The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1720 Portable Dishwashers

Episode Date: May 17, 2023

People cancelling dish washers leads Adam to explain his process of cleaning dishes. Which of course leads Adam to remember his terrible childhood kitchen. Meanwhile, he solves the mystery of the curious metal rods popping up in his neighborhood. Please Support Our Sponsors: TrustAdamDrew.com or call 844-790-9191 FastGrowingTrees.com/ADS BlindsGalore.com

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, get it on. Got to get it on. Doctors, board, first-time physician, infanticide specialist. Infanticide. Where's that come from? I don't know. Woo! Let me askide specialist. Infanticide. Where does that come from?

I don't know. Woo! Let me ask you something. Oh, please. I want for you to put on your scientific hat for a second here. All right. It's good. And try to break down germs and bacteria and things of that nature.

Okay. and bacteria and things of that nature. Okay. Because the Biden administration is talking about getting rid of gas stoves and getting rid of, you know, doing this with dishwashers and light bulbs and appliances, the whole Green New Deal is turning into a thing, right? And I, well, so there's this funny game. Right. The game is, is they say we want to outlaw gas cooktops in the in New York City or in New York State by 2026 or something. Right. And then Fox News picks up on it,

and then Fox News runs headlines that go, they're coming after your stove, you know? Then the left picks up on that and goes, this is fake news. We don't know what you're talking about. No one's coming after your stove. Where did you even get that? This is farcical.

Then a month goes by, and there's legislation to get rid of the stove. and after your stove, where did you even get that? This is farcical. Then a month goes by and there's legislation to get rid of the stove. Yes. That's how the game works, right? It's sort of like the press secretary for the White House. I don't know what you're talking about. He would never do that. Right. Right.

So that's the game. But, and I disagree with them. And first off, they run these fucking, they run these tests like, please, everyone, understand what their tests are. You know what I mean? Oh, well, it turns out childhood asthma. Yeah.

Everyone throughout time and memorial has had a gas stove in this country, and there's been no childhood asthma. Oh, but it's three times higher. Yeah, if you lock them in an unventilated room, but kitchens are open and they have vents and also just your own experience. Just use your own experience. I mean, how many times has he had a big pot of water boiling on the thing with the with the spaghetti sauce on the burner next to it simmering and everything's on and you're

just fucking sitting in the dining room looking at your phone did you ever have a coughing attack or have trouble breathing or i don't know what the fuck they're talking about like well what they what they do okay here's what they do let's put this out when somebody comes in with cough asthma whatever we're not asking you sitting by a stove no we don't think about it no not an issue so what the game is is the game is we're in charge yeah and we'd like you to know we're in charge and the way that you know we're in charge is not by us getting out of the way and letting you do stuff. The way you know Gavin Newsom's in charge is he shuts the beaches down. That's how you know he's in charge.

Right. And he shuts down outdoor dining. That's how you know he's in charge. And he welds bars over basketball hoops and outdoor parks. That's how you know he's in charge. You really know he's in charge is when he shuts all that shit down and then goes out for a big dinner at the French Laundry. That's how you know he's in charge.

Are you understanding? You don't know he's in charge if he goes, hey, man, do what you want on your own property or make your own health decisions, whatever. No, no, you wouldn't know he was in charge. So the game is we're in charge and so we're going to tell you what to do but when then when people go well that doesn't seem fair or right or that seems like an abuse of your power they go oh well then there's health

issues and you go huh and they go oh yeah and what about the kids and you go what and they go, oh, yeah. And what about the kids? And you go, what? And they go, that's why. Because childhood asthma, blah, blah, blah. Now, there is no if there's an increase in childhood asthma, it's from locking your kids up inside the house, not letting them play out in the dirt and using too much Pharrell and trauma and trauma and whatever else. But it's not from the fucking cooktop. But then they trot that out, and now if you question them, you're questioning the science. Yeah, not that. You want to kill kids. Yeah, right.

You want to kill people. They want to get rid of that, but they've now moved on to dishwashers. Now, here's my question for you as a scientist. Dishwashers? for you as a scientist. Dishwashers. Yes, as a scientist. No, they want because the dishwashers use too much power and they use too much water. I have never met a woman who isn't obsessed with a dishwasher. And I've never been interested in a dishwasher.

I've never been interested in a dishwasher. Yes. And the reason I've never been interested in it is because the plates are in the sink and you're rinsing them off with hot water and sometimes a sponge. If you want a little squirt of something easy enough. Aren't we home? Yes. We're done. Yes.

