The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #500: It’s Narcissism

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

January 23, 2017Adam and Drew open the show discussing Adam’s love for his Amazon Echo and it’s ‘Alexa’ assistant and the potential for people to be spying on you via devices such as these. This leads into a wider ranging conversation about surveillance in general and how much the general public really has to fear in terms of government eavesdropping. They then turn to the phones and speak to a variety of callers including one studying biology with questions about psychology and another who is trouble with his girlfriend for drunkenly hitting on her sister.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 little throwback, this is number 500 from January 23rd, 2017. Adam disposes his love for his Echo, his Amazon Echo and his Alexa system. I think that love has waned since then. And we get into a lot of conversation, as always, how much the general public really has to fear in terms of government eavesdropping. Man, were we naive back then? Enjoy this throwback episode from 2017. Recorded live at Corolla 1, Starvation. 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. Better get on Monday. Get it on. Welcome to the show. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. Thanks for spreading the good juji around, man. Loving you. Good day, Drewski. Good day, sir, with that lovely classical music playing in the background. Makes me feel that the man Makes me feel the mandate. You initially objected to it. I did? You did.

Yeah, I've already forgotten that. And I said, I love classical music. Makes everything better. And it's rarely discussed, not by us, but by society. And you're better off. I got my Alexa, sorry, set up, you know. And I just go in there. Aren't you worried that it's here listening to your every word?

I got a microphone that collects every word. I say with my 15 podcasts a week. So I don't care. But I and I have none of that with anything. I mean, I think, too. It's like, hey, they want to hear what I have to say? Have at it. Can't imagine anything more boring.

Well, look, it's a kind of a thing. It's interesting. Anyway, quickly. I just walk in and I say, Alexa, play classical music. And then I just sit there and answer tweets or do whatever. And I have classical music playing. And it's nice. Yeah.

In terms of what you were talking about, like I can't imagine, it's kind of like this. I think they're, now let's go ahead and create four categories, okay, of information someone could get off of you. Okay. Okay. Or things they could discover from you when you didn't know it. Like personal versus financial? I'm going to break it down right now. Okay.

That's why I came up with the four. One is just life overhearing you tell your kids to do their homework or asking the dog for once to come in from outside or asking your wife someone fed the dog. It's a nonsense of life. Yes. Zero. The other stuff is the stuff that I put on the heading of taking a shit, which is there's nobody, no matter how, you know, the hottest chick on the planet takes a big steam and dump once a day. You know what I'm saying? they all...

I hear you. I don't know what you're saying, though. You feel my arousal level? No, what I'm saying is, is, there's the stuff we do as a human beings. Yes, that's gross. That's... Or whatever. Or whatever, yeah.

You're like seeing there and you're going, oh, could you imagine Margot Robbie's gynecologist? He's getting paid. He's getting paid to look at that Cooter, but it's like, eh, it's his job. It's a biological function kind of a thing. You know, you're kind of a... approaching it from this weird sophomoric approach, but nobody in life. And it is, it's like, it's funny because it's like, right, but my buddy Ray takes a shit a day.

And then the president of the United States, he probably takes two, three shits a year. And then Margot Robbie, she type of takes shit like every four years. Nope, they all shit once a day, right? Thereabouts. Or thereabouts. Yes, Drew. Drew takes a little time off in between deuces. But most folk, they drop a deuce day.

All right. Notice that part that we don't like to think about, but there it is. There it is. It's the equivalent. You call it the Duce a day policy. Yeah. It's like if somebody hacked into your camera and your computer and it's all you picking your nose. On one hand, it's funny. On the other hand, you couldn't hold it against a politician for picking its nose, you know? So those are the one and two. Then there's like this third part, which is the part of everybody does it, but we can say. still bust you for it. Sort of personal stuff. It's the Polack joke or the black joke or the Mexican joke or the chick joke. Or yelling at somebody, that kind of thing.

