The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #217: Big Freedia

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Feb 28, 2015Musician Big Freedia joins Adam and Dr. Drew to discuss bounce music and life in New Orleans. They also take calls on getting a vasectomy and hoarding.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Well, here's another throwback episode from February of 2015. Big Fredia joins us. And we discuss bounce music and life in New Orleans. We also take some calls on things like getting a vasectomy. And glorious topics like hoarding, which seemed to be getting a lot of attention back then. So enjoy this throwback to February 2015. This is Corolla Digital. Recorded live at Corolla,

On 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 but to get it on mandate. Get it on and welcome to the show. Thank you for tuning in. How are you doing, Drewski? I'm good.

What's happening? Ah, Big Frida's happening. Big Frida, good to see you. Thank you. Thanks for having me this morning. Now, Big Frida's got herself a TV show. It's Big Frida, Queen of Bounce. Season 3 Wednesdays, 11 o'clock on Fuse.

Tell us, Big Frida, is unique. How would you describe yourself, Big Frida, and how'd you get started? Well, I got started. I've been into music a long time, you know, since I was a kid. I was into gospel music. Traveled many places around the world,

touring and singing with different church choirs. And I also was a choir director for my church. and then my high school and then other choirs thereafter. When I started with the bounce music, it was about 1998. I was background in my best friend, Katie Redd, who was the first transsexual male to come out with bounce music in New Orleans. I did that for about a year and a half. I don't want to correct you, but my great-grandfather actually was the first transsexual

to come out with bounce music. Not in the New Orleans area. This was in the old country. Oh, is it in Hungary? It's about over 100 years ago. I think it was hungry. Yeah, but anyway, we don't talk about him. You've mentioned a couple times.

I didn't know he was that. He was a pioneering event. I didn't use that old. I don't want to slow your role. I'm sorry, speaking about. You're fine. And so I did that with Katie for about a year and a half to two years. And then I started my solo project, and that's when the Big Freedom movement started.

Now, to describe Big Frida, you're gay, right? Yes. And you have, you wear a wig. No. Or you have a wig. Well, or weave. A weave. A weave.

Uh-huh. Sorry. And you have a purse, but I'm trying to, I'm not sure what you're wearing exactly. I'm wearing a little sporty jacket and a, you know, shirts and some sweats. How would you, how would you describe your look or your sort of sexual orientation? I'm just me. Well, if you were at home listening, let's say. Like, if we couldn't see you.

Yeah. You're just listening to the podcast. Well, I'm a gay male and I'm very feminine, you know, with the look sometimes. And sometimes I tone it down. It just depends on how I'm feeling. Is there much call for that in the gay community? Like, how in demand is that look? You know what I'm saying?

How popular is it? Well, I guess what I'm saying is if you're gay in your male, and so you want to be with a male. but somebody looks different than male. Is there a demand for that? Demand may not be the right word, but you know what I'm saying. Or straight guys are more attracted to you? I would say, yeah, definitely.

Straight guys are more attracted. Yeah, definitely. But there's no really a demand for it, you know, to each is on and whatever they choose to, the person that they choose to date or whatever, you know, he may look straight, he may look feminine. It depends on the person who's, you know, dating me or whatever. Yeah, I just straight and gay.

No. No. You just get gay, right? Well, it's kind of a hard situation. My boyfriend is what you will call basically a straight male, you know, on the look for as the look. So he don't identify as gay, but he is gay in a sense because he messed with another gay male. But he identifies as a straight look. Well, he looks, yeah.

Yeah. Has he previously been with women? Yes, definitely. Is he into women? Not anymore. Okay. Got it. So, and what's he do, by the way, just for fun?

He's an artist as well. I mean, he's, he's for his drawing. He's a drawing artist. He also does music, and he does a lot. He travels with me. He also was one of my dancers. He don't dance anymore. But he works.

He's behind the scenes making things happen with Big Freedom Movement. And explain the Big Freedom Movement. The Big Freedom Movement is this journey of making people aware of the culture of New Orleans Bounce music and making people aware of me and my music and what I do. Like I said, I've been in a game for me. for 15 years now, and I've traveled all around the world, making people shake their asses and bounce and have a good time. And what is, we should, I'd like to hear some New Orleans bounce music.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he's working on that. Now, this is New Orleans bounce music, or could this just be bounce music? This is New Orleans bounce music. There's no other place in the world that does bounce music like this. And should we be twerking now? What should we be doing? Getting ready to shake. Shake your ass.

I feel like I don't have enough ass to shake. Is that your music or is that somebody else? That's me. That's you. And so you go all around the world playing and all around the country, but where is it? You know, sometimes you find out that it's huge in Brazil. Like they have great asses in Brazil. Oh, yeah.

They love it in Brazil. And they love to show off their ass. there last year and they had an awesome time. Lots of nice asses over in Brazil. I've realized that their culture is loosely based over how nice their asses are. Yeah, it's the butt culture over there. Every parade, even the ones that are like religiously based are like, hey, get in a thong. Like, what? This is for St. St. C. Cooley. St. Cluteus. St. Cludius. Get in that dung, man. It's like, we're at a funeral. Aren't we?

Now, getting a thong. Come on. Just carrying umbrella. A tasteful thong. A black thong. Brazil's the ass capital. It is. You know why, Drew, have I ever given you my theory?

Uh-oh. Oh, you've never mentioned any theories to me now. My theory on why the Brazilians like to show off the ass is because they have the perfect color for an ass. It's the perfect caramel color. Skin color. And they also have the right shape, but color. But it can get too black. It can get pasty white.

