The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #1156: The Scone Gene

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

Adam and Drew open the show with Adam telling Drew about a new warehouse he recently procured that he has been trying to renovate and improve. The conversation then turns to a harrowing tale of hope, eggs, cheese and disappointment as told by Adam to Drew and they further expand the conversation into the merits of olive oil and butter in the Vinnie diet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

throwback episode from September of 2019. Amongst other things, we get into the conversation of the merits, we expand our talk about food, olive oil, butter, Vinny diet, still we're talking about seed oils back then. Although I would say that it's I'm delighted to say that the seed oil message has been heard. And thanks to the new, the new sheriff in town at the HHS, there's a lot more awareness. But this was just prior to the COVID debacle,

a different time. Enjoy September, 2019. 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. Yeah, you know, I got the honor to be here on the show. Oh, I'm Dr. Drew.

It's my partner there, and he knows us as well. So what's going on there, Drew? I want to thank LifeLock, Bluedo, TV, Drew Carr, ButcherBox, and Simply Safe as well. So you had a moment. You're gonna tell us about a moment. Yeah. I was, I got a warehouse.

It's back toward where I live, but it's in the city of Glendale, technically. You're taking me there, I've seen it. Taking you there. It's back toward where I live, but it's in the city of Glendale. You're taking me there. I've seen it. It's beautiful. I'm taking you there. Beautiful warehouse. And I started to build this sort of storage.

It's got like a high ceiling on it. I started building like a platform to throw storage. Yeah. Yeah. Stuff. And it's pretty good size. And of course some city inspectors like came in and went, you gotta get a permit for this and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, how do you even know you were doing anything? I don't know. Everyone. It's just it's a racket and everyone gets paid and I don't know, whatever. So that's fine. everyone gets paid, and everyone, I don't know, whatever. So that's fine, you gotta go in there, you can get money, apply for a permit or whatever.

And at a certain point, I just found myself sitting there, it's kind of a weird relationship because you're basically a law-abiding taxpayer, but you kind of feel like Al Capone a little bit, you know, and you're sitting there and you go down to the planning department or whatever and you know, and they call your number sort of thing and you're sitting there and there's something like, you're going through the rudimentary beginning levels of this.

There's something like 27-year-old chick and she's just sort of sitting behind a computer and she's like, you sitting behind a computer and she's like you know what's the address and then she'll like she goes uh alright so that was a they had a business there where they were they manufacture clothing or something like that t-shirts or something I said yeah that that was the old that was the old business and And that's who I bought the warehouse from. And she said, and so what's your business? And I said, I'm not running a business. I'm just storing.

I'm gonna store some cars there. And she said, so what are we talking about? And I said, yeah, I'm building shelves to put like parts and store stuff. And I'm just gonna store some cars there and she goes oh Okay, well you'll um You have to talk to window 11, and then she like duck come she went they might let you do that oh, and I thought Just paid four million dollars for fucking warehouse. What do you mean? They might let you do that like what what what are we where we at?

Here well. I told you my story. I you do that? Like what are we at here? Well I told you my story about it. She didn't know what she was saying, but she's going what are you gonna do with this thing? And I go I'm gonna put some of my stuff in it. And she went, oh maybe they'll let you do that. Oh that'd be an awesome day for me. They'll let me put stuff in my warehouse?

Woo, I gotta start chilling the champagne. I talked to a journalist and went down to Texas. I know what you're gonna say. Yes, you have. And I tell the same story anyway. But what I'm saying is people, you really gotta be careful where we're heading here. Heading? Or where we're at.

They might let you do that. That's not where you wanna live. That's not the society you want. Now all you assholes that are sitting in apartments right now Go on. What's wrong with that? There's something wrong with it You may not be a smoker, but Rob Reiner tacking $15 surcharge onto a pack of cigarettes is wrong You don't you don't have to be a smoker to think it's wrong

You don't have to own anything to know this is wrong. And the notion of like, hey, we need more of this is insane. My mom would like more of this. Would she say that? She doesn't. Does she? Does she know? They don't really know what they're doing. Like they just voting. It's just like more of this guy. You know what I mean? Does she notice the change? I guess she doesn't run into it No, I mean, what does she think about homelessness in this state? We talk about we talk about baked goods Muffins well, you know how I'm obsessed with scones

Matt you know I talk your ears off about scones every day Well, thank God my mom share, oh nature nurture. Maybe she passed town. The genetic thing, yeah. For me to talk about scones. The scone gene. The Benish bakery on John, where is, oh it's not on, it's not Fairfax.

