The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #1928 Nutty Cuckoo Clock Insane

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

October 15, 2024Adam kicks off the week talking about the recent gambling odds in football this past weekend, Drew then delves into the election betting lines, and they try to figure out the inconsistencies with IDs. Plus, Huntington Beach’s ongoing battle with the State of California, the governing bodies’ policies are coming back full circle, and they dissect the Axe body spray movement.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Well, time for throwback from October 2024, not that long ago. We talk about recent gambling odds in football in the past weekend, and we delve into election betting lines as well. Try to figure out the inconsistencies with things like IDs. Huntington Beach is ongoing battle with the state of California. The governing bodies' policies are coming back full circle, and we dissect the X body spray movement. Enjoy. Throwback episode from October 2024.

Recorded live at Corolla 1 Studios with Adam Carolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on a chip-da-da-da-da-tap-pa-pah. What's going on, Drewski? Oh, I don't know where to start. Let's see.

Betting markets, do you make much of the betting markets? it's out there? Well, you know, I will say this, you know, I'll watch football and I'll ask for lines, betting lines, you know, and then you'll see a thing and you go, I was watching last week and Seattle was playing at home. Seattle had a better record than San Francisco, the team they were playing. And so Seattle was, I don't know, three and two, I don't know, three and two, and San Francisco's two and three.

Right. And Seattle's playing at home. And Seattle's an underdog. And I remember I said to everyone in the room, how often does it happen where the team has a better record and is at home? And they go into Thursday night football game as an underdog. Yeah. And no one had any answers. But it's pretty rare that you have a better record and you're at home.

Yeah. And you go in as an underdog. I said, that seems peculiar to me. And sure enough, San Francisco won the game. So they know things. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

But now here's the thing about Vegas and odds and all that kind of stuff. They need to know things. But also, they're not always trying to prognosticate. They're just trying to pull the line closer to even. So people need to understand that they don't necessarily think Cleveland's going to win by four. They just know there's too much action going to the Patriots. So they move and try to pull people over. What I'm thinking about is the presidential betting.

Yeah, I figured you were. They're all over the place. You're saying betting, though. Betting, not the polls, the betting. Because in the betting, as you're saying, they know something is sort of a diligent wisdom of crowds, right? Crowdsourcing, so to speak, tends to get to the right thing. What I find so odd, two things strike me. One is that it moves so much.

It's just weird. I mean, I thought people had made up their mind a long time ago, and now it's like it's going all different directions and splitting. You're Trump going way up, and I don't know what to make of all that. And then I start thinking, oh, shit, our voting situation, our voting systems is so fragmented and so messed up. What's going to happen if, you know, he's winning and then in the 11th hour, all of a sudden a bunch of crazy votes come in and he pulls it the other way. people are going to go nutty, nutty cuckoo. But there's nothing much you can do about it. Yeah, it's, again, we're in a world that I keep kind of running into.

A world you don't like me. You can't believe you're in? It's a world where they're like, we want. fair, safe, and sound elections. Right. Okay, well, why don't, let's require voter ID for them to vote. No, we're not doing that. Right.

And, but why not? I don't, but you want super fair and free and sound elections. Yeah, yeah, no. I mean, somebody, I think in California, somebody said, we want ID, you know, in whatever towns or municipalities or whatever. I've got the video for it. I was going towards this.

Oh, you're heading toward this. And they're like, no, we're going to sue you. And, you know, I just got off the road. And, I mean, I was Wyoming. I was Austin, Texas. I was Nashville, Tennessee. That was actually Thursday night football with Adam Ray, who was, we're watching it backstage.

He was, you know, he's a big Seattle fan. That's where that conversation happened. then it was off to Pennsylvania, Pots Town, I think it was, Pennsylvania. Probably beautiful. Beautiful. And all over the place. And at a certain point, I realize, I have brandished my ID 131 times. I have pulled my ID out of my wallet more.

It's even, it's sort of fucking stupid actually to even have it in your wife. I don't know why, but it always stuck with me, but, you know, it's a joke. But I swear to God, Jimmy told me 25 years ago, he goes, there should be an ID hat. Like, I swear to God, the amount of time I spend at the airport with the, also, I really don't know. here's all I know at the airport there is a semi-angry

black woman who wants something that I'm not holding right now and it's either you know if I present the boarding pass they go ID ID and if I give them the ID they go where's your boarding pass

and it's like I don't know I just I was in Burbank and they wanted the boarding pass but not the ID but now you want the ID but the boarding pass. It's literally my travels with Mike and I or Mike and I getting yelled at by black women at the airport. Like he goes to the kiosk and he gets the baggage claim tags out. And then he says to the middle-aged black woman, can we go to first, should we have first class tickets?

