The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #2024 - The BRUTALITY of German Fairy Tales with Mario Adrion

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

Comedian and YouTuber Mario Adrion joins Adam and Dr. Drew for a lively conversation about the dark origins of German fairy tales, the cultural insanity of Where the Wild Things Are, and how the self-esteem movement has warped a generation. Mario shares what it was like growing up with a stoic German mom, leading to a hilarious sandwich evaluation from Adam and Drew. They also react to a baffling clip from an old children’s show, explore the differences between male and female aggression, and hear about Mario’s recent marriage—including the surprising culture shock he and his wife experienced.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 choice, but they're going to mandate getting on doctors, board certified physician, addiction medicine specialist. We have a guest, Mario Adrian, he's a comedian, former model, influencer,

and got some stand-up shows coming up. We're gonna be at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles coming up July 31st, and then The Stand in New York on August 14th, and then Celebrity Theater in Atlantic City. Good to see you again, my friend. Good to see you guys. Mario's kind of international guy, speaks a lot of languages, does a lot of traveling.

Recently went viral poking fun at German versus Disney fairy tales and the cultural stereotypes. So let's talk about that for a second. What, it does strike me that some of those international fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel and stuff like that, and also you know the one I always think about? I always think about the-

Whatever you're gonna say next, I'm all ears. The one you always think of. Well no, what I notice I go, you do that thing with your kid's toes. This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy went home, this little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none.

That's a weird, first that's not creative. And then how to catch on. Why is it 700 years old? Who went, oh, that's good. This one went, wee wee wee wee wee. Is it only English? Is there anything like that in German? No, but we have the hardcore German fairy tales. Every Disney fairy tale is based on these German

fairy tales from the 1800s. German or Northern? Well, some of them are from Denmark and stuff, but it's all very dark. It's consistently extremely dark. And then Disney had to change the original version because it's too hard and too tough for American kids to handle. Right. And hang on, isn't it normal, often, kids being eaten or destroyed or something? Every single story ends with a kid dying or being in excruciating pain because they misbehaved and did not follow the orders. And even the... Yes.

The orders. The orders. From the 50s. No! And even the Santa Claus, same thing. Like, he'll fuck with you if you don't follow his orders. Yeah, yeah, we have a thing called Knecht Ruprecht, which is basically Santa's like, if you misbehave, then Knecht Ruprecht will take the little kid and will like punish it.

Right? It's not specified how it's being punished. But the other thing was the brutal mom and stepmom, right? Yeah. Which Adam and I could relate to very strongly. OK, here's an example. Yeah, go ahead. The most, what's the, I forgot what it's called in English.

I think it's Cinderella. Like in German, it's called Aschenputtel. Whichever the one is where the evil stepmom, she can't fit into the shoe, right? So in the Disney version, they try to make her fit into the shoe. In the German version, this is a fact, right? She takes out an axe and chops her daughter's toes off Yeah, so the daughter can fit into the shoe and then the other daughter she chops her heel off

Right good axes back then by the way Yeah so then when the princess like the step like the the step daughter goes to the Or the daughter goes to be with the prince. The prince is like, there's blood all over the floor, what the hell is going on? And then he sends her back and rejects her. Same thing happens with the other daughter. And then he finds... To be fair to the Germans, right? There's a strong connection to medieval culture when there were swords and axes, and we got none of that. Yeah, did they?

So blood and things like this, violence, that was part of the deal. Ansel Gretel was pretty, seemed pretty. Cooking and eating kids? Yeah, she's eating them. Yeah, all of them are kind of like. But again, it's a woman eating. Even the brothers Grimm.

