The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #295: Newman DVD Disaster Pt. 1

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Looking good, sir. Mandate, thank you. Get it on. Yeah. Shave, put a sweater on. Took a shower? No. I'm terrified. I was down to rinse every nine or ten days and now it's over. Now it's over. I was down to rinse every nine or 10 days, and now it's over. Now it's over. The new data came and it's over. As I showered, I thought, women don't dig that. They're just not into that no shower thing, I don't think.

And that's probably the reason men started showering in the first place. Lynette has a great capacity to put up with that. She's had to learn to tolerate a lot. No, if you say that, yes, if you, please, tolerating it from the gym in Pasadena right now while I'm at work. The point is this, if you say to my wife, like, because that's the first person you turn to, right? Like, oh my God, the guy showers every two weeks. What's it like sleeping in the same bed with that guy? She says, and she's anything if she's honest, she just goes...

She goes, who's Adam? No, she goes, she'll go, Adam doesn't smell. That'll be her answer. That's true. That is actually true. You don't. Listen. Which is you're lucky that way, but not the average person that's not the way it is. Okay, good. Have fun in the sick bay. The sick bay.

Well, everyone's sick but me. Everyone's always sick but me. I'm never sick. Ever sick and I don't have, by the way, all this other stuff that goes along with, oh, dry, flaky winter skin with the chalky elbows and the psoriasis and the over the scrub and the dandruff and the stuff and the stuff and the thing and my lips are so dry, my fat not moisturizing. And then, you know what happens? It's tard on tard crime.

Because let me explain something. It's like every retard went to the ground links. It's not only that, but It's like every retard went to the groundlings. It's not only that, but feeble-minded number one person goes, you know, it's the winter because they run the heat during the winter. And then tard number two chimes in. My bed is right next to the vent. But it's the human brain always trying to make sense of everything. Everything's got to have an explanation, right?

We're always, always, always. Why this happened? Well, I'm done in a million. All right, I did it a million years ago. You taking a bunch of soap and scrubbing your face every night cannot be what nature wanted because nature invented soap 10 minutes ago and invented faces 100 years ago. Or maybe even a thousand. The point is, is the face existed two billion years before the soap and the hand sanitizer

and all the other nonsense. So what are we doing? Long lives, barely out of childhood. I'm just saying all the scrubbing, all the whatevering, all the everything. It's just Procter and Gamble has invented this. They make it for feeble-minded people, and that's who's buying the soap. Hey, a little soap's okay, though.

Oh, relax. I was just saying, listen, I've now, I don't know what to say. I just wanna say, I have a podcast at doctoroo.com with Vinnie Torterich up right now, and everyone is hot on this. People are calling and writing in saying they lost weight since the last time we had him on this show. Yeah. And we got a little more. Also, I've got a Bobcat. I had a conversation with Bobcat

last weekend. When's that going up, Kerry? Both white. Yeah. Deep, really emotional. I was very affected. He's a guy's, I was going to say still waters run deep. It's super loud, but obnoxious. Former loud, obnoxious waters. loud obnoxious waters, now still. Running deeper. Running deeper. All right. He talked about his relationship with Robin Williams in interesting and tender ways.

I didn't know they had that kind of relationship. And the whole thing with his Lewy body dementia was just heartbreaking. Lewy body dementia? You didn't know that's what he died of? Turns out. Oh, oh, oh, no, I didn't know. You were rolling right into

Bobcat and no Rob Williams had a lot of debate let's pin up Bobcat he's gonna be up by January 4th okay all right so look forward to that all right Drew yeah now I got a bunch of shit I thought you all right all right you should tell me everyone's like ah relax relax enjoy the relax. But you tell me if I A, shouldn't be pissed or what level of pissed I should be. However I answer that question, what difference will it make? No, I'm gonna describe it to you.

