The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #562: East Valley Trojans

Episode Date: September 8, 2026

Apr 19, 2017Adam and Drew open the show discussing the East Valley Trojans Yearbook that is in the studio and what is unique about the photo of Adam therein. This leads to a longer conversation about children in general and how Adam has noticed a common theme amongst his kids' friends parents. They then turn to the phones and speak to a variety of callers including one looking for advice on success in Medical School, another worried about his impending twins and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. No, Trudson's been going on mandate. Get it on. Thanks to tune in. Thanks for telling a friend. Thanks for checking out the show. What's going on, Drewski? Good times, man. I was sitting here looking at the East Valley Trojans Foot ball yearbook. Pretty impressive.

Circon, 10th edition in 1975. 10th anniversary edition. Yeah. My favorite part, though, is the 260 pounds college athlete on the front. He's in his family. He's probably a bantum. We're looking at the...

Oh, yeah. It's funny because the guy punted the ball, but he's clearly a lineman. But he was a bantam, probably. That's the head guy. See, they start with the trobeams. that's where I started. First year is the Trow Babes. Is it your first year there in that picture?

No. Next year was the Gremlin. I'm playing the Gramlins. I'm playing the Trow Babes. Next year was the Mighty Might Varsity. That's the team I played on. Now, if you can find me. Can Drew?

Right there. All right there. What do you notice about me? Hair all over the place. Other than hair all over the place. You have your arms inside your shirt or something? Is that what you're doing? Yeah.

Are you doing that? Well, there's reason I'm doing that. Oh, he was a shoulder thing. I got my shoulder broken and my jersey cut off a few days earlier. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you look pretty good for all that. Well, I wasn't. I had to go check in the hospital after that.

After the picture? Or after the event? Well, I don't, I can't recall. As I recall, actually, I broke my shoulder and then the following day was picture day. that's what I recall I came back for that you know I tell you what I can't find is Chris or Ray Ray's never in there

Ray's too big Ray was always too whatever's above us Is Chris in there? Chris should be in there yeah Chris looked like a girl before puberty and then he looked like a scary man

Is that him? I don't know a whole lot of a second Look this is bad TV I mean bad pod Yeah that is him Number 80 That is not like anything like him But it looks like a girl

That's what I'm saying The point is, so I live in this world where I had this broken shoulder and a dislocated shoulder, and then I had this huge cast as a weight to keep my shoulder in place. It's a weird kind of a concept. I don't know exactly what it was, but my shoulder was up and out. Yeah, dislocated. And they put a, but they put a cast on my arm for weight. Oh, you try to distract it. Try to have traction.

That's why giving you traction and let you walk around. The problem is I was out. Here's what they should have done. I was out of the sling and waving my arm around almost immediately. No, no, it was back in. Oh, okay. No, they couldn't get it back in. They still wanted some traction on it.

After it got back in, they wanted to keep it in. So they put that in. But I was out riding my unicycle around with this cast on my arm, oversized cast. for weight. And the comedy, what the comedy was, as I was trying to tell my son, who was the same age I was then, as I am now, I was trying to explain to him and he needs to learn how to ride a bicycle because he doesn't want to learn how to write. He doesn't see why he needs to do it. And I'm like, he's not going to even drive when he's 16. You're going to be stuck with that. You better get him on a bike. Just push him down the street. The point is this. I was riding a unicycle.

with a cast on my arm when I was his age. He doesn't want to ride a bicycle because it's too dangerous. Too dangerous? He just doesn't see a point. Because there's sort of a millennial like, why? That says a common thing. He announced that yoga was a little dangerous the other day. Or it wasn't dangerous.

I can find the exact quote, but I believe if I remember it correctly, he slipped and then pronounced that he no longer felt safe. Yeah, he did not feel safe doing it. yoga. They not feel safe. Where did he get that language? He doesn't... Gary, I blame you. He's not...

How dare you? He's not hanging around with pusses, but on the other hand... Where did he learn that phrase, even? He's not... He's not hanging around... His friends never fight or screw with each other. What?

So, it's so weird, which is all we did was wrestle. That's all we You should know, by the way, male mammals do that. All male mammals have this roughhouse play. Right. Yeah, all mammals. The hard one for me to understand is that it's not happening on his football teams or his basketball teams.

