The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Scientology (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

Adam and Drew discuss some upcoming charity work Adam has to do and why everyone is obsessed with the extremely long exercise of playing golf. Later they take listener calls and revisit a classic Loveline episode discussing scientology.

This is Corolla Digital. Recorded live at Corolla One Studios 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, baby get it on got to get it on their choice But to get it on Mandy get on Drew you look like you're wearing makeup. I am you look good, buddy Thank you, man. Sweet. Do you want to do something with that? Maybe a little later. I'm noticing you're looking at my notes with confusion

I was cuz I was, because I... The fact that I had notes was confusing you. You prepared something that came in here with ideas and notes. I think that I might save this for Saturday though. Okay. All right. Well, let's talk about things. I heard Gary mention to you that I got to go to the children's hospital coming up pretty soon

next week for the Toyota Celebrity Grand Prix thing. Yeah. It's funny. We used to have a golf tournament and a children's hospital visit. Like what's a golf tournament for? I know the golf tournament is a raise money, but it is a time suck, baby. And the children's hospital thing, I understand, because that's children and that children's hospital thing I understand because that's children and that's a hospital the golf tournament that's just whitey playing golf trying

to win Mercedes with a hole-in-one. Right, is it sort of a mandatory sort of a thing within a fundraising world where whitey has lots of money and feels good about things and nobody ever says let's have a charity golf tournament no one ever raises their hand and goes, fuck that. Everyone's like, that's a fine idea. I didn't know you could do a charity event without a golf tournament. But I never make the golf tournament.

I do usually make the children's hospital visit. How do people have the time? I don't understand golf at all. I live near a golf course. I can look at people playing golf. And it's absolutely mystifying to me. It really is how people have time for that. Listen, I know I sound like a colossal douche, but I'm with you and I'm not like you.

I'm not as insanely driven as you, but golf is something you do after you retire from whatever it is you're doing if you would like to have time, tranquil time, sort of walking. It's a sort of, it's not really a sport, it's a sort of meditation, you know? What it is is if you're too stressed out and you're too busy, you should go play golf. Because somebody's main meaning, go out, convene with nature. Yeah. Because somebody's meaning go out, convene with nature, that is very well manicured by Mexicans, by the way, but go ahead and convene with nature, walk, breathe some air, and get away from your desk

for four hours. Like, I understand a doctor telling a guy who's burning himself out, go hit the links, and just focus on putting that little ball in that cup. Even that doesn't make sense to me because I'd be that guy. You would be that guy. And that's the very last thing I would do is that. That would stress me out, in fact.

Quiet. I said you're a doctor. Your problem is you wouldn't come up with that because you're too driven and that's the stress that could be deteriorating your physical life. I'm saying your doctor may say to Dr. Drew, hey you, go hit the Lynx once a month. Just walk around. I don't care if you don't like it,

go stare at your feet for four hours and walk around that Lynx and take your mind away from work for that amount of time. Now you may not be able to do it, but like I said, you would never do it. That's why you've never played a round of golf. I don't understand how the president plays 130 rounds of golf during the presidency.

130 rounds? So much golf. I mean, it's weird because you think 130 holes is a lot of holes. This is rounds. That's 18 times 130. I think of it with George Bush doing that. We'd hear about it every day.

Complaints. I do. But there's a version of that. Look, all presidents seem to take a lot of vacation time. I don't get it. And I'm not trying to break this into partisan Republican or Democrat and partisan politics here. What I'm saying is we need your attention for this four years or this eight years, meaning all the time. Well, here's my point. Uh-oh. Dig. Sit down. Okay. Everyone sit down and dig.

Everyone sit down and dig. President, you get four years. That's what you get. When you sign up for the military, what do you get? Three and a half years? Five years? No, you get four years. We need you for four years. You play golf? That's my point. We need you for four years. And we need you to be president for four years. So what we're saying to you, over

here Drew, we'll look at that in a second. When we say to a young man who signs up for the military, hey when you sign up, think about it, but when you sign up we need your ass for four years at least and what you'll be doing for that four years is basically working for us. Yeah. And putting your life on the line and we'll deploy you somewhere and you may be there for numerous tours and numerous years, but there will be no golf. We want the chief of the military to be similarly engaged, yes? Commander in chief should be doing for you.

I don't understand it from a PR standpoint, meaning when you're telling everyone to tighten their belts and you're telling everyone to pitch in and you're telling everyone to pay your fair share My thing is is if I was the president and they said a we got the jet Fueled up and ready to hit the rate ready to go down to Pebble Beach I would say I would fucking love to I would love to I would love to just like I would love to bang other fucking chicks like the Kennedys and stuff. But I just gave a fucking speech at a factory

that was closing telling everyone it was time to tighten their belts and everyone time to kick in and pay their fair share and it's gonna look like shit. So I'll tell you what to do. Set up that big net down in the basement where I put the basketball hoop in Set a big net up and some astroturf and by the way fly in Tiger Woods and fuzzy Zeller Yeah, and I don't know if he's alive

flying I Went a good golfer Arnold Palmer like I want fucking fly in everybody I could go for Arnold Palmer like I want fucking fly in everybody But don't talk about it And then you know just haven't kind of come in and then let's get a 12-pack and let's go down Let's get some wings and let's go down to the basement and let's just fucking drive that ball You know But I can't go out and do rounds of golf because people will see me doing rounds of golf while I'm

They're tightening their belts and they're you know, pitching in and paying their fair share I don't I don't I don't I need that from a PR standpoint I don't I mean, I don't understand from a PR standpoint. I don't understand how you do the thing where you go And look, I'm not fucking Rush Limbaugh here I've always been this way in terms of just what message are you sending and what are you asking? You're saying, you know Sequestration White House tours closed. Sorry kids go home But then you're throwing parties with Beyonce the following weekend at the White House.

