The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Flags, Cruising, and the Slippery Slope of Representation - Adam & Dr. Drew #1990

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

In this episode of The Adam & Dr. Drew Show, Adam recalls a decades-old debate about the rainbow-colored emblem on West Hollywood Sheriff’s cars and the broader implications of identity-based representation in law enforcement. The duo delves into the increasing politicization of public symbols, the unintended consequences of representation politics, and the shifting cultural landscape over the past few decades. Dr. Drew offers his insight on mass formation and how societal shifts are often driven by reactionary forces. From no-cruising signs in Silver Lake to the ideological divide between past and present political movements, Adam and Drew break it all down.

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about. Yeah, buddy. Talk to me. Coming true. Coming true. Everything. Everything always. Yeah. Okay. Now you can remember remember years and years and years ago I

noticed that the West Hollywood Sheriffs had the gay flag on the side of the car. Yes You raised an issue about the the rainbow on the side of the car. Right, but it was not the gay flag. It was all the colors of the gay flag in cubes moved around in a weird shape. Shape of like, it's like, it's, oh, I don't know, what's the shape of Florida or Kentucky, or not Kentucky, but like, what's the shape of like a weird state shape that you flew over, you know? It doesn't really make, it's not a square.

No, it was like you took a shoe box and put a cigarette pack on one end and a cigarette box on the other end and that's what it was. So anyway, I inquired, what is this? And then they said, well, that's the shape of West LA. Oh, I didn't remember that. That's interesting. Okay. Keep going. Yeah, I don't know, because it goes along Beverly, then it turns down San Vicente, and then it pops over here on Wilshire or something. So that evidently is the shape. something. So that evidently is the shape. So I said, well, why not just put a gay flag on the side of the car? And then I know it, no one ever answered me about anything. But

I realized that whoever the gay rights were, whatever, listen, find out Andrew, what year did that shit start? Because I've been talking about this shit in the 90s. Oh, it's got to be 90 Not later than 99 that this this was observed. No. Well, listen, I wasn't there for the fucking ribbon cutting Yeah, I I noticed it in in 2000 so it must have been around since 93 or something, you know, I'm saying I didn't get there day one fair enough. So this saying I didn't get there day one. Fair enough. So this, so it's this show. So here's what I knew what happened. Somebody said the gay leaders were like, listen cops, you patrol our gay area,

so we want you to put the gay flag on your cruiser. And then the cops went, I don't wanna put a gay flag. I didn't fucking sign up to put a gay flag on my cruiser. And also I checked into it. West Hollywood is a hot spot for the gay community, but it's not majority gay. Is that true? Well, I mean, think about it.

If you're at 49% gay, that's a gay community. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bars and retails and whatever, but you're not going to be 80% gay people living in a nice place of LA. You're going to have tons of couples who want to fucking just live in a clean, nice place, same place or whatever. So, I did check into it once. It is not majority. But again, Glendale isn't majority Armenian, but it has a large population of Armenians. And, you know, Minnesota has a lot of Somalians, but it's not majority Somalian. It just, all it takes is a large representation of a group to end up saying well This is a Somalian community or something especially when it's a unified a

Relatively homogeneous group and the rest of the population is a mixed bag So That were LAPD was at the gay pride parade recruiting in 1991, but that's a good thing to know, but I still want to know west hollywood Sheriffs, it's not la pd. It's the sheriffs If anyone can hear me Or acknowledge that they're hearing me. Uh, it's the sheriffs that have it on the car Anyway, i've been barking about this for 25 years easily. And I remember back in the day like, oh, Adam, come on, I have the gay community.

No, the answer, okay, I had an answer that I already sort of spoiled for you, but people would say to me, what's wrong? You know, this is the community they serve. I would say that. Right, you would say that. And so then I would say to everybody. Yeah, I said Glendale has a large Armenian community shall they put the Armenian flag on the car and then people stop and they go No, and I'd go then shut the fuck up Then shut up. I don't want anyone's fucking I don't want See, I've been saying this for many years, I don't want these people to represent anybody.

