The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1901 Come on, Lets Do the Pudding!

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

Adam and Dr. Drew start off discussing the "nutritious breakfast" propaganda, the desire for Wonder bread, and the struggles of instant pudding. Then, Adam shares an infamous Larry Miller incident, they discuss the importance of caring & forgiveness, andKamala Harris shares her thoughts on inflation. Leave us a voicemail: SpeakPipe.com/AdamandDrDrew OR Click the microphone at top of the homepage, AdamandDrDrew.com

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Got to get on it. Get it on. Dr. Drew's board fortified four to five with 10 essential vitamins. Those body is in 12 ways. Oh my god. You know it's so funny that the lies that you know and I'm not you know tin foil hat I'm just saying we grew up watching commercials for super sugar smacks where they talked about building bodies and ten essential vitamins and you know the worst sugar laden carb laden shit you could possibly put into your body and especially at eight in the morning you know what I mean for a kid part of your good breakfast part of a nutritious breakfast it's like just being hit over the head

with lies you know by the way if if they were those commercial who are being poured out to a starving population who needed to watch Maintain or optimize their calorie input. Okay, but not the US population no, it was hit over the head with those types of Propagandisticistic commercials mixed with, well, the experts say you may be okay to have two eggs a month, and it might be all right to eat like maybe two portions of red meat a month,

but you should do egg whites if you're gonna do eggs, and you shouldn't be doing any, you know, animal protein, but what you should do is do like a steel cut oat with tons of honey and brown sugar in it and some berries, you know, like just wrong, just fucking wrong about everything, all of it it the whole life the whole life and then and now we're on to vaping well vaping and we're on to COVID and things the same thing right the same fucking group of assholes that have just been lying about everything the entire time that's all hundred percent and all but not not they're on to the environment they're're on to vaping the environment look

The same people that were fucking nuts about COVID are all the same people that are nuts about the environment You tell me what you think their batting average is gonna be. Oh, yeah It's zero. Yeah, I was driving. Yeah, I would just say even as a kid I remember watching the Wonder Bread commercial and I don't know if you remember this. They took a loaf of Wonder Bread with that blue and white package, and alongside of it- As well, there was red, white, and blue, I think.

Yeah, I think there was some red in there too. Yeah, the print was red. And there was, oh, you're right. I'm thinking of an older version where it was mostly blue, but it became dots around a white package. And they had some dude alongside the bread growing from age one to age 12. And it nourishes growing bodies in 12 important ways. And he is, even as a seven year old, I'm thinking, what is going from one to 12 years of age

have to do with 12 important nutrients or growth Ingredients I gotta weirdest thing. I gotta tell you That Wonder Bread Wonder Bread Was I I you know, I grew up my house like a like a convict You know like trying to cook up pruno in a toilet. What I would have done for a piece of Wonder Bread for Chris Corolla, the best sandwich in the world

when I was a kid was Wonder Bread and or white bread, smooth, skippy peanut butter and like big thing a Smucker's grape jelly or something that that's just the best sandwich ever made for anyone under under 15. All three items were banned from the Corolla house and Wonder Bread was not only sort of banned from a nutrition standpoint, but spiritually banned. Wonder Bread stood for America. And my mom hated America.

White bread, well it's got the word white in it. But I mean, it is really like, they didn't like baseball either, or apple pie, or Chevrolet. You know But I mean, it is really like they didn't like baseball either or apple pie or Chevrolet, you know what I mean? Like these are this was America and they didn't like it. And so the white bread wasn't making it into the house. Not only for caloric and nutritious reasons, but mostly symbolic reasons. We weren't gonna be some ugly white American family that Wonder Bread somehow was involved with the genocide of the indigenous people and the slavery, slave trade from 200 years ago.

