The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Go Find a Mirror (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

Adam and Drew open the show discussing the change in Adam's flora and fauna and how that has impacted his ability to fart with impunity anytime he wants. They also talk about a letter Adam got from one of his former employees and take listener calls on SSRI's impacting weight and the details involved in getting a vasectomy.

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We got your phone calls lined up. We've got Dr. Drew over there. Just like an easy slipper just to slide right into. Oh, nice. Nice rapport. So Drew, let me ask you this. What should we do? I was actually impressed with and happy with my wife when kids go to bed at night. and the last couple of nights, they've both gotten into this thing where they do, they both start sobbing and they say, nobody loves me, nobody loves me.

What? Yes. Nobody loves me. And then they're both kind of feed off each other. Then my son will go, yeah, nobody loves me either. And I think he said, nobody but daddy. Oh. Which is interesting. Nice one for the boy.

And so they're sobbing, and they're saying nobody loves me. And they did it one night, and I came into the room, and Lynette said. Like they wake up from sleep with this? No, it's just like, it's sort of, I'm going to bed, and I have a bunch of feelings. I feel alone. Okay, and Lynette said tell them people love them and tell them I you know sort of patted their back and said

What do you mean everyone? You're a lot of people love you around blah blah blah And then they kind of went to bed and then the next night was the same thing came in the room They're both sobbing and in the same room? Yeah. Nobody loves me. And I feel unloved. I feel alone. And Lynette did what I was happy. I was very happy with, which is she said, that's nonsense. It's ridiculous.

You're surrounded by people who love you. You guys have a blessed life. And I don't want to hear any more of this. And sort of said, and if you're going to keep it up, I'm packing it in. I don't want to hear any more of this and sort of said and if you're going to keep it up, I'm packing it in. I don't need to hear this and I thought good because I have this thing all the time when people start spiraling and then you get behind them and you go, what's wrong? They start to keep spiraling. I have a thing where I do believe people, kids are sort of like pets in that when you leave a lot of pets and you

just go have run of the house, they start chewing on themselves. Like first they start chewing on a pillow and then they start defecating everywhere and then they start chewing on themselves. They need containment. They need containment because it's overwhelming. And when you're, when you come in and you say, look, and they're freaking out running around the house going, this house is too small for me. They're freaking out and you go, well, add an addition on.

That's not what they need. They need it. Hey, reel it in. You're going in a crate, you're going to the bathroom. And when the kids start, nobody, and you start going, wait a minute, no, everyone, what do you mean? What about Olga? What about that?

Then they go, but, and they start. What they need is a yank on the chain and a hey. I'm not talking about backhand them. I'm talking about reel it in. You're spinning out over nothing here. I mean, it requires an assessment, as there's some reason they're feeling alone. It's, hang on a second, it's acknowledging feelings

and then going, now, this isn't real. It feels manipulative too, frankly. Yes, yes, absolutely. So it's like, hey, cut it out. Come on now. Absolutely. Come on now, let's get it going. That's what I like.

But it feels like they strangely, it was probably really from one of them and the other is just sort of. Yeah, the other one was just piggybacking on the cause Yeah, like occupy Wall Street. Yeah, one guy really had a beef with Wall Street The other guy wanted to get laid so he showed up with some patchouli some condoms. Like what are we doing here? Going out against Wall Street. Ah fuck that's great. Is it the street? No. No, we're talking about Now the wh al no

You know, whatever start having that anyway. I Don't know What happened or what really happened what really happened what really happened is The big the man big money down. Yeah, Nasdaq. Yeah The big the man big money down. Yeah, Nasdaq. Yeah Showed up at night swept all those hippies away. Oh, I'm a barge and went and sunk it in the Marianas train Oh, that's what really happened. Well, that's what really happened. Oh interesting what People will say happen is that they just got tired of Stepping in their own shit went back their own crappy lives and complained about something else. But what really happened?

But anyway, I probably said too much. They'll come get you next. I brought you a gift. A friend of mine, my executive producer at HLN's wife, he's like Jimmy, he's into all the shaving minutiae and all the rituals of shaving and stuff. And she goes, I brought a basket of shaving goods. I like that. Well, take a look at the guy's a Caucasian dude. Jew? Yeah. Yeah.

Jew has the beard of the black man. Well, not really. He's the white guy's thing. He has a white guy beard. I have the black man beard. I know. We have the bump stopper over here. And so he couldn't really specifically use a lot of this stuff. Yeah, I know. We have the bump stopper over here. And so he couldn't really specifically use a lot of this stuff.

Oh, I see. But I knew Mr. Corolla has got the ingrown hairs and the nappy stuff going every direction. Yeah. And this might be good for you. You know my problem? A couple things. A, I have people send me a lot of like high-falutin like shaving powder and then you put it in and you add, oh you just add some, you just add, you add some water and just drop a denatured

alcohol and use the brush and stuff. I was like, I'm gonna fucking hurry. I'm pissing in the sink and I'm shaving dry. I literally piss in the sink and stand there and shave this morning. I had to do a shoot. I had to get going. I was running late. I dry shaved.

