The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Dr. Spaz (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show)

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

Adam is joined by Dr. Bruce (aka Dr. Spaz) filling in for Dr. Drew. Adam and Bruce discuss Adam's long standing frustration with Bruce's kids and their pizza preferences. They also explore some back pain Adam has been having, and take a call from a listener in Russia who has a question about racism.

This is Corolla Digital. Recorded live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew show. Well, get it on. We've got to get it on. No choice but to get it on, man. Get it on, but let me correct something. It's me, Adam, and Dr. Spaz filling in for Dr. Drew, Dr. Bruce, who I always say is probably a better doctor. With a straight face you say that. Probably a better doctor than Dr. Drew, although there are plenty of waiters that may be better actors than Channing

Tatum, but they're out of work. Do you know what I'm saying? It's not all about the skills. But let me give you an analogy. Good lenses, bad frames. It's in the urban dictionary. It was coined by me to describe Dr. Bruce. So you will live on. Good lenses, bad frames. And may I, oops, bang my mic stand just to make you feel more at home

Like as if Drew is here, but what where would there would there be pearls if there weren't that irritant? In the clam I'm that irritant Drew. I've listened to prepare or you're the grain of sand inside my oyster That's right That's how they make culture to oysters. Yes. They put a little grain of sand in there They irritate it. And next thing you know, beautiful pearl. I've listened just to prepare because I figured you might say if I said I've never heard you and Drew do your podcast.

Drew goes out of his way not to irritate you. I don't go as far. No, no, he does not. He does not go out of his way. His favorite topic is how my staff is frightened of me. That's every time he comes in there, he's like, look at him, look at him, look at him, look at him. And I go, what?

And he goes, oh, of course, you're not going to say anything to you. And then he points to the glass, Chris Maxipata, and he goes, look at him, look at him, look at him. And I always say this, a couple things. I'll tell you when people are scared, not by how they look, but how they act. I get into this all the time. I come in here, my assistant will be sitting in his office drinking a beer at noon with his fucking shoes off and his feet up on my desk and he'll go,

hey, how's it going? And I'll go, that's not, that's not what scared people do. See what I'm saying? Yeah. Well, honestly, I, I've gotten to this with Lynette before, as she would say, Oh, you know what? You scare me. And I'd always go, no, no, I don't. No, I don't. And she'd go, you do. And I'd go, no, you're not. You're not scared. And she'd go, how do you know? And I'd go, you would act. You would do 10% of the shit I told you to do if you were scared.

Scared people. Let me tell you something. When you have a stepdad who you're scared of and he comes home, you hear like his car coming up the driveway, you fucking put away the Legos fast and you start doing push-ups like you That's what's scared scared acts scared well when I would come home and Ozzy would just be sitting in my kitchen eating and I would come home every day at the same time like when I did my Morning radio show right I'd come home every day between 11, 10 and 11, 30.

And every other day, Ozzy would be talking to my nanny in the kitchen while he was eating. And I'd walk in and go, get the fuck to work. What are you doing here? But then the next day I'd come in. That's not a scared person. No, no. Your actions.

Maybe not smart either. Not smart, but not scared. Drew is projecting. He's projecting. Well, his level of anxiety, he projects that anxiety to others and then they're scared. That's what he does. Now, let's talk about important issues like pizza and pizza topping. Oh no. Famously, Dr. Bruce brought his kids over to the house. That's been, that was probably three, four years ago to enjoy a little swimming party at the Corolla house. And I said to his daughter and son, I said, well, I'm going on a pizza run.

So what do you guys like on your pizza and the answer was what do you like for topics they were scared I know well what would you order if you were ordering pizza would you get it what would you like pepperoni, sausage, meatball, nothing. Doesn't matter. I said what the hell kind of 10 year old doesn't have a pizza topping? You have a pizza, it's something you like on top of your pizza. It's right up there with ice cream. Like you got ice cream, you want some fudge, want some tapioca, want some whipped cream. What do you want on there? By the way, let me tell you, when I travel, if I ever get up in that first class section and you get the three classes, by the way, here's the only real first class is if you get on the plane and you turn left and everyone else turns right, that's what you're looking

for. If you get on the plane and you turn right, you ain't in first class. They call it first class. It's basically business. Yeah. It got bumped to first class because they got no business. You want to turn left and have everyone else turn right

when you get on the plane. Better restrooms up there, that's a good idea. So when the cart comes by, everyone saw they do the ice cream cart, they make you a sundae. Oh yeah. And they go, you want the fudge? Or do you want the fudge or do you want the caramel or do you want to this? And I just go bring it all baby suicide

Get it all nuts in all go sick. I want you to shit on it. I want you to defecate on it as well produce So it's always been an interesting So, it's always been an interesting thing to me. A kid that doesn't like a pizza topping or have a pizza topping that they like, but they're young. I let it slide. It's been discussed. It's what we call a marker. You know what I mean?

When they go look for serial killers and they look into their past yeah torturing animals number two no pizza topping number one oh really having a favorite DSM Corolla yes DSM six I don't know what we're on we're on five but fine I've gone to six yeah that's right not having a favorite pizza topping torturing animals how about it's number two on the profile? Prank calls with Dr. Phil app. That's where I'm, that's what I'm doing. I don't care about the pizza topping. I got a kid that skateboards it. I want to get into that app for a second. Okay. So now Bruce brings his lovely children in.

