The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #1017 This Guy's Huge!!!

Episode Date: July 23, 2026

Feb 20, 2019Adam and Dr. Drew open the show discussing buying power and how different communities allocate their dollars with Adam specifically talking about his experience traveling back from the east coast after doing a few live shows out there. They also examine some video of a recent altercation on a plane wherein a petite woman was seated in between two very large passengers.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Recorded live at Corolla 1 Studios with Adam Carolla 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 the internet. Trisbitton. Oh, yeah, Dr. Drew, board certified. What's going on there, Driskey? All right, so I got a bunch of stuff.

Mm-hmm. So I'm still really troubled. really troubled, that I would have been the type of adult male at the age of 21 or so who would have contemplated getting a tribal tattoo. I would have done it. I remember thinking about it that, A.G. I'll never think about that again. Go ahead. What's next? Well, no, well, but that led to you talking about me not doing it because of its expense, which is probably true. and we were talking about, you know, how we couldn't, you know, come to work in a giant vehicle that, you know, was loud and expensive. Do you want to talk to me? And so it brings up the issue of how different people spend based on the families they come from and the culture they come from. And we don't really ever talk about that very much.

Yeah, hey, the other week, sorry, yeah, hey. Yeah, hey. Talking to... You're going to talk about North American Indian tendencies? No. No, I'm going to ask Matt if he remembers

from memory or from a via document. But the other week, I got off the road, it's funny because it's kind of lose-lose. So I explained to Lynette.

Yeah, man, we stay at the airport. You know, wherever hotel I say that starts with the airport and then flight home from Boston was six hours and 15 minutes.

It's about as long as you, domestically, about as long as you're in an airplane. And I flew coach and there was a dude who was Fletch from Pennywise size who was sitting on the aisle. And Mike August, there's no picks. He was in the middle and I was against a winnow. And Mike was just pushed against me the whole time because there's a giant human being. And my wife, the reason it's lose-lose is Lynette will go, why don't you fly first? class and I go because I go there to make money and the first class tickets are $2,100 and the coach tickets are $289 and I'm saving the money and she goes, you should fly first class.

And I go, understood, but I'm doing it because I'm going there to get paid. And then I don't want to spend it. I don't want to spend the extra $1,600. No, why go? You're going just to pay for the flight now. Right. Then the one goes, well, boy, all right, have it's your way. And she leaves the room nodding her head, like shaking her head.

And I go, what a doof. Yeah. I, it should. Yeah. You're duped. You've been duped into this. Something that may help the wound out a little bit. That seat was paid for with your miles.

It costs you $5 to sit there. What would it have caught? But the difference between first class and coach was several thousand in this particular flight. Was it one way? Yeah. I only had to go for the one way ticket. it because the other two were being picked out. I know I got it.

Well, it would be interesting to figure it out. Well, look, the point is, is the flight in first class is six hours and 15 minutes. The flight and coach is six hours and 15 minutes. And seeing how I'm going there to get paid and then come home. The way I look at is that that's part of the work. Yeah. The travel, right? And if you're either working to gain miles or working to get it done and save money on the trip.

Right. But it was just luck of the draw that there was. Not a fat guy. No, fletcher size. Just a huge man who was sitting. And the huge man cannot be contained in this seat. Yeah. This seat spills over.

Is made for 165, 5, 9 and a half. Which is crazy. The extra 100 pounds has got to go somewhere. And it's going into Mike. And then Mike is going into me against the window. And that's a six hour and 15 minute flight. But again, if you. you asked me today, are you glad you did it that way?

I'd say, yes, I am because I ordered a couple drinks and tried to fall asleep, mash against a window at some point. And at some point, poor Mike, who was in the middle, just got up and just started walking around the plane, just like looking for an empty chair. And he did somewhere about three hours in. And he found an empty seat. And then there was just a little space between me and Fletch. And I remember the guy was a funny thing because at a certain point, we chatted a little bit. And for context, Fletcher looks like one of the character, the Highland Warriors from Game of Thrones. He's not a fat man.

He's a giant man. And this guy was a giant man, too. And he, the thing that was funny is, it's the first time I've ever had a conversation with somebody where they went. at some point he said are you going from L.A. to Boston or Boston L.A. or like, which city do you live in? Which is always kind of a common question. And I said, yeah, I'm going home. And he said, oh, I'm in Boston. I'm going to L.A. to work. And extra and game what's wrong strangely that? He said, yeah, he's got a job at the double deuce bouncing. And I said, you know, what do you do?

