The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1724 Gavin Newsom's Night Out

Episode Date: May 26, 2023

Adam and Drew take a deep dive on Gaivin Newsom's outdoor dining regulations during the pandemic and compare it to his own public dining experiences at that time. Next, they remember the executive at SoFi stadium's regulations during Super Bowl LVI and Drew wonders why he still has a job. Please Support Our Sponsors: TrustAdamDrew.com or call 844-790-9191

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. Dr. Drew's board-cert, depicts mental medicine. Depicts it. Oh, my. Yeah, all right.

So I want to go back to what we were talking about last show, which is how troubled I was by the lockdowns. Yes. And I started thinking, not only was I troubled and didn't like seeing people suffer, the whole thing depressed me. It was like depressing. Oh suffer so the whole thing depressed me it was like depressing like oh you know when the whole world was i think i was angry i was angry too uh more than depressed i'll tell you what i'll tell you what i didn't i'll tell you really what i think i was i was kind of tapping into i i realized that this whole thing was sort of needlessly politicized from Jump Street. I thought Trump was riding a wave into a second term and that the Democrats grabbed this, seized it, and used it as an opportunity to make some political hay. And so I felt like it was like east germany and west

germany you know and it's like every time west germany opened a new cafe east germany got angry and locked people in their closets you know what i mean like like every time desantis would go we're opening up gavin news will go well then we're closing the beaches yes you know what I mean? Like every time DeSantis would go, we're opening up. Gavin Newsom would go, well, then we're closing the beaches. Yes. You know what I mean? Like, I'll show you. And I'm like, I live in a fucking state where these guys are having a pissing match about, you know. It started to become clear.

It's like Trump would be like, I'm going to send the hospital ship to L.A. Harbor. And Garcetti would be like, we don't want your hospital. It's like, what do you mean you don't want the hospital ship? I thought you were out of beds. Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. And I remember. We're going to, you know, during the summer of love when all the cities were burning, Trump would be like, I'll send the National Guard.

Like, we don't want your National Guard. But your city's burning. And we have to live in the city. I know you don't like this guy, and I know you're against, you know, Trump said open schools. So, no, now we're going to close schools. And then they go, well, you should open business. Now we're closing the beaches. You want to keep going?

And I'm like, hold on a second here. You're making your horrible decisions based on your hatred for the current administration, but we have to live in your godforsaken state? Yes. Fuck right off. I'm not part of your little pissing match experiment here. Yes. If businesses can be open, then businesses can be open.

Also, way too much delineation, and there's way too much mask up between bites you know what i mean like churches oh no no no no no no right i can't be open what about nail salons no what about liquor stores yeah okay okay what about pot dispensers yeah okay uh what about ball games no no what about black lives Matter march? Yeah, okay. Okay. By the way, you can't do that. Right. You understand? Right.

It's either it's closed or it's not closed. Right. It's either it's safe to fly commercially or it's not safe to fly commercially. It's sort of like, yeah, but no. No, but yeah, but no. Like, that's a wildly inconsistent message by the way by the way capricious all it also seemed like all of the places that were getting closed would have been organizations that were a little more right wing and a little more right-wing and a little more right-sided leaning. You know what I mean?

A theme started to emerge that, look, if you wanted to have a rally, a pro-life rally, Fauci wouldn't have been down with that. But if you want to have a Black Lives Matter rally, he would have been down with that. But if you want to have a Black Lives Matter rally, he would have been down with that. It was starting to, the themes were starting to emerge, is what I'm saying. Yes, and remember, I used to try to, I was always trying to equate it with Trump

derangement. I kept saying, this party's all kind of Trump derangement. Yeah, I mean, not to mention, you know, when people are like, oh, Gavin Newsom's such a hypocrite going out to the French Laundry. I would say he's not a hypocrite. He doesn't believe this is dangerous. And he's a hypocrite.

And he's a hypocrite. When you believe something. Has anyone seen Gavin Newsom riding a motorcycle with no helmet? No. Because he thinks it's dangerous. But 28 of his closest friends at the French Laundry, he goes to because he doesn't think it's dangerous. Right. This is pre-vaccine.

He bulldozes the skate park at the beach because it's dangerous, but he doesn't think it's dangerous. If he thought it was dangerous, he wouldn't go out to dinner with 30 of his closest friends. He's lying. He doesn't think that. This thing is like, oh, he's a hypocrite. He's throwing caution to the wind. He's not throwing caution to the wind. He knows the data and he's not going to get sick.

