The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Government Overreach, Process People, and the Myth of Denied Access - Adam & Dr. Drew #1991

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

Adam and Dr. Drew dive into government overreach and entitlement, arguing that not funding something isn’t the same as denying access. They critique the shift toward a culture of dependency and the hypocrisy of those who once opposed paternalistic governance now enforcing it. Drew highlights how excessive regulation and misguided policies have eroded personal responsibility. The conversation turns to political hypocrisy, with Adam questioning AOC’s claims of systemic oppression despite her privileged education. They discuss the rise of "process people" who prioritize endless debate over real solutions, tying it to governance failures in cities like L.A. Adam shares a personal story about his coworker Jeff Gaines, who trained to be a firefighter but was denied due to race-based hiring, underscoring how misguided policies create more division than progress. Thank you for supporting our sponsors: betterhelp.com/adamanddrew 

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Yeah, get it on. Got to get a judge. That is for first side six. Mr. Six, six, six, six, six. Yeah, we're talking off the air about the health care or sort of wellness and stuff like that. Yeah. And it circles back to stuff. I really feel like I'm taking crazy pills with people. It's like when they go, snap, wants to get rid of soda, and they're going to deny these people. It's like, you're allowed to buy your own soda if you would like. You're not

being denied anything. You're not getting free soda. And Hobby Lobby doesn't deny their female employees access to health care. They don't pay for birth control pills. Yeah. Notice that bit when forgot that story. It's years in the rear view mirror now. Well, you know what I'm saying? Yes. It says by not funding something, you're preventing access, which is the weirdest thing in the world. No, you're denying access. No, no, no. No soda. You can buy your own soda if you'd like to buy your own soda.

We don't want the taxpayers underwriting something. Okay, does SNAP pay for cigarettes? I'm listening. No. Why not? You're preventing access to cigarettes. Why not? Well, cigarettes are to cigarettes. Why not? All cigarettes are bad for you. Oh, okay. Now we're on to something here. So cigarettes are not healthy. No. Okay,

guess what else isn't healthy? Soda. So is that your logic? Hey, what could I get the guys from Snap to say we can buy cigarettes sure snap Like you said the other last show do one way or the other Either the people that are calling you racist or elitist or whatever for not wanting to let you buy soda on Welfare if you said to them well good, let's open it up to cigarettes They would be horrified and they would fight more to mortified they would be so angry they wouldn't get the point, right? That's my whole point. It's open it up to cigarettes. They would be horrified and they would fight mortified. They wouldn't get the point. They wouldn't get the point. Right. That's my whole point. It's not it's not good. I would argue that uh, A life of you know being obese is much less you're going to be cut shorter than cigarettes

well this whole notion that Everything should be funded at whim all the time, it's a weird thing, right? So what you were saying at the end of the show yesterday, I don't know anybody, it depends on these, and I treat a lot of people in very severe circumstances, I don't know that relies on that for, I mean there's people that use certain things for certain, just sort of the leg up kind

of thing. Well, also, listen. Listen to me, everybody. You're supposed to work and you're supposed to set aside money for retirement and shit like that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no government's job is to stop taking all your fucking money so you could put aside a little more. Yes, that's right. I don't get what's all the argument about. I don't get it. You know what it is? It's a paternalism and it's weird to me that paternalism in my profession was a dirty word in the 80s and 90s. Like, oh, you know, paternalistic patients, terrible.

You can collaborate with them, they're equal partners with you, this kind of thing. And yet the same people that were on me about that in the 80s are now rendering the population a product of paternalism. And it is unhealthy, I agree with them. Paternalism is not a good thing, especially when it comes to the government. Listen, your buddy Bill Maher is talking about regulation and overregulation now. Oh, he's talking about building and regulation. Yes, yes he is. Listen. Every single thing he talks about is just shit I talked about before. Oh yeah. That's all it is. Years ago. But it takes a while to get there. And this is what we were talking about last show too. He can't shake off the fact that I just think about a scene from Madman when Don Draper gets up from a picnic and just takes the picnic, the picnic blanket he

has down, just shakes it off and all the trash and shit goes all over the lake and the lakeside. And I thought, yeah, that's how conservatives behaved until somebody came in and started regulating that stuff and restoring the environment. And that brand issue stays with both sides to this day. Left is good for the environment, right is bad for the environment. And just everybody wants good for the environment now, right? Yeah, listen, I would argue Ronald Reagan wanted good for the environment. I agree. But he didn't want to overregulate.

