The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Microplastics Panic & The forgotten Obama Celebrity Pledge video featuring P Diddy - Adam & Dr. Drew #1987

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

Adam and Dr. Drew break down the growing divide between pragmatists and hysterics, using the latest microplastics scare as a prime example. While headlines scream about plastic in the brain, the guys ...examine the actual science—what we know, what we don’t, and why people love to freak out over it anyway. Then, they dig up a relic from the internet’s memory hole: the infamous Obama celebrity “I Pledge” video, featuring a parade of celebrities promising to “help” in ways that haven’t exactly aged well. From P. Diddy to Hollywood elites, they reflect on the era of performative activism and why this video has seemingly been scrubbed from existence. Leave us a voicemail: SpeakPipe.com/AdamandDrDrew OR Click the microphone at the top of the homepage, AdamandDrew.com

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Starting point is 00:01:35 with Adam Corolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Blah. Do you remember that, manamana?
Starting point is 00:01:52 Doot, doo. Yeah. I was watching the first episode of SNL, the very first one that George Carlin was in. And the voice of one of the Jim Henson characters, I just thought, oh, that's the guy that did Menomono. That's the voice. And it's a voice that you kind of are familiar with, has done a bunch of those. It's just an odd thing I was thinking. Anyway, I was thinking of something else, which was-
Starting point is 00:02:21 You're stinking. You Drew be thinking, yo. I'll be thinking. That... I brought this up before, but somehow there's something forming in my head. Mm-hmm. As it pertains to this Fat Cat imaging and old boy network stuff that was around in this country for so many years, on the right, that is being used by the left to sort of, I don't know, justify or to hide them doing the same thing in a kind of a different form.
Starting point is 00:02:52 And then I started thinking about how many years you and I had to fight the right, you know? We were fighting about morning after pills. We were fighting about vaccines for cervical cancer. Fighting about just certain language being used on TV and talking to you. How dare you talk to young people about such outrageous things? When people say now, I was thinking about you,
Starting point is 00:03:20 and I was thinking about how people go, Adam's changed, he's got so far right now. He's so disappointed. I was like, no, no, I haven't changed, he's got so far right now, I'm so disappointed. I was like, no, no, no, we've not changed. We've not changed one bit. We like free speech, we like sensible policies, we like people doing the right thing. I haven't changed a thing that I can see.
Starting point is 00:03:40 Or maybe as you get older, you just don't realize that you become more conservative naturally or something and you don't realize it. I don't think so. And the world has kind of moved in a weird direction. Yeah. Well, okay, why, if you think about it, why would somebody who was a pragmatist,
Starting point is 00:04:03 why, how much changing would you do? Right, that's right. Because if you were like, you could say, well Adam hasn't changed as a carpenter in 30 years, you know, and you go, well, has anything changed in terms of load bearing or sheer strength or tension strength? There's anything changed?
Starting point is 00:04:27 And the answer would be no. And they'd be like, well, then I'm pragmatic and nothing would change for me either. You know, I wouldn't hang a door any differently now than I would have done it 30 years ago. That's right. So because a door's a door and it weighs this much and the four and changes are for the inch and three quarter thick doors That's right. So because a door is a door and it weighs this much and
Starting point is 00:04:50 The four inch hinges are for the inch and three-quarter thick doors and the three and a half inches are for the inch and three-eighths holocore and Drew's case situation but Why would I change I You bring me the subject and then I'll give you what I take, but it'll be what my answer is on it. But that'll be in a pragmatic, from the angle of a pragmatist. Now, I'm not saying it'll make me right.
Starting point is 00:05:18 I would say something like, you would go, don't you think people should wear masks to help mitigate the spread of COVID? And I would say, yes, but if the mask is under their nose, or there's a big twist in the strap and I can see the side of their face through the mask. Masking up between meals, or you're using a surgical mask at all. Right, then no, I don't see the difference
Starting point is 00:05:44 between masking up in between bites and not mask at all. No. Then, then no, I don't see the difference between masking up in between bites and not mask at all. Right. No, I don't. I have, or you could say buckle up in between lights. Right. Right. Okay. Yeah. Even, but buckling up in between lights means you have a 50% less chance of being hit when the seatbelt is completely off. Yes. Buckling up in between lights is quite a bit more pragmatic than masking up in between bites. Because shit happens at the lights. People collide into each other, misglides.
