The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #1224: No Better Time To Have Herpes

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

February 4, 2020 - Adam and Dr. Drew open the show discussing some of the interesting advertisements that Adam sees in airports around the country that confuse him as there’s no real way to discern what they’re advertising. The conversation then turns to ‘chick think’ and how things like tributes to Cecil the lion & bracelets on grown men should be seen as indicators to those who are observant. The conversation then turns to the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant as Dr. Drew recounts a story he has about an interaction with Kobe during a game and a subsequent phone conversation about Jodi Arias.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Now it's episode 1224 from February, just a few weeks later in 2020. We talk about some interesting advertisements that Adam sees in airports around the country that confuse him. And no real way to tell sometimes what they're advertising. Then we talk to something Adam starts calling Chick-Think and how things like tributes to Cecil the Lion and bracelets on grown men should be seen as indicator to those who are observant to the Chick-Think domination. The conversation turns to tragic passing of Kobe Bryant. I tell my story with him. And some phone conversations about Jody Arias. Enjoy February 4th, 2020.

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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, get on, get on, board certified. I didn't. This best, my friend, Adam Carolla over here, what I do is I put people together. You know what I mean? Prioritize.

I prioritize by putting people together. What do I do? What's my skill set? My skill set is their skill set. It's making people right. It's making people right by putting them together. And what do I do? Put them together.

Put them together right. I take an idea. I give it to a person. I take that person. I get an idea. I take those super people. I'll put them together. Right.

That's what I do. Put them together right. I'm in the business of business. These are all the posters I see at the airport. There's an elephant, there's a kid on the elephant, and then at some point the elephant is without the kid, and then it has some letters. You know, BSAO, we're in the business of business.

What I see at the airport, and I never can make out what those posters are. I never see anyone stop and go, oh, I'll go right down there. It's McGruff, the crime dog. It's just somebody has to spend some money on some stuff to feel good about what the government is doing. No, but McGruff?

No? That's your interpretation of what I'm explaining? No, maybe I missed. They seem like background messages that really aren't meant. But the company's paying for it. They're not giving them the space. McGruff is just take a butt out of crime, but it doesn't really. This is some company that runs some sort of business software or something is spending plenty of money at plenty of airports to put their billboards up on the, you know, as you're walking through the,

the terminal or you're walking through the jetway, they're just not interpretable. Right. And I don't know why they do that. I don't know why there wouldn't just be a, just put your fucking website out, like big bold numbers and a chick and a bikini. Yep. This is, I don't know what they are. Do you know what they are?

Incompetence. Well, I don't, you pass through a million airport. Yeah. You've seen a million of these poster size sort of billboards that they usually. Sometimes they turn. They're video sometimes even, right? could be yeah but do you know of what I speak yes what are they like the ones I imagine you're talking about like the ones on the jetway yeah this is this is

you know beautiful ugly beautiful ugly right the same thing over and over again and I have no idea with who what that was an ad for no idea right why do they do this carry you know where you can see stockholders or something shareholders I I'm not exactly sure, but the where you can see these in TV commercial form is golf tournaments. When I'm watching golf with my dad or something, you'll see a lot of these commercials where I get to the end of it.

You're like, what the fuck? What does that company even do? And my dad knows, but you won't. I think we're talking. Sometimes they don't want you to know because when they set the financial markets and the commodities exchange, they just want you to know they're around. When they do the, so when they do like fast food

advertisements, it's like you're driving down the highway, And it's like, there's a Taco Bell in 3.2 miles off the Bellingham exit. Like, they're like right here, right now. Here's a giant picture of a burrito. This is the exit you get off. And here we are. So that's really lowest common denominator, like dumb people traveling in a car in your face, right?

This is golf tournament or first class on the Delta flight. This is the high-end people. And they're not, I don't think they want people like me to understand. understand what's going on in that. That's kind of what I think, yeah. But let me talk to a quick. But I still don't know what it is. All right, I want to thank Tommyjohn.com slash ADS and ZipRecruiter.

com slash ADS for sponsoring this show. Thank you. Go ahead. Another little insight in how brains work. I did not see the Porcelain Prunisher come in here and give us these papers we have in front of us. Didn't see it. That's interesting.