Should we check? You already printed them out at the kiosk? You know what I mean? Like, oh, okay. Give me the bag. Like, it was like yelling, literally yelling at both of us. Like, we both walked away and just went, is that person angry at us or something? Like, I have a first class ticket.

We printed the thing out, the kiosk because we didn't know any better. Was that here in L.A. or is that the most. Oh, L.A.'s the worst. And then when we got to clear, it was three more black women sort of ignoring us and then yelling at us. But at least trying. Trying there. Because they're a service organization. They're pretending.

Not these three. I'm just getting yelled at by black women. That's essentially my travels. And they want ID or they don't want ID. They want the boarding pass. They don't want both anymore. And whatever it is you present, they seem to want whatever you're not presenting. And then you've got to take another picture.

And there's no uniformity. I have no idea what's from this airport to that airport. Am I right that the, the, TSA officer sitting at the window when you're coming in to get to the assembly line of putting your shit through the x-ray, those guys have gotten nicer. And the guys in front of that have gotten worse and meaner. And those guys in front of that used to be the employees of United Airlines and we're sort of properly school. Hold on. Hold on. You're saying in front of. So up until you get to that guy behind the glass window who's going to let you in to put your luggage.

on the conveyor. Yeah, yeah, before that. Everything before that has become more negative, cantankerous, angry, weird. But that used to be the point you hit the bad shit, was that window. They used to start yelling at you right there. But those guys, either become nicer and all the employees of the airline have become meaner, or you don't notice the guys in the TSA so much because the United Airlines or whatever

airlines begin to switch. When you go to Wyoming and it's just a fat, guy sitting there, he's just Wyoming nice or whatever, and then you go to Philadelphia and there's a mean black chick just yelling at you from that. It's just whatever airport. Yeah. But they're just you get city, you get urban,

you get black, you get women, and you get angry. I don't think. It's like they've niced up a little bit. They're still, they're still steely eyed and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has an ebb and a flown. You could get into a bad run. Yeah, you get a bad run. I mean, I told you. I had This middle-aged black woman yelled get.

I know. Get, she yelled at me. Get? She's just standing in line. I got an $8 Starbucks coffee. She's like, throw that away. I'm like, well, I'm just going to sip on it while I'm in line. You throw it away here.

I go, well, I got a long line. I'm just going to sip it until I get to the machine. And I'll throw it away. And she goes, well, then get. Okay, I'm sorry. I've hurt your feelings or have offended your sensibilities. whatever. It's a fucking huge problem. We take these women. They hate men. Their dad's left. We live in a society that tells them we don't want them here. The people that buy the message of America

hates you, number one is black women. Number one, there's no other group that thinks America hates them more than black women. And then we put them at the opening at the gate of everything. and we tell them to stand there and interact with a bunch of people who don't want them in their country. And it's a problem, Drew. I'm going to argue it is not limited to black women. No, it's the number one group that we, that believes they are not wanted. Okay. Where do Asian women rank on groups that believe they're not wanted in this country?

Right, right. Who's higher? Yeah, the black women. Okay, they're number one. Okay, no, it's not limited to them. Yeah, because there's a personality problem, too. It's not a sociological problem. We have a personality thing throughout the society.

Right. There was a black man in Philly who was the porter guy doing the bag check, curbside bag check, friendly, jovial, funny. I get a guy a $20 tip. Now, I wish I had $10 or $2. I wouldn't have him $10. I'm being honest. Okay. I'm being honest. I reached into my pocket and there was like three 20s.

Yeah, but the fact you want to support that guy. You want to give him a nod because the 20 probably felt good even though you wanted to give him 10 because all right, it's that guy I want to make a nod to that guy. Yes, he was being cordial and courteous and helpful and not yelling at me and Mike like the chick at L.A.X was while I was waving my first class ticket, by the way. She was being short and sort of weird. Like, give me the bag. Turn the bag around. That guarantees you discrimination, right? Hmm?

First class guarantees you being discriminated against by everybody. So, yeah. Anyway, yes, the ID had to be pulled out 57 times in three days. So the idea that you could navigate this society, I mean, literally or figuratively, but the idea that you could even come close to living anywhere near this society with no ID is, patently insane. It is nutty cuckoo clock insane. And if there was an issue with people who didn't have access to IDs, that should be priority one. Before school, before education, before food security, before anything. It's like you have to get an ID so you can actually

be in this society. I mean, how are they getting their social security and stuff like that? If those those would be the people that would be getting that. The people that don't have an ID don't want an ID. Right. It's not that they can't get an ID. They don't want an ID. That's who those people are. So the hero that you're talking about is the city attorney for the city of Huntington Beach.