That's where I'm from. So I'm from the back forest of Germany. They had the word Grimm in it. It's from, yep. The Svartzwald. Svartzwald. That's right, That's right. That's right. Yeah, but it all seemed unnecessarily violent

and whatever but but but I have an interesting kids behave at him. I think I think look at German kids and look at American kids. I'm just gonna let you know. I'm fucking with you and I'm gonna make it. I was like well, Mario, I'm gonna make this **** out of your point right here. You're gonna love this. We, so the whole thing was, hey, you need to eat your vegetables, do your homework, you know, and pray and go to bed and you need to obey, you know, and I get it. And these fairy tales were all sort of, the theme was, don't wander off on your own because you're gonna get

eaten by a witch, you listen to me, you go, you know, it's a little bit of that boogeyman under the bed kind of thing. Fine. What we had to contrast that and our most, one of our most celebrated children's books is Where the Wild Things Are. And it was written and illustrated by some kind of hippie fucking socialist or something. And I like, this is the worst message ever you can send to your kids because where the wild things are, the kid is a lunatic. The first two pages, he's chasing the cat around with a knife. That means you have a lunatic, Maurice Sendak, every hippie mom loved, right? They all loved it. I lived it. They loved it. It was like their fucking Bible. They didn't

have a Bible. They would reject that, but they loved Maurice Sendak and where the wild things are. So, Act 1, the kid is chasing the cat with a knife. Act 1, the kid's a psychopath. I would say psychopath. Literally a psychopath. Yes, he's chasing a cat with a knife. Act two, his parents are, at the end of act one, his parents go, well, you're chasing the cat with a knife, so you go into your room with no supper.

You time out. Now, Germany would have caught himself a beating, but here, you just go to your room for a time out. He goes to the room for the time out, he gets bored, he climbs out of the window, and he goes to where the wild things are. And he lands on an island with wild creatures and immediately becomes the king of the wild things. I don't know why this nine-year-old is the king of all these wild creatures that live

on this island. Why not just eat him or reject his policy? But he's made the king. He's made the king of the island. And then he tells the wild things, he's gotta leave. And he goes back home, and when he comes back home, supper's waiting for him in his room. And I'm like, what message? What message is this, you fucking idiots? No wonder every kid's a piece of shit.

You chase the thing around with the knife, you become the king of all the animals, and then you come back and you have a meal waiting for you on your back. You kick it home too. That's the shittiest message I've ever heard. And every single fucking hippie mom is like, yeah, that's a good one. That's a good book. I'm like, it's not a good book. It sends a shit message. Yeah, no, it makes me very angry. They made a movie out of it. They made a film. No, that is that is that is yeah, no, there's a there's a small there's a story that it's called Struwe Peter is like a collection of German children's stories. One of the most famous ones is about a little girl named Pauline

Tien, right? And she's playing with the matches. And then there's little cats and they're like meow meow. Don't play with the matches. Pauline Tien, your father told you not to do that. She doesn't give a fuck. She's a kinky bad girl right starts playing with the matches. and then in the next page, imagine you're five years old, you turn the page, she is on fire. She's burning, she's screaming and it's very graphically explained how she's like screaming because her hair is catching on fire, her skin is burning, flash is coming off and then there's a happy ending because she dies. That's it. And she's a little pile of ashes and then there's a happy ending because she never disobeyed her

father again. And that's just such pile of ashes. And then there's a happy ending because she never disobeyed her father again. And that's just such a beautifully efficient story. Oh, she never disobeyed because she was dead. Exactly. It didn't happen again. She learned her fucking lesson, okay? And that is something that I think is just a much more clear storytelling.

In America, it's all this fluff, fluff, and like three, no, it's like three-act structure. A kid has orders, disobeys the orders, and dies. And that's every single one of these 12 stories in this book. That's why you-act structure. A kid has orders, disabase the orders, and dies. And that's every single one of these 12 stories in this book. That's why you guys build cars. Yeah, and that's why we also follow the orders a little bit too much at some point.

