The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1836 We Fell for a Facade and a Name

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

Dr. Drew starts off today's show talking about the missing princess of Wales, Kate Middleton,  they discuss the future of Wolf Blitzer, which leads Adam to discuss compromised people. Plus, a satisfy...ing montage of 'experts' being wrong, and Drew teases an upcoming interview. Please Support Our Sponsor: MagicSpoon.com/ADS, use code: ADS

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Starting point is 00:02:00 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 on. Dr. Drew is a board-certified physician, addiction medicine specialist. Yeah, baby. What you got, man? So I don't remember if I reviewed this on this show before, and this is just on my mind.
Starting point is 00:02:28 I know this isn't something that really interests you, but it sort of goes under the category of how the press does not know what it's doing, but it's on a very specific topic, which is Kate Middleton. Have I ever talked to you about what's going on there? Yeah, I was just thinking about you. I think about you whenever I see the stories on her because it's like, well, she'll be in a hospital for two weeks and then she hasn't been seen in two months. And it's like, but it's a – Recovering fine.
Starting point is 00:02:56 Yes. The palace says it's a routine procedure. Oh, no, no, no, no. Then there's something – people's lack of sophistication with that. Well, and the lack of – again, there's always a lack of questions. Right. Like, listen, the press reporting should be, we understand she's entitled to her privacy, but please, this is serious stuff. And when you're ready to tell us, please tell us.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Look, when somebody – when a – was she 45 or 50? Is she even that? 40-year-old something goes into surgery, they're out in two days. I don't care what the surgery is. A friend of mine just had an aortic replacement that is the entire aorta, not the aortic valve, the main artery to the body and brain, completely replaced, home in three days. Right. There's no bigger operation than that. So they say she's going to be in the hospital for seven to ten days. My immediate reaction was, three days. Right. There's no bigger operation than that.
Starting point is 00:03:47 So they say she's going to be in the hospital for seven to ten days. My immediate reaction was, holy shit. Right. That's not just surgery. That's something else. She needs antibiotics or chemo or something really is going on here. And then she disappears. Now, I immediately thought, look, she's entitled to her privacy, and she probably doesn't want to talk about it because she doesn't want her kids
Starting point is 00:04:02 hearing about all this, which I totally understand. But the press, don't bullshit us. Just stop it. It's just such a great example of how they just – they don't ask questions. They don't do their job. They don't do anything. They just – oh, yeah, okay. Well, I guess she's going to start up again in June, and there you go. sort of weird the press is in some sort of space now
Starting point is 00:04:25 that I mean listen I've said it a million times the second they do an article on you you'll realize they're wrong about everything it's called gal man amnesia that's exactly what that's based on everything so that's number one
Starting point is 00:04:41 number two they're now just sort of approaching everything. The press is essentially turned into the ladies from The View. They just have their own takes on stuff, and they're kind of hysterical about a lot of stuff. Kind of. And they don't really care what is, and it doesn't really matter. They certainly have no consequences for their lack of reporting, which is what the job is defined as. They do have consequences, which is people not really listening to them like they used to.
Starting point is 00:05:17 I never. OK. Wolf Blitzer has been around for a million years. If Wolf Blitzer reported on something or said something 15 years ago, I would have been 100% in. I have no reason to listen to Wolf Blitzer anymore. So now here's the interesting question. I think he's always been like – He's done the same thing the CDC did to themselves.
Starting point is 00:05:40 They did it to themselves. Those are the consequences. Would anybody listen to Rochelle Walensky or if she retired or whoever the chick who replaced her because you can't replace a chick with a dude, maybe a gay black dude. I got to check the chart. You know what I mean? Like how many points, how many travel miles you get for like you're going to do a chick and then that chick retires. You can't replace her with a heterosexual white guy, but maybe a gay white guy. I don't know. Or a black guy who's not gay or another chick.
Starting point is 00:06:12 There's a chart somewhere. I've got to check the chart. Yeah, check the chart. But she – and, Emmy, you've got to see. I think she got replaced by a woman. Yeah, a woman. The point is this. Would you listen to anything Rochelle Walensky said about anything?
