The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1778 Time is Money

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Dr. Drew starts off the show talking about his recent appearance at ‘Skankfest’ in Vegas, which eventually leads Adam to share how surprised he is at how his life turned out, especially when the first 30 years were ‘total hell.’ With examples from his upbringing Adam admits he never likes to waste anything; like food, money or even time. Please Support Our Sponsors: Enteraskincare.com/?rfsn=7630437.14cd90 Simplisafe.com/ADAM2

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Dr. Drew is in Las Vegas. So he's remote. What's on your mind, Drew? Oh, dude, you missed the Big Skank Festival. Oh, yeah. Which was an extraordinary experience to be a part of. Made me reflect upon, amongst other things, how weird my life is. I mean, I don't belong there.

Never should have been there. Enjoyed it. Well, that's good. Liked everybody I got to know and knew already and spent time with. And it was – and it kind of made me think – I thought of you a number of different times there. But one was how I suspect this is the future because people have such desire for public, for live performances. And this particular thing was in essentially an abandoned, you know, multiplex cinema. You know, so a lot of the standup was stages set up in front of a screen. And I was talking to Jamie Kennedy about it.

He goes, dude, this is the future, man. This is what's going to happen. People are going to be going to, you know, you're going to fly to fucking Oklahoma City or something and appear with 40 other comedians in front of a multiplex. It's an interesting idea. Well, you know, Burning Man and all the other things have kind of led people to understand that people like experiences and they like sort of multi-day experiences and they like sort of multi input experiences you know they it's not enough to show up what you know watch the band or watch the comic and then turn around and go home they want to they want to live it you know and you

know there's been versions of this i mean there's cruises there's 80s rock and roll cruise there's been versions of this. I mean, there's cruises, there's eighties rock and roll cruise. There's heavy metal cruise. We used to do cruises. You know, there's lots of, you know, precedent for this kind of stuff. You know, speaking of cruise,

you asked me when I did the Corolla cruise. Yeah. I wonder what was behind that is I was shocked. It was 2018. I was just like checking my memory. I was just sort of like because covid scrambled my memory not not covid didn't scramble it but uh the time which which everyone has to understand is it's a construct and like any good construct, we need patterns to keep on track, you know? And when you get rid of the patterns,

then you get rid of the construct. And so then you start losing it. Everybody knows the experience of being at work on a Thursday and sort of going, feels like a Friday, feels like a Friday. Then everyone will agree. And then they'll go, oh, that's because we all worked Sunday

or something like that. So we're very pattern oriented. I'm super pattern oriented. And I'm so pattern oriented that I try to tell people all the time, like, you have to like stop and say to me, listen to me, this is happening or this person's not, you know, because people I realize. People speak in generalities and they're they're not clear sometimes, I follow, I just follow the pattern everywhere all the time. Yeah. So I will easily get confused if anything breaks a pattern. Yeah, yeah.

And. Well, if you, and by the way, so you asked me and I would have said 2017 or something. It was October 2019. That was our last cruise, huh? Yeah. But it was months before shutdown. You know what I mean? It was like, that would be, what, four months, five months before shutdown?

Yeah. And then I started thinking, you know, I got sick one year later with Alpha or Delta or whatever was flying around then. And I remember lying in bed sick as hell with that going, thank God I went on the cruise and I went to Cabo in the spring in the middle of everything with Heather McDonald and her husband. Because it just it just it would have been just misery. Had I not been doing something here and there to sort of try to live a little bit, you know? Well, self-imposed, which I think adds to the misery index, you know. So they always say, oh, the humidity adds to the heat index, you know, and they'll do that thing where they go, well, it's 92 degrees out there, but it feels like 107 with the heat index. You know what I mean?

And I feel the same about the misery index. If you said to me, I want you to take that big pile of logs over there and move it from one side of the ranch to the other side of the ranch for firewood, I would go, well, it's not how I'd like to spend my Saturday, but it's a task. It needs to be done. I get it. my Saturday, but it's a task. It needs to be done. Like, I get it. But when I was done stacking all the logs on the other side of the ranch, if someone said, now I need you to move them back to their old spot, I would be fucking miserable.

But why? But why would I be miserable? You know what I mean? Like, well, it's just moving more logs. And it's like, because it's a fucking waste of time and energy and that adds to my misery index i've not i've done many miserable things in my life many almost mostly you know i mean the first 30 years of my life was just misery, you know, just running bleachers or on some roof, you know, stripping asphalt off it, you know, with a with a hoe, you know, and then carrying it to a dumpster. You know, I mean, down a ladder to a dumpster or something or just sitting in your closet in your parents house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just sweating, sweating through my sheets at night.