Yeah. We celebrate the people who shouldn't be celebrated, and I realize it's kind of- That's what going on. Our generation did that. No, I know. We brought that in. No, I've said it. Our moms did, but we really went for it. It was Little Miss Sunshine. That's when we really jumped the shark. You pointed that out at the time. I didn't get it. I've always said it. We're celebrate the wrong

people here. And yeah, that book, Where the Wild Things Are, was a massive success, and it was beloved by all the sort of hippie folk. They just loved it. And I don't know why they loved it so much. Well, the King Baby, that's their thing, right? Remember, they were all traumatized and abandoned and stuff, and they arrested them in their early infantile... Look at that, your mom. your mom, she's like king baby.

She should have been something, she should have been a contender. Yeah, I don't know about a contender, but at least a tomato can. A sparring partner. Yeah, I think the self-esteem movement is... First off, it's coming home to roost. It's been around in this country long enough, it's causing a lot of fucking problems. It was the worst experiment ever.

The self-esteem movement, we have ideas, hey, why don't we defund the police? Okay, that's a shit idea. No, no, we'll have community ambassadors instead of police. It's like, okay, that's a shit idea. No, no, we'll have community ambassadors instead of police. It's like, okay, that's gonna turn to shit. Like we have ideas that turn to shit almost immediately. The self-esteem movement is an invisible, insidious, destructive, radon gas of society

where we took tons of young people and we went, you're number one, don't listen to anybody. Oh, find Wawa Wubbzy, find Wawa Wubbzy. And we said, and by the way, now we fast forward, that person is 27 and they're standing at a chip filet and the person behind the counter is going, we're out of honey mustard dipping sauce. And the guy grabs him and starts trying to strangle him. That's self-esteem. It's interesting to me that I'm hearing from, how old are you? 30, 31.

From younger guys than you, asking for guidance and structure and values and morality and stuff. So where's the happy medium? How should, if you were king of the world, and you could do your version of the fairy tales, is it more towards Hans Christian Andersen and with sort of morals and whatnot? Or are you gonna have the violence for both? I think a happy medium, because I can know for me personally, for example, I was

raised by a mom who's super German, right? Like emotionless, just like a robot, you know? Like the Terminator, right? She's sweet, but she's pretty, you know. Yeah, I had a friend, I had a German mom who was, no, I mean, she was, I don't know how to describe her. She worked hard, she was tough. That's her. That's her. My mom's an awful.

Yeah, my mom's the most blunt person. She's a lumberjack, like she works in the field. She gets shit done. She's a, she's a literally a carpenter. Like she did her whole, she's a construction worker, right? She's very, very handy and stuff like that. And she never gave me that. She never gave me too much love, right? She's very handy and stuff like that. And she never gave me that, she never gave me too much love, right?

Just enough, so I didn't kill myself. But also I'm very ambitious and driven, right? And I had to work for my own shit. No, she didn't. The worst thing mom could do to a young male is you're the best, you're wonderful. Exactly, exactly. Oh my God, I've said it a million times.

I had a few of those guys for roommates. Yeah. Those guys are the worst. 100%. When your mama loved them up way too much, they're the worst roommates because they just float around going, yeah, so do the dish. We do a sandwich. And then we do a sandwich assessment here.

Oh, you're German sandwich. Did your mom do sandwiches? I cook for myself most of the time. She did sometimes make me a sandwich, which was German pumpernickel. Pumpernickel, yeah. It was like the dark German rye bread. I miss pumpernickel. You've had that shit?

We did pumpernickel out here. Okay, good, good. Because I thought America is all like the wonder bread, like the soft, mushy bread, the pathetic little weasel bread. No, we had pumpernickel. And she would do pumpernickel with a liver sausage. Lieberwurst. But it was all like locally. It's perfect German sandwich. It was so with a little bit of mustard and a little bit

of butter. So that was what she would make for me. Butter. Butter. She put her. Interesting. But it's all like, but the cool thing is like all that she was growing, like the cow,

or like all the like, the cow we would eat. Like literally I said hi to the cow every day going to school. So I just like that stuff and the ingredients and stuff like that. But yeah, she made me that, and that's I think what made me tough. She didn't make me the little cereal fruit loop bowl that's too comfortable for American kids.

