The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #582: Lookin For a Loophole (The People vs. Robert’s Cock)

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

May 16, 2017 - Adam and Drew open the show by turning straight to the phones and speaking to a variety of callers including one who is in a sexual drought with his wife after the birth of their second child, another who is wondering if he can date someone he knows through AA and more. The guys then discuss the classic film ‘The Shining’ and some of Drew’s quirks before wrapping up the show.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey, everybody. Time for a throwback episode number 582, looking for a loophole from May of 2017. We turned straight to the phones and speak to a variety of callers, including one who was in a bit of a drought with his wife after the birth of his second child and another who is wondering if he can date someone he knows through AA. Heavy stuff, actually. We then discuss the classic film, The Shining and some of my quirks before wrapping up the show. Enjoy. Episode 582, Throwback, 2017. Recorded live at Corolla One 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, trust you got to get on a mandate. Get it on. Thanks for tune in. Thanks for telling a friend. I love that about you. How are you doing, Drusky? I'm good. So a couple things.

Yeah. One, given I was obsessing about calls, it's two calls up front. Just a heck of it. And then second, I want to talk about Norm McDonald. I forgot to talk to you about that. Norm McDonald.

Jim, 52, Phoenix. Hey, let me first blow a little smoke up you took us. I love your Spike Show, and I know it's good. You know why? My wife liked it, too. Wow. That's always a good sign. Well, thank her.

Yeah, hey. Tell her, let's see, we got Russell Peters coming up, and then Jay Leno, and that'll be. That'll be it, so check that out. And if you want Ray to learn how to do improv, have him just watch Joel McHale on your show. Of course. He was so great. And so it Mike Rappaport, too.

Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry. Russell Peters already came on. Sorry, Joel McHale's great. Yeah, Lennox, the only guy left for you to enjoy. You and your wife, but thank you for watching. Thank you. Okay. I had a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I hope.

It was a friend of mine, not a close friend. but I was a co-worker with him, and he came to my house, psychot. Just nuts. What was he saying? Well, he was telling me his girlfriend was his escort, and that she was doing this, that, and the other, and she's trying to steal his pension, and he had all this stuff written down,

he had all these papers with him to try and prove this to me. Again, it wasn't a close friend. So he's paranoid. It sounds like he was agitated and escalated. Was he on drugs? Yes. Well, good question. I know he's an alcoholic recovery.

So I put on my Dr. Drew hat. And I asked him if he'd been drinking. And he said, no, I just have a narcotic patch. Hold on. The Dr. Drew hat is that knitted pussy hat that chicks have been stomping around. The cat is pink, yeah. That is your hat. Pink, yeah.

Yeah. So he's on opiate. So he's on drugs. So this could be an organic psychosis. It could be a drug-induced psychosis. Okay. That's organic. And my question, what I did was I sat him down and I go,

because he had written like, and not a manifesto. He probably had like four or five paragraphs of everything that they were trying to do to him. Yeah, yeah. You understand he does, right? He's like, yeah. Okay. So he needs to go to the hospital. He needs to, he should, next time.

You take them right to the hospital. When people are impaired like that, you go right to a psychiatric facility or you go right to the emergency room and let them sort it out. Because they're holdable at that point, at the point they're disconnected from now. Here's my problem, Drew. Because I got on a phone and called four or five different places. They didn't have room. We don't have any beds. No, we can't do it.

Yeah, listen. Psychiatric. Finally, I found a place. I mean, you know what? You know what my friend told me? Yeah. He said, tell them I'm suicidal. Well, he knew.

So he knows. He's been in the system enough. Yeah. Sorry, the phone's pretty crack. Yeah. So here's what you. You go to an emergency room, and then they become responsible towards placing them. But the number of psychiatrists are woefully low.

We can't get psychiatric care. We can't get psychiatric beds. This is a big problem in most states right now. And it's weird because having worked in a psychiatric hospital where they were trying to fill the beds all those years, now they don't have enough beds because they put all those hospitals out of business. Good job insurance companies. Well done. Well done.

I thought most people blamed Reagan for that. No, no, no, no. That was, it was, in fact, one flu of the cuckoo's nest and Jimmy Carter and that era that released all the state hospitals, the people you can't keep people chronically and they all went to the streets. This is just plain old psychiatric care. I always hear that blamed on Reagan. I know. It's no. It's all plain old psychiatric.