And he said, I helped set up in grocery stores or something. Like one of those things, no, no, no further questions you're on it like it was just like I he started apologizing in the middle which was like I do what's groceries you know you don't care about groceries and I was like good I don't so he said what do you do and it's about it's the first time I and people haven't asked me what I've done in a while but it's the first time I'll just like answer with a straight face where I said I do podcasting I wouldn't have answered it X amount of years ago because people go I don't know what that right what does that mean right now I told him I did it.

So here's how I'm wired. And there's no way I'll ever be this rich. It's $150 in economy and it's $1,900 in first class. And I'm like, I'm not worth it. No. You know that L'Oreal spot where you're worth it? No, not you. I'm not worth it.

I couldn't do it. And I'll say, too, if I may jump in, when you're exchanging miles and whatnot, it doesn't really do you a whole lot of good for those first class seats because of just how many miles you need. Like, we tried to just do, you know, partial with the miles and then just pay the difference. But it doesn't really work that way. So if you want to use the miles, you end up taking the crappier seat. Of course. Right.

So you don't defend us. But the point here is that there are cultural, gender, family of origin issues that come into how people buy and spend. And when you're married to somebody or in a relationship with somebody, not always matching up. Those heritages don't match up. and people don't do much talking about that. They don't think about it before marriage anyway. And as you said, Lynette thinks you're a... Sucker.

Soccer for not paying for... To be fair to her, she's like, hey, you deserve it. Like, why don't you do it? And it's like because by the time everyone gets paid and the taxman gets his cut, that difference between $1,0.15, buck, 50 is a lot. It's huge. Yeah.

And I'm coming, I'm going there to bring money home. Now, hold on. People have the singers like, oh, you're just going for the money. The show in Boston was great. The audience was great. I burnt a million calories. I saw a thousand faces. I rocked them all.

But I'm still going there for the money. You're lucky enough to do something you enjoy, but it's a job. I used to do carpentry for the money. Didn't mean I was a bad carpenter. It's the invisible hand. This is Adam Smith. you're doing it not for their well-being and entertainment, though you enjoy that,

you're doing it because they pay for these tickets that you go see. Well, step further, which is you don't give them what they want, and they're not happy. No, I've had plenty of people show up after the show when you're signing. Plenty, but a number of people said, hey, Ace, man, this is six time I've seen you a lot. And I realize, yeah, take a, go out there and crap the bed on the third, third time and they're not back. They're not back.

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Stream now. Pay never. So, yeah, I couldn't drive a full-sized truck. Yeah. I can't fly. Listen, I hear, for me, I was flown at the expense of castral oil to Boston. Yeah. And they got me a first-class ticket.

And I asked for a first-class ticket, and I have no problem in first-guess thing. No, that's fine. And then on the way home, it was on me. Yeah, sure. I'm that way too. But it's not the reason I'm saying this is like, oh, his self-esteem is so low that he can't accept. No, no. No, no, we can accept it.

We just can't spend it. On the way there, I flew first class and I stayed at the four seasons. Cashel paid for that. Right. Thank you, Castro. On the way back, I said something that started with airport. I took a shuttle to the airport. Yeah.

To the airport. I totally did. And I flew coach. That's not an acceptance. That's just who's paying. And some of that is being a good businessman, always spending less than you make. And the more you spend, the less you spend, the more you save, which is how capitalism works. Number one.

Number two is we have low self-esteem so we wouldn't spend it on ourselves. And number three, we both came from fairly cheap environments where spending was not something that anybody was accustomed to, right? I can spend $5 million on a car. Yeah, I don't know how you do that. But that's an investment, though. It is. It's different. It's the exact, in my mind, it's the exact opposite of the flight.

Yeah. What does it? I'm going to have you slow down because a lot of people, when you say that, go like, what? I agree with you. It's the opposite. One is about saving and the others spending. The flight is, first things first, we arrive at exactly the same time. Right.

the people have paid $1,900 and the people have paid a buck 50 land at the same time. Cover the same territory. If there's, if a terrorist takes over the plane and we fly it into a building, you're actually going to die a millisecond before I die. So there is, if you started working in, by the way, if you started working in safety and arriving an hour early and blah, blah, blah, I would start factoring all that in. Yeah, it's different. But we land at the same time.