She told me German fairy tales, made me a pumpernickel, and then prepared me for the real world. All right, well, Andrew can find wow wow wuvsy on the computer, which is, I am telling you, everything is sort of, kind of starts from the bottom. You know what I mean? And it sort of bubbles up and it takes a while. It's kind of how nature works, how rust works.

People imagine it's a top down, but really the bottom up is really how shit happens. We started with the self-esteem movement. The self-esteem movement was the very beginning of all of this, everything that's wrong, where you go, what is the problem? First, the premise was wrong. They go, why are all these kids acting out, fist fighting, ending up in juvenile hall, ending up in prison?

And somebody said, because they have low self-esteem. Yeah. Why are all these kids acting out, fist fighting, ending up in juvenile hall, ending up in prison, and somebody said, because they have low self-esteem. And I'm like, okay, first off, I'm not signing off on your premise. Well, there's no causational link there necessary. I would say it takes pretty high self-esteem to walk up to a stranger, just grab their backpack, and kick them, and then walk away.

Or to walk into a store with a pillowcase, and just start throwing merchandise in it, and then walk away. Or to walk into a store with a pillowcase and just start throwing merchandise in it and then walking out. That's, I don't have that kind of self-esteem. That feels like ultra self-esteem. Killing someone feels like the highest self-esteem because it's you going, I want that person dead and not thinking at all about the other person.

So we said, it was weird. We went, you know, they have low self-esteem, they have low self-esteem, that's why they're acting out. They're having low self-esteem. So that was the first thing. Then the next problem was, well, how do we give them self-esteem? Because they're not getting A's on the report card,

they're not achieving in sports, they're not doing this, they're not doing that. The answer, tell them, they're great. Just tell them they're great. Just tell them they're great. So you got A, a problem which is low self-esteem is causing this problem. I have not signed off on that. Secondly, your version of high self-esteem

is telling a person that is morbidly obese, not excelling in any facet of life that she or he is the greatest and they should know it and don't let anyone ever speak to them like they're not. And if you don't think it's a thing, it's a thing. I was, you go out, eventually Madison Avenue has to kind of figure this out, like the advertisers, there's a Coke commercial where the person goes out and finds the coke with their name on it. I I'm not making it up that coke went You you Brad?

Suzanne and the person oh, yeah. Yeah, and that's part of like what the fuck do you care if the can? Coke got the name your name on it. Whatever me man. It's me man. It's me man You know your your friends another friend of mine. Xiao Ying summers Yeah, who by the way, she's a spy for the It's me, man. It's me, man. You know, your friend's another friend of mine, Xiaoying Summers, who, by the way, she's a spy for the People's Liberation Army. For sure. For sure. If she's not, why isn't she? Yeah.

No, she should be. 1000%. No, I agree. She came here from China and went to school in Kentucky? What the fuck was that? She wasn't watching somebody. What the hell was she doing in Kentucky? She has a story. Her dad, speaking of how they raised kids over there.

Oh yeah. Her dad... Oh, that's Asian, similar to... Oh, no, no, no, no, no. They don't bother with the fairy tales. They just go out and they light the kids on fire. His dad ran a prostitution ring. He let the prostitutes mistreat her. He one day shows up at school. The dad takes Zhao Ying to the public pool, hadn't seen him for months or something. He goes, we're going to go to the pool. Just pulls her out of school. They don't know where the child is gone. Everyone freaks out. She's at the pool. Dad's there drinking at the pool

and just leaves. And she's on a floatie in the middle of the pool at night. And they have to fish her out. And mom goes, what are you doing? You just went to the pool because you didn't want to be in school. No, dad didn't come. You're like, mom beat her. That's like, yeah, getting the healthy medium. Somewhere in between, I feel like. Somewhere in between the- If you gotta lean, lean toward abuse. It'll be helpful for roommates.

