The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1863 Inspirational to Poor Dumb People

Episode Date: May 9, 2024

Today, as Mark Geragos continues filling in for Dr.Drew, Adam gets right into the latest with Hunter Biden, Mark shares his thoughts on taking him on as a client, and they discuss how to understand politics. Plus, the solar panel battle in California, the devolution of Bill Maher, and what's been making the Aceman wakeup in a cold sweat? Please Support Our Sponsor: Shopify.com/adamanddrew

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And get ready for Mr. Burcham on May 12th. Recorded live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and Mark Garagos. You're listening to the Adam and Mark Show. Yeah, get it on, got to get on it. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks to an index tell a friend mark Garagos filling in for dr. Drew this whole week and we thought well he has a Field of expertise and so we should sort of stay on the subject with that or on point with that We kind of covered the Trump trial or the one of many in the last episode.

The Hunter Biden case is interesting. Mark has taken him on as a client. Now I'm sure there's privilege and not a lot you can say, but you know there's some you can say. And so I think it'd be interesting. Yeah, it's a fascinating case. I mean, Hunter is, contrary to maybe the caricature that's been drawn of him, it's the punching bag for certain media

outlets, specifically Fox. We wrote a letter to Fox Nation announcing that we'd been retained, demanding there was a mock trial of HunterMind that they had streaming. We pointed out the infirmities with them using his likeness and everything else. And sure enough, to their credit,

they took it down within about 18 hours. And so we continue to have a discussion with them. And I will report back how that goes with Maybe before the next episode Wow Have you physically spent time with hunter? I have I have in fact just this morning I had a long call with him Before I went into court on another matter. I sat with him and and he's he's an impressive impressive young man

Anybody is younger than me. I could consider a young man. So He's he's you know, it's one of the reasons I get attracted to cases as You know better than anybody is if I think somebody is getting bullied or stomped on or or is being vilified and so I don't care which end of the spectrum you may be I that that is still attractive to me that still gets me going so you know it's I spent a lot of time with Hunter before taking on the case and I have no regrets about it. He seems to be a likable individual and, you know, in the, well, pardon the adage, but fun guy to get a beer with, except for he'd be drinking a Shirley Temple now but that's how we sort of understand our politics that you know I believe

President Obama made a lot a lot of bad decisions and policy wise and also I think he kind of stirred the pot racially in this country but I do very much understand the it'd be fun to have a beer with that guy, which... Well, I'll go one farther. I remember sitting with, in a hotel, I believe it was in Washington state, and it must have been either 2007 or 2008, and I was sitting with a small group of people in the hotel lobby Watching a speech he gave and you know, I appreciate good Oratory oratory and speech giving and he gave one of the most impressive speeches and I was watching it and it turns out I won't mention her name, but one of his

advanced people was there with me and I was complimenting him and she said that's what he does best and turns out she was traveling with him. But I understand the allure of him and the charismatic nature of how we connected. I mean some of those speeches he gave in real time back then were For the were for the ages. I agree But there's also something wrong with him and he may be a sociopath because first off all he does is preach about don't you? Have enough money when's enough money? He's got five houses and the average price of his house is seven point seven million dollars So spare us the speech about paying your fair share when you're gonna have enough money

He also gave horribly destructive speeches like when he gave this one about you have a small business You didn't build that yourself You had teachers you had roads and then he ended it by saying, somebody else built that. Are you fucking high? Or are you retarded? What kind of message is that? Telling people that built the business, somebody else built it for you? That's communism there. So he's a horrible, horrible person. There's no doubt about it, but a great orator. but Jesus Christ the guy's dangerous when he talks

He's inspirational He's inspirational to dumb poor people That's who he's inspirational There are those who would make the same argument about Trump so I get it so rich guys love him, too That's what I would say. All right. So by the way, that reminds me, I was watching Bill Maher, who was on the cover of LA magazine, was doing an interview with Alex Michelson. I think it was with Alex. And they were talking about living in California and how much he loves Bill. Bill was saying how much he loves living in California.

