The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #1166: Live From The Cruise, Part 1

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

Oct 7, 2019 - Adam and Drew discuss their experiences on the boat, and Adam shares his thoughts on cruise ships and how we’ve lost sight of the middle. The guys also take some audience questions and discuss Adam’s latest documentary, No Safe Spaces.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Time for throwback number 1166, live from the cruise. That's right. This is part one of back in 2019 when we discuss our experiences on the boat, and Adam shares some thoughts on cruise ships and how we maybe lost out of a few things. We take on some audience questions and discuss Adam's latest documentary. Back then, no safe spaces. Enjoy, throwback episode 1166 October 2019. Recorded live at Corolla One 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 to get it on. No choice for getting it on. Thanks for tuning in, and thanks for sharing. Thanks for coming to the Aft Conference Center. As it says on my brochure, I went to the aft of the boat.

There's no conference center in the aft of the boat. I know where Adam is. I know where he is. I'm in the goddamn aft. Because the thing says the aft conference center. It says the aft. It doesn't say the fore. It says the aft.

So guess who goes where he's told to go? This a-hole goes to the aft. And then I walk around the aft of the boat, and I'm looking for the conference center. And the guy who works on the boat has no idea what I'm talking about. because the conference center that's in the middle of the boat is not in the aft. And he works the aft. More importantly, there's no way to go from the aft to the four on the second floor where the conference center is.

Things that could be discussed in advance. That's going to be the name of my next book, Drew. Things that could be discussed in advance. So I didn't know where I was going. I just went to the second deck and I went to the back of the boat because that's the name of the conference center. So bad. I've now having experienced you just yesterday where I'm guesting on ACS,

you're in such good spirits on that show. In this show, you always start pissed off. You get goddamn right, I'm pissed off. I thought it was just me. Maybe it's just the time of day we normally get together. But, all right, so I don't know boat, I don't know Yata Kit,

but if you are five inches on the aft side of the center line of the boat, Should you be calling your center aft? Like, let's say, you know, I always wanted to open a blowout bar? Oh, yeah. You always talk about that.

It's always doing my dream, right? I love drying women's hair. And giving them champagne and just chit-chatting, you know. Oh, that's you. I'm just saying, if I had a blowout bar that was two inches on this side of the middle ship border, would I call it the aft blowout bar? Would I call it the almost fucking center blowout bar? bar.

How about if it's the only blowout bar, just the blowout bar? Are we, oh, that's a good point. It's the only conference center. Yes, deck two conference center. Is there a four, mid, and an after? There's just a conference center that's in the middle. And are we short of in the middle? I don't know where we are.

Are we forward or aft? I think we're forward because I've walked a long way forward. But it's called the aft conference center. Okay. Anyway, well, with all that in mind, that's my, uh, That's my excuse for being late. All right, everyone. Dr. Drew is over here to dispense advice.

Hey, now. This is awesome. I was thinking to myself, why don't we do this more often? You know what I mean? I mean, this is the cruise. This notion of everyone getting together and this communal thing

and just being drunk during the daylight hours all day. Oh, and you missed, you missed the karaoke extravaganza. Oh, I heard. There is so much talent in this group. It is ridiculous. I met a fella at a microbreu on land today that was the Billy Joel, who is better than the Billy Joel.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm sure. Oh, there he is. He does bathroom remodels in Phoenix, by the way. So don't cheer too hard, but a kitchen and bathroom. But when I hear kitchen and bathroom, I hear bathroom and bathroom. I But I

So you know So here's a here's a subject for us Drew Wait wait Wait before you I can't get off the idea That you're in such lofty spirits And enjoying this crowd so much That you're thinking of doing it more frequently

Yes I am What about doing it just on land Have we have some live events Yes we should cruise on land You're right I think that makes you gay Drew That means you're gay dude You cruise on land

You're gay you put a brand bandana in your left pocket. You let everyone know you're Grecoactive and you are now gay. What? I don't know what I'm talking about. I saw a movie with Al Pacino in it 25 years ago. I don't know what that means. Recoactive.

