The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - College is Over

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

The show starts off with Adam discussing LA’s high winds, the ensuing wildfires and the power lines that cause them, as well as Governor Newsom’s latest update on California’s high-speed rail project. Then they talk about Ozempic 3.0 and how it curbs discipline even more than appetite. Leave us a voicemail: SpeakPipe.com/AdamandDrDrew OR Click the microphone at the top of the homepage, AdamandDrew.com Please Support Our Sponsors:Shopify.com/adamanddrew

Yeah, get off got to get on the judge gonna duck your board. Sir. Five didn't it. That's bad What's going on there? Drew ski? I don't know you just uh uttered one of your corolla classics You said you want somebody to not grow balls. Don't go don't go any balls grow some brains Pirons said he's gonna grow some balls. I said grow some brains Yeah, it's the alliteration that makes that makes the put down work um All right. So as as we speak over here, Drew's in, where are you? Boca Raton? I'm in Boca Raton. It's exactly where I am.

I'm coming to Boca Raton. I'm coming to Boca Raton doing the Black Box Theater. Don't stand up there. January 30th, by the way. All right, so Drew, riddle me this. and stand up there January 30th by the way. All right, so Drew, riddle me this. I'm sitting around last night and I'm watching some social media stuff and I'm seeing that Gavin Newsom has got more funding to keep going with the high speed rail, the bullet train that's going from Bakersfield to Merced.

And it's $80 billion over budget, but we're going to keep going. Okay. So there's a couple of things. And again, well, not again, but I really do feel sort of like Alice in Wonderland. I really do feel like some time traveling alien who's gone back to this time to just be annoyed and frustrated and confused as to what is going on. Okay, so people, for people who don't know the lay of the land, I have flown from LA to San Francisco 200 times and I've flown from LA to San Jose 200 times and I've driven from LA to San Francisco 200 times and I've driven from here to Bakersfield 200 times. I've done it all. Every time I do the race, I drive up to Laguna Seca. It's the same thing.

Get in the car, it's about a five hour drive. Drew's video went out, by the way. But he's still with me. All right. I'm here, I'm here. So, the rail line between Bakersfield, Bakersfield is a couple hours from LA, kind of middle of nowhere.

From Bakersfield to Merced, which is about two hours and 20 minutes from San Francisco, that's a zero burger. I don't know, Drew, have you ever stayed in Bakersfield and then the following day said your wife, we got to go to Merced? And then she's like, how are we going to get there? And hang her for a train. And she was like, ah, we'll do it. We'll drive. It'll take 90 minutes. And you're like, not good enough woman. And you backhanded her. Well, as I often do. Joe, what is the drive? What is the drive from Bakersfield to Merced is it an hour and 41 minutes like what is the necessity for a train from a lowly populated area of bake called Bakersfield I've lived in

Cal okay Drew you and I have lived in California entire life yeah have you been to Merced no well ask me if I've been to Merced you're been to Merced? No. Well, ask me if I've been to Merced. You ever been to Merced? I don't know. Don't you have a hankering to go to Merced? I don't know what's in Merced. I don't know anyone from Merced. I've never heard of anyone hailing from Merced. I won't say I've never been to Merced

because there's a decent chance that on one of my many pilgrimages to the Bay Area, I stopped in Merced and took a shit in a Chevron station and then moved on So It's two and a half hour drive From Bakersfield to Merced. I don't know what's going on in your one of those places in terms of impact Drone in terms of impact those of us who live in Southern, California In terms of impact, those of us who live in Southern California, people living in Los Angeles, people living in Orange County, people living in San Diego, people living in San Francisco,

the sort of densely populated cities on the West Coast. In terms of impact and lifestyle, this rail from Bakersfield to Merced is it affect any human being you know and it and look if it affects them 1% I'm all ears I'm all ears I I'll go with zero impact right on you me your wife Mike August he's in Orange County you know someone in San Diego friend in San Francisco. Is it is it anything? Yeah, okay I mean, what's the probability that you're gonna even meet somebody that needs to go or would he think of going? To or between any of those cities right zero now one day

and At the rate they're going I I don't know, my kids will be in their 70s, but theoretically we're going to link San Francisco with LA, with the high-speed rail. Oh, by the way, the high-speed rail is not high-speed, but okay. One day, long after we're dead, my feeling is we're already linked because there's a place called the Burbank Airport and Southwest Airlines has flights every 45 minutes

that's going there and it takes me about 50 minutes to get to San Francisco or Oakland or San Jose and or I can just drive. There's nothing that's going to be fulfilled for me. There is no, I never sit around and go, man, I wish I could get to Merced, but how am I gonna get to Merced? I could go to Merced this afternoon.

