The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Is Adam an Alcoholic? (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

Adam and Drew examine the abysmal traffic in Los Angeles and discuss common sense solutions that can be achieved without further expenditures. Then they take listener calls on Viagra, brain surgery and Adam's alcohol consumption.

This is Corolla Digital. Recorded live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew show. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but to get it on. Mandate. Get it on and welcome to yet another Adam and Dr. Drew show. Thank you so much for supporting the program. Thank you so much for supporting the program. Thank you so much for moving your microphone around Denver Vegas Salt Lake City, Redondo Beach nap all coming up. You can see us alive. We even our magic I'll tell you if you've not experienced the majesty of me standing on stage Busting my ass for 90 minutes while Drew stands four feet behind me with his arms folded to be fair

I prompt you you do go tell that one about going to Santa Barbara on your motorcycle where you peed yourself. Yeah, exactly what I said. Then 20 minutes goes by. Then he goes, yeah, now do the rest. No, no. How about the time with the van and Goleta? Yeah, do the van and Goleta.

And then we walk off, split the check, and we go our separate ways. The greatest night you'll ever way. It's the greatest night. You'll ever have it's awesome When we were driving into our last one, I said true you you got here you got you're in the preparation How come you know you never write anything down going over at my mind, man? I said you don't want to write down some ideas of some stuff to talk about. Oh, no. I'm thinking about it Then I about oh no I'm thinking about it then I realize oh no no he's gotten me I'm gonna do the heavy lifting but to be fair every time I try to say something that I'm interested in boring well and you had on you hate that on you hate to talk you hate to talk I would be more than

happy to sit back drew literally stands behind me now I don't know what he's doing I don't know what your new move is sliding behind me get the hell up the front of the stage you walked to the edge of the damn stage where am I gonna go that's right man cuz I'm in your face and here's the thing man I'm relentless I'm a tsunami of truth and mirth. You understand? I'll hurt you with my words. I'll cut you and sodomize you with my verbiage. And I can't be stopped.

And that's why when I come out my first comedy, Al, it's gonna be picture me looking super angry, holding the microphone, but the microphone is gonna be shaped like a weapon. Like a sword? No like a mace. Oh yeah yeah yeah. Yeah it's gonna have the kind and not not just the ball it's gonna be a barbed wire going around the handle and and and it's gonna be called words hurt. In your face comedy. You know what I mean man? cuz I'm bringing it

bringing it all The great ones we were talking about this on stage Dane Cook and Chris Rock. Oh, the names are their comedy albums, man It's not like hey fellas. This is funny. No, no, no, no, it's angry. I'll be angry man. It's not just Corolla live No, no, man. no. It's angry. You gotta be angry, man. It's not just Corolla Live. No. No, man. I hurt you with my words. Mm-hmm. Speaking of hurting, I was thinking of another thing that would outrage you today as I was driving in here. I know your thing. Everyone, I think, knows about your left-hand turns and red arrows and all that stuff. And by the way, I witnessed that up in Santa Barbara a couple times when Adam literally,

like a madman, goes around traffic, cuts into the middle of an intersection while everyone's waiting for the light to turn red. Well, the green rather. Paint the scenario. It was a line of cars ridiculously long. We had got stuck on a one-way street. We had to circle back around to kind of get to the gig. Yep. And there was a long line, and not only 20 cars, but 10, 12 cars. Yeah, but three cycles on the light probably. They were spilling over, starting to spill over into the left lane, meaning they used up the allotment of the turn lane.

And it was Saturday, and it was six in the evening 530 in the evening how much traffic was coming at them drew? I don't know you you rage the way it's so fast. I couldn't prepare it was going on Here's how you know there wasn't any traffic get hit there wasn't any traffic coming that way I drove I drove past the line. I do not call them motorists Drew. I call them sheep. Okay. I drove past the long line of sheep. Look! What if the government arbitrarily made a rule that every time you took your dog for a walk,

if you passed the telephone pole or light pole, you had to walk around at once? Would you do it? to walk around it once. Would you do it? Would you be a fucking idiot if you did that? Like if you were like, well the government did say I have to walk around this light pole once, you'd be a fucking retard to do that. Of course! And you guys are the fucking cowards and the sheeps that propagate this shit. If everyone just said fuck you, we'll drive when it's safe to drive, there's not enough cops. I don't care how many, I don't care how many, I know there's a chicken shit cop factory

that they fucking throw these guys out of, but you think there's enough of them? If we all did it. If half of us did it, if 10% of us did it, if 1% of us did it, if anyone but me did it, then there'd not be enough cops to enforce it and it would go away. It would go away. Now they'd have to work on murder because that, there'd be an outcry. But not walking the people who walked their dog and didn't do a lap around the telephone

pole, would there be an outcry? This is me turning left when it's safe to turn left. So I turn left. Now, by the way, I think we went through a red light, an actual red light immediately after that. Fine. Okay. There's no cars coming.

Okay. Look, what is the spirit of the law? I don't know why in other states that are much smarter than us Explain to me this I get tweets all day long. Hey here in Atlanta or Virginia or whatever our Left-turn arrows they don't turn red they turn green to alleviate the traffic during high traffic times And then they just blink yellow. We have that in Pasadena. We blink yellow. Yield. Turn when it's safe.