Starting point is 00:06:23 No, just buckle up in between lights what does that mean to you? In between lights. I'm sorry. Or masking up in between bites. Yes yes right. It means you're wearing your seatbelt 50% of the time. Right. You're taking it off for this light and you're putting it back on for that light. It has some effect. Well it'd be a coin toss if you got t-bone whether you're wearing your seat belt or not in between bites Zero, that's zero. Yeah, okay So yeah, so the opposite of pragmatism. I would argue would be hysteria
Starting point is 00:06:57 Mm-hmm. That's going full hysterics and hysteria is the foundational approach to just about everything right now. Did you see this study about microplastics in the brain? No. Okay. Shocking discovery. Okay, here we go.
Starting point is 00:07:18 As soon as they say shocking, grim, and any words like that, I'm already like, fuck it. No. Uh-uh, I don't know. So the human brain contains an entire spoon worth of nanoplastics. This study says 50% more plastics than in 2016. A new study found first of all, one study doesn't mean shit. That's just, that is just a fact, but okay. So I'm listening. I'm not saying that he doesn't mean shit. That is just a fact, but okay. So I'm listening, I'm looking. Testicles may play a role in infertility,
Starting point is 00:07:52 may fail a role in dementia, may, may, may, may cause you to become a genius. I don't know. So I actually had looked into this a couple of days ago, because someone in my family brought it up. And I was like, let me see. Let me look at the data. Because I was like, first thing I said was, you would think as a physician, I would have
Starting point is 00:08:19 seen some microplastic-related illness somewhere, sometime. Microplastic. Yes. That I would have seen it in all the illness I see. Somebody would have taken a tumor biopsy and said, oh, there's microplastics in this tumor or the surrounding tissue. No, never ever, ever mentioned. So already I'm like, okay, I'm wondering. So I looked into it, researched it.
Starting point is 00:08:43 So far, no evidence of adverse effect on humans. There's all kinds of inferences, but no evidence, no real evidence, just hysteria. And then hysteria around findings of microplastic in the tissue, like there are microplastic crescents in some tissues, yeah. Does that mean anything? Does that mean anything at all?
Starting point is 00:09:06 And where'd you find it? How'd you find it? And what kind of situations? And did it mean anything in those tissues? No, nothing. Okay. Then how does it get in? The way things get into your body, not into your gut,
Starting point is 00:09:19 your gut lumen is outside your body. How is it absorbed into your body? That's a complicated process. It's very complicated. And again, they don't know, no evidence, maybe this, maybe that. So the whole thing kind of reminds me of climate change. Like a lot of maybe this, maybe that,
Starting point is 00:09:38 and a lot of hysteria around it, and no evidence of anything. Yeah. And so here we are again, shocking about. I think that climate change is just turning into a huge grift. I think this is all about what's like money longer. Well this must be heading towards grift too, right?
Starting point is 00:09:55 Isn't this gonna go that way? Well everything eventually gets seized upon and then gets sort of monetized at some point. Yeah, yeah. Well it's like Black Lives Matter, the civil rights was a movement and then at some point became a way to monetize and then millions and millions and millions of dollars
Starting point is 00:10:17 were pledged and whatever. But I always say to people, like when they go, they start, Disney gave $18 million to Black Lives Matter, Coca-Cola gave $14 million to Black Lives Matter, and then they go, then somebody goes, and you know that all they did was take that money and buy themselves big houses,
Starting point is 00:10:37 they never put it back in the community, and then people go, oh man, so Coke got ripped off, and I go, no,, so Coke got ripped off. And I go, no, Coke didn't get ripped off. Coke doesn't give a shit about black people. Coke was trying to buy themselves some goodwill from the black community, and so was Disney. So they got everything they wanted out of it. They got advertising that they gave money to this group.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Now, what the money did with the group, Coke's not interested. It's a multi-billion dollar entity. They don't give a fuck and use it as Disney. They can go buy houses in Topanga or they can go down the inner city and hand out food. Coke's done. Coke just needed a press. They need to put something on a website. So they did get what they wanted out of them. And so did every retarded celebrity that backed them and whatever corporation or government entity. They did it.
Starting point is 00:11:31 They wrote it in the intersection. We're good. So they did get what they needed out of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter didn't do anything for anybody, but that's neither here nor there to Disney. Isn't it, though, ultimately a little bit of a, like, mm, you know, we see what you're all about. If it's individuals.
Starting point is 00:11:49 Now, corporations, we all know what they're all about. But the individuals, it looks a little more like, I don't know. The individuals... Like a celebrity or something is doing it. Well, what do you mean? That they are self-serving, rather than actually interested in making a difference for people.