And now we've done it. We've overregulated. And we need to pull back. That's fine. Everybody should see that. There's a clip that, Andrew, that is AOC sort of explaining about how, first off, all roads lead to narcissism, all of it. Every one of those things are those chicks up there going, I couldn't stand by and watch this, I had to get involved, you know what I mean? All this shit. But it's

narcissistic because A, you're saying it into a microphone instead of doing it, and B, you never do anything. But you talk. Drew, when I started telling you about the process people and how we're entering an era of talk. Entering an era. Oh, sorry, we're in the middle of an era of talk and nothing's getting done and this is dangerous and fucked up. Like it's the same, I told you it's the same as affirmative action. People, what's

wrong with having a discussion? That's me. What's wrong with it? Whatever. I'm that person. Right. You. And what I'm saying is it's gonna lead down a bad road. It's not good. It's the excesses. It's the excesses and the and the ensconcing and the... We have, we had a fire and we did not have any water in the reservoir because the process people were having another discussion about water in the reservoir or about the gays doing U-turns on Hyperion or something and we didn't get water in the reservoir, or about the gays doing U-turns on Hyperion or something, and we didn't get water into the reservoir. It's the process, people. Yes, yes.

You know what, I read a thing, oh, we have the AOC thing, and listen to me, Drew. Listen to me. I'm listening. Are you listening? I'm listening. I read a fun fact that,'ll paraphrase but on average Women say seven thousand words a day. Yeah, and men say two thousand words. Yeah

so Women are more likely to be processed. They're also more likely to use pronouns. It's true Oh, well, that's use pronouns. It's true. Oh, well, that's extra words. Yeah. Right? Yeah. So it's also it's words that are just going on without any sense of who it's being.

Hey, did you see what a bitch she was last night? She was such a man. You're like, I don't hear you talking about it. So all right. So if we get lots of women in positions of power, we're gonna have more process. Yes Okay, so we now again to be fair Gavin Newsom is a process person too. He wants to talk. Yeah. All right. Here's a C explaining that she had to do something about it Because when the system is stacked against you all right

System is what is the system that is stacked against you. All right, pause it. System is stacked against you. What is the system that is stacked against you? If you said to me, Adam, what's the system that's stacked against you? I'd be like, well, I pay too much in taxes. Wait a minute, the system was stacked against you. Me? Yes, I couldn't be a fireman. But, fuck that, just you couldn couldn't your family was broken up your sister took off you couldn't get an education there was no food how much can the stick the system be stacked against somebody but I'm I'm a heterosexual oh right right right so because I don't chug cock and because I'm white oh but the white part did fuck up the fireman part. Yes, it's completely fucked up.

But it helped with Mike Sturmatt. He probably liked white guys. You're- I gotta tell you, you know, Mike Sturmatt, my evil foreman. Yes. There's only one guy on that fucking entire crew he liked, and it was a Hispanic guy named Balthazar.

And he actually paid for Balthazar to get braces. Wow. And he liked Baltazar. What is that? He was a nice enough Latin guy who worked along the yaw. Was he younger than everybody else or something? No, he would just work with us along with us as laborers and and he loved Baltazar and he fucking hated me and John Gillingham So I don't know where his allegiance was. You know what I mean? It's a weird thing when everyone's so i'm thinking about you and john. I know john when they talk about Racism and representation and it's like mike stromat didn't like me at all But isn't it interesting right? But probably i'm thinking about john and I think about your guy's personality and what those personalities at the age of 20 would have been like dealing

with on a construction site. I can see why he's like the compliant, nice Hispanic guy more. So it really was more about your personality than your ethnicity. No, no, no, no, no. No. I was very compliant. No, no. You were very hardworking and stuff, but bet you didn't give him what he he needed back or something. No, I know I was I was kiss-ass Yes, sir, whatever wherever you want me to go and whatever you want me to do get under the house. Hey You see he told me you didn't chug cock, but I didn't check Okay He told me to get the level out of his car

And when I started walking up a driveway on a hill house to get his level he yelled run Yeah, and I ran. Yeah, so I was not not no no I'm just trying to think about the person the point is I'm making is that he didn't like anybody Right, but but but Leona Helmsley didn't like anyone, but she loved her dog, right? You know when all these people go hard on their dog or they do something There's one thing they like and then they're evil to everyone else their pets interesting. Yeah Bugweek was his dog Which got ran over?