Did you see it? No. I don't believe I did. I don't know when in our conversation he came in and did this, but at some point. Well, he's stealthy. But it's... I was also naked. You guys missed that, too.

But it's interesting. You know, this is the stuff we were talking about. He moves like Swayze and Roadhouse. Remember that thing where he had a shirt off and he was by the lake and he was doing the Tai Chi? That's how Matt moves. That was his cata. It's gotter. Well, but here's the thing.

All right, let's drill down here, Drew. You are constantly defending the undefendable by saying, I don't notice things. I don't notice things. No, it worries me that there's brain mechanism. Okay. I don't notice things I don't need to notice. Yes, yes. So otherwise, your head would be filled all the time.

Yes. So Matt bringing in the copy is not something. that I need to take notice of. Right. But backing out of this parking lot, I need to take notice of there's someone walking down the sidewalk so I don't run them over, you know. So I don't want the same amount of commitment to the ad copy as I do to backing out of this parking lot. Right.

And when somebody makes a request or says, you know, Matt, you know, Matt will say, bring in the so-and-so paperwork or bring in your. medical card or bring in your whatever. That's a strong notice for me. I want to notice that. The what's going on with this, I don't care to notice that. And I don't want it to compete with when he tells me to bring in my medical insurance card.

Right. See what I'm saying? Yes, I do. Okay. It's a priority thing. All right. I got the, you want to talk about the virus? Yeah.

So the coronavirus. I had a bunch of people in the airport the other week that were wearing that. I know wearing masks, which I find kind of bizarre. But, I mean, if you're coming from China and you want to protect other people, I understand that maybe. Never been a better time to have herpes. Well, to be fair, that's now shrinking in its importance. Right. But I'm saying if I had herpes, I would now just don the mask.

Well, right? Why not? No one would go. What's going on? I have a viral thing or there's this corona. There's something. I'm going to the airport. it later. No one ever go, oh, come on.

What's behind that mask? Should we move that mask? Yeah. That's good. I like that. No better time. Go ahead. Or in the process of needing dental work. Or palatosis, to be fair. Yes. But I'm going to predict. First of all, let me put it in perspective. A thousand people die of the flu every year in this country, everybody.

A thousand. We have a hundred in in the entire continent, the whole country of China. It needs attention. It needs attention. It's a serious thing. But we should not be in any kind of panic. And we should not be dealing with it substantively differently than with the flu outbreak.

I'm always interested in those who react to these things. Well, how about the fact that just in Los Angeles, three people are dead every day on the homeless front? Three are dead every day. If three were dropping dead every day in Los Angeles from COVID. Coronavirus? Right. There would be a freaking panic. Oh, my God.

Right. So put it in perspective, everybody. That's just Los Angeles, three dead every day. And people like, oh, yeah, whatever. Anyway, keep the status quo, man. That's the way to go. Housing first. Housing first.

I think Max Apata was, you know, San Diego has a pretty big homeless issue as well. And I think Maxa Pada was showing me a picture of a restaurant in San Diego, that's got a big mural of Cecil the lion on it, like rest in peace or we'll never forget you or whatever. And that's where we are. That's just chicks convincing dudes to think in a way that doesn't make sense. And that's all there is. So look, you think, by the way, let me say this.

May I say this? I'll preach to the choir. What percentage of, hey, what percentage, uh, is that the choir? I'm asking. Turn to the, turn to the gentleman behind the glass. Here we go. He's preaching. What percentage of your dad's friends wore bracelets when you were growing up that weren't

medical alert, you know, I have diabetes and if I'm passed out, you know, don't give me shots of insulin or whatever it is. What, what percentage of your dad's friends wore bracelets? Zero. The closest thing would be a golf. GPS thing. Drew. Your dad.

Zero. All right. Matt. Yeah, zero. Okay. You know, when I go to one of my kids, you know, volleyball games or whatever, and the 50-year-old dad sitting up in the stands, many of them are wearing bracelets. Many.

Okay. You don't think we're turning into chicks? Just look at the bracelet. Braclets are for chicks. Guys formerly didn't wear bracelets. Now we do. It's not in a bubble. It's us turning into chicks.

Now, I don't wear bracelets because I'm not turning into a chick, but there's a lot of dudes that are turning into chicks. And these people have a handker for a bracelet. Have businesses and they make decisions and they're thinking like chicks. I guarantee you you can find pictures of Mayor Garcetti wearing a bracelet because he thinks like a chick. This is a chick thing. It's not a bracelet thing.

