The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #401: Phil the Tank

Episode Date: April 10, 2026

August 29, 2016Adam and Drew open the show discussing the presences of Adam’s new-ish dog Phil E. Cheesesteak and his progress in both growth and behavior. They then turn to the phones and speak to a caller concerned for one of his neighbors and another who wanted to talk to the guys about a subject they recently touched on: hubris.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Time for a throwback episode. This is now August 29th from 2016. We talk about the presence of this newish dog named Phil, Bill E. Cheesesteak and his growth and behavior. And he became a beloved fixture in the Coral household as well as here. And we get to the phones and talk to a caller concerned about one of his neighbors and another one to talk about the subject that we recently touched on, which was the hubris I was talking about in the last throwback episode. Enjoy this throwback episode for all. 1 from August 2016. Recorded live at Corolla 1 Studios with Adam Carolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're

listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew show. Yeah, get it on, got to get on on it on. Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. Dr. Drew in the hisy everybody. What's going on, man? Oh, man, running around shuffling cars around.

Philly cheese steak. In the house. In the house. Wow, I've never seen him here before. And by the way, he's $2.50 now. He's like a linebacker for the Bears. He keeps getting, he's getting thick now. And the thing that's funny, there's something insanely cathartic or something.

Thick is underselling it. That is a tank. He's a tank. But the thing, everyone, he walks by and everyone just slaps him. It's like in high school, on college football, when they put like the, the petrified wood stump or the helmet of, you know, Vince Lombardi or whatever it is, and all the players slapping on the way out of the locker room. That's a Phyllis.

Everyone who goes past him just smacks him like a mule. Like he's going, like, go on, get, you know, like everyone just wax him on the ass. Like, oh, you do it on the horse. And he maneuver is kind of like a shark. Part of the body's moving one direction, the other part of the other, but that face, that head is always out in front. Yeah, and he is, it's fun because. He loves it, though. He does.

It's not abusive. He's all about it. He's like, yeah, let's go, man. Yeah, he's enjoying himself. Rudy. Rudy. He, you know, he'll, he'll, well, he does it, you know, he does a few things. My biggest problem with Phil right now is he gets it. His move is he likes to go into the swimming pool at night.

And then it's wet. And when he gets wet, it's basically like fire spray. Rinklers went off in a 70s van with the shag on the ceiling and the valour captain's chairs. Let's take a while to dry that thing out. You know, he doesn't dry out fast. He's big, he's thick, and he's got a lot of fur. And he goes into that pool. He goes in.

Yeah. So then what he does is he goes into the pool. He circles back around. He goes up to the deck. He goes to where I'm sitting in my office, and there's a big sliding sort of 1960s glass door. and he doesn't, you know, bark or he doesn't scratch on it, he punches it. He picks up a paw and he goes, boom, boom, boom. You know, he waxed it.

Like, to the point, by the way, where I think he might break the glass. So he has just you, boom, boom, and I look at him and he's soaking wet. So I go, Phil, you can't come in. You're soaking wet. I got brand new carpet in here, and he's like, boom, boom, he understood that. Now, the thing that's great, and I wish I could do this, And I don't know. Look, Drew, everyone goes, oh, Adam, you with your stereotypes.

Every Hispanic, and I say Hispanic, because my maid is from Guatemala. But every Hispanic person I've ever been around has been able to whistle loudly and not the white man whistle with the, you know what I mean? And so what happens? Usually without putting fingers in the mouth. Right. Maybe the semi-circle with the index and thumb. No, but usually just with right straight away.

White man's folly, the two fingers in there. That's a way to spread disease for sure. No, and so what Olga'll do when Phil does the thump, thump, thump, thump on the glass, once he's done with me, he'll roll around to her part where the kitchen is and do the thump, thump, thump, on the grass. And she just goes, and he shuts up. But she doesn't have to move. I can't do, you know, all I got is, hey, come on. You're all wet.

You can't come. in here. This is Berber. It's new and padding. It's not a synthetic padding. But she just does the and the dog just like they just know. Like every all of God's creatures

just respond to that quick snap. Sort of like Aquaman calling the fish. Yeah. And also, oh, he's trying to push his way in here. I just saw the door move. Billy, come on. I literally saw the door move. I heard it. He uses head like a

battering ram but he also the thing about uh oh the thing about phil too is they they also kind of get like she's guatemal and she don't she she don't she don't she don't go for him sleeping on the bed she don't go for him getting up on the sofa you know they're dogs they're dogs they're dogs you lay down with dogs my friend he's a dog you know yeah and every other culture dog is an insult and then here it's like hey he's my dog who let the dogs out so He does recognize that he gets no quarter from her at all. She's the tough one. She does the whistle.