I don't want the fire department has to look like, the community, you're going down a fucking shitty dark road. You're going down a road. You don't want to start going down the we need to be represented. Because now you're sort of suggesting that they might help the Armenian guy

before they help you or the gay guy That's the community they serve you know what I mean? Like at certain point when UCLA Wants that you know their student body to reflect the community say Asians hit the bricks at certain point You have to kick Asians out. Yeah, it's not just this thing. Yes Consequences it has consequences. It has consequences. It has another side. So you were seeing, you were detecting because of your pattern recognition early DEI and it made you feel concerned. And here we are now. Yes. All right. According to AI, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department started participating in West Hollywood Pride celebrations, including displaying

rainbow flags on their vehicles in 2022. No! Okay, you do not need to write that on on a thing. You just need to find out what year they started putting the jumbles on the thing. So let's be clear. I remember Adam bringing it up in the late 90s. So it definitely was before the late 90s. Well, because I've said that now three times. Yes. It goes back a long time. There's the jumble. If you're ever curious what the shape of West LA is, there you go, everybody. So I'm willing to... And I remember also saying I would never identify that as a gay flag.

Well, no, here's what I did. All right, it's random colors that are in the gay flag, but in an order that you're not used to seeing them, right? So, and by the way, Andrew and anyone else looking, the answer can be, I don't know what year that started on the sheriff's car, but telling me that somebody marched in a gay parade last Wednesday is not that we don't need. It's just it started on the side of the car somewhere in like 95, but we don't, we can find out. I think I've inquired. So here's, Drew, are you ready for me?

Yes. I am not on a quest to find gay flags on cruisers. No? No. No. I just went and saw, and then because I have, you know, hypervigilance, I just looked at it and I went, what is this jumble on the side of a car? You know what it looks like? It looks like somebody broke apart a Rubik's Cube and stuck it in random order to the side of a police car. Like unfolded a Rubik's Cube.

Right, right. So I look, and I'll get back to you in a second. I look at this stuff and I go, all right, it says sheriff on there, okay, it says city of West Hollywood, okay, and it says to protect and to serve or whatever, whatever. And then there'll be something on the back bumper sticker that'll say dare or protect seniors or end senior abuse

or whatever the fuck they're pushing this week. But what is this weird colored jumble on the side? That now I stop and I go, what is this? And then I start thinking, well what is it? Well it's right above the name city of West Hollywood and it does appear to be all different colors. Perhaps those are the colors of the gay flag. Now I'm on my way.

Yes. That's how my brain works. And then everyone else goes, who cares? Shut up. Yeah. Am I remembering it correctly? I swear to God, you brought it up like during a commercial break or something on the set of Love Line TV. And you were just sort of registering it. Like, I saw something. We were all like, what the fuck? Like, what? What are you talking about? We were all like, we couldn't... First of all, we couldn't understand what you were just sort of registering it. Like, I saw something. We were all like, what the fuck? What are you talking about? First of all, we couldn't understand what you were talking about. Then it was, you were still processing. It probably took the rest of us a year to figure out the fuck you're talking about. Did you notice what you meant? Now there's a big hubbub because in New Jersey the cops are wearing the Palestinian flag. One cop, right? Is it all of them? Oh, well that's a good

question. I don't know if it's one cop or all the cops. The story I'm looking at is one cop. Oh, well that's a good... Officer Adib Iqnees. Oh, I heard the story that there's a large Palestinian community. There is a he's wearing he's wearing the flag then alright my whole mayor is defending it The mayor's different of course the mayor is always has to defend. All right. Here's my whole thing Sorry, knock it off. I don't want any of the shit near anything By the way, if you're a big Nebraska Cornhuskers fan, I don't want to see the fucking team logo on the sleeve of the cop shirt I don't want any of it. Yeah, let any of it. It's American flag and or nothing else. What about the gate? I don't want every... Here's the problem. Everybody has a fucking flag.