We get on the plane at the same time. As a matter of fact, you get on the plane. first, so you're on the plane in a whole longer. You get a chair. You get a bigger chair. You get a bigger chair. That's what you get. And when people start talking about, well, what about the meals and what about the booze? And what about, well, you can bring on to the plane anything you want these days.

So definitely stop it to Chipotle and pay $9 and get all the burrito you want and bring it with you. It will be, flown first class. The food is not. What was my omelet? Oh, I had a parsley omelet. I think, or once or like a cream cheese omel. And I'm like, what? So the food ain't much better.

But here's the deal. One ticket's a buck 50, the other's 1900. Yeah. Okay. Figure you'll have a cup. It's a six hour flight. Maybe you'll have two drinks. Maybe you have three drinks.

That's still under $20. Yeah. Okay. So back out $20 or add $20. Now we're to buck 70. and the meals, again, stop at Chipotle or Burger King, bring it on the plane with you, you'll enjoy it more. We're still not up to 200 bucks yet.

Yeah. So now you get a little bigger chair. And I got a screen with the same movies that are playing and you play. And then when people go like, what about the attention? You know what I mean? Like you got someone waiting on you. It's like, I don't know. Once you order your drinks, you sit back, you open your snack.

How much you're going to drink? Whatever. You'd be surprised. You. But the point is this. That's you. That's me. The point is, you can get shafted and that you have Fletch from Pennywise sitting in your aisle versus the little Asian woman wearing the mask. Right. I miss her. We're like walking up and we're like, oh my God, there's a giant man and he's sitting in her aisle. And I was like, oh, it's a six hour and 15 minute flight. He's just, he's spilling out of the seat. And it's like, oh, he's giant. You can't, you can't blame him. You know, he's as uncomfortable as you are. No, he's just a giant man.

But I got to tell you, there's got to be some accommodation. You know, the other week, everyone was outraged over this viral video because this shrew of a woman, like, sat in between these two giant black people. And she's like talking on their cell phone. I'm like, oh, I can't believe it. Why can't they eat a salad and blah, blah, blah. And it turned into this, oh, she's horrible video. But look, they were two. giant people.

And one was on the window and the other was on the aisle. And if you had to sit between them, it's undoable. And the airlines, because of the size of human beings, are going to have to work this out. You can no longer make a seat.

I mean, I was looking at the seat. It was a newish plane with newish seats. The seats looked a lot like a seat that would be in a sports car. Like it was not a lot of seat. It was, you know, it was 16, 18 inches wide, but it was not for this dude. No.

And whoever you sell that middle seat to, that person has a legitimate beef. Yeah. Because this guy's huge. The person against the window is full size, and you're just in the middle. I mean, at a certain point, Mike August was just mashed against me.

And he said, sorry, man, there's nothing I can do. Like, this guy's spilling out of a seat and he's pushing me against you. And I said, I get it. There's nothing they can do. So I just mashed against the window. It drives me nuts when, you know what drives me nuts? When drives me nuts is when I talk to people, like I'll talk to women who are 5, 5 and like 118 pounds. I go, oh my God, coach.

And I'll go, no, not, I'm 6'2. My knees are against the seat in front of me. I go, I know it's miserable. I hate it. I hate it. It's like, no, for you, it's not that. It's not that. If you're sitting alone in a seat and you're 5-5 and you're 1-18, it is not an issue.

What I find most distressing, even without the giant guy next door, is doing anything. Like, just moving around, like, I'm taking my computer out or taking some nuts out. It's somehow, I don't know, my shoulders. My elbows are bang. Yeah. Yeah. You know, my wingspan is huge. I feel like I'm trying to bring my elbows into my groin and still feel, you can tell the people around me like, oh, fuck that guy.

It was funny. This guy was sitting when we pulled up and Mike had to get in the middle and everything. And I was like, Mike, this guy is huge. And he's like, he's pretty big. I said, no, no, he's big. He's big. And he's like, it's not that big. I said, he's a big dude.

