The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Essence (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: March 15, 2025

Adam opens the show recounting a recent conversation he had with Matt 'The Porcelain Punisher' Fondiler about birthdays. Later they discuss commencement ceremonies and take listener calls on epilepsy, hyper vigilance and how vitamin D can improve testosterone levels.

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Where did the time go? All right, a lot to talk about. Yes. Lots of your problems to get to First off drew something. I floated on the podcast last week, and I sort of stumbled into it With Matt the porcelain punisher fond a lairs. I was going off on them one of my Long-winded rants about how to be successful what it's gonna going to take. What? You talk about that once in a while? Try to pass a little knowledge. It's not really talking. Mussolini-esque. I stand up, I beat my chest, and then I smugly preen as I cross my arms.

If there was no, no, no, no, no. You've got the finger up in the air like this. There's one finger up in the air. All the way over your head. No, no, no, no. But then comes down to the... Yes, you're right. It comes down to the crossed arms. Crossed the cross with the preening going on after that. Very self-satisfied. I think it was stemmed, it was something like this. I gave him an assignment. I said, go to one of these European websites. It's got a Lamborghini for sale, but it won't tell you how much. Go to that website, find out how much that is.

Send them an email. Find out how much, because a lot of these guys go inquire, basically. You always know something's expensive, where it either says inquire or market price. Right. Or available upon request. Yeah, there's that one too. Those are the special ones. And so I said, go to the website and find out.

And then he came back and he said, I went to those European car websites, exotic car websites, I contacted them and I found out how much it cost. And I said, how much? And he said, first car, 537 euros. And I said, did you think I was asking in euros? And he said, no, but that's how much it costs. I said, understood. Now we're going to need to convert those to American dollars. And he said, yeah, that was stupid. I said, yes, that was dumb. I didn't make it clear. I told them to ask them how much it costs. I did not make the distinction between

euros, but I was hoping they'd give it to me in euros. Thankfully I kind of know the conversion but thankfully he's good on the computer so it took a matter of seconds. Now I then had a nice laugh at his expense and then Chris Maxavavn, because you can picture Matt giving me all the prices all the cars asked for in Euros. Then I went off and I gave him a little speech and somehow we got on to birthdays. And I was giving him my, well I was talking about my birthday party and the kids birthday party coming up and how you have to buy gifts for the kids who are coming to your birthday. Right, right.

It's a kids birthday now. You coming to your birthday. Right, right. You've mentioned that once or twice, yes. And how I just don't give a shit about birthdays because there's no achievement in birthdays. No grit. Everyone's born. Everyone, the worst people you know on the planet are born. Everybody. The aforementioned Mussolini was born and his buddy Hitler were born.

They're all born. And then I looked at Matt and my condescending way and I said, even you were born. They were all born and then I looked at Matt and my kind of sending away and I said, even you were born. Do you think I want to be lumped in with you? What do you say? No boss. So. Because that's the funny part is they all look at you passively like, what do you say Mr. Krola? Alright, so we had a nice laugh again. And then I said, listen, I think it was his idea to be fair to Matt, and although I probably laid most of the track for it, I said it's about achievement. It's about, it's about achievement.

It's about, it's about, and. Oh, you're about the birthday. Yeah, and he said, you know, how about picking a day of achievement and making that your birthday? You graduated from the Naval Academy on this day. Well, people do that with recovery. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's an achievement.

You started so by that day. You won this, that with recovery. Oh, yeah. OK, that's an achievement. But you won this. You achieved that. You graduated this. Let that be. Yes, when you got your MD, and I don't know if you remember what year, what day, what anything. Year and the month. I can almost remember the day, yeah.

But wouldn't it in a weird way feel more satisfying? Because people go, well, but now you're just inviting people over to celebrate your dad not pulling out. That's what you're celebrating. Yes. You know, first off, how many of us were mistakes? Chris, come on. Well, clearly, your mom-

You don't plan on Chris. But it wasn't like your mom wanted you. I am profoundly confused by my parents as far as their kids go because they have no interest in kids. They have no interest in anyone. They have no interest in anything. Certainly, my mom and dad never made the proclamation, hey man, I need to focus some time, energy, and finances on something other than me.

That proclamation was never, I mean if you met the two of them, I mean, it's a pretty decent point. I never really had the huevos, pardon the pun, to ask my dad about his huevos. Oh. But, or ironically my mom about her huevos. Ironically. Well she's the one with the eggs. Yeah. The guys are the ones with the huevos. Ironically. Which is eggs. You know what I'm saying. So both sexes have huevos. I guess in. In a way it's seed. In Mexico everyone has, everyone has, but guys have huevos, you know, but the

women have huevos, you know. It's all lost. It's all seed. It's true that my parents were not interested in their son or their daughter. To the extent that my daughter sort of ran away, my daughter, my sister ran away, their daughter ran away at 13 or something. Came back periodically, but basically was gone when she was gone. Once we were gone, sort of living with my dad full time, my mom, we'd go out to dinner once in a while and that kind of stuff. But there was no hanging out per se.

There was no participation in any events or anything like that. And then once we're out, we're out. So one could argue they weren't very much interested in being bad human beings or hurting anybody. But they certainly... You're not talking about someone who wanted a horse they got a horse and then it became a point of someone's got to feed it carrots and someone's got to brush it down and someone's got to give it oats and someone's got to exercise it sure they were aware of that and they were like I didn't ask for the horse you know people

who want a horse and really work hard, save their money, and go get a horse, go get that horse. They ride that horse, they brush that horse, they name that horse, they take care of it. They give it a fucking middle name. They go take care of that horse. So I could argue that a lot of people didn't even need to be here or weren't planned on as far as being here. So the birthday, I think, go ahead and keep your birthday, but let's not make a big deal

out of it. What do we call the accomplishment day? Isn't that interesting? They have achievement. No, no, no. Yeah, it's there. We could come up with some kind of catchy acronym, you know? The, you know. Your worth day.

