The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1780 Childhood Nostalgia

Episode Date: October 13, 2023

Adam & Dr. Drew go back in time to some nostalgic childhood shows and memories. From ‘The Partridge Family’ and commentary on laugh tracks and other funny and odd sound bites from these shows of the past. Please support our sponsors: Simplisafe.com/ADAM2 BetterHelp.com/AdamandDrew The Jordan Harbinger Show available wherever you listen to podcasts

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He's still in Las Vegas. I've got stuff to talk to you about, Drew. I've got some stuff, too. You start. Well, I was watching The Partridge Family last night. As you customarily do. Well, when it comes up, I will watch. Far superior to The Brady Bunch, by the way.

Yeah, I was not a Brady Bunch person, I got to admit. Partridge Family was well ahead of it, wasn't it? Like five years or so? Ahead or behind? I mean, it was older by five years. Partridge Family? Let's look it up. I'm looking it up real quick.

No, you don't have to. You don't need to. You got me. Okay. Wouldn't you say it's about no partridge family started in 1970 and i would say brady bunch would be more like 68 or 69 or something almost the same time okay i god i would have not put brady bunch in the i would have put a square in the mid-70s. Brady Bunch, 69. Wow. D minus student. D minus.

D minus. D minus student. I knew better than to say, no, it's not that. I knew better to do that. Yeah, well, you're one of the few people. You're one of the few people who have learned that when I say something, they should probably not fire back with, you don't know what I know, what you don't, you know. People don't really learn that. I consider it, that's all I think about when I have discussions or disputes with people

is their batting average. Nobody does that with me. They just fire back, you know. No, no, I know what I know, you know. The feeling is, the feeling is, because I had this very intense feeling that Brady Bunch was like mid-70s. And when you said early 60s, I just assumed that's when it was. No, I didn't say early 60s. Oh, I'm sorry, late 60s, 68, 69, whatever.

That to me is shocking. And that's what I react to. I'm like, wow, that's incredible. That's crazy. I should get a t-shirt and say my feelings are more accurate than yours because that's really more than your feelings you're you're you're uh what should we call it your recall it's really a feeling about it creates the recall but it's really the recall yes but facts yeah i have people all the time

they just argue and they argue and they fucking argue and then at some point i turn out to be accurate all right so i was watching the partridge family from uh it was the pilot it was the pilot. It was the pilot. 1970, right? Yeah. And they had this longish shot of... Oh, God, there's something I even wanted to play for you. Uh-oh. There's this longish shot. All right, a couple things.

Emmy, go grab my phone from the table and the entryway there, please. There's something I wanted to play for you. I was kind of interested on your take on it. But anyway, this doesn't have to do with that. the shot that I'm thinking about now was a long shot. And they would kind of do this a lot in the 70s. Oh, this is 1970. This long shot of the bus going by PCH, down PCH, sort of down the hill. If people know the area, it's sort of before.

If you were coming from up north and traveling toward L.A., it'd just be sort of going down a long hill, and then it flattens for a while, and then it kind of goes up a hill, and maybe when you get up the hill, Pepperdine University's up there. Yes, over there, yeah. And it's so funny when you see it from 1970 because there's no homes, certainly on the ocean side of PCH, and there isn't any on the other side, the hillside of PCH either, right?

But I was like thinking to myself, and I was thinking, that area is so developed now. And of course, real estate is, you know, Jay-Z and Beyonce bought a $200 million home there. There's homes on Carbon Beach, on the ocean side. They're building some sort of monster houses, you know, sort of double lot mega, you know, mansions. I mean, they're building some hundred million 150 million dollar homes right but how do they get that through the coastal commission it takes a long time but wow but anyway this is 53 years ago they shot this right yeah remember

all the global warming talk and the ice age, the seas were going to rise. Remember the seas were going to engulf everything? Oh, listen, every, we would have these crazy, I don't know if there were storms or whatever, where the surf would kick up and knock down a home in Malibu. Remember? Right. They'd be on sort of stilts over the ocean, and the people would go, why?

Why do they build them there? What are they doing? They know the oceans are rising. That was 50 years ago. Yeah, they built a lot more, a lot more. Their own pylons. Yeah. They're just driven into the ground,

not caissons with rebars. They engineer the fuck out of it now. But the whole point is there's nothing there. And now there's a whole bunch of shit there. And if you want to live as close as you can to the ocean, it's going to cost a hundred million dollars. So what, what don't we know about the global warming or the seas rising or all of

Florida being underwater? What, what's the guy, how are those guys able to get insurance on their hundred million dollar home? How'd they get a loan from the guy? Are those guys able to get insurance on their $100 million home? How do they get a loan from the bank? Why is the bank cutting them a loan for this house that's going to be underwater in seven years, according to Greta Thunberg from five years ago? Yeah, I was going to say five, seven years from now.