Starting point is 00:06:26 That's the consequence. Yeah. That's the consequence. The really interesting question, though, is has Wolf Blitzer always been like this and we just didn't know it? That's the confusing part. Right. I don't think he decided that he needed to have there's an
Starting point is 00:06:47 issue when the press says I must be responsible for fixing something or shaping something. Now you can no longer do your job. And that's the time we're living. She directed Mandy Cohen Bloomberg.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Oh, it's three names. There you go. All right. Mandy Cohen Bloomberg, I will not listen to when the next thing comes down the pipe. Right. Right. Right. Now, she may say something reasonable and accurate,
Starting point is 00:07:26 and then maybe I would tend to listen to her at some point. Yeah, she'd have to be reasonable for a while to get us back on board. At this point, I would not listen to anything Mandy, head of the CDC, said because her predecessor was lied. Rochelle Walensky just lied through COVID. She just lied. So why would I listen to the person who was appointed by Biden to replace her? Did we watch the Peter Hotez video where he went – was it you and I watching it?
Starting point is 00:08:05 where he did just one adjustment after another of certitude, but each cert, each cert in about 30 different statements, each one abnegating the previous one, like negating it completely. Well, he's a hysteric and a liar. Do you have that video?
Starting point is 00:08:21 And we kind of look for it. It's, it's, it's a montage. It's about a minute and a half. I think you'd like it. I can't believe it wasn't. Oh, it's a montage. Yeah. I love a montage. It's about a minute and a half. I think you'd like it. I can't believe it wasn't you and I looking at it. Oh, it's a montage. Yeah, I love the montage.
Starting point is 00:08:28 Oh, this is a really, really good one. Our screen isn't on across from me here. But it's him just going, you take your vaccine and you're done. It's like, well, now, it's always been a two-part vaccine. You've got to be, well, now we think it's a three-part vaccine. You need three parts. And it's not going to to prevent transmission but it'll keep you out of the hospital and just one after another adjustment he became cnn or msnbc's go-to authority for covid because he's a hysteric and a liar and that's the voice they put on every 20 minutes to explain to us what was going on now with COVID.
Starting point is 00:09:06 Think about that. Think about who you're going to. Did they go to anyone who was reasonable? So, listen. By the way, how come they, after he had three incorrect certain statements, how come they didn't back off? Give them two or three times at the plate. I get it.
Starting point is 00:09:21 But 20 times? Each time negating the previous appearance? Yeah. Weird. Well, unless you have an agenda. And I think Will Blitzer is going to lose his job. That'd be nice. I told you my first hint on who he was, right? It was after the Sandy Hook shooting. I went on his show every day for about a week. And at that point, he was doing it with the – I forget his name, the blonde woman that used to be in the morning show. And actually, by the way, a reasonable person, a good reporter, and you never think about her because she, guess what, does her job all the time.
Starting point is 00:09:56 She's never in anybody's crosshairs. But he came to me on like day three during the commercial break and he goes – I think I've told you this story. He goes, well, thanks for coming in here every day. I appreciate it. Our audience really seems to go for it. He goes, I don't understand it. I don't get it.
Starting point is 00:10:10 But anyway, they like it. And I thought, oh, yeah, that's who you are, dude. That's it. I think Wolf Blitzer may quietly not be that intelligent. That's what it looks like. That's what he's done to himself now. intelligent well that's what it looks like that's what he's done to himself now i i think we fell for a sort of facade in a name and we sort of a sort of voice of authority and we always talk about how these guys speak with such certitude but uh the reality is is he's probably not as bright
Starting point is 00:10:39 as we thought he was and he's certainly compromisable because he just sat up there. Whatever the subject was, it could have been Hunter Biden's laptop or all things COVID, and he just either was duped or lied for years and years. He got his job originally because of his reporting from Baghdad during the Desert Storm, I think it was. And interestingly, it was the first time live footage of an attack, of war. And of course, the Iraqis used that footage to determine their targets because they were showing where the U.S. was. But anyway, he was in the hotel room, though, with a guy named Ken Jotz.