It's a chick thing. They're turning into chicks and thus we're getting thoughts. Rest in peace. Cecil the Lion, 2002 to 2015. There's no rest in peace. This restaurant's next to a giant, one of the biggest military facilities there are. Many, many boys have shipped out from Pendleton there

and come home in a fucking. box. Anything for them? No. Why not? Chiknik. It's a picture of Cecil the line, not the military base that ships everyone, probably had hundreds or thousands of people die from that base because it's such a big base and it's the one they used to ship out overseas. So, but you have a mural of a lion. why well you'd like chicks to come in and you'd like guys with bracelets who think like chicks to come into your restaurant and you would like them to think you think that way good business it's good business okay percentage of bracelet dudes versus percentage did they form did they serve some function it's oh man my jab has so much snap in it now that have these wood beads on my wrist

By the way, beating off has never been better. Never. I thought I peaked at 17. I'm having a renaissance, Drew. I'm even a jack-off renaissance. Especially the magnets who were in on my wrist. I don't care if you got the fucking magnet ones in there. I don't care if you have like the copper one.

I don't care if you have the one we have like Bersidas or something and you fucking think from some late night crime. I'm talking about decorative bracelets. Why? we're heading where you've always said we're heading. Do we get paid the same? Yeah, I know, but I... All right. All right.

Except you said it would take longer than it has. Yes. That was your big mistake. You said it'd be 50 years. All right. Fine. Yeah, you've got to find... So anyway, let me finish the coronavirus.

So coronavirus is not an uncommon virus. It's an upper respiratory virus. This new mutant that came out of animals that humans have now picked up can also now be transmitted human to human. In older people and immunocompromise folks causes a pretty terrible lung infection. We don't test for the coronavirus unless somebody is really sick. So my prediction is this virus is widespread and all around us, we just don't know it yet. And I'm going to say that most of the infections caused by coronavirus are mild because that's the way viral epidemics go.

It's just the way they go. It's around. It's around everywhere. and in the compromise, it causes severe infections. And I'm going to bet it's all over the place already. And we're going to find out about it after the fact. Because we don't test everybody that has a little bronchitis for coronavirus. You can't do that.

But we test the people with pneumonia and that's where we find it. Look, I don't care. I never care. I'm not in the business of listening to anything that attempts to have. Here's my deal with the news. I'm all out. I don't believe anything you guys are. You guys are trying to get me to believe.

leave stuff. Here's the news I do consume. Kobe Bryant got into a helicopter accident. Okay, when did it happen? How long were they in the air? How many souls were on board? This is all, this is now for the news, this is distilled

down to what the news is for me. The part where I think it's the New York Times says Trump says there were no injuries from the bombing in Iraq, but some of those some of those soldiers did suffer concussions we found out after he made the statement there were no injuries

then they found out there were injuries in the same article yeah i don't know what i'm supposed to do with that you've made a statement that said hey here's what this guy was lying and then a paragraph later you said well he could have never known because he made the statement before they found out there's the concussions what am i to make of that as a reader that's news or what do i do with that you're supposed to adopt their point of view and narrative. But I'm reading your article and... But people don't read carefully enough to not get the narrative. Right. All right.

I'm not down with that kind of news because you've made a statement that said, Dr. Drew lied about the symptoms of the coronavirus. And then two paragraphs later, we read that the symptoms didn't present themselves until a few days after he made the statement. Right. I'm not sure why you need to. to write that article. So it doesn't make, you're undoing your own statement.

A hundred percent agreed and not only that, but it's an example of something they're doing all the time, which is mind reading. They read my mind and knew I was lying. And I intended something sinister. So I don't listen to that news anymore, but I do listen to the factual stuff involving, you know. It's hard to find disasters and things of that nature. It's hard to ferret it out. Well, no, not that.

I just, I hear that story and I dismiss it. and I hear Kobe Bryant died, and I'm all, I want to hear all the details. Gary, I was asking to find pictures of Garcetti with bracelets. I know he's got those wooden bead bracelets. He's a puss. You know what those wooden beads are for. They're for putting over your car seat. Yeah.