It's like yesterday. This is 50-something years ago. And all they've done is build between now and then. And they're continuing to build. So what are we talking about? Who knows? Do they know? What do they know?

Well, as you say, follow the money, the insurance companies and actuarials, they know, and they would not ensure things if there was any potential of the, the actual collateral being destroyed. Yeah.

Right? Yeah. This thing that's weird. I'm going to try listening to this thing and see if I can hear it. What are we hearing? Don't worry. I've been waiting three hours and my knuckles are already beginning to whiten up. So what's this all about? You don't listen to me, do you? Don't worry.

I heard some of that. Yeah. So I don't know if they've ever. So I have hypervigilance, you know. Yes, you do. And when I would hear laugh tracks from, and a lot of tracks were using laugh tracks from the 70s and 50s and 60s and stuff, I would hear the same laugh tracks. Yeah, yeah. And then I would hear weird noises in them that didn't even sound like laughing, but they would use them. And it would bother me. I wanted to take notice to it.

them and it would bother me. I wanted to take notice to it. And when I go back and look at some of these retrograde sitcoms that were single cam sitcoms that they just pump these stock laugh tracks into, I hear that weird anomalies in them and are, and are, I would hear, I don't, I don't recognize what you're describing.

I can't wait to hear it. But I would hear the sort of single voice. Like, or, you know, you'd hear these standout voices as things would taper out. Yes. I'm going to send this to Emmy, this stupid, this stupid. I recorded, I recorded. All right. Wait, while you're doing it. I think I might have it Adam you do? why do you have it?

hold on why do you have it Ben? because I heard the recording and I found the part in the episode you were playing you can't be that fucking fast I can't there's no way you can be that fast alright do your do your bit there.

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All right. Well, it's a weird, and I sent Emmy two of them. I grabbed two of them last night. But it's a sound. And you have to kind of listen hard. The thing's buffering now, so maybe... Nice hair, Mr. McCade. Yeah.

Is he wearing something on his head? He's wearing eye patches. Look, guys, I'm very tired. I'm hyper-tense. I have to catch a plane in three hours, and my knuckles are already beginning to whiten up so what what's this all about we want you to listen right before he says what's this all about it makes a it's not a laugh huh hear it again i want to hear it again i didn't

hear it he says three hours and my knuckles are already beginning to whiten up so what what's this all about we want you to listen to recording i couldn't hear it. I'm going to subpoena this. Yeah. He says his knuckles are beginning to whiten, and then you'll hear, it's not a laugh. It's a sound. Sounds like a cat in heat. What's this all about? We want you to listen to a recording made by our family. Sounds like a cat in heat. Alright, you ready?

It says, Knuckles beginning to whiten up. Hold on. It's two beats after Knuckles are beginning to whiten up. There it is. They're already beginning to whiten up.

So what's this all about? I think I... Well, you talk... I talked over it? Well, it's two beats after the knuckles begin to whiten up. Are already beginning to whiten up. So what? What's this all about?

We want you to listen to me. Can you hear that? Not really. I felt a whooshing. that's what i heard well i but here's what happens to me is that woman walking by i picked my brain listens to her footsteps and and so i can't help can you close your eyes all right i'll try that oh we're already beginning to whiten up. So what's this all about? I think I'm beginning to hear it.

Try it again. Let me tell you. Hold on. Knuckles are beginning to whiten up. There's two beats, and then there's a sound. The sound sounds like... It almost sounds like a cat making a noise. That's a good description, because I kind of imagined something like that. And the beats are boom, boom, that kind of beat.

Yes? Yes, those are the only kind of beats. Well, it could be ba-boom. Just two beats, two seconds. And it makes a sound, not the sound of a cat purring, and not the sound of a cat meowing. The sound of a cat that would be like rubbing your shin and making like sound. All right, here we go.

Are already beginning to whiten up. So what's this all about? We want you to listen. I heard it. I heard it. I heard it. I think you need headphones to hear it. Although I was sitting in front of my TV hearing it.

I don't know how the fuck you heard that without somebody coaching you up like that. That is very interesting. It's really like that, you know, Yanni and what was that? The two words? Yeah. Or the yellow and the blue dress, whatever. That is fascinating. Well, now, it's not a laugh.

No? Well, I don't think it is, but maybe somebody did think it was. You know what I mean? Roll it back five seconds. I'll listen one more time. Look, gang, I'm very tired. I'm hyper tense. I have to catch a plane in three hours, and my knuckles are already beginning to whiten up.

