The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #1086 Hassan Chop!

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

Adam shares his travel troubles to New York before he and Dr. Drew reflect on the lack of cultural awareness in their childhood, especially in media portrayals of the Middle East. They debate whether more government spending, like LA’s proposed parcel tax, actually solves problems. The show ends with Adam’s thoughts on Drew’s new NYC apartment.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Well, now enjoy this throwback episode, June 2019, it's episode 1086. Adam shares some of his challenges traveling, and he and I reflect on the lack of culture awareness in both of our childhood, especially in media portrayals of the Middle East. And we talk about whether government spending, like many of LA's spending, solves problems. Man, we didn't know how right we were. And the show, of course, ends with Adam's thoughts on me, my place in New York City. Adam's going to talk about that, and you'll enjoy with Hasan Chop. Recorded live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and board certified

physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show. That dude man's been especially specialist man, so you know where it's at What's going on there Drewsker Back in town back in town Husker Drews back in town. That's right. Watch out This show brought to you by butcher box calm promo code ADS true car calm Pluto Dot TV and lifelock calm promo code Adam back from New York City. Yeah, we've not had a chance to really talk about our Experience together the consummation of our love. Mm-hmm

Yeah, I was really looking forward to seeing you on Sunday night and eating out. And of course, that was my fault for announcing to the gods that I can't wait to go to see Dr. Drew Sunday night and to eat a meal with him. I love what your first call was. Ah, it's going to be a half hour late. Then I thought, oh, fuck. Here we go. No, the first one was. All right, it's gonna be a half hour late. I thought oh fuck. Here we go

No, the first one was an hour and a half away Yeah, but I all they did something to me that they don't normally do which is I know Patterns then when you know patterns, you know everything Yeah, and and you know what's coming because patterns are patterns. They Because patterns are patterns. They're not really influenced that much by the outside world. They're just patterns. And so I've always said, when they do a flight delay, it's always, oh, it's a 20 minute delay,

which is totally palatable for most people. Once you get to half hour, people start getting disappointed. But like 20 minutes, people go like, well, I wanted to go to the magazine rack anyway, so I guess I'll just have time to go over to the magazine rack. Or okay, I'll have another beer over at the sports bar, whatever it is. But I've always, I started to notice they always break it off and then at some point they go, oh, it's gonna be 20 minutes more

and sometimes 20 minutes more. Telling someone you have an hour flight delay doesn't work. People can't palette it. Doing it in 20 minute increments, the way we're wired, it works on me, is like it's acceptable. You go, okay, and then at some point they go, it's 20 minutes more and you go, mm.

And then you get to an hour. It, and then you get to an hour. It's the way you get to an hour. I often run quickly to the customer service to see if there's a seat on the next flight. But then they won't let you separate from your luggage. So I had a situation where I was at LAX and they said, well, it's gonna be an hour and a half. And that sucked, and then I was like,

ooh, hour and a half, uh-oh. An hour and a half means they could tack some more on. And it was like, I was, of course, as busy as I've ever been in my life. I'd never worked more on a weekend, ever. I don't think I'd ever worked more on a weekend. And I had, of course, gotten up early to make it to LAX because the whole deal was you're fighting the three-hour time difference And you want to have dinner with dr. Drew you don't catch a noon or two o'clock flight get in way too late

So I've got got up got out early after being at Brea until midnight night Saturday night and when they said an hour and a half I said being at Brea until midnight, Saturday night. And when they said an hour and a half, I said, God damn it, and then I was like, we still might be able to salvage this dinner. And then they did something to me that they haven't done before, which is, I did the hour and a half,

I got into my super crappy coach seat, sat down, buckled up, did all the pre-flight announcements, did all the rigmaroles, shut the doors, did everything, and right as we were gonna start pushing back, the pilot got on the blower and he went, oh, it's gonna be another hour and a half. And that was brutal because now I'm in a coach seat.

