The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1779 ‘Chick Think’

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

Adam begins the show with Dr. Drew lamenting about ‘chick think’, and discusses examples of pet peeves & other annoyances. This leads to a story about a missing item from his studio, to his thoughts on why women need purses. Please support our sponsors: Shopify.com/AdamAndDrew Angi.com

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And I'm Angie. We call her Pumps, and we're the hosts of I've Had It. Pumps, tell the listener where they can find us. Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts. Nailed it. See you next Tuesday. 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, get it on.

Got to get on a church. We're going to mandate. Get it on. Doctors for Fertilizing Specialist. He's over there in Las Vegas, Nevada. Drew. Yeah. I have a particular thing that may drive me kookier than almost anything.

Worse than wasting time and money and food? Well, it does kind of cross-pollinate with my time-wasting crusade, which is, and you've probably been the victim of this. I'm sure. Go this. I'm sure. Go ahead. I certainly have. There are certain things that people do kind of in the name of saving time. Well, not saving time, but their heart's sort of in the right place.

You know what I mean? But then there's also a thing. Like, okay, I'll give you a thing. All right, give me a thing. Every time the maids show up, right, the TV remote, which sits on top of the coffee table in front of the TV,

always gets put away in like some basket underneath the coffee table in front of the TV always gets put away in like some basket underneath the coffee table. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Yes. And what they think they're doing is tidying up. Yes.

But it's a TV remote that sits on a table in front of a TV. Yes. Yes. Now I got to look for it. Yes. You see what I'm saying? No, it's unconscious tidying up. Yes. That's what drives you crazy. Right. Tidying up should be done with intent and purpose and consciousness of what's being tidied. Find my big toenail clippers, which I keep either, I kept at the time, either in my desk drawer or like on my desk.

Just, I'm a big believer in just put shit back. I don't know if you've noticed this, but women get fucked up by their own purses. Have you experienced this? Well, let's dig in a bit because what I was just thinking is how my wife frequently, and I don't know if this is a purse thing or not, will go, will say, use her tweezers 12 minutes ago and then go, where are my tweezers? The neighbor came over and stole them. Where are they?

What's going on? Right. And they're probably 50-50 in the purse versus. Right. So here's what I'm saying as an example. Yeah. If you are, let's just say you have some access to a tennis club or beach club or something like that, and there's a key fob you have to swipe to get into it or to swipe to get into a building or something like that, there's a key fob you have to swipe to get into it

or to swipe to get into a building or something like that. Guys will typically take that and put them in their pants pocket. Yeah. And then you sort of feel it in your pant pocket at some point when you get home. Yeah. Women put it in one of the many pouches in their purse yeah and like zip it shut yeah and then they go on a search for the key fob or the key card you know what i mean and then you say

uh well i always say to put it right on the hook by the front door so you know then but it's not there so maybe it's in the purse you know what I mean? But like, so kind of a thinking. Like I was out of town a couple of weeks ago. And the guy I was traveling with lent me his phone charger. And I was packing up my room and meeting him out in the parking lot, and I wanted to make sure and remember to give him back his phone charger. I did not put it in my backpack. I held it in my hand.

I, like, wrapped it around my hand and grabbed my backpack and my suitcase, and when we got to the parking lot, it was in my hand already because I just don't want to leave it up to chance. Yeah. I'm not paranoid about it. I just it's one less thing to fuck up. Also, you have to you have to sort of plan for your own shortcomings. Mm hmm.

Always, always. Please, everyone, plan for your own shortcomings and don't tell me you don't have any. The Adam Corolla principle. Let me spend your short. Let me spend five tell me you don't have any the adecola principle let me spend your own short let me spend five minutes with you i'll point out 28 so i now the nail clippers i ended up finding a year later because the maid had when she was tidying up the desk and i would argue nail clippers or tv remote, they don't really need to be tied up. But, OK, she was tidying it up, picked up the nail clipper and dropped it into my pencil holder, which is leather bound and darn. Now I'm searching the floor under the desk.

