#2073 - Has California Hit Rock Bottom? Part 2

Recorded live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and board-certified physician and addiction medicine specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, got to get it on. Dr. Drew's over there in Poland still. Rudy Pavich is in here. I've found my book quote. We're talking about school shootings and the L.A. Times approach to it. Also, I don't know if you discovered this, Rudy, when we were recently watching the Super Bowl. And Mike August has a whole new technique for warding off being wrong about shit. Oh, okay. Normally he just says insane things. Yeah. Now what happened during the Super Bowl is Mike makes a proclamation, right? But the problem is now he's doing it in front of a group of people. And we're talking about like total yards. And I said something like, well, you know, you get sacked three times for 10 yards. That's 30 yards. That comes off your total yards. Gets deducted. And then he announces, no, it doesn't. And then my son does the, I think it does, which means it does. And then somebody looks it up, and it does. And then you go, hey, Mike, it does count. And he doesn't answer anymore. I go, Mike, they don't deduct it. He just sits there and doesn't say anything, pretends to look at his phone. And then I go, Mike, he doesn't. Then later on, he announced that Cooper Cup had four catches. and everyone in the room went, it's three catches. It's four. And everyone went, three. And then he sat there again. And then someone looked it up and said, Mike, it's three catches. And he sat there silently. And I was looking at Brad. And I was like, Brad, this is a whole new thing. And Brad's like, yeah, this is a new thing for Mike. And then I go, Mike, he's got three catches. And he's just sitting there. He's just sitting on the sofa. He's not making any noise. And everyone's around him telling him that. And he doesn't answer. That's his new technique. Love it, man. Yeah, there's going to be a master class, you know, when you got guys like Judd Apatow teaching you how to do comedy. He's going to teach you how to not be wrong. I'm Mike August, and this is my master class on never being incorrect. Yes. Yeah, I'm going to start doing the move. You and I were on the road last week, and I made a little faux pas in the green room because the Olympics had a picture of a few Olympians. And I'm like, man, look at that Minnesotan Lindsey Vonn. And you said, that is not Lindsey Vonn. And I said, B.S., that's Lindsey Vonn. I even looked it up on my phone, and I go, that's Lindsey Vonn. And you go, I'm pretty sure it's not. And then later on that night, we go back to our hotel rooms. I'm laying in bed, and I get a text from you that says, here's the woman you were actually looking at. You should have known then to go against what I said. And I was like, oh, yeah, that's right. I think I'm going to have to start doing that with Mike, but just in the opposite direction. Yeah, in the opposite direction. Whatever he says, I know it's going to be incorrect. Yes. Yeah, I agree. But the new technique of no answering what everyone was telling of that. I love that. That's a good one. Also, I have no idea, and this would include Mike, but also include my buddy Ray and half the people I grew up with. Where do you get this information that doesn't exist? Mike's like, in college, they deduct it. In prose, they don't. Okay, but they don't. But this doesn't exist. So I don't know. I don't know where everyone gets their incorrect information. They say it out loud a lot. Yeah, no repercussions. nowadays you can say whatever you want and then there's nothing nobody ever comes back and even when you are and all the fake the misinformation and the deep fakes and the fake information people were all the people that got everything wrong about covid and then do the exact same thing if somebody says anything politically and so you're right there's no repercussions all right The L.A. Time editorial thing that I wrote about in my book regarding school shootings, and this is, I think, was written by a woman at L.A. Times editorial. After the Parkland shootings, the L.A. Times editorial board wrote the following. We've listened to the bleedings of the gun enthusiasts that will, if those teachers had guns, then this wouldn't have been as bad. Okay, so I don't know if 13 kids died or 10 kids died or whatever. But if the teachers had guns, then it wouldn't have been as bad. I don't even know what the word bleatings. Oh, like a bleat? It's like a deer, like a doe will bleat. It's called a deer bleat. Oh, that's a Minnesota thing. I'm from North Hollywood. We don't have that. Bleat. Bleat. It's like a sound, like a cry that a deer makes. Why can't this bitch write crowing then when everyone knows what a crowing is? Crow is, yeah, yeah. All right. So the crying of the gun enthusiast that, well, if those teachers had guns, then this wouldn't have been as bad. Okay. Mm-hmm. All right. I'm kind of with that group. All right. Then she writes, been as bad? Think about that. Okay. Let me think about it. Okay. You know, 10 kids died. Then not as bad would be like seven kids dying, I guess. Think about that. If a pistol-strapping chemistry teacher grabbed her .45, I like that she has to be strapped. Yeah. And I like that it has to be a woman. Yeah. It's like a Stelgetti and my mom will shoot. Yeah. Stallone's greatest achievement. If a pistol-strapping chemistry teacher grabbed her .45 and unloaded on today's gunman after he killed what? One student? Three? Five? That would have been good news? It's not 10. Well, first off, it's not good news. It's good news for the five kids who didn't get shot