The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #1724 Gavin Newsom’s Night Out

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

May 25, 2023Adam and Drew take a deep dive on Gaivin Newsom’s outdoor dining regulations during the pandemic and compare it to his own public dining experiences at that time. Next, they remember the executive at SoFi stadium’s regulations during Super Bowl LVI and Drew wonders why he still has a job.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

825, 2003, episode 1724. It's entitled. Gavin Newsom's Night Out. Enjoy. Recorded live at Corolla 1 Studios with Adam Carolla and board-certified physician and addiction medicine specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on.

Dr. Drew's for for for for certified physician depicts medicine. Depixant. Oh, my. Yeah, all right. So I want to go back to what we were talking about last show, which is, um, how troubled I was by the lockdowns. Yes. And I started thinking not only was I troubled and, you know, didn't like seeing people suffer. So the whole thing depressed me.

It was like depressing. Like, you know, when the whole world was, you know, when the whole world was, you know, I think I was angry. It was angry, too. More than depressed. I'll tell you what I didn't. I'll tell you really what I think I was I was kind of tapping into. I realized that this whole thing was sort of needlessly politicized from Jump Street.

I thought, you know, Trump was riding a wave into a second term and that the Democrats grabbed this, seized it and used it. an opportunity to make some political hay. And so I felt like it was like East Germany and West Germany, you know, and it's like every time West Germany opened a new cafe, East Germany got angry and locked people in their closets. You know what I mean? Like every time DeSantis would go, we're opening up, Gavin News, we're going, well, then we're closing the beaches.

Yes. You know what I mean? Like, I'll show you. And I'm like, I live in a fucking state where these guys are having a pissing match about, you know, it's starting to become clear. It's like, Trump would be like, I'm going to send the hospital ship to L.A. Harbor and Garcia would be like, we don't want your hospital. It's like, what do you mean you don't want the hospital ship? Yeah, yeah. I thought you're out of bets.

Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. And I remember. We're going to, you know, during, during the summer of love when all the cities were burning, Trump would be like, I'll send the National Guard. Like, we don't want your national government. But your city's burning. And we have to live in the city. I know you don't like this guy. And I know you're against, you know, Trump said open schools.

So no, now we're going to close schools. And then they go, well, you should open business. Now we're closing the beaches. You want to keep going? And I'm like, hold on a second here. You're making your horrible decisions based on your hatred for the current administration. But we have to live in your Godforsaken state? Yes.

Fuck right off. I'm not part of your little pissing match experiment here. Yes. If businesses can be open, the businesses can be open. Also, way too much, way too much delineation. And there's way too much mask up between bites. You know what I mean? Like churches, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, can't be open.

What about nail slants? No. What about liquor stores? Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. What about pot dispensers? Yeah, okay. What about ball games?

No, no. What about Black Lives Matter March? Yeah, okay. Okay. By the way, you can't do that. Right. You understand? Right.

It's either it's closed or it's not closed. Right. It's either it's safe to fly commercially or it's not safe to fly commercially. Just sort of like, yeah, but no. No, but yeah, but no. Like, that's a wildly inconsistent message. Wildly, wildly. And by the way, by the way.

Capricious. All. It also seemed like all of the places that were getting closed would have been organizations that were a little more right wing and a little more right side of the aisle leaning. You know what I mean? A theme started to emerge that, look, if you wanted to have a rally, if you wanted to have a rally, a pro-life rally, Fauci wouldn't have been down with that. But if you want to have a Black Lives Matter rally, he would have been down with that. It was starting to, the themes were starting to emerge is what I'm saying.

Yes. And I remember I used to try to, I was always trying to equate it with Trump derangement. I kept saying this is all kind of trumped arrangement. Yeah, I mean, not to mention, you know, when people are like, oh, Gavin Newsom's such a hypocrite going out to the French laundry. I would say he's not a hypocrite. doesn't believe this is dangerous. Andy's a hypocrite. Andy's a hypocrite.

When you believe, has anyone seen Gavin Newsom riding a motorcycle with no helmet? No, because he thinks it's dangerous. But 28 of his closest friends at the French laundry, he goes to because he doesn't think it's dangerous. Right. This is pre-vaccine. He bulldozes the skate park at the beach because it's dangerous, but he doesn't think it's dangerous. If he thought it was dangerous, he wouldn't go out to dinner with 30 of his closest friends.

