The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1912 Fleeing Top Earners

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

Wrapping up the week, Dr. Drew opens up the show talking about the hot topic of censorship, Mark Zuckerberg admitting that Facebook was asked to redact information, and who's deciding what’s right or wrong for others? Then, Adam explains the difference between lying versus just being wrong, the new world order of slippery politicians, and the season of fleeing celebrities is upon us! Leave us a voicemail: SpeakPipe.com/AdamandDrDrew OR Click the microphone at top of the homepage, AdamandDrDrew.com

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Sex sex man. What's going on? Drew? What are you working on? I'm just going over there. I can just trying to finish my shit before we get going here. Mm-hmm I want to talk about the censorship stuff we talked a little bit a couple of days ago about How that is really the where the battle lines need to be drawn, you know, and how they're, you know, like we said, you're trying to, we try to shame people that have been so wrong, and now they want to have a some sort of administrative structure, bureaucracy around censorship, where they decide what the right thing is, what the truth is. And I'm really, really, really concerned about this. And I'm really, really, really concerned about this.

And I'm wondering, did you see that letter that Mark Zuckerberg wrote to Congress about – he essentially wrote a letter saying, yes, we were muscled, yes, there were specific incidents – and I think one of them was like the laptop – where we were threatened essentially and caved into the pressure from the government, and we will not do that again, which I appreciated. Did you see that letter? Yes. Your thoughts?

See, I saw it as a good thing. Yes, it was a good thing too, although it would have been nice if he did it three years ago. Oh, yeah. Three and a half years ago. You know what? I'm so disgusted with everybody. As long as it comes, I don't care when. They were sort of too late, I agree.

I get it. I mean, let's be clear. There was election interfering and tampering with, and I don't want people to think that's some sort of flamethrower you know tinfoil hat thing I will explain myself the last election was a very close election that was decided by maybe 40,000 votes if you take the electoral college in the swing states and whatever it is I'm not an expert but yeah it was very close-hmm a certain percentage they say

17% of Biden voters would have not voted for Biden had they been exposed to the truth about Hunter Biden's laptop and the big guy and Joe Biden and Tony Bobolinski and Burisma and Ukraine and everything else. They would have had different thoughts as one could imagine because you would have different thoughts. If you found out that the guy you love drowned his dog in the pool a week before the election, you might vote differently. I wouldn't, but it's a word about the economy. But either way, It's a word about the economy. But either way, it was information. And it was information that would have helped Trump

and would have hurt Biden. No one truly knows what the outcome is, but one could surmise that with an election that was this close, and a number such as 17%, 10% would have been millions of votes. So yes, it would have had an impact and it probably would have swung in favor of Trump. This information was true and the FBI was aware of it because they had the laptop for a year before that.

And then they suppressed the truth and the particulars of that. And so did Silicon Valley and so did the media. And they all fall, fell in line and so did the FBI and so did all the people who signed the document, the 51 people that said, had all the earmarks of Russian collusion and so on and so forth. And then they signed it just before the debate. They armed Joe Biden with that information. So in the debate they armed joe biden with that information So in the debate if trump brought it up Then he could jump in and say he had a document where fit all these experts said it was bogus and russian collusion

Uh, and then he won the election Okay Uh, that's called tampering I I don't let's put it this way. What if it had been a foreign power that had done that? What would you call that? What if Russia was capable of what we're capable of? Yeah. Or what the FBI is capable of? Yeah. That's what it is. Yeah. Okay, so they tampered. Then all the people that said this is what's going on. I'm being shadow banned for talking about things about COVID or either rectum or vaccines. I'm being shadow banned for Hunter Biden related stuff. I'm

being deplatformed and so on and so forth. All these people accused the government of doing it and being behind it. Yep. And and saying, look, if you would have got hold of Tucker Carlson four years ago, he sat down, I mean, for almost four years to the day. And he said, um, what was Tucker Carlson's Byron interview with Tony Bobolinski, but it would have been it was a while ago Thank you. Yeah, thank you for four years to the day Coming up on four years to the day. Hmm. Okay