Or if he does get sick, he's not going to be fine. So what? Everyone else at the fucking dinner. Yeah. So that and they all believed it, too. Obviously, there wouldn't attend. Right. Yeah.

And now when we were in that position, the feeling that you get was when was that? Sorry. When was that? The French laundry must have been dinner. Right. And then did he shut down? He shut outdoor dining out down after that. Oh, is that right?

I remember that the French laundry incident was fairly early on. I remember him trying to say that when we were outside, then it turned to people had pictures of the closed windows. Well, OK, let me explain two things with Gavin Newsom. Here's what that going to the French laundry shows. A, he doesn't care about COVID. He's not scared of COVID. He's not fearful of COVID. A, he doesn't care about COVID. He's not scared of COVID. He's not fearful of COVID. Otherwise, he wouldn't attend.

B, he's not fearful of being photographed telling everyone to lock down either. But let's remember, he got nearly taken out of office. At least an effort was made. An effort, but not nearly. But I'm just saying. He knows he's in California with all the fucking dumb shits and we're going to vote for him constantly so he can go do what he wants. He's an apex dumbo predator in California.

We'll try final states. Anyway, go ahead, Drew. So when you're in that position looking at the things that you're describing, all these seemingly random, capricious, awful, consequential policies for no good reason that you can figure out. It makes you feel helpless, right? Isn't that the feeling? Or powerless? Yes, it makes most people feel.

Everyone feels a lot. Well, no. Sadly, way too many people get comfort from it. I can't even imagine that. You make you feel powerless, but not the dumbo who you're crate training. Well, maybe that's where this problem is. So they're not just complacent, but feel taken care of or something. And we felt powerless and at the whim of a capricious authority that was harming people.

Are we too far one direction? Are we? Because that's what made me depressed. The helplessness made me depressed, I think. And then looking around at the fucking nuclear winter in this city. Let's see. Kevin Newsom

went to the French Laundry on what date, Emmy? That'll be easy. November 17th of 2020. All right. So he went. So, hey, that teacher's thing I'm thinking of, it may have been well before that, by the way. But go ahead.

He closed down outdoor dining in December. Right after that. That was 2020? Yeah. All right. Right after that. That was 2020? Yeah. All right. So he went, named, and then said he was outdoors, so it was fine. Yeah. Except for he lied.

Then he closed down outdoor dining the next month. So do you understand why I'm not listening to Gavin Newsom? Do people not remember what we were going? Maybe it's just California got a huge dose of this because I go around the country and people are not that affected as we were here. Yeah. You know, fucking dumb in this state. I guess that's it.

Well, they're not dumb. They're such ideologues that they don't. ideologues that they don't. They're if a person says he's not for drag queen story hour, they go, we're not voting for you. And we don't care

how bad California becomes. San Francisco is rendered unusable. It's all worth it to have drag queens. They have no thoughts about what they've done to San Francisco? No. What they do is they sort of separate.

I think we were talking about this connect policy very closely to people they don't like. So if they don't like Trump, then they go, he's putting kids in cages at the border. You know, these policies, these policies, there's no Muslim ban on flights, you know, and these policies, you know, we don't like these policies. And then when it's the people they do vote for, it becomes a sort of cycle that just sort of is the cycle of life. Like, you know, New York has crime sometimes, and then it doesn't have crime, and then it has crime again. Right, it has nothing to do with the policies. Again, and now it's just sort of, we're in a sort of homeless cycle now.

It wouldn't really matter who was in charge. This is just what's happening. You know what I mean? Like, test scores are down, and black and brown kids are falling further behind and the economy's junk and gas is five bucks a gallon and there's homeless everywhere. And businesses are leaving. Well, but there's always systemic racism, of course. Yeah, it's just sort of a cycle that we're passing through.

And we'll just pass through it. But it's really got nothing to do. it but it's really got nothing to do look the thing about there's only one yardstick to measure any society um the canary in the coal mine are just businesses if people are packing up and leaving your city that is a foreboding you you know, traveler from the apocalypse. Like, wake up and look at that. What the fuck is going on with these people leaving? Why were they? Gavin, where are you going to go?

You know what I mean? Like, people are leaving. Yeah. They're leaving. It's all right. That's enough for staying behind to pay the reparations. Right. Imagine if he actually, people maybe around the country aren't aware that he's planning eight million dollars per person.