Although he didn't think that we were under tax. It was one of my favorite lines. I don't believe we're being under tax. But by the way, have you noticed what the discomfort that people have with some of Mars positions? I mean, you better than anybody has noted he he's He's come he's evolved or some people would say devolved, but it really has it's really kind of a Interesting journey he's on well I can shed some light on this because he I know

the moment he sort of changed some of his stances, more sort of liberal democratic stances, and I know exactly when it happened because I used to say it all the time. He had a moment that was sort of a, well, you want to defund the police and then your 13-year-old daughter was brutally murdered in her driveway and now you want cops, you want to defund the police and then your 13 year old daughter was brutally murdered in her driveway and now you want cops. You know what I mean? So there's moments that change people. I've told everyone who will listen to me ever since there was a microphone in front of me

because I was a builder my whole life and the second I stopped building and I got into show business, I just started building my own places and had to deal with insane regulation and red tape and, you know, planning and city building departments. I realized it was a nightmare and this is 25 years ago or more in this city. And I said, the second you move out of your rent controlled apartment in Santa Monica, buy a house and try to add a deck or a guest house onto your house, then you will join me. Right now, you're walking to the Whole Foods in Santa Monica and you got rent control in

your apartment and you're paying 600 bucks a month for a place they could get nine grand a month for because it's on ocean and you're on their side. But come out with me and try to start a business or try to add a second story onto your single family home and then feel my pain and my frustration and you too shall hate the government. And- As you know, I have railed against this whatever you want to call it in California

for years. I mean, how many episodes did we talk about the outdoor dining and the in-yousee in California with that? And it just, they keep doubling down. Well, Bill Maher's Come to Jesus moment about four, several years ago, and when I say several, I probably mean about six, seven years now, he attempted to put solar onto his house because he can afford it, because he's sort of environmentally wired, and I think most people like the idea of solar. I tried to put solar on

my house when I lived up above Lake Hollywood and they told me that I had to put a breaker switch outside of the gate at the end of the driveway and I said well to shut the solar off I don't know in case there was a situation and I said well how about I just put it in the, in the breaker box or sub panel in the garage or something like that. And they said, no. And then they told me every other municipality

will allow that, but not LA. LA, you have to have it on the other side of the front gate. So Mark, I know your home and my home was not so different than yours. It was a long driveway and front gate. So, Mark, I know your home, and my home was not so different than yours. It was a long driveway and a gate. And so you want to put solar up on the roof of your primary home, and the easiest way to do the main shutoff switch is to put a breaker in the garage underneath the solar. But the city of LA says no other place requires this but you are gonna have to trench from your home to the other side of your gate to go outside the gate. I

need a two foot deep trench going all the way so we can run conduit for 300 feet and then put a breaker outside the gate next to your squawk box so the fire department can hit the breaker if there's a fire and shut the solar off and no other city will require that and then I say well then fuck it I'm not doing solar and they go fine and I go okay but you want me to do solar don't you isn't that the thing you're encouraging everyone to get solar but you're making it so difficult to do that we can't achieve it. So Bill Maher tried to get solar and then he started getting hit with the regulations and the red tape and they told him he needed a little

solar shack or something and he would go on his show on an almost weekly basis and say we're up to day 364 of me not being able to get my permit signed off for because of a four-by-four solar shack that they keep coming over and inspecting. I have my eighth inspector and he's like it's too much. It's too much regulation. I'm like now you're joining us. Now you're joining me. In my quest, I've been saying this for 30 years, but you didn't try to put solar. So Bill didn't deal with the system.

