The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Street Takeovers, Nut Jobs with Power, & Immigration Riots | the Best of the Adam and Dr. Drew Show

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

While Adam and Dr. Drew are on break, let’s look back at some classic moments from The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, including rants about the madness of street takeovers, incompetent people in power, and the Los Angeles immigration riots. Thank you all for watching, and happy holidays!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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and South was a good one. You've got to keep them straight. Yes. Dog strollers have outsold child strollers in the last year and a half. That means something. I mean, like, it should be like, that should be a new thing they monitor for social trends and economics. Like, oh, oh, oh, we have a problem. No, it's barbed wire around the freeway signs.

It's, oh, we got an issue. Yeah. There's an issue. Yeah. And when these things, you know, I wish, I don't want to say proactive. but I just mean it's sort of like you have a friend and that friend is a social drinker and he's usually wine, you know, and some beer, occasional cocktail or something. And then one day you see him on a Tuesday at 9 a.m.

And he's drinking scotch, you know, and you just kind of go, whoa, oh, what's this? Yeah, we cross something. And then you go, you know me, I drink, you know, I have a couple drinks in this. Yeah, but that's when we go to dinner. This is Tuesday, you know, like when you spot something. And so it's at that point where you kind of go, okay, well, there's something going on. It's an issue. You should probably address it.

And I feel that way like, you know, we have all these street takeovers here. You know, it's just marauding gangs of 17-year-olds just doing donuts in the middle. And it's like, we just stand back and watch. Like, no, no, that's the street takeover is a bad sign. It means we've kind of lost control of our society. I told you when I was in Chicago like four years ago, just eating at a ritzie place right on whatever Lake Boulevard or whatever. And it's an entire group of guys on quads and dirt bikes and stuff just took it over.

And the cops just sort of nowhere to be found. I was like, oh, bad sign for Chicago. There it is. Dogs and strollers. I saw it in San Francisco about a year and a half ago. An entire, like, mini bike squad just sort of took over and went up and down. it's not like they're breaking windows and starting fires they're just well no but they're in control yeah and and it's a bad sign and so dogs in strollers is bad but it also made me realize a capacity

like a capacity for satiation which is kind of scary like you go well what woman doesn't need a child Men aren't doing this? How dare you? I'm certain that it must be equally. It's all women. But here's the thing. I don't know what it is, but I know what it is. It's all women.

But here's what I was kind of thinking about what women are capable of. I was picturing Tom Hanks on the island with Wilson. You know what I mean? That was his best friend. But it was able to be best friends with a volleyball. You know what I mean? You can make your dog, your child. Well, yes. My wife was on the record saying that when she had children, her dog became a dog overnight.

Right. Yeah, and her cat became a cat. Right. And there's an interesting component. I brought this up to you once before, and you thought it was interesting, which is when you go into the nursing homes and you see the demented older ladies, they're always holding baby dolls. Yeah. Men do not. They're not interested in holding baby dolls.

Right. So it's the same impulse in a, I'm not saying people are demented, I'm saying in a healthy normal, so let's say, person, it's the impulse to have a baby doll, quite literally. Well, I guess so I guess the bigger subject we're trying to kind of navigate here is a satiation thing that I've always kind of. kind of circled around and talked about a little bit. And I think it's all landing in the same spot of the brain, which is to say, you know, almost, there's nothing we did during COVID was consistent or made sense. But there was a cessation. You know, there was a sort of, I got a mask on. It's around my chin.

You can see my mouth and my nose, but I got the mask. You know, I got the mask. You know what I mean? Or we're in that, you know, we're in the elevator and we're five feet apart. And, you know, we're going up 31 floors together. We got to do something. I'm facing the wall. You know what I mean?

Like, there's a big. And so I've found, I think women have that satiation. I think the satiation gene is more on the feminine side. Motivation thing, right? Well, it's a kind of a, like I said, I've joked with you, like a lot in the past, you know, where I've said to, I've been with women. I'm like, oh, you know, when are we going to get the cable guy? I called them.

You know what I mean? What happened? I got the machine, you know? Did you leave? I did. When was that? Three weeks ago, you know, it's like, okay, we didn't. No, it kind of feels to them.

Something. It's something. We don't have cable, but they did something. To me, it feels like we're in the exact same place as if you never made the phone call, which we are. But there's a kind of a feminine satiation. thing, you know, and it goes in the same mix with a little, like I used to talk

to my ex-wife, I'd go, just make the boy a hard-boiled egg. He needs something hot. He needs something hot and filling, you know, and I believe you're giving him Quaker, instant oats, maple, and brown sugar, you know, with fake orange dye number three, and there's no maple

his corn syrup. You're feeding him shit, just sugary carbs, but he needs something hot, it's cold outside. You know what I mean? I'd go, Give him an apple and a hard-boiled egg if you don't want to make them a scrambled eggs tomorrow. It's like, and then we need something hardy.