He left a job site on Wilshire called The Burnout. It was a building that burnt out on Wilshire that we had to clean out. And he told Jeff Gaines, watch Buckwheat. And he left in his truck, and Buckwheat started chasing the truck out onto Wilshire and got ran over immediately on Wilshire. And Mike just turned the corner

and started heading down Wilshire. And Jeff Gaines had to sit there the entire time with this dead dog going, this guy Mike, who only likes this dog, he'll fucking take a pickaxe to anybody else, is gonna come back in an hour and a half from Gary Lumber and he's gonna have to tell him his dog's dead, even though he was told to watch the dog.

What'd you do? I was like, Jeff, I don't fucking envy you, man. I mean. What happened? Stravat came back at some fucking point. I'm surprised he didn't say the dog just ran away or something. Well, he said the dog ran.

No, but I mean, like, do they dispose of it and go, I don't know, it sounds like something those guys would do. Well, you're in charge of the dog. I get it. You can't. No, it sounds like those guys would do well You're in charge of the dog. I can't just go the dog Well, it's worse Well, you didn't run away ran after you what did Mike do He was fucking pissed but You know, Jeff Gaines is six three and 200 pounds surfer guy like he wasn't gonna just beat the shit out of Jeff yeah Jeff was big Jeff wanted to be

a fireman was just a carpenter guy that helped train you a little bit Jeff was a contemporary of mine who wanted to be a carpenter who I love this story, Drew. He wanted to be a carpenter, sorry, he wanted to be a fireman, but he worked as a carpenter, but he trained every weekend at the Topanga Firehouse as a volunteer fireman, and he took fire science classes at the junior college, and all he did was train to be a fireman because he wanted to be a fireman, but he was white, so he couldn to be a fireman because he wanted to be a fireman But he was white

So he couldn't be a fireman even though he was poor even though he would have been a great fireman because a big strong guy and all he did was train to be a fireman and volunteer and take courses But city of LA would not let him be a fireman because he was white Same as me. So we're both on a job site working as carpenters when we would rather try to be a fireman, but Later on many years later and I told you this story, but it's why you can't fucking fiddle people Many years later. I was at an event at the school then we're talking about 15 years ago

Many years later. I was an event at a school then we're talking about 15 years ago of 10 12 years ago some fundraising something for rich people some fucking rich school or something and a Nicely dressed black man wearing a suit came up to me said he was a lawyer I said okay said my name is chipper. I Said oh chipper. Yeah, we work together. I said oh Chipper yeah we work together. I said yeah oh we work doing earthquake rehab together. I said yeah. I said what were you doing at that time? I said I was going to college trying to be a lawyer but hey 19 bucks an hour for the city not too bad. I said Chipper you didn't have any construction background or skills or anything. He's like no. It's like oh he was

hired because he's black and they needed a black guy because it was a city job and it was an EEOC thing. So they needed a chick and they needed a black guy, even though the black guy had no skills and no tools and no ability and probably could have got hurt. But he was there. Then he paused and he said, how's that guy Jeff Gaines doing? Because that dude's racist. That dude treated me like shit. I said, Jeff Gaines? He's not racist. He said, he's a good dude.

He's a Topanga guy. He's like a surfer guy. I want to be a fireman. He goes, well, he treated me like shit. I said, he treated you like shit because you walked into a high paying job because of the color of your skin, and he was not allowed to do the job that he wanted to do because of the color of his skin and he then resented you probably. You could call

that racism but it was not caused by anything indigenous in Jeff. He is he was he was he was he's seeing the exact opposite that happened to him being played out the other way and now you're creating this. People who are trying to get rid of these feelings, you've created these feelings. Because he's feeling resentful that you've walked on with no tools and everything and are making the same money he's making with no experience because of the color of your skin and he's been rejected as a fireman because of the color of his skin. Nice job, everybody. It always works, doesn't it? Doesn't it always work, Drew?