Yeah. You can lose it a little if it gets too black, it gets too white, it washes out. Yeah. They have a perfect caramel color. Put your hands down. It's freaking me out. They have perfect ass shading. I get it.

You know what I'm saying? You're right. You're right. I've never thought of that, but of course you're right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing worse than like a pink white ass, right? No, you're right. And pardon me, but occasionally it gets a little too black and you can't find it.

Carmel is the perfect. Right in the middle. Right in the middle. And that's they are culturally mandated to show it off. I get it. Yeah. What are they going to do? They can't help it.

That's, when you have, if you had the perfect ass color, you'd be walking around with the pants cut out in the back right now. You'd be suits. You'd be making your rounds at the hot. Surgery. Surgery. Everything would just be ass-centric for you. If you had the right color, but your ass is pink and white.

Yeah, it's pathetic. It's pathetic. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's my theory. You backing me up, Big Frida?

I'm backing you up. Pardon the pun? Yeah. My ass theory? Yes, I'm backing it up. All right. So, we got some phone calls to answer. Now, Big Frida, you grew up, you said, in the church, and singing in the church

and conducting and running the choir and all that stuff. How is this, and you grew up in New Orleans? Yeah, most definitely. And how's the family? doing? Are they cool? They accept you for who you are? Because sometimes when you come from the church. Yeah, they support me 100. They're behind me in everything that I do. And they've been behind me, you know, through my whole journey, which is a good thing, you know, when you have family support. Yeah. And my family definitely is behind me. Good. Because I think, I don't know if I would call it rare,

but my family wouldn't give a shit what I did, but they're atheist. You know, I'm saying I think growing up there in church is a little more job. judging going on. Yeah. Having them have a problem with something you did suggest they'd have to be, like, interested. They'd have to get off the sofa. They'd have to care, they have to be aware that you did anything. Right.

Right. Right. So, right. But if I grew up in the church, they might tend to judge. Or at least the community might. Your parents might be, you know, sitting on the couch. How's the community been, Big Freedom? The community has been awesome.

That's great. Supporters as well. from the beginning to now. And they have saw my progression throughout this whole time. So they're definitely behind me. New Orleans is just so happy that I'm putting New Orleans on the map and representing the culture of bounce music. They love it.

How's New Orleans doing now? We're doing good. I mean, the city's coming back big and better. And I mean, like, they're rebuilding. They're doing like all of these big old hospitals. It took a whole section of the city and did all these big beautiful buildings. It's coming back even stronger. I'm loving it.

You ever do, you ever been there for Marty Gras? No. I know you and Jimmy went that one time, remember? Yeah, we were on a guest, Grand Marshal's of a parade. Uh-huh. The problem is the original Grand Marshal was Tommy Lassorta. Tommy LaSota dropped out four days before the parade. You didn't want to make the trip to New Orleans, so they got me and Jimmy to be the Grand Marshal.

Unfortunately, they'd made up 10,000 bead sets with Tommy LaSota's medallion. Right. And so y'all had to throw his beads. Had to throw Tommy's beads. And Tommy the Sourda's head, if you can imagine, stamped into a plastic medallion. Yeah, a piece of eight or whatever they have hanging off that de bloom, you know, hang off that thing. It did not look like anything like me and Jimmy, especially circa 2000. So we're sitting on there for some reason you got to dress up like a pirate and put you on a pirate ship.

To me, it's not a wildly creative idea in terms of the parade go. And all we're doing is chucking these Tommy Laszora beads. People are insane. They're up on a frame ladders. They've got their kids, you know, five-year-old kids sitting on top of it. wearing like a basketball hoop around their neck, you know, with their head sticking through the backboard. You're chucking. I'm surprised people don't lose, you know, tear retinas and corneas and stuff like that.

And I'm, you know, I used to play a little ball. So it's a challenge to me is the parade is getting past the guys waving frantically, see if I can huck this. I didn't know you threw the left hand until just now. Huckin, man. I'm hucking. What's throwing? Fuck, yeah. I didn't know that.

That's interesting. Drew. Whenever we play those celebrity softball games, you see me hit all the home runs? What's my stance? I would see I have in my head I have you batting right but that's all right it's fine well you've never seen me right anything yeah yeah true you've seen me yeah I just not paying attention you know that all these years you know I'm I must do you think I got my creativity besides being a gem and I'm it's just science true yeah yeah all right how do you

right right right for me because there's true lefty oh you're a true lefty because a no no listen I've been with you for 20 years because a lefty a right that right's left-handed we'll do this. They would curl their hand around. Wow, true. All of these years. All these years. I didn't know you could write. I must have mentioned it a million times. I can't write, but I must have mentioned being left-handed 2,000 times.

Probably. I'd just never for whatever reason. That's just a list. All right, do your reach. All right. Anyway, all we did was Chuck Tommy Lasorda's beads out, and everyone who got them would get them, and then they would look down at them, and they would see Tommy LaSortis's face, although it didn't say Tommy Lasorda's face. And then they would look up super confused at me and Jimmy. Right. Who the hell is this? But our pirate ship was going by and they'd be like, what the F?

And I'd be like, Tommy Loh, shit, they're behind us. You know what I mean? Like I wanted to go back and tell everyone, Tommy Lassorda was supposed to. Anyway, another bizarre incident in my life. So New Orleans on the rise back. Yes, it is. Making a comeback. Good to hear.