I could be in Merced in five hours. I just get my car right now and point it toward Merced. But all right, they're doing this. And they're gonna keep doing it. And they're $ this and they're going to keep doing it and they're $80 million over budget and it's been going on for 17 years and they got nothing. $80 billion. Not $80 million, $80 billion. I don't know if I said billion or million, but billion. Okay, gone. Okay. Gone. And there is no train, there's no anything.

It's just 80 billion over budget, started in 08, nothing done, and nothing in foreseeable future but we're going to stay the course. Okay. Now, I'm going to juxtapose this Drew. There's now winds kicking up in SoCal, Malibu where I live, winds kick up. When winds kick up in Malibu, Malibu catches on fire in about 15 minutes. It's inexplicable. I was literally walking into my car from the gym today at the Palisades, smelled smoke and a never-ending cascade of fire trucks coming down PCH looked up into the hills, fire, fire.

And more trucks and more fire. It got windy at 8.30 in the morning. It got windy at 8.30 in the morning. By 10.30, the place was on fire. Okay. And then what they do, what happens is they go, well, these power lines fall down and then they have to shut the power. They shut the power because the power lines are going to burn when the wind...

First of all, the wind drew. It's 2025. The wind cannot harness it. Can't handle it. It's just it got windy Malibu catches on fire. It was on fire four weeks ago because it got windy. Now it got windy again and it's back on fire. The power poles. I asked Joe to look this up. The first power pole, telephone pole essentially, that carried electrical lines telephone poles essentially that carried electrical lines in modern day use in this country well over a hundred years ago. Oh yeah. Well over a hundred years ago. Yeah, for sure.

If you go down PCH, you will see the same power poles dipped. No, honestly, like just dipped in creosote and driven into the ground, littering the landscape with wires going like a western town from 1874. Same thing. The most expensive real estate on the planet, just lines and lines and lines then the wind kicks up the pole falls it's a stick by the way the stick's been in the ground for 81 years but you you look at PCH you look at pictures of it from 1949 you'll see the same telephone poles and then they fall over and then the fire starts and there's nothing we can do about it in 2025. Now, goddamn it. And then we have to shut or it's the summertime and there's too much stress on the grid. People plugging in their electric cars and running their power. So we have brownouts and flex alerts. Could you imagine if Gavin Newsom

or anybody just went, look, we're not gonna spend $200 billion on a fucking train that goes nowhere, but what we are gonna do is we're gonna get some fucking infrastructure going. We're gonna take these power lines, we're putting them in the ground. We're gonna trench, we're putting them in the ground, they're an eyesore, but bigger problem, they're a hazard.

They fall down, they kill people, things catch on on fire We're gonna take which we're gonna get we're gonna get a grid working. We're gonna get a power grid working We're gonna open up another you know this that whatever site and we're gonna bury all these fucking lines And there'll be no more got windy in the place caught on fire because it's 2000 a fucking 25 and as far as the rail But the people from Merced are just gonna have to fucking white-knuckle it because they're not gonna get a bullet train I'm fixing the grid yeah and you'd go to lane how about a car lane how about anything that affected you yeah no it says every every 20 minutes it gets windy and Malibu and the Palisades catch on fire because there's nothing we can do about it in 2025. I mean you look it up Joe, Palisades is fucking on fire now. Like I was driving here and of course

remember last time at 3 a.m. we had to flee Malibu. That was three and a half weeks ago. Because it got windy everybody. The wind came. It got windy and there's nothing we could do. And if it rains, there's going to be mudslides. After the fire, yeah, of course. Because the fire. Did they ever fix that road where you showed us the picture of the sign? It should be open in four years or something. Did that ever get opened? Oh, the lane on PCH, you're saying?

Yes. Remember that? Yeah. That lane that you... I think they closed the whole road because the lane was closed. No, they closed the lane on PCH for like, I don't know, two months, because a minivan worth of dirt was out in one lane. Yeah, Drew, don't be insane. You can't keep PCH closed indefinitely. That's impossible. I remember there was some, I thought it was an outlet.

There's a road, no, you're conflating two things. I must be. There was a road up on the hill called the Rambla something and they they closed it many many many years ago because of a mudslide and it took them like 22 years to like reopen it. The Ramblas are funny you know it's a funny thing I would like to find a whole I'd like to get a hold of anybody who did this. So, in Studio City, they have the Donna streets. And if you knew the Jewish kids at North Hollywood High,

it'd be like, where do you live? I live on Donna Dorotia. Where do you live? I live on Donna Francisco. Where do you live? I live in Donna Casanova. And it's like, why are we starting all the streets with the same name?