Tucker Carlson came out to LA. Mmm sat in a hotel room said I'm not gonna do my normal format with the monologue and everything I'm just gonna talk to this guy. He was a partner of Hunter Biden and who met Joe Biden the big guy and did business with them in China and Russia and Ukraine and beyond and he four years ago and I watched it and I went okay well that's what happened yeah Tucker asked all the questions Tony provided all the answers and I was like, all right, that's That's what happened in October 2020 so we're coming right up on it. I went well that guy was

Joe Biden's business partner and he was hunter Biden's business partner and they went around and Struck deals on Joe Biden's name and collected a bunch of money. So I knew it. The FBI knew it. They had the laptop. Big tech probably knew a lot more. And more importantly, Biden and the Biden administration knew it.

So they did what they did. And then we knew what we knew. And then anyone who said anything was shouted down and called, you know, Putin's puppet or, you know, you know. So Tucker Carlson was Putin's buddy. Again, back to why aren't the so-called journalists embarrassed? Well, they did it too because they were in on it because they wanted Biden to win. But I think they convinced themselves because of the FBI guys that they were in with the just cause.

So not just the just cause. I don't think so, because let me explain. You think they thought they were lying? Yes. Oh, boy. Well, here's what I'm saying. I think people are just deluded. I really do.

Do you think 60 Minutes doesn't have access to like whether the Hunter Biden laptop is real or not? Do think 60 minutes doesn't have access to like whether the Hunter Bind laptop is real or not? Do you think they don't have access to that information? I think they were so deluded they didn't even ask. Do they ask today? Do they ask questions today? They don't. Let me explain what is going on. The explanation of what's going on is if you were a journalist and you were lied to by big tech and the administration and the FBI, then you were outraged that they lied to you. But no one's outraged, no one said a word. That's right.

And I've said, okay, when you get things wrong, you rush to fix those things. It's a very simple dynamic that I've really come up with semi recently and I really feel firm about it. Okay? p.m. Yeah, and I mean correct. Hmm But I mean correct I just got it wrong at 6 it's 6 p.m. And I said 7 p.m Yeah, then I'm wrong. Yeah at some point later on When it comes to be the truth comes out. It's a 6 p.m. Flight. I then go I'm sorry I was wrong and I feel embarrassed and I'm sorry, I was wrong,

and I feel embarrassed, and I screwed up, and I'll probably offer an explanation as best I could, but I would acknowledge it and admit it and whatever. If I'm lying to you, if I'm saying it's at seven, and you're going, no, isn't it six? I go, no, no, it's seven, and I know it's at six, I'm saying seven because I wanna buy some with my with my girlfriend or something in my apartment I never come back and go oh my apologies I stick with it I never offer

anything if these people were just wrong versus lying they would all be me a culprit right now but they're they're not none of them do it they were lying and they they knew were lying they have enough access to information to know these things and also the reason they're lying is when you're not lying you then go on CNN and you go Ivermectin I don't know could work talk to your doctor I'm not an expert I don't know no no they were emphatic about what they knew and they were wrong about it and they were lying and so now they want to they want to be in charge of the media because they need to be in charge of the media. And the reason they need to be in charge of the media is if you're not lying and your ideas are

good, your policy is good, then you don't need the media. You need the media when your ideas are bad and you're lying. See what I'm saying? Yeah. COVID needed the media. Because everyone who was wrong needed the media. Everyone who was right didn't need the media, they were just right. That's interesting. I don't know.

Now whatever the media's doing, I don't, that part, that part's interesting to me. You mean the fact they're not asking questions and they're so so in the bag There's snow in the bag for the Democrats that they're still doing it. I mean that that CBS yeah headline about Trump wanting to get rid of tips taxes on tips and Kamala Harris wanted to do tax on tips It's it's it's the most telling thing ever. Yeah, just one is Harris wanted to do tax on tips. It's the most telling thing ever.