Oh, no, he's he's given up. Nope. He's back at it. Oh, he's back. He gave up for a minute. Now he's back. Because obviously you couldn't deal with the backlash, I guess. Oh, when did he just came back yesterday?

Yeah. Let's look at this. This is we got to get at this. Yeah. Yeah. We got, let's look at this. This is a, we got to get at this. Yeah. And, uh, it, it,

it, imagine the Exodus then. Imagine. Whew. Imagine when he tries to rewrite the constitution and say, you know, you got to pay taxes for another decade. If you leave,

you know, like he's, they're trying, they're looking hard. It're trying. They're looking hard. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. I know. It'd be so great to stay in

California because California can be awesome. They can't do it. Now the budget is screwed up. Well, they knew the budget was going to be screwed up. There was no doubt about that. And why he didn't plan for that. I mean, they're the budget was going to be screwed up. There was no doubt about that. And why he didn't plan for that, I mean, they're going to have a $50 billion short haul. I think they really believe that they can just convince the federal government to hand the money. Well, there's going to be some more business taxes going on, too.

Yeah. Only three, sorry, only about two weeks, two and a half weeks after the French Laundry incident did he close down outdoor dining. And why did he close down outdoor dining? You know what? We should be taking aim at the clinical director, that public health guy that was such an asshole. He was a pediatrician that was the head of the state. Forget his name. Mark something. He was, talkian that was the head of the state. Forget his name. Mark something.

He was – talk about hubris. Oh, my God. He was going to show you how to do things. And I remember I had a conversation with him or his wife about their data. It's like, we like our data better. I'm sure you do it was there was what i the the thing that they would constantly hit you with i remember was hospitals overcrowded yeah that was their big thing yes and that was they would distort that i would have to yell at the producers every day on the news program i was doing like listen they're

talking about first of all they're saying county beds, county hospitals in L.A. County. There's a limited number of county beds. That doesn't mean people are not hospitalized elsewhere. It's just county is at its limit, and its limit is hit because they don't have nurses. Not because they don't have beds, because they don't have the nursing to keep up with it, and they don't have nursing because of horrible policies. So. When did me and Sonny Emmy go to the Tin Horn Flats? They definitely captured it on TMZ.

Was that like January or something? Was it after the? I think I was still sick when you did that. Dave. If I remember right. Well, he closed down outdoor dining and then they stayed open and then they defied them. And they made a little noise about it. That's what got them in trouble. There were a few other businesses that stayed open, but they didn't make noise about it.

Tinhorn Flats made noise about it. And that's when the feds had to move in. Was the feds or was it the county? It was the county moved in and basically bolted the doors and put plywood over the doors and eventually put a fence around it. Think about that. Now it's no more. TMZ was December 15th.

December 15th. So he declared it on the 6th. So it was a week and a half after the declaration. Didn't we already have outdoor dining problems here in this county? Weren't they already sort of cracking down on that before the state? Well, December was also the infamous Pineapple Hill Saloon from Sherman Oaks. Was this the movie thing next door? Yeah, they had a production next door that had the same outdoor dining, which is fine.

Look, everybody, when you see wild inconsistencies, that's when you know it's over. Not just inconsistencies, but what's the word I'm looking for? I mean, illogical. And just ridiculous, actually ridiculous. Yes, they told everyone indoor dining was too dangerous, so they moved you out to outdoors. And at great expense, everyone moved outdoors. And then they announced outdoors was too dangerous, something based on zero data. Can we once again take aim at that guy from the SoFi Stadium during the Super Bowl? Oh, that douche.

We have to keep just pointing that douche out over and over again so people can be appropriately disrespectful to the guy. Yes. Do you have his— Or just add him to the list of people to never be listened to again. Yeah. Or whatever. He's a liar. He's authoritarian.

I don't know what he's talking about. We're on to you, yeah. Or whatever. He's a liar. He's authoritarian. I don't, I don't know what he's, what he's talking about. I don't. We're onto you guy. We're onto you eating popcorn. Your kid's eating popcorn. My favorite, my favorite clip of COVID is that douchebag. How about the people that six months ago were still insisting that we were in a catastrophe? Are they calming down?