We just weren't gonna be a part of that. And so, and I don't know, Drew's doing something else. I don't know if he's doing it. You know what I'm doing? I'm looking up the packages of Wonder Bread and I'm trying to figure out why I saw it as blue and when it goes through the 60s, the polka dots had taken over of the white. It's red, white and blue, is it not? It's red, white and blue. You're absolutely right. You're remembering it correctly. I'm remembering it incorrectly. Not only do I remember correctly, I've never had a loaf of Wonder bread cross the threshold of the Corolla house

It's never been inside of the house. Of course. I've only seen commercials and man's bread Well, it's what some she got right To avoid that shit. Yeah, but see here's that here's Here was the problem. Yeah, the problem was I Could have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It was just going to be whole grain bread Peanut butter that had no additives or stabilizers or anything in it and then tons and tons of honey

Yeah, instead of instead of grape jelly. Yeah, or strawberry jelly. So Chlorically, I was basically doing the same thing to myself I was just enjoying it about one-tenth as much as I would have if it was on Wonder Bread He was what she was going for it turns out as I understand it no expert in this area but as I understand the thing that makes US bread so much less nutritious and so much more fattening and so much more of a problem is the slicing. Not the grain or the whole grain or the sprouts or whatever, but that it has to have a certain consistency to it to go through the slicing machine.

Oh, really? And as in France, bread is sold unsliced. You don't slice the bread, I mean you slice it at the table. And that is the problem. Of course, she didn't care about that. I mean to be fair, later on in life, my dad would get loaves of like 40 grain multi whatever, and it was not sliced. And when you tried to slice it it would just fall it would crumble apart you know it would just come if you tried to put peanut butter on it the peanut butter would just roll over it and gather up pieces of bread you couldn't spread it you'd have to hold it down like you're

putting silly putty on the comics page or the newspaper is that the kind of peanut butter or is that the kind of bread newspaper. Is that the kind of peanut butter or is that the kind of bread or both? It was the kind of peanut butter and the kind of bread and you just couldn't get, you could not make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But listen, I would go to my friend's house and go to town. You know, that's where I would go to town.

As you described it to me over the years, it was you would take pie filling Marshmallows and count chocolate. Well, that's when I babysat No, my biggest my biggest memory of my sort of greatest memory of my friends houses like all my friends houses They had a pantry, you know, we didn't have a pantry. Our kitchen was so fucking tiny. There was just some cupboards, you know, but there wasn't a pantry.

And my friends weren't quasi normal and I would open the pantry. And when I opened the pantry, I'd see like a box of Nilla wafers and Peter Pan, you know, peanut butter. And I'd see a couple boxes of instant pudding, like chocolate, banana, you know, like Jell-O instant pudding, you know?

And I could remember like looking at my friends going, what's the pudding? What are we doing with the pudding? And they'd be like, I don't know, come on, let's go play basketball. And I'd be like, yeah, but let's do some pudding, right? There's food here. There's pudding.

And they'd go like, I don't want to mix up. I don't know, have a bowl and a thing. I don't know what to do. And I'd go like, well, it's instant pudding. We could just make it and we eat it out of the big bowl. And they'd be like, come on, let's go outside. They didn't have any interest in it. And I was like, I had to, I couldn't let them know

I was desperate and living in squalor, you know what I mean? So I was like, yeah, it was too embarrassing. So I'd be like, yeah, okay, maybe, you know what? Let's play a little hoop, then we'll just get back to the pudding after the hoop. You know? And we'd go outside for like 10 minutes Let's play a little hoop, then we'll just get back to the pudding after the hoop. We'd go outside for like 10 minutes and I'd go, all right, well I got my fill of hoop, we should head back in and get that pudding going.

And they'd be like, who cares about the pudding? Come on. They didn't care at all. Yes. Speaks volume is about the motivational intensity of the young male, right? When it comes to food and sexuality and fighting, if you, when you get something in your craw, it not coming out, it's not coming out. Oh, I needed that pudding, instant pudding.

God knows what's in instant pudding that makes it set up. Like it knocks off fast. You know, the other stuff you had to put in the fridge and sit in the bowl for two hours, but the instant pudding, man, that thing got hard fast. But I could always remember going, come on, let's do the pudding. Which now, of course, when you think about a 12-year-old boy, sounds sort of insane that I was just staring at a pudding box.

It was probably 89 cents worth of fucking box of pudding and I was like, come on, let's get that pudding going. Obsessed. But also confused, like how is it that you live in a house with instant pudding and you just go to bed at night and you don't make the instant pudding? You just, you don't make the instant pudding. You just, you don't make the instant pudding.

