The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2022 - Rock Bottom

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

On this episode of The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, Adam kicks things off by explaining why he couldn’t care less about public perception, while Dr. Drew explores what ultimately killed traditional television. They reflect on how easy it is to create content today compared to the massive infrastructure once required for TV and radio. Adam recalls the early days of his podcast, sharing how he was shelling out $10,000 a month for bandwidth before making a dime. The two dig into the rise and fall of The Man Show, revealing behind-the-scenes details and why a show like that could never be made today. Dr. Drew brings up a new study suggesting sitting around a campfire boosts mental health, which sparks a conversation about nostalgia, cultural shifts, and the looming threat of another major California earthquake—something Adam experienced firsthand at one of the lowest points in his life.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Dr. Drew, 455-10, 10-57, 97. Hey, yeah, oh listen, so what you were talking about in the last show is what we were talking about off the air and I was screaming about this the whole time. No, useful idiots, foot soldiers. Look, we have well established that when people on mass just go, I'm going to the streets and they go, oh, well, what about COVID? Well, this is for Black Lives Matter.

And they just go piling out in the streets. They can go jump on the hood of a cop car. There's nothing. There's nothing anyone's going to do about it. If everyone wanted to go to the beach when Gavin Newsom closed the beach, then we could all go onto the beach. But we had too many pussies who are foot soldiers for these people who think they would be on the right side of history when it came to the Nazis or the Civil Rights Movement or anything. They fucking think they'd be in Tiananmen Square standing up to a fucking tank. They'd be pushing the tank from behind. They'd be driving the tanks. Fucking pussies. No, they wouldn't be driving the tank because they don't have a skill set. Okay, fair enough. They'd be right behind that fucking tank

looking for fucking shelter. Yeah. Fuck you, you revisionist bullshit who you'd be and all that kind of shit. No it took dumb people Who got activated? I care our cow did it because I there's the amount of people that were scared Wild was why how many people talk to me? We're acting like those fucking Jews in the farmhouse in the Tarantino film. We're like hiding under the fucking floorboards and in Glorious Basterds, go shh. And I was gonna fuck off and they were going, shh.

I had a woman follow me around Jimmy's daughter's wedding. She was like literally following me around, going stop talking. And I said no. And she following around, go, stop talking. And I said, no. And she was like, why are you talking? You're ruining it for yourself or your family or whatever. I was like, I don't give a fuck. We got to get her.

We got to talk to her again. Who was that? Aaron. They're all fucking polluted. They got the fucking mind virus or something happened to them. I don't know. I told everyone to fuck off. I'm saying whatever I want. Yeah There's two things

A I have a skill Which is carpentry. Yeah So that's always an option. Yes But b And no one likes this answer I'm funnier than everyone so I can do what I want. And there'll always be a place to go. Do you see what I'm saying?

Yeah, yeah. There's always somewhere to go. For the people that have skill. Yeah, yeah. That's what happens when people, that's why they leave and stuff. It's actually not different than saying, I'm a carpenter.

It's the same thing. Yeah, just go, I have a skill, and I can make money off of this skill. And I don't care, It's not a popularity contest. Well, you're never going to work in Hollywood or in business. I go, I'm not working in Hollywood now. I don't give a fuck. What do you think? I'm starring in movies. Every movie I make gets rejected from Sundance. I'm already out. That's 15 years old. I'm not in anything. I don't want it. Who owns this building? I do. Who built this studio? I did. I knew

this was coming. But there's a weird side effect, I'm not sure if you knew this coming, that all of that business created such a lack of trust and a sense of authenticity in the products that it just killed television. Who would want to be a part of it? It's just dead, it's just like, that's not interesting. Me and Andrew just went out and shot a vlog. It's just me and Andrew. It's no makeup, no sound, no hair, no producers, no snack tables, no folding chairs.

No, I was thinking about that this morning. Him and I get in my car, we park in my parking lot. He's got a backpack, he's got like one backpack. He's got his little drone in there and his camera's in his rigs. He clips a little mic onto my shirt and then we leave. And then we come back four hours later and he's got a thing that whacks into a half hour vlog and

by the way two 15 minute vlogs off of that and then it gets a million views. And it's as long as a sitcom and we don't have anything. Just me driving my car and him sitting in the passenger seat. As opposed to hundreds and hundreds of people and editors and cameramen and sound people and producers and executives. That's what goes into a television program. It's not a model that really works anymore. Not when you have this. I used to say to you all the fucking time when we were on MTV, I kept saying real TV. Yeah. I didn't say reality TV. You'd say good and real. You'd say those two words.