Worth day. Ooh, Chris. Sounds like worth day. But that has a monetary overtone to it, you know what I mean? Like, Donald Trump couldn't celebrate his worth day, even if his worth day was the day that he sold his first apartment building with his father,

something like that. But self-worth day. Yeah, the self-worth feels a little touchy-feely for me. that he sold his first apartment building with his father or something like that. But Self Worth Day. Yeah, Self Worth feels a little touchy-feely for me. Sort of like launch day also, that kind of, like you're launched into something and you achieve something. Yes. And you became something. Podium Day, little lofty.

Me Day, kind of gay. Yeah. We'll think about it. It'll occur to us during the show. I'm going to blurt it out. Yeah, that'll be the way it works. But either way, I like that day. The day you became a doctor, the day you whatever.

Now before that, you're a kid, so you get to do your birthday. Yeah, yeah, of course. And then after you hit 18, we're going to have to wait until you graduate the Naval Academy or whatever it is. It should be a shame if you don't have your worth day. You should be ashamed of that. And then after you hit 18, we're gonna have to wait till you graduate the Naval Academy or whatever it is. It should be a shame if you don't have your Worth Day. You should be ashamed of that. Well, also, it's gonna be sad when, you know, it's like, oh, your Worth Day's coming up.

But yeah, they bumped me up to assistant manager over at the Gamekeeper. They sell board games over there at the Irvine Mall. You know what I mean? Like when your gig becomes, this is when I got my braces off. That's your worth day? Saying, these worth days are going to vary wildly. Maybe they ought to have different... Well, no, no, no.

I like this. There's going to be, what's your worth day? I won the Nobel Peace Prize. What's your worth day? I finished a pig's trough at Ferrells. And you can move your worth day up as achievements accumulate. Well, nobody wants their worth day to be finishing the pig's trough at Ferrells. Right. But the same guy that gets the Nobel Peace Prize may have gotten a PhD, but he may move that up to the Nobel Peace Prize day. That's what I like. The worth day. You want your work day to keep rolling around.

You want to keep moving and then someone should go, wait a minute, we just had your work day six weeks ago. Are we supposed to do it once a year? A different work day. No, not my new work day. Yeah. My real work day. This is Pulitzer Prize.

I just got that in the mail. Yeah, motivation, baby. So the day you get your GED, that could be your work day for a while. But let's get made partner law firm work day. And let's see how fast we can get that done. Yeah. Ooh. And you can share that with people.

Ooh. Ooh. I like that. Motivation, baby. All right. Should we take some phone calls? No, I got another thing I want to talk about first. Oh, good. Me too. I was thinking as I was, yeah, really? Really? Is that what we're talking about?

Well, by the way, do you see that thing on the wall there, Brittany? That caught my eye too, but we'll get to that in a second. It is how do people spell their names in insane ways, and this is the most insane spelling I've ever seen in Brittany. But anyway, selling. I was thinking about selling. My wife's been doing a lot of work for the Hillside Home for Children. And she has to sell stuff to get charitable contributions. And she's into it.

She likes selling. And you've always said you suspect people that are salesmen. And I thought, what is that selling thing that people can do and people can't? And I thought, I can't sell. I can't. No, no, you can't. I cannot. And I thought, well, what the hell is that?

I thought, well, because people, they're spending their money on me. And I can't have them do that. I just can't tolerate that. And then I thought, you know, I have grotesquely undercharged for my services my entire medical career. You can still see me for $36. That's what it costs patients to see me.

And I just can't charge more than that. I just can't do it. I just don't have it in me. And of course, Medicare controls a lot of stuff and whatever. But it's weird how that really bothers me to accept as a direct exchange, like selling something and taking other people's money for service. It really is troubling. I'm glad you brought this up.

It's interesting and it's an interesting trajectory and path that I've been on personally. And I started off in life by, as I've told you before, I would go to people's houses and I would work for, you know, do construction, bring my tools, bring my thing, drive my truck and I'd charge them $10 an hour, you know. And I could remember at a certain point, even further on in my career, it was just $15 flat rate. And the $15 would be, I would design them. I was building high-end custom furniture for gay clients at a certain point on the west side.

You did like balustrades and stuff, right? Yeah, I do, you know, stuff that was, some of it was actually photographed and featured in like architectural magazines and stuff, but it was still just $15 an hour. And I wouldn't charge for, you know, I'd go to the guy's house, I would measure, you know, the space it was going in. I would go home and make some drawings. I would go to the guy's house, I would measure the space it was going in. I would go home and make some drawings. I would go to the hardwood shop and pick up the hardwood. And then I would get to the shop and start milling it. And that's when they were on the clock. I wouldn't even charge for all the measuring. The whole time I did it, if I was charging

someone 15 bucks an hour, I would never charge to go get the materials, driving my truck to Recita, loading up my truck. I do a couple hours of phone call a day. I never charge for one. I would never say to the person, okay look I need 500 bucks to get started here because I got to go pick up a bunch of high-end plywood like that. I can't either except for can't either, except for that's what everyone else does. And then some. Well, what are we lacking? Is it self-esteem stuff that we're talking about?

