The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Radio Is Dead, Being Poor, Waking Up With Wood and Affordable Housing (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: January 27, 2024

On this episode of The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics, Adam let's it be known that the Radio Industry is dying slow, Dr. Drew talks about his son's travels and it goes from PG to X-Rated quickly and ...Adam ends the show with his take on the homeless situation and why it may be more than lack of housing that's the problem!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to another edition of the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. I'm your host, Big Brother Jake, and as always, we have a great show for you. First up, episode 250, titled The Radio Industry, which aired on June 27, 2015. Adam breaks down the radio industry and why it's doomed to fail and won't recover. He's quite the fortune teller. Listen to Adam Wack's poetic on this topic. They also take your calls. Radio does not understand the difference between Jimmy Kimmel and Ricky Rackman.
Starting point is 00:00:40 As a matter of fact, they prefer Ricky Rackman. Radio does not understand the difference between Adam Carolla and Danny Bonaduce. They kind of prefer Bonaduce. That's why they're doomed to fail. Literally, Jimmy was told to shove off of every radio station he was at. And when he finally got together with me and the biggest radio station in the world, they still didn't see the difference between him and Ricky Rackman. If you can't see the difference between Jimmy Kimmel and Ricky Rackman,
Starting point is 00:01:12 and I don't mean this as a pejorative to Ricky Rackman. Just different. Well, no, different better, but different if you want to make money. If you don't see the difference between those two guys in terms of your company making money, you're fucked. And they don't, and they never did. And they still don't, by the way. My program director over at KBC, I would argue, gets it. I want you to tell me.
Starting point is 00:01:42 Whenever you meet him, you tell me. Everybody better get it now. Well, is it interesting, though? That's maybe part of the reason. Well, everyone gets it because they're forced to get it in 2015 because they're getting their ass handed to them. But they didn't fucking get it in 1995 or 2000. Well, one of the moves
Starting point is 00:01:58 on radio is to get rid of talent altogether. Just do the computer, run the music. Whatever it is, they wanted to get rid of talent altogether in the 90s. I was told Jimmy was not on air talent. I would argue Kevin and Bean is one of the best farm leagues
Starting point is 00:02:13 in history of radio. Just generating, throwing out talent. Jimmy's not there. I'm not there. Yeah, but it throws out talent. Yeah, but they leave. No, but that's what a farm, right? No, you're supposed to develop them for the Yankees organization, not to go off and play for other teams
Starting point is 00:02:29 and go do other things. Then maybe it's a training ground. I used to say to the radio guys, whatever, I'd say, hey, go down to the groundlings and scout some talent. And they'd go, what? What are the groundlings? And I'd go, go down. When I did mornings, I had a chance to get on in San Diego, a market we were always super popular in.
Starting point is 00:02:52 Yeah. And they got instead a morning team from like Phoenix or something in there. They just don't. They're fucking stupid. Well, actually, what will ruin any business is a combination of two things. And this is what radio has always been. And now they can suck it because it's fucking over. Here's what radio has always been.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Always. Stupid meets arrogant. And that is a combination you could never wish upon your child. If my son is stupid, I can live with that. I really can. And if he's arrogant, but has an ounce of brilliance or talent, I can kind of live with that. I'm not going to be happy about it, but I can live with that. Stupid meets arrogant is a fucking horrible intersection. I've come across many people in my life that have an astounding combination of both. Radio is brimming.
Starting point is 00:03:51 It used to be. Now no one gives a fuck. With stupid meets arrogant. And you are fucked. You are driving that fucking tanker right into the rocky shoals when you are stupid and arrogant. And that's what radio has always been. You've been out for a while. I would argue it's significantly improved and stabilized.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Okay. Well, maybe the guys who came before have fucked it so hardly that it cannot be unfucked. No, I think it's stabilized. Listen, send Jimmy Kimmel packing, everybody. No, no. Well, they wouldn't do it today. No. But I don't know. If they met a 26-year-old Jimmy Kimmel today, everybody. No, no. Well, they wouldn't do it today. No. But I don't know.
Starting point is 00:04:26 If they met a 26-year-old Jimmy Kimmel today, would they send him packing? They did not want Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla together to do a show together. Who would want that combination? Jimmy was constantly fired, wasn't he? Yes. Listen, after you, we milled through. Listen, here's where the people that were felt not to be adequate for filling your shoes. I love that because they just were not good radio.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Daniel Tosh. Mm-hmm. Oh. Joel McHale. Right. Oh, shit. There was another one. And then you had the three.