HOV lane. Sweet. Oh, that's why you brought him. No, no, no. We're gonna have a day out of town. He named one Lane in the other HO. So brings a man and of course I got a first question out of my mouth. Yeah, right. Favorite pizza topping. I need one. They've had five years to really think this one over. To go to therapy. They went to therapy. That's right. That's right. The girl. Elizabeth. Libby. Libby. Right. You can't remember their names? The girl and the boy. The girl. Libby, broccoli. Chris, get Lynette on the phone. Broccoli.

That is by the broccoli, while a healthy choice. In the pizza, the pantheon of toppings, that may be a minus two. Oh. I'm trying to think of what, I mean clams. To be fair, clams are below broccoli. Clams on pizza? Oh, I went on a date and a chick ordered clams on pizza and I was like, no, no, no. And she was like, oh yeah.

And I was like, no, no. Not a good portent for the rest of the date. Yeah, not a good sign. Yeah. They don't put clams on pizza. They did it this goddamn place. All right, and the boy. Jose, I mean Joseph. Jose. Yeah. They did it this goddamn place. All right, and the boy

Jose I mean Joseph Jose yeah the boy Nothing. He's still a cheese. Nah, that's what he said to me. So You're now over to no you got nothing Any of broccoli are you Italian your minus minus two? Yeah. look, I understand your point that you made out by the coffee pot was heard that when you go to New York and you order a slice. No, go. I'm from Brooklyn, okay?

So the third generation born in Brooklyn. When you go to buy pizza in New York, you just say, is it one or two slices, right? And then you put the garlic on the pizza right yeah right right by the way I love that garlic powder I don't feel like it's used enough out here people give you know they give you here they give you packets of pepper red pepper but it's like I don't want the red pepper with the garlic powder I've been to pizza joints where I go do you have that we got the pepper and then you go now and they go we got Parmesan cheese.

And you go, no, garlic powder. And then there's a place that go, we have garlic salt. No, it's too salty. Garlic powder. That's it. Yes, OK. Cheese with garlic powder. Good.

Still not really an answer for favorite topping, though. Why? That's a non-topping. I mean, I'm invoking New York, but okay might you might be You might be maligned in New York for ordering a topic now got under Broccoli because I think you'd get on one one then he in Bellevue he was But he is from Redlands, which is as far away from Brooklyn as you could possibly get Which is as far away from Brooklyn as you could possibly get

Well, I think the valley here is a little further. All right. All right, so They need to declare a topic. Yeah, well that's that broccoli can be removed Does not have to be an animal product. I will accept black black olive. I will accept mushroom You will accept all right. Well bell pepper. I will not okay not okay All right go ahead. I don't pay for the therapy. No, that's all here. That's it Adam. Corolla. What toppings daddy They get he that's there. You're gonna prep them. They didn't like they didn't sleep I told him you're not he's not gonna put you you don't have to be here. So we should have worked Let's do some role-playing. Oh I'll be Libby

We should have worked. Let's do some role-playing. Oh I'll be Libby All right, you be me really yeah, you be me I come in good ask me what I want on my favorite pizza topping is hey, dr. Spaz Oh, the kids are here. Oh Libby Joseph what what top sausage and onion? What or meatball no moving on all right? That's how you should have prepped them. Oh, okay.

Next time if I'm ever here again. Two hours in the car to prep them. Can I just bring up one more place? One more sore point? Go ahead. I offered you, my friend Tony's, family recipe for limoncello. I said, you've done the mangreya thing. We've dealt with that.

And the response I got, of course through Lynette since I never talked to you, was you're coming out with a new mangreta product or something in the Corolla line, a lemon something or other. When you could have had an Italian old family lemon cella recipe. We're working on a man grenade. Mike August is in love with this. It's delicious. It is it is really good it's just just mangreta and like lemon. It's called a lemon train. Yeah. Corolla lemon train. Yeah either way it's it's okay. D-Lummy. D-Yummy. Alright now

what's the boy doing with the Dr. Phil app? Oh you know I'm going to get in a lot of trouble for this. Well, he likes making prank calls. Now, he knows nothing. Jimmy did it? Or you and Jimmy did this? Or in the old, you know, let up to a cranky hand? Oh, let up. Well, everyone, every young boy

should have a an interest in prank phone calls at a certain point. Yeah. You should go through that phase. I didn't do that. You didn't? No.

I'm surprised because back when we were growing up, that was all there was. I mean, if I had an iPad, tablet, and U-Porn, I don't think I would have made as many prank calls as I made. Maybe some of the girls in the class, sixth grade, I don't know, I don't remember. But this is Taco, he likes calling Taco Bell or certain business establishments. And he, actually I was one of the first recipients of one of these calls and I embarrassingly stayed on for about a minute trying to figure out who was calling me because hey, maybe Dr. Phil's calling. Well, how do you, I don't get the Dr. Phil part. You have to explain that.

Well it's, hi, you know, hello, and then there's, are you angry or? Please explain. You're hearing Dr. Phil's voice. Well people, and it's like they're sucked into the- Please explain what this is. Explain what it is. Is it a sound board or does it change the voice? We don't know what it is.