It is. It is. I literally, I would pull it out of my own pocket and go buy that person. I remember one time- Well, it took my office right now to keep it open negative 10, I don't want to tell you how much negative a year. Losing money and I just keep doing it just because it's my duty. I got to tell you, at one time I was a little later on in my career, now I was like 28,

29, still doing this stuff. I worked for a woman that was like, you know, one of those women from Mark's Brothers film, like, well, I've never, you know, like super white and super rich. And she lived in a house up in the palisades, a big sprawling manor, and her husband had passed and it was just her and her lap dog kind of thing. And it was a lot of like, huh, you know, and I was going to do a bunch of work for of thing and it was a lot of like, huh, huh, huh, huh, you know. I was going to do a bunch of work for her and I did a bunch of work for her, but it was a nonstop just sort of her complaining about this and that. I was going back and fixing things that didn't need to be fixed and people were complaining.

It was literally like I built her an entertainment unit and used spackle to patch all the nail holes and her painter said, well, when I paint this thing, used spackle to patch all the nail holes and her painter said, well, when I paint this thing, that spackle may shrink. So he has to dig it out of every nail hole and fix it with rock hard putty. That's the only thing I'll stand off on. And I literally just went and picked out all of it and refilled it and resanded it and it didn't charge a penny. Yeah, right.

And at a certain point, I don't know what it was, but she was getting emotional. It was what have you. She wanted me to do a bunch of crown molding all around her living room. I fronted all the money and bought all the crown molding and did all the this and that and the other. I brought it up to the house. She came out in the driveway and had a little tantrum and she was just, some of these women were just, wow.

And I just left basically and I left all the crown molding there. And I called her like a week later and I'm living in an apartment with a roommate, no insurance, no health insurance, no dental, no medical, no car insurance, nothing. And she's living in this sprawling manner in the palisades. And I just said, look, I realize we've had our differences. I'm not blaming you. Things didn't work out. I tried.

I did as best I could for you. But I am out $276, which sadly is a lot of money for me for that crown molding. And you're going to use it, so someone else is going to install it. I ask that you reimburse me for that. Fuck off. Wow. Yeah, that was richy. And you sucked it up.

It was my choice. I'll get my attorneys on her. Anyway, that's my life of privilege, by the way. There you sucked it up. Yeah. It was my choice. I'd get my attorneys on her. You know what I mean? Anyway, that's my life of privilege, by the way. There's the invisible hand at work. Everyone knows my life of privilege. You love that invisible hand. So, um.

Right? You love it. Yes. That's what you want for everybody. Well, I learned. I learned. I became stronger for it. But, um, I had that exact same thing.

As a matter of fact... Are you over it? Well, if I worked for someone and it was 10 bucks an hour and I worked eight hours and they gave me $60, I wouldn't say anything. Yeah, I wouldn't. When I was counting, I'd be too embarrassed to say something. Yes, yes. Listen, by the way, people don't pay my bills routinely. And I was going, all right, well,

whatever. That's why I am laborgasted when people who are the exact opposite come at me with, hey man, you should be paying me twice as much or whatever it is. Part of me is like, oh my God, you have no idea who you're talking to. You're so lucky. You're so lucky. You're like, look, where do you get this? Secondly, it's always like, but I know exactly who you are and you don't need to figure out

where you're at before you come to people. I know where everyone's at. The point is this. I didn't have an ounce of that and never did have an ounce of that. It was horrible at that. At a certain point and because I come from the aforementioned family, I was worthless. Why that wasn't even wanted? Who are you?

Who are you to ask for this? Who are you? Who are you? That's where I came from this? Who are you? Who are you? And that's where I came from. And that's what I carried into my professional life. But I ended up in the same place. I didn't get so much who are you. That wasn't the thing.

My family's number one thing was when you want, you know, well. But I ended up with the same feeling. Yeah, my family's number one thing was who are you to ask for this? Or who are you to get this or receive that? I had a certain point a certain turning point when I just said To trip rebe who who managed as general manager K rock first radio station when he told me

That he was gonna make me the highest paid part-time employee K rock-Rock when I took the love line job, I just said, Trip, didn't get into it to make money, did not get into it to be rich, but did not get into it to make people rich. So we will find a happy place and that'll be a place between me being compensated and you not, neither one of us will get rich or we'll both get rich, but it's not going to be that way. And that's, at a certain point, I realized, no, I'm providing something. Listen, you're talking about a guy who taught boxing, and I taught, my personal training was $20.

You talk to trainers now that won 150 bucks a session, you know? You deal with me, it was $20 a session. I'd give you an hour and a half and show up early. And by the way, if you canceled that morning, I'd never charge you. But there's something different about collecting a paycheck from an organization as opposed to asking somebody face to face for fees for your service. And I think perhaps the reason I got to the same place is I always got, whenever I had to ask for something from my family, it damaged them.

It was a trauma. I traumatized them by needing something in compensation for clothing or whatever. Right. But now what you have to do is two things. You have to realize you're not a nine year old, number one. It's not that kind of thinking. I know. Well, that's the part.

It's like you're buying your shots to it. Well, look, there's a couple of things. You have to realize that if you are selling mangreia, people want mangreia and they enjoy mangreia, and that's the society we've built. I don't criticize In-N-Out Burger for charging me for a burger. I wanted an In-N-Out Burger. Somehow different though if you were to have to go out and sell those burgers and collect the fee right from the individual.

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm horrible. I don't think I could have been worse than you, but I have learned to overcome that and I still don't do it on a super personal level. That's what I'm saying. I think that's the part that makes it impossible. Right, but I will do it on a business level and I think what you need to do is remove the personal aspect of it.

Think of yourself as a business and go, I'm Dr. Drew. I'm not Drew Pinsky. I'm Dr. Drew. This is my brand. I'm Mangria. That's my brand. I will sell my brand. I won't personally ask people for stuff.