I mean, not full-on physical altercations, but you didn't have shoving matches and... Maybe it's just him. Maybe he's such a nice guy that he just doesn't get into that stuff. Well, I don't spend to his games. Does that happen? If it was just him, it would happen and he'd just be over on the side. Right, right. No.

These kids just don't do that anymore. These kids don't do it anymore. The kids, they, well, no, not, well, not kids, his kids, his group. His group is a bunch of. Little old fauntleroy's. No, they're, there, no, hold on, how dare you. The parents are together. The parents are stable.

The parents are, they're not affluent, but they're, they're not worried about money. And they have, and they've all waited. When I go to the father-daughter dance, every single dad is 53 years old and every daughter's 10. Or the youngest dad out there will be 44 with their 10-year-old daughter. That's interesting. That's the youngest. You look around. You think they're all, I've got to go find a mirror because it's the same thing with me.

But what I'm saying is I'm looking around a bunch of contemporaries. I'm not looking around at a bunch of guys that are 31 at all. I mean, I know what a 30-year-old dude looks like. These guys are 46 to 56, and they're all there with their 10-year-old daughters. So they're all the couples are in their 40s, deep 40s, early 50s with 10, 11, 12-year-old kids. So when other people are becoming grandparents or kids are going off to college or whatever it is, you know, empty nest. oh no there's a bunch of a bunch of 50 year old dudes with 10 year old daughter

so number one everyone's kind of got their shit together like they've worked out not me and Lynette but everyone else has worked out all that fucking retarded part of life where you argue over nothing and the stupid stuff and figure out their finances and like whatever it is

they've all their career they've all worked it out I mean I it's like we got my friends I got it my you know my daughter it's like my friends. My kids have boy girl twins that are 10 that are friends. They're like over at the house the other day. It's like, what's, uh, oh, that's nice, 10 year old twins, you know, what's your mom do? It's an emergency room physician. Oh, great. What's your dad do? Hey, yeah, retired colonel

army. He's an attorney now. He was a jag in the, in the army. He was a colonel, a jag in the army, and he's retired from the army. He knows it's an attorney and the mom's emergency room doctor. And they're 50 years old. That's who's parenting these people. So thus, you don't get the kids that are acting out and violent and impulse, have impulse control and blah, blah, blah. That'll, by the way, work for any culture,

anytime, anywhere, any date, any era, any country, anywhere. If you'd like to, if you'd like to employ that, anybody, anywhere, any culture, any time, any politician. So we've got to turn everybody into professionals? If you'd like to, if like to employ waiting, waiting to start that family, Delay gratification. Delay.

Keep family together. Work hard. Get a skill. Don't have to be a doctor. Just get a skill. Wait on it. Go to the father-daughter dance. I think you'll see things turn around.

That's just me, Drew. But what do I know? I would talk to Mitch. Mitch? I like a guy named Mitch. Hey. Get it on. What's going on, Mitch?

Yeah, man. Hey, a long-time listener. I've been listening to you both since, like, 2003, on Love Line. First time caller. Thank you. So, yeah, thanks for taking my call. So my question is primarily for Drew, but Adam, if you have any input, I'd love to hear it. So Drew, I'm a third-year medical student about to start my internal medicine rotation.

And other than having grit and not doing my best but doing Adam's best, wondering if you have any like inside or any advice or anything like that, how to do well. Well, internal medicine got to read your ass off. So, you know, get really good at reading literature, especially abstracts, because you're going to read so many different studies that you're going to have to blow through some of them and figure out which ones you want to read judgment about which ones you read completely, which ones you read carefully, which ones you just read the abstract, but read lots of literature and internal medicine. Number one. Number two, this is the general rule of thumb. Get there before everybody else. Don't say no to anything.

Exceed expectation and be the last one to leave, and your residents will be very, very happy with you. and you'll get lots of more opportunities to do more things that will expand your experience. I mean, when you're at the head of the line going, okay, I'll do it. What do you want? As opposed to people hanging back or no, no, guess what? They will regret that. Now, having been that guy, and I'm sure I drove people crazy with a little bit throughout much of my training, I'm realizing in retrospect, I can, Adam, I can practically remember every day of my training,

particularly in medical school. Like, literally, I could say, if you gave me a month, I could go, that's the rotation I was on. here's who my resident was, here was that. And I thought, why is that? On the other hand, in practice, I'm sort of like things get a little blurry. But the reason is it's so goddamn traumatic. They traumatize the shit out of you in the training. And remember traumas.