No, I just wanna scream, I'm never going there. I'm never going there. I'm not on there. It's on Fairfax. No, I just want to scream, I'm never going there. I'm never going there. I'm not going there. I'm not gonna go. Oh my God. How much of nothing shall we talk about? But yeah, the ladies answered me, it was sort of chilling. She's like, yeah.

First it was weird, and she was like, what are you doing in there? I'm like, just putting my stuff in there. What businesses and whores. Yeah, but what are you gonna do? What are your plans? I'm like, oh, okay. Well, I'm gonna cook math.

Why? Is that an issue? I bring in the fentanyl from, well, it comes through Maxio, but it's a Chinese manufacturer, China. China's bringing it. I was like, they wanted to know what you think you're doing over there with that property of yours that you bought What's the plan and by the way?

Next time you you got a plan you better better check you better check with us That's the scary part That's the going off the fucking cliff part Well, as I said in Texas Texas, in those same departments, they look at Californians and go, you must be from California. That's your land. Do what you want. Right.

But where's all the cheap, affordable housing, Drew? It's right here in California, of course. Why are we? Hey, let's get that up. Lickety split. Come on, fellas. Come on, builders. Come on down.

Come on down and throw up some cheap affordable housing. Super easy. This will begin a nightmare odyssey for me, Drew. Oh, really? Oh, of course. There's no other way. There is no other way. I mean, the people have not gone through the process you go through the process

You realize very quickly why there's not cheap affordable housing in Los Angeles. It is a battle Just make shelves Yeah, this is not putting up shelves. This is more than that. But what I'm saying is is you shall battle It's a big deal. It is not. Look, you've heard me talk about a million times. I'm saying, have you ever tried to do a city? Is there a more expensive way like hiring an architect or something that gets it through quicker? Oh yeah, you have to get architect. You have to get engineering. You have to pay everything, everyone. Don't those guys get it through quicker or no?

It's not getting it through. It's like you have to comply with things that are insane, that are way overkill. It's way, way too much. You know, ask anyone who's like, you ever see like, you know, wheelchair handicap accessible fire, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It just keeps going and going and going. You've never seen or heard so many rules, stuff you can't imagine, stuff you can't think of. It's there and it's all there.

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butcherbox.com. Although I must punish Olga when I get home. Ooh, what does that look like? Well... I'll tell you why. Why, okay. What does that look like? I pull up my fist. Ever since I've had kids,

I've been trying to kind of keep the Refrigerator sorted out as you know mm-hmm. It can be trying still trying So no, there's no there's no sprints in the Corolla house. These are all marathons. Everything's a marathon This seems more like a sea journey sea voyage in the 12th century well How could I keep my misery and index so high if I didn't argue and talk about the same things over and over and over And over it'd be impossible. Yeah, I'd be a contented man, right and then what then they're no misery and why by the way do

Why for instance just because you pay for everything does that means people should do Reasonable request that you've asked multiple times hierarchy, okay, so Then a lot of like there's a big jar mayonnaise, but there's no mayonnaise in it And it's kind of taken up a lot of space We like to do like the Martins at Martin Ellie's big big champagne style bottle But with no cork in it. This sort of going flat, you know, but they're nice There's a couple of good moves Then there's the Martinelli's bottle with the plug in it. Mm-hmm, but the plug in it is a poor spout These are I must say this brings me a certain amount of delight

And I don't know why you're laughing. Now, so there's been a kind of constant like, hey man, you gotta take that fridge man, gotta turn it over man, stuff in there, getting bad, get it out, move it, move it on down the line, you know? And there's just constant flow of food coming in. It's not being very managed. Now do not worry, I bought a second refrigerator and put it down in the basement and then at some point in the garage, a second refrigerator, at some point I'm going to have trouble because one of my requests was in my sort of Vinny world me coming home to whole pizzas in the fridge all the time makes it difficult.