Hey, Phil, say hi. He's trying to eat the microphone now. So he gets nothing from her, but he knows everyone else is a pushover in the house. And his plan is just to take advantage. I'm just noticing he's not quite full size yet, too. You've got the way to go. I can't imagine. Because his move, besides trying to push me off the edge of the bed,

which he does every night, he puts. his back up against mine, and they just start taking territory like Napoleon and just keeps pushing and pushing until they roll off the edge. But his move about six during the morning is just a slide between my head and the headboard. And there's only about four inches between my head and the headboard, but now once he wedges himself in there, nobody's going anywhere. Oh, my God. That's not sleeping.

No. But his tongue is too big for his mouth. That's the other thing, too. He'll grow out of that. We'll take a picture or two of them and throw it up there. All right, we got your calls up here. And Phil, Lynette's out of town. The kids are at school all day, so I just had to pack him up and take him with me.

But he's such a social mutt that he's having fun with the guys at the other shop. He's having fun. It's pretty easy to take. He looks easy care. I mean, it looks like he behaves himself. Yeah, he's pretty good. He just, he knows, like, he sort of knows what's effective. You still get that puppy thing of putting everything in his mouth, everything.

Yeah. He's got that. Oh, here go your boxing gloves. They're going down. Oh, don't chew on those, Phil. Yeah. And the thing about... They got him pretty good.

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I was calling with a question for Drew about my... neighbor. I have a 19-year-old kid who lives in my neighborhood. I met him at a little community dog park. And he has what he claims to be kind of a mystery, uh, IBS sort of disease. IBS stands for irritable bowel syndrome. Right. Is there more of that or just more, is it like, is it like, it's like being gay? Like, is there more gay people or are we just more willing to talk about it? We're more willing to, we're identifying it more frequently. It was something that was kept quiet.

People stayed in the water closet. You would just say, oh, ace man. Come on now. Dude, man. It wouldn't come out of the water closet. Yeah, because it was a little shameful. Well, they would just say, he got gas. Yeah, but also it's like women.

Women didn't want to say that an irritable bowel syndrome. They wouldn't say anything. That's what I'm saying is we weren't calling it something else. They just literally didn't want to talk about it a few years ago. And to be fair, physicians didn't characterize it quite as readily. So go ahead. Well, this guy has been tested for Crohn's and a few other things. He basically is constantly sick.

He moved here from Florida for the medical weed, I think, when he was about 14 years old. And so he smokes a ton of weed, and he started to develop a tolerance where it's no longer helping with his stomach stuff. He's dropped out of school. He's not working. He's definitely depressed. and I have been trying to figure out which direction to point him. Originally, he was giving me a lot of pushback because the price of going to get treatment. Now he's qualified for Medicaid, and I don't know everything about what's going on.

Medicaid won't cover very much. So how was he worked up, do you know? I believe when he was about 14 years old, he started just getting sick at school, went home, and it really just never went away. How did they work it up? What did they do? What do they? He doesn't know what you're talking about.

He originally did a colonoscopy test for if there's blood and... Did he have an upper endoscopy? They'd have a small bowel biopsy? He doesn't know. He does so much to be done. I mean, the guy's got a lot to do. Well, and the depression, what's his family unit like? His parents are divorced, but they seem to get along.

His mom moved with him to Colorado. His dad is still in Florida. But his dad comes out and visits him. 19 is the worst age ever for a male. Now, I say that because as a female, you always have your sexuality. You always have, look, you'll have somebody who wants to bang you. That's it. Bottom line.

There's people out there. It's a fairly large percentage of the planet that would like to be. bang a 19 year old. But as a 19 year old dude, no one wants you. No, because you're one year out of high school. Yeah. And no single 23-year-old chick once a date a 19-year-old dude, you got nothing, got nothing but mess in your shorts, you know.

You got nothing going on. It's really the worst. I think if I could pinpoint my worst year would be 19. I would agree. I was, you know, living in my dad's garage. garage. I was looking for any kind of odd job that was out there. I was sort of, oh, maybe I'll go to junior college. Maybe I'll do this. Maybe I'll be a fireman. Like I don't. I could, I had, my thoughts were horribly unclear. You're under the influence of a strong hormone at that point. Your testosterone's

taken over. I want to get laid, but I can't. There's, I got nothing going in my life whatsoever. I have no skill set. I have no personal skill set. I have no real. I have no. rap, no worth, no nothing. I have nothing. You know, my stepmom doesn't like me that much, and there's not much I can do about it. You know what I mean? Like now it's like, hey, old lady, kiss off, you know.