You're in a shitty seat for that hour and a half. And we're not gonna move. Then I can begin the five hour odyssey of my coach seat. And at the airport, they're saying, I'm gonna get up and take a leak or I'm gonna walk around. I'll go to the fucking bar and just sit down for an hour and a half. I don't care.

But gave you the hour and a half out, then shut the door, buckled up. Now we got an hour and a half. Then you called me. And that's when I was like, you know what? Fuck it. Fuck it. I'm not going to get in until midnight.

And of course, there's always the stern early call looming. It's always looming, you know, so it's like, there's that thing where you start, you start negotiating with yourself. You go, well, I'm gonna get in on the land at 8.30, and I get to Drew's by 9.30, we can go have dinner, have a nice dinner, then I can be in bed by midnight, and I can still, I could sleep for seven and a half, I'll get up at 7.30, then Nick goes,

all right, we'll go out, well, me and Drew will go out at 10.30, we'll have a quicker dinner, but I'll get up at 730 then that goes alright we'll go out there well I mean there drew a god at 1030 we'll have a quicker dinner but I'll still get back and then there's a certain point where it's like I'm not gonna get to Drew's apartment until after midnight and there's the hurry up and go to bed but it's nine o'clock at night where I'm from and I've just got done doing clubs till midnight like I am a total Reversal I was doing Brea Hmm. I was doing Brea till midnight. It's coming home at 1230 Coming in the front door like no watch some TV have a drink. I was going to bed at 2

So now I'm supposed to go to bed at nine, like it's nothing. And it was disappointing. Yeah, but we made up for it. Did we? Oh, we had the next time. But hang on. So now I'm leaving, you know, I'm heading up to this apartment at like 11 o'clock now on the subways, which are awesome at that time of night. Sure. Head uptown, get in there. It's me and the doorman greeting you. I don't know if you noticed that. Mm-hmm. Me and LaSan. It's me and the doorman greeting you. I don't know if you noticed that. Me and LaSane. LaSane, the doorman.

Where's he from? Western Africa somewhere. There's a... Oh, Keb was, he speaks good French, so maybe, I don't know. There was a cartoon, we haven't talked about about a kajillion years But they used to run all these cartoon interstitials in between like the banana splits and stuff

No, and I think it was the Arabian nights. Yeah, and there's a big thing where the guy'd go Hassan chop Yeah, like oh, yeah, so or the scimitar big scimitar Hassan top our Childhoods were so barren and so impoverished impoverished in terms of in terms of our Entertainment that little stupid things like I'd be watching commercials like I can't believe I ate the whole Thing genius and then I'd go to school the next day. I can't believe I ate the whole thing. Genius. And then I'd go to school the next day. I can't believe I ate the whole thing. That was our entertainment rig bad commercial for Pepto Bismol, like our local used car

commercial. It's so insane. Like in a weird way, it's like when a prisoner, it's like the bird man of Alcatraz, like a little bird flies into a cell and he's got a box, he's like the Birdman of Alcatraz, like a little bird flies into a cell, and oh, he's got a box, he's gonna make it a home. He's gotta build his life around this little bird because he's in prison. Essentially what I would do around commercials

or bad cartoons. 100% I did the same thing, and the weird thing is it seemed like they were designed only to irritate you enough to repeat kind of thing. They weren't designed to be quality and clever. They were designed to irritate so you repeat it. Yeah. Like weird. Pete Ellis Dodge, Long Beach Freeway, Firestone Exit Southgate. I've never been to Southgate.

I know how to get to Pete Ellis. I can, If you tell me right now, you have to go to Pete Ellis Dodge, I'd be like, okay, long beach, how long was your, Firestone exit, it's in Southgate. Like, I don't want that in my head. It's in- Go see Cal, if you need a better deal. Jaloppy's on the plane, go see Cal. Get a new car for your wife, she will love you

all her life, or for her life. Go see Cal, go see Cal. God, remember all that weird stuff about like, what about all, it's insane when you're married now and there's nothing that has to do with any of that stuff. You're like, you get your car, you get your wife a new car. She's gonna love you her whole life.