Starting point is 00:12:03 It looks a little different when an individual does their corporation. There's a great- If you really cared, you'd go figure out a way to make a difference for that community. Well, listen, the people who care, there's such a thing as caring about animals, in which case you go down to the adoption thing and you adopt the cat, or you volunteer at the center or whatever. That's such a thing. I tell people all the time, look, I don't care about stray cats,
Starting point is 00:12:32 I care about race cars. So, but you can see what I'm doing, something with a race car. But I'll let you know what I'm doing. But I won't, if I just kept talking about race cars and never did it, then at some point you'd have to think, maybe he's not gonna do it, but I won't. If I just kept talking about race cars and never did it, then at some point you'd have to think, maybe he's not as into it.
Starting point is 00:12:49 Maybe he wants, maybe I want you to think I'm into race cars, but I'm not that into race cars. Because all I do is talk about it to you. There's a clip, I don't know why this jumped in my head. It got scrubbed from the internet, but Andrew can find it because he sent it to me. If he's back there somewhere, I don't know. But there's also a part where there's a big chunk of window that I can't see through, so I'm never sure if somebody is somewhere.
Starting point is 00:13:17 He's back here. We can talk to him. Oh, he is? Yeah. Okay, but he's not sitting there? No. Okay. He sent this crazy clip. You forget when Obama took power, all these celebrities did this, like we pledged to help thing.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Yeah. It's really, it's Hollywood at its most clowing. You know, like there's two kinds of, there's kind of, there's parts of Hollywood where you go, eh, that joke didn't really land or, eh, I disagree with that guy. And then there's the ones where you just go, ugh, yuck, ugh.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Like when they all sing, like Imagine by John Lennon during COVID or something, and you're just like, oh, you fucking retarded people. And when did you become stooges? You know what I mean? But I get it. It's all a club you wanna fit in. You don't wanna get kicked out of this club.
Starting point is 00:14:11 And so you have to basically dance for the retarded piper all the time and jump on every, like all of a sudden. You know what I liked? I liked that celebrities became an expert on Ivermectin and Ukraine in a four-month period. It's amazing. Amazing how much, you know, Dakota Fanning became an expert on Ukraine and Ivermectin
Starting point is 00:14:34 in a nine-week period. Yeah. Woo! Good for her. It's about hitting the books. She did. Lots of experience, of course. Lots of experience. Oh, back and forth, bringing Ivermectin to the Ukrainian people, I imagine.
Starting point is 00:14:47 No, taking it away. Oh, yeah, right. Just go to Kiev and make sure they don't. They weren't using it for COVID. They were using it for ringworm. Ringworm. Right. So then in that case, it's good.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Now, it's good now. It's a good thing. Yeah, well, finding that, it got scrubbed from the internet. Oh, really? This clip, well, A, it had too many shots of P. Diddy telling you to do the right thing. You know? Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:15:14 But any movie, sorry, any clip where they finish each other's sentences, like I'm out, where they go, I pledge, I pledge, I pledge, I pledge to do the right thing when it comes to eight. You know what I mean? Like any of that, whether they build a sentence out of celebrity clips, always the worst. It's always, it's always the biggest piece of shit. What should they do though? Think about it. These assholes come to them and go, we need, we need just two seconds of your time.
Starting point is 00:15:45 We need, it's no big deal. It's gonna have such a good impact. We need you to say, to pledge AIDS. That's it, just do that for me. No, they don't do it that way. They put it on a cue card and they all read the whole thing. And then they whack it. But do they come to their house with an iPhone
Starting point is 00:16:01 or just, I need two seconds. Yeah, whatever, their manager calls them and tells them, I gotta do this. So how do they get out of it is the question. No, listen, the same way when my producer came to me and said, we gotta put the black box on tweet and Twitter because of today's Black Lives Matter, I went, fuck that. And he went, well, you could face some backlash if you don't know, fuck that. And he went, you could face some backlash if you don't people, everyone's putting the black box on their Twitter.
Starting point is 00:16:29 And I'm like, yeah, well, I'm not doing it. Because, now was that because you had a sense of BLM was gonna be not a viable entity or just you didn't want people telling you what to do or it just seemed so empty and not, you know. I knew, first off, I knew Black Lives Matter were race hustlers, almost from the word go. From the word go, I knew they were just hustlers.