You're just saying, I thought Dr. Phil called. It's an app and it has a number of short sound bites of his voice. Right. Which things that he said, but some things on the drunk pimp. The things that are rather provocative rather. Right, right. So you think it's Dr. Phil well yeah because there's hello hello right Okay, I understand people start to respond then it's interesting how far people will go in the conversation

And then of course he puts in are you fond of torturing small animals and at that point about pizza toppings From the sublime to the ridiculous. So this is all stuff that's just been grabbed from Dr. Phil, put into an app, and then you hit the response that makes sense. You have to be kind of skilled. It is an absolute skill. I tried it myself. Not of course as a prank call, but I just tried the sequence. There's several pages, there's several screens of... You, by the way, could give James Babydoll-Dixon, my agent, a run in the sugar packet department when it comes to your coffee.

You have one cup of coffee, how many? And let me also say this. You spreading sugar granules all over my console and then cleaning them up by blowing at it, it's not really taking care of the mess. You know what I mean? You spreading sugar all over the top of the console and then going, it's not really gathering them up, it's just spreading them into the nooks and the crannies. We're going to need a vacuum, by the way.

If you want to take a look in here, Matt is going to have to vacuum this up. Now, I don't know how you do this. When you're at a restaurant, I imagine they come and wipe it up after you. But here, someone's going to have to clean this up. How many packets are we talking about? This is just pro forma evidence I'm not afraid of you. So this is when...

Right. This is... One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. It's only 10. I usually put 12 of these. Here's my defense. When you... Twelve. Twelve. Do you, you may have James Babydoll-Dixon anytime, by the way, he does it, he does it like a card shark deals, you ever see a guy with a sleight of hand take a deck of cards, fan it out, put it back together, do it in one hand, shuffle with one hand, that's what Babydoll does with sugar packets, he'll pick up nine, hold it between his thumb and forefinger, do a quick snap, snap, scrap. There's Babydoll Dixon's sugar packet.

You can check it out online, by the way. He's a lightweight. You know how I can tell. Adamanddoctordrewshow.com. Adamanddoctordrewshow.com is where I go. That's the last time we went out to practice. I know Babydoll Dixon and I will take him on anytime. And he's a lightweight, I can tell.

Now let's look at the half and half containers. He has five spent half and half containers and what is a just basically like if you were doing a pep rally and you're doing one of those big laying all the big pallets up to do the bonfire. That's basically what it looks like. He's a lightweight. Now, if you're someone in my arena, you have to stack the cream containers within each other. There are ways that... I normally don't want to advertise.

Well, no. You understand Babydoll loves to make a mess. He likes to throw trash out the window when we drive. He likes waitresses to clean up after him. He's not looking for recycling or orderly fashions or anything. He wants to. He'll tip, but you got to clean up. He's intentionally making his big a mess.

It's like if there was an ashtray nearby, he'd flick his cigarette butt the other direction. I thought I helped him quit smoking. He didn't stop smoking? No. Well, you know, I don't want to. There's another factoid here. We're both from Long Island.

And you both have incredible metabolisms that let you choke down all the sugar and cream and whatnot and not gain any weight, right? Yeah. Okay. Let me just defend myself here. Do you drink soda? Just please bear with me. Do you drink soda?

Do you ever? Oh man. Until somebody, I don't know, where'd all the cocoa? You've trapped me. Where'd all the cocoa? No, never. I never drink soda. Okay. Now I'm cornered. This is like what Paula Deen should have cocoa go? No, never. I never drink soda. Okay.

Now I'm coroner. I can't get out of my own life. What Paula Deen should have said with the N-word. I never, never. You're saying no to something that obviously... Have you ever seen me drink a soda? Yeah, absolutely. So, there are how many...

Have you ever seen me drink a non-dietetic soda? Yeah. When? At your house. Never. Never? Ask anyone who works with me if they've ever seen me drink a non-diet soda and even a rare soda. I drink a beer? Listen, I've worked with a man for years.

I've only seen him probably take three swigs of soda throughout the whole journey. I haven't even seen that. I've hit off someone else's soda before. That's what I'm talking about. I'm including the hits. Yeah, right. Well, how long have these guys that I've hit off someone else's soda before That's that's I'm talking about I'm including the hits. Yeah, right. Well, I how long these guy I've known you since what 1996 So listen you have first off you've never Drank an entire non dietetic soda not in 20 years. Okay. Well, it's good enough for me on a on a bizarre every once in a blue moon, somebody will show up at my house and go, I went to this great sub place or this great deli and they have these little niche sort of hand crafted whatever and they'll bring your cream soda or some you know

in the small bottle that's they you know not not the big bargain brand but the cool stuff you get in New York and you go if you go to a really good pizzeria high end or so they have to clear you know doctor so-and-so's whatever in that rare case if it's going to be that good I will pour and I'll drink half a half a glass on on that rare of an occasion but no well all right but go ahead with your argument yes a soda has as much more probably 12 teaspoons of sugar equivalent and then how about the Nimrods that are drinking these energy dry and energy drinks those are fucking or the Arizona Arizona iced teas. Listen, people have no idea how many liquid calories they're consuming because this stuff's called Vita water and it's called Energy This.

They drink a Vita water on the way. Many of those have... They're dietetic. They have the sugar equivalent. What is your point then? My point is most of the people that are criticizing me. Except for the one I bring up. What's Vita water have? Vita water... Find out, we got to find the clerk. Look, the point is this.