So what's this all about? We want you to listen. I heard it. I heard it. Is it? Yeah, it it it it goes in my head as a woman sort of starting to laugh or something. It's it's a little bit of an uncanny sound. I agree. to laugh or something it it's it's a little bit of an uncanny sound i agree all right i i i texted you i i i uh sorry i mean i texted you the second one because i can't remember where it was in the the thing but then there's another one there's a there's a couple of weird now keep in mind i'm nine years old you know i, seven years old or six years old, and I'm watching this shit on a black and white Zenith TV, 13-inch Zenith from the 1950s, and I hear it.

I can hear the sounds, the weird sounds that aren't laughter. There are other sounds that are in it. I had a weird flashback last night when I was watching this. Let's see if we can hear this one. There, it did it again. Play it again, watch. This one happens two seconds in. It's right at the top.

Same sound. What is this all about? We want you to listen. What is that? It's not laughter. And it's weird. And there's a few, there's a, there's a few of those. And it's always the same sound?

Different. Find, Emmy, find old time car crash sound effects. Or you can find the song Transfusion. Transfusion. So different sound effects had their own weird baked in non sequitur things that drove me nuts. Which

you know you just find the song Transfusion and it's an old Dr. Demento song. And when you listen to the car crash sound effect you'll hear a harmonica type sound. Like that doesn't feel like tire screeching or metal being compressed or misshapen. It's a weird.

I remember the words on it. Put some juice in me, Lucy. Pretty close. Pretty close. Yeah. Let's see yeah now you had it it was right there

it's like well that's that's a horn that's the that's the I'm putting my hand on the horn

that's an old 60s car sound I don't know they had to have a horn going into the accident always because you're putting your foot you're putting your hand on the horn. That's an old 60s car sound. I don't know. They had to have a horn going into the accident always. Because you're putting your foot on it. You're putting your hand on the horn as it makes the horn sound as you're going into the crash. Well, here it again.

Here it again. I didn't dig that. Was that a red stop sign? It's not a horn sound effect. If you wanted to put a horn sound effect in there, you would put a horn sound effect in there. It's a resource going like... See, here we go. We're all putting it on. No, I'd say if you put

a... If you were creating this and you wanted a horn, you'd do better than that. Remember, there was a convention in the 60s that as a car was going into a crash, you had to have the horn sound. Yeah, but that's not the horn sound, Drew. No, I know. I get you.

My brain is probably doing that because of the convention. Yes, your brain is doing it. But it's not... Play it one more time. It's not horn. Was that a red stop sign? Ah! You could fill that in with any signs. It could be brakes. It could be horn.

It could be harmonica. Yes. I'm going to say that's the only crash sound effect they ever had. They would use it for everything. And so I would always hear that weird sound like someone's sucking in on a harmonica or something. And it always bumped me. And it's always been in my head. And maybe I'm the only person on the planet that it's no i've heard it always and i was just assumed that

was the convention of horns being honked as you're going into an accident but you could hear that weird partridge family laugh thing that's weird it was hard man it was not easy to hear it i don't know how you were sitting there in front of a black and white freaking zenith television hearing that i speaker on the side i would hear it and then uh i was triggered when i was watching partridge family last night it triggered me yeah all right we got a call or sorry, listener question that Emmy has. Drewski and Adam, my nephew is about to move in with me, and this is about seven years after I lived with his mom, my sister,

for about a year and a half. And now everybody's kind of mad that I'm weary of letting him move in with me. So am I a dick for not really wanting my nephew to move in with me after I lived with my sister? Even though I'm paying a mortgage now and my sister is still living in a fucking Section 8 apartment that I was living with her in 10 years ago. So let me know. Get it on. It's interesting about that call. He expects you to read in a whole bunch of commentary in what he's saying, right?

And I almost missed most of it. He's saying what he should have said was, I stayed with my sister. She'd like me now to pay that back, pay that forward, or however you want to phrase it, by now housing my son. Instead, he has a whole bunch of commentary about what a bitch she is

and what a horrible environment she lives in. And you could easily miss that she's saying hey i put you up when you were in need would you mind putting my son up when you when i'm in need right isn't that the question well oh and ben i think you can find the end of that episode and see my vacant pch from 55 years ago shot. In case Drew wants to see it. All right. So, oh, geez, it's that fast. Well, I was going to answer the question first, and then we'll take a look at it.

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who's tim and they go he's a friend of mine and i go do i've ever met him no you've never met tim okay then let's say a friend of mine came up and started talking to me because i don't know who tim is right okay then they can't they can't understand the contents of your mind. They can't appreciate what you're experiencing. They can't appreciate that you don't know what's in their mind. Right. Right, right, right, right, right. Which is what kids do.