I'm searching the drawer. I'm searching everywhere, but I'm desk i'm searching the drawer i'm searching everywhere but i'm not going to search the pencil holder right why would i do that yeah but she's tidying up in an unconscious way right and by the way and when that you know when that stuff accumulates over time you start finding shit five years later you know what what I mean? You have to go on a search. You know, if you don't search, it goes away. It just vanishes. Oh, I did that with a watch. I didn't find it for like three years because I put it somewhere stupid.

But you're putting it somewhere stupid. How about somebody else putting it somewhere stupid? Well, then it's unknowable. I remember, I always remember clearly we had some sort of event at the other warehouse. And it was the easiest fuck up you can do is an event that starts like a barbecue that starts in the daytime and ends in the nighttime. Because you always forget your sunglasses. Yes. Right?

You come walk, you walk in with the sunglasses on and then some point that come off because it gets dark and then they're gone hey by the way and you mix that mix out with a few beers too and they're really good but speaking of preparing for your shortcomings ah i have i have a little bit of a little bit of a fix on that which is get your pair of get yourself a pair of sunglasses that are like, very flexible, indestructible, essentially, and just stick them in your fucking pocket. And then you won't worry about it. It's a nice pair of sunglasses you'd never put in your pocket. Well, yes.

Now, so Matt D'Andrea went to this thing over at the place and left his sunglasses on the top of the bar or something like that and then like the next day he said do you have my son I'm looking for my son then I'd look for sunglasses he looked for sunglasses and we scoured the whole warehouse like sort of looking for the sunglasses maybe asked around a little anyone see any any sunglasses? And I kept saying to Matt, Matt's a pretty accurate guy. And also, I'm like, no one would have walked off with them. They've got to be around here somewhere. But now we're going to get to the crux of the matter. Somebody, this happened to be Nate Adams, who produces all the docs,

at some point later, maybe two weeks later, I found myself standing in his office having a conversation with him. And coincidentally, there's a black shelf that I'd put up on the wall, whatever, in his office. It had some memorabilia and stuff on it. And I was just sort of talking to him in his office and i i like turned around it was hard to tell because the sunglasses were black and the shelf was black but i said are those sunglasses and he went uh yeah yeah i i found them back in the back in the shop and i brought them in here. And I said, did you tell anybody?

And he went, nope. Well, then you got to know that the fucking person, the person who lost the sunglasses goes, I took them off at the bar. I think I set them down on the bar. And then they're not, they're gone. And you don't, you intervened. You got the glasses.

Sort of, first thing, first, you have to leave shit where it was. You have to leave it where it was. They're not going to get stolen. Just leave it. Give the person who lost the shit a chance to backtrack and find their shit. When you remove it, now you've interrupted the process, and you've removed it and said nothing, which happens to me all the time. I saw you left your key ring up there, so I put it in the lower drawer. But it's gone.

Now it's gone. I left it. It was in a place. moments ago, I was, we came back here. I told you my whole John Wayne airport, you know.

Yeah. Oh boy. Mike August story. That was a good one. After a long, arduous. Did you tell that on ACS or anything yeah i told it on acs it's just it's a long day of travel and getting locked out of airplanes and none none none of our own fault but shit at the airport blah blah blah uh we came we ended up back here on a Sunday morning and I had the merch bag in the back of my car.

And I thought, well, I can bring the merch bag back to Malibu and leave it in my car. But I don't know, kind of in the spirit of why am I hauling the merch bag to Malibu? It belongs here. Why am I hauling the merch bag to Malibu? It belongs here. But I didn't have the keys to the building, or I just chose not to deal with opening up the building, which it's a little bit of a rigmarole. So I just pulled the merch bag out of the back of my car,

and I sort of stashed it around the outside of the building. And I thought, I'll just come grab it when I come back tomorrow or somebody will grab it or something. It's not imperative. And it has no real worth. It's just a roller bag with $40 worth of shitty books in it. You know, pull it off the side.

So, oh, and a nice bottle of scotch that some fan gave me in the green room. So it's got some value. And so I realized the other day, not that I'm going back on the road for a little bit, but I was like, huh, I should bring that merch bag around. But I was like, huh, I should bring that merch bag around. So I go to the side of the building where I stashed it, and there's no merch bag. And then I come in. I go, well, somebody brought the merch bag in.