So you know that was a that was a four-year odyssey but now we've gotten the pizzas moved down to the garage in the The garage refrigerator except for the other day. I opened it up. There was a pizza in there It'd been petrified because good while it not been brought upstairs and put before me It was out of rotation. It's a brand new the thing that made this one particularly rough is Lynette Frequently orders as a topping on her pizza It's just whole tomato slices which I think is the worst topping on a pizza because it's just they just bleed out and it's just

Tomatoes on there. They don't make up. It's auger this petrified pizza Was an Italian sausage pizza, which is my favorite, but I don't know, it never made it into the rotation. So I've told the old guy, look, you gotta go down, you gotta check the lower one, you gotta check the upper one, and we need to take the stuff and put the mold on it, these fridge, this is your territory.

Claim it in the name of Spain. So today, I have this weird thought. Not weird but I'm like driving around and I was like oh I had to go to the dentist in the morning and blah blah blah and no work done but everyone is out the house and I'm just kind of alone. I've been working a lot and working like a lot of weekends and I thought I don't have to be at work until later today and I thought I deserve like an omelet. Okay. And I thought I might just pull into one of these diners here and order an omelet.

I was like toying with that notion. And then I was like, eh, eh. Then I thought, you know what, I'll go home and I'll make an omelet. And then I thought about it again and I thought, what is it, the $11, why not let them make you an omelet? And I thought, no, there's something noble about making your own omelet. And you know what, I'm gonna enjoy the process

of making this omelet. So I went home, house is empty, again, it's never empty. And I thought, I'm gonna get all zen about this omelet. So I opened the fridge, I found some good bacon, some good thick bacon. I said, I'm gonna cut up the bacon instead of frying strips. I'm gonna cut it up Found an onion a chopped up the onion found some garlic Found a little packets already like peeled garlic some of it had a little mold on it

I was like I got tell all that got to keep the rotation going here Chopped it up nice and thin like good fellas, you know got a little olive oil got the bacon Got the bacon. I would be happy got to put butter in for Vinny. That's okay Can't use olive oil. We can't try just make it conversation. Come on keep going Vinny sells olive oil on his podcast and never stops talking about using olive oil. All right. All right. Well Drew, you're allowed to make conversation, but don't say stupid shit in the middle of my fucking story. Vinny wants you to have... Vinny sits here and talks about olive oil, olive oil, olive oil.

Yes? Yes. Okay. Feel free to chime in, but... All right. Has to make... Has to live on planet Earth? Okay. I never stopped talking about olive oil. So simmering, making it, smelling it. I feel pretty good about myself about now. You know, you made the right decision.

You stayed home, took your phone, listened to your podcast, making your food, chopped everything up. Then I said, I'm going to the next level. Go to the next level. Instead of doing what I normally, normally I bust the eggs into the pan and sort of scramble it up with the side of the fork in real time.

I said, you know, I'm gonna bust up three eggs, I'm gonna put them in a bowl. Whip it up. Put a little cream. Ooh, yeah. I'm gonna put a three eggs. I'm gonna put them in a bowl Whip it up put a little cream. Oh, yeah, I'll put a little cream in there, and I have that Vinny would approve a win Vinny would approve the olive oil too because that's all he talks about is Here's an ad from Vinny's website advertising via Capelli, which is his favorite kind of olive oil And you can use code Vinny, so I think he's on board He's a board with all boy, But yes, the heavy whipping cream, also delicious and great.

I whip it up into a froth and I go, okay. I pour the eggs in, I stir scream up. And again, I'm having a total experience at this point. I'm like, I'm home. You're in. I make my own, I got Phil by my side. He's looking at me, wants to see any sloppy seconds, you know, I got the onion I got that I got the thick cut bacon in there. I got that I got the olive oil

I got the garlic in there. I got the egg and I'm just staring at I go What do I need? What's what am I gonna finish this off with? Oh cheese the cheese cheese goes last Flopping it over on itself flopping over over, stirring it in the pan, flopping over, mouth-watering. Go in the fridge, open the drawer with the clear front of it, pull out the bag of pre-grated cheese, cheddar, mild cheddar, or medium. Medium cheddar cheese. Go, okay. Reach into the bag, grab a handful, like confetti or something, and I, whoosh, throw it on top. This is the end now, this is my crescendo, because it's all, it's pre-graded.