Yield. Taren when it's safe. Now Los Angeles has one of the biggest traffic problems in the world. In the world. One of our problems in Los Angeles, one of our biggest problems is traffic. So much so that we have the most congestion on the planet. Do we have this same technology implemented in the city of Los Angeles with one of the worst traffic problems in the world?

Answer no. Why? We're pussies. A. We have a mayor that's semi-retarded. B. Nobody gives a shit. And C. We're fucking lemmings. Can you bring a cop in here maybe don't want your podcast to sort of question about that? You have a million questions for police.

I've tried to call the traffic board whatever they don't want to talk to me. Yeah. I don't want to talk to a troublemaker. Right. Who's trying to alleviate this problem. We live in a place where it's non-stop freeway signs of click it or tick it. That's all it is. It's just click it or tick it. Meanwhile no one knows it's legal to turn right on a red. They don't know it in Los Angeles. Not aware of it.

We don't look if there was a we have campaigns. We have campaigns that say stop human trafficking. We have campaigns that say end senior abuse. We have campaigns that say stop human trafficking. We have campaigns that say end senior abuse. We have campaigns about... Secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke. Let me give you an example. We do not want you to dump motor oil into the sewer drains because it leads to the bay. So every single sewer and every single manhole and every single everything has a picture of a dolphin on it and stuff because this is something we don't want you to do as a city. Yeah. Okay. We would because we have the worst traffic problem on the planet. I'm assuming we

would like people to turn right when it's safe to turn right on a red. Yes. Is there is there a campaign? No. Have you heard a word about it? No, but I got lots of people stuttering there at the right. Yes and then honking and then putting their Yes, is there is there a campaign? No, have you ever heard a word about it? No, but I got lots of people's Stuttering there at the right. Yes, and then honking and then putting their hands up because they're not aware that this is legal now This is what you call. It's either negligence It's it's it's Right. Yeah, but it shows that our mayor is amongst the dumbest Mayors on the planet because he has his city's biggest problem. He does not effectively address He's gotten he the mass transit. We finally got he's been partly on overseeing a lot of that and stuff

I mean no one's rides that what passively ridden the trap look still traffic is horrible I think that's horrible and you must alleviate traffic and this is a way to do it for free You light up those signs with click it or ticket You don't need that campaign You have a placard going off in your car and you have an audible buzzer going off in your car get in your car Drew and try to drive it out fastening the seatbelt. Yeah, your car tells you click it or ticket Yeah, why do we need this campaign? It's been built into every car since 1976 or something. Yeah, what are we doing?? Yeah. Okay, we're fucking stupid. So here's the deal. I

Don't answer to retarded mayors. I don't give a fuck about the government. I'm an atheist I Go to gigs and a car and I turn left when it's safe and there's a bunch of arbitrary left turn arrows. Well, I don't want to lead the kind of life historically for sure that just listens to retarded bureaucrats who tell me when it's okay to turn left and when it's not okay to turn left. I'll decide based on what traffic is coming at me. So I do it. And occasionally and unfortunately, I don't get to do it from the safety and comfort of my left turn lane. I have to pass 10 cars and then turn left in front of them from not the left turn lane, from the regular lane, which I happily do. Every once in a while, my plan backfires, which is I'm driving to

turn left in front of all the Lemmings that are waiting to turn left. And it goes green. No. No. There is a car coming. Oh. In which case, I just go straight, turn up the next driveway, and back it out and do a three-pointer.

By the way, I love this world-class pussy. The world-class pussy I love is they put another light on a four-cylinder drive. It's a light. Oh, I saw that by the cemetery. They put another light that is to feed people that are going to Warner Brothers. Oh, right. Or whatever that, yeah, Warner Brothers. All right, and those are just for Warner Brothers employees

and shit like that. They put a new parking structure on one side and they put a crosswalk and they put another light. But that light's working on Sundays when there's no Warner Brothers, the gate is literally closed. On both sides. On both sides, you get a Warner Brothers,

not the light, light's still going gangbusters. So I pull up the light, it's red, I look to the right, I see the gate close, I look to the left, I see the gate close, and I just go through it. I get this guy behind me, the guy honks the horn and puts the hands up, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah I got places to go. And this light shouldn't even be here. And it certainly should be on a timer where it ain't on on Sundays. That's got to be the same guy that if you're pulling out of a parking structure and it's

blind on both sides and they happen to take one step near your car. Maniac! Maniacalous! Maniac! Yeah, so, look, I would like it if you all, and just goes oh so we should all just interpret the laws best we want and do now you drive a car you have to make a million decisions a mile when you drive a car what lane when do you apply the brake look as I say when you pull into your garage is that why doesn't the

government tell you when to apply the brake? How do they know you're not going to drive right through the wall and end up in the family room? Well, you operate the vehicle in a safe manner. We do understand that, right? The government doesn't tell you when you can change lanes. You look in your rear view mirror, you see if it's safe to change lanes. When it seems safe, you signal, and then you safely change lanes.