Yeah, get your wits end with your assistant and teeing off on them or yelling at the engineer or whatever it is, right? That's the part where we all pretend like we've never told a Polack joke or we've never teed off on our kids or, you know, Alec Baldwin calling his daughter little piggy girl or something like, like no one's ever got to their wit. in or raised their voice, been a human being essentially, whether it's with a joke, or with a raising your voice to your wife or your daughter or whatever it is. Human imperfections, right? Yeah, that we all have. We like to all dive on as if we'd never done any of this before. And also, I've completely separated this from the guys that go out and win us the wars or

who work on the deficit or cure cancer. I don't care if that guy called this just bratty teenage. daughter a pig. If he's going to go out and cure cancer, let him go. Yeah. What's, uh, we don't want to stifle him from doing his appointed rounds. Yeah. And, and if he delivers mail, I don't care either. That's kind of between him and his daughter and their therapist and whatever, whatever it is. And then there's a fourth category. And the fourth category is an actual, I, I'm going to, you know, here's an email telling, uh, Donna Brazell, here's a couple questions for the debate in advance. You know, okay, now we're in a, now we're in a strata of, uh, I don't want you to

know about this. And it is sort of, this is sort of impeachable stuff. Right. You know what I mean? Impeachable stuff or financial material they don't want them to have. Yeah. Now for me, so personal. Oh yeah, yeah. Look, there's a criminal side of it where they're stealing your identity or something, something like that. That's, I get that. But what I'm saying is, okay, just for me, I only go one, two and three. I get it. I don't have the fourth, I don't have the fourth part where I'm trying to smuggle in plutonium so I can make a nuclear device. Well, I don't either. And that's why I'm sort of bothered by people that are bothered by the monitoring of the Alexa, right?

I'd only really worried about the fourth level. That's all that would really concern me. Well, I don't worry about that. We have a thing. It's been going on since the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was enacted Gary in 03, 04, something like that, as I recall. And I could remember sitting in the middle of Hollywood. 01.

01. Right after 9-11. Okay. So, 01. And I remember sitting in the middle of Hollywood and a comic writers table of about 13 writers. And having many of them like belly aching. It wasn't 01. It was 03 or 04, but for some reason somebody brought up the Patriot Act.

I guess for the first couple of years, it sort of, I think while the buildings were still smoldering, I think it was like, not a bad plan. No, they were all four. A couple years in, everyone's like, wait a minute. So it was a couple years in. And a lot of these riders were like, wait a minute. And I was like, oh, so what? Like, I remember just thinking someone's going to, the NSA is going to check out your emails and find what? Yeah, so fine.

you're writing some jokes or something or whatever it is. It's possible that maybe if it was a little later than you were thinking, in 05 and 06, it was renewed and amended and changed a little bit. Well, maybe it came up. Maybe it was 05 and I got rid of. But the point being is it was something sort of at least universally, if not given a nod, at least given a pass. And then all of a sudden it became, well, the government's after me, right?

Well, it's always no matter what anyone tells me, you cannot get me to believe other. Otherwise, it's always narcissism because you always hear people going, I don't want some stranger in Quantico, Virginia, reading my emails. You know, it's like, they're not reading your emails. They're looking for words like crock pot and ball bearings and jihad and things like that. You're so sensitive to that because your mom had that mentality all the time about everything, right? She was always like, that's the man doing this and the rich people are doing that. And they're all, right? No, I mean, yes and no.

I'm sensitive to it because for other reasons probably stemming from my family, which is, oh, who cares about you? And I got a good dose of that for my family. And now I look at it this way. Look, if my own family members didn't give two sheds, what the hell's the guy in NSA care about? Railroading me. You have to understand. It's kind of like in a weird way. It's like to love somebody or to kill somebody almost takes an equal amount of energy.