Starting point is 00:04:57 You had on your morning show. Remember, you used to have Zach Galifianakis. I had Joel McHale, Zach Galifianakis, and Louis C.K. And my program director did not want them on the air. They weren't good ready. I think he'd be a big Joe Coy fan. Yeah. They did a lot of... Jack Silver's like...
Starting point is 00:05:15 He literally pulled me aside and said, why does Joel McHale have to come in every week and do his soup countdown or whatever it was? And I'm like, because he's a generous guy and he's super funny and this is great content. Yeah, but every week? Why does Joel McHale have to show up in studio? Not phone in. Why does he have to show up in studio every week?
Starting point is 00:05:39 That's Radio Baby. Remember he said Zach wasn't funny. Zach was comedy death. And how about Louis C.K.? Not funny. Well, there you go, everybody. Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla shouldn't be on air together. And Joel and Zach and Louis should not be.
Starting point is 00:05:59 They should be selling used RVs. That's the crystal ball of radio, everybody. So, of course, you'd want to go, hey, by the way, those guys should be picking stocks. I'd like to take those guys to the racetrack with me. Make some real money. Fucking retards. It's different. Good.
Starting point is 00:06:17 I think you ought to come back. No. Alright, let's see. Want to take a phone call up here? Let's do it. Let's do a two. Three, rather. Three's been on hold for a while. Hey, Ivan, 42, Chicago. Get it on. What's going on, man?
Starting point is 00:06:31 Hey, how are you, fellas? Good. Side note, Catch a Contractor, the new way you guys are doing it with the behind the scenes is awesome. Oh, good. I'm glad you like it. Everyone seems to enjoy the new format-ish. Well, it's a reality show, so why not show everything? Yeah, no, agreed, good. I'm glad you like it. Everyone seems to enjoy the new format-ish. Well, it's a reality show, so why not show everything? Yeah, no, agreed, agreed.
Starting point is 00:06:49 And it comes off a lot better. People want to know what's going on behind the scenes. I agree. All right. What's up? My question is... Sunday night spike, by the way. Tonight, spike TV. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Good question. Dr. Drew has been a huge inspiration for me. I just find the Dr. Drew podcast, when it comes to addiction, I just find it fascinating. And it's one of those things I really look forward to listening to his podcast. So I'm kind of at a crossroads in my life as far as employment goes. And a friend of mine found kind of a school that taught drug counseling. And he's like, you know, you'd be great at that but i think that i thought about a lot
Starting point is 00:07:30 you know the back of my brain that that might be something i really want to do i was thinking about attending the school but do i need to go to school for and also what i do go to the school faith like a twelve-month program or something what what are the chance of me getting a job in that field? Well, most states now require thousands of hours of clinical work after the degree, too. So, you know, and yes, you have to have training. You can't work with patients without adequate training and potentially licensure.
Starting point is 00:08:05 But my question would be, why not get a clinical degree and then work with drug addicts, get something like a MFT or something? It's not that much longer, and it gives you the ability then to hang out your own shingle and deal with a broader range of patients. And listen, drug counselors are essential. I use them all the time. They do have potential to do more sort of one-on-one kind of work these days because personalized work is sort of necessary because the landscape of drug treatment is so nefarious, so awful right now that you almost have to like clinically manage every patient on your own. Well, let me say this too, Ivan, philosophically. I've had a few people in my adult life go out and do something as adults. Mike Lynch, who works here,
Starting point is 00:08:51 went out and got his degree and did all his clinical stuff. And he's now working in the field as well as working with us. But he has a full-time job. Mike August. Seems like a dream, but like 10 years ago, I think he went to the University of Denver or something.
Starting point is 00:09:14 He packed up and just went there for a year, and he crammed. We can ask him. A JD MBA into two years. From two into one? Three into two. Yeah, it took a three-year. Yeah, maybe four into two. It's something crazy. It's a full-blown JD MBA.
Starting point is 00:09:28 He did it in two years. And according to him, at the end of the stay, his advisor told him, we allowed you to do this because we didn't think it was humanly possible. And we will never allow another human being to do this. Oh, nice. Yeah. The other thing they didn't want anymore either is one of the students was in China, I think, getting the exact same degree, doing it via the computer and blah, blah, blah. And they weren't so down on that either because they like people coming in, buying books and paying for housing.