And why is every street up in the hills of Malibu, are you on Rambla Orienta, or Rambla Vista, or Rambla, well don't start it with the same name. It's confusing. It flies in the face of naming things. Now, it's okay in today's GPS world, but in the past, I swear to God, like, I went to Robert Kennedy Jr.'s birthday party. I parked 14 blocks from where the person lived because it was on Alta Vista place not Alta Vista circle

And Alta Vista road which are all right next to each other. You know what I mean? Like what why why what? Who okays the naming of shit that sounds the same but that is the same Yeah, it's oh no, he's on Alta Vista. Oh you parked on Alta Vista road No, he's on Alta Vista circle. Yeah, I just wrote down Alta Vista By the way, my favorite part is the guy that lives on Alta Vista Road doesn't point out when he gives directions Oh look be careful this guy Alta Vista. No, no, no, no, no All right, so Malibu's on fire because we can't take in 2025.

Joe, did you ever find that information that I've been asking for? When the power lines happened? Yeah, I'm asking you. Yeah, sorry. Put it on the screen. Okay, you got it. If you have it.

I do. All right, because I'll always wanna know. I'll never stop wanting to know I even just yell it out. I don't know first power line ever was 1885 in Rome by 1930 70% of the US had electricity via all right, so it's been a hundred years But it's being years. But it's being... 100 years ago, we moved the power on the same thing. By the way, it's the same pole. It's the same everything. It's an old pole that's dipped in creosote,

which is outlawed in California, but it's like tar, essentially. You can't beat tar, Drew. You can't, tar is the oldest substance on the planet and it can't be defeated. They take those poles the same way they do the Malibu Pier and they just put creosote all through them and they just pile drive them into the sand and they, and a hundred years goes by, they're just sitting there. You know what I mean yeah but it's a fucking eyesore and it's

a mess and it's a hundred years ago can we bury the lies like could you imagine a politician just going hey I want to take all these power lines I want to fucking bury them they're an eyesore by the way cars veer off the road and hit the telephone poles and killed People get killed they fall over and earthquakes and wind storms. They start fighting. I'm gonna bury them all and That's what I'm running on yeah, okay, I'm voting for you. I'm voting Yeah, we have so much sunk cost in the high-speed non high-speed rail We don't have anything to show for it. So we gotta keep going.

So much sunk cost. I know. Oh my God. It's really beyond, it's beyond imagination really. I mean, they, I think people don't believe by the way, when you say there's nothing to show for it, there is nothing to show for it. And they've spent more than $80 billion.

There is, there's a couple of sort of polls, but there's no tracks. Yeah, they built the bridge. No, they're $80 billion over budget or whatever. Yes. It's so funny because Jerry Brown, who started this whole thing, accused anyone who said it was a bad idea of being closed minded, because that's always their thing. It's like, this is the future. No, no, it's not the future. It's never gonna be the future. It's never gonna be done. It'll never be done.

Tar is the future. Tar, I tell you. Creosote. Creosote is the future. I yell on my show all the time, Drew. We've been building a bullet train. We've been talking about a bullet train from LA to Vegas my entire my entire life. Yeah Like there's a it's a weird thing. I want to tell everyone You don't get it

We're never gonna have this ever in our lifetime in your kids life. It's never gonna happen It's just we can't do it. We can't do things, so it's not gonna happen. That one of the companies, one of the main contractors in high speed rail got finally fed up and left California, it went to like Ethiopia or something and built the train in like 18 months. Yeah, yeah, cause they're not over-regulated. Yeah. Yeah.

Remember Jane Fonda 10 minutes ago when Bill Maher was going we have too many regulations She's like, I don't think we have enough. Hey bitch, you're never gonna get your rail then Yeah, Jane Fonda is gonna be dead Byron. There's nothing on the dry erase board You're holding in front of me, but I will I know what he's trying to cue me for Jane Fonda you will most certainly be dead. She's like 87 years old. Jane Fonda, you will be dead before anybody you know ever goes one foot on that fucking high speed rail that you love and the guy you voted for initiated. Oh, by the way, the guy she voted for, good news, Adam. He is, interestingly, he seems

to be signing off on Maha, Make America Healthy again. He's now going after processed foods. Did you hear this? No. Oh, yeah. Joe, look up the headline. He's going to go do an investigation. He wants somebody, because something's got to do something here. Somebody's got to do something. There's a problem. People are, it's affecting only people of certain races. Oh, eating a certain color that they should be eating. Newsome takes aim at ultra processed foods and food dyes. Oh, yeah. He's interested in that. Kamala wants to build a wall at the border.