I come in. I start asking around. Has anyone seen that merch bag? And no one's seen it. No one's seen it. So I call Mike. I'm like, Mike, do you seen that merch bag and no one's seen it. No one's seen it. So I call Mike. I'm like, Mike, do you have that merch bag? And he goes, no, you had it when we came back from John Wayne.

And I said, yeah, I did. I stashed it around the side of the building. But now it's gone. Somebody broke in, stole the merch bag. I said, I don, I don't know. Then Mike does what Mike does. He goes, why would someone break in over five books? Mike, they don't know what's in the bag when they climb the fence, you fucking retard.

They don't know there's five of my stupid books in there. They think maybe there's some ingots or something. You know what I mean? So I go, yeah, but it's still, it's a shitty piece of luggage parked on the outside of an industrial thing. And I pulled it around so you can't really even see it, like from the street. It just seemed like a long way to go to hop a fence and deal with barbed wire and stuff and steal a merch bag.

There's nothing in it. I mean, you could assume that there wasn't anything in it of value by the fact that it was parked in a pile of leaves on the side of the building. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so I come back in. I go, where's that merch bag? And everyone goes, I haven't seen it.

And I go, so no one brought that thing in. Nope. All right, well, let's look. So I start looking around and I start looking around more and it's nowhere to be seen. Now it didn't frequently gets left right out in the entry hall, just gets pulled inside the door and parked on the side of the sofa, to be seen and then I make the announcement Emmy will back it up I'll go be careful because there are human beings who will take this shit like all the way to the back and like stuff it in the corner and hang a sheet over it like there are these people I don't know who they are but you you know what I mean? Yeah. And so I made the announcement. I said, it seems like a really low likelihood because why would you walk it in and go all the way to the back and then kind of stash it somewhere?

It's like it's the merch bag, you know? Yeah. They go, could be back there. Anyway, everyone looks for the merch bag. No merch bag. Although I don't fucking know why. Couldn't find it. But either way, come in this morning and here's the merch bag sitting out front.

I go, it's a merch bag. Where did the merch bag come from? It was in the back behind the sofa with a box over it to hide it. I'm like, what? Wow. with a box over it to like hide it. What? By the way, I have all the love in the world for the person who actually burned calories doing something. Yeah. It's when they don't tell anybody. Yeah. Now, the number one response of when you ask them, why didn't you tell me that you stashed a merch bag back there is you didn't ask.

Did you find out who it was? Haven't found out. Still don't know. It's late breaking. But I don't get it. It drives me insane. I don't get, it drives me insane. I don't get it. I don't think they understand that they're sort of like patterns and that you broke the pattern.

Yeah, yeah. It was a good, intense bad execution, right? Yeah. Again, it's hard for me, as frustrating as it can be, when I'm searching around for my nail clippers or my whatever. Look, the TV remote, I still fucking argue. It's like every hotel I go to. It's like, where's the TV remote? It's in the drawer of the bureau under the TV. Just put it on the nightstand.

Just put it out. Just leave it out. Just leave it. Do you know what I mean? Yes. I know you're straightening up. So you open the drawer of the nightstand and you put the remote in it and then you know what I mean? Yes. I know you're straightening up so you open the drawer the nightstand and you put the remote

in it and then you shut the drawer. Don't do that. Just leave it. Let's have a universal place for the remote. It's got to be on the nightstand in a hotel room. It's got to be on the coffee table at home. Just fucking

leave it leave it not only will i back you up on this i'll also add that all the years that i've been here never once has that bag been behind a couch especially with something on top of it it's very odd yeah it's it's got to be somebody new or somebody like did you have a cleaning service come in or something weird? No, I have no idea, but that's how life works. All right, do your business. All right, I want to dig in a little deeper on purses, though, after we hear from our friends at Angie. Homeowners, you know how much work it takes to maintain that home,

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And I see it still in the dementia unit when the 90-year-old is walking around the hallways. They'll put something over their shoulder it's the it's the most universal impulse and it's not cultural i mean because it's universal what is it to kind of like have this sort of magical magic carpet bag that you know is with you at all times and and and by the way if you notice how the sizes are all over the place, now we're getting to the micro minis and all the shit that's packed in there is insane. But I don't understand the impulse even and where it comes from. It's got to be something, you know, hunter-gatherer or something way back, something way, way back.