Starting point is 00:16:53 I did, and I also knew Hollywood had to suck their dick because they don't want to get into trouble. And I was just like, I'd had an impacted asshole of between COVID and Black Lives Matter. People explained to me what I should think about something that was a lie and a grift. I see. And a possible, you know, just way to tilt an election
Starting point is 00:17:13 or whatever, and I was just like, fuck that. And, you know, but there was that discussion where it's like, well, but if people find out you didn't when everyone else did, then that might be an issue. And then I said, yeah, well, maybe it will be an issue. And then I said, yeah, well, maybe it will be an issue. What am I supposed to do? Lie because shit's going to be an issue? You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Well, that's just them muscling it. But I see how easy it is for people to just go, all right, I don't know. Oh, yeah. No, it's very easy. All right, here it is. All right, here it is. This is when, you can play the beginning.
Starting point is 00:17:46 I think it's Obama. Obama took office for the first term, and then we, Hollywood said we're gonna do stuff now. Okay. For Obama. We're in now. Here we go. ["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Starting point is 00:18:05 It's inspiring. Hope and change. Hope and change. You're not alone. So let us summon a new spirit. A patriotism. A responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other. I pledge. I pledge. I pledge. To help end hunger in America. By supporting food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and
Starting point is 00:18:13 food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food
Starting point is 00:18:21 and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Hmm. I pledge. I pledge. I pledge to help end hunger in America. By supporting Feeding America and our local food bank. I pledge.
Starting point is 00:18:33 I pledge. To smile more. To laugh more. To love more. I pledge. To volunteer more of my time. To help children battling serious illnesses. With the art of Elysium.
Starting point is 00:18:44 I pledge to be a great mother. To be a great father. To continue working with UNICEF to make this world a better place for all of our children. To be the voice for those that have no voice. All right, pause it for a second. Yeah, boy. I would love just to run a reel of these people screaming
Starting point is 00:18:59 at their assistants next to their pledging of smiling and reaching out. Why don't we check the record on each of them? See how much that pledged. Oh, well, some are dead, some are divorced, at their assistants next to their pledging of smiling and reaching out. Why don't we check the record on each of them, see how much that pledge... Oh, well, some are dead, some are divorced, and others are incarcerated. But anyway, keep playing it, sorry. Keep playing it. To be a great father.
Starting point is 00:19:17 To continue working with UNICEF to make this world a better place for all of our children. To be the voice for those that have no voice. I pledge. I pledge. To consider myself an American, not an African American. To always represent my country with pride, dignity, and honesty. I pledge to go to USAservice.org and find a service project that I am passionate about.
Starting point is 00:19:41 I pledge allegiance to the funk, to the united funk of Funkadelica. I pledge to never give anyone the finger when I'm driving again. To always find the humor in everything. I pledge to help find a cure for Alzheimer's. To care for America's elderly. To make sure that senior citizens have access to healthcare. So that our next generation's memories will not be forgotten. I pledge to bring awareness to mental disease to advance stem cell research to spread the awareness of autism I pledge to show more love to strangers to meet my neighbors find out their names I'm gonna give them a smile and ask them how I can be of service to them I pledge I pledge to be a better mentor to my own sisters
Starting point is 00:20:23 continue to be a mentor this actually gets sisters. I'm renting, pause. This actually gets me sad. I'm renting, but I'm still gonna go to my neighbors. I think they're Korean, and ask how I can be of service to them. I think their answer's gonna be by getting the fuck off my porch. But this actually makes me sad. When was that?
Starting point is 00:20:37 When was that? It was Obama's, I don't know, it was his first, we can bring, keep it going, sorry. No, no, I can't stand it. You gotta keep watching it. It's awesome. No, it isn't. I know, but it makes you feel bad, but it's, sorry. You gotta keep watching it. It's awesome. No it isn't. I know, but it makes you feel bad, but it's still awesome.
Starting point is 00:20:48 But keep pledging. They're pledging. They're gonna help. They're reaching out. See, my whole thing is, listen, by the way, everyone has to take care of themselves, but they also have to take care of others. If everyone takes care of themselves, we're done.
Starting point is 00:21:01 Yes, that's true. But what makes me sad is, this was 14 years ago, is that right, 15, 16 years ago? And things have gotten- I can't tell you if it was at the beginning of his first term or the end of, at the beginning- Whatever it is- Oh wait.
Starting point is 00:21:18 Oh wait, so things have gotten so fucking much worse on exactly everything they're talking about. Because no one listened to Ashton Kutcher. so fucking much worse on exactly everything they're talking about. Because no one listened to Ashton Kutcher. If you'd fucking listened, then we wouldn't be in this quagmire, Drew. Oh my god. Alright, let's keep pledging and listening. I'm not going anywhere until we get to P.D.