Yeah, now I'm done. Your stepmom is so damn nice. I've met her before. No, she is, but she had a rough patch where she was you. She was not getting along well with my dad for a little while. Can you imagine that? Sort of and sort of non. She may have,

she bought him a, a decorative basket filled with valve oil first trumpet, and they made, made good after that. She was able to oil up his fluegel horn. But they, they were going through a rough patch. My sister was like, oh, God, no.

Like, you don't wish that upon any. That's essentially taking a young girl, ruining her from zero to 13 and a half and then having some other woman come in an attempt to be mom forget it yeah that's that's impossible so my sister had been pre-ruined by you know like jeans that are broken in yeah yeah that's what my sister was these weren't just stone wash these were stone ruined is stone ruined yeah like a trucker's cap that had just been all worked in and so she was an absolute mess and there's no way she could deal with her. She was in and out of school and stealing things and, you know, it was a mess. And then I was... Amazing. Your sister made it out. I know. And then I

was just sort of the guy was like not, I wasn't antisocial or anything, but it's like I didn't have much to do with my dad or her or whatever. And she was a little pissy to me and she didn't really want me in the house very much. And I was just sort of out in the garage. And you must have been a joy to be around. A joy. I was. I was actually delightful. I was always a good kid. I only became a dick, you know, semi-recently. I was a nice guy. I had no choice. I didn't have anything else.

But you were depressed and irritable. You had to have been. No, I wasn't depressed and irritable. What? What are you talking about? I was a good guy. I understand, but you probably weren't aware of it, but you were depressed and irritable. I was outwardly very gregarious. and friendly. All right.

Okay. And extrovert and fun. And never said no to anyone about anything at any time. Okay. I would say that Ray has sort of corroborated that. That what? That's how you were. Yeah.

He was very proud that he had ruined that. Yeah. That you used to be that way before he and Prince ruined it. I was super friendly, outgoing, happy, but no self-esteem, but in a good mood. I wouldn't burden you with my mood, in other words. Like I would, I'd smile and tell you no problemo, even if there was. a problem just because I don't want you to have to deal with whatever I was. But 19 was the bottom of the bottom.

So there's a chronological issue going on here that goes beyond Crohn's. I get it. Yeah, but there's whenever I hear about unexplained pain in women, it's typically pelvic pain or headache. In men, it can be back pain, neck pain, headache, and occasionally abdominal pain. I just, and there was, and into the workup is complete, although I got to tell you, in this case, the workup is not complete. But just based on what you're telling me, I would really, you know, get a very thorough small bowel evaluation too. And it's almost criminal that they let him just go on painkillers straight out.

And then, if all that is negative, then you think about trauma. Because pain and bodily, body impulses what comes out of the body, come out in very disorganized. man or when you've been traumatized. It's the best way I can explain it. And so that's somebody that may need some trauma therapy. And Mike, you're a good guy for taking this guy under your wing and, you know, trying to, you know, do what you're doing with the lad. And you can make a big difference.

Yeah, it's true. I have a single. Go ahead. It seems to listen to me a little bit more than other people when I kind of point him in certain direction. No, keep in mind, you are an adult. and he looks at you as a, you know, sort of, if not a father figure, at least an authority figure, and you can be quite helpful to him.

So thank you for what you're doing. Hey, Eric, 31 from Maryland. Let's try us again. Eric. Yeah. What's going on? Hey, Adam. How are you doing?

Good, man. What's going on? Good. I had to ask you about a couple things about you guys. The other day you guys were talking about huge. I'm a very much getting out of control in this country. Yeah. And I had a incident today with very entailed.

I see that. Hold on. I just screwed this up. There you go. There I go. Entitlement. Was it home? No, that was us.

It was us. Okay. So I had, so, oh, my God, I'm probably, honestly, I'm a little nervous. So I had this incident that happened today. I work for a design-build company where we design and build houses and we're working in this kind of upscale neighborhood right now. And our step contractor, the masonry guy, you know,

this morning is going to start up his concrete mixture, decided to wait an extra half hour to the ordinance ends and this lady comes over trying to sit in her hot tub and enjoy herself in the morning. Really? This is a neighborhood that is under construction. She bought into this neighborhood knowing that for years it's going to be under construction. She came up and started yelling at our contractor.