I guess it's like them, like when a kid travels with their stuffies or their, you know. Like a transition object? Yeah, well, not even a transition object. It's just sort of their huggy-booky or something that they just carry with them their whole life. But again, just watching the behavior of elderly women in dementia units, the residual behaviors are what I find interesting. They will cling to baby dolls. Cling. Like they have to have one.

Mm-hmm. And they're 90 years old with no cognition. And yet that remains. So interesting. So interesting to me. So wait, they will cling to baby dolls or they will cling to the purse like it's a baby doll? Both. But baby dolls for sure. Really? Yeah. They'll give them baby dolls or they will cling to the purse like it's a baby doll both but baby dolls for sure

really oh yeah they'll give them baby dolls oh i didn't know that oh yeah yeah you'll see a nine-year-old nursing home you know with dementia they will they will have a baby not it will not be a barbie it will be a you know baby doll kind of thing. Really? Yeah. Isn't that interesting? And the purse doesn't last as much as the baby doll thing does. But you'll see odd purses in odd places carried by women in situations where there's not much left of their brain or body because of aging or dementia or something. And that impulse sort of stays. And we never talk about that, ever. No one ever talks about it. I never knew about the dementia elderly baby doll thing.

It's interesting, isn't it? It is to me. Yeah. I never – is that something you've known about for many years? Many years. Many years. It strikes you when you walk in a facility and you'll see them with these dolls. Maybe they've restricted that in recent years.

I've been doing nursery work for quite some time. But it was routine back in the day. And it seemed to be soothing for them or something. I don't know why. But they like it. But it clearly is an impulse. It's, it's, it's not, it's not something that is sort of like, you know, soothing in the way that the, the, you know,

they can be soothed by other means. This is sort of a, it's sort of a, there's a whole behavior around it. Well, I can tell you that the male, the, you know, semi-modern male version of this is the backpack. The backpack is a relatively new, introduced, relatively new to males. I mean, females use them as well. But what I'm saying is, is. I don't see them being carried around in dementia units. No.

And the male version of the baby doll, there is one. You ready? Yeah. They start grabbing the ass and boobs of the staff. That's the male version. They just start grabbing, grabbing, grabbing, grabbing. Yeah, there it is. Same thing.

Not dolls, however, grabbing. Yeah, there it is. Same thing. Not dolls, however. Right. The thing that, so, but I can sympathize with women, but they have to work it out. So 20 years ago, when you went to the airport, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, less than 15% of males were carrying a backpack adult males would you agree yeah now almost every adult i travel with has their backpack

right seems like a style yeah and and well i mean there's a practical there's a practicality to it they're nice, too. They make nice – they've sort of, you know, kind of like advanced the product. I am going to defend women here by saying I am as equally guilty for throwing shit in my backpack and not knowing what compartment it's in or, like, what pocket it's in, you know, and having to thrash. in or like what pocket it's in, you know, and having to thrash. And I've at least got the part where I take my car keys and I put them in the very upper smallest pouch. Those are where my keys are because I've had the situation where you get back to LAX, you're going to the valet or whatever, the parking structure, you're looking for your keys and

you're literally searching the big pouch, the medium pouch, and you're emptying everything out. And I do a lot of, I do a lot of stupid stuff. Like when I'm packing, I'll be like, Oh, I got some cash. I'll just throw the cash in the backpack. It goes into the big pouch. It goes underneath the folder and underneath the paperwork and underneath the pens and the lighter and everything. And it's kind of gone. Then I'm out on the trip and i go did i pack any cash i don't think i have any there's no cat now you feel around in there and it's like but i think women do that with their purse constantly well there's two versions uh that is definitely susan that version is her. But my son's fiance, I saw her do something where I was like, I'll not forget it.

I cut my finger and I was like, yeah, anybody have a band-aid? She goes, I have a band-aid and needed a certain size and quality of band-aid. She opened her purse, pulled out another small purse, went inside a pocket, and then inside a zipper inside that pocket, like there were four different layers she went through, and pulled out a single Band-Aid. I was like astonished. This was so organized, and there were so many different layers and things going on there. I thought, wow, that's a certain version. I'm a little closer to that than what you've been talking about. But when you see it, it catches your attention. Yeah, but here's the bigger sort of global thing.