Starting point is 00:09:57 It's weird how much they can do via the electronics now. I gave a lecture to Mike. The point is, quickly, hold on, let me just finish. Mike was 40, and he just went and did this. But let's not dismiss. Hold on. You blink your eyes, the two years is done, and now decades pass. Not only that, the two years when you're 40 is easier to dedicate
Starting point is 00:10:22 than the two years when you're 40 is easier to dedicate than two years when you're 20. Welcome back to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. We have episode 262 on deck titled The Boner Clock. That aired on August 8, 2015. Dr. Drew talks about his son's travels across Europe and it goes off the rails quickly. I mean, the title of the episode is Boner Clock. I'll let them explain it. How you doing, Drewski?
Starting point is 00:10:54 Good. You know, we were talking about my son Douglas who's out here working his ass off. My other one's touring around Europe. However, he... You give me so much shit about my kids over the year. Maybe that's why I feel the need to defend them. What shit? Oh, how I'm going to give them eating disorders,
Starting point is 00:11:11 and I'm not giving them grit, and I'm too focused on the education. I had a little prognostication going on there. Yeah, yeah. You were right. Well, I didn't say it didn't happen. I said that you were giving me shit about them. But here's the deal.
Starting point is 00:11:27 So Jordan's in Europe, and he goes, emailed me today. I'm great. I'm in Antwerp. I'm on my way to Amsterdam in a week. This past week, I was staying with a woman working in her garden in exchange for accommodation. I like that. My bank account is dropping fast, so I plan to work while traveling to save money and help my resume. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:47 My resume in the garden. I'm sure he's striking absinthe and being blown by a dude right now. But it's like if I tell my dad I'm working all the time, by the time I'm working all the time, it'll just shut him up. Like, I know my dad. I'll just keep explaining him. And the guy's blowing him like a dick out of his mouth. He's like, why don't you tell them you're working in a garden? That's kind of a thing people do out here.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Okay, good. For exchange for what? For sucking cock? No, no, no. No, no. For room and board. Oh, okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:12:18 All right. Does that include sucking? No, no. Just don't even forget I even brought that up. Interestingly, his first experience, he started in London two months ago. His first experience was some guy begging him to let him suck his cocks for money. Really? How much did he pay him?
Starting point is 00:12:41 It's a weird wiring, the let me pay you to. No, no. It was the guy wanted money. Yeah. Guy wanted money. That wasn't pay you to do it. I got it wrong. He wanted money. The experience of travel, it's so foreign.
Starting point is 00:13:01 I mean, the Corollas didn't go on their after college world tour. It's comical. I didn't know how one... When I went to the airport with Jimmy Kimmel at age like 30 and a half to go to New York,
Starting point is 00:13:21 it was a strange and mysterious world. You know, the airport. There was plans and discussions about when one would be picked up and how does one get from the curb to where the actual airplane is. And there's no... That was before all the security stuff. Yeah. Pre-9-11.
Starting point is 00:13:39 Still no capacity to negotiate any of that stuff. I mean, it is the... You know, it's weird because it's invisible. The experience part of life is invisible. You know, I don't know. People call it confidence. I'd rather call it just sort of experience. Sort of been there, done that. I don't know. There's a thing of...
Starting point is 00:14:03 Well, it's weird that apprenticeships were like no good for a long time. And now people are going, oh, I guess that's how we learn. It's through experiences. We do things. Well, I'll give you an example. But then I'll bring it on back to what we're talking about. talking about um as you listen to this i'm i'm getting ready to get the car ready to go up to mazda raceway there and race yet another car is this your new one yeah this is a new uh newman car
Starting point is 00:14:34 and uh so people say to me all the time you never drove this one before so what are you doing now and i always go yeah well the good the good part about driving all the different cars all the time is nothing's ever new. You're never quite at that comfort level. But if you drive so many different cars and you have so many different experiences, you just sort of step in your next experience. And within three and a half laps, you're just sort of up to speed. And that'll be that. And so what's missing as it pertains to the haves, have-nots in this society? So we talk a lot about money, but it's not really money.