I mean, not dry, I throw water on my face and I dip my water. I dip my razor, Dollar Shave Club by the way. I run it in the water. If you constantly run it in the water and you don't have a beard going that's three days or four days old, just have like a one day beard. I run it in the water. If you constantly run in the water and you don't have a beard going that's three days or four days old, just have like a one day beard, and just, so I did that. So it's sad because I have a medicine chest

filled with like literally chrome, stainless steel, knurled, vibrating brushes made out of horse hair and stuff like that. It's like, I don't have that kind of- Badger, badger hair. Yeah, I like that It's like I don't have that kind of badger badger hair Yeah, I don't want to get but I don't have any time to get into it. Yeah, I'm just I I Don't even use shave cream half the time. I'm that Sort of on the fly with it. So all the good stuff and by the way The you know, like I said like they well, first you prep your face with hot towels,

a lot of hot towels, hot towels. Where are we? I have a reclining chair in my bathroom. Like I'm, I'm out of here. I don't like, there's, there's certain things for me. Like if somebody said you shave once a year, maybe twice a year, if you're Armenian. I'd go, Oh, okay. By all means heat up the hot towels. But if somebody said this is something you're going to do five times a week for the rest of your fucking life, I'd go put

away the hot towels. I got time for that shit. Move moving on. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, feel that way about your daily whatever stuff. I've gotten a little into it. I'm a little bit on the Jimmy train. Because I bleed and have trouble, and there's ways to prep stuff and fast that really makes a big difference. So you can go faster with the blade. As far as the bump stuff goes, I found nothing to be more effective than zit cream for everything. Benzoyl peroxide.

Yeah, zit cream works. It's like one of the few things in life that works. A lot of these like, hey, multivitamin gel caps and stuff like that, like, that's a fucking work. But zit cream works on zits, but it works on the rough areas too. If you get to shaving right after you shave, put zit cream. Let me tell you this, Drew. I was thinking about you the other day. I had a rogue neck hair in grown. What made

you think of me? Well I'll tell you why. They go underground and when they go underground they stay underground. Unfortunately they keep growing but they don't surface. That's what all this crap is for right right? Let's prevent that. I had to get the lance out. And I get the pin out. And I had to start digging. And this one was in, and this one was in deep. And not only did I have to puncture the sort of bump, but once I got in, I had to really

start pushing that needle in there and start scraping around. And when I dug the fucking hair out and pulled it with a tweezer and I set it down it made a full loop and then a loop and a half. It made one and a half times around each other. It would have never come out. It would have choked me out eventually. I would have died. Died in the bathroom. Possibly another room. Either way, it would have literally been choked by my own chin hair, my own neck hair. So I got my pin. I did for a moment look around and went, I wonder if there's any alcohol around here I can dip this thing in. And I went, ah, fuck it. And I just started digging around and I've done taking out pins. I just, I keep

pins in my drawer with the razors and everything else and have on a hundred occasions just gone and dug deep and stuck stuff into my neck and picked the stuff out. Never gotten infection. Why not? Because the wound isn't big enough that your immune system can't handle it. It can handle it. Yeah. So what do we handle odds and ends? What are we doing with all the with all the... To try to reduce the risk. Reducing the risk. And what risks? We're trying to reduce the risk, reducing the risk. And what risk? Never happened. I know, it depends on what lives on your skin, too.

I work on a hospital, and so I'm populated with shitty bacteria. And I notice I get stuff much more easily, and it gets going a little more now. Can I tell you this? Can I ask you this? Yeah. My flora and fauna has changed a little bit. My farts got a little something going on.

A little something going on. Do you have a face off? No. I don't want you, because you'll eat a little garlic, and that'll be the end of me. But what I'm saying is I used to just fart with impunity. Yes, no smell. And it's just a little hot wind escaping from my ass.

And now, the problem is, is once you get trained to do that, you forget. Because the flora and the fauna has changed. You're now a producer. But not consistently. Just it's changed. Depends on what you eat now. Well, you have to be careful.

I eat almost the same thing all the time. I think the batting average is just different. Pay attention. All right, I'll pay attention. It used to be one out of every 15. Now it's seven out of 15. And I have to, I let it's second time, second time in as many races, I let an outdoor fart that was trouble.

With a fire suit on? Long John's fire suit, walking outdoors, with a little bit of a wind. Thank you. Walking up on another driver who I knew. And I'm walking at him, and I'm 30 feet away. So I'm like, all right, let this thing go. And it was like as I took four more steps and went, oh, boy.

And now he's 10 feet away from me. And I'm like, I did I outdoor farted this guy. And now thank God for the catalytic converters and the diesel fuel and all the other various things. It's just it's a place where there's so much going on in the factory sense department that it's kind of hard to pinpoint anything. He knew it was definitely me and him alone in the parking lot walking from the trailer to the paddock and there was definitely gas there going on.