And it was just, to me, shocking that her whole thing was, I'm trying to sit in my hot tub and you guys are making a living. Eric, I'm with you. Somebody's done a lot of these projects. and dealt with a lot of this stuff. I do. There's a context part of this that always drives me insane, which is I've had them.

I've had these neighbors. I have these neighbors where it's like you're trying to do a kitchen remod, you're trying to do bathroom remod or a backyard remod. That's an attack on that. So the guy, the plumbing guy, pulls his truck out on the street, and it's Tuesday at 9 a.m. And because he's a plumber.

Yeah. And these are working hours. This is what he does. He doesn't come over Sunday about midnight. He comes over during the day, during the working hours, and then he plies his trade. That's what he does. And when you're doing a backyard, like I literally said to her at a certain point,

the neighbors, it's like never stopped complaining about it. These guys are parked out on the street. You know, it's like, well, when you add a swimming pool to a house, you have to have fellas come over. And what'd she say to that? At a certain point after she just kept coming over and telling people to move and move your truck and moving. Why? Did she have people parking?

Listen, she followed Chris Loxamana out to his car. I mean, it's a weird bizarre. I was literally an obsession with cars. Literally, she was telling the building inspector. She was yelling at the building inspector. I need this truck moving. And he's like, that's my truck. And she's like, these guys are parking the truck.

And he said, it's legal. There's nothing I can do about it. There's nothing you can do about it. There's nothing that anyone should do about it. What does she say? I finally said to her, look, this thing's all wrapping up. We're going to be done here in just a couple of weeks. And she said, that's not good enough.

I don't know what the ant, but because there's no such thing as getting, you know, one of those fire dropping. fire repellent dropping helicopters and bringing a truck in and lowering it down into my backyard. There's some bizarre fantasy about how this is supposed to work. But the thing that's insane about it is it's in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week. Yeah. So theoretically, you're supposed to be at work. How old person is this?

Oh, mid, early 60s or something. I run on these people all day long, and it's like, look, everybody, if somebody is parking in front of your house and making a rack and it's 4 a.m. on Sunday, that's a situation. But the context. Again, the context. Like, oh, relentless. How did you resolve it? I mean, why did you resolve it? Usually you tell them to fuck off. So what did you do? Well, the deal is, is I got to do my kitchen. I got to do my backyard.

It will take as long as it takes. The trucks will pull up and leave and we won't block anything. but there's nothing illegal about parking on a street. There's no signs or red curbs or no one's blocking your driveway or your pathway or anything, and then they'll just do that until they're done, and then they'll be done. And what does she say to that? Not good enough. So what did you say? It doesn't matter.

I mean, it is what it is. I don't know. There's nothing. These people wield no power. That's their problem, I guess. I don't know. I just sort of move on with my life. You just walked away from the conversation.

Just sorry. I was in my car. I just put it in reverse or something. I don't know what to tell you that it's not good enough, but I've had these neighbors my entire life. I remember the neighbor at the old first house with the spray over. What was it? What did she keep saying? The shrubs?

The shrubs. Remember that? This woman was so. Oh, the shrubs. Yeah. There's a lot of it. And, you know, I used to take take my time and correct it. And now I just sort of push past it, what have you.

But there's a lot of this out there, a lot. Everything is an impingement on them, everything. I think it comes down to it's the ultimate, which is, I think this is it. And I haven't quite put my finger on it. But, and I've had a million versions of this. I trimmed a tree that wasn't on my neighbor's property, but my neighbor came up to Hill and wanted to know what was going on, you know, and how come he wasn't alerted? The main thing is with these people is they want to be asked permission for everything to do things, but they want to be asked permission to do things that have nothing to do with them. But once you have permission, they say, no, what are you supposed to do?

I don't know. Because you're going to do it anyway. It's your thing. It's your property. I don't, I'm not sure what the fantasy. is. I just know. I think it's so weird to have the time and energy to even recognize. Well, for you and I, it's right up there with Obama's played 305 rounds of golf.

It's like, what, when? Where? How? How can you do that? Yeah, right. Who does that? Like, my whole thing is, I don't know what you're doing home on a Tuesday at noon. But I certainly, if I am at home on Tuesday at noon, I'm rushing to get my shit together to get out the door to go somewhere.

I certainly don't have time to walk across the street. You know, excuse me. Excuse me. What's going on here? Like, no, I'm just pulling out of the driveway and leaving. I'm assuming when I come back, the truck will be gone because it'll be 7 o'clock at night. But keep in mind, none of the guys, not even the Gunnite guys, which I took a personal shining to, nobody spent the night. Everyone knocks off at 3.30.