There's tons, these people they're drinking the smoothies, they're drinking the Frappuccinos, they're drinking the Vita waters, they're drinking the energy drinks, they're drinking the bigrapuccinos. They're drinking the Vita Waters. They're drinking the energy drinks. They're drinking the big 22 ounce Arizona iced tea and all that kind of stuff. Has tons and tons of sugar or high fructose corn syrup or whatever in it. Yes, agreed. And I will do this at work. These are dummies. These are dumb people.

Right. The winged, well, oh, but the Nimrod or the doctor colleagues that I have that see me do this make the same comment as they are drinking a Coke, a non-diatetic soda. They don't look at you as a colleague. They don't say it to your face. Yeah. If I show up for the shift and work it. All right. Now, yes, it's true.

This is a drink a coke push. This just happens to be more dramatic because we see the carcasses of all the sugar packets that are laid out. Plus there's no coke in your fridge. I'm not sure what the fuck would happen to that. but me. Except for Lynette. Lynette opens a soda, takes one half a sip off it, and then sets it down and never touches it again. And then I always say, I'm not trying to start a fight, but did you want a soda or didn't you want a soda? And she always says, I just wanted one sip. Is that a waste not want not from being a kid that it bothers you that that's going to waste

or is it just? There looks to be 50 calories in a vital water. There you go. I have never purchased anything liquid and left it behind. I have never left a half a beer. Oh, come on. Oh, I see. It's 2.5 servings.

Yeah, it's 125 calories in a bottle of Vita water. They do the stupid 2.5 servings like you're going to have two sips. Look, here's how I'm wired. Because of where I come from right and because I was deprived I Have never left in my life a Sip of beer in a cup a sip of wine in a glass a smoothie a

cup of coffee a soda Anything there's nothing that I've ever ordered at a restaurant with the exception of the refillable, like the iced tea where maybe you've had five of them. You know, you're sitting there for two hours eating lunch with somebody, working on a script or something, they just keep refilling it.

I have never left anything half anyone. There's no such thing as going to Starbucks, ordering something, and you finding half a cup of it around my house at some point. I have no, my wife, that's her whole thing. She'll pour a glass of juice. There'll always be an inch at the bottom of it. And I'm always like, just the inch, just shoot it down.

But you know, this is what people find irritating about you, and what I love about doing the podcast, I can say things to you that I can never say outside of here. You set yourself up as a beacon on the hill of virtue for certain behaviors. And it's not virtuous, per se, although I don't like wasting things. Right.

But don't you think that's irritating? Irritating to your wife and kids. I mean,'s like I'm because I'm sure that as the kids start leaving things They're gonna hear this well. I would say it's irritating to the person that's buying this stuff That you open a root beer you take right two sips It sits on the counter for some time and then eventually finds its way into the fridge but just open and then it sits there for two days and then eventually just pour it down the sink. I think I have a couple of sodas in my fridge.

You might. But that's better than not finishing it and just dumping it out right away because it shows at least some respect for the. I agree. I know, listen, I'm wired in a way that does not leave anything anywhere. I don't throw away any food. I don't leave... there's nothing, like I said, if we're out to dinner and you order a glass of wine and I order a glass of wine and I finish my glass of wine, which I will always do, and we're leaving and you have a sip at the bottom of your wine, I will reach across the table as you're standing up and getting your jacket

on and shoot it down. Right. I have to admit, all kidding aside, you're one of those rare people that you're consistent when you say you do something, say something historically that you've done, you've done it. And most people are full of crap when they say, well, I never do this or that. But you got to be careful with you. You will recount a conversation from 15 years ago

and correct someone. And it can be irritating, but the irritating part is you're right. Well, look, I've said it once, I've said it a million times. I look at everything as just a unit of energy, and I don't like the energy wasted. It's not just kilowatts, you know, it's easy to do the, well you left the light on in

the closet and you weren't even home, you know, that's okay, you're wasting wattage. That's energy wasted. But when I look at a can of soda, I look at energy. I look at the aluminum, I look at the stamp, the press, look at energy. I look at the aluminum. I look at the stamp, the press, the foundry, the labeling, the shipping. The thing had to get put on a flatbed truck and you know big rig and trucked out here from wherever the bottling plant is in Atlanta or whatever it is. I look at that as a unit of energy and I don't know how many units are in a soda but I look at that as a unit of energy. And I don't know how many units are in a soda, but I look at a piece of meat as a unit of energy.

When I go out and order steak, and if I eat half, I'm like, I'm gonna throw the other half away. No, that's grain, that's water, that's energy, that's photosynthesis, that's just energy going into that, what has now come to my plate. Really? I look at everything, I don't look at it and see a number. No.

I don't assign everything a number, but I look at everything as energy. And I don't like energy wasted. I don't mind energy spent. I don't like it thrown out. That's the way I look at it. I don't like the idea of going, well there's half a steak and I'm done

and now I'm going to throw it in the garbage disposal and kick on the garbage disposal and burn more energy to get it into the ocean. Wow. I mean, I have those tendencies, but I thought it was part of my OCD, you know know sort of Dependency type thing well I don't have the codependent part But I do have the you don't I do have the coast to the stoplight and then try to hit it try to time

It so I don't come to a full stop. You know what I mean? Yeah, just don't like energy listen if My but the deal is is if gas was ten bucks a gallon or if gas was free, I'm the exact same mode. Exactly the same drive exactly the same. Yeah, no difference to me. It's just energy, energy wasted. Yeah, don't like it. That's it.