You know what I mean? So what's it mean? You know, she's, it's unhealthy, but it's satiating. It feels kind of about right. I mean, it's really the era we're in with homelessness and borders and sanctuaries and seat at the table. It's all this stuff that feels like something.

And it's actually, it's the same as the instant Quaker Oats. It's harmful. but it feels like you're doing the right thing. Yes, and I think for the male brain, and for some female brains, you have to do something. Like, when the, you know, it's not okay to talk about framing the house.

You want to stand back after the house is framed and see it. That's when satiation sets in, not talking about that. Right. So the dog and the stroller sort of satiates from having the kid. I mean, we're just the mask,

the paper mask that doesn't work somehow prevents you from getting COVID, like all the, you know, the weird rituals, like, how many people do you know, maybe more women than men, but how many people do you know that are sort of like, man, I'm working hard and I'm dieting, I'm just not shedding the pounds, you know, but I'm working hard. And you're like, I've, you ate a breakfast burrito yesterday, you know, oh, that was a one time, you know, like there's some kind of weird inner wrap of like, here's what I'm doing. Well, it's denial and you're lying, essentially.

One form of denial is lying. Right. And here's all you do and here's how hard you work and here's everything you do. So we're in some sort of mental satiation sort of mantra talk in our own heads. By the way, get with other like-minded people and then sort of bullshit each other as a sort of bullshit support group of how hard you're working and what you're doing. doing. But I don't know what's going on in South Korea. I know nothing about the social trends there, but the baby stroller dog feels very lonely. So it feels like they probably aren't having relationships. They aren't having marriages. Because no dude, I know if you were in a relationship

to somebody or let your girlfriend go out in a stroller with the dog. I think they do. Or maybe they sign off on it. I don't know. Our surgeon general just came out with a report saying that being a parent, maybe a mother, was like a health risk and traumatized. Now, our surgeon general's a puss and he needs to go. And I don't know how it works. I mean, if Trump gets voted in, I don't have to clean out all the fucking whack-a-doodle-nut jobs

with their fucking, well, I mean, with their weird, I mean, listen, we have a surgeon general. He could have said during COVID, hey, everyone lose some weight. Now's time to lose some weight. Good excuse to lose some weight and get some vitamin D too. get out in the sun. He didn't hear anything from anybody ever. So we can get rid of that retard. But I think he's a DEI. He's an anesthesiologist, so I don't know. I think he's a DEI

higher, though, which is the problem with the DEI stuff is I don't know if he's qualified or not. He's like Indian. So I'm like, is that a DEI higher or is he the best, most qualified 37-year-old anesthesiologist to be surgeon general? I suspect his ethnicity. I think he's anesthesiologist. Ways into this thing. Yeah. Yeah, but anyway. Vivek Murthy. Check out what's the anesthesiologist?

Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, this is a distressing in that it doesn't reflect happiness, in my humble opinion. It reflects adjusting to a reality that's miserable with some sort of satiating maneuver. It seems like to me, I don't know. Maybe they're delightfully happy and couldn't be better. I don't know. Well, what they missed, I mean, the new all roads lead to narcissism thing we talk about is the new thing.

It's like the new trend is, I don't want a kid. I want to be able to travel with my partner, you know, and eat fine cheese, you know, and not have to save for formula, you know, that kind of stuff. And I will file that under the heading of new. me saying, why don't you wash your own car in the driveway this week? You don't have to do that. I have money. I'll pay somebody to come in a van, and they'll detail it.

It's like, okay, just keep getting out of stuff. Right. See how you feel. Yeah. Just keep avoiding things. Keep doing whatever's easiest. Stop all the stuff that we know traditionally works and leads to happiness. And he's an internal medicine doctor.

Oh, is he? Okay. All right. Brigham and Women's Hospital. Bad Army, I think the last guy was anesthesiologist, the one before. Anyway. So, okay, he's in a position to make some good comments, but this isn't one of them. Still going DEI Hire, though.

Which, by the way, everyone, you did to yourselves because I never thought D.E.I. Hire in the past before you guys announced we were going to go D.E.I. Hires. And now every time you put someone in a position of power, who's gay or Indian or black or female or lesbian or whatever. I go, oh, are they really qualified to be there? Which is a horrible place to be because maybe they are. Clarify. You're not saying anything about those categories of people. I don't need to clarify. I don't need to clarify, Drew. You're just a pussy.