And we're not using electricity and heat. I think this is a little bit of chick think. They like the look. It's sparkly clean when it gets out of the dishwasher. You know, cascade. It takes all the water droplets off it. Right. So what I'm saying to you is. I don't think they like drying the utensils and the glasses.

They like seeing it just happen with the machine. Okay. Let air dry it when you put it on the rack that's next to the sink. So you haven't asked your question, but I know where you're going, of course. And so. Well, you take a plate. All right. I take a plate.

Yeah. I eat a steak, mashed potatoes, and broccoli. Then I'm done with the plate. Let the dog lick it? I do let the dog lick it. So what? Good man. So what?

And then I rinse it under hot water. I don't even use soap or sponge, but my feeling is like the sponge has more shit going on on it than anything else. Whenever you smell a sponge, you're like, what the fuck's going on here? It smells like a lot. Anyway, I rinse it under the hot water. And I make sure there's nothing visible, physical on this plate. And then I put it and then it air dries overnight.

And then the following night for dinner, I reuse the plate. And it's porcelain. It's sort of something that has difficulty for bacteria to stick to. I've never gotten anything from that. Of course not. But once a plate is bone dry, what can be on it? Certain viruses can list for a while. But viruses, even herpes viruses, need moisture to really be there for a while.

That's what I'm saying. Once a thing is dry. And there are things that can get into crevices and certain kinds of ceramic-y kinds of things, but nothing. It's your home. And by the way, most of the shit that transfers in the home is like respiratory anyway. It's not even transferred on an object. The last person to eat off the plate was you.

Yep. So who is getting their germs onto this plate? That's your plate. It's only people inside of your home that use it. The people you share a bed with. Yes. So what is going on? I want to take you all the way home with this, which is a friend of mine who's a very successful restaurateur will not buy a dishwasher for his home.

Refuses. Because what are you doing? You're washing the dishes twice. Why would you do that? I don't want to pay for the detergent. I don't want to – you're doing it twice. Why would you do that? Of course, in a restaurant, you just have those little things you sort of spin it on the glass and off you go.

Sometimes they have dishwasher things, but they have people that do it generally. Right. That's why they have a dishwasher person. That's you in your house. So, you know, what women do is they go, they do this thing all the time and they go, oh, yeah, no, you can tell it's so musty.

I'm like, how can be musty? It's a bone dry plate. Well, it's bone dry. Oh, but it smells. What do you mean? It smells. There's nothing on it. There wasn't anything on it.

There was hot water on it. Twenty one hours ago. Now it's dry. What is this thing? And they're like, oh, yeah, no, no. Gross. Yeah. I think the back to male-female stuff.

Do you know, Drew? Yes. Do you know? I'm going to tease it, and then I'll tell you about the damage. So, Drew. Yeah. and the general deterioration of many lives in terms of compromising them. soap dish thing clean antibacterial wipes and scrubs and purell has been caused by getting women to believe everything was gross if it wasn't sanitized like in a surgical setting and the amount of damage this has caused to kids with their depleted immune system now

and the energy lost with all the rubbing and the scrubbing. It's fucking, you can't calculate the damage. Agreed. And now you know that, you know, I've been working in human behavior for a long time and generally speaking about 60% of human behavior, whatever you're looking at, whether it's psychiatric illness or certain behavior trends, about 60% is accounted for on the basis of genetics alone. So genetics play a large role here. saw a fertile market, a place to really plant their flag, which I think women have evolved. It would make sense from a childbearing standpoint to be very aversive to disgusting things, to dirty things. They're more, their nasals, their smell is more acute than men. Oh, yeah.

And so they are sort of set up to, out in nature, really avoid things that might be dangerous for them during pregnancy or a child right right since they've evolved that sure madison avenue took that to a outer space kind of preoccupation right but it is interesting how it's probably something innate oh yeah that they fully took advantage of no it always starts with something yeah you know what i mean some some sort of biological leaning yeah and then it gets exploited yes um i have been on this bandwagon for 25 years plus yeah um i mean when you show the millennial the woke crowd is very into this now they back you up on this.

Good. They don't like to shave. They don't like to shower. They don't like to bathe. And for these reasons. Well, you know, there's a whole bunch of stuff that – it's always kind of mind-numbing to me. You know, they go, I was in my pool this morning, you know, and as the ritual would have it, it's underwater, deep end, length of the pool, out of the pool, dry off. Go to the bottom. Go to the base, go to the drain, then make the pilgrimage underwater.