Starting point is 00:11:24 And Ken Jotz was my boss over at CNN, one of the best guys I've ever met, and a journalist, and brilliant. And I just keep wondering what he's thinking these days. Nicest guy. I will go to the mat for that guy this day. Here's what I've learned. Almost – oh, no. Let's put it to you this way. An alarmingly high percentage of people are compromisable, much larger than we would have assumed, and at a much higher level,
Starting point is 00:12:00 pay grade, and educational background than we'd assume. I totally agree. And so I'm now, I didn't think Rochelle Walensky or Wolf Blitzer, these people could be compromised. Yeah. I now realize everybody is based, not everyone, but an alarmingly high percentage of people will compromise themselves. So that's interesting because when you say, well, Cheryl Walensky and Wolf Blitzer, I go, yeah, for sure. But I think of this guy, this guy was a standup dude.
Starting point is 00:12:34 He is such a great guy. I want to go to the mat for, he makes me want to go to the map. He did some things for my staff and things that he didn't have to do that were just exceptionally thoughtful and humane. And well also also people and brilliant dude people get delusional i mean well it could be trumped arrangement right well it's the funny thing is it's like um you know trump you know supreme court nine zero and not gonna let the the Colorado woman who just decided on her own to get them off the ballot over there. They just went 9-0 and you turn on CNN or MSNBC and they're like, oh, what is going on here? What is happening?
Starting point is 00:13:17 This is an outrage. They bought and sold Supreme Court in the hip pocket of Donald Trump doing his bidding. And it's like, listen, idiots, you don't see a danger in any individual representing a state, not the voters of the state. And by the way, positions where they weren't even voted into office, just on a whim going, I don't want this candidate or that candidate. Or the rest of the country, too, because setting candidate. For the rest of the country, too. Because setting a pattern that the rest of the country could follow. Yeah, well, others followed suit.
Starting point is 00:13:49 It'll go both ways. Do you realize what that's going to do to our elections? You're rooting for this and applauding it and disappointed now that it didn't go your way. didn't go your way because a person a partisan woman in colorado has decided that somebody can't be on the ballot because they weren't even convicted of what they decided they couldn't be on the ballot for insurrection an insurrectionist which he's never been convicted of did you did you see that woman talking did you have a reaction to her at all? Oh, I'm sure it would have sounded like one of my mom's friends. They're very disappointed. And it's like, you guys don't have any idea what you're playing with here?
Starting point is 00:14:33 You don't think this is going to be a two-way street? Completely agree. You don't think red states are going to immediately go, all right, well, let's get rid of Hillary Clinton. I mean, she had bleach bit and smashed her servers up and created a steel dossier and stuff. No, let's get her off in Texas. She can't run. Arguably, what Hillary Clinton did with many, many digressions as well. Okay, good.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Or whoever. We'll find it. We'll find it. They don't have to be convicted of it. That'll be enough for us. Yeah. You guys are cheering this on? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:11 It's bizarre, yeah. It's not? Yeah, it's bizarre. All the ladies from The View are very upset, and Rachel Maddow's very upset, and everyone on MSNBC and CNN, they're very upset. The Supreme Court 9-0?
Starting point is 00:15:26 No one's there going, this is a very bad precedent. This is a bad idea. He hasn't been convicted of anything yet. You can't go down this road. There's nobody who understands a law? It's a law. Yeah, and listen, back to the compromise ability. A friend of mine is reading a book on the Donner Party.
Starting point is 00:15:45 It's a group that came out west and took a shortcut that got nearly froze to death, most of them, and they ended up eating each other in the Sierras. It's in California, a famous story. And he just finished telling me, he goes, I wish I hadn't read it because some people are horrible. But he said, but some people are exactly who they say they are. But you said, but some people are exactly who they say they are. They end up being upstanding all the way to their death and put themselves in harm's way and do whatever they can to help other people all the way to the mat. Some got out. Some did not.
Starting point is 00:16:21 And that kind of intrigued me because it's exactly what you're saying. When people are distressed, they lose it. And it could be a delusional distress. It could be life-threatening distress. But some people remain good. They remain upstanding. And I think this guy is one of those guys is what I'm saying. We'll see.