What? I don't even know what that means, dude. That could Yotiket? No, it's way too specific for me to know what it means in the community. I understand. Anyway, at the next meeting, I'll bring it up. So anyway, we could do stuff like this with audiences online.

say it. No, it's good. No, no, it's interesting, which is the camaraderie, right? So it's like, here you are, if we, if we're going to draw the ship as a metaphor. So let's just go ahead and call the ship a metaphor for the United States, you know? Okay, okay. And I like me going. I dig it.

Thank you. And I'm sitting at the sports bar today. And everyone's sitting at the table and they're like, a laugh. and they're doing the high fives and bumping out the fist and sharing of the chicken wings. And everyone's rooting for a different team. Yeah. But everyone's in a good mood. Yeah.

We all get it. Like I got the Rams and you got the Vikings and you got the dolphins and you got the Steelers and we're all going to have a beer. We're going to enjoy ourselves because we're all sort of here. And so the ship sort of brings us all here. And I think we all get that camaraderie of all sort of being. here, but if you think about it, the United States is a here too. It's a ship. It's like a big ship. It's a big ship that brought us all. A lot of the passengers are steerage and should be thrown over

the fucking railing. But they're not paying taxes. I got to pay for the goddamn buffet. And everyone's eating at the buffet and they're getting fatter. And then I got to wait and fucking in line. I got a wait in line. I'm paying for all the food at the buffet and I got to wait. Okay, anyway, it's a big... It's a metaphor for the United States.

So we're all here. So whatever team you're on or whoever you vote for or whoever you root for. Because, you know, we sat at the table. And there are plenty of, there's this guy who's a Patriots fan and I wanted to throw up. I know. I know. But yet, yet we broke bread and we enjoyed beer and we had a chicken wing together. And I got it.

The way the U.S. used to be. The way the U.S. used to be. That's all I'm saying. And if we could treat the ship like a metaphor for the United States, we all just sit down and have a beer, be a better land. So to keep playing your metaphor out further, we should make a point of everyone here

bringing some people along next cruise, like expanding the family, like making a connection, different kinds of people, different guests, whatever, just make it even more diverse, more interesting, more geographically spread out. It'd be interesting, right?

Right, as long as you're white, come on down. I hear what you're saying. I agree. I'm 100% What he said I didn't know you're going to go that direction But all right I'm with you Drew

If you got blue eyes Come on down Just expand Expand the family I'm saying Bring other people to the deal That's what we're saying And hearing the karaoke

You may get formalized Next year, yes Oh yeah Yes Yeah I hear Drew was good Not according to dogs Not according to Dawson, but... But this dude over here was great.

Oh, yeah, he was great. The guy remodels outhouses in Tucson. That dude was great. So much potential left on the table. But I was saying to... On the bathroom floor, wherever you're leaving the potential. I was saying... I was saying to Mike.

I was saying... But it is an interesting thing. Like, so we were on... What island are we on? We're on NASA. We're on NASA. And Mike and I were sitting around having some drinks, and Billy Joel dude popped by the table with his lovely bride, and we were talking to them. And Mike was going, that guy's so good. And then I started not as a father or dad, horrible, but as a singer, like an amazing performer.

And I was thinking, I've always kind of thought about life, like baseball. Like you think about how many guys are really good at baseball at the high school and college level. Like how many, everyone knew a dude who could have been pro or got drafted by the, you know, Baltimore. I don't know if they don't have a team anymore, but the by the Oreos. But the point is like, do they have a team, the Baltimore Ravens, Orioles, Orioles? Orioles. The baseball team? They still got a team?

Yeah, they got a team. They got a team. The Orioles got a. I haven't seen them on TV in like 15 years. All right. The point is, all right, here's my point. How good so many people, what I call them, the Oreos? How are what's what it's out of like.

The Orioles. There's so many people are so good and get to that level, but there's just a little bit left. And this guy, so Mike was like, this guy sings better than Billy Joel. Like he literally is better than Billy Joel, but then he paused and goes, but Billy wrote the song. so he gets... He gets full credit. He's crashing a Harley Davidson and Nantucket right now

because he wrote the songs. That's... And to be fair, probably the reality is he just put in the 10,000 hours, too, that many other people do and still don't become Billy Joel. Right. There's another category in between...