Why don't you like the Gunite guys? I like the way a gun-night guys The cut of their jib? I just had to spot my heart for guys who spray concrete and then trow it. What point is this, Drew? There's no such thing as Saturday or Sunday work and there's no such thing as any truck staying

after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. And there's no such thing as blocking a driveway, blocking a road, making noise, running a siren. Were they cement mixers going or something? Was there that kind of noise? There were probably one or two days when the gunite rig pulled up and ran the hose or something. But against my driveway, you know. But no, the rest is mainly just parking work trucks.

No can do, man. I have no idea how it works. But if anyone thinks I'm crazy, all I got to do is talk to Max Pat or my guy Rob. I mean, it's banging on the door, notes on the windshield. Listen, our society is filled with this. Filled. It's the way that's kind of the PC thing, right? We got to get on you.

We've got to tell you what to do. That's hubristic. I am a one million miles away from being this person, and so the deal is this. The way I'm wired is even if the neighbors are having a rock and roll loudest party in the world, and it's midnight, I don't care. I turn on the ceiling fan. I put in the air.

earplugs and I go to bed because it's not up to me to ruin the fun of 200 people because I feel like going to bed myself. That's me. Hold on. I got one more call. I want to take up here. Into cloud. Getting older. Changes how you handle 420. You still celebrate. You just plan it better. At this point, relaxing responsibly take strategy. That's where Indy Cloud makes it easy. In the Cloud is a fully legal online dispensary for gummies, exotic flour, premium pre-rolls, and zero-sugar THC sodas. It's a clean, alcohol-free way to unwind without turning one good decision into three questionable ones. Everything's federally legal hemp THC, THC, lab tested, shipped discreetly to your door. One soda in, unrelaxed, but sharp.

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useful, though, if they have a seizure disorder, there might be something worth of it. Well, Ace, what was our guest son? Wait a minute. Ronberg, I believe. Yeah. He's using it for seizures. His son has autism. No, yeah.

Seizures. Seizures. Aplexia. No, for seizures, there's definitely some data. It's still getting sort of milled through. It's how to use it, what it's how to compare with those stuff is still to be worked out. But there's clearly something worthwhile there. The two things that drive me nuts is I've had to basically had to become a, a,

medical thesaurus and an expert on the Middle East. We all have. We all have. Like, we're all, we all have to be these experts because we all have to discuss about sexual dysphoria and a gender reassignment and all this kind of, and all, before mentioned irritable bowel and that's Crohn's disease and Epstein Var and all that. And we have to know what's going on to Crete. Yeah, it's funny.

I resent all of it. Yeah. I thought I was just going to know about cars and like in sports teams. I didn't know it's going to have to become an expert on the Middle East. Like you literally, you're like, hey, babe, those guys, hey, you're going to, listen, you can go ahead and, you know, turn your back on the Saudis. But those Syrians are going to come from, you know, they're going to flee into the, into Kaspatistan. And they're going to, and you're like, what, who are, what is all this? When I was a kid, there was just Egypt.

All we had was Egypt. How about when we were rural society, we were worried about farm and growing wheat and stuff like that? We wouldn't know anything about anything outside of like. He'd be like New York City. Animal husband. What is that? Yeah, now we have to be. When I was a kid, if you were from the Middle East, you were from Egypt.

That was it. You rode a camel. There was a pyramid behind you. There's some guy at a turban or something. And that was about it. The Arabian nights, somebody flew a magic carpet. There's a genie. That's as far as we got.

We were done. Baghdad came into focus. Ancient Baghdad, though. Because that's where Jeannie would go back to a time. Yeah, but that's as far as this some weird land where the genie and the camels roamed and there's a pyramid. That was as much as we ever needed. Hey, before we take an extended break, let me just clarify something about there's been in the social media spin about me that somehow some things I said about concerns I had about Hillary. Clinton's health care had something to do with me stopping my show in HLN.

And those are two completely unrelated things. How do you know? Because I've been discussing ending the HLN show for quite some time. And we just, I just hadn't told my staff until last week. That's why I wasn't out there talking about it. So it was turning a little conspiracy theory, but no, you're saying there is nothing to it. Nothing to it. Okay.

All right. All right. And, yeah, I read a few tweets. So I'm glad you address that. Until next time, I'm crawling for Dr. Grews saying, mahala. Pluto TV has thousands of free movies and TV shows. We're coming at you with everything we got. This is the mindset.

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