No, it was the, hey man, who are you to hold these guys? They're medicine now that will they take and they're normal citizens now. Who are you to hold these people against their will? And then one flu of the cuckoo's nest created this sort of cultural idea of a state hospital being these draconian places, which of course they were never. But the psychiatry did do some horrible things in the 50s and 60s. Trust me, they did. And that's why it stuck. But be that as, and we thought the medicines were going to be more useful than they ended up being, frankly.

But ultimately, was it? saying. It's just about plain old psychiatric care. You can't get psychiatric beds because insurances wouldn't pay for the psychiatric stays, and so the hospitals all just went out of business. There's no beds. Good times. Yeah, good times. Well done, everybody. All right.

Let's talk to Steve, 29, San Diego. Steve? How's it going, guys? Good. What's going on? Hi, so I'm this is my second kid with my wife, and she does not want to have sex at all. It's been about five months and it's really getting on my nerves. Is she depressed at all?

A little bit, yeah. Okay, so you need to be, make sure she's not getting a postpartum depression. Is she angry at you even if it's in a kind of a passive way? Every day. Yeah. Well, but that could be irritability from the mood disturbance too. Hard to know. Is she breastfeeding still? She is. All right. So during breastfeeding, it is normal to – look, it's normal to be shut down for a year after a delivery. That's normal. To have really dramatic – and when you breastfeed, it's even shut down even more. Nature did not want you to have one child on top of the other. So the way nature has your wife's biology is to not – her not want to have sex for about a year. So you don't have all these kids coming on – kids coming on top of one another, right? That's nature.

Yeah. Well, let me say this. Your job is to be a father right now, not to be a husband or a guy in sexually. I'm sorry, it's the way it is. Well, five months, five months. Now, listen. Here's the thing about women. Men, for men, they're the same, right?

Exactly the same. Well, man, you can't judge. How can you say something like women and men? They're the same. What are you talking about? I can't even understand you when you say that. Can I correct you? They're the same, but men are horrible.

Yeah, well, because they don't realize how the same they are. They're the same. Yeah. But they're still bad. Men are still bad. Yeah, because they claim difference. It's like you say like a red M&M and a brown M&M are the same, but the red M&M's are bad, but they're the same.

I do like these douchewats over here like, we're the same and you're bad. It's good. Well, okay, does that make you bad too if we're the same? Aren't we just evil twins from the Shining then? Oh, no, you're good, and we're the same, and I'm bad. Yeah, that's interesting. Oh, my God. All right, that's just good math, Drew.

Remind me about the shining. After a call, I got something to say, man. Oh, you finally see that moment? Yes, I did, but I have something to say about Wyatt. This is a buggy for 11 years. I know. I know now why. I'm a physician.

15 years later. Call. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right.

So, let me explain what's going. I don't know if he's on or he dropped off. He's still. He's still. Yeah. I'm here. Okay. Okay. Men have a sort of biological predisposition to sex.

All right. More of a biological mandate. You can say, yeah, I'm depressed or I'm upset or I'm angry with you, but it doesn't mean you're not going to eat, piss, and take a shit. Right. Why you need to. Yeah. There's a biology there.

Right. And you're not going to take five months off of taking a shit because you decide you're in a bad mood or you're depressed. You're not feeling. So that's kind of sex for men. For men, yeah. For women. Women get very offended when you say that, too, about sex. For women, when they're not in the right place, they're not in the right place, and thus, it's not like, well, I'm starving, but I'm angry at you.

So I'm not going to eat. No, it's not that. I've lost my appetite. Right. I'm starving. I was starving. I'm angry at you, and now I'm not hungry at all. For months.

Food makes me want to vomit. Right. So now you're at a little disadvantage, my friend, because you're starving. because you're starving, and you're with somebody who's lost their appetite. And by the way, coming at her makes her actually vomit. Guess who's in charge of going to the supermarket? You're just sitting at home begging for scrap, a morsel. She's not coming back with anything.

To be fair, we've all been there. We've all been there. Yeah, and the job is dad. That's your new job. No. It is his job. It's not to motivate. Quiet.