That's how we drive. I think what happened though, I'm remembering now when you did your maniac maneuver around the line of Lemmings Ashley. By the way, how long would we've been sitting in that line? Three cycles. Three cycles, easily. But I remember what happened is the green arrow came on

as you were going around these guys and see you sort of cut the guy off. Oh please. He was now initiating his left hand turn. No. Yeah, yeah. I was well past him.

But that's one of the liabilities of that move. No. I was well past him and as a matter of fact I looked in the rear view and there was nobody and I commented, look they're still sitting there. Well they sure were. Which is what I always do. Okay here's the, I drive through, now I've expanded my repertoire to driving through red lights.

I know that. I just look right left, drive through. Because, Chris, what he did next was around the light of Lemmings and then through a red light. That's what we did the next week. Okay. So, anybody, let's do a hypothetical. How many tickets would a guy have who lived in Los Angeles, who drove through several hundred thousand red left turn arrows

and now thousands of lights. How many tickets would a fella like that accrue over the course of how many years, Drew? For me, how many years have I been driving through these left turn arrows? How many years? They're 20 probably, right? 15? 15. How many years?

15 years thousands and thousands I mean just I do it every day times five or six and you just do the math on that how many tickets would a cat like this accrue over the course of over a decade of this behavior what the answer is zero zero so a Zero Zero So a I don't know what you guys are waiting for. I don't know if I get it I get five tickets today. I'm still way ahead of the game zero tickets

Why? Because I know how cops think Cops, they write chicken shit tickets. They wait at the end of the street with the radar gun you come to them They do not come to you Cops set traps that you come to look see if they're not there They're not there as you're saying what the fuck the trappers do run out like madmen and just chase Beavers or whatever raccoons or no they fucking put a trap They put some bait they put some scent, and then they wait.

And then they show up the next day, and they see the bear coming to the scent of the whatever. They wait at the bottom of the long hill on the grapevine when they know you're gonna be speeding. They hit you with radar on the grapevine, coming the other direction, so they're coming at you. They wait on the overpass. I saw the chicken shit fucking CHP puss

when I was leaving last night, just sitting on the overpass. I saw the chicken shit fucking CHP puss when I was leaving last night Just sitting on the on-ramp just waiting just waiting on that 101 just just perched back Just just a leopard in the bushes just waiting to pounce. That's what they do They they don't sit at the intersection waiting for me to turn left. So you get yourself a radar detector everybody It shouldn't be called a radar detector. It should be called a rape detector This is the government attempting to rape its citizens and you are attempting to prevent it This is my own little electronic rape whistle. I put on my dash and then

When we drive to Santa Barbara to do the gig, we are going to speed because we're consenting adults and we have a car that's capable of going 150 miles an hour safely. A 76 Impala? We're driving a loaded Jag that you can go 90 in all day long without any, by the way. What?

The Autobot? Oh no wait. Zero safety issues with that speed. So we get a radar detector for that because the chicken shit cops will be writing, will be attempting to rape the citizens on the way there. Then once we get there, we can turn off the radar detector and drive through all the left turn errors we want because as long as there's not a cop at that intersection, we are fine. And why you people don't do that? That's between you and your pussy god. Now if this had been, to the robots across the glass here, if this had been our Santa Barbara event or any other sort of public event, he would immediately go from this to, all right, we make the same here? Why don't you talk? Why don't you say something? I'm

carrying the whole show. Oh My god, that's right right now. This is where that insert that comment here and that's the that's our show So that I know I triggered that 20-minute diatribe But that I was gonna I was actually meaning to talk about something else Mm-hmm as it pertains to left turns that I thought would drive you crazy It's more in the category of the stuttering right turns people don't know, but it's a little more of an out of it in this bullshit move.

I was coming here, I was turning over on Flower here off of Western. Oh right, you had a story. Yeah, yeah. Can I talk? Yeah. Imagine if this were on stage. Let me tune out.

Go ahead. So I was turning left on there, and you have that big hill with a lot of traffic coming down the hill at you It's a long left turn lane But a lot of people line up in that way to come over here on flower to get your place And I was waiting that lane nobody coming at me in their left turn lane Right not a single car and clearly nobody coming that way a lot of traffic coming But everyone's heading towards the valley or something. They're 134. So I look and I go, oh, well, if I pull way forward,

I can get four guys out into this intersection. And when the turn turns left, we all four will make our left turn. Why do they have to people sit in the left turn lane or maybe roll their tires over the line so just they get through when the light turns? That's insane. That's the one that gets me more than anything. That happened to me this morning. I got four people through that light because you can't turn. So much traffic coming on. It's going to turn red but you get all the way. I was on the

curb. I was parallel with the curb on the other side of the street because I knew no one was going to come and take a left turn. If they did, they could get in front of me. I left enough room. Four guys through. Let's put it to you this way. What would it do to traffic, and I do it all the time, and I do it without the consent, approval, or help of the two people in front of me, I do three on a left when the signal is cycling all the time.

If I'm that third guy, I'm going for it. Absolutely. I got enough traction control. I got enough horsepower Oncoming traffic gets all pissed off there now No, no no no You can you you'll make that unless the two in front of your slugs, but here's the point Three three on the tree if we did a an awareness campaign, like we try to do with everything, no child left behind.