Pop up at the stairs. I then get dressed and come to work. And then everyone goes, you don't shower? And I go, no. I was underwater in a swimming pool. And they go, so much chlorine. And I go, I don't know. Does chlorine clean you?

Like what? Do you notice me having dry, flaky skin or dandruff or psoriasis or anything? It turns your hair green if you have light hair. If you do it enough, right. Plus, my pool may be a saltwater pool. I don't even know. But the whole point is, according to most who I deal with, including Howie Mandel, I need to get out of the pool.

Howie's got a little issue this week. I need to get out of the pool and then shower with soap to get the pool water off of me. Except for the pool water, I go in the ocean, I swim in the ocean, I get out, there's an outdoor shower, I rinse myself off, and then I get dressed. I don't know what else

you want me to do, but you want me to soap myself. But I don't see any need for that. and there is no side effects back to the uh the women's proclivity with this my wife if i i do soap regularly but she has all kinds of notes about what kinds of soap i should be using right this for your face this for your ass right right right but so now back to the dishes again when i was remodeling my very first home that i bought in 1996 when it came time to do the kitchen they said uh you know where do you want to put the dishwasher kind of thing and i said

i don't want a dishwashing machine and they're like you have to have one said, I don't want a dishwashing machine. And they're like, you have to have one. I said, I don't want one. I just live here alone. I use my bowl. I rinse it out. I use the same bowl the next day. And they're like, you have to have one for resale. And I was like, oh, okay. Everybody else has to have one. Everybody else has to have one. But I don't. Now, look. I've done battle with every woman I've ever known on this subject. Even my weird, crunchy, hippie mom.

And maybe I was traumatized. She got a portable dishwasher. She sat one in the middle of the room. She wanted one so bad. My kitchen. My kitchen? The kitchen in my... You're like a pioneer kitchen. It was like something people came across in a wagon, and that was the house they built.

Right? It's absolutely true. The kitchen in the house I grew up in... I mean, they barely had plumbing. The house was 850 square feet. It was probably built in the 20s, right? The house? Yeah.

No, the house was built in the 18-somethings. Oh, no plumbing. It was a farm. I mean, that's why it had two front doors. Yeah, yeah. Like the doctor's office. They barely had plumbing. I mean, really, if at all.

Well, they put plumbing in it at some point. Fantastic. There was certainly no dishwasher. It was built like 1892 or something. There wasn't anything. And the kitchen was a galley. The kitchen was six foot by seven foot, like max. You couldn't – two people couldn't be in there at once you'd run into

people you don't see kitchens like that in the midwest or east these are western kitchens you notice this i don't i don't have enough experience in those places it's that that just bare bones wood cabinets you know and a bunch of drawers that it's just very primitive yeah very primitive and very very poorly designed and very small and that top oh no no no yeah yeah very fucked up but the but the lucite top there that's all way later stuff oh yeah the cupboards they were cupboards they weren't even like closets it's funny when you see all the paint chipping off. Yeah, yeah. And everything's worn to hell and all the caulking around the sink.

And then that sink, that sink with the thing, the sinks in the wall. Yeah. That stuff they added later. Yeah. Before you brought a bucket in for that sink from the well out back. Well, I lived in this miniature galley, poorly designed thing where the refrigerator hung out. There was only one way for me to get to my service you had to literally bang your shoulder on on your refrigerator in your home but it was so horribly designed and laid out thinking about

adam in his in his mansion declaring that teachers should go back could go back to teaching you got to show me those pictures again it made me it made me laugh okay so that the refrigerator the hall went right past the refrigerator the fridge was yeah the uh go back one picture the fridge was in the hallway oh yeah yeah look at that uh okay there was there was 17 inches to walk past the edge of the fridge in the hall. The paint was peeling off. The floor was coming undone. It was just this broken down, dilapidated mess of a dump of a house that I grew up in.

But how high the ceilings are. Yeah. That's one thing. Interesting. It must have been because they had no air conditioning. Yeah. It was super hot all the time. Anyway.

Anyway, my mom got herself a second hand for sure. But a mobile dishwasher on wheels on casters. casters now the the footprint of the thing was like 31 by 31 which is half of the usable space in the kitchen you'd have to roll it around and you'd pull a big retractable you pull this big retractable arm uh hose out of the back and you'd hook it up to the spigot in the sink. It wasn't hard plumb. Yes, right. You had to plug it in, pull this long hose out, and plug it into the sink. What could go wrong?