Like, it's a weird, like again, I'm the president. Yeah, I want to hang out with Justin Timberlake. I want to hang out with Beyonce. I want to quietly bring them in through the kitchen. Let's go down, take down the net where I had the driving range set up, put up a stage. Oh, dance. And let's do our own little thing with Justin Timberlake and Beyonce. But let's not do own little thing with Justin Timberlake and Beyonce, but let's

not do a public thing here because the place is closed down to the public because we don't have enough money to keep it open. So let's just keep a low profile on this stuff. Again, the part where you're, you know, whether you're, whether you claim to be a man of the cloth and you keep a couple ladies on the side, whether you claim to be a man of the people but you want to go golfing with Tiger Woods, whether you say the White House has to be closed down to public tours because we don't have the money to fund it because of the sequestration, I understand all of that. The part where you then go out golfing with Tiger Woods and when you then throw a party with Justin Timberlake, that's the part

that's dumbfounding to me. That's confusing to me. It's too brazen. It's like you're asking everyone to tighten their belts, not just pretend like you're having a miserable... I mean, if I was the president, first thing I would do is I'd have my tie loose Every time like you know every movie where they've been burning the midnight oil. Yeah crunching those numbers. Sleeves are up, ties loose. Sleeves up. I would show every press conference would be like oh man hair out of place Yeah, I would have a makeup artist to draw bags under my eyes Yeah, like I wouldn't be like age. You'd have you age across the presidency with putty. Sweetie, don't make the bags go away No, maybe look like Abraham Lincoln. The bags. Yeah, I'd wouldn't be like age. You have your age across the presidency with buddy sweet. They don't make the bags go away No, maybe Abraham Lincoln the bags. Yeah, they're like Who times a tall man?

Another all-nighter trying to fucking balance the budget figure out what's going on in North Korea. Tide be loose. Sorry. I'm a mess I got a coffee. I'd be holding a styrofoam coffee cup the whole time just hitting off it I got a warm-up here as I do I would not be where I agree with you parting with people What is that drew? Well, I don't know and it's actually kind of bothering me. I like because you are here's the whole thing Your here's your point of purchase. Here's your selling point me Your, here's your point of purchase. I mean, here's your selling point. Me, or one. The president.

I am a man of the people. I am one of you. I understand what it's like to come from a single parent family. I understand what it's like to come up. I understand what it's like to be held down. I understand what it's like to be kicked around. And I understand that all of us need to give.

All of us need to chip in. All of us need to tighten our belts. All, I have a family too. Like this whole thing is I'm one of you. Which is perfect. Like nobody, listen, Mitt Romney was destroyed by essentially going, I'm not one of you. I fly in a private jet and I make all my money off of dividends, you know. He was screwed. He started talking about the

47 percenter and he was screwed. So that's cool. Now you live in a huge house and you got a big basement and like I said, you can get on the phone and get Jay Z or Timberlake over the house within 12 hours if you needed to, just don't do the public display. That's what I'm curious about. The whole thing where what we accept and digest about what's, I know you did an interview for me, I think, for New York Times, did you not, recently? Yes.

And I think I personalize this. I leave a certain kind of life, right? You know that about me, right? Do I divert from that? Do I hide anything? Do I try to be something I'm not? No, you're just who you are. But I get accused of that all the time in the press.

Of being? Being exploitative and being this and being that. Yeah, I don't know. And being mad. Did that thing come out? Did that article come out? No, she's actually coming in next week to see us record. Ooh. That's excellent. Yeah, I don't know. Did that thing come out? Did that article come out? No, she's actually coming in next week to see us record. Ooh, that's nice.

Yeah, I gave her insights. Good. I gave her much insight. See how that plays out. Yeah. I had to cut it short because I had to do another interview about Jimmy. Then I had to cut that off because someone else wanted to talk about you. I had to toggle back and forth.

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What'd you say? First off Everyone's a journalist like when I grew up, a journalist was Woodward Bernstein. Those were journalists. Now it's just every fucking 21-year-old cunt with a recording, who can record on her iPhone. Not this chick, but I mean, I've done interviews with people where it's like, you get 10 minutes into it,

and they're like, what, what, what do you, what do you think about when you eat soup? And you're like, huh? And they're like, what? And you're like, oh. And you're like, you get 10 minutes in, you go, who am I talking to? And then you say something like,

well, I grew up in a family weren't exactly the Brady Bunch, who? Oh. Brady Bunch. Who? Brady Bunch. I don't, who are that? Who are they? And then you go, how old are you? And they go, I'll be 22 in three years.

And you're like, what are you, what are we even talking about? What is this? I don't even know what this fucking is. But they have no idea how to idea how to interview, what questions to ask, nothing. But I actually, this is the first time I've done print in a long time. I stopped doing print because every fucking time I talked to somebody, they would distort what I said or go for this sort of gotcha thing.

Gotcha, gotcha, and pull something out of context. And I literally- I don't know what that's like. Yeah, right? Right? Well, yeah, of course. But here's the deal, I literally, when I was doing Life Changers,

the EP of that was like, you gotta do print, you gotta do print, I go, I'm not doing print, I'm not doing it. She goes, my friend, the editor of the Daily News, or somebody way up at the Daily News, he'll take care of this, I go, get him for me. I'll get him for me, let's talk to him. And the guy got on the horn, I said,

hey, here's my life. Here's how I live my life. You gonna report that? No. No. I'm gonna have to dig up some shit about you, and that's what I'm gonna report. Even if it doesn't exist, that's what I'm gonna report.