If we did an awareness campaign that said, let's get three people through this intersection on a left turn, on a cycle of a signal. Meaning, lead car, pull out an extra five feet. Middle car, be ready to go. Third car, you're in. That's our new thing. We're going three. Well then we'd alleviate traffic in that particular sense by 33% for no extra dollars. That's right. And if we taught people to turn right on a red when it was safe. We do it for no extra dollars and alleviate X amount of percent of traffic. And all the other cities which have the signs

by the side of the freeway that says, if you can steer it, clear it, we'd avoid all the people in LA, which we don't have that policy or that awareness campaign, standing out in the third lane in the middle of traffic because they got in a little fender bender a little scratch on the bumper and they have two people standing out on their car exchanging information they those people should be pulled off the side of the freeway letting traffic not be encumbered so

three things cost zero well that's. It's a marketing campaign. Somebody would. Well, okay. Take the signs that say click it or ticket and switch it over to if it steers, it clears. Does that cost anymore? Would that cost anymore, Drew? Yeah. All right?

And then we have a city that moves. But we have a mayor with a personality disorder who has no interest in that. Or at least no discernible interest in it. None that I can see. Now, and whoever's in charge has no interest in it either. Otherwise, they do better than click it or tick it, which as I've said, is built into every automobile. And either you're someone who drives with a seatbelt on or you don't. Your car has made you abundantly aware of it.

What is that about in the South? It seems like seatbelts are less of a thing. Well, we're nuts about safety. But I'll give you an example. You ever do this? You ever get in the car with your wife and you get in, you click your belt, you're doing what you're doing, which is on the move, on the move, on the move.

She's taking care of the kids or the kids or whatever, she's in the back. You start pulling down that driveway and the chime starts going off and you realize, okay, she hasn't clicked her seatbelt yet. Now you're backing up and you're starting to head up the street and all of a sudden the chime goes off again and you're like, hey sweetie, get get the seatbelt on because I'm going to have a seizure here. Yeah, yeah. Okay, that chime. It's because there's a campaign clicker or ticket. Because of that campaign you responded,

oh no, maybe it had nothing to do with it. It had nothing to do with it. It's built into cars. So thus, that's the biggest waste of time ever. The second one we have in LA is it's going to take 18 minutes to get to Topanga Canyon from here. I kind of like those though. Doesn't do anything but slow people down and drive underneath them. But it's moot because it's going to take 18 minutes or it's going to take 12 minutes or it's going to take an hour and 12 minutes. It will take what it takes. You're in your car.

If you're in your house and some guy shows up on a scooter and goes, message for Mr. Corolla, it's gonna take 18 minutes to get to Topanga, then that's something I can gauge. But seeing as how I'm in my car and I'm sitting in traffic, well then that's that. I like that though. Because if I gotta be somewhere,

I can tell people. What if there was a sign that said wake up and Turn right on a red nice of course of course But we're too fucking stupid for that so anyway all of you You can be my little soldiers By just doing it on your own. That's the easiest thing in the world. And it's liberating. And it's the American thing to do.

You understand me? People are like, oh, why are you, you get to thumb your nose a lot. Uh-uh. It's what you should be doing as an American. It's these laws, these signals should have been put on timers, they should have been swapped like many other cities, should have been swapped over so they went

green and then blinked orange and you need to do it. It is your job, just like it was our job to revolt against the British at a certain point in this country's history. That's right, I'm a patriot, I'm an American. All right. Let's see, my quote would be, I regret that I only have one car to give to my country. Thank you. All right.

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JR 36 calling from Colorado. JR? Yes. What's happening JR? Alright, Dig. Dig. I guess I feel like I'm too young for this to be happening to me but I've encountered some performance issues recently and this place is kind of freaking uh... performance issues recently and uh... this place kinda freaking me out and i'm wide open suggestions do you smoke cigarettes do you smoke pot nope do you drink heavily

nope or do you want any medication do you have any medical problems he's talking to me no no medical problems always been very healthy and very vigorous lover. I wonder if Chief Thunder Bear should ring in on this. Oh, he's tired. Divigorous lover? Divigorous lover? Yeah, he's going early this year.

Have you seen him in the combines? Ran a 432 in the combines. Yep, Colorado State. Yeah, no, Divigorous is out of Florida State his brother is a free safety out of Stanford who's Librarian Booker He's he's the one not the foot speed, but he plays he can control the game. You know, yeah Really knows the game. He understands he studies the game studies it. Yes. Uh-huh

Yeah, don't forget minority banks. Mm--hmm and there's a gluten-free as well you see he's a run stopper you put him in around you put him around the goal line it's a red zone guy but so did this start on an emotional level they these concerned about the ability to function were you anxious did something happen once and then you sort of became preoccupied with it thereafter? I think, yeah, I think after the first time it probably got up in my head and I charted territory for a while. Are you with the same person?

It's a new person. I've been divorced for about three years and had very little sex in between then, and now I'm in a really good relationship, and that's where I am now, with someone new. Okay, but it's consistently with this problem that you're having the problem, this person right here having the problem. Yeah. Is this somebody you're really into and nervous about? No, it's pretty relaxed. And she's the main, I mean, I'm super attracted to her.