You know what I mean? Because you're always a fish out of water. You're always, you know, the grounds moving under you. You're exhausted. You're there late. You don't really know what you're doing. People are busting your balls constantly. And it is traumatic.

And it should be because that's how you really, really remember that stuff. But anyway, that's my two cents. Thanks, Mitch. Yeah, thank you a lot. And Mitch will be one of the guys that delays and has a 12-year-old twins when he's 54. Yeah, I hope so. It's the key to success, everybody. But isn't that kind of interesting?

I was wondering, why do I remember it almost every day in my training? Trauma. It traumatized me. It was like intense, like too intense. Like, we're just seared into me. Kevin, sorry. Kevin, 32. Hey, get it on. Check down, man.

What's going on? Hey, I have a quick question. So I am married. Me and my wife are expecting twins, boy and girl next month, and I'm getting dragged to all of these parenting classes. Left and wrecked every week, a new one.

Are these really helpful? Are these things I actually really need to do, or do I go just to keep the peace? I mean, parenting or birthing? His phone's really bad. So birthing, not parenting, right? All of it, honestly. If you don't go, your wife will kill you.

And by the way, when you have twins, it's all hands on deck. So you're going to need to be an expert. What is he doing? I have no idea, but I can't tolerate it anymore. I went to him because poor guy's been on hold for an hour, and now I feel bad. But here's it. The wife is vulnerable. The wife needs manpower.

Wife needs help. White needs to know that she can rely on you. She's got two lives inside her. Support her, for God's sake. I mean, this is not... I don't like the attitude. I'm sorry. Drew, I'm offended that she called a life inside her.

I know. She should be able to do what she wants. You're right. She has these bodies inside of her. They're really alive. I'm not comfortable with that. These protoplasm inside of her. No?

Let's go with soda bottles. No, soda bottles, it's not descriptive enough. Well, that doesn't offend me. How about coosies, tea coosies? Oh, that's a coaster. Coasters. Coasters, okay. It's true.

We have coasters to put the tea on. and the cozy that goes around the pot. That's what the cozy is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just went to cozy in my head. That was a mistake. No, it's all right. It takes a big man to admit.

But either cozy or coaster will do, right, for the things inside the bar. Cozy's tough because it's usually like knitted. Yeah. But I was just looking at this coaster here. It's a cheese. Coaster's good. A prostate question for Drusky over here. Let's do it, man.

Hot prostate talk. Josh, 37, Illinois. Ace. grew. How you doing? I know. Yeah. Hey, real quick, I have a little bit advice for Trish from the last.

I was in the exact predicament, I would say, with my daughter about a year ago. And I kind of heard you comment a little bit, A, how you're going to, like, kind of stand back with the daughter and, you know, the things that most dads don't want to know. Yeah, Trish from yesterday has her barely 16-year-old daughter, who was trying to kind of line her out. And I figure she probably listens, and I know, and I struggled with this a lot, and I did not want anything to do with it either. But the best, I explained to her, and I thought it worked really well, and she kind of even commented on it a few weeks ago. But explain to her dad's what a man is, what a guy is going through at that time, and just inform them. because they do see it. I mean, my daughter's seen it, and she had like a two-year-older boyfriend,

and I just put myself back there, and I just explained to her that, and she noticed things like that. Well, you literally have to say it's not about him loving you more, wanting to more intimate with you. He's overcome by a biology that he can't control, and you do not have to be a part of it if you're not comfortable. 100%. 100%.

Yeah. Yeah, but, yeah, so that's advice. I know dad's don't want to do it, but it does help. And they do realize it. It's a good idea. Yeah. So, a big fan, first-time caller. I'm actually calling for my dad.