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We want to talk Kobe crash. Let's talk. Well, let's just go through this and then we'll do it. Anthony, 29. Eagle Rock? Yeah, hey, how's it going? I'm actually calling from your neighborhood, Lassignat. I'm at my parents' house now, but my business is in Eagle Rock,

and I saw something interesting the other end. It kind of plays into what you talk about with the city allowing the homeless people to go on the streets in front of businesses. The other day, the whole neighborhood was out of power, and all the businesses around mine were down. No one could process cars, no one could take sales, the restaurants had to close. and I was sitting in my office looking outside, and I said, oh, at least people can park for free.

And I walked out there, and all the parking meters are solar-powered and are still working, despite all the traffic lights being out and all the businesses unable to operate their business, but they're still collecting money from the parking meters. Sure. Priorities. Look, again, many years ago, you know, when my car was destroyed by drunken, hit-and-run driver, or who dragged his whatever. When I finally went to court, and it was all humiliating, embarrassing thing for him,

and he has no dignity and no character. Character's a big deal, but anyway. Not anymore. Not anymore because you can't judge. Judging creates character. Now, when I went to the courts and at some point, I went, this guy's supposed to have a payment program with me, and I don't think he's paying me.

How many payments has he made in, you know, through the court, you know, blah, blah, they just went, there's no way, we have no way of knowing. Impossible. It's impossible. I said, well, every cop car that pulls me over is a computer screen on it and they punch my name into it, all the data comes up in the guy's cop car about any warrants or moving violations or expired register, anything.

It's all on that computer screen inside the guy's car. Anything? You don't have the ability to figure out when a guy's handling, so. sending checks into your office, no, we don't have that, we don't have that capability. I'm like, right, you don't have that capability because it's not your money. Check for you. Right. Therefore, we don't have that.

You're super good at the keeping track of the people owe you money. You're not that good at keeping track. There's no way. There's not no way. You don't give a shit. Right. That's how it works. By the way, Bernie Sanders, I don't want more of this.

I don't want more, doesn't give a shit. or I'm super motivated in extracting money from people that no I don't want that I don't know why you think that's so good at using the money though they're so efficient it's not their money it's our money all right thanks it's a good point Anthony thoughts about Kobe and the crash so Kobe and you know we're now a few days out so some of the shock has worn off it's interesting my kids reacted differently to it one of my sons felt like you know his childhood was like ruptured and even torn away from him and the other was like yeah it didn't you know it's sad but it didn't affect me that much it's interesting he was he was a figure that young people you know

made a part of their world right and and by the way the other thing i experienced personally is aside from it being hard to get your head around somebody that's been so present particularly in this part of the country suddenly not there uh all the shit he was doing i felt diminished i felt like i got to get my act together i was out there working his ass-offs well after his career. I mean, so productive, right? Sure. Home serve. Thanks to HomeServe for sponsoring this episode.

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Yeah. Have I ever told it to you? No. Really? I can't believe that. I don't know. Maybe I've got some old jar. So I, this is, what's the year of this game?

Do you know Gary offhand? It was a. Oh, I now have some recollection of him seeing you in the crowd. Right. So this was a Lakers Raptors game. About six years ago, something like that. The video was uploaded in 20. 2013, so presumably...

Jesus, seven years ago. And somebody gave me courtside tickets, which I would urge anyone who has offered courtside tickets to not take them unless you want to get hooked like you would on heroin. It's so... Have you been down there? It's really ridiculous how intense the game

is down there. I feel uncomfortable. Oh, yeah, you're kind of on display. I don't like it being that way. But the actual experience of the game is so amazing. I live in Los Angeles my entire life. I've been to two Laker games. Wow.

And that's only someone gave me a ticket. Yeah. But go ahead. And one of them was courts. Yeah. So anyway,

it's a Laker game. Raptors. The Lakers were way down. And in the last like three minutes Kobe took over and just started scoring over and over and over again.

And here he is, getting the ball and a three-pointer, boom, that was like his third three-pointer to pull within one with the Raptors. So now here we are.

We're watching a little replay of him getting another three-pointer. It's like his third one in a row in the course of about three minutes. The crowd is going insane. Could you get a little sound on the crowd? Is that possible? You get a sense of what's going on in the room. Teams like to play percentages. But when you've got a player like Kobe, sometimes those percentages go out to the window.