It's more fun driving like a maniac whether you don't drive like a maniac either, but I don't according to my kids. No, I don't because the cops in LA are just such chicken shit assholes that they do nothing but hand out bullshit tickets. I listen. I was, there was a motorcycle cop coming up at the bottom of my hill yesterday. I had to tweet Lynette who was bringing Sonny home from basketball practice. Hey cop bottom of the hill sitting on his bike waiting. You know that's one of the right hand. Don't make a right hand turn at the bottom of your hill. I hate that. One of those one of those one of those anyone would just

roll through it stop signs. You know it's just cop chicken shit you know basically I'm scared of cops and I don't want to give the city a fucking nickel more of my money than I already am so it's fuck it and I race so once you start racing you don't you get your yai-yai's off on the track you know I don't feel like... Oh, see, I would assume it would be more tendency to be frustrated by the constraints of... Especially, I mean, I drive... Oh, interesting. That's true. No, what I do do is I drive...

When you get used to racing, you get used to driving around other people in a confined area at a high speed. So you're not bothered by it. So I now find myself, I'll ride on someone's bumper. But I'm not worried about it because I'm used to it. And this car has anti-lock brakes. The race car doesn't have brakes. My element has anti-lock brakes.

Your element? And I drive the same. Which sister did you get that from? This was not from my sister. Oh, you have a brother? No, this is not a family car. I'm confused. I'm confused.

Who gave you this car? This car is nimble. This car I can weave in and out of traffic. It's the SC model, so it has a suspension that's... Yeah. I'm waiting for a relative with an M5. The shoe I Don't know what hand there's nothing the can't Honda's not one of your sponsors. I can tell it listen the elements fine for a

Young gal who is going going into college? Not a doctor how dare you my kids do not want me to get rid of that car because it's a there's a social aspect to it It's a great socializing place. All right. Who do you think would be a better driver? Me in my LMSC or Drew and whatever the heck he's... I like Drew. Well, the thing...

Hold on. Drew like me is always in a hurry and he's always trying to shave a couple of tents off of whatever he's doing. That's why he backs into the parking spot here and all that stuff and he drives super aggressively and I like that. Oh yeah because he's always late to his... Drew's one of these guys whose first delivery is at 7 a.m., metaphorically, and his last one's at 5, and he gets behind five minutes on his first delivery and is trying to make it up every stop after that. That's how he spends all day every day. I should read my text to Drew that he thought was very funny.

It was a reference to you. It was, I said, when I had my hernia surgery, I was on the couch taking Vicodin for a week. I said, unlike Mr. Corolla, who I'm sure after any procedure would rub in our faces that the next, well, the next day you're out doing construction work. What happened, I had hernia surgery. Drew had the same hernia surgery. And I did too within a year. And Drew had it before me five years.

And Drew took a great delight in explaining to me how punished I was going to be physically after this surgery. And I was having this surgery on a Friday Friday late, maybe about four or five in the afternoon on a Friday and I said, ìWell, Iíll come see you.î He saw me in the hospital actually but he said, ìIíll see you on Sunday night.î Love line. Sunday nights, see you Sunday night at work. And he said, no, you won't. And I said, why wouldn't I?

And he said, you're going to be laid out, buddy. And I said, surgery's Friday afternoon, more than two days. You know, it's a, and by the way, I'm just getting in my car and driving over here and then I'm just going to sit down and talking to here and then I'm just gonna sit down and talking To a microphone. I'm not I'm not a roofer Yeah, I'm not doing foundation work. I said No, I should be fine. Hmm, and he said you're not gonna be here Sunday night. You'll be at home No, you shouldn't I have a point to make now. He said he said you're not right. You're gonna be laid up

You can be on your sofa and said, I don't think so. I think I'll be here. And he said, oh, but listen, I got the same thing, and I was laid out for two weeks. And it was brutal. And you're going to be in a lot of pain. And then he started laughing, which is not, you know, I don't know what the Hippocratic Oath.

I haven't taken it. But saying to people before surgery, you're going to be in a lot of pain and then laughing, you're not gonna see him at work. It's not good, you're not as patient so Hippocratic Oath doesn't apply. Okay, but still not good form. And I said I don't know, all right, you know, made me think, oh Jesus Christ, maybe this is going to be a little more than I bargained for. I had the thing Friday, 5 o'clock. I don't know. I got home 7 o'clock or something like that.

And because of the drugs and being tranquilized and put under and all that kind of stuff, I remember just going to bed early, like 10 o'clock, which was, you know, for me, I'd go to bed at 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, because I was doing Love Line. But I just went to bed at some very early hour for me, 10, 10, 30. So thus, at 6.30, and at the time I was obsessed with working on my house. I was literally obsessed. I mean, really crazy, nuttyty obsessed about getting this big project done. Right. And I woke up at I don't know 6 15 and I just sat up in my bed and I

just went huh. That kind of not much memory of the day before because I was put out and drugged up and everything and I kind of stood up and I just went I feel pretty good and then I said Lynette I'm going to the house I'm going to work and and she went and I went I feel fine and she went yeah and I shouldn't all right and I just got my car it's like like 645 in the morning, 7 in the morning. And I went to the house. And I remember I was excited because these doors I'd ordered a month ago had finally come in.

