The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1766 Adam’s Grandma Isn’t a Fan

Episode Date: September 11, 2023

Adam & Dr. Drew begin the show talking about the recent death of Smash Mouth lead singer, Steve Harwell. Dr. Drew has some insight into the details of his illness, and both Adam and Dr. Drew relate on what a nice and affable person Steve was. They next discuss personality differences in people, and Adam shares a hilarious video of his grandma talking smack about him. Please Support Our Sponsors: Simiplisafe.com/ADAM2 Angi.com

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What's going on, Drisky? Yeah, man. There's a lot going on. Let's see. One of the things that's on my mind is our buddy Steve from Smash Mouth. Yeah. Fucking crazy, dude. He died, right?

That's what I heard. I know he was on hospice last I heard, and I believe he's passed away now. But that is an odd situation. Steve Harwell. Harwell, yeah. Yeah. We knew him pretty well back in the day. Yeah, there were some bands from back in the day that were, there were sort of these English bands that, you know, Chumbawamba and Blur and stuff like that.

Like a weird attitudes and everything. Oasis. But then there were some just friendly kind of knock around kind of party dudes. But grateful. Grateful for them to be. Yeah. Like Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray and stuff like that. Goldfinger.

They're like, yeah, they're just like fun dudes. Seem to be Orange County kind of guys. 100%. And they weren't even. You know, it's funny because they were, I don't think they even considered themselves artists. They just were having a good time. Yes.

Caught some lightning in a bottle and just you know the boss tones the guys like that they just enjoyed like even blink 182 they were yeah you know enjoyed just like hanging out yeah yeah steve was definitely one of those guys last one of those dudes last time i talked to him it was in a trailer at the weenie roast these concert adam and i used to have to go to every summer, and talking about how much he enjoyed riding his tractor lawnmower. This was a long time ago. But that and a beer was sort of all he was interested in at the time, not being a rock star.

Right. being a rock star right however uh the fact that he died of alcoholic liver disease is a little odd to me because people with alcoholic liver disease these days get liver transplants and it makes me wonder why he didn't get a liver transplant well i used to hear stories about the long waiting list and that kind of stuff. This wasn't that. It wasn't. Because that would have been the story. Like, hey, man, he died while waiting on a list. It was horrible. There are long lists, but people get them.

And I actually looked up the exclusionary criteria for transplant, right? Because I knew you had to stop drinking for six months. So that was on the exclusionary criteria. And so that means either he could to stop drinking for six months so that was on the exclusionary criteria and so that means either he could not stop drinking which i find again like really in this day and age you can't uh let's get on this and see what we can do about it and no one called me at any point just sort of odd so here the other than other than no alcohol for six months, also other substance use, cancer outside the liver, active infection, medical noncompliance, lack of adequate social support, other diseases or conditions. But here's the one that caught my eye, disabling neuropsychiatric conditions. psychiatric conditions when i was reading about what happened to him he had a wernicke's encephalopathy which is i wonder if he got irreversible brain damage from alcohol oh really

yeah and like a korsakoff syndrome and just they were like all right that's it how old was he guys 55 or something can you guys help me with that? Anybody? Well, it's sad obviously because he was just a good dude. Yes, he was. I didn't know a ton about him. 56. Other than he was just

affable and friendly and easy. And I oftentimes sort of think about the easy versus the hard, you know, but I'm starting to wonder if people are just like breeds of dogs or something. You've said that over the years. I've always said it. Because it doesn't really have to do with your station in the sense that people think, okay, that guy's a big celebrity. So he's all full of himself.

He's got attitude and he's blah, blah, blah. But the easiest guy you're ever going to deal with in comedy is Jay Leno. He's super easy. And the easiest guy you're going to deal with on the political side is Tucker Carlson. So then why they they're both sort of the top of the pyramid of their respective sports. Why are they so easy? And then you start to really just wonder, yeah, I know people that are difficult, that have no standing in life. I'm not talking about a homeless, but they're working a job. There's no reason for them to have an attitude or whatever. They're not rich or powerful or anything.

