understand what you. Drew, I'm talking, please. I understand. Wouldn't it be easier if he just sat in his truck, ate a sandwich, and when he was done, handed me a certificate that I could turn in the city and he could go home. Well, that's what happens. What do I care if he, once I got the certificate, he's paid. He didn't fucking do anything. He didn't get out of his truck and he didn't stay there for eight hours. It's going, all that stuff gets baked into that. That's what causes that stuff. But you're stopping it there.

If you go there, why not just walk into someone's office and say, hey, give me the paperwork? Oh. Why do they, and I'll pay them a little more to just not even show up. Well. I mean, that's where it goes, right? Well, if you're Somali. Yes. No, it does.

I mean, listen, I used to teach traffic school later and they had a problem with people just handing out the certificates and they would send monitors from the DMV. Yeah. You know, NARCs. Narks. Plain close, bro. All right, here's the great Bert Reynolds at verbatim. Bert Reynolds' voice on Jennifer Newsome, talking about the patriarchy. Trust me, I'm not a fan of Pam Bondi nor Christy Noam, but I need to call out that it's no surprise to me

that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women. Let me explain. The conservative women that Trump handpicked, who align themselves with an agenda that controls women, restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy, and pushing us back into this straight jacket of femininity that is only in service of men. Oh, my God.

There's a familiar pattern here. Oh, yeah. Women are brought in packaged Mar-a-Lago style and lift it up as long as they commit to wholeheartedly serve the interests. of the patriarch at the top. Wow. Now it looks like power or proximity to power

with a big title. But it never comes with job security and protection. There's no secure place inside this hand-picked patriarchal body that systemically disrespects,

devalues, and discriminates against women and girls. I don't know. And let's stop it for a second. Meanwhile, this bitch makes shitty docs about trannies

and then forces her governor her husband to push him on school system so she gets paid. That's what she does. I wish I was part of this patriarchy or something that she's gotten sucked into. I could get some my dogs paid for and shoved up the ass of some fucking nine-year-old so I could scramble their brain. That's what she does. That's what her, she does.

But she's a victim of being pushed back into this. Because she sounds like hypnotized. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Like, yes, in a weird way. from back in the day. Like, you're part of the Patriarchy?

Yes, yes. Yes. Like the way Dracula's women spoke. Yeah. I'm sorry, go back 10 seconds. But she's talking about other women being Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's the part that makes it rich.

All right, here it is. Now it looks like power or proximity to power with a big title. But it never comes with job security and protection. Meaning what? There's no secure place. inside this hand-picked patriarchal body that systemically disrespects, devalues, and discriminates against women and girls. And this is where complicity comes in.

Because when you align yourself with that value system, with a leader who has publicly devalued women, degraded them, and been found liable of abusing them, well, guess what? You're going to be the first to go. So while you're in a perceived position of power in this sense, system that regularly diminishes and values other women, even if you help sustain and uplift the system, your power is only temporary, and ultimately, they will come for you. Yes, they will.

That's the unfortunate truth for all women. No woman is safe in Trump's Republican Party unless she has enough wealth or the ability to buy her own job security and safety. And so, my friends, regardless of your political affiliation, you might want to wake up and see this for what it truly is. It's a war on all women. A war on women. It's weird to not make sense. It's got to be a strange way to pass through life. I don't make any sense.

That was just a jumble of new words. Yeah. But it makes sense within that vocation. that she values so much. It just isn't describing anything real. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's like she's like she's in an altered state.

It also doesn't really track, you know, like unless you have enough money to guarantee job security, well, it's like, what do you mean? Enough money. If you have enough money, you don't need a job. Right. How would being rich,

being rich would give you security in that if you were fired from a job, you wouldn't care. You wouldn't need the job, yeah. She doesn't really track, you know. And by the way, that's her, right? That is her situation. She's the one who has the ultimate job security because she's rich and also she's inside so she can get all her shitty docks into all the film festivals and then have the school systems purchase them.

And, you know, all this. She's talking about herself for sure. Yeah. It's just weird that she's talking about it. And by the way, if there's a war on women, contemplate this, why are the conservative women so much happier than the liberal women on every scale that's ever been measured in the last five years? Well, they're not, they're not aware. They're the hypnotized ones because they're not aware of the war. Oh, I see. If they're aware of the war, they'd be unhappy too. Right. They're useful idiots.