because the teacher shot them. Yeah, absolutely. This is the editorial board. This is them. First off, what point are they making? You're making my point. This is 100% my point. Yes, not as bad because there's less dead kids. If there's a bus accident and 10 kids die, it's bad. And then if five kids die, it's not as bad as the 10 kids dying. How many died in Parkland, I guess would be the question. So this is a person sitting down who goes, I work as a journalist for a major newspaper, and I'm going to make a point. Now, why their editor doesn't look at it and goes, that is not, that's the bleating gun enthusiast, that's their point. You're actually making their point in your editorial against what you want them to do. Yeah. I know you made the teacher a her, and I know she was strapped. But it's still—by the way, I like the way they write this. They go, unloaded on today's gunman after he killed what? One student? Yeah. It's not a mass shooting. It's not a school—one shoot, that's a fucking incident in the inner city. That's not a school shooting. Yeah. 17 deaths at Parkway. Could have been one. Yeah. All right. That same difference. Three, five. That would have been good news. By the way, I love when they twist it around. That would have been good news. It wouldn't have been good news in a vacuum of no news. It would have been better news compared to 17. Yeah. Yeah. I'd say, yeah. Yeah. It's weird when people make points and sort of shit on themselves because I was talking to somebody about DEI once and I go, why do we have it? Let's just get rid of it. And it's just a meritocracy. and if you're the best, you get to be the best. And she said, you don't understand. There's somebody who works in my department and she's of Asian descent and everybody thinks that she's DEI. Well, yeah, if you got rid of it, that's the point I'm making. Get rid of it. I wrote about this editorial. Of course it would be good news, you fucking imbeciles. If you were student number six who didn't die because because some adult was armed, that would be very fucking good news. Whoever wrote this is an insane person. I was the worst student in North Hollywood High. If I was part of the LA Times editorial team, I'd have stood up at the meeting and said, hey, fuck sticks, we're shitting on our own point. In their attempt to make the case against guns, they've made a very compelling argument to arm teachers. They must have been amazing at speech and debate club in high school. Also, I get that the dumb shit cow who wrote this is probably just a sort of weaponized goofball. But is there nobody in the editorial department that could read this and go literally. So if one kid was killed, that'd be good news. Yeah. Compared to 17, that would be the greatest news ever. Yeah. For the parents. The problem is they read that and they go, this is great journalism. This is fantastic. Print this now. I guess because I feel like it's back to the word shit, like the Kamala word salad stuff where they just keep talking about stuff and it sounds good. But they're not making sense. We've been to the border. You've been to the border. I've never been to Europe. Have you been to the border? We've been to the border. You've not been to the border. What are you talking about? Oh, you're looking at systemic causes of migration. So you've been, oh, okay. Well, what happened with that? Did that stop anybody? Sure. Putting shit up at the border stopped people. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, anyway, it's a theme, which is talking is fucking dangerous and they don't see it as dangerous. They just dream of some world where John Lennon imagines everything and then we're done. John Lennon was like, I'm just going to imagine this place where there's no borders, there's no religion, there's no possessions. I'm just going to go out whoring and fucking do whatever I want. Yeah. Going back to that, like they're not living in the reality of where we're at now. Yes. If we could all live in a world that was 40 years ago and nobody would even fathom about bringing a gun to a school. Yes, that was a reality that we had. But that is not the reality that we have anymore. Right. All right. Then what else we got here? Looking at a new study. It says, forget about books. Professors say students can't even make it through a movie anymore. The fact that generations raised on doom scrolling can't focus long enough to read a full book may spell the end of our civilization. Yeah, there's trouble. Yeah. Matt Damon the other day had made a comment. I don't know if you saw it, but basically he was saying Netflix needs you. when you write a script now, you have to keep reiterating throughout the script what it is that you are doing and what it is that you are trying to accomplish because people's attention spans, they drift in and out. And Mark Norman, comedian Mark Norman, had a great bit on it because he took that quote and then said, I literally was reading this while staring at my phone in the middle of watching a movie. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so we're going to need to get back to some place that people don't want to go, which is mundane, boring, sort of tedious, kind of task-oriented, movement-oriented, and nobody wants to go there into that world. basically we're going to have to set the clock back to like 1973 and you're going to have to walk places and wash your own car and go get your own groceries and cook your own meals and do that shit. Yeah. And bring yourself back to some sort of former time where this stuff wasn available Like you almost have to trick yourself into pretending it not available Yeah, yeah. Wouldn't it be nice? I know we talked about, you know, the iPod and how, you know, it was – people got – now music's on your phone. I would love to go back to the version of an iPod where I can go to the gym and I don't have the distraction of just looking at my phone every time. Every time I'm sitting on a machine, you take an extra three minutes, you probably get more shit done. I'm trying to do right now no phone Wednesdays. Wednesday's a good day of the week. I ain't got shit going on. I'm not traveling. I don't need it. Put the phone away. Get away from it. In fact, Andrew, maybe you can find the guy's name. He directed Ace Ventura, whatever that dude's name is. I'm spacing on it. But basically, this guy came out with an article that said after he had been in Hollywood for so long and all the stresses of it. Tom Shadyak. Tom Shadyak. So that dude basically one day after he just came to his production crew, he went to his office and said, I am taking time off. I am going to go hang a hammock on a beach. I don't know. No phone, no laptop, no nothing. Don't don't find me. So he splits town, goes to a beach, hangs a hammock, sits on the ocean with a tent. And he's out there for 30 days. And he said by day number six, all of his anxiety went away. All of his all of his emotions went away. He just went back to just living life and enjoying it. Came back into civilization within like three days, was right back to where he was with all the stresses and all the anxiety. And he went, I'm out. We're done. No more of this stuff. So basically he just handed it off to another employee and said, I will pay you double to take care of all the shit I don't want to take care of anymore because my brain cannot handle it. Hmm. Yeah, I think, like I said, little tricks, going for walks, leaving the phone at home. Yeah. Going to come into the studio, leave the phone outside of the studio, go to bed, shut your phone off. Like a lot of a lot of that. I'm I'm I'm uniquely wired for this. Pardon the pun, because I have people saying, well, what if there's emergency in the middle of the night? It's like, I don't want to know about it. Yeah, I'd like to just sleep through the night. The emergency. It's not like the emergency is going to go away if I catch it on my phone. So let me get another four hours of sleep and I'll deal with it when I wake up in the morning. Yeah, I think also there's a kind of a narcissism, like you are going to do something, like you're an emergency medical physician or something, like you're going to perform surgery on something. You know, like there's not there's really there's no real scenario where you knowing about it in the middle of the night would impact it. There's some real like deep outside chance shit that somebody's got an hour to live or something and you could get to the hospital and say goodbye to them or something. There's some kind of weird sort of zero chance that's going to happen kind of thing. The rest is just you're just going to find out this person's dead like you found out that three doors down guy was dead. You know, it's not like you need to get up at four in the morning and find that out. You're just going to wake up and have breakfast and then you'll find out. Then you'll go, that's sad. And then that'll be that. But you don't need it at four in the morning. All right. We'll take a quick break. Be right back right after this. At Pluto TV, we're celebrating Black History Month with our free curated collection of black entertainment. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Catch award-winning films like Dreamgirls, Monsters Ball, and Selma. We must make a massive demonstration. Iconic hits like School Days and Set It Off. 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And I find it insane. I mean, it's a little like burn the Tesla dealership stuff. Like, you guys are just fighting everything all the time. Now you've got a guy wanting to hold Big Pharma accountable and to get food coloring out of the Doritos and for Americans to eat whole food and healthier, and you're attacking them as well. And so are the New York Times, which is such a weird thing. Yeah, nurses who are like, we've got to get these pharmaceutical ads off TV. Well, RFK can help make that happen. Yeah, screw that guy. Okay, well, what do you want then? Right. So it's a New York Times article. Many Americans simply don't want to or don't have the time to cook all their foods from scratch. By the way, they always do stuff like all their foods from scratch. No one is saying you can't get a burger if you're out on the road. They're just saying when you're at home and you've got kids, make your kids breakfast and do not have them rely on the school lunch program. where they get, I mean, the school lunch, I did the school lunch and breakfast program. I mean, it was, you know, syrup that came in a weird boxy pull tabby container that was all just corn syrup and orange dye number seven. Terrible. Piece of weird French toast that was just thick grub. I mean, just carbs, you know, dump it on there. Powdered eggs. Like, I mean, it was just some of the shittiest, grossest, worst. I mean, it had to be horrible for you. The rectangular pizza that just felt like glue in your mouth. It was awesome. Oh, that couldn't even get the right fucking shape for the pizza. Anyway, American This Is The Times to simply don't want to. By the way, when people go, listen, folks just don't want to, I don't know, feed their kids or make their kids breakfast or make themselves breakfast or look after their kids or provide dick. Folks just don't want to. Fuck y'all. I don't give a fuck what you want. Do you think early settlers cared about? We're not going to walk to the