So it's methane producing bacteria that does that. And you definitely change the bacterial mix in your colon. And so now you're producing methane gas. And to some extent, it depends on what you feed that bacteria, what you send downstream. Sure. So you certain stuff, your bacteria will really convert. Yeah.

And it used to be no matter what, it all just smelled like jicama that came from a freezer. Now. Now look out. Congratulations. Yeah, for me, not a great thing because I don't know if I told you, I think I told you this but the guy, I know you like a fart story, but the guy who's coming here later on today when I do some pickup shots, this guy by the name of Kevin, and I told the story on the air, so he's cool with it, but I don't know if I told you, we were doing a shot inside of

a house and in a bedroom of a small house. So it was a, you know, 1400 square foot house and it was a smallish bedroom. And we're all just sort of standing in a bathroom doing a remod, whatever, and he was sort of standing toward the back of the room, sort of directing, looking at a monitor, sort of saying, let's get this, let's pick that up, camera B, whatever. And in the middle of the shot, I don't know if your phone is creating looking at a monitor sort of saying, let's get this, let's pick that up, camera B, whatever. And in the middle of the shot, I don't know if your phone is creating static or not, I'm getting a little bit of static here, but in the middle of the shot, the air compressor

fired off. Oh yeah, I remember the story. Oh, I told this. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. As the air compressors work on when they get below a certain pressure, they just fire up. So you don't know when they're going to fire up. If they're plugged in, eventually they'll fire up and that's why people forget about them because they leave the shop or they leave the job site and it's off. And then they fire up that night. So the thing fired up and he was right behind

him and he was standing right in front of it and the thing's just two little twin tank thing and it's on the floor and it's about 16 inches off of it. And the thing's this two little twin tank thing, and it's on the floor, and it's about 16 inches off the ground. And I, being who I am, being A, sort of sensitive to things, and then B, realizing I may be the only person in this room who knows how to, I know what's going on. I'll just go flip the switch at the top. If you stared at it, you might have trouble finding

the switch that shuts it. I know right where it is. I just did the, just reflexively, I just did the, oh, hey, I got it. And I walked across the room, leaned over, put my face right where his asshole was really, because he was standing directly in front of it and it was like 16 inches off the floor.

Leaned down, I didn't bend down and grab a knee, I just leaned over, did the thing, and then put my head up and went, oh my God, what happened? And he was like, I started farting the second that air compressor fired up and I didn't know what to do. So really what essentially just happened is you farted and I just walked across the room to sniff your asshole.

Like that was the sequence of events. Like that's not what we had planned. But That's the fact. That's the fact. As far as my brain and nose know, that's what happened. Hey, somebody farted. I'm going to go quickly hustle across the room and smell his ass. And I mean, I said, well, when did you Kevin, when did you fart? And he's like, right is the air compressor like scared out like literally the air compressor fired up, he started farting and I just went over and put my head right by his ass. It took, to be fair, it took probably two and a half seconds

after he farted for me to get my head to where his ass was and it was brutal. And here's how brutal it was. It cleared out the entire room. Or if I had run out. And then later on, when we came back, it was still bad. 10 minutes on. But I was there.

Well, you don't have to worry. You had the full dose. Jimmy worked with a guy on Win Ben Stein's money who had this problem and who literally just said, I have this problem. And when I will ask Jimmy about it one of these days, but when I let go, I will hold a sign up like I'm bidding at an auction.

A paddle. The world's worst auction. Auction paddle. Literally, now, I, you know, Jimmy told me this 15 years ago, and I have to go back and revisit it with him, but I'm just giving you the broad strokes. But he was like a cameraman or floor guy, did something on the floor and he needed to

be there out on the floor. And he had this problem and, and he was upfront when this happens, it will be me and I will let you, it will be bad. And I will let you know and you can. It will be bad and I will let you know and You can clear out and but it's gonna happen. What was the shape of the paddle? Mushroom cloud Hey, it's Adam Kroll from the Adam Kroll the show bet online is the world's most trusted betting platform and your number one source for online betting from the earliest odds to in game live betting bet online provides you with all the action and the ability to watch and bet on games

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Anyway, I don't know you gotta remind me. I'll ask Jimmy But that I've never heard of that, where someone just goes. Yeah, that's good. Before you, before. I like it. Before I sign this contract as a cameraman, there's really something you should know.

It's an interesting discussion to broach. There could be no better ear than Jimmy for that. You know what I mean? Sure, he'd be intrigued. Yeah, like you're not talking to a Jane Hathaway for that. You know what I mean? Sure, he'd be intrigued. Yeah, like you're not talking to a Jane Hathaway about it. You know what I mean? Like there's no, well I never, you know, like, he's intrigued and amused, and loves farts,

and so is his dad, but still, have you ever, as a doctor, have you come across anyone who's had to make that proclamation at the workplace? No, but I've had people that probably should. I like the chutzpah. We have our own porcelain punisher. That man's got it. Yeah, but he evacuates so often that there's never any buildup.