And I just hung the doors. You hung. Well, here's my solid oak doors. But they were. No, but here's my point. You do have remarkable recuperative powers. But the message, say, to your kids would be be tough. Tough it out.

The reason you're told to rest, and what I was saying, Drew probably said you shouldn't, is because you need some time for healing to occur. But my body told me it was fine. Right. Well, I don't know how many people I've seen come in the ER and say, when did you have surgery two days ago? What did you do? Well? I had to go out and lift. Did they tell

you not to lift? Yes. And then there's a tear. They have to go back and I'm sorry. So that's the concern. Yeah, I figured if I didn't feel well, I wouldn't have done it. But now, speaking of that, speaking of that, I do have something cooking right about now which which which you could you know maybe speak to I don't know but speaking of hernia it's it's it's it's right in that department yeah and it may be the other side so we talk about that in one second I'm gonna need your advice on that first go to meeting baby oh yeah go to meeting summer weather's, kids out of school ordering their plain pizzas.

Sprinkling some broccoli over the top. Yeah, but the business, it don't stop. Oh, the kids stop. No. Not Papa, not Bruce, not the ace man. We use go to meeting with HD Faces. It's powerful, baby. You can collaborate online and stay connected with coworkers and your clients, share ideas,

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it's like Sammy Davis Jr. threw up in here. Cocaine? No. Oh. The candy man. Oh, but cocaine too. All right. All right.

We got to get a vacuum in here, honestly. When we come back, I think I have hernia on the other side. I'll ask you and then we got your phone calls. We'll do that right after this. Hi folks, I'm Larry Miller, but in a way aren't we all. And this week on This Week with Larry Miller, I answer the question because I'm back from Vancouver again, what it was like to go to Tim Hortons for coffee. Did I get there? Listen to the show for free through iTunes or on the Anon Corolla app.

We'll see you here. All right. Dr. Spanz, a couple things. I have a medical condition. We're gonna need to get to the bottom of that. He's going for round two with sugar. There's sugar all over this goddamn place right now. It's up top, it's down below, it's in the corner where your phone is. And then Bruce comes back in here for round two and he has the 12 packets in

his fingers and he's getting ready to put the cup down on the console and go for round two and I said take it out to the kitchen and stand over the sink with it and he's like and he said I was gonna do that I'm like well you were standing at the sink with the sugar and your coffee Why why is this your designated sugar? application zone Why why would this be the place and what would give you? The reason I'm laughing is is there anything in the sugar mess that would lead you to believe that you're good at

Putting sugar into your cup without spreading it all over the fucking place? I don't know. This is why people are afraid of you. You're so critical. Why not just put the sugar in where you're standing over the sink where if it goes all over the place, it'll just go down the drain. Well, I was anxious. I didn't want to keep you waiting, so I came. I did part of it there and then I saw you come in here, so I was just, do you know was anxious I don't want to keep you waiting so I came I did part of it there and then I saw you come in here so I was just do you know I don't want to keep waiting. All right Matt have you ever seen more sugar spread around an area of one cup of coffee? Yeah he's not gonna disagree with you it's not that bad. It's the website for the pictures. It's multi-level. It's multi-level. I'm busted. It's multi-level.

Thanks a lot, Gary. Go to the website, check the pictures. All right. Now, me. I had, for no reason, I was skipping my rope a week ago, and for no reason whatsoever, I felt some lower back pain. Right below my right hip. Backside right hip. But the pain sort of went across to the front where the hernia would be. No bulging or anything, just pain in front, pain

starts in back, kind of cuts through at an angle to the front then I go out and have this horrible odyssey on on 4th of July where Lynette's car gets a couple of flat tires and I'm trying to take the piece of shit jack fucking $80,000 fucking German car and a 10 cent fucking piece of shit tin jack and jack the fucking piece of shit up and I'm like I'm pulling the spare out of the back and I'm not knocking the lug nuts off and my back's just fucking killing me the whole like the worst thing to do is change this flat when your lower back fucked up yeah and I'm down on my knees

and I'm trying to get this jack going and I'm trying to get the tire fit on to the lug nuts and it's just like and uh uh uh and then the next day I Wake up my back's fucking killing me But I got to go back to where I left the car and finish I couldn't get the fuck I had to bring my floor Jack such a piece of What don't you have triple-a no? Oh? Seriously, I don't know what I have you did it yourself. I always do if I get a flat. I'm seriously? I don't know what I have. You did it yourself. I always do.

If I get a flat, I'm like, fuck it, I'm changing. I never call anyone or do anything like that. I would never do that. And instead, I had to call a cab two hours later to drive me home, and my back was fucked up. And it's the piece of shit jack that comes with this fucking out. They have these stupid, stupid shitty euro tin things

They're not real jacks like there used to be used to be they give you a bottle jack or scissor jack or something now It's just this weird fucking one-sided cranky tin sheet metal. It's bullshit Anyway, respectfully don't they assume the more I would assume the more expensive the car the less likely that person is to Manual labor do it themselves. I would also argue that if you got a car that's 80 grand, you should have a jack that's worth more than $4. You should have the presence of mind to have someone else do it for you. Well, then I would argue why you offer a jack.

