The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1928 Nutty Cuckoo Clock Insane

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Adam kicks off the week talking about the recent gambling odds in football this past weekend, Drew then delves into the election betting lines, and they try to figure out the inconsistencies with IDs. Plus, Huntington Beach's ongoing battle with the State of California, the governing bodies' policies are coming back full circle, and they dissect the Axe body spray movement. Leave us a voicemail: SpeakPipe.com/AdamandDrDrew OR Click the microphone at top of the homepage, AdamandDrDrew.com Please Support Our Sponsor: Shopify.com/adamanddrew

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board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew Pinsky, you're listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew show. Yeah, get it on, got to get on it. Get on it, get on it, get on it. Woo! Woo hoo! And then, bleh. What's going on, Drewsky?

Oh, I don't know where to start. Let's see, betting markets. Do you make much of the betting markets out there? Well, you know, I will say this, you know. I'll watch football and I'll ask for lines, betting lines, you know, and then you'll see a thing and you go, like I was watching last week and Seattle was playing at home. Seattle had a better record than San Francisco, the team they were playing.

And so Seattle was, I don't know, three and two and San Francisco's two and three. And Seattle's playing at home. and Seattle's an underdog. And I remember I said to everyone in the room, how often does it happen where the team has a better record and is at home, and they go into Thursday night football game as an underdog? And no one had any answers, but it's pretty rare that you have a better record and you're at home Yeah, and you go in as underdog. I said that seems peculiar to me and sure enough San Francisco won the game So I they know things yeah, you know to me. Now. Here's the thing about Vegas and odds and all that kind of stuff

They need to know things. Well, now, but also they're not always trying to prognosticate. They're just trying to pull the line closer to even. So people need to understand that they don't necessarily think Cleveland's going to win by four. They just know there's too much action going to the Patriots. So they move and try to pull people over. What I'm thinking about is the presidential betting.

Yeah, I figured you were. They're all over the place. You're saying betting though. Betting, not the polls, the betting. Because in the betting, as you're saying betting though betting not the polls the betting Because in the betting as you're saying they know something is sort of a Diligent wisdom of crowds right crowd sourcing so to speak tends to get to the right thing. Yes, what I find so odd For two things it strike me one is it it moves so much. It's just weird I mean, I thought people had made up their mind a long time ago, and now it's like it's going all different directions and splitting, and Trump going way up,

and I don't know what to make of all that. And then I start thinking, oh shit, our voting situation, our voting systems is so fragmented and so messed up. What's gonna happen if he's winning and then in the 11th hour, all of a sudden a bunch of crazy votes come in and he pulls it the other way. People are gonna go nutty cuckoo. But there's nothing much you can do about it. Yeah, it's...

Again, we're in a world that I keep kind of running into. A world you don't like. You mean you can't believe you're in? It's a world where they're like, we want fair, safe, and sound elections. Okay, well why don't, let's require voter ID for them to vote. No, we're not doing that. But why not?

But you want super fair and free and sound elections. Yeah, yeah, no. I mean somebody, I think in California, somebody said we want ID you know in whatever towns I've got a video for you going towards this oh you're heading toward this and they're like no we're gonna sue you and yeah You know I just got off the road and I mean I was Wyoming I

Was Austin, Texas. I was Nashville, Tennessee That was actually Thursday Night Football with Adam Ray who was we're watching it backstage. He was you know, he's a big Seattle fan That's where that conversation happened Then it was off to Pennsylvania Pottstown I think it was off to Pennsylvania, Pottstown I think it was, Pennsylvania. Probably beautiful. Beautiful.

And all over the place. I mean all over the place. And at a certain point I realized I have brandished my ID 131 times. I have pulled my ID out of my wallet. It's sort of fucking stupid actually to even have it in your wallet. I don't know why, but it always stuck with me.

It's a joke, but I swear to God, Jimmy told me 25 years ago, he goes, there should be an ID hat. Like, I swear to God, the amount of time I spend at the airport with the. Also, I really don't know. Here's all I know. At the airport, there is a semi-angry black woman who wants something that I'm not holding right now. And it's either, you know,

and if I present the boarding pass, they go, ID, ID. And if I give them the ID, they go, where's your boarding pass? You know, and it's like, I don't know. I just, I was in Burbank and they wanted the boarding pass, but not the ID. But now you the boarding pass, but not the ID. But now you want the ID, but not the boarding pass. It's literally my travels with Mike and I,

or Mike and I getting yelled at by black women at the airport. Like he goes to the kiosk and he gets the baggage claim tags out. And then he says to the middle-aged woman, can can we go to first? Should we? We have first class tickets. Should we check? You already printed them out at the kiosk. You know what I mean? Like, oh, OK, give me the bag.