The porcelain punisher. Yes. No, no, but this other guy's got it. He's got verve. Yeah. Yeah. Gusto. Something that rhymes with it.

But either way, yeah, the flora and fauna has changed. Now, what about you? You can eat garlic? If I don't eat bad stuff, I'm fine. But if I eat green onions, certain onions, garlic, it's on. I feel like if I couldn't eat garlic, I might just take my own life. Yeah, my wife, Susan's kind of that way too, and she likes the garlic, and we have to have separate things prepared.

I feel like it's good in everything that it's on. I am so weird with this stuff, and I would not believe this if it were not actually happening to me. It sounds like such a pussy thing. If I touch certain things to my tongue, it'll start up. It's crazy. Like, if I lick and taste certain things, it'll go all the way through.

How much of that is psycho whatever and how much of it is physiological or who knows? You can't produce, it's not something you can, this is not. If the garlic didn't have a garlic taste to it, like I don't think it is. But if I said, Drew, put your finger in this cocoa powder and tell me if you like the dark or the light cocoa powder.

And you put it in there. An hour later, it was really garlic. An hour later, I'd go, what the hell's in that cocoa powder? Really? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. But no, I'm glad that happened.

In fact, it just, interesting, just happened to me. I'm fine. I'll save you. But the chicken broth I was drinking, I started getting, and I was like, what the hell? I had to go, oh, green onions in the fucking thing. Good song. All right, book of tea and the MGs.

One more thing about benzoyl peroxide and the hair digging stuff. Gary, did you know that Adam thought benzoyl peroxide was so good at 10% that he should get the industrial grade 100% benzoyl peroxide? Remember you did that? Stuck that on your face and burned a hole in your skin? I didn't burn a hole in my skin. What'd you do? Got a blister there. It wasn't that bad. What it is is this. Bondo, for working on car fenders, is two parts.

It's a catalyst and a resin. They'll forever and they'll sort of forever both be liquefied and then you put them together and you have 20 minutes to work with them before they become rock hard. It's an interesting part of life. I like that. I was reading, and we can pull it up, Bondo as one part which is just like forever, somewhere, Play-Doh meets sour cream in its consistency and that's where it sort of is.

And then you put a couple of drops of this red catalyst in it and it starts to harden up. You start mixing it up together, it starts to harden up. And I was reading this thing, I was reading the back of it and it said, I think 90% benzoyl peroxide. And I thought, huh. 10% is good. You got five, you oxy 5 that's 5% then you got oxy 10. That's hardcore oxy 90

Sounds pretty badass to me. By the way, this stuff's quite a bit cheaper you can get it at pet boys and I said about that work on it's it and Sure enough. Is it? Well, how could it not? It'll burn you. It's a drying agent. It's basically just there to dry out whatever it's put upon. Yeah. Listen, I believe almost everything has been dumbed down by at least tenfold. Whatever it is in life, they went,

where's the lowest common denominator? Let's make it for that. So any kind of like cold medicine or any kind of thing where it's like, well, this may contain, you may not wanna operate heavy equipment after whatever, that's for all the lightweights. So everything has been dumbed down

to the most sensitive members of society. For me, I'm not that way. So I went to big stuff. But we'll find it. Gary will find it. It's Bondo. It's Catalyst. I think it's the Catalyst.

And it comes in a little red clear tube. We probably have some in the back of the shop. All right, we're gonna take your phone calls we've I Got a speaking of was I telling you I got a I got a long ish. I got a Got a letter from Gary Fulton. Yeah, you know saying what's up About what? What's up with the employment? Oh, why am I not employed? Oh, why are these other people employed? Oh

Yeah Lot I feel like there's a lot of that going on in life. I am for me personally. I do I get a lot of people who are sort of I Would consider lucky to be here, giving me a, hey man, what's up? And what they don't know with me is the answer is, I'll decide whether I need you or not, and I'm never wrong. Or if I am, I never know it.

And then you can hang out, but if you start complaining, then you're gonna go and I'm not gonna miss ya. Gary's not a complainer, but Gary does work that is scary and he cannot be left alone. And he does things that are... My beef with him is he does a lot of what you call really rookie mistakes mixed with not fixing them. Or if you want to fix them, I can pay him to fix them. You know what I mean? Like stuff like when you're 20 years in

and you paint over a big divot in the wall and the boss comes in and goes, hey, this looks like shit. Your answer is supposed to be, my bad, that's horrible. You're right, let me fix that. And as a matter of fact, I'll stay a half hour after work and fix it. I should have never. And not, hey, you want me to fix it? I'll fix that. As a matter of fact, I'll stay half hour after work and fix that. I should have never.

Not, hey, you want me to fix it? I'll fix it and then just get back on the clock again. But either way, I have guys I can leave alone and I have guys I can't leave alone and Gary, who I like a lot, I can't leave alone. So what do you want to do? Well, he's staying home while other people work on things because of his track record of doing a lot of... Can you put somebody else in charge of them?