I will sell this. And then as a performer, you're buying Adam Carolla the comedian. You're not buying the little kid from North Hollywood who's got rejected from Taco Bell. Oh, so you're saying, oh, that's interesting. So you put a character between you and the consumer. Like when I dance, I become the great Capizio. Really? The great Capizio.

I step outside my body. Is that what those dancing shoes, those jazz shoes, those jazz pants were for? No, like what prostitutes do. They give themselves a fake name and they're like, this night is like, when you saw them back at their apartment building and you said like, hey bitch, how about a lap dance? Here's $20 They'd be like I'm not that person at noon on Wednesday at home. I'm the mother right? I'm the whatever I'm the student junior college, but student they understand. Yeah, I'm still I'm still but at night I

become essence Understand you need to become essence Understand? You need to become essence at your practice. This is Dr. Drew, the corporation now, not Drew. I still have trouble when people pay for tickets to see us at events. It still makes me feel weird. I don't like that. I mean, I like it, but I don't like it.

No, listen. I have the same—s sometimes when I look at ticket prices Some of the shows I do or some of the things like 85 bucks to sit in the first row or something Oh, yeah, fuck Yeah, because how are you gonna be good enough to even you'd be I'd be guilty. I would I'd be able to Well, but you have to understand they want it Well, but you have to understand they want it they want to do that and again You can provide a good show Yeah

And you can stay after and sign books and take pictures and do all the things that give people a good experience So that they feel like they got their whatever work. Well, that's why I spent time talking to people stuff afterwards Oh, yeah, you'll have none of that. What do you mean? I talk to people after every fucking show. All right. Speaking of junior college, that's something I forgot to get into. Somebody tweeted me some graduation. Is a commencement and a graduation the same address? Yeah. Why do I have two names for it? Commence means start. Commencement. I don't know what... Well, it's like starting your life after college. Yeah. But it's also graduation is kind of, I don't know, I feel like it's the end. Like that's the end, you know. Commencement speech should come at the beginning of college. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's matriculation.

It's interesting because... It doesn't mean what the word implies, I think. No, I mean, look up commencement word applies. I think you're literally... No, I will look up commencement. I mean, anyway. I think commencement is more about the ceremony. The guy started talking shit about me during the thing. What was this? A junior college?

Yeah. Oh, in a good way or a bad way? It was funny. He was saying that Adam Carolla says that this is high school with ashtrays, blah, blah, blah. That's someone else's joke, by the way. And junior college, blah, blah, blah. Well, we're here to prove him wrong, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, it was pretty funny. I'm still, you don't, yeah, Gary, if you find it, you find it. We don't really need it. That's about what it was. But sort of flattered. Still, I understand their, look, community college, like I said, I like junior college because I like some stigma attached. Some diminishment.

Yeah. Diminish it in some way. That's why I like food stamps over nutrition, fresh vouchers or whatever they call them now. You know, California Fresh. By the way, California is bankrupt. Hold on, Drew. California is bankrupt.

Do we need to run or heading toward it? Do we need to run commercials asking people to sign up for the CalFresh program? Do you know what I mean? Like I'm seeing, I see commercials. Hey, do you need this? But that means somebody's making money off this. There's some sort of privatization piece. Well, no, no, no, no. It means people are staying in power because the more of my little

minions I can sign up. Maybe. What are we running commercials for? Okay. So as you see, commencement is about the ceremony. Well, it says a beginning or start. No, no, but the two is a separate, separate definition. A ceremony in which degrees of diploma is conferred. Right, right.

Well, I understand. But it has nothing to do with the meaning of the word otherwise. No, no, no, no. Listen, hold on a second. You're lucky I can't read. What I'm saying is this. Words have a meaning. You go, okay, that's a word.

And then we name, you know, I'll just use it. There's a starting line and there's the finish line. And you go, why is it called the finish line? Well, the word finish means the end. And then we have the finish line. And you go, you have a finish line, we'll put that at the start. And then you go, no, it's connected to the word. Commencement is a word that means the beginning or start. And thus, the commencement speech or address should be connected to it. I know we know it is totally different things, but how did it become commencement?

We need to get the Latin roots. Get the Latin roots, Gary, or the Greek roots. I can tell you what it is. It's the beginning of your career. It's the beginning of your life. Outside of this, you've now done your training. You're going to begin your life in society. I understand what you're saying, and I don't know that it's not that, but I associate commencement

with the conferring. Like you confer a degree. I think you're too steeped in the system. But that's my connotation in my head. So let's see what the Greek source is. Well, why would it be? But if the Greek is going to be some sort of beginning. It may not be.

It may be something about an offering. An offering of something. All right. We'll find that. Anyway, it's going to be sad when I'm right. Offering. All right. All right. We'll find that. Anyway, it's gonna be sad when I'm right. Uh, yeah. Junior college. Now, uh, I feel this way about junior college because of my experience with junior college and my family and my friends' experience with junior college. A lot of people go in there to waste time. Uh, I'm fine with junior college if we set up some rules. Like, first things first, I want to know what went on in your high school career.

Other than, look, if you show me, OK, let's see, what do we got here? Your parents came over here in a coffee can from Cuba. You were a straight-A student, but your dad works washing dishes, and you have a high high SAT score and you just missed getting this scholarship over to Stanford, so you want to go here for a couple semesters and then you're going to transfer to UCLA. Fine.

But when I see a Stoner D- flat line never took the SATs, come on in and kill a few years over here. No. not interesting. But maybe, let me make a different case. Maybe those young Asian types that you're describing, which I know your beloved family systems that focus on education and whatnot, maybe they'll pull up through competition the stoner. Maybe he'll be exposed, he should be exposed to real educational...