You just go right to bed with no instant pudding and it's just there. What I like is that the entire game of basketball is played, you're still thinking about the pudding afterwards, I'm sure. All right, let's go. All right, I got, I got something for you, Drew. Oh, I'm ready. One is I was listening to an old best of Adam Corolla show over the weekend, which I find myself enjoying because that's 10 years old. That's 13 years old. You get to find out, you know, inevitably it's a log where I'm like,

oh, I had to take the kids, had to take Sonny to basketball this morning. You know, he's playing in a seven-year-old league or whatever, and it's kind of funny to hear what you did that day and that kind of stuff. How did you pick that particular one? Did somebody say, check this one out or? They played best of on the weekends.

And whatever one Giovanni picks. Got it. Tend to listen to. I found this... And then stories you have no recollection of, no recollection. But I was talking to Larry Miller, and Larry was going over recounting a story about playing cobs in San Francisco and walking back at midnight back to the hotel or whatever. Something I've done many times. I don't know, cobs you just sort of walk back to the hotel at night. But you know it's late after the second show. And he got mugged and you know a couple of gang bangers

mugged him and Bloodied him up and he had to go to the hospital and he didn't have his wallet they had they took his watch and and They also did this move that drives me nuts is after they knocked him down one guy Circled back and kicked him in the head, you know? Yeah, that's funny. But the part I like is so, Brian Koppelman, who's a producer and a writer and did billions and written all kinds of movies and stuff, who's a nice guy but gone hard left, probably has Trump derangement syndrome.

But I like him personally, he's just gone hard. I don't know if it's a Hollywood thing. I don't know if it's a Hollywood thing or I don't know what it is, but he was calling in and he was congratulating Larry Miller on not hating the people that knocked him down and kicked him in the head, you know? And Larry, who's kind of old school, was a little confused. He was like, well, I don't hate him,

but I'm not happy it happened or whatever. And Brian was like, no, no, good. It's good that you don't. And I could hear my mom and I hear all of the left. It's like these kids need opportunity zones. These kids are punching random Asian people walking down the street. That does not have to do with an opportunity zone.

These are bad people who are raised without a dad and discipline. Now they're acting out. This thing of like we have to somehow welcome them or embrace them, or this weird pacifism bullshit, it's just window dressing. It's neither here nor there. Who the fuck cares whether you care or forgive or whatever, but it really made me think the left is just so far off on crime and evil and violence and like who these people are. Well, but they're poor and they don't have opportunities because there's not enough investment. You don't have to kick Larry Miller in the head

if you're poor. You don't have to. and you probably have a cell phone and you guys probably drove there in a car. I don't know what this thing is. Like it's a constant, I mean it's a kind of you know soft bigotry, you know basically it's a super soft bigotry. It's like these people don't understand. They're forced, basically you talk like you talk about animals in a zoo You know, I mean if you can't expect the Bears to be you know, of course, it's just it's fucking bigotry It's weird, but I just thought what is this weird obsession?

Like why did he need Larry Miller to not be angry at the fucking people that knocked him down and kicked him in the head And send him to the it at the time with him? Did it come, did you just, did you have a thought about it? No, I- Because it wasn't so pervasive back then, by then. No, it wasn't, it was a long time ago and I was just kind of listening to it and I wasn't making anything of it at the time.

Yeah, it just would have sounded odd back then, I think. Like, huh, what, really, what? Yeah, but now that's where it is. Like, hey, we got kids going through the streets of Chicago punching people in the face because they don't have economic opportunity where they are. It's so off.

Well, Adam, this could have been, if you'd only known better, you should have done the same. You could have joined a gang and had all the pudding you wanted. It just makes me realize how far off they are in terms of their assessment of human behavior. Listen, here's the deal. Lots of crime in communities that don't have lots of dads.

That's it. I've been saying it for 25 years into a microphone. They keep doing, they want opportunity zones or whatever it is they want. They want more investment into the inner city. It's like, they want everything except for the thing that works. Does that ever seem weird or suspicious to you?