That's what you've said? Yes. He goes, I'm not interested. I'm gonna find some way. I'm gonna find some way to make it a story. And I told you, you see? You see? This is what they're doing.

Well, the problem is the truth does not what they're doing. Well, the problem- The truth does not fucking matter to them. Well, no. Doesn't matter. That to me is reprehensible. Yeah. Well, if you're writing children's books, then it's fine. As far as the truth goes, do what you want.

But if you're a journalist, that then becomes a problem. They're interested in capturing eyes, period, at any cost. Understood, but the problem with that is, if you are making a film about, you know, this is my feeling, if your job, if your job is to Make up make a film where you go hey Tom Cruise comes back to the planet the earth and 2072 to find nothing but rubble right and then he walks around and a neoprene jumpsuit and

shoots a laser beam Then you go fine whatever happens whatever happens you go you know it's the year to I guess in 2072 the earth will be no more but if you're doing a documentary if you're calling something a documentary then you can't just go ahead and start writing it cooking it and doing whatever you want if you're well who are you to say that's your point of view making a documentary about Margaret Thatcher you can't say she used to be a stripper in the 50s but this you can't start making stuff up now it would be great if you

were making a documentary about Margaret Thatcher and you found out that she used to be a stripper in the 50s that would be fine through your investigating but if she wasn't, you couldn't just throw it in there to make it a better documentary. Well, so do not label it a document. She's the problem. But the problem is they find some guy that was in the parliament when she was there, didn't know her, and is going to tell you all about her and his opinions. And his opinions matter. You have Margaret Thatcher way up here, a fucking rarefied figure. We're going to talk to some guy who sat at the back of the room and he's got an opinion. His opinion is more valid than hers and her version of her life.

You don't want to investigate that opinion? No, of course not. That's my thing. You're making documentaries. That's my whole thing. You are presenting yourself as a journalist and that's where the problem comes and then what happens is is once it becomes part of the mythology then then it is then it just becomes like you know Abe Lincoln Lincoln chopping down a cherry tree like I whoops I don't know is it George Washington sorry George Washington yeah

he did he did a spruce, I think, was a... Well, the chopping rails thing with him was sort of a myth. Yeah. I don't know if George Washington chopped down the cherry tree and could not tell a lie or not. I'm guessing he didn't, but it just is. Yeah. It just is.

It just fits, a myth. But we're talking back now to the golfing and the president. Some people just get a full pass. It's weird, it's like, you know what I mean? It's like, some people aren't allowed to be human beings, other people, I don't get it, I don't. Well, there's obviously a media bias and they will pick and choose who gets a pass

and who doesn't get a pass. And it's obviously leans toward the left quite heavily. And people who disagree with that, hold on, people who disagree with that are insane. And I know it very well, as I've said. Because you've been under that light, right? Well, sure, sure. But not only that, I know it very well because it's it's happened

many times where people have said to me like i'm doing an interview and they go oh what about your association with bill o'reilly you know bill o'reilly called you uh thought you were a hero or something or glenn beck called you a hero. What's that like? How's that? How are you coping? How are you dealing? How's your family dealing with that? And I said, well, Alec Baldwin is a friend of mine. How come no one wants to know about how I'm dealing with that? And I know because of where their viewpoint is, is I'm on the left, it'd be cool to hang out with Alec Baldwin. Glenn Beck, uh-uh. So I'm not left or right, but the point is, is you are telling me what your bias is

by asking me that question. That's right. No one ever asks about my buddy Alec Baldwin, and he says a lot of controversial things and gets into a lot of trouble, but it would be cool to have a drink with Alec Baldwin. So you are saying where you're coming from by asking that.

So what's the matter with me that I get so upset about this? How do I create this all the time? I seem to create it over and over again. No, no, no. First off, everybody thinks they create everything in their life over and over again. No, nobody thinks that. That's the problem with everyone. Everyone thinks the world's doing it to them. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I try to take responsibility for everything

that happens to me. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Yes, you're using the word crate. I'm saying most people do the, why does it happen to me that every time I'm running late, every time I'm running late, I get some asshole in front of me that won't turn, won't go in the interstate. Well, only when I'm running late.

That's how people are kind of wired. I'm sure there's no asshole driver assigned to you, like waiting outside your house. Does he look like he's running late? No, I always try to flip that. I always go, what am I doing to create these things in my life over and over again? I've got to be part of this. I have to be. You are? Sure. Part of it is just announcing that that's who you are. What, which is what? That guy. The guy who gets picked on?

The guy gets picked on, the guy worries too much, the guy who's concerned too much. You are. But they must pick that up. I don't have to even announce it, probably. Well, no, you're announcing it to yourself. That's part of the problem. Dig.

Dig. You're announcing it to yourself. That's part of the problem. Dig. Dig. You're announcing it to yourself. No, I will, it's a weird thing, but you can embrace things, or you can reject things, or you can struggle with things, but I was doing some driving a couple days ago. Finally got on the track over there at Long Beach and I'm driving in the pro division this year so everyone's kind of fast.

And they throw an instructor in your car and you'll do laps around the track. And it's a guy who raced Indy cars there and raced some other cars there some years ago. So he's had, you know, professional driver, had some experience on the track. And then when you get out of the car, he'll kind of go, here's what you did here and here's what you did there. But he just said, he had a couple little notes about here and about there. I had excuses. But he said, he said, man, you're relaxed. You're really relaxed when you drive. You're going to drive really relaxed.

