The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #63: Funky Soul Patch, Part 2

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Adam and Dr. Drew offer advice to a caller about raising twins. They also help a man who is having trouble dealing with his wife’s depression and then they discuss the future of male birth control.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Well, here's part two of episode 63, July 2013. Adam and I get into it amongst other things. We discuss the future of the male birth control pill. It's something that always seems to be a topic of discussion, and there it was. Yo, more than 12 years ago. So, enjoy this episode from July 2013. All right, Drew. Yeah.

We've got a gallbladder question. Let's do it. I don't know what a gallbladder does, but I'm going to interested in finding out. I don't talk about it. Okay. Dave. Hello. 45, Phoenix, gallbladder, go!

First time, long time. First of all, thank you both for the service you've provided over the years, and I'm really happy to see that Drew has become part of the team over there. Thank you. You too. I had a gobladder issue. It first came up about five years ago. At first, it felt just like food poisoning, and I was hospitalized.

I was actually in the Oakland airport, and I thought it a bad hamburger. Did they make the right diagnosis during that? hospitalization? Yes. Okay. Well, as far as I know. Well, they did an ultrasound or a CAT scan and they found your gallbladder problem. Yes.

Okay. And there were signs of stones in there. Okay. And they're ready to take it out right there. Let me ask them. Did you, are you diabetic? No. Do you have any other medical problems?

No. Are you overweight or had you lost a bunch of weight prior to that attack? No, I could lose 15 pounds. But it was as though you'd suddenly lost a, a bunch of weight and then the attack? No. Okay, go ahead. I've had a couple of reoccurrences since that time.

On the other hand, you know, I've gotten online and I've looked up the stuff there, and it seems like a lot of the people that have the gallbladder removed, besides not having the attacks, you still have issues with digesting food. What do you need the gallbladder for? You don't need a gallbladder, basically. That's bullshit, Dave. I mean, they're right in there is the bias of online. Only the people to complain break through.

All the people that are very happy with what's called a colostectomy aren't going online and writing stories about it. And of course, the people who are writing stories about it, you can't trust what you're reading. You cannot because, listen, if they were that big a deal, why would we take these things out? We want to make patients worse, and you can die from gallbladder attacks rather easily. They can get infected. It can be a fucking mess. And it's a simple procedure.

It's laparoscopic. They clip it out. You go home, sometimes the same day. It's just, for God's sakes, get the damn thing out. Well, what else don't we need? Here's what your appendix. The gall butter is a little more than appendix. I mean, gall butter is basically a sack that sits under your liver just off your common bile duct.

It helps sort of squirt extra bile acids into your small bowel to help you digest fatty acids. That's just basically just like the appendix, it was something that we needed when our diet was different. No, it's a nice little, it's inefficiency. It's, no, it's a good thing. But the appendix is something we needed for when our diet was different, theoretically. I think, no, the appendix is a vestige of development. It's like having a, I don't know, something else that, like a... Were you paint pictures with you?

I'm trying to think of what other things we have that we don't need that are just sort of left over. How about you describing shit in a clumsy fashion? I just did that. No, I'm saying that we don't need that anymore. We don't need that. That's true. no what I'm all right now we got to go online and figure this out and I'm saying is I always thought the appendix was part of the digestion or something of food when there was a different diet you know when we're eating pine cones or something like we need like I think it's more that is left over from another species you see that it's as we've grown in me from a dinosaur yeah something as we evolve this little piece sort of got genetically transmitted with the advancement but does the gall bladder would you You'd be better off of the gallbladder. What I'm saying is when our diet was different, let's say, when we didn't have food,

is clean and is whatever, as we have it now. Yeah, it must have, right. Well, first of all, you had no control over your diet. Now, if you have any issues after your gallbladder is out, you can adjust your diet. But while your gallbladder's in. Clearly it had adaptive advantage, or we wouldn't have it. Right. You know, we wouldn't have it.

So it's not a vestige. It's just something that had a function. It just was probably a subtle function. Okay. All right, so get over it. Yeah. Go get it. All right.

We're trying to get to, oh, was Darwin that thought it was for digesting leaves and early primates. Early primates. Other species, though. I guess early primates is another species, but early versions of us. Yeah, that's right. That's right. But that's something to do with digestion. You know, for some other species, yes, for sure.