Starting point is 00:16:37 The guy from CNN? CNN, yeah. Well, I don't know why you keep referencing that guy. Because I've been troubled by it. Does he still work there? But the audience doesn't really know who you're talking about is he still there I have to look it up I didn't want to
Starting point is 00:16:48 pick up my phone to do that alright but did you guys find the Peter Hotez thing how did you find the or Byron here it is
Starting point is 00:16:54 here it is it's a heads up it's five minutes long I love I love I love a montage of assholes being wrong and by the way
Starting point is 00:17:03 anyone who's listening can put one together for me except for you can't because I didn't say anything wrong. So the same thing the whole way. I said the same thing all the way through COVID. So maybe two minutes of this?
Starting point is 00:17:16 Yeah, let's try. Just call your own out. Yeah. One of the things that we're not hearing a lot about is the unique potential safety problem of coronavirus vaccines. And then something changed. Any vaccine released by emergency use authorization by the FDA is an
Starting point is 00:17:32 outstanding vaccine. J&J's vaccine has a risk of life-threatening blood clots. When you hear the beep, that's the sound of safety. So don't overthink it. They're both really good. They're all really good vaccines. Get vaccinated now. You gotta call now. If you wait, it's going to be really too late to protect your child. If this was your child, what happens next could make it the worst day of your life. So even though COVID poses zero threat to healthy children.
Starting point is 00:18:01 Vaccinate your children. Do the right thing. Be safe and not sorry. I'm strongly recommending for adolescents to get their two doses of vaccine and fully immunized after those two doses. Advanced technology that can help save lives. This is going to be a long lasting vaccine. A long lasting vaccine. A few moments later. We're seeing that two doses is not holding up well for emergency room visits, it's not holding up well for hospitalizations. Here we go again. Everyone's going to need a booster.
Starting point is 00:18:31 You need that third immunization. Triple the amount. Get that third immunization. The two mRNA vaccines were always a three-dose vaccine. The two mRNA vaccines were always a three-dose vaccine. I've always said this is a three-dose vaccine. I've always said this is a three-dose vaccine. This is a three-dose vaccine. I've always said this is a three-dose vaccine. I've always said this is a three-dose vaccine. This is a three-dose vaccine.
Starting point is 00:18:48 But I'm not done yet. That third immunization, the problem is it's not holding up. So we may have to look at sort of innovative solutions. Oh, God, not this again. A fourth immunization, just to keep them going. Keep the country going. We have to consider some out-of-the-box things. A fourth immunization.
Starting point is 00:19:07 Fourth! A fourth immunization. Get that second boost. A second boost. To keep the country going. I've made that recommendation. A fourth immunization. But I'm still not done!
Starting point is 00:19:16 One semester later. Unfortunately, the numbers are starting to trend up again. So the hospitalizations are up. And so the most important message that I have this morning is get your new bivalent booster. Willie and Lise were saying they got their booster and I was like, oh, I need to get mine. And then I found out they they're talking about the third shot. And is that the bivalent or is it the fourth booster or does it matter? Like, don't worry so much about the number. There's no wrong way to use it. He's an idiot.
Starting point is 00:19:45 He's a liar. I don't know. Listen, people are way more malleable than we ever imagined, Drew. And they're way more compromisable. And it's, look, let me tell you the state of the union. The state of the union is you could get rear-ended by somebody and the person that rear-ended you was going two miles an hour. And the person could get out of the car and go, listen, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:20:22 And I got a couple of tickets to the Lakers game. And if you want to go, I'll give you the tickets. And that person would go, listen, I'm sorry. And I got a couple of tickets to the Lakers game. And if you want to go, I'll give you the tickets. And that person would go, yeah, yeah, the car's no damage. Fine, thanks for the Lakers tickets. And they would get in the car. But if somebody knocked on the window and said, oh, I'm a lawyer and I just saw that. Those Lakers tickets are probably worth about 400 bucks.
Starting point is 00:20:42 I think I can get you about 40 grand. Then they'd go, you know, my neck does hurt a little bit. Oh, God. Well, is that where we're living? Yes. Oh, we've been there for a long time, and now it's paying out. That's where we're living. That's everybody now.