It always works. Not in the right way, though. I always wonder why young people don't, I saw an economist saying the number one investment we should make in young people is suitcases. In other words, why didn't Jeff pack a bag and go to Phoenix or something? Yeah you know you're right but Drew you- I understand it's a lie.

Quiet. You are looking at things through a 2025 lens. It's not 1985. People did not first off- Move around. I didn't go to the airport once. I didn't get on an airplane. Well, none of that, if he was a surfer, I mean, this is it. Well, you grow up out here, you surf, whatever, that's your life. If you would've said to me,

why don't you move to Phoenix when I was 22, I'd be like, I don't know where Phoenix is. I don't know anyone in Phoenix. How do you even buy an airplane ticket? I don't have a car that could make it to Phoenix. What would I do in Phoenix? In a weird way, one of the great strengths of this country is our state system. And we were raised in a time when nobody took advantage of that. Nobody moved from state to state

at all. No one said anything about income tax or work or jobs. So in a way, this weird circumstance we're in now is good. Yeah, but if somebody said to me, they're hiring firemen in Phoenix and Phoenix is about an hour and 20 minute flight from here and you can get a ticket for 80 bucks and you can arrange with them to come out and sign up or whatever, I would have done it. I grew up with a group of people that would say, where's Phoenix? Well, what's interesting, I relate to that as growing up out here too. I would say,

where's North Hollywood? You know what I mean? Very sort of provincially kind of thing. Trudy didn't know where fucking Valley Village was when I met him. I'm still not entirely sure. I kind of know where it is. Pasadena snobs. I knew where fucking Pasadena was. Well, just the distance, the divide between the San Fernando and the San Gabriel Valley was mass still is kind of big.

If you get the opening to the TV sitcom Alice, and let's take a break. I want to see the rest of AOC, but that's all I knew from Phoenix. She settled in Phoenix, which look, which should have been like Wyoming 1871 to me. It's just like kind of dirt and cactus and shit. Yes.

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It really helps us out. Upgrade to public rec and feel the difference. That is another feature of all this is that the way we perceive other parts of the country, like, you know, let's say New York City was warriors, Chicago was some sort of mob thing. I mean, it was very character like. The night Chicago died. Sorry, more AOC and then we'll get a little finished. But yeah, so yeah, it would have been nice

if I could have gone to Phoenix and worked as a fireman or Jeff Gaines, but we didn't know where Phoenix was. And we'd never been to an airport. And I didn't have a credit card. I would have had to try to pay cash to get a bus ticket to Phoenix for $26. Luggage. Buy luggage.

Well, I have a trash bag. Remember when I bought luggage to go to college, I had to go to like this, I went to some place way out this surplus place luggage. All right. Here's the I'll say sorry She's gonna fight drew. She's fighting the oligarchy by the way Because when the system is stacked against you, it's hard to feel like anything you do matters It's hard to feel like we matter in this democracy. And it is easy to give in to the despair. And I can tell you, I know that when I was waitressing

and struggling to put food on the table, for a while there, I did. Pause. When you're waitressing, you work at a restaurant. Struggling to put food on the table. Don't you get a lot of fucking free food when you work at a restaurant struggling to put food on the table Don't you get a lot of fucking free food when you work in a restaurant like you couldn't leave with a sandwich if you need to Yeah, yeah, plus you're hot 23 year old you get a lot of tips But she was struggling to pay her taxes

It's interesting. She's struggling to put food on the table, even though she worked in a restaurant It's just odd that the juxtaposition of waitressing and food on the table even though she worked at a restaurant. It's just odd that the juxtaposition of waitressing and food on the table. Well, that's how you know she's stupid because she shouldn't have said that. It'd be like me going, when I was a carpenter and I was struggling to get two by fours, you know, it's like, well, didn't you work

at a place that had two by fours? All right, sorry, go ahead. Been to the despair. And I can tell you, I know that when I was waitressing and struggling to put food on the table for a while. Hold on! Sounds like she was a bad waitress. Hold on.