Really? I don't know. I beg to differ. Yeah. I've not, I got Lynette a Tesla X. I haven't heard that much. That didn't change her tune that much. Pretty much the same. No, it's weird how that doesn't seem to work.

But growing up, boy, that was big. So, LaSane Chop and I met you at the door. Hassan. This was LaSane. I know, that was LaSane Chop. I think I confused him as Hassan. Yeah. I should have stopped. I said, Russan. And know, that was Lassan Chop. I think I introduced him as Hassan. Yeah. I should have stopped.

Or Russan, I said Russan. And chewed the fat with him a little more, but Jesus Christ, at that point, I had left my house like 11 hours earlier. And I was just like, are you kidding me? And Gary, I'll have you know, when I was in South Carolina, the same day, I bought Adam some very fancy

local South Carolina whiskey. Mmm. Yeah. Helped me go to bed. Not a 750 by the way, but who's count? And he grabbed it quick. Damn right. Like, how do you open this thing?

I busted it on the counter. I threatened Drew, back off! You got Hassan shop? This is just a very short five second video, but it's that Daffy Duck. Yes, it is. Oh, that's right Yeah, he was plundering diamonds and Hassan Was an interesting time where I just sat I sat in North Hollywood I For the life of me. I had no idea That there was a difference between China and Japan. I do the exact same people

I know like, you know someone go you want to go out and You know get Like, you know, someone go, you want to go out and, uh, you know, get, uh, Japanese food? I'd go, yeah, egg rolls and pork fried rice and that. And they'd go, no. And I've got, well, sushi or something, like same difference. Like I didn't not know. I didn't know China and Japan.

I didn't, there was just the same people. Oh, same everything. I all the way through the middle Middle East wasn't really Middle East. It was just Egyptian. People were wearing turbans and had the huge swords and Hassan shop. It was like the Arabia. Arabian nights. I don't know, Arabia. That was Arabia. I didn't even know Africa. And this you're blaming on media, on cartoons and the way kids were... No, media... no. LA Unified is what I blame because I never never took a

geography class. I didn't explain where... How about just the cultures of the world? There's nothing. It was all a bunch of cooking and sewing and ceramics and everything. People of the world. So I didn't know what, you know, I learned what I needed to learn culturally from Johnny Quest and just watching all these. But I didn't know like Iraq and Iran and places like that. I've just like Egypt.

That's Egypt, right? Like that's Arabia. I didn't even know where Arabia is.'ve just like Egypt. That's Egypt right like that's Arabia I didn't know where Arabia's it's like Arabia that say of turbines and a lot of velvet and Dancing girls, you know, they do belly dancing little monkeys running around Yeah It was it was it was just a weird Yeah, I thought of lamps and Alibaba, and like just, that's what it all was. Alibaba was a big thing.

It was all just rub the genie lamp. The entire culture. As we understood it. As we understood it was guys wearing vests with no shirt underneath it. Yeah, yeah. Hot chicks who did like belly dancing, and they were the Sultan, you know, ha ha.

Like there was a lot of clapping and people enter the dancers chicks Funny though. The chicks didn't do a lot of talking. No Let's sword violence to a lot of people get in their heads them and not dueling so much But no head chopped off stuff and the chicks didn't do a lot of talking. So I guess I got that part, right and The guy would have his harem, you know, and he's like, they somehow knew. I think about this, if the face was covered, it was always covered so it could be released. Right. Remember, it was just just just teasing.

Yeah, wasn't covered. Yeah. It was a curtain. It was a curtain. Right. And you see the beautiful eyes. And that was all Middle Eastern, that's all I could have ever named about that culture or that part of the world. As a matter of fact, it was the exact opposite of sort of everything that's in the news today. It was like a lot of crushed velvet and lamps and flying carpets and pillows and tents and things

that beautiful women belly dancing. All sort of if you really look at it all as portrayed in the Charlton Heston Ten Commandments that's pretty much it. Yeah I guess. I just said it seemed like it seemed like a bunch of guys with a bunch of fruit platters There are you always eating fruit grapes grapes and all sorts of fruit in the desert You know and a bunch of beautiful women and like genies and carpets and stuff. That's all I got That's all in turbines and in funny. It's all in turbines and jewels. You know what I mean?