well. We're not going to stock firewood or pemmican or something. It's like, fuck you. You got to do what you got to do. If you're rich, go get a nanny and a chef. But if you're not, get the fuck up in the morning and make some breakfast. Also, what are you doing with that time that you're so busy that you can't cook your own meals? What is it you got going on? Let's just break it down this way. almost everything involving breakfast as a parent, if you're going to be realistic and I'm going to, I will, I will carve out some space for the third shifters who work overnights and don't get back until seven in the morning or nine or noon. Or there's just a handful of people who work some sort of third shift and they're gone or whatever. But most everybody, everybody if you think if i think about my parents and i think about my grandparents and i think about everybody i knew who had a family divorced or not every breakfast was about 10 or 12 minutes away from the parent just getting up a little bit earlier like instead of getting up at seven you get up at 6 45 you make your fucking kid scramble that. Anybody could have done it. My mom, nobody chose to do it that I grew up with, but they all fucking could have done it. I mean, my mom would go to bed at nine 30 at night. My dad would go to bed at nine. You know what I mean? They got up, they went, my dad went to work sometimes. My mom didn't go to work, but both of them could have easily just got up another 15 minutes or, I mean, you know, my dad was, my dad would go to bed at like nine. I mean, like he could have got up at six at 545 in the morning, like no problemo. And, uh, and made some eggs. Yeah. If he wanted to. At what age did you figure it out where you went, okay, these people are going to be never going to be making me any scrambled eggs with a little strawberry on the side. So I'm going to be on my own. Oh, I was, I mean, I would say I, I had the notion I was on my own probably about eight. Wow. That, that, you know, they can, I'll tell you, there's one message that can be sent early and often and that's you're on your own i mean neglect yeah yeah yeah it's easy uh and you'll get it quick you'll get it early uh so sorry many americans simply don't want to or don't have time to cook all their foods from scratch a task that involves unpaid labor intends to fall disproportionately on women yes because the fucking guys are working bitch uh they don't need it okay times i know i love the idea that we're trying to get women out of doing everything women could do or can do or should do um yeah it's disproportionately because the men are disproportionately you know on a construction site which starts at 7 fucking a.m school starts at like 8 805 or whatever 807 or some weird number as i recall but my job and every construction job starts at 7 a.m., which basically means you're out of the house at 6 or 6.15 or something, which basically means breakfast is for the mom because the dude's in his truck and he's heading in and the kids get up at 6.30 or whatever that thing is. But the LA Times has a what? A beef with a guy says, let's make breakfast for our kids. And then they always go to some sort of weird extreme. Like they go all foods from scratch. And by the way, I'm not talking about making buttermilk biscuits from scratch. I'm talking about scrambling eggs. Sure. Is that from scratch? Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it's all foods from scratch. I know you can go get like a prefab salad and mix it up and put some, you know, balsamic vinegar on it or something. They always have to create some sort of weird narrative. Breakfast is pretty easy. Yeah. There's a girl who it must be like for DoorDash or something. I see her at the local Target. I shop at when I go get my food. And she's in there all the time looking at her phone and putting stuff. She's the fastest hustler I've ever seen. And every time I see that girl, I think, if I had a job open, I would hire you. And I would definitely look at who it is that you are buying that food for and go, make sure that I never want to see this person's job application ever. Right. It's a lazy piece of shit. So Callie Means writes about the Times article. feminism has been weaponized to junk food companies to argue that American parents don't want to or have the time to cook healthy for their kids listen anybody let me give you guys it's real easy I'll give everyone all you gotta do is use my handy dandy ten thousand dollar rule and uh and we're done if you said to any of these fucking lazy ass parents um you said to my mom or my dad or anybody hey uh you get up you get up 20 minutes early by the way all this shit when people go i don't have time to go over here and do that i uh vinnie tortorich came to my house once the nutritionist and i said vinnie come I came through my house, the kids were like nine, I said, we got so much junk here with the fucking instant Quaker hot meal. Yeah So bad for you Honey and maple flakes like maple flavored brown sugar It just a bunch of chemicals and and sweetener and and just a bunch of carbs Anyway, he went. He went through the house, he took took all said what to make. It all got replaced immediately. No one did anything I said to do. But at some point he said to my ex-wife, he goes. You know, she goes, I do the Quaker instant oatmeal, whatever. And he goes, that stuff's poison. It's so fucking horrible for them. We were doing, like, toast with cookie butter and stuff. And he's just like, don't do it. Just make them eggs. Make them eggs. And my ex-wife goes, well, the problem is the boy likes them scrambled, and the girl likes them sunny-side up. I guess we can't remember. I remember