Now, here's the thing. If I see, here's where I don't want crowding up. Now you got the lantern over there. To initiate, vulgar. Anything. I'll say. Only initiate. No, no, but that's commence meant.

Have any different? No different. The origins only exist for commence so far as I've found. Alright. So there you go. I'm right. I felt super satisfying. The throwaway.

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We're going to come back. We're going to talk some birth control. We're going to talk a little hypervigilance. We've got some epilepsy. All after this. Hi, I'm Larry Miller, but in a way, aren't we all? And this week, on This Week with Larry Miller, we talk about Rosebud, Citizen Kane, and being in a movie in a veterinary clinic where you just ate your dinner off the same table that

was a dog's butt. I've done all of those. We'll see you here. Yeah, there we go. Alright, let's hop to the phones. New York City, PJ25 has epilepsy. PJ? Hey, how you guys doing, man? Good.

How you doing? Good. Thank you. I had a, well, first of all, I'm a huge fan of both of you guys. You guys are both geniuses. Love you. What's going on with epilepsy? Well, I've had epilepsy since I was about 12.

My neurologist says it's generalized epilepsy, but recently, I guess, in the last two to three weeks, I've been having what I can only describe as a brain lapse or like a really quick blackout. Yeah. Okay, so PJ, are you on medication right now? Yes, sir, I'm on Lamictal and Vintat. What's the second one?

Vintat. Okay. Does your neurologist know about these episodes? Yes, sir. I'm going back to see him next week. Okay. So, here's what that is. You see you have generalized seizures, which means he used to fall on the ground and shake

and have generalized seizures. The thing about generalized seizures is they often come from some local focus in the brain, in some little piece, that if it were just to be firing off, you'd have some funny smell or vision or maybe some repetitive movements. And what's happening is whatever's going on here is sort of breaking through your seizure medication.

And you're getting what are called partial complex seizures. The problem with partial complex seizures is that they can then secondarily generalize. And so this is a sign that you're about to have a generalized seizure. You could have a generalized seizure, but it's probably being held back by the lamyctal. So what's really important is you don't drive in the meantime, right?

Oh, no, sir. I've, yeah, I've been driving about six years and seven. And if you're climbing stairs or if you're at heights or anything, be really careful because you could have one of these. When are you seeing the neurologist? Next Thursday. Okay. And did they give you similar cautions before

you see them? Yes, sir. He just cautioned me about using knives. Like you said, being careful about going down the stairs. I use knives when I drive. That's how unseizured like I am. Wow. Going downstairs, yeah. And Imagine all of a sudden you're blacked out. Well, look, you put a helmet on for everything these days. Would you put a helmet on for this? No, you wouldn't usually do that. But let me ask this, when you're blacked out, has anybody observed you? Do you do anything repetitive? Do you say anything? Well, I had one last Friday. And I fell down and I was kind of zoned out like very much like

just a partial seizure. But the Friday before that, I also had a full tonic-like seizure. Yeah. So your seizure is just uncontrolled right now for whatever reason. They'll probably do another workup on you. They'll check your levels. They'll make sure there's not something, you know, other medical problems can increase your seizure and so make sure there's not something else.

Have you lost weight, gained weight, been drinking, anything else going on that might be adding to this? No, sir. You know, other medical problems can increase your seizureing, and so make sure it's not something else. Have you lost weight, gained weight, been drinking, anything else going on that might be adding to this? No, sir. I haven't drank since December, because I had about three, four in a day, but I did have pancreatitis towards the end of March. From what? I'm not sure.

How do you get pancreatitis? Pancreatitis is usually alcohol pancreatitis. Next thing is- That's what they said, yeah. Yeah, next thing is stone pancreatitis, like stones blocking the way. That's stoner pancreatitis. You know, like a gallstone blocks the output of the pancreas. You can get hypertrichocytidemia, it can cause pancreatitis.

Medication can cause pancreatitis. But yeah, it's weird. Viruses can cause pancreatitis. I think, it's weird. Viruses can cause pancreatitis. I think I might have a name for our day. PJ, anyway, you're getting good care. Stay on it, man. You know what you're dealing with. But whatever other medical things are going on, I would look there and make sure those are nailed down tight. What? Well, you know how you exclaim, excelsior?

Yes. When you've had a fine achievement? Huzzah. Huzzah. If we did Excelsior and then it would just turn into X day. Excelsior. Okay. Yeah. People would go where that X? But it would just be X. They'd go where that X come from? It would just be X day. From Excelsior. Right, right. Mr. Kroll had declared it back in the 2000s. Yeah. How do you spell that? E-X-C-E-L, let's let me look at it. Excel... S-I-O-R?

That's what it looks like. Is that where Excel comes from? Look, Excelsior? Looks right. Yeah, it was written on a placard in my bathroom growing up. Put it up there. Excelsior, yeah. Here it comes. So, Excel, do you think Excel?

That's it, that's about it. Excel comes from that? Accelerate? Excel? You're assuming that? That's it. That's about it. Yeah. Excel comes from that? Accelerate? Excel? He's excelling? You're assuming that Excelsior was the first... Listen, I'm not... Now we gotta find it again. I'm not a linguistics specialist by any means.

But it would be X Day. Instead of your B Day. X Day. All right. I like... Can we have the X Games? No, no. All right.

Excelsior. Let's go... And then everyone screams, Huzzah! Huzzah! On that day. That's right. then everyone screams, huzzah! On that day. That's right. Hip hip huzzah!

Bill? Three huzzahs. Three huzzahs. 38. What's going on? New York City as well. First of all, big fan. Love you guys so much.