Take that home, kids. I passed, I told you, Drew, five years ago, I was at my daughter's volleyball game, which starts at seven in the morning and ends at five in the afternoon. That's another thing where it's like another self-esteem issue, like, hey baby, I wasn't put on this planet

to watch 14 year olds play volleyball for 11 hours. I'm fucking busy, I'm a provider. We would have never asked a parent to go to a 12 hour volleyball game. And our parents would have never done it. Your dad would have done that. Dad would have done anything. He wouldn't.

You wouldn't have left the house. They would have gone to an away game. You know what I mean? They could go to North Hollywood High. That's where the home game was. Did they? Well, sporadically, but they're not going to, when we go play the Northridge Knights,

they're not going to Northridge. It's too far away. So I'm there and during the break, of course, I got to get everyone food. It's got to, you know, got to buy sandwiches. And I go into town by where the volleyball place is and there's like a Jersey Mike's there, but I got there too early and it wasn't open. But the sign said, we're now hiring rock stars. Oh, yeah. Wow. We rock stars are fucking losers who are gonna work making sandwiches for minimum wage.

You know what I mean? But they understand, no, no, we have to call them rock stars. I have to call them rock stars because they're high self-esteem, but obviously it's not based on anything because they're considering working at a sandwich shop. And by the way, this isn't 16 year olds are going after, this is 28 year olds are going after

to pay you $11 an hour to make sandwiches, but rockstar. Of course. That's that. All right, I'll show you, wow, wow, wubsy. And this is, I watched this 25 years ago. No, sorry. I watched this 15 years ago. I said, it's over, it's over it's over my kids watch this

got to turn it up. Can we turn it up? No, it's all the way up. You'll feel like the good one. We're pride again. Proud. Golden rule. Be yourself and you'll be cool. Just be yourself and you'll be cool. No need to be something you're not.

Don't do anything. No need to be anything tall. You can stop. My mom would hate this so much. By the way, everyone will know you're the coolest by doing nothing. Don't be something you're not.

In fact, don't be any abusive. Don't do anything. What if you suck though? And everyone will know you're, well people are gonna know you're the coolest. You don't understand, you missed the point. You will, people will recognize and remember the golden rule.

Yeah. And what used to be do onto others what they would have done to yourself, but not anymore. Yeah. The golden rule's now been modified to be do unto others what they would have done to yourself, but not anymore. The golden rule's now been modified to you do whatever you want and everyone will know you're the coolest. Yeah, it should be conditional love a little bit more, right?

I feel like you can say you're the coolest but only if you do something cool. Like if you work hard, you do this, you know, you let my mom tell me Mario, can you just redo the ceiling or something like that or like bring a wheelbarrow full of wood up and then you know she'd be like you're not bad and that would be enough for me to be like I'm cool I got self-esteem. I think there's a high

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head to globeandmail.com slash subscribe. All right, so here's the byproduct. Yeah. Imagine if you're being beat over the head by being called a rock star and the coolest and the best, and then you just be yourself and you're best. And then at some point you're fat and you're broke and you're making me a sandwich.

You're lonely too, that's the only thing that comes with this. On a Saturday at noon, you know? And I'm going, hey, yeah, no, no mayo, no mayo, oh, sorry rock star, no mayo rock star mayo. Oh, sorry, rock star, no mayo, rock star. And it's like, at certain point, reality definitely creeps in. You're driving a piece of shit, you got three roommates, you're sleeping on a futon,

and you're walking around, but your name, and we'll name, we'll do this with black girls, we'll name like Your Majesty, and it's like, what's your, it means magic, it means Your Highness. Yeah, but you're making sandwiches too. Where's the misery index for those people when life in reality is just beating them over the head with dead end jobs and shitty managers and low pay and crappy environment, bad neighborhood, eating junk, and having to run.