Into the spigot. And how about for the outflow? Would you have to put a drain? The thing had like two hoses. I'm like, Mom, you don't even cook. You don't even cook. What are you doing with this thing? That female instinct plays hard.

It gets through. So this thing would roll around and we'd bang into it. And I was like, oh, fuck this. Wait, Adam, there's no oven. Or does that wood thing come up that the tv's on and there's an oven under a stove under there did you have a stove what do you mean does that wood thing come up and there's a stove that's a picture of the dishwasher oh that's the i beg your pardon i thought that was the oven up against the wall there now there was a there the

stove was on the other side it It's not in the picture. I don't think there's a picture of the stove. See, you showed me a picture once with the wheeled dishwasher in the middle of the room. No, I don't think we have. Well, they can look around for it. These are later pictures. I moved out. This is like the 80s or whatever.

This is when they had their shit together. Well, if you see a portable TV or a window-mounted air conditioner, then that's advanced. That's well after I was gone. Oh, there's one. That's not yours, though. No, it's clean. All right. So I developed a disdain for these contraptions early. But as I see the women loading and unloading, it just feels like so much work.

Then there's the guesswork of like, is it clean? Is it not clean? I don't you're standing over the sink. And so here's what I'm saying. Are you ready? I'm saying. Are you ready, Drew? I'm ready. I don't understand in this country, for instance, in Los Angeles, it is legal to turn right on a red nobody does it i don't get it the cars pile up i go down to pch down sunset the cars pile up four blocks back because the person in the lead who has a lane they have their own lane they won't turn and the person behind them won't honk like they don't know do you know what i'm saying Could we do a campaign on the freeway signs? It's a turn right on a red when it's safe or whatever.

Just could we do a campaign that just said, people, you're at the sink. You're running hot water upon your dishes. Just spend an extra 14 seconds per thing and just put it in the rack. We won't have to talk about all the power and resources and water waste and whatever. Let's just do it here. You're just here. It's easy. Just do it.

Yeah. I mean, what? Okay, so women cannot be budged on this subject. Very hard. I then, the second I'm on my own, I just rinse the plate, throw it in. I don't use soap or sponge even. Oh, sometimes throw a little. Yeah, I won't.

But I don't see the necessity for A, because the plate's dry the next time I see it. And then, B, I used hot water on it. And then, C, it's my plate. Who has come in like a thief in the night and infected this plate that was sitting on this dish rack overnight? Is there some situation? And then you're right. It's all airborne. You're living in a house with kids.

They're coughing. They're sniffling. They're whatevering. It's got nothing to do with the plate. But women have labeled it gross, just like we did mask up in between bites and six-foot distancing. And now it just is. And that's it. And so we go along while the fools drive the bus. We all climb into the bus and go along for the fool's ride.

Which is sort of a general note about how human brains work. We don't think about things very often. We don't stand back and look. We have trouble being objective. That's all I do. I know. That's what gives you that crystal brain. But it's hard for people to do that.

It's not a normal thing. Well, listen, ladies and some gentlemen, you don't have to do any thinking. I'll do the thinking. How about that? Well, let me and Elon Musk work it out, and then we can move forward. We used to have a drop. Everyone listen to me. Everyone listen to me.

All right. So now we're trapped, and we have to use dishwashers. We have to use this box in the middle of our kitchen to make sure the dishes are clean, even though we've rinsed them and cleaned them before we put them in. It's like you grew a sprig of parsley right in the middle of your kitchen. It's an unwinnable battle. It's also so weird, too, that most of this stuff. It's culture.

This is what culture is. I know. But people like let me explain. Can I explain something? A neighborhood thing. So I get this. I get frequent text from Paulette Garagos, Mark's wife. And she keeps finding these flat metal rods in the neighborhood. Now, the metal rods are, I'll give you the dimension.

They're about nine or ten inches long, sometimes a little shorter, sometimes a little longer. They're flat, and they're about three-sixteenths of an inch wide, and they're pretty thin, very thin. So thin little strips of metal. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And so... She wants to know what's that doing there.