Maybe she was struggling to put other people's food on the table. That's what I'm saying. She was a bad waitress. She struggled to put stuff down. Yeah, yeah, maybe she had that... Parkinson's or something, and she was shaking. She couldn't put food on the table. Oh, what's the risk that disease through? Carpal tunnel. Maybe she had carpal tunnel and couldn't put people's food on the table. All right. Sorry. Go ahead.

She's an idiot. Easy to give in to the despair. And I can tell you, I know that when I was waitressing and struggling to put food on the table for a while there, I did. I tried to stop caring. I tried to just keep my head down, work my shifts and accept that this is just how things are. But that is no way to live, Arizona. It's no way to live. She says nothing. It's insane. What I do know is that we don't have to live like this. And in fact, we cannot live like this anymore. All right. Putting your head down and just sort of working. That's what I do. That's what I do. What is she talking about?

I know did they ever articulate what it is. They're talking about When by the way What years you got to look it up Andrew but I was assuming this period where she was a waitress Barack Obama was the president I think that's about right. I'd say is that she couldn't live with that or she wouldn't accept that or he stacked He stacked the cards against her a lot of despair For her and her milk Bronx or so, where was she? She well first off Let me just say everything to everyone all at once

Do not come to me with your stories of hard scrabble and despair and growing up on the wrong side of the tracks and then roll into my first semester at Boston University. Do not do that. Or Stanford or Harvard or Yale, don't do it. Or UCLA or fucking Cal State Northridge, Don't do it. Or UCLA. Or fucking Cal State Northridge. Don't do that. When you really grow up that way,

you do not do your first year anywhere. You do your first year on a construction site with a shovel. Or the military. Or the military. That's right. That's what you do. Don't give me the hard scrabble

and then go when I was at BU and then some story about a dorm. Don't give me the hard scrabble and then go when I was at BU and then some story about a dorm Don't do it Now listen Drew. Yeah, you can say Well, I got loans and grants and whatever that's fine I'm not saying your dad paid cash for you to go to BU Just the fact that you're able to fill out the paperwork and avail yourself of the loans and the things and the...

Take the SAT. Just all of that stuff puts you in a different strata. Than you. Than people who really grow up that way. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? They can't even, they don't have an apparatus that would see to it that that paperwork was filled out. It's like Chris and Ray didn't have any apparatus. George Espinosa, he didn't have a fucking apparatus around him. Like, hey, we're going to get that paperwork tuned into the college and get the grants and loans and, you know, qualified.

Nobody said you got to take the SATs. That's an apparatus. Yes. AOC went to BU from 07 to 11. Obama, for junior, senior year she was there, then six more afterwards. So I don't know when she was waitressing. Was she waitressing in college? Or after college but it would it would it would stand to reason that Obama was president while

she was going through a lot of despair yeah with her it was after college so then Obama was president that I don't know where all the despair came from. I thought those were hope and change years. Yeah. Yeah? And a big college degree and stuff. But she was struggling to put that food on the table. It was the carpal tunnel. It was after college, right.

Okay. And she was a bartender. I think she was a bartender. I think she was bartending and waitressing while Obama was president. Yeah, that was the whole special thing about her getting elected, is that she was a bartender. Right, okay. But I'm saying with Obama.

Yeah. Okay, all right, well, I don't know. Didn't she like Obama? He stacked the system against her. Oh, did Obama stack the system or the stuff? No, I think the system is stacked now. Because Obama's out. By the way, Biden was president for four years. Trump's been president for 15 minutes that he restructured the system that quickly or stack it. He restack it. He restacked the system against who waitresses who's how's this working? Drew trying to figure it out

to who are these people and who are the people in the audience? Narcissists. The other thing I'm trying to figure out is the word Nazi. What the fuck? Have you ever met a Nazi? I've seen people in prison that identify as Nazis, but that's it. I've never met... And by the way, when people are Nazis, they don't hide it. They're quite upfront about what they are. Well, are there more Nazis or more clansmen? Well, we've switched clans to Nazis. We're done with the Klan?