No, no, but if I answer it, will it change? I'm just curious, will it change? If you give me, can I say something? Please, please. When I hear something that sounds like nonsense, I always kind of go, oh, come on. And then when I hear the explanation, oftentimes I go, oh, like the other day I was driving along the car and they go, there's a mass murder every day. Every day in this country, there's a mass murder. And I just think of myself. Yes, they typify, they qualify anything over a body

and a half as a mass murder. So every time there's a drive-by, a gangbanger domestic dispute where the guy stabs his wife and then his mother-in-law, that's a mass that has, there's not, not Columbine. No, No, it's they're calling a mass their definition You know, and then when I hear there's a rape every 11 seconds in this country All I do is I think of it and then at some point somebody says a rape is defined Is any sexual encounter where the person doesn't check nine boxes and a government provided checklist? I go, okay, and then I drive on. Because it makes sense to me.

Yeah, then it makes sense. Right. So if you do something... Let's define your terms. That's right. People do not define their terms, ever. If you do, if you, whatever you say to me makes sense to me, then I'll not, I'll not go into my misery spiral. Okay? Used to be shame pod spirals. No, now I'm angry. I will go into that or not go into it. All right, we'll finish your tell me. Should we be angry? Should we be

moderately angry? Should we be sort of angry? Okay, you tell me. We worked very long and hard on our documentary and... The Paul Newman documentary. Yes. It didn't get in a Sundance. It found no buyers in it that was not going anywhere, air anywhere. There was no TV network that would even buy it. And at the beginning, I was like, this isn't me. This is Paul Newman. He's a big movie star. Surely it'll get in a Sundance. But if not Sundance, somebody's going to have to maybe even HBO or Showtime or something.

Some network's going to have to buy it because it's Paul Newman. Nobody bought it, everyone passed. It's weird to me that, speaking of Bobcats in my mind, I love the Barry Kremen thing, call me lucky that he did, but that's not for everybody. You know what I mean? That's not a mass consumption. As much as I recommend it, I could see where a buyer would go, eh, man, man, man, man. Yours seems more widely digestible than that one even,

and that one's prominently displayed on, I think, Netflix right now. Well, you're thinking like a heterosexual white male who's interested in making money, not boutique, hey, here's what we're, you know. When Sundance puts the roster together, they wanna go this one. It needs a better marquee on it you say Sundance puts together a documentary roster this one's about molestation this one's about

genital mutilation it's not this one's about a guy burning fossil fuel yeah going in a circle 70s oh and vulcanized rubber. Sorry. All right, okay. Yeah, Rich Whitey going in a circle. All right. All right. I'm fine with all that. Then we, at some point decide, well, you know what? We'll get this thing onto Velocity, the network owned by I think-

What's the car speed? It's owned by History Channel, whatever it is, TLC or something like that. If it's History Channel and it's about cars and they don't take it. You should be very pissed Well, they don't but they have a lower minor league station called velocity. Okay, so they won't put it on their main whatever That's fine. That's still it's be nice to see Paul Newman on the regular channel of course because that's it shows all in between are like it's Larry the snake hunter and fat guys making pizza

But okay By the way, the the the thing new sitcom Fat guys making pizza things at 96 on rotten tomatoes. Everyone everyone loves it fine. Fine So it goes but velocity passes everyone passes velocity passing is that's where you should get pissed. All right Well, i'm i'm i'm into pragmatic now. Okay. All right, well, I'm into pragmatic now. Okay, all right. I'm into pragmatic. Okay. So we do what we always do,

which is we know everyone loves this movie. I know it. So I'll tell you what, velocity, how much to run it on your network. And they're like, what? We're like, we'll buy the time, we'll put it on the network, we'll sell the ads.

Sell the time, yeah, smart. And we'll use some of the ads for ourself. We'll do a Mangria ad. How about one, ooh, here's a great idea. How about one that says, buy it now on DVD? Go to Amazon, makes a great- Adam Kroll a podcast. Makes a great Christmas gift.

Yeah, good. So we did that. You did it? Yes, we did it. We do, always do what we have to do. No, they allowed you to do it is what I'm saying. No, they don't care. They got, they'll sell you two hours.

All right. You know, as long as it's, you're not showing porn, they don't care. All right. One of the spots, then it comes down to this part, this part that always retroactively drives me nuts. You know, hey, we gotta have the DVD spot ready. Meaning, well, the DVD comes out November 10th.