Like everything to do with the homeless except for what works. Everything to do with the inner with the homeless except for what works. Everything to do with the inner city crime problem except for what works. Yeah, the homeless I understand and know how to deal with that. So that to me is glaringly off base. Criminality is always a confusing thing to me. So had we not gone through this exact same cycle in the 70s. I mean, that's why New York became such a shit show because of this very Thinking right and it doesn't work. It's not good for people any more than letting people die of addiction in the streets is good for people Yeah. Well, there you go everybody

Problem solved. Yeah I got a place now. I got a clip of Kamala Harris addressing inflation. There's also weird, there's a weird conceit which is Drew, which is funny. It's like, look, it's sort of right and left really. It's a sort of like, look, Kamala Harris may win this thing if we can just keep her away from microphones for the next 86 days, you know? It's like, yeah, no, no, she can't talk to,

it's like, that's a kind of weird conceit. Well, given that every leader throughout history, one of their significant assets is their ability to express themselves and their point of view. I mean, Abraham Lincoln's main strength was he had clear thinking and he could express it. That's what he did. Right, but they're like, we got to keep her away from microphones until after she wins.

It's like, that's a strange conceit, is all I'm saying. You got your person. Yeah We just don't want her people asking her stuff about stuff Okay And and especially yeah We don't want her asked about like her policies or her ideas or things that she would want anyone to be Concerned about what she may do in office. No, none of that. I mean, she can do the view. That's fine.

But we don't want people asking stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And especially people like Peter Ducey or someone from the other side that might ask other stuff that is tougher stuff. Can't have that. No.

Okay. No go. So here's somebody asking her about what she's gonna do with inflation. I don't know when this is from. I mean she's vice president so people are asking her and it's got to be about inflation so we're in the midst of that so that was it's got to be recent but here's a not while she was you know running for president, but here's the question. What else are you going to do

to fix this problem with inflation? All right, thank you. Well, let's start with this. Prices have gone up. All right, hold on, stop right there. Just the fact that she stymied out of the gate. You know what I mean? Like she was stymied out of the gate about this question. Do you know what I mean?

Well, how about the first comment, which is what do you do about inflation? Well, let's start with this. Inflation is inflation. It's the way she thinks. That's that's consistent with how she expresses herself all the time. No, I get it. Maps. And it's like this is a habit of hers. All right, so good. All right Yeah, expect anyway, it's gotta be it's gotta be 12 to 18 months ago just started or that they were denying inflation started from the beginning Sorry, oh the tape it's pretty miraculous. Have you seen this true? No

Awesome. It's incredible. Yeah, the thing that's most incredible about this is this would not bother my mom at all in terms of voting for this person. Or it wouldn't bother Coppleman either. At all. Not at all. A lot of people would go, you should be just as bothered by what Trump says. Let me show you some Trump things that are amazing, astonishing. No, but at least there's a plan. This you gotta watch. No, no, they would go, look, she's no great shakes.

Fine, we can survive that, but we can't survive Hitler. Okay. That's what they would say. What else are you going to do to fix this problem with inflation? All right, thank you. Well, let's start with this. Prices have gone up, and families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more, that gas costs more.

And we have to understand what that means. That's about the cost of living going up. That's about having to stress and stretch limited resources. That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level, something that is a heavy weight to carry. So it is something that we take very seriously. Very seriously. And we know from the history of this issue in the United States that when you see these prices go up, it has a direct impact on the quality of life for all people in our country. So it's a big issue, and

we take it seriously. And it's a big issue and we take it seriously and it is a priority therefore. What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it I award you no points that was from movie Billy Madison I see all right she was asked what she was gonna do about inflation wasn't she she did not answer at all not one bit not even come close. She just said what inflation was? Correct stuff costing more

Somebody has somebody must have taught her that the way to deal with public speaking is to acknowledge What the questioner is asking you and to empathize with it and to elaborate it and to show how concerned you are and then not answer the effing question I Don't know if someone taught her that. It seems like a weird technique. A tick, yeah. It feels technique. Yeah, it feels like a technique

because she looks so concentrated on it. Well, it's- This is what I'm doing. I'm gonna tell you what this is and how I understand what the impact is. This is from the end of 2021, so. Three or four years ago two years ago okay yeah two yeah I mean yeah yeah Jesus yeah less than two years ago no no 21 and we're

24 so it's almost exactly three right yeah, it'll be three at the end. It's two and a half years or whatever. Anyway, the point is, it's amazing that they acknowledged there was inflation because they were spending all their energy saying there's no inflation. Well, I don't know if she acknowledged there was inflation. She just told you what inflation was. Bread and gas going up. OK. All right.