And Mike's like, he's medium big or whatever. About two hours in, the guy gets up. He'd been sitting the entire, he was sitting when we got there. Two hours in, he gets up to go to the bathroom and he, like, stands up, and he seemed like ducking to go into the bathroom. Mike's punching me in the arm. Like, this guy's huge. This guy's huge.

I said, I told you the guy was huge. I told me he was huge. Like, he literally, he ducked down, probably out of habit, but he just ducked to go into the bathroom. No, right. Six-four, six-five. No bigger than that? Oh, sorry. I'm 6-2.

Okay. You're 6-2. You don't duck at 6-4 to go into the bathroom. Okay. He was 6-6. Easy, this dude. I mean, he's a lot of dude. How big?

I'm telling you, Fletch. Fletch ain't 6-4-6-5. Yeah. Again, I'm 6-2. So when I'm really going, oh, this guy's a big dude, he's well over 6-5. So 6-6-2-80 is with his fletch. Easy. Oh.

He would. He would. he would send you a bouquet and never take you to Pooh-Poo City ever again if you said he was under 300 pounds. Fletch, when he was, when Fletch was at his biggest, he was, he had to be over 300 pounds. I think. I think so. I mean, he's a huge load. I mean, you see guys in the NFL, it's like a defensive lineman.

He's undersized. He's 280. And, you know, anyway. Yeah. And we got to do something. Someone's got to do something. What are we going to do? I'm torn between, well, we should have seats for, you know, above a certain amount.

Well, here's what I've always said. And nobody likes this, but I don't know why. Everything on a plane is about space and weight. It's just how much jet A are you burning? You, if you're a 300-pound person shipping, Drew. Yeah. Shipping. Ah.

Shipping. Dig. If I would like to ship a pillowcase with styrofoam peanuts in it to Boston versus a pillowcase versus a pillowcase filled with soil. Yeah. Dytamaceous earth or decompose granite. Shipping pillowcase filled with sand is going to cost 300 bucks. The other one's going to cost $25.

or whatever. It's going to be a big difference. Why? Wait. It's just weight. It's getting the weight physically. Whether you take a slow boat or an airplane or trucks, literally the weight is more fuel, more whatever.

So when you're getting in an airplane, it's weight. It's all about weight and it's how much fuel it takes to move that weight. So factor in the luggage, factor in everything. But either way, if you're a big person or you're a smaller person who travels with a bunch of heavy luggage, then it is the weight we are paying for. Now, if you're 120 pounds and you travel with no luggage, then your ticket is compensating for other people and how much they weigh. There's no other way to explain it. It's essentially, it's a buffet. And it's a buffet where you just go in and you eat a couple pieces of water chestnut and then you leave. And then Fletch

comes in and eats a bucket of chicken and a bucket of shrimp and a bucket of flay mignon. Okay. They have to set a price. Right. And the price is, well, it's going to be $21 for everybody because there's an average amount that people eat. And we got to get above that in order to stay in business, right? Okay.

Flights work the same way. If you weigh X amount or you travel, look, we weigh your luggage. They weigh the luggage. And then they charge for like extra bags. I mean, they're putting it out there. What's the difference between the petite gal coming in at 115 and the huge due to 315? Discriminatory.

That's who they are. We're not discriminating. I think that's, you asked what the air. Oh, yeah. No. But that's what you're saying is, and this is where I don't like it, what you're saying is, What you're saying is, is I am okay with other people subsidizing my flying. Right.

I am 300-pound guy. I look around me to see of 150-pound people, and you guys can all pay an extra $7 on your ticket so that I can be subsidized so that all our tickets can be the same price. Where else? Car wash. Screaming out, screaming out topics. Car wash! No, no, no.

No. no, no, no. Car wash. Dig. Car washes. Car washes, when I was a kid, always had a sign that said vans or extra. Why are they extra? More to it.

More work. More mass. More, more water. More suds. More to it. Okay, but you say, well, then all cars should be the same. Fine. Then they're going to have to raise the price of the Miata guy

just a little bit to make up for every fifth. van that comes through that. Given how many big people there are these days, I think that's a reasonable thing. But I think above a certain way, there ought to be a different seat. Well, if you see this video of this poor woman, whoever everyone hates, because she was a bitch, she just got stuck between two huge people. And in a pretty long flight, there's not much to do about it. All right, everyone should lean out by eating butcher box. Oh, yeah. Delivering. That'll do it. Healthy 100% grass-fed and finished beef, free range organic chicken, heritage breed pork,

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I'll not be verbally abused by this bitch or anybody else. I'm the bitch. I will not be verbally abused by anybody. I'm not tolerating it. I can't sit here because it's both so big. I'm left and right. I can't even stand here. Do you want to come up and stand and then we'll find this place?