Everybody. Well, maybe not a flag, but everybody has a something. Everyone has a flag. And as you quote you as we went into the show, and nobody's anything. Right. Okay. Everyone's got a fucking flag and nobody's anything. So you start arguing, look, I'm going to say to West Hollywood, look, man, I represent the POWs and we have a flag and we would like that flag represented on and they're going to go now. And I'm gonna go, well, you have the gay flag on there, what about the people, you think gay people

are more important than a military prisoner of war? And now we're off and running, right? And that's why there has to be nothing. That's the problem. But, least you think this thing is new, this is old and it started in West Hollywood. You blame West Hollywood for the whole thing. Well, when you first saw it.

Look, here it is. Here's the argument. Palestinian community is a large community in the area he patrols. So why not represent their flag? Yeah Alright gays are large community in the community that that sheriff patrols. So why not represent? Yeah, and the answer is no Yeah, that's my answer to everybody. I don't want it. I don't want Black Lives Matter on the fucking intersection I don't want it because it doesn't don't want Black Lives Matter on the fucking intersection. I don't want it because it doesn't work and it leads somewhere that's not good. Yeah. And it's a hard pill for those of us

that are bleeding hearts to swallow. Because it's hard to see the future. You see the future. I see the future. Now, the other thing too is, not having a gay flag in the classroom does not alienate gays any more than not having a USC Trojans flag hanging in there alienates big fans of Trojan football. It doesn't alienate you. You're not

in a place that represents USC football. It's just the American flag. You can go be gay and go cheer on the Trojans on your own fucking time. And the answer that we never give anyone is nobody gives a shit, go fucking do what you want and shut the fuck up. That's the answer everyone needs. Well, that's back to sort of how mass formation is organized.

70% of people wanna be just left alone. Just let me take care of my family, I would do my work. 10% go like you, go, hey, this is bullshit. And 20% are like me and get hypnotized by it. Well, I think there's a much larger hypnotize. You know, if we were the CIA or the FBI, we'd find a cruiser parked in the distance on some news story from 1993 in West LA, and then they'd zoom in tight and see that it was on the side of the cruiser in the background. But the story would be about celebrating St. Patrick's Day with gay pride, you know, at a gay bar.

All right. Here's the next challenge. But it's what I was talking, it's part and parcel of what I was talking about. I was talking about that story on ACS the other day with the Nithya Rama and the cruising and everything. I don't have to get deep into it, but the stories we pulled on it, Andrew, where they're talking about discriminating against the community and the community is, you know, are being attacked and stuff. It's like this, stop it. Just stop it. It's West LA. Or I'm sorry, it's Silver Lake, which is like poor gay people. I mean, used to be. West LA was gay with money and yeah those are what you

call brown-collar uh-huh working class working class gay we call industrial brown-collar brown-collar workers but they're doing this whole story and I don't remember if you remember exactly this story but they're doing this whole story. And I don't remember if you remember exactly this story. But they're doing this whole fucking story about the discriminatory U-turn signs on Hyperion Boulevard in Silverlake. Do you know why, Drew? Because people would turn around and cruise back looking for a... Right. You have to. But I, it's the explanation that they give. It's really, it's not Nithya Raman, the Dumbo who's again, who blames Toyota for catalytic

converters and by the way, the one behind, or didn't prevent the guy from getting his tree house torn down. That's her district. She's not going to fucking burn a calorie for that guy, but she'll come out to Silverlake and do a photo op and a presser pulling off a sign. Terrible. Yeah, that's how we healed. You had to step over homeless people to get to the fucking sign.

But we'll play it. I just want you to listen to the verbiage. Okay. We're on Griffith Park Boulevard right on the side of District 13 and today we removed these no U-turn signs that were connected to the no cruising signs. By the way, only midnight to 6 a.m. Right, go back because Drew talked over the part. That's all right. Yes, go back.

It's a very joyful and exciting day. We removed the no cruising signs that were used to discriminate against the LGBT community and so we removed the last remnants of that really terrible policy, and so it's a very joyful and exciting day. They slipped through the cracks. They were a relic of the 90s anti-gay policies in Los Angeles. There were signs that explicitly said no cruising. Pause it there.