It's like she was like yelling, literally yelling at both of us. We both walked away and just went, is that person angry at us or something? Like, I have a first-class ticket We printed the thing out the kiosk because we didn't know any better was that here in LA or is that that's how LA's LA's the worst and then when we got to clear was three more black women Sort of ignoring us and then he's trying trying there because they've they're a service organization. They're pretending not these three because they're a service organization, they're pretending. Not these three. They didn't.

I'm just getting yelled at by black women. That's essentially my travels. And they want ID or they don't want ID, they want the boarding pass. They don't want both anymore. And whatever it is you present, they seem to want whatever you're not presenting and then you gotta take another picture.

And there's no uniformity. I have no idea what's from this airport to that airport. Am I right that the TSA officer sitting at the window when you're coming in to get to the assembly line putting your shit through the X-ray, those guys have gotten nicer and the guys in front of that have gotten worse and meaner. And those guys in front of that used to be the employees of United Airlines and were sort of properly schooled about... Hold on, hold on. You're saying in front of.

So up until you get to that guy behind the glass window who's going to let you in to put your luggage on the conveyor belt. Yeah, before that. Everything before that has become more negative, cantankerous, angry, weird, but that used to be the point you hit the bad shit was that window. They used to start yelling at you right there. But those guys, if they either become nicer,

and all the employees of the airline have become meaner, or you don't notice the guys in the TSA so much because the United Airlines or whatever airline becomes so much meaner. When you go to Wyoming and there's just a fat white guy sitting there, he's just Wyoming nice or whatever, and then you go to Philadelphia and there's a mean black chick just yelling at you from that, it's just whatever airport.

But they're just, you you get city you get urban you get black you get women and you get angry i don't think it's like they've niced up a little bit they're still they're still steely eyed and stuff uh yeah yeah yeah it's it has an ebb and a flow and you could get into a bad you get a bad yeah you get a bad i mean Yeah, you get the bad one. I mean, I told you, I had this middle-aged black woman yell, get. I know. Get, she yelled at me. Get. I was just standing in line.

I got an $8 Starbucks coffee. She's like, throw that away. I'm like, well, I'm just going to sip on it while I'm in line. You throw it away here. I go, well, I got a long line. I'm just going to sip it until I get to the machine I'll throw it away and she goes well then get Okay, I'm sorry. I've hurt your feelings or have offended your sensibilities or whatever. It's a fucking huge problem

We take these women they hate men their dads left. We live in a society that tells them we don't want them here the people that buy the message of America hates you number one is black women number one There's no other group that thinks America hates them more than black women and then we put them at the opening of at the gate of everything and we tell them to stand there and interact with a bunch of people who don't want them in their Country and it's a problem. I'm gonna argue it is not limited to black women No, it's the number one group that we that believes

They are not wanted. Okay, where do Asian women rank on? Groups that believe they're not wanted in this country? Right, right. Who's higher? Yeah, the black women. Okay, they're number one. But okay, no, it's not limited to them. Yeah, because there's a personality problem too.

It's not a sociological problem. We have a personality thing throughout the society. Right. There was a black man in Philly who was the porter guy doing the bag check curbside bag check friendly jovial funny I Get that guy $20 tip at now. I wish I had ten bucks. I had ten bucks or two bucks Reached into my pocket and there was like three 20s. Yeah, but the fact you want to support that guy.

You want to give him a nod because the 20 probably felt good even though you wanted to give him 10 because all right, it's that guy I want to make a nod to. Yes, he was being cordial and courteous and helpful and not yelling at me and Mike like the chick at LAX was while I was waving my first class ticket by the way she was being short and sort of like give me the bag you turn the bag around that guarantees you discrimination right hmm first class guarantees you being discriminated against by everybody so yeah anyway I yes the ID had to be pulled out 57 times in three days.