Do something good and something real. No, no. Reality TV didn't really exist. I said real TV. Real TV. I would say why do we have, we have no writers, we have no payroll, we have no anything.

And we can do an hour long show every night. We don't need this. We don't need the bulk of it. And then essentially that's what podcasting became. Because I used to go to Kalis X. It was a huge commercial building on Wilshire Boulevard with a huge parking structure. I mean the parking, the rent on the parking structure alone had to be way more than a budget of 20 pounds.

And a transmission tower and a tech team. And I think about all these things just to put it all out there. It's crazy. When I started my podcast, I had to pay 10,000 a month for bandwidth. Oh, I forgot about that. 10 grand a month with no money coming in. Oh, yeah. By the way, there was no monetization. I remember that. Ten grand a month with no money coming in. Oh yeah. By the way, there was no monetization. I remember that, yeah. I just paid ten with nothing coming in and no

job. So fuck y'all. So listen, I... You know, your dad, you met Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, okay. Do you remember when we had that dot com company for five minutes and we had a TV show that was very good. We were doing once a week. And do you know why that failed? Because nobody could see it because no one had broadband. Do you remember that? And I do. You had that broadband. No one had it. I remember paying between eight and 10K a month for bandwidth. And for me, it was never, it was a weird sensation, because it's like, oh, this one's $11,000 in bandwidth.

I'd go, well, I don't have a job, and we're not monetizing this, so that stings. But on the other hand, it means the show's popular, because it's using up so much bandwidth. But that was the weird Catch-22 early on, right? That if you used to get more popular, it'd cost more. Yeah, it did. And you had to have a leap of faith at that point.

I was always like, look, I went back, I was in Irvine last week, and we went out and did a live podcast and I was just sitting backstage and I was thinking to myself it is literally coming up on the 16th anniversary of a live my first live podcast and I would probably argue kind of the first live podcast. Where was that? I was in Irvine. Oh, was that Irvine?

Well, that's why I was sort of ruminating backstage at Irvine because Irvine, 16 years ago, and I will take, I'm not taking credit for podcasting or any of that, but I'll sort of take credit for the live podcast, because that didn't exist. I mean, there may have been a thing where it's like old Prairie companion or whatever Did a thing and I recorded a radio, but I was like the idea of saying look Irvine I got no I'm not doing stand-up

I'm doing a live podcast and you can be a part of it Which is weird and at the very beginning there'd be people sort of sitting there kind of going, what is this? Why aren't you doing stand-up? We come here to see, it's a stand-up club. Yeah, yeah. It's the improv. So no one's ever seen anything at the Irvine improv

except for stand-up. Now I'm doing a live podcast, but we started there and I was sitting backstage and I was like, it's been, it'll literally be 16 years in, I don't know, October, November, something. I gotta look it up, but it sold out. And we're doing a podcast and people knew what they were seeing.

Yeah. You know, there wasn't any, and there's young people there and stuff, like there wasn't any confusion at that point I I knew and then so we would get paid to do the podcast live, you know, so I was like, alright Well, I'm gonna recoup this bandwidth money Even if there's no advertisers or anything, I will go use it to do this do live Yeah from music as a promotional instrument to get the live shows So, you know, I was talking to Bert Kreischer a few months ago,

and he was talking about a TV show they were offering. He was like, or I can just do a podcast. Why would I go spend three months doing a TV show if I can just do a week of podcasting? It just makes no sense. The economics are shaking out a weird way now too. Well, yeah, I agree, and there's something to doing a TV show,

but it's gonna be different than what it was. There's not gonna be a bunch of non-writing producers hanging around the trough getting paid. I mean, when we did, they did the fifth season of The Man Show, art manager Howard, he got paid for the fifth season. Me and Jimmy, who created the show, didn't get paid. By the way, I tell people all the time,

they think everything's the format? No. It's not the format, it's the host. Well, you weren't just the host, you were creating the content. Well, yeah, we created the show, it was us. You know what I mean? The fifth season of the Man Show, they had everything.

They had the juggy dancers, they had the band, they had everything. It was all turnkey and they couldn't pull it off. And the reason they couldn't pull it off is because the producers, now they had to produce. Whereas we wouldn't let them in the building. They now had to produce. See, it's gotta be an interesting cocktail conversation.