It takes energy, like a lot of energy toward that person. I'm not talking about getting drunk and running them over. I mean, like plotting their demise. You know what I mean? And I just don't believe that the government has that kind of energy for anybody because it can't afford to. How could they? Because, as I've always said, and I would always say, the government are they're going to read someone at this writer's tables emails they're going to

decide that this person's guilty of espionage or something they're then what going to railroad that person take that person away from their family and lock them up at guantanamo bay or something at what cost at what price and then all the government wants is avoid another 9-11 so we don't have civil unrest so we can keep collecting taxes that that's that's all the I think they want. And that's whatever they say, that's all they want. They need a populace that can get up and go to work that can take commuter trains and buses without fear of being blown up or blown up in the lobby of the building they

work in so that they can make money and then give the government 35 to 40 percent of the money they make. That's what the government's interested. They've got to keep the peace so that we can go out and earn for them. They're sort of like, I don't know, it's like a crime family. They've got other crime families in Chicago. we got to make sure that we keep peace with the Gambinos over there because if there's blood running in the streets and none of us are going to make any money. We got to get back to our racketeering and our women or money laundering and hooch and whatever it is.

We got a business to run here. So I got to once in a while go talk to the Don from the other family. Who you think I hate and he may hate me, but we got to keep the peace so we can get the money rolling in. And that's kind of what I think the government wants to do. nothing in it for them to railroad one of the riders into Guantanamo. So on the other hand, they may come across some information, and here's the problem. We don't know what they come across per se, because they don't always share it with us, but I'm sure that they've come across lots of useful tidbits that have prevented many a disaster.

So don't care. But again, part of that narcissism that you and I don't possess, and it's crazy. crazy as you hear all the Trump news stories as we were coming into the inauguration about he's gunning for black folk and he's gunning for Hispanics and I'm a woman and I'm scared. There was a quote from last week when Martin Luther King III went and met with Trump and he He's like down the lobby and there was like reporters yelling. Somebody told us yesterday that he was going to take black people and literally line him up. What?

Literally. Not figuratively. He was going to line up black folk. And do what? Get rid of it, man. Absolutely. And I just think we should stop calling it fear and start calling it what it is, which is narcissism. It's not that these people are actually fearful.

because if they were actually fearful. They'd do something. They'd move. Fear makes you do things. Fear makes you... Laslo Goroag ended up in North Hollywood and as my grandfather, because Jews were getting rounded up.

And somewhere around 1938, 39, he sort of, as a diminutive Jew himself... Became fearful and moved. Right, because there seemed to be actual Jews being rounded up. That happened to my family. My grandfather was in Ukraine, and there was pogroms and Tsarist and Bolsheviks running across his city every couple days. And he went out of here. Based on actual family members, friends, and folks in the community, guns being round.

Guns being fired in the street constantly. And being rounded up, putting the cattle cars and taken away, never coming back. Repeatedly, yes. Right. Yes. Not afraid it might happen. Right. So we don't have.

So when you do see that, you pick up and you don't go to Kansas. Canada, you fly across oceans to go places where you don't speak the language and start anew. So if you really thought there was a chance of this happening, whatever you were, maybe you're a female or you're gay or whatever it is, I think you'd pretty much find yourself setting up shop in Vancouver, wouldn't you? Shopify, starting ending business, has a lot of uncertainty involved. Starting this podcast, took a lot of work. And at the beginning, I had to do most of it myself.

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narcissism 100%. I've never I've never the people the way they speak you know the target on their back

and gunning for whatever it's hysteria and delusion too though I mean there's a lot of hysteria yeah but it is it's narcissism I know in the corner of those people's brains

there's a little corner of their brain that shares our biology and that thinks like a human being and realizes they're just going to get up and go to work the next day. It's just it. But here's what I always say. If these horrible things don't come to fruition,

could it slow us down just a little bit when the next proclamation is made? No way. That's my point. Can't we simply go, this didn't happen so? It's sort of my... It's like me asking for. apologies from all the shit that I took over the years for things that people attacked me for that, oh, turns out I was right.