Okay, first off, slip through the cracks. It's interesting phraseology for the gay They were not part of the 90s anti gay policy There is no anti gay policy a fucking retard There's people who live in the community who don't want drunk homos Circling their fucking block looking to butt fuck a guy on their lawn at? Four in the morning. That's not anti gay policy. Well, that's anti gay. How dare you? That is not anti gay policy. That's it. See here's my whole thing start a community get the flag then start fucking just

Spouting out shit like anti gay policy. There wasn't wasn't, first of all, it's Los Angeles. It's the 90s. What about AIDS, you fucking idiots? You want guys just having random sex and shrubs? Or do you care about AIDS? Or what is it? Which is it? It is not part of the anti-gay policy,

is what I'm saying. Why does this, Drew, why is there a sign that said no cruising or no U-turns? part of the anti-gay policy, is what I'm saying. Why is this, Drew, why is there a sign that said no cruising or no U-turns? Because people are just going up and down that street all night and looking for sex. Right, so who did what? How are they there? Probably the neighborhood, the people.

Yeah, they found enough fucking condoms and half-drunk bottles of Zima and their fucking front lawn. And the neighbors got together, some of which could have been gay, I don't know, and said, I don't want this going on all morning. That would be the interesting thing. How many gay neighborhoods? Okay, nobody gay or straight wants guys cruising in front of their house at two in the morning,

right? And by the way, isn't no cruising throughout Los Angeles? Yes, it's not discriminating against Mexicans and lowriders to say you can't go up and down Hollywood Boulevard on a Friday night at four miles an hour. That's really where it came from, right? It was that whole thing, the valley I think it was. Van Nuys Boulevard had cruising. There were no gay guys, just dudes in hot rods.

And they said, hey, break it up. You're clogging this whole place up. That was the policy, right? That hot rods. And they said, hey, break it up. You're clogging this whole place up. That was the policy, right? That's where the policy came from, yes? Yes. All right, let's hear what this guy has to say though one more time. It's still good. ...for a relic of the 90s anti-gay policies in Los Angeles. There were signs that explicitly said no cruising, which had been removed years ago. During the 1990s it was very much a cruisey area where a lot of the LGBT

community had no other option but to meet each other in the streets. Alright, pause it. So this became a very famous place. There's no other option but to meet people in the street. Do you have no other sexual options other than to fuck guys on a curb? Like you literally have to go at two in the morning and go to the street? There's no other option for the gay community. I don't know, do they have gay bars?

You know what, Drew? You and I should, we should start a gay bar so we can make some money so these guys would have other options other than fucking, walking up and down the street or driving up and down the street and finding guys to fuck shouldn't we yes let's do it like to help them right down gay bar right down gay crews should be gay crews a gay cruise we'll just do it all in one you know put them on a cruise yes yes yeah so they can I don't know how to get how to heterosexual people meet they just go out in the street and walk around driving a circle how do you meet your wife just driving a circle yeah on Santa Monica I found her there so one

drove in a circle I'm good I'm guessing a lot of the guys that were getting picked up were prostitutes too right I'm sure that was mostly junkies and prostitutes and aides. Right. All right. But anyway, this is part of the discrimination. Well, here's a bigger story, bigger thing I want you to... Wait, hold on. You just got to hear the rest of the verbiage.

It's another minute. It's awesome. In the 90s, it was very much a cruisey area where a lot of the LGBT community had no other option but to meet each other in the streets. So this became a very famous place. I reached out to the city and had asked them what we could do to get these signs taken down and that initiated a two-year process which got done today. They are finally done.

It felt awesome. The queer community has not always had the privilege of the freedom to gather in spaces that embrace identities like this. And so I take that responsibility really. She takes that she doesn't give a fuck about people stealing catalytic converters, or guys with tree houses who pay taxes, but the gay communities never had they haven't had the in the 90s. They didn't have the ability to meet and congregate in Los Angeles. True. Are you aware of that? No.