Well, but another species that became us, right? Yes, yes, yes. Or we became them? We became that. They became us. You should become on Fox, by the way. I should become on Fox? That was stupid.

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Joshua, 28, Redwood City. Got to get it on. How you doing there, Ace, man? Good. How are you doing, my brother? I'm good. I just got a question about the male birth control pill has been promised for years, ever since Love Line. I hear Adam saying, oh, it'll cut out of your, excuse me, Drew, saying next year, next year, and where are we on that? I wouldn't say next year, next year. I was saying it's a long way off, and there's many different versions, that many different ways they're trying to attack fertility in the male.

The one thing they can't seem to do is figure out a way to hormonally manipulate men so that they shut down sperm production without really harming them medically. So that's what makes it more difficult than the female. The female, they just have to block this one surge of hormone that comes out that causes ovulation. For men, they have to suppress a really suppress sperm, which is hard to do. Let me tell you what's going on biologically. Tell me. I'm no doctor.

Okay. But we're dudes. We stormed the beaches at Normandy. And it's all created by our sperm. When the Brooklyn Bridge was built, we had to build casons. There were 80 foot into bedrock under the water when we had no technology. We basically did it in a upside-down bowl. That's what they did.

They all got the bends doing that, too. They all died. Who built the chunnel? A bunch of your mom's friends? I don't think so. Dudes. And dudes find a way. I'm talking about spiritually, psychologically, and physically, we find a way.

Chick, boom. Hey, knock it off with the being receptive to my sperm. All right. I'm going to watch the Jodi-Aries trial. But dudes, you can't stop us, man. And the sperm is just, what, the smallest manifestation of that? It's the cellular manifestation. It's the gooey tip of the spear.

it is a it is a representation of us and our like unyielding desire to move ahead right so stopping that process is going to and i'd be curious to see what happened to those guys who are like former you know well i was trying to be i i'm a fighter jock i did you know 120 carrier landings and then i was going to be an astronaut and then i got on this pill and i'm not going to watch my stories. What's Jody Areas travel? That's all I'm saying. I wonder.

Well, so they're not going about it that way. They're going at it by trying to make the tails of the sperm stop moving or prevent the capacitance of the sperm so it can't penetrate the agendas. It's all kinds of strategies being looked at. But I'm not aware of what one is leading the pack right now. I know that people are trying and trying hard. Wow. So it doesn't sound like they've cracked it yet.

I'm sure it's been close for a long time, but I'm sure the given. And I've got to remember, the liability and the amount of money that has to go into this stuff. And then all the guys saying they're on the pill and they're not on the pill. And so just developing any new drugs these days is really a problem because everyone thinks drug companies are bad and evil. And it costs $750 million to take something from identifying a molecule to the marketplace, and then they only have an average of five years to make their money back. And it's... Before the generics come out? Before the generics come out.

And then they've got all the legal stuff that whatever happens when somebody got pregnant or they didn't take it right or whatever, which just it just makes it just economically really a problem these days. And the government's no longer funding the research. So it's a mess. Plus then the confusion of the story with the guys like, don't worry, baby, I'm on the pill. And then what? I don't get it. Why'd you have to finish it my hair? Oh, shit.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I just started taking it. You know, old habits. Might not work. Die hard, man. I'm just or playing it safe you know

never be too careful all right so why the concern about it Joshua just curious no I just hear about it I remember listening

and I feel like it should have been done by now I mean I'm no expert on it so you can look online see if there's any more encouraging information but I've been had my eye on it for a long time

and it just kept rolling along and never get to market just the sterilization agent that they're going to start putting in Mountain Dew, to me, that's, that will be the victory when we can start doing that. Man, hey, I love that man, Gria, by the way. They're at him.

I got a bottle last night from Zorba's. Love them. That stuff's pretty strong. Yes. Don't even drink wine. It'll pour it over ice, baby, and enjoy. Drew, did you hear that story? It's a couple of weeks back.

There was basically a prison doctor that was having chicks, tubes tied and he claimed he was just sort of doing it you know when they were in uh for you know when they had enough scarring from enough C sections that this could be but he was really just kind of uh trying to protect the world doing us all a favor yeah like and now you know of course the outrage over the mother who has seven kids but's incarcerated not being able to get pregnant again uh I love the groups that are outraged over that like um you think you can play God. Well, let me explain a few things.