You're not going to be, so this situation where you sit around on your side of the island and go, well, I know she's starving too. So she's going to have to give in because she wants our food too. No, no. So she's going to a supermarket. She's coming home with something because I know she needs something too because we're just, we're the same. We're the same. We're the same.

She's starving too. No, no, she's not starving. She's lost her appetite. And now you can go over there and try to browbeat her into getting you something from the from the deli section at the store or explain her why she needs to be shopping or shoot her angry look from across the table or whatever it is none of which is going to get her to fill that basket. In fact, now the lack of appetite goes into nausea.

Right. So you got, Stephen, you got a shot here. But that shot is make her want to do something that she. that she may not want to do because she's so in love with your attitude. So he means... Don't make her do her wifely chore. He means hire a babysitter or hire two nannies for the night and take her out to dinner and show her a good time and maybe, maybe.

Multiple times, but this is your problem. Basically, she's the cop. You're the motorist who's pulled off by the side of the road, and she's just walking up the car with the flashlight. And when she wants to know, do you know how fast you're going or why I pulled you over? You don't get to go, do you know why you pulled me? No, no, you got one shot.

You're shot. Because that person will be just fine after they give you the ticket. Yeah. Or you can create an environment where they'll be fine without giving you a ticket. But that's you have to create. Now, you may think, well fuck that it's marked 55 I was going 59 I'm a taxpayer this is bullshit I don't deserve this shit that may all be true but the fact of the matters you're being pulled over and you have

someone with I would argue that you're you're like a community leader and you have a new job and your job is to lead for everybody else in the community and take that ticket or whatever or create the environment for the cop not to give it to you whatever it might be but it's you You've got to prioritize your new job, which is dad. But dad, a new husband. And it comes back. It does come back. The sex comes back.

The relationship comes back. But all relational satisfaction goes into negative during these years. And you've got to sort of motor through it, push through it. It's all right. Stephen. Okay. Oh, listen. I got to wait out another six months or what?

No. No, it's not what we said. You got to listen. Here's what you have to do. Here's what you have to do. It's actually 16 years. But anyway. Yeah, you can be 100% correct.

You can go, I do this, I do that, I do that, I do this. Why is this? This is not fair. What's going on? She's not holding up. I'm not going to ask pretty please. And I'm not showing up the bouquet flowers and some chocolates. This is bullshit.

This is bullshit. what I deserve and this way. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. Women aren't wired that way. They're not wired to sit down and evaluate things, especially after they give them birth, in a

very even handedly and an objective way. No, no, no. None of that. So you can go on with all the rules you want in the world. They're not going to comply. So if you want this outcome, then this is how you have

to show up. Basically, you're in a kangaroo court, and you have to go in there and sort of dropped your knees and beg for forgiveness. And hopefully, you know, Kim Jong-un-un-the-19th, you'll curry some favor with him. But what you can't do is go, wait a minute, I'm a tourist. I was simply taking pictures for my own collection. They accuse me of being a spy. This is an outrage. You can do that, but you're going to the hole. Yep. Simply taking pictures. Right. Reminds you something. Simply safe?

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Tarazzo, we can do that too. But go ahead. Robert. 40. Hey, we're... Yeah, man, California. What's going on? I just had a quick question.

A girl, then talk of these. Anyway, short version. She just finished her one year in AA. And apparently, from her sponsor, she signed a celibacy contract, and apparently during AA, and apparently now she's, like, unable, or they advised against her even being in relationships or even dating or even having sex. Is that something you've heard of, or am I just being settled on there?

No, no. That means that she's had some problems with love and sex addiction. Is she also going to SLA or SLAA? Oh, no, no, no. this is just for alcoholics and honest. Sinanese liberation, Army? No, no, that's okay. That a really good sponsor would attend to that stuff.

Patty Hirsch is a sponsor. In people's first step, there's a lot of stuff about sex and their behaviors, and somebody really is good should be attending to that kind of thing. So good for her, man. She's taking her recovery very seriously. And, you know, if you really, you should watch that series Love on Netflix with Gillian Jacobs. Yeah, it's really a good exploration of this. She's the blonde from community?

Yes, yes. Is there some sort of, you know, I know Mark Gerges pretty closely. Maybe we could find some sort of hand job loophole. The people versus your cock. Something. Well, she's got a contract there. I see. And she signed a vow of celibacy.