just watching Vinny's face. He's like, that's an extra fucking 45 seconds. You just crack the egg into the fucking pan and beat it up. The other one you just leave unscramble. How many pans in the house do you actually own? Just one? Is there multiple? Is it under lock and key? I argue use the same pan. Just make the sunny side up, slide it off, and then bust the next one into the pan. I agree. It was more the look on his face. You didn't want to say anything. We just gave a look like, wow. Yeah, so people are fucking lazy. And they're going to outsource whatever they can outsource. And the Times will be there to support them because they somehow think it's a good idea for the ladies not to do shit around the house and make meals and stuff like that. Yeah. Which is part of the undoing of our society. Yeah. Yes. A $10,000 rule. $10,000 rule. If you would have said to my mom or my dad, listen, you got to get up 15 minutes early for one month and make your kids breakfast before they go to school. And if you do it and you don't miss a day, I'll give you $10,000 cash at the end of the month. Guess who would have done it? Every single morning. Right. Not my ex. She would have gone, I don't give a fuck. That she would have cared about. But everybody else would have cared. Sure. For sure. so now you're telling me you can't do it or you don't have time because I just offered you 10,000 a month or we can do it the other way. You give me 10,000 if you don't do it. Ah, yeah, there you go. All right. Done. Yep. They would have done it. Absolutely. Probably even more so if you did. And then who do you know who can't do that? Yeah. Okay. So we have our answer. You can do it. You just don't fucking want to do it. Well, that's tough shit because it's your kids. So get your shit together. Yeah. And the invisibility of it is the cancer and all the brain fog and all the stuff you don't think about and it down the road. But once you finally get into it, you know, I've talked to so many people that have gotten sober and started eating healthy. And they're like, I can't believe how smart I am. I can't believe after I've got all the chemicals and all the nonsense out of my diet. I can't believe what my brain is able to do since I don't put it in me all the time. Yes. So take care of your own kids. Make yourself fucking breakfast. Make them breakfast, too. And the New York Times is not your friend because they don't want you to have to do this stuff. But like I said, it's the same thing with like cleaning your house or making meals or anything. It's not about time. It is definitely not about time. All you people have more than a fucking enough time. And it doesn't take that long. You do 20 minutes of good cleaning on your house. It goes pretty fucking fast. Like, you can get it done. Like, my girlfriend was out of town for like a week, and then I was going out of town for a week. And I was just living in the condo, making dishes and leaving shit everywhere. And I just took like 25 minutes the night before I was leaving just to get the place straightened up. Because, I don't know, you should do that when someone's coming back. And just hit the dishes and wipe down the counters and throw a few clothes in the hamper. It's like 25 minutes. The whole place is basically tidied up. It's really not that big a deal. It's the same as making breakfast. I think of how many times you walk into somebody's house and it's a complete disaster area and you go, oh, man, this guy definitely doesn't have a shit together. What's going on here? Imagine if you just did that to yourself when you walked in after being on the road for four days and your place was a mess. Oh, my God. Who made this mess? Oh, I did? Oh, maybe it's time to maybe start putting a little bit of effort into my place. Agreed. All right. So let's see. We have another situation here, which is there's a clip. I think it was CBS was playing. It was an ICE agent, a woman, and it was like a woman threw an ICE agent. Sorry, ICE agent threw a woman down to the ground. And then CBS was all butthurt about it because there's this thing where here's the thing, everybody. let's not do not put your hands on ICE agents. It's avoidable is what I'm saying. You don't have to come at these people. You will get thrown to the ground. I do. I like all the local heroes to get interviewed, but I'll play the story. A federal agent violently slamming a woman to the ground, then deploying pepper spray as a crowd of observers approaches. Tomas Rebecki was one of the people hit directly. I was just in shock. I was just making sure she was okay. And the next emotion that kicked in was anger for someone to throw a woman that hard to the ground and act tough until other grown men started walking up to him. The man we spoke with says he's a volunteer for a local immigrants' rights group, so he decided to come down here and observe. But what happened next, he says, was completely unnecessary. Rebecki says the group of citizens was there to peacefully observe and document ice activity in their community. At no point, he says, did they pose any physical threat to officers. It was really crazy, excessive use of force, and there was no need for what they did and the way they reacted. Pause. Why is she so close to an ICE officer that he can just grab her and throw her down? Why is she within two feet? Why is she inside of two feet with an ICE officer? If you're there to observe, why don't you go stand on a bench and get a better bird's-eye view of your observation? They're called observation decks. You don't get up on people. Uh, he threw her good, by the way. Uh, she's fine, by the way. Uh, he pepper sprayed the other people because