Man, it's weird. Where do these ideas come from? All right, take a quick break. Be right back after this. Hey, it's Adam Kroll from the Adam Kroll the show. BetOnline is the world's most trusted betting platform and your number one source for online betting from the earliest odds to in-game live betting. BetOnline provides you with all the action and the ability to watch and bet on games as they happen with the largest selection of odds on everything

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It's not good. I don't, it makes you not hungry. Okay. We are losing our discipline, Drew. We're losing it. And it's a big problem and it's global. And I don't mean global, I mean I do mean global, but what I mean is is like, you need to practice doing things you don't want to do on an almost daily basis or on a daily basis. You need to practice that. And food is the number one constant in terms of being able to exercise that muscle. Other things are not as consistent.

So you need to look, they're stuck. Life. Okay, you're listening, Drew? I'm listening. Hi, hi. Life is stuff you want to do versus stuff you don't wanna do. Hi.

My dad spent his life doing things he wanted to do and very little time doing things he didn't wanna do. Thus, when he died, I got a Herb Albert CD and Dennis Prager's book because he didn't spend a lot of time doing stuff he didn't want to do. If he had, he would have amassed something. You know what I'm saying? So he had nothing. So his ratio of doing stuff he wanted to do versus stuff he didn't want to do was cattywampus. It was off. Now there's people that have a balance and we all struggle with it. Every day you go, you know, oh, you want to do your taxes today? Well,

not really. You know what I mean? Oh, do you want to floss your teeth? No, not really. What else you want to do? You want to do some push-ups? No, not really. I'd like to do what I want to do. But it's an exercise. And food is the most constant workout for that because all day, every day's either you know every you drive through SoCal you'll inevitably pass 13 in and out burgers signs and you always think to yourself man double double about now man that would hit the spot right but you don't you keep going right every Every three or four times a day, all day, every day, you're making decisions. And the people that make the decision not to have the Danish for breakfast, but instead the hard-boiled egg or whatever, are going against what they want to do or what

feels good, but they're making that sacrifice for health. Okay. So then it's a global thing, Drew. What it does is it just, it generally gives you discipline. All the people I know who have discipline don't eat in a non-discipline way. They have discipline. Do you know what I'm saying? Yes. And the food intake is a constant workout for your discipline. Okay?

Now, you give these people these shots and they don't have to think about the food anymore and it's going to weaken their discipline. That's my thing. I think people go, the shots, a good freeze, a bad freeze. I don't give a fuck. You don't need a shot, you need to eat less. But you're not disciplined enough to do it. There's no difference between me on the shot,

you on the shot, or me not on the shot. It's all discipline. You don't have the discipline to do it. So you're gonna take a shot. That's not gonna help. It's gonna make you less disciplined. Go Drew. I totally agree.

I totally agree. And that sort of construct and that point cannot be a sale. It just is so. But I would argue that once people get sick because of their lack of discipline, my profession is sort of obliged to do something to get the sickness under control. But the fact that the medicine that's designed for that is being used by just everybody all the time. Now that becomes dangerous, aside from the impact on the discipline. But that discipline that you know me, man, I'm always, you forget, I'm always pushing education,

education, education as a surrogate for the discipline point, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I- Because I always would say, at least I know they're getting, learning how to work hard, do that, do that discipline. But I didn't know they were being brainwashed all the time. I missed that part.

Well, Drew and I would talk about this years and years and years ago, because Drew has triplets. Drew's default setting is scared. And... Hi. Hi. And he used to come in every night, Love Line, when his twins were, the triplets were three, two, whatever, and he'd go, $250,000 per kid, per college.

I'm going to have to pay $250,000 per child, times three. And I'd go, or you could do what my dad did, nothing. And I'm a millionaire, so we're fine. And you'd go, you don't get it, $250,000 times three. And I would go, or you do what my family did, nothing. And then you'd go, and then I would say to you, listen, Drew, I know a lot of people and they're successful and they didn't graduate college,

but they worked hard or they whatever, they took a couple years of college, they dropped out, whatever. I don't think you need college. And then you would say, remember what you would say? Well, I'll tell you what occurs to me now. I can't remember, I suspected something in this zone, which is, my parents, I'm not happy with a lot.