Yes. Who has been pushing back on Newsome for a few years and driving him crazy. and he has the absolute support of his community and the chartered privilege to tell them to go fuck themselves because the state doesn't have a right to demand they do things. One of them is the voter ID thing. The other is they're demanding they increase their supply of housing by 50%. And they've got, I don't even know Huntington Beach,

but they have these delicate estuaries all surrounding. The city is fully built out. You have to tear a bunch of stuff down. down, but what, eminent domain? You can tear a bunch of people's houses down so you can build apartments? It's just the weirdest thing. But his name is Michael Gates. I suggest you interview him on ACS.

You'll enjoy him. I've got a video of him going to town here a little bit in a television interview. Maybe a minute and a half of this or so. Well, Huntington Beach historically has done more for affordable housing than any other city in our region. We've actually done a remarkable job. What the state wants us to do is roll over to these high-density housing mandate. to cram down really a 50% increase in the city's entire housing stock overnight. And that just presents a wanton disregard for not only our infrastructure, our police, our fire, but also for the environment.

And so we are pushing back. We are in court, as you know, in heavy litigation. And so, you know, to me, it just looks like more grandstanding by the governor. It's bully pulpit type of stuff. Huntington Beach is incredibly responsible. were 100% built out in Huntington Beach. And so if we were to roll over to Governor Newsom's mandates, we would literally be destroying our city. And so like I said, we're not willing to do that. We're standing up and we're pushing back.

So you obviously then acknowledge the housing affordability issue in California, in Huntington Beach. So it comes down to a space issue. Well, for Huntington Beach, we're fully built out, and we have 81,000 dwelling units. And so what the state is asking or demanding is that we increase our entire housing stock by 50%. So we have to redevelop property

in order to accomplish that. And what Governor Newsom won't recognize or acknowledge is that there is zero empirical data, zero, zero to support that more high-density housing translates into more affordability. In fact, Governor Newsom

lost $24 billion that was dedicated to helping the homeless and to creating shelter. He lost $24 billion last year. And so while he's losing billions of dollars, we are actually being good stewards and we're trying to protect our environment and provide housing, but in a way that the city of Huntington Beach can handle and can manage.

You know, and he has the same thing on voter ID, too, which is the latest thing they're telling him, just comply, comply. Just comply. I talked to Michael about this. He goes, you want your governor or your president or somebody in a leadership position at state level telling you just comply. Hey, bitch, comply. Yeah.

Well, you know, the thing that's funny where we're at now is their horrible policies have come back to Roost and come home to Roost. That's the next thing I want to talk to you about. Go ahead. And then they cite their own horrible policies. It's the reason why we don't have affordable housing because it costs so much to build a home in L.A. regulation that creates that. We need to repeal some of these regulations. We need to expedite this stuff.

Yeah. No, it's what, listen, I love seeing footage of them attacking their own shit policies, you know. And they do this thing where they go, look, what did they do with the film industry? Right. Right. They over-regulated. They over-taxed. They over-everything.

They over, they got super grabby and greedy and grabbing. They took off. So film agents, film just went to Canada. Well, they went to Canada, they went to Prague, they went to Atlanta. They went everywhere. Somewhere, yeah. I drove Brian Cranston to the airport so he could go and leave and shoot Breaking Bad in New Mexico versus in California.

Okay. It's funny that Cranston is the most progressive guy on the planet, but he still understands. stood the part where he had to move to New Mexico. Couldn't shoot where he lived in California. They get way over their skis, and then they drive people away, and then they go, hey, what happened to all the production? And then they go, oh, we've got to. So it's, but it may be sanctuary cities or maybe defund the police.

It's literally, here's what we're going to do. Something stupid. We're going to implement horrible ideas that aren't going to work. Right. And then when they don't work and then we start feeling the repercussions of them not working, we're going to agree to remove 25% of our horrible ideas that we had 100% of six years ago. Right. And it doesn't help.

25% doesn't really help because people are established elsewhere. They're doubting. Tyler Perry's got 2 million cubic feet of studio space in Atlanta. Yes. Sorry, infrastructure. Yeah. People left. That's so disgusting.