And that's good. And I remember thinking for a moment, I thought, well, I do have a lot of adrenaline. Then I thought, no, wait a minute. No, no, no. That's who I'll be. I'll be the relaxed guy. I'll be the guy who drives relaxed. I will take it. I'll embrace it. I'll digest it. But you are that guy.

You already were that guy. I am that guy. You're just already going along with it. I am that guy. But I will push that relaxed, I will push that giant slipper down that hill. You actually cease having a pulse. You barely have a pulse to no pulse.

Right, and I will embrace that and be that relaxed guy instead of that tense, hyped up guy. Now, you're a wound up guy, and you're wound up about people, how they perceive you, what they think of you. Everybody has that. I mean, here's the whole thing. Nothing, nobody Everybody has that. I mean, here's the whole thing. Nobody is without that. It is a matter of degree. When I say

nobody, I don't mean there's a couple leaders of Banana Republics who are without that, but what I'm saying is everybody has a sort of one to ten, how much do you care about what other people think of you? Yeah. Now, first thing you have to do is eliminate the people who, that you don't care about. Yeah, yeah, you've always said that. Always eliminate those people. Yeah. What the fuck do you care? But those people are, you hear from all day long on Twitter.

Yeah, but you're, you're, in a way, you're being- So we're in a world where those people are being given like a megaphone. Yeah, but you're being, well, you're turning on the megaphone. You're supplying the batteries, man. You don't have to turn on their megaphone. Their megaphone can just be yodeling into a trash can that's in some valley a million miles away from where you live, or you can put your ear up against it.

You're putting your ear a little too close to it. You know, the way... So everyone has the 1 to 10. You know what I mean? You're probably hovering at an 8.5 or a 9. That's a problem. But it's also a form of narcissism, as we discussed on stage at some point, which is caring too much about

the way people think of you is a kind of form of narcissism. Realize we're going to be dead pretty soon and that people don't care about you nearly as much as they write about or say. That's true. The same as you. Yeah. You know, I may say, oh, I hate this guy. I don't That's true. The same as you. Yeah. You know, I may say, oh, I hate this guy. I don't like this guy.

I fucked that guy. And then I go home and I play with my kids and my dog. I don't think about that guy. But there's a weird, when you're a professional though, there's a weird threat to these attacks that is exceptionally threatening. You know, when you're professional standing and your professional judgment and all this stuff is sort of questioned, and you have no recourse.

You can't go, oh no, no, I'm good. You don't need a recourse because nobody really... I've had legal action taken because of bullshit written in the press. It's really threatening. And we live in that world now Yeah, fucking mob mentality can start to leak in attorneys see an opportunity to take advantage of it and just start going sure And now all of a sudden you're defending yourself. Yeah, it's uh

It's ridiculous. Look look obviously, it's sad and There is a you know, there's a there's a sort of deal where and there is a, you know, there's a sort of deal where it's just become Black Friday and we're just a mob outside of a target and it's every man for themselves. We used to line up. But you have attorneys taking advantage of that though.

Like, ooh, yeah, yeah, let's go, man. They can take advantage of that. But. Yes. All right, I'm so anxious about this. There's always attorneys, there's always people writing horrible things, there's always people tweeting horrible things, there's always people saying horrible things,

and then there are many, many, many people that are huge fans and support you immensely and support the show and support what you do. Well, here's where I think I get myself in trouble. I think this is it. Is I'm willing to do stuff that's risky. Like go stand on stage with you.

That's risky. Yeah. And by the way, Redondo Beach. That's right. The Redondo Beach one? Yeah. Saturday. Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center center Saturday. That's right stand on stage with me and have a

glass of free glass of white man, Korea Not me, but you that show up and then my cart. Mm-hmm. They get the car. Yeah But the point is that's risky to stand up and be tried to entertain with you as a physician It's kind of that's kind of weird for people and you know what I mean? and then and even do the podcast kind of weird for people. And you know what I mean? And even do the podcast, kind of, where people, and then to be willing to treat people on camera that we all consent to, we all agree we're gonna do this, but people get kind of weird about this.

And I understand, I'm sort of pushing the envelope, I guess, because I feel like that's what you need to do to reach people and to get through to them. You can't, me in a white coat and a box, oh my God, that's like yeah it goes nowhere. Well listen you're doing what it is you want to do or what you feel is is right. But I think that's where the I think that's where I participate in this somehow that by by taking that kind of risk I open myself to profound criticism.

Well profound. opened myself to profound criticism. Well. Profound. I think that's right. I don't, but here's the whole thing. It's only a risk. I mean, like I said, you've been doing this for X amount of years. You've not been stopped from doing it or prevented from doing it. You've been able to make money and support your family doing it. Media.

Media. Yeah. Because I've also been practicing medicine alongside of that. Well, the point is you say you're opening yourself up to this risk, but the risk is sort of what you make of it. Meaning there's an extreme, look, any time you grab a microphone, take a podium and express a position on something. Somebody's going to screw with you. Well yeah, but now here's the deal.

Dig. Dig. There's an extreme version where somebody shoots you and you're assassinated. And then there's the zero to one where one dude in the back goes, boo, and then there's a three where someone tries to throw a shoe at you. By the way, when George Bush ducked the shoe over there in Iraq or wherever he was, Afghanistan, whatever it is, I did not need all the news folks and all the anchors and

the commentators to come on and explain that in their culture throwing a shoe at somebody is a sign of disrespect. Oh really? Because in Asian cultures when they chuck a sandal at your head in the middle of a speech, that's them clapping. That's a compliment. It's a compliment. Yeah. Getting a shoe thrown at you cuts through many cultural differences we have. And it's the one universal thing I think we can agree upon.