I feel like New Orleans is, you know, one of the, I'm trying to, geez, if we did a power rankings, you know, of cities, you know, we need. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, we need Manhattan. Yeah, yeah. We need San Francisco. You know, Plentywood, Montana, maybe we don't need it.

Okay. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm not saying exterminate all the residents of Plentywood, Montana, but I'm just saying, if this is an arc and you can just take 10 cities. Right. You got to make a choice. I think New Orleans definitely will make sense. New Orleans is going to make the cut. Seattle make the cut.

You know what I mean? Try to figure out those cities. And New Orleans is probably, dare I say, the most unique city in the U.S.? It just doesn't, like, belong to the U.S. Yeah, at least U.S. city in the U.S. It's the most sort of European and everything else. Everything else is really what it is, because it's got the connection to the history all way back to Andrew Jackson pushing the Brits out there.

It's sort of fantastic. You know what's weird if you eat the sort of the, like the sort of the, jumbalaya that is like New Orleans. It's like a metaphor. I've never made you. It's no, no. Yeah, but the idea of like it's not clam chowder. Clam chowder's New England. It's like put the

clams in the chowder, leave it alone. This is take everything and put it in one pot and then put a whole bunch of spice in it. It's a metaphor. I just drew a picture with my tongue, man. See, I couldn't do that if I wasn't left-handed. Sniff. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We got some phone calls.

Anything speaking out? you there, too? One, that's the guy I want to talk to. All right. Called back. Corey? Yeah. 38. Maine. What's going on? How are you guys this morning? Good, man. Yeah, thanks for taking my call. I guess my call is directed to Dr. Drew.

Morba, Adam. Please chime in. Don't worry. Yeah, some 38. Married and married for a while. We have almost a two-year-old child. I'm all set. I'm good with one kid. My wife grew up in a family of five. She'd like to have more than one, but understands if we're both not into it, then that's the way it should be.

So I'd like to just ensure that it doesn't happen and get myself of a septumy. But she isn't in agreement. Yeah, so I talked to my doctor about it, and his suggestion was if she's not on board to not do it. His comment was that in his experience, any guy that goes and gets a vasectomy and his wife isn't on board, marriage is done within five years. So we've agreed to not talk about it and just let it sit for a year and then we'll... Well, what are you doing for birth control now? Condoms.

Yeah, that doesn't feel right in a marriage, doesn't it? It's weird, but I got to sort of side with that guy's physician that, It does kind of sound familiar to me. I wouldn't say it with that kind of an emphatic, like five years. Well, yeah, but it's not that the vasectomy is what causes. It's closing the door on a difference so harshly that it sort of doesn't leave room for compromise. And I could see where that could have reverberating effects on the relationship. But it's a more global problem.

It's not the vasectomy that gets you divorced. It's you basically disagreeing on, yes, is for a set. action that is so profound. But here's the deal. Ask that physician if it's been published. If there's actual data. Oh, who cares? No, no, listen.

He wants to know. Let me answer the damn question. The, if he finds any published literature in the urological literature that suggests that, then believe it with great concern. Otherwise, it's a little. Don't bother. I sort of get pissed. I sort of agree with them.

Drew. That's a stupid thing to do. No, no. Doctors are happy to do that shit. No, they're not happy. Yes, you are. Hey, could you do some shit for free? No, no, no, if you actually...

Look up some stuff. Is there literature? No, there's no literature. Well, then you look online, Corey. It's like go to PubMed. It's called PubMed.com. Or just look at PubMed. And then look up vasectomy, marital satisfaction or something and see what it's...

Look, look at 63% of people that blah, blah, blah. So who cares are? He asks the fucking question. Look up how many highway fatalities as well. And then see if you want to drive to work tomorrow. according to Drew. Okay? All right, well, thanks guys.

Well, don't laugh at him. Wait a minute. Now, here's a question. I'm sorry, I was tuned out. You have kids. She comes from the family of a bunch of kids. You've got the one kid. Is she saying, I want more children?

Yes. Yeah, she thinks, you know, adding another child in our life would bring, you know, satisfactory. All right. I want to ask Drew a question here, a moral question. A moral question. Frida, you jump in as well. I have a boy and a girl, and I love having a boy and a girl.

And I love just how I love going to the backyard and throwing the ball around with my boy because he loves it. I had a conversation, Drew, with my daughter last night. You guys are good again, right? We're very good. And like a single tear just fell out of her eye, and it was of joy. Like, and it just made me want to weep. It was this thing where she said, my wife and son had taken up the rest of the house working on the Shaquille O'Neal fucking book report that never ends. My daughter came walking into the bedroom where I was and said, I want to get my ears pierced.

She's eight. We'll get my ears pierced. And mommy said that, go ask you. Perfect. Well, Mommy, I know what go ask you means I'm working on this book report. I don't want to deal with this. And then Tammy's getting her ear pierced, her friend and blah, blah, blah. Is Cammy also?

I mean, Cammy, sir. Oh, yeah. And I just said, look, in Italian, here's the thing. Isn't Cammy the stripper name? Is that? All right, easy now. The friends of the family. The point is this.

I said, you're beautiful. You're going to be beautiful. Your mom's beautiful. I can see your cut of you already. You're long, you're tall, you're strong. You'll be very attractive. And you're going to like the clothes and you're going to like the hair and you're going to do all that stuff. I don't want to be that.

I don't want that to be your life. I want you to achieve. I want you to be a doctor. I want you to be a lawyer. I want you to do things. I want you to follow your dreams. Don't get caught. Now, I know a certain amount of your life is going to be dedicated to the earrings and the makeup and the hair and the dresses.

and all the stuff. Did you have this conversation like this? This is almost exactly what you said. Yeah, but I don't want that to be your life. You got too much. You're strong, man. You got like a really strong physical core. Your brain is great.