It didn't resemble, there was no Al Qaeda, and there was no ISIS. There was no history, there was nothing there. We weren't exposed to it. We weren't exposed to anything. And then, Japan and China were the same. Your Vietnam's and your Philippines, that was just, I don't even know, I'd file that under, that was like the lost and found bin at the theater. That was just a box full

of windbreakers and beanies and stuff. Like I don't even know what this is. Like I had no, I'd just file you under, you're Asian at that point. I had a couple of kids that were like Indian, like Eastern Indian, and they just had weird names. India was part of the whole, I lumped them in with the whole, you know, the carpet ride and the genies and stuff. Like it was kind of... Sultan. It's all this part of that. Africa was black and like jungles and stuff, you know, like black guys were riding bangled tigers and stuff. Look, that was Africa.

Africa was like, oh my. Is this because of your particular impoverishment or do you think that a lot of kids had that same kind of nothing view? It's American exceptionalism. Just sitting home in North Hollywood and you watch Tarzan so you can get a very detailed description of what African life was like. He's in a tribe. He's got a shield.

You know what I mean? Like there was that. Asians had their own, that's, you know, women, no talking. Once again, doing a lot of bowing and stuff. Hear the big gong come in when they entered the room, you know, like there was that. I didn't even know New York was kind of full of penthouses and exotic, you know, and that was a green acres

kind of a world. I didn't know anything was going on in this country either. It wasn't ugly American, it was ugly North Hollywoodian. Like I didn't know anything. I didn't know, it didn't make sense to me that Cleveland was in Ohio. That didn't make sense to me. Ohio, that's like, why is Cleveland there? Well, how many of the states could you identify on a map? I remember when we first started traveling together, you kept pulling the map out and going, show me where these things are. Where are we going?

Remember that? I laugh at people when they go, if I gave you a map, how many states could you identify? And my answer is, if you gave me a map with the names of the states on them, I still would be less than 40%. I couldn't. Yeah, not now. Yeah, even now, I'm bad, but I'll would be less than 40% like I could now Yeah, even now it's it's I'm bad, but I'll never be good at it But then I would just keep staring and staring. I've no

So I try to find where's Waldo You know once in a while you play like charades or some game like that Pictionary or something and someone draws Florida because they get Florida, I have no idea what state that was. You draw Florida, I would have no idea what you were drawing. Oh my God, that's funny. Not have any idea where it was.

Sad, right? Yeah. Welcome to LA Unified, man. They are doing a great job. Make sure we get that parcel tax through because they need more money. I, what you doin' Drew? I was doing a little house work.

Trouble with me, yeah. Trouble. What tax are we putting through? A parcel tax. Now there's gonna be an extra property tax. You're not paying enough property tax. This special levy on you, rich boy, for teachers. What, you know it always, here's what confuses me to pay your fair share

all right how many cards you need more as many as I can afford let me ask you this true we try to draw a line between money and health, money and education, money and crime, like money. Like when you hear people saying, well, you know, those people, they're living in a part of the city where, you know, they got no choice but to sell drugs or to do crime or something. It's like, there's always been poor people. That doesn't make you – you know, if there's an old lady walking down the street and you think it's a good idea to come up behind her, knock her down and rip her purse out of her arm, that's not about money.

Yes, there's money in her purse but something has gone horribly wrong in your upbringing. I was constantly poor, I was constantly hungry, I was constantly envious of other kids, and they had toys, and I didn't have that. The family. The family, whatever, but I never thought to take it from them. Right.

It's like, I knew, oh, you can't do that. That's not right. There's always been people that way. I don't get why the politicians, and I don't get it with school. I don't get it with school. There is no doubt in my mind that if you and your wife,

or better yet, me and you, we became a gay couple. And we moved into the wrong side of the tracks, and we lived in a small apartment where we didn't have much, and we lived really close to the bone, and we didn't have enough money for vacations or eating steak and surf and turf or whatever. There's no doubt that our kid going to a less than average school would get an education and would learn because of us, because we emphasized it, which has always gone on.