You ever been to a fucking share concert? Say that's a place where gay men could congregate? Yes. Yes. They didn't have that. No. So anyway, we're gonna go back 10 seconds. That's Nithya. She's very proud that she's able to do this. This is her focus, Drew. This is what she's thinking about. Not garbage, not homelessness, not crime. That's this. This is what she's thinking.

They are finally down. It felt awesome. The queer community has not always had the privilege or the freedom to gather in spaces that embrace identities like this And so I take that responsibility really seriously Councilman are all narcissists. Not only friends, but we're very values aligned And so we teamed up if we remove one sign from one side of the street We're gonna do one on the other and of course bring the community together to celebrate this great day

You need to get her cuz you can't do a fucking U-turn between midnight and 6 a.m. Drew. Nothing brings a community together between... first off, I don't know the necessity to do a U-turn between midnight and 6, but... At least you're doing a lot of U-turns. I'm doing a lot. Wait, I want the other 45 second one from the newsroom too. Drew, you just gotta hear it. Just because it's the couch, and by the way, this is why I could never be a news anchor, Drew. Do you understand that?

I would go, I don't get it. What are we talking about here? This is a piece? This is news? They pulled a fucking 14 inch by 14 inch galvanized sheet metal sign off a fucking post in Silver Lake that said no U-turns and this weird Window where no one is driving

This is our story We're gonna lead with this We're fucking retarded Sorry, it's buffering Neighborhood takes down street signs from the 90s that officials say discriminated against the LGBTQ plus community. The signs that read no cruising and prohibited U-turns were installed in Silver Lake along Griffith Boulevard and Hyperion. It was an area known to be a hot spot for gay men. These are kind of a relic of an era of the 90s when

gay men would meet up here after hours Cruising of course is something very different Pause that for a second Hugo Soto Martinez by the way when you get the two when you get the hyphenated Spanish last name Fucking look out why retard with shit policy is coming around the corner and if it's a woman you're really Hyphenate the two Hispanic last names is always retard city. It's always bad. You know why because Normal clear thinking people don't do hyphenated back last name So if you hear hyphenate if you hear two last names, you're already half fuck if it's Hispanic for some reason

It's worse if it's a woman you gotta move you understand I got you okay sorry can move so to my or meet up here after hours cruising of course meant something very different it meant an opportunity for the LGBT community to try to find human connection and intimacy. The signs finally came down today. They want to find intimacy on a moped or on your lawn. Find intimacy. This guy's a fucking retard. The fact that he even say fine.

He's saying the quiet part out loud. These are dudes at two in the morning who are drunk or fucking on people's lawn Finding intimacy getting a fucking handy in a shrub This important Hell I know what I don't get here's what I don't get if you can fucking find intimacy in that in the street Why can't the taxpayer have a treehouse? So I'm saying as long as we're going, all right, you kind of gotta do what you wanna do.

Well, I would like a treehouse. And you would like a hand job on a driveway. Okay, as long as we're doing this. My whole thing with these fucking retards is fine, run your fucking, turn your fucking city into Sodom and Gomorrah, fine, but I get a tree house. You can't have, I don't get a tree house and we're cruising. You can't, I've said a million years, you can't be handing out chicken shit tickets

on Forest Lawn and have the guy across the street selling mangoes, using a machete to cut them up with no fucking health inspector you can't do that right you gotta do one or the other right what well which is it do we have laws or or not it's california man this is a fucking problem but these guys are listen i said these fucking 10 cent heads when they were talking about catalytic converters, I go, they're taking their fucking chipmunk brain and they're spreading it on everything. These guys are in charge of COVID. What the fuck do you expect? What do you expect from these guys?