All I'm gonna do is, I'm turning the flame off as I'm throwing it in, turning it over, as I do it, I get this waft of gym sock. Like this just comes from the, ah,'s just full gym sock and I'm like Was that now the cheese is completely melted and flipped it over three times and I'm like Look the cheese looks orange what Fuck I open the thing and I put my nose like Then I go, oh fuck, I open the thing and I put my nose like, okay, it's full bad, it's all bad.

And I have this fucking huge pile of omelet now. And I'm like, fucking damn it. And I'm like, okay, let me see if I, let me see if it tastes like it's gone. Of course it tastes like it is. The cheese is all gone fucking south And I'm like staring at it now, and I'm like okay first off Why did I have an argument myself against going to the diner? Why can I just go into the fucking diner for twelve dollars? I would have been let the pros handle it, but no I had to fucking do it. You know why

Could it go any other way I knew I? Knew I was gonna break down and go with the cottage fries, the hash browns. Once I got in that diner, I needed those hash browns. And at home, it's not that, I don't have them. I wouldn't have done it. And it was like, I'm gonna slide into the hash browns. So I said, I'll do it at home.

The whole fucking thing tastes like a bad gym sock now. And I was like, and also I added it right at the end and just mixed it all in. So now I find myself just picking, I'm picking out the bacon and I'm picking out the onion and I'm picking out the pieces of garlic and I'm picking out the shards of, I'm picking out the shards of egg that have been like tainted but not destroyed by the old. So now I've picked out sort of a semblance of an omelet, but it's just pieces that have that were just there were like, you know, there were like flesh wounds, but not full casualties of war and I've cobbled together a Pile of it and then I take a bunch of gringo bandito hot sauce I just start shaking it on because I'm trying to kill And I look at Phil and I'm like buddy. This is the best day of your life Because I know this stuff's gone bad, but I ain't throwing it away. I got 40 minutes into this thing

So I go sit my office I'm just picking two pieces that taste a little bit like bad cheese now, but totally tainted and Fed the whole thing to Phil whole thing awful. Yeah, at least you'll got something for it So I gotta tell Olga Gotta get on a little little rotation little tighter rotation now the cheese to be fair to her and me didn't it didn't turn color Yeah, yeah, just looked like it. I Think the pre-graded shit Vinny's told me also,

I should have stopped, because there was a part when I slid the drawer open and I looked at the round circles of provolone, the best, and I looked at that provolone and I went, oh that would go nicely. What did Vinny tell you about the pre-graded? He said that the pre-graded stuff has like a stabilizer or whatever in it that's not fantastic. And hence the bright orange carrot top hair without any of the mold or whatever.

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Gary, did you find anything on that cheese? And I wonder if there's a bet, there must be a better version of like pre-grated cheese that doesn't have that whatever that's a Vinny question I'm sure there is but Vinny did give me a heads up once when I was saying like sort of well you know Vinny he he he gets granular with shit yeah but also it's also kind of the no free lunches kind of category too which is like hey it's just a bag of pre-grated cheese It's super easy and convenient. He's like that stuff has stuff in it That's not as good as you taking a block of cheese and cutting it off yourself

Mm-hmm also text him. What what's his deal with butter versus olive oil? Does he beat it he beat on me real butter. He beat on me about butter. It's all I'm telling you I know he signs up on olive oil. Well, don't I I know he does so I would have a legitimate question for him I'm confused what your question ever in the morning when you make your eggs The the grass-fed butter versus olive oil. Yeah, but I said olive oil. I know what's his recommendation But Drew you said Adam said olive oil and you said Vinnie wouldn't like that when he wouldn't sign off on that cuz he But then ten seconds He likes olive oil he wants more fat and so in the morning he suggests the butter