You're super creative. There's a lot of stuff to do. And boys and society and everybody's going to be kind of pushing you into spending a lot of time in front of the mirror. And we're not going to be able to avoid that. There's going to be a certain amount of that. But let's not make it who you are because you got so much more going on. There's so much to do. Let's, you know, look, you can get earrings.

You'll get earrings. That'll be fine. But I don't want that to be because you're so strong because there's so much in you. There's so much to do. And she just stood. She was just standing in front of the bed and she was looking at me and just like a single tear came down her eye. And we just like hugged it out. It was just, it was beautiful.

and I think she heard me But I don't know what would you... But you're a sexist, dude. You want women to be women, man. I know how you are. You want to put the women down. I want her to make her... You want them to make less, a wage less than the man.

You want them to do... I know you. It would be nice if she earned a little something. But I want her to explore her potential. Of course. Whatever that potential is. I think you've done her a huge favor. And we'll probably want to revisit that through her life.

But every beautiful women I know, does not want to be told that. Then we told they're smart. They want to tell them to tell them. They want to be told all the things you told your daughter. Yeah, well, that's when you're hitting on them, you're weirdo. No, no. I'm just, I'm just, that's, and by the same token, women that are not so beautiful want to know, they're beautiful also.

They want to know that they aren't just what the world thinks of them, you know? Right. But what I'm saying is, is as a woman in our society, you're going to spend X, look, if you really want to break it down, if you want to take this, this chasm, you know, between men and women and success and pay and all that kind of stuff. My preparation to leave the house involves brushing my teeth and wiping my ass with a damp spent gym sock and then walking out and putting the same clothes on I wore three days in a row and leaving the house. That's my prep.

My wife has an hour of prep to do. That's one less hour she could be at work. doing making the rounds inventing something whatever it is it's X amount of hours at the end of your life it's X amount of hours spent working on something yeah and I want my and look my daughter's going to put her earrings in and she's going to put her makeup on but I don't want that to be who she is Big Frida totally understand you do a good job right yeah definitely yeah and I that see that's why I don't like it when we constantly say to every little girl, you're beautiful, you're beautiful. No, don't work.

But they do need a certain amount of that too. You're beautiful. I know, but it's such a shit message for people who are trying to empower women, oftentimes other women, saying to people, you're beautiful, you're beautiful, we're all beautiful. You're all, okay, first off, when we're all beautiful, then fuck it. No one's beautiful, number one. But stop focusing on you're beautiful, you're beautiful, you're beautiful and start focusing on, first off, there's going to be a guy out there. He may not be beautiful or another girl or whoever.

They'll be attracted to you. Yeah. You'll work it out. Yeah. There'll be somebody out there for you. They may not be. Yeah. They may not be beautiful.

Good. Maybe there are a lot of other things that are better than beautiful because beautiful goes away. Let's focus on what's inside and not so much of beautiful. You are such a sexist, racist, racist, bad. You're beautiful. Everyone's beautiful. We just got back from Kevin Costner's ranch. Ooh, name dropper. Jesus. Well, I worked it into my speech with her. I left it out of this version, but I worked it in.

I told her, we just came back. Kevin Costner's got acreage on the beach, and it's beautiful. And he has a cabin there. And he invited my whole family just to stay. On the beach, and it was transcend. Oh, I saw the pictures, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We were running around. We were playing football.

We were riding bikes. We were having a real time there. The dog was running around. We were having a time. A little work on that. A little work on that on the patio. It came up a time or two, but I was like, God damn it. I'm going to go drown myself in this fucking ocean if we get into Shaquille's book report again.

But I said, no, you know what I said during the speech? Because we just come back from the, from Kossner's place. I said, that guy, Mr. Costner, he's telling me about dancing with wolves and wrote it and nobody wanted to produce it. And he couldn't find a company to do it, blah, blah, blah. So he honchoed it himself. He said, that guy was out, he's outdoing. He's not in front of the mirror. Did you talk about Waterworld?

I like Waterworld. The point is this. I said, let's be like Mr. Costner. Following the dream, creating, outdoing, making, and still doing and still, that's what I want. That's what I want from you or for you. That was my inspired speech to her. Mm-hmm. Nice.

Okay. Big Freda. Yeah. You ever play catch with Kevin Costner? Nope. Drew, how about you? Does Adam make you feel diminished when he talks to you? That was a real nice moment.

I bet. I'll tell you, we talked about before, but my daughter has really come around. That won't last. Anyway. No, you know. What? No, it will. And I figured out why.

Why? Because she's maturing. And as she's maturing, she's understanding what I do and what my role is. When she was five, I was just a dude who left in the morning and came home tired at night. Right. Where were you? I was having fun with Mommy. Yeah.

Now she gets where I was and what I do, and she respects. it. And I can see that turning. Don't give me that look. I see it turning in her that she's respecting what I'm trying to do. There will naturally be some disrespect on the other side of that. It just will be at 14. No, at a certain point, no, that's when she's going to hate mom. Oh, oh, mom again. Yeah, she'll get special special stuff. But you will get a certain amount of disrespect as well. It's natural. It's normal. All right. Big Frida. You'll not get anything like mom gets. Any kids? No kids. Yeah. Good. Now, here's my question.