Certain cultures focus on it, certain don't, and it's not really about income. Well, just because they're lucky. Those kids. Lucky they're born in the right family. Why? It's unfair. And I think that this envy business has made it very easy for large groups of our population to buy into this. Like, oh, well, these kids are violent.

Why are they violent? Well, come on, they live in poverty. That's all they know. That's all they know. How come there's no education over that? That's the schools. They don't have supplies. They don't have money.

They can't get a tablet. They don't know. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, because, yeah, you got to be. Yeah, if you don't have money, you're not going to learn anything. You're going't get a tablet. They don't know, oh yeah, yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, because yeah, you gotta be, yeah, if you don't have money, you're not gonna learn anything, you're gonna be a criminal. What about health?

These kids don't have money. Eating right, it's, I look at health the same way I look at education, which is you can be very poor and very healthy, but you need to be a little more disciplined You're not going into the Whole Foods of the Air One and buying the fresh-pressed whatever you're gonna have to creatively through a lot of discipline Maintain that you may not you don't have you can't afford a membership to a good gym

So you're gonna be doing some push-ups at home But but so you don't have a good role model in your parents. Right. And you don't really know how to discipline yourself, and you don't see a payoff for disciplining yourself, so fuck it. Right, but what I'm saying is giving the schools more money, or giving the teachers more money, or the more supplies, or whatever it is you're talking or the health education or whatever it is you're trying to get across unless the family is there sort of laying the law down and focusing they got to police it.

You can't police if the police education you did it with your kids Olga does it with my kids. All right. You got a call up there we'd pull that one down or do you want to just let's see Franklin 43 Seattle line six Franklin right and Glenn we don't hear anything hmm all right. Well, we can save it. We gotta finish our conversation about New York. So, you came in, you drank whiskey or bourbon or whatever I got.

And what did you think of the apartment? Oh, sorry. Did you have a chance to get... First thing my wife asked me, is he mad about the apartment? Is he okay? Is he okay? Is he okay? No, it's beautiful. You did a great job.

I told her that you wished that LeBeau had been there to do the tiling. Oh, your French tile man. Oh. Yeah, I found the only tile setter in LA with a French accent. Very French. Yeah.

Big fan of yours. He, by the way, is a gun toting NRA member, full, way right Frenchman. I love that he's, I know that guy's got good margins, man. I love, there's a detail. You, you know, I don't know if it's the chicken or the egg, but guys, there's, there's, there are guys that have an eye, and that eye for detail, it, it infects, permeates everything in their life.

And when you develop that eye, you are, there's something that is so satisfying about the person with the eye yeah for detail and then even thinks of details you wouldn't think of like certain certain grade on like a bench in the tile to make sure the water runs off runs off in the right way collects in the right place I don't know how he does it even well he does it even. Well, he does it with a lot of experience, but I also know that there's like people, like sometimes you'll go into someone's house,

or there'll be an apartment, and the part that I'm interested in is, if you're Earl Scheib, and you wanna do a paint job on a car, and you're charging 49 bucks You can't take the car apart all the bumpers and the door trim off and everything like that It takes more time Too much time. It's a cheap paint job But what I'm interested in is when people don't do the good detail

And it took just as much or as little time to do it the wrong way. I'll give you an example. You guys ever go into someone's apartment and the painter's painted the apartment and they've clearly painted around the switch plate for the light and it's like you can see, they may have masked it off but you can see where the paint line goes on and things and stuff.

There's one small screw in the middle that you could do with your if you have a Penny order or your fingernail like you take the plate off and you can act It's actually faster like it takes longer to mask it off where you get the big build up of the paint or the gum It's the whatever and it looks well crappy Nothing will ever look better than you painting it and putting it back, you know, doing it wild inside and then putting it back on. They don't do that. And it's like, it's easier and it's so much cleaner that way.

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