So the idea that you could navigate this society, I mean literally or figuratively, but the idea that you could even come close to living anywhere near this society with no ID is patently insane. It is nutty cuckoo clock insane. And if there was an issue with people who didn't have access to IDs, that should be priority one. Before school, before education, before food,

security, before anything. It's like you have to get an ID so you can actually be in this society. I mean, how are they getting their social security and stuff like that? Those would be the people that would be getting that. The people that don't have an ID don't want an ID. Right. It's not that they can't get an ID. They don't want an ID.

That's who those people are So the hero that you're talking about is the city attorney for the city of Huntington Beach Yes, who has been pushing back on new some for a few years and driving him crazy and he has the absolute support of his community and the chartered privilege to tell them to go fuck themselves Because the state doesn't have a right to demand they do things. One of them is the voter ID thing. The other is they're demanding they increase their supply of housing by 50% and they've got, I don't even know Huntington Beach, but they have these delicate

estuaries all surrounding. The city is fully built out. You can't, you have to tear a bunch of stuff down, but what, eminent domain? You can tear a bunch of people's houses down so you can build apartments? Just the weirdest thing. But the guy's name is Michael Gates. I suggest you interview him on ACS. You'll enjoy him. I've got a video of him going to town here a little bit in a television interview.

Maybe a minute and a half of this or so. Well, Huntington Beach historically has done more for affordable housing than any other city in our region. We've actually done a remarkable job. What the state wants us to do is roll over to these high density housing mandates to cram down really a 50% increase in the city's entire housing stock overnight. And that just presents a wanton disregard for not only our infrastructure, our police, our fire, but also for the environment. And so we are pushing back. We are in court, as you know, in heavy litigation.

And so, you know, to me, it just looks like more grandstanding by the governor. It's bully pulpit type of stuff. Huntington Beach is incredibly responsible. We're 100% built out in Huntington Beach. And so if we were to roll over to Governor Newsom's mandates, we would literally be destroying our city. And so, like I said, we're not willing to do that. We're standing up and we're pushing back. So you obviously then acknowledged the housing affordability issue in California, in Huntington

Beach. So it comes down to a space issue. Well, for Huntington Beach, we're fully built out and we have 81,000 dwelling units. And so what the state is asking or demanding is that we increase our entire housing stock by 50%. So we have to redevelop property in order to accomplish that. And what Governor Newsom won't recognize or acknowledge is that there is zero empirical data, zero, zero to support that more high-density housing translates into more affordability. In fact, Governor Newsom lost 24 billion dollars that was dedicated to helping

the homeless and to into creating shelter. He lost 24 billion dollars last year and so while he's losing billions of dollars, we are actually being good stewards and we're trying to protect our environment and provide housing, but in a way that the city of Huntington Beach can handle and can manage. Anyway, they did the same thing on voter ID too, which is the latest thing there, telling him, just comply, comply, just comply. I talked to Michael about this. He goes, you want your governor or your president or somebody in a leadership position at state level Telling you just comply. Hey bitch comply. Yeah. Well, you know the thing that's funny or we're we're at now is

their horrible policies have come back to roost and That's the home to roost and rains. That's the next thing I want to talk to you about go ahead and then they and then they cite their own horrible policies it's the reason why we don't have affordable housing because there's it costs so much to build a home and their regulation that creates that we need to repeal some of these regulations. We need to expedite this stuff. Yeah, no, it's what, listen. I love seeing footage of them attacking their own shit policies, you know?

And they do this thing where they go, look, what did they do with the film industry right right they overregulated they overtaxed they over everything they over they got super grabby and greedy and grabby they took off so film agents film just went to Canada well they went to Canada went to Prague they went to Atlanta they went they went everywhere somewhere yeah I drove Bryan Cranston to the airport So he could go and leave and shoot Breaking Bad in New Mexico versus in California. Okay It's funny that

Cranston's the most progressive guy on the planet But he still understood the part where he had to move to New Mexico, couldn't shoot where he lived in California. They get way over their skis, and then they drive people away, and then they go, hey, what happened to all the production? And then they go, oh, we've got to, so it's, but it may be sanctuary cities or maybe defund the police.