Fade away three. Big topic. The crowd is going. So in the event, they're taking it down now. Hold on right here. What you just saw was, one of his fadeaways. And while that replay was going on TV, it was side-out Lakers, and the ball's coming in

right now. And they came back from their bench, and I'm sitting over, do you see me in the right, here? Gary's going to give you a cursor. You see my head? I see your head. I think that's Susan next to me there. You're sitting on the court side close to one end. Close and close to them.

I'm across from the Laker bench and close to the baseline. And during the side out, you know, Kobe starts walking across the court like he always does. Like, it's just another day at the office and gives me one of these. How would you describe it? Gives you the headset. The chin. The chin. Gives you the chin.

And I literally, I was standing up at that point. And I literally, like, I was looking all around me to try to figure out who he was talking to. And he just keeps coming towards me. Keeps coming. Keeps coming. And kind of gives it again a little like a half, half chin. And it's within about five yards of me and goes, hey, we need to chit-chat about Jodi Arias.

And then got into that position and then this happened. So he goes on. Grabs the ball. That's Kobe. Boom. Another's fade away three to tie the game. Wow. That was within two.

And those are tough three. Yeah. It was like the third row. Wow. And he had just spoken to me 10 seconds before that. It was the weirdest. coolest thing I've ever seen. I don't know if we've highlighted that there's about four seconds

left in the game. Yeah, at that point. Four a second. And so now the game is tied. And he literally just come up and goes, hey man, we've got a chit-chat about Jodiaris. Boom, grab the ball, did that. It was crazy. I couldn't believe my eyes. And then he called me. Uh-huh. About a week later.

To chit-chat about Jodiaris? To chit-chat about Joddiarius. How do you get your number? I don't remember. I don't remember if I gave it to... Well, anyway. I reported to somebody that he's... You talked to him about Jody Harris.

And he was... Wait, who's Jody Aries? Joketrius was the chick that killed her boyfriend. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we covered extensively on Aitlan. What he told me was, when he called me, was that the Laker locker room ran that trial 24-7. Oh, interesting.

And they were all in there totally preoccupied with the behavior. of borderline females. Oh, right. Because a lot of the, a lot of the, what do you call them, the fans, the girl, the basketball ponies, yeah, had this condition. They were sort of in this sort of, and borderlines have a couple things. They distort reality and believe it. I mean, they see it a certain way because they're often from trauma, and so they're

re-traumatized pretty easily in certain situations, and they will interpret reality through the prism of the old trauma in the present. So if something, even if they participate in the evolution of an event, they experience it as a predation no matter what.

And that's not, I'm not putting blame with them. That's their condition. And they have something called borderline rage, which is when they're triggered, they will now have to destroy whoever they're triggered by.

Well, Drew. And he was very interested in all this. Well, we had an hour conversation about it. That's interesting. He was the nicest, smartest, most, really, like, the most interesting man in the world. That was crazy. I totally agree.

The, I don't know that you need to be an abuse, incest, or whatever, survivor anymore. That used to be the criteria for being this way. I now realize that people are just capable of sculpting their own narrative. And the narrative is, and what I've noticed time and time again with men, women, just sort of everyone, I look at them as sort of, I've always said, people aren't bad, they're weak, they're weak. And what people do is there's something they want or they have, you know, some monetary thing or something. It's basically, it's the bank made a mistake. They put an extra $10,000 in your savings account, and now the bank wants it back. And you don't want to give it back.

So you start sculpting things. It could be that was my $10,000. Or it could be, you know, that bank said they were going to give me a toaster when I signed up for my checking account. And they did, but it was a really shitty toaster. And it burnt my toast. And whatever that is, it's all there to defend the 10,000. And I have noticed this, you know, micro, macro going, you look at it with a lot of candidates talking about, here's what I want because these companies are bad and they want to, whatever.