Uh-oh. Here's my, for Drew and Big Freedom. Okay. Where do you guys come down ethically on this? I know a lot of people that, you know, they have a son or they have a daughter. And like I said earlier 20 minutes ago, it's really nice to experience both because they're so different. And your relationship is so different. And I don't know that either one of them could fill either one's void.

But sometimes a friend of mine has a daughter. and then his wife gets pregnant, it's a girl. And I kind of feel a little bit bad because now it's like you have the experience of two daughters, but you don't have the son-daughter experience. In the wild, no matter how much society says we're all the same, they're very different. Yeah. Okay. Where do you come down on spinning the sperm and getting yourself a son or a daughter?

Big fan. Big fan. Yeah. You don't, that's not playing God or ethically anything. or any of that. My kids are the product of technology. We were, you know, in vitro. Yeah.

And it's just another technology. It's just, you know, we're alive because of technology. It took some antibiotics the other day. I didn't die of my skin infection. And there's lots of things where we're doing stuff like that. It's no different. It's all the same to me, pretty much. If you had, if you knew a couple that had two sons.

I've advised it many times. And they said, we'd like a daughter. Go do it. Go do it. Spin it. Okay. Spin out those Y chromosomes. Is that how we doing?

What we don't know is. What we don't know is. is whether or not it's going to affect the herd. If it's a lot of that going on, because I theoretically... I mean China, but not here. Theoretically, the more... Control you have of it?

No, no, no, no. The sperms that reach the egg are going to be the better survivors. So theoretically, you might be... Screwing with that a little bit in terms of the health of the herd. So you beat off on a potter's whale? Exactly.

And you spin it. It's what they call it spinning. Patrick Swayze's ghost. Leans over. you. We hear some unchained melody by the righteous brothers. You feel touched. So how does it technically work? Oh, I, it's just, it's probably, listen, I've never done it. I just think it's a, they have these gradients you can put, you know, and all kinds of things through that allow you to spin out

certain concentration, certain densities. I'm sure it's just something like that. And is it, and we'll just spin it out and then you'll know you'll get a boy or girl. Frida, where do you come down on this? Well, I mean, I think that, you know, definitely having a boy and a girl would be, you know, a good sense in two girls or two boys or whatever that way you have a chance to have the diverse of female and male. But do you feel it's ethically appropriate to mess with the sperm such that you can get one or the other? No, I just think just let it happen naturally and whatever happens. But then you end up with three boys. Then keep on trying. You might get that girl someday.

See, I don't want to keep trying Because I don't want six kids That's my point Let it happen naturally I'd like it to happen naturally But we're saying if it ain't happen naturally It's not for the technology Why?

I mean, not on kids You know, it's just like I said Whatever happens You know, we go to humping And whatever comes out of that hump If it's a boy or girl We're going to let that pop on out that belly I'm not going to mess with it

Technology-wise What if you can't get pregnant? Do you go for fertility treatments? Of course. I mean, if you can't get... What's the difference? But you just, you can't get pregnant. So that's a difference when you can't get pregnant and you really want to have a baby. But just have, you know, if you're able to be fertile and have that baby, why not just be surprised at what it is? What if we're dependent on fertility treatment? And just one of the steps, we just add a gradient

and sprint out the Y sperm and... All right, Drew. This is going to... I'm spinning out in this. All right. Well, you brought it up. All right. Jesus. I'm tired of my own question.

I have two. All right. Scott 47 from San Antonio. Adam Drew. How are you guys doing today? Good. All right. Scott, what's up?

Hey, my dad lives in Miami and my wife and I go on cruises or my brother and I have an in a dolphin liking football game. Hang on. I did not hear a damn word he said. He did string him together a little bit. Wow. Say that again. Somebody playing football on one on vacation, Miami.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. Can you guys hear me? Yeah, I hear you. Go ahead. My dad lives in Miami, and we go down to visit him, but he won't let us say at his house because he's a hoarder. Ah.

Mm-hmm. Have you seen the hoarding? We used to be able to go inside the house, and, you know, he's sort of an OCD clean freak, so it's not dirty. It's just cluttered. All right. Drew. Yeah. You're all for interventions for drug addicts, right?

Yeah. What about interventions for anything? All right. Horters. Yeah. Here's my thing with hoarding is we do way too much. Oh, I've seen hoarding. I know what hoarding is. Horting, all that stuff you see on TV, almost always, that is a symptom of a bigger psychiatric illness.

Well, yeah, everything sort of is, right? But people go, oh, we're just going to clean her house out and everything's going to be fine. What's important to me is that he get a proper assessment. You see what's going on here. You don't even know what you're dealing with what you see is the hoarding. And sometimes it is just the hoarding, and you just clean them up. No, I don't think it ever just is. Rarely.

He was always cluttered, but then when his mother died, they kind of went home down overboard. No, no, no, no. You said OCD. And he maybe has obsessed compulsive disorder, and that might need treatment. It may have you treated that, all the courting would go away, or he'd look at his house and go, Christ, he got to take care of this, clean this up a little bit. So I just think the important thing is get him properly treated. And by the way, he must be, what, in his 70s now?

Yes, not 75. He might have had a little phlegic stroke or something. could be getting mad. There can be biological, you know, neurological things that make this worse. So does he see a doctor regularly? He actually had a medical issue in the home health care. He had to come to the house, but he had to go to the neighbor's house because he wouldn't even let the home health. Yeah, see, you got to tip off the home health worker to really do an intervention here because they're getting near to him. They've got to get in there. They've got to find out what's going on.