It's literally, here's what we're going to do. Something stupid. We're going to implement horrible ideas that aren't going to work. And then when they don't work and then we start feeling the repercussions of them not working, we're going to agree to remove 25% of our horrible ideas that we had 100% of six years ago. Right. And it doesn't help. 25% doesn't really help. People are established elsewhere.

Well, Tyler Perry's got two million cubic feet of studio space in Atlanta. Yes, sorry, infrastructure. People left. That's so disgusting. But I have this feeling that it's kind of happening on a national level too. Maybe, do you have a business again? Yeah, I wanna talk about that. All right, I'll tell you about Shopify. It's not all about having a good product. It's actually the business behind the businesses

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Yeah, back to the betting market. So as things are separating, I feel like the Harris group is sort of panicking and then splitting and accusing each other of everything. In the meantime, I feel like the public is sort of seeing through exactly the stuff you're talking about. And I thought about this last night. It's like, you know, identity politics now is is sort of seeing through exactly the stuff you're talking about. Like, and I thought about this last night, it's like, you know, identity politics now is, I mean, in terms of everybody being involved with it, 10, 12 years old? Almost a generation old. Yeah. You know, it's like, it's old-timey stuff now, and people are

tired of it, they're seeing through it didn't help anybody and they would like to be left, you know to be helped said It's something that I think about Six times a day and I'm I'm really always kind of nauseated by but I'm always wondering why more people Don't find it nauseating. You know when sort of Barack Obama gets out there and goes, Hey, black man, what's going on? This over here is half black. What are you doing? They are seemingly reacting now. Yeah, they are. But it's funny when Obama is like, listen,

I'm going to fly in from Martha's Vineyard and tell you black man, hey, you got to vote for this chick from California because she's black or something. You know what's happening? I think the age thing is starting to separate because he's got the gray hair, he looks old now, Clinton's old as shit. They're all old. And it's an old policy and an old strategy. Well, yeah, no, what they are is they're kind of Scientology in the sense that they go like hey you can't

talk shit yeah we're Scientology and people go I don't care yeah you know and they go whoa what are you talking about hey black guy yeah hey 22 year old black guy yeah what are you doing she's a black person would you gotta vote that guy's not black that guy's white you gotta vote. That guy's not black. That guy's white. You understand? So go do your voting, would you please? Why are you wasting my time? Why do I have to talk about this?

And it's like, you just assume black people vote? First off, Kamala Harris does not present as a black person. Let's just call it what it is. She doesn't even say axe. She should start saying axe. Would help. Listen, if you don't say axe when you're trying to say ask, then you ain't black. That's it. There's a mate. We can argue over where your dad's from and where your mom's from. The Mason-Dixon line is axe. Every black person, I don't care how educated, they say axe. And if you don't say axe, then you ain't black.

I want you to start saying it. Axe? Yeah, because then when people call you being a racist, you just go, I'm black. Here's what I'm curious. I got a sensitive question. Oh, sensitive in the sense that... people call you being a racist, you just go, I'm black. Here's what I'm, here's, I got a sensitive question. Ooh, uh-oh. Sensitive in the sense that we're gonna get in trouble? Axe body spray.

Oh, interesting. Do black people think it's called ask? Or are they sort of? I'm asking. No, no, no, no. I'm axing. I don't know. But not even, don't know. But not even, do we have to go there?

Just go, is it a cultural play on a word that's identifiable to a particular group that they're trying to reach? Do more black men use ax body spray? Seemed like that was the target market. Oh really? Interesting. Yeah. It is interesting, isn't it?

We're going to have to look into that. Be in those rooms. Look, I was looking, look up the origins of Axe body spray or who uses it. You and I were at the launch party for that in New York City. I do remember that. Oh yeah. In some mansion in midtown, East Side. I have a recollection. Yeah, being up on the whatever floor.

Very New York in 90s. God, was that 90s? I think it was the 90s. Oh my God, and you remember it was like, what's the guy from Home Alone, what's the kid's name? He was there. Yeah. like what's the guy from Home Alone, what's the kid's name, he was there. And the cast of that 80s, that 70s show. That 70s show? I don't think that was on yet.

Well, why was Mila Kunis there? I remember her being there too. What year did Axe launch or get released? Listen, here's something onto your point, which I heard today, which is crazy. Asians, they never say how Asians vote. You know, they go women, suburban women, black women, blacks, Hispanic.