Correct. And what people that aren't incredibly bright do. They think you know what they're talking about. There's also, this is at an all-time high, and maybe it's the phone that's fucking people up, and you know women do this off the charts. They start talking about, well, we should go hang out with uh roberta and steve johnson and roberta and steve um roberta and steve we should do dinner with them because they're a really nice

couple and then she'll go uh but she told me that uh she was going to be out of town for a month and you go yeah roberta's going to be out of town no shelly's going to be out of town and i'll go like i'm only talking about what we're talking about. I can't know that you're introducing. You can't keep talking about one person and then go, she is going to be out of town and then expect me to know that you're not talking about the person. I always insult people. They go, oh, yeah, you don't know what I'm talking about. I go, I'll only be talking about what we're talking about. So if you're going to introduce other things, then no, I won't know.

I remember when I was like a mid-adolescent, my dad went to, he was a physician, he went to a medical lecture about some psychology thing. And he came back and he was so interested. He goes, you know, it was about male and female thinking and brain differences. And this is like, you know, 1972 or something. And he goes here. And the guy said something that he couldn't wait to tell us that really, really spoke to me. He goes, women are more likely to use pronouns without explaining who the pronouns are attached to. Yes. And he was like, that happens all the time. And I'm like, there it is. That's what you're talking about. Yes, they introduce people. You've been talking about Roberta Johnson for 10 minutes. And then at some point you go, and she is going on sabbatical.

And you go, Roberta's on sabbatical? No, no, no. We're talking about somebody else. But it's the same kind of thinking. They think you know what's going on with them in their brain. Yeah. So it's adolescent thinking, essentially. And the second part.

The second part, I run into it all the time, and occasionally when I interview these guys, it's really weird and frustrating because they go, this is older guy who's smart. And oftentimes, oftentimes mechanically oriented. You know, so they'll go, they'll go, they'll go, I got the car originally from Don Hootman. Don Hootman used to work with Kelly Carter. Kelly Carter, well, you know, he was an engine builder.

He built engines. Carter and, God, what was his name? Ed Pink. Ed Pink, Kelly Carter built the engine for the car. And then Don Hoodle. Don Hoodle drove it in 1957. And then I acquired the car from Charlie Rosberg. Charlie Rosberg was the guy.

He was Rosberg of Rosberg Cams. He made cams. And then actually, Rosberg, well, he did cams and intake manifolds. But anyway, Larry Melvin was the guy who detailed. He's the guy who did all the bright work on the car. And what was Larry's partner's name? And you just go, look, just get to the fucking shit. We're talking about a car.

You're introducing names no one has ever heard of. Nobody knows any of these names. Irrelevant story elements. Story elements that they like sort of wading through. But also couldn't possibly know these names also couldn't possibly know these names couldn't possibly know these names you're trying to tell they're trying i always thought they're trying to impress you with that i i they kind of are because it's smart old guy but when you're telling a story you it just dies on the vine because you keep introducing all these fucking guys who are dead.

And, you know, once in a while there's some, you know, the car was originally designed by Dan Gurney. And you go, oh, OK. But then it just then they just go deeper and deeper into the roster. And it's like no one's heard of these people. You're getting bogged down. Is it they can't focus the story they don't know how to tell a story they've been deprived of attention and this helps them get some attention you know what i mean those that's what scrolls through my head it's a little it's

a little blowhardy it's a little blowhardy because the blowhards do the names and the dates names and dates blowhard and i buried my first son december 22nd 1977 taken by drugs you know there's always always a lay that when they buried somebody or you know whatever you know that that's the dates and the names are a little blowhardy mixed with having way too much in their head because they've been around for a long time, mixed with a personal challenge because you can see him do it. They'll go. Oh, I see. Ed Pink's building partner, the guy Ed Pink would build the. They're challenging themselves. His partner's name was Charlie. Shit. I knew the guy well. He had a place out of Van Nuys. You know, that's how they do it, right? They're getting mired.

But then I'm trying to do an interview with them, and it's become their own personal game show that's going on in their head. Yes. And you just try to move them along. All right, so then what did you do with the car after you got it? Well, Rob Fuller came up, and then Rob Fuller told me his old partner is Jack. No, it's Baldwin Motors. That's Jack. No, it's Baldwin Motors. That's Jack.

No, that's Jack Roush. Jack Baldwin is a different Baldwin. That's Baldwin Motors. He's East Coast. Like, they can't stop. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

All right. But I can. Going to be at Cobb's tonight and tomorrow night in San Francisco. Four shows. Beautiful place there. And then Spokane after that, October 27th and 28th. Just go to AdamCrow.com for all the live shows. What do you got, Drew?

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