No, I'm not a pussy. I'm tired of getting attacked for bullshit. You're not getting attacked. You didn't say anything. I did. Everyone understands how it worked. All right. Yes. That does not mean, look, Thomas Sol is a black man. take him as the philosopher laureate or the poet laureate. I've taken him a surgeon general. I've been to take him in any position, but he's not going to get hired. So he's not the right kind of black for them.

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I'll donate my eggs for $50,000. And I'll donate, I'll donate my old car or a boat or RV to Jews for Jesus, but for 50 grand. Everything is a euphemism. These are undocumented citizens. Homeless are legal aid. Unhoused neighbors. Unhoused neighbors. Right.

I've screamed at you drew a thousand times. If you got to put some sort of fucking nice spin on everything, that means there's an issue. Not only is they're an issue, they are literally trying to commandeer reality, everyone's sense of reality. And I think we've had enough. Well, they should have... Reality's breaking out all over. Yeah, they should have the rights to gender affirming care. Their gender signed at birth.

Everything... Listen to me, people. Just listen to me. When you hear euphemisms are all the fucking time, something's shitty and something is wrong. with that. You know what I mean? I remember our old manager Howard Lapidas when he said, I think I remember like, we're leaving the man show or something or splitting off with him, but we had another and he said, but I will continue to service the contract

for another year. It's like, oh, or, real talk, I'll sit on my fat ass and do nothing and take your money, but I'll do nothing for you. Real talk. Hash settling. The new world is about settling hash. Yes. You do not donate your eggs, ladies. You sell your eggs. Yes. You create a market in eggs, which is even more egregious.

And listen, I know you don't like the way that sounds. Yeah. But that's who you are. Yeah. So fucking live with it. Yeah. Or don't. Or do something different.

Or don't do it if you don't like the way it sounds. But you sell your eggs. If it's not consistent with whom you want to be, let's be honest about it. The, yeah, unhoused neighbors are fentanyl junkies flopping in the street. Okay, but so if you have to fucking spray everything with perfume, then maybe it's rotting. Well done. It's a powerful thought. Very powerful.

Yeah. But, yeah, speaking of spraying with perfume, Newsom needs a big spraying. Yes. His... These people don't have access. They have access. They don't do it. Yeah.

They don't have access to a checking account. Yeah. Your fucking nine-year-old has access to a checking account. Take your piggy bank, walk down to the fucking Wells Fargo and start a checking account. Yeah. Get a toaster of an out of it. Mary Poppins. That was about.

Is that what that was? Mary Poppins, when Dick Van Dyck plays the old banker, he tells the young boy that take your toppins to the bank. And there they grow and they feel industry and whatever. Yeah, but they don't have access. Okay. There's something else. I've never, I don't think I've brought up to you before, but I think I've brought up to you before, but I saw in full display with the riots,

which is there is a categorical sign of sociopathy. There's one sure-fire sign you're dealing with a sociopath and often a anarchist sociopath is an adult male, meaning over the edge of 30, with a backpack and a skateboard. Yeah. That is diagnostic. Yeah.

You put the age at 30. Because 20 you could, in the day of COVID and stuff, There could be some development delays and stuff. But if you're still that in your 30s, oh, no, then it's sealed. It's done. The other thing we're finding, you're seeing in full display here,

is something I've been saying for a long time, which is when people behave like patients, you have no alternative, but show of force. That's your only alternatives. Because they will continue to escalate. And people tend to feel better when they are contained. It's not so scary. It's not so out of control.

yeah forget protect the public protect the you know the buildings and the shops and stuff the people themselves that are that are acting out feel more contained yes uh okay i got thoughts and by the i saw you on uh was it hannity during all this and uh that that was interesting but you can revisit that if you want what you think was interesting um the what stayed with me the most is uh because anthony was like what is this what's going you go these assholes for these people what do you mean what is this this is who they wanted place. They put them in place. Karen Bass, you haven't given to some of who they voted for.

I come from a family of like hard Democrats. What they do is they, they lobby hard for, let's just, we'll get out of the realm of, of, we'll get out of the realm of politics, right? I just go, I'm lobbying hard for this home plate umpire. That's my guy. I'm going to put a button on. His name's Ron. I'm going to put the name on.

I'm going to hit the trail. I'm going to canvass the neighborhood and put a sign on my front yard that says Ron for home plate umpire because he cares because he's the best and the other guy's the worst umpire in the world and I'm going to just keep doing it and doing it and doing it and then at some point Ron will get voted in and I'll celebrate okay well at some point the pitcher starts bouncing the ball to home plate Ron's calling it a strike and a guy slides in and is safe and walking back to the dugout before the ball even comes in and he calls him out. halfway back to the dugout, and at some point it becomes apparent that Ron is a really bad umpire. And you didn't know it. You liked Ron, and Ron said all the right things. But now it's blatantly obvious that he's kind of inept, and the game is suffering and attendance is down. Now you've got a choice. What is your choice?