Yeah. One is Trump wants to get rid of tips and it's gonna cost taxpayers $50 billion. The other one is Kamala Harris wants to get rid of tips. Good for her. So they hate Trump. Yeah. They'll do anything to stop him.

Yes. Is that lying? Yeah. I mean, they look at this patriotic or whatever. Listen. Here's the thing, here's the thing. If I believe my neighbor is Hitler, so I kill them in my sleep, I'm still a murderer. And they're going to have to have had to possess some real data that that person was Hitler, otherwise I'm going to jail. You're not allowed just to announce things.

You know what I mean? And then go ahead and act however you wanna act because you made the announcement. I mean, they've talked themselves into it, that's for sure. It's a good season though, it's a good time. There's two, you know what season we're in right now? We're in almost the beginning of football season. Yeah.

Which is good, but we're also in the season, and this only comes around every four years. Blowhard Hollywood celebrities threatening to leave the country. It's the greatest, it's the greatest. That's good. It's good, right? Yeah, who's leaving this time?

I just heard, oh, god. By the way, good news, California's lost $2 billion in income tax because of fleeing top earners. Good job, California. Newsom says they're, he thinks maybe they're coming back. Meaning he's going after them, wherever they are. Now, he just, I'm quoting that great interview he did with Kara Swisher a few years ago. You played that one.

Yes. It's spectacular. Go find that thing, just so we can examine that man's head. Recently, it's the same list of clowns, but Tom Hanks surprisingly was the one that was more recent. Although then people said he had a residency in Greece. Oh, interesting. All right. Which is interesting.

So I don't know, I don't know if De Niro, I just like it. I like it when Cher and De Niro and Bette Midler announce they're leaving, as if we need Bette Midler on American soil. You know what I mean? What are we gonna do without her? What would we do without this 77-year-old kook who does nothing?

What would we do without the divine Mrs. M? You know what I mean? Yep. what would we do without the divine Mrs. M? You know what I mean? Yep. So, I like it, I like it because it's super grandiose. Yeah. That's number one.

Yeah. Now, the reality, I mean, like pragmatically, I mean, if you really wanna think about it, in terms of George Clooney or whoever we're talking about. Yeah, all right Tom Hanks I Like to move away, but I'd be very quiet around the rally of Tom Hanks. It lets you say he lives in California. Yeah, if if Trump gets elected all that's gonna happen for Tom Hanks sort of practically is gas gonna go a little cheaper and tax It'll go a little cheaper and supermarket prices. You have to read me tweets

Yeah, but but that'll that'll happen. Yeah for me personally like like if Gavin Newsom Keeps going I got I'm moving. Yeah, I'm moving because of taxes and regulations and prices and whatever I'm sort of practically moving that spiritually. No these guys for them. It's a spiritual. Yeah, you're escaping Yes, I just don't want to live in that amongst the home Yeah, that's what I feel and you would do it very quietly just do it Yeah, we wouldn't stand up on a hill and announce if this goes on I, I shall leave. Yeah. No, you just start making plans, you go. It's also weird. You know what's funny?

Spiritually. Celebrities think it's 2001. You know what I mean? In what sense? Oprah thinks she can show up somewhere and just sway the election. You know what I mean? Because it's Oprah.

She doesn't realize that half the country hates her and thinks all these guys are just fucking blowhards now He's an interesting it is an interesting phenomenon, right? the the phenomenon of how of shifting in what celebrities are and what their impact is and Their lack of awareness about it Yeah, they're like a chick that was hot all through college and high school and whatever and now she's like 53 and she's like, well I'll just put on this miniskirt and I'll get my way. And it's like, no, you're old and people don't want that from you. I'll put on the miniskirt and the sports bra and I'll get what I want. You know

what I mean? It's like, I'm Oprah. I say my thing and then everyone will listen to me. What is the, I mean aside from the fact that what did I hear the other day somebody asked about somebody where the celebrity endorsements you know I mean like nobody cares nobody cares but but hang on I was listening to it also it's Matt sorry but when some idiot celebrity you know you know when Ben Affleck goes does does 20 not Ben Affleck Ben Stiller does 20 minutes on exulting Kamala Harrison.