All right, Drew, we need to take a break. I'll take a quick break. We'll be right back. Of course, we live in a world where our personal information is accessible. More than ever, data brokers collect and sell your details, your name, your home address, phone number, even your browsing habits without you ever knowing it, and that is where Incogni comes in. Incogni automatically contacts data brokers and on your behalf, they

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satisfied with our service. Visit incogni.com and join the huge community of people who have control over their personal data. Explore all of our disruptive features and plans with our 30-day money-back guarantee in cogny.com slash adamandrew. All right. So what I'm ruminating about is the excesses of conservatism, right? So much of this kind of thing, what, is the result of people having actually discriminated against a folk gay folks and crushed them and you know I remember what's the guy that played Sulu on the Star Trek George George decay was saying an asshole but he

was saying he had to meet up with people in the bushes in every time you cannot pass him in a car without him shouting out the window something about the Japanese American internment camps. He's a fucking blowhard of the highest order who never stops talking about being Japanese and being gay. Okay, victim, he's such a fucking asshole, but go ahead. But the point is, he had to do all that

because of, I mean, the same excesses we used to fight on Love Line, both TV. Yes, it is true. There was a time. But this is the thing I want to say. There was a time when a lot of excesses were in place and people like- Against Irish people. Yeah, Italians. Okay, everything. Yes. Go ahead. But he was largely perpetrated in the 50s, 60s, let's say 70s by the right, by the so-called religious right. Yeah, but the Republican party. That party seems totally different to me now. Yes. And yet people like my friend Bill Maher

can't get over what it was. And I would say it's the same thing with these people. They still see friend Bill Maher can't get over what it was. And I would say it's the same thing with these people. They still see persecution coming. They see, you know, you're going to tell me how to live. You're going to... And it just isn't there anymore. In fact, anybody does that. Any party does that. No, you're attempting to get victims, make people into victims. Except the fascists left to tell me to stay under my bed when there's a virus afoot. So there is a group that's telling you what to do and how to live every second of the way. There's a group that wants to be left alone, which seems now is the right, but they can't get rid of the stink of what happened in the 20th century. Well, no, they have. The other ones won't let them. Well, the other ones can't get

over. They're giving land acknowledgments at the beginning of the fucking DNC about the Dakota Indian tribe that once put a fucking teepee up on this very spot in 1841. So you want to 1941. So you want to talk about who can't give it up. They do it at the Oscars. They start the Oscars with the land acknowledgement. Okay. So they're not giving it up, is what I'm saying. They're not giving anything up, is the point. All of their... No, no, but they want victims. The victims... Let me explain. Well, they're right. Used to victimize. That, yeah. The victims. Let me explain. Well, they're right. Used to victimize. I'll tell you that's true.

Used to. Yeah. Yes. Let me. They victimized us. Look. You and I. OK, can I explain something?

Please. They wanted open borders for districting and census so they could win the elections. They wanted it. They had a plan. Open the borders. Win wanted it. They had a plan. Open the borders, win. Okay. Victims, win.

Victims, that's a winning hand for them. Victims and open borders. So those are their two main focuses. Otherwise, Biden wouldn't attack the border patrol for whipping Haitians when they never whipped Haitians. Yeah. Okay, that's what he's doing. Why would he do that?

And then why would he work the black and brown community and the disabled and the whatever? Why would he work that in every street if that's not what he was doing? That's what he is doing. I don't think it's a winning plan. And then I don't want to live in a country with the illegals and victims but that's the plan. Do you ever wonder where the term right and left came from? No, it's a good question. During the era of the early in the French Revolution the Thiers Etat met and the the conservatives the sort of royalists sat on the right and the Jack of us out on the left

hmm that was it and that was it that was where it started so out of France 1789 France yes 1789 before there was no right and left Wow yeah that's interesting yeah it's interesting not that interesting but it's kind of interesting come on those little tidbits are very like. I like it. Anyway, so yeah, back to the 90s, the oppressive 90s for the gay community in Los Angeles. Yeah, the 90s was all over. Yeah, but the fact that we were all rallying behind them for the AIDS. Now, I'm just, here's all I'm saying. All I'm saying is, there's a finite amount of money and there's a finite amount of time. And if you are going to spend a lot of money

and a lot of time getting people to wear a paper mask that doesn't work, then you are taking time and money away from other things that are actually problems that may be solved. Actually the business of governing that we have not done in this state in quite some time. If you're gonna take the day off on a Tuesday and go down to Hyperion and Silver Lake and do a photo op with a presser, that's time taken away from the guy whose tree house you could have saved or the homeless population who lives next to the treehouse. So would it be accurate to say for the time being at least, you would like to see no government official doing anything that isn't about action, cleaning up the fire mess in the war?