But they live in a bubble where they don't know about climate change and they don't know about what we've been. done to the indigenous people. Right. They don't know about suppressing the vote of the Chicano man and stuff. They don't know about all this stuff or what meat does to them. They don't know what all the stuff that makes these people miserable. There is a really interesting phenomenon that I think is emerging, and it's represented by your mom, of course, which is that if you're a good person, you're a Democrat.

And that's it. That's where it stops. Well, that's what she cares about all the women. She's a good person. She's a good person. Yeah, she's the kind of person that stands up to injustice. God, I wonder what her sons are going to do. They're going to stand up to injustice or become women.

Or they might, oh, they might do both. But she, I just, I am so totally enamored with anyone who goes, where they get a microphone and they go, you know, I'm the kind of person when I see injustice. I speak up. That's me. Yeah. Because I'm a hero.

Right. Essentially. Because that's what we're saying. I told you all roads lead to narcissism. Yes. All right. We'll play this a quick one. It is.

This is her in 2018 now. Is that she staying? I think is this the one where she stands up when she sees injustice? Oh, okay. All right. It's a new one. You know, I'll be personal here. Oh, yeah, this one.

I've slowed down my career to raise. are four children. I still have too much on my plate and making an next documentary and run the org, but to accommodate my husband's career. And that's, and we don't live in a traditional household. We're very progressive and equal. And I wear a hat that says boss because I'm kind of the boss at home. But I've made sacrifices to better and support him. And I think a lot of women end up doing that. God. So why? It's a patriarchal care, I guess. Well, also, that's why you live in an $8 million house, bitch. Well, she comes from a lot of money.

But what about? So to be good, she has to feel guilty and make things right because she's a good person. I know we have one more, but we'll save it for the next show. Because Drew treats these people, this stuff like Tom Hanks treated his flashlight on the island. Exactly. You can't leave it on all night. No, no. You just got to use it.

use it to look at that locket very sparingly. I will say this, Drew. Yeah. Speaking of Newsom, he's given away diapers. I know. I saw that. And I am not, I am old enough to remember the cloth diaper environmental movement. And that. That's right.

The diapers were landfill. The diapers were all going into landfill. And he's like, I want to give 20 billion diapers out. and it's like, bitch, you got rid of plastic straws. You should be pushing cloth diapers is what you should be pushing. Because the cloth diapers are much less impactful to the environment. You could imagine reusing the same cloth, the energy and the water to clean it. But still, you've got a picture of the landfill and the diaper, right?

Yeah. And so. The turtle's head in the cul-ups. Right. So the notion that he's now on just giving away the diapers while talking about the environment all the time is sort of saying disposable diapers are a major environmental issue. But that's my right. So here's what I'm saying. This guy wants to get rid of plastic straws and eternal combustion engines and not allow you to have gas powered leaf blowers, but he's handing out diapers. The same thing was Tom Steyer. I'm going to take care of, I'm going to force you to buy an electric car. not worrying about the wildfires. They're right.

They constitute the third largest single consumer item in landfills. Where they take up to 500 years to decompose. Is Gavin Newsom aware of this? I'm aware of this. Why isn't he aware of this? Well, the answer is he doesn't give a fuck about the environment. He's looking for something that makes a good headline. That's it.

And he doesn't have the money to pay for that either. But it sounds right. It sounds good. That's sort of a tell on how he operates. And by the way, speaking of women being oppressed and the Trump, I was in Vegas last weekend and Hermit Dillon came by. Wow. So I don't know what her exact title is, but she's way up there.

Well, there is a strong, competent woman of color. Oh, yes. And all she wants to do is fight corruption, man, and clean up voter by the voter rolls. The funny thing is... Well, Newsom's wife should love her. Yeah, she loves strong women of color, right? Except for she hates her because she wants to clean up voter rolls. And by the way, most of a lot of states share, California is not giving it up.

Of course. I wonder why. Why wouldn't they give them their voter rolls? You know why they're going to intimidate... Pop the hood. I love the intimidation of the people that are here legally. Yeah. Right.

Yeah, I'm here legally. I'm intimidated and not voting because Hermit got my name. Okay. It's so insane. Tomorrow, Camino, I'll tell you about that. Vysalia, Fox Theater on Friday, and then Modesto, Saturday, and then Sunday, Costa Mesa, two shows, Westwood Coast. Go to Adam Crowell.com for all the live shows. What do you got, Drew? Go to Dr.ru.com. Check it out. So, until next time, Adam Crolley, for Dr. Drew, saying, Mahalo.

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