All he does is get fragged online. Like, okay, dope. Go back to Malibu. Does he see it? I don't know. I don't know how it works. I don't know, but nobody cares anymore. But I listened to, I saw the SC and UCLA game across the weekend, and this one announcer,

I forget which game it was, was like, look at him standing up in the pocket. He dances like Fred Astaire. And this dude then did like three minutes on, I don't know who Fred Astaire is. Why do they always say he looks like Fred Astaire? What's Fred Astaire? Who is that? And the guy was probably 30, had no idea who Fred Astaire was.

Right, but here's the thing. Go look it up, bitch. Don't talk about what you don't know. You have to go look it up. But the point being is that that's a name that had value, had sway. And I think the whole thing, the whole structure of celebrity has decayed because of, frankly, TikTok. TikTok and Instagram. It's just who cares. Well, does anyone care what Robert De Niro says about anything? Do you know what I mean?

No. Or Oprah or whomever. That's the whole point. Is it just that they're too old or is it that the whole thing is black? It's that the bloom is off the rose and the cat's out of the bag and these are the same guys that were fucking telling you

how COVID worked 20 minutes ago, you know? And I was like, well, you're wrong about all that shit too. It's kind of obnoxious now, is how they look at it. Yeah, I think they actually further cause decay with them declaring declarations all the time. They hurt their status more by making their proclamations. 100%. Speaking of proclamations, you see that there was a socialist convention in this one

post, a socialist convention where everybody has to wear masks because socialist care. Oh, yeah. Oh, I really threw up my mouth when I saw that. Thankfully, X took care of it for me, just dispatched it. Thousand entries followed. That's why I saw it, because it was so active on X. Byron, I don't think Byron's in that room, but oh there is. That Kara Swisher Gavin knew some recording from about three or four years ago. This is the one, oh okay, I didn't know there's film of it, but maybe there is. Three people? I

didn't know about the third person either. So this may not be it, but you can play it. This is about people leaving California for Texas. Okay, no, probably not the one, but let's play it. Let's see what it is. That's Gavin. Are more people leaving California for Texas? Or leaving Texas for California?

Well, we lost about 182,000 folks in the last century. How do you explain that against the backdrop of those very remarkable statistics you just cited? Many factors and there's been too deep analysis that drives the number one factor, the vast majority, almost the entire amount impacted because of the visa policies in the Trump administration. And our formula for success is getting first-time backers from the rest of the world. Not just Joe Rogan and everyone in comics

just going to Texas. It's made up. It's made up. When was this? Where's Congress? Where the hell have they done their job? What's going on here? Who's in charge?

You know what's so funny? This thing started, when you show the very beginning of it, it started, I was about to say, why isn't he crossing his legs like a chick? It's a 30 second spot in the 30 seconds. He crosses the legs like a check Look it starts off with that and now it ends. Yep Yep, I was like I've never seen Gavin Newsom not cross his legs like a chick Which is a signal he's signaling to his face by the way. Oh, so what I'm doing what I do that you do it

No, you're a grandfather. No Newsom does it Trudeau does it? Trudeau Newsom and I we just don't have any balls. That's all I got too big my balls Anyway, there's a play. There's a tape of Kara Swisher That was a that was a man talking to her where Kara Swisher was out there But this is a this is a podcast or radio show where Kara Swisher is talking to Gavin Newsom from about three years ago That we played many times, but before your time Joe and maybe your time too Byron. So that's why it's in the computer You got it

Definitely before my time, sorry. Oh, okay. It's in the computer that we played it a few times. But it's also, we don't label things correctly, so our archives are always fucked up and we never fix them. Right. It shows in drawing.