Now, so I had low self-esteem. So I was like, I sleep in an apartment, I share food time with another dude, and there's no air conditioning, and I ate generic cereal. But that all makes sense to me. I wasn't the coolest, I wasn't near the coolest. I was a dumb person. The other thing is if shit goes wrong,

you take responsibility for it, because it must be my fault. But if I'd been fed a steady diet of being the coolest, that would have been really weird and off-putting and like disappointing. Yeah. You know, and I would have walked around with like a 10,000 yard stare going like,

what is going on? You also would never plan to correct it, because it should just happen. But my foreman would yell, hey, go get that pile of drywall and put it up in the house. I would go, your majesty? Do it now or I'll fire you.

Wait, but I'm the best. But I don't have a skill. And I drive a piece of shit truck. And then you don't know how to deal with conflict either. I think that's the thing that's happening a lot right now is when you are being told you are the best, if somebody tells you otherwise, which will happen in the real world when you go out there whether it's a job or relationship You fall apart and there's like I saw a sign on how it's on Melrose Avenue

They had a sign that says if you get bullied in the workplace call this Oh, yeah I love those and that is kind of like that's such a it's such a symptom of that because You didn't know how to deal with that ship when you were in kid when you were a kid You know just like any manner a manner a little bit buffered against it because of rough-and-tumble play to get their ass kicked Oh, but we declared a war on rough-and-tumble correct. We don't boys do that And then yeah, and we've said girls you go you're unleashed your aggression could go anywhere sure No, we'll ever ever come after you right and that's why women are fighting in airports now.

And female aggression is like, I studied psychology for a little bit, or like within business, and it was like, women show just as many signs of aggression, but it manifests not as much physically, but in other ways. Relationally. Yeah, exactly.

Covertly. Well, I think traditionally that was true, but I think now it's now crossed over into the physical as well. Yes. Let's go. No, I know women are, first off, every woman I know has always got some beef going.

With other women. Other women, you know, oh, she knows, she thinks, you know. I'm like, how do you know what she thinks? Who thinks? Did you see the way she said that? I'm like, I you know what she thinks I who thinks did you see the way she said that I'm like I don't how's marriage going by the way I'm married officially like three weeks ago see yeah well we got married legally in the US like a year and a half ago we had a proper wedding so I'm back in the US touring for the rest of this decade to pay for this wedding but it was

still we were in Germany got married there a lot of Americans came and it was awesome. I love it, I love being married. It's something, I don't know, it suits me and my personality. I feel like it's... She's American or German? She's American, she's from Chicago. And yeah, we had a bit of a cultural difference in that sense. It's actually a funny story. So her mom is American and super loving right from Chicago. I love her mom. She's super warm and During the fires in LA we we were we evacuated right and I sent a video to my mom or our moms of the fires approaching our home. Yeah, we're living like this running Canyon and My wife's American mom was like guys you need to evacuate. We're so worried

You know We're not gonna go to sleep until you guys are safe and evacuate and then we send a video to my germ mom of the fires approaching her home through a window and my mom was like Mario your windows are really dirty You know, she's just you know, she's hard to impress but um, yeah, it's cool So I get I get a little bit of the love from my mother-in-law now But I have the foundation of toughness from my germ mom. Don't you guys, I see, to me, the empty calories of false self-esteem feels embarrassing and sort of uncomfortable.

I feel bad for people that have that. It's not the way I wanna be. We are feeding kids a diet of this stuff. And by the way, it's all, there's many tentacles that spring in every direction. It's what the whole no shame, no fat shaming, you know, like 14 year old kids got diabetes,

but we can't say anything, and people get angry at Bill Marv during COVID. He tells people to lose some weight. Now we attack Bill Marv. It's all an off-jute of the self-esteem movement, which is now the fat kid can't feel bad. So here's some more Mike and Ikes, and here's some more candy.