He's lying. He doesn't think that. This thing is like, oh, he's a hypocrite. He's throwing caution to the wind. He's not throwing caution to the wind. the wind. He knows the data and he's not going to get sick. If he does get sick, he's not going to be fine.

So when everyone else is at the fucking dinner. And they all believed it too. Obviously. They wouldn't attend. Right. And now, when we were in that position, the feeling that you get

was somebody... When was that, sorry. When was that the date of that dinner? And then did he shut down. He shut outdoor dining out down after that. Oh, is that right? I remember

that the French laundry incident was fairly early on. Because I remember him trying to say that when we were outside, then it turned to people had pictures of the closed windows. Well, okay, let me explain two things with Gavin Newsom. Here's what that

going to the French laundry shows. A, he doesn't care about COVID. He's not scared of COVID. He's not fear. of COVID. Otherwise, he wouldn't attend. B, he's not fearful of being photographed telling everyone to lock down either. But let's remember he got he got nearly taken out of office at least an effort was made. An effort, but not nearly.

But I'm just saying. He knows he's in California with all the fucking dumb shits or going to vote for him constantly so he can go do what he want. He's an apex dumbertender in California. We'll try final states. Anyway, go ahead, Drew. So when you're in that position looking at the things that you're describing, all these seemingly random, capricious, awful, consequential policies for no good reason that you can figure out,

it makes you feel helpless, right? Isn't that the feeling? Or powerless? Yes, it makes most people feel. Everyone feels, I got a lot. Well, no. sadly, way too many people get comfort from it. Oh, I can't even imagine that.

But not the dumpo who your crate training. Well, maybe that's where this problem is. So they're not just complacent, but feel taken care of or something. And we felt powerless and at the whim of a capricious authority that was harming people. Are we too far one direction? Are we? Hmm. Because that's what made me depressed.

The power of the helplessness made me depressed, I think. And then looking around at the fucking nuclear winter in this city. Let's see. And by the way. And Evan Newsome went to the French laundry on what date, Emmy? That'll be easy. November 17th of 2020. All right.

So he went. So hey, that teacher's thing I'm thinking of, it may win well before that, by the way. But go ahead. He closed down, outdoor dining. dining in December. Right after that. That was 2020? Yeah.

All right. So he went, name. And then said he was outdoors, so it was fine. Yeah. Except for he lied. Then he closed down outdoor dining the next month. Pluto, foe. If you know the name of the movie you'd like to see,

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Maybe it's just California got a huge dose of this. Because I go around the country and people are not that affected as we were here. Yeah. You know, fucking dumb in this state. I guess that's it. Well, they're not dumb. They're such ideologues that they don't. They're, they're, they're, if, if, if, if, if a person says he's not for drag queen story hour, they go,

and we're not voting for you. And we don't care how bad California becomes. I don't know. San Francisco is rendered unusable. It's all worth it to have drag queens. I don't, they have no thoughts about what they've done to San Francisco. No, they, they, what they do is they sort of separate, I think we were talking about this on the phone the other day, but I think what they do is they connect policy very closely

to people they don't like. So if they don't like Trump, then they go, he's putting kids in cages at the border. You know, these policies, these policies. There's no Muslim ban on flights,

you know, and these policies, you know, we don't like these policies. And then when it's the people they do vote for, it becomes a sort of cycle that just sort of is the cycle of life.

Like, you know, in New York. has crimes sometimes and then it doesn't have crime and then it has nothing to do with the policy again and now just sort of we're in a sort of homeless cycle now wouldn't really wouldn't really matter who was in charge we're just this is just what's happening you know what I mean like test scores are down and black and brown kids are falling further behind and the economy's junk and you know gas is five bucks a gallon and there's homeless everywhere but it's just and businesses are leaving.

Well, but there's always systemic racism, of course. Yeah, it's just a sort of a cycle that we're passing through and we'll just pass through it. But it's really got nothing to do. Look, the thing about there's only one yardstick to measure any society. The canary in the coal mine are just businesses. If people are packing up and leaving your city, that is a foreboding. you know, a traveler from the apocalypse. Like, wake up and look at that what the fuck is going on with these people leaving.