Gavin Newsom sat where you sat, and I said, just work big to small. And he laughed, and he said, I. I like to work small to big. I go the other direction. So going down to Hyperion with a half inch ratchet and removing a toggle bolt with a small sign on it, I will call that small. Fire prevention, that'd be big.

See what I'm saying? Yes. So I would like you to go big to small. Yeah, well they seem incapable of big and we were looking at the palisades No, nothing has changed. Nothing has happened. Has anything happened? Yes. I've been down there. What's happened? They're starting to clean up the the lots the Army Corps of Engineers is also the federal come No, but but what I'm saying is is Gavin Newsom said with pride that he works small to big which doesn't mean anything and it's actually what we don't want you to do

It's actually he's actually telling the truth for a change. That is what he does well Can we can we can we say that he's worrying about check cashing? While the while billions of dollars are spent on a train to nowhere Well, the well billions of dollars are spent on a train to nowhere Well the thing about him and his predatory Check-cashing places is he doesn't give a fuck because he only brought it up in front of me and then I've never heard him Speak about it again. So he doesn't really well how much does Nithya Raman worry about cruising and listen is she I would argue her but I would argue that street signs from the 90s

That say no u-turn between midnight and 6 a.m Is small and I would also say that tearing down a guy's treehouse that's been up for 20 years is small I'd also like to know how many tickets were handed out for making a u-turn in those 40 years You know what I mean? I met yeah, no tickets. Nobody got cited for you All right, we're fucked. All fucked. I've told you that many times. We're fucked. Nobody's anything and we're fucked. The thing that's crazy about her, she went to Harvard, which is not crazy anymore. It's now to be expected. It was odd at first. Now it's like, oh, you want to know about ruining your brand.

If I see Harvard on a resume, I'm like, oh boy. Columbia too. This is fucking idiots. Yeah, why? Like Harvard? Harvard. Yeah. Hey listen, I did a thing in New York with Rob Henderson who wrote a book called Troubled, recommend it most highly.

And he was, you know, he got to Yale on the, after having a horrible life, finding his way out through the military and the GI Bill. And when he got to Yale, he was shocked. They were all like Nithya Raman and telling him what his, how his privilege and what his life was like, which was not anything to do. He would, he lived in extreme circumstances. Yeah. All right. None of them did. You can, none of them did. Well, it makes me want to talk about, but it's like, this is the thing I've maybe yelled to you about on the phone but When AOC goes out and does her tour and she's like I worked as a waitress. Yeah, it's like a bitch everyone worked

Yeah, nobody you none of the fucking college fucking elite and whatever halls of Congress or something, but Everybody worked everyone. I knew worked. Everybody I spoke to, anybody who I ever was friends with worked as a bartender or waiter or something. I mean, they're so unique, it's a unicorn for them that people have a fucking job. And she said something that caught my attention. She said, if you care about people you don't know, I'm here to help you. And I thought, that's all anybody wants is everyone to thrive. But said, if you care about people you don't know, I'm here to help you. And I thought that's all anybody wants is everyone to thrive. But honey, you make people not thrive. You make them, you turn them into domesticated polar bears who can't function. We want them to thrive, give

them skill. Go, build, go. Well, the other thing is just like, since when did every buddy in the United States work for the government, depend on the government, or was on social security? I don't get any money from the government. I was like, you shut these programs down, the whole things. It's like, I don't know anybody who depends on it. Who are all these people you speak of that are so dependent on the fucking federal government? Who are all these people? I don't know any of them

I'm sure you think about it when you cut the checks every year. Oh All right, you can help me get pay the government by going to the American Comedy Club that'll be April 11th and then all the way through the 12th doing four shows there and Then I'm going everywhere, man. Charlotte, Florida. You can go to Amcroll.com for all the live shows. And Drew, what do you got? Dr.com, subscribe at Rumble, ask Dr. Drew, we'll see you there.

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