Right, right, right. So this sort of notion, I mean, there's a comedy version, there's a music version, there's a acting version of it that you, that there's so many people, like, I don't think people realize like the separation between, the difference between doing something for a living and doing something as a hobby or doing something because it's fun on a cruise ship is not 50%, it's 4%, right?

It's just a little something. I mean, not in the doctor world, but like in the stand-up world, the difference between the people that are funny and the people that make a living or the people who can sing and the people who make a living, remodeling outhouses. No, he does kitchens. He'll do a kitchen.

Every like 49th jobs a kitchen, you know, they're mostly shitholes in the desert. They're all bathrooms. They're all bathrooms. Why so many bathrooms? I understand. Well, he says he does kitchens and bathrooms, but that means I do bathrooms, bathroom, bathrooms, once in a while, kitchenette, and then bathroom, bathroom, bathroom.

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and you're like, you know what? I think Mario may swing me to the dark side. You know, it's funny. talking about the camaraderie here in the community that's developed. And I was just thinking maybe I need to quit refocus my career. But it seems like alcohol is a major contributing component of how this whole community building thing works. It seems like what's unnecessary greeting is shit tons of alcohol.

Am I, you know, I'm going to something? I think you're right. You know, you're always bagging on alcohol. But, you know, you think about those St. Bernard's. Think about the St. Bernard's with the branding, the cask. know, hanging around their neck. I mean, that's a great image. The same printers with the pony cake hanging around their neck, you know, helping the skiers

that have crashed, you know. Frostbite or something. Yeah, you don't really look at the positive nature of denatured alcohol. And obviously, you know, no, it is, it is interesting, though you think of it. And everyone talks about, you know, sort of social lubricant. And when you're at sea, it's a water soluble lubricant. But I mean, like, I'm sitting at that sports bar. It's packed.

Everyone's having fun with each other. And, you know, the part that makes it a little easier is the part where everyone's hoisting a few. And loosening up just a little bit. So let's give the devil it's due. Let's put our hands together for booze, people. Come on now. Thank you. Yeah.

And then there's moderation, right? Yeah, this has nothing to do with that. I know. I know, that's what they when you're at C, it's noteration, dude. No way. It's not good Yonika to moderate. No, bad, Yotika, to noter...

No, not moderate, notarate, right? Yeah, notarate. Yeah, I know. I know, you know you're an alcoholic when you're trying to get the time and ease guy behind the counter. You're going, give me a double. He's going, no, we just do one.

And, like, how many minutes? They'll come back. And he's like, nine minutes and 51 seconds. I'm like, all right, set your clock. I'll be back. I think it's 10 minutes in between. Is that right? Well, Dawson's got it down to a science.

Just follow whatever he does. 10 minutes, right? Is it 10 minutes? It's 10 minutes. He has other people order drinks for him. That's how we do. Oh, that's where the genius comes in. So you were going to, you said there's another topic.

I interrupted you to go on my alcohol. Did I derail you? I did. Yeah. Okay. So the other subject is what? I don't know what it was. You were starting to say something.

this whole business about the community remind you, and then I interrupted with the alcohol, and I apologize. I do think it's, it's, it's, uh, I wasn't going to say this, but I'm now, I'm now thinking of it. People want to go at a, there, there's a sort of fork in the road sort of emotionally. Like you want to go, oh, I love that guy, or you want to go, I hate that guy. You don't want to really live in the middle, right? No one wants to be in that kind of like gray area of sort of,

difference. I don't think people like it because it's like a non-opinion. You know what I mean? So if you go, what about the president? You go, oh, I hate that guy. Or you go, I love that guy. Look, who are, if you just take, you take the president of the United States. You take Donald Trump. You go, how many people do you know or have you met in the last three years that are like, ask me what I think of Donald Trump? Well, let's consider a non-polarizing figure like Donald Trump. Yeah. So what I'm saying? How many people have you met in three years? asked me about Donald Trump. What do you think about Donald Trump, Adam? Oh, I don't know.

I guess he's all right. I thought about it. Seems fine, I guess. Like, is that? Have you heard that answer? No. Okay, so, all right, but a polarizing figure is just that. Like, they're there to sort of pull out all the polarizing in all of us, right?

So it's not really, it's not so much that, like... Are we the opposite? You and I? Yeah, we're trying to bring in the... Well, all right, I'm a hero. I'm not about you. But hold on. I know that.