Why would they? Gavin, I was saying, hey, where are going to go? You know what I mean? Like, people are leaving. Yeah. They're leaving. It's all right. That's enough for staying behind the pay the reparations.

Right. That's, I could imagine if he actually, people maybe around the country aren't aware that he's planning $8 million per person. Oh, I know. Oh, he's, he's given up on that. Nope, he's back on it. Oh, he's back on? He gave up for a minute, now he's back at it.

Because obviously, you couldn't deal with the backlash, I guess. Oh, when did he? He just came back again? Yesterday, yes. Oh, right. Let's look at this. This is, we got to get at this. Yeah.

And it, it, imagine the Exodus then. Oh, God. Ooh. Imagine when he tries to rewrite the Constitution and say, you know, you got to pay taxes for another decade if you leave. Oh. You know, like, he's. They're trying.

They're looking hard. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. I know. It'd be so great to stay in California because California can be awesome. They can't do it. He's now, now the budget is screwed up.

Well, they knew the budget is going to be screwed up. There was no doubt about that. And why he didn't plan for that, I mean, they've got, they're going to have a $50 billion short haul. I think they really bullet shortfall around. I think they really believe that they can just convince federal comment to hand the money. Well, there's going to be some more business taxes going on, too.

Yeah. Only three, sorry, only about two weeks, two and a half weeks after the French laundry incident. Did he close down outdoor dining? And why did he close down outdoor dining? You know what? We should be taking aim at the clinical director, that public health guy that was such an asshole. It was a pediatrician that was the head of the state. Forget his name.

Mark something. He was, talk about hubris. Oh, my God. He was going to show you how to do things. And I remember I had a conversation with him or his wife about their dad. It's like, we like our data better. I'm sure you do. Was there, what, the thing that they would constantly hit you with, I remember, was hospitals overcrowded.

Yeah. That was their big thing. Yes. And that was, they would distort that. I would have to yell at the producers every day on the news program I was doing. Like, listen, they're talking about, first of all, they're saying county beds, county hospitals in L.A. County. There's limited number of county beds. That doesn't mean people are not hospitalized elsewhere.

It's just county is at its limit. And its limit is hit because they don't have nurses. Not because they don't have beds, because they don't have the nursing to keep up with. and they don't have nursing because of horrible policies. So when did, when did me and Sunny Emmy go to the Tinhorn Flats? They definitely captured it on TMZ. Is that like January or something? Was it after the, I think I was still sick when you did that.

Dave, I remember. Well, he closed down outdoor dining and then they stayed open and then they defied. defied them and they made a little noise about it that's what got them in trouble there were a few other businesses that stayed open but they didn't make noise about it tinhorn flats made noise about it

and that's when the feds had to move in was the feds or was it the county it was the county moved in and basically bolted the doors and put plywood over the doors and eventually put a fence around it now it's no more

TMZ was December 15th. Yeah. December 15th. So he declared it on the 6th. So it was a week and a half after the declaration. Didn't we already have outdoor dining problems here in this county? weren't they already sort of cracking down on that?

My record. Well, December was also the infamous Pineapple Hill Saloon from Sherman Oaks. Was this the movie thing next door? Yeah. They've had a production next door that had the same outdoor dining, which is fine. Yeah. Look, everybody, when you see wild inconsistencies, that's when you know it's over. Not just inconsistencies, but what's the word I'm looking for?

I mean, illogical. Yeah. And it's just ridiculous, actually ridiculous. Yes, they told everyone indoor dining was too dangerous, so they moved you out to outdoors and at great expense. Everyone moved outdoors. and then they announced outdoors was too dangerous. Something based on zero data.

Can we once again take aim at that guy from the SoFi Stadium during the Super Bowl? Oh, that. We have to keep just pointing that douche out over and over against some people who can be appropriately disrespectful to the guy. Yes. Do you have his... Or just add him to the list of people to never be listened to again. Yeah. Or whatever.

He's a liar. He's authoritarian. I don't know what he's. what he's talking about. We're on to you, guy. We're on to you eating popcorn. Your kids eating popcorn. My favorite, my favorite clip of COVID is that douchebag.

How about the people that six months ago were still insisting that we were in a catastrophe? Are they calming down? And what do they feel about those feelings from six months ago when we weren't in a catastrophe? Listen, micro and macro, I just don't listen. Too many people showed their hand. And now you've made it onto my list of people not to listen to. We've got to be reminded of it's getting a pretty long list. We need to remind people.