He didn't deal with the bureaucracy. He just lived in a nice home. He doesn't have kids, so it's not the thing where it's like, I can't use my school because it's unused, you know, it wasn't any. He just insulated himself. He sort of hived himself off, and he lived in this place where he sort of hived himself off,

and he lived in this place where he didn't deal with it. Then he came down and he had to deal with it, and that's when he started getting pragmatic. That's when he started talking about overregulation and overreach with government. You know what that reminds me of? I don't know why, but I come back to, you remember the old house you used to live in that where you put

a little, I don't even know how big it was. It was like a three by three piece of cement over a little trench. Yes. You remember what I'm talking about? Oh, I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about this almost every night. Okay.

I, I walk by that location every single morning, including this morning before this episode. And I look at that and I shake my head every day. It's like a daily reminder of people having lost their minds. And, and it's such a perfect vignette. For those who don't know this story, Adam got into a, I don't even, how would you describe it? How would you adequately describe how this came about?

Well, I lived on a lot that was below the street grade, and there was also a kind of a runoff flume thing that were this kind of a street gutter thing where when it rained, all the water would just come pouring down and go down what was supposed to be a storm drain on my property. And it never worked properly and it would flood and it would fill up and my backyard would flood and my pool would flood and the neighbors behind me started getting it too and it was a it was a clear issue. It was a it was an issue. So I surmised that if I went and pulled the storm drain off the grate off

about halfway the water would go down without the leaves collecting. And then I talked to a hydrologist or something, and I brought him over and I said, how do you fix this problem? And he looked at it and he said, you need to do this, and you need to pour slab over the top of it, and you need to build a little dam behind it, and that will solve the problem.

And I said, oh. And like you, this is not, you talk about a hydrologist, but when you look at what you built, it's a fairly simple and ingenious little kind of project, wouldn't you call it? I mean, it's not complicated. So then at my own expense, I followed the plan of the hydrologist

and I built myself this little cistern thing and it solved the problem immediately and thoroughly. And 100%. And then the neighbor- Did you get rewarded? Oh yes. I got a fruit basket from the city. Then the neighbor from behind me came up and said, well, I want you to tear it out because my property's

getting flooded and I don't agree it's going to work. And I have my own hydrologist and he doesn't think it's going to work. And I said, hydrologist and he doesn't think it's going to work and I said I have seen it at work it works very well and he started arguing with me first off I don't even know where this guy came from but I solved the problem then the city showed up and they said tear it out and I said first off I thought it was on my property I just solved a problem that was on my property you're just solved a problem that was on my property. You're welcome." And they said, no, jack it out. And I said, well, look, I said, here's the schematic from the hydro expert drainage guy. Can we not go off of what the expert is saying? And then

they said, our expert disagrees. I said, I didn't even know that you have an expert, but okay, he disagrees with what my expert said to do, which does work. And they said, fine. And I said, look, how about this? How about we just wait till the next rain? If it's effective, then we'll agree to leave it alone. If it's not, we'll alter it or we'll jack it out or whatever. They said, okay.

I said, fine. By the way, was, you know, just my little commentary, that alone was one of the great victories in this saga. Yes. It's telling them to have a real world test of this. Right. Then it rained very hard, you know, several days or weeks later. It worked perfectly once again.

And then they came back and said, yeah, we're going to need you to jack this thing out. They said, well, wait a minute, I thought we had an idea. I thought we had a plan, which is we're going to see how it performs. It performed excellently. And we should be able to turn the page and move on. They said, no, now we need you to check it out. I said, you know what? You can come check it out. I'm not going to check it out. It works perfectly.

Why would you want to do this? Then, of course, I sold the house. And then when you're trying to sell a house, there's contingencies. And there's this thing that's hanging over your head, right? With the with the city. And I don't even remember how it got resolved. It was many meetings, many arguments, much expense, much heartache.

And that was eight years ago, and no one has touched it, and it's worked perfectly. And the lake that would gather where the two streets sort of dipped in in the middle has been completely dissipated. There's no more water gathering there. There's no more flooding of the backyard of the property and there's no more flooding of the neighbor's backyard. It's 100% completely solved and I did it at my own expense. For that, I was vilified and attacked. That's sad.