Starting point is 00:21:37 But they've done none of the things that they pled. You don't know what Demi Moore's been up to. I do because none of these things have moved forward, they've gone backwards. Yeah, but ask Demi's, ask Cameron Diaz's neighbor in Malibu. It's a 40 foot hedge between them. But if they've given them a smile.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Both their houses are gone. They're all burned down. I pledge to get a sprinkler system in my Malibu home. All right, here we go. Tell research. To spread the awareness of autism. I pledge to get a sprinkler system in my Malibu home. All right, here we go Tell research to spread the awareness of autism I pledge to show more love to strangers to meet my neighbors find out their names I'm gonna give them a smile and ask them how I can be of service to them I pledge I pledge to be a better mentor to my younger sisters to continue to be a mentor for big brothers big sisters
Starting point is 00:22:24 I pledge. To reduce my use of plastic. By starting with using less bottled water. To plant 500 trees this year. To help our planet. To be more green. To no longer use the plastic bags at the grocery store. To consume less and cultivate more.
Starting point is 00:22:38 So that we are on this planet forever. For the environment, I pledge to flush only after a de deuce never a single. I pledge. I pledge. I pledge to turn the lights on because I used to leave lights on but we want to conserve energy so I'm gonna turn the lights off. I'm gonna turn the lights off and get the baby on. I pledge to sell my obnoxious car and buy a hybrid. To drive slower and not use as much gas I pledge to volunteer my time to express the importance of arts education in our schools to sell a culture of intelligence instead of ignorance I pledge to help children understand just because they come from a small place doesn't mean they can't dream big oh yeah I pledge to work to make good the 200 year old promised and. To the abolition of 21st century slavery. Hold on. What are we going to do with slavery? Oh, she means abroad.
Starting point is 00:23:30 Yeah. Yeah. Or sex slavery. Well, we've actually gone backwards on that, too. We brought that all through our board. Well, those sex workers are heroes. But keep going. Keep going.
Starting point is 00:23:41 But I don't know who a quarter of these people are. 30% of them are. Well, this is Singleton, I think't know who a quarter of these people are. 30% of them. Well, this is Singleton, I think, the black director who's dead. But anyway, but you can pledge from the grave. I'm Adam, he's a nice guy. To help children understand that just because
Starting point is 00:23:55 they come from a small place doesn't mean they can't dream big. I pledge. To work to make good the 200 year old promised to end slavery. To the abolition of 21st century slavery. To free one million people from slavery in the next five years. To fight.
Starting point is 00:24:11 To become aware. To educate. To not give up. To defend. Issues that I care about. I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama. I pledge. To change how I live.
Starting point is 00:24:24 To be a better person. To never stop learning and growing each and every day every day Every day I pledge to commit to my own change before I ask others to change to be the change to be the change to integrate into my heart What I already know in my head, which is that what is the start of? Oh, I'm Pippa. I'm P. Diddy. What's your pledge? All right.
Starting point is 00:24:48 What's your pledge? It is the start of saying good things. We care. We care. We care. If one's not safe, no one is safe. This is the start of all that. I told you, Drew.
Starting point is 00:24:58 You got us in big trouble. I told, listen. And did nothing good. Did nothing good. Listen to me. Oh, we need to take a break. All right, quick break. Then listen to me.
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Starting point is 00:26:07 That's a free jumpstart trial bag for your dog today. Go to roughgreens.com just use promo code Adam that's R U F F greens dot com and use promo code Adam and just cover shipping. You don't have to change your dog's food to improve your dog's health just add a scoop of rough greens. Alright I'm listening. All right. I've been yelling about the double talk for a long time. And everyone, you know what everyone's going to answer to me? It's the same as the mask. I said, just put it on. Who cares? So what? Hope and change. Good. Everyone needs a seat at the table. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, good. Good. Hug it out. Come on now, and I go no no it's in place of actions. This is in place of real stuff
Starting point is 00:26:49 And I go no no no no that's wrong We're just saying that kids are future and that they all deserve world-class and nobody should live in fear Go to bed with food anxieties, and I'm like what are you talking about? They're fat. They're all fucking fat. They're all fat. What do you mean food? Well, one in six children go to bed with food. Yeah. They go to bed with food. Why are they fat if they go to bed with food anxiety? And what are you even talking about? Because they're so used to eating so much, they're hungry all the time. I know. And I've said to everyone, stop the talk talk and the number one answer to me is why are you a dick? And get the fuck on with it, yeah, and I'm like you but you don't understand it's in place of
Starting point is 00:27:35 Action is to take it down a little further. So you heard this bullshit from your mom your whole life Deal you doesn't have a table at home. Yeah, okay, then buy her one bitch or shut the fuck up Yeah, but she'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that.