So it would be the people versus Robert's cock. That was for you. That was the last last. month. And now I guess she apparently now, she had, her, her celibacy contract was up last year, or last month. Yeah. Which was her one year, one year, one year sobriety. So that was up last month. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. Hold on. That, that, and I know you're looking for a loophole here. And that's, no, no, no, I'm just trying to figure this out. In the People's versus Roberts Cox, I surmise. That, that, that, that the celibacy contract is separate, I suspect from the

one year of no relationships that is standard in recovery. It sounds like she has some other issues specific to sex and alcohol, sex and love addiction that she may be working on. And oftentimes that stuff doesn't get worked on until you've been sober from your drug of choice for a year or so. So it sounds like she may be somebody that's going to go on for a while with that contract. I suspect, but I don't know. That's up to her and her sponsor. Okay. But you're not being fed, you're not being fed a line. This is something, this is for real. Okay, fair enough. One more thing.

She actually also works and has been in a mescal bar. So how, yeah, is that contradictory or not? Well, she can work anywhere she wants. And these days, it's not where you work. It's, you know, what are you up to where you work? Is that a new thing, the mescal bar? I guess. Heard about it.

Oh, man, it's fantastic. Well, she might have, I mean, you could argue that she could do a lot of good there, you know, that she could 12 steps on people who would get. out of control. But whether it's a threat to her sobriety is all she needs to keep an eye on. Hey, Gary, I was discussing this with Ball Brian, who was explaining mescal's

like a type of liquor, but I was saying, I only heard of mescal tequila when I was, used to go to Tijuana back in the day. They put the worm in the mescal tequila. Yeah, that's the mescal. But there is a mescal something. And then he was explaining, no, mescal's not tequila. It's its own thing.

Oh, no, there was a mescal tequila for sure. There's always a mescal tequila, which he was sort of saying it wasn't mescal tequila, it was mescal. Mescal is the, is another, like, like. I can shed a little bit. Mescal is made from over 30 agave species varieties. It's another cactus. And sub-varities, by contrast with tequila, which is only made with blue agave. But they, now, are we getting into champagne versus sparkling wine here?

Because there is a mescal tequila, right? I would agree that they are both definitely in the same family. No, no, no, no. You're getting into like Burgundy versus wine. Uh-huh. Like, burgundy is made only with a certain kind of great for a certain kind of region. But there is something called mescal tequila. Yes, yes, yes.

Okay, so that's what I was saying to Brian. There was a mescal tequila that's part of my childhood. I think mescal is from other agave roots or whatever, and they'll add that into certain tequila. The worm one was the classic one we grew up with. Right. Yeah. Eat the worm, man. All right

You want to talk to No, no I want to talk for a second I don't know You want to talk about Tarazzo I want to talk about the Shining Those are the two times Oh all right

Do the Shining first So it's funny Timely It's you know You took you about Let's see Today's Thursday It took about 10 years

For you to get me To watch the Shining Well I can remember When we When we started Loveline When anyone would ever ask We had the scariest

movie ever I'd just go to The Shining Because it was such a slow burn Yeah no one would ever be able to stay with that movie today. Yeah. There was been their apartment in like Manhattan, their miniature apartment for the first

22 minutes in the movie, like a little kid sitting in his room. But it was such a slow burn, but by the time they got to it, you were there. Yeah. But interesting. Anyway. And so I used to reference it and Drew would say, I've never seen The Shining. And I would always go, oh, my God, I wish I'd never seen The Shining. Because it's one thing to watch Point Break or Airplay a million times, just a bunch of stuff. But the shining, when you know how it ends, it's pretty much ends it for you. But I am really at a different stage of life right now.

So Drew, after all these years, finally saw the shining? Yeah, I did see. I saw it like as an assignment for you. You know what I mean? I jammed it up my ass one hour, a couple hours I had free. It's important that all entertainment feel like homework. Yeah. Well, but I used to complain that I was too busy.

I was a doctor. I was like, and you know what? I was. Sort of. No, no, not sort of. I argued at the time that there were Saturdays when you were at home, when you could have rented it or watched it. Whatever. I would do my nursing home rounds on the weekends, too.