Go find a fucking mirror and admit you were wrong about Ron. and once you're wrong about Ron, now we've opened Pandor's box to shit you may be wrong about. You may have to go reexamine your COVID stance. You may have to reexamine your school choice stance or any stance, any other thing. You've opened it up to that.

So you got basically you're at a crossroads. Go find a mirror and admit Ron's a fucking inept idiot and you're wrong and you're part of the problem for helping to usher in this horrible umpire, or go hard in defense of Ron. I will tell you the least abundant trait in a person is the, oh, yeah, screwed up. Sorry, won't happen again. That's one out of every hundred people.

Everyone else has a comeback, an argument. You didn't tell me, I didn't say it, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's human instinct. And it grows and grows and grows. As religion wanes and as, you know, the golden rule is completely gone. Honesty is questionable. It's all just about some defense of Ron the shitty umpire. That's all in what else.

Remember, subjectivity is the only truth. So there's no other truth. Well, according to them. So it's very rare that people go, my bad, won't happen again. they meet it, you say, how about this? They go, how about that? I go, how about this? Eventually they get cornered and sometimes they'll go, okay, fine.

But it takes three tries to talk to everybody. So as long as we're doing that, if that's who we are, then 86% of the people are going to defend Ron. So we're in a circle the wagons and defend the world's worst umpire. Yeah. Because we voted for him, and I am not in the business of admitting I'm wrong. That's what you know. grandmother ever admitted she was wrong about anything, right?

My mom, right before she died when they had the runoff with Newsom and Larry Elder or whatever, she just said to me, I don't know who Larry Elder is, but I know who Newsom is, and he's a Democrat, and I'm voting for him. But, you know, she also said to me before she died, she taught me about the whole grain granola sweetened with molasses and honey, and I go, okay, bitch, you're going to go to the grave without knowing anything. But you know why? Because you won't let anything in.

Because everything is a fight. Everything's a defense. It's all shame. It's all a posture where you hold up a shield and try to ward off. Hey, stupid people, you know why you're stupid? You fucking argue about everything. Let something in.

Let something in. The shame is what keeps it out. Oh, my God. And then I realized, as you and I were talking about, shame and insecurity. I realized everyone's walking around fucking half-cocked all the time with riddled

with shame and insecurity and that's why they're all pieces of shit. I don't have an ounce. Just tell me everything. Yeah. But as I've said when you're a carpenter, you read no books on

carpentry. Watch this. Andrew. How many books have you read on carpentry. Zero. Right. Ask me how many I've read on carpentry. How many books on carpentry have you read?

Zero. So we're tied. Except for I know everything and you know nothing. That's correct. About everything. No, about carpentry. I'm an expert and you know nothing, but we're equal in the amount of books we've read.

Well, this is the thing about... All you do is have some older guy tell you what you're doing wrong all fucking day. That's it. That's my medicine training is true. Some dude named... Oh, yeah, but you read a thousand books.

Also, it's both, but you're not able to practice. You got some guy named Russ who's smoking a fucking more cigarette fucking called you an idiot all day and hurry up. And that's it. And then eventually you become Russ. I'm telling you, that's why residency is. Somebody asshole calls you, some resident calls you an idiot all day long and you do the best you can. Right. But I'm fine with that because I wanted to learn, I want to learn how to be a carpenter.

Yes, yes. God, I became that. I became Russ. And I decided. Yeah, but there's no, here's the problem with you and me becoming Russ. Yeah. Russ is a guy I worked with. Russ.

Russ smoked those more cigarettes, those brown cigarettes. He was like 6'4 in sinewy, like, but muscular. Built, made a, had a bag on his tool belt, his belt. his bags, he made out of a Gucci bag. Some customer, something's like, gave him a Gucci bag or something, and he cut it up and sewed it himself to look, you know, for a construction bag. That's probably something he bought on the street in New York, to be fair. No, I talked to Russ, who lived into Panga once.

He said, I made my own recumbent bike. He weld, you know, he weld his own recumbent bike. I said, all right, so you do, like you weld the frame and stuff, and then you buy the rest of the. components, and he goes, now I made my own sprockets. You made your own sprockets? Do you know how much work it is to make a fucking sprocket? But he wanted to do it himself.