I am super guilty of a lot of it. I was at an event the other weekend out of town, blah, blah, blah, that kind of it. I was at an event the other weekend out of town, blah, blah, blah, kind of thing where I should have had cash on me for tipping or what have you or anything. I just should have had cash on me, right?

I go out, when I can find the merch bag, when it's not being camouflaged and hidden in my own workplace. I go out and I sell some books and I sell some T-shirts and I usually come home with a handful of cash when I'm done with the weekend. And the cash part is not really the monetary part. It's like physically having some cash. It's just good to be able to tip the valet, tip the bartender you know that that kind of stuff you know yeah and and i keep it in like a jar and stuff and inevitably whenever i leave for out of town i always fucking forget to grab a

handful of fives and tens always and it's stupid like i should know better by now it's a little yeah do better do my do my best right it's a you know you're not and maybe i've lulled into a false sense of security by paying for everything with a credit card in this digital world but yeah i should one should not leave town for a few days without a handful of cash in their pocket again just fives and tens and singles for you pull up to the hotel and the guy grabs your bag and starts whisking it away to the lobby and you're like i don't have fucking five dollars on me and i feel like an asshole yeah you know what i mean yeah that that so i could do better but what women in their purses they'll take that shit to the grave.

They just will. It's weird. I've seen women like, you lose something that's like, let me check the part. They start taking apart the purse every time and it's endless. They rarely dump it though. I think as a male, we have a dumping thing. We'll dump it out. Right. No, they

like to seek inside the secret pouch. Yes. Yes. No, they like to seek inside the secret pouch. Yes. Yes. Always finding things they thought they lost. The real, when you said why with the purse, like the real, I think if you eliminated periods, tampons, and maxi pads, purses would be gone in the next four to seven years i mean i think i think it starts with the tampon all right that's when you really want to know like why do you need this leather sack to leave that it's good they need the tampon

starts with the tampon it all it all starts with the tampon so It all starts with the tampon. That's so funny. Well, I don't disagree with you. Hey, one other thing I wanted to kind of bring up here, which is something I heard Scott Adam mention the other day, and I thought, oh, man, I have that. He called it podcast amnesia. It's that you go on somebody's podcast, and you just don't remember what the hell you talked about. But you know, you'd be reminded of it, and you go, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like it's gone. It just don't remember what the hell you talked about but you know you you you'd be reminded of it and you oh yeah yeah i talked it's not like it's gone it just can't be recalled it's just the oddest thing and in his it's something it's something related to the volume and frequency because the same thing happens in medicine when we see patients over and over and

over again you'll go you'll go you have to kind of look at the record because you, I know I saw them in a week, a couple of weeks ago and I, and it was whatever happened impressed me, but I can't necessarily bring it back. And with podcasting, it's the same thing. I, I just go, yeah, well, it's weird. It's weird. How, how much it sort of, even when things are like very impressive and memorable, they're not memorized. They're not remembered yeah no i'm i'm with you i have to keep constantly asking do i talk about this on my podcast or someone else's

podcast or is that our podcast is the amount we're talking is is it that i think it's a age in volume the volume all right uh emmy is this tonight, Irvine? That is tonight. Yeah, tonight. Brad Williams and Adam Ray, maybe a few tickets left. I don't know. Doing a show at Irvine Improv. And then off to Cobbs, San Francisco, Friday, Saturday night for shows. Beautiful place, Cobbs.

Beautiful. Really? Yeah, yeah. Pretty historic. What part of town is it in? Right in there. Right in San Francisco. I really don't know in there, right in San Francisco. I really don't know. It's right in the middle.

Is it as bad as they say, walking around? I don't know. We're going to find out. You can go to Amcrow.com for all the live shows. What do you got, Drew? I've got DrDrew.com for all our pods. Don't forget After Dark. You guys will like that.

And then our streaming shows, we are talking to people that have been canceled, essentially, what that show is about, at least doctors and scientists and people with interesting ideas, I immediately, my instinct always is, I want to hear what you've got to say. You may not agree, but I'm interested in not just letting you speak, but hearing you speak. I agree. So, until next time,

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