Love the podcast. Thank you so much for all the info and all the entertainment. Thank you. We'll see you over at Caroline's in a month or so. Are you going to Caroline's? I think so. Hang on a second, Bill. How come you and I never do that together? I don't know. We're doing a live podcast.

I think, here's my proposal. You and I do a week in New York. You want to do it? No, it's too long. Bill, I got a life. Yes, and Adam, I just want to tell you, I think that Brian Callan is 100% right. I'm a huge fan of stand-up comedy, but nobody can do what you do off the cop man with their prepared material. You're really amazing. Wow. Thank you so much.

You mean Adam's tuning his own horror? I really see what you're doing. No, no, Brian Callan tutored my own horror. Well, you know who gave you the best cop? Remember the best? You may, you of course will not remember this, but the best compliment I heard you get was from Bobcat. Remember this? He said he liked coming on the show, Love Line, back then, because he would sit and watching you work, it was like watching you channel, like you're

a channeler, you're channeling this stuff from somewhere else. It's interesting. I thought that was a high compliment. It was nice. No, what these guys, yeah, yeah, yeah. What they were basically saying is why so much praise for stand-up comedians who prepare, hone, work, write, sometimes buy jokes from other people, and why no love for the guys that are doing it real time? Which is a sort of, it's sort of a higher difficulty level, I guess is what it would be. All right, Bill. Thank you. You're very welcome and well deserved. So my deal is that because of, you know, listening to a couple years of the podcast, I used to think I was just kind of a dick, but now I

believe that I have hypervigilance like you do and help me identify it. Well, Adam's also a dick in addition to hypervigilance. Me too. Well, Adam's also a dick in addition to hypervigilance. Me too, well me too. No, I mean, I don't mean no in a defensive and serious way, but I just mean it does turn you into a dick because you see the way people go through life, lead their life, how they respond, how they focus on themselves and so on and so forth and it Bothers you that you know I'm sitting here taking a piss at an airport and the guy hasn't bothered to flush the toilet

And so there's a big frothy yellow pot waiting for me And it's like I'm smelling what this guy had for lunch, and he's a dick You know, you don't scream stuff out the way the rest of us do. No, not at all. I answer for other people all the time. We went on a bike ride last weekend with about 20 guys. You back to them? Yes. And I'd be hearing guys in the back yelling toward the guys in the front, you know, Nate.

I just hear this Nate. I'd be riding next to Nate. Nate. I'd be riding next to Nate. And then I'd say, Nate. Yeah'd be riding next to Nate, you know Nate And then we're riding next to Nate and then I'd say Nate Yeah, someone's calling you from behind you now I don't know why I'm pointing that out to you But you've not only figured out a way to tune out most things you're tuning out your own name at this point

Pretty pretty insane. But anyway So so yes, so my specific question deals with I I need you guys if you can to help me with a coping strategy for here in New York. I have developed coping strategies for the things that used to affect me. People in the movie theater would bother me. So I just watch movies at home now, but I cannot avoid taking the subway to and from work and people being loud or rude or even just laughing loudly sets me off and there's nothing that I can really do. You know, as loud as I put the music up in

headphones, as loud as I turn up the podcast, I can still hear them, you know, through the earbuds and I want to just kind of go over to them and say, hey, why don't you just shut the f up. Okay, Bill, that's something very different than what Adam has. Thank you. That's irritability. That's irritability. Well, there's a connection. There's a connection, but you don't get irritable.

In fact, you kind of turn inward and get quiet. Well, but here's the thing. When you're trying to sleep and the water's dripping in the sink, eventually, if you have hypervigilance, you cannot sleep and then you do become irritable. Now you taking a crowbar to the sink is probably not the best way to do it. I would argue that you do not get irritable when somebody laughs loud. In fact, loud things don't bother you.

No, I don't move. In fact, what bothers you is somebody whispering in the corner and other people not noticing that the guy whispering in the corner is saying, I'm having chest pain. Yeah, but Bill, here, look, here's what you have. The good news is you're tuned in. The bad news is you're tuned in in a world that is tuned out, and that's the problem. So I go through my life honking at people telling them to turn right on a red. It's okay to turn right.

There's no cars coming, you know, and they're like, what? I'm like, go ahead, turn. Like, uh, yeah, that's, that's what I now I want to get somewhere. So yes, I am irritated. And that instance, um, what you need to do is honestly turn your lemons into lemonade, which is I write books. They're all filled with these observations. I have an outlet. I literally carry around a buck slip and I start jotting things down and then I come on to a podcast and I purge. You don't have a podcast, but you're obviously an intelligent guy because I think this is connected to intelligence or conveniently, I think this is connected to intelligence because dull people don't have this. So what do you do for a living, Bill?

I'm an editor and producer. All right. Well, good. All right. Hold on. Take this observation that you have and these constant observations that you cannot stop from entering your brain and all, you know, let me tell you, there's tricks, obviously for sleep, there's earplugs, there's eye shades, there's red wine, there's knock it down, you

know. Took me years to figure out I need an eye shade to sleep, I need earplugs to sleep, everything, I'm never asleep. So you can't screen out the stimuli. Yeah, go out, put your ear buds. Yeah, I understand, I understand. But after that, instead of being irritated by it and confronting it, look at yourself as a sociologist

that's just walking around studying the human condition. Like I find myself in moments where I'm literally just standing around studying human beings and studying their behavior and then you start writing them down and before you know it you have a book or you have something that you're producing or a documentary. I mean you're already in this business, you're already in New York. Take it and steer it down a creative path. take it and steer it down a creative path. Thanks. I wanted to know if he had bipolar in his family, because that's the other thing that makes people like this.