Yeah. You know, you hate to be the bad guy. You know, he's got to be a bad guy. You're not being a bad guy. You're helping a person that's. It's impaired. Yeah, you're being a good guy. Go ahead and be a good guy. We call his doctor, start with the home health people, urge them to intervene and get them going. True. I have a disease, which is the opposite of hoarding.

Expulsion. I just walk around going, what's that doing there? Box. When did show up? I guess it's been about three days. Three days? Oh, maybe a week. What are we doing with it?

We're going to put it in the back. Well, go put it in the back. Yeah. What are we doing? What's going on? Have you always been that way? No. Okay, you know what that is?

Because I think you and I... I grew up in that. No, no, I grew up in confusion and chaos, and then I realized I don't want that in my life. I got a little bit of that, too. But mostly, it's how I handle my... That's why I have this goddamn phones going all the time. It's the same phenomenon for me. It's I'm so busy, I can't let anything get my way and accumulate.

Everyone's got to be taken care of now. Isn't that kind of what you're doing? It's like, I don't need to sit around because it'll come back around. I won't have time for it. You have a syndrome where you run scared. I have a little bit of that, but when it comes... You're mainly a pussy. Mainly.

Mainly. Mainly. Mainly. Primarily. No, primarily. Primarily. There's 10% of you that's organ. 90% is pussy.

Are you primarily pus? I can't, I can't say. You take sides. I'm not taking sides. All right. Well, no. What? He should be a politician.

In Orleans, he's a good politician. You got a future in this. I'm a run from there. I think it'd be, I think you, I think there something there. Is it Nagy or Nagin? Who's in the, who's in jail? Is he still in jail? Megan.

Nagin needs to get out of it. What's he in prison now? I think he is. I know a guy, by the way, I know Mike August is from New Orleans. And he just, in Louisiana. He just said, oh, look, the one governor goes to jail and the other one checks in, while the other one's coming out. I'm an honest person in there.

That's just how that politics works in Louisiana. Well, yeah, I think this is very corrupt. Very corrupt. The guy who lived there just explains that's standard protocol. No, I know. I actually weirdly kind of felt it walk around New Orleans. To me, the way the buildings are even sort of set up cornered. All right.

Let me explain why your place. I'm supposed to. All right. So when we used to do Loveline, you know, producer Ann would come in and go, you guys need to do a spot for this affiliate. And Drew would go, give it to it. Give it to it. And I'd go, do it during the commercial. This is why I left your screening early from Roebartland.

And he'd go, let's do it now. Let's do it now. Yeah. And I'd see, we have five or ten commercial breaks between now and the end of the show. It'll take 30 seconds. We'll knock it out then. And Drew was like, ha, ha, ha, ha. So then, and I like it except for, and I wouldn't, if we had to do it after the show and tack on two minutes through that, that drive me insane.

That drive me insane. But because I know we have a two-hour window, we'll knock it out in the body that you, it's driving nuts. And then we'd go to the first commercial break and you go, okay, let's do that. for that fill in. I'd go, relax and we get some coffee. Let me not shit on your point and support your point, except that the pussiness is the lack of confidence that I will get it done if I don't get it done now. There's kind of a weird confidence.

That's kind of what's in my head. But listen, I have the same phenomenon when it goes to clutter. It feels the same to me. Just I got to get it done now. Take care of this now because I know later, I may not be distracted. It might not get to it. I may have other things that have accumulated, take precedent. Take care of it now.

Okay. That's all I'm saying. How are you doing with clutter, Big Frida? I'm definitely trying to keep the clutter out of my life. No clutter. Just trying to keep everything on a clean slate. It would be nice. I know.

I do that, by the way, I'm a nonstop. I'm really like one of those Polaris machines that just goes around your swimming pool. You know that thing they invented that just on the tether that just constantly just going around? I just constantly walking a circle and I go, what is that doing? What is that? What's going on? Label the shelves. put the shirts with the shirts, put the mangraia with the mangraia,

and then I come back and it's always a mess again. Fred, you travel the world with the bathroom. Max Padda, how many conversations have I had regarding that topic? A ton, even to the point where he gets mad if someone leaves their coffee mug in the car, just you got to take that out too. You don't want to leave that in there. Drew leaves his mug in the studio every single time. Yeah, I probably do, huh?

Do I? Absolutely. Oh, I will work on that. Oh, why listen to me? Why listen to me? I'm trying to work out it, dude. Hey, but listen, I'm noticing on your Corolla show board here coming up, all this crazy traveling out there?

I see London on there. Is that London, England? You're going to London? The fuck. I do my own bounce stuff. Frieda goes all over the world with this stuff. That's what I'm saying. Are you going to, seriously?

Well, I'm going to do a show, yeah. Doing some shows in London. How did that happen? I got fans there, man. Hey, man. I'm international, man. I'm like Big Freedom, man Where are you going?

I don't know. September or something like that. I want to go. Let's all go. All right. The Goodwood Festival is there, which is what I'm going for. I got, I got, got, got. Now that makes sense.

Did it come to focus? No. Yep. The Wood Festival? Car. It sounds better. It sounds better. It sounds like you said Good Wood.

He did say good one. He did say good one. Like, I want to go there. You'd fit right in. That's right. You would fit. You would blend it. seamlessly. All right. Now, Gary, don't show any pictures of the attendees of the Goodwood

revival, revival race, not the hill climb, the revival, but when you find the right picture of Goodwood, you can put it up on the screen so that Big Frida can see how seamlessly he would blend in. Gary's put up here at September 10th at the Bloomsbury Theater. Sounds very British. That's where I'll be performed. I'm also working on my next documentary, which has to do with Ford versus Ferrari at LaMaw. So there's a lot of English guys who I need to talk to because they started. Like I said, it's all coming into focus now for me.