You know, just misery. I've had a lot. Just misery. That's my life. Just basic. Basic misery. Yeah, just I've had a lot of, you know, apartments that were sweat boxes,

sleeping on futons, you know, and just like general, general misery that was then meant with. General misery. It's not so funny when you say it. So, yeah, general misery. That's my life. Yeah.

Well, my life was sitting in an air conditioned apartment, sweating through a futon, usually getting up about two or three in the morning and taking just a cold shower just to try to get my temp, my core down a little bit, and then back to bed for another three hours and then up to, you know, have some shitty coffee and sit in a beat up pickup truck in traffic and, you know, drive to Chatsworth and work on somebody's house, you know, digging ditches or something. Just, you know, flat out punishment. But there was a rhyme and a reason. I mean, I got up and went to Chatsworth to dig ditches and, you know, strip asphalt. I got $9 an hour. And then I got to buy food, you know. And the apartment didn't have any air conditioning because it was you know built in

the built in the 40s but if it was a modern day apartment building that was on the west side then it would but then I would be paying another a thousand dollars a month rent so everything was within and I drove a piece of shit pickup truck, which was, you know, with no air conditioning, which was fairly miserable. But if I was driving a Lexus, I'd have to have full coverage insurance and be paying 600 bucks a month for a car payment. It all had a context. You know, it was it was a tradeoff. COVID and most nowadays, especially in California, just sort of government mandated, whatever. It's just misery for the sake of misery. Yeah.

Just do it. And so it's, yeah, just do it. And so that's really interesting in that it's your mother's misery that really was rained down on you. Right. And that's why the household was so miserable because she was miserable. So it's her misery that misery is kind of contagious. Right. And then on top of that, you and I were talking about this earlier today, which is that people that are miserable, time is only time now has no value. It's something you want to cash in because it's a very good point that I brought up to you off the air. But yes, when you're miserable and you go to bed at midnight and on occasion you just sleep, you just wake up, it's 1130 in the morning, you go, oh, good.

I just killed 13% of this day by sleeping an extra two hours you know like pleasant it's something pleasant sleep sleep is is pleasant and it and it's a way to get through and and so yes you're miserable so you're miserable so you would like to kill time yeah and I'm so for us we like to we we like to do things we like to experience things would like to kill time. Yeah. And so for us, we like to we like to do things. We like to experience things. We like to amongst time is precious and valuable. And they're the the miserable government and their misery is pays no it pays no attention to people. Well, that's that's the whole thing. When I'm traveling through Denver's airport and I have my 14 year old minor son with me and like I have clear and I'm going through security and the guy stops us and says, you know, where's his clear and he's traveling with me. He's got a plane ticket. And the guy just goes, yeah, well, go get in that general pop line, which I don't know if you've been to Denver. I don't know if you've been to Denver in a minute. But it is.

I did it two weeks ago. Unbelievable. I mean, they're going to have to do something. It is. I'm not exaggerating. The line for Clear had 250 people in it. Oh, my gosh. The line for TSA had 350 people in it.

Oh, my goodness. The General Pop had 2,000 people. I mean, they can't do it that way anymore. They're going to have to do something. Something's up with that airport. I just went through this. But the point is, is the guy who worked for TSA or Clear or whatever, the guy was just looking at me and Sonny, who just said, go get in the back of the line. He has nowhere to be. Right.

He's just there. Yeah. He's probably miserable and he's there. He's got his lunch breaks coming in an hour. Yeah. He checks probably miserable and he's there. He's got his lunch breaks coming in an hour. Yeah. He checks out at five. But there's no he's miserable. We're traveling. He's miserable. So what's the government bureaucrat? You know what I mean? When I told you all those years ago, when I told you all those years ago, I was in Van Eyes planning, plan check in Van Eyes, which is where we do it out here.

Well, you can go to downtown or you can go to Van Eyes if you got some plan check thing. Right. Yeah. And I go to Van Eyes because because it's a little bit closer and it's usually a little bit faster. Downtown's always a clusterfuck, right? Always. And so the guy goes behind the counter.