And they're just difficult. And they're just just difficult, you know, and I'm trying to think if it breaks down along the male female lines. I think I think females are more difficult in the sense that they're much less. I mean, I'm basing this on my interactions with females and I'm basing it on having boy-girl twins you know yeah you know if I if I said to my son hey we're going get in the car you know he just start get he'd start looking for her shoes you know and if I say that for my daughter she wants to know where we're going what's no it's not a good time you know through the hair it's it's something but it's not easy yeah um it could be legitimate but it's not going to be easy you know and and i've never uh i guess i guess what you'd have to do it's funny i just i uh i should include uh i mean there are many easy celebs.

I just got off the phone with Harlan Williams, and I said, hey, man, last time I talked to you, we're going to Burning Man. And he said, yeah, I'm returning the RV, like right now. And I said, oh, hey, you think you could call into the show and give us a synopsis on Burning Man? And he's like, yeah, well, what know and i uh so it's so funny i i love i love how uh how the stars align i said uh i was talking to chris and i was like well i guess two o'clock would be the best time for him to call in and so i said to him so what do you got going today and he goes well well, I'm just busy between 1 and 3. But other than that, I could call in. And I'm like, I picked a number right in the middle of your 1 and 3.

I picked 2. But then I said, oh, well, maybe he – and then he went, well, maybe earlier. Maybe I could call in like 1, 1, 15. I could probably do like 10 or 15 minutes of that. And I said, yeah, okay, great. And he's like, thanks, buddy earlier. Call in like 1.15. I could probably do like 10 or 15 minutes of that. And I said, yeah, okay, great. And he's like, thanks, buddy. And we just hung up the phone. It can be easy or it can be difficult.

And I don't know that difficult people know they're difficult. No. Number one. No. They would actually talk about other people being difficult. Right. There's three things. Character, being nice, and being difficult are all things that people do not recognize in themselves.

Everyone's like, I'm nice, I have high character, and I'm not difficult. Yeah. The most difficult. Right difficult right now the reason i speak my mind we all it's a it's a simple experiment anybody who works with more than five or eight people're gonna have to switch to sunday uh alert everybody and see if they can all make it on sunday and then you pick in your mind in advance the person that's going to have a problem with it yeah it will always be the same person well it's even worse it's never the excuse is never fuck off i'm difficult it. It's I got something cooking Sunday, whatever. It'll be something, but it'll always be the same person and you'll know who it is.

And the easy people, it'll never be one of those people. And by the way, everyone will know who it is because they'll all go, oh, I don't want to tell so-and-so. Right. Right. Now, I don't know why – and it's also something that's never really talked about. Not really. impulse, which is when somebody says to you, hey, can you call in at this time or can I come by? Can you just get in the car?

Whatever it is. And you just go, yeah. It sort of lessens who you are. I'm not getting that. Well, you couldn't say to the president of the United States, hey, I need you to come by my house and move some boxes. He'd go, no. That's way beneath what I do. You know what I mean?

You can't tell. And I don't even mean a task. But what I mean is that person has a schedule. Right. And he didn't include time for you and your boxes. You know what i mean is that person has a schedule right and he he didn't include time for you and your boxes you know what i mean and then if someone is kind of unemployed and hanging out and not doing it they can still be difficult but if they don't got anything going on then you could go knock on their door and go hey man i need you to come out and help me and they just get up put

their sweatpants on and start following you out to the truck. Right. So there's a it's me and you can't just take me and move me around like a chess piece. Right. Right. You know what I mean? And I think that's some of I think that's some of it. Yeah. Others. Well, I think when you think about it, what are the what are the what are the component

parts? Right. So there's Constitution, right, which we're born with we're born with a constitution which is sort of what you're talking about like instead of a low pulse or high pulse or irritable or sort of agitated easily agitated or overwhelmed easily i mean these are constitutional things then personality right which is a lot of what you're talking about and that sort of has many many different qualities to it but then there's sort of socialization

like a lot of people aren't sort of socialized these days to be of service to other people or to pay it the fact goes the other way the way people are socialized like hey you're not the boss of me man don't let anybody ever tell you to blah blah blah

there's a lot of that now which is takes the other two and puts them on steroids. Yeah. And everyone, again, everyone thinks they're easy. Now, I bring receipts because doing this job for 15 years, it would happen a lot that we would have to tape the show on a Sunday to come out on Monday, but this week it's Easter Sunday. So do we want to go in the morning? Everyone come in here at 10 o'clock, we'll get it over with.