It is weird that- I want apologies from those people, but no, they don't learn. They're out to, they're just on to something else. Yeah, they're on to something else, but it's my whole thing where, it's my thing where if you write for the New York Times and in June, you announced that Brexit's going to bankrupt England, and then it turns out they had a great year, can we not listen to you on? on these matters. Now, if you want to go ahead and start writing obituaries, and we'll go ahead and read that. But I mean, when you then chime in and go, let me tell you what's going to happen financially if Trump starts lowering the corporate tax or does a thing, why do we have to listen to you? As a matter of fact, I'd rather listen to a stranger because you got this one 100% wrong. Yes? Yes. Okay. And by the way, I'd be happy to listen to somebody that does a little self-assessment, like start out. out with. You know, I thought this, I got this wrong. I've looked at the facts based on...

I would tend to listen to that person as well. But just moving on to the next thing, no. You're basically, you know, Jimmy the Greek, you just went Owen 16 for this week and you're going, I got some locks for next week. Everyone gather around and you're like, you want Owen 16. Yeah, I know. That was last week. I got locks. I got lead cinch locks for this week. It's like, I don't believe you. All right. Let's see. There's something for Drew. up here on line four. There's a bunch of them for me there. Yeah, they're all for Drew.

Brian, 30, Switzerland. Wow. Hi, thanks for having me on. I've been a huge fan of both of you for a long time and first time calling. Thanks. What do you do? Wait, wait, wait, wait. What are you doing in Switzerland?

So I'm in graduate school here. I'm doing a PhD in systems biology. I've lived in Europe most of my life, so it's not so out of the ordinary for me to be here. And is it in German? No, everything's in England. like basically all the research at the university levels in English. Oh, how interesting. Yeah.

All right. So there and that starts, what university are at? It's called the E.T.H. Zurich or a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Sounds official. It's not so well known in the U.S., but it's actually considered one of the better universities in Europe. And when you say systems biology, what does that mean?

So that's, it's like molecular systems biology. So we use computational methods and high-throughput analytical chemistry technology to describe cellular processes on a systems level using mathematical models and statistical methods. Fantastic. What are you working on now? So I'm working on the interaction between metabolism and TOR signaling, which is a signaling network that basically controls cellular growth and replication. Does it make you insane when people want to make sweeping generalizations about data? diet and nutrition when here you are. Yeah, it's really amusing to pay attention to sort of trends in nutrition science, and you eat this and don't eat that.

It's insanely complicated. It's insanely complicated. How you know you know that talking to somebody knows what they're talking about it, because it's so complicated you can't possibly derive any sort of conclusive recommendations about it. It's too complicated. You can talk in sweeping generalities about maybe in sort of a physiological term, but all these biological stories were all bullshit.

I was floating them like freezing swimming pool today, Brian. Yeah. I can't speak of metabolism. How's your tour mechanism going? I don't know, but my balls are. So what is the... Tell us a little what you learned

between the metabolism and the biology and all that stuff. Well, what do you want to know specifically? Yeah, he's into the... He's way into the weeds. Well, describe... How about this? Are there specific...

metabolic events that are affecting the intracellular mechanisms you're looking at? So I'm studying the most fundamental processes that happen here. So I don't even work in human cells. I'm using yeast as model organisms. So it's very, very basic stuff. And I'm basically just trying to figure out how do cells know when they're supposed to grow and when they're not supposed to grow. And you can imagine there are implications for cancer and aging and senesics. Grow or divide? You mean replicate? No, I mean, like, actually, like, synthesize biomass in response to extracellular cues.

So to putting out proteins and things like that. Exactly. Like protein biosynthesis, ribosome biogenesis. So this stuff, Adam, we don't get to talk about this for this. This shit, this was my thing. I failed Mr. Dilliburte's class in the 10th grade, and that was biology, and then all I got to take was science. Life science. Well, it was euphemistically called science, but it really just was code for dumboes over here.