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Yeah. You know, it's like it's old-timey stuff now. And people are tired of it. They're seeing through it. It didn't help anybody. And they would like to be left, you know, to be helped. So it's something that I think about six times a day. and I'm really always kind of nauseated by it,

but I'm always wondering why more people don't find it nauseating. You know, when sort of Barack Obama gets out there and goes, hey, black man, what's going on? This chick over here is half black. What are you doing? They are seemingly reacting now. Yeah, they are. But it's funny when Obama is like,

listen, I'm going to fly in from Martha's Vineyard and tell you black man, Hey, you've got to vote for this chick from California because she's black. You know what I think's happening? I think the age thing is starting to separate because he's got the gray hair. He looks old now. Clinton's oldest shit. They're all old. And it's an old policy and an old strategy.

Well, they're people going to look at the fun. What they are is they're kind of Scientology in the sense that they go like, hey, you can't talk shit. Yeah. We're Scientology. And people go, I don't care. Yeah. And they go, whoa, what are you talking about? Hey, black guy.

Yeah. Hey, 22-year-old black guy. Yeah. What are you doing? She's a black person. You got to vote. That guy's not black. That guy's white.

You understand? So go do your voting. Would you please? Why are you wasting my time? Why do we have to talk about this? And it's like, do you just assume black people vote? First off, I, Kamala Harris does not present. is a black person. Let's just call it what it is. She doesn't even say axe. She should start

saying acts. It would help. Listen, if you don't say ax, when you're trying to say ask, then you ain't black. That's it. We can argue over where your dad's from and where your mom's from. The Mason-Dixon line is ax. Every black person, I don't care how educated. They say ax. And if you don't say ax, then you ain't black. I want you to start saying it. Act. Yeah, because then when people call you being a racist, you can just go, I'm black. Here's what I'm, here's, I have a sensitive question.

Ooh, uh-oh. Sensitive in the sense that we're going to get in trouble or? Axe body spray. Oh, interesting. Do black people think it's called ask? Or do, are they, are they sort of? I'm asking. No, no, no, no.

I'm axing. No. I don't know. But it's not even, do you have to go there? You just go, is it a cultural play on a word that's identifiable to a particular group that they're trying to reach? Do more black men use Axe body spray? Seemed like that was the target market at the beginning. Oh, really?

Interesting. Yeah. It is interesting, isn't it? Oh, we're going to have to look into that. Be in those rooms. Look, I was looking, look up the origins of acts. You and I were at the launch party for that in New York City. I do remember that.

Oh, yeah. In some mansion in Midtown, East Side. I have a recollection. Yeah, being up on the whatever floor and very New Yorking 90s. God, was that 90s? I think it was the 90s. Oh, my God. And you remember it was like, what's the guy from home alone?

What's the kid's name? He was there. And the cast of that 80s, that 70s show. That 70s show? I don't think that was on yet. Well, why was Milakounis there? I remember her being there too. What year did Axe launch or get released?

Listen, here's something onto your point, which I heard today, which is crazy. Asians, they never say how Asians vote. You know, they go women, suburban women, black women, blacks, Hispanic. Asians are out of the mix all the time. Asians, and we can look it up, and Kyle can look it up, but I wrote down just from memory. They go 6620 Trump versus Kamala. I mean, everyone else is like 46, you know, 52, you know, just this thing. There's two.

Well, I would argue anybody that comes from a communist country goes right. Yeah. Well, there's Chinese. There's two. Well, it's Asians. I don't know. Well, that's the problem. Asians are really a diverse group.

It's sort of like the way we talk about white people, too, it's like the Germans, Italian, the Jews. It's like, one, to talk about these singular groups, is it? big mistake, but okay. Axe launched in 83, but it's a European company and whatever. They had a...

Launch party, US. When was that? How about that? All right, but here's my point. There's two, everyone else sort of fights around the middle. What is a body spray anyway? I know.

Listen. First off, there's going to be something called Axe Lung syndrome at some point where people just inhaled too much. You're not supposed to... Yeah. You know why all hair,

female hairdressers are dingbats? Because they're spraying the fucking aquinette. They sprayed the aqua. They inhaled all of the... Hydrocarbons. Disolves their front lobe. Right. It does.

I'm not making up. It was introduced in the U.S. in 2002, so you were right. It wasn't in late 90s. Yeah. Who was that? All right. So.

Okay. So the Asians vote overwhelmingly for Republicans. And then the blacks vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats, right? Those are the two. Everyone else is just kind of duking it up, duking it out in the middle, right? And then you go, well, who's doing the best in our society? they go Asians, but not better than whites. Oh, yeah, quite a bit.

So they're doing the best. Yeah. And blacks are doing the worst. But they both vote. This is sort of my Elon Musk, Chris Carolla conundrum, which is...