the other people were coming up, rolling up on him. Listen, they don't know if you're going to stop or not going to stop. So you're going to get pepper sprayed. You might get shot. But on the other hand, what was she doing grabbing the ice officer or even in that proximity to him? That's the whole thing. People, people need a little personal space. And when you get up on them, they're not sure what could happen. So then they sometimes get offensive. Yeah, nobody goes to a zoo and sticks their arm into a lion's cage. And then the lion rips it off and goes, well, what the hell did that lion do that for, man? What's the matter with the lion? Yeah, it's such a bad lion. All right, sorry, you can hit play. We can watch a little more. There was no need for what they did and the way they reacted to us. What did you talk about? A woman to the ground? One person was taken into custody during this incident. You can see agents walking that person to a van as the altercation continues. Repeatedly, the agent who used the pepper spray can also be seen raising it again, appearing to warn the crowd to keep its distance. Yeah, that's what he's doing. That's what he's doing because they're chasing after him, and that's what you call an angry mob. So he's got pepper spray, which is non-lethal, and he's holding it up to say, step back. Do not step toward me. Also, I love when they describe policy or what you would just do. You know what I mean? Yeah. They give them pepper spray. Why? So they don't have to shoot people. Okay, what do you use this pepper spray for? When people encroach too close upon you instead of shooting them, you hit them with this non-lethal pepper spray. Yeah. And if they're going to keep encroaching upon you, then they're going to hold up the pepper spray. Yeah. I carry a little bit in Vegas when I walk from the strip down to my apartment because there's a couple spots in between. They're a little dark, and there's parts of Vegas that are a little rough. and I take the pepper spray and it's not because I want to pepper spray anybody, but if you've ever been in Vegas man, the homeless are a little crazy they're a little insane and sometimes they don't even know what they're doing when they walk up on you and the last thing I want to do is to have a dead homeless guy so that's why I don't bring a gun or a knife you hit him in the eye and you take off it's basic alright, well there's another minute here we have to be there to observe they'll twist the story, they'll change it alright, hold on a second He needs to be there to observe, but he's... The ICE guys are throwing down the people that are getting in their face. If you just observed, if everyone just observed everything, then there'd be no incident. Your eyes work 30 feet away. Right. All right. ...to warn the crowd to keep its distance. That's why we have to be there to observe. Like, they'll go twist the story, they'll change it, and, like, that's why we need to be there recording, observing, and pushing back when they're using force against innocent people. Rebecki is a father of two, not someone he says that is looking to put himself in a dangerous situation. But being out here in situations like this is personal, citing his family's immigration history and the support they provided each other while living countries apart. He says what happened this week will not discourage him from getting back out there again. This community, these are the times that come together, and that was what got my family through it, and that's what's going to get us through this time. So any little thing we can do. We called the local. We called the local. All right. All right. You're doing so much fun. Listen, do we? It's like when they do this, you know, the biggest problem we have in this country is white supremacy. It's like, I'll take my chances. I'll take my fucking chances against the black kid on the subway with the white dude. But they actually create this. I'll do my John Lennon. Imagine ICE comes to your town to collect illegals and criminals and everyone stays home. What would happen? They'd just collect the illegals and the criminals and then they'd go home. Or imagine your Blue City works with them and instead of freeing these guys, they gave them custody to ICE out of the prisons. Imagine that. Yeah. We could all just imagine. How about we just imagine that? Yeah. And then we'd see how many chicks in vans got shot and how many male nurses got shot and how many people got thrown to the ground. Because I'm imagining a world where you fucking stay home and none of this shit ever happens. That's my world. Now, you imagine a world where ICE never shows up. But that's like imagining a world without cops. Sure. Well, no. No one would ever go to prison ever again. But I don't think it would work. If you listen to what he said, we need to be down there, we need to observe, we need to record, and we need to push back. The problem is they're pushing back before the other two things. That's where this all starts. Right. All right. Quick break. Be right back. All righty. So we got that. We got Andrew. Somebody tried to steal Andrew's catalytic converter, by the way, his girlfriend's catalytic converter. I think Andrew's got a moped. I think that's just a straight exhaust. Yeah, you got a catalytic converter on a Schwinn? That's weird. It's a puk, but yeah, don't demean the man. Is that a, that's no, that's a straight two-stroke exhaust on that moped you got, right? So there's no cat back system there. Okay. This is VIA's ring camera. I guess it's the white Prius. Guys cross the street. What time is this? The wee hours? 