That isn't a problem. Well, no, but I mean, sometimes I don't feel nervous about it. I'll just say that sometimes when guys have erectile dysfunction on an emotional basis, it's because they're too in. They're like so excited. They want to please. The girl's so hot, and then boom, nothing works.

Yeah, OK, that makes sense. Sure. OK, that's more often than anything. That's the reason guys have that problem. But then once they have it, they're like, oh shit, this is the girl I really wanted to impress. Oh my gosh, she's going to feel it's her. And then you get in your head, and now you're so worried it's going to happen again that

it keeps happening. Now, so I would say one thing. It is really important. You're a little young for this, but certainly if you were five or ten years older, you want to be sure to get a complete medical workup because in 40 and above, medical reasons are the most common cause of erectile dysfunction. And in point of fact, erectile dysfunction is one of the earliest manifestations of coronary heart disease, coronary heart disease. So if you're a 40-year-old smoker, even a 35-year-old smoker, we want to get you on

a treadmill right away. But to get your basic labs and a thyroid function and make sure your sort of testosterone levels are normal. But can you smoke on the treadmill? Well, yeah, maybe. Okay. Some facilities have the right to do that, you know. Mm-hmm, that's right.

No, you don't have the right to smoke. You can bring your dog anywhere. You can't smoke. All right. Yeah, so if dog anywhere. You can't smoke. All right. Yeah, so if you want to get the medical work out, but then now the question though becomes should he be given some sort of enhancing chemical to get him over the hump so to speak with the behavior. Yes. And some people would. Some people would say yeah, a what are called PDE5 inhibitor like Viagra, Sialis, one

of those things might be a good idea to rebuild his confidence and then withdraw that. That's what I was thinking. All right, Erica says her aunt is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Hi Erica, what's going on? Hi. Hey.

Hey. Thank you for taking my call. Sure. Sacramento. I'm 24 and my aunt's 51 and she's never been married and she just was at home with a dog and I was gone for a couple of months and I recently came back to the United States and She's gone like really downhill. She won't eat. She says she is allergic to everything She says she has food allergies and she we went to eat and she brings her own water if you want to eat anything and

that what really can turn the last night after she was talking to uh... a friend of mine who's at the dinner table and she said that the government want her to be thank you not get her money and it's just getting like out of hand places getting paranoid any to get really paranoid really paranoid and uh... she's probably most closest to me and my mom, her sister-in-law, but she won't see a therapist. And she recently just told us she's had mono for three years now.

It's just something new. And now she's seeing what my dad, her brother, calls a witch doctor, where she's boiling bones to make her and drinking the water. That's the crazy thing about people that get into the state. They always go to these sort of cures and people that are gonna cure the toxins and stuff. And they spend inordinate amounts of time and money

before they get any real. And even when they get to real treatment though, they're very resistant. They don't want to admit that it's a, they have extreme difficulty coming to terms with it being an emotional or brain problem. Yeah. They want it to be. Is there an intervention for this kind of situation? Well, it's not a lot. Again, you're free to do this kind of thing in our world

and people are free to be unlicensed and go ahead and cure people like this with the witch doctoring. How do you get somebody into treatment that is so resistant? They have to become either dangerous or disabled by it. The other route is to try to do some sort of family intervention whenever an important in their life gets together and goes, look, we see what's happening

or you've got to do something and make a specific referral. You can also take her to just her general medical doctor. Maybe that's a way to sneak in under the radar because he or she will know what this is. I mean, these are not uncommon symptoms. The problem is, you know, it needs to be kind of sorted out. Is this... Does she have a favorite TV show?

She doesn't even have a TV. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. People beam thoughts into her head from TV. She should have started with that, baby. She needs to be medevaced out of there. Compared to the rest of our family, she's just completely out there. And I, being

24, really have no patience to listen to her. I feel horrible. That's a good sign, Erica. It's actually good because back when the last generation of 24 year olds would have gone, oh, oh yes, well of course, we've got to get her to a witch hunt. Remember that? I'm glad to hear that the Erica's of the world are sort of no BS about this. They're more like that. When I've told her before, like when she said she wasn't getting... She said the government didn't want her to get healthy, I was like, what are you talking about? And she says, this is an adult conversation. And I just started laughing. I was like...

Oh, good. How old is she? I want to say you're crazy. She's 50. 54, 50, yeah. Is she always been a little wacky or is this something new? Yes. Yeah, it she always been a little wacky or is this something new? Yes. Yeah, it's just been way worse. Right. So there's some personality issue, there's some depression, and maybe the depression is becoming sort of a psychotic nature.

That's why all the paranoia. You don't know there might be substances, there might be a medical problem overlying this, because again, you'd be surprised. One of the things, Adam, I was amazed when I started working in a psychiatric hospital. I was doing all the medical evaluations. How often? I mean maybe 10% or 20% of the time I would find either a serious medical problem that had precipitated or caused or contributed to the psychiatric syndrome that just completely overlooked and when you treat them.