They're in the air, it sounds like, or they're taxing. I never figure out if they're in the air. The engines sound like they're going. But the guy's built like a comedian earthquake. The overheads are like Levelle Crawford. Levelle Crawford, thank you. Yeah, the overhead stuff's up, so they're still in the ground. You sit in the feet of me.

Bitch kiss my badass, okay? Who do I report her to? Can you have to birth to come back? I would like to report and I would like to follow a report against her. To report? As a platinum member, I don't tolerate this shit from nobody. I mean, I travel every week, and this is the worst time I've ever been able to put up with this crap, and I'm not having it. I am not starting my new year off with this type of negativity.

I love my pleasure right away. All right. Thank you. I do. I love the chick with like the guy, you know, the hero, five rows back was like, hey, man, not cool. And she's like, you go sit between those two fat asses or shut up. Which I completely agree with.

Listen. This woman handled it in a stupid and disrespectful way. Yeah. What I'm saying is if you have an exceptionally large person on the window, an exceptionally large person on the aisle and your seat is between them, you are not getting to use your seat. You have 25% infringement on one side and the other side. Yeah, I get it. Listen, I must do that to people because I can tell if I move, people freak out.

Well, you're strong, you're wide at the shoulder, narrow at the hip, and everyone knows you don't give no lift. A big, true. Big true. Come on now. Come on. Big, big bedroom. Oh, I'm 200 pounds myself. Like, I'm 6'2.

Like, you don't want to be sitting next to me. You'd much rather sit next to our wives than to me. But I'm maxed out in that seat and you're maxed out in that seat. And what I'm saying is if you added another three inches of height and another 100 pounds of girth, we are spilling into other. You buy, essentially, you buy. your territory. Your territory is your seat. I feel the same damn way about people who I'll

tuck their luggage up in the overhead thing above your seat. Like I get it. Worst person in the world. You're going to the back of the plane and your strategy is I'll just tuck it up here toward the front of the plane. Then I'll grab it on the yep. That's where my luggage goes though. It's above my

seat. We need to be a little more. Let me explain something that's happened, Drew. Oh, here we go. We did We did not anticipate the world coming off its access. We did not anticipate this. So we don't have rules. We didn't think you would have to tell people.

I mean, I see plaques now in hotels that says you cannot eat, you know, you cannot come down to lobby and eat barefoot and in pajamas. Like we, you know why those, why didn't those signs exist in the hotel lobbies before? We didn't think of the concept. No, it was like... You must wear your... I would, you know, should I wear my cravat or not? My spats or yes. No, yes.

Can I make it without spats? Well, we have to have reinforced cockpit doors now. Yeah. People would explain that to people in the 70s. Like, why would you reinforce? Because people are charged a cockpit and grab the yolk and steer us into a building. They'd go, who would do that? Yeah.

We would do that. No one would do that. What are you talking about? You don't even need a cockpit door. That's just so you can't see the pilots drinking or banging a stewardess. That's why we have a door. But it's not, it doesn't stop anyone from coming up. It's a simpler time.

Yes. But now we need laws. We need rules, Drew. Yeah, I want to talk. God damn, we have too much to talk about this week. So tomorrow I want to talk about civilization coming unglued. And I want to show you a video from a Netflix video. What's the name of the series that Gary's lined up for me?

I asked him to line it up 25 minutes ago and I'm not gotten. Gary's got it lined up here. What's the name of the video? Trigger warning, Killer Mike. Killer Mike and Trigger Warning puts up... I wanted to talk about buying and spending. That's where we started this whole conversation about planes and stuff. And about how different cultures and different kinds of people, you can actually measure the amount of time they hang on to a dollar.

Oh, really? Yeah. And so, right? Isn't that where you've got lent up for me? Yeah, that's absolutely right. And so tomorrow, I'm going to play that little piece for you, okay? And then we're going to talk about it. All right.

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