The velocity airing is November 11th. Oh, sorry. DVD November 10th out available. 20th, November 20th is when it airs but we got to have the spots ready okay we got to cut together a 30 second spot Dawson's got to do a VO I got to oversee it I got to write the thing you know and then you start thinking well what do you want to do and we oh bonus with bonus footage on DVD and available now get it on, because we got a nice click through

relationship with Amazon, this is gonna be win-win, makes a great Christmas gift. Perfect, right? Okay. Put together the ads. They're, it's a good ad. I don't know, Gary, maybe you can find the ad. Came out sort of nice.

All right. Now, Velocity is gonna run it a number of times, a couple of times, a couple of re-airings so to speak. They take a few weeks off between the 20th or so and the last Saturday and now they're going to air it for the last time. This is Velocity. And we're in December now, okay Mm-hmm now start on the 20th

Mm-hmm. I'm confused by the few weeks off. Well, they don't air it they take a few weeks off It's only been a few weeks since November 20th. Really? Yeah, they don't air it for those few weeks Okay, and then they air it for the last time. Okay, is that confusing? Yes, Gary Okay. Is that confusing? Yes? Gary, they run it November 20th. One time, one time. No, they run it a couple times. Then they take a few weeks off and then they air it for the last time. That's the part I got confused about is that it sounded like they aired it once and then once again. You have a few airings, right? I'm just trying to figure this shit out. Yes, well they air it maybe the 21st

or maybe midnight, they air it again, but they take a few weeks off and then they air it for the last time. Okay. They basically have a 10 day window. They have the first day, they play it a couple times that day, they play it maybe once or twice

in the middle of the 10 days, and then they have a final day where they play it two more times. And I have that commercial ready when you want it, boss. All right, confused? Not anymore. After Gary said what I said a little slower. They take a few weeks off and then they air it for the last time. Yes? It just sounds fine. It's fine. Okay. All right. Anyway, and I know you say 10-day window, but it's weird because they do it on the 20th and they

do it the last time on like the fourth or something like that. So maybe it's a two week window or something like that. But anyway, we're 10 working days or something. But anyway. Was it expensive? I don't know. It wasn't that expensive. It turned out it was sort of better to do it for ourselves. And Drew, are you sitting?

Okay. Guess who's the only human being you know who said to his assistant, go to Amazon and check the rankings before we air it, and then go to Amazon and check the rankings after we air it, because I want to see if something moves the needle. Yeah, why bother? Maybe we'll buy another commercial on velocity when we do our next Project. Mm-hmm. Okay, so nobody ever no one will ever think of that ever No matter how much I try to pound that into every human being's brain. No one will ever think of that thing. Why? I go because they're stupid, they don't care. Sorry, they're smart.

Cause my wife does that shit all the time. Look at these raids, look at the, the needles doesn't care. And then everyone is either stupid or they don't care, but it's mainly nobody cares. I don't know why, but they don't. But going into, I said, Matt, give me the three or four days leading into it. Yeah, yeah.

It was number 1300 overall in movies, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, then? Dropped to like 300 and number one in docs. Nice. Well, yeah, that's what I was looking for. Yeah, good. And then I wanted to see how it trailed off over the first next few days. Yeah, yeah.

And then if it popped up again. Good. Congratulations. Good. Good. Well done. So far good, right? Yeah. Uh-oh. All right. Hold on a second. I'll let you see the 30-second spot. It's kind of cool though, the idea of going no one will air this, fine, we'll buy the time. It just occurs to me that you should buy, it could be a new kind of little infomercial thing, you know, buy that infomercial time too on other networks. Well, I wanted to... You're actually giving people something other than a piece of shit infomercial.

The reason I told Matt to follow it and give me a daily update on Amazon is because that's the only... Can I give everyone a piece of advice? There's never a great unit to measure things. There's never a great unit. There's never, hey, we have a perfect unit. Yeah, perfect or even great. Yeah, perfect. Great. Thank you. But I mean, never you said never says never. It's in the system is never what I'm saying is, is you can go on Arbitron diaries or you can go PPMs and radio. You can go Nielsen families or whatever. But all you're looking for is some form of yardstick to measure

things. It's like, I'll put it to you this way. It's like, how far from the village to the well? Well, we don't have a cord that is segmented every inch or every millimeter, but we have a stick that looks like it's about three foot long, and we can keep laying it down next to each other, and we can kind of approximate which well is closer using this broken stick, that one or that one. So I said, well, since there's no way to really measure how this moves the needle for us, you know, you run a commercial on velocity, how many people see it, how many people act on it, how many people whatever, the only unit of measurement I could come up was with Amazon ranking. So and it turned out