Yeah, I think we're done with them. I think we're done with the Klan. Yeah. She began her campaign in April 2017 while waiting tables. Bartender. 17? So Trump, their first Trump presidency. That's interesting. Anyway, God, that's good. So I don't know, so she's a process person, but if you're going to say systemic racism or the system is stacked against you, then I need some examples. They never seem

to pull up any examples. By the way, she's out with Bernie on that anti oligarchy campaign and what do you see the interview ask Bernie like hey you want to see her join you in the Senate and he caught up and got furious with the guy and walked out yeah stop with this bullshit questions like I I'm curious what he thinks to you why couldn't she be in the what she woman can't be in the Senate what's what what are you saying Bernie ah he didn't want to get any shit with Schumer, but but the point is is I Like when they get up there and they go they have the money they have the media they have the media You watch 60 minutes lately Bernie by the way

All we did was wrestle the truth back from the media. We don't own the media still not quite there yet You got your mics hot by the way of the unhot your mic. All right. Do we have a? Question oh we got a message up there. Oh a special a Special thank you to dr. Drew. No, let's see if that that is it This is never seem to go well, but let's say oh come on I'm sorry these things ready Adam and Drew get it on of that. That is it. We're ready for it. These things never seem to go well, but let's see. Oh, come on. I'm sorry. Are these things ready?

Adam and Drew, get it on. I love you guys. The reason I'm calling is because I owe Dr. Drew a 25-year-old apology. He was gracious enough to do an interview with me in college and I mistakenly asked if he thought he was the modern Dr. Ruth in which he was very, very offended. So I apologize and I have not missed a show since. I think you guys are doing the Lord's work and I love you guys dearly. Keep doing what you're doing. I appreciate you and on behalf of all journalists, Dr. Drew, I was wrong. We are wrong. You are right.

You are the best. We've heard this. They've played this before. Thanks, guys. But thanks, Evelyn. It bears repeating, but I've heard that one. That was bad on me, actually, if I was offended. I used to be upset that people would equate us,

because I'm like, no, I did this because of the biology that was being ignored, the biological reality, the psychiatric reality of relationships. And I've since, after Evelyn got to me, I've met Ruth and she was wonderful. I have great respect for her and she will be missed. All right, there's another one from Nate. It's like a question to me about an old bit.

Oh, this should be good. Unless I've heard it before. Yeah. All right, let's try. Hey, Adam Drew, this is Nate, 50 Montana. Love you guys, really enjoy the show. Adam, Adam Drew. This is Nate, 50 Montana. Love you guys. Really enjoyed the show. Adam, I got a question for one of your old bits.

You were going to strategically or maybe it was tactically convince your kids that you had a big hog by having a wardrobe malfunction when they were eye level back in the day. Then I guess a follow up for Drew, maybe I should have done that with my girls before they became teenagers. Anyhow, love you guys. Merry Christmas Yeah, I think he was being a joke out of that. It was a joke Yeah, but it was a bit but it was born from from truth Yeah, so I remember very clearly like being in high school and I was sitting with Ray and maybe Few other friends

and everyone wanted some pitch and they went, my dad's got a huge hunk. And then the next guy'd go, yeah, my dad's hunk, man, my dad's hunk. And then I'm sitting there and I'm doing what I always do, like a little statistical analysis, like, okay, what are the chances that all our dads are hung and we're not? You know

what I mean? Why is everyone at this lunch table have a dad with a huge dick and we didn't get a big dick? So what's going on? And so I started asking everybody and they all had the same story. They go, oh, when I was six, I walked into the bathroom He's drying his hair at the shower his dick like smack It was huge it was huge You know and I go oh you were sick you were dick height Thing fucking tore your retina, you know and so I that I started saying to everybody, but I like But I also liked the idea that I was gonna go see, you know, Ray's dad, Gunter, you know what I mean? And I'd come walking in and he's like,

hi Adam, how you doing? I'm like, not as good as you, Gunter. You know, like that weird respect. So I thought, well, that's what I would like when my kids get to high school, that their friends like start showing up and go, hey, Mr. C, looking good. You know, so I came up the plan of when the kids fit. So after child protective services stop by, everything's

okay. All right, let's see and go to AdamCrawl.com for all the live shows going to San Diego, coming up at the Comedy Works, American Comedy Works. Two shows, April 11th, two shows, April 12th. Come on out, Drew, what do you got? Yeah, everything is at DrDrew.com, check me out there. Sup, till next time, Adam Kroll with Dr. Drew, say it, mahalo. Pluto TV is the place for movie fans like me. And TV fans like me.

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