And I think they, at some point, I think there was legal action taken. There was. Right, I remember. I remember having to kind of navigate that and thinking to myself, but this is the epitome of no good deed goes unpunished. And Mark, who has walked those streets for all these years,

for the first time, does not have to walk through a man-made lake at the bottom of those two streets. By the way, the neighbor who's directly across the street has applauded you, the guy on the north side of the street, has applauded you. The guy on the north side of the street has applauded you for this ingenuity because he had complained bitterly.

It got nowhere. Right. But the city and the way the city works is I did something without asking their permission. Now, it also the city needs to understand that the reason most people or many people bootleg many things is because if I went to the city and said, hey, here's what I'd like your blessing on, we'd still be arguing about it today. So I just went ahead and did it. Yeah, and people would, there'd be flooding, there'd be accidents,

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when in fact the FBI or the CIA had the laptop and knew that was false, why is that not election interference? Well, it's very interesting because the more I get into this case, and we should, we could do a whole episode on this shortly, but not right now, because he's pending two criminal cases in June as we take this. I'm not so sure that that laptop is where they say it is, and I'll leave it at that. There is a backstory to that that we have developed during the investigation of this action that we're taking. I'll leave it at that.

I wish I could say more because it's fascinating to me. And there is a certain irony to the 51 intelligence agents and then saying it at first, then being discredited and now looking like there may be something there. I mean, this will be fully developed, I believe, in a matter of months. Really? Yeah. And I, you know, the election interference kind of mantra, and this goes back to what we were discussing in the previous episode, you know, the election interference in my prediction going forward is that this Trump trial, and I said it, I think in the last episode, picking out of eight years since this 2016 episode, and when you indict somebody and when you put them on trial trial and you pick out of that, whatever, eight times 365 days is,

you pick it in the lead up to the presidential election, you can make a pretty good argument that that is election interference. And I know that's blasphemy in the bubble in which I exist. bubble in which I exist, right? Mm-hmm, but something I want to get your head on real quick before we wrap it is Stormy Daniels took the stand a few days ago and she was just sort of walking through the process of meeting Trump and heading back up to the room and what he was wearing and stuff like that. Does that feel relevant to what this case is?

And- I've got so much to say about the relevance of this. Let's do it on the next episode because I will go, I will also tell you that they are trying, they being the defense. And he's got a couple of great lawyers, Susan Nicholas, who I've met a couple of times and I have great respect for, Todd Blanch,

who's by all accounts a top flight litigator. They are not, they're never gonna admit this, and just as I would never admit it, they're not looking for an acquittal. They're looking for a hung jury. They are trying this case on the basis of, can we get a hung jury? There is a shot, they have a shot.

And we'll talk about it on the next episode. It's the jury selection, and I'll talk about that. All right, you can go to adamcorolla.com for all my live shows, Vegas and Irvine and head into, God, where is it? Timonium, which is a weird place, it's outside of Baltimore. New York and Eugene, Oregon,

and just go to adamcorolla.com. Where are you in New York? I'll be at governor's and That'll be June 28th and 29th Jake's birthday. We're gonna have to take him there for his birthday the 29th. Oh really? In New York, absolutely. Oh, so you guys gonna be in New York? Yeah, I'll be in New York. We're come come to the show Absolutely, right? I have to talk to August and you gotta talk to August to see what kind of mood he's in You fly him out there he'll

What do you got mark oh? Oh, go to reasonabledoubt.com. We still do it. We're waiting for Adam to return. Someday, Adam and I will tell you the whole backstory, but not now. And also, if you're in Palm Springs, go by Gigi's at the V Hotel. If you're in San Clemente, go by Constantropic Hollow and try Pearside Restaurant. So until next time, Adam Pearl for off from Mark Garagas saying, Mahalo.

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