Isn't it done by a machine, usually? And that was Russ. And isn't it done by a machine? You know what I mean? It's just sort of something like br-br-br-br-bram. You can't, am I wrong about that? Well, yeah, everything. Everything's on a machine.

You buy a sprocket, goofball, for $9. Isn't it made by machine? I don't know. Okay, Drew, no one knows what that point was. I don't think you know what that point was. Well, I don't know anything about, I told you, if I went to trade school, I would be retarded. No, no, no, no. Here's why you're retarded. I said Russ made his own sprocket and then you would go, oh, he didn't go down to the Schwinn shop and buy a sprocket. He made his own sprocket. But isn't that usually made by a machine is a weird take on Russ and his sprocket? So my thinking was, does any human ever do that? That's my point. No human... No.

But you buy your own... Yeah, but even they're made, you can't find a human-made sprockets. It's some... Oh, you know, maybe, you know, if you're trapped on it, I'm rolling with no, sprockets. But no, nobody makes their own spot. Well, anyway, let's digress. I'm trying to illustrate a point.

Yes, true. He makes his own sprackers. I guess in my head I was thinking, seems like how would you even know how to make a sprocket without the machine, lost art, you know? When you think in your head, that's when you have to stop. I know. Yes. All right. So anyway, nobody wants, there's no, and here's a deal. You're Russ, I'm Russ. That's fine. There's no young version of you showing up. I get the young person that all just has excuses and then has to go do something. Well, I've unloaded on a resident once for really outlying behavior. And she went, okay, I quit. And I went, what? What? That's what I'm saying.

I went, this is what we do. This is how you train. What are you talking about? I just was telling you what you did wrong. Yeah, I'm never going to go through that again. So I quit. I was like, No, wait. It is a problem and a little bit of an epidemic, and it needs to be remedied just like, you know, childhood diabetes needs to be focused on. I mean, and that, what I'm saying is, well, you don't want to shame the boy and tell him not to have the bag of chips. It's like he's dying. It's fucking him up. Someone go shame him. Someone give that kid a pear and a piece of cheese and tell him he has to get some fucking exercise and stop. coddling him. You're killing, the kid has diabetes. You know what I mean? And it's the same way with this shit. Somebody, I can't tell you how many people, sadly, mostly women, because they don't grow up playing sports. You can't fucking say anything to them. It's like a pushback in a battle.

And then it's like, okay, don't know anything then because everything is a battle of not letting information, not letting accurate information, infiltrate your force field. You know what I mean? Yeah. So then, then, then we can only see a version of life where we voted for Ron the umpire and we're, we're sticking with it. Yeah. That's what my mom did. My mom, if you started coming back at her at anything, would start getting like agitated and sort of like beavis and butthead when they start, you know, like you can see her like, and it's like, but, you know, listen, if people have conversations with you, listen to me, everyone listen to me, if people start, if people are having the following conversations with you in life,

or if you're hearing this repeatedly, please stop and take note. Stop and take note. First thing, take note. if someone's going write that down no write that that but make sure write that that write it down right it okay that means you got a big problem in that person's experience with forgetting shit

so don't argue if someone keeps telling you to write stuff down write it the fuck down number two if somebody keeps saying to you you know we're gonna you know the flight leaves at seven so we gotta be at LAX by six o'clock

but remember seven means seven you know it's not 715 it's important flight we should get there you got to be there by six remember that means you got to leave your house okay if they start getting those then you've got a problem

okay yep let it let it sink in and the next one is we've never talked about this but if you hear this a lot where you go someone keeps saying look I'm just trying to help you

or I'm just trying to tell you what happened this is what's accurate or I'm not doing this to critique you I'm doing it to tell I'm trying to help if you keep getting getting those three conversations, go find a fucking mirror and figure out why you can't let information in, why you're defensive, why you're late, and why you forget shit. Defensiveness is becoming one of the more problematic of human behaviors and emotions.

Oh, it's like raid on. It's like the quiet killer. Yeah, it's really a problem right now. But I was going to say, though, your mom behaving like Beavis and Butthead with steam coming out of her head, I'll tell you where that stops. is she'll do that to you, one person making, you know, confronting her belief system but if three Marines showed up and said, honey, sit down

she would calm down immediately. Yeah. Oh, no. So the point is show of force always contains this shit. And I love that Newsom and Karen Bass are like, well, the Marines escalated things. Like, oh, okay, so by your logic, whenever there's violence, no cops, no law enforcement?

Is that what you're saying? there should never be lost. Yeah, did I say that on Hannity? I didn't hear that. Oh, I must have said on my show. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was saying. So if 200 cops are fine, 500 cops escalate, why don't we get rid of 200 cops according to your logic?

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