pretty good. It went from, you know, I don't know number 25 and in in Documentaries to number one. Okay. All right. So that was a good thing and Did you come hurt? I mean how dare you it was good leading up to and it was good after it to see where it then Went to because you need to know before and you need to know after I want to know the part where you get pissed Oh, it's coming Winning the racing life of Paul Newman is available now on DVD. They'll have to strap me down before they keep me out of these things. Bonus features include extended interviews with Patrick Dempsey, Jay Leno, and Mario Andretti. Plus, Adam Carolla restores and races one of Paul Newman's original race cars at Laguna

Seca. For the car lover in your life this Christmas, buy it now at Amazon. I love the car lover in your life. If your cousin says that, it's funny. Nice spot. Yeah, very good. That old bull on Amazon. Exciting, actually.

Get it for Christmas. All right. So, I go out of town last weekend and I know it's our last airing. It'll be the last time this thing ever goes on network TV, this Newman documentary. But it's going to be the last time we run our commercials too. And now we're coming up on Christmas. Yeah, it's important. So I really wanna know what's going on. Yeah.

Well, two things. First off, Matt forgets to give me the count on the day of and the day after, which to be fair to him is the weekend, but it's the two most important days that I want, the eight days leading up to it had fallen to a millionth place. So I did not get the info on the day of or the day after. Matt promptly apologized, which is fine. Then I returned from the road to

numerous tweets, going to Amazon to get the movie out of stock. Oh no. Out of stock. Then I realized, I said to Matt, wasn't it out of stock last week, like leading into this? We're running a commercial. We paid for a commercial, telling everyone, go to Amazon and get this thing for Christmas,

and it's out of stock. Now whose fault is that? I wouldn't even know how to address that. Is that Amazon? No. Is that the, who is that? The distributor. It's the people, film buff who we're in business with, who are supposed to tell the distributor

make more, the manufacturer get them to these guys they're out of them so we're running commercials that we're paying for telling people to go to Amazon that by the way we get the click-through money too and there's nothing there so don't worry Matt made it all better when he said they can still download it on Amazon and get the VOD. And I said, Matt, they just watched it for free. I doubt they're going to click through just to pay to watch it. We were looking for makes a great Christmas gift. Remember that part? He was trying to be nice. But I said, now it is some days later. I woke up this morning, not available on Amazon.

Right in the Christmas buying season, it didn't, you understand, we paid to get it on to velocity, and then we paid to make the spot. And I always harken back to that part a Month and a half ago when I'm getting frantic emails going we need the text for Dawson to do the spot We think we should say makes a great Christmas gift or go now or click. Oh, yeah, we need a call to action Okay, plenty of bonus footage click now makes a great Christmas gift blah blah blah now nobody nobody over film buff nobody knew it was running nobody knew the schedule by the way nobody knew it was running the answer is oh we didn't know what they were they're running it again drew how many times I have to tell people all the time independent film and publishing are the two worlds it's not

that people love independent film or love publishing, they hate work. And once they're done, you call any, have you ever tried to call your editor on a Friday, a past noon or 10 a.m.? Do you get the automated, Sharon is in the Hamptons, Sharon will not be around a phone. It's like, you're thinking, first off, by the way, we're going into a three day weekend, so you take half a day Friday?

This is a round table with the Algonquin. You're not working Monday. Now, they fucking hate doing it and... To be fair, it's why they got into that. To be fair. Yeah. To be fair. So here's a little confused on my part. Yes. Why are you even wondering whether you should be pissed or very pissed or I mean you should

be fucking beside yourself. Well there's two things that make me pissed about this. But why are you wondering should I be pissed? Oh you help me not be pissed. No. No. Can't be. Oh, true says no. Well there's's a there's old part of me that's a little extra pissed because I'm the only one who knows this. No one else knows, no one else has checked Amazon, no one else understands it's sold out, nobody, no one brings this to my attention. The part I hate about it is the helplessness. There's nothing you can do. You're helpless. And that would be extra super pissed. Okay. Well Matt can read the super satisfying Email I best I basically the fucking double-talk. You know, here's what I've the other thing too

Just say we screwed the pooch big time and we're gonna work extra hard Or here's what we here's a plan. There's a plan how we might deal with the gigantic error We made we screwed the pooch big time and here's what we're going to do to make you happy in the future or to never let this happen again. I feel like this experience and their response, which I expect I'm about to hear, is sort of the way of the world right now. I almost feel like that's what President Obama was talking about. They're like, hey, things are good, things are bad, but we're going to maintain the status quo. We're going to keep it going.