Give us an example. I had a guy coming in with severe depression, was getting shock therapy. He was, depression was so bad. I found heart disease, bad heart disease. We took him for surgery like the next day and his depression went away after we treated his heart disease. Interesting. And I've had cancers, frequently cancers would show up that I would find and go, look, that's why he's depressed. it's got his body is not reacting right so get her into her medical doctors even get her into a real doctor to start with physician all right let's see girlfriend five years acting radically me

and drinking Jake yes sir 24 yes sir North Carolina my house give away that was going to mean to her jake yes sir twenty four yes sir north carolina i'm from north carolina what's going on times adam adam had one of his uh... most extreme breakdowns on the streets of uh... what city was that will make them will make them we're in williamson north carolina and adam screaming at me on the street at six in the morning What was I saying?

That this was all my fault meaning me and that you never should have come here and next time it's gonna be 50 grand before You get on the plane. I believe you're screaming that Is that one that? Dawson's Creek we were doing but that's when the lesbian van driver from Dawson's Creek didn't pick us up right yes it was we're supposed to go to the airport and be there at 7 we're really meet down in the lobby like 530 she's never showed up yeah and then there's this thing where it's like well they can call a cab but that's gonna take an hour like it was just she all she the thing that drove me nuts is all she did was plague me all week long

It was the same woman was it yeah, yeah, she'd be like in the van She'd show up early. She'd try to get me out of my room, you know, I tell LC at 7 a.m She'd be like 645 call in my room and all that kind of stuff And then when it came time to get our final ride to the fucking airport, she wasn't there. Mm-hmm The wrong time fucking kill her. Anyway,. I wanted to fucking kill her. Instead you wanted to kill me. Standing in the street corner in the middle at 6th and more screaming at the top of his heart.

It was awesome. Anyway, so what do you want to ask there Jake? Well, first of all, any update on whether or not Mangria can make it to North Carolina? Because I'd love to taste it. But that's my first question. Mangria to North Carolina. why not because i'd love to taste it but that's that's my first question renaud north carolina uh... i don't know i don't know how the shipping works to north carolina but you go to buy in mangrove dot com and find out if it's uh... coming to a state

near you there's some issue of interest a transport or anything uh... well and she had a drug uh... yeah you can ship to X amount of states. You can go to our Facebook, Facebook.com slash man agree and find out to locations to get the stuff. But no, you can't. Why would you?

Why would they let me conduct business? True. First things first, if you want to come up with a beverage, you have to come up with a label that they approve. Who's they? It's the man. It's like the FDA with that? No, wait, what?

Food Drug Administration. There's a board. There's a board. And they need to. And they'll say- There's a state board. Yeah, the state board. You know, in my label, I said, you know, being a nightly consumer of red wine and I ran out, I had to have a glass, so I went to the liquor cabinet and see, oh no, no, can't say that. Can't say liquor cabinet? I said, why not?

I said, no, you can't say it. I said, how do you know what's in the liquor cabinet? Maybe I keep gummy bears in there, dick. Can't say that. So first thing they do is tell you what you can and can't say. The words, like underpants versus underwear. Yes. That kind of thing.

They will approve or more likely disapprove of whatever it is you say. And I'm sure the panel that you were talking to is Harvard professors or some highly trained anthropologists. They just tell you to go home. But I'm sure the people themselves, the actual people you're communicating with. It's the Tax and Trade Board of the ATF. highly trained anthropologists. They just tell you to go home. But I'm sure the people themselves, the actual people you're meeting. It's the tax and trade board of the ATF. So first off, they'll tell you what you can print

on your label and what you can't print on your label. And the store you want to tell, it'll tell you whether you can tell it or not. And they'll tell you the words you can use. Then second thing they can do is they'll tell you where you can ship your product and where you can't ship your product. Some states you can ship to, many states you can just ship directly to a person who lives

in that state. I was flying on a flight to Boston with a chap that lived in Massachusetts and we were having a conversation and he said he likes libation and I said well I'd love you to try out my mangria then and he said sadly they won't ship to our state. So he cannot, the taxpayer who, he is a consenting adult, cannot get it. But what is the issue? Is it like tariffs and that kind of thing or they don't want to compete with their local businesses? There's a thousand issues that are a thousand years old,

but either way. Does there a way around, this is why you go to politics, I guess, right? To try to overcome these things? Yeah, everyone in politics is doing a fantastic job overcoming these things. But you know what I mean? That was motivates you to go into politics.

Yeah, but here's the point. The point is all of this for the privilege of giving half the profit to the government who has nothing to do with this product. They have nothing other than the part where they hassle me. UPS ships a product then gives some money to the government. The guy who makes the bottle makes some money then gives some money to the government. The guy who makes the bottle, makes some money, then gives some money to the government. The guy who makes the wine, the guy, me, the liquor store that sells it, everybody makes a profit and then kicks them down to the people who get in the way. But don't worry, I didn't start Mangria. The government did.

Didn't you hear Obama's speech? That wasn't me. That was them. That was them who did it for me. I should always be aware of that and be thankful. And by the way, like I said, 50% not enough. Considering they started it. 65% California.

They got their fair share. Fair share. Hey, I'm just saying people, you want to keep going down this road bigger? Keep going bigger. What's up with everybody? What happened to everybody? What happened to this country? What happened to its ideals?