So this is the guy that's the sort of the manager of the, what do they call officially? I don't know what is a title, but he runs SoFi Stadium, I guess. And they're getting prepared for the Super Bowl, Super Spreader event. Yeah, of course. By the way, all it was. A year and a half ago. All it was pictures of Mayor Garcetti and. these guys taking pictures with Magic Johnson

explaining like of course in the pictures like where's your mask Garcetti I held my breath I held my breath would you by the way that has nothing to do with you contracting this illness gets in through your nose he held his breath through look it's not Garcetti it's not this fucking douchebag it's not

Gavin Newsom it's all you people who listen to these people that it was abundantly obvious from almost Jump Street that they politicized everything and they didn't know what the fuck they were talking about. Or they did and they were lying. Let's see what this guy says.

What's his name? I always love to call him out. For sure. I have friends that work. No, we have to call them. Who hate them. Protocols include a mandatory mask requirement in the stadium for everyone two and years of older, regardless

of their vaccination status. Two. Required to wear a face covering in the stadium in the tailgate areas. Tailgate. While actively eating and drinking. And that doesn't mean. buy a bucket of popcorn and eat it for two hours, actively eating and drinking.

We are on to you. All right. Ross Simmons, Russ Simmons. Yeah, from so far. Now, here's the thing. First off, listen, everybody, we need you to wear a mask while tailgating. Except when you're eating. Which is tailgating.

All tailgating is is eating and drinking. Correct. The only time you don't have a brat in your mouth is when you have a brat in your mouth is when you have a beer in your mouth. That's what tailgating is. So this, by the way, you're outside. Could you imagine, but. Oh, my God.

What is it wrong with that guy? He's a fucking... Why does he still have his job? Oh, because he was on the right side of everything. Why doesn't he have a... They probably still have six feet, Dave's lives all over that. Oh, they have stickers all over the fucking ground. Look, here's what I'm saying.

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26 is your year for the soccer championship. BetOn at Bed Online. How could you possibly enforce mask wearing when you're tailgating if everyone has a plate of food and a beer? You couldn't enforce it. There's no way you could wear your mask. Well, yeah, but no, I'm looking at him from their standpoint. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How would one enforce nursing a tub of popcorn for two hours?

Would you have people come around and go, I saw you eating that popcorn in the first quarter? It's now the third quarter. And you're eating the same tub of popcorn? And you didn't pull your mask up? And I could go, no, I bought a new tub of popcorn that you guys sell at a hefty premium at the stadium. The other thing is, is if you don't want people nursing a top of popcorn, you? cup of popcorn, then don't sell popcorn at your stadium. Right.

I mean, there's a logic to all of this stuff, which is if it's inherently dangerous to nurse popcorn. And by the way, a bucket of popcorn, like a big stadium bucket of popcorn, that's an hour. Oh, yeah. You buy popcorn. You don't eat it like a hot dog. You sort of nurse it. You know what I mean? It's just there.

It's just kind of between your legs. Yeah. We're on to your mask. He was a fucking idiot. He was everything. Russ Simmons. Yes. Everything that's wrong.

Everything that was wrong with COVID is Russ Simmons. Yes. Yes. But we have 20. I was going to say we have 20 more of those. It's idiots. But, but. Mark Galley.

Mark Galley was the guy's name from the state. It's still, it's you, everyone, for not screaming about this guy, which, of course, I did on many occasions. I screamed about Fauci. Nobody got sick that day, by the way. And nobody wore a mask. in the whole damn stadium.

If they thought mask work, they wouldn't take pictures of themselves with no mask. If you think something works, people think seatbelts work. They use seat belts consistently and vigorously. Yes? Yes. The, God, I'm really kind of reeling

that the outdoor dining thing was just two weeks after the French one. That seems weird, yeah. I don't remember it that way. It's funny. I would have put it before. No. Yeah. Now, I knew.

But that didn't last that long, did it? The outdoor dining thing? No, just lasted. Long enough to kill Tinhorn flat. Yeah. Some businesses. They are suing, right? Yeah.

Oh, my God. They got Gargas. Yeah, they got, it was like, it was, it lasted a month. I mean, I went 10 days after they did it. Yeah. And the business was open. You know, it took a little while for them to, put an iron gate around it.