Matt, so, all right, Matt, hang tight with that letter. Let me just take one call up here. Chris, 38 Seattle. Oh, dude. Yes, hey, I just wanted to say, you guys did great on Sternhurst Asylum, by the way. Both of you really were great on the Howard Stern show doing the Sternhurst radio show so good job Thank you, but hold on you the asylum thing they had us each do it all right Here we go about that. No, I won't show about his question. All right. Good gotcha I wanted to know how either of you would fight back against rampant political corrects at work

Well, look the only way you work at a law firm too. The only way to the only way to fight back is the same way they fought back in the 20s 30s and 40s when organizers got people together and let's not forget those people were beaten by thugs like in front of the factory. We're talking about unions. Yeah cops were shooting into the crowd you you know, the Dodge brothers hired thugs to come on out. Back then, your peaceful protest turned into a bloody mess. You forget, I forget which side Ronald Reagan was on.

He was involved in one of the bigger riots. There's a lot of it. I mean, Bones were breaking. Now Stones are breaking. They're busting your balls. Now here's the deal. Chris, here's what I would do, and I've tempted to do it in other places where I've worked. When they have one of those meetings where it's a mandatory cultural diversity meeting or mandatory sexual harassment meeting, you need to get together, everyone

on your floor and go in unison We're not attending and we believe it's infringing on our rights make up a religion Say it's infringing and here's the answer if somebody on this floor has an extensive criminal history That in that involves sexual crimes or rape or hate crimes Sorry, you must go. Yeah To all of us with a clean record, we're not going. And if you terminate us for not going, it's going to be a wrongful termination.

Because there's no other facet of life. You must go to a DUI class, Drew. Why? I've never had a DUI. Sorry. It's mandatory. I don't drink and I don't operate heavy equipment. Sorry, you're going. You know what I mean? Ironically, the people don't have to attend these meetings work at brothels. The people that work at accounting agencies must go to these things. You just have to say no. I would say no. I would just go, I'm not going. And they would go, well, then we're going to have to let you go. But I think he's talking about even just common language. Well, that's where it starts That's where it starts and as an attorney as an attorney I it's wrongful

Termination if they're fire you because of some language or some whatever you you can you can stand something we live in a world where? Tooth, you know, I don't care. Sue, get everyone together. I think you need a better plan. Better plan than everyone there. Do you have these meetings? Unfortunately, yes, we do. Okay, good. And I'm in the learning and development section, so actually I've got to be the one teaching some of these. Alright, first place, first thing you do is organize everybody and say, no, no no none of these meetings and by the way There's no correlation between when these meetings started and workplace incidents of sexual harassment I'm going to tell you that even to maintain their their license with their local bar association

They have to document they've attended these things. I'm telling you no no they will lose their license If this guy doesn't put these. Then they will sue them. No, no, the bar. Look, you can't fight that. Hold on. Fuck that. Drew, can I tell you this? When they were... In the meantime, your license is encumbered and you've been years unable to make a living. What the fuck? Drew, they have it. I didn't tell you it was going to be easy, just like it's not easy to go out in front of the GM plant and get beat on by hooligans and thugs.

Of course. Everyone go, look, if you stop working that press punch right now and go up front, there's guys with baseball bats waiting for you. And they went out front and got it from the guys with the baseball bats. Some worse, many killed. But I would listen to this. The reason they're willing to do that is because they weren't getting paid, they were getting abused at the workforce.

These guys have a lucrative living that they'd have to turn in. Be a puss like Dr. Drew. I'm just saying, how do you motivate people? I'm telling you, you go from cubicle to cubicle. You get a united front. It's not going to be cubicle, it's going to be front window, corner office to corner office. Do nothing. Matt, go ahead.

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