No, what I'm saying is, is, why is Dawson dancing? Polarizing figures. He's trying to get blood into his feet and he can only do it by raising his. I can't take my eyes off. He has to raise his hands. It's weird. He's doing some sort of dance.

But he has no blood in his feet. All right, but listen. When any of us got into podcasting, it was still just a tiny business. We had no idea if it was going to work. But taking that leap anyway, was an important decision for all of us. And here we are now, so many years later.

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Our brain is actually wired up to see difference. Right. We're going to go that or we're going to go that. And when you say polarizing figure, well, then you're bringing up Trump and Trump is a polarizing figure. But he's not a polarizing figure if we don't let him be polarizing, right? We have to make fertile soil for his polarization, right? If you had a whole bunch of people that were more wired like me, hero, you'd be like, you'd have a bunch of people like, ah, I don't care. You know, I love my kids and my wife.

move on my life, you know, but we're wired for polarization. What he does is he trips that switch. Yes, he does. He takes that wiring, so we're all pre-wired for polarization. He flips the switch. And then half the nation goes hard to the right. Half the nation goes hard to the left. And almost nobody goes down the middle.

Yeah. Because we're not wired for down the middle. And strangely, that kind of phenomenology has been sort of become sort of fashionable. We sort of like that these days. Well, you don't get, you don't get praise for down the middle. You know what I mean? You don't get any social media or not. But you're social media.

If you're not in the middle of a shitstorm, you don't exist. Right. But there is no praise for medium length hair. If your hair's down to here, people go, oh, my God, you have beautiful hair. And if your hair is short, you go, oh, you're a hero. Look at you. You're a hero. You've cut.

your hair short. Oh, that took that took guts. Thank you. That took guts, you know, when you're supporting breast cancer, whether it is, right? If you have medium-length hair, it's like, yeah, fuck off. We don't care. You've done nothing for me. You know what I mean? We're not, we don't live in the middle. We're not made for the middle. So the whole, the whole thing is, is our entire society is built on the middle.

This, this, this, this, this, this, the whole world we live in is kind of built on the median and the norm in the middle. Like we can't exist without the middle. We're not going to work with the far right or the far left. We're not going to work with the super rich or the ultra poor. We're not going to work with anything but the middle.

And people used to have a certain bit of pride about the middle. You know, you'd go like, yeah, we got a nice little house and we'd take care of my kids. We'd take care of the husband and he works hard and I work hard and we put something together and we saved a little money.

take a cruise once a year with the ace man I just did that to get the crowd going but the middle used to be something that was celebrated or respected at least and you know we do that thing where we'd go oh that guy's a good family man or she's a good mom

and she takes care of her family she's good in the community you know kids a good student you know they take care of things You know, the middle was something to be respected. And now we kind of look down our nose at the middle. I will tell you, we spend a lot of time when people are having mental illness issues and they're trying to get back to an equilibrium. We always tell them the same thing, which is you need a simple life.

Simple lives are healthier, they're better. You don't have to be going out to clubs, all this simple, keep it simple. forget the polyamory and the multiple partners and the three. No disrespect. Enjoy yourselves, everybody. But if you're coming out off of trouble, it's not going to make things better. I don't want to make your point. I'm sitting in Newman's $8 million, $935, Porsche.

And I'm on the straightaway at Laguna's Saker for the Rolex Historics. And I'm thinking, simple life, ace man. of life, you know what I mean? Like, you've got to get back to basics. You've always said what you like about that is the simplicity of just focusing on the driving of the driving. It's kind of the same thing, even though you do a different level, kind of the same

metaphor. Right, not thinking about anything but the task at hand. It's just that for Rich Whitey, that's all. Right. But the middle is something to aspire to and nobody

aspires to the middle anymore. because the middle gets the shit kicked out of it on the Twittersville or Ederville or fuckerville or whatever, whatever we're on. All the social media doesn't work with the middle, right? And for some reason, we decided that's just sort of bourgeoisie, you know, just sort of boring and who wants to call. Again, it's medium-length hair. That's what we've basically decided the middle was.

and we don't have respect for the middle. So now we're in some sort of mode where we either have to have some sort of envy of you slash fear like, oh my God, that guy started, that guy, he started Uber. You know, he's a genius. He started Uber, you know, like, or, you know, Silicon Valley, like, whatever it is.