He's looking at my plan check and he pulls up my schematic and the parcel or whatever and he goes, your parcel has a designation on it for historical landmark. And you got a historical landmark, then you got to go down to downtown from Van Nuys to downtown and, you know, pull a bakery ticket and wait in line. And,

and then you got to deal with them because it has a historical landmark designation. We don't have that. So I said, you know what? Because I've gotten into this a little bit before the historical landmark is not the house it's this big granite boulder mulholland wall that goes around it uh-huh they built all these big granite walls

boulder walls really cool um retaining walls in the 20s, teens and 20s, they call them Mulholland walls. And they gave him a historical designation. And he said, yeah. And I said, I'm not doing anything to this retaining wall. I'm working on the house. I'm getting a permit for the house. Yeah, well, it's got the mark. So you got to go downtown.

I said, well, I've talked to these people. They're just going to say it's the house. Yeah, well, it's got the mark. So you got to go downtown. I said, well, I've talked to these people. They're just going to say it's the wall. So go ahead. And the guy goes, sorry. And then I say to him, why don't you call him, call him and then they'll tell you it's the wall and then we can get our certificate right now and he goes i can't do that and i go you can't just pick up the phone and call it i'm just gonna have to drive down to downtown from van eyes and find a place to park and go up to the ninth floor and blah blah blah nope i can't call i go okay get in the car sit sit in traffic, blah, blah, blah. Park, go up to the ninth floor. Wait in line, go up to the thing. I go, you know, historical landmark.

And then the guy looks at the thing and goes, yeah, well, that's just for the wall. And I go, yeah, I know. I know. I kept telling the guy in Van Nuys, but he wouldn't listen to me. And he goes, why didn't he call me? That's what you're dealing with. That guy doesn't give a fuck what I do that afternoon. That's my point.

And I want to scream at my mom's ghost. Why do you want more of this? This is what you want. You want more of this. You want more. Huh? I'm surprised you didn't go back and talk to that guy. Well, I did have an episode when i when i went back oh i did have a great episode when i went back what happened wait wait let me

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I went back some weeks or something later and I got into a big deal with it. And I'll kind of paraphrase, and it's been so many years I can't remember, but I had a check to pay them to get my permit or something. And there was some sort of thing where they said like, all right, give us the check and then come back tomorrow and we'll give you the permit or the certificate of completion or whatever it is.

We can't give it to you today. And I said, I'm not coming back tomorrow. I'll give you the check and then I will have, you guys will send it to me. And they go, we don't do that. And I go, and I said to the guy, why don't you get better at what you're doing? Get better.

Get better at what you're doing. Get better. Get better at what you're doing. Improve. Would you try to improve this? A couple of funny episodes. One guy was like backstage while I was yelling at the guy. He was back in the area. And he recognized me. And he goes, my first day.

He said it was his first day. He goes, my first day on the job. And I'm getting yelled at by a celebrity or something. He made that comment. Then I said it had to do with me leaving a check and then them giving me my thing. They wanted me to leave a check and then come back again or something. And I literally yelled, if I lived on the roof of this building, I would not come back in here and get this certificate because it's a waste of time. I'm going to make out an envelope.

I'll put the address on it. You send it in the mail. And they're like, we can't do that. And then some poor beleaguered black chick like walked back. And this guy got fucked because he went like, Connie, we can't send out a thing, can we? And she went like, I guess we could or something. And then that he was thrown under the bus. And I just kept yelling him, get better at your job. Did you bring up the previous not calling part? I brought up everything. I've just so listen,

the point is, is it's been going on for a long time. It's at a fever pitch. Now we just experienced it with COVID. And I don't know. Listen, I get it. It's attractive to people like my mom because they don't have anywhere to go. And now they have an excuse. But for everyone else, I don't get it. I don't get it. People should be outraged. My first real encounter with it was a cop. I rolled through a stop sign or something and I was in a rental car. This was insane. And I didn't have proof of insurance in the rental car, which you can't rent a car without proof of insurance. You can't do it. Right. And he goes, yeah, I know. Well, I have to have it. I go, look, dude, I was rushing to the hospital. It's one of the reasons I kind of rolled through the stop sign. And he goes, yeah, all you got to do is go down to this courthouse and show them your proof of insurance.

I go, I don't have – when am I going to find – people are going to get hurt because you were telling me to just block out two hours. I don't have – it was deep in my workaholism. I don't have that. I can't do that. Yeah, well, you'll just do it. It's not a big deal. Just go to the courthouse in Alhambra and show them your insurance and they'll sign off on it. I was so blown away at the lack of understanding of people's time. And that was, mind you, 35 years ago, maybe 40. And it's gotten way, way, way, way worse.