When you're making a speech and someone throws a shoe at you, we understand that's a sign of disrespect. And possibly they're not agreeing with what you're saying. So did not need that rolling. Didn't need it. Although I like the way Chris jumped in on that one just because he preferred Asian cultures. He had to come through. Where I'm from, you only do that to royalty.

You only throw a shoe at royalty. All right, so Drew, here's what I'm saying. Well, but here's the deal. As you say it though, I'm not bugged by one, but I am bugged by a three. That's my problem. You have to up your tolerance level. Yeah, which I have been over the years. I have, but one used to bug me.

Yeah. Listen, I have, and I'm not impervious to this at all. No one enjoys it. Like I said, nobody enjoys, we both got the same hernia surgery. Nobody enjoys hernia surgery. It caused a lot more pain in your life than it did for me. I did not enjoy it. You were laid out by it. I was inconvenienced by it. So the question is not

really in the surgery. It's more like how you're gonna react to that. Constitutionally. How you're gonna react to that surgery, not in the criticism, how you're gonna react to that criticism. And you'll also find that your reaction, much like any, you know, what's the oldest piece of advice you give

to a child who's being bullied. Don't pay attention to them. Or punch them in the nose. Whatever it is, don't let them see you cry. No, no, no. What bullies want... It's a reaction. It's a reaction. They want some satisfaction.

They want something. Sometimes they want to be punched in the nose. That's part of it too, but you're helpless to do that in this these situations fine, but that's what's really bothersome. You have no recourse zero but the point is this when you have a When when you're on the air and you say something and then somebody tries to bully you Somebody tries to get you to apologize somebody tries to bully you, somebody tries to get you to apologize, somebody tries to get you fired,

somebody tries to get you to whatever, and then you do it, well then basically what you're doing is you're negotiating with terrorists who take hostages. Meaning we have a no negotiation hostage plan that's implemented, a policy that's implemented, and the reason we have that is to prevent people from being abducted. Meaning it's really a bitch on the camera crew that got abducted that we do not negotiate with

terrorists. We don't let people out of get-mo because you have an ABC camera crew somewhere in Tikrit. The reason we can't do that is because it will get every camera crew abducted. The reason you can't backpedal and apologize to these assholes slash extortionists is because that will bring on more of it. And me, personally, ever since I told everyone to fuck off Essentially get left alone. I mean they write whatever they want, but they don't come at me and demand anything No one asked that I apologize for all the heinous so-called heinous things I say because the answer is fuck you so they don't since I don't negotiate with terrorists They leave me alone. Yep, for me.

Hold on, Drew. Hold on. Let's talk about me and my pioneering efforts in telling people to fuck off. Okay? Hold on. Dig. Can you remember what year it was when you called Dianetics or Dianetics Scientology a cult or I called it a cult. I think it was you. No I got quoted in Playboy for saying something

like that. It wasn't what I said by the way. That was about 2007. No. But you no no you called them a cult years before that remember they and they here Well, that's what I'm asking. I'd say 2000 2002 in that range wouldn't you? No, I'd say more like 98 99 It could be I mean it was a long time ago. Well, well super fan Giovanni will find out. Yeah Now I made fun of Scientology and called them a cult, right? Right. Now, they then promptly sent over a script.

A transcript. No a script. Oh right, that you needed to read. Yeah, yeah. No, no. We needed to read. Right, right. On the air.

Do you remember this? I do remember that, yeah. And it was Scientology sent a script. And again, super fan Giovanni can find this. And the script said something to the fact of, and this is why I was thinking of you, and I don't know why, but we'll find the transcript, Giovanni will find it, we'll find it. This is a while back. And again, could have been 99, 2000 or something. But I remember it being way back.

And I said, Drew, remember the other night when you called Scientology a cult or I called Scientology, you go, well, you know what, it turns out I was wrong. And then you'd read your part of the script and go, as a matter of fact, not only not a cult, they are a prestigious religious organization, blah, blah, blah. And they literally gave us a script. Yeah, I remember that. To attempt to read on the air.

Now, what did I do with the script? Wiped your butt with it. What did I say on the air? Fuck off. In different language. Right. And I told Scientology to do what? Kiss your ass, I think it was.

And go fuck themselves. Yes. Do you remember the word druid being thrown around? How many times I called him a cult? I don't. Alright, we'll find it. Who told Scientology to fuck off in 1998? You.

Who else told Scientology to fuck off? Nobody. Right. Why? Because they're afraid. That's right. Now, who's telling Scientology to fuck off? You.

Everyone. Oh, everyone. Well, there's news story, everyone's. It's on. Late night hosts are doing jokes. There's documentaries, there's pieces on 2020 and 48 hours. Former Scientology members speak out. Right, then there was a lot of cowering back then.

Everyone cowered, right? Or anonymous, yeah. Right. Why did they cower? Because they perceived a threat. What did everyone say to me? Scientology, they're going to ruin your life, man. They're going to ruin your life.

Well, what were they? Paper tiger. There was nothing. They can't ruin. You can't ruin a million people's lives when everyone speaks out. Right, everyone's got to speak out. You're right.

Right. So if everyone speaks out, it's gone. So Scientology scared the shit out of everybody because they threatened to ruin people's lives. They couldn't ruin anyone's life, but they threatened to and that was enough. And believe me, people came at me from all angles. What are you doing? Quiet. Don't say anything. Oh, no, no, no, no.