Asians are out of the mix all the time. Asians, Blacks Hispanic the Asians are out of the mix all the time Asians And we can look it up and Kyle can look it up but I wrote down just from memory they they go 66 20 Trump versus Kamala. I mean everyone else is like like 46, you know, 52, you know, just this thing. There's two... Well, I would argue anybody who comes from a communist country goes right. Yeah. Well, there's two... Well, it's Asians. I don't know. Well, that's the problem. Asians are really a diverse group. It's really like the way we talk about white people too.

It's like the Germans, Italians, it's like, I don't know, to talk about these singular groups is a big mistake, but okay. Axe launched in 83, but it's a European company and whatever, they had a, they have a launch party, US. When was that, how about that? All right, but here a large party. U.S., when was that, how about that? All right, but here's my point. There's two, everyone else sort of fights around the middle.

What is a body spray anyway? Listen, first off, there's gonna be something called Axe Lung Syndrome at some point where people just inhale too much. You're not supposed to... You know why all female hairdressers are dingbats? Because they're spraying the fucking aquanate. They spray the aquanate, they inhaled all of the fluoride.

Hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons. Dissolves the front load. Right. Does. I'm not making up. It was introduced in the US in 2002, so you're right, it wasn't in late 90s. Yeah.

Who was that? All right, so. Okay, so, the Asians vote overwhelmingly for Republicans, and then the blacks vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats, right? Those are the two. Everyone else is just kind of duking it up, duking it out in the middle, right?

And then you go, well, who's doing the best in our society? You go, Asians, but not better than whites. Oh yeah, quite a bit. So they're doing the best. And blacks are doing the worst. But they both vote. This is sort of my Elon Musk, Chris Corolla conundrum which is I would go, hey, person who knows nothing crit your mom. Yes. Why not just vote the way the genius guy votes

I'm up. Yeah, and I would say to the black community you guys are last Asians are first. I'm in the middle somewhere, but why not just do what they do and see if it works out Give it a give it a year. Give it a shot. Give it a shot. Give it a shot Maybe they know something I've seen the median income. It's it's two and a half times yours So maybe there's something there and or maybe whoever you've been talking to that keeps saying they're gonna do something Maybe they're not doing something. Yeah, how about that? Yeah, but here's a concept. Maybe they can't do something Maybe it's all up to you. Hmm Well, there's a bigger just the idea that this action

Just the idea that we want the federal government in our lives in all these different ways is the it's Anathema to what this country was founded on it was limited government Union of States. That's it I know but the New world order is here's... I need black men to vote for me, so here's what I'm going to do for you black men. I'm going to put a chicken in every pot and an axe in every medicine cabinet. But it has become a civil liberties organization and that concept of defending civil liberties has infected everything in weird ways. What's become a civil liberties organization?

The federal government. Yeah, I know. And so that concept has infected every part of life because they're going to inject civil liberty protection into everything. And that's not the federal government's job is to be in our lives all the time. Right. But much like we talked about many times of money being invisible, the new generation just goes, they just go along with it. They said no going to the beach during COVID.

Don't do it. You know, they're just, they're everywhere all the time. And by the way, it's the way they speak, you know, they're just they're everywhere all the time. And and by the way, I It's the way they speak, you know, like here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take the money from these guys and give it to those guys And then I'm gonna have you help you and then I'm gonna make sure that your stuff is vetted before you talk about it Because some of those ideas are dangerous like listen How about a little talk about not so much? You know I mean like we're gonna reel it in yeah good alright in the meantime Covina I'm gonna be there at the laugh

factory doing stand-up that'd be October 25th and 26 where the hell is Covina I do look it's uh well there's Covina and then there's West Covina it's all it's all way deep in the San Gabriel Valley, way deep. Maybe I screwed that up. Anyway, I was looking it up on the- But I'm gonna tell you something, you're gonna have fun there. I'm gonna predict, yeah.

Thanks for the prediction. Vegas after that, Bellflower. Oh, maybe I was looking up Bellflower. Yeah, that's- That was by Long Beach. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Cal Worthington. Yeah, Bellflower Boulevard All right. What do you got, Druski? Uh, I asked Dr. Drew to sign up for Rumble. Be a subscriber there. We'd love to see you. So, until next time, I'm Adam Kroll for Dr. Drew saying, Mahalo.

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