Yeah, a little work. You're going there for cars. Some car stuff. I don't want to be my English fans. I think this is my dog hair. I just pull the dog hair off. Thank you for doing that. All right.

So, yeah, and Road Hard, the movie's out. It's all over the country. I mean, it's not out yet. but it's coming out this Friday so you guys can look for that online and all that stuff. All right. We got a question up there. Who do we want to talk? Let's go to line three.

Line three? Very interesting. Okay. Line three. Patrick? 50? Yes. Atlanta?

Yeah, that's me. Hey, Adam. Hey, Drew. Hey, there. What's going on? Hi. Adam, so we share something interesting. None of the maybe.

Me and you are both born on the same day, exactly 50 years old. Mm-hmm. And it's fun listening to. because all your cultural references, your frustrations, I can see them. They mirror mine. And I just go, yes. Are you, someone out there? You're Gemini.

I knew it. I am. I am. You kids, boy and a girl. I have people, I have, like, chicks come up to me sometimes and go, you're a Gemini. I knew your Gemini. I said, sweetie, shut up. Who the fuck are you talking to?

I now think you're an imbecile. What? Shouldn't we tell people to play that one a little close? closer to the vest. Like, hey, hey. Just think it's yourself. Well, first, Joyce, don't think it at all. Secondly, don't walk up to old dudes who are smart and go, you're a Libra.

Our sun and moon are rising together. I get my creativity. I knew your. It's like, sweetie, just get my coffee so I can get the fuck out of here. What are we talking about? Don't share your crazy and sane thoughts. And I'll say the same thing about the people that do the, there were no Jews in either one of the towers on 9-11. Did you know?

You guys shut the fuck up, too. All you're doing is announcing that you're fucking retarded. Shut up. Jesus Christ. Do you get that? I mean, people go up to you. You're a doctor, right?

They're talking about their stupid. Your wife's dumbero friends and start talking about their Aquarius signs and shit. I know. What are we doing here, Drew? Okay. I just, aren't we doing them a service when I tell them to shut the fuck up?

Everyone thinks they're idiots? The great human experience. It's not so great. Take it all there. Patrick? Yes, sir. And by the way, you found out I was left-handed? Yeah. You know how many left-handed people? You're left-handed? I'm left-handed, too.

You know, we share... No, we don't. We don't share anything. Shut up. That is for sure. Okay. Are you left-handed? No, I'm right-handed. See, that's where you get your creativity.

No, I get my creativity. I share with freedom. You share your right-handed. I share, yes. Me and the other 10 billion Gemini left-handers on the planet. We all share the same what? Jesus Christ. Go ahead, Patrick. Where were we?

So you guys always are talking about our cultural condition and where we go, where we're going to this country. Drew, you mentioned something the other day about how angry you notice young kids are these days. I did. I noticed that there's this, it's a change. I just noticed a change in the character of the audiences I'm talking to. And it's not all of the kids. Some of the kids are better. It's kind of what I always predicted. There would be sort of the shifting or moving of groups. And about 20 percent, this was the big surprise to me. seemed to be sort of entitled and, I don't know, enthusiast in this sense that the old, the way the 19th century would call enthusiasm. Enthusiasm was always considered like excessive, almost fanaticism.

These kids, like, they're very entitled, they're very control, but they seem like they could become fanatical. Like if Hitler were to get in front of them, they'd go, yes, yes, and go with it. It scares me. It's kind of that kind of weird quality they have. So that's what I was talking about. Anyway. You're worried about ISIS recruiting people. No, not ISIS.

Like maybe we'll have our own weird thing going. I don't know. It's just weird. Go ahead. I'm sorry. And Adam, you touched on it today on your podcast on your show about, I guess I'm kind of going all over. I look at the cultural how we're changing from. Hold on.

Hold on, hold on. Big Fraynor. There's a picture of the Goodwood Festival. Man, would he fit in? That's the Goodwood Festival. See the British folks with the hats? looks like my fair lady. Yeah.

They don't do a lot of balance it over there. That is the most white, British, tweeted, and by tweed, not tweed, tweed, tweed jacket, straw-hatted, stuffed shirts I've ever seen in my life. Yes, nice job, Gary. Right? One big one, I think, better. Okay.

But good. Nice. Good. There we go. There you go. All right, yes. Everyone wears tweed jackets and caps. And the mechanics wear white jumpsuits with usually ties underneath them.

But they carry purses. Look at that. All right. You see that? All right. Where are we? You can get rid of the picture. Patrick, go ahead.

Sorry, Patrick. Oh, that's fine. So, anyway, so I read this article today, and you know how you find things these days that make you want to scream out loud, and this is one. It says that millennials are now redefining what they call relationships, and it's no longer a boyfriend, girlfriend, it's a dating. partner. Yeah. And it says, and it's, when you read the article, I'll paraphrase, it sounds like they like the sex.

They like the people. They've tried, they've tried having a relationship, and it hasn't really worked out. And this sounds more from the girl's born of view. Yeah. And it hasn't always worked out. But they want the physical connection, i.e. the sex, and they want someone to be there. They need to make a phone call at 2 in the morning when they're drunk, but they don't want to do the hard work.

Well, Patrick, it just seems like friends with benefits, which was another weird thing. It reminds me too much of me, knowing me. That's interesting. Well, no, you know, here's what we're into. Here's what we're, here's what's going on now, I think. We're into this redefining stuff. It happens all the time, though. No, I know.