He, last April, I'm pretty sure, I listened to you guys all the time, I'm pretty sure he had the same procedure you did, Drew. He had a robotic, robotic radical prostatectomy? Yes. Yeah. Yes. So everything went fine Turns you on, huh? You're picturing that robot back there

The doctor's across the room Doctors operating I know, robots up in there Up in there It's not up your ass It's in your abdomen Hold on, Josh, hold on I got straight and out about here

Don't sugarcoat it I know where those robots go Up in there Sounds like you're fissing Somebody Yeah Iron robot fist All right

So go ahead Josh Well and And I'll also add, by the way, just listening to you guys and Drew mostly with that, I kind of just spread all that advice through him through the whole thing. Cool. He really got into it, you know, got on YouTube, watched the videos. I mean, he was well prepared and everything. Everything went fine.

Now, the issue that he has is getting the erection back. How long ago was the operation? Last April. So I guess we'll be coming up on a year. Did he stay on Cialis this year? Yes, he did. Okay. They say one year of Cialis?

Minimum, yeah. And so it just helps. Yeah, go ahead. Okay, well, maybe I should ask that. I mean, is that somewhat normal being a year into it? It's a very common for people to need Cialis chronically to feel normal. That's a common thing. And sometimes urologists will even put Viagra on top of the Cialis for, for,

for prostatectomy patients. Salus is more of an everyday thing. And Viagra's more of a, hey, and need some help on the weekend thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I understand it. Boy, Josh, who's sexuality do you ignore in your family?

You got a lot of range. Dad. Do you ever get confused like you're talking to your daughter? Now look, I know your boner. Oh, don't wait a minute. Sorry. That's Grandpa. Grandpa.

Grandpa, what are you doing here? We're going to talk about you later. Father McConaughey, you or two? We're a pretty open family, so she hears all kinds of discussions like that. All right. Well, actually, they're actually buddies. I mean, he drives her and her friends around. She's 16 now, but I mean, they're very close.

So she's been in on all this. I'm jealous. And the Seattle's question is probably. Salas is a little expensive. That's the biggest downside of sales. Otherwise, he should just take it every day and I don't even think about it. How much is Seattle? Uh, ooh, I think it's a few bucks a pill.

You know, it adds up fast if you're, I think it's like five bucks a pill in some situation. Now, recently there's been, I think the generic just came out. Five bucks a pill. I think it's expensive. If you have insurance. If you have insurance now, they always just started covering it. If you don't have insurance, it's closer to $50 a bill. No, that's, that's, that's Viagra.

That's for Cialis? For the daily Cialis? Five bucks a pill doesn't sound like that much for. Right. It's like coffee. employed person. Right. Well,

let's look at it. I'll get it. But they're going to go generic. But it's all going generic, and the insurance is starting to cover it now, so it's a lot more affordable. But the Viagra still has some crazy prices associated with it. 50 bucks a pill. I do the herbal vibe, man.

I'm sure you and you and... Good vibes. You win, what's his name? Lamar Odom. Yeah, man. We do the verbal. I mean, the verbal. The verbal.

He's not very verbal. But he's herbal. But here's the thing you should know is that. So the... Here you go. 10 milligram, I was a little under... I was thinking of the bigger ones, but a 10 milligram dosage,

you'll pay around $41 per tax. How about the 5 milligram? Because 5 is what you take daily, not the 10. So I think the 5 is a little price. Can you just go half price? If it was way less than half price, or more, or when everyone just buy the tan and busts in half? Yeah, you would think.

Or maybe you can buy more of it at a time, like a... I don't know. Shepaxialis, man. But here's a deal. The idea is that the nerves have been stretched a little bit, and it's the nerve going out to the penis that releases the nitric oxide that unravels the arteries that increases the inflow the cause of the erection. So you're trying to enhance the nitric oxide outflow from those nerves.

And they're a little off oftentimes. But usually with something like silence every day, it brings it right back to normal. But the point is for Josh needs to have his dad talk to his urologist. There's lots of stuff they can do. In the meantime. So Gary says... The average retail price for 35 milligram pills, which is the daily thing that you're talking about, is $370. That sounds about right.

A little over $10 a pill. All right. That sounds about right. And if you get it with insurance, it's substantially less nowadays. And I think it's going generic and things. So the pricing is starting to get better. But Viagra's still pretty crazy, right? What's Viagra?