Why would you offer a jack in your car? Then if it's just some toll-free hotline where some chick with a German accent says, yes, we'll send somebody out immediately, then don't fucking put a jack in the back of your car. Now, what about your vintage Italian cars? Because God forbid I compare myself, but I did buy two Ferraris in a pawn shop once and the Jacks... He's not lying. And the Jacks, if you call them Ferraris, they're not in your... Yeah, the 308s.

Yeah. Right. Or actually the 74 was a Dino. I don't think the name Ferrari was on that. I think he named it... It was a Dino? Yeah. Oh.

It had the same engine as the 308. Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Which... Yeah, yeah yeah Dinos are going for three hundred and seventy five thousand bucks right now. Wait a second Maybe wasn't it you know, you bought the Fiat Dino right a little bit different Yeah, but I had the same eight-cylinder engine. Yeah, yeah Yeah, but anyway the jacks and those things were not up to your standard Yeah, I'll show you this one. This is a piece of tin with a fucking skid on the bottom of it. Audi's not one of your sponsors either. They make a good car and a shitty jack. Great car. Listen, have someone go get the

jack. Oh no shit I don't have that car. Oh wait what the fuck's my car have? Ow. Yeah my car is a good... fuck it right, where were we? What do I got? Did I have another hernia? I was trying to, unsuccessfully trying to. The Hippocratic Oath also in the state of California would, really a lot of this stuff, you're supposed to have a medical record, I'm supposed to document if I'm making a diagnosis. But basically, you're pointing to your lower back on the right.

Right. Okay, so if you're in the ER, what would I do in the ER? The question is, do you have loss of bowel or bladder control? No. Do you have perianal numbness? No. I don't want to check that. Do you have hyperactive reflexes or asymmetric reflexes, loss of sensation, loss of strength?

No, I just have a bunch of pain in the front, a bunch of pain in the back. Then I would write your prescription for noreco, robax, and motrin and discharge it because it's not significant. No, but seriously, a bunch of pain in the back. Then I would write your prescription for Norco, Rabaxin, Motrin, and discharge it because it's not significant. No, but seriously, that's what happens in a hospital. It doesn't sound like a hair. It sounds like low back strain. Then I aggravated it. I think you have a very high tolerance to pain because remember we did the MRI in your

thigh. I seriously thought you had some sort of strange muscular cancer because you had a lump. You had a really significant tear on MRI, but you had very little in the way of symptoms. It went away really quickly because at one point it was like, I don't think I need the MRI, but you know, so sounds like. Well, I have a combination of two things, which one is just, you know, in my DNA, and then the other I have created, which is I had, I forgot, I don't know, it was about a year ago or so, I don't remember what it was, but I had a muscle tear in my thigh and it was bothering me and then at a certain point I think it swole up a little bit and Bruce suggested an MRI and it was a muscle tear but I didn't miss a day or anything. I continued to, I'd skip my rope, I went to work, I did whatever it is I did. I just had a tear in my muscle.

I don't, physically, I probably don't react to stuff as strongly as a lot of people react to stuff, but I would argue that mentally I don't either. It's always just go on, move forward, and keep going. So my back's fucked up, but that's not gonna stop me from changing the spare, and my thigh's torn, but it's not gonna stop me from going on the road doing my shows, skipping my rope. Or maybe it should. But I don't have that mindset.

I have the mindset of, there's nothing, I can't stand it when someone said, when someone goes like, oh man, I just flew in from LA so I'm on a different time clock and I gotta fucking sit down. It's like, oh shut up. Whatever time it is, is where you're at, is where you're at. You know what I mean? But there's a huge, there's a syndrome where people do not feel pain and these people don't

live very long because of the damage you can do. I mean, the pain is there for a reason. Right. And I felt pain in my thigh. I wasn't going to stop doing whatever it is I was doing. Well, right. With the MRI, though, you don't get an MRI for just garden variety pain. You actually had a lump there. And it was getting bigger over about a two week period of time.

And then we got the MRI. I was like, wow, there's a significant muscle tear here. And your function and your pain level was extraordinarily low. I forgot about that injury. Adarsh? Hey, Adam. What's going on? I know you called in the other week and we were talking.

You're calling for Moscow, by the way, but he's an Indian guy. And then- I just heard about the conversation on the Adam Carolla show by the way Yeah, you you were brought up not by name because who the fucking remember Darj but I Did and somebody and you can tell me how this works I brought up a Darj because I said I'm interested in other

cultures mainly making fun of them but sometimes there's a legitimate interest and I said what's going on with India because you have these slums, these crazy squalor and slums and then you have tons of doctors coming out of the same place. Coming over here here coming over here but not many Nations have that kind of range where it's like well It's pretty much nothing but living in a bucket of shit or you have a PhD You know like there's places like Mexico, but they're a little more consistent. You know, and there's places like Canada They're a little more consistent and even we have range obviously, but not

This kind we don't have shanty town slums and then everyone else is a doctor. That's what I've decided. Shut up. We don't have people living. We don't have raw sewage running down the fucking street with corrugated roofs. We have bad parts of town,

but people have indoor plumbing. Yeah. All right. And yes, there are some homeless people, but they're mostly drug addicts are insane. So I queried now here when that topic comes up, they go, well, you have to understand it's a whole system where brown people and black people and stuff historically are being kept down. And that's what they can't.