Or you want to hunt for Easter eggs, we'll do it at 5 in the afternoon. My answer to that every single time is go ask everybody what they want and whatever it is they want, that'll be fine with me. It makes no never mind to me. I may have a preference. I may want to just go in the morning and get it done, but other people may have things planned. So Easter brunch or something. So just go ask everyone and wherever we arrive on, that's what we'll do.

Now, it doesn't make me nice, but it does make me relatively easy. Would you agree with that? Yes. Yes. And I've seen a lot of conversation. I was watching Bill Maher talk to Megyn Kelly. A lot of more public discourse about what I would call envy. A lot of envy going on out there. It's masqueraded as lots of different things.

Yes. But consideration is the opposite of envy. Consideration is the opposite of envy. Well, it's not the opposite. If you're envious and you're aggressive it's hard to be considered i suppose the way the boy i'd say it better yes all right well here's something you should envy simply safe oh yeah some people trying to get in one last summer getaway and before you take off protect your home with the latest innovation from SimpliSafe Home Security 24-7

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It's like I speak my mind. People can't take it. I mean, what am I supposed to do? That's always where it goes as opposed to being more compliant and considerate. I wonder, too, if that then translates into like people who litter, people who leave lights on when they leave the house, you know what I mean? Like people that have a general sort of – it's a situational awareness that they don't really have. Yeah. Like where they sort of – you're leaving a room, you have all the lights on and the ceiling fan and you're heading to work.

Yeah, yeah. lights on and the ceiling fan and you're heading heading to work like yeah now the other thing that i've found with everybody or most is they factor in heavily who is paying the electric bill if they're paying the electric bill, it changes their behavior dramatically. Now, look no further than my dearly departed mom, who famously wanted the $100 bottle of champagne when she thought it was mine. And then when she realized it was hers, even though it was gifted to her for free from me, hid it under a pile of sweaters. It also reminds me of your grandmother with the kitchen table. Yes. Dahlia needed a kitchen table, right?

That was a little different. That was me announcing that I had bought a big, beautiful Spanish house on top of the hill. Like I was going to be the first corolla to crack 2 000 square feet you know and and by the way and i was i i passed it i i'd be the first girl to pass 900 square feet and get out of the valley yeah nobody had a house that had cracked. You know, they were all sort of, my dad's first house was 600 square feet. It was just one square. It was one square. It's a roofer's dream because there's no hips or valves.

They're just, boom boom like a barn it's just like it was a one barn one square and then he had a very small room in front with one bathroom which was his room and then there were no other rooms except for there was a loft that i could sweat in but uh i mean that house that house was way closer to 500 square feet than it was to 1,000 square feet. But what I announced to my – and my grandmother's house was – had a little bit of the – oh, God. Remington House? What the hell is that? The Winchester House.

Winchester House. Sorry. They kept kind of adding on kind of oddly and clumsily. So Winchester house is this old woman that just kept adding rooms to her house and stairways. Yeah, yeah. But her house started at probably 400 square feet, and then they turned the garage into my grandfather's office, and then I built the kitchen, you know, and I was like 22 there. It was miniature. was not, it was

miniature. I mean, it was nothing, uh, one bat, one bedroom. Um, so I had cracked 2000 square foot and, and I bought this big, beautiful Spanish house. And, uh, when I announced that to my grandma, her, her comeback was her caretaker or maid or someone didn't own a kitchen table. And I was either supposed to feel bad about my accomplishment or possibly buy her a kitchen table. I don't know which one. I'm sure my grandmother could have. She had the funds to procure her a kitchen table if she saw saw fit to do it. But she did not because it's her funds. She just announced that my whatever. First off, the thing that was always funny about my grandmother is.

is whether it's Bon Jovi, her famous Bon Jovi story, or it was Delia and the kitchen table. It's not like we sat around and talked about those people. She would only use them in emergencies if she had to defeat or deflate. You know what I mean? Defeat and deflate, the Corolla principle. Could you imagine doing that with your kids? Oh, no.