If the founding fathers had seen the level of tyranny that goes on, there would be a war. They'd be like, are you kidding? Yes. They would take up arms. They'd never right get my powdered wig and my musket and my and my Merkin you know like Kevlar Merkin Alexis protection down there Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about democracy in America in the 1820s and he predict he predicted three things that were extraordinary one America and Russia

be the next big superpowers. Crazy. Two, that paternalism was the greatest risk to the American government. They had to become paternalistic and tell you how to live. Become like mommy and daddy. That's right. That was the greatest risk.

Three, he also had a side that attorneys would be a problem. Too many attorneys in this country. And three, he feared the tyranny of the majority Mm-hmm that people would start you know would a group would decide to limit the rights and Exploit a share a smaller group. Yeah, because they just why because they're bigger. They're more them. Yeah Well, he was right the fuck on All right, so my consumption of alcohol bring that up your buddy Well, he was right the fuck on. All right, so my consumption of alcohol. Bring that up to your buddy.

I'm so bad with names right now, Prager. He loves it. He loves that, yeah. You gotta do a little bit of drinking in the evening. It makes me sharper. It's his medicine, Jake. It's my medicine. What are you gonna do?

What's the question, Jake? He doesn't have a What are you gonna do? What's the question, Jake? He doesn't have a question. Let's see if he has a question. Jake. Yes, sir. Question? Was there a question? Yeah, yes, I was just wondering,

how do you categorize Adam's consumption, basically? As it, to the layman, it comes across as moderate, and I was just wondering your professional opinion of it. It goes in that category, I love this category, called almost alcoholic. Yeah. Almost. Mm-hmm.

Not really alcoholic, not loss of control. Yeah. It's a little bit of a moderate issue, like you'd say, Jake. Heavyweight. Heavyweight, yeah, yeah. Which is, by the way, when they study alcoholics, and they try to figure out what is the common

feature they can predict in somebody who, say, has a genetic heritage in their family, what quality, what feature is most predictive of developing alcoholism? Resistance to intoxication from alcohol. Heavyweight. Meaning you need more. They kind of. They don't have to drink more, but I think they get their resistance to motor intoxication more than anything. Yeah, no, I don't have.

I am not... You can operate a vehicle in your mind anyway. You might... Oh, no. No, not in my mind. Physically, I can do it better than my mom can. Sober. Sober, yeah. to physically you can do it better than my mom can sober sober yeah well look

I've been boxing for X amount of years and I know how to throw punches if I got drunk it would diminish my capacity to throw punches but I'd still throw them better than you you don't throw punches. I'm that way with driving. I drive and have gone through many driving schools and have done many driven many race cars on many racetracks so I'm a better functioning driver than most people. So when I get diminished with alcohol it brings me down to a level in which case then now here's the thing there's the decision-making process which is there's two parts of being

impaired one is motor skills the other part is decision-making but I would say that's more complicated than just a decision-making you know there's sort of distorted perception, distorted predicting consequences, distorted containing certain emotions. That's where the trouble comes in for a lot of people. Motor skills-wise, yeah, you're not as sharp as you should be, but you still drive better than my 80-year-old mother does.

But your decision making. More prone to speeding. More prone to just doing things. Going around red lights. Maybe you got something. Alright. Almost alcoholic. Should we take ourselves, I love that movie. Should we talk to Jeff? Jeff! Wow, another call from North Carolina. Weird. Hey, how's it going? Good.

So my girlfriend. With a J name too, strangely. Wow, now it's eerie. Your girlfriend, yes. So my girlfriend had, a couple years ago, a brain tumor. Yeah. And ever since she had two surgeries to have it removed, has become pretty erratic emotionally.

Uh-uh. Mm-hmm. What kind of tumor, where was it, do you know? It was in the brain. It was near, I think somewhere around the spine, maybe, where the spine connects to the brain or something. So it was in what's called the posterior fossa? Was it back there?

Tough place to operate. Maybe. I mean, when she had a surgery, she lost hearing in her left ear from the surgery. So maybe a parietal lobe kind of thing. Well, to be fair that was from the surgeon's dick. He's a pretty unscrupulous dude. Evidently. She's hot and she's out. She's on her back.

What do you figure the nursing staff did during that? Look the other way, man. It's just that code of silence, you know how it goes. You've been there been in this house You've been in those operating rooms with the ear violations Well documented well documented ask around You think I'm you're being naive Jeff if you don't think that's what happened So what do we do here? Jeff? So Jeff, so was it a meningioma? Is that the kind of tumor it was?

Yeah, I think that's what it was. Ooh. You know, here's something that people don't realize. Is that that chick with the big teeth on the food network? Meningioma. That's all that Italian cooking? That's one of the names that David Angre calls out when he's trying to get his kids back at night.