It's like, hey, you guys produced a man show, yeah. The first four seasons were awesome. Why didn't you produce the fifth? What'd you do with fifth? The answer is the fifth season was Jimmy and I left and went, now you do have to produce this show. And that's why they got what they got. And people forget that was Rogan. Yeah, it was Rog have to produce this show. And that's why they got what they got. Yeah.

And people forget that was Rogan. Yeah, it was Rogan and Doug Stanow. Two extremely good, extremely successful performers. That's the next thing. It's not like, oh, man, they made a big mistake with these two. No, no, no. They both proven to be great performers. Even with those two and the format all done,

they couldn't pull it off. Isn't that interesting? You would think somebody could wrestle it into something. You don't realize, I would tell everybody, the man show had like 80 people in the building. There were like six you needed and the rest didn't need anyone. That's what happened to us with the website cup. We had 110 people and I just said, give me that one, that one it. They didn't do it. That's what happened to us with the website cup. We had 110 people. And I just said, give me that one, that one.

Let's just go do this. I mean, I'm going to sound like a douche. But it was me and Jimmy and Daniel just sitting in the office. Everyone else was just following orders. Everything. Everything. We wrote the theme song in the office. Everything.

You would think, though, somebody would. Because were the producers that were doing Doug and Joe, were they the same people that worked around you guys? Or was it a new crop of producers? You were talking about the executive producer. I'm talking about the middle level guys. Oh, the middle level guys. First off, because I wonder if a middle level first off I never checked. I never asked if anybody was, you know, writers or whatever. A fair amount of people went on with Jimmy to late night. Including me. Another group, I mean practically I'm sure, stayed behind and did a fifth season of the Man Show,

but they weren't the creative engine. They just followed directions. They followed directions. So it's interesting to me, because you think somebody would just go, ah, why don't we just design this around Joe and Doug? What are they interested, what do they wanna do, you know, as supposed to read this prompter,

which I bet would really happen. Well, no, I think Joe and Doug did what they wanted to do, but this is sketch and commercial parody and stuff. It's different. It's not what people think. It's not standup. And it's not a podcast. And it's not a book.

It's its own animal. All the commercial parodies and all this sketch stuff. People thought it was sort of sketch, but it was not even that. No, people thought it was us of sketched, but it was not even that. No, people thought it was us making fart jokes and drinking beer. They didn't know all the sort of nuance of it. They didn't know what was going on with that show,

but there's a lot. And the sketch stuff and the parody stuff, it's tough. I mean, it's a certain kind of muscle and gear. It's not stand up. Do you know what I'm saying? Yes, yes. And you, you know, I came from the Groundlings and I came from ACME and Jimmy came from a long experience

of doing it on the radio. Building these characters and doing these voiceover stuff and assembling stuff and editing. A lot of it was just in the editing. And so we had a base in that. Doug and Joe came from stand-up, you know? They didn't come from sketch. Jimmy didn't come from stand-up and I didn't come from stand-up. I came from sketch. And he came from like radio radio sketch and that's why we're able to Bring you masculine My favorite and primate theater

Alright, let's take a break. We'll get into some of the stuff on our page. Should we play masculine? And I'll play masculine now I'll play masculine once a day for the rest of my life and and I will say this about masculine You don't have to see it, the audio's enough. I do Masculaut with a clean conscience because I didn't write Masculaut. And I wasn't in Masculaut. So I feel a little self-conscious, but here's another bit I did, here's another bit I did.

But I didn't have anything to do with Masculaut. Now I also love Rest Assured, but I love Rest Assured, I did write that, and I did start it, but I like it because it's like conceptually perfect, you know, that there should be, like anytime you make a parody or joke, and someone goes, yeah,

but there should be a service that does that, then you've hit, that's where you've landed, right? Yeah, you've exposed something real. We'll take a break, we'll be back with the Masculine right after this. This is an ad by BetterHelp and of course Workplace Stress. People are returning to the workplace. They're no longer at home and workplace stress is now considered one of the top causes of declining mental health. 61% of the global workforce is experiencing higher than level normals of stress. Holiday is good, but not a long-term solution.

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It's just this idea that people's nervous system regulates when they're sitting around a campfire. The crackling of the light, the heat. Listen, everybody... Look, I've said it a million times. You go, oh man, you wake up in the morning, you throw the curtains open, you look at the ocean. You know, and you go, ah, that feels good.