I can do a lot of things and I try to throw stuff his way that is involving pulling weeds and tilling soil and stuff and not so much painting or building or doing things like that. But I don't know what to do with him, but I do get the shitty letter. I do get the what the fuck letter and Everybody please go find a mirror. I Mean the number of times I've for instance just he paints in a room. He doesn't turn the light on It's dark in the room

His seeing isn't great and he does a shitty job painting and then I come in and I flip the light on and I go Hey, Gary, every time turn the light on, every time you come in this room, any room, anytime you're painting, anytime you're doing any detail work, turn the light on, no problem, I'll pay for it. And then two days later, I come back in the room and the light's not on.

And that's just basically his MO and it just keeps going and going and going. And then eventually you go, I cannot have you paint any rooms. It doesn't work. And then people go well the guy's losing it. I mean he's having problems and you should be sympathetic to those problems. And I go I am and I understand that part of it but really as I've said to you Drew he leaves at three every day and that means 257 and a half every single day There's no such thing as 303. Yeah, it's 257 and a half

Pretty lucid in the here's what here's when it's time to leave the part Not so lucid with the light switch or the painting over the cockroach. You know what I'm saying? So My question to you is what is that? Not a bad person. I don't know what to do with his letter. I get a lot of these, like I said, hey man, you're going to have to step up and do. And my thing is always like, no, I don't. You're not working. It's not because you're a great worker and I'm interested in getting subpar work done by a stranger and punishing myself, there's a reason you're not here and there's three other guys working instead.

Three other guys that I may not like as much as you. I don't know what's wrong. Internalize that a little bit. But it's not going to change, you know that? No, that's why he's at home. That's why he's at home. That's why he's at home. I don't know why people aren't more interested in that path. It's something that the porcelain punisher told me to talk about that I said, eh, but I'll get into it. I told the guys, I told the porcelain punisher, I think I told Max Appatta, and I told Rob

back there at lunch the other day, I said, look, you have a mirror in your house and you look at that mirror and you see something being reflected back upon you. Make sure that society sees what you're seeing because if there's a chasm between that, meaning Gary looks at himself and he sees the reflection of a great carpenter. Well, I was gonna say, some of this, it's an interesting thing I've been thinking a lot about lately, is the whole issue

of low versus high self-esteem. You and I have low self-esteem, so when something bad happens, we go, okay, well, that's me, I gotta do something to make that better because I'm a piece of shit. Because someone with high self-esteem goes, what's that? Something's wrong with him. Why should I? I don't even acknowledge it because I'm good.

I went on to say, whatever you see looking back at you, that's not what you should be interested in. Be interested in what society sees. Yeah, but when you have low self-esteem, usually you're under-judging that. Well, it's possible. So you're, I think your message would be go ahead and under-judge. No. Go ahead and say something less than what everybody says.

Oh yes. Oh yes. Here's my message. We did Love Line on MTV. Ricky Rachman the first day said, hey, before we get started, I'm going to need a raise. I'm going to need a piece of the action. And they said, oh, we'll give you a piece of something. It's called The Door. There it is. And they said, that's that.

I said, yeah, I'll do this for $700 a show, or whatever it is. And then we did 100 episodes. And then I said, I need my money doubled. Your money too, ass-wife. It got us both a raise. And now, should I have asked for the raise the first day? No, no, no, no, no, no.

Because I knew what I could do, but they didn't. You had to prove it. They didn't know. And I know that they didn't know. I was acutely aware of it. Should I have asked for it after show number 50? Probably. But I wanted to make sure they knew what I did.

And then when I was wildly secure with just how educated they were on what I do and how difficult it would be to replicate that, thus replace me, then I said to them, double my money. I'm not coming back. I had a mirror that reflected back in a way that was accurate with what they were and they know. Now, I got a book, I got an advance in my first book and outsold my advance by quite a bit. I

know others that have gotten millions of dollars and sold half of what I got. The man can skew both ways. You can look at this person and go give her millions of dollars to write this book and you end up not making any of it back and you can look at me or someone else and go huh huh and then end up being wrong. Yeah. So it can work both ways but either way but generally generally it evens out but your job is to educate that person. Generally under shoot. The problem is I have been educated yeah by Gary. Gary needs to educate Gary. Right. I have been educated by Gary. It needs to educate Gary. I have been educated by Gary. It turns out you can't change self-esteem very much across a lifespan. Isn't that interesting?

You can be okay. I think you and I are sort of okay with our low self-esteem. In fact, we kind of use it like we're talking about. But you can't really, even doing good in life doesn't really correct the low self-esteem No, is that interesting? Yes, but writing long manifestos to me is not going to correct being a bad carpenter It's not going to get you what you want. Turning the lights on and doing some of the multiple things I have asked you multiple times to do when doing carpentry, you know, put some masking tape down when you're painting because you're getting all over the place.