Any time you open the skull, even if you do nothing, people are prone to personality changes. It's the craziest damn thing. But you should do something as long as you're, you know, getting out the uh, we-hole and everything. The ear again? What? If you're opening the skull, you should do something. Right, right, no, no, no, yes, you're generally, the point being though that, that people are always surprised that geez They did a minor procedure on somebody but the fact that they open the skull. They're not quite the same person

They're not right right now Usually when it's something minor like that and they have these personality changes kind of goes back towards normal But we'd have them in angioma that that's something pressing on brain tissue typically and so you can damage areas in particular that parietal area Sort of very involved in self and communication with different regions the brain. Well how is she acting differently? She'll I mean she's fine most the time but it's like someone flicks a light switch like she'll be like all sweet and cuddly and interactive and then it'll just like switch and she'll start getting hostile and start like accusing me of stuff and it's really odd. All right. Well you know here's

you got it you got to call her surgeon and tell them that's happening. They probably would put her on mood stabilizers like anti-seizure medication and it's been a few years so this stuff should be settling down now but sometimes that kind of stuff these these sort of organic brain syndromes associated with outbursts and mood disturbances and irritability and distortions of perception That you got to go after that a little bit with medication because that is caused by the damage to certain regions of the brain final call Mike 43 Utah Mike

Yes, sir. What's going on oh freezing out here oh okay yeah it's a little cold out this way too we're going up there to Salt Lake right yeah come say hi what's your question I just I just had a question I had an injury about three years ago and was prescribed every pain medication under the sun and I'm off of everything now they actually put me they started me out on the Percocet and Lortab and eventually dwindled me down to tramadol. March 30th Kingsbury Hall by the way is where we're going to be. Kingsbury Hall? Okay. March 30th I got that on the calendar. Thank you.

Okay so yeah they put me on the tramadol which I was told was a non-narcotic. No it's an opiate. Okay. Well here's how you know. It's a weak opiate. Does it work? Yeah. That was a bear coming off of. I didn't I couldn't understand it. Okay. Well, here's how you know. It's a weak opiate. Does it work? Yeah, right. If it works. That was a bear coming off of. I couldn't understand it. I wasn't told that it's addictive. It's marketed as a non-addictive.

Bullshit, it's an opiate. Well, listen, Drew, it's almost anything that works addictive. You can't cuss on the Utah line, by the way. Oh, sorry. I'm just kidding. What did you do to your leg? I shattered I was at a power tumbling gym and I missed the trampoline ball and I crammed it right into the concrete and it shattered the tip and exploded

the ankle. So where's this gay bar again? I don't even know if there's a bar out here in New South. But no, yeah, so I have 30 screws and 29 screws and three rods in there. All right, so Mike, so you were legitimately given opiates but then got strung out on them. And so what's the question? What's the question? Yeah, and so yeah, and it's been, I mean, I just, I just now, it's been, it's been a little over two and a half years and I just now came off of it. It's been about two weeks since I've given up the tram at all completely. But I have, I also have, I've had a prescription for Kalanapin and for anxiety and then I couldn't

sleep so they gave me a prescription for Ambien. Oh god So I'm just yeah, I'm just just kind of at a loss just going what what am I what the heck is going? Then you know today it just feels like I'm I'm playing mr. Mom now that my wife's working, you know, I get my I have a Down syndrome boy. That's 15 Yeah, I get him off to school in the morning And so and so I just sit around and kind of try to stay busy with chores but it's like it's like a dead spot. It just doesn't, I feel like I'm going crazy like. Well you're having

opiate withdrawal and there are people that are expert in treating opiate withdrawal. There's basically two ways to approach it. One is to put you back on an opiate and taper it down slowly like suboxone. That's sort of the way people often do it these days. The other is to get on a combination of medicines that are non-addictive, like Clonidine, and Robaxanine, and Motrin, and Bentol, and all these very, and Seroquel, and other things that can sort of suppress these symptoms, but not become addictive.

What about his first love of doing shoulder rolls and having other people exposed to a scrotum? I mean how do we... How do we capitalize on that? Oh my god. And how's your son doing? He's amazing. He's our youngest and he is... So Mike the big question here is is the did you trigger addiction in all this and and if you're an addict you're not gonna make it off you're fine magically find your way back to something addictive that's not a male and that on i'm not either way i i i'm

here's what i'm getting i think maybe he's got a little bit of that but he's so well put together yeah that he's well put together that he's sort of managing that what happened to him. And so I would get with somebody who knows how to do this and doesn't get you strung out on something so you can get off stuff. Because you're almost there. I mean, you're not going to sleep for a while.

And so you want to be on something like Trazodone or something non-addictive to deal with the fact that that's just how it's going to be for a while. You're going to be anxious periodically. So don't use the benzodiazepines, because that fuels that same addictive process. I mean, to a very short-term basis, for a week or so, fine, but then that's it. And there are people out there that do abstinence-based chemical dependency treatment.

Usually they're internists or sometimes psychiatrists who can really help you get through this. It's not fun. It's gonna be a rough week. It's amazing that he keeps functioning and doing as well as he is, frankly. Yeah, but it's weird weird because I can feel his... His goodness. His goodness. I can feel his athletic background. Yeah.

And his sort of... Discipline. Yeah, he has this sort of toughness and a sort of a spirit to him that will be able to overcome this. But if he's not careful. I mean, you know what I mean? Somebody could... He inadvertently ended up here and he could end up back if he's not careful i mean i mean somebody else for the inadvertently ended up here and he could end up back if he's not careful alright uh... i want to thank uh... all the folks who made the show possible that chris max pat over there we have michael and shanker

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