Somebody's code. Yeah. But it's not somebody's code, it's just, we don't. We have everything in a computer, but it's never I it's labeled. It's not labeled right or it's not labeled at all And then every six months we talk about doing that fixing it But we never do amazing. Yeah Someone would have to do it. So Elle McPherson has breast cancer, which is sad, but no worries everybody because she elected not to get treatment. Oh boy. Oh boy. She's doing

naturopathic care and seeing her chiropractor. I've seen her chiropractor. And she's now in remission, whatever that means, I don't know if she didn't specify. And I thought I need to go on the record that, good, look, said I'm like Joe Rogan maybe the world is flat I don't know I'm open to everything these days but this is not gonna go well based on my years and years and years. You want to have chemo or do whatever it takes. Breast cancer is a really treatable condition. This is what drives me crazy when people have very treatable conditions and they elect not to treat and in the absence of treatment these are not good situations and it may go well for a while because

tumors follow this sort of asymptotic trajectory where they're slow slow slow so so and then they become fast growing and spreading fast. And so I'm glad she's well now, but you know, maybe she'll elect to get some more treatment later when the things get rough. But man, I hate to see that when people have a treatable condition. They just really... And there's, you know, there's interesting things to be done. Now, like I said, you could... I have people that I respect who did, you know, local therapies and radiation and lumpectomies and then did ivermectin and starvation, which is a, that's a thing. Yeah, I think the fasting is going to be, all roads lead to sort of fasting in

terms of health. Yeah, and maybe she's doing some of that stuff and, you know, so there's things to be done. I'm not saying it's empty set. Like I said, I've opened up everything these days, but really it's like, it's not gonna go well, I'm afraid. So there you go. So I didn't know that. So you guys, so you know, it's an audio only file. It is not going to be a video attached to it. It's going to be audio.

It's gonna be a podcast. It's gonna be Kara Swisher's podcast. It's gonna be interviewing Gavin Newsom, and it's going to be about four years old, maybe five years old, and right now my screen says 30 seconds on it so you can probably remove that information to make space for whatever it is you find out about the new thing. So I was talking to some... And we own it, it's just under something that will be confusing to us. Couple other fragments here.

Do you know that the assistant to New York Governor Hokel arrested as a CCP agent? Chinese Communist Party. Oh really? Yeah. I haven't heard that. Isn't that nice? Yeah. When did that happen? This month, a couple days Party. Oh really? Yeah. I haven't heard that. Isn't that nice? Yeah. When did that happen? This month, a couple days ago. Oh really? Yeah. It's huge, right? Yeah. And it was, I thought, well, the thing I like most about it is the FBI uncovered

this and followed through. Thank you. The FBI doing their job is like I felt really good about that. Like okay. She seems exquisitely vapid and sort of even dangerous. Oh dangerous. Yeah like listen look you go why she's nice. I don't know Neville Chamberlain was nice. Yeah yeah. You know what I mean? He's like ah we're not going to have any problems with Hitler. Super nice. Right so nice gets you into trouble.

Smart and reasonable too, by the way, Chamberlain. Right? Well, I'm not an expert in Neville Chamberlain. What I'm saying is the people, the nice people, the people with compassion, the people that are worried that many black kids don't know what the word computer is. I wanna help them. They end up causing a lot of damage. That's what I computer is. You know, I wanna help them. You know, they end up causing a lot of damage.

That's what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying? This is the time we're living in. Well, it is at its core a... Oh, I got the clip. Now, what is the clip titled? That's the question. The clip is titled Gavin Newsom,

and then the quote that he said about ripping the band-aid off. We found the clip but it's titled Gavin Newsom and then a quote from the... Rip the band-aid off? Yeah. Don't remember that. This is interesting that the quote has nothing to do with the well, we might not be the right clip. I might not have the right clip, but this is we found a Kara Swisher

Gavin podcast. And I love Texas. Don't get me wrong. Is that the new California motto? Where the hell are you going to go? I don't know. But he said it. But it was an interesting point because where are you going to get so many of the other things in the balance sheet? You are aware that I've lived there for but he said it. But it was an interesting point because where are you going to get so many of the other things in the balance sheet?

But you are aware that I've lived there for two decades, essentially. And this is the first time I've had people really talking about not being there and not that they could figure it out somewhere else. I don't think that's true. I think they can figure out where they're going to go. Yeah. But it's not a zero sum game. Right.