Starting point is 00:15:17 It's experience. It's experience. for me, my whole adolescent life and then young adulthood life was the experience of... What are you working on there, Drew? Nothing. I'm listening to you. You can't hear. Put the phone down. The experience of. You're right. You didn't realize how rude that is. The experience of
Starting point is 00:15:39 filling out things, getting this, applying for that, how to just literally go about life. You've always talked about how you wish somebody had taught you how to write a check. Or just gone out and experienced that part of life, which is to say what's going on on the poor side of the tracks or the inner cities or the Ozarks or whatever, it's not that those people aren't – it's not that you need cash. You don't need cash to apply for a job. That's why you're applying for a job.
Starting point is 00:16:15 And in today's world, you don't need that much money really for a lot of things, including travel. But when nobody lets you know it's possible or how to even begin to do it, or, you know, look, how do you travel? Well, the first thing you need is you need a credit card. You can't book a flight. You can't book a hotel room. You can't get a rental car, whatever. You need a piece of plastic with your name on it,
Starting point is 00:16:43 which I never had. No one in my family ever had one. So how are we going to even begin to embark on this process of doing anything? So it's sort of like a narrowing of horizons. The horizon literally doesn't exist to you. You don't know what's there. Yeah, you don't know what's there. You don't know how you get there. You don't know anyone who goes there. It's strange. I don't disagree with your point, but I'm just thinking about how Immanuel Kant never left Konigsberg. I mean, and yet managed to.
Starting point is 00:17:14 The guy who wrote the Rocky theme? No, different guy. Well, he lived around the Coney Island area, I think. He was definitely on the East Coast. Must be doing pretty well now. Yeah. Manuel Kant never left Konigsberg? What's that mean?
Starting point is 00:17:33 I'm saying that this is a guy that interpreted, you know, had a Copernican revolution in philosophy, and yet his horizon was limited to this little town in Germany. Mm-hmm. and yet his horizon was limited to this little town in Germany. Oh, well, look, there are a few, few and far between. There are some great minds that just happen to be able to plop down and paint chapels they've never seen before with their foot and get exactly right to scale. But those aside, it's just a sort of going out.
Starting point is 00:18:05 No, I agree. And understanding that there's a world and that you can have a credit card and that you can make travel plans and you can apply for this and fill that out. I'm very much that way, that I don't understand things, really don't, until I've done them. Yeah, well, it's how everyone is, pretty much. Some people more than others. I noticed when I was in medical school, once we hit the wards, I thought, oh, this experiential training, we called it, I respond to this.
Starting point is 00:18:34 This I understand. Other people are wired differently, no doubt about it. But in terms of the haves and the have-nots i can tell you that dropping off a check to the have-nots is not going to fix anything unless the have-nots parents or community start to or and we recognize we stop making it about currency so it's just money money money you know they don't have enough money well first off it doesn't matter how much money you have if you don't have a brain that can do something with it or process it or whatever it yeah and i was thinking this this
Starting point is 00:19:16 would prompt i didn't get into it the last episode we did but it was what prompted me to talk about my own abuse and stuff like that is it I put a lot of emphasis in my career on people's regulation of their emotions, their ability to manage emotions. And a lot of that is based on traumatic heritage, like they have childhood things, and it makes them difficult to regulate emotions. But I was thinking today, we're in a time now where, yes, there's all this emotional dysregulation, but I guess I was thinking to myself, these emotions don't bother me anymore, but my worldview is not all that different than it was by what was formed by those
Starting point is 00:19:58 feelings. Remember last time we talked about having selfishness, having a relationship with a selfish person? You see that person as selfish. Or I was raised with sort of financial abuse. Like there's going to be disaster around every corner. I can't get that out. Emotional financial abuse. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not actual.
Starting point is 00:20:15 I bet you're part of financial abuse. Right. Emotionally beaten up for, you know, needing clothing, whatever. And I thought, wow, I can't get that disaster around every corner out of my worldview. I can't get it out. I don't think you can get it out, but it doesn't bother me. I don't have emotions about it. It's just a point of view. I'll tell you what, a couple things, Drew. I didn't grow up around emotional financial abuse, but there was no money and a very strong beating of that drum, which is we don't want to participate in life.
Starting point is 00:20:52 We don't want to participate in your life, and we sure as fuck don't want to get out of the house and go drive you somewhere. So what we will do is we will circle back to being poor as the reason for which we cannot do any of the things that you would like to do. Right. So if you like a ride somewhere, we'll talk about how much gas costs. And if you'd like to go in the robot building club, we'll tell you that you can't do that. It's cost prohibitive. You know, everything we'll do, we'll just circle back to money, and that way we won't have to do anything.