2 a.m. 145 come across the street get up in there walk in front look around a little get down look under now the what happened was is his wife his girlfriend's dad told her to put a cage around the catalytic converter So it was they we living in a society in Los Angeles where the deodorant and the razor cartridges are in cages. And then outside of the CVS, we put cages around our catalytic converters because people crawl underneath them, by the way. Yeah. Who's going under getting those things? White supremacists, I think, right? Wouldn't be illegals, would it? Would it be illegals? I'm going to go with illegal Mexicans are doing this shit. But all right. No, no. They don't commit crime and they pay more in taxes and they commit. They do more than they take away, except we have to back out the catalytic converters. I'm going to eliminate Jews and Asians and even Crips and Bloods. I don't think this is their turf. It's certainly the white supremacists. So they put the guard around the catalytic converter. I guess the person saw it. And this is right in a good part of Toluca Lake, by the way. Yeah, I was going to say, this looks like a decent side of town. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. So I guess what does one do with a catalytic converter? Do you melt it down? Do you trade it in? I mean, at some point, isn't it like on the places where you're trading in these things, the guy who owns the shop where you're bringing them to to go, hey, man, we got to stop taking these. Obviously, these things are stolen off of vehicles. I think they use the metals that are in them. And, you know, we have a whole, you know, California, especially L.A., has a whole sort of syndicate underground economy of everything. And it's all sort of cartel shit. Yeah. And we have a fucking open border. We've got tons of Hispanics. And they are in these groups that do this stuff. And they find places that have, you know, 2,000 of these catalytic converters, like in the garage and stuff like that. I mean, they're not really doing a very good job of policing anything. We just, we get what we deserve because we don't really police stuff very well. Yeah. And they contain platinum and palladium. and they have lots of good materials in them. And so they strip that stuff. But, I mean, like I said, we're going after copper and streetlights out here. Like we're getting to the basic elements of life and earth and heavy metals. Well, you know, when guys crawl underneath vehicles and, you know, dude walks out to his car and doesn't realize that there's an illegal immigrant underneath it and then he fires that thing up and then drives away and everybody screams, How dare that guy racially kill that man under his car? Everybody gets on their ass about it, and nobody looks down at the criminal. Like, there was a dude that we grew up with that they were stealing aluminum off of telephone, like the giant sort of A-frames. Oh, really? And it was a guy, two dudes I went to high school with. They went out, and they took one of the brackets off, the braces, and the whole damn electrical A-frame, the giant, like, you know, it fell and cut him right in half. Right. Completely cut him in half. And the parents went back. Apparently, from what I had heard, parents went back and were like, you know, you guys had a faulty A-frame or something. And the government was like, well, if your kid wasn't out there stealing our aluminum, this would have never happened. And they dropped the case. They were like, yeah, you're right. Maybe this is on us a little bit. Oh, good. Yeah. Yeah. Those are – that's a faraway time. Yeah. I mean, that's a bygone era. Yeah. Yeah, these guys went and shot that actor who went out in the middle of a car, you know, in the middle of the catalytic converter jacking. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. The city doesn't talk. They don't they're not that interested in that. It's not like a cop shot a black guy. This is just an illegal shooting a white guy. So they're not Johnny Wachter doesn't they don't really care is the answer. That's why you don't really hear about that one. But. And I. Yeah. Who are the two guys? I mean, the two guys who killed Johnny were just Mexican gangbangers, right? Like, that's who's doing all this shit. It's organized. Sure. It's not like the guy, it's not like the 17-year-old gangbanger steals it and fences it himself. He just gives it to somebody. Somebody else. They sell it for drugs or whatever. The cartels have all their little lieutenants running around doing the actual dirty work. probably use guys that are underage because we won't prosecute them or, you know, or, you know, prosecute them like adults and stuff like that. I was going to say, we're not even prosecuting adults anymore. Right. So we have. OK. So I hope. Are you sitting down? The two guys that killed the actor were Roberto Barcelonu and Sergio Estrada. estrada white supremacy is the biggest problem this country faces yeah two gang probably mexican gangbangers both 18 and now they're in our prison system sure and uh i look i don't know if these guys are here legally or illegally but uh we got a big problem in la with this it's a big fucking problem and nobody wants to do anything about it because it takes a turn for the political and the racial and so nobody will do that. Now we got Nithya Rahman who's going to be running for mayor who's, she's the one who's angry at Toyota for creating cars this way. Let's see. Oh, Nick's got his stolen in Santa Monica. Yeah, ever, Chris Loxamana got his stolen. Almost everyone either knows someone or works with someone who got his shit if you live in LA and you do not have covered parking like if you got to do street parking uh there's a decent chance