Now they switch to it's because of those damn bakers. They're raising their prices. They're gouging the, okay, all right. It is, anyway, we are in the depths of the word salad movement. Oh boy. Which has been driving me nuts for many, many years. Your whole life. My whole life, my whole life, my whole life.

My whole life, it's driven me nuts. It's feminine in origin, but it also works with dudes too. And it's kind of what women like to hear. That's really what it is. It's sort of, it's a kind of a talk that's meant for women It's not meant for pragmatic people. It's not meant for people who want to build stuff It's not meant for people that are kind of in a hurry

You know they have a kind of metronome like what are we talking about here? You know I mean It's not meant it's not meant for the guy who comes into the guy's office and the guy's a big commercial builder. And his lieutenant comes into the guy's office and he goes, I just met with the city council and some of the people on the city council are thinking that the permit, pro and in the end you know

what the guy behind the desk will yell get to it just get to it do we pass do we pass permitting or not yeah you know because their whole thing is like I don't want to waste any more time with this fucking permitting process you tell me do we get it all right the answer is no Here's what I want to do. If the answer is yes, here's what we're going to do. You know, it sounds painful to people who like want to do stuff and sort of have an agenda and want to build. Anyone wants to build anything, this stuff is painful. Well, just remember, we used to talk about this a lot on Love Line,

which was that if, you know, a guy that if a guy comes home or husband or wife both come home from work, the wife starts complaining about something happened at her work and immediately the husband goes, all right, well, here's what I think you ought to do. And she gets pissed. No, I want you to listen to me. Just listen. Just hear me. It's like, why?

Why are we doing that? Why do I sit here and listen to you being angry and furious and having all these emotions that could be fixed we could stop that with just a just a little adjustment here we got it no no no and this is the source of what you're talking about yes so when Garcetti was giving his speech out here the mayor and he's talking about when these convicts are released and paroled, we owe them our gratitude. I'm like, just shut the fuck up.

What's the plan? Every time I hear treated with dignity, I just go shut up. You wanna talk about what's going on on the border? How are we gonna fix this? Or what's your plan? Treated with dignity means nothing, and the person walked here from Honduras and flip-flops And was raped three times along the way. I don't know how much dignity we need to treat them with

They're they need food and a blanket. I don't know about the dignity part It's like lots of lots of fucking extra talk so fucking attractive to women and certain dudes. I used to, you and I used to defend these guys by going, well, these guys just trying to get laid so they pretend to be interested in this bullshit. And we gave them an out, you know what I mean? No longer.

They're into it. They like the extra talk too. And I don't get it because it doesn't result in anything. And I find it so profoundly frustrating. It's frustrating. Yes. Unsatisfying is not a strong enough word. It's frustrating. And I keep going, just fucking move it along. What are we doing here? And they go, well, we got to talk about this. And it's like, you know what it is?

Not people not working with their hands. Well that's what it is. But you know what it really is? Women live seven years longer than men. Yeah. They got time than men. Yeah. They got time for this. Oh. We're on the clock, Drew. Oh, that's good.

I like it. I think, I swear to God, I think that's what it is. Makes sense. It makes sense. You got a full seven years to talk about nothing. You could watch Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Kamala Harris talk about having a seat at the table for full seven years Well, the other thing in addition to that and the anthropologist

Some will say I agree that women transmit culture Right in the back in the savannah when we're in country gather societies They would gather together with their children protect each other gather gather gather and and together with their children, protect each other, gather, gather, gather, and gossip. And gossip, idle gossip, is a way of transmitting cultural information. But gossip requires a lot of words and a lot of patience, while you tell stories and express your frustrations with people and things. It's all information of a cultural sort but if you're in the workplace or if you're trying to solve problems that did not

work in politics no bueno agreed all right tomorrow night I'll be at Jimmy Kimmel live doing two shows over there in Vegas and then me and Patrick Warburton are gonna be heading to the automobile museum in Reno doing a show Friday night and All the Newman race cars are gonna be there as well so you can check that out and then come see us do our show That'll be Friday good amcurl account for all live shows way to get through I would like you to subscribe to my rumble channel, Ask Dr. Drew, check it out. So, until next time, Amchurl for Dr. Drew,

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