#2074 Part 2 - CA State Attorney General Candidate Michael Gates Joins the Show!
The Adam and Dr. Drew Show
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4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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CA State Attorney General candidate Michael Gates joins the show! They recount how Dr. Drew first met Michael and why he decided to enter politics. They revisit Adam's viral confrontation with Gavin Newsom over COVID beach closures, discuss Huntington Beach declaring itself a non-sanctuary city, and react to ICE controversies—including a sassy agent shutting down a shouting Karen.
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| 0:00.0 | Recorded live at Corolla 1 Studios with Adam Carolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky. |
| 0:11.0 | You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. |
| 0:15.2 | Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. |
| 0:17.0 | No choice but to get on a mandate check. |
| 0:18.9 | Get it on. Dr dr droop board certified physician |
| 0:21.5 | diction medicine specials wow i actually understood what you said michael gates michael |
| 0:26.5 | michael gates somebody in the studio here michael gates state attorney general that's what he's |
| 0:30.9 | campaigning for former huntington beach city i'm sorry huntington Beach attorney, or so it says. |
| 0:39.5 | Good to see you, Michael. |
| 0:40.7 | Yeah, Huntington Beach. |
| 0:42.7 | Huntington Beach City Attorney. |
| 0:43.8 | So I got to know. |
| 0:44.6 | Okay, I got Huntington City Beach. |
| 0:46.7 | I've mentioned it's. |
| 0:50.1 | All right. |
| 0:50.8 | I mentioned him several times to you because I got to know him and came on my streaming show |
| 0:54.8 | when he was the Huntington Beach City Attorney because he was suing Newsom all the time and winning. |
| 0:59.4 | And I thought you would like that. |
| 1:01.3 | I would. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.3 | So, I mean, I think we're all in the same boat. |
| 1:06.6 | We're all feel like L.A. and California is sort of falling apart. |
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