you have gotten your catalytic converter stolen and by the way this impacts the shit out of poor people because it's really expensive to replace yeah and rich people have their cars parked up a driveway and inside a garage so they don't get it ripped off But poor people have to park on the street and they get it ripped off. And it's a fucking scene. I mean, I don't I'm not sure about insurance, but if you got a five hundred dollar deductible or whatever it is, then there you go. And catalytic converters are super expensive. And then you got to pay to have a cage welded on. Yeah. The bottom of your car. I was going to say, there's this sort of cottage industry that sort of popped up because of it. You got the guys that are able to weld the cages onto it. Yeah, it's... Yeah, I mean, I say weld, but they'll bolt it on there as I think about it. Because a Prius is a unibodied construction. It doesn't have a frame. It's monocoque. Okay. You know what that is? I don't, no. cars used to formally have frames. They'd put the frame, they'd put the carriage on top of the frame, and they would bolt it to the frame. The body work would get bolted to the frame. And then the Europeans figured out, why don't we make the body of the car the structural part of the car? So what they started doing is they started building stuff stuff that would call unibody and that the body itself was the rigid part not the frame going, there was no frame. Yeah, think of it like bones almost like it's sort of like the inside, like when you see the going down the conveyor belt and there's no quarter panels on it, there's no hood on it, it's just all metal and it sort of looks like the skeleton of a car. Yeah. Yeah, in a weird way. It's like bones but it's almost like cartilage, although Rudy didn't know sharks didn't have bones which i found out god damn i'm super disappointed that conversation i was disappointed in me you sure i was disappointed myself embarrassed for you so you take this like you take the cockpit or you take a fighter jet there's no frame in a fighter jet the shape of it is its strength you know what i'm saying and so like you take f1 there's no rails there's no frame it's monocoque it's the the shape of it is its strength it's got one cock one monocoque yeah so you take a prius or even like early on like a 240z 240z didn't have frame rails it just had the shape of it okay was what it was and it's lighter because you don't have these big rails running down the thing and it's more rigid and american cars especially you know trucks but even like mustangs and stuff like that they had a frame like a big iron frame that you'd set it on top of sure so a prius is a monocoque and i don't even know if they would call it monocoque's like fancy race for it but uh no frame so underneath a a prius would just be stamped sheet metal like it'd just be a tub essentially you know like they call it like a Volkswagen bug was a tub. Like they didn't have a frame. Like a matchbox car. Underneath is just sort of a piece of plaza. Yeah. And so it would have a tunnel for the exhaust to go down the middle. And then you wouldn't really be able to weld it to the sheet metal because that wouldn't work. And also you wouldn't want to just weld the sheet metal because you need to be able to access it. If you need to replace it or something, you couldn't weld it on. to just be shit construction to go in in in the world of building you wouldn't weld stuff over stuff you needed to access you'd have to be able to access it you have to be unbolt this thing and drop it off right so this i don't know you can look andrew i don't know how how they do it but But they must bolt it up underneath the thing. And now if they're good, they'll utilize a couple of pickup points where like a cross member or something has already been bolted there and use those bolts to bolt this up. Like it's always smart if you can utilize some already pickup points where it came from the factory, where it's been reinforced and it's threaded and you can just take your transmission cross member piece, undo it and incorporate this. But if not, you're going to have to just through bolt it to there and then even theoretically use some sort of bolt head that you couldn't just undo with a half inch drive. Yeah, you'd have to be able to get inside of the car to get it, like, unscrew it or something. But can't the car companies, can't they pre-build vehicles like this so that it can't access? Yeah, but they didn't anticipate this fucking hellscape known as California. These people are in Tokyo. They're like, what the fuck? You got to get a Sawzall and undo it? So how does it say it does it, by the way? it doesn't say where it bolts up or how it how it bolts up or do they utilize any whatever um it's academic i mean when it doesn't utilize an existing cross member or pickup point because i can't imagine they're just punching holes in the bottom of the the prius and i cannot tell from whatever you just said but we'll do it mark it for the next episode if i was doing it i'd design the cage to go over current pickup points. Alright, you can go to amcroll.com for all the live shows and you can also go to rudypavichcomedy.com as well. And I'm coming to Texas coming up soon. Maybe Rudy will be with me. I will be. And you can go to amcroll.com for all that. Until next time, I'm from Rudy saying Mahalo. At Pluto TV, we're celebrating Black History Month with our free curated collection of black entertainment. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Catch award-winning films like Dreamgirls, Monsters Ball, and Selma. We must make a massive demonstration. 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