And then they go, going through nature, walking through the Sequo you know, and you go, ah, that feels good. And then they go, going through nature, walking through the Sequoias and the Redwoods, you know, and seeing nature in a waterfall in Maui or some man, that's a vacation, you know, feels good. I go, okay, okay, then what is graffiti in shopping carts and homeless people defecating or falling over in the streets and just old kids toys spread out by the side of the freeway.

Okay, well that's the op, that would be the op. Okay, is that not the opposite of staring at the ocean? All right, and if there's some benefit to staring at the ocean, I have to fucking keep saying this to people all the time. It's like shut the schools down, play it safe. I go, good, but there's gonna be a negative part of that. You fucking idiots. Like driving through a city that's filled with graffiti and garbage. Well, that's going to have a negative effect. There's no

such thing. It's just like, well, there's a positive effect. It's sitting by campfire and walking through Sequoia's and looking at the ocean, and then zero effect of driving through damnation alley. Right. It's like, no, that's a negative effect. For sure. Okay, so why don't we try to fix that? All right, do we have Max Gila? Really quick as far as the ocean thing goes. I was on Instagram and I noticed Susanna Hoff was, remember from the bangles? Sure. She was doing a self and I was like, oh, holy shit. Two condos away from ours. Oh, really? I was like, oh my god. She's a sweetheart, by the way. I remember her dad was a psychoanalyst, if I remember right. She's always talked about that. So I'm going down there next weekend to try to track her down. I was shocked. I'm like,

so anyway. She's a lovely woman, as I would say. That's our goal. All right, now I feel like Masculade is on our computer because we found it a million times, but we have a problem with labeling things. Oh yeah, that's right. There's a lot of, that wasn't labeled right. It'd be like Man, maybe just Man Show.

I don't know. It's a weird, it's basically, the whole thing about labeling is it's really just sort of Lazy like you can't spell labeling without lazy, you know, it's but here's what I'm saying It's it's more that people just don't care. Yeah, you know, I mean, there's a kind of lethargy and also there used to be a kind of thing Drew where it was like I'll give you an example. People come in, they come in your house, they work, they make a fucking mess, and they leave, right? Now, I used to work in people's houses, and I fucking wiped that shit down. It was spotless before I left because my goal was you didn't know I was here when I'm done, other than the thing

works now. They don't care. People don't care anymore. And so it used to be sort of understood, and this is an interesting thing, I never cared, but I was paid to care. And once you bought me, then it was like you working on your house, because you bought me. I get that. And it was that way with everything. I was on the clock, I was on the clock. That was it.

Whatever you said, you bought me for that time. Now, it's sort of like, I was thinking about these guys back here when I told them to clean their office and they were like, fuck you. And I was like, clean it during the workday. Right. While you're paid. While you're paid, do it. And they're like, fuck off. They never did it. But the but my here's my point.

My point is, is it's not drew anymore that I have bought you. You're now here. You have to do what I do. It is you bought me and I'm here and I'm going to do some stuff, but I'm still not going to do shit I don't really want to do like clean up the shit after I do it. Yeah, that's right. Oh, here's Masculine out everybody. So Billy, not my favorite sweater.

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See, we didn't miss one fucking fiber when we did this. We cast, we'd fucking have big casting sessions to find the mom. We didn't have, that wasn't like the receptionist. That was a perfect actress mom. We would fucking cast the kid. We'd have the graphics department and the fucking props department,

hey, this is what the Masculine Out container looks like. It's gotta have a couple balls, but it can't be hairy balls, but it's gotta be phallic, but it's gotta have a red cap, like a head and stuff but it can't be hairy balls. It's got to be phallic, but it's got to have a red cap, like a head and stuff. It was fucking painstaking. Then we left.

They can't do that. They can't think a fucking dog's licking it, going, ah, ah, socks stuck her back. We cast a fucking friend who was embarrassed for her. We built the sets, everything. It was everything. We know, you know, and we built the sets, you know, everything. It was everything. We'd have meetings and we'd have the prop department, the set, the casting. And it would be a fucking 97 second commercial that took months.

I remember I did a thing for you guys. House assholes anonymous. Oh, you did a few things for us. Well, that that one, though, was my favorite line. Just listen to what some of these assholes have to say. I remember you doing splitting the atom. Oh yeah, that was a whole skit we did. That was a whole thing where I had a doppelganger.