It was hard. But here's my point. My point is I would go home and watch that now today. Yeah, I'm on my life. And I'm up to date on Netflix, and I'm watching 13 reasons why. And I'm like, when people talk about shit, I go watch that I'm in it. I'm too busy for that. but go ahead.

Well, that's my point. Thank you. Oh, I'm really busy, though. And I'm sure, I'm certain I'll have periods where I will get that kind of busy again. Mm-hmm. But that kind of busy that you're talking about, I was that way for like a decade. Yeah. And it was not cool.

It was like excessive in retrospect. And even my kids are starting to complain a little bit to me about it. Like my daughter the other day, she, I felt. At the time or now? They complain now. Now, retroactive. Rather, my daughter will, like, throw a little shivs at me. like, well, you weren't really around that much.

I'm like, oh. Oh, yes. And it's like, oh. So, yeah, so you have, oh, God, what do they call it? Post, not post-dated, but. It's like a buyer's remorse kind of thing. No, no, I'm trying to think of, of, shit, I can't think of the term of what they call it. What they call it is is describe it.

I will. if you buy a car if you buy tires yeah and pro rated oh yeah pro rate if you buy tires and they say 100,000 miles on these tires and we'll replace them for free you go okay but if they blow out at 80,000 miles they don't give you a brand new tire for free they go well you got to 80,000 so we really only owe you 20% well pro rate not the whole yeah there's a pro rating kind of thing maybe not the exact right use but I was thinking about that And, yeah, kids are awesome. But the point is, I was too busy.

I was out of control of workaholism. And this is just what you, that whole shining thing and the raging bowl thing, which was the other thing you assigned me to see, was all symptomatic. The reason I didn't see it is because I was so busy training when it came out. And then I didn't have time to see it when you assigned it to me because I was too busy. I was too. No. Argue?

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sort of unemployed junkie theory, which is the guy who doesn't have a job, but who has a crack or cocaine habit, can figure out a way to get, you know, you hear these guys, he's a $100, $100 a day cocaine habit. It's like, he doesn't have a job. Yeah, but he can get it. He can get it if he needs to. I mean, if he really... But the not having a job is a symptom of the cocaine addiction, right? Whatever it is. My point is, is you, first, first, you, you come from a place of fear. So your first thing, your first thing was. Yes, Kimisabi, I come from fear. Yes. He comes from a place of fear.

Big bad droon. Comes from fear. Yes. Anxiety and panic. He holds dear. Yes, like majestic seagull. Like the young child running at. majestic seagull on beach.

Oh, my God, I read a great... Tomorrow, I'll tell you by crows. I heard a great crow lecture. I thought about it. Ryan, make a note. All right, so you come from place for here. So what Drew would do, Drew was insanely busy,

and so he missed all these things when they're in the theater. But then at a certain point, he was busy, but one could argue that you had a VCR and you had a home and a TV set, and one, and there were, you could go out to dinner on a Saturday night or go out with your wife and see a movie in a theater.

You could. Yes. But you had this thing where it's like, I can't, because I'm so busy. And it was a mantra that you had, which wouldn't mean you couldn't physically take time. You could physically carve out time to do something if you had to do it or you really wanted to do it. But your mantra was. No, no, no. But that extra time was spent with the three kids and with the wife at dinner.

But true. You cannot convince me that you're always so busy that on a Saturday night at 10 o'clock at night, you couldn't pop this thing in a DVR. I could. And watch it. No, he didn't have to be with the kids. He didn't have to be with the wife. You could physically do it.

But your mantra is like, I can't. And it was part of a self-fulfilling thing. Yes, like, I can't. I'm busy. I'm so busy. I'm doing everything I can do all the time. I can't take any time for myself. And I run into that a little bit myself.

but I also do go, I may do this this night and not do anything responsible or whatever it is. But the point is that that was all a symptom of something that was going on. It was you and your fear. Your fear-based. My hometown fear. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. And like the majestic hyena.