I don't know why, but everyone comes at you and goes, you don't get it, man. They'll have people fucking follow you around. Like, oh, ugh. And that was, you know, over a decade ago. And now people are writing books. People are doing interviews. They're doing exposés.

And like I said, mainstream media. I mean, four months ago I saw like 48 hours where they exposed this and former church members spoke out against and it was no disguised voice or anything like that. So what do we have now? Nothing. But here's my problem. So speak out. Yes, I agree with that.

And be a hero and a pioneer like me. Every time somebody, a reputable publication, publishes something, I hear from my professional societies, the state licensing board. All right. Stop getting yourself excuses. But I literally have to hire attorneys to respond to this stuff. It's un-fucking-believing. All right.

It's very threatening. How's your son doing? He's better, you're right. I owe you not just an apology but a thank you because you actually got through to my anxiety a little bit. I did. All right, well, I'll tell you what. Let's talk about it for a second. Let's also pick a call you like and think about it.

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but people want to know what goes on behind the scenes here and let's just say that Adams and screaming that I'm a point shitter I've always scream I'm a point shitter yeah screaming it on the hall here there's the point shitter. Yeah. Screaming it. Out of the hall, I hear you. He's the point shitter. Well, because super fan Giovanni sent over a file. God knows how that man works his magic and why he's unemployable. I feel like he's very employable. I did a podcast.

I think it's out right now, isn't it, Gary? Yeah, he told this whole story. He makes yours look like kindergarten. So the point is, Giovanni sent over a file of us, me, talking about Scientology, and I yelled at Gary, what year? What year? And we'll just put it to you this way. Moments ago when I was trying to make a point on what a hero and a pioneer I was Drew got me all the way back to oh seven where he did an article and in playboy No, I said 2002 2002 to be fair for you

Seven then we went 2000 and 2002 with me and then I sheepishly said I think it was before that Yeah, even but my biggest fear in life is Trying to turn myself into too big a hero by going back. I think it's we can all tell that yeah the year I started critiquing Scientology is 1997 Wow That was a different time in terms of Scientology and ever and no one no one else was getting I'm not saying no one else was getting, I'm not saying no one else, but nobody who had the kind of public forum that I had was saying the kind of things about them that I was saying quite a long time ago.

They particularly seemed to have power in the 90s. They particularly were scary. But it was only, as we talked about, the power we gave them. That, that's the power they had But to my own defense the reason my point shitter is you ask me a task. I go to the task I don't the context of the task. Why do you think I think was 2000 to 2002? Why would a great mind because I Why would a great mine like yours a a man of science, a man who understands man of science

and numbers, why would you tack on three years or five years, up to five years to go the opposite direction of the point I was attempting to make? Why would a man who's lucid, who does not do drugs, who's a man of science, why would you tack potentially five years onto shitting on my point? Because I was thinking, well first of all, my overwhelming desire was to shit on your point. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, that's your version of this. Well, why else would it? Look, here's what I think. Overwhelming desire to fuck with Adam. Hold on. And have him screaming your point shit out the hall. That's what I wanted I wanted let me ask you this true. Yeah, you go to the corner store Yeah, every single time or every other time you give them 20 bucks They give you they give you the wrong change, but the change is too little meaning. Oh, I thought you gave me a 10

If you give bad change You're gonna get an extra quarter. Sometimes you're going to get an extra quarter sometimes. You're going to get shorted a quarter sometimes. But when you're always getting shorted the quarter, at a certain point, a motive, whether it's actually implemented in a cognitive way, meaning whether you know what you're doing or you don't know what you're doing. But if that cash register keeps coming up short.

Point taken, right, right. Thank you. Yeah, well so here's how it worked, my head. I thought, wow, I probably was 97. I may have been cutting myself, might have been before that, but I think I was 97, something like that. I can't really remember anything that happened during the 90s on the radio.

So that was my first thought. I can't really remember shit that went down then 90s on the radio. So that was my first thought. I can't really remember shit that went down then. You didn't remember too much of this. But I remembered it. I remembered it. Once I told you. No, no, but I remember it. I had a memory of you doing it.

I remember what it felt like. And I thought, well, it's gotta be not in the 90s, and it's gotta be 2000 or so. And I just tacked on just to be not wrong. Just got a couple of years and then I Extra wrong five-year points hitter. Yeah. All right, Gary. Do you have you have any of it? We'll have in about two minutes here. All right, I'm gonna take a phone call. Yes, talk to Nathan Oh, is he gone

Nathan yep, I'm here. What's going on? Hey Adam, hey Drew, big fans. Appreciate you guys taking my call. Thank you. Reason I was calling, I'm a recreational pilot. I'm not an airline pilot or anything like that. And every five years you're required to take,

at least at my age, an FAA physical. And between the last time I had my physical and now started taking antidepressants, and taking antidepressants according to the FAA is something that can disqualify you from getting your medical license renewed. It's funny, not the same context, but I just told Drew off the air, FAA? It was a little different thing. I don't have a problem. Different organization I'm guessing but still same three letters. Same idea. Same thing came out of our mouth. I thought you could get a, I thought the

doctor could write you a pass for certain antidepressants. Is that not true? I'm not exactly sure what the entire rules are. Something I need to do a little bit more. Yeah, you better, because I think certain stuff is like passively allowed through. What do you want? Lexapro. Yeah, so that's a really mild one and it's not likely to really, you know, it's maybe a little sedating for some people and that's of course what they're worried about, but it's really not likely to affect your function. If something's mild, do you's mild, maybe you should get off it? Well, that's the other thing.