It's been, it's been going on a lot lately. Every generation has that. It does. Right. It does. And it doesn't, here's what I want to explain to people. Redefining things does not get you. any closer to the brass ring of life.

No, it doesn't help you. It doesn't do anything. We used to do it. Remember, a million years ago, we'd be doing Loveline. Yeah. And I'd say, all right, so you're a rape victim, rape survivor. Yeah. And I said, okay.

Yeah. But, okay, it's not going to take away what happened or change your, okay. But you corrected me. Right. That's good. That makes you feel powerful. But that doesn't help you at all. And remember we had a conversation once where I said, so are you blind?

And they said, seeing impaired. And I said, I don't know if that means you can drive or read or do you have an extra large print on your Bible. I remember that finally that same caller finally went, well, I'm blind. I said, you could have saved us 10 fucking minutes and said, you're blind. Seeing impaired means, it could mean you have one bad idea. That's so funny. Yeah. Sammy Davis Jr. was seeing impaired. He had a glass eye. He's not blind. He could drive his Stutz bear cat or whatever he got around in.

That's fair. I thought of one of those since 1979. Sammy drove some cool cars. But still, it's not good. What I'm saying is that doesn't fix your eyes. You're redefining it to me. I noticed when I was about 20 years out of medical school that the new generation of residents started not just redefining terminology, but actually pronouncing things differently. Of course.

They had to have their own pronunciation for things. It was nomenclature, not nomenclature. Nomenclature. It's like, really? Is that the same? No, they'll let you say, I write. for a while and then they'll go Iraq.

Yeah, yeah. You know, and let's say Iran and then they'll go to Iraq. This is how generations define themselves. That's all right. They just have their own nominclature. If you're round long enough, you can watch it go all the way back. It'll flip back.

So what happens is all the pretentious douchebags in the city would call it the Khan Film Festival. And then eventually you start calling it the Cannes Film Festival. And then they switch it to Cannes. And then they'll switch back again. Same with Demi Moore. Demi? That's right.

It's about correcting other people. And my thing is that while it may make you feel powerful to correct me, it doesn't get you shit. But it, no, it defines me as a generation relative to you. It's a fucking time. Old man. It makes you feel bad, old man. You're wasting fucking time. You're wasting time correcting me.

But Patrick, it just seems like Friends with Benefits. And Friends with Benefits was when that term was developed, we all went, friends with benefits. That's disgusting. Well, now it's dating partner. It sounds like the fact that even contemplating the idea of dating. The word dating has reemerged. And what I used to say, dating was a healthy phenomenon.

They would go, fucking old man, dating. That's what, leave it the beaver did. It's like, okay, well, now guess what? The word dating is back. That's good. Matt. 20, Palm Springs. Hi.

What's going on? I'm a huge fan of the show. Adam, your wisdom has literally alleviated my depression over the years. So thank you. Thank you. Yeah. That's frightening. I just wanted to ask if you experienced depression after ending your football career

and how it affected you and maybe how you kind of dealt with that. Hold on. I'm interested in a career, but I experience a lot of depression. I'm interested in know, A, what's going on with math, because that sounds interesting. But B, you get depression every year one hour following the Super Bowl. I don't anymore. You don't? No.

Why? Because I have kids and I have a light. And when did that stop? Three years ago, you mentioned it. Well, what happens is whatever goes on that you don't want to go on in your life, whether it's getting a parking ticket, the football season ending when you're a fan of football, or Christmas being over, or back to school or Sunday night. You hate your work and you've got to show up early Monday morning. It's all a reflection of your life. Yeah.

So what I'm saying is this. If you like your career, if you like your job, if you like your coworkers, then what's Sunday night? No big whoop. It might be a good thing. I'm looking forward to it. If you have a relationship and that person dumps you, but you're strong, you're attractive, you're living your life, you have a fruitful career, travel, your friends, network of family and what have you, it's not so devastating. It's, you know, you'll meet somebody else. Yeah, you're not happy, but it's not devastating.

And so the more your life, the lower your life is in general, the more devastating because all I had was football. And then when that went away, I had a crappy job, a crappy apartment, no money and no insurance. Right. And a crappy pickup truck. Did you ever a down period in your life, freedom? Yeah, definitely. I would say I had a couple of down periods in my life. How'd you get through them?

Just staying focused and talking to God, you know, keeping and staying grounded. That's what Adam did. But also just, you know, it's about who you surround yourself by in those down times. I think that you agree with. That's people, my God, the people that don't have friends, the people that don't have that group. But your friends would crush you, push you down. beat the shit out of me, but unless we burn some calories. That's all.

All right. All right. We're going to wrap this up. Hey, Matt. Yeah. Yeah. After I stopped playing football, I got very depressed because it was the only thing I sell that.

And then I went from playing football to digging ditches. And that was depressing. If I went from playing football to working at a law firm and getting laid, I probably wouldn't, you know, if I went with Tom Cruise behind the bar and cocktail, I wouldn't be, it's Depressed. I went to a construction site and got in a hole with a bunch of Mexicans and started digging ditches. So, thus, I was depressed. Yes. All right. Yep. So, Matt, you listen to me, and now thus you're not depressed, yes? Very true. All right. Good note to go out on.

Nice of heaven, man. Thanks. Thanks for having me, guys. So until next time, Sam Crollo for Big Frida, little Dr. Drew, Chris Max Patton, Gary Haffthard, saying, Mahalo.