Okay. I have a friend who just went to Utah. Beautiful. It may be the right thing for him. They've made a ton of money. They have the ability to take their kids out of public school into private school and they're doing that. And you know I imagine they're not going to turn their back forever on California. What is he saying? I know someone who left California and they're doing well. They're doing wonderfully. Why is that called rip the band-aid off? I think that may have been the title of the podcast episode

The thing about that clip is played from the beginning one more time. Because the beginning part is where he says the more interesting part. The beginning is clip. Now it's not necessarily more interesting. Well it's the part that we always talk about. Where are you going to go? Yeah. Let's see.

Former Governor Brown said it best, where the hell are you going to go? And you know I love Texas, don't get me wrong. Is that the new California motto, where the hell are you going to go? And you know, I love Texas, don't get me wrong. Is that the new California motto, where the hell are you going to go? I don't know, but he said it. And I think it was an interesting point because where are you going to get so many other things in the college? It clipped up. It started at, we love Texas.

That's where it started. Gavin Newsom says, where the hell else are you going to go? And then she goes, well, to Texas. And he goes, yeah, I didn't say that. Governor Brown said that. I just quote shit I disagree with. And then she goes, well, you can go other places. And he goes, yeah, I know a couple of ones to Utah.

And then never come back. Anyway, next problem. Listen, if people don't understand, that is a clinically insane answer to what we are having a problem with people fleeing the state. How can we correct people leaving the state? And your answer is, here's a couple that left the state. Yeah.

It's also, you know- Something's wrong clinically. Yeah. There's something wrong with him. It's slippery. I keep- Slippery. Huh? It's slipperiness. It's like soci you know, it's wrong clinically. Yeah, there's there's something wrong with it It's slippery slippery. Huh? It's slipperyness. It's like sociopaths. No, no, no. Yes. No. No. Yes What I'm saying is is every Politician is slippery. Yeah But when you present them with a problem But when you present them with a problem, they don't keep going the same direction

with an answer that makes you correct. But listen. They twist and turn a little bit. But what he does is he. Well, he's learned it now. Well, because of you. He does it now. Because you.

Well, maybe because of me. No, someone was asking him about tax revenues and he was talking about atmospheric rivers Right. Remember that yes. Yeah, and he was like we haven't made the kind of revenues to win expect the kind of rain Which is an insane answer but at least it's an answer but this is Why are people leaving California and his answer is people are going to Utah to have a better life and I'm in charge of California. Let me tell you an example. Label, relabel this thing.

Just put Newsome, Kara Swisher, leave California or whatever. Sorry. Yeah. So, but here's the interesting thing. You're asking about what the pathology is. He's so engaging and charming. You notice how she's chuckling and going along with it and the kind of... That's how he's able to deflect from the crappy answers. Right. Well, and she... No.

She's like, no, what are you going to say? She's laughing a is so engaging and charming. No. They agree with them. Well, that's also that. They vote for these people. They're allies of these people. Yeah, yeah. A real journalist, if Kara Swisher was a real journalist, she'd go, look, I just asked you why people were fleeing California and told me about a couple went to Utah. What's that have to do with the question? They don't do it. And Dana would have done that as well,

but the reality is, is they're allies. They don't admit it. They get insulted when you go, you're not a real journalist, you're just a Democrat who gives softball questions to other Democrats, and they go, how dare you? But that's what you do. Now, whether they do it consciously or not,

but you can watch a Dan Abash talk to JD Vance and you can watch him talk to Tim Walz. It's a much different interview. Of course. One's very confrontational. There's like, oh, okay, so 24 years, God bless you, wear the uniform. I mean, she tried a little bit,

but the New World Order, she's not gonna give you an answer. Right, and you're gonna accept that. And you're gonna accept it because you can say you did your job and be easy on the person at the same time. All right, it's the New World Order, everyone. Egyptian Theater tonight, Boise, maybe a couple of tickets left.

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