We've already incarcerated you. That's sort of playing God. Do you know what I mean? Like, you're incarcerated. You are kept in a cement box. You're not allowed to walk to the liquor store. You're not allowed to go see the latest Lone Ranger movie. There's a whole bunch of stuff you can't do because we decided you can't do it because we decided that we're going to create something called a society.

And once you try to live outside the bounds of that society and hurt other people in society or steal their things, and we're going to have to bring in. We have to put you in the box with the nice guys with shotguns. So that's number one. I've never really signed off on the, hey, I may be in this box for the next 27 years, but you've got to watch it. So he was basically sterilized, 148 women. Without approval. By the way, this will be another lawsuit, and we'll have to pay for this.

Yes, he is a saint. There should be a medallion named after him. There really should that people rub before they have intercourse. Saint infertility. That's right. But he will be sued. Believe me, he will be sued. Hey, this is Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla show.

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They're not being taken care of. So it's actually the more humane thing to do to sterilize. But once you shit out a litter, you should really get sterilized. It's one of the many problems. And we're now at the point where I've been talking about this so long that we would be at the point where we would be seeing great. great and positive effects if all the fucking dumb people stop having kids or stop having multiple multiple kids or if we had a society that had judged maybe a little more about a mom who was uh cannot judge in prison with seven kids on the outside but uh cannot cannot judge i was uh

I don't know why, but I was speaking to Judge. I was laughing about, I had a nice, we were driving home from Jimmy's wedding the other weekend, Lynette myself, just sort of comparing and contrasting the experience we just had in the retreat in Ohio versus our family and just how they sort of ran things and their belief systems and their effort and stuff like that. And you just see Joan Kimmel and Jim Kimmel and all the celebrities and all the people dressed up. And then every time I see Joan Kimmel, she kisses me, like grabs me with both hands. And I just thought this for just a small example of my family and how stupid they are. Now, you don't. How much they miss out on you mean by being that way? Yeah.

Yeah. It's a form of stupidity. I met Jimmy Kimmel 20 years ago. they basically decided that because I knew him, he really had no place in their life. You know what I mean? Right. And never mind that he basically took their son from a life of poverty to a life of celebrity, that there was no fruit baskets that were ever sent his way with my parents' name on it.

That you took my son from uninsured, not an uninsured motorist, uninsured motorist, uninsured, medical, uninsured dental, living in a house with three dudes with no heat and no air and lacaniana or lacrosena, hills of lacrosena, two, a wonderful house and a beautiful family and able to support and all that, all because of Jimmy Kimmel. But they've never acknowledged him. They've never even asked how he was doing. They've never asked about his show. I don't believe they've ever seen his show.

And he is the kind of guy who opens the tent door wide open, the flap of the tent and says, come one, come all, come on down. I celebrate Father's Day and Fourth of July and all the stuff with Jimmy's family. I do everything, which I attend the weddings with Jimmy's family. I go to the funerals with Jimmy's family. Everything I do, I do with Jimmy's family. And I was just thinking as we were driving home from this beautiful Ohio, retreat. My family

could have easily been at this Ohio retreat hang out with... Because Jimmy would have thrown the door up before. Ben Affleck with them too, except for he doesn't know who they are. He's never seen them. They've never asked about him. They don't even know what he's doing. Kind of interesting. As much as Jimmy's parents

hang around or participate in his life and stuff, they managed to not take the lamb light away from Jimmy or his wife. And I don't think people generally out there know what great people they are. They're amazing couple.

Yes. If I sort of feel like people should know that, you know. I try to. They're so amazing. Shout it from every mountaintop. I think I was in a Starbucks and I ran into them, and they again, grab me and kissed me. At first, I didn't even recognize it. I didn't seem in like six, seven years.