Starting point is 00:27:51 I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that.
Starting point is 00:27:59 I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. Like, I had a literal conversation with my mom when I was, you know, 30. And because my job for many years was just going to people's homes
Starting point is 00:28:12 and like fixing shit or moving shit, or I just did shit, you know? And I remember she was saying to me, and you know, circa 2000 or 1995 or whatever it is, she was like, you know, when these people come to my house and, you know, do chores and move things or do yard work, prune hedges or what have you, move stuff in the back, I think minimum wage is fine. And I was like, minimum wage is McDonald's.
Starting point is 00:28:42 You know, like minimum wage at the time, by it was probably like $4.77 or something. I'm like, you gotta give a guy $10 an hour to work at your house, you know? This is years ago, but still it's like, minimum wage is 15-year-old working at a Taco Bell. You know what I mean? These are people coming to your home, driving a truck in and like moving shit and doing stuff.
Starting point is 00:29:08 And she kept going, but don't you think it's minimum wage? Like why is it, all of a sudden my mom's in love with the minimum wage. Cause she, and I was like, and at the time it could have been eight bucks, it could have been 10 bucks. But you know, the guys that were waiting in the Home Depot parking lot at that time were getting 14 bucks an hour or whatever.
Starting point is 00:29:26 My mom wanted to pay 4.35 an hour. And I was like, you can't pay minimum wage to adults who come to your home in a truck and work. I mean, they're not plumbers, but they're working. Yes, yeah. That's what she wanted. Because she didn't want to pay them. Now she would have told me how noble they are
Starting point is 00:29:48 and hardworking they are and how they don't have what we have and how we have to reach out. Basically she would have said how I have to pay them. She didn't want to pay them. Right. So that made you sniff this shit out very early. Because not only did they not do anything, they didn't even parent.
Starting point is 00:30:06 So you felt that. My grandmother and my mom never stopped rapping about the people and the indigenous people and the poor people and the people that had not. When it came to paying anyone who came to their house, they were fucking Scrooge McDuck. I mean, you've never heard anybody. I mean, I remember the conversations of, like, her caregiver wanted $14 an hour,
Starting point is 00:30:28 but she doesn't... she thought she was getting greedy. Like, they would talk to me about it, because I lived in the real world, and I think they felt a little guilty or weird, and they were trying to swage it, you know? So they would go, you know, she's already making $13 an hour. She wants 15 because she says her husband's not working.
Starting point is 00:30:46 But I just don't think, and I was like, oh yeah. They were so tight with everybody. Oh, of course they were tight with them. They were tight with me, they were tight with their daughter. Then save for, then do anything for anybody. And all they did was talk this great game about caring. And then I was the douche because I paid for everything and paid all the taxes and was a realist.
Starting point is 00:31:13 And I'm just thinking, you mentioned the indigenous people. I had you see Bill Maher lately, it was, he's been again talking about how violent some of those tribes were, and they were. That's the way it was. So this ushered in the era of talk. Yes it did. And then every politician on the left side at least followed that. Successfully. That cue into the talking world and nothing ever happened. Yeah. Because they talked about it. They
Starting point is 00:31:40 spent lots of money. And they didn't do anything. Spent lots of money. Yes. Yes. All right Homelessness is and the border or sort of case a case B. Well, no one's illegal and these are that's They see no one's illegal and these are unhoused their community of unhoused house neighbors. Yes Okay, that's talk. Yeah, but that's not action. And that's why it's dangerous, and that's why I'm a douche. Because I've told everyone, knock off the fuck and talk and get the fuck to work. You know Representative Crockett, who has a severe Trump derangement,
Starting point is 00:32:15 says, why can't you think, I think she's gonna have a shift. I'm just making a prediction, so I put my flag in the sand here. I think magically, you're gonna see her just completely turn it around. Really? I don't know why, I don't know why. think magically you're gonna see her just completely turn it around. Really? I don't know why, I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:32:27 I just, I don't know, I see it coming. Cause she wants to get elected? I don't know, I just think there's something, because her stuff is so out there, pretty easy to pierce it and go, really, what about this? I don't know, but they're interested in talk and emotion. Yeah, yeah.
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