And what do they feel about those feelings from six months ago when we weren't in a catastrophe? Listen, micro and macro, I just don't listen. Too many people showed their hand. Now you've made it onto my list of people not to listen to. Well, we got to be reminded of it. It's getting a pretty long list. We need to remind people.

people not to listen to. We've got to be reminded of it. It's getting a pretty long list. We need to remind people. So this is the guy that's the manager of the, what do they call it officially? I don't know what is the title, but he runs SoFi Stadium, I guess, and they're getting prepared for the Super Bowl, Super Spreader event. Yeah, of course. By the way, all it was-

A year and a half ago. All it was pictures of Mayor Garcetti and these guys taking pictures with Magic Johnson and explaining, like, of course, in the pictures, like, where's your mask, Garcetti? I held my breath. I held my breath. Would you? By the way, that has nothing to do with you contracting this illness. It gets in through your nose. He held his breath through.

Look, it's not Garcetti. It's not this fucking douchebag. It's not Gavin Newsom. It's all you people who listen to these people. It was abundantly obvious from almost Jump Street that they politicized everything and they didn't know what the fuck they were talking about. Or they did and they were lying. Let's see what this guy says. What's his name?

I always love calling him out. Yeah, for sure. Because I have friends that work at SoFi who hate him. No, we have to call him out. Protocols include a mandatory mask requirement in a stadium for everyone two years of old, regardless of their vaccination status. Two years. Two.

Are required to wear a face covering in the stadium and the tailgate areas, except while actively eating and drinking. And that doesn't mean buy a bucket of popcorn and eat it for two hours. Actively eating and drinking. We are on to you. All right. Major. Russ Simmons.

Russ Simmons. Yeah, from SoFi. Now, here's the thing. First off, listen, everybody. We need you to wear a mask while tailgating. Except when you're eating. mask while tailgating. Except when you're eating. Which is tailgating. All tailgating is is eating and drinking.

Correct. The only time you don't have a brat in your mouth is when you have a beer in your mouth. That's what tailgating is. So, by the way. You're outside. Could you, Matt, but first things first. Oh, my God. What is wrong with that guy?

He's a fucking... Why does he still have his job? Oh, because he's on the right side of everything. Why doesn't he have a... They probably still have six feet, Steve's lives all over that. Oh, they have stickers all over the fucking ground. Look, here's what I'm saying.

I'm sitting around watching this shit, and I'm like, how could you possibly enforce mask wearing when you're tailgating if everyone has a plate of food and a beer? Yeah. You couldn't enforce it. No, you couldn't enforce it. There's no way you could wear your mask. Well, yeah, but no, I'm looking at him from their standpoint. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How would one enforce nursing a tub of popcorn for two hours?

Would you have people come around and go, I saw you eating that popcorn in the first quarter. It's now the third quarter, and you're eating the same tub of popcorn. And you didn't pull your mask up. And I could go, no, I bought a new tub of popcorn that you guys sell at a hefty premium at the stadium. The other thing is, if you don't want people nursing a tub of popcorn, then don't sell popcorn at your stadium. don't sell popcorn at your stadium. There's a logic to all of this stuff, which is it's inherently dangerous

to nurse popcorn. And by the way, a bucket of popcorn, like a big stadium bucket of popcorn, that's an hour. You buy popcorn, you don't eat it like a hot dog, you sort of nurse it. You know what I mean? It's just there.

It's just kind of between your legs. Yeah. We're on to you. Wear your mask. This guy's a fucking idiot. He was everything. Russ Simmons. Russ Simmons. Yes. Everything that's wrong. Everything that was wrong with COVID is Russ Simmons. Yes. Yes. But we have 20 more of those.

Idiots. But Mark Galley. Mark Galley was the guy's name from the state. It's still it's you, everyone. Yeah. For not screaming about this guy, which, of course, I did on many occasions. I screamed about Fauci. Nobody got sick that day, by the way.

And nobody wore a mask in the whole damn stadium. If they thought masks work, they wouldn't take pictures of themselves with no mask. If you think something works, people think seatbelts work, they use seatbelts consistently and vigorously. Yes? Yes. The, God, I'm really kind of reeling that the outdoor dining thing was just two weeks after the French one. That seems weird. Yeah, I don't remember it that way.

It's funny. I would have put it before. No. Yeah. No, I knew. I knew it was after. But that didn't last that long, did it, the outdoor dining thing? No, it just lasted long enough to kill 10 more flats.

Long enough to destroy some businesses. They are suing, right? Yeah. Oh, my God. They got Garagos. Yeah, suing, right? Yeah. Oh, my God. They got Garagos. Yeah, they got... It was like... It lasted a month.