Well, you can't have the gatekeepers have no relationship with time. They can't be the gatekeepers. Do you know what I'm saying? They are. But what I'm saying is the guy who's at the Van Nuys Building and Safety Department, he's the gatekeeper. His relationship with time is, I'm here till 5. That's his relationship with time, which is totally different. And the guy who's working at the Denver Airport TSA,

his relationship is, I'm here till 5. And the public are a hassle. Well, there's a certain element of that. Yeah. I could be enjoying myself alone in this airport if you weren't forcing me to do something. And somehow this doesn't seem to bother other people nearly as much as it bothers me. Yeah. Well, you don't like waste generally, right? You can't waste food. You can't waste money. You can't, things that are waste,

truly wasteful. It just drives you insane, but there's nothing, you know, when you really, as tricky as you get older, nothing more precious than time. Yeah. When you see how irresponsible and heedless people are with it, it really – well, it's traumatizing because it makes you feel helpless. And it's really very – nothing could be worse when you really – it's like part of my life. I want it back. I want part of my life back, that first year of COVID. I want that back. And there's no way to regain it. I wonder if people's relationship, because I'm always kind of wondering, like, how people are sort of desensitized with this, you know, because if instead of COVID, you just said,

well, you got to move all the firewood from one side of the ranch and then the next day you got to move it all back. People wouldn't go with that. People be outraged. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Why are you making me do that? Yeah. Or that's unfair to that person that had to do that, you know, or whatever.

This is an outrage. Right. This is government overreach. You know, this is an outrage right this is government overreach you know this is insane right that's how they would feel but they don't really feel that way when they're talking about well if you go to Canada you have to quarantine for two weeks in a hotel room you know they don't they're not really bothered by that stuff and I'm wondering if our society, I mean, so you just take something like Donald Trump's in a Manhattan courtroom, you know, and he said his Mar-a-Lago estate was worth more than what the judge said

it was worth and so on and so forth, right. Now, there's no victim. Nobody's nobody's been there's no complaint, meaning there's no lender who got who got built and there's no appraiser that's got a beef and there's no purchaser, a business partner. There's no insurance. There's no anything. So there's no there's no victim. Right. So there's no there's no victim. Right. But but we're blocking the street off with Secret Service. Right. And and and creating a traffic jam and victims. Right. And then Trump's got to sit there in person for something he probably doesn't need to be in person. But meanwhile, you know, block off the path from the airport with the motorcade and stuff. And I wonder if we just sit around or maybe it's, you know, Russian collusion or the Mueller report or whatever it is. And we just sit and watch this sort of endless. Well, it costs thirty seven million dollars.

They created over eighty thousand documents, you know, had 250,000 discussions on it. And what was the end of the Mueller case? Yeah. I just, well, that was produced. Doesn't seem like there's enough here. But what I'm saying is, is maybe our relationship, societal relationship is sort of like changing maybe we're changing our relationship with waste in a bad way in time yeah in a bad way that we just maybe it's partly that we lived so much longer time seems endless you know my theory women live seven years longer that's why they're

at the tip of the time wasting spear they can talk about anything as long as you can fucking stay awake because they live seven years longer if they if they live seven years less than us there's no fucking way they'd be having the same conversation till the end of time like literally think about what what it would be, Drew, if they died seven years younger than men, like the average woman lives to age 67. Yeah. Unfair. They'd be on the fucking clock. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So, yeah. Yeah, go ahead. Nothing really. I was just I'm still thinking about this gang fest.

I haven't had a chance to really download all that I saw with that. But for some reason, I guess what you're saying, for as long as you can stay awake, women will talk. I'm reflecting. Roseanne was there, Roseanne Barr. And she got up there with the Skanks, the Legion of Tink guys, as well as Violent J, which he's an old friend of ours great guy and um from the insane clown posses and she talked she was like whoa and saying stuff that oh my god if you said it would be uh canceled time she yeah she was just on my show and she said a lot of it what did she oh you have something to do i do but she she's a talker she says look she has f me money so she can say what she wants and how how do you cancel

someone who's already been canceled right i think that's it that's what i was thinking she says this is this is from she's speaking to us from the cancel world yes all right i'm gonna be uh this wednesday in irvine with brad will Brad Williams and Adam Ray doing stand-up in Beyond over there. San Francisco Cops Comedy Club, Friday and Saturday. Come out and say hi. Four shows for that. What do you got, Drew?

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