Starting point is 00:20:58 And that's what we're dealing with. And if you're going to be, whether it's, you know, Rochelle Walensky or Hotez or Wolf Blitzer, that's where we're at. It's a bunch of compromised people with weak character, just poor character who sort of, they're kind of Jussie Smoletti. They're just sort of, I like being on camera. Hotez, obviously no one ever heard of him. No one ever seen him. No one knew who he was. That guy was on TV seven times a week for three years.
Starting point is 00:21:32 I think he enjoyed that. So now the second he starts talking about vitamin D and zinc and hydroxychloroquine and exercise and sunshine and stuff, then he's out. He's off. And he knows it. So here we are. And that's what we have. Now, you people, listen to it. That's on you.
Starting point is 00:21:58 It's not on you for the first month. It's on you as it starts rounding the corner into two years of someone being wrong and nothing happening around you. Okay. You know, it's interesting. I told you I had a nice conversation with him. And the thing that I came away from the conversation with was an insight into how many pediatricians are making adult medicine decisions. Yes. And that that is not good. Yes. That's a problem.
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Starting point is 00:24:00 There's a major character issue going on. Major. And it's disappointing. It's like – and it's on full display. I go back 15 years when I gave my mom the bottle of Dom Perignon champagne for Mother's Day. That's all you need to know about life. I gave my mom a $100 bottle of champagne for Mother's Day. The only people in the house were me and her husband and her daughter and her mom. Those are the only people in the house.
Starting point is 00:24:36 And she said, might we open your champagne, Adam, and enjoy your top shelf champagne? And I said, that's your champagne. I gave it to you. And she hid it under her sweater. Okay. Now, is my mom a bad person? Do you know what I mean? Yeah. But she would tell you all that she cares about. She cares about the people and the indigenous people and the people of color and the poor people and the environment. That's all she ever talked about was all the people. Yeah. You know, and these kids. Like the grandmother and the table and all that.
Starting point is 00:25:16 It's a saying. What I'm saying is, is my mom a bad person? Not by any normal indicator. If all of society was wired like my mom, would we have a society? No, we would not. We would have nothing. But she has this. Right, and there's a lot of these people that are like, listen, they're like, I'm a good
Starting point is 00:25:40 person. I care about my kids. I care about my community. Right. You don't pay taxes or do anything, though. If everyone was like you, there would be no bridges, no buildings, no schools. Also, the projection, though, accuse others of what you're doing. That phenomenon is so pervasive right now, where you project.
Starting point is 00:25:59 Even you don't even know where. My mom told me five years before she died that rich people don't pay taxes. But you don't pay taxes where. My mom told me five years before she died that rich people don't pay taxes. But you don't pay taxes. Rich people pay taxes. Accuse other people of what you're doing. But by the same token, also accuse other people of being bad and greedy and whatever because that's in you. Oh, my God, yes.
Starting point is 00:26:25 I'm totally convinced that all the weird racist stuff is weird. You know, you're up calling everyone racist and then you speak at some black church about, hey, having to get a driver's license. Come on now. That's not reasonable. And these the baggage. Now, the extra knee room on a commercial flight, you you pay for it, but you don't know it until you get home. And it disproportionately affects poor people and black people. Like, okay, that's the most racist
Starting point is 00:26:55 shit ever. How do you think? It's also paternalistic. And when I was starting to practice medicine... But black entrepreneurs as good as white ones just don't have access to lawyers or accountants. Or banks. Or banks. Or stuff.
Starting point is 00:27:08 Pencils. That is so fucking racist. And you're accusing everyone else of being a racist. Oh, Jesus Christ. I mean, Joe Biden thinks of black people as like pets or something.
Starting point is 00:27:21 He doesn't even think of them as human beings. The way he talks, you know what I mean? Yes. I mean, you can hear when he does that thing where it's like pets or something. He doesn't even think of them as human beings. The way he talks, you know what I mean? Yes. I mean, you can hear what he's, you know, he does that thing where it's like, hey, you know, black people are just as good as rich people. You know, he says he makes these fucking flubs all the time where you know what he's thinking. These Freudian slips are constant. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:41 He looks at black people as pets that need to be taken care of by him oh boy so they'll vote for him it's fucking embarrassing you don't vote for me you ain't black yeah because you're black you need a white guy to give you free shit so you can have a good life right jesus christ and then you accuse everyone else of being racist. I love it. I know. Based on nothing. I'm going to interview your buddy, Brett Weinstein, who I know you had on No Safe Spaces. Were you the one that interviewed him for that, or have you met him in person?