Real quick. Hey Bill? Yes. Any bipolar disorder in your family? No. Mental health history is pretty good. Alright. Because you've got to watch out for a little bit of bipolarity that creates some of that irritability. I don't have any of that. I mean, my parents. You're not irritable. Oh, that's right. I think I am irritable.

Not like that. You work yourself into irritability. You have indignation. You have outrage. Well, what do you? And then that makes you irritable, but you don't like hear a sound and go, stop it! The loud sound, you'll screen out and you'll hear the gnat farting in the corner.

Yes, it is screen out. And that will bother you that other people don't hear the gnat. No, I have little things that bother me, for instance, little things like there's no such thing as a sprinkler system that works. Oh, that's true. It's like we- What is that? We can fucking take a space shuttle and send it up to orbit and have it land.

People don't rest their kind of day and don't work time. It's an irrigation system. We have to water everything in this country. Sprinklers. But what I'm saying is 40 years ago sprinklers were around and there was no such thing as a cell phone. But now, quiet, there's a cell phone that has a computing power of the first Gemini rocket system tenfold, but the sprinklers are still the same. They get out of adjustment,

heads bust off, they get fucked up, they're a mess. And the sprinklers, because we're in California, they always set them to go off at night. And they set them to go off at night because the sun's down and it doesn't evaporate and so on and so forth. But of course, I had the drip system and the sprinkler system, whatever. It took all of three weeks before one of them was just squirting my den window every night at eight o'clock. You know, every night at eight o'clock just spraying the den.

Well, I know it. No one else who lives in the house is aware of it, of course. So that would never happen. So it's spraying the dent window every single night. Just like somebody taking a hose and spraying the dent window. And I say, you know, tell the gardener we need to get this taken care of. And you know, a month goes by. And then I say this, listen, here's what you tell the gardener.

I don't give a fuck about the water. When are they here? Are they here at noon on Tuesdays? I want them to see how everything's spraying over the thing onto the driveway, missing, you know, there's the one I get my pants wet because when I get out of my car at 9 o'clock, it's spraying on all over the driveway. I want them to see how everything's going off. I want them to see how everything's going off. I want them to see how everything's going off. I want them to see how everything's going off. I want them to see how everything's going off. I want them to see how everything's spraying over the thing onto the driveway, missing, you know, there's the one I get my pants wet because when I get out of my car at 9

o'clock it's spraying on all over the driveway and I want them here to experience it. So, tell them to reset the timer, set it for whatever time they're here, and then every week they will know if the shit's spraying all over the driveway or if it's spraying all over the window. But yes, the fact that there's no such thing as a sprinkler system that works, I built the house and just put cactus and rocks around it because there's no such thing as it,

and it cannot be done. It cannot be done. I was in a house that was built in the 40s, 50s growing up, and you'll remember this, they had those metal, those metal sprinklers, a little thing will pop up and spray a fan. Galvanized. Galvanized metal. It was pipe. Yeah. Metal pipe. Threaded. And threaded pipe and plumbing. Right.

Those worked like a mother effer. Yeah. They never had a problem. Yeah. And then everyone got the PVC thing, the plastic. Right. A mess. And everyone started with these drip lines and all this kind of stuff, and it's always a fucking disaster, but That kind of stuff where you know we could live in this house And it could just spray my window by the way ruin and rot the wood on the window after the pipe What are the metal you can't even find that shit anymore can you know it's it's too cost-prohibitive Because cost-prohibitive you're placing the plastic every day

people would rather Would rather first off when everything's new, there's the promise that it's going to work, number one. Number two, people would rather pay an initial lower price and get in. Anyway, and also, it's that labor thing. You should just be, I don't know, a drunk and Irish guy should do everything for free.

All right, Tommy? Yeah, hey, I had a question for dr. Drew mainly Dr. Drew I read this book that said a lot of people are vitamin D3 or I guess vitamin D deficient Yeah, and the same book said that vitamin D3 also helps boost testosterone and men It might so and I guess that's measured measured in IU's on your blood level. Tommy, you're 22 years old for Christ's sake. You're as healthy as healthy can be. Why are you worrying about any of these things? You should be worrying about exercising hard and taking lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, eating adequate protein. Lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, eating adequate protein. How much of the sun stuff, Drew?

I have this... I have this, you know... One foot of 20s, you look so small. I don't know. Tommy, don't... Stop it. But the bottom line, everyone could stand to take a little more then for all the sunscreen and all the big brimmed hats and all the you know stay out of the Sun sales Sun stay out of the Sun stay out of the Sun yeah I feel there is an orb it's it comes up into the sky almost every day and we're

probably need a certain amount certain amount of it yeah and I don't know you know we always do we saw about the no free lunch in nature but there are unintended circumstances or outcomes where there's like too much and then not enough. I know everyone is berserk with the sunscreen. They're berserk. My feeling is a certain amount of sun exposure, not laying out in the sun in Palm Springs all day. I'm talking about walking to the car, walking back, you know, the dermatologist, you put

that sunscreen on, you put on every day, you put on before you leave the house. I'm talking about walking to the car, walking back, you know, the dermatologist, you put that sunscreen on, you put it on every day, you put it on before you leave the house. I'm not a farmer. I'm going to, I'm wearing a hat. But I'm walking to the car, then I'm going to park the car, get hit by the sprinkler for a minute at my house, then I'm going to walk to my house. I'm not dodging the sun. I think a certain amount of exposure to that is good. Well, that's how you convert the D into the active form of D, is with the sun. Is with the sun. And so yeah, we need a certain amount of that. But you get plenty of that in how you convert the D into the active form of D, is with the sun. Is with the sun. Yeah, and so yeah, we need a certain amount of that. But you get plenty of that in this part of the country, even with sunscreen on.