I mean, I went 10 days after they did it, and the business was open. It took a little while for them to put an iron gate around it. I would say I have very few regrets during COVID and some of the things I said or didn't say. One of them is that I didn't go to 10-hour flats. Yes.

Well, that was... I should have made that effort. Everyone hated me, but what I never understood is we have these snapshots in time historically. And during the snapshots, there are the people who did the right thing and didn't do the right thing. And there's plenty of stories of like during Jim Crow and segregation. segregation you know they go branch ricky of the dodgers insisted that the black players stay at the same hotel and said said he would forfeit the game in chicago if they didn't you know and you go oh i wish someone was talking about me that way after i die yes you know what i mean and frank sinatra said that sammy davis jr wasn't have to come in through the kitchen he walked in the front

door through the casino with him. And if he didn't like it, he'd cancel the show, you know, like that. And so now that's why Joe Biden grafts himself onto marching at Alabama and, you know,

going to South Africa to get arrested with Nelson Mandela and Kamala Harris going to the Freedom Rally saying when she was two saying she wanted freedom. You know, I was there in my stroller, you know, putting.

And of course, the two year old knew exactly what she was referencing. It's a freedom rally. She was there to pressure. Yeah. Yeah. So she was there to advocate for freedom. So that's why people graph themselves onto these situations. Now, what is it? Well, in that case, it's racism, but themselves onto these situations. Now, what is it?

Well, in that case, it's racism, but it's really oppression. It's really like the government has said, you can't go into this restaurant, black person. You have to sit at a separate counter. It's the overreach, the big hand of government going, no. You know what I mean? And Rosa Parks, you sit in the back of the bus. You know, that's, that's, is that the person? People forget it's government that put those policies.

I mean, the people did it, but the government was the, the executioner and enforcer. It was the Democratic part of the government, too, that did it. But it's not the bus driver's personal policy. It's the government. But I think people have an illusion that they would stand up to these things if they were in Germany in 1939, if they were in Alabama in 1950. Well, I think that myth has been blown out of water. I still think people think they would be the one. Well, they do.

But they were not during COVID when they should have been. So government's heavy hand came in to place. Yep. And I would have wanted to be counted amongst the persons just like you wish they were talking about your father marching in Selma, Alabama, 1962. You know what I mean? You wish he was. He was sitting in pasadena watching tv and my dad didn't do anything either but i wish i could tell that story yeah you know what i mean

but then again he didn't want to get hit with a fire hose or beaten with a baton or bit by german shepherd right um so for me personally i was, you can call it COVID or you can call it Jim Crow or you can call it I'm going to call it government overreach. And then I would like to go on record as being the person that did not go along or protested at least during the government overreach. or protested at least during the government overreach. So I'm in La Cunada, California, and I drive all the way across town to eat a subpar burger or a decent burger, but certainly could have gone up the street and gotten a better burger. And I'm going to bring my son, and we're going to capture it. You know, I want to speak to my father's situation at that time, and it's kind of interesting

because, you know, I'm always calling for Eurocentric people to be more aware of what's going on. I think my dad might, my mom certainly would have gone to Alabama in March. They weren't aware of it. And at the time, what my dad was dealing with was he came out of a Jewish ghetto and was not able to practice medicine in certain hospitals because he was Jewish. And was not able to live in certain areas in Pasadena because he was Jewish. Really? Absolutely.

Is that true? 100%. The hospital that I ended up working at, he was not allowed to be on staff at. There was a club across the street from where they end up living that absolutely excluded Jewish people for like 100 years. So that's what – Oh, that I buy. That's what he was – well, I mean they are not welcome kind of thing. Well, thank you.

I mean – but make a distinction. Well, it was not the government. The point is it wasn't – he wasn't dealing with the government. He was dealing with systemic social stuff. Right, right. But it's interesting. I think they were so – these immigrants, he was an immigrant, so preoccupied with their stuff. I don't think they just didn't – there was no internet.

They couldn't know what was going on. They were dealing with their own crazy shit. It's interesting. Well, anyway, somewhere there's me and Sonny talking to TMZ in front of Tin Horn Flats. And she'll live on the internet and good for us. I'm glad I brought Sonny. Yes.

Hope he appreciates it also. He doesn't care. Alright, you go to mcroll.com. Gonna be tonight and tomorrow night doing stand-up at Sony Hall in New York City and then off to Solana Beach. That's belly up. Coming up June

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