Or there's... Facebook, he's making us, he's watching us all the time. Right. He's the guy I think he is. But what I'm saying is, is we live in, we've crafted a society. where you have to look up to somebody or you have to look down to somebody

but you can't look across at your brother. Thank you. It's powerful. I'm going to do a livery. But no, what I mean is like you want to do this thing where it's like, oh, this guy makes billions of dollars and you invented this shit. Or you want to go like,

oh, look at this poor guy rolling around his own field. Someone needs to help him. We don't do that thing where we go like, I have neighbors and they make a okay living and they're nice family and they treat people decently. Like there's nothing in it anymore. There's either Kim Kardashian's got to get someone out of prison or this guy's made a billion dollars and giving it to AIDS research. Like we don't we don't like the middle. The middle is what keeps the lights on in this house that we're living in known as a boat, known as the United States. What I mean is like the middle. The middle.

makes everything work. The top doesn't make things work. The bottom, sure shit doesn't make anything work. The middle. The middle's like who's like when you go to a gas station and it's 11 in the evening and there's someone behind the counter. That's the middle. Or when you go into the supermarket and you get there early at 645

and it's open. That's all the middle. That's the middle running everything. The fact that the shells are stocked. That's the middle. The fact that there's somebody there. call the cops and the guy there's a cop and they answer the phone and they come to your house or the fire department that whole world everyone who works on everyone who's working on this ship except for the captain that's that's the middle that's the reason we can walk out of this place and go get a drink because there's somebody behind the bar because that's the middle we've

abandoned the middle you know everyone's always talking about the bottom or the top or the whatever it's the middle that we're not focused on oh yes and nobody wants that's why you get to big bucks drew every every 23 minutes when I'm on a jagger goes oh yeah well there's a there's a graph now it's called the elephant's head graph that shows that the where the middle is getting crunched too

like the it's like of the last 40 years 30 years I think essentially that it's gone like this where the bottom part of the trunk is is the middle no yes true but I think people look at it is some sort of economic thing. And the politicians, the politicians do. Politicians are constantly trying to do this middle class, can't afford, we have a no middle

class, whatever. They don't do shit for the middle class. No, I know they don't do shit for the middle class. But what I, what I'm saying is it's more of a psychological emotional approach to it, which is it's not appreciated. Anything that's not appreciated is going to shrink. If you take a look at like, you know, college sports, football's appreciated. Archery is not really appreciated.

Well, football gets all the eyes and archery doesn't really get the eyeballs. And things start to dwindle because they either are or aren't accepted, celebrated, appreciated. And somehow the middle is not appreciated. And I don't know. I get that it's boring. I get that it's middle. It's not boring, though. It's not.

It is boring. It's just not dramatic. Well, it's not, there's no bragging rights to the middle. It's medium-length hair on a check. Okay. All right. But we've somehow decided in a weird way that the rich were bad, the ultra-poor were noble, and the middle should be dismissed. Forgotten, yeah.

Yeah, forgotten. That is a bad combination. because 86% of the people are in the middle. Yes, we're all in the middle. We're all in the middle. Oh, no, wait a minute. Not you, not you. What are you talking about?

Yeah, if I was in the middle, it would be called the them crews, not the Adam Carolla crews. IRS, that's why I'm going to talk about life lock. Yeah, we've got a warning. Unsolicited emails from imposter's subject lines vary, but may include. the word reminder, like automatic income or tax reminder, something like that. Don't go for it. They show an IRS.gov website and they look so real, but they're not real. So many ways cyber criminals can try to take what's yours. Good thing. Life lock, identity, theft protection, adds the power of Norton Security to help protect against threats to your devices you can't easily see or fix on

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Yeah. Matt. I bet there are people in this audience that could do that without looking at the script. Yeah. I heard Matt was having a bad hairboat, but he's back. He's got his pomade. He's putting the water a little earlier. Oh, okay.

That's what it is. He got drunk, fell in the toilet trip. Sweet, but his hair's back. All right, that feels like enough. A good place to pause. We'll have the second half of the show queued up for you guys tomorrow. And until then,

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