Science. This is Brian's a real science. Mold grows on this bread if you leave it under this glass for a week. I was trained in biology, too. I love this stuff. But I sort of, even in college, I was always gravitating towards neurobiology, though. So it's a neurophysiology and things. But anyway, so your question is?

So, yeah, actually, it's ironic that you say that because my, I'm actually kind of, disillusioned with this process that I'm in. I've been doing this PhD for almost three years, and I really just don't have the passion for fundamental research that I see in some of my colleagues who go on to be really successful. And it's, it's kind of horrifying because I've been studying this stuff for 10 years, and it's just, it hasn't grabbed me in a way that I would actually want to dedicate, like, a whole career to continuing this type of work. What do you think? So I'm really thinking clinical psychology because I've done a lot of therapy,

and I'm really interested in sort of the process of transforming human behavior through dialogue. You want to be a therapist? Well, that's what I don't know, because the opportunity cost is really prohibitive for me, because to go back to do an undergrad in psychology, like I think I'm too old for that, and I think I would miss out. It would cost me a lot of opportunity in other areas. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find a school of psychology that would, you know, let you do some summer classes and sort of get you on into it.

I would not be surprised. However, I just have a feeling that psycho-neurobiology might be really more your thing. Well, that's what I was thinking. Like moving into sort of a molecular psychiatry thing, looking at sort of the cellular brain mechanisms involved in psychiatr. Yeah. We're living in a, and I think our new world order is, I'm going to do a show on Spike about building because I like building and I like doing comedy.

So now I'm just going to take two things that I like and just put them together. And you can do that in any profession nowadays. But if you're not feeling it, I would never argue with feelings. You know what I mean? I mean, I argue with the feelings when my daughter tells me she feels disrespected because I closed the door while she was talking. Then I explained her I couldn't hear her because the music was too loud in the next room. And she says, this is the way I feel you've disrespected me.

I can argue with those feelings. But when you have those little feelings like, you know, I just don't want to be here. I don't want to do this anymore. I just can't see myself doing this for the next 40 years or whatever it is. Don't ever ignore those feelings. And you're a smart guy. You can apply it to anything. And I would urge you, go look at the work of Alan Shore and the general topic of interpersonal neurobiology.

And you see if that doesn't turn you on. I bet you, and that's an area of, that's the future. And I'm going to bet you that that would be a night synthesis of all these things you do. And I bet you could find a training program. I bet you're too good a, you're too well trained, too good of mind for somebody to want to put, you know what I mean? Somebody to go, I'm going to put, I'll try it. This guy. I'll take a risk on it.

Let's do it. Now let's go to Colin. from our great mind to Colin. 36. Pittsburgh, man. Oh, go Steelers. Oh, yeah. How's it going?

Good, man. What's going on? Well, it seems that last weekend, I was drinking by myself home. A girlfriend was hanging out with her girlfriend, and her sister FaceTimed me, you know, through the phone. And we got to chat around midnight, and I just was kind of casually flirting, but definitely flirting and I told my girlfriend about it the next day, kind of said, sorry, and she's pretty pissed, especially because it's the second time this has happened. So hold on now.

I'm a little confused by that I told my girlfriend about this part. Yeah, I was feeling real guilty. I don't know. Not this guy. That's a weird one. Yeah. Yeah. And then also, what's with the sister facetiming you at midnight?

Yeah, what's up with the sister? Well, my girlfriend are about six months in, but it's going really well. I can tell. She told me that every boyfriend she's had in the past, her sister has flirted with, and tried to actually kind of touch them and get them to like her more than they like my girlfriend. Well, first off, how old's your girlfriend? She's five years younger than me. 31.

Yeah. for not just spitting out a number, though. Thank you for getting me to have to do that. I'm not good with numbers, eighth, man. Okay. That's why. You just say how old you're, okay. How old's the sister?