No, you were, you, and there was also a thing where you had a fear and a sort of pride in your that you would say, I can't do this, I don't have time of this, I can't, if it sounded like anything. That's part of the addiction or the work-alism, right? It's symptomatic of that. And it was not fun. Good. I'm glad you weren't. We were no one around yours having fun. Thank you. I appreciate that. It makes that eight of us. True car. I'll tell you what is fun. True car. Yeah, they can help you. You want to buy use? You want to buy new? Over 700,000 pre-owned vehicles from over 13,000 True Car certified dealers nationwide. So, whether looking new, whether you're looking used.

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I'm not done with you yet. You said it's not fun. Shoot, I had something I wanted to say about that. What did you say it's not fun? Well, you were saying you weren't having fun or whatever it is, and I said, none of us around you were having fun either. That's all right. I don't take it personally.

You got to talk to your daughter about that. Well, it was a, oh, I know I was going to say it wasn't fun, but it was extremely, I have words like necessary and productive and important. It was extremely important to me that I had those very intense experience. and saw, I saw everything. I was like nothing medically I didn't get exposed to because I was seeing 60 cases a day kind of thing. And so it has sort of, in a weird way, the magnitude of that has kind of freed me up to do what I'm doing now. In other words, I wouldn't exchange that for anything, even though it was painful and not fun and everything else.

In terms of the experience I got, it would have taken like an extra 20 years to get all that experience. And now I'm free to kind of apply that in different and interesting ways. Does that make sense? Mm-hmm. So I got like 30 years of experience or 40 years of experience crammed into 15 years. And now I'm doing other stuff. But I have all that experience packed in me and I've seen it all. And I really value that.

I think that's what I'm trying to say. Even though it was intense and maybe painful and maybe I'm paying a price for it or my kids paid a price for it, I still value what it was. Well, first off. Fuck those kids. I mean, whether they're your kids or they're my kids, those little snot, no shits with that. And then, that wasn't wrong. Jesus, God damn Christ.

I mean, cry me a fucking river. Well, it was not, just it was little shives, not big ones. Well, look, you know, here's the thing. And by this, she's not wrong. You're doing, yes, she is wrong. You're doing things when you're there, you're doing stuff for them. When you're gone, you're doing stuff for them. Now, I don't know how heavy hands.

you were with the critiques and the study and you got to study and the crazy, you know, you got to learn. I'm not hearing complaints about that. Interesting. Yeah. Can I tell you? Because once they got that? I am the fucking world's worst parent.

I know. But they, because when they got that, they valued it. They're like, oh, I'll get it. I got that. In fact, even things like we're getting a lot of the, thank you for pushing through on the piano lessons. Or why didn't you push me more? Getting some of that now.

Every single, every single second that goes by. I get further away from college and all the traditional education. Even Lynette said to me the other day, you know, I'm hearing about a big mistake. A mistake. Yeah, they're going to go lock themselves in the Chicano Studies gymnasium and fucking throw urine at the cops. That is awesome.

It's going to cost me 70 grand a year for those little assholes. No, even Lynette said the other day, you know, I was reading about these colleges where they have specialties where the kid decides what, you know, with kids, whatever they're good at, whatever they're leaning toward, whatever their propensity is, and then they go there, and then they learn that, and I'm like, yes, that's all, it's all I've ever said. Oh, man, I got all I've ever said. I don't know.

Don't give a shit about any of that. By the way, especially when they're no good at it. Well, let me tell you what comes to mind for me. Saw Hamilton in New York last week. Sonny's already bored off his ass at school. I know, listen to me. Saw Hamilton last week, right? And I thought to myself, oh, my God, most people don't know this history.

And now they not know this history, they don't like value it. They don't fucking think about it. They don't attach to it. And it really bothered me. And so when you talk about not educating everybody, the founding fathers, their very first principle was that we got to have an educated populace because they're going to be governing themselves. So they got to read history. They got to read philosophy. They got to be broadly studied so they can be up to the task of self-government.

We're going to just throw that away? No, I like education. but what I like more, and you always say this and develops, this is nonsense, but I like curiosity a lot more than I like education because curiosity leads to education. Grid is more important than anything else.

Everything sort of, but I want them, yeah, they're learning all the capitals and all that and all the stuff I never learned, and I'm happy for that. I'm just not marrying an education to success. Oh, no.

For that. I've never really said that, even though I value it. And I think it's helpful, but all right. I just want them to have a motor and have things they're interested in and go get some. And I want them to have life lock. Of course.

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