But there is a lot of shaping of narratives. And that's a little different than what I'm talking about. It's a little, but what I mean is you go out with the, you, hook up with the hoops, their guy, you have the one-night stand, he that never calls you back, you want money from that. You don't deserve money, but you want money, and it's based on him having money. They're dudes you slept with who worked at gas stations. You didn't go back with them and lawyer up and then go to the TMZ and tell your story

and all that kinds of. Now, what is it? Well, you want something, you want money, but now you have to weave an error. where the guy dumped you or he said he was going to call but he never called and he used you and but he used you except for you showed up at the hotel and waited in the lobby you know what I'm saying yes yes this is now this was preventable because people had dignity and that's what kept it in check lawyers didn't keep it in check TMZ didn't keep it in check dignity kept it in place now that dignity's gone everyone is to just craft their own anything. And you can add in religion, character, judging, all those added to us required. Now there's a vacuum of that. Because that's required for dignity, all those things.

Right. You get sued by some former employee and they'll just be sitting there with a lawyer and they're going to work hours, blah, blah, blah, breaks, racial discrimination. By the way, this guy did this. I didn't even know what his race was. It wasn't a black or Hispanic thing. It was Middle Eastern or something. It's like, yeah, okay, check that box. Like, okay, except for there's none of it.

We never had a discussion about it. Yeah, but you might get a few more bucks out of it if you check that box. And people, personally, I would go, I can't check that box because that never occurred. But people go, yeah, check that box. And that's where we're at. Now, there's nothing that can prevent that, except for an individual. internal dignity. And I totally agree with you that's the average person has sort of come into this

mess that way. I'm talking about something a little different, though, which is the traumatic reenactment, as you said. Well, there's certainly that now that that's this on creatine. Exactly. And the perception of reality is the perception of reality. It's not a distortion. It's not motivated by money.

It's the perception. No, I get it. But what I'm doing is I'm now. I get you. I get you. No, no, no. I am now not making a distinction between this isn't you lying. This is you living this thing. To you lying or not. I don't even. There is no more chasm between the two. It's just what is. I didn't. I shut the compressor. No, you didn't. Yes, I did. You don't have to be. That's not. trauma and dues. That's just where I am. That's where we're at. It's motivated defense. Right. Like motivated lying. And we have motivated reasoning taking hold everywhere. Like I'm going to, back to the narrative. I'm going to defend my narrative because I'm motivated to do that. Even though

I'm not going to look at the facts, I'm just going to defend the narrative. Real quick. Motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning. I like it. Adam, line 3, 33, Corpus Christi, Texas. Drew. What's going on? What's up with this three episode of week stuff? Drew's schedule's very busy. How dare you! We want two more, not too fewer.

I agree. 24-7. I love listening to this show. You have a question? I do. Yeah. Adam had a show, which was basically centered around juggy's jumping on trampolines. And Drew's so attracted to women that he can't

enjoy strip clubs because he's so tempted to take action. It's a passionate, man. Passionate. I'm curious how two men such as yourself managed to stay monogamous. All right. Answer, well, Drew's scared. No, no. No, no, no. I disagree.

No, no. I would argue that remember my theory? And I really believe this. That me doing things that would destabilize my relationship are an attack on the thing I've value most, which is my family. No, no, no.

It would really, I know it would hurt my kids, would hurt my wife, would hurt my family. I would not put my family in harm's way. Yeah. That's my thing. I'm just too lazy. I don't have any moral qualms about it. And, and by the way, I noticed after years and years and years, it's strangely like staying sober.

It's like, today I'm happy. Today, I don't worry about tomorrow. I don't worry about you said. Today I'm cool. I'm very happy. Yeah, this thing of like, it's sort of. of up there or it's the same as not lying you know they always say if you don't lie you'll never have to remember your story sort of thing and if you don't you know my phone rings and

there's a number on it I don't recognize I don't go oh shit yeah what I you know it's that phone ring moment who is this what are they saying or that you know I don't have a you know if I come home and Lynette says hey I got talked to you about something I don't go well who's who called her who what she find out what she know It's something to do with the dog You know what I wouldn't want to live like that either No way It does

It does detract from a life That would be the worst feeling Yeah Ever I feel that same way though I feel that way about owing people money I don't like owing people money I don't like that feeling Generally the idea is a great philosophy

That you don't want to do anything in life That will leave you anxious about Whomever would call you Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. But there's also a certain amount of laziness.

Just that. All right. And as you get all the lack of will to live. There you go. February 27th, Cleveland, hilarities. February 28, 29th, Indianapolis, helium. And you go to Amcrawl.com and check it out, man. And check out the movies at Chassis, C-H-S-S-Y.

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