And it's like, you're killing that kid. Your self-esteem is killing that kid. Wake the fuck up. And then politicians get hold of it, and they go, well, the way to get the fat kids to vote for you is to tell them they look great in their bathing suit and tell them you're gonna have more free food,

but the free food's gonna be slop, but don't worry. They can use their EBT card to buy dessert and instead that guy wants to limit it to protein and low fat or whatever. And it's like, oh, now the politicians caught on, which is the scariest part. You know, like, I mean, we just did that whole that was an whole NPR article about a poor girl who couldn't drink energy drinks in her class

at eight in the morning and felt like an outsider. Well, that's the worst thing a person could put in their body. That's the worst thing a 16 year old girl could put in her body at 745 in the morning. So shouldn't we be on the side of her NPR or we're on the side? Sure. Well, I think it's like there's a balance, right? When somebody's fat, you can either call them a fat, ugly, fat fuck, or you can just be like, hey, you should lose. There's a balance of like how you say, because I was on the other side of it when I did modeling. They called me like it was also a little, I mean, again, as a man,

it's hard to complain about that shit, but like they call you fad to your face, and like say you should lose, they can, you know, you can say it in a nice way, say, you know, you're a little fad instead of saying you're like a... Oh yeah, well, and look, everybody, see, this is the other thing, it's just a conflation thing, you know, where you hear these idiots talking, and they're like, what's wrong if someone wants to be gay? Can't you just live your life? Why are these people, and it's like,

nobody cares if you're gay. We're talking about drag queen story hour, reading kids books to kids. That's it at a public library. No one said what's wrong with being gay. And it's the same thing, like, why do we have to do the fat jam? It's like, nobody runs up to people and yells,

you're fat, you're worthless, or whatever. They go, you need to lose weight because you're not being healthy and it's gonna have repercussions. And that Bill Maher's not suggesting that we start an embarrassing campaign where we fat shame people. But by the way, your doctor telling you

to lose a few pounds is not fat shaming. That's your doctor. By the way, your doctor telling you to drink a few pounds is not fat shaming. That's your doctor. By the way, your doctor telling you to drink less or not smoke or whatever. Maybe you would feel a shame if your doctor goes, you should drink less. It's a little different, but I'm worried about the autism thing, which has massively increased and you are not allowed to... You're non-neuronormative acceptance. It's like, no, no, no. This thing is happening.

We need to explain it. You, you can't even ask the question because God forbid it might imply vaccines. You can't ask that question. And you can't even discuss it because that shames the non-neuronormative people. Right. Crazy. And then so meanwhile, we have a bunch of fat, unhealthy, miserable, skillless kids

just sort of going through life who probably end up gonna be on Fentanyl and living out in a fucking park at some point. Mario's trained at Second City. He's an improv trained. I miss that. I miss those fucking people. I love it.

That's what I moved to Hollywood for, by the way. I moved to LA for Second City. And then I did one class and then COVID happened and it never opened again. Oh my God. But I loved it. I did like whatever the then COVID happened and it never opened again. Oh my gosh. Oh, wow. But I loved it. I mean, it's like whatever the improv one, two,

whatever it is. We, I'll show you the Coke commercial. Andrew found it. Right. It, you, the notion, by the way, if you said to me, Adam, if you said to me when I was a teenager, would you rather have a Shasta with your full name on it or coke with someone? The Shasta still exists

or coke with Go ahead anyway She's so happy because she found her friend's names on a coat. She's having a... this is a long version, but she's having a fantasy about bringing all her friends, her... Everybody all know the white chick is the one Asian friend and the one black friend. And everyone got their name on a Coke and now they can enjoy their Coke because they're special.

They were so special that you have to take in your corn syrup and your brown dye number seven with your name on it, Drew. Do you know that? I guess that's right. I mean, I didn't think of it that way, but thank God they showed me. Now, I would look at this if I was young and I go, so who cares? Why would you care? Who cares? We got our bottles mixed up. I'm throwing it away. We wanted life. We did it. I didn't... I gotta be honest with you. I've seen the names on the cans and stuff,

and I didn't realize you're supposed to find your own name. I didn't even think about it. What do you think it was? I don't know, I didn't even think about it. It wasn't for me, that's for sure. All right, for me, you can check me out in Portland, Oregon at the Aladdin Theater, that's August 7th, and Mario's got dates as well.

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