She's the same age as me, 36. I just had this thought. I noticed that my kids were arguing about I don't know what, and I was just kind of saying, I find myself going, look, please just move on, moving on. Just let's get on to something. And they're like, yeah, but, but Sonny, no, because Sonny, you said I didn't, you know,

and I'm like, just, okay. Yeah, good. I don't know. Dad, I was shooting the basketball and he stood in front of me and he waved. I didn't wave my arms. I was letting you shoot. Sonny, you do it every time. And I'm like, and all I can think is is what's going on? I know my time's precious, but your time must be worth something.

Not that it's worth a nickel to my dollar of time, but even your nickel is a nickel, isn't it? What are you doing? It should at least be a valuable to her, right, in some fashion. I wouldn't do something you'd rather be doing than yelling about this? I am absolutely amazed at how many. Now, these are children, and I'm hoping I can talk them out of this modality. But when you get into your 30s and you're engaging in this behavior because, just like I get a cheap thrill out of turning the guy on or screwing with my sister,

whatever it is, who are these people? I know. What's going on? And you cannot convince me that these are security. successful people because they couldn't possibly have enough time to engage in these things. Nor could they have not been found out, you know? People that are that sort of evil and diabolical, people sort of don't want to be around eventually. Colin?

Yeah, I mean, I can tell you that my girlfriend says her sister's a pretty despicable person as far as this goes. And they talk all the time. And so the reason that I admitted to my girlfriend that I had done this is I know that her sister would have come back and said, hey, guess what I did? All right. Well, that's what he said. You didn't feel guilty. Yeah, she said it felt guilty. You don't feel guilty or you know you're going to be outed.

So there you go. Right. So now you basically got in a hit and run and you look down on your bumper and realize the license plate was gone. Right. And it's at the scene of the accident. Absolutely. And you're not turning yourself in because it's the right thing to do. Marshals are coming to your apartment.

So you may not get there before they get to you. I love what people do. I do that. I do, too. Hey, man, I'm guilty. I wish I had a little bit of that wiring, too. So, Colin, you then, you got drunk and you facetimed her, or you got drunk and the phone rang, and it was her face-timing you? I guess I left a bit detail. I sent her a very innocent text. What did it say? It was just an emoji of me, like, dabbing. I know that's something stupid. Dabbing? It's a black thing, Drew. It's a stupid dance Or it's a move It's a touch of it

Oh your whole staff did it all at once I know what it is Yeah It's important And what did it say It literally was just Just that And she called back

About 20 minutes later Yeah so Colin drew first blood Yeah he reached out to her He was feeling buzzed And he reached out to the sister And he knows He can get a response from this sister Because of who she is

Right Right So he's doing doing a kind of dumb drunken thing. And that is something you need to examine, Colin. Yeah. Because at age 36, Jesus Christ, what grade are you in? What 21st grade or something?

What's going on in your life that this is about it? Well, I was thinking, I mean, I was trying to think of steps to take, like, maybe just, hey, if I'm home by myself on a Saturday night, maybe just don't drink when I'm alone. Yeah, what an idea. That's a novelty. Have I known text? You can also not text or whatever, but I get it. Some people go into a little bit of a blackouty kind of a thing. But where are you working?

What's going on? Do you have kids? You're divorced? What's happening? I'm divorced, been divorced for about 11 years. I might not, if you don't mind, I don't want to say what I do. Just in case. Police, man.

Police. Yeah. All right. Got it. Got it. Go ahead. But, yeah, so the divorce thing actually doesn't play a whole lot on me on a daily basis. I don't really think about it since we've been divorced for 10 years.

So, kids? No kids. Okay. All right. So, Colin, I'm going to go sort of overall gestalti here and not so much about you and the sister and the girlfriend. I'm just going to say, hey, you're 36, man. When are you going to make the move? What's going on?