Starting point is 00:21:23 You want to go out to dinner tonight? We can't go out to dinner. We don't have any money. It'll be easy. Now, we don't want to go out to dinner because it involves getting dressed. It involves going in public. It involves interacting with our family. It involves a possible scenario where there might be some enjoyment or something.
Starting point is 00:21:42 But we'll just, super easy, every excuse will just go right back to we got no money. Now, somebody could argue that they got into that state by sort of being beaten into it by not having money. They just gave up. But I would argue back, well, they have money now, and yet they have the still same point of view. Well, but I'm saying it to you. I spent the lion's share of my adult life poor, and it didn't slow me down that much. If I wanted to go out to eat, I would sort of figure it out. We'll be right back with more of the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics.
Starting point is 00:22:22 Welcome back to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. And finally, episode 280 titled Affordable Housing, which aired on October 10, 2015. Adam talks about the homeless epidemic and he feels there's many reasons as to why the lack of available housing isn't the only problem. Check it out. bro check it out i don't know what percentage of homeless people are homeless because of a housing shortage or an apartment shortage i lived in a one bedroom with three dudes wasn't a problem it wasn't comfortable i literally had a bunk bed and another guy slept on a pullout sofa in the living room and there was one bathroom but we took the 466 dollar a month rent we whacked it up three ways um it wasn't there weren't supposed to be three of us living there but hey to buck 60 each or buck 57 each a month we could do it on
Starting point is 00:23:20 seven bucks an hour whatever i was getting for digging ditches so or there's a family there's a guest house there's a pool house there's a garage there's a spare bedroom there's a family there there's a there's a unit there's a structure there's something the we don't have boxes to put these people in is not addressing the problem problem of the psychiatric issues and the drug and substance abuse. To me, building more boxes to put these people in in a cheaper way is going to have some impact on them. It's not going to cure any problems. I have a show at KBC here in Los Angeles. And a guy called in
Starting point is 00:24:06 and he was a recovering homeless guy and he had a job now driving a truck and he said you know the way I got out of this was first of all I wasn't that sick but I had some issues but the social worker helped me out, put me in vocational training, I followed
Starting point is 00:24:22 through and god damn it over about two years and he goes and you know what we need to do? We need to have these, we need something like a big apartment building. This is what he described. He goes, we need a big apartment building that we can put them all together in this one place. And then there, we need to have social workers and doctors and really, I'm like, okay, well, that's a hospital.
Starting point is 00:24:42 You need a state hospital. We need fucking state hospitals again. And there's a homeless guy saying, this is exactly what we need. You help my peers. And I'm like, yeah, no kidding, everybody. And we just recoil against that. We're just refusing to do it. Look, what we need, Drew, and you notice that the homeless population in Los Angeles has gone up about five or tenfold in just the last five, six years.
Starting point is 00:25:08 And look, you don't need to be walking around with a clipboard as a statistician. You just drive through this town and look around. And let me just say one more thing. I forget where it is now, but there's a television series out there that chronicles the homeless thing and where it got started. And they honestly talk about the fact that it was Kennedy that closed the state hospitals. Everyone goes, oh, it was Reagan to save money. No, no, no. It all got finished during Reagan's era, but Kennedy closed down the state hospital
Starting point is 00:25:36 because who the fuck are you, man, to keep somebody from being free? How dare you keep somebody in a hospital? It's one flu of the cuckoo's nest, man. Kennedy's not the man. So we have to blame the man for this. Kennedy was too much. It's Patrick Kennedy. It's Patrick Kennedy's expose and his family are fucked up.
Starting point is 00:25:56 They're out of their addictions. Included in that, his uncle closing down the state hospitals. Well, anyway, it doesn't fit the bill for the man. Yeah. So we have to pick a guy who does fit the bill for the man, and that's Reagan. Right, right. So Reagan's the man. He shut everything down.
Starting point is 00:26:12 Which he did not. Well, yeah, but it's not fitting our narrative. So we'll stick with the man. Crazy. Number one. Number two, what's really been shut down is the family system. Yeah. shut down is the family system.