And maybe you should, Nathan. I think your question up on the board here is what happens if you get off. Is that right? Well, I guess my question really was more along the lines of, is there any medical reason with me taking that drug that would impair me. I mean, I looked at all the side effects of it and I've been taking it first. The Lexpro is very mild. It really should not affect motoric functioning or judgment, the kinds of things you really need. But I know the pilots, you know, the stuff for pilots

is hardcore. They don't want anything affecting your brain. But interestingly enough, but think about this, I mean, aging probably affects our brain function way more than lexapro does you mean I'd take a 29 year old on lexapro Than a guy my age. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I Understand you see you forgot to put the lane here. Well, you're just your judge You know your reaction times are slower your your you know, the stiff processing is slower. It's just is you know Yeah, it's it is it's weird though because everything comes back to the track for me the guys who drive race cars plenty I mean there's no F1 guys that are 55 years old. Right, you see it too quick. True but there are plenty of fast

guys that go you know Paul Newman drove to 82 and eighty two well i think you can get a lot of what they're not winning you get an interesting kind of judgment as you get older than may set a compensate for some of that you're a little anticipate those weaknesses that right but i'm just saying i'll take the twenty nine-year-old got alex bro over the sixty five years probably right uh... gary hey feeling over there uh... we're getting cute up right now i've got it i'm just getting the exact right in point just say yes service crawl

No, I'm I don't know what's going on. I said two minutes took a call Dave Hey 19 year old Dave, hey buddy, what's up? We've never taken any airman we got you now. Yes, we can. Never any calls from Philadelphia, not two in a row. What is that? Oh, is that two in a row? That's right. What is that?

What's going on, Dave? Hey, nothing much, Adam and Drew, how's it going? Good. Good. Oh, I'm a big fan of you guys for years and years. Thank you. So I was hanging out with my ex-girlfriend last night and things were starting to get kind of emotional

and things, and I'm currently sort of becoming more involved with my last girlfriend, but there's also this girl that I've liked for a while that we haven't ever dated. So I was wondering, what's your guys take on giving it a second try with a relationship you've already gone through, or just saying screw this, let's just ask Liz Taylor. Yeah, listen, plenty of people break up and get back together and are at a different stage

of their life. I'm not sure at 19 you've moved on to the point where you're going to be totally on a different stage where people can suddenly find things that really do work. But for the most part, they're under age 25, I'd say, just as general sweeping generalities. Whatever ended that relationship in the first place, probably going to end it again. Well, also, as we've talked about many times, wouldn't you, you have a desire for your children. Me. Yes.

Would you like them to basically take their sweetheart from high school, go to the same college with them, and then marry them after graduation. No. No, you'd want them to date. Expand and have a life and figure out who they are. Expose themselves to different people, possibly even diseases. Possibly. And then when it came time to make that decision, well then it's based on kicking some tires,

going to some different dealerships. Well, and by the way, not only is it a more evolved sort of self and self-concept and choosing process, you're not as likely to fall victim to the bullshit that people go, I had my middle life crisis when I was 45. No, no, you didn't have a middle life crisis. You've been wanting to fuck around since you were 23. You just couldn't.

Right. You need to do that when you're 23. No, no, you didn't have a life crisis. You've been wanting to fuck around since you were 23. You just couldn't. You need to do that when you're 23. Yeah. I agree. I don't know that there's a getting it out of your system. There's just a, when people say to me, you ever want to do Dancing with the Stars again? I go, no. And they go, why not? Was it miserable? I go, no. And they go, why wouldn't you do it again? I go, because I did it Yeah, and I know what it's like Yeah, and now I feel comfortable walking around right not doing dancing with the stars. Yeah. All right Gary. How you feeling over there? Feeling good. All right. This is a 1997 evidently

Superfan drew according to them called Scientology occ cult and they sent a long-winded... I don't want to stop it there. I said Drew, according to that. That's what I'm telling you. Yeah, but I don't think I did. I think it was you. You called them a cult, but you said it in a sort of flippant way. I mean, you just sort of tossed it off.

You didn't do a long-winded die tribe about them being a cult. You were talking about religion or something and it got you know I use the word cult sometimes the way this famous philosopher talks about all religions starting as a cult they start whatever it was please listen according to them called Scientology a cult and they sent a long-winded multi-page letter to producer and which I have not read yet but it goes something like this he's offended that we that drew called it a call he thinks my name is Andrew or maybe he's just taking the word and in

drew and we're gonna get to one hybrid and he wants us to apologize and not only does he want us to apologize over there he's actually scripted it for us that's great which I would prefer by the way in real life their part for me Can I be like a nurse? Yeah, we can work you in here You can be like Tom Cruise's wife or something and Nicole Kidman. I wish that people would do this I'd like to let's just guy great. Look Claire I would like to use this guy in real life like when I f up with my family and stuff He could actually just write out an apology and I could just tape it and send it in

I'll just do it over the air mom. I want you to listen between 10 and 10 45 on Tuesday Greg has prepped a nice apology for me. I'm gonna work through it and it'll be very organic Anyway, everyone's offended nowadays and does everyone have time to write out these letters? How bad it would get? No. Strangely, I get it even for causes I champion. Like you said the wrong thing? Seriously, I'm complaining about the same thing. Same thing then?