The reason this reminded me, and I've told you this one before, the... Gary, have you not found the benzoyl peroxide? Just finished it up. I was just waiting for you to get a break from your conversation. Oh, okay. That's all right. The reason this reminded me of this, Drew,'ll like this is I was telling Gary to go ahead and clean something up, do something, do something on a race car that I have. He had decided to do a little bodywork. He had put some tape down and tried to do some Bondo work and then when he pulled the tape off half the Bondo popped off and it was just it looked like a seagull had shit on the

side of the car it was bumpy it was shitty it was bad and I just said sort of in a playful way almost well Gary I guess body works not exactly your fort forte and he said I don't know about that And I said I do I'm looking at it and he said ah I think I'm pretty decent at it. I said No, no, you're not because I'm looking at your horrible work that you just completed here on the body of the car So no, I don't know so See that's that high self-esteem stuff.

I guess. Yeah. I guess you got to have something going for you. Yeah. Look, I'm only commenting on it because it looks that dramatically bad. It's that bad. It's like somebody handing you a letter with 15 misspelled words and you're going, well, I guess you weren't at the top of your class when it came to spelling.

And they went, I don't know about that. And you went, well, I do. I'm looking at your letter. I disagree. Then you'd have a seizure or something. You can disagree all you like. I'm looking at 22 typos here. All right. Interesting. Benzo peroxide, the Bondo hardening ingredient. Yeah. I don't know what the 90-36-0 part is though, but it doesn't have a percent. It didn't. That's why I put the numbers there. I thought maybe that was some kind of a mix breakdown or something, but that's off the

hardener tube for sure. The red tube. Right off the back. Can you show a picture of the red tube? Maybe it's 94% or whatever. Well, anyway, what I did was 20 years, 30 years ago. So who the hell knows? Maybe things have changed a little bit.

All right. Oh, it's in the, I thought you got it on the computer. Gary, Gary, don't go get it. That's right. That's right. All right. We were using one of Adam's tubes. OK, OK, got it.

I just transcribed it. OK. I've got the bono back there in case Gary wants to come by and do a little fender work on one of the C's. I don't know about that. I think when people tell you I don't know about that to stuff that you definitely know the answer to. All right so I got that letter. Oh what do we got here Drew? Phone calls? Yes. You got something you like? I like

Ryan at Lion3 because he's you mmm it's actually channeling you mm-hmm all right let's talk to Ryan Ryan oh wait no that's why I hit the wrong line sorry line three sorry Ryan 32 from California Ryan all right he'll hold on I'll let him do some soul-searching okay let me let me tease that call but he has California, Ryan? Oh, shit. All right. Hold on. I'll let him do some soul searching. Let me tease that call a bit. He has high expectations from people. Too high.

And it's affecting him because they don't meet his expectations, it seems like. Right? Yeah. My feeling, I don't think I suffer from that. I think I have sort of cursory expectations for most people. They still disappoint you though. Well no we live we live in a society where it says do the impossible graduate high school. Right. Where I go. Have courage raise your kids. Yeah it takes courage to be a dad. We're going to start a program to feed your kids during the summer months when they're

not at school. And I go, how about you feed your own kids? And I get to, whoa, whoa, whoa. So I feel like I have the bar pretty low, but yet we've turned it, turned this mole hill into a mountain. Are you looking for your next case? Pluto TV has all your favorite crime dramas streaming for free.

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Hi, Drew. Charles from Fresno comes over here, does a lot of work and all that kind of stuff. What's going on, Charles? Ah, no, it's the usual business. But let me first start out by saying that, you know, I figure I know you guys well enough. There's not very much wrong with you. That's right, I love Charles. He's perfectly fine, you know. I don't know what everybody's concerned about. Let them write a couple of quarterly estimated checks that could buy a

furnished condos the government and feel they feel about life in the services provided by the government that's my my thing too is uh... uh... just put shelves in into my shoes for a little bit and see how you feel then after that. Yeah.

But anyway, what's going on Charles? Well I've been on an SSRI for a number of years, Lexapro, anti-depressant. We have GAD, generalized anxiety disorder, runs in my family. And I'm on a relatively mild dose and the thought occurred to me the other day ever since I've been on it I went from about 195 pounds to about 218 where I am now almost like a switch flipping. Yeah, and You know, I know that that's one of the possible side effects of it

But no one's really been able to explain to me the mechanics of that really, and you know my general situation, 32, unmarried, I'm starting to be concerned about things like that. Alright, a couple things. But a small increase in your appetite, you know, your brain is a pretty tuned instrument, and believe it or not, you know, things like a small change in increasing your appetite or decreasing satiation will dramatically change your weight over time. You don't have to take a few hundred extra calories a day than you need and it's game on now. Yeah, you put on six pounds a year

and three, four years goes by and you pack on some extra weight. Yeah, and it's just an abnormal shift in your appetite. It's subtle, not like you're hungry and starving all the time, but it's enough an abnormal shift in your appetite. It's subtle. You don't really need it. Not like you're hungry and starving all the time, but it's enough to change the caloric intake during a day. That's that, man. It's on now. Now, when you go off the SSRI, it

can be easier to lose the weight than, say, someone who's just trying to manage their appetite normally. But you still got to be hungry and go through the whole process of losing weight, which is kind of unpleasant. So, what is the actual effect of the serotonin reuptake inhibitor? I mean, what is the biology in terms of appetite? Yeah.