It's a cycle of poverty and blah blah blah but then I go on and I always go bullshit stop it everyone's study stop shitting out so many kids and you can you can get to work and you'll fix your problem because the big the big problem I have with people in there here's what we do with our racist society is what about the other races that we don't seem to hold down? Jews, Asians, people that have been discriminated against historically around the world and here as well, they seem to thrive. So what are we doing in the oppression department and how are we letting these people? Some nationalities are getting through our racism net another word, but we're only interested in holding down Hispanics

I don't know how that works I totally disagree with it and I think the people who claim they agree with it know it's bullshit as well I know what the answer is. Nobody really wants to listen to me, but I said to Adarsh what's going on in India because you're all the same Nation was the caste system have same race. Yes, and then somebody said to me to Adarsh, what's going on in India because you're all the same nation? Well does the caste system have anything to do with it? Same race, yes. And then somebody said to me, I said, here we just go, it's racism. You're holding this person, this group gets held back because of the color of their skin or where they were born. But there, you're all born in the same place, you're all the same color, how do you get held down?

And then somebody told me, they tweeted, it's the caste system. How do you address that, Adarsh? Well, I think the caste system was, it existed about 50, 60 years ago. That was before the, at the time when the British were in India. But now, I mean, you can see it, it's very apparent. You have people from, I would take the example of a city like Bombay, which has about 20

million people, and a huge portion do live in slums. And they come from all over the country to live there. And the reason they're there is because their families are so huge. I mean, it's pretty apparent. The casteism is a good excuse even the politicians in India use. I mean, I heard the Gavin Newsom interview. And I can relate that to a lot of politicians in India but that's not really the truth yeah Gavin that was 22 minutes of the lieutenant governor of

California fucking saying nothing no answers no anything he wanted to he wanted to shut down check cashing places. Perfect. Yeah, perfect politician. He'll be governor too. Just give him a chance. He had no answer. Adarsh, I asked him many questions. Did he offer any answers other than it was complicated and then said the dumbest thing any politicians ever said in my presence, which is he likes to work small to big

in his problem solving. I said, I like to work big to small. I had that, yes. Right. He's a fucking... Now, to be fair to Gavin Newsom, he's just a liar. He's not dumb. He just wants to get reelected. He's a hypocrite liar. So he's a politician. Who comes from wealth. He tried to do this bullshit hard scrabble thing with me where I come from a broken

family as well as fucking his dad was lead counsel for getting oil getting oil tried that on you what did you say I didn't hear you fucking he's just look he's a nice guy who lies and hurts the people who he's trying to get votes from ultimately these people should be brought up on charges because you are the one who are keeping these people down You are the one who are not doing a fucking thing about this problem the problem too many kids Not not a focus on education. Yeah less kids more focus on education Problem solved not tomorrow Pretty quickly though free health care

So a dars you had a question? Adarsh? He was following up. He's in Russia. What the hell? Yes. So you say too many kids in the outlying areas, then they come into Bombay or wherever they're coming into and they just not enough money, not enough food, not enough education, too many kids. It's fucking simple math. But bright, I had a friend that was from India, went to Uganda, came over here was Muslim, but he was a capitalist and a brilliant, brilliant guy, interesting guy, peaceful. He was so upset during 9 11. He was so upset. during 9-eleven. He was so upset there wasn't more

Publicity about Muslims that were capitalistic loved America. Yeah, and well, they're not quite as vocal Well, you know to be fair to them They don't get the press because they don't exactly take to the streets either Adarsh are you still there? Already fall off Jesus right doing in Moscow He's found for you. It's doing computer shit over there Stereotype a little stereotype. Well, what do you think he's doing the masonry work? Go from fucking India Moscow to you labor. I talk to him last week. Oh, yeah Yeah, I can listen interesting that. It's interesting that he

says the class system is just sort of political excuse. He said that that's been over for a while. Yeah. But look, look, here's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is there is always a historical reason for why a certain group is not doing as well as another group. In Gavin Newsom's world, he sits there and talks about slavery until he's blue in the face. I would argue, while that is a factor, that is not helping the descendants of those slaves that are currently not doing well. It's like we just keep wanting to talk about as a doctor. Right. You don't want to just keep talking about, you know, well you have a family history of a well you have a family history. What do you what's your problem and how can we cure it today? Right. Going back and going back in time Going back and going back in time

Decades and now into Over a hundred years and looking into historically what has caused a prom is fine If you're curator at a fucking library or a museum, but if you're trying to solve problems today Then let's figure out what the problem is and let's focus on it. Right. But the danger is not interested in that. Yeah. The danger is not interested. The people that he's talking about at some point it turns. They have to vote.

Well, they get angry at people like that too because they see the pandering. They got to vote. And he doesn't give a shit because he lives in a double gated community. His whole thing is just fuck him, make him think I love him it's like give him candy for breakfast they'll love me that's great parenting good parenting all right California's gonna fall in the fucking ocean it's just gonna fall into the ocean and it'd be nice you're moving further from I'm getting out further away from the ocean I'm getting out all right what else we

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