Starting point is 00:28:16 I have interviewed him. Yes, I believe. Anything on your radar about him that interests you i'm interested in the guys that transitioned to a much more sort of libertarian whatever sort of a red-pilled kind of thing with yeah i never yeah people say that i never do but um i is that him well he was a professor at Evergreen in, I don't know, Washington State or something. I mean, a very liberal school. And he was ostensibly, I think, fit in and thought that way and did everything. Oh, for sure.
Starting point is 00:28:56 And then the angry mob chased him. Nearly killed him. Nearly killed him. And the school president or the dean or whatever just said hey you're on your own i don't want to agitate these kids with the police told them that too yeah like just run serpentine to your fucking car every day and uh and then i think he took a look at what was going on with covid and like a lot of you know deep statey stuff what is it's kind of like what we were talking about with CNN,
Starting point is 00:29:26 with journalists too. Yeah, yeah. Look, you need two things. You need a high intellectual capacity and then you need a kind of a curiosity and you need not to be married to a theme or a team. You need to be able to go, huh, I didn't think about that, and really look at it that way.
Starting point is 00:29:55 You need to be able to be objective, think about things, yeah, without emotion or tribes. I was, I mean, not politically, but I was interviewing Felipe Esparza, the comedian, the other day on my show. And I traveled through Tijuana and Mexico and Baja, and I traveled through there all the time. And I would constantly see these half-finished structures all over the place. Cinder block, window, door, no roof, like a dirt floor. And I was approaching it as a Westerner who has a building background. And I would just look at it and I would go, I know they do masonry in Mexico. All the Mexicans here, they do all the masonry.
Starting point is 00:30:40 So I've worked with these people, cinder blocks and stucco and stuff like that. So I've worked with these people, cinder blocks and stucco and stuff like that. So maybe they're not carpenters, and so they're not doing the rafters and the trusses and the framing. It's harder to find those guys. They're doing the masonry. They keep building the masonry. Then they're sort of abandoning the whatever. And then I started looking around.
Starting point is 00:31:01 I was like, I don't see a lot of forestry here. Maybe wood is an issue. They get the cinder blocks up the wazoo, but I'm not seeing two by eight, you know, ceiling joists and stuff like that. And I kept putting together these scenarios. And I interviewed him a while back. And I just said to him, what's with that? What is with that?
Starting point is 00:31:23 I would try, you drive down Baja and you see the structures everywhere. And you go, what? And he goes, well, when you drive down baja and you see the structures everywhere and you go what and he goes well when you finish it then you gotta start paying taxes so everyone builds a half finished sort of home but they don't put a roof on it because then it officially becomes a house and now you gotta start paying yep and i'm like genius genius okay yep well i had a whole bunch of different theories yep but i'm gonna throw those out the window yeah right now yeah because you just gave me one that made sense. I couldn't – mine I was trying to make sense of, but it didn't really make sense that you couldn't find enough wood to build a roof. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:31:58 Now it all makes perfect sense to me. And I'm not saying that's – it's not like a religious or political conversion. It's hearing an answer and going, yeah. Yeah. But by the way, it's also being troubled when you know it doesn't quite all fit together. You know, that's an important thing too. A reason I asked him is because it always bothered me. And I'm talking about since 1981. Like we drive through there in the 80s and it's bothered me for a long time. Yeah, and people,
Starting point is 00:32:26 as they think about things like vaccines and lockdown, they should be bothered by certain things. They should be like, even if I believe X, there's still some, it's not all fitting together yet. Yes.
Starting point is 00:32:37 All right. You can see me at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club in Vegas tonight. Two shows coming up. And then all through the months of April and May, I'll be there. West Palm Beach coming up at the West Palm Beach Kennel Club. Two shows doing stand-up. They're March 22nd and 23rd in Bakersfield and Chicago.
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