What are we here for? Make the move. Yeah, I've already started saving for the ring. It's in the process, but there's a part of me that things. No, I don't mean marrying. I'm not talking about marrying her. I'm talking about your life. Growing up.

What's going on? Yeah. Where I'm at in my job is I'm doing very well, and I'm moving up the ranks the way I need to be. Okay. But. Fireman, I got it wrong. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Well, look, you may want to look at your drinking. Yeah. Yeah. And I might approach the, and you may also want to try to get your girlfriend. I don't know. Maybe it's just something. Maybe it's a.

Well, you set the sister straight or divorce herself from this girl. I know, I, you know what I've really found? You really, I know it's, it's an old adage, but the Tudotango thing, there's a way of completely, I've had, I got some crazy friends. I got some poor friends. I got some dumb family members. I got some whatever. I don't dance with them. I just don't dance.

I just kind of just live my life, do what I do, have my friends, make my money, follow my career, folks on my kids or whatever it is. And whatever it is that they're doing, I don't factor it in that much. You know what I mean? I just don't get in. I don't dance with them that much. There's just a way to not engage. Yeah.

And it's like. But they've been doing it their whole life. I know. But oh, well, what do you want to have? She text me. You know, it's like, don't answer. Oh, absolutely. Just get on.

Just sort of let her go dance alone. You know what's trouble, yeah. Right. This thing where you have to engage constantly, you don't have to engage. You really don't. I mean, it's... But behind that is sort of a spiritual emptiness and a lack of meaning and things, because you're just, you're going from one reward bump to an ex.

Alcohol and the chicks and that, you know what I mean? That's funny. I got a crazy neighbor who does that thing. where they're... Another crazy neighbor? No, just... Do they move into here? They just have unreasonable requests

about moving your cars and stuff like that even when they're not parked in front of driveways or garages or walkways or anything. And it was funny. Olga, nanny Olga said, listen, she's just got a little bit of a Latin blood thing going on. She's a proud woman. I'm a broken man.

And she'll say, I'll park in front of her house if I have to. Like, I won't go out of my way. But on the other hand, it's a public street. And if I'm coming the other direction, I got stuff in my car, whatever, I'll care. I don't care. I don't care. It's the street. She's crazy.

It's got nothing. It's her problem. And I go, that's healthy. I'll never do it. And she's like, why not? I go, I'll go around, circle around, do a three-point turn and just park in front of the neighbor's house or my house or whatever it is. And she'll go, I'm not looking for trouble, but I'm also not going to go out of my way to accommodate a crazy person. And I go, I do.

I just stay in the car the extra few minutes. And if somebody comes to the house and they park in front, I'll go move, just move it down to the next. Unfortunately, most of us do. Yeah. That's sad. And that's sort of the world. No, it is sad. That's sort of the world we're in now.

But I have a life to lead. and I can't be doing what I was doing before, which is driving to Long Beach and getting multiple phone calls about Chris Loxamana's car parked in front of the neighbor's house perfectly legally and perfectly safely without any issue or encumbrance of any kind getting a lot of confusing things from Rob.

She's out front again. She's putting another note on that. This is eating into my day. You see what I'm saying? So my thing is I'll just make room for crazy person. that's the way I roll because I got to go out and I don't need their dime

holding up my dollar. All right? Can most people just please embrace that notion and get on with your life? It's better. Let them be crazy over there. And every once in a while

I'll see her walking out to her car when I'm about to step out the front door and I'll go, I'll just stay in my entry hall, I'll let her get in her car. She pulled up. She's driving down the street. Now I'll walk out to my car.

I don't know why she'd like that relationship, but that's the one she created and that's where we're at. And it was her choosing. Okay, that's fine. I got other things to do. Yes? Yes.

No? Yeah. Maybe? Yes. Until next time. I'm quarrel for Dr. Drews, saying, Mahalo.