It was short. It was short. Go ahead. Go ahead. You would say college teaches you how to think. Yes. Yes, I would say that. And I would go, well, I can't really argue with that because I'm just saying I don't think you need this information. But you were saying it's not the information. I was. That was my experience and that's what she can think about now You know, that's awesome Yeah, it wasn't that yeah drew when you went you learn nothing. Okay, so we're gonna file college under one more motherfucking thing I was right about

Yeah, yeah, okay So by the way, my son's college in Oregon when Trump was elected They called off the next day. They said that has to come in the next day Wow that awesome Yeah, teaching them how to think These are adults

think these are adults these are adults these are these are people who could walk into any liquor store in the country and buy a pack of cigarettes and walk out you understand that yeah there they were then notified that they did not have to come into class the following day because of the trauma of having a guy who's gonna clean up the border and lower some taxes. Yeah, it's a big deal. So that was awesome. My son, see, my son or my daughter, they don't go back to school until like the 26th of January. I'm like, what do you get like three months off or Christmas? Drew, truer words have they ever been spoken? Teachers don't like working. Teachers do not like going to work. But neither do truckers. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like what have I said to a bunch of fucking guys who drove logging trucks? I just went, look, you're going to get paid whether you get behind the wheel of that Kenworth or not. So if you want to invent a bunch of fucking holidays or whatever it is you want to do, we'll do it. You're getting paid, whatever. How many guys would drive that truck? How often?

I mean, you have a whole group of people that get paid when they don't come in. So now, of course, every fucking three day weekend becomes a four day weekend. We got, oh, Harriet Tubman's, Harriet Tubman started her period on this day in 1931. We're taking, 1831, we're taking the day off. Like literally every, look, don't come to school because it's the day after an election and we didn't get the fucking nutjob chick in there we're calling it by the way what do you mean calling a day off get the fuck to work yeah who

whose whose whose decision is that well how are we gonna get this back on speaking of starting this conversation about rails how we're gonna get this back on, speaking of starting this conversation about rails, how are we going to get this back on the rail? Because this is sort of a global need for things to sort of get back on the rail. Oh, hey, COVID showed up, everyone. All right, everyone stay home. Never come back to school.

Sounds good. But we're still going to get paid. OK. Of course. We'll just give you money. Do you think Trader Joe's would have stayed open during the pandemic if the deal was all employees go home and get paid? How would that work?

Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. It's so true. The word gross, if something comes out of, I mean, I have no other way of describing it. It's disgust, really, if you get right down to it. Yeah. It's disgust. College is over. It's over true. It's over You know, I I have to agree with you unless it's stem shit, but other than that, it's right Let's go to MIT or Caltech or something Or or you're learning is, you know trade your physician or lawyer or something But that's about it. That's it now

I've never been, my interest in college education was at a zero several years ago. It's lower, it's sub now. It's, I'm now minus. I'm lower than zero. And the reason I'm lower than zero is because if you said Would you like your son to go to college or would you like to go to trade tech and learn welding? Maybe get a job at SpaceX. I'd go fucking welding 100% welding. Yes, 1000% welding Yeah, yeah, that's that's where I'm at with college and it doesn't even mean anything anymore. Does it?

Someone goes I want to Stanford, you know what I mean? Like I just think you're dope now. I think I know what your politics are and you're an idiot. Well, not only that, keep in mind, people are saying they make terrible employees. So there's a bias against them if you say that now. Yeah, there's a lot of folks that want to hire people who went to Wichita State versus Yale. Right, so there is a bias.

Like, yo, you're entitled, rich kid, your politics are fucking fucked up, and you're going to be a mess. And every 10 minutes you're going to be telling me about Hamas and how much you love them. All right, college is done, Drew. We're done with college good news I Never thought I'd be here, but I'm sort of there good for surely the fancy college fancy expensive college expensive college is done All right, I'm gonna be doing stand-up over Kimmel's Club. That'll be tomorrow two shows 739 30 and then going to

739.30 and then going to what beach is it? Oh, Solana Beach, that's right. I'll be doing standup there with Jay Moore. That'll be coming up January 19th. Covina Laugh Factory, Paul Rodriguez is gonna be on stage. We're doing a live podcast there. It'll be January 22nd. Just gotta, Boca Raton, yeah. And Naples Florida just got

Adam Crow that come for all live shows what do you got Drew? Check out you two and Rumble Dr. Drew. So till next time Adam Crow for Dr. Drew saying Mahala