Imagine. Oh, my God, I'd feel so bad if I even did it by accident. Sonny came home one day and was like, I bought a huge Spanish house on top of a hill. And I was like, Olga doesn't have a folding chair. That would be my response. That would be my response to that. But first off,

it's not even a response. God, I wish we could talk to her and dig into it deeper. Because there's so many layers to that. So many. When is the last time you saw her discussing me on my home improvement show? Oh, it was here.

You played it for me probably a couple of years, a year and a half ago, something like that. It's so precious. Isn't it awesome? Oh, my God. It's a real window. But the point is, is... Some people think, what was the word she used?

Performer or something. I don't know what they're talking about i think maybe it was charisma no it wasn't it was that it was a weirder word than that charm i don't know maybe emmy can find my grandmother talking about me look for that while i throw to our friends over at angie homeowners you know how much work it takes to maintain that home, whether it's everyday maintenance or repairs or just taking on a dream project in addition to your home. It can be hard to even know where to start. All you need is Angie, your home for everything home. Find a skilled local pro who will deliver quality and expertise. Over 20 years of

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yeah so um so i i think the difficult my mom was a difficult person who had no of the accoutrements of being a difficult person right she all didn't earn it and so did my dad i mean all all you would all you would know is whatever it is you wanted you weren't going to get it yeah from them you know i we had a long talk about that day before yesterday i asked i was thinking back on the time i said to my mom, I said, I'm doing this show. I was doing a show that night at some theater. I was trying to find some old pictures, you know, and I called her like noon and I said, hey, do you have any like old pictures, old family pictures, pictures of me? And she's like, they're in a shoebox in the closet, right?

That's her 800 square foot house with one closet in her bedroom. And they're in a shoe box on a shelf, you know? And I said, do you think you could get that shoe box and I could come by and get it and scan it so we could use it for this show tonight? And she said, I'm in the middle of making myself a smoothie. The other thing that's funny about people who don't do anything, you know, the people who don't do anything don't understand that people do a lot of things. Don't like, you know, you'd say to them, like, could you come over and help me out? And they'd go, oh, today's bad because I've got to put shoes on. You know what I mean? You understand you sound like the – they will go, oh, no, I can't come by today.

I've got to walk the dog or something like that. And you go, that's 30 minutes, and then you're free. That's not a whole – it's not a day. My mom was making a smoothie, taking care of herself. What, by the way? Making a smoothie so it's overwhelming for you

to walk in and pull something out of the closet. So I said, okay, making a smoothie. How about, you know, it's noon. How about I come by two and I come pick this box up? She's like, you know, and then, you know, it's noon. How about I come by two and I come pick this box up? And she's like, you know, and then, you know,

we have to, Berta's coming over and we're talking or something, you know? And I just kept saying, well, then maybe, you know, look, you got like four hours. I could just come get it. And she's like, it's really not a good day. And I sarcastically said to her, you know what? It's too much work. Forget it. I'll just do the show without it. And she's like, it's really not a good day. And I sarcastically said to her, you know what? It's too much work.

Forget it. I'll just do the show without it. And she went, okay. Her overwhelming desire to not do anything took people that really don't want to do shit. It's not like you can guilt them. You can guilt you. Oh, easy. You can't guilt her.

She didn't want to do it badly. But here's Grandma. We'll have a laugh. At the end of her life. I never think of Adam as a star, and I think people do, but I don't think he has big charisma or charm, but he is intelligent. Maybe he gets some of that from me. Well, there's charisma and charm, but he is intelligent. Maybe he gets some of that from me.

Well, there's charisma and charm. You got it right. And he got it from her, of course. Of course. Oh, my goodness. She didn't think I... Well, first off, you don't really need charisma and charm.

You need to be funny in the business I was in and am in. So I don't know if Bill Maher has charisma and charm, but he's intelligent. He's funny. But she never – didn't see it. Can you show the picture you get of her with those big earrings? Just the. Clampons. Big clampons.

Is that what those are? Yeah. Because I never see any pictures of her young. I've seen one other one. She had clampon earrings. Oh, my God. Yeah. Could you imagine?

You're sitting around. You got one foot in the grave. Your grandson has become a celebrity and you're still talking shit and i'm trying to camera dude that's it's not like well helen had a couple of glasses of wine and in her quiet moments was talking she's looking into a camera saying he doesn't have charisma or charm so she does she's basically saying i don't get it. I don't get it. Other people like it. I don't get it.