Let me just give Greg's brief description here. I gotta change this. I just give Greg's brief description here, dear Anne, blah blah blah. I think the best way for them to handle this on the air would simply be to read my letter slash facts on the air. It could be during the beginning of the show when they were talking back and forth before actually taking calls. It could be done in a professional manner which takes responsibility for what he said. That sounded a little strange. Yet doesn't make him look bad. So see you could save some face and apologize and I could come off as a you

know professional. Maybe we should, I don't know, Greg, again, Greg LeClair from, what is that cult called again? No from Scientology, I would like Greg to send in other apologies for us to do. We could apologize to the Jews for World War II on behalf of the Germans. We could apologize to the blacks for the enslavement and the oppression. Whatever other groups need Native Native American I'm sorry now there you go that'd be there'd be a runner and a denim to that apology the interment of the Japanese during World War II there's these are Greg these are all good topics I hope you hear this and you're busy with a way oh and we may have offended me well it's it's not real

organic well Drew do you just want to try this? Let's just do the first half of it. Let's just do the beginning of the apology here. Here, Drew, you play yourself. Adam, I want to clear the air on something here. You mean you basically screwed up on something and now you're going to fix it, right? Basically, I just received a fact from the vice president of the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Center in response to a statement on the air that I made about a week and a half ago. Andrew? Oh, sorry.

Oh yeah, when you were talking about blank, what is that? What are you talking about? I don't know what he was talking about. I don't know. What? I don't know what that blank is. He left a space. I guess he wanted me to improv there. I work off a teleprompter. And stated that they were a cult like Scientology.

Oh, I guess you're talking about some other religion. Andrew, yes, the fact goes like this. Now you can read the whole letter. Oh, that's where you read the entire letter? Yes. Oh boy. Does anyone have that much time now. Well, I just apologize I didn't call the cult. I didn't know nor really well here. Let me apologize. Go screw yourself. You nutballs. All right now I'm a letter out of girl. Oh listen, who gets a rat's ass, please sign Andrew. Listen go up Just go sign up another celebrity and give me a break please. I don't, there's one thing I don't understand about Scientology.

Have you ever read Neil Ron Hubbard, Drew? No. No. But I'm sure, I'm sure he's in the club. I am reading that Thomas Hardy book. Which one? Far from the Madden crowd. Love that book. Alright, let me just finish with my last statement. This is after Drew reads the lengthy letter. Andrew. Well, the guy makes some good points. What can you say? Drew, I'll do your last line here too. Yeah. Boy, talk about it. I really don't know that much about the Church of Scientology. No, I don't either. I don't care about it. But the point is they got to be a little bit screwed up to

To go along with this bizarre Okay, I Wrote me notes. There's nothing but insults. I wanted to hear my insults, but We just wound it out. All right a couple questions first after How did that go exactly as I described it? Yes. Yes. you remembered it. Yes. Yes, you remember to fit you were the one Yes way back and they sent us a script you remember and I told them to fuck off Yes, you did. All right couple hero pioneer hero pioneer. Yes, you did you want everybody everybody champion? A we gotta get Kennedy in here. Gary.

She's good, yeah. A. B. You wanna know why Ann sounded so great. It was Kennedy, that's why. No, why you guys sounded so happy with each other. That's what really confused me. You guys sounded like Gleeful.

You enjoyed each other, what the hell. The other thing is, what is it about recordings that fuck with your and Stern voices and make them sound like eight octaves higher than they actually are. Oh. Kennedy sounded like Kennedy, I sounded like me, you sounded like you turned up to 78 speed.

I under, it is that. I don't, it was recorded through the radio, number one. I mean, but listen, I understand what your point is. I, the notion that I announce into this Afro with the cord hanging out of its ass known as a microphone I would like to hear something from 15 16 years ago that I don't remember well dr. Drew's I don't remember got you way off the path by telling you it was five five three to five years later than it was and so on so forth and has no recollection of it, that it can be then sent to my studio and replayed for us in a matter of about 20

to 24 minutes is I am not done being astounded by and I'm not going to look for the faults in that. All right, fair enough. Well, listen, hats off to Giovanni, right? And Gary for putting it together. That's right. Thank you, Gary. Can I talk about web.com?

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Oh, okay. And, you know, I kind of feel like I get a lot of the one of the nice things about Twitter, people announce when they bought a television on the Amazon button and they announce when they've set up subscriptions. I would love to like, in turn, I love to read those people's names. I mean, I'm so grateful. I love that. No, I always write those people back and tell them that.

No, I don't. We need to do that. We need to do something for them. Hold on. We don't We need to do that. We need to do something for them. Hold on. We don't. Hold on a second. I need to do something for them. I'm just saying.

I write those people back and say thank you. And then you said, I don't. We need to do something about that. I don't. I need to do something about that. Well, if you're reading a tweet, a guy says, I just. Because it's like in my car or something. And then my thing rolls like a, my tweet thing goes like a.

Well, you have a zillion tweet but I read a tweet that's the guy says I just bought a stationary bike off of Amazon and I click through your website and I just write love you keep it going you know what I you know what's happening to me I'm becoming the biggest pussy I know I literally am so fearful of the Twitter world that I will not thank someone on that other people could read I'll DM the biggest pussy I know. I literally am so fearful of the Twitter world that I will not thank someone on, that other people could read, I'll DM them and they never see it.

And then I stopped doing it, people stopped sort of, listen, 1997 I was still complaining about the same shit. I have to stop. Or take it to the grave. Oh, no, no. I just take it to the grave. You're closer to the grave than you are to the stop sign.

You're right, but no, no. How about you take it to the ultimate stop sign? Where? The grave. I just take it to the grave. You're closer to the grave than you are to the stop sign. You're right, but no, no. How about you take it to the ultimate stop sign? Where? The grave. Oh. All right. So if you want to support the show, you know what to do.

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