The hypothalamus is where you're, there's a part of your brain deep into the pituitary gland that determines things like hunger and thirst. And that just, they don't know exactly what's happening. There's some ideas about it. My dad had his removed a child at birth. My dad had his removed. His type was out of his mind. His drive centers. No, I mean you spend time around me. You know I'm not exactly a big eater or anything like that. That's not my point. You're missing my point. It's not about being hungry all the time. It's about just a subtle change in how many calories you're taking in a day based on what

your brain sees as the need to take in. So I mean, Charles, literally a couple hundred calories a day in the negative will send you one direction or in the positive will send you another direction and because this takes place over the course of years it it there's a cumulative effect so I it was just it was just shocking that it was just it was just immediate weight gain but then stay the same for four again it's it sets that point in a different place you know like your body fights to stay at a certain weight have you ever noticed that? You know when you, no?

What are you gonna say? No, no, your body fights to stay at everything. Yeah, right, it stays where it is. And this set point gets changed by this serotonin reuptake. Right. Exactly why or what the specific mechanism is has not really been worked out except to say that it happens.

All right, Charles, when are we gonna see you next? Whenever you need me, I don't know. I don't get emergency calls down to your neighborhood too often anymore. What does he do? He does a lot of wiring and a lot of setting up and well, I do. Wired the studio over here. Wired this whole studio. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. I'll come down and visit sometime. I got a I got a I got a new studio. I'm building so I will talk Okay. Well, yeah, I'll come down then. All right, Charles. Thanks, buddy. Thank you, sir Yeah, good guy. It was wiring

Yeah, I's a fan okay, this all should be You know because what's not to like right? Right? Yeah, you know, because what's not to like? Right, right. You know. Be the letters from Charles. Just speaking the truth. You know, if your compass and your gauge is set right, you should find we agree on most everything. I don't have, you know, here's my old thing, Drew.

I'm not encumbered with religion, philosophies, things that were passed down from father to son or generation to generation. I'm just a sea sponge that just landed on this planet. And thus, every single, see, I didn't grow up in the South during a time where I was trained to look at certain people in a certain way or grew indoctrinated in a Mormon religion or any, I don't have anything. All I do is walk around and observe and then I go, here's how to fix this problem, here's how

to fix that problem. You stay very objective. I don't... I'm not encumbered by emotions or history or traditions. Yeah, and I don't have a thing where it's like, well, I'm Shiite, but I married a Sunni. I don't have... We practice... I don't have...

I don't have a team. I just can walk around like a business consultant. I'm not in your business. I can help you run your business. But most of the time their action is fuck off or hey, give me a title. Racist, misogynist homophobic whatever it is mmm that's that's how it works but I don't I don't have a dog in the fight I

can I can I can I get it clarified so usually when I have an opinion it's objective yeah it's not like oh this is my religion or this is my affiliation it's just my opinion all the people people that argue it's rich white guy perspective. People would argue. Well, when you guys like me and Gavin Newsom grow up with white privilege, you know what I mean? You know, I was thinking about that part and I like the part where people say, all right, so your parents were poor and all right, your mom is on food stamps.

And all right, you're an uneducated warehouse and all right, you're in an uneducated warehouse and all that kind of stuff, but you were still white. So you weren't discriminated against. And it's like, I got pulled over by the cops. Listen, I've had three motorcycles towed, three towed. I've been arrested, I've been on many job sites and worked with many Hispanic dude and had the foreman say, I'm firing one of you is going to he actually said, he says his name is Mike, he'd say it's

on a Monday, one of you is going to quit before the week. That's how that's how badly I'm going to fuck you up. One of you is going to pay but he wouldn't be like Vietnam vet on if I can do yeah, but he wouldn't say except for the white guy just go anybody It occurs to me that maybe you're an alien from another planet And did you see that fucking Canadian defense minister yesterday talk about how? There's now studies that prove there are aliens amongst us and he's happy to see that. Did you see this? I've long said that I I feel like I'm a traveler from a distant time who's come back to be annoyed But did you see this guy talking?

No, I did not see that guy. You gotta find this tape and play it for Adam at some point. Wow. It's unbelievable. He's like, well, the group, there are four CBCs now of aliens, ET's amongst us. The ones we're concerned about are the tall whites. The tall whites. Wow.

You gotta... Stern was going off on it. whoo whites uh... uh... you know uh... there was still was going off on it and uh... i need an arborist and really check that out or the status of school dirt and vincente watch out baby and uh... target on saturday last period ron a but i i i i thirty nine california goes up uh... purposeful they think that the uh... podcast dr joseph johnson on the Hey. How are you? 39, California. Good. What's up? First, I just want to say thanks for the podcast, Dr. Drew of Sue Johnson on EFT, because I'm

now, me and my wife are now doing that, and it's awesome. Great. Congratulations. That's cool. And on Thursday, I'm actually consulting with her on some EMDR for some personal stuff that I struggle with, so. Oh, you've got to call back and tell Adam what that was like, because I'm trying to get him to do something. I'm going to go do it. What do you mean? I'm going to him to do something. I'm gonna go do it, what do you mean? I'm gonna do it too, I'm gonna do it too.