And he doesn't have what it takes. But if he does, he got it from me. So it's incredible. I just love. So the default setting for grandma, right? Yeah. Grandma, right? Yeah.

The default setting for grandma is to have a fat kid with bad skin and go, I don't get why the ladies don't love Gerald. He's so handsome. You know what I mean? Yeah. And you're going, well, Gerald's pretty heavy and his skin is pretty bad. That's why the ladies don't like Gerald. Look at him. He's beautiful.

Yeah. That's the grandma default. Yeah. The usual default. That's the usual default. Yeah. The usual default. That's the usual default. You get a different default. But you know what's also interesting about this? No charisma or charm. There's other stuff about this picture that catches my eye. And I'm sort of studying how she's looking at you and that she's smiling and that the clothing is a little kind of over the

top. She's always had kind of a weird manic quality in her clothing, like loud, loud clothing. Yes. And she was a loud person. Yeah. I mean, and then funny, my mom was a very quiet person. Never spoke. Didn't. I mean, just nothing.

And she. Yeah, she would. Nothing. Just bowled over by this one. Yeah. She would come through that fucking door at six in the evening, and it'd be like, Lou, Lassie! And he'd be scrambling, you know.

But dinner! Yeah. But there's another thing about this picture. Look at that yard. That's not a Corolla yard. Either that's somewhere else, or that's your grandfather doing that right my grandfather was dutiful and normal and jewish and hungarian is that none of those things are necessarily normal but anyway he he took care but they go the other way they go on the on the animal spectrum again he wouldn't uh my grandmother who paid all the bills yeah would not tolerate him sitting around while weeds took over the the yard so that's his yard

i'm looking at hers too she she hers because he was doing it she liked she had you know no square footage but she ran a pretty tight ship she liked tchotchkes and ashtrays from you know mexico and stupid things you know around and she was best is basically manic again she decorated like you would decorate if you're trapped on an island and you found nice looking stones and you just sort of put them around your hut, you know, and then found some seashells and put them around. That's free. But she would go find – she would go – there was a place that sold old relics and burnt-out stuff. And these are doors from a church that burned down. But the doors are – and she'd take the door and make a shade out of it, like a coffee table out of it. Like that's how she was. That's how he was.

She's how old in this picture? Forties. I have, I mean, you'd have to have to do the, the math. She, she had my mom.

Well, when she died, you were how old? How about that? I don't know. I was, I, I didn't have no idea when she died.

You could probably, she's going to be her forties there. It's gotta be. Yeah. Well, she had my mom when she was like 18. Yeah. She was real young. And then my mom had us when my mom was like, I don't know, 30 or something.

But more importantly, she died when you were in your 50s. She's like, huh? You're zero here. She died when you were in her 50s. So she must have... No, she died when I was in my 40s. Okay. Yeah.

I think. I don't know. Google that shit. We can figure out when Helen Gorog died. Yeah, she was more like 50 there than she was 40. But she always put on makeup and clamp on earrings and dressed like, you know, Madam from Waylon Flowers and the Madam P puppet on with waylon flowers yes yeah yes she does look like that i think waylon died of aids and i think the puppet may have died of aids as

well i'm not sure fascinating but i think waylon i think madam may have gotten a can you look up as well and we like that one. Can we see the picture of Madda? Can we come up with that? Because it's too good. It's exactly like she looks in this picture. Oh, she was always, she wore wigs. Oh, wow.

Big clamp-on earrings. Big gaudy beads, you know. Like, weird. It was like a ceremonial tribesman you know from new guinea or something you know i mean really one other picture a young i'd seen of her is in a flowery dress she would hang stuff off her ears and like look at i'm i'm she had this passion now the thing that's weird about it is um you know my mom she didn she didn't have, she'd fucking put a garbage bag on, poke a hole for her head and just walk around.

And she didn't, my mom did not want to be seen. I've always been the opposite too. I was like, just sweatpants and a t-shirt. I didn't, I didn't want any of that. She did. All right. Do you want to find Waylon? Yeah.

You're going to laugh. Flowers. All right. Where the hell were we? You can go to amcroll.com for all the live shows. Going to be in Vegas coming up on Thursday doing a live show. And then Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville Comedy Club.

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