So it's not that big a deal down here. All right, we have one more. Birth control, that's right. Charlie. Hey, you guys. Drew, your hero, Adam, a genius. Thank you. I've used condoms for years, no issues at all.

Happy X Day. Talking to me and Drew. Oh, yeah. That's your new X day what would your X day be Charlie oh what would yours be actually hmm geez man well first off I take multiple days I'll take when I won the Toyota Grand Prix as a celebrity and as a pro those be'll be a different day. Let's just do the pro one. That's a better one. Okay.

If you want it, we'll round down that way. All right, but I might pick multiple days. Eventually I'd get to my twins' birth. Guys, love you both. You've come for years. What is your ex day? Wednesday. What is your highest, your day of highest, what is the highest achievement you've had

in your life? All right, seriously, my highest achievement ever. Oh my gosh, guys, you've got to put me on the spot like that. Hang on. Did you graduate college? Yeah, I graduated college. But I mean, I always wanted to be an airline pilot my whole life. The first day I ever landed at Chicago O'Hare in a 70 seat airliner, I slammed it down so

hard that they had to check the airplane for damage. But still that was still a highlight though. That was a highlight of my life. You set a large multi-engine plane down at O'Hare. Yeah, for United Express, like a small regional carrier. That's a rough landing though. That's a big deal though. Yeah, but it was the coolest thing. It was my first one ever, paying passengers on board, nobody had any idea. And after I landed, the captain was like, yeah, it was your first officer, first landing. We didn't want to

tell you until we landed. Oh, yeah. Oh, nice. Thank you. They don't tell you that when you're flying, Adam, and I love your flying stories, by the way, keep them coming. That could be the pilot's first landing. Oh, yeah. You don't know. No, listen, I got this thing that I don't like the other day on Southwest or on Alaska,

like, hey, from the flight deck, I'm First Officer Doug. I'm flying with pilot Steve's here. It's like, Doug, Steve, I'm fucking Captain Johnson. Yeah, I don't want the fucking I don't want a guy named Doug flying. I don't want to be that intimate with that guy. I want Captain so and so with 32 years. Honestly, we're in this thing now where everything has to be informal and casual and kind of cool and hey man, I'm your best buddy. I don't want you to be my buddy. I want you to be the captain. I don't want Doug.

And then literally I wrote the names down. The names were like Doug and Steve were the guys' names. I don't want people to introduce that one. Captain and co-captain and mister and so and so. Fine for the flight attendants not for the guys flying the plane all right there you go what was that date you remember that date uh... yet it was june fourth two thousand twelve rose pretty recently

nice regulations so can i read you my question should i read my question in my first officer voice should i ask you my question in my pilot voice or in my PA voice first of all what's your last name Should I ask him a question in my pilot voice or in my PA voice? I said yes. Please. First of all, what's your last name? Hill Brand. United 27, fly maintain, 15,000.

No, he's talking to the people in the cab. 15,000, United 27, yeah, very good. Okay, Drew, go ahead. No, go ahead, I'm sorry. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, FlightTech used to use countums for years, no issues. Wife had always been on the birth control pill. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, flight deck. I used to use Dr. Drew, what's the best option that won't sacrifice those positive effects of taking her off the birth control pill? Okay, one thing. One thing.

I'll need the wind and direction. Yeah, I got a pretty good tailwind on our way to Los Angeles. No, no, landing. Landing. I'll let them finish. Why do they give the wind at landing to the passengers every fucking time they go on the speeder? Because they give the weather in Los Angeles.

But they give the wind at landing. Why do you think the passengers care about the wind when you're landing? Pretty good wind out of the east. It's not. It's not. Okay, here's the deal, Charlie. You wouldn't suddenly develop a latex allergy. Have you been using them for a while?

You know, since I was 17, I'm not sexually active. Yeah, so no, no, you don't suddenly develop latex allergies, really. It's possible, but unlikely. It's more that you just wonder if it's some sort of like a mechanical problem. Have you tried the polyurethane condoms or you tried the so-called animal skin, natural skin? I have not when you write that down, polyurethane. There's two different, there's three different kinds out there. There's latex, there's natural skin, they'll call them, which is actually probably what you ought to get, and then the

latex. And good, good on you for understanding the birth control pill does affect your wife's sex drive, lubrication, mood, and orgasmic function. It can affect all that, so. It's monumental. Getting her off of it was a huge change in her life, and thereby ours. But here's another thing you said might be mechanical.

I have experimented with like, cog pumps or stuff like that, that increase vascularity or whatever you'd call it, blood flow. experimented with like cog pumps or stuff like that that, you know, increase vascularity or whatever you'd call it, blood flow, and that might be what's causing those bumps. That would make more sense to me. Okay. So, but again, if you want to learn more about the effects of birth control, I did two, at Dr.Rudyau.com, two podcasts with Andrew Goldstein, episode numbers for Dr. Goldstein, where he goes into great detail about the effects of these birth control pills that are so podcast with Andrew Goldstein, episode numbers for Dr. Goldstein, where he goes into great detail about the effects of these birth control pills that are so commonly prescribed these

days. Half the women on earth are having side effects that are like unpleasant for sexual functioning and no one's talking about it. So it's something that you can learn a lot about there. All righty then. Click through the Amazon link at Adam and DrDrewShow.com. Doesn't cost you a thing. Helps keep the pirate ship afloat. If you want to feel like, I want to do a little more on that. I want to ship in a little bit more.

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