That's what he told me now if that's not his orientation. I'd love to know it you got it I'll ask him if he texts me back the first cursory Google I did suggest that there is cellulose in pre-grated cheese to prevent it from clumping and that that is probably not the best. I'm waiting for a text back from Vinny. I had already texted him the first question. Just everyone know if it's convenient, there's usually something in there that you don't

want. And even if it just seems like it's just grated cheese, like there's something in it so it's not clumping and sticking and whatever-ing. Anyway, you wanna talk to Ron from Colorado? I don't see him lit up. Oh, he's not there anymore. Well, he was asking when is the right time to quit a job?

Two weeks notice or just quit? But it depends on the job. I mean, if you're leaving Taco Bell, leave, right? I've talked to a lot of people, I know people that are going through this right now, and they've consulted me on many occasions. I, there is, it's funny. I've never really had These kinds of dilemmas. I don't know how you feel drew, but I've always just felt like you know like people would say like

You know I'm really thinking about start my own thing I'm not really happy where I am and I feel like I'd be doing better for myself But I'm also blah blah blah blah and and then they go What should I do and then I go well you're telling me what you're right what you should be doing right and they go what do you think I should do and I go you're telling me they're afraid better than this and no I get it and and you know and you you don't like it where you're at or you're unhappy or you think you could strike out and do whatever and it's weird that you're telling me

what's going on, but then asking what you do. I get it, but my answer is, you're saying it. I don't know, how many, how often are you wrong about your career or your whatever? I mean, how often? How often do you regret having left something? It's hard to tabulate how often you're wrong or even how often.

I can tabulate regret, because I can ask you how do you feel about leaving Hewlett-Packard, you know, whatever it is. I don't know any successful people that have a lot of regrets. Right. Because they just make something of the next move. Well, it's all about how they got wherever they got, but you know,

it's how could they regret it? Well, why don't we reverse engineer it? Let's just say you grew up in a very small town and you worked at the same mill your dad worked at and he was there for 41 years and you were there for 43 years. Would you be happy with that? You guys can be personally? Yes. No.

Okay. Well, that's the opposite of not moving ahead or trying different things. So we do know that the extreme version of that is not a good thing, right? And you can oftentimes divine what is a good version of something by first just sort of picking the other version. Like, okay, I'll give you an example that is no change. Same town, same woman, high school sweethearts, same mills as your dad. Sound tantalizing? Do they make movies about that guy? Do you know anyone's name who's done that?

Right. You know what I mean? No, we do know Richard Branson's name, right? Right. So okay, so we now know there's another version that's the opposite of that, that's better. Now, let's try to figure out who you are. Are you Richard Branson? Or are. Are you Richard Branson?

Or are you the next Richard Branson? Where do you, because some of this, it's not a question of whether it's a good idea or bad idea. When LeBron James was 13, it was a good idea for him to dream about going to the NBA. Sonny Corolla, it's not a good idea. So is it a good idea for him to dream about going to the NBA right Sonny Corolla. It's not a good idea, right? So is it a good idea? Is it about it? Well that'll depend on your vertical LeBron James

Was dunking a basketball? Now in the eighth grade if in fact you are dunking a basketball on a regulation hoop Whilst in the eighth grade like Sonny Corolla, then you would be a fool not to be thinking about the NBA. But if you're not making the junior high team, then you would be a fool to be thinking about the NBA. You can fantasize all you want, but to start moving that direction with series intent? No, so let's figure out

Where you are? I mean what you know when I sort of? Risked whatever to to get into comedy It was based on a fairly certain view of my ability Wasn't based on how I was going to be received or whatever, but I knew I could dunk a basketball I wasn't sure if I'd be injured or get cut or whatever it is, but I knew I could play. Like, it was based on something. So figure that part out, too.

It's hard for people to do that. It's hard. Self-assessment, people are really bad at it. Well, you know the way to do that? You gotta remove yourself from the equation. Right, and you have to listen to the environment too. Right. A bit. Yeah. Not exclusively. I mean, you can improve and adjust,

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