Viagra is probably the $50 a pill kind of thing, potentially. All right. Yeah, but again, you know, talk to the urologists, a lot to. Even sometimes, you know, guys that really have trouble, they actually have penal injections of certain kinds of prostate gland and stuff like that. You give yourself an injection. Yep. Good times, huh?

Yeah. I give yourself an injection. Yeah. And you do it right in the side there? Yeah. You just one injection? Yeah. Let me just one.

Well, I don't know, because you have caverns there or canals. Yeah, yeah. Good question. I think it's only just one side. There's two, there's two cavernous bodies. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I don't know if made a difference. All right.

All right. You want to talk to Corey from Scranton over here? Sure. Let's talk to Corey. Corey, 24, Scranton. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. I just have a job-related question for you guys. Now, in the past year, I've gone on a number of job interviews,

and I've gone deep in a number of them, you know, second or third interview, but it never seems to go anywhere. And I'm wondering from you guys what you think, because I have a DUI in my background, and I'm wondering from you guys if this is something I should bring up in the initial interview and shed a little light on it, some clarity on it for the employers. I'm not sure, or should I just let it linger? I don't know. What do you guys think? Well, let me ask this.

Are you withholding that information and they're finding it? Is that what you think is happening? In a sense, yes. I mean, I'm not... Well, don't withhold it. Don't withhold it next time. They ask you how to... Well, what, don't volunteer it.

They've got to ask it, yeah, yeah, but don't withhold it. Yeah, see, I'm not volunteeringly giving that information, but they haven't asked for it either, which is... But I guess what I'm thinking is maybe, you know, after the second or third interview, they actually do a background check and they see it, and it's just an immediate red flag. I mean, I'm not sure what you think. I don't... I guess it depends. what job it is. Is it involved driving? Airline pilot, yeah.

It's like a finance job. Yeah, it should be a criteria for a finance job. Yeah, I want drinkers. And I want people who are driven. Drinking and driven. It seems a little weird that that's a deal breaker if everything else is going great and you've paid your debt to society. you've undergone your mandatory classes or suspended your license for six months or whatever.

It's been dealt with. Does it slough off in seven years, like many other things in your driver's record do? Well, the thing is, it happened in 2013. I'm pretty sure it stays on, I think, for four years, I believe. Gary wants to know if it's a felony or misdemeanor. What's the difference? You mean like... Does he endangering anybody or speeding?

Like, I think. Well, a lot of job applications require you to declare if you've been convicted of a felony. So I'm just wondering if that's not the case. Oh. So... I don't believe it's a... Because it happened in New Jersey, and I'm pretty sure it was just considered essentially like a traffic infraction.

Obviously, is more expensive than that. Did you pay... Did you pay a big fine? Did you go to court? Oh, yes. I lost my license for, you know, nine months. months. By the way, I would just drive carefully if I ever lost my license for nine months, wouldn't you? I mean, I think about this all the time. Like, there's no possible way I could

ever stop driving. What I would do, I'm assuming, if I lost my license for six months or nine months or any period of time, I would just continue to drive very quietly. I would go, look, Here's Adilio. You're not going above any speed limit. You are stopping at completely at four-way stop signs at two in the morning. Now they've got those cameras on everything. Soon they'll have facial recognition stuff out there. Yeah, but for now.

I would definitely just go drive. Like, just go, look, I'm going to keep everything totally together for six months and drive. Yeah. And by the way, if I get pulled over and they add a year to it, I'm just going to drive then, too. So what should he do? What should he? I'm not so sure. Oh, sorry.

A, Corey. Yes. We haven't established a direct link to your DUI in the past and you not making it past the third interview. I guess if the job you don't want very badly, you could try it and see what happens. No, I, I, here's what I might do. I might consult an attorney or somebody who knows this stuff. And they would go, you know, it's incumbent upon them, their financial institution, their insurance requires them. Yeah, you probably go to legal aid society and get them from almost nothing.

And yeah, and then you could say, well, what can we do to minimize this damage? Like, what could I do to not make it look wink at them when they went off on it or what have you? I think, I think other than calling this show educating yourself on it, probably be the way to go. And Adam, here's what you should do. So until next time, Adam Carroll for Dr. Drew, saying, Mahala.