Starting point is 00:26:24 Yeah. And if you think about your last line of defense and everyone's last line of defense between out on the street pitching a tent under the overpass... Where would your kids be without their family? Think about that. My kids could never
Starting point is 00:26:40 be homeless because I'm here, my wife's here, and we work and we save and we focus and to be fair even as fucked up as your parents would they'd pick up that slack if they had they do something you know what i mean they well look the the bottom line is is if if whatever happened to me happened to me i would be crashing in my dad's garage in perpetuity. So, which is funny, I heard Margaret Mead, a famous anthropologist's daughter, talking about this issue and family. And she was talking about what families provide for education, safe security. And something she added in there which I had not thought about, it's continuity.
Starting point is 00:27:18 We've just fucking given that up. We have divorces, man. We go whatever. Continuity is stability through time, generation to generation, passing things on. We don't have that at all. We don't even think about that in our families anymore. Well, look, here's my humble take. I'll give you my humble take on this, and I'll tell you how to get rid of homelessness. It's the one... No one brings it up, but
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Starting point is 00:29:26 Well, as I've said a million times, for people that think, well, you're just some sort of right-wing nutjob who hates the government. If the government was effective at taking care of problems like the homeless, then I'd be, well, let them take care of it. We wouldn't be having this conversation. I live in L.A. We'll let them take care of it. We wouldn't be having this conversation. I live in L.A. Drew's talking about it's really Waze that has opened my eyes to this because you don't see homeless encampments on the freeway. But when Waze kicks you off under the freeway and you go under the freeway, then you start passing homeless encampments.
Starting point is 00:30:02 Now, it started in downtown and it's spreading its way out. It's making its way from downtown. Have you seen the river alongside the Pasadena Freeway? No, I haven't even seen that one. Oh, the entire riverbed. It's a giant, like, it looks like a campground going all the way along the freeway. Right. But it's pretty wild looking.
Starting point is 00:30:23 It's pretty intense. Yeah. I would argue that Los Angeles, for the amount we pay in taxes and for the bustling vanguard, tip of the spear metropolitan city we are, has way too much of this. It's insane how tolerant we are of this. I talked to another guy, another insane guy on KBC. I get to interview interesting people. And this one guy was an advocate for homeless, and he was
Starting point is 00:30:49 saying that we, this is just an interesting idea, he said, we think about the homeless incorrectly. He goes, these are the people that in the day of Frontiers, they would hit the trail. They would get their wagon, or when the British sent people to Australia, these are the guys they sent to Australia. And they would, the trail. They would get their wagon. Or when the British sent people to Australia, these are the guys.
Starting point is 00:31:06 They sent them to Australia. And they would, in a certain setting, thrive. Right. And we should find a setting, a way to do that, to sort of put them out there in the frontier, so to speak. Look, whether it's the homeless situation or the school-to-prison pipeline, homeless situation or the school to prison pipeline, we need to stop supplying a banana clip filled with rounds of human beings that can be shot into the river or shot under the off ramp or shot into the school to prison pipeline.
Starting point is 00:31:40 I just like to empty the banana clip. Once you start firing them, then it's like, well, what are we going to do with all these stray people that we're shooting all over the place, into the prison, into the homeless encampments? I get all that. And there is something to be said for that. So you mean get the family back together so we don't have the banana clip? Well, I'll put it to you this way. Yeah. If you listen to the Huffington Post, their thing is, first is, this is a problem and they demand it be fixed.
Starting point is 00:32:09 And shame on us for not fixing it. Thanks. Okay, good. Thank you, John Lennon. War is not the answer. Now, where are the solutions? You're saying war is not the answer. Good.
Starting point is 00:32:21 I'm with you. Where are the solutions? Because we have a pretty rich history with people going to war. So you making the proclamation that war is not the answer, that someone needs to do something about this homeless situation, I agree with you. Now, what is the solution? Your solution is we need more, and then it's fill in the blank.
Starting point is 00:32:43 More counselors, more doctors, more low-income. By the way, I really don't think low-income housing is going to put a dent in this. No, no. They need state hospitals. Yes, it would. I'm going to be generous. The issue is not the housing. It's the treatment and vocational rehab.
Starting point is 00:33:03 Well, can I say this? Drive up and down Normandy Boulevard in Los Angeles. There is low-income housing. It's called shitty apartments with 15 people living in it. I used to work in those. I used to earthquake, rehab those places.
Starting point is 00:33:20 They're pieces of shit, but you can put three or four people in a one-bedroom and get it for $600 a month or $800 a month and make it work. I mean, you could fucking panhandle your side of the rent by noon every day. All right, that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. Remember to check back each week for new episodes. the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics.
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