I cloned myself. But I'm saying, first things first. These people aren't good enough to come up with Masculine. They're just not, that's not a basic thought. What team member was that? I don't, I can't tell you who wrote it, I can tell you who didn't write it. Cause we had like five shitty writers

that never did anything, they just sat there. Somebody's gotta contact that woman again too and see what her thoughts are about that. It'd be so funny. We wrote, I mean we had me dating my mom and fucking my mom and stuff. We had out there shit about me fucking bedding my mom. It wasn't, people think, oh, I'm gonna drink some beer. No, no, no, no.

Weird esoteric shit that they can't do. You think Stone Stanley's gonna be able to do any of that? Well, just rest assured. They wouldn't know how to hire. Just coming up with the name, rest assured. Yeah, I never liked the name. But I liked a bit. But the point is, we're gonna do hire that guy, go find that guy.

Joe Rogan, Doug Sandham, we're gonna do that. They do stand-up. They do other things. Yeah. They're not gonna do this. Yes. There was only two guys that could do that. By the way, Comedy Central scoured the land. They chose, they got whoever they wanted to host this show. It was a big successful show. They didn't have any problem getting the best of the best. Writers, performers, they could do whatever they wanted. They had a huge budget, show was a success,

they're going in the fifth season, they had the template, they had the producers, Stone Stanley, they had everything. They couldn't do it. I was thinking about the Fox lately for some reason. Yeah, he was great. He's been coming back to me. I don't know why. Just kind of think about him. Because he was a good time in a weird bygone era where it's like people weren't going out protesting Hamas and shit. They were just going, let's fucking sing some sea shanties

and chug a beer. Yeah. You know what I mean? Upside down. They were just up for a good fucking time. You know, I mean Bill the there's a lot of fun in the 80s and 90s that were just gone. No fun. Yeah I don't have fun anymore. No. Well, it's also so fucking regulated that it's like people Don't I mean people everyone's angry. Yeah, and the fun is uh

Fun is gone, but but but the's coming back for the octagons. Oh, they're having fun in Florida. That's true. They're not having fun here. You're right. Here, we're just worried about the people and the indigenous people and our community and our unhoused neighbors and the Latina and Latinx brothers and sisters who come here to clean our toilets and pick our grapes.

And we have to, I never know what is it, Drew, what is the group that simultaneously says we need a living wage? We need a living wage. We got people can't live off 14.50 an hour. We need to raise it to 30 so we can have a living wage. And then when you go, why don't you round up all those illegals that are picking grapes and lettuce?

They go, who's gonna pick your grape and your lettuce? And you go, why? And they go, well, they don't get paid to do it. They get paid like nothing. So you want cheap food, don't you? And you go, well, wait a minute, I thought you, weren't you talking about a living wage? Yeah, so you love the living wage. Dignity. Dignity. Okay, so here's three things you love.

You love Hispanics, you love the living wage, and you love dignity. And then when I go, we should get those guys and deport them, you go, who's going to pick your lettuce for free? In the hot sun. And then I go, as I've said for a million years, fucking pay them. Drew, I've said, fuck, head of lettuce. I don't know. Is it $3? Is it $7? I really don't fucking know. But if somebody said to me, that head of lettuce that you get for $3.25, it's going up to five bucks because we got to pay these people. I'd go, good. Good, yeah. Well, isn't that how you want it? Yeah.

That's that's you want a living wage and these people are toiling in the sun and then you're telling me we can't get by without them being paid slave wages. Well, don't pay them slave wages and well, don't give me any more. He's fucking Gavin Newsome types and these politicians going, uh, these guys building your houses or pouring the concrete or picking the stuff. I don't know anyone I know would do that.

Yeah, you don't know poor people, bitch. You're so fucking racist. Chris, Ray, me, before I mentioned Todd in another episode, a bunch of poor white dudes, they all fucking went to work. So we all worked dug ditches. That's what we did, because we ditches. That's what we did. Because we're poor.

That's how it worked. We didn't go, ah, that's beneath me. There's nothing was beneath me. I didn't have any money. Whatever it took. I didn't have any money. So I fucking dug ditches. Yeah.