I would say, you know, I have very few regrets during COVID and some of the things I said or didn't say. One of them is that I didn't go to Tinhorne Flats. Yes. Well, that was... I should have made that effort. Everyone hated me, but what I never understood is we have these snapshots in time historically. And during the snapshots, there are the people who did the right things.

thing and didn't do the right thing, you know. And there's plenty of stories of like during Jim Crow and segregation, you know, they go, Branch Ricky of the Dodgers insisted that the black player stay at the same hotel and said he would forfeit the game in Chicago if they didn't, you know, and you go, oh, I wish someone was talking about me that way after I die. Yes. You know what I mean? And Frank Sinatra said that Sammy Davis Jr.

He wasn't to have to come in through the kitchen. He walked in the front door through the casino with him. And if he didn't like it, he canceled the show, you know, like that. And so now, that's why Joe Biden grafts himself onto marching at Alabama and, you know, going to South Africa to get arrested with Nelson Mandela and Kamala Harris going to the Freedom Rally saying when she was two saying she wanted freedom, you know, I was there in a stroller, you know, putting. And of course, the two-year-old knew exactly what she was referencing and talking about. She was there to, oppression. Yeah. Yeah.

So. She was there to advocate for freedom. So that's why people graph themselves onto these situations. Now, what is it? Well, in that case, it's racism. But it's really oppression. It's really like the government has said you can't go into this restaurant, black person. Right.

You know, you have to sit at a separate counter. Yes. It's the overreach, the big hand of. government, you know, going no. You know what I mean? Yes. And, you know, Rosa Parks, you sit in the back of the bus. You know, that's, that's, is that the person?

People forget it's government that put those policies. I mean, the people did it, but the government was the, the excuse her enforcer. It's a democratic part of the government, too, that did it. But it was not the bus driver's personal policy. It's the government. But I think people have an illusion that they would stand up to these things if they were in Germany, 1939. If they were in Alabama, in 1950. Well, I think that

I think that myth has been blown out of water. I still think people think they would be the one. Well, they do. But they were not during COVID when they should have been. So government's heavy hand came in to place. And I would have wanted

to be counted amongst the persons, just like you wish they were talking about your father marching in Selma, Alabama. Now, you You know what I mean? You wish he was he was sitting in Pasadena watching TV and my dad didn't do anything either. But I wish I could tell that story.

You know what I mean? Yeah. But then again, he didn't want to get hit with the fire hose or beating with a baton or bit by German Shepherd, right? So for me personally, I was like, you can call it COVID or you can call it Jim Crow or you can call it, I'm going to call it government overreach. And then I would like to go on record as being the person that did not go along or protested at least during the government overreach. So I am, I'm in Locking Yada, California, and I drive all the way across town to eat a subpar burger or a decent burger, but certainly could have gone up the street and got.

a better burger. And I'm going to bring my son. And we're going to capture it. You know, I want to speak to my father's situation at that time. And it's kind of interesting because, you know, I'm always calling for Eurocentric people to be more aware of what's going on. I think my dad might, my mom certainly would have gone to Alabama in March. They weren't aware of it.

And at the time, what my dad was dealing with was he came out of a Jewish ghetto. and was not able to practice medicine in certain hospitals because he was Jewish. And was not able to live in certain areas in Pasadena because he was Jewish. Really? Absolutely. Is that true? 100%. He couldn't, the hospital that I ended up working at, he was not allowed to be on staff at.

There was a club across the street before they end up living that absolutely excluded Jewish people for like 100 years. So that's what he was. Well, I mean, they're not welcome kind of thing. Well, thank you. I mean, but make a decision. It was not the government. It was, the point is it wasn't, he wasn't dealing with the government. He was dealing with systemic social stuff.

Right, right. But it's interesting. I think they were so, these immigrants, he was an immigrant, so preoccupied with their stuff. I don't think they was, they just didn't, there was no internet. They couldn't know what was going on. They were dealing with their own crazy shit. Mm-hmm. It's interesting.

Well, anyway, somewhere, there's me and Sunny talking to TMZ in front of Tin Horn Flats. And she'll live on the internet. and good for us. I'm glad I brought Sonny. Yes. Too. Hope he appreciates it also. He doesn't care.

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