Adam, thank you, awesome, and you've really helped me find my point of view in life, and it's been absolutely awesome. Thank you, as long as it mirrors mine, exactly. Find my point of view, well, hold on a second, whoa, whoa, whoa, find my point of view. Is that something you've been advocating, or is that just Ron's version of it?

Well, just giving me permission to speak my mind freely and and and to to at the bacon focus and to pay things and that the ball to to speak my point of view without apology uh... with tax of course i mean i i you know i'm not a root person for fact rossi by the way i got a new thing he was my first employer when i moved to california and your that about him is correct well it falls into that david letterman slash ellen degenerate camp that you He was my first employer when I moved to California and your assessment about him is correct. Wow.

He falls into that David Letterman slash Ellen DeGeneres camp that you talk about on the show. Yes. Which camp is that I'm gonna wear? Everyone who works for them is scared shitless. Uh oh, yeah. Exactly. And I didn't understand it.

Everyone was like, Gavin's coming, Gavin's coming. And I'm like, why is everybody freaking out? And then when I met him, I realized why. Why? What does he do? He just, he doesn't, he's tall. He doesn't look down at you. He's very smug. He does that silent thing when he comes into the room to create this level of, what is

he thinking? Keeps you on eggshells. Ellen, Ellen's... I knew her. Here's when I knew her. I've always known there's something up with Ellen, just sort of my spidey sense, always telling me. Then there's a lot of bunch of stuff about loving her, isn't crying when she dobs dogs or whatever. But when I did her show, her staff member came in

and told me either two or three times that she's vegan. Like I was just doing a, you know, getting the stupid notes ready or whatever, you know, getting the stupid notes ready or whatever, you know, and then we're going to talk about this and then we're going to talk about that and then she's vegan. Okay. And I'd say like, yeah, okay. And then he came back and said a second time, I said, here's a person that's scared shitless. That's a scared employee. Somebody scared shitless. That's what happens. I don't give a fuck. She's vegan. Why should I care? What's it have to do with what we're doing

the guy was scared out of his mind and then i realized we got a troublemaker well the whole thing about him you know coming up on um you know in a modest lifestyle you know it's kind of bullshit in the sense well it comes from a broken family well it was because of him i actually learned what a panic room is because his best friend's family was like the richest family in California and they actually had one. And I was just completely blown away. He does what all politicians do. The first thing they do is they try to sort of toss themselves into the group. They're like, hey, hey, don't believe me. I've been there too. I know what it's like. I'm a family man. Yeah, right.

Fucking dad lead counsel for Getty Oil Jesus fucking Christ anyway the main problem you the main problem you should have with Gavin Newsom is his intelligence level is that he's too fucking stupid to argue with a guy who was put on academic probation at junior college and win a debate with me that's how fucking dumb that guy is that's what you should worry about intellectually what's Gavin Newsom whether it's uh... the rugosa their intellect is the problem now vira goes that is turtle bob he's reptile dot

throw him in with gavin newsom gavin is simply a liar his personality disorder who lies he he is it well he's not a lot he's attempting to lie he's a used car sales politician is politician right ok ok so what's going on okay well anyway uh... i'm turning forty this year and i decided it's time for a bit that can be a k a the one thing that i think adam cannot complain about and i try to make an appointment my provider and they're required me to take a class

now my my question is if this uh... if the this California state law or is it company policy? Because apparently the argument is that people have actually sued in the past claiming that they didn't realize that the procedure was permanent. Yes, there's lots of suits around vasectomies being incomplete or not good enough or not understanding what they were getting into. So this is this organization's way to reduce liability. I'm not aware of any laws that require it. It's just that's one more piece of bullshit in life. But once you're vasectomy and you want it paid for by the insurance company go the fucking thing. So

boy and bring a notebook and write all the fucking funny things down and then call us back. That would be good. But no tort reform. All this all this medical stuff and we're not going to get any tort reform. It's unbelievable. How trial attorneys lobby. Oh yes, and they have lots of dough. And where do you think they give it to? Who are they giving it to? They go down and they give it to the politicians and then we get no tort reform. But anyway, it's a fantastic system. Again, my buddy Gavin Newsom, he's chocked filled with ideas about how to help the plight of the black man and the Hispanic

man. Tons and tons, tons of ideas. Tons, tons. Except for he had 22 minutes, I didn't hear one fucking peep out of his mouth. Except for he did go in a circle. All right, so that's what you get. I want to thank you all for tuning in. I want to tell you guys, first three showsersfield Santa Barbara Denver under five bucks baby on iTunes

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