And so did Chris and so did Radley. That's what we did. Yeah. So what do you mean you won't, they won't do it? Poor people do it poor people Do it did Ray get into conflicts with the Mike stram out some people like that I just don't imagine him taking with you know, some of the shit they had to take he didn't show up until later I I went first

into the construction Well, John Gillingham went first. That's a pretty white name, wouldn't you say john gillingham went first as a labor, digging ditches. He then found out they needed more labor help. So he called me, then I showed up as a labor. And then I got Chris into it when especially right around earthquake time because I started paying more Rehab time 92 and then yeah Later 80s probably and then and then ray sort of trickled in

Uh as well, but ray never worked with stroman But I mean there are a lot of guys like stroman, you know, I imagine But I mean, there are a lot of guys like Sturm-Mann, you know, I imagine. I had to erase such, so oppositional. He was an aggressive, angry, bitter, threatening beast of a guy, a really weird guy to get stuck with, you know, out of the gate, someone who's that brutal. He was like brutal with us. The other guys were a little more... That's cruel. Chris Whitehead, Topanga, you kinda chillax, had a little sense of humor. Some other guys,

Tom Johnson, I worked with... The other guys were a little more valley dude, surfer dude kinda sense of humor. They're okay, it was really just this one guy. The work was shit, but we would do the shit work. We are due for an earthquake. Yeah, we are. Woo, in 30 years. I know, I know. It's my, it's my bottoming out, you know, day.

That earthquake, yeah. Oh, that's right. I forgot that story. Yeah, that was the bottom for me. My work closed. My girlfriend's work closed. Her apartment was condemned. I had no job. She had no job. Her car blew a head gasket, like parked in front of my house. She couldn't fix it and have any money. And her mom had already bought a ticket to come out from Minnesota to visit, but she couldn't stay.

Her apartment was condemned. So she was going there and they were off to stay with me and my roommates in my house. The mom. And I had no job. She had no job. I had no insurance or anything. It's not like workman's comp or something.

It was like no work. She worked at a restaurant, restaurants close. Been to her Boulevard, the Rainforest Cafe, boom. Right in Sherman Oaks, liquefaction gone. Her car, she had no car. I had a busted up old car. I had roommates. And her mom's like having to stay with us. And I got that disease. You always said, oh, you got herpes. I didn't get herpes. I got that earthquake related spore syndrome, whatever. Custody of mycosis or something. Yeah, I got it.

Yeah. Valley fever. I sweat through the bed every night. I had lesions on my face and in my mouth and all I did and I just sat there. I had no insurance. I didn't know a doctor. I wasn't on Medicaid or the health plan or what. I didn't do anything. I just I just sat. I didn't have. I didn't I didn't have aspirin. I didn't have anything. I just sat and I was like fevers and sweat every night. Every night just sweat fevers and sweat. I ride it out. That's all I did with every illness ever ever got. Just fucking ride it out. There's no antibiotics, there's no doctor visit, there's no go online, there's no anything.

I just sat in my room and I just sweated out. And I had lesions all over my face and shit. I was covered with sweat. And there's like fucking knock on the door and I swing the door open and it's my girlfriend's mom like holding a suitcase. She's like, I'm staying with you guys for a few days and I'm like, uh, oh, yeah And then she's like what's wrong with your face? And what are you doing to my daughter?

I was like I was just like Hey bitch, I'm in no fucking mood. I'm in no fucking mood. You fucking come in here. I You don't know what I've been dealing with for the last fucking five days I got no fucking job your girl your daughter's got no fucking job. She got no money I got no money her car is dead in front of my fucking house. I got lesions on my face I got no fucking doctor Don't even get start do not don't I fucking snapped I was like do not even begin to get fucking started with this shit in me now go fucking unpack your shit and go sit on the

sofa That was it sat there for the next three or four days she didn't have any money either sex exe i'm going to the hilton She ain't fucking wanting there fucking slept on the sofa ralph and cortland my roommates were just fucking sitting around Don't fucking tell me about being poor people. Did she take the daughter back to Minnesota? She fucking pulled her side. I was like, what the fuck you doing? This guy's covered with lesions.

He has no job. He's fucking sweating. He's a fucking mess. Weird roommates? He's got weird roommates? No, fucking four months later I was famous. Wow. Yeah.

Wow, that's how fast. Well, I wasn't rich, but four months later I was on. Wow. Yeah. Wow. That's how fast. Well, I wasn't rich, but four months later I was on the fucking radio. She was gone. Mom was gone and I was just fucking roller coaster right to the top. Wow. But I hit rock bottom. That was the earthquake was the fucking bottom man. Sorry to laugh. All right. That's a pretty good story. You can go to Amcro.com for all the live shows, especially coming up in Milwaukee, gonna be at the Pabst Theater.

It's a cool place, that'll be July 20th. What do you got, Drift? Dr.RotTV, Dr.RotCom. I don't feel comfortable promoting anything after that story. I'm not worthy. So, until next time, Amcro your host, Dr. Sam Mahala. This summer, Pluto TV is exploding

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