Paulette Geragos, who walks around the neighborhood like one of those pool Polaris sweeps that just sort of sweeps, just goes around the surface of the top of the pool in a never-ending circle looking for leaves. That's what she does. Yeah. She just never stops navigating and circumnavigating the neighborhood, looking at the ground for stuff. And then she finds stuff and then she sends it a picture of it to me and goes, what is

this? So she has a curious mind. She's very interested. case blown wide open yesterday for months maybe years this has been going on right so she says what are these little rods what is this i keep finding theories oh yes were the theories close to the truth no i keep finding them in the street you know so i go i look at it one of these rods now the first thing i do is i go there's a lot of construction in the neighborhood they're building on every other corner right and they're doing in my neighborhood a lot of like subterranean

this and this and that they're forming a lot of concrete walls and stuff and i shift immediately to these are form ties these are for the rebar or something no um no for the form for the form itself is that one i took a picture of one yesterday okay for the form i see for the stuff so it's not the plywood not to blow out when you pump the concrete into it. It's about the right length for like a one-foot thick retaining wall or whatever. That makes sense. But it doesn't make sense because it would be embedded in the concrete. Oh, they don't pull them back out.

And plus, wouldn't it be varying lengths, much more varying lengths? No? Well, she's finding varying lengths. Okay. All right. I was clear about that two minutes ago. We'll have much more variance in what I'm saying. No, I said she's finding nine inch and above or shorter.

Okay. We're talking two feet. I mean, some walls. No, but people don't. They don't do that. Not in a residential area. You don't build a two foot wall. Okay.

You don't build a two foot thick retaining wall. One foot's about the max on a retained concrete retaining wall. Understood. And we see all those circles in new concrete walls. Now you see, yeah, that's a form tie. Got it.

That's what's left of a cone form tie. Interesting. But I'm a builder and there's building going on. Yeah. So I announced, I think this is a broken off form tie. I think they're using these things by the hundreds. And these are ones that got broken off or came out of the box with one side

popped off or something. And they got discarded or something, but these are left behind. But I'm, I'm a little dubious because I'm like the form ties are in the concrete. Yeah. They get poured into the wall. But I'm rationalizing. Maybe this is just extra ones or ones.

You know, look, when you're building straps and ties and screws and nails, a lot of shit kind of sloughs off, finds its way to the curb sometimes. You know, so I'm justifying. Yeah. Paulette is magnanimous, so I'm justifying. Yeah. Paulette is on the case. Magnanimous, but dubious as well. She doesn't trust me on the form. Probably she sends your doubt also, to be fair. But now I don't have that much doubt.

I think they must be form ties. Okay. So I keep telling her their form ties and I start looking up form ties online and I'm seeing pictures and some of them look like it minus the ends, which I've surmised to popped off or something. That's why I got discarded or what have you. She sends me this now going on a year and a half. It keeps going. She she sends me a text yesterday about finding more of uh different lengths now i then find one right right about the time she's texting it find another one i take a

picture of it are you walking or something i'm walking okay okay yeah always by the side always by the curb but i'm also surmising that's where the construction is going on, by the curb. That's where they'd be unloading the truck or whatever, but in kind of the gutter. And I'm looking at it, and then I take a picture of a formed wall with the formed ties in. We're just 100 feet away, new construction. I go, this is what it's being used for. She's a little dubious. Finally, I put it out to the universe.

I just go, what are these flat little bars that I keep finding all along the neighborhood? And somebody tweets back, they are

the metal bristle brushes of the street sweeper. And I go, yeah. Yes. Yeah, that makes sense to me. They're various lengths. This is a Western thing.

We have these street sweepers that crawl all over the neighborhoods. We can't park on the street on certain nights because they come by. It makes sense. I've never examined the brush, but that they're metal and they're thin. And that they break off frequently while running along the curbside. And that Paulette Geragos discovers them. And that's why there would be different lengths. They're breaking off.

Neither side has a threaded tip or anything that looks shaped. I then decide this is the problem. This is our culprit. Yeah. And then I text Paulette. Now, I was married to a theory. Yeah. But I let it go.

Yes. And I kept investigating this. And I was clouded by the construction that was going on. Yes. And by my background in construction. Yes. But it's a bias. I was a bias.

Yeah. It was a bias. And you stayed in a paradigm. It took a while. You had to have a paradigm shift, right? Yeah. There's this whole notion. A guy named Kuhn, K-U-H-N, wrote a book about paradigm shifts

and how people get stuck in a paradigm and they can't step outside of the paradigm to look in. That's a human thing. That's a science thing. It's a medicine thing for sure. Paradigm paradigms. Thank you.

It's a great example. All right. Oklahoma City Bricktown Comedy Club this Friday got four shows doing stand-up over there Friday and Saturday. And then off to NYC, Drew will be there and Gary goes to be there. May 26th, 27th, Sony Hall doing stand-up there. AdamCroll.com for all the live shows because I'm coming to a town near you. What do you got, Drew?

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