And I was like, oh. Yeah. But just think about that notion of, and you want to talk about, you know, not tactically, not making those moves in life, you know what I mean, where you go, ooh, your son has buddied up with a guy who's climbing the ladder here in Hollywood pretty darn quick. And not that it's all about, hey, Uncle Jimmy's going to lease me a Cadillac, but just a even acknowledgement, they don't acknowledge he's alive. He's never asked, hey, I heard, you know,

You know, he hosted the Emmys. No one went like, hey, man. One day, you guys are just sitting around the Denny's after working at K-Rock and the next you know, the guy's hosting the Emmys, that's incredible. He did a wonderful job. We T-vote it, you know, or could I go and watch the Emmys or do you go and how does it work? They would never ask that. That's way off their train.

Oh, no, they would never ask to go. They would never ask. Even I know they would do that. They would never ask to go. But the point is, is they've not had a question for or about Jimmy. I got it. All right. Stop with the mic.

You got to stop. I finally fuck that. I have a question for you. What is this Drew voiceover yelling thing on that wall I'm seeing over there? What exactly happened? Oh, whenever you do your HLN stuff and I got to go through this myself. with people, either people watching TV are stupid or TV executives are stupid. I think they're TV executives.

Or possibly both. Every time you've got to lay something down for your HLN show, we can hear you from the other end of the shop because they need big energy and need you to yell. I did a pilot. I'm going to have to discuss this with the fine producers over at Spike because they're fucking driving me nuts. But everything we did, all the off-camera stuff, which was obviously funny because it came from my mouth and it was about the thing, we all had to pick up and re-record because they needed more energy. So it's like I needed me yelling everything all the time. And I don't like yelling everything all the time because you miss out on the moments when you do yell, it then seems like something. And some of the jokes are a little more subtle.

We don't need big energy. And stupid people giving notes are always big energy. Unfortunately, the people at Spike are going to run and do a huge problem with you. With me when it comes to the huge energy. I wish I were there. It's going to be interesting. I lived it 20 years ago with you. It would be great to see it happening all over.

Well, now it's even worse because, you know me. I just want to go. home number one and then number two I'm tired of yelling at retards and I'm tired to taking notes from fucking idiot producers and so that'll be an interesting I want to tell you though I resisted that for a year yeah and then I started doing it finally because they and it once you do it everyone has to do it well for certain things it actually does work a little better well for certain things but they're just do it for everything and thus it It becomes the standard, and that's everything, and now that's just where we're at.

And that's the problem with stupid producers and stupid executive. But we'll cross that bridge. Ultimately, with me, though, I'll just go home. If it gets in it, I'll go home, and then I'll just go, find a guy is as funny as me, and find a guy who knows about home improvement. And go do it. And go do it. Enjoy.

I think Ty Pennington's available. He's super funny, and he's a master carpenter. Oh, no, wait a minute. He's never built. wait a minute he used to find people to build things as he told us

remember that Ty Pennington came on our show and essentially told us he was a bullshit artist it's true it is true is it not

because you started asking him a couple of carpety question he was like no no I said how'd you know before that I said

how'd you get in and I said well my brother was a contract and I said but how'd you get in it and it's like I kind of

kind of made people think I knew a little more and I'd get the job and then I'd go get my brother or whatever like remember that

Well, you kept saying you'd find other people to do the work, is what he said. No, he'd say he sort of told the people he knew a little more than he actually knew. And then I asked him two questions and he couldn't answer either one of them. And then again, people do this thing where they go, well, that's very specific. Drew. No. We all have a field, not all of us. If you asked me very specific questions about medicine, I would answer it.

If the very specific question was how. how what side of your rib cage is your heart located and how many valves does the heart have and name one of them and you and then other people jumping in well well maybe not cardiology that may not be a special no no no this is very carpentry 101 studs are laid out 16 on center or 24 on center that's it period that's period end of discussion to that you asked him about a door swinging a door too. I said, what's the height of a door, not commercially, just, you know, residential. 6-8-0.

That's it. 8-0 meaning 80 inches, which is 6-8. Yeah. That's it. If you meet someone who's... And he didn't know that. No, he did not know that. And that's the straightest, forward piece of building information there is if you do any kind of residential anything.

Isn't this the premise of your show? In certain ways. Certain ways. Yeah. All right. Let's take ourselves a little extended break. me and Drew, coming to a town near you, Carmel. If you live in New England.

And Carmel. Or Northern California, yes, yes. But we're going from Carmel to New England to nowhere in between. That's right. That's right. Nowhere. Nowhere in between. New Hampshire, Boston, Newport, Rhode Island.

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